The news from Guangdong was so headless that Zhou Shixiang didn't understand what was going on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 It was Zhou Shixiang's idea to let Xu Yingyuan and Guo Shao return to Guangdong from Annan, and this idea was put forward by Gui Yongzhi, the former Manchu governor of Guangdong, who was a staff member of Li Shutai, and is now the sixth official of the military marshal's office and an official of the ministry.

Gui Yongzhi proposed to let the two groups of teams that went to Yunnan to report the victory return from Annan, mainly because the Taiping army had not yet entered Guangxi at that time, so the team could not return to Guangdong directly from Guangxi. For safety reasons, the best way to return to Guangdong is to take Annam.

At that time, when Gui Yongzhi proposed to take the Annan road, Zhou Shixiang also specially inquired about Annan. He knew that this Annan was the Vietnam of later generations, and that the historical Annan had belonged to China for a long time and had been hostile to China for a long time. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when Chengzu and Xuanzong were in power, they used troops against Annan. In the eyes of Zhou Shixiang, who was a man in two lives, Annan is undoubtedly a capricious villain, and it is most appropriate to call him a white-eyed wolf. Like the Wa Kingdom, which also inherited the culture of the Han people, the small country of Annam is also full of ambitions for China.

There is a famous saying in later generations that the country will be chaotic when it is difficult to return, and this is said about the country. Abroad, if China is in trouble, the Wa Kingdom in the east and Annam in the south are also among those who will disrupt China.

Gui Yongzhi proposed to take Annan back to China because Annan recognized the legitimacy and legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty regime since Hongguang, so he believed that there was no problem for the Baojie team to return to Guangdong through the subject country of Annan, and it was relatively closer.

After Gui Yongzhi searched the relevant archives of the Qing Dynasty and retrieved some archived archives of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he told Zhou Shixiang that in the second year of Longwu, the Later Li Dynasty of Annam sent the envoy Ruan Renzheng and the deputy envoy Fan Yongjin to sail to Fujian with Lin Shen, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, to seek the title of the Longwu regime. At that time, the Qing army captured Fujian, and some of the envoys of Annam were captured and sent to Beijing. After the establishment of the Yongli regime, Annam's envoy Nguyen Nhin Thanh went to Guangxi to meet the newly enthroned Yongli Emperor. Yongli sent Hanlin Pan Qi to send an edict, an edict, and a gold and silver seal to accompany the envoys of Annam, and went to Annam to canonize the Emperor Taishang of the Houli regime as the king of Annam. In May of the first year of Yongli, Pan Qi went to Zhennanguan, and the Later Li Dynasty sent Ruan Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Ruan Shouchun, the servant of the Ministry of Households, to Shenglong, and the Ming envoy issued a ceremony. In the second year of Yongli, Yongli was stationed in Nanning, and Annan went to Nanning to pay tribute. In the fifth year of Yongli, the envoys of Yongli came to the canonization of Li Shiquan and sent Zheng Jie as the vice king of Annam.

All this shows that Annan is willing to be close to the Yongli regime and recognizes his suzerainty status over Annan. However, Gui Yongzhi's judgment was limited to the surface, and it was not completely in line with Annan's current attitude towards the Ming Dynasty, and he misjudged the impact of the Ming and Qing wars on Annan, a Chinese vassal state.

From the beginning of the Mo dynasty in Annam, the Ming Dynasty has always adopted a repressive attitude towards the Annam regime. The Li Dynasty was in the name of restoration, and the Ming Dynasty did not improve its treatment because of this, so that it was guilty of Nanguan, dedicated to the Jin people, and named the king of Li as the commander of Annam. In this regard, although the Later Li Dynasty was very dissatisfied, in order to obtain the recognition of the Ming Dynasty, it could only compromise. After that, Annam was not allowed to ask for the title of king, and constantly challenged the authority of the Ming Dynasty in terms of tribute.

Until the Qing soldiers went south, Yongli issued an edict to officially promote the title of king of Annan in order to obtain the support of Annan and other subject countries, but Annan also understood very well at this moment that the situation of the Ming Dynasty was different from the past. The Yongli regime, which had lost most of the country, could no longer get Annan's respect and fear, and Yongli's overtures could only make Annan think more and more that the Ming Dynasty was weak, and the former disrespectful psychology became more and more intense. After Yongli moved to Kunming, the disrespectful faction of the Ming Dynasty in Annam completely gained the upper hand.

In addition, after Annan's envoy to Fujian in the second year of Longwu to seek the canonization of the Ming Dynasty was captured by the Qing army and sent to Beijing, Annan and the Qing Dynasty actually had some contact. At first, Annan was still afraid of the Ming Dynasty, thinking that the outcome of the war between the Ming and Qing dynasties was difficult to judge, so he sent envoys to the Yongli court many times to pay tribute. However, with the continuous defeat of the Ming Dynasty, Annan never sent troops to pay tribute to the rebellion in the eighth year of Yongli, and did not send troops to help the Ming army resist the Qing army in accordance with the edict of Yongli.

