The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 60 The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Didi's Beating

Mo Zibu had been thinking about the structure of Kunlun Mountain Hall for a long time.

Any organization, especially a political organization, must fit in with the current environment and be roughly consistent with future trends in order to play its due role.

It cannot be separated from productivity and the rut of the times.

The same goes for Mo Zibu's Kunlun Mountain Hall, an organization that he envisioned would play a huge role in Southeast Asia.

This organization would help him unite the Chinese in Southeast Asia to build a peaceful paradise, and even provide sufficient support in the future to end the Qing Dynasty's semi-colonial rule over China.

The latter goal is too long and too difficult, so Mo Zibu doesn't need to consider it for the time being.

But to achieve the former goal, Kunlun Mountain Hall needs to play an important role.

What is the current reality in Nanyang?

It is large and scattered, with sharp ethnic conflicts, relatively low development, and located at a geographical crossroads, making it vulnerable to invasion and even attack by various foreign civilizations and forces.

As of now, the entire Nanyang area is more than 4.5 million square kilometers, which is almost half of the area of China in later generations.

In addition to the Indochina Peninsula, which is the main body, there are tens of thousands of islands of various sizes, including Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Luzon, and Sulawesi.

The ethnic composition is even more complex. Taking the present as an example, if the population of the Southeast Asian countries is calculated based on their territories in later generations.

Annam has about 8.5 million people.

Siam three and a half million.

Cambodia 600,000.

Three hundred thousand in Laos.

Four million in Myanmar.

Two million in Malaysia.

Indonesia five million.

900,000 in the Philippines.

There are probably about 25 million people, but there are probably three or four hundred ethnic groups.

The territory is likely to be larger than that of the Qing Dynasty, excluding the sparsely populated lands of Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Inner and Outer Mongolia, and Northeast China.

With such a large territory, the Qing Dynasty had a population of nearly 200 million, while Southeast Asia had only more than 20 million.

Strictly speaking, there were only thirty or forty ethnic groups in the Qing Dynasty, and at least three or four hundred in Southeast Asia.

The Qing Dynasty had a unified language, Chinese. There are estimated to be hundreds of languages in Southeast Asia, and at least dozens of major language systems.

China has three mother rivers: the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Pearl River. Each of them is independent, but their basins can influence each other.

There is the Huai River between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and the Lingqu Canal and Xiangjiang River connect the Pearl River and the Yangtze River.

In addition, the great unification formed over thousands of years has made the culture and life basically the same.

But in Southeast Asia.

The Red River Plain in northern Annam, which is flooded by the Red River.

The Mekong Delta, an alluvial basin of the Mekong River.

The Chao Phraya Plain of Siam, an alluvial plain of the Chao Phraya River.

The Ayeyarwady Plain in Myanmar, an alluvial plain of the Irrawaddy River.

They are not subordinate to each other and cannot influence each other. Their regions are closed and their cultures are very different.

Not to mention the countless islands, plateaus and pristine jungles, as well as the constant harassment from foreign European colonists.

Given such geographical, cultural and external environment, it would be extremely difficult and impossible for anyone to establish a unified empire in Southeast Asia.

Therefore, if you really want to achieve something in Nanyang, you have to give up some things that sound good but are actually meaningless, and concentrate your energy on grasping the key points in order to gain a foothold.

This is the valuable experience Mo Zibu learned from the choices and decisions made about state-owned enterprises after the reform and opening up of the Republic of China.

In the current Southeast Asia, the most valuable resources are in two countries, Vietnam and Thailand.

To be precise, it is the Red River Plain in Beizheng.

The Mekong Plain was occupied by the Mo family, the Chen family, and the Guangnan Kingdom.

The Chao Phraya Plain of Siam.

There are at least 1.5 million Chinese living in these three areas, accounting for more than 10%.

If we count the Hanized Jing people and the Beijingized Han people who have not yet been fully indigenousized and are still using Chinese, they account for at least more than 50%.

Moreover, these three places are rich in resources, with abundant water resources, water transportation, arable land, and fish catches, making them an absolute land of fish and rice.

As long as Mo Zibu controls these three areas, he will have grasped the core of Southeast Asia.

No matter how much trouble you cause elsewhere, I will remain unmoved. I have sufficient manpower and material resources to deal with any outsiders. Of course, this does not mean that other places are no longer needed or cared about, but Mo Zibu decided to use another method, that is, to encourage Chinese immigrants to occupy and manage them.

In fact, in today's Southeast Asia, the Chinese are scattered and do not have an advantage in any region.

But overall, the Chinese are definitely the most widely distributed ethnic group in Southeast Asia, ranking among the top three in terms of population, and they also occupy the upper hand in economics, trade and culture.

The only problem is that the Chinese are currently a group of scattered individuals fighting each other. The homeland they want to rely on is ruled by the Qing Dynasty, which does not regard the Chinese as its own people.

The difficulty the Chinese encountered in Southeast Asia was not that they lacked the ability to colonize and develop, but that after colonization and development, there was no one to coordinate the conflicts among them or to protect their interests.

The conflict between the Nakhon Si Thammarat royal family and Songkhla U Rang is a concentrated reflection of this situation.

Therefore, as long as these two problems are solved, the Chinese in Southeast Asia will be able to usher in an era of explosive growth in colonization and development.

Whoever can solve these two problems will have grasped the main contradiction in Nanyang and will be the well-deserved king of Nanyang.

Kunlun Mountain Hall came into being!

According to the current plan, the Kunlun Mountain Headquarters will be divided into Jinshan Hall, Qilian Hall and Yanzhi Hall in terms of military.

