334th Fifth (II)

Because of the regret of the fourth generation, Wei Dongsheng immediately paid attention to the competition between Yueguo, Weiguo and Spain in the Penglai continent.

Sa'an Dong and other festival envoys did not live up to Wei Dongsheng's expectations, and the situation in Penglai was quite optimistic.

After the collapse of the Aztecs, Incas and other countries, predatory commercial trade gradually declined, and the business resource trade such as mining by gathering indigenous people gradually emerged. Different from the predatory trade, the industrial trade has a certain land attribute, and when the immigrants gain a foothold in Penglai, they slowly regard Penglai as their new hometown; The elite and high-level leaders of Penglai also slowly regarded the Penglai industry as a new family business, and then began to resent the condescending interference of the mother country. Penglai is vast and sparsely populated, and the Yue and Wei countries have enough territory to open up industrial colonies, so why fight for life and death for the honor that does not belong to them?

Although the competition still existed, the Vietnamese Penglai and the Wei Penglai perfectly continued the friendly cooperation charter formulated by Wei Dongsheng, and the two joined forces to contain the Spanish colonial expansion. Soon after, the Guardians lured Portugal into breaking through the Treaty of Tordesilas to erode Spain's share of trade. The situation in the Caribbean Sea has become more and more complicated.

However, with the annexation of the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire by the Yue Kingdom instead of Spain, the fierce rivalry between the four countries in Penglai soon settled.

It is difficult to win a decisive victory in a battle of the seas.

There is no obvious generational gap in the military science and technology of the navies of the four countries, including Vietnam, Weiguo, Spain, and Portugal, and during the fierce competition between the two sides, it is difficult for each other to completely eliminate the other. When the Spanish and Portuguese navies escorted the merchant goods back to China, and when the Spanish and Portuguese navies had no time to defend the fortress, the Vietnamese colonial indigenous army of Penglai could take the opportunity to carry out landing battles and savagely destroy the colonial strongholds established by Spain and Portugal.

Without the supply of colonial points, no matter how powerful the navy is, it will be rootless.

In the Lezhong region, for example, European immigrants are present in many plantations and mining areas. Unfortunately, their social status is diametrically opposed to the high-minded colonizers in the real world, who are tired and tired of dedicating their labor and wisdom. However, it was Penglai, a Vietnamese subordinate, who smashed the Spanish and Portuguese colonies again and again, and then auctioned the captives off as war trophies to large landowners and large miners. It was also because the destruction of Spanish and Portuguese colonies was a lucrative undertaking, and the Vietnamese Penglai Navy often actively participated in patrolling the east coast, which eventually made Spain and Portugal unable to play this kind of colonial confrontation.

After several years of continuous struggle, as the Vietnamese Penglai became more and more dominant in the central and southern regions of Lai, both Spain and Portugal gave up their colonial strategies in despair.

This is: one step slow, one step slow.

Spain missed out on the miracle of conquering the Aztec Empire, and with it lost its ability to colonize Central and South America.

Time rotated to the arrival of Wei Dongsheng V, and both the Spanish and Portuguese Penglai strategies were forced to change to purely commercial trade. The Vietnamese and Wei kingdoms again divided their spheres of influence, allowing only Spain and Portugal to establish stable supply points on the island of Santo Domingo (the island of Haiti), and the navies of the two countries periodically patrolled the east coast of Penglai to clear all colonies that were not on the island of Santo Domingo in the name of encirclement and suppression of pirates. In short, the Vietnamese Penglai gathered indigenous human resources to bully and force the newcomers Spain and Portugal to give up the national policy of colonizing Penglai.

During Wei Dongsheng's inspection of the Leasan colony, the atmosphere in Penglai suddenly became tense.

In 1528, bad news suddenly came from the homeland of the Central Plains: Yue and Wei went to war!

Time rewinds to 1526, and the rise of the Yue and Wei kingdoms in the Great Voyage finally broke the balance of the Old Continent.

