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  Chapter 881 877 [Merchants living in the cracks]

   Quang Binh City.

  The Han people inside and outside the city were all ordered to move out, and Sun Chuanting wanted to take them to Guangnan Province.

  Before, in order to defend the city with a small number of troops, all the Yue residents in the city of Quang Binh had been expelled from the city. Now when you see a big house, you will enter it, and take away all the valuables, but don't touch those small households.

   Ship after ship of goods was transported to the naval ships, and the Datong army led the Han people to abandon the city and leave.

  Sun Dakui couldn't help asking: "Sun Buzheng, the Ruan family is empty in the country, why didn't they take advantage of the trend and attack south? Even if we didn't attack south, we should still defend Quang Binh, the captured city was finally attacked by surprise."

Sun Chuanting had already stepped onto the deck of the ship and explained: "In a few months, the weather will get hotter and the rain will continue. You know these things. We have few soldiers now, and Guangping City It is not good for defense, and the Ruan family will definitely attack when they return to the army. At that time, the soldiers stationed in Guangping City will die in battle.

   "How can you say that the gains outweigh the losses? This is a big city," Sun Dakui still couldn't let it go, "Besides, how can anyone survive in a war?"

  Sun Chuanting said with a smile: "Guangping City is here, can it be possible to grow wings and fly away? In the future, choose a suitable month, and when the army arrives, the entire Ruan family will be wiped out, so why bother about the city of Guangping."

   Just like that, Ruan Phuc led the army back to the division, and angrily came to Quang Binh.

  Sun Chuanting didn't miss it, he took the wealth and the Han people, left the city and ran away. Only the Guancheng on the border was firmly occupied by the Datong Army. If troops were sent in the future, they could take Guangping City directly along the river.

   "What? The Han bandits abandoned the city and fled?"

   On the way, Ruan Fubin received the news, and was so happy that he wanted to vomit blood.

   Then, what to do?

   It is impossible to fight Bin Tonglong again, and it is even more nonsense to go north to attack Quang Nam Province. After several years of hard work, tens of thousands of elite soldiers were assembled this time. Not only did they not get anything, but they also lost the border city, and Guangping Mansion was also robbed by the Han army.

   Guancheng must be taken back, otherwise, from now on, Han soldiers will come whenever they want!

   "Keep going north!"

  Ruan Fubin bit the bullet and ordered, anyway, they are at war with China, and they have to take advantage of the absence of China's main force to quickly retake their Xiongguan.

   This guy led his troops to the north for more than 200 miles, and suddenly received a message on the way: "Your Majesty, it's not good, the Han bandits are attacking Chengtian Mansion (Hue)!"

Ruan Fubin was a little unresponsive, and asked several times to confirm that he had heard correctly. He roared angrily: "The Chinese thieves have bullied me too much, and return to the army to guard the capital immediately! From next year, I will expand the Dai Viet Navy (Navy) )!" As he spoke, he called the military officer again, "You immediately write an apology and ask the envoy to go to Nanjing with a gift."

   Some small countries are just so nonsense. They obviously can't win, but they insist on provoking big countries.

   It is said that Yang Guang labored the people and wasted money, and forcibly confiscated Goguryeo three times, making Goguryeo look like a victim. But how many people know that Goguryeo first invaded the Sui Dynasty, which completely angered Emperor Sui Yang.

  Before Yang Guang was enthroned, Goguryeo began to play dirty tricks. The Sui Dynasty couldn't make a move, so they always chose to be patient.

  As a result, Goguryeo pushed its nose and face, and even directly sent troops to attack Liaodong, but was repelled by the governor of Yingzhou in the Sui Dynasty. When Yang Jian sent the king of Han to conquer, the king of Goguryeo was so frightened that he condemned his envoy to apologize, and claimed to be "Liaodong dung earth official Yuan" in the above table. It probably means, I'm just a stinky piece of shit, dad, please forgive me, if you lead soldiers to beat me, dad's hands will be dirty.

  The minds of the rulers and ministers of the Ruan family are actually similar to those of Goguryeo. They feel that China is expanding too fast, and they have to find opportunities to fight.

   It was a ridiculous fight. With tens of thousands of troops, they first ran to attack Champa, then returned to the army and went north to rescue Quang Binh, and now they turned south to rescue Hue. Except for the many casualties in Bintonglong, the rest of the time was spent tossing back and forth, without even touching the hair of the Datong Army.

  As for the Datong Army, they really didn't intend to walk Ruan Fubin like a dog.

  Yang Zhan withdrew his troops from Myanmar normally, and when he withdrew to Palembang, he heard that Nguyen was beating Bin Thong Long. So, he hurried to rescue by boat. After arriving at Bintong Long, he heard that the Ruan family had withdrawn his troops, so he was so angry that he took a boat to bombard the capital of the Ruan family.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  Inside the port, cannons rang out.

  In addition to the naval fleet brought by Yang Zhan, there are also envoy fleets from Lu Tianxiang and Zhang Ruifeng.

   When the envoy fleet came back from Pattani and passed by Bin Thong Long for supplies, they heard that Hue was fighting, so they also came to help fire a few shots.

  Prince Charles stood on the deck with a binoculars and observed the battlefield. Dozens of warships bombarded Jiancheng, which shocked him greatly. Such battles are rare in Europe.

   "Which country is this?" Charles asked.

  Pan Wei explained: "This used to be the homeland of China, and it has been occupied for hundreds of years because of the rebellion. Those rebels established a state of Yue, and now they are bombarding the capital of the state of Yue."

