Chang Bin's trip to Vietnam was not easy, and Vietnam is now a pot of porridge. Nominally, Vietnam was ruled by www.biquge.info the Later Lê Dynasty, but since the 15th century, due to the chaos of domestic politics and the rebellion of Mo Teng Yong, the Lê monarch has been a rubber stamp with little real power. The two powerful men of the Lê Dynasty, the Zheng clan and the Nguyen dynasty, were originally in-laws and worked together to deal with the Mo dynasty, the enemy of the Lê dynasty, but gradually the discord and distrust between the two sides deepened, and eventually turned into a civil war between the powerful ministers. Eventually, the Truong clan occupied North Vietnam, and the Nguyen clan occupied South Vietnam, ushering in the Trung Nguyen period of strife between the North and the South.

The story changes after the three Nguyen brothers, a farmer, launched the Tay Son Uprising. In 1765, the tenth monarch of the Nguyen family, Nguyen Phuc Quo, passed away, and his second son, Nguyen Phuc Duong, succeeded him. Nguyen Phuc Duong was talented and wise and decisive, and the powerful minister Zhang Fuluan was afraid that it would be difficult to protect himself if he was the master, so he colluded with the eunuchs Chu Duc and Zhangying Nguyen Jiutong to tamper with Ruan Phuc Quoh's edict and support the sixteenth son Nguyen Phuc Chun as the heir. Nguyen Phuc Xuan was awarded the title of State Minister, in charge of household affairs, and in charge of affairs. His sons Zhang Fusheng and Zhang Fuyue both married the daughters of Ruan Fukuo, and their power was tilted for a while. Zhang Fuluan formed a party for personal gain, expropriated and extorted, and the Vietnamese people under his rule were miserable, and finally the three Nguyen brothers launched the Tay Son Uprising under the banner of supporting Nguyen Phuc Duong.

In 1773, the rebel army captured the city of Quy Nhon and attacked Quang Ngai and Quang Nam provinces in the north. In the summer of 1774, the rebels took possession of a vast area from Quang Ngai in the north to Binh Thuan in the south, and cut off the Nguyễn ruler's territory. At this time, the Zheng lord of the north, who had always been at odds with the Ruan family, sent the general Huang Wufu to lead 30,000 troops to attack the Ruan lord, claiming that he had no intention of occupying the Ruan family's rivers and mountains, but only to crusade against the traitor Zhang Fuluan. At the beginning of 1775, when the Zheng army was about to arrive at the city of Phu Xuan, Hu She under the command of Lord Nguyen was in charge of Nguyen Phuc? , Ruan Jiufa and others launched a mutiny, captured Zhang Fuluan and dedicated it to Zheng Jun, and killed Cai Sheng and others of Zhang Dang. However, the Zheng army invaded Phu Xuan, and the Ruan lord Nguyen Phuc Chun fled south with the princes and ministers, and then gave way to his nephew Nguyen Phuc Duong, proclaiming himself the king of Taishang.

This was almost the best opportunity for the Zheng clan to unify Vietnam in hundreds of years, and the Tay Son army was under attack at the moment, and the Zheng army immediately began to attack the Tay Son army.

When Chang Bin arrived in Vietnam, it was the time when the Zheng army and the Xishan army were in the dark. Originally, under the rule of the first Nguyen lords, Quang Nam Province was "a place where the city has no price, people are not thieves, and merchant ships from all countries gather", and the economy is prosperous, constantly attracting war refugees from the north, and the population is large. But at this time, first the Xishan army fought against the Nguyen dynasty, and then the Xishan army fought against the Zheng Wang Chao, and the war made a large number of people become refugees. In addition, during the reign of the traitor Zhang Fuluan, the economy declined seriously, and the people were struggling to make a living, which made a large number of refugees appear here.

Soon after Chang Bin landed, he found a large number of fleeing refugees, who did not know Vietnamese, but fortunately, there were Han Chinese among the refugees who acted as interpreters. Chang Bin took out a part of the grain and silver coins and announced: "The rations and silver have been exchanged, the rations and silver have been exchanged!" As long as women and children. ”

Originally, Chang Bin's idea was that as long as Vietnamese women, but he quickly thought that children were also a good choice, they would soon be able to master Chinese, receive education from the Tang Dynasty, and grow up to be no different from the Tang people, although they could not become an effective labor force for a while, but the future development was promising, and it may be easier to integrate into the Tang Dynasty society than those adult immigrants.

It turns out that for the sake of food and money, Vietnamese men do not care about their families at all. The vast majority of people chose to sell their wives and daughters, and most of these women were more submissive, perhaps anticipating this miserable life, and at least they were bought, so that they would not starve to death. However, many children are very crying, and Chang Bin can only call those Vietnamese women to help take care of these children.

The Han peddler who knew Vietnamese was given ten silver coins by Chang Bin, hired as a translator, and taken away. Chang Bin stayed in Quang Nam Province for a total of four days, and bought more than 200 women and more than 200 children, and the Mao Wenlong could barely fit on it, so Chang Bin had to return immediately, and was ready to persuade Bai Nam to bring more ships to Vietnam to pull people.

On his return to Hong Kong, Bai Nan also arrived here with four cargo ships.

