Chapter 91: The Puppet Regime
Ao Tuzan was made to commemorate a pair of sisters who fought to the end against the Han invaders and actively resisted the Han invasion. The Han people always wanted to capture Annam, but the ideology and culture of Annam and the Han people were different, and they could only use strict law and discipline and iron-blooded policies to completely subjugate them. But once this happens, it will inevitably put a lot of pressure on the people, and it will inevitably erupt after a long period of pressure, and once it erupts, it will be unstoppable.
The Han people are good at formations and large-scale battles as well as advanced weapons, and they are invincible and invincible here. But after the siege of the city, you will be constantly harassed by the defeated enemy troops, and you can't defend day and night year after year. Transporting goods and going out, people walking to and fro the army in and out of drills, will be troubled by those remnants of the army. If the city is not restored, it will not be able to play the role of the city at all, which will defeat the purpose of capturing it in the first place, the city cannot operate normally, and the army will also consume money and food, which will add to the burden of the Han court.
It's not impossible to chase and kill and participate in the resistance to the forces, but Annando is a humid and hot jungle with lush vegetation, and once you hide in it, it is difficult to find, so you must disperse in small groups to find and kill. On the way to attack the city, a large number of troops have to make a detour, lest they fall into an ambush, let alone scatter and search like this now, so they are reluctant to wait to be killed by the Annan soldiers who are good at jungle warfare.
When they arrived in the jungle, all the cavalry, chariots, artillery and other magic weapons were useless, and the Annam soldiers would run like monkeys to the trees, cliffs and even hide in the mire, killing Han soldiers in all kinds of cruel ways. The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable, in fact, many things have to be viewed from different angles. In the eyes of the Han people, Annam has been a vassal state of the Han people since ancient times, and it should be obeyed and disciplined, but in the eyes of the Annam people. The Han people are naked invaders and bandits.
Jungle warfare is not good at the Han people, and it can even be said to be unprecedented, the plains and hills and even the plateaus and mountains of the Han people have relevant combat methods, but in the jungle, that is the world of the Annamite people, and the Han people can only be killed by the neck.
So, it came to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Taizu and Emperor Yongle the Great began to abandon Annam in the early Ming Dynasty and chose to implement the state system for Annam. In the future, most of the emperors were subordinate to Annam Domain. It retains only nominal control and provides certain political asylum to the state of Annam, which is also required to pay tribute every year to satisfy the emperor's vanity and enrich the area of the territory to be opened up.
I have to say. Sometimes the emperor of the Han people was so happy that he had a good reputation. In the history of the kings of the world, they are all extremely serious, and some of them have become sick to the point of losing money and making money.
In short, Annan is a place that is easy to conquer and difficult to govern.
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After Lu Bing entered the country of Annam, he did not submit his credentials to the regime of Annam, and made friendly visits and talks, but instead changed his normal state and directly started a war and took more than ten walled cities. What Lu Bing lacked most now was time, and the artillery he had replenished in Yungui played a role at this time. It can be called a magic weapon for attacking the city and breaking the wall. If the enemy army defends the city, it will be blown away. If you go out of the city to meet the enemy, then Lu Bing's iron cavalry troops are not joking.
Annando jungle swamp, if you fight in full battle, it is naturally not a paradise for cavalry troops, but outside the walled city is mostly relatively flat terrain, and few cities will be built in jungles and swamps or on cliffs, so Lu Bing's cavalry is not affected in any way. The warlike Hu people were much stronger than the Han in terms of physique, not to mention the emaciated Annamite.
Lu Bing paid a high amount of gold and silver to hire this group of Hu people, which is similar to the concept of the Ming Dynasty borrowing 3,000 soldiers from Duoyan Sanwei and making them mercenaries after the most reluctance. However, the Hu people also have the shortcomings of the Hu people, and after contributing to the city, there are many Hu people who want to insult the female dependents of some large families. Lu Bing naturally didn't allow it, which would make his plan go to waste. The lessons of the past have shown that it is extremely unrealistic for foreign nations to conquer Annam, so they must be allowed to conquer themselves, and once they arouse the resentment of the people, or because of the abuse of women and the irreversible contradictions, so that they desperately resist, it will not be worth the loss.
