Yang Cha went to Guangxi relatively quickly, he first took the land route to Hubei, and then took a boat south, took the Xiangjiang River and the Lingqu, and successfully arrived at Guizhou, the seat of Guangxi South Road, that is, Guilin in later generations.

And Di Qing's side set off relatively late, after all, he had to bring 10,000 troops, and he didn't bring cavalry, they were all foot soldiers.

Coupled with all kinds of firearms, artillery, small steel cannons, gunpowder materials, and other messy things, the baggage vehicles alone carried thousands of horse-drawn carriages, which was naturally slow.

On the day of departure, Zhao Zhen, Zhao Jun and Fan Zhongyan summoned Di Qing, firstly to encourage him, and secondly, to teach him face-to-face, telling him how to eliminate the Li Dynasty, and after the elimination of the Li Dynasty, the way to govern the Li Dynasty.

In early March, almost when Yang Cha had just arrived on the South Guangxi Road and began to make preparations for the war, Di Qing led the firearms battalion to complete its armament and prepare for today's departure.

In the Chongzheng Palace, the spring flowers bloom in March.

The warm sunlight outside the house spills in, shining on people, giving people a lazy and comfortable, and the air seems to be refreshing, comfortable and gentle.

Several people sat in the Chongzheng Hall.

This is not the first time Di Qing has come, but he is not so restrained, standing in the center of the hall, bowing to Zhao Zhen above and Zhao Jun Fan Zhongyan on the left and right.

"Excuse me, Di Qing."

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "You are my personal guard, and you have made many military exploits, which makes me happy and makes me look bright." ”

Di Qing hurriedly said: "Your Majesty praises you, since the minister is a soldier of the Great Song Dynasty, he should do his best and die." ”

"Okay."

Zhao Zhen nodded with satisfaction, reluctantly said a few more words, and then finally said: "You have all the troops and horses, and you are about to set out for the battle, I called you over today, in addition to the routine advice, there are more important things to say." ”

"Your Majesty, please."

Di Qing said.

Zhao Zhen said: "Let the prefect tell you." ”

Di Qing turned his head to look at Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun said in a deep voice: "This time, it is not difficult to eliminate Li Yue, you only need to remember the following points. ”

Di Qing waited for Zhao Jun's instructions.

Zhao Jun said: "First, you can only take the big road and not the small road, the southwest mountain is high and dense, and it is very easy to set up an ambush. The small road cannon is not easy to use, and once it is ambushed, it is not easy to fight. ”

"Yes."

Di Qing responded.

"Second, the local water must be boiled and drunk, and raw water must not be drunk to prevent diseases."

"Yes."

"Third, in spring and summer, mosquitoes become more numerous, we must pay attention to prevent mosquito bites, bring mosquito repellent herbs in the barracks, set up camp every day, smoke in the tent to repel mosquitoes."

"Yes."

"Fourth, your task is to eliminate the living forces of the Li Dynasty, just strike at their main force, as for the tribes under their command to attack and harass the army, don't pay attention to it, don't be led by their noses, let them harass them, if they don't fight head-on, you will directly enter Thang Long!"

"Yes."

"Fifth."

Zhao Jun said more than ten precautions in one breath, which is quite a bit of bald remote control.

However, he did not directly intervene in Di Qing's tactical play, but only told him the solutions to some problems and their strategic purposes, specific combat methods and on-site layouts, which were still handled by Di Qing himself.

After saying these precautions, Zhao Jun finally said: "Hanchen." ”

"Zhiyuan."

Di Qing listened carefully.

"These matters are taken into account, and it is not difficult to eliminate the Li Dynasty."

"I believe in the Governor's Hospital."

"It's not difficult to eliminate, but it's hard how to govern."

"Please let the hospital know."

"It's very simple, after you have eliminated the Li Dynasty, you can take divide and conquer."

"Divide and conquer?"

"Not bad."

Zhao Jun nodded: "The purpose of your trip is to completely eliminate the royal family of the Li Dynasty, break up their social structure, turn it into various tribal systems, support the local ethnic minorities with a small number of people to ascend to the throne, and suppress their larger ethnic groups." ”

"But the last general heard that the situation there is like that of the Great Song Dynasty, only their local Annamite people, and the rest are very few."

