I want to be emperor

Chapter 664
The two powerful families in the Annan Kingdom, the Zheng family and the Ruan family, when they were facing extinction, chose to agree to a series of conditions proposed by the Great Chu Empire without hesitation in order to protect themselves. Guangning County signed the treaty.

That is the Treaty of Guangning.

The terms of the treaty are actually very simple, with no compensation, no apology and other common treaty terms.

There are only three!

Article [-]. The Great Chu Empire withdrew the Annan Kingdom. King Annan, the monarch of the Later Li Dynasty, was demoted to the Marquis of Nangui. At the same time, he was appointed as the Annan Consolation Envoy of the Great Chu Empire. The title will be cut after death.

As for Annan's comfort envoy, this position is also a temporary position in the empire, and it is a nominal position specially set up for the monarch of the Later Li Dynasty. Even if it is given a title, it will be removed after the transition period is over.

After all, this person was originally a puppet without real power, and the handling of him was more for political legitimacy, so there was no need to think too much about follow-up issues.

As long as the present is dealt with and can be justified, then the follow-up will be ignored.

After the Annan King of the Li Dynasty was demoted to the Marquis of the South, he accepted the official position of the Great Chu Empire at the same time, and after a series of procedures such as presenting the so-called yellow book, the Annan Kingdom will change from a vassal state of the Great Chu Empire to a territory.

As for the vassal state and the territory, it seems that there is only one word change, but it actually means that the Annan region will not exist as an independent country, even if it is only in the name of a vassal puppet state, but will directly evolve into the Great Chu Empire. directly under the territory.

In other words, the Annan region will be completely merged into the empire and become part of the Great Chu Empire.

The second is that the Great Chu Empire will confer the title of Lord of the Zheng family as Shenglong Bo, and grant him the post of 'Governor of Shenglong and other places'.

Article [-]: The Great Chu Empire canonized the head of the Ruan family as Bo Hue, and granted the post of governor of Hue and other places.

The first article of the treaty is the price paid by the Zheng and Ruan families for their submission, while the latter two are the rewards of the empire for their submission.

They dedicated their country to the Great Chu Empire, um, even if they have lost control of their respective countries, at least in a name!
The empire gave Zheng and Ruan two titles and official positions, and included them in the ruling class of the empire in return. Of course, the position of governor is only used for the initial transition, and they will be directly removed within a few months. Then they will go to Jinling City to enjoy a rich life.

Just like the leaders of many Mongolian tribes in Monan, Mobei, and Moxi, now except for a very small number of people who are in the officialdom, the rest are basically rice bugs in Jinling City...

You can see them enjoying the glory and wealth in Jinling City, or you can see them being imprisoned by the empire. Anyway, they have both...

As for what the Zheng and Ruan families will be like in the empire in the future, it depends on the abilities of themselves and their descendants, but because there are reduced and inherited titles, and there is another item that is not stated in the treaty, but the empire The private promise is that the Zheng and Ruan families are allowed to retain a certain amount of family wealth in the empire.

The title and wealth can at least guarantee the wealth of their family for several generations.

Zheng and Ruan's family betrayed their country to ensure the melting of wealth and honor. Under normal circumstances, they would never agree, but the rebels in the Annan area are too fierce...

If they agree, they can still keep their glory and wealth. If they don’t agree, there is no need for the empire to take action, and the rebels will tear them apart...

And even if the empire does not send troops, the empire will secretly support the rebels!
If they don't submit to the empire, it's a death sentence, and it's a particularly miserable one!
This is especially true for the Zheng family in the north. Now that the Zheng family has lost almost the entire territory in the north, they can only trap beasts in Shenglong City. Long's words would cause the Chu army to send troops to retaliate on a large scale. It is estimated that the rebels had already stormed and captured Shenglong City, and then threw the Zheng family into the sea.

The Ruan family in the south was not much better either. They were retreating steadily on the battlefield. More importantly, many of the troops they sent out still belonged to their Ruan family's army, but within a few days they transformed into rebels...

To some extent, in fact, the Zheng and Ruan families offended the middle and lower classes in their country because of the series of humiliating and humiliating treaties they signed with the Great Chu Empire in recent years, and also gained a considerable part of the powerful class.

This is a riot started by the lower class by boycotting Chu goods, and then the middle and upper class quickly intervened and turned this riot into a war against traitors like Zheng Ruan by most of their domestic classes.

This is also the fundamental reason why so many dignitaries in the Annan region and why so many local troops rebelled so easily and then joined the rebel sequence.

It can be said that the Zheng and Ruan families have lost their hearts!

But having said that, we can’t really blame the Zheng and Ruan families... Who made the Great Chu Empire so powerful? If they hadn’t signed a series of treaties to lose power, humiliate the country, and cede territory, the Annan region would have been sent by the Great Chu Empire long ago. Went out.

