The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 44 The Wheel of Fortune Begins to Spin
The so-called padding character is the character in the middle of the name. This is a habit of the Annan people in naming.

At this time in Annan, most names consisted of three characters, with only a few exceptions, such as the Kinh people who were very assimilated to the Han people and the Han people who had not yet begun to assimilate to the Han people.

The padding characters have two functions. One is to distinguish between men and women.

The middle character of a boy's name is usually the same as his father's or grandfather's. For example, the Chen family in Jiading, which had begun to become Annamitic, had a father named Chen Dading and a son named Chen Dali.

The big character in the middle is the padding character, indicating that they are all men in this family.
As for girls, most of them in Annan add a surname.

For example, Bui Thi Chun, her actual name is Bui Chun. The middle character "Shi" indicates that she is a girl instead of a boy, and is used to identify her gender.

The second function of the pad character is to represent family inheritance.

The surnames of the Annan people are highly concentrated in several surnames such as Nguyen, Li, Chen, and Wu.

Among these surnames, such as Ruan, most of them have messy origins. They seem to have the same surname, but there may be no kinship at all for dozens or twenty generations back.

Therefore, in order to distinguish them, we must use padding characters.

For example, the clan of the Guangnan Nguyen family added the word "Fu" in the middle as a padding character. In this way, as long as others heard the name Nguyen Fu, they would know that he was a clan member of the Guangnan clan.

If his name is Nguyen Van or Nguyen Shao, then he has nothing to do with the Guangnan royal family.

Therefore, if we look at the names of the Annan people from the Chinese perspective, it would seem particularly incongruous and even contrary to human ethics. Grandfather, father, son and even grandchildren are all of the same generation.

But in fact, the names of the Annan people are all single words, with the middle word being a padding character.

When Mo Hui said she didn't want to add a padding character in the middle of her name, the meaning was very clear.

Mo Zibu immediately patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, sister. Grandfather refused to surrender to the Eastern Tartars and went south to fight against all odds. Now that we have fallen into the hands of our descendants, how could we abandon China and become barbarians?"

Ou Tianci looked at Mo Zibu who was full of confidence, and his expression changed. He wanted to say something but stopped himself several times with a little shame in his eyes. It seemed as if he was struggling with his conscience.

After a while, Ou Tianci took a deep breath and said, "Since you understand the pros and cons, why don't you take the fleet and return to Hexian with me? We, father and son, will join hands to realize your grandfather's legacy!"

Ou Hui widened his eyes in shock, and Mo Zibu looked at Ou Tianci in disbelief.

Now, between the Lu and Chen families, the Chen family has been squeezed out to the point that they can hardly live in Jiading anymore.

Among the subordinates, a large number of Champa, Zhenla and Yue people who originally belonged to the Chen family had left the Chen family. The only people that the Chen family could truly control were 70,000 to 80,000 Mingxiang people.

Within Ha Tien, the factions are even more complex, with a large number of Han Chinese supporting localization or simply Annamization.

Because only in this way can their interests be guaranteed.

Moreover, this path is easy to follow. Among the Kinh people who are now in a dominant position in Annan, almost all the major tribes have taken this path of first settling down, then developing, and finally assimilating the indigenous people, thus successfully localizing.

At the same time, Ngo Thien Ci's deceased wife was a member of the Nguyen clan of Guangnan, and was actually the aunt of the current King of Guangnan, Nguyen Phuc Thuan.

Therefore, Mo Zibu's three older brothers, Ou Zihuang, Ou Zitang, and Ou Zirong, all have the blood of the Nguyen family and are the heirs recognized by the Guangnan Nguyen family.

At least for now, their position seems to be as stable as Mount Tai, unless the 8,000 Guangnan regular camp soldiers in Jiading suddenly disappear.

To be clear, if Mo Zibu goes back now, he has to do at least three things.

First, use both soft and hard tactics to convince the Han people in Hexian to be on the same page with him.

Second, they had to go north to kill the 8,000 regular soldiers in Gia Dinh City, as well as the more than 100,000 trusted people of the Nguyen Dynasty's Guangnan Kingdom who had moved here over the past 100 years, and their 200,000 to 300,000 servants, and they also had to face the Guangnan Kingdom's next full-scale counterattack.

Third, he had to seize control of the Jiading Chen family from his uncle Chen Dasheng, and at the same time convince the Chen family.

Any of these three points is extremely difficult. More importantly, almost all of them will involve fighting against one's close relatives, and there is no possibility of a completely peaceful solution.

Ou Jiadang, three older brothers, and an uncle who loves him dearly.

Mo Zibu shook his head. These people, including his three brothers who were of Ruan family blood, could be won over slowly and their support could be gained.

There is no need, and we cannot act rashly now.

