Under the city of Xuance, the European-style fortress and the Daming-style trench barbed wire, plus the breech guns once again perfectly interpreted what it means to be an iron wall. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Poor Mughals!

Although they had an army of 50,000 men, and they were all the most pious warriors of the Zhen Lord, they went forward one after another, they fought bloodily, and they marched bravely, but they still could not break through a castle with only more than 3,000 men, and some of them were guarded by militia. Behind the reinforced concrete parapet, cannons and rifles sprayed a rain of steel fire frantically, and they fell one by one in this rain of steel fire, and fell in despair, their blood flowing into the river behind them, their flesh and bones turned into fertilizer for the earth, and their lives were as humble as grass mustard.

The gods are of little use here.

Well, maybe their gods weren't of much use in the first place.

The Mughals struggling in the blood, fire and hell outside the city of Xuan Ce all had infinite confusion in their hearts.

Where are their gods?

It seemed that it was not a castle but a life-devouring monster, which was huge, dark and dreary, and met the sky and earth under the dark clouds, and countless light and darkness flickered strangely on it, and its roar, roar, or strange laughter echoed across the earth.

Triumphant roars, rampant roars, blasphemous laughter!

Then the dead bodies of the Mughals kept piling up around it.

Then the courage of the Mughals continued to fade around it.

Instead......

Despair.

Of course, this is not very important, the important thing is that the Ming army did not divide troops to reinforce Xuance City at all, Wang Song didn't even think about this problem at all, if Qin Xu's Xuance Mansion garrison couldn't even withstand the 50,000 Mughal army, it would be better to find a stone to kill himself. What's more, large sea ships can be driven into that place, in fact, Xuance Mansion is an important seaport, not a river port, where is there any need for army reinforcements, the navy can crush the Mughals with a few cruisers.

Even his military headquarters began to board ships from Dhaka to the north.

In fact, as the Ming army crossed the confluence of the Jamuna River, the shallow water heavy artillery fleet could no longer continue to advance, although the Ganges River is a big river, but because the sediment content is second only to the Yellow River, so the downstream silt problem is also quite serious, although the downstream river channel is wide, even as wide as several thousand meters and more than ten kilometers, but the silt makes the river water is not deep, and the shallow water heavy gunboats with a draft of about two meters are generally unable to sail on the Ganges. The Ming army had already landed and stopped at Kushtia, waiting for reinforcements from the First River Fleet, which was even able to sail directly to Delhi, consisting entirely of Sichuan gunboats. However, because it was not suitable for ocean voyages, this fleet could only sail slowly close to the coastline, and the speed would not be much faster than that of ancient sailing ships, and the Ming army was advancing too fast, so it had to wait in Kushtia for at least a month.

And they have to wait for an important person.

Their Emperor Majesty.

Well, Emperor Yang is going to go on a personal expedition again.

Recently, Emperor Yang has been idle in the palace and is almost painful, and he urgently needs to go out to find a place to relax, Yinren is also an old acquaintance with him, like this kind of thing to take Emperor Qianlong back to reunite with his relatives, he is still very willing to go out in person, of course, the main thing is that he is full of irrepressible enthusiasm for the scourge of the Indian people. Anyway, there is basically nothing for him to do in the current government, in fact, there is no need for His Majesty the Emperor to worry about the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty now, of course, he actually rarely worries about it, and all the affairs of the cabinet are basically done, that is, ask him for advice on some major matters.

His Majesty the current Emperor has a bit of the style of Emperor Wanli of Shenzong.

The internal affairs are all thrown to the prime minister of the cabinet, that is, the grandfather of the queen, and even the next prime minister has been decided, that is, Shao Tingcai, who has always had a good personal relationship with the emperor, the latter, as the leader of the Ming academic community, can be regarded as the one who is expected by everyone, after all, on science is a famous scientist in the Ming Dynasty, and the Confucian scholar is the head of the Yaojiang Academy back then, and the Ming Dynasty really does not have the best of both worlds in the prime minister's choice, whether it is the new school or the old school, he is obeyed. In short, now the internal affairs are completely handed over to these two people and the ministers of the cabinet, and the army has the generals of the General Staff in charge, and the local people are elected by the local people, and there are inspectors in the Ming brocade and guards are secretly watching, in fact, after more than ten years of operation, the Ming government has run in very well, and the emperor can hide in Hougong to live a desolate life.

