The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 621: Goryeo Mountain Search Team

Just as Cai Qian said, Sultan of Aceh Alauddin Muhammad Sayyah is indeed a rare wise ruler in Aceh.

This man is 27 years old this year. Ten years ago, when he was 17 years old, Muhammad Sayyah took a dozen of his men to make a pilgrimage from Aceh to Mecca.

This is not an easy journey, especially for a small country like Aceh.

Lacking any knowledge of navigation, their journey to Mecca at a time when the number of Arab merchants at sea was dwindling was a life-threatening adventure.

Sultan Muhammad Sayyid was forced to stay in French Mauritius for a period of time due to headwinds.

But during these short seven months, Muhammad Sayyah was exposed to advanced metallurgical technology from Europe, especially the production methods of artillery shells.

Therefore, after returning to Aceh, he recruited some French craftsmen and started to open a European-style gun factory in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh. At one time, he was able to produce flintlock rifles, bombs and artillery shells.

Well, even though France and China have a good relationship, there are also many French people working for other powers in Southeast Asia.

The biggest reason is precisely because the relationship between France and China is so good.

In this barely close relationship, the benefits of Sino-French East-West trade were basically reaped by the French upper class.

Not only did many lower-class French adventurers not get a share of the pie, but due to the rapid concentration of trade, they also lost the small businesses on which they originally relied for survival.

As the Chinese Empire's control over Southeast Asia grew stronger and more exclusive, the British began to secretly invest in Aceh, which enabled Aceh to acquire the ability to manufacture four-pound field guns in recent years.

This also became the capital for Sultan Muhammad Sayyah to cause trouble.

Of course, since he was a wise ruler and had been to Egypt, Mecca and other places, Muhammad Sayyid was still very knowledgeable. He knew that he could not challenge the Chinese Empire solely relying on the support of the English.

He also knew that if the English were reliable, then nothing in this world was unreliable.

Or he was very clear that the Kingdom of England would not challenge the powerful Chinese Empire for the sake of the Sultanate of Aceh.

Therefore, Muhammad Sayyah cast a look of admiration at the man in black robe on the left side of the throne.

“Sheikh Abdul, the warrior god you brought here will surely become the savior of Aceh.

In this chaotic era, if we can achieve a great victory, then the voice of God and the reputation of His Majesty the Caliph will once again resound throughout the Southeast Asian region."

A little-known fact that is difficult for people in later generations to understand is that in the Muslim world, there was a beggar version of Qin Shi Huang.

This beggar version of Qin Shi Huang is the caliph of the Ottoman Empire.

He is said to be the Qin Shi Huang of the Muslim world because almost all the countries and territories that believe in Muslim religion currently have the Ottoman Caliph as their supreme leader.

For example, the Sultanate of Aceh and the Maldives Sultanate in the Indian Ocean, all the sultans had to go to Mecca for pilgrimage and have the senior imams in Mecca report to the Caliph on their behalf to obtain legal authority.

When they encounter problems, they often regard the Caliph as their last resort.

In history, Aceh was destroyed by the Dutch and Kokand was destroyed by Russia. On the eve of their demise, both states sent people to Istanbul to ask the Caliph for help.

Only when the Caliph does not send troops to rescue will people's hearts collapse and the country will be unable to support itself.

The reason why the Caliph was called a beggar version of Qin Shi Huang was because he did not actually unify the world like Qin Shi Huang did.

In addition, the standardization of writing system and weights and measures were only the beginning.

Sheikh Abdul nodded in a serious manner, but he laughed in his heart.

The Muslim world is so vast that there are at least eighty local rulers like the Sultan of Aceh.

The Caliph himself had just lost Crimea in the Russo-Turkish War and was badly beaten. How could he have the extra strength to come thousands of miles away to fight against another world power?

Therefore, the 800 Turkish musketeers who came with him this time were actually recruited by Sheikh Abdul himself.

There were also many adventurers within the Ottoman Empire. Going to the East to take risks, occupy a place, make a fortune or become a local king was an important channel for them to leap into class.

