On the first working day after the holiday, 5,000 words were served, and everyone continued to support it.

Preah Vihear Temple. In Chenla it is called PreahVihear, and in Siamese it is called Khao Phra Viham. What sets Wat Preah Vihear apart from other temples in Chenla is that it is located on the cliff of the Biandan Mountains at an altitude of 550 meters, and the whole temple architecture is majestic and awe-inspiring. The first to start the construction of the temple was the fourth monarch of the Angkor Kingdom, Yasovarman I, who, upon his accession to the throne in 889 AD, planned to build a holy mosque in the Biang Mountains, and finally chose the cliff where Preah Vihear now stood. At that time, people thought it was a blessed land. However, the construction of Preah Vihear has been full of twists and turns, and it took more than 200 years to complete. It was officially completed around 1152. During this period, the Angkor Dynasty went through 13 monarchs and continued to build the temple. Despite the constant struggles within the royal family, the desire to build a holy mosque has never changed.

The architectural style of the temple is similar to that of Angkor Wat. The temple is spread over a cliff with a range of 800 meters long and 400 meters wide, with long stairs going up and down on all sides. Between the first and second floors, there are 28-meter-long carved dragons on both sides of the road, and there are seven stone pools within the ancient temple walls. The temple has a mountain gate and a wall on each floor. The corners of the mountain gate house are upturned, and the top is a finely carved pattern. The walls have a strong Angkor Wat-like style, with curves around them. The whole building is maroon-red, and it is simple and magnificent against the background of green shade and blue sky and white clouds.

In front of An Tianhong, the head of the ceremonial house, is such a temple.

"We can promise to give this temple to the Siamese people, and the land we laid down on the northern line can also be returned to them, but the southern line area must listen to us."

The Chao Phraya River is bounded by Nakhon Sawan in the north, upstream in the north, and downstream in the south to the mouth of the river, and the downstream area is the famous Chao Phraya River Plain, where the high temperature and rainfall are abundant, the water network is dense, and the river water floods regularly every year, so that the soil here is deep and fertile.

Shouhan's eyes glowed green, staring at the plain, which covered an area of about 50,000 li, and, of course, the Malay Peninsula.

"However, in order to compensate for our losses, we have the right to collect taxes on soldiers, horses, money, food, guns, and goods from Siam to and from the Chao Phraya River."

"In addition, in order to facilitate the withdrawal of our troops, Siam must provide labor and money and food to build roads from Ayutthaya, Nakhon Ratchasima, to Ubon Ratchasima, Chathani, Sisaket, Le Et, and other provinces bordering Chenla."

"In order to compensate for the losses of our naval divisions, Siam shall provide our army with a certain amount of shipbuilding timber every year, not less than the number of ships built for two thousand. For the excess part, our army can give an appropriate price. Siam must be exempt from tax on such items. ”

"The king of Siam must surrender the original royal seal and go to the camp in Nakhon Ratchasima to meet General Wang Bao. At the same time, the General's Mansion will reissue the royal seal and the King of Siam. ”

"During the stay of our army in Siam, all food and salary were paid by the Siamese treasury." ……

An Tianhong's mind kept coming up with the harsh conditions put forward by the Southern Chinese Army, "Can Siam accept these conditions?" In addition to the fact that we withdraw the troops from the north, the occupied lands are returned to them. He shook his head and smiled wryly.

However, An Tianhong's character determines that as long as it is what he thinks, he must do it. This can be seen from the beginning when he debated the Confucian teachings with Shouhan, who, in Shouhan's words, was more axial.

Therefore, the mission to negotiate with the Siamese envoy this time fell on him, the master of the ceremonial house.

"The minister of the savage small state, I have seen the lord of the kingdom." The envoy Pasong Charempong humbly kowtowed to An Tianhong. 's fluent official language made An Tianhong feel good and surprised.

"How did your envoy speak such a good official language?" After the ceremony was over, An Tianhong was curious on the one hand, and Pan Huan on the other.