Therefore, Emperor Yang added six princes and seven princesses last year, and the current number of children is close to fifty, and his current actual age is less than forty.

But it's also boring to always soak in Hougong as a seeder, after all, he is an old acquaintance, and those beauties are a little aesthetically tired no matter how beautiful they look at them for a few more years, so now His Majesty the Emperor also urgently needs a little entertainment.

For example, running to the subject country and pretending to be forced or something.

Hue.

"Minister Nguyen Phuc Thuong see Your Majesty! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

Ruan Fu Xuan sincerely lay down in front of Yang Feng and shouted long live, and behind him, officials at all levels in Annam were also lying there and shouting in fear, which also included the kings of the four Laos countries who were also summoned to run, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty in these five countries, the generals of the Ming army garrison, etc., in short, there was a large area kneeling in front of His Majesty the Emperor, plus the people of Annam who were kneeling around can be completely described by the word magnificent.

"Everyone, love Qing Ping!"

Emperor Yang said amiably.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew, and the smoke on the chimneys of the battleships behind him immediately drifted over, almost submerging the entire dock at once, but in this smoke, it was obvious that there was no smoke at all in the position of His Majesty the Emperor, but the outline of a ten-zhang high coiled dragon was clearly discernible, especially above his head, the huge dragon head like a four-wheeled Wugang car shook viciously.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray!"

Seeing this, Nguyen Phuc Thu and the people of Annam all shouted in louder voices.

His Majesty the Emperor, who had been perfectly fitted at the docks, then boarded his car and, escorted by dragoons, slowly drove along the asphalt road that Nguyen Phuc Huan had built at great expense to welcome his arrival to Hue Hang.

The palace was also newly built.

In fact, not only Annan, all the capitals of the Ming vassal countries have the palaces of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, of course, they are all built by the subject countries themselves, which is the embodiment of their filial piety, and these palaces have palace supervisors, which are directly sent by the Nanjing Imperial Palace Celebrant Supervisor, in fact, to a certain extent, the headquarters of the Ming secret service in the subject country, and the personnel of the Jinyi Guard in the subject countries are controlled by these palace supervisors.

Of course, these palace eunuchs are not necessarily eunuchs.

In fact, the eunuch system of the Ming Dynasty has been half over, the palace has not recruited new eunuchs for many years, and the current eunuchs are all left by Kang Mazi, as for what to do after these are old and dead, the emperor has not made a clear statement, in fact, even the palace maid has not been recruited for many years, of course, this is mainly because those subject countries will choose young and beautiful girls every year, and send them to the palace for sprinkling, and the army has looted beautiful girls outside, and they will also be sent to the palace, everyone knows that the emperor has such a hobby, so there is no shortage of palace maids in the palace.

Hue Palace is not just a palace, in fact, a new city, a completely newly built imperial city, a five-cornered flower-shaped fortress, and Hue City next to each other, built across the Xiang River, in addition to being a palace, it is also the residence of the Ming minister in Annam, the military camp of the Ming army in Hue, and more importantly, it is in the north of Hue City, all ships must first pass through this castle before entering Hue, and the fleet guarding Yang Feng is parked on the dock in this castle.

Similarly, the palaces of other subject countries are in a similar situation, but they are different according to the size of the subject country.

In fact, this thing is used by Yang Feng to consume the financial resources of the subject country, and by the way, let those Ming merchants make a fortune with them, such as Nguyen Phuc Shu spent three full years of financial income in order to build the imperial city and palace of Hue, and all the money he spent fell into the pockets of those raw material suppliers of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Annan is a big country, and can afford it, like the king of Vientiane in order to build a palace for Emperor Yang, he had to package and sell the mineral exploration and mining rights in the territory to a Ming consortium, and finally made up the funds to repair the imperial city and palace.

The money is spent on this, and of course there is no ability to do anything else.

And because of the protection of the Ming Dynasty, these countries do not have to worry about security issues, and even have Emperor Yang, the arbiter, and they do not fight with each other, so these subject countries are developing in the direction of swords and guns into Kuma and Nanshan, in addition to the poor points, there is often a famine and plague, in general, life is okay, as for the famine and plague, this is a natural disaster, even if Zhenla because of too many rice exports the year before last, this year's flood greatly reduced production and starved to death tens of thousands of people......

It was also a natural disaster, and it had nothing to do with the unscrupulous purchase of rice.

