American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Or attack Phan Lang from the south and eliminate the last remaining remnants of the ancient Champa Kingdom?

　Chapter 254: On the Similarities between Red South Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge

　After pulling these miserable-looking South Vietnamese boat people from the sea, Fili asked the translator to interrogate them.

　Later, Phiri and Dr. Kissinger discovered that they were either overseas Chinese merchants in the Cholon area of ​​Saigon, or officials who had served in the Ngo Dinh Diem government and their families, as well as a priest and a nun - without exception, they were all targets of attack or even elimination by the Viet Cong.

　In 1975, the year of Phi's time and space, the thirty-year Vietnam War ended with the "Iron Fist of Saigon." Because the overall situation was already decided, South Vietnam, under Vietcong rule, enjoyed a six-month period of relaxation, temporarily refraining from drastic social reforms and brutally purging the old regime and bourgeois elements. This tolerant attitude temporarily misled many remaining South Vietnamese, leading them to believe they could still survive.

　It was not until half a year later, when the unification of North and South Vietnam entered an accelerated track, that the Viet Cong began to strike with an iron fist, confiscating private industrial and commercial assets, and arresting 1.5 million South Vietnamese who had connections with the old regime and the Americans into labor camps (in theory, even if they had shined shoes for American soldiers, it would be considered a crime, which instantly turned a large number of underground party members into reactionaries). They also carried out large-scale anti-Chinese activities and severely persecuted the 500,000 Chinese in Saigon, which led to the emergence of a large number of Vietnamese boat people.

　Among them were a considerable number of Vietnamese boat people, even military and political officials from both North Vietnam and the South's Liberation Front, and many loyal war heroes. However, simply because they had Chinese ancestry, or simply because their Kinh ancestry was "impure," or because they had "foreign ancestry," their property was confiscated and they were forcibly deported...

　Please note that if the boat people want to enjoy the treatment of expulsion, they have to pay a life-saving money of twelve taels of gold per person, otherwise they will be shot directly!

　According to statistics, the number of Viet Cong people killed in these four or five years was equivalent to 50% of the death toll in the 20-year war against the United States!

　As for the mountain ethnic minorities who had received CIA assistance, the Viet Cong's attitude was very clear: kill them all!

　Alas, the Le Duan regime in Vietnam was so obsessed with Nazi bloodline theory in its later years!

　It is no wonder that the mountain ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands and Northern Vietnam were able to fight guerrilla warfare against the Vietnamese army until 1992.

　Then, in this time and space, the Viet Cong took Saigon twelve years ahead of schedule, but the military environment they faced became more severe.

　More than 100,000 American troops who crossed the sea and occupied the area between Nha Trang and Da Nang, northeast of Saigon, were like a mountain pressing down on people's heads, almost suffocating them.

　——The American imperial army that has just entered the battlefield and is ready to fight is completely different from the American army that is already exhausted by the security war!

　The hundreds of thousands of newly arrived American troops stationed in Vietnam did not show any signs of war-weariness.

　, but can't wait to start a killing spree!

　However, the American imperial division that came from afar was temporarily hindered by the rainy season in Vietnam, giving the Viet Cong a six-month reprieve.

　Therefore, after taking over Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, the extremely anxious Viet Cong could not tolerate even a six-month transition period in dealing with this "nest of opposition forces". Instead, they immediately launched a bloody purge in order to seize time and stabilize the rear.

　- All private assets were confiscated, all industries were nationalized, radio stations, magazines and newspapers were closed down, and anyone who had any connection with Ngo Dinh Diem and the Americans was arrested and executed collectively according to a certain ratio. The remaining "lucky ones" were thrown into labor camps to do hard labor.

　Even Vietcong comrades lurking underground in places like Saigon were subjected to extremely rigorous screening. Many faced nitpicking political inquiries. Suddenly, for "not explaining historical issues clearly," they were reduced from heroes to prisoners, thrown into prison, or even dragged out for target practice.

　Coupled with the Vietcong's forced abolition of the old currency without compensation, the large-scale requisition of grain from the countryside as a preparatory measure for war, and the severance of foreign trade, the market economy collapsed. Saigon, already devastated by civil war, continued to struggle with famine and terror.

