On the tenth day of October, Li Laosi walked leisurely in Hue City and walked to the courtyard where Sanada Nobuyuki was stationed.
Hue City is not big, with a population of 30,000, only one-tenth the size of Fanjiazhuang. Most of the buildings in the city are huts and shacks for citizens. These buildings are crowded outside the city wall and look like beggars' houses.
There is a three-mile-long city wall in the middle of the city. Inside the city wall are the royal palace of the Ruan family and the residences of ministers. The houses of these nobles and officials are all brick structures, basically imitating the houses in the south of the Ming Dynasty.
The roads in the slum towns outside the city wall are very narrow, and the narrow roads are crowded with vendors selling goods and food. After the Tiger Army captured Hue, they did not harm the citizens and purchased a large amount of supplies from the people, so these vendors
We are not afraid of Li Laosi and the "Ming Army", they are still running their business on the road.
Basically, there is only an aisle more than one meter wide between the vendors for pedestrians to pass. Everyone walks in queues, making it very difficult to walk.
Li Laosi walked on this narrow road without riding a horse, shaking his head secretly at the city appearance of Vietnam. The disorder and chaos of this barbarian tribe is really difficult to change.
He walked quickly towards the city wall. After entering the city gate, the small merchants and vendors disappeared, and the city looked much neater.
Today, the entire Vietnam has been occupied by Li Laosi.
After the Battle of Bac Giang City, the Huben army was unstoppable and successfully captured the "Tokyo" Thang Long and the "Western Capital" Thanh Hoa in northern Vietnam. Then the army moved south and attacked along the coastline. It only took a month to reach southern Vietnam.
The Nguyen family’s hometown is Hue.
The main force of Vietnam has been completely wiped out in Beijiang. Li Laosi encountered little resistance while attacking the city. Often after a few rounds of artillery bombing, the defenders on the city would open their doors and surrender.
In Hue City, the five thousand Nguyen family defenders tried to resist for a while, but Li Laosi brought the captive Nguyen Phuc Bin to the city gate, and the soldiers defending the city surrendered immediately.
Now that all important cities in Vietnam from south to north have been captured by Li Laosi, Li Laosi can declare the Ming Dynasty to annex Vietnam at any time.
However, a hasty announcement of annexation will lead to the rise of civil resistance in Vietnam. According to Li Zhi's plan, the annexation of these Southeast Asian countries will not be officially announced until the Huben army captures the entire Indochina Peninsula. At that time, all the regular troops in the Indochina Peninsula were annihilated.
Four can concentrate on dealing with the rebels.
Li Laosi was walking on the streets of Hue, listening to the introduction of a Chinese-Vietnamese man.
There are many ethnic Chinese in Vietnam. The productivity level in Indochina is very low. Once the Han Chinese who master advanced technology successfully take root in Vietnam, they will soon become a wealthy local family. The ethnic Chinese are the fundamental reason why Dai Viet is stronger than other Southeast Asian countries and continues to expand.
In fact, the Zheng family that previously controlled northern Vietnam and the Ruan family that controlled the south are all descendants of Chinese descent. However, these people have been intermarried with the local Yue people for a long time, and their Han ancestry is very thin.
Li Laosi asked casually: "Elder Huang Zongjin, how many people are there in Vietnam?"
The old Chinese man named Huang Zongjin replied in Ming Dynasty Mandarin: "To tell you what, the combined population of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Vietnam is probably 3 million. There are more than 2 million people in the north and more than 800,000 people in the south.
people."
It turns out that Vietnam's population is so small, it is about the same as the population of Tianjin Town. The country's land area is about the same size as Shandong, but its population is only one-third of Shandong's.
The potential that can be developed is huge.
Huang Zongjin continued: "Uncle, these Yue people are suffering very hard. The Yue men look very thin and short, but they are thrown into the dense forest in the mountains. They catch poisonous snakes, dig out bird's nests, drink miasma water and sleep in tree sheds.
They can still survive. In the past dynasties, the Han people wanted to conquer the Yue Kingdom, but it was often easy to occupy but very difficult to rule. Without tens of thousands of permanent troops, they could not control the countryside and mountains of the Yue Kingdom."