"This, this seems to have something to lose!"

Emperor Yang stood in front of the gate of the splendid palace and said very casually.

Of course, he didn't say anything more.

But this sentence made Ruan Fuhuan be careful, after the emperor entered, he quietly grabbed the accompanying Gonggong Gui, and together with the Hue palace eunuch, he also wiped a cold sweat to consult the eunuch who was said to be the emperor's closest confidant, what else did they not do enough? Why did the emperor say that? Especially will the emperor be angry about this?

"It's unpredictable!"

Gonggong Gui looked at the 100,000 dragon yuan check handed over by Ruan Fushu in his hand, frowned a little embarrassedly and said: "But I remember that in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, there is still a sun and moon emblem, a very large, one and a half zhang high, all of which are made of gold and silver. ”

"Do it, do it immediately, pass on the king's order, make it as fast as possible, and the emperor must stand here tomorrow morning when he comes out!"

Ruan Phuc Xuan said to his subordinates without hesitation.

"Don't be one and a half, just one and a half!"

Grandpa Gui said.

"Yes, yes, it can't be bigger than Nanjing, thanks to Grandpa Gui's reminder."

Nguyen Phuc Chuan said.

As he spoke, he quietly stuffed a similar check into the hands of Gonggong Gui, and then glanced at the palace supervisor of Hue, who said to Gonggong Gui with understanding: "Gonggong Gui, the king of Annam has a daughter, sixteen years old, and she looks like a fairy descending to earth, this time it was also sent to the palace to serve the emperor, you see if this night can be arranged, after all, this is also a piece of loyalty of the king of Annam to the emperor, in case you can get the emperor's rain and dew grace, the king of Annam will be grateful to the father-in-law." ”

"This is a gesture, but the vision of the saint is not comparable to us ordinary people, if the little lord can't get the favor of the saint, I can't do anything, so this matter can't be said to be a foregone conclusion."

Gonggong Gui said with a smile.

"That's, that's, it's all up to the blessings of the king's child."

Ruan Phuc said hurriedly.

As soon as Gonggong Gui was about to leave, the king of Luang Prabang hurriedly chased after him, and then stuffed a check into his hand with a smiling face, and the Hue palace supervisor next to him also explained, well, a granddaughter of His Majesty the king was also sent to the Hue Palace, and he also knew that his place was too remote and estimated that Emperor Yang would not go in his life, so he had to borrow Nguyen Phuc Huan's territory to show his filial piety.

Father-in-law Gui naturally did not refuse, and the gifts that should be received were unceremoniously.

"This is Nguyen Phuc Tsuan's daughter?"

Two hours later, Yang said, looking at the photo in his hand.

Now the rules of Daming turning over the brand have also become direct flipping photos, and they also asked Lin Qian to buy a digital camera to take it, looking at the little high school student in a long skirt with bright eyes and bright teeth in the photo, and then thinking about Ruan Fushu's appearance, Emperor Yang said in disbelief.

"Your Majesty, there is something even more outrageous, look at the granddaughter of King Luang Prabang."

Grandpa Gui happily handed him another photo.

"This is the granddaughter of the black monkey?"

Yang Feng looked at the photo in his hand speechlessly, and said another little beauty with a smile on her skin.

Of course, everyone understands this kind of thing, as for whether it is their daughter or granddaughter, it doesn't matter if it's their daughter or granddaughter, what matters is their filial piety, since that's the case, don't let down their hearts.

"Let's sleep with them tonight!"

His Majesty the Emperor put down the photo and said.

And he likes to set up a big sun and moon emblem in front of the palace gate, and it also spread quickly, and before he left Hue, Bangkok, Brunei, Phnom Penh and other capital cities of various countries have also erected the sun and moon emblem as quickly as possible. The poor king of Vientiane had no choice but to sell the shipping franchise on the Mekong River to a Ming shipping company, and then in exchange for the funds to set up one in front of the Vientiane Palace. You must know that this thing is all gold and silver, although gold and silver plating can also achieve the effect, but who knows if there will be people who will run to sue themselves for fooling the emperor with fakes, so even if it is thin, it must be made of pure gold and sterling silver, you must know that in these subject countries, there are many people who covet the position of the king.

As for the cost......

In order to let Emperor Yang see our loyalty and filial piety, let's grit our teeth and persevere!

This is the duty of a courtier! (To be continued.) )