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Chapter 440 The True and False Monkey King 3

People who are too strong or too feminine are not scary. People who are flexible, able to tolerate, and willing to learn new things are the most dangerous. Once they accumulate enough strength, they will be extremely destructive when they explode.

Annan will be a country that vigorously develops agriculture for many years to come. It is possible to grow as many types of rice, sugar cane, rubber, and cocoa as possible. For this purpose, Daming can provide a large number of agricultural tools, pesticides, and production and processing equipment.

Correspondingly, the industrial base is very weak. Coking and steelmaking are out of the question. Most weapons and production and daily necessities must be imported. All in all, Hong Tao wants to treat Annan as a farm of the Ming Dynasty, and it can only be a farm. He cannot live without the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty wants to raid Thang Long Mansion again! This is a clever plan, but the Li family's ships are more numerous and larger than the Ruan family's. Unless your Majesty sends the navy to assist..."

When he mentioned sneak attacks from the sea, Nguyen Huong Giang thought of Thang Long and Hue City back then. But this guy was really good at pretending. He didn't show any hatred in his eyes, as if he had never experienced it or even heard of it.

"Unfortunately, I am about to retaliate against the Jurchens in Liaodong, and the navy will also participate in the war. I am afraid that it will not be able to leave this year. However, I will order the navy to retain a warship and several fast ships in Da Nang to prevent the Li family from Harassment from the south at sea.”

Regardless of whether Ruan Xiangjiang truly surrendered or had ulterior motives, Hong Tao would not involve the Ming army in the civil war among the Annan people in a short period of time, nor would he help any party achieve unification quickly.

A unified Annam is not in the interests of the Ming Dynasty. It is best for the Li family and the Nguyen family to continue to be entangled, so as to consume the strength of both parties to the maximum extent and at the same time, the Annam people's dislike of the rulers will reach its peak.

In the future, when the time is ripe and the Ming Dynasty is able to fully control Annan, the local people will not share their hatred of the outside world. After all, what the invaders brought them was not endless war, but a stable and safe life. Even if you eat less, work more, or even lose your dignity, it is still more comfortable than being tortured by the flames of war.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty does not have the ability to 100% occupy Annan and carry out large-scale development. If it rashly gets involved in the local civil war, it is likely to fall into the quagmire of a long-term war and be unable to extricate itself. At that time, not only will they be hated by the losers, but they will also be feared by the winners. Coupled with the rejection of the local people, they will lose money if they fail to protect everything.

After only talking for more than half an hour, the emperor, who had paid a private visit incognito, returned to the palace. During this period, everyone in the Nan Tong Library was strictly ordered to stay in the room and not to move around or look around.

Only Ruan Xiangjiang was allowed to send the emperor who was visiting privately incognito to the door, but he had to wait in the next room for a while before he could approach the emperor after he left the room.

"God bless me Annan..." Looking at the not tall figure, Ruan Xiangjiang felt weak all over. This emperor was so good at pretending that when he arrived in the courtyard, he seemed to be a completely different person, not just in appearance, but in aura. His empty eyes seemed to have never seen him before, and his expression was very rigid.

If he hadn't just spoken face to face in the room, Ruan Xiangjiang would never have believed that this was the wise and cunning Emperor Ming. At the same time, I couldn't help but feel a little despair in my heart. My choice might be wrong, and Annan's future might not be as good as expected.

Leading the Ruan family to defect to the Ming Dynasty was originally a temporary measure, but it was forced into desperation by the overwhelming combat power and new weapons of the Ming Dynasty navy. If there was no way to stabilize the Ming emperor, Annan would be destroyed.

I planned to give in first and take the opportunity to learn some technologies from the Ming Dynasty that could quickly increase national power so that Annan could develop rapidly. After defeating the Li family and the Zheng family, I would then find an opportunity to escape from the control of the Ming Dynasty. By then, unified Annan will have no shortage of food and population. Relying on its geographical and climatic advantages, it is very possible to strive for a more favorable position even if it cannot fully confront the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, no matter who became the emperor of the great empire in the north, they never had any intention of acquiring the land of Annan. It was always regarded as useless and would be basically given up as soon as the difficulty of ruling increased.

However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. After this cooperation, it was discovered that the Ming Emperor had no generosity and was not satisfied with the name of superficial surrender. He was more greedy than the most shameless profiteers and filthy than the methods of market scoundrels.

Not only do they need rice and sugar cane, but they also have to worry about a few logs of wood, and they also need to plant trees on a large scale in Annan. Although it is unclear what rubber trees and cocoa trees are used for, it can be seen from the emperor's extremely determined attitude that they must be more valuable than sugar cane.

The most shameless thing is that there is obviously a sharp navy that can be dispatched. It only takes one or two thousand men to go into battle. With the cooperation of the Ruan family, the Li family, commanded by Zheng family and his son, can defeat the Li family in one fell swoop. However, the emperor refused to send troops to help in every possible way, and even They are unwilling to publicly recognize the Ruan family's orthodox status in Annan, saying they dare not violate the ancestral system.

Damn it, if the words in Taizu's teachings were true, Annan would not have been invaded by troops sent by several Ming Dynasty emperors. It seems that the ancestral teaching of your old Zhu family is to wipe your ass with paper. You only remember to take it out and wipe it when there is poop.

5000 sets of armor, 800 crossbows, 30000 crossbow arrows, and 2000 steel knives are indeed not too few, especially the steel arm crossbow with small wheels, which is better than the blunderbuss of the Franco robot in a hot, humid and rainy environment. It's easy to use.

However, these equipment alone are not enough to offset the difference in the number of armies between the Nguyen and Li clans. It can only make the war drag on longer, cause more casualties, consume more, and become more dependent.

They can calculate the accounts clearly. Don't the Ming emperor and the naval generals, who are monkeys and monkeys, know about it? It's absolutely impossible, it's just pretending to be confused. Emperor Ming used this way to remind himself that he had to work harder if he wanted to gain trust.

It's a pity that knowing what the Emperor of Ming Dynasty thought, he couldn't change the reality at all. It was too late to resist. If the Ruan family did not cooperate at this time, the Ming Emperor would give more armor and weapons to the Li family, and the Li family would also be unable to refuse the conditions offered by the Ming Emperor.

This is a dead end. The Ruan family, the Li family, and the Zheng family and their sons are all trapped in it and cannot extricate themselves. In other words, this is the sorrow of a small country with few people. If it is too close to a big country and the emperor of a big country is not too shameless, the sorrow will become a tragedy.

The only thing I can do now is to strive for the best results. Even if I take the people of Annan as cattle and horses and be squeezed by the Ming Dynasty, I still have to strive for the highest treatment.

The remaining hope can only be left to God. I hope that the emperor's lifespan will not be too long, or that the Ming court officials will unite to kill him because of the New Deal. Compared with him, the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty, even Yongle who occupied the entire territory of Annan, seemed to be much more tolerant.

(End of this chapter)