Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 756 The Nanyang Chinese are so unspeakable

The banquet of the Pu family is extravagant, with shining silver cutlery and plates, and shiny glassware.The best beef and mutton, the fattest sea fish, the sweetest wine, and the most beautiful dancer...

Brothers Pu Zhu and Pu Che racked their brains to please Lu Jiala and entertained him with the greatest sincerity.There is only one purpose, that is to say that they also have a lot of property in the Three Buddhas, and they can help the court in certain matters.

Lu Jiala naturally knew that the Pu family's foundation in Jiugang and Malacca was nothing compared to Lu Qi's upcoming plan, but most of the Pu family had good relations with Tianfang merchants, and they had a certain influence among them. The strength of a whole in Srivijaya cannot be underestimated.Looking at the Pu's family that he took the initiative to surround, he smiled happily, and agreed wholeheartedly.For such things, one more person is more strength!
At almost the same time, also in a mansion in Guangzhou, Fang La was frowning at the pieces of intelligence.However, when a big event finally reaches the breaking point after planning for a long time, and this planning involves considerable risks, the person who implements the plan will not be full of confidence, but will have a sense of preparedness to return the favor. Tendency to be inadequate.

Now Fang Shenggong is looking at his statistics of money, food and materials, and feels urgent and panic.So much money and food, any one way is an astronomical figure, but he only hopes to double it again.

Just as Emperor Lu watched the soldiers and horses from the North and South Korean provinces sweeping the peninsula more smoothly, Fang La's army was already ready to go south.

In the midst of intensive preparations, Fang La only felt that time was too tight.And God knows that when he had a banquet with a group of Manichaeists during the Chinese New Year, he kept lamenting that the time passed too slowly, and that Fang Shenggong had been idle in Guangzhou for a long time, and he was afraid that his flesh would come back to life.

Sure enough, all politicians have to be thick-skinned.

The Pu family guessed the purpose of the Manichaeism fundamentally wrong. Fang La did not want to punish the Three Buddhas, but he wanted to win the Three Buddhas. This was the second strategy in Emperor Lu's strategy to go south The gun is the first gun to enter Nanyang.

The first shot in the southward strategy is naturally the guide.Li Renzong and the Nanyue Kingdom are suffering so much now, and they are called Nanyang countries. Who would not be terrified when they see it?It doesn't look like Champa, who has a deep hatred with South Vietnam, didn't take the opportunity to add insult to injury.I'm afraid that I will find an excuse for Lu Qi to attack.

And now Emperor Lu is about to take down the sea gate of the Eastern World.The Strait of Malacca, the gate where the east and the west meet, is his must-have - so Fang La's army must eat Sanfoqi, and Fang Shenggong has collected a lot of military and political information about Sanfoqi over the years!

The actual population of the latter is not larger than that of Angkor Kingdom and Nanyue Kingdom, and its real combat power cannot be said to be strong, or even weaker. However, the latter two are land kingdoms, but Srivijaya is a sea power.With the support of the golden waterway in Melaka, Srivijaya's finances are far stronger than those of Angkor and South Vietnam.

Nowadays, the only real Xiaoqiang in the Nanyang region are these three countries plus Bagan.

Nanyue was the first to be destroyed because Li Chao wanted to die, and also because it was the easiest to fight.The Nanyue Kingdom, with its seas and no defenses, could not support the situation at all under the simultaneous attack of land and water.But if you only attack from land, you will be helpless, right?
As for Sanfoqi, it is the largest of the four countries in terms of size, occupying Sumatra and the western part of Java Island in later generations, as well as a part of the Malay Peninsula. Nanyang is definitely a giant at this time.But it's also the best.Because their political center, the old port, which is later known as Palembang, is directly connected to the sea through the Musi River.

The old port is in the lower reaches of the Musi River, and it is not facing the sea, but because of the huge flow of the Musi River, the coast below the old port is full of swamps.The only way to get in and out is by boat, so as long as the sailors are capable, they can go straight to Huanglong.