"The adults don't know, the minister was originally Huazhou, and the ancestor followed the eunuch of the Three Treasures to the West, his surname was Chen, and in order to make a living in Siam, he changed his name and gave the local name and surname. However, Xiao Chen never forgot that he was a descendant of the Celestial Empire, and he gave incense to the ancestral tablet every day. ”

"Not only the ministers, but also the Chinese people in the lower state, in the big city, every time there is a market, official words come and go. General Wang Bao was in Surin Mansion that day, and he was also grateful for this, so he opened up to the soldiers of our country. ”

Chalun Peng, or Chen Lun's words, three points are false and seven points are true. There are many people who speak Chinese, and there are many overseas Chinese in Siam, which An Tianhong has known for a long time, and Shouhan himself knows it. However, Shouhan also knows that among the Chinese nation's overseas Chinese, the vast majority of them retain their national traditions and cultural customs, and only the overseas Chinese in Thailand have been assimilated locally.

"For such a country, we must fight with 120,000 spirits." This is Shouhan's instruction to An Tianhong. He doesn't want to have anything in the future that you don't believe in Thaksin, and you don't want Yingluck or something like that.

After a few polite words, the two of them began to get to the point.

"Your Excellency, the lower official has been appointed by the king of our country to plead guilty, and I beg the general to grant our request for peace. Soldiers are in trouble, and lives are ruined. Many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the sky are unbearable. ”

Chen Lun's words are quite compassionate, if he were someone else, maybe he would feel the same way, but, unfortunately, he met An Tianhong, who was already a hardcore follower of Li Shouhan. Nowadays, with Hejing as the center, in the Jiangbei area, there are dozens of primary schools, more than 14,700 children of all ethnic groups who are registered to study, these children are literate and literate, learn the six arts promoted by the Han Dynasty, go out of the school, or continue to enter the political hall to study, receive the education of village officials, or be recruited by various workshops to be preparatory craftsmen, learn metallurgy, chemical engineering and many other Mohist learning, but all of them are worry-free, and the future is bright.

What gentleman doesn't want his students to have a promising future?

What's more, in the past few years, I have seen that Hejing has changed from a wild town to a prosperous city, and this is also a merit of its own.

His thinking has been quietly transformed by Li Shouhan, and he is no longer a Confucian in the traditional sense, but a bit of a Legalist and a Zonghengjia. "I don't care if you're in misery or not, as long as the people under my rule are suitable!"

"Naturally, my general is also a bodhisattva, and he is a figure favored by God, so he naturally wants to negotiate peace. If he can agree, the officer can report to the general and ask him to give an order, Wang Bao and Zhang Xiaohu to lead and command, and stop the attack on Dacheng. ”

A thick stack of proposals and conditions was placed in front of Chen Lun, and he was a little stunned, "These many terms? Don't you want me to make Siam doomed? ”

"1. Cedion of land to the north and east of Nakhon Ratchasima (inclusive), and land to the lower reaches of the Chao Phraya River to the mouth of the river......"

"2. The compensation for the military salary is 10 million taels of silver and 2 million taels of gold. or topped up with an equivalent item. ”

"3. Recruit people and provide money and food to build roads in the above two areas for the convenience of our army's movements."

"Fourth, in order to compensate for the losses of our army in this war, our army has the right to levy taxes on goods traded through the Chao Phraya River." ……

"This is clearly to destroy my Great Siam!" Chen Lun hatefully threw the text of the strike conditions in his hand on the table.

"Although I Siam is isolated in the south, I have also been taught by the saints, and I have the blessing of the Buddha. Today, the lower officials are here, but they are the king of our country, and they do not want to watch the swords and soldiers rise up in misery, and they do not hesitate to compromise and seek perfection, but they are really sacrificing their lives to feed the tiger, but they don't want to, the appetite of your army is no less than that of birds of prey and hungry tigers. It's okay to go down! It's a big deal, if you don't die, you have to walk around the city of Beijing, and sue the emperor once in front of the saint! ”

He stood up, straightened his clothes, and looked awe-inspiring in the face of the butcher's knife.

