The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 296 King Mo is a cultural patchwork

A slight north wind brought a fishy smell that filled the entire Pontianak.

The wailing sound suddenly came, and it was full of misery. Even the warhorse under Reinstein's crotch could not help but shiver.

"Ryan, you are becoming more and more like a barbarian!" Ryanstein's good friend, Colonel Louis Cullen, the captain of the Second Hakka Regiment, couldn't help but whisper to him.

"Chop off the heads of these damn frog servants! Yes, that's right! Follow your Chinese custom and build a mountain of skulls with their heads!"

Reinstein was yelling at his soldiers to start the massacre. The so-called frog servants were the natives of the Surabaya Regiment of the Dutch Army.

The word "frog" was used by the French to mock the Dutch because they lived in lowlands near the sea and their land was often flooded, just like frogs living in a swamp.

"No, Louis, it's not that I look like a barbarian, but there are no civilized people in this world." Reinstein turned and looked at Louis Cullen and said.

“Perhaps there was a time when the great Roman Empire and the equally great Seres Empire could be called civilized.

But when Constantinople was conquered by Mehmed II the Conqueror and the legacy of the Seres Empire was seized by the Tatar Emperor, there was no more civilization in the world.”

A wailing Si Shui native burst out with tremendous energy in extreme despair. He broke free from the hands of two Xing Tang soldiers and fled quickly along the city wall like a panicked rat.

Ryanstein rode his horse forward, drew the saber at the side of his horse, and with a dashing swing, the heads of the Surabaya natives flew into the sky.

His headless body continued to run forward a few steps by inertia before falling to the ground with a thud.

With a thud, the head fell to the ground and landed right next to the headless corpse. The eyes seemed to blink a few times before finally closing.

"General, your swordsmanship is excellent!" Seeing all this, the soldiers cheered and flattered loudly.

Reinstein then casually smoothed his golden hair, and his expression gradually returned to calm from his madness.

"I think civilization is a relative concept. When facing kindness, it can be order, gentleness, and etiquette, but when facing barbarism, civilization must be more barbaric than barbarism.

Similarly, the word civilization should not be manipulated by priests, nobles and big businessmen who are only concerned with sucking the blood of the people.

It should be controlled by a truly benevolent monarch instead of God, like Nerva in the Roman Empire and Emperor Wen of the Seres Empire.

With benevolence in their hearts, they suppressed the greedy nobles and wealthy merchants, bringing a golden age of true peace and joy to the common people."

Louis Cullen blinked twice and said speechlessly, "I know you're about to start cursing King Frederick II because he's the biggest obstacle to the revival of the Roman Empire."

According to Reinstein's theory, the large-scale wars, moral decline, and oppression of the people in Europe today are all due to the fact that Europeans have lost the helmsman of civilization - the Roman Empire.

If there was a Roman Empire that could unify most of Europe, everyone could sit down and use the Senate to peacefully resolve most problems.

The vast majority of poor people do not have to fight to the death for the interests of the nobles and wealthy merchants, and no one dares to oppress the lower class people so cruelly.

"No, Frederick was not a huge obstacle, but a huge fool. He foolishly thought that he could revive the German nation by serving as a dog for the thieves from Hanover.

He was wrong. As long as there are still people on the European continent who are willing to serve as dogs for the British and be used by them to disrupt the continent, the people of this continent will never have a good life.

"Madman, the devil has taken over his head again. Lord, please save poor Ryan!" Louis Cullen lowered his head and muttered in an almost inaudible voice.

Unless someone's head is occupied by the devil, who in this era would still be obsessed with the Roman Empire and hope that all the people in continental Europe would unite to fight the British? Colonel Louis Cullen couldn't help but think.

But Reinstein's eyes became firm again. To eliminate the cruel exploitation of the people by the upper clergy, nobles, and wealthy merchants and enable people to truly have the rights they deserve, only Rome and the Republic can achieve this.

In other words, Seres' theory that the people are more important than the king is also possible to realize.

"Louis, you wouldn't understand." As soon as Reinstein saw Louis Cullen's expression, he knew that he thought he was possessed by the devil.

"You don't need to understand, because the king understands. He and I are fighting in the same direction!"

