On the tenth day of October, Li Laosi walked in the city of Hue and walked to the courtyard where Sanada Nobuyuki was stationed in the city.

Hue City is not large, with a population of 30,000, which is only one-tenth the size of Fanjiazhuang. Most of the city's buildings were the huts of the townspeople, which were crowded outside the city walls and looked like beggars' houses.

In the middle of the city is a three-mile-long city wall, which houses the royal palace of the Nguyen family and the residence of the ministers. The houses of these nobles and officials are all brick structures, which are basically built in imitation of the houses of the southern Ming Dynasty.

The roads in the slum towns outside the city walls are narrow, and the narrow roads are crowded with vendors selling goods and food. After the Hu Ben army conquered Hue, they did not commit any offense to the citizens, and they also purchased a large number of materials from the people, so these hawkers were not afraid of Li Laosi and the "Ming army", and still ran their business on the road.

Basically, there is only a passage more than one meter wide between the hawkers and the hawkers for pedestrians to pass, and people are queuing up, making it very difficult to walk.

Li Laosi did not ride a horse, but walked on this narrow road, secretly shaking his head at the appearance of the city of Vietnam. The disorder and chaos of this barbarian race is really difficult to change.

He walked briskly into the walls. Once inside the city gates, the vendors of small merchants disappeared and the city looked much cleaner.

Today, the whole of Vietnam has been occupied by Li Laosi.

After the Battle of Bac Giang City, the Tiger Ben army was overwhelmed and successfully captured Thang Long, the "Tokyo" of northern Vietnam, and Thanh Hoa, the "Western Capital". Then the army swung south, stormed all the way along the coastline, and it took only a month to reach Hue, the nest of the Nguyen family in southern Vietnam.

The main force of Vietnam had been completely annihilated in Bac Giang, and Li Laosi encountered little resistance when attacking the city along the way. Often, after a few rounds of artillery bombardment, the defenders of the city would open the door and surrender.

In Hue City, the 5,000 Nguyen family defenders tried to resist stubbornly for a while, but Li Laosi brought the captive Nguyen Phuc to the city gate, and the soldiers defending the city immediately surrendered.

Now all the important cities in Vietnam from the south to the north have been captured by Li Laosi, who can announce the annexation of Vietnam by the Ming Dynasty at any time.

However, the hasty declaration of annexation will lead to a resurgence of civil resistance in Vietnam. According to Li Zhi's plan, it was to officially announce the annexation of these Southeast Asian countries after the Tiger Ben army had captured the entire Indochina Peninsula. At that time, all the regular armies in Indochina were annihilated, and Li Laosi could concentrate on dealing with the rebels.

Li Laosi walked on the streets of Hue and listened to a Chinese-Vietnamese introduction.

There are a lot of ethnic Chinese in Vietnam. The level of productivity in Indochina is low, and once the Han Chinese, who have mastered advanced technology, manage to establish themselves in Vietnam, they will soon become wealthy families. The Chinese are the fundamental reason why the country is stronger than other Southeast Asian countries and continues to expand.

In fact, the Trung family, who previously controlled northern Vietnam, and the Nguyen family, who controlled the south, were all descendants of Chinese descent. However, these people have been intermarried with the local Yue people for a long time, and their Han blood is very thin.

Li Laosi asked casually, "Elder Huang Zongjin, how many people are there in this Vietnam?" ”

The Chinese old man known as Huang Zongjin replied in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty: "If you go back to your uncle, the two dynasties of the north and south of the Yue Kingdom together have a population of 3 million. There are more than 2 million people in the north and more than 800,000 in the south. ”

It turns out that the population of Vietnam is so small, it is about the same as the population of Tianjin Town. The land area of this country is about the size of Shandong, but the population is only one-third of Shandong.

The potential that can be exploited is great.