Li Laosi pointed to the personal guards behind him and asked: "Elder Huang, do you think I, the Iron Army, can control Annan?"
Huang Zongjin said: "My uncle's iron army is invincible when it comes to fighting on the battlefield. But if they go into the mountains to capture rebels who are like thieves and fight with swords in the rainforest, they will probably suffer a lot of casualties. Then the pension will be paid.
It’s all a big expense.”
Li Laosi took a breath and said nothing.
Along the way, Li Laosi walked into a courtyard where Sanada Nobuyuki was stationed.
After the First World War in Beijiang, the old Nobuyuki Sanada fell ill. The old man was already over eighty, and his body was too weak to be cured. Li Laosi could only have people carry him on a stretcher all the way from Beijiang.
Carried to Hue.
Entering the bedroom, Li Laosi saw the sick Nobuyuki Sanada.
Walking to the bed, Li Laosi asked: "General Sanada, how are you feeling?"
Sanada Nobuyuki opened his eyes and saw that Li Laosi was coming. He quickly got up and saluted. Li Laosi stopped him and said: "General Sanada, you look like you are going to recuperate for a long time. The samurai army is leaderless.
, which is a problem.”
Sanada Nobuyuki said: "Uncle, the old man's illness is not worth mentioning. Even if the old man dies, the king can recruit famous samurai from Japan to manage the samurai army. For example, the heads of the Shimazu family or the Mori family are good generals who understand the characteristics of samurai combat.
.”
Li Laosi sat on the chair next to the bed and asked his entourage to write down Sanada Nobuyuki's words. Sanada Nobuyuki's suggestions were very constructive. The Japanese Shimadzu family and the Mori family were both servant countries of Li Zhi, and their heads could be recruited at any time.
Nobuyuki Sanada said: "What I'm worried about is that although the Tiger Ben Army is powerful, it will withdraw sooner or later. I don't think the 60,000 Giji Battalion and the 50,000 Samurai Army can control the entire Indochina Peninsula."
Li Laosi thought about Sanada Nobuyuki's words and said nothing.
Sanada Nobuyuki said: "Uncle, why don't you recruit ronin samurai from Japan? Recruit one hundred thousand samurai and let them be the administrators of Indochina. Let each of them manage five or sixty Malays and collect land tax from Indochina."
"With 150,000 warriors, plus the strength of the 60,000 Yi Zi Battalion, we can firmly control the Indochina Peninsula, and even those remote mountainous areas. The warriors are good at swordsmanship and can go into the mountains and forests to hunt down the rebellious Vietnamese.
.The land tax collected by the warriors, except for a certain amount to support the family, is all handed over to the king, which is enough to make the Indochina Peninsula as stable as Mount Tai."
Li Zhi looked at Nobuyuki Sanada and said nothing.
Sanada Nobuyuki coughed a few times and gasped: "Uncle Mingjian, Japanese samurai are good at reclaiming new fields. There are 150,000 samurai in the south, which is enough to impart Japanese water conservancy and terrace technology to Indochina, and the number of kings will continue to increase."
The land tax."
Li Laosi smiled and said: "You have always cared about the fate of the warriors, and you have always wanted to find a way out for the warriors who have lost their livelihood."
Sanada Nobuyuki said in fear: "I don't dare. I just think that the Japanese and the Ming people look alike and have the same writing. The Japanese can do some things that the Ming people are unwilling to do and contribute their own to the king's hegemony."
A meager strength."
Li Laosi was silent for a long time and said: "Suppressing the Southern Barbarians with swords and swords in the hot and humid Indochina Peninsula is indeed not what the people of the Ming Dynasty like to do. Since you made this suggestion, I will report it to the prince and see what his opinion is.
"
When Sanada Nobuyuki heard this, his eyes lit up with surprise. A trace of blood appeared on his pale face, and he happily climbed up from the bed and kowtowed to Li Laosi.
"Your Highness is willing to find a job for the impoverished samurai, and all the samurai in Japan will be grateful to him!"
