nanming man

Chapter 971 Annan Eight Banners
On the Huaihe River, the warships of the Ming army are showing off their might, with towering masts, hard bamboo sails covering the river, and black-holed muzzles on the sides, aiming at the north bank of the Huaijiang River.

Gao Yihuan frowned when he saw the Zheng family's boat in Fujian. The Zheng family is the overlord of the sea, and the Dutch in East Asia had to stand aside. They helped Zhu Cihong. This battle is not easy.

After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Zheng family split up. Zheng Chenggong used the remnants of the Zheng family to resist the Qing Dynasty for decades. The Manchu Qing finally took the old nose to conquer Taiwan.

Now that the Zheng family is a complete body, plus Zhu Cihong, it may still be difficult to destroy it.

Zheng Zhilong is now the grand master of Nanming, and he has been named the Duke of the state. I don't know if he can win him over. If he makes a foolish move, it will be much easier for me to destroy Nanming.

Gao Yihuan thought for a while, then suddenly asked: "Is there any way to deal with them?"

Xu Heihu said, "Currently we can only set up artillery arrays on the north bank to confront them, but it is still not possible to cross the river. The Ming army is very cunning. They let us cross part of it first, and then the warships kill them. Even if we set up artillery arrays to bombard them , They can’t sink their ships for a while, but they only need to overturn our warships and destroy the pontoon bridges, so that the brothers crossing the river will have no reinforcements, and all the troops crossing the river will be wiped out.”

It seems that Xu Heihu has suffered a lot, and he is deeply touched, and this is only the Huaihe River. The Yangtze River in the south is wide, and the problem may be even bigger.

Gao Yihuan pondered for a while. In history, most of the southeast was destroyed from Chu, first Wuchang, then Anqing, and finally Nanjing. There are very few examples of directly entering Jiangnan from Lianghuai.

In history, when the Qing army broke into the south of the Yangtze River, they were proud of the rebellion of Zuozhen and the east. In addition, the four towns surrendered, and there were no soldiers in the defense of the river, so they were lucky enough to cross the river.

Another well-known example is the crossing of the Yangtze River by millions of lions. The premise is that the three major battles were carried out under the condition that the national army was completely lost, and the artillery was so fierce that it could directly hit the north bank to the south bank.

Now that the Ming army is retreating to the south of the Yangtze River with strong troops, it does not match the above two situations, and it is really difficult to deal with.

Right now, if the Wei army wants to unify the world and destroy Nanming, it is nothing more than going downstream from Huguang and crossing the Yangtze River from the Huaihe River.

Judging from the information obtained by Gao Yihuan, Huang Degong's defense of Wuchang can be said to be impenetrable. Wei Jun must pay a heavy price if he wants to build a stronghold. Now it seems that it is quite difficult to attack Nanjing from the two Huaihe Rivers. It is even higher than the top of the mountain.

Gao Yihuan frowned and thought for a moment. It was not easy for Wei Jun to enter Jiangnan from Lianghuai, but he did not give up, so he turned around and said, "Go, go and have a look elsewhere."

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Southeast Peninsula, Thang Long City.

The Western Army has occupied this place for several years, and Sun Kewang managed it carefully, and gradually took the entire Annan area firmly in his hands.

In December, Goose Feather University rains down in the north, and cold winds blow in the south of the Yangtze River, but in Shenglong City, it is like warm spring.

In recent years, the Central Plains has undergone tremendous changes, many major events have taken place, and wars continue, but the southeast peninsula is quite peaceful, and the economy and people's livelihood have developed rapidly, and it has become Tiannan Zhonghua.

After the initial crazy expansion, Sun Kewang gradually felt that the follow-up was weak, and he turned to stabilize his foundation, clear the land, increase the salaries of officials, open courses to obtain scholars, and large-scale migration of Han people into Annan to consolidate the occupation of Annan.

At this time, on the Indochina Peninsula, there were only two forces that could compete with Sun Kewang. One was the Toungoo country in the west, that is, Burma, and the other was the Dutch on the island in the south.

In fact, with Sun Kewang's strength, he can still conquer more land, but the reason of population, coupled with these two major forces, blocked his way to develop westward and southward, thus limiting his development.

Taungoo and the Dutch are external factors, while population is an internal factor.