"Counting the immigrants who have been scattered these days, the Fujian immigrants brought out by Lin Fang before, and these Vietnamese, we have pulled a total of 1,159 immigrants, alas, most of the immigrants from Jiaying Prefecture and Huizhou are young and middle-aged men, and there are still very few families who have migrated with their families, and only three families are in debt or offended and have to leave." Bai Nan looked at the statistics and was somewhat frustrated.

Lin Youde comforted: "More than 1,000 people, it's not a few, after all, this is our first time coming, and we are still restricted by the Manchu Dynasty, besides, Lieutenant Colonel Bai has already buried Yang Zhen, Lin Fang and Tiandihui, these three shadows, if the development situation is good, our next batch of merchant ships coming to Guangzhou should be able to take away more immigrants." ”

Bai Nan nodded, "I believe this, but think about it, it is really difficult to expand the population of our Datang." ”

Lin Youde said with a smile: "It took hundreds of years for the Americans to make the population break 100 million, and we are only 140,000 now, so it will take one or two hundred years to reach the current population size of the thirteen colonies in North America." ”

Bai Nan was still very confident, and said: "The population of the Thirteen Colonies is now more than 2 million, if our immigration methods are more effective, plus encourage childbearing, and strengthen the naturalization of the aborigines, I believe that within 20 years we will be able to catch up with the population of the United States." ”

Lin Youde said: "Lieutenant Colonel Bai is really optimistic, the Tang Dynasty with a population of two million is enough to become a world power." ”

Chang Bin also interjected at this time: "Actually, I think that since it is so difficult to pull immigrants from China, it is better for us to pull immigrants from Vietnam, Japan, North Korea, etc., these places are less difficult and less costly, and they look similar to us, and there is no racial conflict." ”

Bai Nan still shook his head and said: "Our immigrants are still dominated by Chinese, although at this time the East Asian cultural circle is still dominated by Han culture, but after all, Vietnamese, Japanese and other ethnic groups are still alien, with strong national attributes, if their population proportion is too high, diluting the proportion of Chinese, it is more likely to cause all kinds of consequences and impacts that we do not want to see, and then our Datang will not be worthy of the name." ”

Lin Youde also agreed, saying: "We often say that Chinese culture is tolerant, which also needs to be predetermined, if we can't achieve subjectivity, then there is no tolerance or intolerance, and it is likely to be assimilated by others and lose our core cultural values." Therefore, what Lieutenant Colonel Bai said is very right, we still have to focus on our own immigrants, and immigrants from other countries are not impossible, but the proportion must be controlled. ”

"But now Vietnam is indeed a very good source of immigrants, lack of living space, war, politics, religion, has always been a few factors of immigration, we have recently recruited Vietnamese women and children, and generally speaking, it is relatively safe," Bai Nam said. We are ready to return to Los Angeles, and I am ready to hand over the recruitment of Vietnamese immigrants to Yang Zhen, after all, he has ten sailing ships in his hands, although the capacity is a little lower, but many recruitments, the number of personnel is also relatively objective. ”

Chang Bin smiled: "The Vietnamese came to Hong Kong by boat, like the Vietnamese boat people incident after the 70s on our plane?" ”

Lin Youde said: "I think that if Yang Zhen sees the current situation in Vietnam, he may take advantage of this situation to absorb Vietnamese people for his use and strengthen his strength." ”

Bai Nan was not worried about this, and said: "No matter how strong Yang Zhen is, he is under the control of our Datang. After all, a corner of Hong Kong is too small, even if Yang Zhen racks his brains to expand, how far can he expand? Besides, if the proposal I submitted to the cabinet is adopted, then no matter what plan Yang Zhen and the people behind him have, it will all be a breakthrough. ”

Chang Bin said: "I think Lieutenant Colonel Bai, you are still a bit of a villain, those people in the Ming Dynasty may not have any plans, and in my opinion, even if they cultivate their own forces, what can they do?" Could it be that the 'attack on the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the rebuilding of the Ming Dynasty? Kangxi had almost killed the Ming Dynasty clan at that time, and even if he wanted to elect an emperor surnamed Zhu at this time, it would be very difficult. Moreover, is it difficult to let a group of eunuchs be emperors and ministers? It's not that I discriminate against them, eunuchs have always been discriminated against in traditional Chinese society, and even if they can get on the political stage, they won't go anywhere. ”

Lin Youde also said: "Generally speaking, they are still people in the same boat as us, and they have played a big role in the navy and shipping, many people are diligent and diligent, hoping to have a good future, as for the ambitions of a few people, I think ordinary Ming Dynasty people may not be willing to respond." ”

After a brief stay in Hong Kong for two days, Yang Zhen's pirate gang also completely settled down in Hong Kong Water Village, Bai Nan squandered peony silver coins, bought a lot of grain in the Liangguang area, and hoarded it in Hong Kong Water Village. This batch of food is enough for the development of Yang Zhen's growing pirate gang, and it is also enough for the immigrants who continue to arrive in Hong Kong.

In this migratory bird plan, Bai Nan earned millions of Tang yuan for Datang, purchased the required tea and other materials, and brought in more than 1,100 immigrants, which can be regarded as a good achievement. The fleet set sail from Hong Kong and sailed north along the Kuroshio Current, sailing with westerly winds, and Bainan is expected to reach Los Angeles in less than two months.

According to the plan, within two weeks of Bai Nan's return to Los Angeles, the second fleet will depart for Guangzhou to trade and carry migrants.