When An Tianhong saw his expression, he didn't attack, picked up the teacup and took a sip, "Your envoy, why bother?" My general once said that when the two countries are equal in strength, diplomacy is diplomacy. When a country is strong, strength is diplomacy, and for a country that is weak, diplomacy is strength. If you feel that the words and conditions of the strike we have proposed today are too different from yours, you can go back to the pavilion first, send someone to speed up the horse, oh, if you need to play your lord, we can provide a fast boat. After the lord of your country is revealed, it will be decided by him. However, it is necessary to hurry, the lower officials can wait, but I am afraid that the soldiers on the front line and the people of Nanzhong will not wait. ”

"Someone." An Tianhong gently put the teacup in his hand, this lily porcelain is much more valuable than Jiangxi porcelain, once it is damaged, but it will hurt a lot of flesh in his waist. "Sending off!"

Sitting on the sedan chair carried by the natives, Cha Lun Peng, or Chen Lun kept recalling the words An Tianhong said in his heart, although he was very naked and lacked the benevolence and morality after the enlightenment of the saint, but it seemed that there was only one Song Xianggong who paid attention to benevolence and righteousness on the battlefield. Coming out of the ceremonial room of the General's Mansion, along the street to the pavilion, Chen Lun observed the Hajing Mansion very closely.

At this time, it is the busiest time in the morning, the shops have entered the peak period of business, from the port to the commercial port on the road, the local people or people on their backs, or with board trucks to load, large and small boxes of goods like flowing water, on the cement road commonly known as burnt ash flow endlessly. Different from the Siamese coolies or commoners that Chen Lun was familiar with, these native coolies, although sweaty, were smiling, and their faces were filled with a special look, yes, a sense of expectation and satisfaction for life. And not that numbness and muddling.

"Strength, diplomacy, diplomacy, strength." Chen Lun kept chewing these two words in his mouth, and suddenly, "Why didn't the sedan chair leave?!" ”

"Hui Yu, my lord, there is a patrol inspection blocking the road in front of me, and the road to the pavilion has military horses, money and grain transiting, so the street is banned." A servant replied in a low voice outside the sedan chair.

Well? That's a great opportunity! I have been hearing from the mouths of those warriors on the front line how the Nanzhong Army is, and how can the words of those vulgar warriors be trusted? Or do I have to wait for these readers to see with their own eyes and see and hear with their own eyes before I can count. "Lift the sedan chair forward, and this officer should take a closer look at the military appearance of the Nanzhong Army!"

In front of the checkpoint set up by the inspection, Chen Lun's sedan chair was squeezed to the front from the crowd with countless eyes and accusations, and behind the inspectors, a large road has been vacated, and the road that seems narrow and cramped on weekdays immediately became much wider. But it turns out that this road is also about two feet, but people and cars come and go too often on weekdays.

"It's coming! Here it comes! There was a commotion in the crowd, pointing to a fast horse in the distance.

The knight on the horse carried a flag on his back, which was clearly embroidered with a phoenix soaring in the clouds, and a large flag in his hand, which was the messenger of the Phoenix Battalion.

More than twenty steps behind him, two war horses galloped forward, and the riders on the horses were none other than the two guards officers of Wang Bao, the commander of the Southern Route Army, Huang Yishan and Yan Long. The two of them each held a bamboo pole in their hands, and a white cloth was held high on the bamboo pole, on which it was vividly written in huge characters: "Our army conquered the city of Nakhon Ratchasima, and offered horses to report victory!" ”

Behind the two of them, there was a herd of horses that seemed to be endless, driven by more than 100 Phoenix Battalion soldiers, hooves like thunder, coming along the main road. Looking at these horses, Chen Lun was in a daze, these horses were clearly the horses that Wo Luo Weng carried when he went north, and they were all captured by Wang Bao and became the trophies of the Nanzhong Army.

"My lord, these horses are all ours! There are a few horses that seem to be garrisoned in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima. Chen Lun's servants whispered to him.

"I know!"

He reprimanded the servant without a good voice.

One horse is windy, ten horses are thunder, and the momentum of more than 1,000 horses passing through the market can be imagined. Seeing that these horses, which were originally his own family, have become a tool for others to show off their might, listening to the bursts of cheers in his ears, Chen Lun's heart is like knocking over a five-flavor bottle, and there are mixed flavors.

