According to Zhuang Jiyun's suggestion, the fleet simply hid in Qitade Bay and prepared to attack the Spanish fleet that went north to trade in Guangzhou in a few days.

This wait took five days. They did not wait for the Spanish fleet, but they waited for a bad news.

As Zhuang Jiyun guessed, Timur was assassinated!

The fleet set out again, this was the first time in Truchen's history that he returned without success.

After crossing the vast South China Sea at full speed, he arrived in Vung Tau in a few days. At that time, the large army stayed in Vung Tau to rest. Zhuang Jiyun and others boarded a Saiyin voyage and headed straight for Houjiang, and arrived in Can Tho in one day.

Can Tho, the largest city south of the Mekong River in later generations, was just a small town at this time, but with the arrival of the Truqin Army, it has become a construction site.

On one side of the construction site is Timur's camp.

Wang Wu, who stayed beside Timur, was kneeling in front of everyone on one knee.

"The clearance of the Assam Brigade of Sanjice is very smooth. Although Ruan Youju and Mo Tianci's remaining troops continue to appear on a small scale, most of them were annihilated on the spot under the pursuit of our cavalry."

"When your highness saw that the overall situation was settled, he personally led his personal guard camp to inspect everywhere. At this time, with the cooperation of Guangnan and Khmer people, our country had roughly appeased the people who were worried in various settlements"

"Your Highness has searched almost all the settlements in Haxian Town and arrived at the southernmost Cambogle. He then returned to Can Tho and planned to stay here"

"The Ministry of Justice has been following His Highness, and I felt something was wrong along the way. Although most of the people here agree with the jurisdiction of our country, there are obviously some enemies, most of them are confidants and their families arranged by Mo Tianci..."

"Wait", Zhou Jixun interrupted him, "Did Mo Tianci find it?"

"No, but the Ministry of Jobs still has some clues after investigation"

"Oh?"

"In the past, including Jiading and Vung Tau, they were all deserted and nominally belonged to the territory of the Khmer country. However, due to the late development, there were swamps everywhere, and poisonous snakes and beasts were everywhere, so ordinary people would not come here."

"Later, due to the Khmer country, chaos in Chameng City occurred, many Khmer people fled here, either farming, fishing, or catching wild animals and birds in swamps for a living"

"The Khmer country has been in constant civil turmoil for a long time, and the royal family's struggle for power and profit is extremely fierce. A hundred years ago, in order to avoid such disputes, the king of the country simply named the prince who was second only to him here, and was named the deputy king, and the capital was in today's Jiading area"

"Later, the princess of Guangnan married the Khmer deputy king. Gradually, a large number of Guangnan people also came here to cultivate. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, three more people came"

Cambodia is naturally called Qitad. The local Chinese are called Khmer, so the Truqins also have various names.

"They were Yang Yandi, the general of Qinzhou-Fangchenggang of Ming Dynasty, Chen Shangchuan, the general of Lianzhou of Gaozhou, Leizhou, and Mo Jiu, the gentry of Leizhou Prefecture. After they came here, they had contact with the Khmer State, Guangnan State and other forces respectively."

"These countries want to use the Chinese to reclaim wastelands and use their force to fight against the other side, so both sides allow them to exist here"

"I didn't know before, but now I know one thing, that is, the entire Hexian area, including most of the land in Jiading, was actually developed by the Chinese."

"Later, Yang Yandi was killed, Mo Jiu became the leader, and married the Chen Shangchuan family for generations, gradually consolidating this area. By chance, he saved the current Khmer king Udie II, and gained the recognition of Guangnan, which actually occupied the entire Mekong Delta"

"When Guangnan saw this, he was afraid that they would become bigger, so he established Jiading Prefecture in a place called Chaibang by the Chinese, and asked the Chinese to open villages on the west bank of the Sai Kung River and live in the former Khmer deputy king's place"

"In order to attract people to come here to reclaim, Mojiu did not impose taxes on farmers, but set up gambling shops in several large settlements to make money by using gambling business. At the same time, he organized a fleet to do business in Siam, Malay Peninsula, Batavia, Borneo, and Guangzhou"

"After Yang Yandi's death, his troops were divided by the Mo family and the Chen family. Later, the two families roughly divided the sphere of influence. The Mo family occupied the western half, with Hexian City as the center, and the Chen family occupied the eastern half, which was centered on Can Tho"

"Yang Yandi and Chen Shangchuan have been pirates and soon gained an advantage in the Gulf of Siam. At this time, the tin ingots on the Malay Peninsula were very popular. Through their efforts, they obtained at least 30% of the re-export trade of tin ingots. The merchants in the Qing Dynasty wanted to come to Nanyang to buy tin ingots, and 30% of the shares came from them."