After saying this, this ancient human rights fighter, who had a strong complex about wise rulers and was very hostile to the Hanoverian dynasty because his mother came from an Irish brigade family with strong Jacobite colors, went down happily to arrange matters.

At this time in Europe, especially in France, the cultural center, various schools of thought were extremely rampant, and progressive ideas such as natural human rights continued to emerge. This was also the basis for the upcoming French Revolution.

However, our General Ryan seems to have gone a little overboard in this regard.

Others are natural progressives, but he is always searching among piles of old papers for that paradise on earth where there is no cruel exploitation and oppression.

The killing lasted for almost two hours. All the more than 900 captured Surabaya natives were executed, their heads chopped off, and a Jingguan was built in the south of Pontianak.

At the same time, not far away on the other side, the soldiers from the Bangal Sultanate were also crying and digging non-stop.

Although they were not qualified to be taken out by Colonel Adrian to participate in the battle, the Xing Tang Army still arranged for them to receive the appropriate treatment.

Soon, a huge pit was dug, and Reinstein, who happened to be riding here, waved his hand.

"Leave the local kings of each tribe and let their tribes pay for their redemption. The rest will all be executed!"

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a thousand natives were driven by swords and guns, rolling into a dozen earth pits like dumplings. Anyone who dared to come up would be immediately shot or stabbed with a bayonet.

Blood was spilled all over the pits, big and small. Many native soldiers were seriously injured and could only cry and wail in the pits, watching the sand and mud submerge them.

Some of them opened their mouths in despair, catching the flying mud mouthful by mouthful, as if they wanted to eat all the mud to avoid being buried alive.

"How can you people be so heartless? They are our fellow Tang people. They carried their entire families' hopes, sold everything they had, and risked their lives to come here, yet you still exploit them like this. You are worse than beasts!"

Liu Yaozong's Chinese scum still had over a hundred men left. They were the most tenacious in this battle, even more tenacious than the regular Dutch soldiers. If it weren't for King Mo Zibu's inability to accommodate them, Chen Guangzu would have even considered recruiting them to fill the army.

After hearing Chen Guangzu's curse, some scumbags thought they still had a chance to survive and kept kowtowing and begging.

Chen Guangzu turned around and looked at them without even looking at them. "Hand over all the gold you have hidden away. I will take charge. I will keep 10% for your families, and you can also go home with your body intact.

Otherwise, just bury it in the pit with these sashimi anime."

Luo Fangbai entered Pontianak, and the pastor who had urged Colonel Adrian to leave also followed.

"Your Excellency, the Batavia authorities hope that you can return the surviving soldiers to their families. Of course, the VOC is willing to pay a large ransom for this."

Perhaps the biggest surprise in this battle was that Colonel Adrian was not hacked to death by the blood-thirsty Dragon Hussars, and he was not as brave as he appeared to be, and he couldn't even commit suicide.

Now, then, we can start a good business.

After the pastor left, Luo Fangbai immediately said to Liu Taier beside him, "Go and invite General Rui En and Wang Chenshi to come here. Together we will petition the king to establish a West Borneo Road."

. . . .

Hoi An City has been almost restored. Although the palace north of the Thu Bon River has not been completed, the community pavilion of the Minh Huong people has been built.

Just when Chen Guangzu was beating Colonel Adrian, Mo Zibu specially rushed to Hoi An on New Year's Eve.

After Mo Zibu arrived, all the senior civil and military officials and military representatives of the Xing Tang Kingdom also rushed to Hoi An.

He and his companions were waiting in the newly built Mingxiang People's Society Pavilion for King Mo to celebrate this most important festival for the Chinese with them.

Mo Zibu was also well prepared. He dressed in casual clothes, put aside his royal dignity and celebrated the Spring Festival with everyone.

Among them, I, King Mo, said the New Year's greetings four times.

First comes Minnan dialect, followed by Hakka, then Gaozhou Cantonese, also known as Gaozhou dialect, and finally ends with Nanjing Mandarin.

The reason for doing this is because Mo Zibu is preparing to enter Beihe and start mobilizing the local gangs in western Guangdong.

The Mo family lives in western Guangdong, and they don't actually have many fellow villagers. Although western Guangdong is in Guangdong, its language and ethnic situation is very complicated.