Finally, after all the horses were counted, the inspectors still did not open the cards, and inquired from the people, but were told by the inspectors, "Don't worry, we will have to pass the army in a while." If you have any urgent matters, you can take a detour from other intersections, and our Hejing is good at this, and all roads are open. That's nearly 10,000 recruits, but I need some Chenguang! ”

Hearing this, Chen Lun was a little angry! Isn't this Nanzhong a great tomorrow? How can you get the doctor to make way for the soldiers? The natives around him looked at him with a very strange look, as if he was looking at a countryman who had never seen much of the world.

"Isn't it, isn't it! This Nanzhong General's Mansion is actually secretly practicing the Qin system? Scholars also have to make way for the soldiers? ”

Since it will not be over for a while, Chen Lun simply took a few people to squeeze out of the crowd watching the excitement and went to a "Chaojiangchun" restaurant at the intersection, where it is the Chaoshan taste. People drinking morning tea are talking there, talking about not only business, but also agriculture and the war situation in the distance.

On the second floor, he gave the cousin a piece of broken silver, and he found a place near the window, Chen Lun sat down and asked for some refreshments such as rice noodles, shrimp dumplings, and phoenix feet, waiting for the soldiers in the distance to come.

"Now our old seniors, the most of them are all the leaders of Yibao, leading hundreds of people, I don't know what will happen to us in the future?"

On a table next to it, several young men in cyan muslin robes gathered around a large casserole, drinking steaming casserole porridge and talking loudly.

"Looking at the current momentum, the lord at least needs to expand his territory again. At present, there are about 20,000 immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong provinces who enter the country from all over the country every month to request reclamation. According to the standard of reclamation for adults, each household (no less than one strong man) who goes to Jiulongjiang can reclaim 50 acres of land. ”

"20,000 households per month, 50 acres per household, that is, 1 million acres, if you don't open up your territory to the outside world, where can you find so much land?"

Chen Lun nodded and asked in a whisper, "What are they eating?" ”

"Oh! This gentleman, you probably just arrived in Ha Jing from out of town, right?! This is the way we eat in Teochew, put seafood, sashimi, chicken, pork ribs and other things in a casserole according to your preference, boil them together with rice porridge, and finally, drink porridge and eat meat. Would you like to have a copy too? ”

"I am also a glutton, with such a delicious taste, it is naturally impossible to avoid vulgarity, I don't know what kind of livelihood those little brothers do?"

"They!? Students of the Shojido! Today coincides with the day of the mid-year holiday, and a few good friends went to the street together to stroll around and drink tea in the shop. You don't have to underestimate them, they are now students, and in a few days, they will be the leaders of one village, one village, one tun and one protection. ”

Chen Lun, who said it, couldn't help but stand on end. There are many requests for land for immigrants, and there are trained village chiefs, who are said to be a mere Siam, and even the most powerful Myanmar at that time, not all of them can resist the flood of South Chinese army immigrants.

"Follow theirs, and bring me a pot too." After sending the cousin away, Chen Lun began to feel apprehensive. This time he came to Ha Tranh to ask Li Shouhan for peace, and King Song Tan of Siam meant that as long as he retained the royal family and official position, it would not matter if Siam was looted, and it was not that he had not been looted by the Burmese anyway. But it was important to withdraw the southern army from the Nakhon Ratchasima region, where the strategic significance of the sixteen states of Yanyun was to the Northern Song Dynasty in the same way that Siam was.

Condescendingly, once a war breaks out, the rolling iron flow of the southern Chinese army is afraid that it will be able to reach the city of Ayutthaya overnight.

As for things such as indemnities, rewarding the three armies, and entering Beijing to ask for crimes, the Siamese royal family has considered it. Even such a thing as a meat tan and a sheep has been thought of. However, what I didn't expect was that the South Central Army actually put forward such a bunch of demands.

"This big city is actually claimed to never fall, in fact, I think it's very simple!" At the table next to him, a student with a pimple on his face spoke out loud.

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