Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 868 I am king in Tiannan

Zhang Xiancun went to fight the Queen's Kingdom, he really didn't do it for a show, he really went to fight.

However, it was determined by the situation of the Chu Fan Kingdom that they were going to fight against the Queen's Kingdom when they were about to go to the Jing Navy.

In the ninth year of Shaoming, at the end of September, Zhang Xian lived in Dali City, completed the canonization and resettlement of the masters of caves and villages in the feudal clan who were willing to surrender, and opened civil and military subjects to recruit a large number of civil and military talents.

Of course, what supported him to accomplish this was the strong support of his father Zhang Tie.

After receiving the eldest son's request, Zhang Yu first mobilized 30 yuan of internal funds from the inner mansion under the coquettishness of his granddaughter, and paid them in batches to the transfer envoy's yamen and the household department.

Then the transshipment envoy Yamen issued an order to the Transshipment Department of Sichuan Province, asking them to intercept [-] guan of salt, merchants and other taxes that should have been escorted from Sichuan to Dali.

The Ministry of Household Affairs announced that this year Sichuan Province will release taxes to the central government, including 20 guan of money, food, cloth, etc., which will be directly shipped to the nearest Dali, so as to make up for the expenses of the Chu Kingdom.

Zhang Xiancun was still very grateful, because he knew in his heart that after supporting his elder brother Yan Wang Murong Nobunaga's large-scale eastern expedition, his father did not have much savings in his hands.

And because of the lack of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper, the Qianzhuanghui could no longer issue silver bills on a large scale.

Therefore, the 30 guan is not a part of the bank notes directly issued for Nobunaga Murong, but real money.

Therefore, regardless of the fact that there are only 30 guan, Zhang Xiancun knows that it was really taken out by his father Zhang Shengren after he gritted his teeth.Since it was so difficult to come here, I still have to listen to it.

So what can quickly spread this sound across the country is naturally war.

This is the external reason. Internally, through these two activities, Zhang Xiancun has basically cleaned up the hearts of the people in the Chu family. These more than 100 million people began to accept him emotionally as the king.

Recently, all hillsides and dams, from the leader to the common people below, are all saying good things about King Zhang.

This is a good sign. Through the extra cake, everyone's interests are finally benefited.

But besides this, there is something else missing, a war in which everyone is involved.

To be exact, it was a victory, a battle that brought together people from all over the Chu Kingdom with glory and blood and sweat.

Therefore, based on internal and external needs, Zhang Xianxuan immediately announced that he would punish the queen kingdom after finishing his civil and military subjects.

The Queen's Kingdom, also known as the Lamphun Kingdom, is a country located in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai in the northern part of Thailand. It was established by the Mon people, with the Chiang Mai-Lampun Basin as its main territory, and its capital is Lamphun Province in the south of Chiang Mai.

This country was established very early. Before the Dai people went south, they were the local snakes here.

Because it was in the early days of the slave society, there were still a large number of matrilineal clan traditions, and the king or the leader of the tribal alliance was mostly a woman, so it was called the Queen's Kingdom.

In history, Nanzhao sent [-] to [-] troops to attack many times, but the queen kingdom was still in its heyday at that time, and it was able to send [-] to [-] troops to fight against Nanzhao. It has never been possible to make the Queen Kingdom surrender.

But now, a regional power has emerged next door to the Queen's Kingdom, that is, the Angkor Dynasty established after the water and land Chenla reunified by Jayavarman.

Although the Angkor Dynasty was unable to conquer the Queen's Kingdom, they cut off the trade routes between the Queen's Kingdom and Huanzhou (central Vietnam) in the Tranh Navy.

This trade route is an important channel for the queen's foreign trade in exchange for salt, sugar, tea and ironware.

The interruption of the trade route made the Queen's Kingdom increasingly impoverished. Three years ago, in order to re-open the trade route, they chose to take risks and start a war, but they were quickly defeated by the Angkor Dynasty, and their strength further declined sharply.

Therefore, for Zhang Xiancun's Chu Fan Kingdom, the declining Queen Kingdom is a very good target to attack.

It is not as powerful as the Jing Navy, nor is it comparable to the Angkor Dynasty. The population and wealth are concentrated in the small area of ​​Chiang Mai-Lampun Basin, which is very convenient for plundering.

At the same time, the tribal residents in the south of the Chu Fan Kingdom are also very familiar with the road to Nanben, and there are ready-made commercial roads around them, and it only takes about forty days to go there.

What is even more exaggerated is that the reasons for the crusade are all ready-made.

It turns out that during the process of Zhang Xian's survival and destruction of Dali, three of the ten black-toothed tribes in the southernmost part of Vientiane were unwilling to pay tribute to the powers in the north, and instead sought to unite with the Queen's Kingdom. The Queen's Kingdom also boldly accepted it. them.

