1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 916 Expansion of the Annan District
1676, the year of Bingchen, the sixth year of Hanxing in the Great Qi Dynasty, the first year of Yongxing in the Great Qin Dynasty, the first year of Yanguang in the Ming Dynasty, and the 16th year of Kangxi in the Puppet Qing Dynasty.

At the end of last year, the ancient land of the East miraculously witnessed the abdication of one emperor and the enthronement of two emperors.

In December last year, Emperor Jianping of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict to abdicate the throne of the emperor to King Sun Kewang of Qin.After three speeches and three concessions, Sun Kewang built a Zen altar, worshiped heaven and earth, sacrificed to the five mountains, established the dynasty as Qin, and issued an edict to change Yuan Yongxing the next year and amnesty the world.

King Yong of Yunzhou Town heard that Sun Kewang had usurped the Ming Dynasty and built Shuo, and immediately issued the "Call for Thieves", angrily denouncing Sun Kewang for disobeying the Ming Dynasty and arbitrarily establishing himself as a national thief.

Later, with the support of the civil and military officials of Yunzhou Town, King Yong succeeded the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and changed Yuan Yanguang.At the same time, in Yunzhou, Zhenzhou and other places, they mobilized their troops and mobilized their horses. They planned to raise volunteer soldiers to fight against Sun Ni and restore the Daming country.

For a while, the situation in Northeast Asia suddenly became tense.
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On June 1, Nanping (now Cam Ranh, Vietnam).

The [-]-ton battleship "Han Sheng" was docked steadily at the berth of the pier, and the accompanying [-] immigrants were already crowded on the cabin door and on the deck, impatient to leave the narrow and dull cabin quickly, and then Stand down on the ground and take a breath of fresh air.

However, the urgent behavior of the immigrants did not get the permission of the naval officers and soldiers on board. Dozens of strong sailors held short sticks and forced everyone back within the cordon with sharp eyes.

Why are everyone so anxious!I didn't see that the big shots and high-ranking officers on board hadn't disembarked yet, which round will it be for you immigrants?
"Is there any military action in the Annan District?"

Suddenly, stepping on the solid land, Qi Yuanshan's legs and feet went limp, and he staggered. Fortunately, Zhu Shanping, the captain of the "Hansheng" and Captain Xuanjie (Major) supported him, and he was avoided. In the predicament of falling to the ground.After standing still for a while, I looked around and found that nearly a thousand army officers and soldiers and local soldiers had gathered on the south side of the Nanping Port wharf, preparing to board the ship and leave.

"Returning to the Prime Minister, under the order of the Annan Garrison Command, I will lead a battalion of the Annan Garrison and three squadrons of the township soldiers to the Priango area (the area around Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam today) to receive the defense of the area and maintain necessary Order." An officer of the Army Xuanjie Lieutenant was called to the front, and when he heard the question from the Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet, he immediately replied respectfully.

"Accept the Priango area?" Qi Yuanshan asked in surprise: "Is there a war between your Annan district and the Kingdom of Cambodia?"

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, my Annan District has not engaged in war with the Kingdom of Cambodia."

"Then why did Cambodia hand over the land of Priango to your Annan district?"

"Because, this piece of land was brought back by our Annan District." The army officer Xuanjie (Major) replied.

"Are you asking for it back?" Qi Yuanshan was stunned for a moment, "How can you ask for it so easily for a territory with a radius of a hundred miles?"

Just as the military officer Xuan Jie said, the Priango area belonging to the Kingdom of Cambodia is really the Annan District Administration who "discussed" this piece of land with an area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers with just one contract. "Come back.

The Priango area has been an inherent territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia for centuries, and its residents are almost all Khmer, so it is also called the Lower Khmer area.About 60 years ago, Khizeta II, King of Cambodia, requested the protection of Quang Nam (Lord Nguyen) due to Siam's invasion of Uthong, and sent troops to fight back together.Ruan Fuyuan from Guangnan Kingdom was also very righteous, and he helped him a lot without saying a word.