　So much so that the citizens of Saigon looked at their savings turned into waste paper and the empty shops, and cursed in despair: Nguyen You Tho is more hateful than Ngo Dinh Diem!

　But even so, life still had to go on: so in Saigon under the rule of the Viet Cong, the black market was rampant for a time, and the prices of food and daily necessities had soared to an incredible level. The Viet Cong officials in power took the opportunity to embezzle and resell, making a fortune from it.

　Ordinary citizens could only pawn their clothes, sell their children, endure hunger, and pray that life would gradually get better. After all, they had endured so many years of tyranny and war - hadn't they survived when the French, Japanese, and warlords ruled Saigon?

　If ordinary people still had some illusions about the Vietcong, believing they could still survive, then the intellectual class and those with some connection to the old regime had already sensed that things were going to get tough. Even many underground party leaders and Vietcong officers believed they were about to be abandoned.

　As for the Catholics, priests and nuns who were the backbone of Ngo Dinh Diem's ​​regime, they knew long ago that there was no chance of them being spared.

　The foundation of Diem's ​​rule in South Vietnam was the 70 North Vietnamese Catholics who migrated south through Operation Freedom Road in the summer of 1954. If these North Vietnamese Catholics had been willing to leave their homes and cross the sea south to escape Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnamese Workers' Party nine years earlier, how could they now, nine years later, abandon their faith and submit to the rule of the Vietcong?

　In fact, even if these stubborn Catholics were willing to surrender at this time, the Viet Cong might not be willing to give them a chance to live!

　In the eyes of the Vietcong, these hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics, who had opposed them all the way from North Vietnam to South Vietnam and remained unmoved by their reactionary nature even in exile, were irredeemably extreme reactionaries. Their ideological reform was impossible, and they could only be eliminated physically.

　Not to mention the deep-seated feud between Catholic militias and Vietcong guerrillas over the years, with hundreds of thousands of American troops already stationed in Vietnam, who knew when they would fight their way back to Saigon? And if the US military attacked en masse, it was obvious that these Catholics would revolt!

　To prevent further trouble, the Vietcong naturally had to root out the trouble and clean up their backyard! At the very least, they had to throw all the Catholics into concentration camps!

　So, in this sad rainy season, hundreds of thousands of Catholics in the Mekong Delta and the areas around Saigon felt the coming of the butcher's knife.

　Although it was extremely risky to go out to sea in a tattered wooden boat during the rainy season, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and take the risk of diving into the raging sea again in order to survive.

　Fortunately, despite two boats capsizing and many drowning in the fierce storm last night, more than half of the nearly 100 South Vietnamese refugees managed to escape and board the "Chao Thi Zhen," an "American warship" built by the former Japanese Empire.

　So, on the deck of the destroyer, these early Vietnamese boat people were all grateful to Kissinger and Ferry, kneeling down and kowtowed repeatedly to express their gratitude.

　Initially, Fili thought this was just a minor incident on the journey. But then, as the Zhao Thi Zhen sailed off the Mekong Delta, it encountered more and more refugee boats, more than a dozen in total. The 2,000-ton destroyers simply couldn't accommodate so many people. After consulting with Dr. Kissinger, Fili decided to have the refugee boats follow the destroyers and escort them all the way to Phu Quoc Island.

　Well, we will find a way to divert some of these people and place them in refugee camps on the Thai border.

　Of course, out of a sense of responsibility as an intelligence officer, Firi still sent someone over by boat to inquire about the refugees' origins. He discovered that in addition to Chinese, Catholics, family members of former government officials, and defected Vietcong members, there were also some former South Vietnamese officers and soldiers who had fled the battle, as well as Hoa Hao militiamen defeated by the Vietcong, and even Cao Dai militiamen. He also got a piece of big news from several Cao Dai militiamen: "What? The Vietcong and Cao Dai have also fallen out?"

　Next, after radioing the U.S. Army Vietnam Command in Da Nang, Phiri learned that

　As if under the influence of some kind of extreme left-wing fanatical thinking, an elite special forces sent by the Viet Cong raided the Cao Dai Temple in Xining the day before yesterday, killing hundreds of Cao Dai militiamen and priests, and then burned down the Xining Temple, arresting tens of thousands of Cao Dai believers in Xining Province and sending them to labor camps.

