Chapter 93: The Beginnings of Unequal Treaties
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"Then tell me, how do you think you should fight?" His classmates were on the sidelines.
"If I were the commander of the former enemy, the role of General Wang Bao and General Zhang Xiaohu, I would make full use of the terrain of Ayutthaya. The city was built on an island where three rivers converged, so that our sailors could swim upstream, anchor at the widest part of the river, and block the river with artillery fire to prevent foreign aid from entering the city. ”
"At the same time, the sailors and the soldiers and horses on land converged, supported each other with artillery fire, and built pontoon bridges at the narrowest part of the river, in the hope of establishing a foothold under the big city, and even if they couldn't, they could use pontoon bridges to block the enemy's escape route."
"And when the city was at its peak, it was also known as having millions of residents, I blocked the passage to the outside world, there was no food growing in the city, there was no meat, fish and shrimp in the courtyard, there would be no oil, salt, sauce and vinegar on the street, and if you wanted to burn firewood, you could only demolish the house, and a long siege was also a way." ……
All of a sudden, all kinds of ideas emerged one after another, and Chen Lun was a little swollen when he heard it, and he had to admit that these students of the Political Affairs Academy were not like ordinary paper talkers, and even took into account the climate, logistics, morale and so on. After some analysis by these people, it seems that the fall of Ayutthaya is just around the corner.
"Click!" There was a deep voice in the distance, the sound from far and near, not loud, but full of power and momentum.
"It's coming! Here it comes! There was a commotion downstairs.
It was the 10,000 recruits who came.
These 10,000 people are the immigrants who entered Ha Tinh three months ago to receive training as Zhuangding and the original population who have reached the age of becoming Ding, among which there are less than 20% of the local teenagers.
The team is divided into battalions, each battalion is 1,000 people, and each battalion is divided into ten phalanxes. In action, more than 100 phalanxes stretched for several miles.
In front of each phalanx, the flag bearers held high the flag of the battalion to which the unit belonged, followed by dozens of extremely fierce pikemen who served as escorts. Behind the guards, there were dozens of flags and trumpeters, drummers, and the like, holding drums and trumpets.
After that, each small phalanx is a hundred people, ten people are a row, and ten rows are a phalanx. They were armed with spears, muskets on their shoulders, and four-foot knives at their waists, and huge shields made of thick wood and covered with iron in their hands. Chen Lun took a cursory look, and the ratio of musketeers to pikemen and sword and shield soldiers was about forty percent, three percent, and thirty percent.
What is rare is that with the sound of the trumpet, it seems that all the soldiers are taking one foot at the same time, followed by the other foot at the same time, and in addition to the hand holding the shield, the spear, and the gun, the swing of the other hand is actually a frequency, an amplitude. The sound of his arms rubbing against his clothes and armor, and the sound of footsteps, made Chen Lun tremble a little.
"This is the Shura Demon!"
A practitioner who believes in Buddhism said this sentence with trembling lips, and never said anything again.
His words made Chen Lun deeply think, if it wasn't for the demon law, then, what means did the Nanzhong army use to train such elite? And listening to others, it's only a short period of three months? It must be a demon law!
"It's beyond human power!" He looked up to the sky and sighed, "King! Destiny! Doom! ”
After the procession was over, the entire market resumed its usual hustle and bustle, and Chen Lun didn't say a word.
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!" From the time people drank a pot full of casserole porridge full of pork ribs, hens, scallops, and crabs, there was no movement from Chen Lun. "Shall we go back to the pavilion too?"
"Nope! Tell those palanquins! Carry me to the courtroom! I'm going to make peace with Ann! ”
In the eyes of the general's subordinates, the three-entry courtyard of the East Cross Courtyard, the household room, the military room, the workshop, the battalion office, and the political hall responsible for training the security chief, are like a well-conceived and powerful war machine.
The barracks is responsible for mobilizing military horses, the household department is allocating money and food supplies, and the workshop is building weapons and gunpowder. Then the political hall sent batches of systematically trained security chiefs to various places to preside over the work, and it didn't take long for the area opened up by heart to lay the mark of the general's mansion.
Orders were issued from here, and batches of money, food, and weapons were transferred to various places according to the instructions here, and they became the food in the stomachs of the sons and daughters who fought in the former enemy, the armor on their bodies, and the weapons in their hands, in exchange for a vast area and countless fertile fields.
Now that another great victory has been achieved, it can be seen that a large area of Siam will also belong to the banner of the General's Palace.
Huang Yishan and Yanlong, who were in charge of reporting the victory, did not show off their might on the street at the moment. The two men put the eight-petal hat and iron-tipped helmet on the ground, their heads pressed low, and knelt down in front of the guard.
"Get up! You are the heroes, and you are the ones who escorted the captured military horses, and you have worked hard all the way. ”
Shouhan Wenyan comforted the brave men of these two Phoenix Battalions.