You said that this kind of fat even gave the justice of sending troops, and it was almost fed to the mouth. If you don't beat it, you will be sorry for God's arrangement.

Zhang Xiancun doesn't need the territory of the Queen's Kingdom for the time being, but the precious metals, grain, livestock and population they have accumulated, the entire Chu Fan Kingdom, is still very much needed.

At the end of September, Zhang Xian lived in Mangnai Road (Jinghong) and gathered 20 elite soldiers. With the little black bear Zhang Liechao as his commander, he rushed to the place where the essence of the Queen's Kingdom was located in less than [-] days along the business road in the dense forest. Chiang Mai-Lampun Basin.

At this time, the main weapons of the queen's army were wooden spears, various polished stone axes and hammers, animal bone arrows quenched with some messy jungle venom, iron knives, etc., which were only owned by officers, and armor was basically equivalent to none.

What's important is that they didn't expect the Chu army to attack, and they didn't have any preparations at all. When the Chu army arrived, they were still in a state of extreme confusion.

Little Black Bear directly stationed troops outside Nanben City and came to a siege point for reinforcements. He first defeated more than [-] troops who came to break the siege, and then defeated thousands of soldiers who left the city. He beheaded more than [-] people.

Captured hundreds of noble heads of the Queen's Kingdom, except for the Queen who was not found, almost wiped out all the upper echelons of Lamphun Mansion.

At the end of October, the little black bear defeated the last ten thousand troops recruited by the Queen's Kingdom, completely destroying their ability to resist, and after that, they started to pack up and go home.

In just over a month, [-] Chu troops seized more than [-] catties of refined gold and more than [-] pieces of dog-head gold from Nanbun Mansion, with a total weight of more than [-] catties.

The reason why the harvest is so large is because Chiang Mai and other places are the most important gold producing areas in Thailand in later generations. The Queen's Kingdom occupies this place and naturally accumulates a large amount of gold.

In addition to gold, the Chu army looted a total of 5 shi of grain, more than [-] cattle, more than [-] sheep, and more than [-] men and women.

In addition, there are more than [-] training elephants. Don't underestimate this. Elephants are very important assets in countries including the Chu Kingdom at this time.

Although the elephant army is just a child's play in front of the Central Plains dynasty, for the southern countries, they do not have enough firepower to quickly cause damage to the elephants, so the impact of the elephant army will be multiplied.

At the same time, elephants are the best companions for walking in the jungle. They have a strong carrying capacity and can also be used to open roads in the jungle. The food they need can be found everywhere in the jungle, and even people can get full with them.

Finally, elephants are a very important source of meat at this time. Although the quality of the meat is far inferior to that of cattle and sheep, it is also meat. At the same time, elephant skin is also very good leather, and ivory is even more valuable.

The Poor Queen's Kingdom may have a total of 30 to [-] people. At this time, more than one-tenth of the population was taken away, and they were all young and middle-aged. In addition, about one-tenth of the population was killed, and the population loss was quite serious.

Nearly [-]% of the wealth was looted, and [-]-[-]% was destroyed.

Almost in an instant, this small country, which was able to endure hardships, came to the brink of subjugation.

On the way back to the country, Little Black Bear sent another [-] elite soldiers to detour, suddenly attacked the territory of the Ten Black Tooth Division, and raided them indiscriminately.

After killing ten elders, escorting the family of the three masters who colluded with the queen kingdom to Mannaidao (Jinghong), and executing them in front of more than ten thousand Chu troops, the Chu army stopped killing.

Then the little black bear blackmailed [-] elephants, [-] cattle, [-] sheep, and [-] catties of gold and silver from ten groups before letting them go.

From then on, the Black Tooth Ten Divisions were extremely obedient and never dared to disobey orders.

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In December, Dali City was filled with jubilation, which was the most important indicator of being a human king or an animal leader.

That is whether you can fight, whether you can meet your own development needs by plundering other ethnic groups while protecting the ethnic group.

This war against the Queen's Kingdom undoubtedly perfectly demonstrated this side of Zhang Xiancun.

From the perspective of the former Dali people and the current Chu Fan people, the "big country" in the south like the Queen's Kingdom, which has been conquered several times by Nanzhao and cost countless money and food, was not only overthrown by King Zhang in the first battle, but also looted in a short time The arrival of a large population is enough to prove that this king is very reliable.

This kind of prestige gained by war is very solid, just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, other emperors who were as militaristic as him would have been overthrown by the whole country long ago.

But Liu Xiaozhu insisted on relying on the great prestige of overthrowing the Huns, let alone overturning his car, he was able to enter the ranks of the eternal emperor.

Today, Zhang Xiancun has achieved this in a small way, so in an instant, his image is more quickly accepted by the people of Chu Fan, and the influence of the Dali Duan Clan is rapidly dissipating.

And there is another thing that is beyond Zhang Xiancun's expectations, that is, at this time, the people of various large and small countries located in Thailand are very popular slaves in the Central Plains.

The word Siam in Siam means slave in Sanskrit.

The Kunlun slaves who were popular in the Tang Dynasty in history actually mainly came from two places, the big and small countries in Thailand in later generations.The Shalentra Dynasty occupied Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and part of Java.

If you think about it, you know, not to mention that Africa is thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty, but the lazy, unruly and sneaky habits of black Africans are not qualified to be slaves to the wealthy families of the Tang Dynasty.

Only those in Southeast Asia who are not tall, have dark complexion, are deeply influenced by Indian culture and are submissive, and whose appearance can barely be accepted by the Tang people are the legendary Kunlun slaves who endure hardships and stand hard work, and are obedient and tame.

Even at that time, many people on the Indian mainland were plundered and sold to Datang and Tubo, and they were also a good source of tame slaves.

Therefore, when these [-] to [-] prisoners of war from the Kingdom of the Queen appeared in Dali City, the vassals of the Chu clan, the masters of the Dongzhai, and the merchants from the Central Plains rushed to buy them from the army.

In just one morning, nearly 2 people were bought away, and Zhang Xiancun quickly recovered more than [-] guan in silver.

Zhang Dawang has made a lot of money in this wave. Not only has he gained the hearts of the people in the country and established his prestige, but he also quickly returned to his capital and even made a profit.

By the way, I also practiced and adjusted the cooperation between the northern and southern Chu army, vassals, and local officials, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness.

Overjoyed, Zhang Xiancun announced that all prefectures and counties would halve the two taxes in spring and autumn next year, which drew cheers from the audience, and the people prostrated themselves on the mountain and shouted long live all over the city.

Afterwards, Zhang Xiancun ordered people to pack up the dog's head gold and send them all to Luoyang, the god capital, to honor his father Zhang Shengren.

There are hundreds of Kunlun slaves, men, women and children who set off together with these dog head golds, who will serve as future maids and servants in the palace.

. . . .

Jing Haijun and Wu Changwen are cooperating everywhere, pretending to send troops to suppress someone for a while, and then pretending to be earnest and reasoning everywhere.

All he did was to collect the 20 guan requested by the Korean public Zhang Zhaojun.

All the Wu family's gold, silver, brocade, silk, etc. add up to only [-] to [-] guan, and the rest are food, armor, weapons, etc. that must be kept, so Wu Changwen must find someone to 'finance'.

So, is anyone willing to contribute money with Wu Changwen?

have!Because of Wu Changwen, there is still no shortage of cleverness.

He let out the words, saying that if the Korean government wants 20 guan, the Jing Navy in Jiaozhou can gain a semi-independent status just like the Qingyuan Army in Zhangzhou.

Then as long as the money is collected, Wu Changwen will be able to get the title of Duke of Jiaozhou County or Duke of Annan County and the positions of Governor of Jiaozhou and Supervisor of Military Horses of Jiaozhou.

Other investors can be recommended by him, and get the civil and military official positions such as long history and suppressing envoys of other states.

What is this equivalent to? This is equivalent to unraveling the ten envoys and the Wu family who have entered the chicken eating finals. When the imperial edict comes, everyone will go their separate ways and rob the prefectures and counties that they had voluntarily given up before. Come back, each live his own life.

Therefore, Wu Changwen's method is still very tempting to some families. After fighting for so many years, some people inevitably don't want to continue fighting.

Of course, there are also those who don't believe it, or it's not that they don't believe it, but those who refuse to accept that the Wu family continues to climb over everyone's heads.

But this is only a headache for Wu Changwen, Zhang Zhaojun's strategy has succeeded anyway.

Because Wu Changwen did this, the other ten envoys immediately thought that Wu Changwen had cleared the way for the court, and they immediately let go of their wariness about the court and concentrated on fighting with Wu Changwen.

. . . .

In Luoyang, the capital of the gods, the Zhenguan Hall of Ziwei Palace is brightly lit. Hundreds of Zhaowu Bachelors and Qionglin Bachelors of the Zhongshu Province in the inner court, and Hanlin Bachelors of the Shangshu Province in the Outer Dynasty were all summoned by the emperor in the hall.

Together with the emperor, they carefully sorted out all the recorded information of Annan in the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years in the vast records and albums.

The reason for mobilizing so many teachers and mobilizing people is because Zhang Tie knows in his heart that Annan's escape from the imperial court's control can be said to be China's worst loss in thousands of years, not one of them.

What is outside the Northeast, what is in the south of Tibet, what is outside Ili, what is Outer Mongolia, all the losses added up are not as great as the losses caused by the loss of Annan.

