I want to be emperor

Chapter 595
The Kingdom of Ayutthaya in Thailand is different from the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Annan region, and it is even different from the Taungoo Dynasty in Myanmar.

How should I put it, today's Ayutthaya Kingdom is truly the most powerful country in Southeast Asia!

In Southeast Asia, most of the peninsula and surrounding island countries are not very powerful.

The Toungoo Dynasty of Burma was also the first brother in Southeast Asia in the past. It was considered relatively strong, but it has gradually weakened in recent decades.

In the face of the border conflict with the Great Chu Empire, it is impossible to fight, and it can only be compromised.

However, the strengths of Annan, South and North are not very good. For example, the Zheng family who controlled the northern region tried their best to kill the Ruan family in the south. At the highest point, they used only about [-] troops, not to mention the Mo family and others. Wu Clan is still holding them back.

Not to mention the Ruan family in the south, their standing force is only about 2.

They are weak and weak, and they all want to get the support of the Great Chu Empire, so the Great Chu Empire won Cam Ranh Bay and a comprehensive market in the Annan area without much effort, and also obtained the mining rights of Guangning Coal, which was rented by the way. a port.

The Kingdom of Cambodia, in contemporary times, Cambodia is originally a relatively loose alliance, and its royal family is very weak. In the past, a hundred Spaniards could sweep their so-called royal capital... After the Great Chu Empire dispatched more than 500 marines to land Basically, they killed their royal guards, and then supported a new king, turning the Kingdom of Cambodia into a de facto puppet state against the Great Chu Empire.

In addition, there are the Kingdom of Aceh and the Kingdom of Johor on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.

It is more interesting to say that that is the founder of the Aceh Kingdom, which used to be a branch of the royal family of the Champa Kingdom... When the Champa Kingdom gradually declined and became the Annan puppet state, the royal family of this branch of the Champa Kingdom fled Later, the Kingdom of Aceh was established, and gradually expanded to occupy part of the western part of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula.

In fact, these indigenous countries are not very strong. They are very passive when facing Western colonists who use a large number of guns. Even if they can win, they can only rely on the number of people to consume the opponent's ammunition.

Therefore, you can often see hundreds of Western colonial troops fighting against thousands or even tens of thousands of local indigenous troops, and most of the time it is the Western colonial troops who win. A year and a half or even longer, wait until the reinforcements arrive or when the ammunition and food are exhausted, they will retreat by boat.

To measure the strength of a country, its war capability can almost be seen.

As for the Ayutthaya Kingdom, if the strength of this country is compared with the Great Chu Empire, it is naturally not worth mentioning, but in Southeast Asia, it is now a veritable elder brother.

Moreover, the Ayutthaya Kingdom has also accumulated a lot of wealth in the past tens of hundreds of years of international trade. In addition, they have also seen and introduced Western matchlock guns and artillery because of their early contact with the Portuguese and the Dutch.

Historically, after the Taungoo Dynasty of Myanmar was destroyed, the army of the newly born Burmese Kingdom used Western guns and even flintlocks in large quantities. The Qing army, which was still using matchlock guns and old-style artillery, had no temper... In the previous three battles, each of them ended with heavy losses for the Qing army... But let's go!

The Qing army was backed by China, and its comprehensive national strength was far inferior to that of Myanmar. After winning three battles, Myanmar wanted to take advantage of the situation to stop the war, but the angry Qing army ignored it at all. Tens of thousands of troops went up, and the fourth battle was more defeated than victorious...

It is worth noting that this series of defeats of the Qing army was due to better weapons and other reasons, but there is another reason that cannot be ignored, that is, the Qing army could not adapt to the local climate!
In the fourth battle, the Qing army fought more than 1 people, and only 1 people were left after the fight. But don’t think that the Burmese army was so powerful that they killed more than [-] Qing troops... The Qing army’s main The attrition of personnel is due to non-combat attrition caused by diseases!
But this kind of attrition battle made Myanmar lose its temper. In the end, even if the Burmese army still maintained its advantage, it had to take the initiative to seek peace and pay tribute.

There is no way, even if the fourth battle is won, it will not take long for the Qing army to gather tens of thousands of troops or even more troops to kill them. If they don't bow their heads and admit defeat, this war will be endless...

