In the third year of Longhan, the ninth day of the first month of November.

100,000 soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty besieged Shenglong City, and broke the city after seven days of fierce attack. The Vietnamese army suffered numerous casualties, and finally Zheng Jie, the king of Zheng Zhuqing County, opened the palace gate, and Li Weiqi, the emperor of Li, led the crowd to surrender.

"Emperor Zheng Li?"

Fu Shan, the general of Zhennan, rode to the front of the palace, looked at the group of people kneeling in front of him, and said to the two people in front with a smile.

Li Weiqi looked up at the high-ranking commander of the Han Dynasty, and felt fear in his heart, "The criminal minister Li Weiqi meets the **** generalissimo of the country." ”

"It turns out that you are Li Weiqi, since you received the edict from my Holy Han Emperor a few years ago to canonize you as the envoy of the capital of Annan, why do you dare to claim to be the emperor? Where did you have the courage to resist Tianwei? The Han Dynasty did not come to attack you, but you dared to send troops to help Donghu rebel against the Han Dynasty? ”

"Back to the generalissimo, everything is coerced by Zheng Jie, and the criminal minister is really helpless." Li Weiqi has been a puppet emperor for more than 20 years, and they all say that Emperor Li is the lord of Zheng, where does this Dayue country have his share of speaking. Now that the country is dead, he only thinks about having a glimmer of life.

Fu Shan just snorted, and he was too lazy to talk nonsense about this kind of incompetent master, he turned his eyes to Zheng Jie, who was still in his sixties, was still very tough at this time.

Since Zheng Jian grasped the power of the Li Dynasty, to now, the Zheng family has been passed down to Zheng Ji for four generations. This Zheng Jie can also be regarded as having some ability, he competed with his brother and uncle for the throne back then, and his methods were ruthless, and after taking over the throne, he conquered the Mo clan in the north and the Ruan clan in the south, but he was also a Cao Cao-like character.

It's a pity that they dare to fight against ****, and they are also killing themselves.

"Zheng Jie, I knew today, why bother in the first place?"

The winner is the king and the loser is Kou, no matter how dissatisfied Zheng Jie is, he can only bow his head at this time.

Fu Shan asked the two to be taken down and imprisoned, and waited for Hou to be escorted to Jingshi.

The marines were stationed in the Imperial Palace of Thang Long City and the Zheng Mansion, and many of the things in the Imperial Palace and the Zheng Mansion had to be transported to the capital. However, in other places, Fu Shan was stationed with mercenaries from other towns.

The Japanese army had two towns, one in Korea and one in foreigners, and the mercenaries of the four towns attacking Thang Long City each occupied one city in the southeast and northwest at this time.

The mercenaries of the four towns are all robbing on a large scale, these people have been following the Han army for a long time, and they have learned to rob well. It's all about prohibiting privateering, it's all organized robbery, carpet scraping, and nothing is missed. All the things that were grabbed should be handed over to the public first, and then classified and entered into the account one by one.

According to the agreement with the imperial court, these mercenaries fought in Annam, and the cities and towns they conquered, except for the land, everything belonged to the spoils of war, whether it was gold, silver, food or population.

But the imperial court does not lose, no matter how much they grab, the territory belongs to the imperial court, and the imperial court takes half of their spoils first. Then the remaining half will be deducted from the tax and given to them, and they will have to take out a lot of what they have to pay for ordnance, food, and other expenses.

In addition, the spoils of war were generally sold to the imperial court first, and then distributed with silver dollar coupons. In the process of this transaction, of course, the imperial court still has to make a profit.

However, the siege of the city and the destruction of the country, the spoils are still very rich, even if all kinds are deducted, it is also very rich in the end.

However, the imperial court did not have to lose money, neither had to pay military salaries, nor was it responsible for equipment, nor did it have to pay high death pensions and disability allowances. The money earned by the mercenaries was all exchanged for their lives.

If you use the official army of the Han Dynasty instead of mercenaries, the cost is much higher.

This siege battle lasted seven days. The mercenaries of the four towns took turns attacking, and the 100,000 horses had recently suffered two percent casualties before taking Thang Long City, although they killed three times the Vietnamese army, but the casualties of 20,000 were still very staggering.

However, such a casualty figure is far inferior to the equipment of the mercenaries in the Han army, and in this attack, the elite marines only provided artillery support in the back, and did not participate in the tragic offensive and defensive battles at all. Fu Shanmei said that he gave the opportunity to seize the city to the mercenaries, but in fact, of course, the lives of the Han officers and soldiers were more valuable.

The lives of the Han officers and soldiers are very valuable, and the lives of mercenaries are naturally not valuable.

Even the mercenaries themselves felt the same way. How can there be no immortal in war, if you die, you will die, just dig a pit and bury it. It would be very nice to be able to send some money to the families of the mercenaries who died in the war after the war.

The huge profits in Thang Long City after the war also made these mercenaries less concerned about this heavy casualty.

"There are still very rich people in Thang Long City, and they are all cheap for those mercenaries." Some of the marines guarding the palace couldn't help but be blushing.

However, the military discipline of the official army was extremely strong, and if they were stationed in the palace, they would never dare to search for loot.