If in future generations, the Republic can own the land of Annan, with our ability, it will be an economically important place no less than the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta.

More importantly, the hand of the Republic can reach directly into the heart of Southeast Asia.

We can even directly become a part of ASEAN, be the leader within ASEAN, and firmly grasp this huge market.

By the way, strangling Japan and South Korea's neck so that they dare not be unscrupulous dogs, and even when they are not satisfied, they can easily blow the kangaroo's head.

Therefore, before solving the problem of Jing Haijun, Zhang Tie must deeply understand, what is the reason that caused Jing Haijun to be lost at this time and never come back?

After waiting for most of the night, the report finally came out, a result that surprised Zhang Ting a little.

The reason why the Jinghai Navy has repeatedly fought for independence is that the biggest problem is why they have to hand over the results of their hard work to the country.

It's like a little concubine in a big family going out to start a business. Although he did use the power of the family to some extent, he doesn't think so. He thinks that all he has obtained is due to his blood and sweat. Got it.

Seeing that the family seems to have taken away a large part of the dividends without much effort, he feels more and more uncomfortable. In the end, how to keep all the results for himself has become his greatest wish.

Therefore, when the country was prosperous, such as during the Tang Dynasty, Annan Jiaozhou became a key city for maritime trade, and it was also the largest base for Kunlun slaves to enter the Tang Dynasty.

Tang Jun went south from here, either by war or by purchasing a large number of Kunlun slaves, and then conducted unified training in Jiaozhou City, and finally resold them to the Central Plains.

In this process, the entire Annan Han immigrant group has benefited. Coupled with the prosperity brought about by sea trade, they are naturally willing to support the country.

However, when Nanzhao took over Annan several times, and the decline of the Tang Dynasty, Kunlun slaves could no longer be used.

The geographical location of Jiaozhou is not comparable to that of Guangzhou in the north. Naturally, many functions have been siphoned away by Guangzhou, and the decline is very fast.

This is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, the original benefits are gone, and the taxes have to be escorted to the Central Plains every year, and both sides are damaged, and dissatisfaction grows extremely quickly.

And in order not to continue to send taxes to the court, the best way is to make trouble.

This is for economic reasons, and it is even more exaggerated culturally.

Due to the isolation between Annan and Guangxi, Guangdong and high mountains, the transportation is very inconvenient, and it has always been a place where the imperial court exiled criminal officials and criminals. It can be said that the Han people here basically have some resentment towards the imperial court.

At the same time, since the Warring States period, the Central Plains people began to drive the Baiyue people located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the south. After more than 1000 years of continuous expulsion and integration, those who are willing to be the same as the Han people have basically been integrated.

Those Baiyue survivors who were unwilling to integrate basically fled to Annan, which was farther away from the Central Plains, and settled here to mix with the more primitive local aborigines.

Well, it's all right now, the offenders, criminals and their descendants are mixed with the Baiyue descendants who were expelled all the way, and the grievances exploded.

Of course they are honest when it is beneficial, but when these people join forces, they will immediately start making trouble.

Not only the descendants of Baiyue used Dayue as a signboard, but also the Han people did the same.

Of course, Guangdong and Guangxi are actually places where criminals and criminal officials are exiled, but because of the existence of Lingqu, as long as the imperial court occupies Guilin and other places, it can easily attack Guangzhou from the Lijiang River, just like Zhang Zhou destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty this time. , Dissipate these grievances with tyrannical force.

At the same time, because the terrain cannot be relied on and the transportation is relatively convenient, the Guangdong and Guangxi regions have actually been continuously accepting the culture from the Central Plains, and belong to the role of a cultural successor.

But in Annan, the Red River that runs through the territory originated in Yunnan. When the Central Plains court could not firmly control the Yunnan-Guizhou region, the Red River and these rivers flowing from northwest to southeast would not only fail to help the crusade against Annan, but instead acted as resistance.

Most of the crusades of the Central Plains dynasty in history suffered disastrous defeats along the Baiteng River.

Therefore, it is very difficult to defeat Annan at this time.

At the same time, the closed geographical environment is very easy to breed an independent mentality, and surrounded by a bunch of barbarian small states, it also encourages the mentality of the Annan Han people that I am the only king in Tiannan.

They don't want to continue to be the trash can of the Central Plains Dynasty, and they want to be a little China outside Jin'ou.

To sum up, Annan's problem is that it is not beneficial to obey the imperial court economically, the ethnic group does not like the imperial court of the Central Plains in terms of experience, and it is easy to breed self-consciousness culturally.

Knowing this, Zhang Tie knew in his heart that the military was only an aid to regain Annan, and if he wanted to do it once and for all, he had to think of other ways.

(End of this chapter)