By the way, the Donghu Dynasty has become so powerful that why didn’t they unify the Southeast Peninsula with the flow? Of course, they also thought, but wars are for money. They fought with the Ming Dynasty for so many years and expanded everywhere for so many years. The national strength has gradually been unable to support such a high-intensity war. Therefore, after the current Donghu King Talong ascended the throne, he basically gave up the war of foreign expansion and turned to develop the economy with all his might.

The Donghu Dynasty is now raising its strength. In addition to continuing to fight against the remnants of Siam in the south, other directions have already stopped. Perhaps, when they accumulate enough money and food, a new round of expansion will be launched.

As mentioned earlier, in addition to Siam, there are also Champa, Zhenla and Annan in the southeastern Peninsula. So what is the situation of these vassal states now? Since these vassal states are far away from Menggen Prefecture, the information discovered by the Jinyiwei is relatively lagging behind.

After almost the investigation of Donghu's situation, information from Chameng, Zhenla and Annan was also transmitted one after another, but the situation was also not optimistic.

The Zhenla Kingdom was destroyed by the Siam Kingdom as early as the 22nd year of Wanli (1594 AD). Now the territory of the Zhenla Kingdom has been occupied by the Donghu Dynasty, which means that the Zhenla Kingdom no longer exists.

Chameng Kingdom is still stronger, but now they are also being beaten by the Nguyen tribes of Annan and are hiding in the southeast corner of the Southeast Peninsula, and they are still alive. It seems that it is only a matter of time before they are conquered by the Nguyen tribes of Annan.

As for the current Annan Kingdom, it can only be described as a word of chaos, because their emperors have been controlled by their ministers, and the entire country has been divided into two parts, north and south, and both sides have fought each other and have a lot of fun.

What's going on? Why did Annan suddenly start an internal strife? This starts from the Yongle period of Chengzu.

The previous article mentioned that during the Yongle period of Chengzu, the monarch of Chen Dynasty in Annan was usurped by his relative Hu Jiyu. The Ming Dynasty overthrew the Hu regime at the request of the Chen Dynasty's remaining ministers and set up a military commander to announce that the Political Envoy Department would manage all parts of Annan. However, after Chengzu's death, Annan began to rebel a few years after the rebellion. The rebel leader was named Li Li. He defeated the Ming army and established the Hou Li Dynasty, but the Hou Li Dynasty did not last long.

After Li Li, a series of successors to the throne were foolish and violent, and the entire Later Li Dynasty was in a state of civil war. In the sixth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1527 AD), the Grand Tutor of the Li Dynasty Mo Dengyong even usurped the throne directly, turning the Later Li Dynasty into the Mo Dynasty.

Later, Zhuangzong Li Weining, the Later Li Dynasty, was successfully restored with the support of the two major families of Zheng and Ruan, and occupied southern Annan, confronting Mo Chao, who occupied northern Annan, and Annan began to enter a decades-long division of north and south.

If we say that the Emperor of the Li Dynasty lived a good life after this period of North-South division, why say that, because although the Li Dynasty only occupied half of Annan after this period, he was still an emperor. He worked together with the Zheng and Ruan families to deal with Mo Chao, and his life was fulfilling. In the 20th year of Wanli (1592 AD), the tragic life of the Emperor of the Later Li Dynasty began.

Because the Zheng family had already controlled the military and political power of the entire Hou Li Dynasty, the emperor of the Hou Li Dynasty had become dispensable in their eyes, so the emperor of the Hou Li Dynasty became a puppet in the hands of the Zheng family, and the Ruan family simply occupied the south of Annan and fought against the Zheng family, and Annan was once again in the division between the north and the south!

Logically speaking, the Zheng family should have an absolute advantage at this time, because almost all the troops of the Later Li Dynasty were controlled by them, while the Ruan family started from scratch. How could they have worked for the Zheng family? But at this time, a Portuguese caravan came to the territory of the Ruan family, and what happened was that the caravan also had the original Portuguese gun casting engineer in the caravan.

Portugal's cannon casting technology should be quite good, otherwise they would not be able to divide the world equally by a small country and Spain. For example, the predecessor of the Ming ship-borne mother-child howitzer was invented by the Portuguese. Although the Folang machine cannon is not worth a smile in terms of range or power in front of the Ming Dynasty howitzer and the Dutch cannon, it is still quite amazing for a backward feudal country like Annan.

At this time, Portugal had been annexed by Spain. Many Portuguese were wandering around the world like their own nemesis. Naturally, it was impossible for them to cast cannons for Spain. The Annan Ruan tribe was not bad for them, so they began to teach the Annan Ruan tribe to cast Western bronze cannons.

As soon as this Western bronze cannon was launched, it was indeed extraordinary. The Ruan family, who was originally at an absolute disadvantage, actually made Zheng family unable to fight back!

After being bombarded by Western bronze guns several times, Zheng seemed to have his brains been blown away. They also began to seek help from the European powers. At this time, the Dutch came to Nanyang, so the two sides hit it off and began to deal with the Nguyen and the Portuguese together.

The other party also had artillery, and it was a more powerful cannon. The Nguyen naturally couldn't bear it anymore and began to retreat step by step. Fortunately, the Portuguese took action again at this time. If they couldn't beat it, they would defend it. The Dutch helped the Nguyenen build several fortifications similar to the junction of the north and south!

Now the Zheng family was in trouble again. Nearly 100,000 people were piled up in one after another, but they could not break through these defense lines. So they had to ask the Dutch for help. The Dutch had no idea what the benefits had actually sent a fleet to help Zheng family attack these defense lines.

However, the range of this artillery was limited after all. The Dutch did not go ashore, and the support provided was limited after all, so the Zheng family had only broken through one line of defense and could not continue.

News about Annan has spread to the capital one after another. Zhu Cijing was really shocked this time. He was not scared by the chaos in Annan. The Annan people were fighting, which was famous in later generations. It was not surprising that they fought around. The key problem was their weapons.

Damn, this Annan cannon cannon is built, it’s really troublesome!

What's even more troublesome is that the Dutch actually got involved. He wanted to sweep the Southeast Asian country before the European powers intervened, but he didn't expect that the Dutch had already inserted his hands!

Zhu Cijing originally thought that with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he could easily take over Nanyang, but he dared not think so now. One Donghu Dynasty is enough for him to drink a pot. In addition, this Annan, which can be built with artillery and the Dutch support behind it, Nanyang is simply more troublesome than the northern border.
Chapter completed!