"Killing one's own relatives is a grave misfortune and goes against human ethics. I do not wish to marry." Mo Zibu said softly, observing Ou Tianci's expression carefully. After quietly noticing that Ou Tianci heaved a sigh of relief after hearing what Mo Zibu said, Mo Zibu continued:

"Besides, my grandfather and maternal grandfather were such heroes, I don't want their last wishes to be stained with the blood of their loved ones.

In ten years, within ten years, I, Mo Zibu, will return to Ha Tien with a large army, and make everyone willing to join me in building our own Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

Mo Zibu originally wanted to say five years, but was afraid that Mo Tianci would think he was bragging, so he changed it to ten years.

Afterwards, Mo Zibu repeated to Ou Tianci what he had said to Wei Rikun, namely, his judgment that Myanmar was going to launch a large-scale attack on Siam and that civil strife was imminent between the Zheng Dynasty in the north and the Nguyen Dynasty in the south.

At this point, Ou Tianci finally had a new understanding of his son, with whom he had not been close since childhood and whom he had only seen once every three years. He patted Mo Zibu's shoulder excitedly.

"Bu'er, your analysis is correct. Just a month ago, the Burmese army occupied the Cheli Tusi territory, plundered a large number of people and food, and reportedly defeated the Qing army, killing thousands of people.

The time is ripe for them to attack Siam from Chiang Mai, Lanna and other places in the north, and the Burmese are indeed about to move south."

The battle that Ou Tianci mentioned is known in history as the First Qing-Myanmar War.

During this war, Qing officials from Liu Zao, the Governor-General of Yunnan and Guizhou, down concealed the fact that Myanmar had been encroaching on Qing territory for several years from Emperor Qianlong, who was far away in Beijing.

This made Qianlong think that it was the chieftains on the Qing-Myanmar border who were causing trouble, rather than Myanmar having already unified Yunnan and was encroaching on its territory.

In this situation where the Qing Dynasty had almost no mobilization or vigilance, the Burmese army quickly attacked and directly broke through the Cheli Tusi Office Olive Dam (near Jinghong, Xishuangbanna), and marched straight to Simao.

Liu Zao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, urgently ordered 3,000 Green Camp soldiers to expel the Burmese army. However, this resulted in the death of Lieutenant General He Qiongzhao, who led the main force of the Green Camp, and other generals such as the guerrilla Ming Hao. Only less than 100 of the 600 main Green Camp soldiers escaped, and the Qing Dynasty suffered a crushing defeat in the first round.

"Did you get this information from Luang Prabang? The Burmese army acted so quickly!"

Mo Zibu suddenly became excited, and the wheel of fate began to turn.

The Konbaung Dynasty of Myanmar was the most powerful overlord in the Southeast Peninsula for hundreds of years.

The Qing Dynasty occupied a colossal size in China, and it was not yet the end of the dynasty where it could no longer fight.

Their powerful collision in the Indochina Peninsula will bring great opportunities to this land that has begun to become suitable for human survival, especially for time travelers like Mo Zibu.

Ou Tianci nodded. They had fellow villagers from Leizhou doing business in Luang Prabang, near the Cheli chieftain, and other territories that later became Laos.

Although these fellow villagers had braids on the back of their heads, they were close relatives of the Ou family.

To be precise, the Mo family members from Leizhou Haikang who did not go with Lu Jiunan back then are still trustworthy.

"Should we inform the Chaozhou people in Siam about this?" Mo Zibu thought for a moment and asked quickly.

Lu Tianci snorted coldly, "Do you think they don't know? These trendy guys have longer hands than you think.

They don't care about the life or death of King Agada of Siam. They are just a group of carrion crows, waiting for the King of Siam to fall so that they can eat their fill! "

After saying that, Ou Tianci looked at Mo Zibu very seriously and solemnly, "My son, you must remember that if you want to follow Chao Lao and become a carrion-eating crow, that's fine. If you can eat meat, that's your ability.

But you have to remember that these Chaozhou people will not easily trust people from outside Chaozhou.

Just like us people from western Guangdong, we will never easily trust a trendy guy.

When you deal with them, you must never treat them as fellow countrymen, or you might be sold out without even knowing what's going on."

Mo Zibu somewhat disagreed with Ou Tianci's suggestion, but not completely.

Although Nanyang is large, the "fat meat" is very limited. Nowadays, Europeans can't eat much meat here. All the meat is in the Chinese pot. It would be strange if there were no regional distinctions and competition for it.

Solving this problem and uniting all Chinese people will not happen overnight, so it is right for Ou Tianci to remind him to be wary of Teochew people.

"I understand, son!" Mo Zibu nodded quickly.

Only then did Ou Tianci reveal a hint of a smile. "Then go call Li Xianwen over and ask your sister to see if the descendant of Li Zicheng that you chose for him is a good match."

(End of this chapter)