After the defeat of the Mo clan in the north, he once took refuge in the Ming Dynasty, ceded land to the Ming Dynasty, and asked the Ming Dynasty to send troops.

The Ming Dynasty issued an edict to Annan as the commander of Annan, and Mo Dengyong was appointed as the commander of Annan, and he was from the second grade, hereditary, and silver. Annam de jure became an autonomous territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Mohs has been in the north ever since.

More than ten years ago, Zheng Jie, the Zheng lord who actually controlled the power of the Later Li Dynasty, sent Zheng Qiao to lead his troops to capture Gaoping, capture and kill the Emperor Mo Daizong, Mo Jinggong and the crown prince of the Mo Dynasty, and sent them to Thanh Hoa to be beheaded. Mo Guangzu Mo Jingkuan and his second son Mo Jingyu escaped into the Ming Dynasty.

In the same year, he sent people to descend to the Hou Li Dynasty. Under the pressure of the Ming Dynasty, the Later Li Dynasty made him a lieutenant and a prince of Tongguo, and allowed him to return to Gaoping. From then on, the military strength of the Mo Dynasty was even weaker, and they paid tribute to the Later Li Dynasty.

Due to the fact that the central part of the Later Li Dynasty was controlled by the Zheng clan, and there were two major separatist forces in the south of the Later Li Dynasty and the Wu clan in the middle, the Later Li Dynasty was unable to completely destroy the Mo court.

Even if the Mo court is now only guarding a small piece of Gaoping, which is close to the Han Dynasty, Guangxi, it is still holding on.

After Liu Jun was proclaimed emperor, Mo Jingyu sent people to congratulate him, and Liu Jun also continued to canonize Mo Jingyu as the commander of Annan at that time.

Therefore, from the official position of the Han Dynasty, in today's Vietnam, the Han only recognizes Mohs as orthodox. At the same time, because the Mo clan had long been a vassal to the Ming and again in the Han Dynasty, Vietnam was not a vassal state, but a metropolitan commander, a high-level Tusi.

The whole of Annam is part of the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Whether it was the Zheng clan or the Ruan clan or the Wu clan of the Later Li Dynasty, they were not recognized by the Han Dynasty, they were all illegal rebel forces.

"It is reported that the Zheng clan of the Later Li Dynasty is preparing to attack the Mo clan in the north again, and Mo Jingyu asked my Han to send troops to rescue them, and even help them get rid of the Li Dynasty. Unification of Annam. ”

Liu Jun chuckled a few times when he said this.

That Mo Dynasty really had a good calculation, and asked the big Han to help them deal with the Li army. However, Liu Jun is ready to plan the plan, since there is no invitation, the big man can do something.

"After all, Gaoping Mo's clan is the commander of Annan officially canonized by my Han Dynasty, and Annan is also the territory of my Han Dynasty, how can I allow the rebels to cause chaos?"

"Your Majesty. When I arrived in Lingnan, I immediately sent troops to Gaoping! Zhang Shan said.

Liu Jun shook his hand, "Don't worry." ”

"If troops are sent to Gaoping now, it will definitely cause Hou Li to be nervous, and even trigger an overreaction. A Hou Li Dynasty is not terrible, if this leads to several forces of the Hou Li Dynasty to unite against us, or even let them unite with Donghu, it will affect our plans. ”

Liu Jun has other arrangements.

"But we can help Mohs train the army and provide loans. Sold to armaments. We can even help them recruit some soldiers from the border. ”

Liu Jun said that when he recruited soldiers, he smiled brightly.

Zhang Shan suddenly heard that there was something in this.

What if some Han soldiers were temporarily separated from the Han army and recruited into the Mo army as border citizens?

When Zhang Shan proposed this idea, Liu Jun gave him an appreciative look. It's really worthy of being an old brother, listening to the strings and knowing the elegance.

This is the idea he had and did not directly send the Han army into Gaoping, but let some Han troops join the Mo army. Of course. In fact, it's just a formality, and the army will still be the Han army. The establishment will not fight the enemy, and the generals will not change the commanders. They are just temporarily changing into military uniforms, changing flags, and they don't even need to change their equipment.