Just like what the Chola Empire had done, at the beginning of the eleventh century, its king Shindara sent troops to the east, first captured the tributary state of Srivijaya, Katoha, and established the Katoha puppet regime.Then go south and go straight to the old port, the capital of Sanfoqi, which is occupied by the Zhu Luo army.But Srivijaya did not bow his head to admit defeat, and the battle lasted for seven years before it ended.Although Sanfoqi did not perish, it was also severely damaged. Later, relying on the tax payment of merchant ships passing through the Malacca waterway, it was able to recover slowly.

It was not until 50 years later that the puppet regime of Ingatoha in the Chula Kingdom was overthrown, and King Vilirajandra once again sent troops to the east to pacify Gatoha and restore the puppet regime.Dominating the Straits of Malacca made Sanfoqi reluctantly recognize the suzerainty of Chola over it.

Now that China wants to win Nanyang, the first step is naturally to win Srivijaya, and it must learn from the Chula Empire and directly attack Jiugang.Occupying the Malacca Waterway occupies the center of the entire Southeast Asia, and truly divides Srivijaya into three parts: Sumatra, West Java and Malay.It can be regarded as a beheading operation in another sense, and it will not be too late to calmly conquer the Quartet.

You must know that the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom is not a centralized country, but a country with a feudal monarchy system, and there are always hundreds of feudal lords, large and small.Those feudal lords distributed in the rainforest are actually the monarchs of small countries, and they are not very closely united around the Srivijaya royal family.

If Srivijaya can be allowed to mobilize all his power, it will be a considerable strength. However, if a war suddenly breaks out and the enemy forces approach the old port, then the only strength Srivijaya can mobilize is the royal capital and its immediate surroundings. It belongs to the power of the royal family.That strength will be much smaller than the previous one.

Because the total population of the Old Port itself and its surrounding cities under the rule of the royal family is only a few hundred thousand, it is not known whether it can be over one million.How strong can it be with such a population base?
As for how Srivijaya continued to resist the Chula Empire after losing the old port earlier, it depends on the beliefs of the two.Srivijaya is a country where Buddhism is the mainstream of social beliefs, and the surrounding subjects also believe in the state, while the Chola Empire is a Brahmin country.Faith can give people infinite power, and this is the fundamental reason that supported Sanfoqi to survive the first catastrophe.But not the second time.

Now, the Mani of Manichaeism is Mani Buddha, whose full name is Mani Guangming Buddha, or Great Bright Lord for short.Fang La and the others are very flexible people and naturally know how to take advantage of the situation.

Although the teachings of Manichaeism have been greatly integrated with Chinese civilization, it is completely different from Southern Buddhism—as mentioned in the previous article, this kind of Southern Buddhism is completely different from the current Middle-earth Buddhism—but This will make it easier for the natives to accept, at least in name.

Such a country is much easier to conquer than the small land powers of the Angkor Dynasty that were completely shrunk in the inland of the Indochina Peninsula.

Think about the topography of Cambodia and Laos in later generations.Today's Angkor Dynasty covers the later two countries of Cambodia and Laos, as well as the eastern region of Thailand.Even if the Angkor Dynasty wants to fight, it can only be fought from south to north!To the south is what will become the Gulf of Thailand in later generations.The same is true for Bagan. It is much less laborious to attack Myanmar from the sea than to attack Myanmar from the north by land.

Fang La put down the money and food account book in his hand, the matter has been settled, so what if he feels rushed?For a person like him, a winner and a loser, now there is no place to die, but to be exiled overseas, and there can be a relatively decent ending, which is already the best result.

For him, for his children and grandchildren, for his daughter, for the other family, and for Manichaeism, this is the best result.

