The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 304: Almost at Honnoji Temple

Wu Wenchu's words had a great impact on Mo Zibu, and it made him feel his identity crisis for the first time.

In history, this man in the Xishan Army was known for his excessive ambition, and in the end he even lost his life.

But this is only a problem of his personal character, not a problem with his ability or vision.

Wu Wenchu's words actually pointed out a problem to Mo Zibu, which is what kind of person Mo Zibu should be and what kind of career he should achieve.

If you only want Wang Annan, then don't be so crazy about attracting Chinese people to move south. Just follow the path of the founding emperors of the Ly Dynasty, Tran Dynasty and other dynasties in Vietnamese history.

In this way, the difficulties and resistance encountered will be much smaller, and the price is to become an Annamitian.

If you have other ideas, you must clearly express them so that you can choose comrades, unite with the party, and fight together.

Don't wait until you enter Beihe, when the pressure from the Qing Dynasty will come directly, and under you will be a group of complex forces with ulterior motives. This will most likely lead to failure.

Because even if they were Chinese from the mainland, they were not necessarily anti-Qing. If they were all taken over without discrimination, and they did not know Mo Zibu's ambitions, they would not be able to resonate with him.

If the Qing Dynasty attacked directly with the power of the central dynasty and the reputation of the Eight Banners Army, the Xingtang Kingdom might have burst.

As for the identity issue of Han or Yue people, this is also easy to solve.

Just as Wu Wenchu said, from now on, they will speak Chinese-Vietnamese, study Confucian classics, celebrate Chinese festivals, and firmly believe that they are Han Chinese. Even if they are in Annan, no one will dare to say that they are not Han Chinese.

As for those who come from the mainland and have received benefits from me, King Mo, they must cut off the heads of chickens and burn yellow paper to swear to rebel against the Qing Dynasty.

The more people like this unite, the more likely it is that when they fight back, they will be like the overseas emperor coming to drive out the Tartars.

I led so many anti-Qing heroes through life and death to restore the country. Who dares to say that you are a Yue person!
Thinking of this, Mo Zibu first counted on his fingers who on his side was a staunch anti-Qing faction. After searching for a long time, it seemed that even his father and brother were unreliable in this regard.

Only then did Mo Zibu realize how naive his idea was to enter Beihe and then slowly change his subordinates' minds.

You can stitch monsters together, but you can't stitch them to the point where there is no core left!

After thinking hard for a long time, Mo Zibu could barely confirm that although there were not many staunch anti-Qing people, the problems among the top leaders were not serious.

Because when the country was founded, they followed me to worship the Ming Martyrs' Shrine on Hexianping Mountain and erected a stele to commemorate it. Thanks to the literary inquisition of the Qing Dynasty, there was no turning back for these people.

What Mo Zibu has to deal with now is the mentality of the newly recruited Annan people, as well as the middle and low-level officers and soldiers, and how to make them agree with the anti-Qing ideas after bringing people from the mainland.

As for the current staunch anti-Qing people, Mo Zibu thought that they were his brother-in-law Li Xianwen and his trusted generals Chen Guangyao, Wu Wenyong and Wang Wubing, so there should be no problem.

Reinstein coughed, coughed, coughed. Mo Zibu suddenly realized that this Frenchman of German descent might be a little more fanatical than him, or it could be said that these Europeans were not a big problem.

On the contrary, there are relatively few supporters among the civil officials. The only people Mo Zibu can trust now are Lin Tong, Zheng Qing and Huang Zhen.

Huang Zhen was guarding Dancheng, so Mo Zibu called Lin Tong and Zheng Qing over. After explaining his intentions, Lin Tong was overjoyed.

"Your Majesty has finally put aside his worries. I have long said that although the Qing Dynasty is powerful, corruption is rampant from top to bottom. Officials are in collusion just to make more money, and those who work hard are the exceptions.

