The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 303: Stop pretending, you just want to fight against the Qing Dynasty
Mo Zibu knew that the rebellion of Xiangyun Society had been suppressed, and all that remained was how to deal with the aftermath.

Because although the specific battle report had not been submitted yet, Wu Wenchu had already been brought in front of him.

This guy, who comes from a family of martial arts and is Pei Shichun's senior brother, is very strong. Even though he is tied up with a hemp rope as thick as a thumb, the muscles on his bare upper body are more clearly defined. His thick thighs make people suspect that even if he is tied up, he can jump onto the beam in three or two steps.

"What kind of person is Nguyen Van Hue that can make you, Wu Hongzhen, so devoted to her?" Mo Zibu was still very curious about Nguyen Hue, one of the greatest figures in Vietnamese history.

“You must know that my forgiveness is not so easy to obtain.

Your sister Chun allowed Chen Guangyao to marry Fan Shilian in order to help you gain a foothold. The position of Qianzong of the Xing Tang Army had never been given so easily to a general who had just surrendered.

Wu Wenchu showed a look of shame on his face. He knelt on the ground without asking to be untied, and whispered:

Nguyen Van Hue was a young man of talent, bold and forthright, with great ambitions, able to treat his subordinates with courtesy, farsighted, and often making surprising remarks. He was also good at comforting his soldiers, and possessed a courage unmatched by ten thousand men, able to command the lives of his subordinates."

"I understand." Mo Zibu nodded, took out a sharp knife and cut the hemp rope on Wu Wenchu under Pei Shichun's worried eyes.

"You mean, Nguyen Hue is capable and ambitious, and we can accomplish great things by following him."

Wu Wenchu slightly stretched his bound and numb body, "As the king said, this is indeed what the criminal thinks.

So when I was trapped in Truong San, Nguyen Van Hue personally came to arrange for me to use my relationship with Chun to infiltrate the King's army, and I immediately obeyed."

As he spoke, Wu Wenchu kowtowed to Mo Zibu again, pressing his forehead to the ground. "But after I came under the command of the king, I was treated kindly by the king. I also saw that Xing Tang was united and worked together. The country was well-ordered, the people were governed by law, and the army was disciplined and brave.

I now know that compared to the King, Nguyen Van Hue is like a firefly to the bright moon."

"You, Wu Wenchu, are very ambitious!" Mo Zibu sighed. In history, there were always a few capable people in the Xishan Army who could accomplish anything.

This man is as famous as Chen Guangyao and Wu Wenyong. He is capable of governing a country with his literary skills and leading an army with his military skills. He is considered a talented general and indeed has some abilities.

Wu Wenchu knew why Mo Zibu sighed like this, because if he, Wu Wenchu, did not have much ambition, he should have told Chen Guangyao and Pei Shichun about the situation after seeing that Xing Tang was so powerful and Nguyen Van Hue had no chance at all.

In this way, after Mo Zibu cleansed out the Yanqing Regiment, which was reorganized from the remnants of the Xishan Army, he could at least escape safely.

When Nguyen Van Hue is defeated in the future, he can work under Chen Guangyao's recommendation. Although he will definitely not be able to become a high-ranking official, he can still get some wealth and honor.

But this guy chose to take a risky move and at the critical moment he himself cleansed out the real remnants of the Xishan Army in the Yanqing Group.

Then he took Chen Guangdong, Wang Wuchu and others and marched at a much faster speed, raided the high-ranking clan that was forming an alliance in Xiangyun, and only came to explain to Mo Zibu after he achieved great merit.

It can be said that without this guy's temptation, at least the three thousand barbarian soldiers of Yadu would never come to Xiangyun Society.

But the risks involved are also great. If Mo Zibu is not as magnanimous as he thinks, and does not trust Chen Guangyao and Pei Shichun so much, he may take this opportunity to execute him.

So when Wu Wenchu heard Mo Zibu say this, he raised his head and looked at Mo Zibu pleadingly, "Your Majesty, I do have selfish motives, and I am unwilling to accept this!"

As he spoke, Wu Wenchu looked at Pei Shichun, tears welling up in his eyes. "Since I was five years old, I have been training with my father and grandfather to strengthen my muscles and bones, diligently practicing martial arts. When I was a little older, in addition to practicing martial arts, I would get up at five in the morning to study the books of sages and military strategies. From winter to summer, I never stopped.

I thought I could sell my martial and literary skills to the emperor, but the Nguyen court was corrupt and treacherous, so I took a fancy to Nguyen Van Hue and joined him in rebellion. When I discovered that the king was the true ruler of the world, I realized I had followed the wrong person, and it was too late to regret.

