The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 211: The South Wind Rises, the North Wind Rises (An additional words for the leader Tian Ruoshui)
Qui Nhon, Xishan Village.

The blazing bonfire was lit. After twenty years of preparation, Xishan Village leader Hu Piyue was finally going to raise the banner of his dream.

He sat in the main seat with a majestic figure, and both sides of the long table in the gathering hall were also filled with heroes who had received his heroic invitation.

The person sitting to his lower left was naturally Li Guangcai. After being strengthened by Mo Zibu, his strength was much stronger than in history.

Not only did he contribute 150 muskets and 50 flintlock rifles, he also had more than 400 bloodshed, and he was a real desperado who had killed people.

Therefore, Li Guang became the second-in-command of this rebel group and was known as the second leader of Heyi. The hundreds of people under his command were called the Heyi Army.

Opposite Li Guangcai sat a burly man wearing a Vietnamese-style turban. He was Ruan Zhuan, a local tyrant from Yuntun Town near Xishan Village.

Ruan Tuhao had two hundred strong men under his command, thirty muskets, and more than two hundred swords and guns, so he took the third seat.

They are known as the Three Righteous Chiefs, and their armed forces are called the Righteous Army.

On the left side of Li Guangcai sat a muscular man wearing only a short jacket and shorts.

This person was not from Beijing, but Li Guangcai’s fellow villager, Li Jiting, from Heyuan County, Huizhou Prefecture, Guangdong.

This old man was a genius. He originally had a caravan doing business in the Qui Nhon area. He happened to encounter the governor of Qui Nhon who was escorting taxes to Hue. He couldn't help but robbed him and got three hundred taels of silver.

After tasting the sweetness, Li Jiting discovered the truth that no matter what business you do, it is not as fast as doing a business with no capital.

Things got out of control and he simply recruited a hundred or eighty desperate criminals, mainly his fellow villagers from Heyuan, and became the king of the mountains in Annan.

These Heyuan people are mainly Hakkas, who are very brave and good at fighting. Historically, it was the revolutionary base of the Dongjiang Column.

However, Li Jiting was unwilling to mix with these Guangnan people. He was a little proud of being a person from the Celestial Empire. Therefore, he refused to join them and considered himself a guest soldier. He was given the title of "Loyal and Righteous Helper Sanye" and his subordinates were called the Loyal and Righteous Army.

Historically, Li Jiting was recorded as Jiting in Vietnamese historical books. He was the main force in the early stage of the Tây Sơn uprising.

His loyal army was composed entirely of tall and strong Cantonese men. Whenever there was a big battle, the loyal army would be shirtless, wear red scarves on their heads, and make a loud noise like thunder. Relying only on rattan shields and single swords, they would win every battle.

Uh... How short are these Beijingers? The Cantonese, who were ridiculed along with the five southwestern provinces for their height in later generations, are actually praised as tall and strong here.

These four people are the main force of this rebellion.

However, in order to maintain his position as the leader, Hu Piyue deliberately transferred another 200 people to his younger brother Hu Pihui, thus making up the total number of five leaders.

In addition, there is the wealthy businessman Xuan Xi who invested 3,000 taels of silver. He is also a leader, but he does not have many troops and his power is very small. He mainly manages logistics and supplies.

In Shicheng, about 40 kilometers south of Qui Nhon, the Champa survivors who still survived, known as the Queen Thi Huo, also sent people to gather together.

There are more than a dozen people left, and there are even more small leaders of dozens of people, which can be considered to have gathered some popularity.

As for Hu Piyue himself, he was naturally the leader of the stronghold, and his troops were known as the Xishan Army.

Although this guy looks rough and his personality is portrayed as being generous, robbing the rich to help the poor, and being grateful and righteous, he is actually not very kind-hearted and has a strong desire for power.

For example, in this uprising, although he was best prepared, his strength did not have an absolute advantage. However, he was shameless enough to call his troops the Xishan Army and also used Xishan as his name to the outside world.

He forcibly turned several forces that came to the alliance from allies into his subordinates.

Although the others were a little dissatisfied, since things had come to this point, it would be bad to start an internal conflict before the business even started, so they endured it.