Di Qing scratched his head.

Since he was going to attack Vietnam, he naturally had to know something about that side, so he consulted a lot of information during this time.

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Very few can also be supported, even if it is their local Annan people, they can also divide and rule." If they live by the sea, give them a new name. Those who live in the mountains can also be given a new name. Anyway, let them believe that they are different from other Annamite people. ”

Don't look at the big places in Vietnam, with the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, it is easy to annex it. But in reality, Vietnam was easy to fight and difficult to govern, and it was almost difficult to be annexed by the Central Plains Dynasty.

In fact, not only Vietnam, but also during the Tang and Song dynasties, even Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, which many people thought were traditional Chinese regions, it was very difficult for the ancients to govern.

This situation was not improved until the Southern Song Dynasty crossed to the south and greatly developed Lingnan, and during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the southern coastal provinces were considered to be well governed.

The first reason is that Vietnam is too remote, and the place is poor and chaotic.

Considering this from an economic point of view, a rebellion in one place is not terrible, and the imperial court only needs to send troops to suppress it.

But if this place is always in rebellion, the central government needs to send heavy troops to defend it, and this place is poor and very far away from the center, and the cost of sending troops is extremely high.

Then it is not a place for the core ruling area to lose money, and it is normal for the Central Plains Dynasty to give up.

The second is that Vietnam is a multi-ethnic country, and their ethnic composition is very similar to that of the Han Chinese, with the majority ethnic group Kinh accounting for the vast majority of the population.

The proportion of the remaining ethnic minorities is very small, and most of them are ethnic groups from other countries in the border areas, such as the Han people, the Dai people, the Zhuang people, etc., and the Jing people occupy the absolute right to speak in the construction and identity of the people.

Once the main ethnic groups of Vietnam revolt, it is easy to lead to a revolt in the whole of Vietnam, and the rule of the central court in the local area will be dismantled, making it impossible to govern effectively.

Combining these two points, it is the reason why Vietnam has been included in the territory of our country many times in history, and even they use Chinese characters and know Chinese, but they have never been able to integrate into China.

And Zhao Jun told Di Qing the method, then I have to mention the European colonizers who "lack great virtue".

The hand invented can be said to be a sharp weapon against the local ethnic minorities, not to mention that there are ethnic minorities, even if there is only one main ethnic group, they can be divided into two points.

For example, the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups, the two protagonists of the Rwandan massacre, were originally one people. However, when the European colonizers arrived, they forcibly separated the two races and propped up the Tutsi as the ruling class, which numbered a small number.

As a result, the two sides began to break up, and the original one nation, but the internal struggle continued, and under the internal friction of each other, those foreign colonizers profited from it.

Da Song can naturally do the same.

Anyway, Vietnam has been incorporated into the territory of China since the Qin and Han dynasties, but it can't be defended if it can be defeated.

Although Zhao Jun's approach is also very lacking in great virtue now, you can say that you don't keep it.

After listening to it, Di Qing didn't understand the deep meaning too much, and he didn't know the consequences of doing so, but since it was ordered by the prefect, he did it.

So he arched his hand and said, "Yes." ”

"Alright."

Zhao Jun said: "You should keep these things in mind, cooperate well with Yang Cha, and strive to change the flag of Vietnam this year." ”

"Yes."

Di Qing had served as Zhao Jun's bodyguard for a long time, and he had long been accustomed to obeying his words.

"Old Fan, send Hanchen."

Zhao Jun said to Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan should also have some things to explain to Di Qing, about the military, then let them talk about it.

Lao Fan nodded, then got up and said, "Hanchen, I'll send you out of the palace." ”

"Thank you."

Di Qing responded, and then asked Zhao Zhen and Zhao Jun to resign, and then left with Fan Zhongyan.

After they left, Zhao Zhen's old mistake was made again, and he said worriedly: "Hanlong, isn't this a way to bring a great lack of great virtue?" Wouldn't it be inhumane? ”

There are a lot of dead mouse videos in the notebook, Zhao Zhen has watched a lot of them, and he has long been aware of the routines of Western colonizers.

