"Thousands of miles away, you must say goodbye in the end, you stay, Ni is here to say goodbye."

On the outskirts of Beijing, Ni Yuanlu, a former senator, immediately left Beijing with his family to return to his hometown after his resignation, and many officials from the DPRK and China came to see him off.

Ni Yuanlu is a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian, is a fellow villager. Yesterday, the emperor in the palace dismissed Ni Yuanlu from his post, but gave him a decent job, let him resign, and then the emperor approved it, which can be regarded as an early retirement. After resigning and returning to his hometown, the title remains unchanged, and the title is added to the minimum insurance, and he also enjoys the retirement treatment of half a salary.

Ni Yuanlu decided to leave today, and the emperor specially sent a team of guards to escort him and transferred a few carriages for him. A lot of things were rewarded for various royal things in the palace, and 10,000 silver dollars were also rewarded.

In fact, the emperor hoped that Ni Yuanlu would spend the New Year in Beijing before leaving, even if Beijing stayed in Beijing to enjoy his old age. But Ni Yuanlu is very simple, since he has retired, he will go back to his hometown in Shaoxing to recuperate.

Although he left in a hurry, the officials in Beijing still knew the news and rushed to see him off. Ni Yuanlu was also the veteran of the Donglin Party that year, Tianqi Jinshi, Shu Jishi, and Huang Daozhou, the current minister of the court, was also a protégé of the famous minister Yuan Keli. In the Chongzhen Dynasty, he was appointed as the transfer of the household, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and entered the current dynasty, and served as the imperial history of the left capital, the senator doctor, and the popularity of the court was very good.

Zheng Sanjun, Li Banghua and other former Donglin party members all felt a little sad about Ni Yuanlu's resignation. However, Ni Yuanlu looked at it more openly, and comforted them in turn, "Although the last generation of male lords is young, they are ambitious and extraordinary, especially with good vision and powerful means. When I met such a monarch, I don't know whether to say it was our honor or sorrow. I have opposed His Majesty and attacked His Majesty, but His Majesty has not pursued it, and once granted me a heavy position, so that I can participate in the military aircraft, and now that the Han country is strong and the people are rich, I can't keep up with His Majesty's footsteps, and it is time to make way for more enterprising officials. ”

Huang Daozhou, a fellow disciple and brother, also sighed with emotion, "You sometimes like to smoke, if you don't make things so embarrassing this time, Your Majesty will not let you return to your hometown." ”

"It's better to go home." Ni Yuanlu smiled, and he didn't know if he was telling the truth or regretting it in his heart, but no matter what, with today's character, since Ni Yuanlu has returned to his hometown, it is basically unlikely that he will be used again.

Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian, also came to see him off.

Both of them are from Zhejiang, and they are both from Shaoxing, although they are not a county, they are not far apart. In the previous dynasty, they were all Donglin and one party, fighting the eunuch traitors together, and even fought against the powerful minister Liu Jun together. When the new dynasty was first established, Liu Zongzhou was already guarding filial piety in the township, and Ni Yuanlu was in the dynasty at that time, and he was finally loyal to the new dynasty. Now Liu Zongzhou has returned to the dynasty and served as the imperial doctor, but the senator Ni Yuanlu is going to return to his hometown.

"After returning to his hometown, what are Brother Ruyu's plans? is so young, don't you really plan to make Sun Yi at home to raise Sun Yi for a long time, right? ”

"It's not clear now, but seeing that the imperial court has prospered in recent years, the country is rich and the people are strong, and it has taken an unprecedented road, I think maybe I may try to go to the sea to see."

The word "sea" is also a new word in recent years, originally referring to those maritime merchants to trade in the sea, to later, the sea trade flourished, many people who were not originally in this line of work also poured into the sea trade, and later, the sea became a synonym for giving up the original industry to do sea trade, and even became synonymous with changing to do business.

Hearing that Ni Yuanlu actually intended to go to the sea to do business, Liu Zongzhou and the others couldn't help but be surprised.

