The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 93 Prince Consort, We Miss You

October 1766, , the st year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty.

On the third day after entering Pattani City, Mo Zibu ordered Wu Shixiu to bring back more than 200 adult male members of the Pattani Sultanate's royal family, including the kingdom's ministers.

They were all packed into sacks, beaten half to death with clubs, and finally loaded onto a ship and thrown directly into the sea.

As for the female members of the family, Bahadur II's harem was not large. After all, he was just a small king with a population of tens of thousands. Mozibu packed up his five wives, concubines and daughters and shipped them all to Ha Tien.

Because the last time he gave Princess Arakan to his eldest brother, he found that his father Ou Tianci seemed to enjoy this feeling as well.

Of course, as a son, Mo Zibu would never give a woman to his father.

Not to mention the moral issue, even if his mother Chen knew about it, she would definitely break his legs!
So, Mo Zibu simply packed up the five and sent them back, leaving his father Ou Tianci to worry about what to do with them.

As for the other palace maids, they can be directly distributed to meritorious officials and military warriors.

Mo Zibu even gave one to Wei Dakuan to remind the Wei family to quickly complete the transfer of power.

It has to be said that Mo Dalongtou, who was originally good at playing games in the love field, has become extremely self-disciplined in this area since he traveled through time.

He found that this thing was like exercise. It was indeed difficult at the beginning, but after he really started to persist, he would have a strange sense of saintliness that made him reluctant to break this golden body that he had maintained for a long time.

Using willpower to control the body seems to be quite addictive. Is it possible that humans have a gene for masochism?
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On October 21, the fleet that had set out from Hoi An earlier arrived in Pattani.

A total of 23 large and small transport ships arrived, and there were as many as 600 Chinese men and women who came to Pattani to supplement the Wei family.

In addition to these Chinese men and women, more than 900 Annamites were also transported.

These Annan people were mostly men, with women and children making up only a small portion. Most of them were brought from the confrontation area between the Northern Zheng and Southern Nguyen dynasties.

Now, the two heavyweight governments in the north and south of Annan are working together. The country's bureaucracy is corrupt, corrupt officials are rampant, uprisings are constantly taking place in various places, and some natural disasters are added to the mix. It's simply too bad.

A large number of people could not survive, and as long as they were given food, many of them were willing to go out to sea to beg for food.

Historically, these Annan people did not have the right to go out to sea to survive.

Because they had no boats, the Chinese were divided into small groups and fought each other. Naturally, no one was interested in taking them out to play, so they could only starve to death in their hometown in large numbers.

But when it comes to Mo Zibu, the situation is different. He has few Chinese people now, so having some Annan people as a supplement is better than using natives.

In addition, Mo Zibu had a great advantage over any other Han Chinese tycoon in Southeast Asia in history. That was that Mo Zibu not only spoke Annamite, but was also easily regarded as one of their own by the Annamites.

For example, now, when Mo Zibu ordered his men to kill ten cows, cook sticky rice porridge, and fry spring rolls to entertain these Annan people, they all cheered and knelt down and kowtowed continuously.

All they shouted were things like "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward" or "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace".

This is quite interesting to talk about.

Mo Zibu had hacked to death Ruan Shiyuan, the woman who was married to him from the Ruan family, and also burned to death Zhang Fuluan's son Zhang Fuyue.

Prince Ding Ruan Fuchun had also issued an edict, not only depriving Mo Zibu of his status as a royal consort, but also declaring him a traitor and a traitor, and issuing a warrant for his arrest everywhere.

However, both inside and outside Annan, whether in the court or among the people, people were actually very sympathetic to Mo Zibu.

After all, anyone with empathy would know how much humiliation and injustice Mo Zibu had endured.

And judging from Mo Zi Bu's performance in Hue during those three years, who doesn't know that he is an honest man?

How many immoral things must Zhang Fuyue and Nguyen Thi Yuan have done to force an honest man into this state?

Therefore, within the Nan Ruan, there is Zhang Fuluan’s loyal confidant.

No, even Zhang Fuluan’s closest confidant thought that Zhang Fuyue had gone too far.

Of course, sympathy alone would not have led to the current public opinion.

To put it bluntly, compassion is not directly related to one's daily life, interests, etc., so the duration it lasts in a person's heart is very limited.

The reason for this is that Zhang Fuluan, the treacherous minister, was a dishonest person.

What situation has this treacherous minister who controls the Southern Nguyen Dynasty reached now?

After Mo Zi Bu broke out of Hue City, he immediately used this as an excuse to eliminate his political enemies and killed more than 20 people in one breath.

Among them were seven members of the Nguyen family, and even Nguyen Phuc, the father of Nguyen Phuc Anh, the founding emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam, was killed.

After eliminating his political enemies, Zhang Fuluan teamed up with his accomplices Cai Sheng and others to occupy the most fertile farmland around Hue.

No matter if they were nobles, royal family members, civil or military ministers, or even ordinary people, as long as they took a fancy to them, they would take them away.

Zhang Fuluan alone occupied the fertile land and tax revenues of wealthy places such as Qiupenyuan, Chashanyuan, Chayunyuan and Tongxiangyuan.

At that time, Yuan in Annan was called Yuan, which means basin plain. Without occupying the Red River Plain, Yuan was the richest and most important land in the mountainous regime of Guangnan.

These areas not only provided the bulk of Guangnan's tax revenue but also served as the backbone of Guangnan's military support. Zhang Fuluan alone directly caused the loss of thousands of landed and military households. Zhang Fuluan's occupation of these areas yielded annual profits equivalent to over one-tenth of the national treasury, significantly damaging Guangnan's already precarious financial situation.