"What's there to be jealous of, no matter how much they search, they have to take half of it and hand it over to the court, and in the end, our share will not be missing from the court anyway." Some soldiers saw it more clearly, even if they were in the rear line this time, with artillery support, they also had a share of the attack on the city.

Fu Shan and other generals did not enter the palace, but only sent soldiers to seal the palace and register the contents one by one.

They chose the Zheng Mansion as the temporary marshal's mansion.

"Dashuai, this Shenglong City has been down, and Emperor Li Zheng has also been captured, what should we do next?"

"The Zheng clan and the Ruan clan have already been broken, and the remaining Wu clan and Mo clan are not worth mentioning. Now we are not in a hurry, let's clean up Thang Long City first. In my opinion, all the people of the original Li clan and the Zheng family in Thang Long City, as well as those officials and generals and those big households, were all sent to Jingshi to be disposed of. As for the other soldiers and people, the young and strong ones were sent to build roads, forts, and mines, and all the young women were transported to the Central Plains. ”

Fu Shan knew very well that the imperial court's long-term plan was to completely turn the Indochina Peninsula into the southern frontier of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, it is impossible to be too lenient with these Yue people, especially the Yue people still have so many black histories, rebellion is not frequent, and there is a backbone in the back of the head. Therefore, the intention of the imperial court is not only to destroy their country, but also to destroy their people.

It is simple to destroy the country, just directly capture Annam. But the dead are more troublesome, of course, they can't be slaughtered directly. Although the slaughter of the city was a fairly simple, crude and effective method, the Mongols, Jurchens and others used this method to conquer in history. But the Mongols and Jurchens loved to slaughter because their own population was too small. No matter what method is used, it is still a very small minority, so it savagely uses massacres to strengthen its rule.

However, the Han does not need it, because the Han has a large population base and is the largest ethnic group in the world. There are only a few million people in the whole of Annan, and it is a pity to slaughter them.

What a manpower.

According to Liu Jun's core guiding ideology, the imperial court opened up the territory, and then moved from the densely populated Central Plains to those landless or mountainous areas with extremely poor living conditions, and moved to the newly expanded land in the frontier, and gave them fields, so that they could take root and sprout on these Xinjiang soils.

As for the natives of the occupied land, the best way is to move away from the place, so that it will not be long before the land is completely part of China. It just so happens that now Dahan is also developing in industry and commerce, and in the initial stage of capital, what is most needed is all kinds of workers.

The people of the Han Dynasty have land, who wants to be workers? After all, for the Han people, the deep-rooted concept is to work hard to make money, be diligent and thrifty, and then buy land, save money to eat and spend, and then save money to buy land. The biggest dream of the Han people is to become a landlord.

Of course, there is a positive side to this kind of thinking, and now that the territory is being expanded, there is land for those who have no land, and naturally everyone is willing to go to the local owner to work as a yeoman farmer, and only when they are free will they be willing to go to the factory to work.

But industry and commerce, especially when capital rises, the demand for labor is huge, especially in industrial and mining enterprises, the need for labor is greater, and it is naturally the most suitable to use these conquered tribes at this time.

Let them go to prospecting, to build roads, to work in factories, to be tenants.

Later, the Han people were all landlords, yeoman farmers, and merchants, and those who were conquered, such as the Japanese, the Yue, the Malays, etc., were all workers and tenants.

It was indeed an oppression, an exploitation, but it was an excellent way to expand and stabilize the empire. After all, the Han Empire is not a Datong society, this is an empire with Han people as the main body, and he can accept other ethnic groups, but it must be dominated by Han people.

Of course, assimilation education will be very powerful, and maybe after three or five generations, those former outsiders will become new Han people, and they will be able to enjoy the same treatment and rights as Han people.

Fu Shan and a group of generals left the Zheng Mansion and walked on the streets of Thang Long City.

The fighting had long since ended, and calm had returned to the city.

However, although there was no killing in the city, there was no normal life, and the Yue people in the city were being cleared out of the city and sent to different concentration camps according to different genders and different age groups.

Thang Long City is no longer their Thang Long City, and this is no longer the capital of Da Yue, but the city of Da Han. Everything here, even the city and the people, is the spoils of the Han Dynasty. Every house, every piece of furniture, and even every Yue person, will be clearly marked with a price and then sold.

Maybe in a month, maybe three months, many Han people will move from the Central Plains.

They will enter the city, and these houses, these fields, these shops, these furniture, they will all be theirs.

Thang Long City is huge, the city has a history of more than 800 years, and it is also more than 600 years old when it became the national capital and changed its name to Thang Long. Located in the resource-rich Red River Plain, close to the sea, this city has always been the most important place in Annam.

Moreover, this city has a Han style everywhere, and the layout and even buildings in the city are very similar to those of the Central Plains. No matter how often the people of Annam rebelled, this is still a country deeply influenced by the Central Plains culture, and Confucianism and Central Plains culture can be seen everywhere here.

"Occupying Thang Long City, you also control the Red River Plain, such a fertile delta plain, which is richer and more fertile than the Pearl River Plain, and this Red River Plain alone can support 30 million people." Fu Shan's tone was full of excitement. (To be continued.) )