Later, in order to consolidate the friendly relationship between the two sides, in 1618, Nguyen Phuc Yuan also married his daughter Nguyen Thi Ngoc Wan to King Kitta II. Garrison.In 1623, Ji Zheta II agreed that Guangnan Kingdom had the right to collect taxes here.

Since then, more and more Annans have poured into the Priango region, with the number reaching more than [-] at its peak.They also established a new city in the former Borrenoko, which was called Chai Stick, oh, the predecessor of Saigon.

In the first year of Qianwu (1642), the strength of Guangnan Kingdom was severely weakened by two consecutive heavy losses from Qi State and several years of coastal invasion. Do not use the power of the whole country to deal with it.Seeing this, King Ibrahim I of Cambodia (the only king who converted to the true religion in the history of the country) took the opportunity to attack Guangnan and sent troops to take Priango back to consolidate his unstable rule.

Guangnan knew that it could not keep Priango, but it was unwilling to be taken back by the dishonest Khmers, so it came up with a plan to resell the entire Priango area to the Qi State, in exchange for urgently needed military supplies.

At that time, the Qi State had just been established and was fledgling, and had no strength to take down the huge Pulian brother, so it retreated and took advantage of the retreat of the Guangnan Kingdom, and sent troops to seize the coastal area. (now Vung Tau City, Vietnam), and later renamed it Lin'an, which can be regarded as a wedge in the Priango area.

In a blink of an eye, more than 30 years have passed. Both Guangnan and the Kingdom of Cambodia have gradually forgotten this past. Facing the increasingly powerful influence of Qi, they and several small neighboring countries have carefully maintained a common identity. delicate balance.

However, in October last year, the Cambodian royal family had another civil strife.King Anon I, who came to power through a coup, was deposed by his nephew, Naiqiu, in the same way as a court coup before he could sit still.After suppressing all opponents, Nadiqiu ascended the throne as King Ji Zheta IV.

The son of Anon I, Nibiyan, was quick to see the opportunity. When the coup d’etat happened, he hid in the Qi State Commercial Hall in time, took a Qi State merchant ship, went down the big river (Mekong River), and fled to Yulin City in the Annan District. (now Can Tho City, Vietnam), took refuge in Qi State, and kept asking Qi State to send troops to intervene.

Regarding the replacement of the regime of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Qi State Annan District does not mind much. Anyway, no matter who becomes the king, he will not (dare) damage Qi State’s interests in Cambodia, let alone challenge Qi State’s absolute authority in the region. dominant position.

Therefore, Ni Diyan didn't care much about asking Qi State to send troops to intervene in the situation in Cambodia and help him return to China to regain the throne.

However, when an official from the Annan District suddenly found out among the many documents the agreement on the transfer of Priango from Guangnan State more than 30 years ago, it immediately aroused the interest of the military and civilian officials in the district.

Eight years ago, in order to "thank" Qi for mediating the war between it and Siam and prevent the other party from invading the country, the Kingdom of Cambodia "gifted" a large area of ​​territory in the Heishui area (now Vietnam's Ca Mau Peninsula) to Qi.However, this piece of territory is not connected with Lin'an and Shunde (now Badi City, Vietnam) in the Annan District, and is just divided into two parts by the Priango and Jiulong River areas of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Of course, Qi State can communicate the material and personnel exchanges between the two places through convenient sea transportation, and the geographical division will not have too much impact.

However, based on the Priango transfer agreement reached between Guangnan State and Qi State 30 years ago, our Annan District should legally have the ownership of this territory!

Although, everyone knows that Guangnan State transferred the Priango region to Qi State for some ulterior purpose, and the transfer rights stipulated in the agreement are only for garrisoning troops and collecting taxes, and it is not clear It indicated that the land was ceded to Qi State.

However, in the eyes of Yuan Zuquan, the general manager of Annan, these are not important.The important thing is that our Annan District has a high-sounding reason to acquire this fertile land.

