Chapter eight hundred and thirty eight.
The Chinese merchants recommended the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The complex political environment of the countries was in the complexity of the countries. They wanted to survive and become bigger and stronger in frequent wars. Their unique vision was comparable to the ideological strategies of a strategist. Many merchants even directly undertake the foreign policies of one country or even several countries. By promoting the political direction of various countries, they achieved the purpose of seeking benefits for themselves. Among them, the first one was Lu Buwei, which was a rare product, and even directly promoted the end of the Warring States Period.
However, now, under Mao Jue's hands, this kind of erratic big merchant seems to be beginning to recover, and Luo Yu in front of him is an example.
Although she was tied to a powerful relationship by marriage, this girl relied entirely on the experience she had accumulated in Central and South business for several years and saw through the political trend that she has seen through.
The huge Central and Southern China actually maintained a very strange balance. Take Annan and Chameng on the edge for example. For so many years, the reason why Annan has not destroyed Chameng in one go is because the other side of the Changshan Mountains beside it is also eyeing the two countries Nanzhang and Khmer.
More than 200 years ago, these two countries were a ancestor Zhenla country, the Angkor Dynasty that built Angkor Wat in the tropical rainforest. This dynasty was so powerful that it almost became the Qin State of the Indochina Peninsula. It was close to unifying the entire peninsula during its strongest period. In order to unify the peninsula, the Angkor Dynasty targeted Chameng and mobilized a large army to go through the Changshan Mountains to attack Chameng.
However, although Chameng is small, they have the convenience of the Maritime Silk Road. They have accumulated a lot of wealth in trade with the Song and Yuan dynasties for a long time. The land reclamation rate is also very high, with a population of up to one or two million, which is not easy to mess with. If you come and beat me, we will fight to the death! These Cambridges are also cruel enough. Not to mention defeating Zhen La, who has two-thirds of the land on the Indochina Peninsula, they even went upstream along the Mekong River and captured Angkor Wat, the capital of the Angkor Dynasty.
However, the long-term war also led to a large number of deaths in the two countries, abandoned fields and declined economy. The two old artillery masters of the Indochina Peninsula declined together. First, the fire broke out in Zhenla's backyard. The Sukhothai Dynasty, the ancestor of the Thai people, rose and seized the vast land of the middle and upper reaches of the Mekong River to the Malay Peninsula. The only remaining territory of the Angkor Dynasty also shattered into two pieces, Khmer and Nanzhang, that is, Cambodia and Laos in later generations.
Chameng on the other side also declined, and was attacked by the rising Annan Kingdom in the north. The territory was repeatedly encroached, and the territory on the north and south was lost one after another, and it had already shrunk into the state of a country.
Besides, Sukhothai, who seized a large territory of the Angkor Dynasty, was not very powerful for a long time. The social structure of the Thais at this time was still too primitive, a bit like the relationship between the Zhou emperor and the feudal states of the Western Zhou Dynasty's feudal system. The core of the empire was extremely near Sukhothai City. A little farther away, it was composed of tribal forces to carry out autonomy. As time went by, the conflict between the local and the central government would inevitably become sharp. In addition, it was believed in Buddhism and consumed a lot of manpower and material resources to build temples. The country was poor and weak, so it was naturally attacked by other places.
This foreign enemy is the rising Burmese people in the West.
More than two hundred years ago, the Burmese people advanced eastward and made a big splendid battle with one stone to break through Sukhothai City, killed the king, and plundered more than 30,000 prisoners to return westward. Sukhothai's collapse also gave the opportunity to rise the Ayutthaya dynasty today, but the two countries have formed a deep feud.
Luo Yu took advantage of these two main contradictions between the Indochina Peninsula countries. Bangkok is only a few dozen miles away from Ayutoya City. The Ming Dynasty went barefoot in battle. Even if there were only a few thousand people, it still brought great military pressure to Ayutoya. In order to prevent the Ming Dynasty, Siam gathered a large number of troops in the capital, which gave the Burmese people the opportunity.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Siam army advancing south, the eastern Burmese general Mangliang led his army eastward in the name of helping the Ming Dynasty to challenge the Ming Dynasty, and successively captured the border patriots, Pobe and Bailin, and advanced towards Tonle Sap Lake in the core area of Siam, and fought again in the Battle of Sukhothai. Even if he was as strong as the Ming Dynasty, he could not withstand the front and back attacks. The Qing army and the peasant army repeatedly tug-of-war, let alone a small Siam.
If you want to immortalize the country, you naturally have to appease the next side. Compared with the extremely vicious feud, the Ming Dynasty, a country of etiquette, seems to be a little better!
In the gorgeous living room of the Salt Trading Company, the Prime Minister Papiro bowed heavily with an old face as sad as a frost-beating eggplant, "Mr. Tian Dynasty, Siam basically accepts the conditions of the Ming Dynasty. The king can immediately send Prince Roye and Princess Sali to the north to apologize to the Ming Dynasty! Siam is willing to obey the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader, come to pay tribute every year and come to pay tribute every year!"
In the past, the Ming Empire was a big loser in Southeast Asia. If you can beat it, you will be beaten. If you can't beat it, you will be pretending to be a grandson. If you pretend to be a grandson, you will not only make the Ming Dynasty retreat, but you can also get generous gifts and profits from the Ming Dynasty through tribute, and you will only pay a name for yourself! This old guy obviously had this idea, and he would avoid the important ones when negotiating the conditions.
