1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 466

"Your country of Dayue wants to make peace with my country of Qi?" Zhang Wenqi was beyond surprised when she heard Zheng Mingqing, the Minister of Rites of the country of Dayue (later Le Dynasty in Vietnam) propose.

"Not bad!" Zheng Mingqing replied with a smile: "The fifth princess of my family's King of Dayue is sixteen years old. Ten Xu Zhiyou will be a monarch, and I will be a good match with Princess Dayue."

"My king already has a queen." Zhang Wenqi said subconsciously.

"Since King Qi has a queen, the fifth princess can also be a side concubine if she is married to Qi."

Zheng Mingqing looked at the stunned expression of the young head of Xinsheng Island in Qi State with a smile, and couldn't help but feel a little bit of contempt in his heart.Although the Ming people who fled to the remote southern continent, relying on the power of Western ships and firearms, they were fierce for a while, but compared with our country, what is lacking is the hundreds of years of great power and the years of Confucian culture.Wouldn't it make you a little flattered that I, the princess of Dayue Kingdom, will marry you.

"It's a big matter. I'm only the general manager of Xinsheng Island. I don't dare to be professional. I need to report to my king." Zhang Wenqi believes that the Annan Zheng family married a princess of the Li Dynasty to the Qi State, even if they can't draw the Qi State. On Zheng's side, it can somewhat alienate the cooperative relationship between Qi State and Guangnan State. When they have a war with Guangnan State, they can exclude Xinxin Island's armed forces and Qi State's sea power.

But as the manager of an overseas territory, he really couldn't refuse someone who wanted to marry the princess to his king.After all, this is a princess of a decent country, the Dai Viet Kingdom of the Le Dynasty, but it was recognized and canonized by the Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty (Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji), and became the King of Annan, and set a three-year tribute rule.

Even if the current king is a puppet and the government is controlled by the Zheng family, he is still a king after all!

"What's the Annan Zheng family doing recently? What are they planning to do with the princess of the Li Dynasty and our country of Qi? Do you have any corresponding information from the black guards?" Zheng Mingqing, the Minister of Rites, the envoy of the Dayue Kingdom, was temporarily arranged to the pavilion in Xinsheng City After the house, Zhang Wenqi approached Bai Zhengqing, the commander of the black guards stationed on Xinsheng Island, and asked for information about Annan's Zheng family.

"After the Southern Expedition of the Zheng Clan in Annan failed, there were many opposing forces in the country, and some people rebelled in the name of their Li Dynasty emperor. As a result, the Qing capital king Zheng Bing who controlled the government abolished their emperor and established The prince will be the emperor." Bai Zhengqing said: "At the same time, in order to get rid of the unfavorable situation of failure, Zheng Yi is going to gather a large army to attack Gaoping Mo's family in the north, trying to completely solve the worries of the future."

"Mo's from Gaoping?" Zhang Wenqi looked at Bai Zhengqing suspiciously.

"Hundred years ago, there was a Mo dynasty in Annan, which was usurped by the powerful officials of the former Li Dynasty. The current Zheng family has been able to control the government all the time because it defeated the Mo dynasty and rebuilt the Le Dynasty. By the way, the Guangnan Kingdom also In the process of defeating the Mo family, they took advantage of the situation and ran to the south to establish the Ruan family regime. So, despite the fact that Annan is not a big place, it is actually divided into several parts. However, the Zheng family should be the most powerful .”

"It turns out that they are rebellious officials and traitors!" Zhang Wenqi smiled and shook her head and said, "Now that the Zheng family wants to marry the princess of the Li Dynasty to our king, it is estimated that most of them want to stabilize our Qi State, and don't want to help the Guangnan Kingdom. His southern border, so that the Zheng family can freely attack the Mo family in Gaoping in the north."

"I see more than that." Bai Zhengqing said: "The Zheng family and the Ruan family fought a battle. Although we had the help of our Qi State navy, the Zheng's army also suffered a lot when facing the Ruan family's firearms troops. They were at the beginning of the year At that time, I contacted the Dutch East India Company and wanted to buy some cannons and muskets so that I could fight against Ruan. Batavia is far away, far less convenient than our Xinsheng Island. Just wait and see, their envoy will see you next time When you are here, you will most likely offer to buy our firearms."

"Really?" Zhang Wenqi couldn't help looking at Bai Zhengqing in surprise, "I didn't expect that your black-clothed guards could find out so much information. So, does the Mo family in Gaoping need firearms?"

