Chapter 846 The origin of Vietnam, the destruction of Ruan and Zheng!

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 846 The origin of Vietnam, the destruction of Ruan and Zheng!

"No wonder Vietnam also followed North Korea and called itself Little China in the Southwest. Looking at its country's history, it has many similarities with China."

On this day, after reading some historical information about Vietnam for a while at the old house in Zhulin, Zhu Yuyao couldn't help but feel this way.

Hao Guangming had already known the history of Vietnam. Hearing this, he smiled and said: "Not only Vietnam, but also the feudal dynasties in the East have many similar experiences. None can escape the shackles of the feudal dynasty's cycle of chaos.

But generally speaking, society is on an upward spiral trend, and the system of the feudal dynasty is also improving day by day."

Zhu Yuluo nodded in agreement.

Take Vietnam for example.

In the early days, there was no country, only tribes. It was the introduction of Chinese culture that caused Vietnam to rapidly evolve from productivity to social relations, and gradually the concept of a country emerged.

Of course, this process does not happen overnight and is equally long.

At the earliest, Qin Shihuang conquered Baiyue and established three counties in Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian. Among them, Xiang County included a considerable part of what is now northern Vietnam.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, when the world was in chaos, Zhao Tuo established the Nanyue Kingdom, inherited this part of the land, and spread Chinese culture there.

Emperor Wu of the Later Han Dynasty destroyed the South Vietnam Kingdom and established Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinannan counties, and brought the northern and central areas of today's Vietnam under the rule of the Shenzhou Dynasty.

This kind of rule lasted from the Han Dynasty to the Southern Han Dynasty among the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms after the Tang Dynasty, which lasted for more than a thousand years!

In 928, Wu Quan defeated the Southern Han army in the Battle of Bai Dangjiang, proclaimed himself King of Wu, and started the rhythm of Vietnam's separation from China.

In 968, the Ding tribe conquered various separatist forces in northern Vietnam, established the Ding Dynasty, and named the country "Da Quyue", giving birth to the first country name in this land.

And starting from the Ding Dynasty, the strategy of "king outside and emperor within" was formulated in response to the pressure from the Shenzhou Dynasty.

For the Shenzhou dynasty, the rulers of this land often paid nominal homage and accepted the title of king conferred by Shenzhou. Internally, they called themselves emperors.

Not long after Ding Bu took over, Li Huan usurped the throne, established the former Li Dynasty, and repelled the intervention of the Northern Song Dynasty army.

Thirty years later, in 1010 AD, Li Gongyun usurped the throne again and established the Li Dynasty, and changed the name of the country to "Dai Viet".

From then on, the internal name of this land was actually "Dai Viet".

After that, they successively experienced the Chen Dynasty, the Hu Dynasty, the Mo Dynasty, and the Hou Li Dynasty. Either powerful officials usurped the throne, generals usurped the throne, or relatives usurped the throne, which is comparable to the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China.

In the seventeenth century, the Later Li Dynasty nominally destroyed the Mo Dynasty. In fact, there was still a Mo Dynasty hiding in the mountains and claiming to be the emperor. But at this time, the Li Dynasty was actually divided between the two powerful officials of the Zheng family and the Ruan family - because the latter

The Le Dynasty was originally established with the support of the Zheng and Nguyen families.

From the establishment of the Li Dynasty after 1592 to now, which is the eleventh year of Zhaowu (1654), the Zheng and Ruan families have been engaged in intermittent wars.

Zhu Aao looked at the history of this time and space and knew that the battle between the Zheng and Ruan families would last for nearly two hundred years!

It was not until the Tay Son Uprising broke out in the Nguyen Dynasty in 1771, and the Tay Son peasant army wiped out the Zheng family and the Nguyen family in one fell swoop, that this split was considered over.

But the Xishan Peasant Army was not the final winner - as a peasant army in the feudal period, it did not get rid of its shackles. The leadership quickly degenerated in the later period and fell into civil strife fighting for power and profit.

After the first generation of peasant army leaders died one after another, Nguyen Phuc Anh, the former exiled head of the Nguyen Dynasty, counterattacked with the help of the Siamese army and French mercenaries and established the Nguyen Dynasty that unified the north and south of "Dai Viet".

Later, in order to prove the correctness of his rule, Nguyen Phuc Anh asked the Qing Dynasty to change the country's name from "Dai Viet" to "South Vietnam".

However, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty felt that "South Vietnam" was once a country during the split of China. Nowadays, it is a bit strange to call a vassal country "South Vietnam", so they changed it to "Vietnam".

This is the origin of the name "Vietnam" in later generations.

