French Annan, which is a general term for the French colonies in Vietnam, and the French colonial rule of Vietnam began with Mingming forbidden religion.

When Emperor Ruan Chaoming was in power, he witnessed the huge harm caused to the Qing Empire by the two Opium Wars. In horror, Emperor Mingming increased his policy of closing the country and began a nationwide ban on Western missionary activities.

Vietnam in ancient times was also called Annan. Like North Korea, it has been ruled by Confucianism since ancient times, and mainland policies have always influenced them.

Closed-up is a policy that has been continued since the Ming Dynasty, and Vietnam and North Korea naturally followed suit and began to close their country.

But Vietnam's geographical location is really unique. The narrow and long land is full of coastlines in the southeast. The limited land cannot support people across the country. As a result, they have to ask for life from the sea.

Therefore, in the Age of Discovery, Westerners were often seen in Vietnam's ports, and trade was also indispensable.

Therefore, before the Ming Dynasty ordered the emperor to ban religion, Western powers and Vietnam were a short period of peace, and trade between the two sides was very frequent, and Vietnam even became an important transportation route for French opium to import into the Qing Dynasty.

However, the brief cooperation ended after the ban on missionary orders was issued. Since ancient times, France has positioned itself as the largest secular protector of Catholicism, spreading Catholicism can be said to be France's national policy.

The French warships bombarded Da Nang in 1852. After the negotiations failed in 1858, France and Spain began to use their army to invade Da Nang, and even occupied Saigon in 1859.

It is said that the Emperor Mingming was also tenacious, and he still insisted on not surrendering even after he fought like this. Shortly after the French occupied Saigon, the French army in Vietnam received an order to all move towards the Qing Dynasty.

Then came the major historical events such as the British and French forces invaded Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace in 1860!

The Vietnamese were completely frightened. They never expected that the powerful Qing Empire would eventually be captured. So what about their own small country?

Sure enough, the French did not let Vietnam go. After the treaty was signed, part of the French army that conquered the Qing Dynasty immediately headed south to Vietnam.

In 1861, the French army once again captured Saigon, and then again captured four provinces in Nanyue. At this point, the Nguyen imperial court surrendered to France, compensated four million francs for war expenses, and signed the First Saigon Treaty.

The treaty clearly states that Vietnam ceded land in the four provinces and Kunlun Island to France and opened all coastal ports. Catholics can preach freely, and the Nguyen imperial court must have diplomatic negotiations with other countries with the consent of the Emperor.

Vietnam can be regarded as a complete colony after depriving a country of diplomacy!

However, France's rule over Vietnam was bounded by Hue and Da Nang, and the south was the old nest that the French focused on in business. However, due to the deep influence of the Qing Dynasty, the French infiltration was still gradual.

Xiao Letian has been greedy for a long time in the French Annan piece of fat meat, especially Cam Ranh Bay, which is one of the few deep-water harbors in Vietnam and is even known as Asia's number one natural military port.

The terrain here is very unique, and two trips surround it into a gourd-shaped sea area, which can provide very good protection for the warships.

There is no need to be afraid of storms, nor to be afraid of the enemy's navy's attack. The gourd-shaped peninsula can form a defensive net composed of three turrets, and the enemy's navy will be attacked in no time.

More importantly, there are very few natural deep-water ports here that can be anchored to all large surface warships in the 21st century. No matter whether you are 40,000 tons or 100,000 tons, the water depth here can be carried.

When the United States and the Soviet Union fought for hegemony, in order to station troops in Cam Ranh Bay, the Soviet Union gave Vietnam an average of 1 billion US dollars in military spending every year, and finally built Cam Ranh Bay into the largest military base overseas of the Soviet Union.

How could Xiao Letian let go of such a place? History has proved that if you want to develop a large navy, you must occupy the best military harbor all over the world.

Each control of a military port with a good geographical location is equivalent to controlling an economic belt with a radius of thousands of kilometers around. As long as it is a place where the power of a warship can cover and where the naval gun can fire, it will become its own sphere of influence.

Once Cam Ranh Bay is controlled by the Chinese, the warships here can immediately block the entire Vietnamese territorial waters, and all cities will be covered by the Zhiyuan naval guns.

Not only that, the fleet can also control the Gulf of Thailand and directly occupy the Isthmus of Kra!

Xiao Letian has completely controlled the first island chain in the Pacific Ocean at this moment. His expedition team is looking for all undiscovered islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Oriental Channel of the Chinese people should be safe in the future unless they are in trouble with the United States.

The west side of the Chinese forces is too important. At present, all the waterways are concentrated in the Strait of Malacca, and this has always been an important bridgehead for Britain to operate Asia.

It is unrealistic to go to war directly with Britain. The Chinese are not yet able to compete with the British, so they can only settle for the second best and find a breakthrough from the Isthmus of Kra.

The narrowest part of the Isthmus of Kra is only fifty kilometers, and the coasts at both ends are very flat. It is not difficult to dig a canal here, and it is much simpler than the Suez Canal and Panama Canal.

The most difficult thing about digging the Isthmus of Kra is the political aspect, mainly because Britain does not allow anyone to destroy its superior geographical location. Once the Chinese dare to dig, they will definitely cause trouble.

But don’t worry, Xiao Letian will wait patiently, and slowly immigrate to the Isthmus of Kra before, so that the Chinese will become the main ethnic group.

When the First World War broke out and Britain was dragged to Europe, no one could stop the Chinese people from doing anything!

Once the Kra Isthmus isthmus is successfully excavated, the Chinese will have an additional channel for free to enter and exit the Indian Ocean, and the oil in the Gulf will be transported to the Chinese more safely in the future.

Don’t forget that in the Arab region, Xiao Letian also has a silencer who is fighting against a unified small tribe in the east and west. If nothing unexpected happens, that silencer will definitely occupy several large oil fields in the future.

This plan is very huge. If you want to complete it completely, there may be a lot of work that Xiao Letian's son needs to complete, but as me, I have to lay a solid foundation now.

Not to mention anything else, Cam Ranh Bay must be controlled in your hands, and the land around Cam Ranh Bay as the core cannot be spared.

Xiao Letian said with a smile, "Give it to me south of Hue...it belongs to you north of Hue, what do you think?"
Chapter completed!