"Sultan, I heard that Jambi City fell and the Sultan of Jambi was captured alive by the Qin people?" Sheikh Abdul asked in a low voice.

"Yes, Your Excellency, I was just about to inform you of this." An angry look appeared on Sultan Muhammad Sayyah's face.

“Some people are so short-sighted that even when they were about to be exterminated by the Qin people, they were still reluctant to give up their little family property.

I gave the order to retreat five times, but the Sultan of Jambi and his nobles refused to obey.”

"Having failed to abide by his oath and obey orders, it seems that the Sultan of Jambi is no longer fit to be the King of Jambi."

Sheikh Abdullah said this with a hint of meaning, and then looked at Sultan Muhammad Sayyah with a smile.

“But this is also a good thing. Just as I told His Majesty the Sultan before, the Qin people’s greed means that even if the Sultan of Jambi begs for mercy on his knees, he will not receive even the slightest bit of preferential treatment. All he will get is endless plunder and humiliation.

And when others see what happened to the Sultan of Jambi, they will be alert.

They will then realize that their only option is to come to His Majesty the Sultan and join us in fighting against the Qin people."

Sultan Muhammad Sayyah was somewhat dissatisfied with Sheikh Abdul's previous words, because these people were too greedy and actually wanted to take Jambi away.

If their wish comes true, what will Aceh gain?

However, after hearing the last few words, Muhammad Sayyah Sultan fell silent again.

Because he needs Sheikh Abdul, and behind the Sheikh, there is the authority to interpret the scriptures and the support of the religious group that can inspire the ecstasy warriors.

Let them occupy the monument and push them to the front to confront the Tang people. That’s not a bad idea.

After figuring this out, Sultan Muhammad Sayyah quickly said, "Yes, I also believe that the Sultan of Jambi can no longer bear the sacred duty bestowed upon him by God to rule over the Champa believers.

"Then, Sheikh, the most important thing now is to drive out the Qin people. Should we still follow the old plan and lure them to Banda Aceh, then wait until the rainy season and, with the help of Allah, defeat them?"

After receiving an implicit agreement, Sheikh Abdul nodded with satisfaction, "Yes, we should stick to the planned battle plan.

Your Majesty the Sultan, based on intelligence from all sources, the Qin people should mobilize an army of 20,000 to 30,000.

It would take at least three months to completely wipe out the Minangkabau people in Palembang and Jambi. After that, due to the wind direction, they could only plan to attack Banda Aceh by land.

We have made defensive preparations, produced a large number of cannons and flintlock rifles, and reinforced the city walls. It will be no problem for us to hold out for three or four months.

Finally, when the rainy season arrived, they could only retreat in a panic before the might of nature.

By that time, His Majesty the Sultan's reputation will spread throughout Southeast Asia and Asia Minor.

All the warriors of the Muslim world will know your majesty's name, and they will come from all directions to serve you."

Aceh Sultan Alauddin Muhammad Sayyah was deeply moved by the bright future described by Sheikh Abdul.

He looked dazed for two seconds, then suddenly burst into laughter. "Yes, Banda Aceh is indestructible. It will surely inflict a defeat on the Qin people here that they have never experienced before."

. . . .

It can be said that any strategy or tactic is perfect and flawless when it is first designed, especially in the eyes of the designer.

It’s just that when it starts to encounter some variables that have never appeared before, the plan will gradually go from being perfect to having major flaws or even being full of loopholes.

Among these, the most important reason is that we only know ourselves but not the enemy, or even do not know ourselves or the enemy.

Look how perfect the plan of the Sultan of Aceh is. He wants the Dayu army to go to the Barisan Mountains to clear out the enemy first, and then they will be exhausted and half dead.

Then, because the wind direction was such that the only way to reach Banda Aceh was by land, not only was the supply line lengthened, but the officers and soldiers also became more exhausted.

Finally, the Acehnese prepared a large number of artillery on the top of Banda Aceh, armed with a large number of flintlock rifles, and assisted by the Ottoman warriors who were unknown to the Dayu army. The Chinese were exhausted until the rainy season, and could only retreat in disgrace. In the end, they were pursued and suffered heavy casualties. It was simply too perfect.

