Over the years, Daming has mainly focused on talks, and has calmly talked with several small countries in Southeast Asia, so that they can take the initiative to donate their land and return to obedience.

After talking for seven or eight years, there are still results, under the offensive of the former Honglu Siqing Mao Xiang and other dry guns, the Zhancheng State promised to belong to the Ming Dynasty, or unconditionally attached.

Champa is located in the south of Annam, that is, the southernmost section of Vietnam, which originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was originally located in Xianglin County, Ninan County, in the Han Dynasty.

In 137 AD, the son of Gong Cao of Xianglin County, a petty official named Ou Kui, the second generation, killed the county order, proclaimed himself king, and established the state of Zhancheng.

For thousands of years thereafter, Champa was the target of expansion by the rulers of the Vietnamese region, often beaten.

During the Ming Dynasty alone, King Annam conquered the capital of Zhancheng twice and captured the king and his ministers.

Now the Zheng lord of Annan and the Nguyen lord are fighting, and the Nguyen lord is constantly compressing the living space of the city in order to survive.

Such an unlucky small country, not to mention that outsiders can't stand it, and their own people can't stand it.

In the tenth year of Tianwu, when the Ming Dynasty opened a series of preferential conditions and bluntly said that it would not increase the size thereafter, the king of Zhancheng seized the opportunity without saying a word, knocked on the hammer and made a deal, and the two sides were scheduled to be in the twelfth year of Tianwu, and Zhancheng was officially withdrawn from the country and returned to the Ming Dynasty.

With Champa taking the lead, the diplomatic work of the Ming Dynasty became more and more smooth.

In the tenth year of Tianwu, King Chenla (Cambodia) sent an ambassador to pay tribute and sent 32 precious white elephants.

These white elephants are specially trained to bow down and dance, and perform in the palace every day.

In the eleventh year of Tianwu, Prince Zhenla led nine ministers to visit the Ming Dynasty and presented elephants to the Ming Dynasty again, and at the same time hinted to Zhu Cihong that Zhenla intended to follow the example of Zhancheng.

However, the requirements of the Zhenla Kingdom are relatively high, and they want to maintain the throne and a certain fief, so they want to test the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cihong attached great importance to Zhenla's visit, received him as a state guest, and gave the name of the Han prince of Zhenla as a commemoration, and at the same time expressed the attitude of "ordinary hereditary county kings".

Ordinary hereditary, that is, each generation descends to the knighthood, which makes the Zhenla Kingdom a little hesitant.

Both Champa and Chenla were small and weak states, and they had no choice but to abandon their national glory to protect themselves in the face of the threat of expansion from Annam and Siam (Thailand).

The vassal states of the Indochina Peninsula did not live in peace, they fought a war at every turn, and the kind that went to the capital of the other country, the royal family was in high danger.

Xiang Burma and Siam, both in their heyday at this time, showed no interest in the Ming Dynasty's recruitment policy, and repeatedly prevaricated.

Therefore, the officials of the Ming court, headed by Yang Shicong, opposed the grinding and chirping peace talks, and advocated directly sending troops to do it, at least resuming the three propaganda and six consolations.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has no foreign enemies in East Asia, Yang Shicong reiterated the re-establishment of the Three Propaganda and Six Consolations, not only to cater to Emperor Zhu, but also to find a way for the expansion of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, the territory of the Ming Dynasty included a lot of the land of Myanmar and Siam, and once the restoration of the three Xuan Liufu was obstructed by these two countries, the Ming Dynasty could become famous.

Zhu Cihong stopped the ministers who had beaten the chicken blood, and said: "The resumption of the three propaganda and six consolations is feasible, and the Honglu Temple will inform Myanmar and Siam that I will restore the golden red card system!" ”

In the early and middle period of the Ming Dynasty, in the outer border administrative region of Yunnan, the frontier management system of letters and red cards was implemented, which played a very important and positive role in border management, protecting the country and defending the border, mediating and dealing with internal contradictions.

However, during the Jiajing period, due to the invasion of the Burmese Propaganda Division by the two Xuanwei Divisions, the Ming court mishandled Burma, prompting Burma to break away from the Ming Dynasty, Mangrui Ti became the king, established his own regime, expanded his power, and began to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty, and the golden red card system was destroyed.