The accident on the side of the Southeast Pirates made Lu Bing's heart anxious, and in a fit of rage, he beheaded a Hu Ren who violated the law and discipline, which calmed the people's anger, and Lu Bing's strange martial arts and powerful aura completely convinced the Hu people. The Hu people have always admired brave and brave heroes, and Lu Bing's anger made them realize that their employer was not just a strong Han man, nor was he a rich man with too much money to spend, but in fact he was a general who was invincible to a hundred. Lu Bing had no intention of inserting willows, but he killed two birds with one stone, which is also a fortunate thing.
Lu Bing is not the first day to lead troops, he knows the way to lead soldiers, he has a personality cult now, and he has military authority and military discipline now, but one of these two points belongs to a spiritual strategy, and the other is iron-blooded intimidation, which will not last long, once the soldiers have a sperm in their brains, they will still be violated. When the time comes, it will not be cut or not, and Lu Bing can only make it impossible for him to get off the stage. Therefore, one thing is needed to assist, and there is a cycle of operation of these three things in order to bring out an army with a wild temperament but obedient to orders. The rest is to give grace, which is just the so-called grace and power.
Lu Bing promised the soldiers to establish military prostitutes and give them to use to vent their desires. This is a last resort, Lu Bing is well aware of the harm of doing so, but he also knows that this can bring a more stable environment, better military discipline and stronger combat effectiveness. However, between Lu Bing's knowledge of the bestiality of the Japanese comfort women in Lu Dao before Lu Bing, and he was angry and disgusted by this, so Lu Bing never robbed the people's daughters, but only established a brothel in Guangxi, and could only sell his body with official documents, and not only his family would be compensated at a high price, but the prostitutes also had corresponding allowances. For such things, it is really the best way to do it as a last resort.
Lu Bing did not build a military prostitution in Annam, not because he was kind, but because he had other strategies, which did not prevent him from recruiting women here on a large scale to work in Guangxi. There is a difference between the economy of the Annan people and the Ming Dynasty, and two taels of silver can buy a family. A yellow flower girl only needs one or two silver. So Lu Bing didn't take the blame, nor did he be stingy, when he offered two taels of silver. That made a crowd of people boiling, and chose a way to pick and choose, which is all an afterthought, and said that Lu Bing's real killing move is behind.
After entering Annan, Lu Bing found a lot of legends about the Secret Thirteen, so he took it to heart. Originally, when he arrived at Annan this time, he wanted to repeat the old tricks according to the strategy of the northwest, and muddy the situation so that they could not afford to invade the Ming Dynasty, but after arriving, he found that the situation here was easier to implement than he imagined.
Let me have a little time to talk about the situation of the Secret Thirteen. Because this is closely related to Annan, not to mention knowing that oneself and the other side have won all battles, the mastermind behind the embattled Ming this time is Bai Yu of Mi Thirteen, so it is necessary to understand this history.
The predecessor of Mi 13 was called Heaven and Earth. And heaven, earth and man originally did not have, and the important part of it, the warlock, has existed since ancient times. Since ancient times, the warlocks who have been around the emperor have been passed down from generation to generation, and they are indispensable for every change of dynasty, civil strife and rebellion, and even any war, big or small.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. There was a man named Xing Wen who created the Heaven and Earth People. And envelop all the warlocks in the world, and strike down and even destroy those who do not obey discipline. Xing Wen unified the warlocks of all sects and factions in the world, and systematized the number of techniques of these schools, and established the Zhongzheng One Line, which is the main vein of the center of heaven, earth and man, and manages and maintains each vein smoothly. Since then, heaven, earth and man have only served the royal family, but they must be divided for a long time. In the end, there was a fight.
The Mongols invaded, and ghosts and witches prevailed. The people of heaven and earth finally ended the struggle and fought against the Mongol Tatars, and finally a group of people from the Zhongzheng line supported Zhu Yuanzhang, thus creating the Ming Dynasty.
In the orthodox years of the Ming Dynasty, the heavens, the earth and the people gradually weakened, but one person led the heavens, the earth and the people to stand on the top again. This person's surname is Lu, but his name has been lost, he is called Tian, he has two brothers, one surnamed Qu and the other surnamed Fang, and his name has also been lost in the annals of history.
After the change of Tumubao, the defense of the capital, and the change of seizing the door with Yu Qian, the minister of Zhongxing, Lu finally achieved the most victorious victory, but he discovered a shocking secret, which destroyed the heavens, earth and people to create a new organization of the secret thirteen, and destroyed a large number of documents and historical records, so that all the secrets about the number of magic disappeared between the world. Since then, the scourge of war has become less, but the same mysterious cultural treasures have disappeared with them, and it is difficult to determine whether what Lu did is true or wrong, and at the same time as the literature, there are legends about him, his two brothers, and even those around him. Therefore, Lu Bingcai searched for the world, and spies from all over the world came to report, and only then did he grasp the words of Mi 13, and pieced together the synopsis of the whole story with his imagination.