In this way, they became the army of the Mo Dynasty.

Mo Jingyu was still the commander of the Han Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty attacked Annan that year. But it was quickly driven away. That was a very deep lesson, Liu Jun believed that in order to recover Annam, it could not be too direct, and some means had to be used. For example, first supporting the Mo clan to fight against the Li Dynasty, this will ostensibly be the Annamite people's own civil war between the north and the south.

Take advantage of this war. The Han army can turn the Mo clan into a puppet, use his name to destroy the Li Dynasty and other hostile forces first, and then use the name of the Mo clan to purge Annam several times.

This method is to boil frogs in warm water, and when the anti-Han forces in Annam are almost cleansed, then just throw the Mo's puppets aside and directly set up a provincial government in Annam.

"You must protect Mo Jingyu!" Liu Jun accentuated the tone on the word protection.

Zhang Shan understood the true meaning of these two words.

"In addition to protecting Mo Jingyu, you can send the Mo clan to Dahan and Beijing." Liu Jun continued, "Together with the children of the nobles and civil and military ministers of the Mo family, they were also sent to Beijing to study at Guozijian University. ”

"Your Majesty is brilliant."

When these children of the Mo family and the ministers of the Mo Dynasty arrived in Beijing, they naturally became hostages. If Mo Jingyu is disobedient, the court can immediately change to a Mo son to come to power, anyway, they are just puppets of the Han army, and all the Han needs is an obedient puppet.

Everyone laughs and laughs together, these things are really cruel, but that's the essence of it.

Liu Yunsheng said at this time, "I heard that the Tokugawa clan of the Japanese Edo shogunate has ordered the Satsuma clan to withdraw from the Ryukyus and transfer the Ryukyus to the Great Han?" ”

"So what? If he doesn't return it, Ryukyu will be a big man's. Liu Jun sneered twice, and the Japanese finally knew that they were afraid.

It is not a secret that the Great Han wants to fight Japan.

The Han army on Edo, Tsushima and other concession islands was stockpiling grain, grass, and armaments, and many warships were also constantly coming to garrison the military port. All these kinds of deeds show that the Han Dynasty is going to be serious about Japan this time.

The Edo shogunate didn't expect the big Han to say that they would do it, and after carefully assessing the strength of both sides, they finally found out with some despair that once the war started, they would definitely have no chance of winning.

The Japanese regretted it, and they wanted to ask for mercy, so in order to show their sincerity, they took the initiative to order the Satsuma clan to withdraw its troops from the Ryukyus and transfer the Ryukyus to the Great Han.

They also sent people to Beijing with many gifts to ask the Han to forgive them.

The Tokugawa family said they were willing to liberalize the export of gold and silver without any restrictions. It's just that Liu Jun would not agree.

"At present, the number of mercenaries in Tianjin has reached more than 8,000 people, almost all of whom are Yi people, mainly from the Western Yi of Europe." Liu Yunsheng reported to Liu Junyu.

Using Yi people as mercenaries and letting them go deep into Japan to plunder after the war was a plan proposed by Liu Jun. Nowadays, more and more Yi people are pouring into the Han Dynasty, and they hire Yi people to go to Japan to plunder. It's also a stroke of God.

Using Yi people to play strikers is low-cost, and they don't need food or rewards and pensions, they have to rely on themselves to rob them, and they have to take a cut if they grab the big man. Dead and wounded, Dahan is not responsible. There is no need to feel distressed.

While he was laughing, the chamberlain came over to deliver an urgent message.

Liu Jun opened it and saw that the smile on his face was gone.

This is the report of Jinyiwei from Burma, who is currently leading Yi Miao to flee from the Burmese rebels, Sha Dingzhou, and officially accepted the recruitment of King Ta Long, the king of Donghu.

King Talong married his daughter to Sha Dingzhou's son, and named Sha Dingzhou king, and also rewarded Sha Dingzhou with a large amount of money and grain.

"Shadingzhou was unable to attack the city of Ava for a long time, and the food was running out, and the Han army invaded Burma. Sha Dingzhou therefore finally chose to accept the recruitment of King Talong. Liu Jun sighed, the most unwanted fact still happened.