As a dynasty in China in later generations, the Qing Dynasty naturally wanted to follow the example of the Ming Dynasty and set up a province in Vietnam. It took advantage of the rebellion of the Xishan Army to send troops to intervene - when the Ming Dynasty sent troops to Annan and established the Jiaozhi Chief Envoy, it was in

After his maternal relative Hu usurped the throne, he sent troops at the invitation of the Chen Dynasty's surviving ministers.

As a result, the Qing army entered Vietnam and the Xishan army, which had already wiped out the Ruan and Zheng families, beat them up and stunned them. When he came to his senses, Emperor Qianlong quickly ordered the withdrawal of the troops and stopped caring about Vietnam.

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The reason why Zhu Yushuo studied the history of "Da Yue" here was naturally because the Ming Dynasty was about to attack the Yue Kingdom (hereinafter referred to as the Yue Kingdom, not Vietnam).

Previously, the Ming court had sent diplomatic envoys from Honglu Temple to the capitals of the Zheng and Ruan families, demanding that they submit to the Ming Dynasty unconditionally and move their families to the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, both families resorted to procrastination, using various excuses, making excuses, and refusing to agree.

Seeing that autumn had arrived, and both the land and water armies had been preparing for months or even years, Zhu Aona, after discussing with a group of military ministers, decided to send troops to capture Jiaozhi, her hometown.

Judging from the history of later generations, the current Yue army, dominated by the Ruan and Zheng families, can be considered relatively capable. After all, there have been decades of military training in the north and south.

In addition, Vietnam also came into contact with several Western countries that came to colonize the East, and the army was equipped with some muskets and artillery.

But compared with the Ming Dynasty's army, the armies of the Yue Kingdom's Ruan and Zheng families were completely inadequate, both in terms of the quality of their officers and their equipment.

Autumn, the eleventh year of Zhaowu.

The Ming Empire had Jing Xibo, the military admiral of Guangxi, and the southern general Yin Li Dingguo as the commander-in-chief of the land front army, Ping Nanbo, Yang Guodong, the commander-in-chief of the 19th town of the frontier army, as the deputy commander, and Yue Haibo Zheng Hongkui, the admiral of the Nanyang Navy, as the water route commander.

The commander of the front army, with nearly 200,000 troops, attacked from the south and north, attacking the Ruan family and the Zheng family at the same time.

Although the Yue Kingdom had several experiences of defeating the armies of the Chinese Dynasty at home, this time was obviously different from the past.

The Ming army not only surpassed the Yue army by a large margin in terms of the quality of its soldiers and equipment, but also underwent months or even years of adaptive training in Guangxi.

The time chosen for the war was the autumn and winter seasons when the climate was favorable to the Ming army.

Therefore, under the attack of the Ming army, both the Ruan and Zheng armies retreated steadily and lost cities and territory one after another.

In the eleventh year of Zhaowu, on November 13th, the new head of the family, Zheng Zhao, who had not long since succeeded to the throne, had no choice but to surrender to the Ming army that surrounded Thanglong City.

The Zheng family of Yue State, also known as the Zheng family of Yuebei State among the people of Vietnam, perished.

Nguyen is a little tougher.

It was not until the third day of February in the twelfth year of Zhaowu that the Ming army attacked Hue, the capital of the Nguyen family. Ruan Phuc, the head of the Nguyen family, was unwilling to accept the destruction of his family and the country, so he set fire to himself in the puppet palace built by the Nguyen family.

The Ruan family of Yue State, also known as the Ruan family dynasty of Guangnan State among the people, perished.

In the same month, Mo, who was enjoying himself in Gaoping, a mountainous area in northern Vietnam, also chose to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

In March of the twelfth year of Zhaowu, the Ming Empire established Jiaozhi Province, changed the name of "Thang Long" to "Hanoi", and designated it as the province of Jiaozhi.

After this battle, the southwestern countries were shaken again.

Although the Siamese Kingdom in the South is powerful and has a heroic ruler at the government, it can't help but tremble in the face of the terrifying military power of the Ming Dynasty when it destroyed Donggu in the west and conquered the east in the past two years. They are afraid that the Ming Dynasty will send troops to destroy them next year.

It was destroyed.

Therefore, the tribute missions sent by the two countries to Nanjing to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty this year brought more and more precious tributes. They only hoped that the Ming Dynasty would not attack them for the sake of their filial piety as a vassal state.

King Chenla also sent a tribute mission to Nanjing as usual, but secretly gave the envoy another important task, which was to carry his credentials to request submission to His Majesty Emperor Zhaowu of the Ming Dynasty on his behalf.

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