Given the Qing Dynasty's reaction speed, even though we've already raised our flags in Tiannan, I'm afraid they're still hesitant. So as long as we don't publicize it too loudly, there will be no problem."

After Lin Tong finished speaking, Zheng Qing's emotions suddenly became excited, "Your Majesty, since ancient times, those who have accomplished great things have all gone through hardships.

Today, our army is strong and its morale is high. As long as we win one or two major battles and break the impression that the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers are invincible, there will be hope of restoring the Han Dynasty.

I believe that since the 130th year of Jiashen, Your Majesty has been the first person to hold the Land and Water Lion."

Mo Zibu looked at the two of them and was indeed a little surprised that it was almost the 19th century and there were still people who mentioned anti-Qing sentiment with excited expressions.

"In that case, you will consider the path ahead and decide how to proceed so as not to overly provoke the Qing Dynasty while letting everyone know my ambitions."

Lin Tong bowed and said, "Since Your Majesty has built the Daming Martyrs' Shrine on Hexianping Mountain, why not build a temple in memory of the King of Minzhongwu Kingdom inside the palace after the Hoi An Palace is completed?"

Zheng Qing's eyes suddenly turned red, and he immediately suggested, "Perhaps we could build a Five Loyal Temple, with Guoxingye as the main deity, Guo Zhongjie of Chaozhou, and the Three Loyal Men of Lingnan as supporting deities."

"Yes, that's a good idea," Mo Zibu agreed. Once the Five Loyal Temples were established, Guoxingye could be used to unite the Minnan clique, Guo Zhongjiegong could unite the Chaoshan people, and the Lingnan Three Loyalties could unite the Cantonese-speaking people. Furthermore, since Mo Zibu had already changed the posthumous titles of Guoxing Chenggong and the others, anyone with a little understanding would immediately understand what this meant.

The Wuzhong Temple is not as eye-catching as the Ming Martyrs' Shrine on Pingshan Mountain, and will not cause the Qing Dynasty to react immediately.

By the way, Mo Zibu suddenly thought that he could also use the propaganda methods of later generations, such as writing a few dramas reflecting Koxinga's beating of the Qing Dynasty.

In later life, he seemed to have heard a Cantonese opera called The Flower of the Imperial Concubine. The singing was so beautiful and the plot was so sad that Mo Zibu could still hum a few lines now. Perhaps he could create a version of The Flower of the Imperial Concubine.

This kind of literary and artistic work, which spreads extremely quickly, is used to strengthen everyone's identification with their Han identity and to exaggerate the grief and resentment of the country's demise.

"My younger brother, Zheng Duan, although I have no talent for governing the country and only a rough understanding of civil and military affairs, is very good at making friends and is well-versed in the affairs of the three mountains and five peaks, the four seas and eight oceans. My family is also a descendant of the Zheng family of Dongning, and I am able to establish connections with many of the Han survivors in my homeland.

I recommend Zheng Duan to Your Majesty, as I always recommend talents regardless of personal connections. You can order him to go to Guangzhou to cooperate with Huang Zhongtong. Under the name of the Hongmen Kunlun Mountain Hall, you can contact Hanliu and Tiandihui in various places, develop followers, recruit fellow believers to go abroad, and prepare for the future."

"Okay, bring Zheng Duan to Hue so I can meet him in person." Mo Zibu realized that the previous strategy of letting Huang Zhongtong develop Kunlun Mountain alone in Guangzhou needed to be changed.

Huang Zhongtong has been in Guangzhou for so long that his identity may have become semi-public. Now is the time to send another group of people to Guangzhou to strengthen contacts with the Tiandihui members throughout the Pearl River Delta and prepare to cause trouble.

Now that he had decided on what to do, Mo Zibu's thinking became clear. At this time, the final battle report of Xiangyun Society was also sent over by Chen Guangdong.

After being defeated in the first battle, Ruan Youcai and the thirteen noble families who had formed an alliance with him retreated into the Ruan family's manor in Xiangyun and held their ground, and the army then surrounded them.