Huang Zongjin continued: "Uncle, this Yue people are very hard. The men of the Yue Kingdom looked very thin and short, but if they were thrown into the mountains and dense forests, they caught poisonous snakes, dug birds' nests, drank miasma and slept in tree sheds, and they could also survive. The Han Chinese wanted to conquer the Yue Kingdom in successive dynasties, but it was often easy to occupy, but it was very difficult to rule. Without tens of thousands of permanent troops, it is impossible to control the countryside and mountains of the country. ”

Li Laosi pointed to the guards behind him and asked, "Elder Huang, do you see that I, the iron army, can control Annan?" ”

Huang Zongjin said: "Uncle's iron army talks about battlefield fighting, it is invincible in the world. But if you go into the mountains to capture the rebels like thieves and fight with swords in the rainforest, you will probably suffer a lot of casualties. At that time, the pension is a large expense. ”

Li Laosi took a breath and did not speak.

Along the way, Li Laosi walked into a courtyard where Sanada Nobuyuki was stationed.

After the First World War of Kitae, the elderly Sanada Nobuyuki fell ill. This old man is over eighty years old, and his body is weakened and there is no cure at all. Li Laosi could only have people carry him on a stretcher, and carried him all the way from Bac Giang to Hue.

Walking into the bedroom, Li Laosi saw the sick Nobuyuki Sanada.

Walking to the bedside, Li Laosi asked, "General Sanada, how are you feeling?" ”

Sanada Nobuyuki opened his eyes and saw that it was Li Laosi who came, so he hurriedly got up and saluted. Li Laosi stopped him and said, "General Sanada, you seem to be recuperating for a long time, and the samurai army has no leader, which is a problem. ”

Sanada Nobuyuki said: "Uncle, the old and decayed body is not enough to worry about. Even if he died of old age, the king could recruit a samurai from Japan to manage the samurai army. For example, the heads of the Shimazu family or the Maori family were good generals who understood the characteristics of samurai warfare. ”

Li Laosi sat down on the chair next to the bed and asked his attendant to write down Sanada Nobuyuki's words. Sanada Nobuyuki's suggestion was constructive - both the Shimazu family and the Mori family in Japan were Li Zhi's client states, and their heads could be recruited at any time.

Sanada Nobuyuki said: "What the old man is worried about is that although the Tiger Army is strong, it will have to withdraw sooner or later. I don't think the 60,000 Yizi battalion and the 50,000 samurai army can control the entire Indochina Peninsula. ”

Li Laosi pondered Sanada Nobuyuki's words and did not speak.

Sanada Nobuyuki said: "Uncle might as well recruit ronin samurai from Japan again." Recruit 100,000 warriors and make them administrators of Indochina, let each of them manage fifty or sixty Malays, and levy land from Indochina. ”

"With 150,000 samurai, plus the strength of 60,000 Yizi battalions, you can firmly control Indochina, even those remote mountainous areas. The samurai were skilled in swordsmanship and could go into the mountains and forests to hunt down the rebellious Vietnamese. The land levies levied by the samurai, except for deducting a certain amount to maintain the family, were all handed over to the king, which was enough to make the Indochina Peninsula as stable as Mount Tai. ”

Li Zhi looked at Sanada Nobuyuki and did not speak.

Sanada Nobuyuki coughed a few times, gasped and said: "Uncle Mingjian, Japanese samurai are good at cultivating new fields, and there are 150,000 samurai in the south, which is enough to teach Japan's water conservancy and terraced fields to the Indochina Peninsula, and continue to increase the king's field endowment." ”

Li Laosi smiled and said, "You always have the fate of the samurai in mind, and you always have to find a way out for the samurai who have lost their livelihoods." ”

Sanada Nobuyuki said in fear: "Your Majesty doesn't dare, Your Majesty just thinks that the Japanese and the Ming people look alike, the text is the same, and the Japanese can do something that the Ming people are unwilling to do and disdain, and contribute their own modest efforts to the king's hegemony." ”

Li Laosi was silent for a long time, and said: "Dancing with swords and swords to suppress the Southern Barbarians in the humid and hot Indochina Peninsula is indeed not something that the people of the Ming Dynasty like to do. Since you made this suggestion, I will report it to the prince and see what the prince thinks. ”

When Sanada Nobuyuki heard this, his eyes lit up with surprise. A few traces of blood appeared on his pale face, and he happily got up from the bed and kowtowed to Li Laosi.

"His Royal Highness Uncle is willing to find something to do for the impoverished samurai, and the samurai of all Japan will be grateful to him!"

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