I beg the king to give me another chance. I am willing to follow the king and conquer the world!"

"Please give my brother another chance, he already knows he is wrong." Women are always more emotional. Although Pei Shichun hated her brother for deceiving her, when she heard Wu Wenchu's true feelings and recalled the days when they practiced and studied hard together, she couldn't help but plead for him.

"Get up!" Mo Zibu didn't really care. The first rule for a monarch to employ people is not to be morally obsessed, but to see whether the person is worthy of being employed.

Wu Wenchu is currently in a state between being worthy and not worthy.

However, Mo Zibu heard a hidden meaning in his words, so when Wu Wenchu stood up, Mo Zibu immediately asked, "Why don't you say pacify Beihe, but pacify the world?"

"Chun, find one of my clothes and put it on Hong Zhen."

Wu Wenchu didn't expect Mo Zibu to be so thoughtful. He took Mo Zibu's green robe, put it on with great gratitude, and bowed deeply to Mo Zibu before asking softly:
"Does Your Majesty know why the Huong Yun Nguyen clan, headed by the Huong Yun Nguyen clan, previously pledged their loyalty to Your Majesty but then secretly plotted a rebellion?"

"I'd like to hear more!" Mo Zibu waved his hand, "Please take a seat."

Pei Shichun was overjoyed and immediately brought a small brocade stool and placed it directly opposite Mo Zibu's throne.

Wu Wenchu stretched out his hand to straighten his clothes, then slowly sat halfway down on the brocade stool and said:

“When Nguyen Hoang, the ancestor of the Nguyen family, marched south to Hue, he had only a few thousand soldiers and only three or five generals.

In order to gain a foothold in Hue, he recruited a large number of children from the noble families of Kinh Hoa in Bac Hoa to move south, promising to share the world with them.

Since then, the political system of Guangnan Kingdom has actually been established. Although Nguyen was the monarch, he could only be called a lord, not a king. In fact, he was just a leader nominated by the nobles in Hue, Jinghan and Han.

During the reign of the eighth Nguyen Lord, King Wu, the Nguyen Lord proclaimed himself king first, which broke the tacit understanding and caused opposition from both the upper and lower levels. So King Wu promoted his wife's younger brother Zhang Fuluan to take charge of state affairs to deal with these powerful families.

Zhang Fuluan did a very good job. By the end of King Wu's reign, he had actually seized all the power of the Nguyen family and suppressed the nobles in Hue. As a result, he was extremely treacherous and could decide all matters in Guangnan with a single word.

But this situation could not last long. Even if Huang Wufu had not led the Beihe troops south, after waiting for another five or eight years, Zhang Fuluan would be old and weak, and the nobles in Hue could still take back everything they had.

Wang Sunyang's reputation spread far and wide, and it was these people who were preparing for the future.

But who would have thought that the Nguyen Van Yue brothers would first sweep half of the country, and then the king would take advantage of the situation, and the Guangnan camp soldiers controlled by Gaomen would be wiped out by the king, Tây Sơn and Bắc Hồ.

They had lost their most important capital, and Huang Wufu of Bac Ha was preparing to occupy Hue and intended to eliminate them.

Therefore, these noble families immediately surrendered to the king, hoping that the king would be trapped in Hue like the Nguyen family and restore the city to its former state.

But they had no idea that the king had an ambition to conquer the world. He used his own power to recruit Chinese people to move south, and had the people of Hoi An and Ming Xiang as the backbone, and the Xing Tang army was extremely brave.

They see that if they follow the king, not only will their former power be lost, but it will also be cut short, so they will naturally start causing trouble."

After listening to this, Mo Zibu suddenly felt enlightened. He finally understood the political model of Guangnan Kingdom for more than a hundred years. This thing was just the Eastern Jin Dynasty where the king and the Ma shared the world.

No wonder Mo Zibu felt uncomfortable and awkward all over after entering Hue. The political evolution of Annan was really slow. It has only evolved to the eve of the political collapse of the aristocratic families in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Mo Zibu also suddenly realized. He always felt that Nguyen Van Hue had a special temperament. It turned out that this guy was Huang Chao of Vietnam. It was he who swept the noble families in the north and south into the garbage dump.

No wonder the Vietnamese Communist Party praised Nguyen Van Hue so much. He was a peasant uprising leader who was a combination of Huang Chao and Li Zicheng. He was indeed worthy of praise.