However, the Ruan family manor is located on the mountainside and has been renovated over decades. There are still tens of thousands of stones of grain and more than a dozen wells in the manor, which is enough to defend it.

Chen Guangdong and his men had only two four-pound cannons and could not break open the tortoise shell. They had to wait until the Hue Left Guard and the Central Guard put down the resistance in the Cha Mae area in the south and joined forces to capture the manor, and then engaged in street fighting.

Among them, the Venerable Queen Yadu burned herself to death, and the three thousand Venerable elite soldiers resisted extremely resolutely. Although they had already lost hundreds of people on the battlefield, the rest basically did not choose to surrender, and fought to the end. Once again, thousands of people were killed and thousands were captured.

Compared with them, Ruan Youcai and the thirteen noble families did not have a strong will to resist. After the manor was breached, they only resisted for less than half an hour. Some of them risked their lives to break through, and most of them surrendered.

More than 30 leaders, including Ruan Youcai, were all captured.

In this battle, they mobilized more than 18,000 people, a total of 1,000 were killed in battle, more than 10,000 were captured, and the rest had fled in all directions. Chen Guangdong, together with the Left Guard and the Center Guard of Hue, had only 4,000 people, and it was impossible to catch them all.

Then all the high-ranking soldiers in Hue were arrested, and the largest part of them were hiding in Thien Mu Temple.

My King Mo couldn't help but twitch his cheeks. He couldn't understand why the monks of Tianmu Temple opposed him, but then he understood after reading on.

Annan is part of the Chinese cultural circle, so naturally its Buddhism is the northern Mahayana Buddhism. However, Mo Zibu's queen Zheng Shishi is of Siamese descent, and the temples in Siam are the southern Theravada Buddhism.

Mo Zibu came from later generations and had no such idea in his mind. Unlike the Nguyen family, he did not regard Thien Mu Temple as a royal temple. He had been in Hue for more than half a year and had never been to Thien Mu Temple once.

He did not even make a single donation and even wanted to send people to check the property of Tianmu Temple, which severely offended the monks.

Queen Zheng Shishi did go, but it had the opposite effect. When she saw that Tianmu Temple was a temple of Northern Buddhism, she immediately became unhappy. After she came back, she kept planning to build a Southern Buddhism temple in Hue.

This was too much. Combined with Mo Zi Bu's attitude, Tianmu Temple thought that Mo Zi Bu wanted to abolish Northern Buddhism and promote Southern Buddhism. In addition, most of the monks in the temple came from high-ranking families in Hue. The two sides hit it off and reached a cooperation.

Damn, that was really dangerous!
If Mo Zibu had not wanted to take back the right to mint coins and had not done this, if he had really wanted to go to Tianmu Temple one day, he would not be able to be surrounded by hundreds of people when he went to worship Buddha, and those high-ranking soldiers would have had the opportunity immediately.

Isn’t this the Annan version of the Honnoji Incident? No, it should be called the Tenmuji Incident.

Thinking of this, Mo Zibu went to find Zheng Shishi angrily. This girl must convert to Northern Buddhism as soon as possible and stop causing trouble because of her identity and culture.

At the same time, the task of gathering writers to create The Flower of the Imperial Concubine was given to her. Her cousin Wu Kang translated The Romance of the Three Kingdoms into Siamese and created a large number of dramas based on the Three Kingdoms.

It would be most appropriate to find such professionals to process the fragmented version of "The Flower of the Imperial Concubine" in Mo Zibu's mind.

As for the high-ranking officials who were arrested this time, the main culprit will be executed immediately, and all those involved within the three clans will be killed, and the rest of the accomplices will be exiled to West Borneo to open up wasteland.

This can also serve as a warning to the remaining noble families who have not rebelled: if you are willing to follow King Mo, you will be transformed into real Han people again in the future; if you are unwilling, you will be torn down and your property will be distributed to the people.

(End of this chapter)