　The commander of the Cao Dai armed forces, Chen Guangrong, led a small number of death squads to cover the leader Le Van Tong's hasty escape from Xining. During his escape, he publicly sent a telegram to the whole country, calling on Cao Dai believers across South Vietnam to rise up and fight the "treacherous" Viet Cong to the death!

　Well, let's not talk about the Hoa Hao sect, which has a deep blood feud with the Vietcong. Even the Cao Dai sect, which is like a fence-sitter, has now been forced to rebel by the Vietcong.

　The Vietnamese Communist Party’s united front work in the South can be described as a lonely end.

　Although the Cao Dai sect is a fence-sitter and would definitely not be tied to the Viet Cong, as long as the US military entered Saigon, they would definitely kneel down to welcome the royal army.

　However, in South Vietnam today, the Hoa Hao religion has 1.5 million followers, the Cao Dai religion has more than 2 million followers, plus the Catholics remaining in the Viet Cong-controlled areas, and the diehard Buddhists who oppose the Viet Cong... If the Viet Cong did not try to appease them at all, how many people would they have to eliminate?

　Could it be that the Viet Cong wanted to take advantage of this flood-ridden and muddy rainy season to start a nationwide war of "all against all"?

　In this way, the "Zhao Shizhen" carried a large number of refugee boats, slowly bypassed Cape Ca Mau, the southernmost tip of Vietnam, and continued to sail towards Phu Quoc Island.

　But when the Zhao Thi Trinh was able to see Phu Quoc Island, the US military headquarters in Da Nang sent a telegram to everyone on the Zhao Thi Trinh, asking them to turn around and rush to Ha Tien Port to reunite with the US fleet that had already headed to the area to carry out an emergency evacuation mission.

　—Ha Tien Port, the capital of the Kingdom of Ha Tien, founded by the Chinese in Southeast Asia two hundred years ago, the last stronghold of the Hoa Hao militia on the mainland, and the only city in the entire Mekong Delta still holding out organized armed resistance against the Vietcong, was now on the verge of being captured by the Vietcong...

　Author's Note: PS: Ngo Dinh Diem's ​​base consisted of the hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese Catholics he led south after the signing of the Geneva Accords;

　Le Duan's base was at the same time. He was ordered to abandon his base in the south and lead hundreds of thousands of southern Viet Cong to the north.

　The Viet Cong who remained in the South were initially Le Duan's base, enabling him to defeat the Northern faction in the struggle.

　But after unification, he eliminated the Viet Cong in the south and cut off half of his own base.

　Because during the war, Le Duan stayed in the north all the time, and he was unable to reach the south and was unable to control it, which he could not tolerate.

　Chapter 255: The Great Retreat from Hexian Port

　In the northeast of the Gulf of Thailand, on the border between Cambodia and Vietnam, lies a port city called Ha Tien.

　In Asia, this is considered a very young city. It was originally founded by Mo Jiu, a Ming Dynasty survivor from China, who led his fellow villagers across the ocean. While paying tribute to both Zhenla (Cambodia) and Guangnan Kingdom, he worked hard to open up the foundation of the Hexian Kingdom in the wilderness and attract investment.

　Later, under the rule of Mo Jiu's son, Mo Tianci, Ha Tien Kingdom reached its peak in the mid-18th century. It controlled half of the Mekong Delta, governed a population of one million, and commanded tens of thousands of troops. Its capital, Ha Tien, was a thriving commercial hub, teeming with wealth, earning it the nickname "Little Guangzhou" by Western merchants.

　Soon, however, the Chinese-born King Taksin emerged in Thailand, a master of exceptional military prowess. Although the Thonburi Dynasty he founded only lasted a single generation, its military prowess was truly astonishing. During Taksin's reign, the Thai army, having previously been weak, overcame Burma in the west, invaded Laos in the north, and annexed Cambodia in the east. They then launched an expedition to Ha Tien and engaged in a fierce battle with the Kingdom of Quang Nam, seemingly poised to dominate the entire Indochina Peninsula.

　But when Taksin was rising, Ha Tien Kingdom chose the wrong side. In 1769, its king, Mo Tien Ci, took the initiative to become an enemy of Taksin. He mobilized all the strength of Ha Tien Kingdom and sent 50,000 troops to invade Thailand, attempting to take the opportunity to expand the territory, kill Taksin, and put his own puppet on the throne.

