The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 131 The King's Spirit Returns to the East
Hungover and with a splitting headache, Mo Zibu struggled to get up.

Old man Zheng Mosai can drink too much, and Mo Zibu almost died.

"The Duke of Richelieu once said, 'Man is immortal, and salvation awaits the future. But the state is not immortal, and salvation can only come now.' He also said, 'For a monarch, there is no way to return to the path he had taken.' These are truly profound words."

Who the hell is working so hard in his bedroom so early in the morning?

It was read in French, with both voice and tone.

Mo Zibu quickly got up and saw his third brother Ou Zirong.

Ou Zirong was wearing a Taoist robe that fit him very well, with his hair tied up simply. He was holding a booklet compiled by Peter and reading aloud, shaking his head and making clicking sounds as he read.

The sunlight streaming in from the bedside added a touch of literary genius to Ou Zirong.

Especially since Ou Zirong was very handsome and upright. With his appearance and temperament, he must be either Wen Tianxiang or Yu Qian, which almost blinded Mo Zibu's eyes.

its not right!
Mo Zibu suddenly realized, hadn't this guy been very resistant recently? Why was he so active now?
Also, this is my bedroom, why would Ou Zirong come here to study hard so early in the morning?

Seeing that Mo Zibu had woken up, Ou Zirong closed the book very casually and asked gently in French, which gave Mo Zibu goosebumps:

"My brother, what do you think of my performance today?"

Holy shit! Mo Zibu jumped up and put on his pants at lightning speed.

"Zuo Zirong, I'm your brother. What do you want to do? Let me tell you, I can hit people!"

Ou Zirong:
"What are you thinking about? I want to ask if there are many beauties of the level that Zheng Mosai brought over yesterday in France."

Ou Zirong's face turned black. He actually doubted... If he could beat him, he would have given Mo Zibu a good beating today.

"A lot, of course it's not a lot!" Mo Zibu immediately became excited when he heard this. It turned out that you, Ou Zirong, had never eaten any delicacies from land and sea!

"The woman yesterday was just the daughter of a city lord, but when you go to Europe, you'll see daughters of kings, grand dukes, or at least daughters of marquises or prime ministers.

They are the top aristocrats in Europe. Generation after generation, they have married beautiful women. You can’t imagine how beautiful their daughters are.

Not to mention the queen. Just think about it, how could the queen of a country with hundreds of millions of people be ugly?

Do you know the term "Bodhisattva Man"? That's how it describes them."

After Mo Zibu understood the situation, he immediately started bragging about it. He didn't care what the daughter of a European noble looked like. He just started bragging about her as much as he could.

Anyway, once Ou Zirong gets on the pirate ship, he can't get off. This is a real pirate ship.

After hearing what Mo Zibu said, Ou Zirong gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I will study hard every day from now on and try to go to Europe as soon as possible to meet those European beauties.
Oh, no, bring back Western guns and soldiers for Zibu as soon as possible."

Mo Zibu didn't care about Ou Zirong's "slip of the tongue" that revealed his true feelings. He walked over and patted Ou Zirong on the shoulder.

"Since my brother is so ambitious, then from today on, study chemistry with me. By the time we reach Xifan, you will not only be an Eastern poet, painter, and nobleman, but also a great scientist."

"Huh?" Ou Zirong was stunned.

. . . .

The reason why Mo Zibu said those words to Ou Zirong was because he finally thought of how to use his chemical knowledge.

Since the military direction is unrealistic and has significant hidden dangers, there is only one direction left to choose from.

medicine.

Compared with the military, medicine has a wider range of applications, has basically no side effects, and can also quickly make Ou Zirong famous.

As for modern medicine, Mo Zibu has two directions. One is to produce allicin using traditional methods, and then to obtain a large amount of chemical laboratory equipment from Europe to try further extraction.

The traditional method of producing allicin was once called a time-traveling skill, and there is a reason for that.

Because this traditional method is very simple, it only requires a set of distillation equipment, and then it is just like extracting floral water and essential oils. It is almost effortless nowadays.