Therefore, Ji Zheta IV, who had just become the king of Cambodia, received a notice from the Annan District in November last year, requesting to negotiate with Cambodia on the ownership of Priango.

After Ji Zheta IV received the notice from the people of Qi, his face suddenly turned bitter.

What's the name of this shit!

Thirty years ago, when Ibrahim I recaptured the Priango region occupied by the Annans, it was called a century-old event by countless Khmers, and it was the most glorious achievement of the modern Kingdom of Cambodia.If it weren't for the fact that the king believed in the True God religion, offended too many Buddhists, and was tolerated by many princes, nobles and ordinary people, he could be regarded as a great king.

However, I never expected that the hateful Annan people would be so dirty. Back then, knowing that they couldn't keep Pulian, they sold him to Qi State, so that today's calamity happened.

Although the people of Qi State spoke very politely, the two sides will conduct a friendly negotiation on the final ownership of the Priango area, explaining their respective legal principles and reasons, so as to determine its future status.

But the problem is that the Qi people also handed over the transfer agreement on the Priango area signed by Guangnan to Ji Zheta IV along with their notice, and its metaphorical meaning is self-evident.

In addition, I heard that Nei Yanyan, who escaped from Phnom Penh City, has been lobbying Qi State to send troops to help him return to the country and regain the throne.

If he did not respond to Qi State's request and handed over the Priango area to them, it would be inevitable that Qi State would use this as an excuse to send troops into Cambodia and then support Nebiyan as king.

I believe that at that time, even if the Qi State wanted to cede more territory to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Nebiyan would agree without hesitation.

After struggling for half a month, Ji Zheta IV gave in unwillingly and agreed to conduct a formal "friendly negotiation" with the Qi State on the ownership of Priango.

Until the beginning of January this year, the Kingdom of Cambodia announced that it would hand over the entire Priango region to the Qi State, and all officials and garrisons within its jurisdiction were withdrawn.As for the tens of thousands of Khmer and Annan people living in this area, they can decide whether to stay or not, choose whether to stay in the area, or move to other places.

So far, the Kingdom of Cambodia has only a long and narrow area of ​​the Jiulong River in the river delta area, and the country's land has shrunk sharply again.
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On January 1, Yu Lin.

When Qi Yuanshan, the special envoy of the State of Qi and the deputy prime minister of the cabinet, arrived in Nanping, where the Annan General Administration District is located, Yuan Zuquan, the Annan General Administration District, was not in the city. Instead, he led more than ten civil affairs officials from the General Administration Office to inspect the resettlement and The situation of agricultural production and construction.

The Blackwater area, including Yulin, has been under the jurisdiction of the Annan General Administration for eight years, but its development area is less than [-]%.

The Great River Delta is the most fertile land in the entire Kingdom of Cambodia, and even in the entire Indochina Peninsula.This area is also one of the main rice producing areas in Cambodia. The climate is warm and humid, and crops are grown three times a year. Although the river sometimes floods, the harvest is actually better after the floods.

"If this vast Heishui area is fully developed, it can support millions of people." Yuan Zuquan looked at the lush rice fields in front of him, feeling very relieved.

"The chief executive is right." Commander Yu Lin replied with a smile, "The entire Heishui area has fertile soil, abundant water sources, and is adjacent to a large river, so the transportation is convenient. If it can be continuously developed for decades, then the southern The vast flooded areas of rivers are all cleaned up, and more than one million hectares of fertile land can be opened up."

"Well, there is a long way to go!" Yuan Zuquan said: "However, at present, besides planting rice and increasing food production, the urgent work in this area is to continue to clean up the local natives and provide more land and housing for the immigrants who continue to come. In the future, our country of Qi must completely control this fertile land and provide a large amount of food for our Hanzhou mainland and many overseas territories."