　As a result, the Ha Tien army stopped at Chanthaburi in Thailand, but failed to capture the city after a long siege. A plague broke out, and in the end only 10,000 of the 50,000 troops escaped.

　Because the defeat was so devastating, it triggered a financial crisis and civil unrest in the Hexian Kingdom, which made Mo Tianci extremely anxious and the former prosperity was no longer there.

　Two years later, in 1771, Taksin, who had already firmly established himself on the throne, led an army of 20,000 to launch a massive expedition to the east to attack Ha Tien. He quickly defeated the already severely damaged Ha Tien Kingdom and forced Mo Tianci to flee in embarrassment. The Thai army also razed Ha Tien City to the ground as a means of retaliation.

　Afterward, the scorched earth of Ha Tien was devastated and unable to recover. It could only seek protection from the Nguyen-ruled Quang Nam garrison. While temporarily safe, it gradually lost its independence and became a battlefield in the tug-of-war between the Nguyen Dynasty and the Tây Sơn Dynasty, ultimately being annexed by the Nguyen Dynasty after it unified Vietnam.

　Times have changed. It has been a hundred years since the demise of the Ha Tien Kingdom ruled by the Mo Dynasty. Ha Tien City is no longer the "Little Guangzhou" famous for its prosperity and wealth in Southeast Asia. Like Hoi An to the north, it has continued to decline and is just an ordinary port county town.

　But at the end of May of that year, Ha Tien City, which had long been unremarkable, once again became a hot news topic in Southeast Asia.

　Because, along with the rumbling sound of artillery, this place is surrounded by mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and filled with the smoke of war!

　——Since the Vietcong entered Saigon on April 30, the entire southern part of South Vietnam has been occupied by

　Religious armed groups in the western Mekong Delta, including the Hoa Hao militia based in An Giang province, continue to fight the Viet Cong.

　However, with the South Vietnamese army already collapsed and American reinforcements not yet arriving, the Hoa Hao militia, which had long been divided and under different orders, could hardly resist the Viet Cong's overwhelming attack.

　Soon, An Giang Province, where the Hoa Hao religion originated, was occupied by the Viet Cong, and other strongholds of the Hoa Hao religion also fell one after another in a very short period of time.

　In the end, the various He Haojiao militias who were beaten and hiding from each other had to retreat with their families and gathered at Ha Tien Port on the border. They used Phu Quoc Island as their rear base and relied on the fire support of the South Vietnamese Navy and the US Air Force to persist in fighting the Viet Cong on the coastline.

　Starting in mid-May, the two sides engaged in a desperate two-week battle around Ha Tien Port. The Viet Cong guerrillas, victorious and unstoppable that year, naturally attacked fiercely and triumphantly, while the Hoa Hao militia, driven to the brink of extinction, were furious and refused to retreat.

　However, since the Viet Cong in the South had long been engaged in guerrilla warfare and harassment warfare, they lacked experience in regular combat and were even less adept at positional warfare and offensive warfare.

　Therefore, facing the 8,000 Hoa Hao militiamen who held the city to their death, the Viet Cong, despite assembling 60,000 troops, still failed to capture the city and fell into a stalemate.

　Seeing that South Vietnam had entered the rainy season in late May, with torrential rains one after another and floods everywhere in the Mekong Delta, the Hoa Hao militia in the city felt that this year's war should be over soon - in Vietnam, it has been basic common sense since ancient times that fighting is not allowed during the rainy season.

　Unexpectedly, starting on May 27, the Viet Cong's siege efforts intensified. A new, more capable force appeared on the battlefield outside the city, armed with a large number of heavy artillery, and launched a fierce bombardment of Ha Tien Port. The attacks on the various hilltops and fortifications also became more organized.

　Thus, the stalemate at Hexiangang, which had lasted for over ten days, was broken. The Hehaojiao militia, already somewhat slack due to the onset of the rainy season, was caught off guard and suffered a crushing defeat. Many strategic locations on the outskirts of the city, such as Pingshan and Dijiang, fell in just two or three days.