When Hu Piyue saw that no one objected, he was even happier. He immediately took the lead and led everyone to swear an oath of blood, agreeing to kill the officials and rebel.

Seeing that the time was right, Zhang Wenxian, the dog-headed military advisor, stepped forward and said to everyone:

“Although the Nguyen family is now a corrupt ruler and has treacherous ministers, they have not completely lost the support of the people.

I have heard that King Wu's grandson, Yang, is a virtuous and benevolent man. Why don't we raise an army under the pretext of overthrowing the usurper King Ding, executing the treacherous minister Zhang Qinhui, and supporting the virtuous ruler Yang?"

The so-called Wang Sun Duong is Nguyen Phuc Duong, who is the grandson of the previous generation King Nguyen Lord Vu Nguyen Phuc Kho, and the nephew of the current King Nguyen Lord Dinh Nguyen Phuc Thuan.

He certainly didn't have a good reputation. Ruan Fuyang was not even ten years old, so it was impossible for him to have any good reputation. However, he was quite smart, and many people in the court and among the people were willing to speak well of him.

This is because after the death of the previous King Wu, Nguyen Phuc Kho, his crown prince Nguyen Phuc Hao died early, so he left a will to let his second son Nguyen Phuc succeed him.

Then the powerful official Zhang Fuluan colluded with the eunuch Chu De and the commander of the imperial guards Nguyen Jiutong to tamper with the imperial edict and appointed Nguyen Phuc Khoa's young sixteenth son Nguyen Phuc Xin as the leader.

After Nguyen Phuc Tin ascended the throne, he changed his name to Nguyen Phuc Chun, who is now the tenth King Nguyen Lord Dinh.

However, although Nguyen Phuc Tuan became the Nguyen Lord, his position was not stable. The people in the country generally disagreed with him and believed that he was a usurper.

However, Nguyen Phuc, who should have succeeded to the throne, had been imprisoned and poisoned long ago. Therefore, the remaining Nguyen Lord position legally fell to Nguyen Phuc Duong, the son of the early deceased crown prince Nguyen Phuc Hao.

Therefore, many people in the folk sympathized with Nguyen Phuc Duong, believing that he was the real Nguyen Lord. They spread the word that Nguyen Phuc Duong was talented, benevolent and loved the people, and respectfully called him Wang Sun Duong.

His reputation was so great that even Zhang Fuluan didn't dare to kill him at will.

This is also the reason why Zhang Wenxian said that the Nguyen family has not completely lost the people's support.

Everyone was relatively ignorant, but when they heard what Zhang Wenxian said, they all thought it was a good idea.

Zhang Wenxian then went on to say, "Since you want to support Wang Sunyang, why not make it more genuine? The village chief and his brothers can change their surnames to Ruan, like their mother, and pretend to be Wang Sunyang's relatives."

Well, Ruan Fuyang is an only son, and his father Ruan Fuhao died early, so how could he have any relatives? But it is enough to fool the common people.

So the three brothers Hu Pi Yue, who had just raised the banner, announced that they would change their surname from their father Hu to their mother Ruan, and changed the middle character to Wen, which sounded very cultured.

Hu Pi Yue became Ruan Wen Yue, Hu Pi Lu became Ruan Wen Lu, and Hu Pi Hui became Ruan Wen Hui.

In history, the three brothers turned against each other. After the third brother Nguyen Van Hue became emperor, he announced that he would give up the title of "Dian" and only call himself Nguyen Hue. He was the famous Emperor Nguyen Hue of Tây Sơn Quang Trung in the history of Annan.

This person is extremely famous in Annan history and even has some reputation in Asia.

Along with Chen Guojun, King Xingdao of the Chen Dynasty who defeated the Mongolian army in Annan's history, they are the only two historical figures and military commanders that Annan can boast of.

. . . .

Hexian, Wuding City, Mo Family Temple.

After offering incense to his father Ou Jiu with a complicated expression, Ou Tianci slowly walked out of the temple.

Beside him, Chen Dasheng, the patriarch of the Jiading Chen family, rushed over dragging his sick body.

Ou Tianci's only living elder, his uncle Pei Hengren, who was ten years younger than him, also rushed over from Bianhe.

Mo Zibu's mother, Chen, was even more worried and came to the ancestral temple despite any obstruction.

