In January of the seventeenth year of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, Jiading Mansion of the Kingdom of Annan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info, YBDU,

The officers and soldiers of the Annam Army were gathered at the gate of the Annam Palace in Jiading City, and the soldiers were armed with guns and ammunition, and their uniforms were waiting there, and it was strictly forbidden for all idle people to approach. The bayonet glittered in the sunlight, dazzling. Of course, these soldiers were all thin and short Annanites, but they also stood tall and straight, and all of them looked ahead without squinting, but what appeared from their eyebrows was not confidence in victory, but deep sadness.

It turned out that these Annan troops were all colonial armies trained and equipped by the French army, and they were used to maintain law and order in French Annan. Moreover, it was also regarded by the Annan court as the fundamental force of the Northern Expedition in the future - although there are three households, the slogan that the Ming Dynasty will be more must be shouted is not casually shouted!

For the past decade or so, this country has been a French protectorate, in fact, a colony. However, the monarchs of Annam, who were ruled by the French, did not hate the French, but regarded the Ming Empire, which had taken half of their northern borders, as enemies. Because there are also people of insight among the people of Annam, how do they not know that the rule of the French will not last, and the real one who will die in Annam must be the Ming Dynasty! As a result, they have been accumulating force at any cost. He even did not hesitate to exchange his own women for guns and ammunition from the human traffickers of the Ming Dynasty, not to oppose French rule, but to organize an army to fight to the death against the Ming when the French left. It's just that no one thought that Annan would be betrayed by Napoleon III! I didn't expect that the Ming Emperor's determination to destroy Annan was so strong.

Although the war has not really started yet, the Nguyen Dynasty knows that it will be defeated. After Pan Thanh Kyen returned from Nanjing, even the last shred of hope of the Ruan Dynasty was completely shattered. They all know it. The Ming Emperor has made up his mind to destroy the Annam race! Facing the incomparably powerful Ming army. Any resistance will be futile. The only one that works. I'm afraid that the only way to save my strength is to wait for the future. Fortunately, the road to heaven is endless, and the Viceroy of British India, Robert . Churchill had agreed to allow the Straits Settlements (under the Viceroy of India) to provide asylum to Annam's exiles. Including the entire Annam court and the new army, as well as all Annamite people who do not want to lose their country, can go to Singapore to live in exile......

Ruan Phuc Anh, who was destined to be the last king of the Nguyen Dynasty, was now standing on the watchtower of the Jiading Palace, his face was pale, and he didn't know what he was thinking. He was accompanied by several scholars of the Nguyen Dynasty, including Pan Thanh Kien, a scholar of the Qin Zheng Temple. This "Mingxiang native" was born, and in fact, he was an overseas Chinese, and the first assistant of Annam can be regarded as a loyal minister of the Annam Nguyen Dynasty. Even the high position of the Duke of An Nam did not shake his loyalty to the Nguyen Dynasty. Looking at the scene of fleeing in panic, he was already speechless in pain.

Under the guard of the new army of Annam, which had high hopes from all over the country of Annam, but did not even have a chance to fight a war, the eunuchs serving the palace of Annam were driving carts and horses full of goods and carrying large and small sedan chairs, and walked out of the gate of the palace and walked in the direction of the dock of Jiading Mansion.

More than a dozen British-flagged warships and merchant ships were waiting there, ready to transport the most important figures of the Annam nation to Singapore for resettlement. But how big is Singapore? How many Annam people can be settled?

The ministers of Annan behind Ruan Phuc Anh had already let out a sigh that was close to a whimper, but the young and vigorous Nguyen Phuc Anh did not say anything with a straight face.

He was different from those old ministers who were already completely intimidated by the Ming Empire - he was originally determined to fight. Even an order has been issued to call up 500,000 troops. However, everyone wanted to flee quickly, and they had no determination to die with the country at all. did not seriously carry out his will at all, and after more than a month, the conscripted army did not know if there were 200,000? In addition, there is a shortage of military salaries, food, and grass, and all the local people are complaining about hardships and asking for money and grain -- even according to the amount of 200,000 people, the money and grain issued in a month will cost 200,000 or 300,000 silver dollars.