With a sigh, Fang La got up and walked to the wall, stretched out his hand to pull the curtain, and a large, realistic and detailed map of Nanyang appeared in front of him.Fang La looked at the old port, and then took a look at the location of Temasek, thinking that MMP didn't know if it should be said or not.

Ignoring these troubles, he looked at Srivijaya. Now he had a deep and systematic understanding of Srivijaya.

First of all, he knows that although the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom is a vassal state of the Brahman Empire, the dominant sect in the country is still Buddhism, even if it is Southern Buddhism, which is completely different from Central Plains Buddhism.Followed by Brahmanism - although this country is between China and Tianzhu, there is no doubt that Tianzhu has a greater influence on it!In the words of his cheap son-in-law, Sanfoqi is the edge of the radiation area of ​​Tianzhu civilization.

The Holy Duke would not have understood this sentence two years ago, but now he speaks it very smoothly.This is just like the relationship between Gaochang and Dali and China. They can also be regarded as the edges of the radiation zone of Chinese civilization.

After all, both Buddhism and Brahmanism are passed down from Tianzhu!Although the Three Buddhas Qi State was canonized by the Song State, it has closer ties with Tianzhu through religious and economic exchanges.Now add politics.

Although Najuro subdued the Three Buddhas, but the distance between his homeland and the Three Buddhas was far away, and he could not definitely affect the internal affairs of the Three Buddhas.The latter still maintained a relatively strong navy with the help of Melaka's taxes.

Even if the Nachoro Empire's naval expedition to Senna, which is the coast of modern Bengal, the Nicobar Islands and the Kingdom of Bagan, the forces are all approaching the Strait of Malacca.And when they attacked Bagan, the Mon people who were originally in the southern region of Burma went northward. Their army defeated the Bagan army in the Battle of Bitaota Island and once reached the city of Bagan. During the war, Jiang Xi, another prince of the Bagan Dynasty, Tuo suddenly rose up, defeated the Meng army, and was proclaimed king.Jiang Xituo learned lessons during his reign and adopted a policy of equality and unity with the Meng people.According to the custom of the Mon people, the grand occasion of the coronation ceremony is engraved on the inscription of the Ruixi Palace Pagoda in Meng script.The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Meng people was reused, and the princess of the Meng people was married as a concubine, and the hereditary throne system was abolished, and the grandson of the Meng people, Along Xidu, succeeded to the throne as an exception.These measures eased the conflict between the Mon people and the Burmese to a certain extent.It also allowed the Ganpu Dynasty to enter its heyday.The latter launched a counterattack against the Chula forces in the coastal area, which was also an important reason why the Chula navy failed to expand to Malacca.

It can be said that the Buddhist power in Nanyang was still very strong during this period, and all countries including South Vietnam were Buddhist countries.But Tianfang believers have indeed taken root in Nanyang.They were merchants and sailors from the east, just like the Pu family.The number of people is quite large, the financial resources are not weak, and the influence is not small.It's just that the huge Tianfang itself is also torn apart, and there are even more factions within it. If Tianfang people want to achieve a big integration, the difficulty is no less difficult than India's current unification.

And there are not no Chinese in Nanyang, but there are really very few.

Before going through the pain of the Southern Song Dynasty's demise and the sorrow of the Mongol rule, going to Nanyang is not the choice of the Chinese.After all, the great development of the South was not really realized until the Southern Song Dynasty.Compared with the strength of the aborigines, compared with the strength of the Tianfang people, the Chinese are real shrimps.The only difference is that at this moment the status of the Chinese is very high.The Chinese settled in Nanyang are not only higher in social level than the lower-level aborigines, but also higher than the people from Tianfang.The latter are not only aliens, but also pagans.

However, the Nanyang Chinese who existed like small shrimps would obviously be Fang La's great assistants in the future. "It's a pity that these people don't know what to do."

After confirming that this year is the time to go south, it is not that Fang La has not sent people to Nanyang, but it is a pity that those Chinese who settled in Nanyang... are beyond words.

(End of this chapter)