Chapter 52 Occupy the city

In this way, Da Ming will encounter much less resistance.

It is precisely because of He Xi's national policy that Zhang Ming is very embarrassed.

On the one hand, he wants to stall for time. On the other hand, he also has to maintain the overall situation.

As a result, Zhang Ming negotiated with the local forces in Annam for several months. Finally got the order from Nanjing. Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief.

It can be regarded as the surrender of Annan. And Zhang Ming first ransacked Annan, and collected a lot of gold and silver and sent it to the rear to fill the financial gap. He even asked the imperial court to send the vassal king to guard Annam.

This serves two purposes.

On the one hand, Annan's floating wealth has been scraped away.

There is no wealth to speak of in Annam.

He can be regarded as a bad guy. Naturally, someone needs to be a good person.

This good guy had better be the future vassal king. In this way, the new Lord can also buy people's hearts.

On the other hand, it can be regarded as reducing military spending.

It must be known that the military expenses of the vassal army's army and the military expenses of the Great Tomorrow Army are not the same account.

The military expenses of the army are the accounts of the Privy Council, and the military expenses of the vassal king's army are the responsibility of the vassal king himself. If the vassal king himself has no money, it should be the emperor who is responsible. That is, to take the account of the inner treasury.

If there is no money in the inner treasury, it is the account of the Ministry of Households, the account of the Cabinet.

Don't look at it, it's the same money, and it doesn't seem to be a problem with whose account you go, no, there's a big problem. Military expenses are expenses, and the expenses of the feudal king are the expenses of the feudal king.

Even if it is used for the same purposes, it is absolutely different in the imperial court.

The military budget is small, and the territory occupied is more, so it is better to continue to fight later.

Moreover, Zhang Ming is also preparing to recruit the army of the vassal king, or the people. That is, the local people and material resources of Annam.

If it is, the mode of full occupation, this is not to be thought of. But for Annan, just changing the king did not change Annan's original political structure. Not necessarily.

Of course, the cost of vassal kings is also limited. Yes. Zhu Xiongying's inner treasury is rich, not just the appropriation of the imperial court to the imperial palace. It is also the money that the emperor himself privately sent people to do business and business. Not a small amount. But compared with military spending, it has become a small amount.

It was impossible for him to support the cost of rebuilding several vassal kings on his own.

If Zhu Xiongying really had so much money, the first person to come to Zhu Xiongying was He Xi.

What does the emperor want so much money for? The emperor's money is the state's money. This may not be fair to the emperor, but it is quite reasonable from the position of the head of the cabinet.

The money of the state is not the emperor's money, and the public and private should be clearly distinguished.

The emperor's money must be the country's money, because the emperor is the lord of the world, and he must love the people and be benevolent to the world.

This is also considered political correctness.

However, the emperor has no money, so there is no way for this vassal king?

He Xi had already figured out a way for them, that is, to issue bonds.

Since Beijing, the public debt system has been well established in He Xi's hands. Who issues bonds, who undertakes, who sells, how much the discount, how much interest, etc., is already a mature solution.

The vassal kings will be the lords of a country in the future. How is it possible not to pay off the debt. As long as you sit firmly, you can pay it back slowly.

The most important thing now is to sit firmly in your own domain.

These are naturally willing to borrow money, and they dare to borrow money. He Xi was also willing for them to borrow money. This was clearly a shift to the burden that the imperial court should bear on to the vassal king himself. And the vassal kings themselves don't think so.

Without him, this time is in chaos. The imperial army is in the territory, and they can do a lot of things. A drastic reform. In the future, I will be able to control the feudal kingdom.

What is a little bit of money compared to this?

After all, they took over a mature country, not the previous feudal kings, and they still need to fight down. It's just a little bit of debt.

As a result, there are more and more varieties in the securities market, and there is more and more stamp duty. He Xi can be expected

In the future, stamp duty will become a major tax in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuntong was named the king of Yue and was the first to become a vassal. He borrowed as much as 10 million yuan, and as soon as he arrived at the place, he organized the Annan Army. Payment was made with banknotes, and all the hard currency in Annam was robbed.

In this way, there is another circulating market for Daming banknotes, and this alone is enough to issue more banknotes.

And these banknotes have turned around and returned to Daming.

It gave Daming a great stimulus to the economy.

As a result, Tie Xuan officially established the Guangzhou Iron Works on the basis of Foshan iron smelting established by Qide. Although it is said to be the Guangzhou Iron Works, it was built on the Leizhou Peninsula, and the iron of Qiongzhou and the coal of Annam were transported to the Leizhou Peninsula by ship.

In fact, the best is to build an iron plant in Qiongzhou Prefecture, or directly in the Annam Hongji Coal Mine.

But in many cases, such an industry also needs to consider political factors.

Tiehyun built the iron factory because it was very expensive to transport iron from the north, and in many cases it was not enough.