In this war, the outcome of this war has nothing to do with the rulers of the Eastern Captives. In the end, Myanmar, which had already dominated Southeast Asia, was able to surrender and pay tribute, and ensured peace for hundreds of years in the future... It was because of China's own vast land and resources, Affordable!
This is just to say that the aborigines in Southeast Asia during this period were not as barbaric and uncivilized as people in the Kingdom of Heaven imagined. In fact, they came into contact with Western colonists earlier and had a higher acceptance of new guns. .

In the original time and space, about 200 years later, the civilization level of the Nanyang region far exceeds that of the Huaxia region.

The protagonists of fictional novels in the late Qing Dynasty can triumphantly lie and claim that they came back from Nanyang...

I have to say it is also extremely ironic.

Ayutthaya Kingdom is no exception!

Their main army also uses matchlock guns and artillery, but it is not the time to use purely cold weapons.

Otherwise, the Western colonists would have been beaten out of the shit to cut the land and pay compensation.

In the original time and space, Ayutthaya Kingdom, or Thailand, is the only country in Southeast Asia that has not been colonized!
From this point, you can see that Ayutthaya Kingdom is different.

As for this kind of hard stubble among the natives, the Great Chu Empire also pays attention to methods, and will not go up foolishly.

After the fleet approached, they did not rashly dispatch the marines to land, but acted like they came to the door for diplomatic negotiations.

Deterrence, this is the main task of the fleet this time. As for the fact that if the opponent refuses to accept and really wants to fight, it is impossible to rely on such a small fleet. At least a large fleet must be sent to carry thousands of soldiers to land and fight.

After diplomatic negotiations, although the Ayutthaya Kingdom was entangled, they were not stupid, and national sovereignty could not be compromised, so although the tone was very low, all kinds of sorry, but they were determined not to let go, and they would not agree to Dachu. The conditions proposed by the empire to fully open the market and a coastal port in the concession.

The Chu Army also expected the reply from the Ayutthaya Kingdom.

It would be hell if the other party could agree casually!
Especially when the Great Chu Empire has not yet shown them the real strength that makes them fear.

Just relying on some hearsay, coupled with a fleet of more than a dozen warships and armed merchant ships, it is too nonsense to want the Ayutthaya Kingdom to surrender and cede the territory directly.

After the failure of the first negotiation, the fleet did not fight directly, but began to evacuate the overseas Chinese... Many trading companies have set up shops in the trading ports of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, and some people are stationed there. Although these people also have A certain self-protection ability, but it is still easy to become cannon fodder in a war.

After picking up the nationals and leaving, the fleet escorted the merchant ship back to Cam Ranh Bay.

At the same time, the corresponding situation report was also galloped to Jinling City along with the Navy's latest Class A-[-] communication ship!
The Class A-[-] communication ship in the navy, the design concept imitates the postal ship in the postal department, it is specially used for fast transportation at sea, and the cargo it carries is limited to letters, small and medium-sized express goods!
Because the weight of the cargo carried can be ignored, and at the same time in pursuit of speed, the design of the ship is very extreme. The whole ship is born for speed!

Not only does it have an exaggerated aspect ratio, the hull design is as lightweight as possible, but it also adopts the latest research flying shear bow of the Shipbuilding Division of the Naval Ship Administration Division!

The arrow-shaped bow and the aspect ratio of eight to one give this communication ship an exaggerated speed!
An aspect ratio of eight to one...a very high ratio for a boat in the age of sail.

The aspect ratio of conventional warships is generally only four to one, and even ships such as cruisers that pursue speed rarely exceed five to one.

But the communication ship is different!
The requirements of the Great Chu Empire for communication ships are the same concept as the five-hundred-mile rush to the ground. Everything is born for speed, and there is no need to consider the cargo capacity or even the cost of construction. You only need to consider how to ship in the shortest possible time. In time, send the news from afar, across the sea, back to the mainland, and send it to the high-level empire in Jinling City!