"You are all good, two hundred horsemen dare to attack the Siamese army's tens of thousands of people. The first voice was seized, and the foundation was laid for the victory of the army. Shouhan began to count the exploits of Huang Yishan and Yanlong, "A total of more than 200 heads have been beheaded before and after, and the two of you are really the tigers in my Nanzhong Army." ”
The two of them listened to the lord say his proud work like a few family treasures, and couldn't help grinning with a big mouth, he was just an officer-level figure who commanded a team of people, although he said that he was leading the guards of the Phoenix Battalion, but after all, the official was lowly. The person in front of him, but the supreme commander of tens of thousands of troops and horses of the Nanzhong Army and millions of people, can hear the words of praise from his mouth, which is more exciting than any reward.
"I also have arrangements for the horses that you two escorted this time, Wang Bao praised the two of you in the military newspaper, saying that you have the quality of a horseman, so that your horse team in my south will also start to be formed, are you interested in going to Xialiao, raising horses while training the horse team?"
"The lord is promoted, and his subordinates are naturally very willing, but General Wang Bao is currently in front of the enemy, and he is seriously ill, I will leave at this time,......" Yanlong was not as complicated as Huang Yishan, and when he heard Huang Yishan say his inner worries, he hurriedly nodded in agreement.
"It doesn't matter! You are transferred, I will draw a sentry from the guard battalion to supplement the Phoenix battalion, and then make the next note, so that the guards of the Phoenix battalion will be expanded into the Phoenix Battalion Guards Battalion. In this way, your old troops, not only will their strength not be damaged, but on the contrary, they will be somewhat strengthened. What do you two think? ”
Two meritorious soldiers were promoted, and they began to get to the point.
Yan Long took out a key from his underwear with great difficulty, while Huang Yishan took off his armor and took off a wooden box from his chest, so that Yan Long and Chen Tianhua, the meeting office of the camp office, checked the fire paint on the wooden box before opening the wooden box and taking out Wang Bao's military report inside.
After reading a few pages, Shouhan waved his hand and ordered Huang Yishan and Yanlong to go outside to eat and rest first, and the rest of the people stayed to discuss. The two of them naturally knew that the lord wanted to discuss the military plan with the bigwigs, and these things were not something that people of my level could participate in.
"Wang Bao is sick! Epidemic disease in the army! The capture of Nakhon Ratchasima City was also the work of the Phoenix Battalion. Of the 10 stops in the new attached battalions, he fell ill in three stops. The captive surrender was almost half gone. This attack on Nakhon Ratchasima was almost entirely the strength of the Phoenix Battalion. ”
Shouhan's extremely simple words made the expressions on the faces of several important ministers immediately change from joy to grimness.
"Isn't that the offensive on the northern front bound to stop?" Chen Tianhua put forward his own views from the perspective of using troops.
"Yes, Wang Bao also said the same, he used his experience when hunting and gathering in the mountains and forests to say, combat is like hunting, such as gathering, first seek undefeated, seek stability, and then seek complete victory, if you can't win all, you must think of getting the largest and most prey."
This point is consistent with Shouhan's idea, if you can't catch a group of prey, then you must get as much harvest as possible. In other words, it is the maximization of benefits.
"My lord, the Siamese envoys have been pestering Lord An in the past few days, and the terms that have been made clear are as follows."
Siam handed over the seals of the royal family and officials at all levels, and went to the camp to receive them again. Siam is willing to send royal beauties or the daughters of officials and nobles to Nanzhong to make peace. He was willing to send shipbuilding timber every year, agreed to set up a card at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River to collect taxes, and agreed to exempt all kinds of goods from Nanzhong when entering Siam.
"At the moment, the entanglement lies in the northern region occupied by Wang Bao, whose position is too important and must be returned to Siam. The amount of the indemnity was too great for the King of Siam to come up with such a large amount of gold and silver. The lower reaches of the Chao Phraya River belong to me, and Siam also has some concerns, worrying that this place is too close to the big city, and that the side of the couch will not allow others to sleep soundly. Thirdly. ”
"First, the amount of compensation cannot be reduced. However, it can be paid in installments, or mortgaged by Siam's forests, minerals, and land. He, the king of Siam, can mortgage the land in the north to the Han Yuan firm! Let the Han Yuan firm pay him for his military salary. The two negotiate the terms and conditions, and how many years of mortgage will be in place. Second, I want him to go down the Chao Phraya River, and I don't want it in vain, I give the Preah Vihear Temple on the border of Chenla to Siam. so that they can spread the Dharma. ”
Shouhan's understatement made the people present stunned and dumbfounded.
Can you still do this?
Lord, can you be more undisciplined?
Take someone else's things in exchange for someone else's land?
