Chapter 384: The Situation in Southeast Asia
These words of Lama Tenzin convinced Tushetu Khan, who sat down with a golden sword and motioned for the former to continue.
Lama Tenzin already believed in Buddhism, and in addition to his old age, he looked a little kind-hearted, and his smiling appearance did not look threatening at all, so he first asked, "Three Khan kings, what do you think of the power of the Han people in the south compared to the powerful Qing Emperor in the past?"
The three of them looked at each other, and Tushetu Khan replied first: "The power of the Han people is naturally far greater than that of the former Qing Dynasty, as far as I know, the capital of the Great Qing Kingdom is surrounded by the Han people, and the emperor is also trapped in Shengjing."
The other two also nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, Lama Tenzin's tone became serious: "Since you all know that the current Han people are more powerful than the former Great Qing Kingdom, why do you still have to fight against the powerful Han people? There is a saying among the Han people that the mantis arm is a car that does not measure its strength, so why should you be the mantis that does not measure its strength?"
"The Qing Emperor is revered as the Great Khan of the steppe, and it is natural for us to submit to him, but the Han and our Mongols have been killing each other for hundreds of years, and they are already mortal enemies, how dare we surrender to the Han people?" Chechen Khan said.
"Definitely." Lama Tenzin shook his head and said, "All the tribes of Mongol in Southern Mo have submitted to the Han people, and the descendant of the Golden Family, Habur, has led the Chahar tribe to submit to obedience, and in terms of mortal enemies, the Mongol tribes of Monan have been fighting with the Ming Dynasty for nearly three hundred years, and their blood feud with the Han people is not deeper than ours?" However, after the submission of the Mongols in Monan, the Han people did not treat them differently, but followed the example of the Manchus to set up a flag system, which shows that the Han people intended to maintain their rule on the steppe for a long time."
Speaking of this, he paused, and said: "Besides, the Han people are powerful, and they have integrated the Mongol tribes in southern Mo, if our Khalkha Mongols are enemies with them, the Han people can drive the Monan tribes to fight with our four tribes at any time, and in the end, it is our Mongols who suffer heavy casualties, and we Mongolians will not be able to change the fate of the Mobei Mongols to submit to the Han people, so why do this thing that the relatives and enemies are happy?"
The three of them whispered for a while, and finally Tushetu Khan stood up, and he saluted to Lama Tenzin and said, "Normen Khan, if I hadn't listened to you today, we would have almost made a big mistake, and we and the three should immediately send an envoy south to surrender to the Emperor of the Central Plains."
Lama Tenzin smiled and nodded, and the meeting ended.
Subsequently, the three departments sent envoys to the south one after another, first stopping in Guihua City, which was directly controlled by the Xia army, to express their willingness to submit to Li Laiheng, the governor of Xuanda stationed there, who sent cavalry to escort the envoys south to Jiangning Mansion.
It is a long way from Khalkha Mongolia to Jiangning, so I will not list it for the time being.
Looking to the south, Wu'an's three years of Southeast Asia was not stable, first in Jiaozhi, the army led by Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, conquered the last stronghold of the Zheng lord of Annam, Yi'an Town, in early March, the Zheng lord Zheng Zheng hanged himself in the city, his subordinates scattered, and the Zheng lord's power was destroyed.
Long before the Xia army conquered the town of Yi An, the southern Ruan lord Nguyen Phuc Wei took the initiative to send envoys to the Xia army to sincerely show Li Dinh Quoc the Ruan family's submission to the Central Plains Dynasty, and vowed to pay tribute every year as the most loyal vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty.
However, Li Dingguo did not accept the submission of the Nguyen family, and the imperial court had already issued an order in advance to ask the Xia army to completely pacify the Zheng Nguyen forces and put the entire Annam under the direct control of the imperial court.
Ruan Phuc was on the verge of being a generation of sages of the Nguyen clan in Quang Nam, so he was naturally not paralyzed by Li Dinh Quook, he saw that the Xia army was strong, and he was worried that once the Zheng clan perished, the Xia army would drive straight in and attack the Nguyen clan territory instead.
Therefore, he decided to abandon the hostile relationship with the Zheng clan and secretly sent an envoy to Yi'an Town to negotiate peace with Zheng Zheng, and secretly provided armaments, food and grass, so that Zheng Zheng could become a strong barrier for the Ruan clan in the north.
Although Zheng Zheng knew what Ruan Phuc's intentions were, he did not refuse, but gladly accepted it, and continued to ask for weapons from the Ruan clan, until the Xia army came to Yi'an Town and launched a fierce attack on the city.
After the Xia army conquered the town of Nghe An, they seized a batch of ordnance marked with the Nguyen logo on it when they counted the arsenals in the city, and the generals in charge of the inventory were in charge
The news was reported to Li Dingguo as soon as possible.
After Li Dingguo learned of this, he was overjoyed, this was a pretext for declaring war sent by the Ruan clan himself, and the Ruan clan had repeatedly claimed to be loyal to Great Xia, but now he actually provided weapons to the enemies of Great Xia, so disloyal and unrighteous country, there was no need to continue to exist.
However, he did not immediately use this as an excuse for starting a war, Yi'an Town was initially decided, and it was not the best time to start another war, and the officers and men in the army had been fighting for many years, and everyone was tired, so it should be repaired for a while.
Li Dingguo specially wrote a note for this and sent it to Jiangning, explaining the situation here to the emperor, hoping that the emperor could approve the army to repair for a period of time, Su Yan naturally would not refuse, he ordered Li Dingguo to lead the army to be stationed in Jiaozhi for repair, and the household department approved 100,000 silver taels to reward the front-line soldiers.
The war in Jiaozhi came to an end for the time being, and from time to time new news was sent to Jingshi through the post stations in Yunnan in the Toungoo Kingdom in the west.
As mentioned earlier, Sun Kewang decisively moved south after being proclaimed emperor in Yunnan, fled to Menggen's mansion, and set Menggen's mansion as his residence, and then took Menggen as the core to attack the surrounding cities of the Donghu Kingdom.
Until the third year of Wu'an, after four years of repair and expansion, Sun Kewang's Qin army punched Donghu and kicked Lanna, forcing the Lanna Kingdom to break away from Donghu and become a vassal state of the Qin Dynasty with a corner of Menggun, and occupied a large area of land in the eastern part of Donghu.
The prosperity of the Qin army shook the Donghu government and the opposition, but it also made Sun Qin a thorn in the eyes of the surrounding countries.
King Mangda of Donghu repeatedly sent envoys to ask the Xia Dynasty to send troops to quell Sun Qin's rebellion, but the court always gave a vague answer, and Mangda decided to solve Sun Qin by himself and regain the lost territory.
He sent envoys to the Lancang Kingdom and Ayuthaya to invite the kings of the two countries to flank Sun Qin, who was at this time under the rule of King Suriya Wangsha, under whose rule Lancang was prosperous and in its golden age.
King Suriya Wangsha was not willing to send troops to participate in the war against Sun Qin, in his opinion, he had no direct conflict of interest with Sun Qin, not to mention that Sun Qin occupied the land of Donghu and robbed the vassal state of Donghu, so what did he have to do with it?
Therefore, Lancang did not hesitate to reject Donghu's invitation, and Ayutoya has always coveted the Lanna Kingdom, and more than 50 years ago, he repeatedly fought with Donghu to compete for the suzerainty of the Lanna Kingdom.