Mo Zibu examined himself and found himself in a state of confusion because he could not emulate Nguyen Van Hue. Nguyen Van Hue was able to sweep the high gates of the north and south because he was from Annam. He only wanted Annam, and he did not care whether it was Beijing or Han.

But Mo Zibu can’t do that!

If Mo Zi Bu also followed Nguyen Van Hue's example and swept away the noble gates in the north and south of Annam, then Sino-Vietnamese would truly become a dead language.

Because the Annan Han culture is in the hands of these high-ranking families. Killing them all would be like cultural self-castration.

Especially if Mo Zibu wanted to recover Annan, which was lost from the Cat Slave Emperor, it would definitely become a joke.

"They know I want to conquer Beihe. Jiaozhi is so rich, isn't that enough to satisfy them?"

Wu Wenchu shook his head and said, "Although Bac Hoa is rich, there are more noble families there. The noble families in Hue moved south because they could not compete with them.

Therefore, compared with the high-ranking families in Tokyo, these high-ranking families in Hue are nothing but dwarfs. They cannot defeat those people, and they do not want to give up their base in Hue and go to Tokyo.

Moreover, the king himself has a large number of Mingxiang people and northern Chinese people, many of whom can read and write. If there are Mingxiang people and Chinese people to use, who can guarantee that the king will definitely use them?"

"If I conquer the world, will I definitely use them? Do you know where this world is?" Mo Zibu asked in a deep voice. This was the answer he wanted to know most.

He wanted to see what a true Annan person like Wu Wenchu, who was not from a high-ranking family in Beijing and Han Dynasty, who valued military skills over literature, and who could not even speak Chinese and Vietnamese fluently, thought.

"Your Majesty!" Wu Wenchu couldn't help but show joy on his face, because he knew that he had made the right bet. This Mingxiang king really wanted to not only unify Annan.

"Ever since the First Lord of Wu defeated the Southern Han at the mouth of the Baiteng River, our Southern Kingdom has repeatedly disobeyed the orders of the Central Plains, all for the sake of profit.

For example, during the Northern Song Dynasty, what could they get if they offered land as tribute?
At that time, Jiaozhi was in ruins and was no longer the maritime trade center of the world during the Tang Dynasty. With only two or three prefectures and three or four hundred thousand people submitting to it, the gains should be far less than what the Qian family paid to Wuyue. So why not close the door and be his own king?
If the imperial army really comes to attack, the throne will be secure if you can defeat them. If you can't defeat them, you can retreat to Jiuzhen Mountain and negotiate. After the imperial army can no longer bear it, you can come out and pretend to bow your heads and ask for peace. You can still be enthroned and seize power. Isn't it wonderful?

This is the mentality of the Annan king.

From the perspective of scholars, Han-Vietnamese dialects are like the chirping of birds and beasts to the Central Plains, with very heavy accents. Even if they enter official careers, they are often discriminated against by the Central Plains.

In addition, Jiaozhi's culture and education were backward, and even the neighboring Guangdong Province could not produce many Jinshi. Could the scholars of Jiaozhi still hope to ascend to the emperor's hall in their later years?
I studied hard and competed with the smartest people in the world, but in the end, it was difficult for me to get a juren degree, and Jiaozhi's own officials were taken by people from other places. So why don't I support Annan's independence and let it go with the internal competition among my own people?

In addition, it goes without saying what the chiefs and headmen from all over Annan were thinking. They were afraid that the imperial court would control the rich land of Tokyo and use it as a base to seize their hereditary positions as local officials, so their resistance was even more fierce.

When the Ming Dynasty recovered Annan, the situation was no different. The emperor, ministers, subordinates, and scholars all refused to support it, and no benefits could be gained.

Many of the Ming officials sent to Annan viewed serving as officials as hard labor and were unwilling to focus on governing and solving problems. How could this last?

"Then what does this have to do with me? Has the Annan people's concept changed at this time?" Mo Zibu listened for a long time and felt that he had not heard the key point, so he became a little impatient.

Wu Wenchu looked at Mo Zibu strangely, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "My king, have you ever thought about one thing, that is, in addition to being a Mingxiang person, you are also half Annan.

Since the Hexian Mo family became dependent on Guangnan seventy years ago, they have become one with Da Nan. Your maternal grandfather, the Chen family, was simply a minister of Da Nan.

You were born and raised in Annam. Even if you are considered a customer and Ha Tien is not your native place, it cannot erase the deep Annam imprint on you.

Otherwise, even with the bravery of the Xing Tang Army, the high-ranking officials of Hue would never have waited until now to cause trouble.