This is the core force of Mo Zibu, including the logistics staff officers corps and the naval and land guards corps directly under his own command, which constitute all the forces that Mo Zibu can mobilize.

In terms of political structure, in order to adapt to the fact that most of the Chinese in Southeast Asia have low cultural levels and are characterized by being rough heroes, Mo Zibu specifically designed it according to the model of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Mo Zibu was the leader in charge of everything. He called himself the Duke of Ren De, and vaguely compared himself to Liu Bei Liu Xuande.

My sworn brother Wei Rikun is Uncle Gongti.

With the theme of filial piety from an elder brother to his younger brother, Wei Rikun is positioned as a person who provides various logistical support to Mo Zibu, the benevolent third brother, reflecting Gongsun Zan, the good elder brother of Liu Xuande in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Li Xianwen, the sworn brother, is the second master of loyalty and righteousness. He uses loyalty and righteousness to tie the hands and feet of Mo Zibu, the biggest military leader under his command.

The implicit meaning is to let him be Guan Erye, forcibly tie the words loyalty and righteousness to Li Xianwen, and use his character to restrain him.

At present, Li Xianwen does not dislike it at all, and even likes it very much. He feels a little proud of it. The specific manifestation is that he has recently begun to like others to call him Erye or Zhongye.

As for other heroes at home and abroad, those who are capable are given titles such as Baipao, Jinqi, and Laoji, and the images of Zhao Zilong and Ma Mengqi under Shu Han are applied to them.

Those who live in the underworld will definitely be very susceptible to this.

And there is no need to worry about running out of inspiration, because the character library of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is so rich, with Guan Ping and Zhou Cang, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao, Wang Ping and Liao Hua, Jiang Wei and Ma Dai, etc.

As for the more peripheral members of the local tiger group, that is, local tycoons like Wang Runzhi and Wu Rang, they were all given the status of fan holders.

The person holding the fan is the one standing next to the dragon head and waving the fan.

On the one hand, it can bring them into Zhuge Kongming's circle and make them feel that they are senior participants and think tanks of Kunlun Mountain Hall, and on the other hand, it can show that they are just fan holders and will not enter the core of Kunlun Mountain Hall.

This design is very effective. The problem with the Chinese in Southeast Asia now is that they form groups based on their regions. There is a language barrier between them, and they regard their own language as Tang dialect. They unite with those who speak the same language as them, and exclude those who do not. Such small groups are formed.

Then Mo Zibu directly gave them a level of strength and used the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a means of higher-level unity.

I think no matter you are from Guangdong, Fujian, Chaozhou or western Guangdong, you must know the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and you must know who Liu Xuande is, right?
Mo Zibu used the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as the highest identity of the Chinese people and packaged himself as the benevolent and people-loving Liu Xuande.

At the same time, he could also slander the Chinese who did not listen to him as the treacherous minister Cao Mengde, Sun Shiwan who stabbed his allies in the back, the cruel and inhumane Master Dong, the ambitious but incompetent Yuan Benchu, and so on.

In this way, as long as he has the right to speak, Mo Zibu can easily give the enemy a nickname and make him stink for ten miles before the fight even starts.

For example, if a rebellious Hakka comes and refuses to listen to orders, then you are not the fan-wielding Zhuge Kongming, but the capricious Meng Da, the turbulent Li Jue and Guo Si who disrupt the government, or Mi Fang who betrayed Guan Yu.

Once such a label is put on him, even the Hakka people themselves would probably dislike him.

No one wants to have someone like Meng Da or Mi Fang around him.

When public opinion is built up, Mo Zibu will raise his arms again and everyone will want to kill him. The 'United Nations Army' will come to teach him a lesson and slap him to death.

In addition to the advantage of public opinion, there are additional benefits to holding fans in Kunlun Mountain Hall.

That is, during the process of colonization and development, if you have a conflict with other fan holders, the Dragon Head Benevolent Duke Mo (pseudo) Xuande can come to mediate between you. You don't have to fight with each other and the conflict can be resolved at the lowest cost.

When attacked by Westerners or indigenous people, or when you think you are in danger, you can ask Longtou Rendegong to send troops to help by offering a price based on the strength of the enemy.

All fans need to pay is a not-so-expensive annual membership fee, and a certain degree of obedience and cooperation in terms of manpower, material resources, and business activities.

To put it bluntly, what Mo Zibu wants to do now is to set up a Didi-like beating service targeting Chinese people in Nanyang.

The final evolution of this Didi beating people is that Mo Zibu occupies the Red River Plain, the Mekong River Plain, and the Chao Phraya River Plain to establish a medium-sized power and become the emperor of all the Chinese in Southeast Asia.

The rest of the Chinese people brought their relatives and fellow villagers to explore and colonize everywhere, and then paid tribute and taxes. Those who obeyed orders but not dictates became princes.

Wu Rang was originally worried to death, but after listening to Mo Zibu's explanation, his eyes immediately lit up. He ignored the mud on the ground and knelt down in front of Mo Zibu with a plop.

"Lord Ren De, Songka Wu Rang is willing to be the fan bearer. From now on, our 20,000 Zhangzhou folks will obey Lord Ren De's orders.

In addition, my father-in-law, Gaotoulangzhuang, and his 20,000 Quanzhou compatriots are also willing to follow Lord Rende."

Wang Runzhi finally felt relieved and knelt down on the ground.

"Lord Rende, the 150,000 sons of the Wang family of Luokun are also willing to obey your orders!"

(End of this chapter)