The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 45 This is reality

Li Xianwen was very nervous. He took several deep breaths before calming his pounding heart.

Mo Zibu found it quite funny to see him wiping his palms on his pants.

"Second brother, at your age, why are you still acting like a teenager?"

Li Xianwen looked at Mo Zibu speechlessly. Mo Zibu, you are only seventeen or eighteen years old. How can you have the qualifications to call teenagers youngsters?

Moreover, this is not just a blind date, he is trying to curry favor with someone!
They got along well, and the thousands of people under him would have a place to stay in the future.

You know, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of people following Mo Zibu, Li Xianwen also has three or four thousand family members on an island near the coast of the mainland.

As soon as he succeeds in the blind date, he will send his subordinate Liang Wenying to the nearby sea to pick up these families, so as to avoid being discovered and arrested by the Qing court in the long run.

Li Xianwen has a pretty good appearance. He is 1.723 meters tall, which makes him look very tall considering that the average height in the East and the West is less than 1.65 meters.

His appearance was impeccable. A bandit and pirate who had been living on the edge of a knife for years actually had a very fair complexion. When he was escaping, he had to deliberately smear his face with dirty things, otherwise he would be too conspicuous.

At least Mo Zibu was very satisfied when he saw Ou Hui. His two small eyes scanned Li Xianwen like searchlights.

Li Xianwen is an old hand, and of course he knows exactly the identity of the slender guard who is standing behind Ou Tianci and constantly looking at him carefully. His words and conversation are even more delicate and gentle.

Ou Tianci was also very satisfied at this time. Li Xianwen could be considered to be from a famous family and had his own team, which was enough for him to be his son-in-law.

Moreover, Li Xianwen's three or four thousand Han people are really a good supplement for the Mingxiang people, who have become like water without a source and trees without roots.

But Mo Zibu thought of something else.

It seems that in history, Li Xianwen went to Southeast Asia three times to seek a place to settle down, but there was no one to help him. When he finally had to settle on Snake Island, he was already in his thirties and his children were already grown up.

Mo Zibu and Ou Hui of that time and space also died in the battle between Ou Tianci and Zheng Xin.

This war was the conflict that caused the most devastating losses to the Chinese in Southeast Asia, without a doubt.

The Hexian Zhu family, together with the Jiading Chen family, mobilized a total of nearly 50,000 troops and hundreds of warships.

Zheng Xin's Chaozhou people also mobilized more than 30,000 soldiers and hired more than 3,000 Portuguese and British musketeers and artillerymen.

After a great war, the defeated Ha Tien Ngu family saw their country overthrown and completely handed over the Mekong Delta, headed by Saigon, to the Annamites.

Zheng Xin's victory was a pyrrhic one, and from then on he was only willing to trust his Teochew compatriots. Other Chinese left one after another because the Teochews monopolized Siam and did not share any benefits with others.

While Mo Zibu was daydreaming, Ou Tianci was having a very pleasant chat with Li Xianwen.

Seeing that his son was indeed very reliable this time, Ou Tianci took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Mo Zibu.

Mo Zibu took it and looked at it. On the cover of the letter was written in very neat regular script:

"Your younger brother, Rang, pays homage to your elder brother, General Officer Ou, the Honorable Scholar," with more than ten large characters written on it.

Mo Zibu's adoptive father, Ou Tianci, was very talented in literature and loved to compose poetry. He once gathered a group of literati to create the Ten Scenic Spots of Hexian.

He also composed poems himself, including the catchy lines "A straw raincoat, the air is pressing with frost; the sounds of bamboo oars gleam on the water. Drifting alone, I laugh at myself on the ocean, wanting to attach myself to the fish and dragons but failing."

Therefore, in Southeast Asia, if you want to please Ou Tianci, you should not call him Ou General, nor call him the King of the Port Country like the Europeans, but call him Ou Xueshi.

Slowly opening the letter, Mo Zibu suddenly discovered another forgotten Chinese tycoon, Wu Rang, the founder of the Wu Kingdom. Wu Rang was from Zhangzhou, Fujian. Because the local people in Southeast Asia had difficulty pronouncing "Rang", he was called Wu Yang in Southeast Asia.