Unfortunately, what era is this? I still belong to the sect leader? Although the old guy looked like a lost prodigal son, Luo Yu didn't take this trick at all. The little girl shook her head coldly.
"It was the affairs of the Ministry of Rites for the Sect Master. I only took charge of the conquest and assigned Bangkok to rent land for the East India Company, and paid 5 million taels of silver. These two things were not visible. Three days later, my gunboats flowed up the Mekong River and continued to attack!"
It's not good to pretend to be a grandson? After a moment of stunned silence, the prime minister Papiro suddenly roared fiercely like a vicious dog who was about to bite people: "Siam is just moved by the name of benevolence of the ritual state of the Celestial Dynasty, so he is willing to pay tribute and shake hands and make peace. If Siam is not afraid of the Ming Dynasty, if you force yourself, don't blame Siam for fighting to the death. At that time, the lives of the soldiers under your command will be ruined, and the reputation of the Ming Dynasty will be ruined!"
"That's to continue the war? Come and send the Prime Minister off the ship!"
Papiro was so angry that he almost vomited blood. What a good man, this little girl is not good at all! She didn't even frown, but she was about to drive him off the boat. Seeing Luo Yu turn around calmly, his old face couldn't hold on, so the old guy just turned away, suppressing the densely packed gods and Buddhas on his body, and got off the boat angrily.
While walking, Papiro was viciously yelling about how to kill all the Ming people. He threw the body into the Mekong River to feed the fish. But before he could go out a few, bursts of explosions like thunder in the sunny day suddenly rang behind him. He turned around in amazement, but saw the giant East India Company gunboats anchored in Bangkok Port, just like the wind, and the artillery fire started to sound one after another, and the direction of their bombing was actually in Bangkok City.
For a moment, the artillery fire was flying, and the shrunk bombs hit the wooden mud-brown Siamese houses like the rain. For a moment, the tiles cracked and the houses collapsed, the walls were destroyed and people died. The residential buildings collapsed one after another. Unexpectedly, a sudden disaster suddenly came to their heads. The frightened Siamese people rushed to escape from the house, but they fell into a pool of blood under the massacre of artillery fire. The scene was extremely cruel.
This is not just a killing chicken to scare the monkey! There are still 30,000 to 40,000 Siamese people in Bangkok. The north Ayutahy is crowded with heavy troops, and the Siamese people in the city are also ready to move. These days, many attacks on the East India Company mercenaries have occurred, and we are preparing to cooperate inside and outside.
Ci is not in charge of the soldiers! Luo Yu is not as pretentious as those civil officials in the past. Since the talks are broken, she will be the first to be affected. Otherwise, once the battle starts, these guys will attack behind the scenes. Even if she is not defeated, she will have to be in a mess.
However, the cruel artillery massacre, the sound of bombings and screams that scared the Siam Prime Minister's battle with incredible words. His face was full of surprise. After a few minutes, Papiro ran towards the port where the Salt Merchant was anchored!
After half an hour, the negotiation table was once again placed in the reception room of the Salt Merchant. Luo Yu still looked light and careless, but the fire was still rising one after another. Papiro completely lost the demeanor of a country. He hit the table with his fists, and Lao Ganba roared with all hissings.
"When the unarmed man is the benevolence and righteousness of the Ming Dynasty? The customary country will send envoys to the Celestial Empire and protest your brutality to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Oh, whatever! The Prime Minister comes back just wants to say this? Then I know, please come back!"
I really couldn't imagine how to give birth to such a monster like Luo Yu, but seeing her, the little girl, turn around calmly and walk back again, Papiro was helpless. The old guy almost cried and knocked on the table hard again in a very sad way.
"You will give it to you in the Ming Dynasty in Bangkok! But you will get five million taels of silver. Even if you demolish Ayutaya City, your country will not have five million taels of silver!"
"It's okay, don't you have taxes? You can installment!"
In the old guy's eyes, Luo Yu reached out and pulled off the golden bead abacus hanging around his waist. While pulling his fingers, he also started to calculate with ease.
"A year's interest rate is ten cents, and the spring and autumn are recorded. Do you want to pay it back thirty years ago or fifty years?"
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Just when the regretful intestines of the Siam king and ministers were almost green, Annan on the coast was in a grand occasion. With the acquiescence of the Ming Dynasty, the Vietnamese army marched straight into the city and conquered Hue and the port of corpse, and the occupants could not resist it. If the war went smoothly, it would be completely destroyed east of the Changshan Mountains by the end of this year and played against Annan for more than 600 years. It would be no problem.
Moreover, at this time, the Nguyen family and the Zheng family were fighting for power and profit in Annan. If the Nguyen family destroyed Chameng and could defeat the Zheng family, they thought that the Nguyen Yuelian, who was personally supervising 30,000 troops to the south, seemed to have seen through the central army that the Nguyen Master replaced the Li Dynasty and became the King of Dayue, or even the Emperor of Dayue.
However, people can't expect too much. Just when the chief minister was full of thoughts, the rushing sound of horse hooves broke his reverie. A few minutes later, looking at the emergency military sent by Shenglong at hand, Ruan Yue's wrinkled old face, like dried pork liver, also turned into a pig liver-like color.
The situation on the peninsula is like a domino. Siam was hit by the double blow from the Ming army and Myanmar. Without Siam to restrain itself, the Southern Palm and the Khmer could not suppress their greed and attacked the empty Annan behind!
Chapter completed!