After the meeting ended, Li Chaoen came in to report.

"Your Majesty, the second prince is asking for a meeting."

Zhang Chao rubbed his eyebrows. This uneasy son has two sons and three daughters. He should have become sensible, but in the past two years it has become increasingly unreasonable.

This time, Zhang Chao also made up his mind that he would not recall him again if he didn't throw him below and sharpen him hard.

"Let him get in."

After Yiwu received the emperor's order, Zhang Hui rushed back to Hanjing on a long journey. He quickly entered Beijing along the way, and did not dare to delay at all.

Just like last time, he began to regret it after the emperor's will came down.

But it was too late to regret. The emperor punished him extremely severely this time, and he was demoted to the end. The title and fiefdom were gone. His current status was only a prince, not even a false noble, so he was even deprived of his membership in the aristocratic house.

Thousands of miles away, we rushed to the capital, and the people lost several pounds.

"My son is paying homage to my father." Zhang Hui entered the hall and knelt down with guilt.

Zhang Chao ignored it and continued to look at the memorial in his hand, intending to let go of the son. Zhang Jing and Zhang Hun are mothers and even triplets brothers, but perhaps because they are fraternal brothers, they actually have little imagination in their personalities.

Zhang Jing is more mature and steady, while Zhang Hui is very reckless, thinking about it every time he wants, never taking into account the consequences.

And this kid didn't learn a lesson at all.

Zhang Chao's eyes returned to the memorial, which was presented silently by his favorite disciple Cheng Chu.

As the admiral of Yunnan, Cheng Chumo has been in Yunnan for many years. From the Yunnan Protector to the current admiral of Yunnan, he is considered an expert in Yunnan affairs in the court.

During the Zhenguan period, Yunnan was still in the battle between Liuzhao. Later, Nanzhao became the only one, and then the court marched into Yunnan. Then the death of King Nanzhao. The princes of King Nanzhao fought civil war. The court sent troops in the name of quelling the rebellion and continued to expand its territory in Yunnan. Until now, the Nanzhao Kingdom has actually been in name only. The real king of Yunnan is the admiral Cheng Chumo. The court now has two army troops stationed in Yunnan forty thousand, and two divisions of militia.

Holding 80,000 troops in hand, Cheng Chumo is indeed the real king of Yunnan.

The last time Liu Rengui attacked Alagan, Cheng Chumo also led his troops south to assist.

During the last operation, Cheng Chumo borrowed a road from Nanzhao territory, but after the war, Cheng Chumo did not evacuate.

On the contrary, the troops stationed in Lishui, which was still in Nanzhao, stopped leaving.

Cheng Chumo did not report this action to the court in advance, but reported it later.

The Privy Council also affirmed his actions. Lishui was at the southwest end of Nanzhao, by the Lishui River at this time, later generations were the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar, and Lishui City was near Menggong in later generations.

From here to the northwest, there is a trade route that can cross the Naga Mountains, reach Donghui Kingdom, and enter the Bangladesh Plain lower reaches of the Tibetan River.

If you go south along the Lijiang River, you will enter the territory of the Piao Kingdom.

To the north of Lishui is the Daxue Mountains, to the west is the Naga Mountains, and to the east is the Gaoligong Mountains.

There is Lijiang in the territory, which goes directly to the Piao Kingdom.

Geographically, it is very important, and one place connects several countries.

Cheng Chumo was in Yunnan for a long time, so of course he knew the strategic plan of the court and would sooner or later conquer the entire Indochina Peninsula. In the direction of Yunnan, the first thing to do is to open up the Naga Mountains, connect to the Donghui Kingdom, go down the river to the sea, and obtain an outlet. In the future, the Shunli River will also go south and conquer the Piao Kingdom.

A strategic location like Lijiang naturally needs to be controlled early.

Taking advantage of the last time he sent troops through Lijiang, Cheng Chumo originally told the Nanzhao prince who controlled Lijiang that he borrowed the troops, but he did not repay them after borrowing them. He also increased his troops to Lijiang several times, and now the entire Lijiang is under his control.

Seeing that Alagan's country was destroyed and the war ended, the prince asked Cheng Chumo to withdraw his troops, but Cheng Chumo had already controlled important places in Lijiang. How could he withdraw his troops at this time? It is easy for God to send him to him.

After several bad negotiations, Cheng Chumo simply arrested the person and gave it to his brother, and directly occupied the east side of Lijiang under the prince's original control, Yongchang Town, which was angry in Shanxi.

This matter was done quite well, and it also revealed the intentions of Dahua and Cheng Chumo.

The remaining princes finally understood that the brothers beat him to death, but they would sooner or later make wedding clothes for Dahua.

After a few people discussed it, they stopped fighting.

They jointly asked Cheng Chumo to withdraw from Lijiang and Yongchang, but Cheng Chumo would not agree.

So, several princes together sent people to ask for help from the King of Piao Kingdom.

In fact, the King of Piao Kingdom has also begun to be restless day and night since Dahua stationed in Lijiang.

Dahua has fought everywhere in recent years, which has made him unable to sleep well. Especially in the southern coastal areas of the Piao Kingdom, Dahua's armed merchant ships have been broken into ports or even inland rivers several times, requiring them to serve as supply commercial ports in the concession.

The king of Piao Kingdom refused, but ended up fighting several battles. Although the scale was very small, it was not even considered a war, because those who fought with them were just merchant ships of Dahua merchants.

Every time the fire exchange was exchanged, the final result was that the Piao Kingdom rented a place from Dahua. Dahua merchants paid the rent and then rented coastal islands or sandbanks at the mouth of the inland rivers and seas as concessions.