The alliance between the Donghu Kingdom and the Shadingzhou rebels will inevitably bring about a great change in the current situation in Central and South China.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, even if Sha Dingzhou joins forces with King Donghu, so what, the general of the defeated army will defeat him again."

Liu Jun shook his head and smiled, "This is not the worst news. The worst news was that Champa sent troops to attack the Nguyen clan of Annam's Lê dynasty, and the kingdom of Ji Mo also took the opportunity to attack their suzerain, the kingdom of Ayutthaya. ”

Champa is south of Nguyen Thi in Vietnam. And Ji Mo is Cambodia, two countries sandwiched between Thailand and the Nguyen clan of Vietnam, both of which were once very miserable in their ancestors. In particular, although Cambodia has a large territory, it now has to rely on recognizing a big city as the suzerain.

If you don't explode in silence, you die in silence.

Now the entire Indochina Peninsula is in turmoil, and the battle between Ayutthaya and Donghu is in full swing. Dong Hu fought with the native soldiers of the Han and the southwest of Han in the north, and the Nguyen clan fought with the Zheng clan.

The two weaklings, Champa and Ji Ming, got together and decided to take a stand.

So, they relied on each other back to back, and then each of them found Ayutthaya and Annam Nguyen, who often bullied them, to send troops for revenge.

Ayutthaya was originally inseparable from Donghu. was still at a disadvantage, but suddenly a large number of Yunnan native soldiers who were defeated by the Han army fled to Donghu, and surrounded the capital of Donghu, Ava, which was a fierce attack. The Donghu army hurriedly retreated north, and Dacheng finally seized the opportunity to chase the Donghu army is to beat.

However, they were a little premature, and the Khmer who had been bullied and suppressed by them suddenly stabbed them in the back.

The fire broke out in the backyard of the Ayutthaya army, and they couldn't take care of the Donghu army that fell into the water anymore, and Donghu and Dacheng ceased their troops at the same time and retreated.

The main force of Donghu was finally able to return to the north from the south, which was certainly not good news for the Han Dynasty.

If it's just Sha Dingzhou accepting Donghu Zhao'an, this is nothing. But now that the main force of Donghu has gotten rid of the entanglement of the Ayutthaya army and returned north, then the Han will have to face the entire Donghu army.

Plans never kept up with the changes, and no one could have expected the Khmers to suddenly rise to prominence, which set off a chain reaction. The people of Ayutthaya no longer chased the Donghu people, and they let go of the Donghu army and rushed back to clean up the Khmers, but it made the southwest war of the Han army more difficult.

The Donghu people had a chance to breathe, and the main force went north, and the resistance faced by the Han army would be much stronger.

"We have to step up the construction of the Yunnan-Burma road."

Liu Jun said suddenly.

This may seem unrelated, but in fact, several people here understand that this road is very important to the war in the southwest. At present, the road from Yunnan to Myanmar is very poor, the mountains are high and dangerous, especially there are many turbulent rivers and canyons. Relying only on a simple post road, it is naturally not much of a problem to cross the army and horses, but it is difficult to transport artillery and grain by car.

If we want to send more troops to Burma and expand the scale, the most difficult thing is not the problem of soldiers, but the problem of transporting and supplying grain, grass and armaments. Cannons, in particular, simply can't be transported.

Now in the past, there were basically some mountain grenades and mortars, and those canons and cannons could only stay in Guiyang, Kunming, Dali and other places. It can only be transported after the road and bridge are repaired.

Without these artillery and food support, it would have been impossible to expand the size of the army fighting in Burma, and it seems that it would not be possible to count on the rapid destruction of Tangoo.

"Fix it first, then fix it. First build a simple road from Kunming to Mubang, which can be opened to vehicles and horses to transport artillery and grain. After it can be passed, it will be slowly transformed and repaired. "The Yunnan-Burma road is planned to be repaired for a year, and Liu Jun does not plan to let the army entering Burma wait for a year for artillery support in the rear, so he can only simply repair it and open it to traffic first. (To be continued.) )