The royal family, the Wu vassal state, the Lu vassal state, the Zhao vassal state, the Yan vassal state, the Lelang vassal state, etc., they had coastal ports to develop their navy, but they were tacitly blocked on land by the Yue vassal state and the Wei vassal state. Many vassal states came together because of the maritime alliance between the Yue State and the Wei State, and tacitly supported the Chu vassal state adjacent to the Yue State to challenge the Yue State on land. And the state of Chu has long been envious of the great maritime profits in full swing, and has been tacitly supported by the vast majority of vassal states, and immediately reorganized its army for war.

In 1526, the state of Chu gathered 6,000 soldiers and deliberately crossed the border to invade the Shaozhou capital of the Yue state. How do you think that Yue Guo has dominated the world over the years, and the people have long given birth to the temperament of a great power, and in the face of the provocation of Chu State, they immediately gave ruthless countermeasures. The local garrison, which was alert to the movements of the Chu State, did not ask the royal family for permission to go to war at all, so they suddenly launched an attack and defeated the 6,000 soldiers of the Chu State in one battle.

The battle escalated immediately.

However, the outcome of the war left all the vassal states in disarray.

The defeat of the Shaozhou Mansion of the Chu State was not a purely unprepared and accidental failure. After the war escalated, more than 10,000 soldiers of the Yue State broke into the territory of the Chu State, and the Buddha blocked and killed the Buddha, and the gods blocked and killed the gods, almost crushing all the Chu troops. With more than 10,000 Yue soldiers, they easily captured Zhuzhou Mansion and Hengzhou Mansion, and the troops were in Changsha Mansion, where the king of Chu was located.

Before the Yue-Chu War, the vassal states of the Central Plains habitually looked down on the exploits of the Yue Kingdom.

Whether it is across the Western Ocean and Zhufan, or the Penglai Continent to destroy the country, it is just a group of backward states, what is there to praise. If it weren't for the blockade of the navy by the Vietnamese and the two countries, we would have destroyed countless countries! At that time, the vassal states of the Central Plains probably thought like this.

The Vietnam-Chu War was an important turning point in the image of the Yue country.

Before the Chu State invaded the Yue State, all the vassal states in the Central Plains sent a certain number of elites to the Chu State to show their attitude, and indirectly knew that the combat effectiveness of the Chu State troops was by no means weak. The Chu State, which is similar to the combat effectiveness of the Central Plains vassal states, was killed by the Yue State by dividing it by two, how strong should the combat effectiveness of the Yue troops be?

As a result, the Vietnamese troops became famous all over the world.

Because the formation resembles the real-world Spanish phalanx, Yue Guo quickly won the honorary title of "Yue Wu Pawn Phalanx".

Negotiations are hardly effective if there are problems that cannot be resolved by war. Wake up the Yue Kingdom turned out to be a big tiger, and the Central Plains vassal states urgently braked the idea of destroying the Yue Kingdom on land, and humbly learned the essence of the Yue Wu Pawn Phalanx, so as not to reproduce the collapse of the Chu State at home.

At the same time, the tradition of the feudal system did not allow the destruction of the country, and the second was that the small court of the Yue State had no strategic preparations for the military annexation of the Chu State, and the Vietnam-Chu War ended immediately. The treaty of reconciliation stipulated that the state of Chu would compensate the state of Vietnam for certain military expenses, and that all of the valuable maritime trade goods of the state of Chu must be sold to the state of Vietnam at normal prices in the future.

The small court of the Yue Kingdom was also surprised by the victorious Yue Chu War. Prior to this, even if the Yue Kingdom was all over the world, it was always afraid of the powerful Central Plains vassal states in its heart, and only dared to block their maritime roads with superior navy; After this, the small court of Yue suddenly realized that before you knew it, Yue was actually very powerful. The experience of warfare accumulated through constant wars with various countries around the world has made the phalanx of Vietnamese warriors one of the most powerful armies in the world.

With strength comes ambition.

Yue Guo did not have the ambition to compete for the Central Plains before, because he did not have the confidence to compete with the Central Plains.