However, Aceh Sultan Alauddin Muhammad Sayyah and Sheikh Abdul could never have imagined that China had already put steam engines on ships.

Now is the era of steam sailing warships, and the little breeze from the Indian Ocean in winter is not a problem at all.

As for clearing the mountainous areas, not to mention the Han people from Guangxi and Guangnan, they are best at tropical rainforest mountain warfare.

The Silla infantry regiment and its Korean volunteers that have been mobilized at present can wipe out these indigenous people hiding in the Barisan Mountains.

. . . .

Shan Tailang Maoshan was promoted again. He was now in charge of various volunteers and slave soldiers, numbering as many as three hundred.

In this regard, Mao Shan is quite capable and has language advantages. He can speak Japanese, Nanjing Mandarin and Minnan dialect.

On the other hand, his younger brother Shan Shangche was secretly working hard. In Nanyang, a garrison commander might not be a big deal, even in a very wealthy place like Shanlu Fort, which was similar to a small county.

But the identity of a Republican member of parliament is too powerful. It can really influence the policy making of the Nanyang Mission. Therefore, no matter who sees the sign of a Republican member of parliament in the Nanyang Mission, they have to give it some face.

"You're a fucking woman, why did you follow us here?" But Shantaro Maoshan was speechless at this moment.

The volunteers assigned to him were contract workers, who were of a higher status than the Burmese and other Southeast Asian slaves. They were all from Lelang and Goryeo, in other words, they were originally Koreans.

Moreover, Mao Shan also discovered that there were some women among them, which made him very angry.

"What are these people from the Five Military Governor's Office doing for a living?" Not only was Yamataro Maoshan dissatisfied, but his benefactor, the old president Simon Hikogoro, was also cursing.

"Although they are all from the East, there are still huge differences between Koreans and Japanese. We can't understand their chattering language at all."

Good guy, he even complained about it, thinking that Korean was not as nice as Japanese and sounded so "elegant".

However, due to the hasty planning, some mistakes were indeed made by the officials of the provincial governor's offices who were in charge of the garrison troops and the Han volunteers, volunteer soldiers and slave soldiers under them.

However, these people are not under the responsibility of the Five Armies Commandery. The Five Armies are mainly responsible for the Beijing Camp.

The local garrison troops were only responsible for mobilizing and training troops, while the Ministry of War was responsible for the rest of the matters. However, Simon Hikogoro still couldn't figure out the complicated relationship.

"No, I need to ask Major General Du to clarify. We can't control the Lelang people and Silla people."

Simon Hikogoro was still making a fuss, but the round-faced girl in the crowd who heard their conversation was not happy.

The Koreans had no good attitude towards the Japanese who caused the Imjin War, and in the Joseon Dynasty's consistent propaganda, Korea was a small China in the East Sea, which was much nobler than the barbaric Japanese pirates.

Therefore, if these Koreans had not seen that these two Japanese had already obtained Han Chinese identity, they would not be so obedient.

The round-faced girl discovered by Yamataro was none other than Soo-jeong, whose father nearly starved to death and who was sold to Seoul as a slave.

Well, perhaps without the chance of survival given by the Dayu court, Xiuzhen would not have survived. With her looks, no nobleman with unique tastes would want a prostitute or maid with this look.

"What's wrong with us Chao people? Are we worse than you and others?" Xiuzhen was originally a tough person, and the nine life-and-death experiences she had experienced along the way had further tempered her courage and temperament.

"How dare you!" Yamataro Maoshan, who attached the most importance to this identity, shouted.

"You are not yet a Chinese Han Chinese. You cannot call yourself a Joseon or a Silla person. You are still a Korean who signed a contract."

Mo Zibu deliberately distinguished between the Joseon people and the Koreans, and between the Japanese and the Koreans, in order to downplay the idea of the Joseon State and the Japanese State.

For example, Japan has been divided into four provinces: Penglai, Yingzhou, Asahi, and Fuso, and each province can be further divided.

Going further up, they were collectively called Dongyang people together with the Silla people in the southern part of the peninsula.