Using other people's land as pawns to borrow money from their own business as compensation for military expenses?
"Third, they must admit that the land of the Malay Peninsula, all the way to Manraka, is the land of the consolation envoy of the old port of our Ming Dynasty, and it is a sacred and inseparable part of the territory of our Ming Dynasty since ancient times."
"During the period of mortgage in the northern region, their troops can be stationed in the north, but the escort of our Han Yuan firm also has the right to supervise and manage this area."
"I, a resident of Nanzhong, have the right to conduct business, trade, mining, logging and other business activities in various parts of Siam, and in the process, enjoy the treatment of Siamese nobility. All business income is not taxable in Siam. ”
"In order to reflect the magnanimity of our great power in the Celestial Empire, we will sell all kinds of items in our Nanzhong to Siam, including armor, swords, guns, and gunpowder, at a price less than 10% of the market price. Help them defend their territory from the Burmese. ”
"In addition to using the northern region as collateral, in order to ensure that our interests are not lost, we demand that Siam's foreign trade, fiscal system, and tax system be regulated."
"In order to show the grace of our heavenly kingdom to Siam, we will protect the dominance of the Siamese royal family, and we will not tolerate internal traitors, powerful ministers, and external enemies who try to change the rule of the Siamese royal family. We are going to send troops to restore the orthodox order of Siam! ”……
Shouhan said wherever he wanted, recalled the essence of the various unequal treaties in his mind as much as possible, and heard bursts of fanatical sparks in the eyes of everyone present. It seems that the lord is not only deeply familiar with the way of the Mo family, but also has three flavors for the thick black techniques of the Legalist and the Zongheng family!
However, when An Tianhong sorted out Shouhan's intentions and requirements, and said them in the words of Lu Si Liliu, Chen Lun's face was red and white, sometimes excited, sometimes depressed.
"Secure our rule over Siam and help us defend ourselves against invasion from the north? This is good! ”
"The amount of compensation cannot be reduced, but it can be paid in installments, interest can be calculated, this? You can explain the situation to the king. Let the king decide. ”
"Sell all kinds of goods in Siam to me at low prices, but you can't collect taxes? It's something you can't ask for! ”
Whether this is bitter medicine or arsenic wrapped in honey, Chen Lun didn't dare to think about it, he could only continue to talk with An Tianhong about some technical details according to his own authority, such as whether to select the daughter of the clan or the daughter of the prince and minister, or to select beautiful women among the people and send them to Ha Jing Mansion.
On the other hand, on a fast boat carrying medicines to the front, Chen Lun sent a messenger to Ayutthaya to show the king of Songtan a place here. He also wrote a detailed recital, analyzed the pros and cons of the various conditions put forward by the South Central Army one by one, and put forward his own views.
"Charempong is incompetent! Lose power and humiliate the country! ”
In any regime, there are such contradictions and differences, there is the so-called main war faction, the main peace faction, and the neutral faction, and Siam is no exception.
"You are a foreigner, and you are bent on selling out your lord for glory!"
"Are we in touch with foreign countries, betraying the country for glory? I want to say that you are talking about bringing disaster to the country and misleading the country and the people! ”
"The people from the north and south, the officials, and the defeated soldiers poured into the big city, and I wondered, how can these people spread their wings and fly like birds hit by a thunderstorm?"
"The destruction of the homeland of this generation is the time when the people are bent on fighting and revenge, the people's hearts are available, the thieves in the south are exhausted from the thousand-mile expedition, and they are meticulously reported, the epidemic in the army is epidemic, it is the time for our army to counterattack!"
Endless quarrels began in the court. In the end, it was not the authority of King Songtan that finally ended such a quarrel, but a piece of news.
"Report!"
"There is an emergency military situation!"
"Speak! What kind of emergency military situation?! ”
"Forty miles north of Dacheng, there are southern Chinese army rangers who appear on horseback, which seems to be suspected of spying on our army's defense."
"On Dacheng South Road, there are gunboats from the Nanzhong Army! Now he is grabbing the people in Sixiang, preparing to pull the fiber and drag it across the shallows to reach the city of Dacheng! In addition, there seems to be a large fleet behind the gunboats, covering the sky and the sun, and there are countless military horses and guns on board! ”
Suddenly, as if pouring a basin of cold water under the hot oil pot stove, suddenly, the court was a peaceful and peaceful scene, and the people who were fighting one by one stood in a posture that even the commanders of the Southern Central Army could not find fault. And the people of the Lord and the people were a little arrogant, "Look! I advocate that you can't fight, you can't beat it! There is no future! ”
However, the centrists, who had not spoken until now, began to move.
"The Chao Phraya River has never been sailed into the Ming River, even those lucky ships that come and go for trade, it seems that they are far inferior to the big ships of the South China Army, how did they enter this water?"
