Chapter 69: The Occupation of Vietnam

The stationing of the Black Flag Army in Vietnam maintained the basic order in Vietnam, and the local French immigrants returned one after another. Many of them pooled their money to ask the Qing navy to escort them, after all, they had to pass through the terrifying Strait of Malacca to return to France. There are pirates rampant, so it's better to pay some protection money and let the Qing Dynasty send a few warships to escort it. After all, money is a good thing, but you have to have a life to enjoy it.

In this way, the Great Shimizu Master made enough money in the frequent return.

The King of Vietnam also lived in Prince Alcohol's Mansion for some time, and now he wants to return to Vietnam when he sees that Vietnam is relatively stable.

In the palace of Prince Alcohol, Prince Alcohol is eating under the service of several servants. I saw the king of Vietnam walking leisurely and said, "The king of the lower kingdom, Nguyen Chi Minh, has seen His Royal Highness Prince Alcohol. ”

When Prince Alcohol saw that it was Ruan Zhiming, he tapped Ruan Zhiming with chopsticks, and then clicked on the stool opposite him and said, "Come on, come on, the king will eat together." Then he turned to the servant behind him and said, "Add a pair of dishes and chopsticks to the king." ”

"Oh yo, no trouble, no trouble. Lone has already used it, and Prince Alcohol uses it slowly. Lone is just here to quit! Ruan Zhiming hurriedly shook his hand.

Prince Alcohol rolled his eyes and took a sip of wine. Said slowly: "The king thinks this king is not well greeted? ”

"Where, where, Prince Alcohol is hospitable. Lonely always remember in my heart, but the war in Annam is extinguished, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, I hope that the prince will remember me with the feelings of my homeland and let me return to Annan as soon as possible. I, Annan, would like to be a vassal of the kingdom for generations, pay tribute every year, and come to the court every year. ”

Prince Alcohol watched the Vietnamese king spitting and talking wildly, and his heart was angry. said: "Hmph, how many tens of thousands of casualties have been killed and injured in your Annan in the Qing Dynasty?" Dozens of naval warships alone were sunk. You Vietnamese still help the French to beat us? Let you go back, do you want to reorganize the army to get along with me? ”

Ruan Zhiming was so frightened that he fell to the ground, his face was pale, his hands kept swaying, and his head shook like a rattle. hurriedly explained: "Don't misunderstand, my Annan has fought against France for more than ten years, which is obvious to all, and some rebels follow the French devils to do evil, and they must all be exterminated if they go back alone." Lone's heartfelt devotion to the kingdom can be seen in the sun and the moon. ”

Prince Alcohol picked up a piece of venison and put it in his mouth, chewing it slowly. Said leisurely: "It's easy for you to be loyal to me, I see." Don't go back, you have no children under your knees, and your brothers are staring at your throne. If you cause a civil strife or something one day, I will have to send troops to solve it for you. If it's troublesome enough, you'll just be here to recuperate. Those things in Annan, my emperor of the Qing Dynasty is in charge for you. ”

Having said that, no matter how stupid Ruan Zhiming is, I am afraid he understands what Prince Alcohol means. It's really the wrong person, Ruan Zhiming regrets not being at the beginning. The French wanted Annam as a colony, and only for a government that would obey them. It will not pull him down from the throne, but now the Qing Dynasty has driven the French away. But they also locked themselves up together, which really lured the wolf into the room.

"Lord, what do you mean by this? Although I'm young, I'm young, but it's not your turn to be the emperor of the Qing Kingdom? ”

With a bang, Prince Alcohol slapped his palm on the table and spilled the wine in the glass. His eyes were as wide as a bell, and he scolded angrily: "Presumptuous! What kind of thing are you, you dare to slander my Emperor of the Qing Dynasty? The throne of your ancestors was still canonized by my emperor of the Qing Dynasty, why can't you be your lord? Tell you, I want to take back your land in Annan in the Qing Dynasty, and you can take it if you are willing to take it, and you have to take it if you don't want to. This king is now polite to you, and you will honestly offer the land yourself, and I will ensure that you will be prosperous and rich for the rest of your life. Otherwise...... This king will announce your death tomorrow, and let your brother succeed to the throne, so that he will give the land with his own hands. Weigh it up for yourself! After saying that, he poured another glass of wine and drank it all.