However, the effect of allicin is very great. Its most important function is to inhibit Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhi.

It is extremely suitable for use in the current Southeast Asia, and it is also very useful to Europeans, who can also use it in South America and Africa.

Although this traditional garlic has a fatal weakness, that is, it can only be stored for three to five hours at room temperature, and the time will be even shorter in hot weather, it needs to be made and used immediately.

It is also uncertain how much allicin is contained in the produced product.

But this is not a problem. After all, it is better to have something than nothing.

Secondly, isn't Ou Zirong going to Europe? He can definitely bring his ideas over there and let the scientists in Europe who have already started to work on a large scale discuss it together. Maybe they can come up with a real method to extract allicin.

In fact, Mo Zibu also has some ideas about this method. If Ou Zirong fails in Europe, he can ask him to buy some experimental equipment and Mo Zibu can do it himself. The worst that can happen is that it will take more time.

The second one is montmorillonite powder. This thing is simpler. It is extracted from montmorillonite. Its main function is to strongly inhibit acute and chronic diarrhea.

It looks ordinary, but it is actually not simple.

You should know that most symptoms of acclimatization have diarrhea as a symptom, and diarrhea is often the cause of fatal consequences.

Now, using montmorillonite powder to stop diarrhea and then using allicin to kill bacteria and regulate the body is enough to save the lives of most people.

As for other things, such as penicillin culture, Mo Zibu knows them all.

The difficulty now lies in how to transform it into economical, fast, large-scale and safe extraction.

Therefore, it was even more necessary for Ou Zirong to go to Europe, because in the East, there was basically no soil for science, while Europe was booming.

Mo Zibu urgently needed to bring back a set of primitive experimental equipment from Europe, and even a large number of talented people to help him. Well, perhaps it would be best not to use Europeans. After Ou Zirong signed the treaty for him in Paris, Mo Zibu could select children around ten years old and send them to Paris en masse.

Go directly to Paris to study, and when you return in five or eight years, you can help yourself.

By then, with a group of scientific talents and the advanced knowledge in Mo Zibu's mind, the level of science and technology in the East may take off.

In fact, Mo Zibu can also come up with a killer trick, that is vulcanized rubber, but Mo Zibu dare not do it.

Once this thing comes out, Nanyang will be doomed, and Britain and France will probably use their entire national strength to develop rubber plantations.

Then, Mo Zibu probably didn't even know how he died.

Therefore, many cheat codes cannot be activated now.

Just as Mo Zibu was recalling the chemical reaction formula and urging Ou Zirong, Zheng Xin also started to take action.

At the end of May, Taksin personally led an army of 10,000 to Chanthaburi.

Of course, Mo Zi Bu did not participate much himself, but he still sent four large naval ships to help Zheng Xin transport troops.

The Flintlock Guards Company of Mo Zi Bu's staff officers also took on the important task of protecting Zheng Xin closely.

Two artillery companies of the Boxer Rebellion were also dispatched, and the Fortune, a rare European warship, was also dispatched to threaten the port of Chanthaburi.

Mo Zibu said he was not there, but he seemed to be everywhere.

The excuse for Taksin's trip this time was ready. Last time, four high monks from Chanthaburi Phraya came to deceive Taksin and asked him to go to Chanthaburi City to discuss the alliance, preparing to capture Taksin alive as King Huai of Chu.

Taksin simply turned the tables and sent someone back to inform Chanthaburi Phraya, inviting him to hold a meeting outside Chanthaburi City.

Of course, Chanthaburi Phraya refused, but Taksin didn't care. He brought 10,000 soldiers and five war elephants to Chanthaburi City and came to the alliance with great fanfare.

As for why the alliance requires so many people and is so murderous, just come out and I will explain it to you.

Chanthaburi Phraya was extremely frightened when he saw Taksin's troops dressed in uniform and in a strict military formation on the city wall.