In addition, there were two people kneeling on the ground. One was Li Xianwen, dressed in a blue shirt like a scholar, and the other was Chen Guangyao, dressed in a black suit.

If there is anyone who can represent Mo Zibu now, the kind of person who can represent Mo Zibu without a token, it must be these two.

Although almost seventy-one years old, Nguyen Tien-chi still had a head full of black hair without a single gray hair, and he was in very strong health. He could even occasionally have sex with his fifth concubine, Nguyen.

Seeing his uncle and brother-in-law rushing over, Ou Tianci smiled self-deprecatingly.

“It has been forty years since I took over Ha Tien. I can’t say I am on par with my father, but I have achieved some success.

At the beginning of the year, a few lines of poetry arrived from my homeland. They were written by the newly appointed governor of Guangzhou, Zhao Futai, who said: Talented people emerge in every generation, and each of them leads the trend for hundreds of years.

When I first heard it, I only felt a sense of pride and upwardness, but now I understand the true meaning of it."

The Zhaofutai of Yangcheng mentioned by Ou Tianci is the great Qing Dynasty poet Zhao Yi who had just taken office as the prefect of Guangzhou.

At this time, this one of the most famous writers during the Qianlong period had not yet retired to his hometown to organize his poems and essays, but his quatrains had already been written down and circulated.

Ou Tianci loved poetry the most and once wrote to Zhao Yi asking him to write inscriptions on his poems, so he knew this.

Chen Dasheng is more than ten years younger than Ou Tianci. He has been a little afraid of his brother-in-law since he was a child, so he opened his mouth but did not say anything in the end.

Although he was only ten years younger, he was able to act like an elder. Pei Hengren chuckled, "You kid are the most competitive.

That year when you came to visit my home, my uncle was only eight years old, and you already had a daughter. You still insisted on snatching a precious sword from me, which made me so angry that I burst into tears. My father sided with you and beat me up again.

"Hahahaha, I wonder if today can be considered retribution!"

Ou Tianci was ridiculed by his uncle in person, and his face was full of black lines, but he couldn't refute. He turned around and looked around, but his cousin Pei Jiannan was nowhere to be seen. He immediately understood what was going on.

The reason why my uncle Pei Heng came to Hexian was that Pei Jiannan went to seek help.

He was also quite speechless about his grandfather who had passed away for decades. Your health is really good. I, your grandson, am seventy years old, and I still have an uncle who can mock me to my face. Pei Jiannan was listening outside the door, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He wanted his uncle to come over and persuade Mo Tianci, but this guy actually mocked him directly.

Now, his cousin, who is very concerned about his reputation, will definitely be even more embarrassed.

Sure enough, Ou Tianci was unable to vent his anger after being mocked by his uncle. He looked around and immediately took out his anger on Li Xianwen and Chen Guangyao who were kneeling in the ancestral temple.

"That rebellious son didn't come himself, but sent you two here. What's the matter? Is he too embarrassed to come, or is he too afraid to see me, his father?"

The thought that one day he would be forced to abdicate by his son made Ou Tianci even angrier.

Li Xianwen opened his mouth to speak, but Mo Tianci suddenly pointed and shouted, "I don't want to hear you. You're always good at arguing. I want to hear what Chen Guangyao has to say."

Chen Guangyao looked up at Ou Tianci and recalled the ridicule he suffered when he followed his mother to Ha Tien as a child. Although it was not Ou Tianci who did it, the young Chen Guangyao still had complicated feelings towards Ou Tianci.

Now, being scolded again, the stubbornness in my heart was suddenly aroused.

He is no longer that timid poor boy!

Chen Guangyao took a deep breath and suddenly raised his voice, "Uncle, you are aware of the king's achievements and the great things he has done over the years, and you support him. You knew this day would come, right?

Why didn't the king come to see you? You know very well in your heart that a loving father and a filial son are the fundamental principles of human relations. If you insist on the king coming here, are you going to have a king-to-king meeting in front of the old master?"

These words were too harsh. Ou Tianci was so angry that his eyes went dark and he almost fell to the ground. Chen screamed and rushed over to support him.