"You are a great Confucian, a calligraphy master, a dignified founding earl, a young treasure, and you actually want to go to the sea to do business?"

"Nowadays, the whole court attaches great importance to business, speech and profit, although it is not to the point of laughing at the poor and not laughing at prostitutes, but it is true that everyone is busy making money. I am not short of money, and my family has land and land, so I can enjoy my old age in peace. It's just that when you are young, you want to go to the sea to see, Your Majesty doesn't often say that if you don't investigate, you don't have the right to speak. ”

"Have you figured out what to do in the sea?" Liu Zongzhou listened to his explanation, but he was not in a hurry to object.

"I want to go to Annan to see, there are thousands of fertile fields, three crops a year, and it is more of a hometown of fishing and rice than Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Or buy some land to build a plantation and start a small processing workshop, or go there to open a mine or something, in short, there will be time in the future anyway. ”

A team of horses arrived, but it was the guards and pro-army.

"The holy decree has arrived, Ni Shaobao has received the decree!"

The emperor's decree sealed Ni Yuanlu as the founding county marquis, and rewarded 10,000 silver dollars.

The officials who came to see him off were a little surprised, thinking that Ni Yuanlu had completely offended the emperor this time and was driven out of Beijing, but he didn't expect that a decree first mentioned him as a young man and rewarded him with 10,000 silver dollars. The next day, another decree came, and he was crowned a first-class knight, and he was promoted from earl to county marquis.

The Han Dynasty has just adjusted the title, and all the titles no longer retain the name of the country, that is, there is no title such as the prince of Qin, the prince of Zhou, the prince of Shaoxing, but the prince, the prince of the county, the prince of the county, the prince of the county, the marquis of the county, the marquis of the county, the prince of the county, the knight, the samurai, and the lord of the lord as the title, and there is no name of the country in front.

The reason why those country names and yi names were removed is actually because the knighthood system of the Han Dynasty is actually a false title, and the knighthood has neither a fiefdom nor a fiefdom, but just a low salary according to the title. Therefore, no matter whether it is added or not, it is actually impossible to really have fiefdoms and open the country like the two Jin and Northern Dynasties. In particular, except for the clan, the titles of courtiers with different surnames are not hereditary, but only lifelong titles, and their titles can only allow one son to enjoy the treatment of being awarded the title of Lord.

The titles of the Great Han have become pure honors and titles, just like the three princes and three orphans and the three princes and three young princes. However, the titles and palace titles of the Han Dynasty are not so easy to add, and it is even more difficult to be crowned as a county marquis.

At this time, the emperor added Ni Yuanlu and Shaobao and Jin County Marquis, which inevitably made people a little dizzy, but at least even if Ni Yuanlu returned to his hometown, he still had to be valued by the emperor, otherwise the title of Jin Jue would not be counted, and he would have given 20,000 silver dollars.

The storm caused by the Senate's rejection of the bill on the evaluation of officials has just begun, and it has already ended.

After Ni Yuanlu resigned, the more than 30 people who voted against it in the Senate were not affected, and the emperor did not trouble them at all. Subsequently, the cabinet submitted the bill on the evaluation of officials to the Senate again, and this time the bill has made some additions, deletions and amendments, and has also communicated and negotiated with the people in the Senate in advance.

In Hall 1 of the Senate, the result of the vote was not surprising, with 102 votes, of which 97 were voted for, five abstained, and not one was against. The official evaluation bill was officially passed and became a formal bill. Then the cabinet also began to start a general examination of officials in an all-round way, and all civilian officials in the country must participate in the examination this time, and decide whether they can stay in office with the results of the examination, and the examination has not yet begun, and the emperor has already given a directive to his subordinates, this examination, to eliminate 20 percent of the existing civilian officials, and the posts at all levels will be slightly adjusted according to the ratio, but the total elimination rate must not be less than 20 percent.

As for the military attachés, they have already taken the lead and have already formally implemented this system of elimination and promotion for a year, and the results have been good.

