At the end of the discussion, Li Chaoen came in to report.
"Your Majesty, the second prince asks to see you."
Zhang Chao rubbed his eyebrows, this unconscious son. also has two sons and three daughters, and they should have been sensible, but in the past two years, they have become more and more unreasonable.
This time, Zhang Chao also made up his mind that if he didn't throw him below and sharpen him hard, he would not call him back again.
"Let him get in."
After Zhang Hui received the emperor's will from Yiwu, he rushed back to Hanjing at night.
Along the way, I quickly entered Beijing, and I didn't dare to delay at all.
Like last time, when the emperor's will came down, he began to regret it.
It's too late to regret it, the emperor punished him extremely harshly this time, cutting off the title and degrading it to the end.
The title and fief are gone, and his current identity is only a prince, not even a fictitious nobleman, so he is even deprived of the membership of the House of Nobles.
Thousands of miles, the wind and dust rushed to the capital, and the people lost several pounds.
"The son visits his father."
Zhang Hui entered the hall and knelt down with a little weakness.
Zhang Chao ignored it, continued to look at the fold in his hand, and deliberately hung this son.
Zhang Jing and Zhang Hui are siblings of the same mother, and even triplet brothers, but perhaps because they are fraternal brothers, the two of them actually have no imagination in their personalities.
Zhang Jing is more mature and steady, while Zhang Hui is very reckless, thinking about one out and one out, never reckless.
And this kid doesn't have a long lesson at all.
Zhang Chao's gaze returned to the recital, which was presented by his proud protégé Cheng Mo.
As the governor of Yunnan, Cheng Chumo has been in Yunnan for several years, from the capital of Yunnan to the current governor of Yunnan, he can be regarded as an expert in Yunnan affairs of the imperial court.
When Zhenguan was in Yunnan, there were still six edicts contending, and later Nanzhao was dominant, and then the imperial court marched into Yunnan, and then the king of Nanzhao died, and the sons of the king of Nanzhao were in civil war, and the imperial court sent troops in the name of quelling the rebellion, and constantly expanded its territory in Yunnan.
By now, the Nanzhao Kingdom has actually existed in name only, and the real king of Yunnan is Cheng Chumo, the admiral, and the imperial court now has 40,000 people in two armies of the army stationed in Yunnan, as well as two divisions of militia.
With 80,000 soldiers and horses in hand, Cheng Chumo is indeed the real king of Yunnan.
Last time, Liu Renliang attacked Arakan, and Cheng Chumo also led his troops south to assist.
In the last operation, Cheng Chumo borrowed a road from the Nanzhao territory, but after the war, Cheng Chumo did not evacuate.
On the contrary, the troops who were still stationed in Lishui in Nanzhao did not leave.
Cheng Chumo's action was not reported to the court in advance, but it was played afterwards.
The Privy Council also affirmed his actions, and Lishui was located at the southwest end of Nanzhao, by the Lishui River at this time, by the Irrawaddy River in Burma in later generations, and near Menggong in later generations.
From here, to the northwest, there is a trade route that can cross the Naga Mountains to the Donghui Kingdom and enter the Bengal Plain in the lower reaches of the Tibetan River.
And if you go south along the Lijiang River, you will enter the territory of the country of Pi.
Yeosu is bordered by Daesui Mountain to the north, Naga Mountain Range to the west, and Gaoligong Mountain Range to the east.
There is Lijiang in the territory, and it goes straight to the country of Pi.
Geographically, it is very important to connect several countries in one place.
Cheng Chumo has been in Yunnan for a long time, and of course he knows the strategic plan of the imperial court, and sooner or later he will conquer the entire Indochina Peninsula.
In the direction of Yunnan, it is necessary to open up the Naga Mountains, connect to the Donghui Kingdom, go down the Tibetan River to the sea, and obtain the sea outlet.
In the future, it will also go south along the Lili River and conquer the country of Pi.
A strategic place like Lijiang naturally has to be controlled as soon as possible.
Taking advantage of the last time he sent troops through Lijiang, Cheng Chumo originally told the prince of Nanzhao who controlled Lijiang to borrow it, but he didn't pay it back after borrowing it.
He also increased his troops in Lijiang several times, and now the whole of Lijiang is under his control.
When the prince saw that Arakan was dead and the war was over, he asked Cheng Chumo to withdraw his troops, but Cheng Chumo had already controlled all the important places in Lijiang, how could he withdraw his troops at this time, please ask God to send God easily.
After several bad negotiations, Cheng Chumo simply arrested the people and gave them to his brother, and directly occupied the east of Lijiang under the prince's original control, Yongchang Town in the west of Nushan.
This thing was done quite rudely, and it also revealed the intentions of Dahua and Cheng Chumo.
The remaining princes finally understood that the brothers fought to the death, but the result was that sooner or later they had to make wedding clothes for Dahua.
As soon as a few people discussed, they stopped fighting.
They jointly asked Cheng Chumo to withdraw from Lijiang and Yongchang, but Cheng Chumo would not agree.
So, as soon as the princes put together, they sent people to ask the king of the country for help.
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In fact, since Dahua garrisoned Lijiang, the king of the country of Bi has also begun to be restless day and night.
Dahua has been begging everywhere in the past few years, which has also made him sleep badly.
In particular, the southern coastal areas of the Pyu Kingdom have been invaded by Dahua's armed merchant ships several times into ports and even inland rivers, asking them to use the concessions as supply commercial ports.
The king of the country refused, and as a result they fought a few battles, though they were small, not even wars, because those who fought with them were only the merchant ships of some Chinese merchants.
Each exchange of fire ended with the land leased by the Pyu State to Dahua, and the Dahua merchants paid the rent, and then leased the coastal islands or sandbars in the inland estuaries as concessions.
