Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 595 The extremely rich Angkor Thom (please subscribe!)
...

Under the occupation of Queen Kingdom, Fallapati Kingdom and more than a dozen small countries, the territory of Khmer Kingdom has shrunk dramatically.

but--

At this moment of sharing the cake, it is impossible to get the biggest and sweetest piece by just hiding behind. Taking a step back, if you don't work hard, if you don't show your strength, even if you get a big piece of cake by luck, others will Will miss it.

Therefore, after annihilating the large-scale remnants in Annan County and Champa County, the Liangshan army came to Angkor Thom, preparing for a decisive battle with the Khmer army.

In this battle, Shuibo Liangshan dispatched a total of [-] troops.

And the Queen's Kingdom, the Fallapati Kingdom and a dozen small countries also dispatched more than [-] troops.

In total, there are more than 20 troops on the coalition side.

On the Khmer side, a total of nearly 30 troops and 10,000+ war elephants were dispatched.

The two sides fought a decisive battle on a plain between Angkor and Pakse.

In this battle, Li Yan appointed Han Shizhong as the full command of the capital.

Han Shizhong defeated the Khmer army with unconscionable cannons, bed crossbows, and thunder vehicles equipped with flying gods and thunders. More than 10,000 war elephants.

The Kingdom of the Queen, the Kingdom of Fallapati and a dozen small countries took the opportunity to add insult to injury and wantonly annexed the territory of the Khmer Kingdom.

Of course, the largest and wealthiest piece (that is, the south of Angkor Thom, including a large area of ​​Bangkok and Phuket in later generations) was still included in the territory by Shuibo Liangshan.

Li Yan divided this territory into three counties (namely Chenla County, Bangkok County, and Phuket County), and also drew a large part into Champa County to digest this huge territory.

Li Yan attached great importance to the Indochina Peninsula. He not only appointed Wang Lun as the governor of the Indochinese Peninsula (and the prefect of Chenla County) to be fully responsible for all civil and political affairs in the Indochina Peninsula, but also appointed Lu Wei as the prefect of Annan, Guo Yong as the prefect of Champa, and Jin Fu. Zhe was the prefect of Bangkok, and Hu Quan was the prefect of Phuket. In addition, thousands of experienced officials were transferred from Seoul to manage here.

From this series of appointments by Li Yan, it is not difficult to see how much Li Yan attaches importance to the Indochina Peninsula.

Later, under Wang Lun's suggestion, Li Yan also sent troops to occupy the entire Malay Peninsula, which the Khmer Kingdom and Sanfoqi had been fighting for, and then merged it into Phuket County and was governed by Hu Quan.

In this way, Shuibo Liangshan strangled the main trade channel between China and the West.

It can be said that Li Yan is now fully capable of strangling the biggest source of income in the Northern Song Dynasty.

As long as Li Yan prohibits the merchant ships of the Northern Song Dynasty from going to sea, even if there is no Jin army invasion, within two or three years, the Northern Song Dynasty, which relies heavily on this commercial route financially, will boast its economy and then collapse.

Not only the Northern Song Dynasty, even the Southern Song Dynasty can be established by luck.

Without the support of this great business road, the Southern Song Dynasty would never have a chance to stand up, let alone last.

This is one of the main reasons why Li Yan attaches so much importance to this great business way—as long as he masters this great business way, Song Guo is the dough in Li Yan's hands. Song Guo had no power to resist at all.

It's just that Song Guo, who is currently in chaos, has not noticed this extremely important matter.

The Indochina Peninsula is extremely important here, too important to be missed.

Therefore, after defeating the Khmer army and making the Khmer country no longer have a chance to turn around, Li Yan, who had been staying in Hainan County for several months, finally set off to go west again, and then came to Angkor Thom.

This is not Li Yan's first visit to Angkor Thom. In fact, Li Yan has been to Angkor Wat as a tourist in his previous life. The reason why Hu Yanqing and Han Shizhong were able to attack Angkor Thom from the waterway and fight down Angkor Thom was because Li Yan The way the Cham people heard from the tour guide to destroy the Khmer country.