In the wind and snow, when the Beijing division was beginning to prepare for the national official examination, the Indochina Peninsula in the southern part of the empire had already gone through a long summer season and a rainy season, and had once again entered the most comfortable cool season of the year.

Indochina Peninsula, Annam, outside Thang Long.

Fu Shan was reappointed from the governor of Annam to the general of Zhennan, but he was still the de facto commander-in-chief of the front line in Annam. After a long period of rest and consolidation during the rainy season, the various units of the Zhennan Army successfully consolidated the ports along the coast that they had captured before, as well as the various forts built thereafter.

During the rainy season, the Annam warlords of the Later Lê Dynasty, namely the Zheng, Nguyen, Wu, and Mo armies, all hoped to take advantage of the unique time to regain lost territory. However, during this period, the Han army held on to the port fortresses and the surrounding fortresses, waited for work, held out, defended and counterattacked, and instead defeated the Annan army that came to attack.

The most beautiful belonged to the Quang Nam side, although he suffered a loss in the Huong River, but then took Hue and Hoi An, and then took the power of the great victory, and the officials of the Nguyen clan surrendered, and only a few troops fled into the jungle of the Truong Son Mountains to resist stubbornly, but it was no longer in the way of the overall situation.

After Liu Jian was transferred, Guangnan's troops also took advantage of the victory to move south, and defeated the southern coastal areas occupied by Champa and Chenla, as well as several important port cities, especially Puriango in Chenla, which was their vice-royal city, which was also captured.

Today, the Han Dynasty is controlled by the Han Dynasty from the port of Dongxing in Guangxi Province along the coast to the southernmost Mekong estuary delta plain.

The entire coastal area of Annam was controlled by the Sixth Fleet, as well as the Jurchen Legion, the Korean Legion, the Japanese Legion, and the Foreign Legion.

After the rainy season, since the cool season of October, Fu Shan began to organize a counteroffensive.

The offensive in the rainy season made the various departments of Annam extremely tired, and because the two major grain-producing areas of the Red River Delta and the Mekong Delta were seized and controlled by the Han this year, coupled with the conscription of soldiers and people during the war, after the autumn, Annam, which should have been a bumper harvest, had a shortage of food.

Especially after the Quang Nam Ruan family was destroyed, the Zheng family, the Wu family and the Mo family were still unable to unite, and the infighting continued. As a result, after Fu Shan launched a counteroffensive, the soldiers and horses of the Zheng clan of the Houli Dynasty, which were mainly attacked, were defeated and retreated, and were soon surrounded by Fu Shan on all sides and blocked in Shenglong City, the capital of the Later Li Dynasty.

Fu Shan did not rush to attack, and after besieging Thang Long City, he only surrounded it, but instead mobilized several towns of mercenaries and began to let them sweep around Thang Long, and then besieged the city to send reinforcements, luring the Ruan Clan's soldiers and horses to relieve the siege of Thang Long.

This is just a simple tactic, but the effect is surprisingly good, and the Zheng army, which is surrounded in Thang Long City, cannot break through, so it can only be trapped every day. And the Zheng generals on the periphery rushed to King Qin in waves, they were like gourd babies saving their grandfathers, one by one, and then one by one they were beaten to the ground.

In the tent of the general of Zhennan not far from Thang Long City, Fu Shan and other generals were looking at the sand table.

"Dashuai, there have been no southern barbarians coming to the door for more than half a month, the brothers are idle and panicking outside, I see that the southern barbarians outside have lost their courage, and they don't dare to break into this ghost gate again. Let's stop waiting for the rabbit and attack Thang Long City directly! Said a general of the North Korean Legion.

Besieging the city and sending reinforcements was the emperor's guiding tactic, which coincided with Fu Shan's thoughts. For the Han Dynasty, it was not difficult to capture Annam, after all, the imperial court had two or three hundred thousand horses on land and water, and no enemy had ever been so valued by the Han Dynasty.

