Chapter 574: An Intractable Mystery
In the Taihe Palace, the old man was full of tears, and Si De's eyes were full of brilliance, leaning on the back of his chair motionless like a walking corpse, because he would be forced to cede half of the country to the Democratic Alliance Army, and he would have to give up the three provinces of Nanqi and Kunlun Island to France!
"Your Majesty the Emperor!" Genui felt a little unbearable in his heart, shook his head, and persuaded softly: "There is an old Chinese saying, those who know the times are handsome, and the so-called stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, as long as the royal family of the Ruan Dynasty is still there, there is always a chance, isn't it?" ”
"Huh?" These words reminded Ruan Zhifang, and then persuaded: "Your Majesty, Gou Jian still has the shame of lying on his salary and tasting his courage, what is the emperor's forbearance of a momentary humiliation?"
The emperor still remembers that in the early years of the Ming Dynasty in China, Chengzu Zhu Di had a bad relationship with the Hu Dynasty at that time because of the old Chen Dynasty, and sent 800,000 troops by land and water to invade our Vietnam.
According to the Ming Dynasty calendar, this year is the fifth year of Yongle (1407), but our Vietnamese people have never yielded, under the leadership of the descendants of the Tran Dynasty and the Le Clan, after unremitting struggle, the Ming army was repeatedly broken, and finally Ming Xuanzong announced the withdrawal from Vietnam in the second year of Xuande (1427). and canonized Le Le Le as the king of Vietnam, and Vietnam regained its independence.
Now the Democratic League army is strong, and there are French people taking advantage of the fire to rob, if the war, my Ruan Dynasty will die, it is better to take the surname Wang, give him the land north of 20 kilometers of Shou Chun, see if he can hold for 20 years, my people in the south are concerned about the homeland, if the emperor you work hard, may not be able to restore the homeland! ”
Pan Qingjian asked, "Your Excellency Genui, if I cede the land to the DPRK." And how can we ensure that the NLD forces will not attack again? ”
Genui smiled slightly: "The French government will protect the security of your country, if the Democratic Alliance forces attack your country." It's like declaring war on France, so don't worry. ”
The three of them understood. China and France should have reached a secret agreement on Vietnam, north of the 16.5th parallel north latitude ceded to China, although the south is still the territory of the Nguyen Dynasty, but in fact became a French protectorate, from now on to rely on the French breath to live, but the current affairs are difficult, disagreement is the result of the two sides of China and France, the destruction of the Nguyen Dynasty, Gou Jian's tall and majestic figure once again jumped into their hearts.
"Whew~~" Side exhaled deeply. "Okay, I agree to cede the north of the 16.5 degrees north latitude to the Democratic Alliance Army, and ask Your Excellency Genui to break his promise in a hurry, otherwise, I, the Vietnamese people, would rather fight to the death than be destroyed!" ”
"Please rest assured that His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Southern Kingdom can sign an agreement!" Genui bowed very formally
On the same day, Genui, representing the French government, and Si De, representing the Vietnamese government, signed a Franco-Vietnamese "Treaty of Tho Xuan," which basically read: Vietnam sent troops to interfere in China's internal affairs. The cession of land north of 16.5 degrees north latitude as compensation to the NLD military government was completed before October 1 of that year, with the French side as the guarantor to guarantee that the Chinese side would not make any additional demands on the Vietnamese side after the completion of the settlement. At the same time, it will supervise the Vietnamese side not to carry out any kind of provocation against the Chinese side.
As a reward to the French side, the three provinces of Bianhe, Dingxiang, and Jiading and Kunlun Island were ceded to France, and the French side was paid 4 million francs for mediation. All major coastal ports shall be fully opened, and the spread of Catholicism shall not be restricted for any reason.
The Treaty of Shouchun is a disgrace and cannot be more disgraceful. The loss of power and humiliation of the country was taken to the extreme, and there was an uproar among the government and the opposition. However, if he did not agree, he would face a joint attack by China and France, and he could only order the next day that the government and troops at all levels north of the 16.5th parallel must withdraw south of Shouchun by 1 October, and give up all resistance.
The "Shouchun Treaty" spread north at a terrible speed, and many Chinese were confused on the spot when they heard the news, this is obviously a very unequal treaty, and signing an unequal treaty is not exclusive to China?
Since the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing in the 22nd year of Daoguang (1842), the Qing government has successively signed the Treaty of Humen, the Treaty of Wangxia, the Treaty of Whampoa, and the Sino-Russian Ili Tar Bahatai Trade Charter.
At the same time, the contents of the Sino-French "Treaty of Guangzhou" were announced, and the people took to the streets to celebrate, all of which were brought by the Democratic Alliance; he took back the British Concession in Shanghai, the British Shanghai Customs, Hong Kong Island and Macao Island, silently abolished the unequal treaties imposed on the Chinese people one after another, and is working hard to heal China, which has been ruined by the Great Clean-up, and lead the Chinese people to the road of prosperity, strength, and prosperity.
The Treaty of Guangzhou and the Treaty of Shou Chun are of great significance, this is a great victory in the history of Chinese diplomacy, and its significance is far more than directly sending troops to occupy Vietnam, because letting others take the initiative to give you and robbing others are two different concepts, and others are willing to take the initiative to give, indicating that the national strength has been strong to the point of surrendering the army without a fight, which is the real Weijia Siyi!