The population here does not refer to the population of the Western Kingdom, but the Han people of the Western Kingdom.

Because there are too few Han people, Sun Kewang has already felt that it is difficult to control the existing area, so Sun Kewang can only choose to stop fighting. As long as the surrounding tribes and countries submit to him in name and regard him as the suzerain, he will No more offense.

At this time, Sun Kewang controlled a population of more than 500 million, of which more than [-] million were Han people, and the rest were the minority people in the southwest and the populations of the countries in the southeast.

The territory directly controlled by the Western Army is Yunnan, nobles, most of Guangxi, and Annan. The subordinates include Nanzhang, Zhengzhu, Champa, and Chenla. It can be said to be a big empire.

However, the large territory and too few Han people in the population structure also made the Xiguo regime unstable.

At this time, the new year is approaching, although it is located in the south of the sky, the taste of the new year is still strong. This is mainly because of Sun Kewang's decree that all places need to celebrate the new year with the Han people.

Just like when the Manchu Qing ruled the Central Plains, treated the Han people with insecurity, and forced the Han people to respect the customs, after Sun Kewang occupied Annan, although he continued to move to Annan, he gave the land for free and attracted many Han people. But there is still some uneasiness in my heart.

Therefore, Sun Kewang promulgated a decree that all states and counties must use the Daxi Kingdom's calendar to count years, official documents must use Chinese characters, and all vassal states must also celebrate various festivals of Han people, using subtle means to assimilate them.

In the early morning, when the sky was getting bright, there were bursts of clear and clear sounds of beating watches, which echoed in the alleys of Thang Long City. You Yao, it’s cold in the morning, you need to prepare a robe..."

The sound broke the tranquility of the city, and all the neighbors in Shenglong City suddenly came to life, and many vendors began to come out to sell, and the city gradually became noisy, and the voices gradually boomed.

Looking at this situation, the people in the city seem to feel that they are in some city in the Central Plains, but he is actually the Shenglong City in Annan.

Early in the morning, Sun Kewang changed into his normal clothes and walked to the street with Prime Minister Xu Yixian. On both sides were all kinds of breakfast stalls, small shops on the street and shoppers, surrounded by people buying new year's goods.

Xu Yixian said: "Your Majesty, I think that Annan people have the same language as us. Most of the nobles can speak and write Chinese characters, and the customs are not beneficial to the Central Plains. We should accept them and tie them together with benefits, so that we will immediately have an extra six hundred. With Yu Wan's helper, it will not be a problem to completely control Nanzhang, Chenla and other places."

Sun Kewang and Xu Yixian entered a restaurant, sat down at the table, listened to the noisy conversation, and asked, "What do you mean, sir?"

Xu Yixian said: "Refer to the Eight Banners system of the Manchus, absorb a group of Annan people, and use their power to rule Nanzhang, Chenla, and fight against Toungoo. In this way, the Annan people are from being ruled to assisting in ruling If they gain benefits, they can reduce the resistance of the Annan people. Secondly, when recruiting the Annan Eight Banners, we can set some conditions, such as being able to speak simple Chinese, so that the Annan people can learn it spontaneously, so as to quickly digest them.”

Sun Kewang pondered slightly, Annan used Chinese characters, but only spoke local language, if they were allowed to use Hanzi, they also spoke Chinese, and at the same time emphasized that they used to be a county in the Central Plains, and they would be stable in a short time.

"That's a good suggestion!" Sun Kewang said in a deep voice, "This matter will be handled by Mister!"

At this time, the two were talking, but a guard came in and whispered to Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang's face darkened, and he stood up, "The envoy from Nanming has arrived. Mr. and Gu will go back to the palace together. Then you will meet the envoy first, see what he is doing, and then report to Gu."

When the group returned to the palace, Sun Kewang returned to the study, while Xu Yixian went to meet the envoy.

Not long after, Xu Yixian came to Sun Kewang's study, and Sun Kewang couldn't help frowning: "Why so fast?"

Xu Yixian said: "Your Majesty, the Nanming envoy brought two things. One is that Gao Yihuan proclaimed himself emperor, his country was named Great Wei, and his reign was named Wuding. Nanming hoped that we could go to the secret agreement. The second thing is that Nanming wanted to borrow food from us. !"

Sun Kewang stood up at once, "Gao Yihuan is finally proclaimed emperor!"

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