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    After Yuan Zongdi assisted in the recovery of Taiyuan, he followed the movement.  Later, the crown prince moved to Zhending, but left him in Taiyuan.  Although there are Ming troops standing guard at the door and he looks like he is under house arrest, as long as he does not go out, his servants go out to buy and sell things, or there are old friends coming and going to visit, they will not make things difficult for him.  The imperial court indeed kept its promise and pardoned Yuan Zongdi for his crime of rebellion and deprived him of his fake title, but his servants called him "Marquis" and no one came out to criticize him.  Sometimes when official figures come, some call him "Mianhou".  At this time, Yuan Zongdi could only express his fear and at the same time repent of his past actions.  However, he soon discovered that those who called him "Mianhou" did not actually take him seriously, nor did they intend to poke his scars.  This sudden feeling of being ignored made Yuan Zongdi feel helpless.  Finally, the news of the death of the old owner Li Zicheng reached Taiyuan, and Yuan Zongdi knew that his peaceful life was coming to an end.  He was a little excited at the thought of once again shouldering a heavy responsibility and traveling up and down the steep mountains. He leaned against the door every day in anticipation of the Crown Prince's orders.  Finally, the envoy from Zhending stood in front of Yuan Zongdi and presented the handwritten letter of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.  Yuan Zongdi prepared his luggage early and said goodbye to his family. The city gate opened early the next morning, so he left Taiyuan with his entourage and escorted him all the way south.  His task was to contact Liu Zongmin, Tian Wenxiu and other main forces in Sichuan.  Liu Fangliang's situation is similar to that of Yuan Zongdi, but he has to go to Gansu to find Li Jin (Li Guo) and Gao Yigong. The journey is longer and he must pass through the Qing army-controlled area, so the degree of danger is greater.  After Wu Sangui conquered Yan'an.  Li Jin and Gao Yigong's journey south was cut off.  Therefore, they could only retreat from northern Shaanxi to Ningxia Guard, and then from Ningxia Guard to Lanzhou to join forces with Zaihou Dang Shouxu.  This is also the way the two acted in the original historical script.  It's just that in the original historical script, He Zhen once surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and attacked Li Jin, Gao Yigong, and Dang Shousu in Hanzhong, but now He Zhen is still a loyal minister and good general of the Shun army.  Liu Fangliang¡¯s mission was to rush to Lanzhou and persuade Li Jin, Gao Yigong, and Dang Shousu to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.  With this nearly 100,000-strong army guarding the northwest, together with Milayin and Ding Guodong stationed in Ganzhou, the Qing army would not easily run into them.  According to the original historical script, Milayin and Ding Guodong were originally Ming Dynasty guard generals.  Later, they surrendered to Dashun, and then to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.  After Dorgon issued the order to shave their heads, the army had to shave their heads, which triggered the so-called "Northwest Rebellion".  Today¡¯s Qing army is definitely unable to advance westward, and this famous historical event will naturally not happen.  As for the Hanzhong Hezhen Department, after learning about Li Zicheng's death, they immediately united with Luo Dai, Dang Meng'an, Guo Dengxian and other close lieutenants.  Notify the uprising and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.  Sun Shoufa, the guard general of Hanzhong, took over He Zhen's troops and occupied the dangerous city. Even if He Zhen had repeated intentions, he would still have to shed a layer of his skin.  However, because of the credibility Zhu Cihong had accumulated, He Zhen acted very calmly.  After Yuan Zongdi arrived in Hanzhong, he met with He Zhen overnight.  He Zhen finally chose to settle down in Hanzhong and retire from the army, becoming a big landowner.  Like him, his closest lieutenants also chose to live a peaceful life with land.  His personal servants naturally became his tenant farmers, and a few people were also assigned their own land.  The remaining thousands of soldiers may not want to farm.  Or if there is no land to cultivate, it will be assigned to Sun Shoufa Department.  On the one hand, Sun Shoufa carried out military garrison in the garrison.  On the one hand, there was food support from Huguang. He did not refuse the expansion of thousands of Malay people, and sent his trusted servants to take charge. He was officially appointed as the chief military officer of Hanzhong, and confidently shouldered the heavy responsibility of Hanzhong's defense war.  ¡­ In June of the 18th year of Chongzhen, the summer harvest was about to begin, and the southwesterly wind picked up. Large ships loaded with grain set sail from Hoi¡¯an, Vietnam (30 kilometers south of today¡¯s Da Nang), taking advantage of the monsoon to sail to Guangdong.  On the bow of one of the large ships stands a middle-aged man with a long beard and a Confucian scarf. His surname is Shen Yiwen. He is the distant nephew of Shen Youlong, the military governor of Guangdong and Guangdong and the governor of Guangdong. He is the same as the admiral of Shandong Water.  Shen Tingyang of the teacher is also related.  After winning the imperial examination, Shen Yiwen had no intention of taking the imperial examination and went to his uncle Shen Youlongmu to be responsible for money, food and civil affairs.  