In the Wanli period, the Ming court awarded the golden red card, the survey and the letter to the outer border administrative region of Yunnan for the last time, and then there was no regulation, which is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty giving up the golden red card frontier management system.

Since then, the Ming Sanxuan and Six Comfort Tusi have been attached to the increasingly powerful Taungoo Dynasty of Burma. (The most powerful dynasty in Burmese history)

Zhu Cihong continued: "The rice should be eaten bite by bite, we have time, let's solve the Annan problem first." ”

He looked at Lu Yiqian, the new commander of the Jinyi Guard, and motioned to the Intelligence Department to introduce the situation in Annan.

Since taking over from Li Tingbiao in charge of Jinyi Guard a year ago, Lu Yiqian is still speaking in the court for the first time, and he is a little nervous.

He bowed to Zhu Cihong and said to the ministers: "At present, Annan is basically in the northern and southern dynasties, the north is the Zheng family who coerces the king of Annan to order the princes, and the south is controlled by the Ruan family......"

The situation in Annan is a little complicated, and Lu Yizai spoke in great detail and vividly.

As early as during the confrontation between the north and south of Li and Mo, Ruan Huang, the son of Ruan Gan, the minister of the Li Dynasty, invited himself out of Hue because he saw that Zheng Zhu was suspicious of him, which was similar to the plot of Cao Cao's cooking wine and talking about heroes.

The next plot is the same as the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei assisted Cao Cao to defeat Lu Bu, but was still jealous of Cao Cao.

Annan is here that Ruan Huang assisted Zheng Zhu in sweeping away the Mo clan's forces, but he was still jealous of Zheng Song.

The Nguyen clan operated in Hue in the south for a hundred years, vigorously won the hearts and minds of the people, and eventually developed into the "Nguyen Lord" regime, forming a situation of confrontation between the north and the south with the "Truong Truong" regime in the north.

Since the Chongzhen period, the two factions of Zheng Ruan have fought four times in the past few decades, of which the fourth battle that occurred in the fifth year of Tianwu was instigated by the Governor's Office of the Southern Army of the Ming Dynasty, and let them eat dogs.

Zhu Cihong has been suppressing Annam for some years, and he not only wants to engage the royal family Le clan and the powerful minister Zheng clan, but also to test and weaken the Nguyen regime in the south.

After discussion, the court council decided on the final policy - to instigate the Nguyen lord to attack the Zheng lord, and then the Ming army was over, and the imperial court sent officials to Annam to take over the registered land......

If Lord Ruan is disobedient, then the Ming Dynasty will take advantage of the opportunity to take over the city of Zhancheng this year, and send troops from the city of Zhan, first destroy Lord Ruan, and then attack Lord Zheng from the north and south......

All in all, the Ming Dynasty needs to take Annam, deter the restless vassal states with an overwhelming victory, and by the way, let Burma and Siam see what will happen to the chickens!

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At the end of the first month, Li Weixi, the prince of Annam, was escorted to Nanjing by the Governor's Office of the Southern Army.

Facing this bustling international metropolis, Li Weixi's mouth did not close for three days.

Hearing that the Ming Emperor ordered the Zheng lord to return the government to the king of Annan, and to come to Nanjing to confess his guilt to the Ming Dynasty, Li Weixi almost climaxed, and waited for the Zheng lord to come to Nanjing with great anticipation, he wanted to see with his own eyes how frightened this traitor was!

On the Flower Dynasty Festival in mid-February, Li Weixi played all over Nanjing City, and also got married to a Ming woman, they had a lot of fun, and some of them couldn't miss it.

However, the Qingming Festival has arrived, and the traitor Zheng Zhu has not come to Nanjing to ask for guilt, and there is no movement on the side of Daming.

Li Weixi, who is traveling at public expense in Daming, is in a hurry, if he can't solve the Zheng traitor, then his family can only wait for the food to be served, or the seven-course dish of Daming Guangdong customs!

In mid-March, the sullen Prince Annam finally got a piece of great news!

The traitor Zheng refused to come to the Ming Dynasty to confess his guilt, and the Ming army sent troops to Annam!