However, the Annam barbarians have always been tenacious and ruthless, and it is a belligerent country. Therefore, although the imperial court sent a large army, it did not plan to destroy Annam in one day. Instead, it was proposed to gradually advance and encroach on the plan step by step. First occupy the coastal ports, then form the coastal strongholds into lines, completely control the coastal areas, and then cut the narrow Annam into several large sections, so that they cannot care about each other.

In the end, they came to besiege the city to send reinforcements, surround their main force, and then lure the rest of their men and horses over, gather and annihilate them.

This can not only reduce casualties, but also annihilate the main force of the enemy army to the greatest extent, and the Han does not want these Annam barbarians to fight any guerrilla war with the Han in the end.

Although the Annan barbarians are ruthless, they can no longer hold on to the battle.

First of all, the Quang Nam Nguyen clan south of Hengshan, although the Nguyen clan has always been against the Zheng clan, but at least he is still a courtier under the name of the Later Li Dynasty, if the Nguyen clan is not destroyed, not to mention the alliance with the Zheng clan, at least it can share part of the pressure on the Zheng clan. But the Ruan clan was wiped out half a year ago, and the entire area south of Hengshan was occupied by the Han Dynasty, which made the Zheng clan even more stressed.

The Han army, relying on the advantage of warships and the cooperation of the army, attacked everywhere in the Red River Delta area, using the dense water network, drove the Zheng army out little by little, and then established fortresses in that area, and finally approached the city of Thang Long step by step.

Under his own capital, he has become the besieging party, and Zheng Jun has suffered a lot in the past six months.

After more than two months of siege, soldiers from all over the city rushed to the rescue, but one after another was defeated by ambushes, and finally there were no reinforcements.

Thang Long City has completely become a lonely city.

Fighting such a battle, the people of Annan felt extremely aggrieved.

But the strong have enough strength to ignore those rules, and the strong make rules, not abide by them.

Even in Annam, the Han army said that it would fight as it wanted. Whether offensive or defensive, it is decided by the big man.

Fu Shan looked at the sand table, and on a wooden board on the side, the battles that took place after entering Annan were recorded in detail, as well as the detailed battle damage figures of the two sides.

Up to now, more than 80,000 soldiers and horses have been killed or surrendered by the Annamite people, including the Nguyen army in Quang Nam.

The entire Annam has a population of only a few million, and in the past, the Ruan clan was only 50,000 or 60,000 horses, the Zheng clan was only about 100,000 horses, and the Mo clan and the Wu clan could not afford to get together 50,000 people. All combined, the entire Annan army is just over 200,000.

Now that they have been annihilated by the Han Dynasty, 80,000, and after deducting the 50,000 of the Mo clan and the armed forces in the north and west, the Zheng clan can still mobilize a total of 70,000.

Now there are 50,000 in Thang Long City, which means that all the Zheng troops outside Thang Long City add up to less than 20,000.

In particular, Annam's army was actually somewhat similar to the previous Ming army, most of them were peasants in peacetime, and they were only peasant soldiers when they were recruited in wartime.

Even if all the men in Thang Long City were called to the head of the city to defend the city, at best there would be no more than 100,000.

Thang Long City, which is defended by 100,000 people, how many people do you need to attack?

"Marshal, Thang Long City will be handed over to our Japanese legion, as long as there is artillery support, we will definitely take this city." The Japanese Legion had an establishment of four towns and a total of 120,000 troops, which was the most powerful army in the Han Dynasty.

At present, one town of the Japanese army was transferred to Liu Yunsheng in Nanyang, and another town was transferred to Zheng Zhilong in Burma, but under Thang Long City, they still had 60,000 people in two towns.

These 60,000 horses did not have food and salary from the imperial court, and they all relied on war to feed the war, and after resting for so long in the rainy season, these Japanese people could not hold it back. Now that Thang Long City has become an isolated city, they naturally want to be the first to attack the city and make a lot of money.

(To be continued.) )