But where does Annan have such financial resources? In order to ransom the sovereignty from the French, the Annam court was already an empty shell, and there was not much money left in the treasury of the royal palace. As for taxing merchants...... It's really sad to say, although the Kingdom of Annam has always regarded the Ming Dynasty as an enemy, but the commerce of a country is firmly controlled by Chinese businessmen. These Chinese merchants, whether they are foreigners or Ming villagers from Annam, all bear the sign of Ming citizens, and the French colonial authorities regard them as superior people and have always been careful to protect them. When France was about to retreat, it actually arranged a lot of warships and merchant ships to help these Chinese merchants retreat to Borneo. As a result, the business of Jiading Mansion was in a depression, and the commercial tax was reduced again and again. Not to mention that it will collect an additional two or three hundred thousand yuan per month, even the original quota will not be able to be collected. Moreover, after the departure of the Chinese merchants, Annam's imports and exports came to a halt all of a sudden, and even the customs duties and tobacco taxes were about to fall to zero. The finances of the entire Annan court collapsed almost overnight, and even the courtiers couldn't pay their money, what kind of war was there to fight!

Ruan Phuc Ying understood that the Kingdom of Annam had no way to resist the Ming Dynasty on its own, and the only way was to go to Singapore to set up a government-in-exile and embrace the thick legs of the British Empire. Of course, the fact that he could not personally stay and lead the war of resistance did not mean that he had to give up resistance. He didn't have any money, and even if he had some left, he had to take it to Singapore. However, the official photos are more or less, and the officials of the Kingdom of Annam are probably the easiest to get in the world these days, as long as they can pull up a hundred or so rebels, they can get a blank official photo from the government, and fill in the name of the official of the Kingdom of Annam. The guns and ammunition stored by the Annam Imperial Court over the years were also distributed to all kinds of rebels or Annamite troops as much as possible. This Annan's War of Resistance, that's it, where to fight, it counts.

While he was thinking in his heart, he heard the sound of the floor below the watchtower. The ministers huddled together hurriedly moved out of the way. I saw an Annan man in a dress sweating profusely running up, kneeling on the ground, and reporting loudly.

"Your Majesty (King Annam is called Emperor Da Yue in China), Governor Churchill of the British Empire has arrived on a British warship, now please Your Majesty get on board as soon as possible and leave Annam together."

Ruan Phuc Ying turned his head suddenly: "Lord Churchill is in such a hurry, but because Mingkou's navy has arrived in the open sea?" ”

The general focused on the head, he came by boat from Singapore with Qiu Fatzi. When I entered the Tongnai River (Jiading Port is an inland port), I had already seen a black column of smoke on the horizon, which should be the steam ironclad ship of the Ming Navy!

A trace of fear slipped across Ruan Phuc Anh's face, and without saying much, he turned around and got off the watchtower, got into the sedan chair that had been prepared long ago, and ran towards the port under the escort of a team of new troops.

At the same time, the Viceroy of India of the British Empire, Robert Brown. Earl Churchill, on the other hand, had a breezy expression, and was conversing in English with a short, dark-skinned Oriental man in a Western-style military uniform.

"Your Royal Highness, you will soon be able to meet King Nguyen Phuc Anh of Annam, and he will leave Annam with me - what a pity! Although my old friend is a yellow man, he is by no means the protector of the yellow race, and I think the next unlucky one will be the Kingdom of Burma. He will never forget how you Burmese betrayed and humiliated his ancestor, the Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty! As far as I know, he was not a magnanimous king. ”

It turned out that Qiu Fatzi was talking to a Burmese prince, and he was also the heir to the Burmese throne, Prince Gasang. Speaking of the Kingdom of Myanmar, it is basically as unlucky as Vietnam. Because the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma betrayed the Yongli Emperor, after Zhu Jishi came to power, he never gave the Burmese a good face. No matter how the envoys of the Gongbang Dynasty tried to draw a line with the Donghu Dynasty, the Ming Emperor refused to call them vassals - which meant that the Ming soldiers would come to ask for their guilt at any time. In desperation, King Dongmin of the Gongbang Dynasty could only blindly move closer to the British Empire, wanting to use the power of Britain to resist the future attack of the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )