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  Chapter 655 652【Some people panic】

  The emperor of China bought Champa with money, and sent troops to destroy the Annan Zheng family. The Nguyen regime was caught in the middle and trembled.

  Once the war starts, it will not be as simple as a north-south attack. You can also transport troops from the sea, and directly give the Ruan family a three-sided bloom!

  Ruan Phuc Bin, who had just won a big victory and successfully succeeded to the throne, was at the brightest moment of his life. Lord Ruan and his ministers were so full of ambition that they even clamored for the Northern Expedition, but what they waited for was the news of the collapse of the Zheng family.

  Zhao Han’s two imperial edicts were not only shown to King Annan, but also announced to the world and spread to all directions!

  Ruan Fubin also got two handwritten edicts, and after reading them, his whole body was cold. They have always respected Emperor Li as their ruler, and their legal system also came from the king. They accused the Zheng family of kidnapping the monarch every year, saying that sooner or later they would lead troops north to the side of the Qing monarch.

   But now, An Nanguo is gone, and Ruan's situation is a bit embarrassing.

  He has only three options:

  First, play the slogan of restoring the country and inherit the legal system of the Annan Kingdom.

  Second, immediately surrender the land and surrender to the emperor of China.

  Third, the formal establishment of a country and self-reliance.

  Whether right or wrong, you must choose one, so as to appease people, otherwise Ruan's rule is irrational.

   On the Zheng side, at least there is an imperial court.

  Ruan's side doesn't even have a court, and the title of the official position is obviously of a wartime nature.

  Local prefectures and counties are all called battalions, such as Hue Camp and Guangnan Camp. Those who don’t know it think they are the army.

  The central organization is called Neizhengying.

There are three divisions in Neizhengying, namely, Shechai Division (copywriting, judiciary), Ministers Division (finance, local military pay), and Lingshi Division (sacrifice, salary, and central military pay) - look at this institutional setup, it is just like a military The government does not even have a strict distinction between civil and military officials.

  With the continuous expansion of the territory, in the past few years, the four pillar countries of inner left, outer left, inner right, and outer right have been added to assist in the central affairs in all directions.

  Although it seems that Ruan's government organization is very rough, the vitality of the ruling and opposition parties is far better than that of Zheng's.

   Within the jurisdiction of the Zheng family, the royal family, the clan, and the army... crazily exploited the people, and the local gentry hid their population, rampant corruption, and financial distress. What they got was the script of the late Ming Dynasty.

   Within the jurisdiction of the Ruan family, the territory continued to expand, killing and expelling the people of Champa, and relocating the Yue people and Han people. The landlord and gentry class here has been made very weak in influence, and the low-level peasants have a very high land holding rate, and what they get is the script of the late Jin Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty.

  Therefore, although the Ruan family was limited and had few people, they were unable to take the initiative to make a northern expedition, but they were able to defeat Zheng's southward troops every time. The farmers here have land, how can foreign enemies be allowed to invade? He fought very bravely, and to put it bluntly, he wanted to keep his own land!

  In a word, if the Datong army comes, they will meet with very stubborn resistance, and soldiers from peasant backgrounds are willing to work hard.

  Inner Zuo Zhuchen Li Tai said: "Your Highness, the Zheng family will be destroyed in an instant, and the Han soldiers are really invincible. You should offer soil to become a minister, and send another envoy to Nanjing to request canonization."

"What position are you requesting for canonization?" Ou Sheng, the Minister of History, immediately questioned, "The Chinese emperor destroyed the Zheng family in the north and bought the Champa Kingdom in the south. He has formed a situation of encircling us from the north to the south. He even destroyed the country. Set up a province, also named Guangnan Province. Guangnan and Hue are our core territories, what is his intention for setting up Guangnan Province, it is obvious that he wants to annex us!"

  Outside Zuo Zhuchen Ruan Fuyan said: "Could it be possible to go to war with China? We even have difficulties in the Northern Expedition Zheng, how can we resist the Han soldiers who are like wolves and tigers!"

  A group of officials started arguing there, but they couldn't come up with any useful regulations.

Nguyen Lord Nguyen Phuc said: "It is possible to be a minister, but it is impossible to offer soil. If this king offers soil, the Chinese emperor may really send officials over. At that time, these officials will be very troublesome. You can't kill them, and you can't use them. Sooner or later Something big happened."

Liang Zan, Minister of the Department of Officials, proposed: "The land under our jurisdiction is all the territory of the ancient Linyi Kingdom. Now that the Annan Kingdom is destroyed, Your Highness can establish a country on his own and become the king of Linyi. Then, in the name of the Lord of Linyi, send envoys to Nanjing to ask for help. Feng, to test the attitude of the Chinese emperor. If the Chinese emperor refuses, then find another way. If the Chinese emperor allows, that would be great, His Highness can justifiably establish a country and become king."

  Ruan Fubin nodded and smiled: "This method is very good. Choose an auspicious day, and this king will establish a country and stand on his own. The internal and external yamen should also be reformed, and local prefectures and counties should also be established."

Liang Zan also said: "Hetu, the powerful minister of the Champa Kingdom, refused to accept the Chinese officials' seizure of power, and joined forces with the congregation to raise troops and cause rebellion. Now he has been defeated and died. More than a thousand of his relatives and congregation have defected to our country. They are at the border at the moment. May I ask your highness? Do you accept it?"

  Ruan Fubin said: "The people of heretics and heretics will not be taken in. They will all be deported back. This can also be used to make friends with China!"

  Ruan Phuc is here, believes in Confucianism and Buddhism, and is merciless against Champa's environmentalism.

  In the past few decades, whenever a new territory is expanded, massacres and expulsions will be carried out, and the policy of "leave the land but not the people" will be implemented. After the Zhan people were expelled and killed, the vacated land was just distributed to the Yue people and the Han people, which could also ease the conflict between people and land.

  As for the Occupation Minister Hetu, his rebellion is a bit funny.

  After China bought Champa, it directly implemented military control in Bintong Longcheng, and temporarily recruited Han merchants to act as port tax collectors. This is tantamount to depriving Hetu of his financial rights, so this person instigated the congregation to make trouble, burned, killed and looted Bintong Longcheng, and was suppressed by 500 Datong troops all morning.

   Not only Hetu’s clan was exterminated, but his cronies were also purged. Many people fled Champa with their congregation.

  The tactics of the Datong Army are already benevolent enough. Historically, if the Ruan clan occupied this place, 80 to 90% of the Zhan clan would be doomed. They were either massacred or expelled, and all the vacated land was cultivated by Han people—these Han people were all survivors of the Ming Dynasty and fled across the sea because they refused to accept the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

   Later, when the Ruan family occupied the Mekong Delta, they also immigrated a large number of Han people.

The Mekong Delta has developed into a top grain-producing area in Southeast Asia from an unsuitable area for farming, and the Han people have made great contributions to it—the Han people here call themselves "Mingxiang people" or "Mingxiang people" and even build temples to worship The emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

  Even the few couplets in that temple have an anti-Qing and Ming-ming flavor—

  Be ashamed to be a courtier in the north, always solemn;

  Jiaxian revives the foundation and revives the old, and Shengde Changliu Temple looks new.

  The sage kings of the Ming Dynasty also heard of the voice teaching in the country of Yue;

  In this time and space, due to the decline of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, the Han people did not travel southward in large numbers. Even if Zhao Han doesn't send troops to attack the Ruan family, the Ruan family doesn't have that much population to expand. At the very least, the policy of massacring and expelling the Chams who believed in the environmental religion, and freeing up the land for the Han people to reclaim would not work.

  One month after the Annan Kingdom was destroyed, the Ruan family quickly established their own country and claimed to have obtained the legal system of the Gulinyi Kingdom. Then, wait for the rainy season to pass, and then send envoys to Nanjing to ask for a seal.

  Zhao Han is not in a hurry to destroy the Ruan family, he will finish it in the Zheng family's territory first.

  Once it is announced, the local gentry will inevitably rebel and take the opportunity to suppress it. The migration that should be migrated, the extermination of the clan that should be exterminated, it is absolutely impossible to be soft.

   On the contrary, it is the territory of the Ruan family. Since there is not much conflict between people and land, there is no need for a large scale. You can choose to ease the policy, buy excess land from landlords at half price, and then distribute it to farmers with less land.

  …

  The trading post established by the Netherlands on Zheng's territory is second only to Nagasaki, Japan, and far exceeds Tainan in importance.

  The Datong army occupied this place. Although they did not confiscate Dutch property, they will definitely not be able to do business in the future. The purchase channel must be controlled by Chinese merchants, and the trading post of the Dutch in Guangnan Province is tantamount to being abolished.

  The Dutch merchant ship risked being capsized by the typhoon, and rushed to Batavia to report.