   "So that's how it is." Prince Charles immediately understood that the local lord launched a rebellion and broke away from the monarch to establish a country and become king. Such rebellious officials and thieves should be severely beaten.

  A regular division of Guangnan Province led by Yang Zhan, as well as the Datong Army visited by the protection mission, have all successfully landed and started to encircle Hue.

   To be honest, both armies contain a large number of wounded and sick, and most of them are sick.

  There are about 5,000 defenders in Hue City, but there are still more than 100,000 residents who can be pulled out to defend the city at any time.

   Really hard to fight!

  Ruan Phuc Bin's eldest son is only ten years old, and his second son is only five years old. Facing the siege of the city, the ministers of the Nguyen Dynasty panicked, and the Shaofu, the uncle of the country, and Song Fukang, the prefect, presided over the overall situation.

  Historically, several queens of the Nguyen regime were all surnamed "Song", or "Song Fu".

  The word "福" can be added or not.

  Just like Ruan Fubin, it is okay to say that his surname is "Ruan", but it is also correct to say that his surname is "Ruan Phuc".

   Song Fukang is the leader of the gentry in Hue. He not only did the ideological work of the officials, but also called the gentry and merchants in the city: "The Zheng family in the north was destroyed. I think you all know what happened to the gentry and merchants. Every family, every household, If you have money, you have money, and if you have people, you must defend the city of Hue. Once you break the city, you and I will all die, and all the land and property will be taken away!"

   "In times of crisis, you should serve the country. My Duan family will pay you one thousand taels, and thirty slaves will serve as soldiers!"

   "My Zhang family pays one thousand taels, and twenty slaves serve as soldiers!"

   "My Chen family pays one thousand taels..."

  The Datong imperial court's policy of dividing land in the north really frightened the gentry in the south. Although the donations are relatively small, the gentry in Hue are indeed working together to defend the city.

   Immediately afterwards, Song Fukang carried out propaganda in the city again, saying that the Datong Army brutally slaughtered the city and would definitely massacre the city after they broke through Hue, in order to trick the people of Hue into taking up arms.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  The servants beat the gong and shouted along the street: "Han merchant Li Yongjin, who contributed 1,000 taels of silver. Han merchant Zhang Chong, who contributed 800 taels of silver. Han merchant Chen Lianggui..."

  In the city of Hue, there are a large number of Han businessmen, who have formed a commercial interest community with the Hue gentry.

  Song Fukang was very insidious. He first sent troops to force the Han merchants to donate their salaries, and then beat gongs and drums to publicize it, cutting off the retreat of those Han merchants.

  Qian Fang is an employee of a firm, and he silently observes the situation on the street.

  The shopkeeper Qian Deshun suddenly said: "Qian Fang, come here."

   "Okay!" Qian Fang nodded and bowed, and followed the shopkeeper into the room.

The big shopkeeper, who was quite dignified outside, knelt down after entering the room, and wailed in a low voice: "My lord, the master also donated one thousand taels. The master asked me to be Mr. Bingming, and he was also forced to enter the house. Forced to donate money."

Qian Fang sat at the head seat, picked up the teacup and said: "I know all about it. You can let our master send letters to other merchants in the city. They donate money to help the thieves. The court will not blame this matter. Just remember one thing In the future, when the imperial court destroys the Ruan family, the merchants who bought the land will have to honestly cooperate with the distribution of the land."

   "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" Qian Deshun kowtowed repeatedly.

  Qian Fang took a sip of tea: "What to do, just go, this city of Hue can't be defeated for the time being."

  The Han people who do business in the area under the jurisdiction of the Ruan family really want to maintain the status quo. They have too deep a connection with the local gentry. Some Han businessmen have even become gentry in Hue. They marry wives and have children here, and buy land here, just like the big landlords of the Yue nationality.

  If the Datong Army was not too powerful, these Han merchants might have helped the Ruan family fight.

   But who is not a smart person in business?

  The Ruan family was clearly about to perish. As early as two or three years ago, there were already Han landlords who sold their land one after another, so as not to be divided by the imperial court in the future.

  Outside the city.

  Yang Zhan gritted his teeth and said, "Withdraw the troops!"

  The hot air balloon has observed very clearly. There are soldiers and people defending the city everywhere, and a large amount of supplies for defending the city have been prepared. And the streets and alleys in the city are also moving supplies back and forth.

  In this case, if the city is forcibly attacked, the Datong Army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

   Moreover, the hot and rainy season is approaching, and the army must be withdrawn to rest quickly, otherwise it will inevitably cause a large number of non-combat attrition.

  Seeing the Datong army leaving by boat, the soldiers and civilians in the city cheered, but the Han merchants were all frowning.

  They complained about the Nanjing court for a while, why did they insist on annexing the Ruan family? After a while, he blames Ruan Fubin, can't he live a happy life? Why did you send troops to provoke China?

  Han merchants understand very well that if it is the autumn and winter season of this year, if it is slow, it will be delayed until the autumn of next year, and the Chinese army will inevitably overwhelm the country!

  These merchants want to pack up and run away, but many of them have already regarded Hue as their home. They have shops here, warehouses here, and a fleet of ships, and they buy goods from Hue and go to sea trade.

  The Han people monopolize the Ruan family trade.

  Ruan Fubin led his army back to Hue, rewarded the meritorious officials arbitrarily, celebrated the funeral, and declared to the outside world that he had achieved the "Great Victory in Hue".

   Immediately afterwards, they began to investigate which Han people were selling land in the past two or three years.

  As long as the land sold exceeds 100 mu, whether it is because of losing money in business or not, they will all be charged with "collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country" and executed.

  (end of this chapter)