"..." Bai Zhengqing glanced at Zhang Wenqi, and couldn't help laughing, "It's probably necessary. But Gaoping, where Mo's is located, is inland, so even if we give them firearms, we won't be able to send them there."

"What a pity!" Zhang Wenqi sighed.

"By the way, do you black guards have any information about the Kingdom of Cambodia?" Zhang Wenqi suddenly asked after a long silence.

"What do you mean..." Bai Zhengqing looked at Zhang Wenqi.

"Is there any unfavorable information about Cambodia, such as its foreign enemies, its domestic instability, or some of the king's rebels..."

"Is the Kingdom of Cambodia threatening Lin'anbao (now the city of Vung Tau in southeastern Vietnam)?"

"They stationed more than 2000 troops in Podi (now Badi City, Vietnam) opposite Lin'an Fort, obviously aiming at Lin'an Fort." Zhang Wenqi said gloomily: "Now, the Marine Corps of two companies and several ships The small armed galleys are all arranged in Lin'an Fort, just to prevent them from crossing the Lin'an River and attacking us."

"Do you want to cause some chaos in Cambodia, or have foreign enemies threaten it so that it will no longer pay attention to Lin'anbao?"

"That's what it means."

"There are two enemies of Cambodia." Bai Zhengqing said: "One is the Guangnan country in the northeast, and the other is Siam in the west. I won't talk about the Guangnan country, because it has already faced the threat of the Annan Zheng family. Withdrew from Priango (the area around Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam today), and reduced the pace of southwest expansion. Therefore, it seems that it is no longer a threat to Cambodia.”

"And Siam has been the biggest enemy of the Kingdom of Cambodia for hundreds of years, and has broken through their royal city several times. But now, the Ayutthaya Dynasty, which they now rule Siam, seems to be facing Toungoo in the northwest. The threat of the dynasty (now Burma) has suffered a defeat a few years ago, and it is temporarily unable to threaten the Kingdom of Cambodia. This is one of the reasons why the Cambodian King Ibrahim I dared to attack Quang Nam and regain Priango one."

"Can you establish contact with Siam?" Zhang Wenqi rolled her eyes.

"There are no black-clothed guards there yet." Bai Zhengqing said with a wry smile: "We only have some manpower in Cambodia, Guangnan, Champa, Annan Zheng's and other places, but we can't talk about going deep into them. Siam, what? I don't care about it... However, if you think it is necessary to contact them, we black guards can go there with the merchant ship."

"It's very necessary." Zhang Wenqi said: "A few years ago, when we harassed Guangnan Kingdom, in addition to getting some gold, silver, cloth and women, there were also a lot of swords, spears, and leather armor. We can just find a buyer to take over. If Siam Luo is willing to move some troops to the border of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and even sell them some firearms."

Here on Xinsheng Island, from February to July every year, because there is no escort of large armed ships, the deterrence is greatly reduced. The surrounding countries such as Cambodia, Guangnan, Siam and other countries have been in contact with Xinsheng Island for several years, and they seem to have discovered this. law.During this period, all the large armed ships of the Hanzhou people would be involved in immigration affairs, and they had no time to take care of the waters around Yaowu.

Therefore, in order to deal with the looming threat of the Kingdom of Cambodia during this period, Xinsheng Island can only move around and take advantage of the contradictions in neighboring countries and regions to create a security situation that is beneficial to Xinsheng Island.

"Even if Siam gets our armaments, it may not threaten the Kingdom of Cambodia and put itself in a state of being attacked on both sides." Bai Zhengqing shook his head and said: "We can find some loopholes in Cambodia and create some civil strife for it."

"Tell me."

"King Ibrahim I of Cambodia, whose original name was Bo Niezan, with the help of Champaigns and Malay mercenaries, launched a palace coup, imprisoned the former king Anon, and proclaimed himself king. Moreover, unlike most of the people in the country who are Buddhists, he believes in True God. In order to repay the Malays, he also changed the name of True God to Ibrahim and married a Malay woman as queen. In the past two years, he has also paid special attention to protecting the commercial interests of True God believers."

"In this way, this Ibrahim I has offended most of the Buddhists and officials, businessmen and ordinary people of other ethnic groups in the country. Last year, he dared to attack Guangnan and regain Priango in order to divert domestic conflicts , and at the same time establish his authority. I think we can find those powerful opponents in the country and sell them some firearms through the Champa.”

"The Champa people?" Zhang Wenqi couldn't help laughing when she heard this, "They managed to use our strength to temporarily relieve the encroachment of the Annan people, and now they will face the threat of the Khmer people. In a few days, I will go there in person. to their royal city."

(End of this chapter)