Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 588 Eastern Emperor (please subscribe!)
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Just as Li Yan expected, it didn't take long before the news came that Li Renzong passed away, and Li Renzong's nephew, Li Yanghuan (Li Shenzong), who was only 12 years old, succeeded to the throne. After breaking through, the Li Dynasty was destroyed by the Liangshan Army.

At present, Xiao Jiasui and others are sending a large army to escort Li Yanghuan and the queen that Li Yanghuan has just accepted, as well as the princes and ministers of the Li Dynasty and the daughters of the princes and nobles of the Li Dynasty to meet Li Yan in Hainan County. Later, they will give the treasures of the Li Dynasty to Li Yan send it.

but--

This process has not been smooth sailing.

When Xiao Jiasui and others attacked the ancient Fazhou of Beijiang, the Khmer Kingdom suddenly sent [-] war elephants to rescue Li Chao.

Afterwards, Xiao Jiasui and others found out that Li Chao called the Khmer Kingdom a tribute, and Li Shenzong also recognized Suryavarman II as his uncle, and the Khmer Kingdom sent the Ten Thousand War Elephants to Li Chao.

This Khmer country is just the name of the Khmer people themselves. The Song Dynasty called them Chenla, and later generations called it Cambodia. Later generations of scholars called this dynasty the Angkor Dynasty.

Don’t think that Cambodia has always been so weak. In this era, Cambodia, that is, the Khmer country, is very powerful. It occupies all of Cambodia, most of Thailand and Laos, Vietnam and southern Myanmar in later generations. It is the most powerful country in the history of Southeast Asia. It has had a major impact on almost all countries in the Indochina Peninsula. In terms of land area alone, the Khmer country does not lose water to Liangshan at all, even its military strength, and it does not lose water to Liangshan—Khmer has hundreds of thousands of troops, Nearly 20 war elephants.

War elephants are very powerful. They are invulnerable and unstoppable. Their long trunks roll up people lightly, and then smash them to pieces. Their huge elephant hooves step on people, and people immediately become meatloaf .

The first time they faced the elephant soldiers, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and the others were really not sure. It can be said that they fought that battle bravely and did it well. If they couldn't win, they planned to retreat decisively.

But what Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and others didn't expect was that the war elephants are powerful, but they have a fatal weakness, that is, they are very timid, so timid that Liangshan Army's unconscionable cannons fired only one round, they would startle. , and then ran around, and then trampled on each other.

As a result, the Liangshan Army won almost without a fight.

Li Yan soon met Li Shenzong and other princes and nobles of the Li Dynasty.

Li Yanghuan, who was only 12 years old, trembled after seeing Li Yan, and he was not a wise monarch at first glance.

On the contrary, Li Shenzong's queen behaved gracefully, which Li Yan admired very much.

Li Yan honestly took Li Yanghuan's queen and more than 20 Li Dynasty beauties he liked into his harem, and then asked people to send Li Yanghuan and others to Seoul to decide how to deal with it later.

After that, Li Yan changed the Li Dynasty to Annan County, appointed General Lu as the prefect, and transferred Bian Xiang and the second chamber to guard the county.

When Xiao Jiasui and others cleaned up the remnants of the Li Dynasty soldiers and remnants in Annan County, a Champa man named Fan Zhiyang came to Hainan County City to ask Li Yan to see him, and offered Li Yan [-] Champa beauties (three of them were or Fan Zhiyang's daughter) and the top ten treasures.

Champa is Champa, and Champa rice is produced here. It is located in the southeast of the Indochina Peninsula. Luo, to put it more vividly, it is the southern part of Vietnam in later generations.

Zhanpo was originally Xianglin County in Rinan County, which was established in the Han Dynasty of China. Later, Qu Kui (also known as Qu Da or Qu Lian, also known as Shili Moluo), the son of Gongcao of Xianglin County, killed the county magistrate and called himself king. The Champa Kingdom was established.

The second stop on the southern line is the Champa Kingdom.

So, hearing that Fan Zhiyang was from Champa, Li Yan thought about it and met him.

As soon as they met, Fan Zhiyang knelt down and said: "Fan Zhiyang, the subjugated man, pays homage to the Eastern Emperor!"

Hearing Fan Zhiyang's words, Li Yan was taken aback, "When did I have this title?"

In fact, this is the title given to Li Yan by Fan Zhiyang.

The news of this era is not so well-informed, and the time for Li Yan's rise is short, so Fan Zhiyang only knows that Li Yan comes from a powerful country in the east and is the king of that powerful country, but he doesn't know what that powerful country is, and Shuibo Liangshan is not Like the name of a country, Fan Zhiyang didn't know how to address Li Yan.

In addition, Fan Zhiyang wanted something from Li Yan, so he tried his best to flatter Li Yan, trying to make Li Yan happy, and then agreed to his request.

Therefore, Fan Zhiyang gave Li Yan the title of "Emperor of the East".

Seeing that Li Yan didn't seem to be disgusted with the title of "Emperor of the East", but was a little puzzled, Fan Zhiyang said: "In the hearts of the subjugated people, you are the greatest emperor in the East, so the subjugated people respectfully call you the Eastern Emperor."

Fan Zhiyang said three "subjugated people" after only two sentences. If Li Yan didn't notice, he was deliberately embarrassing Fan Zhiyang.

Li Yan didn't want to embarrass Fan Zhiyang, so he looked at Fan Zhiyang and asked, "What do you mean by calling yourself a subjugated person?"

Fan Zhiyang hurriedly said: "The subjugated people are descendants of the Champa royal family..."

To put it simply, in less than a hundred years since the establishment of the Champa Kingdom in Qulian, the imperial power fell into the hands of the Fan family, and then passed on for hundreds of years before being destroyed by the Pang surname.

And this Fan Zhiyang is a direct descendant of the Fan family, and is now a very successful maritime merchant, and the purpose of his begging to see Li Yan is to let Li Yan help him restore the country. He promised that as long as Li Yan helps him restore the country, the Champa Kingdom will always respect water Mount Liang is the sovereign state.

Li Yan didn't want to agree to this.

You must know that Li Yan did not come out this time to fight, but to open up business routes.

The Champa Kingdom did not attack the territory of Shuibo Liangshan and rob the population of Shuibo Liangshan like Li Dynasty did, nor did it expressly oppose trade with Shuibo Liangshan. Li Yan had no reason and no need to attack Champa Kingdom.

But Fan Zhiyang found an excuse for Li Yan, that is, the Khmer Kingdom and the Champa Kingdom, which have been fighting all the time, seem to have joined forces, and their enemy is obviously Shuibo Liangshan.

In addition, the Champa Kingdom also plundered Hainan Island, plundered the population of the Song Dynasty, and often obtained benefits by attacking merchant ships or using troops abroad. It is also a very aggressive country and is not a good trading partner. .

In addition, there is another very small excuse, that is, Fan Zhiyang's three daughters are all beautiful, especially the second daughter, Fan Hongmin, who is so beautiful that Li Yan misses it very much. This also affected Li Yan a little bit.

Of course, the most important thing is that Champa may be a stumbling block on its own business road.

Therefore, Li Yan finally decided to destroy the Champa Kingdom. After all, this important turnover station is in his own hands, which is the safest.

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(End of this chapter)