Qiming 1158

Chapter 1356 A cold knowledge
Since the split from China in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, Nanyue has been very restless, and often jumps up, trying to find a sense of existence for himself.

So they actively expressed themselves. During the Northern Song Dynasty, they fought with the Northern Song Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty, they also had some unpleasant small frictions with the Southern Song Dynasty. They planned to turn Lingnan into their territory.

When they realized that it was a little difficult for them to complete the feat of snake swallowing elephant, they started civil strife. After the civil strife was over, they began to look south.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, Su Xiancheng, an important official of the Li clan in South Vietnam, led his troops southward and had some physically unfriendly exchanges with the Champaign, which caused a lot of blows to the Champaign.

Champaign lost for a while, and the losses were quite large.

Of course, the city of Champa itself is not a good thing. Although the country is small, it has great ambitions. It has fallen in love with the country of Zhenla, which is much larger than it, for many years. You cut me with a knife. I stab you with a sword, rainforest warriors are fearless.

The country of Zhenla has been at war with it for many years, and no one can take advantage of the other.

But just a few years ago, some small things happened within the Champaign.

As a result, a few years later, a young man from Southeast Asia who was called "Zou Yana" by the Song people successfully killed the original Champa king and became the new king himself.

As a result, before Zou Yana was sitting on the throne, the South Vietnamese army called. In a hurry, Zou Yana suffered a lot of losses and was anxious.

He has just usurped the throne, and he has not yet been widely recognized in the country. He has not yet successfully integrated the internal throne. He has not yet drowned all the opposition in a pond, and his own regime has not stabilized.

The old guys from the Li Dynasty in South Vietnam don't talk about martial arts, and they come to deceive and attack him, a young man who has finally usurped the throne. It is very shameless.

But there was nothing he could do for a while.

In a hurry, someone gave him an idea.

Champaign has always been a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. As long as you send messengers to pay tribute, ask the Song Dynasty to recognize the identity of the king, and then put forward your own request, let the Song Dynasty put pressure on the Li family in Nanyue, and the Li family will inevitably restrain their arrogance. Dare to mess around.

And in this way, after being recognized by the suzerain state, the gossip guys in the country can't gossip anymore, the throne is secure, he can quickly integrate the interior, restore the strength of the city, and then he can do whatever he wants.

Zou Yana was overjoyed and immediately decided to do so.

But soon someone raised it, saying that this would not work.

why?

Because the Central Plains have changed.

The original ruler, the Song Dynasty, was declining, and it was difficult for him to protect himself. The big country in the northern Central Plains, the Ming Dynasty, was so powerful that the Song Dynasty was powerless to fight back. Even the important sea trade ports such as Guangzhou and Quanzhou were ceded to the Ming Dynasty. Can such a big brother still put pressure on South Vietnam?
Afraid of being out of breath?

Zou Yana is emo now.

This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what should I do?

Zou Yana quickly made a decision.

Of course, it is on the side of the strong.

The Song Dynasty is getting thinner and thinner, and the air is less and the air is more.Or should I sing him a thank you for having you?
What a joke!
The correct way is of course to immediately switch to Daming's banner and offer sincere filial piety to Daming.

[Champaign has been wandering for half of his life, and he only regrets that he has not met the master of "Ming". If Daming does not abandon him, Champaign is willing to worship Daming as his father and go through fire and water, wherever he goes! 】

Zou Yana hopes to let Daming’s father know that it has an adopted son in the south, and ask Daming’s father to remember the father and son’s love and help drive away the bandits of the Li Dynasty in South Vietnam.

Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to arrange manpower to go to the Ming Kingdom to surrender to Daming's father and win a legitimate king's seat, and then make a request.

After planning the action, Zou Yana summoned several businessmen who were engaged in commercial trade between Ming and Champaign, and asked them for some information about Ming, and then asked them to send a message to the Ming government in Guangzhou. See if the Ming Kingdom is willing to accept this adopted son who is far south of Caiyun.

So these Champaign merchants came to Guangzhou, intending to meet Ming officials, but before they met Ming officials, Su Yonglin brought the army directly to Guangzhou, followed by [Ming army] The whole south, the Song Dynasty collapsed] news.

The Song Dynasty was really submerged at this time.

China's great land situation will meet, China will change hands, artifacts will be easier, the Song Dynasty will be destroyed, the Ming Dynasty will be prosperous, the times have changed!
A few Champaign merchants were shocked and calmed down, and this happened today.

After Su Yonglin had a good understanding of the context, he felt that the international relations in Southeast Asia during this period were very interesting.

Just fight each other!
Apart from fighting, there is nothing to do. Whenever these rulers have money, they will use soldiers everywhere to get more money. It is pure nonsense to want them to improve people's livelihood.

But then again, this Zou Yana request is really a strategic breakthrough for Ming.

The suzerainty and normal international relations of the Southeast Asian countries were originally established with the Song Dynasty. The Ming Kingdom did not establish any formal diplomatic relations with the Southeast Asian countries before, so it was necessary to re-establish relations.

But now, the Li Dynasty of South Vietnam, which originally belonged to the relationship network of the Song state, was basically unlikely to take the initiative to contact the Ming state due to conflicts in Confucianism, and the situation was frozen here.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty just lacked a legitimate excuse to intervene in the situation in Southeast Asia.

As a usurper, Zou Yana must be very eager to get the recognition of the central dynasty to stabilize the legitimacy of his regime. At this time, if he provides him with this crucial legitimacy, he can use this as an excuse to intervene in the political situation in Southeast Asia.

So Su Yonglin thought about it again and again, and felt that he didn't need to worry about whether Zou Yana was a usurper or not. He only needed to look at this issue from the perspective of the Ming Kingdom.

South Vietnam, nine times out of ten, is hostile.

Champaign, however, may become an ally of Ming because of its king's status as a usurper.

Isn't the situation where these two sides attacked South Vietnam?

Su Yonglin had no problem thinking this way. It was a matter of course that the North and the South attacked South Vietnam, making them advance and retreat and create favorable conditions for the Ming Kingdom.

So Su Yonglin decided to admit the existence of Champaign in Zou Yana's rule over Champaign.

But soon, Su Yonglin learned a cold knowledge that surprised him a little - the Southern Song Dynasty had not legally recognized South Vietnam as an independent country.

Unlike Goryeo, Zhancheng, Chenla and other countries, the Southern Song Dynasty did not recognize Nanyue as a country. Although they broke away from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and became independent in fact, the Song Dynasty was unable to recover Nanyue, but the later rulers of the Song Dynasty were deny.

Your independence is your business, I admit it is mine.

After Li Tianzuo ascended the throne, Wanyan Gou issued an edict to enshrine him as the Jing Navy Jiedu Observation and Disposal Envoy, Special Jin, Tai Lieutenant of the Inspection School, and the Imperial Censor, the Protector of Annan, the King of Shangzhu Kingdom, and the King of Jiaozhi County.

In the 25th year of Shaoxing, Wan Yangou granted Li Tianzuo the title of King of Nanping.

In the jurisprudence narrative of the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Tianzuo's juridical identity was an official and a county king of the Southern Song Dynasty, not the king of Nanyue.

Although the Li family of Nanyue called the Kingdom of Great Vietnam internally and Li Tianzuo called the emperor internally, the Song Dynasty did not let go in terms of legal principles, only admitting that it was a special existence under the noble title system of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the territory of Nanyue was still considered legally by the Southern Song Dynasty. It is one's own territory. When calling Nanyue, it is not called "country".

This is kind of interesting.

(End of this chapter)