Ruan Zhiming fell to the ground all of a sudden, thinking about the two soft brothers. I can't help but feel sad in my heart, yes, now Qingguo wants to kill him like stepping on an ant. Now that the Qing troops occupied the whole of Vietnam, he could not send the land. Now that Vietnam is also in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, it will be useless to insist on not agreeing here, it is better to agree. I have something to rely on for the rest of my life, alas!

"The prince is angry, Annan is a vassal of the kingdom. Now that Shangguo wants to go back, just words. Lonely, oh no, no. I am willing to offer the land of Annam! ”

Prince Alcohol laughed, picked up Ruan Zhiming, who had fallen to the ground, and said, "Then hurry up and give it to the emperor, the emperor will give you some reward." ”

Ruan Zhiming sat up in pain, with a sad expression on his face.

In the tenth year of Guangxu, on December 21, 1884, King Nguyen Chi Minh of Annam thanked the Qing Dynasty for helping him repel the legal person and wash away the hatred of the country and the family. The above table is dedicated to the land of Annam. Although Guan Xuqing refused three times, King Annam also insisted again and again. Guan Xuqing only allowed it!

Vietnam was then incorporated into the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

Vietnam had just been incorporated into the Qing Dynasty, and a series of policies of the Guanxu Qing Dynasty were taken out of Taiwan one after another. With the Red River as the boundary, it is divided into Vietnam Province and North Vietnam Province. Subsequently, the imperial court promulgated an edict to encourage the people to move to Vietnam, the two provinces of northern Vietnam and the three northeastern provinces outside the Guanwai, and those who were willing to move to the two places could get ten acres of land each, knowing that the per capita cultivated land at this time was less than two acres per person. However, this is not enough to have a huge impact, although land is very important in the hearts of the Chinese people, but after all, it is difficult to leave the homeland, and the poor people who really lack land cannot afford to pay for the journey.

What really caused a sensation was the last sentence of the edict, which stated that anyone who found gold and jade in the fields of the two places did not need to hand it over to the government, and those who found gold outside the customs or jade in Annam had to register with the government before they could be mined.

After this series of policies came out of Taiwan, relying on the strong promotion of the "Daqing Daily", it set off a great wave in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places.

These places are all poor places in the Qing Dynasty, especially in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, which have to rely on the relief of the imperial court every year to barely survive, and it is already the favor of God if they do not starve to death.

Nowadays, people in Guangxi, Yunnan and other places closest to Vietnam Province want to go to Vietnam to live a good life.

Suddenly, all kinds of rumors spread among the people.

"I heard that no, the former village Li Gouzi has made a fortune."

"As far as he can make a fortune, a leper dog."

"Didn't he take all the jewelry that his wife married a while ago? I heard that he picked up jade that was about the size of an egg, sold it to a pawnshop, and insisted that it was his ancestor, and he made a few hundred taels and ransomed all his wife's jewelry. ”

"Egg-sized jade, you lie to the ghost, I don't believe it."

"Believe it or not, haven't you heard the old man say that jade is produced in the south? In the past two days, I have sold my house and my field, and I will go to Annam. Anyway, I can't dig jade and there are ten acres of land, which is much stronger than these few fields in the village. ”

"Is there still land to go to Annam?"

"I came back from the county yesterday and saw it with my own eyes, there is an official messenger there to read it, the emperor said, as long as you are willing to go, each person will be divided into ten acres of land."

"Brother, then you can take me there too, there is no one in my family, you can leave if you say go."

"Okay, folks, you can take care of you on the road."

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After that, Vietnam and the northern provinces of Vietnam did indeed become the granaries of the Qing Dynasty. There are even more folk songs: Liangyue is ripe three times a year, and 500 million people in the Qing Dynasty are enough!

Of course, this is all an afterthought, under the double lure of interests and **, an immigration wave that lasted for decades and spread throughout the entire Qing Dynasty began. The five provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Mukden, Vietnam, and northern Vietnam increase their population by hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands every year.