The sick Chen Dasheng was also frightened. He looked around and saw nothing useful, so he took off his shoes and threw them at Chen Guangyao, cursing:
"How dare you utter such rebellious words, you evil creature? Have you lost your mind?"

Chen Guangyao's stubborn temper flared up, and he stood straight without dodging or avoiding, allowing his uncle Chen Dasheng, who was supposed to be his uncle, to beat him.

When Pei Hengren saw that there was a guy who was even more stubborn than himself, he quickly went over to support Ou Tianci and didn't dare to ridicule him anymore, for fear of getting hurt by his anger.

"Shilin, look at you. Even at your age, you're still so competitive."

Pei Hengren advised with his mouth, but couldn't help complaining in his heart, this is not a strong desire to win, this is a strong desire for power.

As expected, the father and son are cut from the same cloth, with the same temper. The older one is reluctant to give up power, and the younger one is unwilling to wait any longer.

However, looking at Chen Guangyao who was stubbornly waiting in the court, Pei Hengren understood a little bit. It was probably not that he was unwilling to wait, but that he really could not wait any longer.

He immediately leaned close to Ou Tianci's ear and whispered, "Shilin, you can't be foolish at this time. Look, this is Lao Wu's general, and he's from Mingxiang, and his attitude is so firm.

Just imagine the attitudes of those arrogant and powerful generals under his command, the Sixth Elder, and the Eighty-Seventh Councillor."

"Listen to your uncle. When it's time to let go, you must be willing to let go. It's a good thing that your sons are capable. You should support them! Let them do the hard work of conquering the world."

At this time, Chen Dasheng stopped beating Chen Guangyao. He walked over barefoot, coughed twice, and said:
"You Mo family are stubborn by nature, and our Chen family is no less stubborn. You know very well what kind of temper Zibu, who carries the blood of both families, has.

You know better why the old Lord Ling and my father Lord Zhongzheng failed to complete the unification of Ou and Chen. It was because neither of them was willing to be inferior to others.

If any of them had been willing to give in back then, we would have made Jiading impregnable long ago, and it wouldn't be like this now.

But God bless you, the things that our ancestors missed can still be saved by our descendants. This happens only once in five hundred years!

This is a great omen for the continuation of the Han Dynasty by Zhongzong, the restoration of the Tang Dynasty by Guangwu, and the restoration of the Tang Dynasty by Xuanzong. This is an auspicious sign that the Mo family will prosper and the Mingxiang people will rule the world. Heaven's will cannot be violated!"

Ou Tianci was helped to sit down on a chair. He looked at Chen Guangyao's stubborn expression and knew in his heart that things were irreversible.

He had just deliberately spoken harshly in order to provoke Chen Guangyao and see what the attitude of Mo Zibu's civil and military officials was.

The result really made him so angry that his eyes went dark, but at the same time, he also received feedback. The civil and military officials under his five sons would not recognize him as Ou Tianci.

At the same time, these people's lives, property, and wealth of their descendants are all tied to Lao Wu. If he continues to stand in his way, there is a real risk of mutiny.

Pei Hengren is also a smart person, otherwise he would not have been at the helm of the Pei family for more than 20 years. He also knows what the Pei family will gain if Mo Zibu succeeds.

So when he saw that Lu Tianci's attitude softened, he immediately shouted at the door: "Pei Jiannan, what are you still dawdling outside? Come in quickly and take your cousin to the back to rest."

Then, he winked at Chen Dasheng beside him, meaning that he wanted Chen Dasheng to help Mo Zibu's mother Chen go out, take control of the situation, and then quickly call Mo Zibu back to lock down the overall situation.

Pei Jiannan ran in with cold sweat on his face. Seeing his cousin Ou Tianci, who had been with him for decades, leaning weakly on the armchair, he felt extremely uncomfortable and tears came to his eyes.

"Cousin, I, Pei Jiannan, am sorry for you. But there is nothing I can do about it. We Mingxiang people are finally going to have our second Holy King. I cannot watch this opportunity slip away from me."

"No matter how wrong I am, it's all my cousin's fault, but the power must be handed over!"

Ou Tianci looked at his cousin with tears in his eyes. For more than 30 years, he had been assisting him diligently and never made any mistakes. Ou Tianci believed in his judgment.