"My lord, according to the soldiers of the fort, it seems that there are English ships to carry water for them in front of the fleet! The army that landed on the shore was under the banner of the Guards Battalion of the South Central Army."
As soon as these words came out, all the people present stopped talking, and the English, Dutch, and Portuguese were all trading in Siam and Ayutthaya for a long time. This generation of Hongmaoyi people is good at operating boats, and they are more familiar with the waters around the Chao Phraya River and Ayutthaya than the Siamese locals.
The Guards Battalion is said to be the elite of the Nanzhong Army, and when it crossed the Lingjiang River that day, it was moving forward under the artillery fire of the Ruan Family's army, and its combat power was the most ferocious. These guys, who came all the way from Annam by sea, can't they say that I am Siam, and come down to the city of Ayutthaya to enjoy the mountains and rivers?!
The attitude of the main battle faction and the main peace faction was immediately like the two ends of a seesaw, one extremely high, the other extremely low.
"King! The army of the Celestial Empire was already in the city, and said that to protect the Siamese royal family, it was just to ask for some military salaries, rewards and other property, and the land in the north, desolate and barbaric, could just be mortgaged to the Han people's business in exchange for money, which was temporarily supported to alleviate the shortage of the treasury. As for the aftermath of the repayment, we just need to add some taxes to the untouchables. What's more, the army of the Celestial Empire also said that they are willing to trade with us, sell us weapons, knives, guns and gunpowder, and help us defend against the Burmese in the north. Your Majesty is foolish, or quickly send someone out of the city to contact the army of the Celestial Empire, inform the other party, we are willing to accept all the terms, and now we are counting the treasury, choosing beautiful women, please don't misunderstand, don't attack the city. "The Lord and the faction persuaded King Songtan to accept the terms of peace from all angles.
"King! His subordinates, like Chalunpong, are all Chinese, and they all have family members engaged in business, so we might as well analyze the pros and cons from the perspective of businessmen. "However, the original neutral faction is still analyzing the situation for King Songtan in this complicated situation and the soldiers are approaching the city.
"The minister carefully studied the terms of the peace sent by Charempong, which were nothing more than three major parts, power, money, and commerce. Power, the so-called Chinese enjoy the same power as our aristocracy, this is a false appearance, most of the Chinese in Siam are doing well, business, officials abound, there is no such clause, and they are almost much stronger than those untouchables. As for the land in the north and south, the Nakhon Ratchasima in the north is still my Siam, but it is only temporarily mortgaged, and the land in the south is all swampy tidal flats, and after a flood, it will become a Ze country, and the Ming people are willing to ask for it, so they will give it to them, but they have to convert the indemnity, which is considered to be what we sold to the Ming people. ”
(Note: During this period, Siam also had a strict hierarchy.) )
"As for money, if the army attacks the city and the city is broken, all the children and jade silks will naturally belong to the Nanzhong army. However, the terms of the peace agreement first said that we would protect our royal family for 10,000 years. Even if you want some compensation, it is worth the land. ”
"The most important thing is trade. In the family of the ministers, there are quite a few children who have business dealings with Nanzhong, and their land is prosperous in industry and commerce, there are salt, sugar, cloth, porcelain, wine, meat, oil, etc., and there are nine turns of steel production, each of which is a big profit, if according to the terms of the agreement, according to the market price of one percent lower than the sale with us, it is to sell to the merchants of Taixi countries, and it is also very profitable! ”
Therefore, in Yichen's opinion, what the Nanzhong army wants is nothing more than some fiction, and only some gold and silver are considered physical objects. Everything else is just a matter of etiquette. As for the recognition of those lands as belonging to the Ming Kingdom, then admit that is, as long as I ...... Siam."
"Report! Reported! The South Chinese Army hired people at a high price of one pound of salt for three days, and thousands of people have gone there, and countless artillery and grain and grass vehicles have been unloaded from the ships, winding endlessly, and are heading north! ”
The outpost's military report came to the price, and one by one the news shocked the princes in the court.
"King!" Whether it is the main battle faction or the neutral faction of the main peace faction, they all set their sights on King Songtan, who is sitting on the golden throne.
In the middle of the night, a weak voice floated down from the throne.
"Even if the great Emperor Na Laxuan also succumbed to Burma, let alone us and the Celestial Empire? Master Zheng is right, the army of the Celestial Empire is not here to destroy my Siam, just like a strict father teaching his young son. And with the promise to help me defend Siam against Burma, we can rest easy! ”
"Deliver the decree, seal the letters everywhere, and send them to the camp of the Celestial Empire."
"Deliver the decree, count the treasury of various places, and prepare to reward the army of the Celestial Empire."
"Decree that the daughters of the princesses and princes and ministers shall make a book for selection."
"Deliver the decree, above the city, hang the white flag, and open the city gate."
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