With the phalanx of Yue Wu soldiers who crushed the Chu State, how could the Yue State be willing to be trapped in a corner again?

Soon after the end of the Yue-Chu War, the small court of the Yue Kingdom began to actively formulate a grand strategy to advance into the Central Plains, and set the first expansion target as the Wei Guo, which was also rampant in the four seas. The Vietnamese have been competing with the Patriotic Nation for many years and are confident of defeating the Patriotic Nation. And if it annexes Weiguo and monopolizes the profits of the world's maritime trade, it may not be impossible to go north to Zhili and achieve the great cause of Qin Shi Huang.

In 1528, the Yue Kingdom deliberately provoked an incident to declare war on the country, and successfully occupied Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xinghua, Fuzhou and other places in just a few months. The Wei royal family first fled to Wu in embarrassment, and then went to Beijing to meet Emperor Wei Fengfu, and implored Emperor Wei Fengfu to gather all the vassals in the world to jointly attack the Yue State that tried to subvert the vassal system.

The vassal domains of the Central Plains all had the intention of weakening the Yue Kingdom, and they were shocked to support the royal family to send troops to conquer the Yue Kingdom.

In 1529, Wei Fengfu ordered the soldiers of the Yue Kingdom to withdraw from the defense of the country, otherwise they would gather the soldiers of the nineteen feudal states to conquer the Yue Kingdom. Under the pressure of public opinion, the Yue Kingdom did not dare to announce the annexation of the Patriotic Land, and instead attacked the Patriotic King Wei Fengcheng for perverse behavior and was unworthy of being the Patriotic King. Yue Guo immediately supported Wei Jiyun, the clan of the Wei Guo, as the puppet king of the Wei Guo, proving that the Yue State had absolutely no intention of annexing the Wei Guo.

However, who would believe Yue Guo's explanation!

There is a patriotic country to share the profits of the sea, and the country can still be so strong. If the Yue State is allowed to annex the Wei Kingdom, who will have a way to survive in the Central Plains? Wei Fengfu rejected Wei Jiyun's ceremony of appointing the king of Weiguo, and immediately called on the nineteen vassal states to fight against the Yue Kingdom. Unfortunately, each vassal state had its own thoughts, and although they unanimously demanded that the Yue Kingdom must withdraw from the defense country, it was difficult for them to join forces in the expedition. As a result, the Vietnam Rebellion War was intermittent, sometimes a front-to-head duel, sometimes a stalemate, for many, many years.

The Vietnam rebellion and war also made the atmosphere in Penglai tense.

To support Wei Fengcheng, Wei Penglai needs to stand in the camp of the king and declare war on the country; Supporting Wei Jiyun, Wei Penglai became part of the Yue forces. If you support Wei Jiyun, does it mean that Wei Penglai will obey Penglai's orders from now on? If you support Wei Fengcheng, will the Wei Penglai go to war against the Vietnamese Penglai?

The final solution was unexpected.

Perhaps because the values of the feudal system are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the high-level leaders of Penglai and Penglai want to establish their own "feudal country" or "pseudo-feudal country" in Penglai. Just as the Yue State despised the authority of the royal family when it had strength, the high-level leaders of the Vietnamese Penglai and Wei Penglai also began to despise the authority of the Yue royal family when they had the strength, and they were unwilling to sacrifice their own interests for the sake of whether the Wei Fengcheng or Wei Jiyun was the king of the country.

At the moment of the life and death of the country, the vested interests of the country's maritime trade urgently negotiated their interests with the Vietnamese high-level and demanded that the country recognize their local autonomy rights in Penglai, Kunlun, and Tianzhu.

One is that the control of the Vietnamese country over the Vietnamese Penglai and other places is very limited, and it has become accustomed to the tail of the Vietnamese Penglai; Second, the Yue State is now concentrating on confronting the conquest of the Nineteen Vassal States set off by the imperial family, so the Yue State tolerates to appease the overseas forces such as Penglai of the Wei Dynasty, and more generously allows the vested interests of the Wei State maritime trade to self-govern the area.