The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 1 Who is the Hero

This is a wedding room, or to be more precise, a bridal chamber.

The room is decorated in an antique style, with mirror frames, washbasin racks, brocade stools, large beds and so on. Not only are the materials used exquisite, but it also has the obvious characteristics of fairy furniture, and it must be the work of a master.

There is also the Huanghuali marble dragon screen standing not far in front of Zhou Zibu. It is a rare masterpiece from the early Qing Dynasty. If it were auctioned, it would start at at least two million.

Zhou Zibu, who has a little knowledge of antiques and is a frequent visitor to Haidong and Teacher Niu’s live broadcast rooms, immediately noticed it.

Although these things are not very dangerous or dangerous, they generally need to be carefully maintained and not placed so casually.

The crackling sound of burning candles was heard, and Zhou Zibu looked at it carefully with a little surprise.

Under the dancing and sarcastic red candlelight, a large double happiness character was pasted on the main hall of the room. Beside him was a faded red dress that looked like a Ming-style phoenix crown and bridal robe.

"I'm dead, I must be dead!" Zhou Zibu muttered in a low voice. He knew very well what had happened.

Born in 95, he graduated from a private undergraduate school in Southwest China with a major in applied chemistry.

However, due to his extraordinary language talent and easy-going nature, Zhou Zibu, who had excellent English communication skills, successfully entered a large state-owned enterprise as soon as he graduated, and was then sent to work in an oil mine in Nigeria.

Although working overseas is far away from home and the customs are very different, and is considered a tough job by many people, Zhou Zibu has loved adventure since he was a child and does not find it that difficult.

He learned French and quickly adapted to the local climate and eating habits. He tried white horses, black horses, and mixed-breed horses. In addition, the salary level was much higher than that in China, so he was reluctant to leave.

But it seemed as if God was destined to play a joke on him. Just when Zhou Zibu was enjoying life, illness came knocking on his door.

After struggling for several years, amid the cries of his loved ones, he reached the end that everyone was destined to reach.

"I must be dead!" Zhou Zibu confirmed again in a low voice. The severe pain brought by cancer cells seemed to be still hidden deep in his soul.

But this place can't be the underworld or heaven, so there is only one possibility: traveling through time.

"How could Mao Lang be like this?
Today is a happy day for you and me, so please don't mention the word death again. If you were gone, what would I do?

The mumbling seemed to be heard, and with a clang, a red dress mingled with a strong smell of alcohol and some poor Cantonese vernacular suddenly blew into the bridal chamber like an uninvited storm.

Zhou Zibu's heart skipped a beat. Although he was not a hardened warrior in bed, he was very familiar with this kind of deliberately added green tea flavor.

Naturally, as if he had met his natural enemy, Zhou Zibu, who loved to torture Fei Yangyang on the Internet, immediately became extremely alert.

Meet a master!
The little beauty in the distance walked around the screen and came gracefully. She was wearing a red dress and black hair. Her face was a standard oval face, her skin was as white and delicate as a freshly peeled chicken egg, and her eyes were slender and beautiful.

But there was a blush between her eyebrows, and it was obvious that the spring spirit had not yet faded. It seemed that she had rushed here in a hurry.

Although she pretended to cry, she seemed to be acting according to the situation. She was not as professional as the teachers in the island countries, and her acting skills were even worse than those of the young girls in the business world.

It’s fake, so fake that it can’t be more fake, yet it’s so beautiful!
Because this woman is really beautiful, so beautiful that many men who work for her are willing to do the same even if it is obvious that they are being deceived.

This is fucking top-notch green tea. If it were in the future, the fish pond at home would probably be bigger than the West Lake in Hangzhou.

However, now the enemy is in the open while we are in the dark, and Zhou Zibu, who has just arrived, is a little unsure how to respond.

At this moment, a feeling of drowsiness came over Zhou Zibu, and he felt a sharp pain in his head. He thought that the cancer had come with him, and he fainted in panic.

"Coward!" Seeing that Zhou Zibu had fainted again, the green tea bitch snorted in disgust and pointed at Zhou Zibu lying on the ground to her personal maid.

"Just let him lie on the ground and keep a close eye on him. Don't let him do anything suicidal or disturb the fun of me and the Second Master."

. . . .

The year was 1671, the th year of the Yongli reign of the Ming Dynasty and the th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty.

The country was destroyed, the family was ruined, and the land of China sank.

At this time, it had been almost ten years since Emperor Yongli died for his country at Bizipo in Kunming and Guo Xingcheng died of grief in Dongning, crying out, "I have no face to see the late emperor in the underworld."

