Qiming 1158

Chapter 1360 Su Yonglin is not good at donkey cart drifting
On the first day of the second lunar month in the ninth year of Hongwu, before going to Dananguan, Su Yonglin met in Guangzhou with the Champaign envoys who came to visit him officially.

The head of the envoy of the Champaign Kingdom was the nephew of the usurped king Zou Yana. He respectfully saluted Su Yonglin and presented a gift list.

Needless to say, gold, silver, pearls and jade, there are also local specialties such as agarwood, ivory, tortoiseshell, sandalwood, pepper, pearls and other rare treasures, as well as several rhinos and lions.

What’s more interesting is that the Champa Kingdom also presented 200 war elephants and [-] elephant slaves specially trained to raise war elephants to the Ming Dynasty as a national gift to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, in order to thank the Emperor for his timely charcoal and save the Champa Kingdom in distress.

As a special unit in the tropical rainforest region of Southeast Asia, the war elephant is actually quite novel to the Central Plains Dynasty.

The time when elephants ran in the Central Plains can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty. At that time, the Yellow River Basin had a tropical climate, and elephants ran everywhere. Maybe there were elephant soldiers in the Central Plains at that time. When the tribes were fighting, they might also drive the elephants to charge each other. .

Now it is gone.

Moreover, Xiangbing said that being strong is also strong. After all, it is a behemoth, and it has a natural suppressive effect on small creatures.

But to say it is easy to deal with, it is indeed easy to deal with. At least in front of the Ming army with artillery, the elephant soldiers are simply huge moving live targets, which can allow the artillerymen to practice their shooting accuracy and improve the gunners. Shooting ability.

Su Yonglin personally watched the battle demonstrations of the elephants, and watched the elephant slaves skillfully manipulate the elephants to perform certain tactical actions that they thought were very delicate.

Indeed, it has its merits. The generals who watched the Elephant Soldiers with Su Yonglin praised the might of the Elephant Soldiers. They also pointed out that if there were no firearms, as long as the elephants were given armor, there was really no good way to contain them with conventional combat methods. The behemoth advances.

But with firearms it is completely different.

Su Yonglin accepted these gifts with a smile, and then officially ordered Zou Yana to be canonized as Doctor Jinzi Guanglu, Imperial Censor Zhongcheng, Shangzhu Kingdom, and King of Cham City, and then gave [-] food towns.

Because foreign monarchs are nominally the subjects of the emperor of the central dynasty, in the canonization process, the central dynasty often canonizes foreign monarchs with their own official positions in accordance with their own practice, and then canonizes a certain king to show that the foreign monarch is the cover of the central dynasty. If he did, hitting him would mean not giving the emperor face, and he would be punished.

Because Daming didn't have so many vain titles to give to Zou Yana, Su Yonglin found some useful titles to Zou Yana from the official system of the Southern Song Dynasty. Anyway, this is not a practical thing, just have a name.

And what Zou Yana cares about most is definitely the title of the [Champaign King], and he is absolutely happy with this.

After the seal was granted, Champaign became the fourth official vassal state of the Ming Kingdom after Goryeo, and the second vassal state that still existed. Champaign will enjoy a series of rights and also need to assume a series of responsibilities. .

For example, it became an important arm of the Ming Dynasty to contain and eventually eliminate the Li Dynasty of South Vietnam.

Although it is said that Daming is a big country and Nanyue is a younger brother, it is not uncommon in history for a small Boda to win in the end, and Nanyue himself is one of them.

It is good to deal with the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, and it is good to deal with the later Mongolian and Yuan Empire.

How arrogant and powerful the Mengyuan Empire was at that time, and it swept across the Eurasian continent with almost no opponents. However, in the strategy of going south, it achieved few commendable victories. On the contrary, it lost several troops and lost its generals several times. Hundreds of thousands of troops went south to Southeast Asia. Didn't get any results either.

