Qiming 1158

Chapter 1355 Champaign's Request
Although the Southeast Asian countries are small countries compared to the Ming Kingdom, their combat effectiveness and agricultural productivity levels are indeed not low.

For a long period of time in the agricultural society, the favorable climatic conditions promoted the development of civilization, and the countries of Southeast Asia were all prosperous in martial arts, and they could fight against the Central Plains dynasty from time to time.

Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, each of which had wars with Southeast Asia, did not take any big advantage.

In particular, the Mongolian and Yuan dynasty ruled in high latitudes. Once it reached low latitudes, it immediately collapsed. Three consecutive crusades against Nanyue could not be won, but instead lost troops. After that, he wanted to launch a fourth time, but the emperor died. It's over, it's over.

Not to mention the Chinese dynasty, Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands were all attacked by them in the early colonial era. They also owned and used arquebuses and early artillery, and they fought very frequently.

It was not until the trend of the industrialization era swept through, and the industrialization of Britain and France followed, they were involved in it and crushed into slag, and they have been unable to recover since then.

The current era can be regarded as the era of prosperous military virtues in Southeast Asian countries. The combat effectiveness of the army is quite good. Su Yonglin is sure to defeat their regular army, but he is not completely sure to swallow it in one bite.

Because his Ming Dynasty is also an agricultural country, not an industrial country, and cannot provide the kind of destructive war mobilization force of a real industrial country.

So he had to be careful.

After encouraging and praising them for obeying the law and paying taxes, Su Yonglin sent away the merchants from South Vietnam, then met with merchants from other countries, and finally, he met with the merchants from Champaign.

Unlike businessmen in all other countries, the businessmen from Champaign not only presented gifts, but also mentioned two things to Su Yonglin.

The first thing is that the King of Champa hopes to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and establish a very pure and friendly relationship between the suzerain and the vassal. As for the Song Kingdom... Who is that?do not know.

The second thing is that the King of Cham City hopes that Daming can reprimand Li Chao, let them stop invading Cham City, stop this kind of behavior of bullying the weak, and save Cham City from water and fire.

Su Yonglin was a little surprised by these two requests.

"This is a request made to me by an official state envoy. You are businessmen, why would you make such a request to me?"

Not only Su Yonglin, but also the officials of the Shipping Department present were puzzled and dissatisfied with this - this is not within the responsibility of their group of businessmen, and they have not mentioned this matter beforehand. Sneak attack, not talking about martial arts behavior.

The businessmen in Champaign obviously expected this, and immediately knelt down to apologize, admit their mistakes to Su Yonglin, and then explain their reasons for doing so.

They are indeed businessmen, but because they were summoned by the King of Champa before leaving for Guangzhou, they can also be regarded as special envoys in a sense. breakthrough.

It's just that they didn't expect that Su Yonglin would come by himself before they went north. This saved the boss's troubles, and they were very happy.

The meaning of the King of Champa is actually to re-establish the suzerainty relationship between Daming and the Champaign, and submit to Daming by calling his subjects and paying tribute, and then in exchange for Daming's help to the Champaign.

As long as the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is willing to issue an edict ordering South Vietnam not to continue to use troops to the south, so as to successfully stop South Vietnam's military operations against Champaign, then the Champaign State is also willing to thank the Emperor of Ming Dynasty with generous gifts and pay tribute from generation to generation. Heart.

After listening to them, Su Yonglin didn't respond for the time being. He just reassured them and told them not to worry. He would discuss with the officials to see what to do.

"This is a big matter, and the conflict between Erguo and South Vietnam needs to be carefully investigated by Daming before making a decision, so please wait for a while and don't be in a hurry."

Su Yonglin dealt with these Champaign merchants, and after finishing this symbolic conversation, he called Ma Zian, the head of the Skynet Army, to ask him about the issue.

The matter between Nanyue and the Champaign state did not belong to the core interests of the Ming state before the Song Dynasty was successfully destroyed, and it had nothing to do with the Ming state itself. Su Yonglin had limited energy, so there was no need to pay attention.

However, now that the territory of the Ming Dynasty has advanced to this line, and there are future nautical plans and revolutionary plans, it is very meaningful to have a comprehensive understanding of these countries in Southeast Asia and their current situation.

Ancient China has long regarded itself as the kingdom of the emperor in the world, and regarded the four countries as the country of barbarians in remote areas. With the mentality of charity, they allowed them to contact and learn the culture of the Central Plains, and waited for them to take the initiative to seek suzerainty relations.

The Central Plains Dynasty often did not take the initiative to find them and understand them, nor did they think it was necessary. It was normal to come from all over the world to congratulate them, and to go out to find them would be a loss of identity.

At least at the official level, such behavior is relatively rare.

Therefore, the descriptions of the countries in the world and the changes in the names of the dynasties and countries in the history books of the dynasties are very vague, and they pay little attention to their political status, customs, etc.

And these are all things that Su Yonglin needs to pay attention to.

In addition to understanding the situation in the Lingnan area, the branch of the Skynet Army in the Lingnan area also has the responsibility to understand the current situation of Southeast Asian countries and politics, and to a certain extent, spying on external news has become their main business.

Their spies and peripheral forces widely exist in the local area in the form of business trips. They even get to know the local people by learning the local language, and then take advantage of the local people's dissatisfaction with the regime to recruit the local people as members of the peripheral organizations to develop further intelligence work.

Because of this, the Skynet Army has also learned a lot about the folk customs of Southeast Asian countries, not just focusing on the political state.

Although Su Yonglin was dissatisfied that the Skynet Army paid too much attention to spying on external information, he did not think that spying on external information was not important.

Ma Zian has done a good job in this regard. He knows a lot about the news of Southeast Asian countries, and he can even be said to be an expert, so he will also be one of the important leaders of the Southwest Group of the Skynet Army in the future.

Through Ma Ziang's detailed explanation, Su Yonglin has generally understood the political ecology of Southeast Asia during this period.

First of all, during this period, there were not so many countries on the face of the country.

Dali counts as one, Bagan Dynasty in Myanmar counts as one, South Vietnam counts as one, Champaign counts as one, and then there are Chenla Kingdom and Sanfoqi Kingdom.

Each has a bit of scale, each has a bit of strength, and each is not that simple.

Their state power is organized to varying degrees.

Some are more highly organized, the central government is relatively strong, and there is a strong military mobilization force.

Some are less organized, the local tyrants are very powerful, there are kings everywhere, short-lived and brilliant.

At present, the main energy of the Ming Kingdom is to be placed on the South Vietnam and Dali Kingdom.

Before the demise of Song, the relationship between Dali Kingdom and Song was barely passable, and it was better than the relationship with Nanyue. Song also recognized the independent status of Dali Kingdom, and Dali Kingdom did not have much quarrel with Song, and the two sides maintained a balance of terror.

And from the perspective of the state of Dali, there are also many internal contradictions. The central government is not necessarily strong, and there are many local forces. They are more than self-preserving, but they are not aggressive enough. As long as there are no clear external dangers, it is difficult for them to be fully armed.

In contrast, the Li Dynasty of South Vietnam is not a peaceful existence.

(End of this chapter)