These Dahua merchants built at least a dock at the estuary of the seaside, established markets, sold Dahua goods to the merchants of the Piao Kingdom, and purchased some of their supplies. Several concessions quickly became prosperous.

Some towns have thousands of people, some have tens of thousands of people, and those small islands also have towns and even fortresses.

Those Chinese merchants even recruited some mercenaries.

This made the king of Piao Kingdom very uneasy. Now there are tens of thousands of troops appearing in Dahua on their northern borders, especially in the upper reaches.

The King of Piao Kingdom himself did not dare to conflict with Dahua easily, but since the princes of Nanzhao were willing to oppose Dahua, he was of course happy to see it.

So, now the King of Piao made a promise to the envoys of the Nanzhao princes, and the Nanzhao princes really thought they had found a backer.

One by one, they were very excited and sent an envoy to send a letter to Cheng Chumo, strongly demanding Cheng Chumo to withdraw from Nanzhao, and even to withdraw from the entire Yunnan.

Of course, Cheng Chumo would not be afraid.

He was still very happy after receiving the letter.

Now he submitted a memorial to the emperor, hoping that the emperor would approve him to quell the rebellion in Nanzhao. He claimed that Nanzhao was originally the autonomous ruler of Dahua, but now he has rebelled. As the admiral of Yunnan, he has the responsibility and obligation to send troops to combat the rebellion.

Of course, as a vassal state of Dahua, the Piao Kingdom openly supported the Nanzhao rebellion and would never be forgiven.

Cheng Chumo asked the emperor to agree that he would send troops to the Piao Kingdom when appropriate and necessary.

Holding 80,000 troops in his hand, Cheng Chumo thought it was too easy to only fight Nanzhao, so he was preparing to fight Nanzhao and the Piao Kingdom. Anyway, he would fight sooner or later, so it would be better to go together.

The land reform in Jiannan, Qianzhong and other places, coupled with Cheng Chumo's strength this time, really made all the troops of Nanzhao decide to leave Dahua.

However, although these people are very brave, Zhang Chao does not think they can do anything if they ask for help from the Piao Kingdom.

In the Indochina Peninsula, the Piao Kingdom is indeed quite large, but in terms of strength, it is even far inferior to Zhenla. However, there were no powerful forces around the country in the past, so it was considered that there were no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys were called kings.

But now that the king has the dragon crossed the river, he will naturally not give the Piao Kingdom any chance.

The military strength of the Piao Kingdom is similar to that of Zhenla, with war elephants as its main combat power, and then some cavalry, while the rest are infantry.

Although the climate and terrain there are special, with tropical jungles, difficult roads and inconvenient transportation, no matter how you say, the training and equipment of the Dahua army are not comparable to them.

Especially the army under Cheng Chumo is not a military force that has just been recruited from the Central Plains, but a large army stationed in Yunnan for many years and has long been used to the water, soil and climate here.

In fact, there are many Tu tribes in Yunnan, and Nanzhao only occupies the stronger tribes in the Dali area. The other tribes are just surrendering to Nanzhao. But essentially, the entire Yunnan is an alliance of countless tribals of all sizes.

Some remote areas have not even joined this alliance.

Some tribes live in deep mountains and forests, and even have to cross snow-capped mountains when entering and leaving. They may seem very close in line, but when they come outside and return home, they may have to walk on the road for a month.

Transportation is inconvenient, and transportation can only be carried by people.

There are many places, and even the mountain closure season every year, and you cannot contact the outside world for half a year.

In Yunnan, you can actually capture the main cities and villages. As for other surrounding areas, you don’t have to worry about them at all.

Just take your time.

When he picked up the pen, Zhang Chao replied to Cheng Chumo, asking him to act cheaply.

"If the Piao Kingdom does not take the initiative to send troops across the border and enter Yunnan, there will be no rush to declare war on the Piao Kingdom. First, sweep Nanzhao, control Yunnan, and then talk to the Piao Kingdom."

After the approval, Zhang Chao put down his pen and looked up. Zhang Hun was still kneeling there honestly.

Zhang Chao leaned on the chair and said to Zhang Hui, "Get up."

Zhang Hui was shocked and quickly got up.

"Do you know who they are falling twice in the same pit?"

"It's either a blind man or a fool, Zhang Hui, who do you think you are?"

Zhang Hui didn't say anything.

"I didn't even feel like scolding you today because you disappointed me too much. I'll give you one last chance, remember, this is your last chance."

"I have appointed you as the commander of the Independent Regiment of the 7th Marine Division. You can recruit soldiers and form this independent regiment for 3,000 troops. The military expenditure is all your own. To put it bluntly, I just asked you to take these 3,000 people to Bangladesh and make contributions by yourself. If you can conquer the territory, I will consider granting you another title. If you don't even have the ability to explore yourself, you will never have to go back to the Central Plains in your life."

"I will give you a year. If you conquer a hundred miles of land within a year, I will give you ten miles of fiefdom. If you conquer a thousand miles of land, I will give you one hundred miles of fiefdom. The court will not replenish your soldiers, nor will it provide you with supplies. Everything depends on yourself. This is your last chance."

"Did you understand?"

"My son understands it."

"Since you understand, then get out."

Looking at Zhang Hui's figure leaving in a mess, Zhang Chao sighed.

He asked his son to go to India and gave him such a condition, which was his last attitude. Since this kid was so ambitious and restless, let him work hard.

It was his ability to make trouble.

If he can't make trouble, then he should not make trouble again in the future and be a commoner in this life. After all, no matter how ambitious he is, he must have corresponding abilities to match.
Chapter completed!