The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 499 It’s Sure
Xingtanghe Immortal Palace, Wuding Palace.

This is the palace that was originally rebuilt in Wuding City of the Mo family. With its flying eaves, brackets, pavilions and towers, it is considered a very Chinese-style building in Southeast Asia.

In Ha Tien, where not many royal family members live all year round, building such a luxurious palace is actually just a prototype.

From now on, the construction style of government offices and mansions in Southeast Asia will follow the template of Wuding Palace.

When he woke up early in the morning, Mo Tianci enjoyed a bowl of Hexian rice noodles and a bowl of Jiading rice wine. He was very happy to eat. It was Hexian, the place where he was born and raised, that made Mo Tianci feel most comfortable.

Although according to the rules, the Prime Minister of Nanyang must go to Taixing (Bangkok) if he is not working in Jiading, but Mo Tianci is the emperor, so who dares to care where he stays.

After serving as the Prime Minister of Nanyang for a year, Mo Tianci gradually got the hang of things.

The Prime Minister of Nanyang actually does not need to have any brilliant means or vision. What he needs most is to make decisions, because China's political foundation in Nanyang is quite stable.

In the territory belonging to Nanyang, Guangnan Province, originally called Beihe, has now become a real mainland province, and is known as the Three Guangs together with Guangdong and Guangxi.

Rinan Province, which was originally the territory of the Nguyen family, was supported in the north by the Minh Xiang people of Hoi An and the Guang Jinghan Gaomen headed by the Xiangcha Chen family. The leader of the Jinghan Gaomen, Chen Taili, was also the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace.

In the south, Qui Nhon has even changed its ethnicity. More than half of the residents are immigrants from the mainland, so it can be said that there is no need to worry at all.

There is no need to talk about Xingtang Province. It is mainly composed of three areas: Gia Dinh, Ha Tien and Cambodia. Just by looking at the name, you can tell how stable it is here.

As for the Andai region, it was the birthplace of Emperor Mo, with six earls, seventeen viscounts, forty-eight barons, and a bunch of ferocious local magistrates and prefects. It was the place with the most powerful Han influence in all of Southeast Asia.

Taiping (Siam) had just been taught a lesson, and the meritorious officials who had returned from the pilgrimage to Yingtian Prefecture had just returned to their fiefdoms. The Nazhens were able to return to the ranks of the Han people, and the Thai nobles also received basic protection. At least in the short term, no one would cause trouble again.

Jinan Province (Java Island) was relatively chaotic, but the natives were no match for the armed Chinese immigrants, whose number was only one-tenth of theirs.

Because among these 300,000 immigrants, mainly children of Guangxi, they have at least 150,000 flintlock rifles. With such firepower, not to mention the indigenous people of Jinan Island, even large crocodiles and pythons have to be careful and become protected species.

Jiaqing Province (Borneo) is the most chaotic, because in fact until now, the Chinese Empire has only actually controlled Jiaxi Prefecture, which is West Borneo.

However, there are many gold mines here and it is the main producing area of spices, which attracted a large number of fierce Han people who came here to pan for gold.

Not to mention the trouble caused by the natives, Luo Fangbai, the governor of Jiaqing's finances, taxes and military affairs and the admiral of Jiaqing's military affairs, focused most of his energy on guarding against these Han thugs causing trouble, and the natives were not even on the list.

Therefore, Mo Tianci, the Prime Minister of Nanyang, actually does not have many things to deal with. His most important role is to make decisions.

Because when you have a great advantage, both good and bad decisions can have a positive impact on China's control over the local area. The most feared thing is not making any decisions and allowing the people below to develop in disorder.

So Mo Tianci simply stopped staying in Jiading or Taixing (Bangkok) and went wherever he wanted. He only needed to bring the most important officials with him to facilitate his decision-making.

For example, in the Nanyang area, soldiers from the six provinces of Rinan, Xingtang, Taiping, Andai, Nanji and Jiaqing were transferred to various places for cross-stationing, or to concentrate forces to attack the indigenous people.

Maintain the relationships and interests of the more than 300 to 400 vassal states in Nanyang and coordinate conflicts among them.

Promote the popularization of Nanjing Mandarin throughout Southeast Asia, so that at least more than half of the people can communicate with each other in Mandarin.

The other thing is to make quick decisions when faced with emergencies, such as the order just issued to execute the entire family of the rebellious Pegu Hou Wu Wen.

For example, Chen Lian wrote another letter to Mo Tianci, requesting the requisition of five armed merchant ships and at least three thousand sailors and soldiers.

Mo Tianci was listening to the report from Chen Guangtai, the An Dai resident general, while holding in his hand the secret report from the Jinyiwei Southern Pacification Division and the public report from the deputy governor of the Five Military Governor's Office stationed in Dancheng (Danashalin).

The combination of these three pieces of information will help the 81-year-old emperor to judge the situation and make the right decision.

"Sending more troops is secondary. After all, the Emperor has issued an order to capture Fort William as much as possible.

But the Kingdom of Arakan is not part of the combined fleet or the Indian Expedition Army's operations. Is it necessary to attack?"

Chen Guangtai is a close relative of the Chen family. His grandfather is Chen Shangchuan's younger brother, so he is considered a member of the Mo family. He certainly knows what Mo Tianci is hesitating about the most.

Because Emperor Mo personally led his troops to capture the capital of the Arakan Kingdom, Myeik-U, executed King Darye Apaya, and supported Prince Puran, who believed in Islam.

He also abducted King Darye's daughter Pantuzar and made her a concubine of Mo Zihuang, the eldest son of the Mo family and Duke of Qiong.

Later, the Arakan princess gave birth to a boy and a girl for the Duke of Qiong, Mo Zihuang.