Of course, there are many reasons, such as climate, logistics, military morale, etc. These reasons are all important, but this also proves from the side that it is never easy to completely overthrow a state regime with a relatively tight organization.

Su Yonglin is very confident. He is convinced that the Ming army is invincible in terms of military combat effectiveness.

With the help of the Champaign Kingdom, the situation of attacking South Vietnam from the north and the south will be formed. At that time, the water division will assist the soldiers to land from other directions, and the three-way advance will greatly increase the winning rate.

So when talking with the head of the Champaign envoys, Su Yonglin deliberately told them about this.

However, Su Yonglin originally wanted to reach a strategic cooperation with the Champaign Kingdom and assist the Ming Kingdom to clean up South Vietnam at some point in the future, but the Champaign Kingdom actually directly hoped that the Ming Kingdom could immediately go south to attack South Vietnam, saying that they could send some of them. The soldiers and horses assisted the Ming Dynasty to completely kill South Vietnam.

Daming's father is so powerful, he must be able to do it, right?
Anyway, the army is now in Lingnan, and the distance is very close, it is easy to kill them directly, right?

Su Yonglin was speechless.

"At present, Daming still has a lot of things to deal with, and there are still a lot of things to be solved in Lingnan. It is not the time to launch a full-scale war, and it is not the time to completely clean up the Li family's court. From the current point of view, a little beat is the best. result."

The Champaign envoys were disappointed by this, but did not dare to oppose Daming's decision rashly, and could only put forward their own opinions.

"The Li family of South Vietnam has always been arrogant and warlike. The whole court is full of belligerents. They invaded other countries everywhere, acting like barbarians. In that year, the Nanyue Li clan even coveted the territory of the Central Plains, and had a great deal of disapproval of the ministers, and the ministers were worried about the Ming in private."

Of course Su Yonglin knew what this guy and Zou Yana were thinking.

But fighting is not something that can be done with a slap of the head. Guangdong and Guangxi have just been pacified, and nothing has been completed. At this time, going south to attack the Li Dynasty of South Vietnam will inevitably not make the mistakes that Zhao Guangyi once made.

Su Yonglin is not good at drifting donkey carts, nor is Zhao Guangyi's cheeky, so to that extent, I am afraid that he will not be ashamed to kill himself to thank the world.

"The Li family in Nanyue has been disobedient, and it has been a few years. In recent years, I have not heard any rumors. Let's see what they will do. I will send someone to ask the Li family not to continue to send troops to the south. You Reassure your king."

"Then...then if..."

"If the Nanyue Li family doesn't listen to good things and don't drink toasts, Daming will naturally let them know what it means to be a great country."

Su Yonglin had spoken to this point, and the head of the Champaign envoys had nothing else to say. The matter had come to this point, and he could only wait for the actions of the Ming Kingdom.

And Su Yonglin also said that if Nanyue didn't give Daming this face, Daming would naturally let them know what it means to be a great country.

Obviously, the demeanor of a great country = iron armored soldiers.

He didn't have much to say, he saluted Su Yonglin again and thanked Su Yonglin, then took the people away, and returned to Zou Yana to return to Zou Yana.

After they left, Su Yonglin dispatched several envoys to Thang Long City, the capital of South Vietnam, as ambassadors of the Ming Dynasty, to convey to them the meaning of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and then read their replies.

If they agree, it is estimated that they will take a rational approach, ignore the ideological problem, make a minister to Daming, and try to gain Daming's recognition in order to obtain a formal independent status.

If they do this, it means that they have no idea of ​​a military conflict with Daming.

But if they have other ideas, it is not impossible.

Daming indeed swept across the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and his power was indistinguishable for a while, but he didn't know how painful it would be if the stick didn't hit him. Thinking of how they even dared to fight with the Mengyuan army who swept through everything, what would they do? Do, it's hard to say.

After thinking about it, Su Yonglin decided to make some military arrangements.

(End of this chapter)