For example, in Leizhou, the hometown of the Mo family, most people do not speak Cantonese, but the Leizhou dialect, which belongs to the Minnan dialect family.

Only a small number of people in Leizhou city speak Cantonese, and the situation is similar in nearby Zhanjiang.

Most people in the city speak Cantonese, while people in the countryside speak Minnan dialect with a little bit of Hakka.

Moreover, since the Mo family migrated from the Ming Dynasty’s garrison troops, they didn’t even speak Cantonese, but Nanjing dialect.

The same goes for my maternal grandfather’s Chen family. They have some Hakka genes, but they basically speak the Gaozhou dialect, which is part of the Cantonese dialect and is not intelligible to many of the surrounding villagers.

The situation in Lianzhou, which is still part of western Guangdong, is similar. Only a small number of people speak Cantonese, while the rest speak Minnan dialect, Hakka, Zhuang, etc. The language is very complex.

This is also an important factor why Mo Zibu has not been able to mobilize his fellow villagers in western Guangdong on a large scale. Although everyone is from western Guangdong, they are from southern Fujian and Hakka, and are not close to the Mo family and the Chen family who speak Cantonese.

To put it bluntly, the Mo family's fellow villagers in western Guangdong are only those who speak Cantonese around the three state capitals of Gao, Lei and Lian. He cannot mobilize the people in western Guangdong who speak Minnan dialect and Hakka dialect.

Therefore, since King Mo came to this world, his second major task, besides fighting wars, is to learn various dialects.

Although there are many accents under Minnan dialect and Hakka dialect, you must at least know the main ones: the Zhangzhou-Quanzhou accent of Minnan dialect and the Jiayingzhou (Meixian) accent of Hakka dialect.

This is the current situation in Southeast Asia. If you want to unite all the Chinese in Fujian and Guangdong, you have to have a little bit of everything.

Fortunately, I, King Mo, am gifted. I was born in a Cantonese-speaking area in eastern Guangdong, where the Minnan dialect is spoken. I also made arrangements with the Hakka people in advance, and I kept stitching myself up, and I did a pretty good job.

Afterwards, Mo Zibu participated in the Hakka people's ancestor worship ceremony on the first day of the first lunar month.

Compared with the Minnan and Chaoshan schools, they deify those who have made important contributions to the development of the local area as masters and then worship them.

The Hakka people prefer to worship their ancestors, which shows a strong farming and settlement color.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Mo Zibu participated in the Yingge Dance organized by the Chaoshan faction. He personally took part in the performance, with a red face and red beard, and played the role of Qin Ming, the head-butting Thunderbolt, winning applause.

Queen Zheng Shishi, as a genuine Chaozhou person, also personally participated in carrying the flag. Although married women are generally not allowed to participate, she is the queen, so an exception can be made.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Mo Zi Bu held a large-scale parade in Hoi An with deep characteristics of southern Fujian culture.

The crowd first carried Mazu out of the Tianhou Temple, and then carried Guan Erye out of the Mingxiangrenshe Pavilion. They beat drums and gongs along the street and set off firecrackers, making it very lively.

Mo Zibu participated very actively and was quite satisfied, because among these gods in the parade, there were two gods that were slightly smaller but no less popular than Guan Erye. They were made exactly according to the appearance of my grandfather Mo Jiu and my maternal grandfather Chen Shangchuan.

While everyone was rejoicing, the Dutch envoys from Batavia were simply left aside. Mo Zibu wanted to drag them away severely, since he was not the one who was anxious anyway.

After the parade, Mo Zi Bu issued a decree in Hoi An, announcing that from now on in Southeast Asia, the Hakka people's ancestor worship on the first day of the lunar month, the Chaoshan people's singing and dancing on the fifth day of the lunar month, and the Minnan people's Lantern Festival parade would be designated as legal holiday activities.

Hakka people and Annan Han people are encouraged to participate in the Yingge dance of Chaoshan and the parade of gods of the Minnan ethnic group, and Minnan people and Chaoshan people are encouraged to participate in the New Year activities of other ethnic groups.

Anyone who dares to stop others on the grounds that they are outsiders will be severely punished.

(End of this chapter)