In Dongling Village, Haikang County, Leizhou City, Guangdong Province, a sixteen-year-old boy bid farewell to his mother and brother, his face wet with tears, his voice choking with sobs. "My mother is still alive, and I'm going on such a long journey. This is truly unfilial. But the Eastern Tartars' order to shave my head and change my clothes has arrived. I'm a Han man, how can I wear the clothes of the barbarians?"

Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve at the same time. Today, I can only feel guilty towards my mother."

After saying this, the young man kowtowed nine times to his brother who stayed in his hometown to take care of his mother, to express his gratitude and entrustment. Then, in order to avoid being pursued by the Qing government, he built a tomb for himself with his own hands and buried himself under dead branches and leaves.

There was no body in the coffin, only a wooden plaque he had carved with his own hands, which read:
"The unfilial son Jiu left his country and home in the 25th year of the Yongli reign of the Ming Dynasty."

After doing all this, the young man led more than a thousand relatives and fellow villagers who also refused to shave their heads and change their clothes, and sailed dozens of ships south to Zhenla to seek survival.

From then on, he was ashamed to be a Qing official and was willing to die in the southern wilderness.

Two years later, the young man bribed the favorite concubine of the King of Chenla in Cambodia and obtained the official position of Xunkanwuya (garrison commander).

He brought his people to this small port located at the southernmost tip of the Mekong Plain, more than 200 kilometers away from Ho Chi Minh City in later generations. The boy named this place Ha Tien.

For the next 65 years, the young man recruited refugees in Ha Tien, reclaimed wasteland, managed swamps, encouraged farming and weaving, hired craftsmen, promoted trade, and even opened casinos to collect gambling taxes, working tirelessly to build a place for his people to settle down in the south of the world.

When the young man grew into an old man and passed away at the age of 81, the Hexian Town under his rule governed five cities, had 300,000 acres of fertile land, more than 20,000 townspeople, and nearly 200,000 laborers and fishermen under the rule of Hexian.

People of all ethnic groups live in harmony, trade routes are unobstructed as far as India, and the country is prosperous and wealthy, just like an independent country.

This young Han man who was ashamed to be a Qing official was called the King of the Port Country by Western merchants and missionaries at that time.

The King of Hexian Kingdom, Ngo Jiu, was also regarded by later scholars as a glorious page in the history of overseas Chinese.

After Ou Jiu's death, the throne was handed over to Ou Jiu's son Ou Tianci.

Although Ou Tianci is not as talented and ambitious as his father Ou Jiu, he is a very good leader in maintaining the status quo.

Although Ngo Cu was forced to recognize the Nguyen family of Quang Nam in the north as its overlord due to the situation in the late period of his reign, Ngo Thien Thu still tried hard to maintain Ha Tien's relatively independent status.

Moreover, Ha Tien Town continued to grow and develop under Ngo Tien Ci's leadership. It now has more than a thousand standing troops and a hundred warships. In an emergency, it can mobilize 10,000 to 20,000 troops and even has the ability to influence the Cambodian throne.

. . . .

Zhou Zibu woke up from his coma with cold sweat on his forehead. He couldn't help but pinch the bulging biceps on the right arm of this body with his left hand.

This muscular man, whose surname is Ou and whose given name is Zibu (氵布), is the grandfather of this body, the young hero Ou Jiu who at the age of sixteen was able to lead a thousand people south and cross the ocean to establish a country.

And Ou Jiu's son Ou Tianci is Ou Zibu's father.

It is now the 1765th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, AD in An (Vietnam).

At this time, Annan (Vietnam) was in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, with the 17th parallel almost as the dividing line. To the north was the Zheng shogunate regime that controlled the Emperor of the Le Dynasty of Annan.

The south is the Nguyen Dynasty, to which Ha Tien Town is affiliated, commonly known as the Quang Nam Kingdom.

This place is Phu Xuan, the capital of the Nguyen family, also called Hue. Hue City is located in the central part of Annan. It is the location of Xianglin County, the capital of Rinnan County in Jiaozhou of the Han Dynasty.

Zhou Zibu, no, now it should be called Ou Zibu.

The surname Ou is an extremely rare surname in China. It comes from the ancient Ou State, located in Ou County, Hejian Prefecture, which is the Ouzhou Town, Xiong County, Xiong'an New Area in later generations.

However, Ou Zibu's family's surname was not Ou at all, but Mo.

The reason for changing the surname was to take root in Annan. After all, Ou Zibu's family had a good uncle.

Well, we’ll talk about the details later. Ou Zibu took a deep breath and lay on the bed, continuing to pretend to be unconscious.

He now needs to sort out all the memories in his mind more clearly and then thoroughly understand the current situation.

(End of this chapter)