"In addition to Chinese, there are naturally Khmers and Guangnan people, among which Khmers are the most. Under the pressure of Chinese and Guangnan people, they continued to migrate southward, and finally they took the Golden Bowl as the center. Among them, the descendants of the Khmer deputy king, a family named Langnuo, have the greatest influence and gradually became the leader of the Khmer people in Hexian Town"

"The Mekong Delta is rich in aquatic plants that can produce various dyes, and there are many kinds of minks. The Khmers mainly collect aquatic plants and catch minks, and plant some rice at will"

"Chinese people mainly use villages and communities, mainly farming, and also do some handicrafts, and monopolize trade from the Khmer country in the west, Guangnan country in the east, and the entire internal trade"

"The two major families mainly rely on the tin ingot trade and casinos to raise soldiers"

"Jinou Langnuo is obviously not a rival to the Mo family and Chen family. In order to survive in the Delta, he won over Yang Yandi's descendants and married his sister to Yang Yandi's grandson Yang An. Yang An's territory is in Weiqing between Can Tho and Jin Ou"

(Weiqing, later generations Weiqing City)

"Although the Mo family does not charge taxes from farmers, they ask the farmers to sell all the excess grain to him at a low price, casino, tin ingots, pirates, and low-priced grain. These are the four major foundations that the Mo family has established in Hexian Town"

"After Yang An established his foothold in Weiqing, he defected to the Mo family, and some Yang Yandi's troops of the Chen family also came to surrender to him. So, in this land, there are actually four major forces"

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"Some of these people actually came to pioneer and cultivate the land, some came to take refuge, and some were wanted criminals from various countries. It was very complicated. In addition, the Mo family opened casinos in various places, which attracted a large number of Chinese businessmen to come and play. Some Chinese businessmen had to stay in the local area after going bankrupt due to gambling, which further exacerbated this chaos."

"Since the Mo family has never collected taxes, when our country proposed to register and collect 20% of the taxes every year, these people agreed on the surface, but in fact they secretly disagreed. His Highness learned of this situation and began to inspect one by one, meet the leaders of each settlement, explain and speak separately."

"He is fine in Hexian and Can Tho. The leaders of these two places, the Mo family and the Chen family, have been hit by our country. We should hate us. On the contrary, we encountered an unexpected accident in Weiqing, where the Yang family is stationed in."

"At that time, His Highness had already negotiated with Yang An, and Yang An also agreed to lead more than 3,000 households in Weiqing to formally throw themselves into our arms. However, when he just left and was about to return to Can Tho, he suddenly shot a poisonous arrow from the bushes beside him."

"The archer was naturally taken down by His Highness's guards on the spot. This man was a Khmer man who specialized in catching minks in the swamp. At that time, His Highness was riding a tall horse. He definitely did not make an archer by mistake, but deliberately."

"This person was shot by His Highness's guards on the spot. When the guards were about to come forward to capture him, this person committed suicide with the dagger he carried with him. I immediately launched an investigation in Weiqing and finally learned that there are such people in the mangroves in the swamps everywhere, and they do not belong to any force."

"It was either expelled by the four major families, or wanted by the Khmer country and Guangnan country for committing crimes, so no one knew him"

"Yang An was also frightened after learning that His Highness was assassinated, so he rushed to Can Tho to apologize..."

Zhou Jixun suddenly interrupted him, "Do you have your preliminary conclusion?"

Wang Wu said: "Obviously it was not Yang An who did it. He was originally a person who was rejected by the Mo family and the Chen family. His grandfather Yang Yandi had been in Qinzhou for ten years and was the general in Fangchenggang. Because he had been dealing with Vietnamese for a long time, he knew their language."

"After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he was a pirate in the Beibu Gulf area at the beginning. At that time, countless pirates defected to him, and when he went south, there were the most people. If it weren't for the generals, the general of Hexian Town would probably not have fallen to the Mo family."

"After Yang Yandi's death, the general naturally killed all the Yang family. His only grandson fled to the territory of the Langnuo family in the southern swamp, and escaped. Later, after the Mo family came to power, he was a gentry and was more broad-minded. He pardoned Yang An and granted him the land of Weiqing"

"But no matter what, the Yang family's property and the subordinates were separated by Mo and Chen families. Although some of them were returned later, they left behind hatred. Therefore, the Yang family definitely supports our country's arrival."

"And a fugitive who hid in the swamp and made a living by catching minks had no reason to assassinate Your Highness. At that time, the wearer of His Highness dressed almost the same as the guards. He hit His Highness with an arrow. It was obviously planned for a long time. I guess, it was either from the Ruan family in Jiading City, Shizhen Town, or from the Mo family. Mo Tianci's sister is the wife of Chen Dading, the deputy general of Hexian Town. By the way, Chen Dading is Chen Shangchuan's son"

"What else?"

"Master, we captured a person near Hexian City. This person was named Mo Zisheng, Mo Tianci's fourth son, only fifteen years old. When Zheng Xin's army invaded, he happened to be in the manor outside the city and did not escape. Finally, he hid in a puddle and escaped. All the other members of the Mo family fled to Jiading"

"Where is Your Highness?"

"A highly toxic water snake is produced here. The mink is fast and can't catch it unless it is near and can't be caught. Even if it is shot, it will not die immediately. Instead, it will desperately jump into the water. If it is an ordinary arrow, its companions will help it take out with its teeth. It will be better in a few days and it will be difficult to get it."

"However, this water snake is the natural enemy of mink cubs. When it catches the cubs, due to its extremely venom, adult minks dare not approach them. The mink catcher will catch this water snake in large quantities and then apply its venom on the arrow. It is said that when the arrow branches with this venom appear, the mink's speed will become extremely slow"

Zhuang Jiyun, Zhou Jixun, and Marha all felt a stern.
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