At the same time, he looked at his uncle Pei Hengren.

Good heavens, if Pei Jiannan hadn't had feelings for him and his wife Chen hadn't made any move, he would have been dealt with directly with just this move.

I never realized that this cynical uncle could be so cruel.

"Forget it, forget it!" Ou Tianci sighed and pushed away the support of the crowd. After he figured it out, at this moment, the domineering power that had controlled Hexian for forty years returned to Ou Tianci.

"I want to hand over the power, but I can't do it this way. I have to complete the last task for Zibu."

. . . .

In the north of Ha Tien City, at the Zuoying military camp, Ruan Zhongming clearly felt that something was wrong recently.

Therefore, they who had already taken root in Ha Tien in the past two years and moved their military camps into Ha Tien immediately kept a low profile.

The news from Myanmar did not spread widely to Ha Tien due to Mo Zi Bu's blockade.

Even some people in Ha Tien only knew that Mo Zi Bu was Chao Phraya of Siam and helped the Qing Dynasty defeat the White Elephant King of Burma, but they did not know how big a role Mo Zi Bu played.

However, Ruan Zhongming clearly felt the difference, because he found that the soldiers under Mo Zibu who were on leave in Ha Tien were not only elite, but also rich.

The soldiers all have money, and they bring three or four Burmese women home. What does this mean?
This means that the army achieved great results, so much so that the soldiers became rich.

Being able to make such a windfall is definitely not comparable to winning an ordinary battle.

Moreover, he also clearly felt that the old fox Ou Tianci was too easy to talk to and seemed to be deliberately indulging him.

Although Ruan Zhongming couldn't figure out the reason, he didn't know why Ou Tianci did this, but he knew that there must be something wrong.

So, Ruan Zhongming wrote a letter personally and asked his confidant to deliver it to Jiading.

At the same time, they began to strictly restrain the soldiers of the Left Camp in the city, forbidding them to leave the camp to harass the people of Hexian, force purchases and sales, steal, or even extort money.

It's a pity that Ruan Zhongming woke up a little too late. By the time he realized that he should report to the royal family member Yan and the military commander Song Wenkui, the biggest problem of the Mo family had been solved.

At night, when Ruan Zhongming couldn't help but quietly leave the military camp and went to his mistress's house in the city to spend some time with her, a steel knife was put to his neck as soon as he entered the yard.

The confidant he sent to Jiading to deliver the letter was tied up in the yard. The young widow who had bewitched him was looking at him with a playful expression.

Ruan Zhongming instantly understood why this stinky woman, who was usually indifferent to him, had been constantly teasing him to leave the barracks in the past two days.

"General Ou Ou, I did not harm you!" Ruan Zhongming shouted tremblingly when he saw the familiar figure.

Although he had taken a lot of money from Hexian, he did not listen to the advice of the fool Zongshi Yan and find some problems to frame Ou Tianci in order to extort a large sum of money.

The guards dragged a chair over and Ou Tianci slowly sat down. A guard lowered Ruan Zhongming's head and asked Ou Tianci to put his right foot on Ruan Zhongming's head.

"These past few days, you must control the soldiers of the Left Camp more strictly, make them angry, make them unable to stay still, and make them cause trouble.

Then, a piece of news would spread in the military camp that Mo Zibu in Siam had secretly sent back a batch of wealth, as much as five thousand taels.

If we rob this cargo, not only can we return to Jiading and live a life of ease and comfort, but we will also be recognized and rewarded by Zhang Youfu of Hue City."

Ruan Zhongming trembled, feeling the completely unfamiliar Ngo Tien-chi, and tremblingly warned: "If the general does this, Ha Tien will be in big trouble."

"That's not something you should consider!" As he said that, Ou Tianci threw a longevity lock in front of Ruan Zhongming.

Ruan Zhongming screamed in pain. This was the longevity lock of his only son. He was thirty-seven years old, but he only had this one son.

"If you do as I say, your family will be safe. You can take away all the wealth you have coveted in the past two years. Someone will naturally send you to Thonburi to live a good life."

"If you don't do as I say, I will kill your wife, three concubines, one son, and three daughters first, and then hand you over to the people of Hexian who you have oppressed."

(End of this chapter)