In addition, Zhang Fuluan also established various cruel punishments specifically to deal with officials who disagreed with his political views. He would look for opportunities to frame people if he was not satisfied with them, and would often send entire families to jail.

As a result, the people of Guangnan were living in poverty, but Zhang Fuluan's house was full of gold, silver, pearls, jade, brocade, mountains of wealth, fields, houses, slaves, cattle and horses.

Up to now, people in Guangnan no longer call Zhang Fuluan by his name, but directly refer to him as Qin Hui, or Zhang Qin Hui.

This shows how much the people of Guangnan hated him.

Therefore, Mo Zibu, who killed Zhang Fuluan's son, was sympathized and respected by many people in Guangnan.

They felt that Mo Zibu was a great hero who was not afraid of corrupt officials in power, and he had avenged all those who had been oppressed and harmed by Zhang Fuluan.

Even in the countryside, there are special stories describing how Mo Zibu broke into the Zhang family's mansion at night, killed hundreds of Zhang family's lackeys in a bloody battle with a steel knife, and finally hung Zhang Fuyue with a rope and tortured him to death.

He also said that if Zhang Fuluan had not happened to be away from home that night, he would have been chopped into dozens of pieces by Mo Zibu, who was like a god descending from heaven.

My goodness, Mo Zibu was stunned for a long time after hearing this.

The hatred of the Guangnan people for Zhang Fuluan is one of the reasons why Mo Zibu is still at large.

This was also the reason why the Annan people who couldn't make it in their hometown flocked to respond when they heard that it was Mo Zibu who recruited them to go south.

In today's Guangnan, and even in some areas of Beizheng, Mo Zibu Mo Fu Ma is a great hero with a tragic color.

This... this is really a lucky thing!

Good thing!
Mo Zibu really didn't expect that after he killed Nguyen Thi Yuan, these Guangnan people would treat him as one of their own, as a fighter against Zhang Fuluan, and now they still think of him as the son-in-law of the emperor.

That would be great. A few years later, when the Tây Sơn army comes and wipes out the Nguyen family of Guangnan, he will have gained the status and claim of a royal family member for free.

No, it seems that only Ruan Fuying and his two younger brothers are left.

Thinking of this, Mo Zibu looked outside with a gloomy face. It turned out that it was not the good guy Li Guangcai, but he was drinking with others.

Historically, it seems that this guy provided great help when the Tây Sơn brothers Nguyễn Đại and Nguyễn Đại started their rebellion.

Now Mo Zibu knew that the Tây Sơn Uprising would break out in a few years. Tây Sơn was located in Tây Sơn Township, Qui Nhon Prefecture, Guangnan.

It is known that the original surname of the brothers Nguyen Hue and Nguyen Hue was Hu, and their father was the chief of Tây Sơn village, also known as Tây Sơn village.

This is very easy to find, but Nguyen Hue is probably still young now, so it would be better to wait a few years and send Li Guangcai back, and then let him pay attention. During the uprising, he must kill all the close relatives of the Nguyen family in Guangnan.

Well, maybe I can use this incident to make the Guangnan Ruan family compensate me with a real princess after Zhang Fuluan is killed.

He could even use this identity to trick the Annan people in Beizheng, making these Annan monkeys regard Mo Zibu as one of their own.

Since mainland immigrants are destined not to arrive immediately, it is acceptable to use some Annamites.

No, it’s just that there are a lot of people coming from the mainland, and the Annamites can also use them.

They can be treated as second-class citizens to build a firewall between the Chinese and the indigenous people, and this relationship can also be used to bring Annan back after it was separated from China for hundreds of years.

Thinking of this, Mo Zibu immediately became interested in these Annan people, who were originally brought to Mo Zibu by Wei Rikun under the order of Grandpa Hui'anluo.

Not only did he provide them with food, but he also publicly promised that once they recovered, he would immediately give them land, wives, and concubines.

As for where this land and woman came from, that’s simple.

On October 24, the third day after the arrival of the Annanites, the military court was fully mobilized to capture almost all the natives who participated in the looting, that is, all the natives who took action. A total of 1,600 to 1,700 people were convicted.

In the past, Mo Zibu would have kept these people and let them do hard labor, but now that the Annan people have come, Mo Zibu feels that this is no longer necessary.

He immediately ordered the military court to try them according to military law and sentenced all the natives to death.

However, the people who were executed were none other than the Annan people transported here by Kunlun Mountain Hall.

Mozibu ordered them to kill all the criminal natives and then distribute the natives' land, houses, wives and children to the Annan people.

There was thunderous cheers for a while. These Annan people could not get through in their hometown, but they did not expect that once they arrived here, they would have houses, fields and wives to share.

Moreover, Prince Consort Mo’s own Chinese compatriots did not get any share, so he gave it to these Chinese from Annan.

Prince Consort Mo is indeed one of our own, and he is so good to them!

As a result, countless Annamites kowtowed their heads on the ground where the blood of the indigenous people flowed like a river.

Mo Zibu didn't think too much about it. As a Chinese, it's better not to have too large a mixed-race population if conditions permit.

Because there are only one or two million Chinese in Southeast Asia now, unlike the tens of millions after the large-scale migration to Southeast Asia in history. It is not a good thing that there are too many of them now.

But it doesn’t matter for the Annan people. They have been mixed-race since the beginning, so there is no problem if they mix with the indigenous people now.

(End of this chapter)