After all, Daming is the world's largest consumer market. At the time of the War of the North and the South, the internal market was blocked. When He Xi had just begun industrialization, he was afraid of impacting domestic production relations, so he mainly sold overseas.

It's different anymore.

There is little resistance left at home. How much steel Beijing produces is consumed in the country.

After all, iron is cheaper, and many things that were originally made of wood are now made of iron. This consumes iron, I don't know how much. No matter how much iron will be eaten, not to mention the construction of railways, steam engines, and all kinds of machinery have been built, and the amount of iron used is an astronomical amount.

Overseas markets, Nanyang and other places have changed from the former Britney to today's Mrs. Niu.

Tie Hyun felt it.

That's why he came up with this proposal.

Moreover, Guangzhou also has a local foundation, Qide laid the foundation back then, and there is coal and iron.

There are such conditions.

It's just the military intentions of the ironworks, and the political significance is too important. It is impossible to be in the newly occupied area of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to be in Qiongzhou Mansion, which is an island after all, and it is not safe in the eyes of many people.

Finally, it settled on the Leizhou Peninsula.

With such support, Zhang Ming led hundreds of thousands of troops to advance by land and water.

Attack the city. Zhancheng can't even beat Annam, let alone fight against the Ming court. lost two games in a row, and then was copied by the Daming Water Master.

The reason why Champa has been able to fight against Annam for so long is also very simple, it is the special terrain of Annam.

Later Vietnam was a dumbbell-shaped country, with two large ends and a small middle.

And the small strip in the middle is the key point where the city has been conquered against Annam. Because of the topography, Zhancheng only needs to defend a few cities, or Xiongguan, to make Annan retreat.

The war between Annam and Champa naturally used the naval division, not only Annan, but also the Zhancheng, and even when the Cham naval division was glorious, it went directly to Haiphong.

But none of their sailors had the possibility of a large-scale landing behind enemy lines.

It's just that what they can't do, Daming can do. It could even be said to be a breeze.

As a result, the king of Champa was surrounded in an isolated city. had no choice but to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. It's just that he cried and cried, saying that the Ming court was not guilty. He wanted to sue the emperor in Nanjing.

It's embarrassing to get up and down.

After all, Da Ming wants face.

The Ming court can not be embarrassed to occupy the city, but the problem is that among the Ming vassal states, it is not only Zhancheng, there are a large number of vassal states with the surname Zhu, and there will be many vassal states with different surnames in the future.

This is not the same as in history.

Historically, whether it was the Ming or Qing dynasties, they didn't really care about the so-called vassal states overseas. Because there is no interest. But now, there are interests, and the Ming Emperor must protect the interests of the vassal state.

Nowadays, it is easy to occupy the city, and it is also in the interests of all the feudal states surnamed Zhu, and if no explanation is given, all the feudal kings will also recognize this

Personally.

But it will be a bad start.

Zhang Ming's attack on Zhancheng naturally did not make excuses. Even if he doesn't look for it, He Xi will look for it, and he won't make a joke about losing a soldier. Rather, he supported the usurpation of power by the Hu family's father and son. Support the rebels and thieves.

Therefore they must be punished.

But this excuse is clearly not enough.

No matter what the King of Champa is for, he has been extremely respectful to Daming over the years. Always have to give an account.

Zhang Ming also thought about killing a hundred. But he had this idea, but there were also people who understood it among the staff around him. It's easy to kill. But in the future, Zhang Ming may be guilty of this incident.

The black pot is not that it cannot be carried. It depends on when.

Zhang Ming's backer is He Xi. The trend of He Xi to retreat is obvious. When He Xi was there, Zhang Ming didn't have to worry about anything, but He Xi would not be in that position in the future. What should he do?

So, Zhang Ming thought about it and sent the king of Zhancheng to Nanjing respectfully.

I don't know, does the king of Champa really believe in the etiquette of kings and ministers, or does he have Liu Chan's ability to be happy and not to think about it. In short, as soon as he arrived in Beijing, he complained to Zhu Xiongying.

This seems to be a very good drama of someone suing the official.

But I don't know what to do.

So, Zhu Xiongying sent someone to tell the daughter of the king of Zhancheng about a family matter, not someone else. It is the King of Tang, that is, the prince who will be sealed to Zhancheng in the future. And the king of Champa has all arrived in Beijing. Settled in Nanjing and changed his surname to Zhan. In the future, becoming a member of the Chinese aristocracy can be regarded as a fulfillment of his wish.

And when the Tang King went to Zhancheng, he could also directly take over the influence left by the old king. It is also convenient for him to control the Champa locality.

It can also be regarded as an accounting transaction.

It's just that in this way, He Xi also gave a warning to the front line, that is, don't do such things again, no matter what they think, there must always be a reason to say the past.

The Ming court must be glamorous, not innocent, and you want to continue to fight, the court supports, but you can't be so rough anymore.

In this way, it can be regarded as a big problem for many front-line people in the future.