In the 1750th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign, that is, in AD, Wu Rang, at the age of , went south to Southeast Asia to seek survival, but he soon gained a foothold in Songkhla on the Malay Peninsula.

In 1753, he married a woman from a wealthy Chinese family in Gaotuolang (now Bolunta Province, Thailand), and his rapid development began from then on.

In the past twelve years, Wu Yang has transformed Songkhla, originally a small town of a few hundred people, into a vast fertile land.

He recruited more than 30,000 fellow Zhangzhou people to settle here, making Songkhla a wealthy pearl on the Malay Peninsula.

Four years later in 1769, after Taksin unified Siam, he went south to recover Nakhon Si Thammarat and other places. Wu Rang took the opportunity to offer Songkhla, Kaew Tou Lang and other places to Siam, and was canonized by Taksin. The Wu Kingdom was established from then on.

Wu Rang died in 1784 and was succeeded by his son Wu Wenhui.

Compared with Wu Rang, Wu Wenhui received a good education since childhood, and he began to develop rapidly with the help of his fellow villagers in Zhangzhou.

At its peak, it ruled over what are now Songkhla, Kota Kinabalu and Pattani in Thailand, and the four states of Terengganu, Kedah, Perlis and Kelantan in Malaysia.

The territory covers almost half of the territory of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula in later generations. If Yap A Loy, who was known as the King of Kuala Lumpur in the 19th century, is included, more than 60% of the territory of West Malaysia is ruled by Chinese.

The Wu Kingdom lasted for 135 years and had eight generations of kings. It was conquered by British colonists in 1904 and later occupied by the Japanese.

Because of their support for the domestic war of resistance, the descendants of the Wu family were massacred by the Japanese invaders and suffered heavy losses. The rest fled to Bangkok.

Several Thai deputy prime ministers emerged from his descendants, but they had become completely Siameseized and did not even have a Chinese name.

As for the Wu Kingdom, after the end of World War II, the British divided the Wu Kingdom into two in order to prevent the Chinese from becoming too powerful.

Songkhla, Koh Tao and Pattani were returned to Thailand, while the rest were incorporated into Malaya.

Don’t be fooled by the elaborate encyclopedias on the Malay Sultans on Wikipedia in later generations, as if they have been ruling the local area since ancient times. In fact, most of these sultans were vassals of the Wu Kingdom.

This was after World War II, when Britain and the United States were afraid that the Chinese in Southeast Asia would turn to the new republic, so they forcibly compiled history and supported the indigenous sultans to take power, adopting the policy of using barbarians to rule the Chinese.

Mo Zibu carefully read the letter from Wu Rang to Ou Tianci, and his brows gradually furrowed.
"What are the Chaozhou Wang family thinking? They haven't even secured their own position, and they're already coveting their compatriots' assets. Do they really have no regard for the friendship of their compatriots?"

No wonder Wu Rang, a native of Zhangzhou in southern Fujian, did not seek out Zheng Xin, a Chaozhou native who spoke roughly the same language and also belonged to the southern Fujian school, but instead wrote a letter across the ocean to seek justice from Mo Tianci, a native of western Guangdong.

It turned out that it was the natives under the instigation of the Wang family who occupied Luokun who were constantly harassing Wu Rang, who now had only 20,000 to 30,000 troops.

Wu Rang could not bear it any longer, but he could not afford to fight, so he could only write a letter to Ou Tianci, hoping that he could come forward to host the meeting and invite the head of the Wang family to negotiate peace.

The so-called peace talks are actually just admitting defeat, but they just asked a big boss with status to act as a peacemaker, which makes them look better and suffer less losses.

Mo Zibu only felt a fire of evil rising in his heart!

These Chaozhou people not only cannot tolerate other Cantonese, western Guangdong, Hakka, and Qionghai people, but they can't even tolerate the Minnan people who belong to the same big circle as them.

You really think all Siamese people belong to Teochew people, right?
No wonder that in history, when the main force of the Nakhon Si Thammarat royal family went north to reinforce Taksin, an indigenous civil war broke out in Nakhon Si Thammarat, and the city of Nakhon Si Thammarat was not saved. It was not until a few years later that Taksin helped them fight back.

With this kind of vision, what can you achieve?

(End of this chapter)