It is actually not easy to survive under the great national power of the Great Chu Empire for more than ten years and survive in the cracks.

But it's useless to say this kind of thing, who made you lose your power and humiliate the country... Since you occupy the position of ruler, you have to bear the corresponding responsibility of defending your home and country. If you can't do it, you will be overthrown.

Ordinary people and upper-middle class people in the Annan area chose to overthrow the rule of the Zheng and Ruan families, and then rebuild the so-called Annan Kingdom.

Of course, many local dignitaries who have taken over the control of the rebel army do not have the guts to directly offend the Great Chu Empire to death. Anti-Chu slogans were only shouted for a few months when ordinary people started rioting. Later, after the dignitaries accepted the control of the rebel army, especially after the momentum became bigger and bigger, they basically stopped calling out against Chu in public, and even sent people to contact the empire to request canonization...

In the past, they hated Zheng Ruan, the two big comprador families, but after they also took control of the real power, and even actually controlled most of the territory and population of the Annan region, they figured out how to deal with it. The dog leg of the Great Chu Empire...

From a certain point of view, being the white gloves of the Great Chu Empire is actually quite good... At least there will be no shortage of prosperity and wealth. As for the interests of the middle and lower classes, it's none of their business!

This is another story about a dragon slayer who wants to become a dragon!

This is why after so long, the Annan region has become a mess, and after the rebels have actually occupied most of the Annan region, they still dare not attack the two territories of the Great Chu Empire in the Annan region, namely Guangning County and Jinlan Wan County did not even dare to do anything to the colonies of the Great Chu Empire's concessions located in coastal cities, Shenglong City and other places, and instead sent troops to protect them.

These dignitaries are also very clear that if they really offend the Great Chu Empire, they will be finished in minutes.

They even want to be the new henchmen of the empire in the Annan region.

But they didn't expect that the top management of the Great Chu Empire no longer wanted a dog leg, but wanted to eat dog meat directly...

Whether it is the high-level of the empire, or the industrial circles of the empire, and more importantly, Luo Zhixue, the emperor of the Great Chu Empire, I think Annan is a place. Although many places are not good, some coastal areas, especially the surrounding areas of Thang Long Still good for farming.

If such a large piece of land is built with good water conservancy facilities, coupled with the local good subtropical climate and abundant rainfall, rice cultivation will definitely produce a lot.

No matter how hard this place is, it can support millions of immigrants from the empire!

When the monarchs and ministers of the Great Chu Empire bared their bloody mouths and bit down directly on the Annan area, those rebel dignitaries were also dumbfounded...

In December of the 20th year of Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire officially issued a number of imperial edicts according to the Guangning Treaty, conferring the monarch of the Houli Dynasty as the Marquis of Nangui, and officially declaring the Annan region to be a territory of the empire.

Set up Thang Long Province, and appointed the Lord of the Zheng family as the governor of Thang Long.

Set up Hue Province, and appointed the Lord of the Ruan family as the governor of Hue.

At the same time, the Thang Long Garrison Command was established, and Brigadier General Xu Huatong, the Guangning border guard under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong Provincial Garrison Command, was transferred to the Thang Long Provincial Garrison Commander;

Set up the Hue Provincial Garrison Command, which was promoted by Colonel Zhao Shuli, the Cam Ranh Bay Garrison Commander under the Nanyang Garrison Command.

In addition, the chief ministers of the two places were set up. The chief ministers of the two places were naturally all officials of the Great Chu Empire.The chief envoy of Hue was promoted by Li Kaiguan, who participated in politics in Guangxi and also took charge of Wuzhou Prefecture and other places.

The officials of other ministries were basically transferred from other places by the empire, and only some insignificant positions such as deputies in some agencies were held by some retainers of the Zheng and Ruan families.

These political measures are all aimed at turning the Annan region into the land of the empire in name and reasonableness.

It has been fully established legally from the very beginning to prevent any future troubles.

Well, the Ming Dynasty actually did this before, but they named Mo Chao as the Commander of the Annan Capital for a long time. That is to say, the Ming Dynasty has long nominally owned Annan as a territory.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty didn't have the ability to turn this nominal territory into reality!
But the Great Chu Empire is different. The empire has the ability and the determination to turn it into a territory in the true sense, which is now limited to a territory in name only.

Immediately after a series of decrees such as canonization and establishment of provinces, the imperial government announced in the Dachu Mansion newspaper that the local rebels in the two provinces of Annan conspired to rebel, and the empire would send troops to suppress it.

Before the news was published in the Di Bao, the military had already made comprehensive preparations and had actually fought the local rebels.