Although it was not the first time to visit Angkor Thom, Li Yan was still shocked by the magnificence of Angkor Thom.

The total area of ​​Angkor Thom has reached nearly 200 million mu!

This sprawling metropolis is even bigger than London and Paris in later generations!
To use a more vivid analogy, Bianliang City, the first city in the East, is only more than 50 mu. That is to say, the area of ​​Angkor Thom is four times that of Bianliang City!
Perhaps, Angkor Thom is the largest city of this era.

The shock of Angkor Thom is not only reflected in its size, but also in its grandeur and delicacy.

Only Angkor Wat (that is, the temples in Angkor City) used more than 500 million stones. The average weight of these huge stones reached one and a half tons, and the largest even reached seven or six tons. If all the stones consumed by all the temples in Angkor Thom are added, the stones it consumes will be far greater than all the pyramids in Egypt combined.

As for refinement.

Such a huge building complex can actually make every detail almost perfect, and its exquisiteness, delicacy, and delicacy have all reached an unprecedented height.

It is not surprising that Angkor Thom has such a large scale and is so exquisite and delicate, because the Khmer Kingdom used almost all craftsmen from Southeast Asia, including India, to build Angkor Thom. The total number of these craftsmen exceeds 20, and all of them are top in the world. There are as many as [-] to [-] top engravers alone.

very lucky!

When Hu Yanqing and Han Shizhong captured Angkor Thom, the more than 20 craftsmen all built temples in Angkor Thom.

Li Yan honestly "invited" all these more than 20 craftsmen to Seoul, and then contributed to the construction of Shuibo Liangshan.

In addition to "inviting" all the craftsmen to Seoul, Li Yan also sent the 60 Khmer prisoners of war, [-] to [-] Li Chaohe prisoners of war, and the [-] to [-] war elephants to the eight counties of Kyushu. Five or six million Korean, Taepong, and Japanese prisoners of war dug gold and silver mines together.

The scale and grandeur of Angkor Thom even moved Li Yan. If he could not aspire to the Central Plains, he could consider the idea of ​​establishing a country here and making it the capital.

Of course, this idea just flashed in Li Yan's mind and then disappeared.

As a Chinese, Li Yan naturally wanted to get the land of the Central Plains, which was nothing more than a few counties of his own country in the end.

Angkor Thom is so magnificent, the wealth it possesses is naturally amazing, even Li Yan, who is used to seeing the world, was shocked!

There is so much wealth that Li Yan can no longer estimate and describe the amount.

Li Yan can only use some adjectives he knows to express the huge wealth.

Under Li Yan's order, more than 200 civilians and prisoners of war, as well as the left army of the never-setting sun fleet and the right army of the never-setting sun fleet with more than 2000 large ships, spent three months before the wealth owned by Angkor Thom (also Including the wealth owned by the Li Dynasty and the Champa Kingdom) moved to Taiwan County, and it took another half a year for the right army of the Sun Never Set Fleet to transport all these wealth to Seoul.

This amount of wealth was so great that Zhao Kai, the Minister of the Household Department, rushed from Seoul to Angkor Thom.

After Zhao Kai came, Li Yan and Zhao Kai chatted secretly for three days.

During these three days, Li Yan and Zhao Kai agreed on a major event, that is, currency reform, changing the original gold and silver bimetallic standard system implemented in Shuibo Liangshan to the gold standard position, and eliminating the hidden danger of coin currency.

This reform requires the support of an extremely large amount of gold.

Previously, even though the people from Shuibo Liangshan Industry Department found more than a dozen gold mines in Kyushu and other eight counties, including Lingjia Gold Mine, Sado Gold Mountain, and Dasha Gold Field, Li Yan did not initiate this reform. thoughts.

Now that the Khmer Kingdom has been conquered, Li Yan immediately prepares to implement this reform.

This shows how rich the Khmer country is.

Of course, Zhao Kai is just formulating this reform plan at present, and the actual implementation will have to wait for Li Yan to return to Seoul—the interests of all parties involved in this reform are too great, and it is impossible for Zhao Kai to complete this reform unless Li Yan personally sits in charge .

……

(End of this chapter)