　Upon learning of Ha Tien's emergency, the South Vietnamese Navy immediately rushed to the rescue from Phu Quoc Island, risked approaching the coast, and fiercely bombarded the Viet Cong soldiers advancing along the coastal road. American planes flying from U-tapao Airport in Thailand frequently bombed and strafed all Viet Cong troops they could find in the suburbs to block their offensive.

　Colonel Gao Wenyuan, the former South Vietnamese airborne commander who fled from Saigon to Phu Quoc Island, even led a group of suicide squads ashore to raid the rear of the Viet Cong, killing a Viet Cong regimental commander and cooperating with the U.S. Air Force to destroy a Viet Cong artillery position, winning a battle.

　But everyone knew that with all strategic positions lost and morale collapsed, the defeated Hoa Hao militia could no longer hold Ha Tien.

　So, after temporarily repelling this wave of Viet Cong attacks, a great retreat filled with despair, sorrow and chaos began...

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　When Dr. Kissinger and Firi were on the former Yukikaze destroyer, now the armed yacht "Chao Thi Zhen", which set out from Da Nang and sailed around the entire coastline of South Vietnam and finally arrived at the sea off Ha Tien Port, they were immediately shocked by the scene before them.

　The vast sea was littered with all manner of floating structures crammed with refugees—ferries, fishing boats, lifeboats, rafts... Even the metal pontoons used to build the docks had been dragged out by the frantic refugees, filled with elderly, infirm, women, and children, along with their families. The several small islands off the coast of Hexian Harbor were also packed with people, who waved and shouted frantically at the approaching warships flying the American flag.

　Beyond that, further along the coastline, groups of defeated soldiers, accompanied by refugees with their families, braved the pouring rain, passed through rice paddies and ruins, and surged towards the beach. Gazing through binoculars from the sea, the view was filled with ragged, desperate-looking people. They shouted and kicked at each other on the beach, vying for a chance to escape on the boats. For a while, the sound of crying and wailing was endless.

　Meanwhile, on the other side of the bay, the South Vietnamese Navy, commanded by Colonel Ho Tien Quan, and three American destroyers arriving to assist, continued to fire at the Viet Cong approaching the coast. Various 127mm, 102mm, and 76.2mm naval guns spewed long, blinding beams of fire and lethal steel pellets, arcing through the air and landing on suspected Viet Cong in the suburbs, creating clusters of blinding fire.

　The rumble of artillery echoed across the waters of the Gulf of Thailand. Even torrential rain could not extinguish the flames that continued to rise from the horizon.

　But despite this, the war situation was still visibly precarious. More and more defeated soldiers and refugees were pouring onto the beach, and in many places in the city, the red flags of the Viet Cong could be vaguely seen waving in the heavy rain - after all, there were still many places that were beyond the reach of naval guns.

　If a large number of attack aircraft could strafe the ground, they might be able to disrupt the Viet Cong's artillery bombardment and buy time for the defense of Ha Tien Port. However, in such windy and rainy weather, it was not only difficult for aircraft to take to the air, but even if they managed to take off, it would be difficult to conduct effective operations.

　Therefore, the Viet Cong's siege troops placed their artillery positions in the blind spots of the naval guns on the sea, and braved the wind and rain to bombard the defenders' front line, making the Hoa Hao militia, which had begun to show signs of disintegration in the city of Ha Tien Port, increasingly fragmented and difficult to recruit.

　shelf.

　Even if the remnants of the South Vietnamese army on Phu Quoc Island, who were in a desperate situation, crossed the sea to provide assistance and personally joined the battle, it would be impossible to reverse the outcome.

　At best, it can only delay the fall of the city a little.

　"These are definitely not ordinary Vietcong guerrillas! These are regular troops! Guerrillas have never had such powerful and accurate field artillery!

　Even if they had captured the South Vietnamese army's artillery and tanks and incited the South Vietnamese army's artillery and tank crews to defect, they couldn't have fired their artillery so hard and accurately - don't we know what the level of the South Vietnamese army's artillery is? "

　An American military advisor who had personally participated in the battle at Ha Tien arrived on the deck of the Trieu Thi Trinh in a small boat to report the battle situation to Phiri and Kissinger. With a look of confidence, he declared, "We've discovered the enemy's designation. Ho Chi Minh deployed the North Vietnamese 312th Division in Ha Tien! This was the same elite North Vietnamese unit that fought at Dien Bien Phu! It was they who captured the French commander, General de Castries, alive at Dien Bien Phu!"