The first to act is the army and navy troops stationed in Quang Ninh!
The third coastal defense brigade under the South China Sea Fleet of the navy, that is, the coastal defense brigade in charge of the Beibu Gulf area, had more than 20 coastal warships and gunboats converging in Guangning on December [-].

Immediately after carrying a large number of troops and supplies such as weapons and ammunition, they will follow up along the Red River and head to the Thang Long area.

At the same time, on the ground, there are two mixed regiment-sized army forces, which have been divided into two groups and directly marched, one of which goes to Thang Long, and the other goes south along the coastline to support the navy's coastal defense fleet.

It is worth noting that in this battle, the Navy did not dispatch the real main ocean-going fleet, but only dispatched the local patrol fleet, that is, the South China Sea Fleet. The main force of the battle was a group of offshore patrol ships and offshore gunboats, plus some Galley or something.

It's not that the imperial navy underestimated the enemy...but that the water surface strength in Annan, South and North is really good. The official water surface power is good, and the water surface power in the hands of the rebels only inherited part of the local official army's water surface power, so it's even worse. dish...

Another part of the reason is that the navy is going to go up the river and go directly to Thang Long. This kind of battle is a very typical inland river battle... and this kind of battle mode is actually better at the local coastal defense fleet. As for the main ocean-going force Fleets, battleships are hundreds of tons to thousands of tons at every turn... Now that they venture into the Red River during the dry winter, they might run aground and become a living target.

Therefore, there is really no need for the empire to send the main ocean-going fleet with great fanfare, and it is sufficient to dispatch a local patrol fleet to Thang Long.

But for coastal operations in other places, ocean-going fleets can be dispatched to assist.

When the Chu army in the northern area had a large number of troops, using Guangning as a base, and marching towards Thang Long and other places, the Chu army was not idle in the southern area of ​​Annan.

Jiulongjiang Province first sent more than 500 people to attack from south to north. At the same time, the Cam Ranh Bay military base also sent more than 4000 army troops and more than 2000 marines. A total of more than 6000 troops went all the way to Hue.

As for the other small coastal colonies, because of the limited garrison force, they basically chose to stand by and wait for reinforcements.

Anyway, there are a large number of merchant ships and naval support, coupled with the absolute difference in weapon performance and tactics, even if it is a small stronghold with only more than 100 people stationed, there are tens of thousands of people on the opposite side.

This is also a very typical feature of the contemporary colonial army, that is, when facing the indigenous army, their combat effectiveness is particularly awesome...

When many indigenous countries attacked the fortresses of Western colonists, they often fought very hard because of the difference in weapons and tactics. There was no good way except to use a lot of lives to pile them up.

A small indigenous country in Nanyang fought against Portugal, and the colonial strongholds of the Dutch were almost in the same pattern.

And this model was further magnified by the army of the Great Chu Empire... because the Chu army had more advanced weapons, generally had more ammunition reserves, and even the fortress defense system was more complete.

So far, in the overseas colonial activities of the Great Chu Empire, there is no record of any fort stronghold being directly conquered by the indigenous army...

Of course, due to long-term attrition operations, ammunition and food were exhausted, and then forced to voluntarily evacuate happened several times.

Overseas colonization, when supplies are difficult, if the local aborigines really fight with you, they will directly send a large number of cannon fodder troops to your guns to die, just to consume your ammunition...

Then the Chu army has no good way to do this, they can only run away under the cover of naval guns after firing the ammunition...

After all, you can't foolishly compete with the natives for bayonets!
Therefore, the Great Chu Empire did not evacuate the garrisons and civilian businessmen from the leased land in many coastal cities in Annan. Instead, they swaggered to defend!
Anyway, there are many ships of various trading companies behind, as well as naval warships that can provide reinforcements and supplies at any time.

They have sufficient confidence to block the counterattack of the local aborigines!
In fact, their worries are a little unnecessary!
Because when the Great Chu Empire officially launched troops against Annan, the rebels themselves were dumbfounded...

Especially on December 23, when the main force of a rebel army in the north of Annan, a total of more than 70 people, was defeated by the No. [-] three-mixed regiment of the Great Chu Empire, they were even more dumbfounded.

Speaking of which, this was the first time that the Annan people had fought the Chu army on the battlefield in a real sense, and then they chose to confront the Chu army in a foolish way...

If they are experienced Siamese and Burmese, unless their brains are twitching, they will never pull the army down on the plain, and then set up a battle to fight the Chu army face to face. This is courting death...

And they don't know how to defend the city, but they will break up the whole city, abandon the city, retreat into the mountains and forests to deal with the Chu army, and force the Chu army to retreat through frequent small-scale attacks and so on.