Use this method to break the old national concept of the Han people in the five provinces of East Asia.

As for those who can only work as contract workers, these terms are constantly used to stimulate them, making them feel ashamed of being Koreans or Japanese, and actively trying to get rid of these two old titles.

So no matter how fierce Xiuzhen was, she immediately became dispirited after being scolded by Maoshan with such "righteous words".

“Master Huazu, please don’t underestimate us. Just let us have a full meal, and then we can only drink water and eat some small rice balls at most.

We can hold out in the jungle for two days or more, and even on our stomachs alone, we can defeat those Jambi barbarians."

Next to Xiuzhen, there was a Korean who knew a little Nanjing Mandarin and would soon be able to pass the Han Chinese certification. He only needed to pay a sum of money to redeem his contract and then he could become a Han Chinese.

And the specialty he mentioned does exist.

Because historically, among the three East Asian countries, Koreans are most famous not for their patriotism or kimchi, but for their appetite.

Koreans have an incredibly large appetite. It is said that during the Wanli Korean War, Korean spies found out about the Japanese army's food reserves and concluded that they could only last for a month at most.

As a result, the Japanese army held out for three months and still had food to eat. Finally, when the Ming Dynasty soldiers broke through the Japanese fortress, they found that the Japanese army's rice bowls were only one-third of those of the Korean army, so much so that the Koreans thought they were small bowls for pickles.

Li Shunchen also complained that with the same amount of food, the soldiers of the upper kingdom could last for a month, but the soldiers of the Joseon Kingdom would eat it all in less than half a month.

This led to Lee Sun-sin having to strictly regulate the amount of food he ate, and anyone who dared to eat more would be beaten with a military stick.

This is actually an evolution for survival when materials are extremely scarce.

In the barren and desolate Korean Peninsula, if you don't try to eat everything you see, death may very well be waiting for you.

So during the Korean War in history, the South Korean army had a much stronger retreat capability than the US army. It was not because they ran faster than the US army, but because they were very patient.

The US military often runs for a few hours and then looks like they are dying and can't run anymore because they don't eat. However, the South Korean army can run for most of the day without eating, so they naturally have a strong retreat capability.

I have to say that North Korea and Japan are truly a pair of Crouching Dragon and Phoenix.

Under the same extremely harsh conditions for the lower-class people, the two evolved into different paths.

The Japanese have small stomachs and eat very little of everything.

North Koreans are big eaters. They eat everything they see and store it in their stomachs. They can eat a lot but also can withstand the consumption.

Seeing Mao Shan hesitate for a moment, the Koreans, realizing what was happening, shouted in stiff, awkward Nanjing Mandarin:

"Master Han, Master Han, please give us a good meal. As long as we have enough to eat, we will catch those barbarians in the jungle like mice and birds."

Shan Tailang Maoshan became even more hesitant. He might have refused something else, but in Southeast Asia, having a full meal was not a particularly great reward.

"Okay, I'll give you a full meal!"

But soon, Mao Shan regretted it. These were not more than 200 Koreans, but more than 200 reincarnated starving ghosts!
Mao Shan watched helplessly as the 240 people were about to finish all the food for the 600 people, and there was no sign of them stopping.

Even the woman with the round face was eating madly with a bowl bigger than her head. It was the first time that Mao Shan felt frustrated while dining with a woman.

"Damn it, I'm warning you, if you still can't do your job well after eating so much, I'll make sure you pay!"

Mao Shan stared fiercely at the North Korean man who could communicate in Nanjing Mandarin quite fluently, and said with gritted teeth.

"Don't worry, sir!" the North Korean man said confidently, "After this meal, we can stay in the jungle for more than five days with two days' worth of dry food. We'll definitely wipe out all the barbarians here!"

This North Korean man, who could speak Nanjing Mandarin fluently, spoke with a smile, and then he devoured the meal like a whirlwind, only needing a handful of chopped raw red pepper and a small piece of fried fish, and he could finish a large dinner at a very fast speed.

Only when you are full can you have the energy to work.

(End of this chapter)