It only took just over twenty years for the Secret Thirteen to be destroyed, and the descendants of the two brothers, Lu and Qu, fought each other, which brought this vast and mysterious organization to its end. Bai Yu is the descendant of Bai Yong, the general under Lu, Bai Yong is the grandmaster of Qi training, and today's martial arts people, whether they are practicing physical or qi, can be described as his apprentices. It's just that after practicing qi, he also disappeared in the destruction of the Secret Thirteen, and now even a master like Lu Bing belongs to those who only learn the skin.
As for Danyangzi and other generation of grandmasters, if they were placed in the era of the real Mi Thirteen's existence, they would just be mortals, and Mi Thirteen was a high-ranking person, just like his mysterious whereabouts, not something that ordinary people could enter. Bai Yong, who practiced qi, was killed in a battle by Qu, the elder brother of the leader Lu. Qu and Lu have long been enemies, and at this time, the conversation is to the point, Qu back then was hostile to Lu of the Ming Dynasty with Annan as his rear foundation. Therefore, there are still many legends about Qu here, and Lu Bing summed up and summarized these results, plus what he had learned before, and passed them on into a line, so he understood the reason for everything.
Wang Yulu of Longfu Village, who he saw back then, was also said to be a person from Mi Thirteen, Lu Bing vaguely remembered what he had said, and suddenly had a feeling that his life-killing thirteen knives might also have an inseparable connection with Mi Thirteen.
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Annam has been ruled by the Han people twice, one is when Ming Chengzu reigned Zhu Di, Hu Jili rebelled, and Ming overthrew the Hu regime at the request of the orphans and former ministers of the Chen Dynasty, and Annam belonged to the Ming Zhili. After the death of the Yongle Emperor, Li Li launched the Blue Mountain Uprising, Annan broke away from the control of the Ming Dynasty, and expelled the Ming army, established a vassal relationship, and declared that the Ming Dynasty would be subject to the Ming Dynasty for generations, and the Li Dynasty was established from then on.
Later, there was the second Han rule, which was the co-rule of Qu and his wife, during which the regime alternated repeatedly, and finally the Qu couple firmly controlled it, and set up a puppet regime to raze and control the country, so that the Li family, the Zheng family and the Ruan family, were in charge of Annam on the surface, so as to continuously transmit resources, gold, silver and troops to Qu. Later, Qu proclaimed himself emperor in the south of Daming Lingnan, and then the army was defeated like a mountain, and died in Daming, at the hands of his brother Lu with a different surname.
Li Shi completely took power, and then led Annam to take advantage of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty to expand northward, and after the situation in the Ming Dynasty stabilized, he expanded southward to destroy the Cham state in the south. But after Qu's death, there were many problems left, there were many great forces in Annan, and it was easy to say when the country was small, but it was difficult to control when the country was a little bigger, so it began to be a civil war that lasted for more than ten years.
The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, and the Mo Dengyong Mu Dynasty usurped the throne and established the Mo Dynasty. Now, it is Mo Dengyong who controls the situation in Annan.
Speaking of Mo Dengyong, Lu Bing hated it so much, because if Mo Dengyong talked about it, he still belonged to the Han people, he was an immigrant from Guangdong, and his ancestors settled down in Annam. These people actually counterattacked the Ming Dynasty, this is purely an act of forgetting their ancestors, Lu Bing hated it, so he didn't want to talk to Mo Dengyong, starting a fight was the only way out, and this way was the most suitable for Lu Bing's mind and saved time.
After the siege of the city, Lu Bing defended the city to the death, and looked for the descendants of the LĂŞ, Ruan and Zheng clans, and also established a puppet regime just like the man surnamed Mi Shisanqu back then. I have to say that Qu and Lu Bing's way of doing things are sometimes very similar. On the issue of Annan, the only difference is that Lu Bing did not aim to control Annan.
It's not that he doesn't want to do this, it's just that now that the Ming Dynasty is suffering from internal and external troubles, Lu Bing has no time to take care of Annan, as long as he supports the puppet regime and muddies the status quo of Annan. It is equivalent to eliminating the hidden danger of Annan on the border of the Ming Dynasty and completely strangling the previous impulsive action in the cradle. (To be continued......)