Only fools play head-on combat with the Chu army!
The generals of the Annan Rebel Army's North Route Army are just such fools. They have never seen the Chu army fighting head-on. They blindly believe that people are more important than weapons. They think that as long as their own army is brave enough, they can defeat the unjust Chu army. Evil invader army.

Then when the battle just broke out, they were stunned at the shells flying all over the sky, and then they watched the continuous explosions in their own array and despaired!
They... haven't even launched a charge towards the Chu army yet!

They didn't even see the infantry arrayed by the Chu army on the opposite side, and they collapsed under the fierce shelling of the Chu army before they even had time to show their bravery!

To be honest, this is also the smoothest battle the Chu army has fought in the past few years, or the most stupid large-scale battle of the enemy.

Dozens of cannons of the Chu army have already been deployed, and countless grenades are ready, but any enemy who understands the Chu army's combat mode knows that they should not be foolish enough to list a dense line of troops to move forward, or they will be bombed...

But the opposite side still stupidly listed dense horizontal formations and slowly moved forward... It seems that they still want to use matchlock guns and a bunch of spears to fight in line with the Chu army.

As a result, the general of the Chu army saw that the opponent was stupid, so he was naturally impolite, and let go of the enemy after he entered the effective range.

Then those Annan rebels turned into routs all over the mountains...

The defeat of this battle directly led to the retreat of the Annan rebels who besieged Thang Long!

At this time, they still care about besieging Shenglong. If they don't retreat, they will be slapped in the face by the Chu army.

Shenglong is no longer under siege, and some other small colonies are no longer under siege. These rebels are busy mobilizing their troops and trying to find ways to block the main force of the Chu army.

As for the main force... In fact, in the battle of Annan, the Chu army did not use much ground force. There were four main forces in total, and Guangning sent two mixed regiments, with a total of about [-] people.

A mixed navy and army brigade sent by Cam Ranh Bay has more than 6000 people.

Then there is a reinforced battalion sent from the direction of Jiulongjiang Prefecture, with more than 600 people.

The total strength of all troops is about 8000.

Even with the addition of some B or C troops stationed in various colonies, the total number is just over 2.

These 2 soldiers are not even a fraction of the huge total army strength of the Great Chu Empire!

When the Chu army attacked Zhungeer, the first-line main force used 10,000+.

The northern strategy currently being prepared in the north is expected to use 10,000+ troops.

But in Annan, the Chu army only used a force of over 2 troops, and there was not any A-level combat readiness force, but a B-level standing division as the core, and a C-level garrison force as a supplement.

However, with such a force, it is enough to deal with some Annan rebels.

After all, these Annan rebels themselves are not doing well. The ministries are chaotic and there is no unified command. There are even many disputes and contradictions among them. The tens of thousands of rebels who besieged Thang Long did not move at all...the friendly army's plea for help was ignored.

Not to mention the weapons and equipment. Although there are matchlock guns, there are not many. The artillery only has a few three-pound field guns and old short-barreled guns.

Such rebels are actually nothing to worry about even in any normal feudal country. As for why the local Zheng and Ruan families who fought in Annan's side were miserable... it can only be said that the Zheng and Ruan families lost their hearts.

Most of the officers and soldiers who were sent out to encircle and suppress the rebels turned into rebels not long after the expedition. This shows how much the local middle and lower classes and even the upper class dignitaries in Annan hate the two traitors, Zheng and Ruan...

The siege of Thang Long City was lifted due to the active retreat of the local rebels.

After the third day, a large number of Chu soldiers entered Shenglong City.

At this time, the atmosphere in Shenglong City is also a bit awkward, with singing and dancing on the one hand, and wailing and pain on the other!
Singing and dancing is naturally the concession of the Great Chu Empire located in Thang Long City. There are more than 1000 expatriates and garrisons there, and these people are naturally very happy with the arrival of the imperial army.

At the same time, in the concession area, there are still a large number of members of the Zheng family and officials who followed the Zheng family to betray the country and invest in Chu.

After seeing the imperial army, these people were all overjoyed. They finally didn't have to worry about being chopped off by the rebels and thrown into the Red River!

On the other side of Shenglong City, many dignitaries, mid-level and lower-level personnel who directly or secretly supported the rebels felt as if the sky had fallen. When many of them saw the Chu army entering the city in a neat line, many of them were shocked It's hateful.

But more numbness!
The rebel army retreated, and Shenglong City entered a new era after the Chu army entered the city. The Patriarch of the Zheng family directly accepted the angel's summons in the name of the imperial courtier and governor of Shenglong.

Subsequently, the Zheng family ordered a city-wide search and arrest of the remnants of the rebels and spies in the city to completely wipe out the stubborn enemies.

(End of this chapter)