Song Gexing

Chapter 300 Nanke Yimeng

"The main thing for Chenla is to appease them. Let them hand over all the islands in the South China Sea. The navy will establish a base there. As for the land, forget about it. Just give them a warning not to invade and occupy the city-state."

Zhao Fang did not want to swallow the disposal of the Indochina Peninsula. At this time, there was a powerful country in the Indochina Peninsula, which was the predecessor of Cambodia, the Angkor Dynasty of Chenla.

The Angkor Dynasty was established earlier than the Northern Song Dynasty, around the mid-Tang Dynasty. It is now at its peak, occupying almost two-thirds of the Indochina Peninsula.

Including later Cambodia, most of Thailand, southern Vietnam, all of Laos and part of Malaysia, and almost destroyed the Champa State, occupying more than half of it.

However, it has always paid tribute to the Central Plains dynasty, first to the Tang Dynasty, then to the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. However, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhenla was decomposed.

Thailand became independent, southern Vietnam was occupied by Annan, and Malaysia also lost its land. It could only shrink to Cambodia and become the Kingdom of Cambodia.

This was when it was at its strongest, and Zhao Fang didn't want to fall out with them, as that would involve too much energy, and since he was a vassal, there was no need to be a bad guy.

But all the islands in the South China Sea are necessary, because the southern part of Vietnam in later generations belonged to Chenla at this time, and they really had control over that side of the South China Sea.

As the sovereign state, it is not too much to ask you for some islands. Soon after the imperial edict arrived in Chenla, they happily handed over all the islands and voluntarily paid for the manpower and material resources to build a naval base.

After Zhao Fang negotiated with them, he next set his sights on Australia. In fact, Australia was not far from the southernmost tip of the Malay Archipelago, but it was in the Pacific Ocean and the wind and waves were too strong, so it was not discovered by people at the time.

But the warships of the Song Navy were more advanced than those European sailing ships in the sixteenth century, and there was no reason to let such a large piece of land go.

With the compass and the simple navigation chart drawn by Zhao Fang, the Song Dynasty navy quickly found Australia, which made the ministers extremely happy.

Australia is huge. Although there are large tracts of land that are not suitable for farming, even so, the remaining land is larger than several provinces combined.

There is more than one Australia, there is also the picturesque area of ​​New Zealand. Zhao Fang directly sent his three younger brothers there.

Three governor-general offices were set up there, and they were warned not to insult the local indigenous people, but to be as tolerant as they were at home.

This would take a long process, but he felt that there was still plenty of time. Europe was still just beginning the Middle Ages.

It would take 400 years for them to wake up from ignorance. He didn't believe that 400 years would not be enough for the Chinese nation to swallow all the bones and flesh of that place.

As for whether it will be independent in the future, that is not within the scope of his consideration. As long as it is owned by the Chinese, even if it becomes independent, it will still be the territory of the Chinese descendants.

He actually doesn't mind these things, not even the territory currently occupied by Southeast Asia. What he wants is to fully Chineseize them and let them identify themselves as descendants of Yan and Huang.

As for the Japanese nation, he was very conflicted and wanted to exterminate the nation, but that was too cruel. After struggling for a long time, he decided to choose to Chineseize them.

Not to mention Goryeo. Although Bangzi is disgusting, he is very obedient now. Of course, Goryeo has not yet truly formed nationalism. They originally considered themselves to be subjects of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, this idea was even stronger. The Li family never thought of rebelling against the Ming Dynasty, and they considered themselves to be the people of the Ming Dynasty from top to bottom.Whenever a monarch was dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not need to send troops to educate him. The ministers of North Korea and the Li family's clan could overthrow him by themselves, and then take a few steps to relieve their hatred.

In fact, the Korean people until the late Manchu Dynasty were not annoying. Before being colonized by Japan, they did not have the twisted arrogance and inferiority of later generations.

Naturally, Zhao Fang didn't need to use strong tactics. He focused on the gentry, sinicized education, and promoted the learning of Song Dynasty official dialect by the whole people. As for Chinese characters, they were originally their official characters, and the Koreans did not have their own characters.

In this era, even Japan had no writing, and official documents and history were recorded in Chinese characters. This is why in later generations, in Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Vietnam, as long as you want to check the history of your country, you must learn Chinese.

Zhao Fang decreed that Goryeo, Waguo, and Annan were all local dialects, and all scholars in the three places must master the Song Dynasty Mandarin, because the local system of imperial examination protection could not be implemented for long.

After he had taken back Annan and captured Goryeo, he had ordered the imperial examinations to implement protective policies in these two places to prevent them from suffering losses when competing with the scholars in the Song Dynasty for places.

But this is only a temporary regulation, and it must return to normalcy. Otherwise, it will no longer be a province. How is that different from a vassal state?

On the contrary, the Japanese state suffered a big loss this time, because Zhao Fang did not announce now that the Japanese state will be merged into the Song Dynasty. They are a vassal state asking you for help. If you eat them in one bite, it will look too ugly.

Therefore, the Japanese country was still a kingdom at this time, and the so-called emperor was still the king of the Japanese country who was canonized by the Song Dynasty. He was awarded the title of county king, and was given the official position of Yinqingguanglu doctor and Eastern Japanese observer envoy.

But Zhao Fang's plan to wipe out the family was to hold high the golden sign of the imperial examination. He educated the Japanese king and said, why do you have a warrior class to seize power? It is because you do not pay attention to culture and education. Official appointments are all based on your own preferences. How can this be done? Come out to be an official. If people have no sense of shame, it will be strange if they don't cause trouble.

Therefore, it is strongly recommended that the Japanese state hold an imperial examination system. The Song Dynasty can help you build the conditions required for the imperial examination, and then you can hold the imperial examination on your own, but the Song Dynasty will send people to supervise fairness in the early stage.

On the other hand, he told the nobles that it was good for them to enter the imperial examination, because it would make the people feel fair, but in fact, culture is in the hands of your nobles, and you have innate advantages, so why not do it.

With this, the Song Dynasty had its cultural sovereignty in its hands. As long as nothing unexpected happened, within a few decades, the entire Japanese country would only know that they were Song people and would not know what the Japanese country was.

Because if the common people want to rise, they must learn Chinese culture. If the nobles want to maintain their status, they can only try their best to Chineseize themselves. As for the king, who cares who you are.

When everything went in an orderly manner, Zhao Fang began to train his son to take over. In the 27th year of Xining, Zhao Fang named the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince.

Just as the crown prince's inauguration ceremony was over, someone from Jin Mingchi came crying and reported that the emperor had passed away.

Zhao Fang's head buzzed, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and screams came from his ears. He felt like the world was spinning, and his eyes were filled with darkness.

After an unknown amount of time, a bright light exploded: "Wake up, wake up! Get out of the way, don't be surrounded by people who can't breathe..."

Zhao Fang, who opened his eyes, was confused for a moment, and gradually his eyes became clear: "It turns out to be Nan Ke Yimeng! Hey, that's Liu Tianxian, why is she here? Are you watching the fun? I didn't expect that this fairy-like beauty also likes to join in the fun... …”

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