That's why there are these extreme designs, and finally there is a level-[-] communication ship!
It is worth noting that in order to reduce the weight while ensuring the strength of the hull, this Class A-[-] communication ship is also the first ship in the Great Chu Empire that uses a large number of steel materials as part of the main structure of the hull!
Steel materials are not cheap these days, they are very expensive!

A communication ship of more than 100 tons is more expensive than a frigate of three or four hundred tons...

But expensive also has its advantages. No, the report from the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet sailed northward at an average speed of more than [-] knots through the communication ship. It didn't take long for the report to be sent to Songjiang Naval Base.

Immediately afterwards, the letter was urgently sent to Jinling City through the post station system on land five hundred miles away.

If you sail against the current in the inland river, even a specially built communication ship will not be as fast as the continuous relay transmission of the station system.

If the postal service wants to use the inland river to sail against the current and send the overseas letters stored in the Wusong base to Jinling City urgently, it may have to wait until the steam ship appears... But at that time, there will probably be a train, and the train is still faster than the inland river ship!

Now, the emergency letters of the Great Chu Empire, especially the transmission of military information, are composed of the station system on land and the communication ships at sea, and cooperate with each other.

At the same time, because the Great Chu Empire has a vast territory, and many places have rivers and shores, urgent official documents in many places are also sent to Wusong Naval Base by sea.

For example, urgent official documents in Guangdong, Liaodong, Koryo Peninsula, and Northern Liaoning Province are often delivered by sea, which is faster than by land.

As a result, the mail delivery at Wusong Naval Base is very busy. As a transfer station, letters from all over the country must be sent to Jinling City continuously, and at the same time, the letters from Jinling City must be shipped to various places.

The post station route from Wusong to Jinling City is also the busiest and densest post station route in the Great Chu Empire.

Not only is it necessary to transmit various official documents and emergency military information from other places, many local official documents in Jiangnan Province are also carried out through this route.

In ordinary places, there may be only a dozen people in a post station, and only a few horses.

But here, an ordinary station will have dozens of people, some even hundreds of people.

These post stations are still directly responsible for the operation of the post station, excluding all kinds of service personnel who rely on the post station system to provide catering and accommodation for the past business travel officials.

Because of tradition, but also for practical needs, the post stations in the Great Chu Empire are built on various official roads, and one is set up at a certain distance, and they are all set up according to the distance, regardless of how desolate the surrounding area is... After all, urgent letters At the time, it was passed by relay, and there must be a post station at a certain distance, otherwise the horses would not be replaced for a long time, and it would affect the speed of letter delivery not to mention exhaustion.

Under such circumstances, many post stations are not in front of the village and behind the store, and they are still located on the official road for business travel.

Such a station also brings another function, which is to provide food and accommodation for passing business travelers.

I don't know how the old dynasties did it, but in the Great Chu Empire, the board and lodging business in the post station system was a sideline business conducted by the post office itself, and its income was used to subsidize the huge expenses of the post station system.

It is very expensive to maintain the traditional oriental station system.

The station staff and horses need to be maintained all year round... This one station is nothing, but a hundred?One thousand seats?What about [-] seats?
The huge number of post stations eat up a lot of funds for the post office every day. Even if there is financial support, various departments still need to pay for sending and receiving official documents, but they still cannot make ends meet.

In order to subsidize the huge deficit of the postal service, the postal service also started to start a sideline business of board and lodging at the post station.

Therefore, the post office of the Great Chu Empire these days is actually a very special organization!
In the words of later generations, this is a comprehensive group covering the three major business versions of postal delivery, catering, hotels, and shipping, all over the country.

It is still a loss-making one, because the postal service is still continuing to build post stations in sparsely populated places, and at the same time, it is also constantly building various postal fast communication ships.

In order to further reverse the deficit of the Postal Service, the Postal Service has requested to open new businesses.

Moreover, I applied for two types of business at once. One is open to the public for letter delivery and small cargo transportation. This is relatively normal. The post station was originally used to deliver letters. It used to deliver letters to officials, but now it is open to deliver letters to the public. It is also a rational use of resources.

However, there is another piece of business that seems abnormal, and has attracted the attention of the Finance Department and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

Because the postal company plans to open a remittance business, which is convenient for people to send money over long distances!
(End of this chapter)