Zheng Xin is not from the Ha Tien Nguyen family. If Ha Tien attacks Chanthaburi, everyone inside and outside the city will rise up in resistance.

However, Taksin had a high prestige in Siam, and people both inside and outside the city supported him, especially the Chinese who controlled the economic activities in the city.

At the same time, now that Ayutthaya had been destroyed and King Agada had died, the news began to spread everywhere. It was politically correct for Taksin to come to the alliance to fight against the Burmese.

They have come all the way from Luoyong, and it is unacceptable for you, a landlord, not to come out.

It can be said that for Chanthaburi Phraya, Taksin's arrival with 10,000 soldiers was more frightening to him than O Tien Ci's arrival with 30,000 soldiers.

Seeing that Phraya Chanthaburi refused to come out of the city for the alliance, Taksin not only sent people into the city every day to invite him, but also reviewed the army outside the city in a grand manner to attract local Thais and Chaozhou Nazhen to come and watch the ceremony.

Zheng Xin's troops were disciplined, well-groomed, and had high morale, which gave great shock and hope to the Siamese people who had suffered so much from the war.

In fact, in addition to the Burmese invasion, there have been constant rebellions within the Ayutthaya Dynasty in recent years.

The Thepphit Rebellion three years ago swept through provinces such as Vaikunda, Rayong, Korat, and Chanthaburi, causing huge losses to Siam.

Therefore, ordinary Siamese people, small nobles, and small merchants have long hoped that someone would emerge who could turn the tide and end the chaos.

The appearance of Zheng Xin perfectly met their imagination.

Just by leading his troops in training outside the city, Zheng Xin attracted a large number of people.

Taksin took the opportunity to give them a speech, denouncing the corruption of the nobles and the brutality of the Burmese army, and vowed to recapture the capital and rescue the king and the people, which was met with thunderous cheers from the Siamese people present.

In just five days, just outside the city of Chanthaburi, dozens of village elders came to join Taksin or bring him military supplies, and tens of thousands of people traveled across mountains and rivers to listen to his speech.

Seeing this, Phraya Chanthaburi was extremely frightened. If he continued like this, he would soon be left alone to defend the city. So he sent people out of the city to invite Taksin into the city to discuss the matter.

Before Taksin expressed his opinion, someone loudly advised him against it, exposing Chanthaburi Phraya's "conspiracy" to take the opportunity to kill Taksin.

When everyone heard this, they were furious and felt that it was reasonable. They clamored for Chanthaburi Phraya to come out of the city to attend the alliance.

Seeing this, Chanthaburi Phraya was speechless. How dare he harm Taksin now when so many people were watching? He was afraid that he would be detained by Taksin after leaving the city.

But now, no one listens to what he says.

Chanthaburi Phraya had no other choice but to become a coward again, refusing to say whether he would leave the city or not. The people outside the city became even more angry when they saw him like this.

Seeing the opportunity was right, Taksin seized the opportunity to incite others, saying, "The country is in such a state, the king is in danger, and the Burmese are killing our brothers and sisters. As a Phaya, how can we continue to be a coward?"

When the people heard this, they were furious and started pushing the closed city gates.

At this time, seeing that the city gate was about to be destroyed by the people, the traitors such as Kun Luomo on the city wall made the worst and most stupid choice in fear.

He actually fired a musket into the air, hoping to scare away the people.

At this moment, the crowd went crazy. Not only did you act like a coward and not dare to fight the Burmese, but you dared to attack your own people, right?

Taksin took the opportunity and used Chanthaburi Phraya's killing of innocent people as an excuse to order the war elephants to rush towards the city gate. The city gate collapsed, and then the people surrounded Zheng's army and rushed into the city.

The soldiers on the city wall of Chanthaburi looked at each other in bewilderment, and without firing a single shot or cannon, they, under the leadership of the grassroots officers, arrested Kun Rama and others and knelt down to welcome Zheng Xin into the city.

With almost no bloodshed, Zheng Xin once again took over a large province with a population of more than 300,000.

(End of this chapter)