Initially, they considered you one of their own, but it wasn't until you recruited a large number of northerners to Qui Nhon and sent the Three Guards to Hue that they realized you still considered yourself a northerner, and immediately became enraged.

Mo Zibu was stunned, with an indescribable feeling in his heart. Indeed, he came from the future. At that time, Annan had been completely separated and colonized by the French for a hundred years.

The huge Jinghan Gaomen that still existed at this time had long been destroyed by Nguyen Van Hue. Nguyen Phuc Anh and Nguyen Xiaoqiang rebuilt part of it, but it was soon destroyed by the French.

When North Vietnam took Saigon and the self-defense counterattack began, the bastard Le Duan forced millions of Chinese to leave Annam, and at the same time forced at least millions of Kinh people who still retained and studied Chinese culture to completely abandon their traditions. Only then did Annam become what Mo Zibu saw in later generations.

In other words, Annan at that time and Vietnam in later generations can almost be regarded as two countries.

Later Vietnam was a country that had been deeply cleansed of Chinese culture by Western colonizers and local nationalists.

At this time, Annan, in addition to being unwilling to be directly ruled by the central court, was a country where the mixed Jing-Han people were dominant, Confucianism was prevalent, and the ancient Jiaozhi Chinese language, such as Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation, had not completely become a dead language.

According to the standards of the Annan people at that time, they were southern Han people, and their ancestors all migrated from the north to the south like Mozibu.

It can be said that if Mo Zibu had not insisted on recruiting a large number of Chinese to come south to Annan to seize the land of the Annan people, he would have been regarded as one of their own by the Annan people.

Wu Wenchu saw Mo Zibu's strange expression and thought that Mo Zibu was persuaded by his words and was thinking about it, so he immediately continued:
"Now that the Eastern Tartars have occupied the Central Plains, Your Majesty is a Ming remnant and a member of an aristocratic Annan family. If you can directly raise the banner, I dare say that there will definitely be more supporters than opponents.

Because since the first emperor of Wu, Annan has liked to provoke big countries and regards the Phuliang River and the Bach Dang River as natural barriers. If they fail, they can still survive, and if they succeed, they will be rich and powerful. Why not fight?
I believe that as long as Your Majesty makes clear your ambitions, the noble families in the capital and Han will understand what benefits they can gain by following Your Majesty."

What benefits are there? Of course they are huge benefits. If Mo Zibu really does this as an Annan person, then these guys will all be regarded as heroes who have followed the emperor.

If they could go to the Central Plains to become nobles, their descendants could receive preferential treatment in the imperial examinations, and could pass the exams to become officials in the Central Plains, they would certainly want it.

But Mo Zibu couldn't do that. If he did, it was conceivable that the Qing Dynasty would portray him as an Annan monkey, and then unite the Han scholars and officials to fight him.

Therefore, Mo Zibu looked at Wu Wenchu angrily, "Wu Wenchu, you are not trying to persuade me to attack Guangdong and Guangxi and become the King of Yue, right?
If I do as you say, will I be a Han Chinese or a Yue Chinese?"

"Hahahaha!" Wu Wenchu stood up and laughed heartily. "Your Majesty, from now on, if anyone asks you the same question, you can kill their entire family!"

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, there have only been Han people, Hua people, and Jing people in the south of the Tiannan region. Where do the Yue people come from? Who would be willing to call themselves Yue people? The three dynasties internally called themselves Dai Viet, which is just the same name as the Wu, Chu, Jin, and Tang dynasties.

If anyone at this time harbors the heart of the Yue people, he is definitely not a fellow traveler of the king, and the king uses this to distinguish them.

From now on, those who wish to learn Chinese and Vietnamese pronunciation, read the classics of the Confucian classics, and adhere to the customs of the Han Chinese are our fellow travelers. Those who claim to be Vietnamese and regard the Northern Kingdom as a foreign country will be killed!

Hmm, that's quite interesting. Vietnam called itself Dai Viet for three consecutive dynasties, namely the Ly Dynasty, the Tran Dynasty and the Later Le Dynasty. It has created a label of Vietnamese people in addition to the label of Chinese people in Beijing and Han.

This is just the right way for me to make a distinction. There are only four million people in Beihe, and only three million of them live on the Red River Plain. I might as well turn the future Northern Expedition into a great purge.

Those who support returning to being Han people should unite, and those who still want to maintain their Yue identity should be killed directly.

But these people would not express their inclinations directly, so Wu Wenchu suggested that Mo Zibu make his intentions clear.

Those who come to submit in this way will naturally agree with the Han people's narrative, and those who are hostile to him are those who have the thoughts of the Yue people in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)