Because it did not help the Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing army, there was no conflict or contradiction between Annam and the Qing Dynasty, and as the Qing army gradually advanced south, Annam began to change its attitude towards the Southern Ming. After the Qing army entered Guangxi and Yunnan, Annam had already set out to establish a suzerain-vassal relationship with the Qing Dynasty. In order to gain the recognition of the Qing Dynasty, some radical pro-Qing factions in Annam were even ready to assist the Qing army in encircling and suppressing the Ming army on the border.

Compared with Annam, North Korea, another subject of the Ming Dynasty, has always served Ming like a monarch. Emperor Taizu designated Korea as a country not to be conquered, and during the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty sent a large army to help Korea resist Japanese aggression, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the two sides cooperated many times to resist the expansion of the Later Jin, and formed a deep friendship in the common battle. Although there are certain contradictions, such as Ding Yingtai's impeachment of North Korea, these contradictions are far less than the Ming Dynasty's resistance to the Japanese army's "reinvention grace" of Korea, so North Korea's friendly attitude towards the Ming Dynasty is very sincere, and it is responsive to the Ming Dynasty.

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Annam fell completely to the Qing Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty, including the Taiping Army, knew nothing. At this time, they were still in the dark, thinking that Annan was a vassal of the Ming Dynasty and was close to the Ming Dynasty, so the Taiping army, which was not a problem at all, got into the bag of the Annan people as if they had thrown themselves into the net.

After a fire was set out in Kunming, Xu Yingyuan, Guo Shao, and Liang Shuangxi went to rob Princess Changle, but on the way they became the Yongli Dynasty official containment team, which contained 126 Yongli Dynasty officials such as Sun Shun, the Ministry of Rites, Cheng Yuan, the Household Servant, Liu Mi, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Qian Bang, the Imperial History of Zuo Yandu, and 74 local officials in Yunnan, including more than 2,000 people.

With such a huge contingent of court officials and their families, it is naturally impossible to protect the two or three hundred Taiping troops under Xu Yingyuan and Guo Shao alone, let alone bring them all the way over the mountains and mountains to the border of Annan. Fortunately, Guangping Bo Chen Jian collected more than 1,000 old troops of the original Shu King in time, which made the strength of the escort team stronger, and the Tusi armed forces that passed through all the way south did not dare to plunder.

When they were in the southeast of Yunnan, the team bumped into several other important ministers of the Yongli court, but they were the university scholar Fugang, the household secretary Gong Yi, the Ministry of Rites Zheng Fengyuan, and the military department to Hu Xian and others. From Fugang's mouth, Xu Yingyuan and Chen Jian knew that the Son of Heaven had been instigated by Ma Jixiang to gallop out of Myanmar and abandon the country.

Under Xu Yingyuan's persuasion, the university scholar Fugang resolutely agreed to go to Guangdong. Because Fugang is the second assistant of the cabinet, known as prestige, so he decided to go to Guangdong, the head of the household Gong Yi and others have no opinion, they are desperate for state affairs, but also desperate for their own future, at present, except for southwest Yunnan, the rest of Yunnan is in the hands of the Qing army, they even want to return to their hometown is difficult. In addition, the eldest princess of Changle was also in the team, so they had no reason to refuse.

Along the way, this team temporarily put together by Xu Yingyuan was also united, whether it was the officials of the Yongli Dynasty or the old department of the King of Shu, they all knew that the only way out for them now was to go to Guangdong, so they were united in their hearts, but they were twisted into a rope. The Qing army was far away, and the target was the Son of Heaven, so they were not worried about pursuing them. The only trouble was the food and drink of a few thousand people, and along the way, Fugang went to several earthen villages as a scholar to seek food assistance, but he received very little, and most of the local officials were not friendly to this team, which was more like a shipwrecked team. As a result, Liang Shuanghu was angry, and led his troops to break a village, killed all the natives in the village, and robbed enough food for everyone to eat for three days. Since then, every time he arrives at a village, Xu Yingyuan will first send Yongli officials to negotiate with Tusi, and if the negotiation fails, the Shu soldiers under Guangping Bo Chen Jian will attack the village. In this way, he broke countless villages along the way, and finally arrived at the border of Annam.

Because Annan was a subject state of the Ming Dynasty, the scholar Fugang went to discuss the matter of borrowing the Tao with the Annan officials stationed there. Annan agreed very happily, and sent food for the Ming army on the same day, which made Fugang and others feel at ease, and Xu Yingyuan didn't think much about it. According to the requirements of the Annan people, the Ming army escorted Princess Changle into the territory of Annan, but was placed in three places. The reason of the officials in Annam was that the place was too small, and Princess Changle and the soldiers and horses came too suddenly, so they could not vacate enough houses to accommodate the princess and her party for a while.

This reason is obviously no problem, the Annan people also showed enough sincerity, in line with the guest to follow the host, Xu Yingyuan and his party entered the border of Annan according to the arrangement of the Annan people, that night, but thousands of Annan soldiers and horses suddenly appeared, surrounded the Ming army that had gone to sleep. (To be continued.) )