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "The routine with a sigh is indeed inhumane, but I have to say that it is really easy to use." ”

Zhao Zhen was speechless and said, "Will this cause strong resistance from the locals?" ”

"If you do it right, it should be fine."

Zhao Jun pondered: "And I don't think that our way of using them is inhumane, because our method is to learn from the middle school and learn from the West." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Zhen became interested and asked, "What is the explanation?" ”

"It's simple."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Belt is just killing, no matter how buried, only playing routines, and in the end, the locals kill each other, and they only profit from it, and we."

Saying that, he also made a gesture: "We are in charge of killing and buriing, why do I say that the Great Song Dynasty can only be a one-pole hegemon in East Asia at most?" It is because we ourselves have a Confucian cultural circle, and Vietnam is barely a little brother in it. ”

"Let's first use the tactics of the Western colonizers and divide and conquer them. Later, we vigorously promoted our Confucian culture and propagated the idea that the Annamite people were also Han Chinese, Han people who took refuge in the south through war in the pre-Qin period. ”

"We have the "Book of Han" as proof of this, in the Qin and Han dynasties and the Sui Dynasty were the territory of the Han people, and their Annan people also called the Great Song Dynasty a northerner, and everyone spoke Chinese, spoke Chinese characters, and celebrated the Spring Festival, which is evidence."

"As long as we promote education in the local area, compile teaching materials, and take root in the idea that they are Han Chinese and the Great Song Dynasty is their home country, we will be able to achieve ethnic integration and thus legally occupy Vietnam."

"To a certain extent, this is to shatter the structure of their national consciousness and let their national consciousness be integrated into the national consciousness of the Han people."

"The characteristic of the Han people is tolerance, and once their local people of Annam begin to identify with their Han identity, and our rule is no different from the rule of the local local dynasty, then there will be no more resistance to the Great Song court."

"Now is the best time to annex them, because at present, the national consciousness of the Vietnamese Dynasty has not yet become independent, and it has not even been constructed, and they themselves do not know what their identity and who they are."

"If one day a group of people who say the same thing to them and speak the same language will stand up and tell them that you are in the same identity as us. Then in the hearts of Annamite people, who have accepted Han culture for thousands of years, it is easy to accept and agree with these views. ”

Zhao Jun still kept a smile when he said these words.

Until the early 20th century, Chinese and Chinese characters were widely used in all social strata of Vietnam.

Before that, there was not even Vietnamese and Vietnamese writing.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Western missionaries in Vietnam helped complete the transformation of the script and language through romanization, and then it was established as the official language by Ho Chi Minh City after the founding of Vietnam in the 20th century.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Vietnam at this time, like many countries in Southeast Asia that were influenced by Confucian culture at that time, spoke Chinese and used Chinese characters, and even the feudal system was modeled after the Central Plains Dynasty.

For example, the current official system of the Li Dynasty is very interesting, the prime minister is the Pingzhang military and state affairs, the privy envoy and the Tai Lieutenant, except for the Tai Lieutenant, the rest are no different from the Song Dynasty.

Based on these reasons, if we really follow Zhao Jun's method, the national consciousness structure of the Annan people will be completely shattered, so that before their national consciousness is awakened, they will take the lead in weaving their identity into Han people who fled from the north to the south.

Then they are indeed easily assimilated.

The most important point is that Zhao Jun wants northern Vietnam, that is, the Red River Delta. He had little interest in southern Vietnam, so it was easier to implement his idea on this basis.

Because northern Vietnam has been Chinese territory for most of the time since the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was Cochin County. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was Songping County in the Southern Dynasties, and during the Sui Dynasty, it became Jiaozhi County, and in the Tang Dynasty, it became the Jiaozhou Governor's Mansion and the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate.

It was not until the end of the Tang Dynasty in 939 A.D. that the Central Plains Dynasty was divided at the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and it was only when wars fought everywhere that it really began to become independent.

In other words, it has only been a short 100 years since the official independence of northern Vietnam.

Therefore, whether it is historically or culturally, the Great Song Dynasty has reasons and opportunities to annex northern Vietnam.

Over here.

This is the territory of the Han people since ancient times!

(End of chapter)