  Governor Van der Lin jumped up in shock: "What? China sent troops to annex Vietnam?"

  The commander of the trading fleet said: "Yes, China sent tens of thousands of troops, and it took only a little over a month for Vietnam to perish without any resistance."

  Van der Lin was silent. He felt that his job as the governor was about to end.

  Due to low-price dumping by Chinese maritime merchants, it not only killed many Han merchants, but also caused damage to the Dutch trade in Japan. Sandu merchants in Japan, as well as Japanese feudal lords who engage in smuggling, are more willing to buy goods from Chinese merchants at low prices.

  Japan's trade is shrinking, and Vietnam's trade is now directly over. The profit of the Dutch East India Company this year may fall off a cliff.

  Profits plummeted, the governor must be impeached by shareholders.

  Van der Lin thought about it, and could only hold a meeting. Only three company councilors attended the meeting, and the rest were all councilor representatives. The real councilors were still in other colonies.

   "The Vietnam trading station has been withdrawn. It was said to be withdrawn last year. Anyway, profits have been declining."

  "Withdrawing the Vietnam trading station, we can only do business in Japan in the future. Japan's trade volume is also shrinking, and profits have fallen sharply. If this continues, shareholders will be held accountable."

   "Only by cutting off the sea route and prohibiting Chinese businessmen from doing business in Java Island. Then we will send troops to fight the Chinese and set a Chinese coastal port as the only trading location. Only in this way can we restore previous profits."

"The sea battle may be won, but are you sure you are not joking, want to fight a land war with China? How many troops can we send? One thousand or two thousand? China annexed Vietnam, but sent tens of thousands of troops! Chinese soldiers, not Java Island natives. They have armour, cannon and muskets, and the army is dead!"

   "If you can't use force to solve the problem, then you will be fired from the company."

   "Even if we are fired, can the next employee recover profits? Explain the situation clearly to the headquarters and let the gentlemen there think slowly."

"Colleagues, I think we need to adapt to the new trade environment, and the headquarters must also adapt. What we are facing now is a talented and bold founding monarch, and a China that is constantly expanding. This behemoth is terrifying, and we must not anger them."

   "I agree. This is no longer a matter of the East India Company, but a matter of the Dutch Republic. The Republic should send an official mission to Nanjing for a diplomatic visit, instead of the company sending employees to engage in diplomacy."

   "There is another way to pretend to be a pirate and rob all Chinese merchant ships that can be encountered. To force Chinese merchants to dare not go to sea for trade, and then we will take the opportunity to control the trade initiative."

   "But our main profit is to buy goods from Chinese merchants in Batavia and return them to Europe. Once Chinese merchant ships are robbed, Batavia's Chinese goods will inevitably decrease sharply, and the company's profits will be cut in half."

  "Chinese businessmen dare not come, so we take the initiative to go to China to buy goods. If the goods of inland Chinese merchants cannot be sold, they must be sold to us at a low price."

  "But pretending to be pirates and robbing Chinese merchant ships, will it anger the Chinese emperor and order a ban on selling goods to the company? Or even trigger a war?"

"With the current strength of the Chinese navy, we don't have to be afraid of naval battles at all. Don't worry, it's not only us who are hurting our interests, but also those Chinese inland businessmen who are eager to ship, as well as suppliers along the coast of China. In order to make money, they must If you are willing to smuggle, we will not face a shortage of supplies.”

"Gentlemen, this approach is too radical. Once something goes wrong, the company may suffer heavy losses in the Far East. Who can bear the responsibility? Also, the Chinese navy may be defeated, but the Chinese emperor will definitely crack down on smuggling in anger, There’s a chance that we won’t actually be able to buy goods.”

   "Don't forget, the company's current strategy is to seize Portugal's trading ports in Arabia. We have already had a deadlock with Portugal, Britain, Persia, and Ottomans. In this case, do we have to provoke China again?"

   "..."

  The last sentence made all the congressmen shut up.

  The Netherlands is making enemies all over the world. Military expenditures are rising year by year, and the enemies are fighting more and more.

  This time node, if it really angers the Chinese emperor. China directly joined forces with Britain, and even used its interests to win over Spain. The Dutch East India Company is estimated to suffer a catastrophe.

  A group of people discussed for a long time, and the final result was to accept the reality and ask the Dutch Republic to officially send an envoy to Nanjing.

  Zhao Han really didn't expect that when he sent troops to recover Vietnam, he actually made the Dutch feel bad.

  (end of this chapter)