　"North Vietnam actually deployed a division of regular troops to the Ha Tien battlefield? But...how did they do it?"

　Fili asked doubtfully, "It's the rainy season now, and the Truong Son Mountains are drenched in rain. The Ho Chi Minh Trail should have been closed!

　Moreover, as far as I know, even in the dry season, the Ho Chi Minh Trail is currently too crowded for trucks to run, let alone hauling heavy artillery..."

　In the spring of 1963, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, now known as the "Trong Son Highway" by the North Vietnamese, was still in its primitive form, with no time for reinforcement or widening. It merely connected existing mountain roads, dirt roads, and even "beast trails," and was often washed away during the rainy season.

　Transportation tasks on most sections of the road can only rely on heavy-loaded bicycles and porters. Cars are simply not possible, let alone heavy artillery and tanks.

　Therefore, in addition to rice, salt and antibiotics, the North Vietnamese transport troops on bicycles can only deliver some small items such as rifles, bullets, mortars, and grenades to their southern comrades. Even recoilless guns are difficult to move with manpower alone.

　According to the history before Firi's crossing, it was not until 1964 and 1965 that the Chinese-aided engineering corps gradually completed the reinforcement and expansion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, making it passable for trucks and tanks, and even laid an oil pipeline to the south, greatly improving transportation capacity.

　But now, the Ho Chi Minh Trail is still just a real "mountain trail". It takes North Vietnamese cadres a month to walk south, let alone a large army.

　So, how did the North Vietnamese 312th Division, armed with heavy equipment, manage to leap from the Red River Delta to the Mekong Delta?

　"They're coming by sea! Sir! Last week, a Soviet fleet that had docked at Haiphong Port in North Vietnam arrived in the western port of Kompong Som (Sihanoukville)! Then, the North Vietnamese 312th Division marched all the way from the Cambodian border to the outskirts of Ha Tien!

　Damn Cambodia! Damn Prince Sihanouk! They've already let the Vietcong use their territory to smuggle arms to the rebels in South Vietnam, and now they're allowing North Vietnamese regular troops to land at their ports and attack us through Cambodian territory! How can they be considered a neutral country?

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　During the raging Vietnam War, Laos and Cambodia, neighboring Vietnam, were also caught up in the bloody battle between the two major camps.

　In fact, the Vietnam War is just the name given to this war by China. The official name given to this war by Americans is the "Second Indochina War" (the First Indochina War was the anti-French and anti-colonial war after World War II) - the battlefield included the three countries on the Indochina Peninsula from the beginning.

　The main battlefield was in Vietnam, while Laos and Cambodia were secondary battlefields. Even Thailand was affected by the war to a certain extent.

　By 1963, the Laotian Civil War had raged for over a decade in the north, pitting the North Vietnamese-backed Pathet Lao against the US-backed Laotian monarchy. To the south, the Kingdom of Cambodia, however, managed to maintain peace thanks to the maneuvering and maneuvering of Prince Sihanouk.

　As an iconic figure in Southeast Asian politics in the 20th century, Prince Sihanouk, who currently rules Cambodia, was a representative figure of the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1950s. He declared that "when elephants fight, ants should hide aside." This won him the favor of many third world countries and he played both sides between the two major camps of the East and the West, attracting a lot of aid, investment and loans to the small country of Cambodia.

　Although the government of the Kingdom of Cambodia was corrupt and Cambodian farmers bore heavy taxes, life for the Cambodian people did not deteriorate much after independence compared to the years of French colonial rule, which exploited their lives, and even earlier, when they were brutally oppressed by Vietnam and Thailand.

　Well, at least compared to the nightmare years ahead, their lives now were pretty good.

　However, Prince Sihanouk's choice to join Egypt and India in the Non-Aligned Movement, which veered sideways during the Cold War, meant he couldn't cling to either side. Cambodia's population and national strength were so weak, and Prince Sihanouk, a man with a penchant for grandeur, was keen on building large-scale urban modernization projects, including in the capital, Phnom Penh, and several other major cities.

　In addition, he also carried out a lot of social reform work to popularize education and promote modern medicine, so the country

　The expenses of the family are quite huge.