The reason why he appeared in this fleet was because he was ordered by Shen Youlong to go to Hoi'an, Vietnam, to collect food.  At this time, Vietnam was in the state of separatism between the Zheng family in the north and the Nguyen people in the south. In order to fight against the Zheng family in the north, the Nguyen family opened a port in Hoi An, attracting merchants from all over the world, and enriching the country with enough troops.  Hoi An has therefore become an important trading port in Southeast Asia. Because it is only seven days away from Qiongzhou (Hainan Province) and only half a month away from Guangdong by wind, many Ming merchants settled in Hoi An.  After Shen Yiwen arrived in Hoi An, he only felt that there was almost no difference between this place and the counties in Guangdong, especially the Ming Xiang community where Ming people gathered. The children among them also wore Ming clothes, spoke Min and Cantonese dialects, and used Chinese characters.  If you pay attention, you will forget that you are in a foreign country.  These Ming Dynasty merchants?Some have been operating here for decades, and some have lived in Annan for generations and controlled a large number of fields.  Under the influence of the Little Ice Age, Hoi An, located in the tropics, has had bumper harvests year after year.  Because the profit from reselling grain is not high, merchants are not keen on purchasing large quantities of grain. For them, using the limited space to load as much high-priced goods as possible is the only way to go.  However, what Ming Dynasty is now short of is food, which is also the main purpose of Shen Youlong sending Shen Yiwen to communicate with Ming merchants in Hui'an.  As a semi-official envoy, Shen Yiwen also brought the conditions that Shen Youlong agreed to as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi: as long as Ming Shang could devote himself to the country, he would approach the court as governor and request the court to provide asylum to these alienated people.  Shen Yiwen once felt that this promise was too expensive, and even if those businessmen went bankrupt, it would not be enough to repay the great kindness.  Unexpectedly, after arriving in Hoi An, he found that the envoy of the Governor-General could not even see the real big boss of the Ming merchants in Hoi An.  This kind of loss made Shen Yiwen want to go back and report to the governor, so that a large number of heavenly troops would come to sweep him away.  However, after two months of walking around and investigating, Shen Yiwen finally discovered that he was a frog in the well and had no idea about the status of these Chinese businessmen in Hoi An.  As a port city, the real ruler of Hoi An is "Ong Gai Fang" who is stationed by the Nguyen family.  Weng Gaifeng is responsible for managing the "Tang people" and all ship affairs, and has civil, judicial and taxation powers.  However, Ong Gai's army alone could not really control the Chinese businessmen living in Hoi An by relying on the soldiers under his control.  In fact, as early as the Jiajing period, Chen Quanzhi, a Cantonese, proposed that the imperial court grant official positions, and maritime merchants from Guangdong, Fujian and other places "divided fields and established residences" in Champa Xinzhou, and internally protected the Champa country from the Ruan family.  After the invasion, it became a bridgehead for transportation in the Indian Ocean, transporting native products and transshipment trade.  According to what Chen Quanzhi said: Within a few years, the Ming Dynasty will send officials and managers here to draw points by example, which will be enough to enrich the country and the people.  This kind of "chiluo" colonialist argument was unlikely to gain support in the Jiajing Dynasty, so it naturally dropped.  However, this also shows the strength of Ming Shang in Southeast Asia - they only need the Ming court to give them a name, and they can handle everything else by themselves, and even influence the fate of several small countries.  With such strength, maybe Shen Youlong can still receive the respect he deserves when he comes to Hoi An in person.  As a staff member, it is a great honor for someone to send a butler to deal with it.  After clearly identifying the situation, Shen Yiwen adjusted his mentality in a timely manner. While asking wealthy merchants to take care of him, he also contacted small business travelers with little roots and promised benefits. Finally, he successfully completed the food procurement task.  However, the shock this trip brought to him completely wiped out the happiness of fulfilling his mission.  "Master Shen, aren't you afraid of the strong wind on the bow?" Li Daiwen, another aide of Shen Youlong and a neighbor in the same neighborhood, walked up to Shen Yiwen and laughed loudly.  Shen Yiwen turned to the deputy and chuckled, turned his gaze to the vast sea again, and suddenly asked: "Brother Suspicious, how long has it been since Annan betrayed our Ming Dynasty?" As a non-specialist staff member, what Li Daiwen wants is  A person with mixed knowledge must be able to explain everything in detail.  His mind turned and he said: "It has been more than two hundred years since the imperial court officially abolished the Chief Envoy of Jiaozhi in the third year of Xuande." Shen Yiwen responded: "Two hundred and seventeen years." "Shen Yiwen."  Young master, you have to force your calculations!" Li Daiwen said with a smile.  "It didn't take long." Shen Yiwen felt an inexplicable anger in his heart, and his whole scalp was numb. The words "Chief Envoy of Jiaozhi" kept swirling in his mind, and he almost blurted it out.  PS: Please give me recommendation votes and monthly votes~~
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