Today, the entire Annan District is not only the largest transit point for immigrants in the Qi State, but also the main food supply place. In addition to maintaining the daily needs of the immigrants, a large amount is also exported to the territory of Daming, becoming the influence of the Qi State on Daming. Oh, it should be now An important means of the Daqin situation.

During the Ming and Qing wars that broke out a few years ago, Qi State transferred more than [-] refugees back and forth through hundreds of large and small transport merchant ships and special immigration ships under its control, as well as many ships from the Netherlands, in a short period of time.

Although after years of continuous transshipment, the total number of refugees resettled in the Annan General District is still 25, making the population of the entire area reach [-], making it the most populous jurisdiction in Qi's overseas territories.

In those few years, the huge scale of immigration almost exhausted all the food reserves in several territories under the Annan General Administration.For this reason, in addition to ordering small countries such as Champa, Cambodia, and Pattani to donate varying amounts of grain, the district also purchased a large amount of rice from Quang Nam, Annan Cheng, and Siam through the Annan Trading Company to meet the needs of the immigrants.

A large number of immigrants are stranded, so naturally we cannot waste food in vain.While waiting for the transshipment, the Annan General Administration District used the abundant manpower to carry out large-scale development of the newly acquired Blackwater area.Establish villages and towns, build roads, drain swamps and ditches, reclaim arable land...

In eight years, Qi State opened up more than 160 immigrant settlements and villages in the Heishui area, established more than ten towns with more than 600 people, reclaimed more than 260 million mu of cultivated land, and built more than [-] water diversion (drainage) ditches km, and built more than [-] km of river embankments.

Today, the entire area has become the most important food producing area in the Annan District. It not only provides enough food for the countless immigrants who arrive every year, but also sells it in large quantities to Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula. Effectively alleviated the situation of food shortage in the above-mentioned areas.

"Chief manager..." Pei Sixin hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Ten days ago, Hexian Town sent people over, saying that they were willing to bring in the natives who had been expelled and relocated from our Annan District. ... Is this feasible? ?”

"There are a large number of Khmers in Hexian Township itself. If the Annan people we migrated are brought in again, wouldn't the proportion of the Han people be reduced to a lower level?" Yuan Zuquan couldn't help but tense up. Frowning, "Aren't they worried that there will be some troubles in the future?"

Over the past 20 years, Ha Tien Town has expanded its power aggressively with the support of the Qi State, taking advantage of the decline of the Kingdom of Cambodia.Up to now, the entire territory of Ha Tien Town has included Sha Po (now Sihanoukville, Cambodia), Xinchang (now Kampot, Cambodia), Langxi (now Kampo Dela, Cambodia), Baijiang (in the south of Takeo Province, Cambodia today) ), Qiong Ning (on the left bank of the Jiangcheng River), Huangyan (now Baima City, Cambodia), Fangtian (the area around the Kampuchea), Taishun (Run Rang Port, Cambodia), Ruian (Dishi City, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam) and other places , occupies the southwest of Cambodia, controls a population of nearly 30, and is almost as powerful as Cambodia.

"Hexian Town is trying its best to expand its population and territory. It just wants to establish a national system and be completely independent from Cambodia." Pei Sixin said with a wry smile: "As for whether there will be civil strife in the middle school due to the large population of foreigners in the future, it is estimated that they have no Wouldn't think that far."

"...If this Hexian Town becomes independent and is established as a country, wouldn't the Kingdom of Cambodia lose all its coastal areas and become almost a small inland country?" Yuan Zuquan shook his head and sighed.

"Hexian Town has sent a mission of more than a hundred people, carrying a large amount of tribute to Hanzhou, preparing to meet with His Majesty and ask for permission to establish a country and feudal clan." Pei Sixin said with a smile: "With their always respectful attitude , coupled with the previous examples of Wei, Shun and other vassal states, most likely they will get promises from His Majesty and the cabinet."

"In this way, Qi State will add a new vassal state." Yuan Zuquan said with regret: "In the future, our Annan District will no longer be able to shout at them."

(End of this chapter)