Among them, the boy who has the blood of the Arakan royal family is thirteen years old this year, so Mo Tianci wants to keep the Arakan Kingdom.

"Now is the best opportunity. After King Plan's death, his children were too young to be captured by the English and taken to Fort William. Now we don't know whether they are alive or dead.

The one who actually controlled the Arakan Kingdom was the tyrant Sanda Tumana, who was newly supported by the English.

Sanda Tumana believed in Theravada Buddhism, but his supporters were Muslims from Bangladesh, which made the Arakanese people who basically believed in Theravada Buddhism very dissatisfied.

They believed that the tyrant Sanda Tumana had betrayed the Arakan Kingdom by inviting a wolf into his house.”

Mo Tianci perked up immediately. He nodded, then shook his head and said slowly:
"This is indeed the best opportunity to expel the English puppets, but it is not the best time for us to control the Kingdom of Arakan. The Empire's strength in Lower Burma is still too weak. Gongbai has only been in Upper Burma for a short time and has not yet been able to integrate the local chieftains."

Chen Guangtai understood that the emperor didn't want his grandson to take risks too early.

Although he has more than a dozen grandchildren, and this one was born to a concubine of Arakan, he is still the bloodline of the Mo family and cannot be sacrificed casually, so Chen Guangtai can only follow Mo Tianci and say:

"Yes, but uncle, don't forget that when King Puran was supported, he killed the entire family of his three brothers.

If we drive out this tyrant king, who can barely be considered a descendant of the Arakanese royal family, then there will be no other legitimate heirs in Arakan except the son of King Puran, whose life or death is unknown, and your grandson."

Mo Tianci now understood that this attack not only required finding a port on the territory of the Arakan Kingdom to anchor the warships.

The second task was to take the opportunity to cleanse the Arakan royal family, whose bloodline was already very scarce, so as to achieve the goal of making his grandson, who was also the nephew of Emperor Mo, the only close descendant of the Arakan royal family.

“Okay, I agree first. I will quickly recruit armed merchant ships to support the combined fleet, and recruit soldiers and sailors from the miners in Jiaqing Province.

You shall proceed with the plan of attacking the Kingdom of Arakan. I will immediately order the Prime Minister's Office to report this to the Emperor."

Upon hearing Mo Tianci's agreement, Chen Guangtai, the Resident Earl, had to admire the emperor's skill. Being able to send the emperor to Southeast Asia to control the situation was simply a stroke of genius.

If it were anyone else, it would be basically impossible to make a decision easily on such a big matter.

. . . .

Just when Mo Tianci agreed to add five armed merchant ships of more than 400 tons and 3,500 soldiers to the joint fleet, and agreed to attack the Kingdom of Arakan.

Chu Zhi, who had spent two years in fear, had reached his final moment.

The city he occupied was called Toungoo. As you can tell from the name, it was a city belonging to the Burmese. The powerful Toungoo Dynasty of Mang Yinglong used it as its capital.

When Taksin conferred the title of Chao Phraya Chakri on his brother, he hoped to use the power of their family to suppress the Burmese in Toungoo.

The effect was actually quite good. More than 20,000 people from the Chakri family immigrated to Toungoo City, including 4,000 warriors, who basically mastered every aspect of Toungoo.

However, this kind of mastery requires extremely strong support.

In other words, the hundreds of thousands of Burmese people in Toungoo were not afraid of the tens of thousands of immigrants from the Chakri family, but the Thonburi Dynasty behind them and the China behind the Thonburi Dynasty.

But now, all of this no longer exists, and the Chakri family of Toungoo is in dire straits.

Listening to the rumbling sound of cannons outside the city, Chu Zhi's face was full of despair. He staggered a few steps. Behind him, a Burmese noblewoman from Toungoo City was following him closely, holding a baby.

This was Chu Zhi's only child. After Tong was executed on the banks of the Tang River (Mekong River), Mo Tianci ordered Chu Zhi to tie himself up and surrender, so that his family could be saved.

But Chu Zhi chose to refuse, so Mo Tianci decisively beheaded all his wife and children, making this guy who always instigated his elder brother the only one whose entire family was wiped out in the rebellion.

All his sons Duqin (Rama II) survived, only he died, but Chuzhi's entire family died out of resentment.

"Zhao, the Burmese King Meng Yun has arrived personally with the Chinese Heavenly Army. The Toungoo Burmese have risen in rebellion. The Outer City will soon fall. What should we do?"

A general of the Chakri family rushed in with a look of panic on his face.

Chu Zhi was unhurried. He slowly approached the general and asked in a calm voice, "So what do you think we should do?"

The general hesitated for a moment and whispered, "Why not surrender? At least you can keep your family safe."

"Surrender..." Chu Zhi chuckled and replied in a very strange voice, "I think it's okay."

The general was delighted and raised his head to speak, but found that Chu Zhi's dagger had pierced his chest.

This guy was actually a master swordsman. The general was caught off guard and had no time to resist. He was stabbed through the heart and fell to the ground, twitching slightly.

"It's over, it's really over. The only reason we've been able to hold on until now is because the Burmese King Meng Yun wants to keep us here to contain Mo Zibu.

But now that he has come in person, it seems he has decided to go back and serve the Tang people as a dog again."

"Surrender? Hahahaha!" Chu Zhi laughed wildly. "I won't surrender to anyone, not even Mo Zibu or this little Hexian kid!"

Amidst wild laughter, Chu Zhi turned his gaze to the concubine holding the child. The concubine screamed in fear and ran away.

But she couldn't run faster than Chu Zhi.

With a wave of his hand and a drop of knife, white mist suddenly appeared and blood spurted out. After killing his wife and children, Chu Zhi set fire to the entire Chao Phraya Palace with a crazy laugh.

(End of this chapter)