The prestige of the Democratic Alliance and Wang Feng has also risen to a historic height, but many people are watching how Wang Feng will deal with the territory ceded by Vietnam, will it repeat the mistakes of the Ming and Qing dynasties?
On 1 September, the Democratic Alliance Army marched into Vietnam by land and sea, with Wang Feng personally leading the Fifth, Ninth and Twelfth Armies out of Nanguan, and the East China Sea Fleet dispatched General Li Quang Pi and two frigates, 10 gunboats, and some armed merchant ships carrying marines to land in the area of present-day Haiphong, Vietnam, and wait for an opportunity to encircle Hanoi.
In view of the rugged mountainous terrain and complicated situation in northern Vietnam, Wang Feng was not in a hurry to march into Hanoi, but spent great efforts to appease and integrate the Chinese displaced people in the three provinces of Bac Ninh, Shanxi and Hung Yen in Vietnam.
At the same time as preaching the policy, the Democratic League army strictly ordered that within a month, all the cottage bandit dens must go down the mountain to accept the reorganization, otherwise they will be exterminated, of course, people have a fluke mind, a few people always think that they are omnipotent, refuse to go down the mountain to surrender, the Democratic League army immediately took the surrendered armed personnel as guides, carried small mountain artillery and mortars, and attacked with superior forces, after slaughtering two cottages, the rest of the cottages of all sizes came down the mountain to surrender, which lasted a month, a total of 20,000 strong soldiers, and the remaining more than 30,000 were all dismissed, released as farmers.
Beginning on 15 October, the marines who had landed on the coast of Haiphong suddenly penetrated in the direction of Hanoi, fan-shaped encirclement of Hanoi, guarding the main passes into Hanoi, patrolling the Red River with gunboats, strictly prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving, and cutting off all information exchanges with Hanoi.
Anyone who does not speak Chinese must be a native peasant of Vietnam, and the woman under the age of forty will be left behind, and the new subordinate will be allocated, and the rest will be slaughtered, because history proves that the Vietnamese cannot be naturalized at all!
Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty has tried to naturalize the Vietnamese again and again, bring them farming techniques, teach them advanced culture, and help them enter the feudal civilization from the tribal form, but the Vietnamese never remember the good of the Central Plains Dynasty, when the Central Plains Dynasty was strong, it was still able to endure it, once the Central Plains Dynasty declined, it would inevitably launch a rebellion, and for 1,800 years, history has repeated itself again and again, and there has not been a miracle.
The last effort of the Central Plains Dynasty to naturalize Vietnam was during the Ming Dynasty of Vietnam, although the Ming Dynasty implemented the policy of assimilation between Annam and China, imported a large number of Chinese cultural books into Annam, and also sent a large number of Annam books to China, and in order to win the support of the Annamite people, appointed local nobles as officials, and ruled Annam together with the Ming people.
Wang Feng often thinks that China has grown from a small tribe in the Yellow River Valley to a snowball for 5,000 years, integrating countless ethnic groups, but it cannot integrate Vietnam.
And there is a very amazing place in Vietnam, many of his magnates are from China, such as the Li family, who was prominent before and after the establishment of the Li Dynasty, the founding ancestor Li Heng, his grandfather was the Li Dynasty of Guilin, Guangxi, when Tang Dezong, and his father was Jing Zhao Yin Li Gan when Tang Wuzong.
Another example is the Tran Dynasty of Vietnam, according to the Vietnamese historical records, the ancestors of the Tran Dynasty came from China, originally Min or Guilin people, and settled in Jimo Township, Tianchangfu after arriving in Vietnam, and started from fishing since the fourth ancestor of Chen Taizong.
The rest, such as the Li Dynasty, the Hu Dynasty, and the Nguyen Dynasty, if carefully traced, are inextricably linked to China in terms of blood, which is indeed a very strange phenomenon, and it seems that as long as the Chinese enter Vietnam, they will forget their roots and rebel and stand on their own.
This is a difficult mystery to solve, and Wang Feng does not understand what the reason is, but for such an unruly nation, he fully learned the lessons of Ming Chengzu's failure, and no longer tried to naturalize the Vietnamese, but instead implemented the policy of keeping the land and not leaving the people.
Since you don't think of yourself as a Chinese, then don't blame me for being a killer!
Just as the Americans slaughtered the Indians, although cruel, from the perspective of the country, the effect is obvious, and it has brought the United States an environment of peaceful development for more than 200 years, which is also the most labor-saving way.
Of course, Chinese characters are the official language of Vietnam, Vietnamese squires generally master Chinese characters, for these people, naturally a kill, and northern Vietnam also has many descendants of overseas Chinese who have moved in in the past one or two hundred years, Wang Feng can not kill them all, therefore, anyone who is not a squire, can speak Chinese characters, and can say their ancestral homeland, in the oath of loyalty to the Chinese government, support the recovery of the homeland by the Democratic Alliance, in writing to admit that they are Chinese, cut all ties with the Vietnamese government, can allow the preservation of life and property, Enjoy all the rights and obligations of the Chinese military government. (To be continued......)