These Dahua merchants built wharves at the mouth of the seaside river, set up bazaars, sold Dahua goods to the merchants of the Pyu Kingdom, and also purchased some of their materials, etc., and several concessions quickly prospered.
Some towns have thousands of people, others have tens of thousands, and those small islands also have towns and even fortresses.
Those Chinese businessmen even recruited some mercenaries.
This made the king of the Pyu kingdom very uneasy, and now Dahua had tens of thousands of troops on their northern border, especially if it was still upstream.
The king of the country did not dare to clash with Dahua easily, but since the princes of Nanzhao were willing to oppose Dahua, he was certainly happy to see it.
So, now the king of the country of Bi promised the envoys of the princes of Nanzhao, and the princes of Nanzhao really thought that they had found a backer.
One by one, they were so excited that they sent envoys to send a letter to Cheng Chumo, strongly urging Cheng Chumo to withdraw from Nanzhao, or even withdraw from the whole of Yunnan.
Of course, Cheng Chumo will not be afraid.
When he received the letter, he was overjoyed.
Now he is playing to the emperor in the hope that the emperor will approve him to quell the rebellion in Nanzhao.
He declared that Nanzhao was originally the autonomous territory of Dahua, but now that he had rebelled, as the governor of Yunnan, he had the responsibility and obligation to send troops to quell the rebellion.
Of course, as a vassal state of Dahua, the state of Bi openly supported the rebellion of Nanzhao, which is unforgivable.
Cheng Chumo asked the emperor to agree to him to send troops to the state of Bi when it was appropriate and necessary.
With 80,000 soldiers and horses in hand, now Cheng Chumo thinks that it is a little too easy to only fight Nanzhao, and he is ready to fight Nanzhao and Bi Guo together, anyway, sooner or later, it is better to fight together.
The transformation of Jiannan and Qianzhong, coupled with the strength of Cheng Chumo this time, did make all the ministries of Nanzhao decide to break away from Dahua.
It's just that although the courage of these people is commendable, Zhang Chao doesn't think that they can do anything if they ask for help from Biguo.
In terms of the Indochina Peninsula, the territory of the country is indeed not small, but in terms of strength, it is even far inferior to Zhenla, but there was no strong force around it in the past, so it can be regarded as no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king.
But now that the king has crossed the river, he will naturally not give Bi Guo any more chances.
The military strength of the country is similar to that of Zhenla, with war elephants as the main combat strength, and then there are some cavalry, and the rest are infantry.
Although the climate and terrain there are relatively special, tropical jungle, difficult roads, and inconvenient transportation.
No matter how you say it, the training and equipment of the Dahua army are not comparable to theirs.
In particular, the army under Cheng Chumo is not a government soldier who has just been requisitioned from the Central Plains, but a large army that has been stationed in Yunnan for many years and has long been accustomed to the water, soil and climate here.
In fact, there are many Tu tribes in Yunnan, and Nanzhao is only a strong tribe that occupies the Dali area, and the rest of the tribes are only subservient to Nanzhao, but in essence, the whole Yunnan is an alliance of countless large and small tribes.
Some remote areas have not even joined the alliance at all.
Some tribes, living in the deep mountains and old forests, have to go in and out of the snow-capped mountains, may seem to be very close in a straight line, but to go outside, back and forth, may have to walk on the road for a month.
The transportation is inconvenient, and the transportation can only rely on people to carry goods.
There are many places where there is even a mountain closure season every year, and you can't communicate with the outside world for half a year.
In Yunnan, in fact, you only need to capture those major walled cities, as for the rest of the surrounding areas, you don't need to worry about it at all.
Just take your time.
Lifting the pen, Zhang Chao replied to Cheng Chumo and asked him to act cheaply.
"If the country does not take the initiative to send troops to cross the border into Yunnan, it will not be in a hurry to declare war on the country for the time being.
First sweep away the Southern Zhao, control Yunnan, and then talk about the state of Pi. ” After replying, Zhang Chao put down his pen and looked up, Zhang Hui was still kneeling there honestly.
Zhang Chao leaned back in his chair and said to Zhang Hui, "Get up." ” Zhang Hui was shocked and hurriedly got up.
"Do you know who you are when you fall twice in the same pit?"
"Either blind or stupid, Zhang Hui, what do you say you are Zhang Hui was silent.
"I don't even have the mood to scold you today, because you've disappointed me so much.
I give you one last chance, remember, this is your last chance. ” "I appointed you as the commander of the independent regiment of the 7th Marine Division, you go to recruit soldiers yourself, form this independent regiment of 3,000 people, and the military expenses are all paid by yourself, to put it bluntly, I just let you take these 3,000 people to Bengal and make contributions yourself, if you can lay down the territory, then I will consider conferring a fief on you again, if you don't even have the ability to open up yourself, then you don't have to go back to the Central Plains in your life."
"I will give you a year, and within a year, if you lay a hundred miles of land, I will give you ten miles of fiefdom.
If you can lay a thousand miles of land, I will give you a hundred miles of fiefdom.
The imperial court will not replenish your soldiers, nor will it give you supplies, everything is up to you, this is your last chance. ” "Do you understand?"
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"Erchen understands."
"Now that you understand, let's get out."
Looking at Zhang Hui's embarrassed and departing figure, Zhang Chao sighed.
Let his son go to India and give him such a condition, which can be regarded as his last attitude.
Since this kid is so ambitious and restless, let him toss hard.
Tossing out, that's his ability.
If he can't toss, then he won't toss anymore in the future, and he will be a commoner in this life.
After all, no matter how ambitious you are, you must have the corresponding ability to match.
If he has ambition but no ability, he will only harm himself in the end. t1706231537: