After capturing Hanoi, the property acquired by the Taiping Army in Hanoi was worth tens of millions of taels of silver. They suddenly became a nouveau riche.
The supplies included are not bad. The Taiping Holy Kingdom currently has hundreds of thousands of people in its hands, and the daily consumption is huge. These supplies can be consumed by themselves.
But gold, silver and jewelry have no effect in the hands. Now the Taiping Army does not want to pay military pay.
However, he has not yet fulfilled his promise, and Dong Shuheng has not resumed arms trade with them.
After the leader of the rebel army took over Hanoi, he quickly proclaimed himself king under the auspices of Shi Dakai. He also sent envoys to China in the north to declare vassal status to China.
This was Shi Dakai's suggestion, but Shi Dakai was not so kind to the Renaissance Army. He was trying to save the country in a roundabout way.
He did this for two reasons. One was that Shi Dakai had feelings for China, and he now compared himself to a runaway beard.
If he could do something for China, he wouldn't mind.
Another reason is that Shi Dakai wanted to buy some supplies from China through the Beiqi regime. Of course, in the name of Beiqi.
This was the way he thought of spending the money he had.
When the envoy from Beiqi arrived in Guangxi, the central government of China quickly learned about Beiqi.
At the same time, the local government of Guangxi was also asked to send observers to Beiqi.
As for the transaction, as long as it is real money and silver, China will not refuse it, even if it is the purchase of arms, there will be no problem.
In this way, when Shi Da arrived at the border of Nanzhang, he received the first batch of supplies purchased by Huaxia.
Because they were purchased through Beiqi, Huaxia still gave them a preferential price for this batch of supplies.
Among them are 10,000 flintlock guns produced in Foshan, Guangdong, as well as a large number of cold weapons. After industrial upgrading, Foshan Tiedu's production capacity has been greatly improved.
Also arriving at the same time was a large amount of gunpowder. In addition to these munitions, there were also production and daily necessities such as pots and pans, cloth, and salt.
These things are enough for Shi Dakai's team to consume for a period of time. Of course, this is only the part Shi Dakai bought. Beiqi himself also purchased a large amount of supplies.
The economy of Guangdong and Guangxi, which was destroyed by the war, suddenly came back to life because of the order of several million taels of silver from Beiqi. In order to satisfy Beiqi's order, Huaxia even took out all the flintlock guns that were going to be allocated to the militia.
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Only by supporting Beiqi now can they sustain it. Otherwise, they would be destroyed by the Ruan Dynasty army so quickly, and they would lose a big financial backer.
Beiqi was also very motivated. After they obtained a large number of muskets, they quickly armed the rebels they had accepted.
The training of musketeers is very simple. Besides, Beiqi is now focused on defense.
Putting guns on the city wall is much easier than fighting in the field. The Northern Qi rebel army actually fought hard with the Ruan Dynasty's army.
Seeing that Beiqi had obtained a large amount of equipment from nowhere, the Ruan Dynasty could not sit still and quickly sent envoys to China, preparing to prevent China from intervening in the affairs of the Ruan Dynasty.
However, China is not the stupid Qing Dynasty it used to be. Dong Shuheng is a usageist and will not pay attention to the Ruan Dynasty's rhetoric.
It's a family matter for them to solve themselves, otherwise our sovereign state will go over and help you solve it. But by then, they may have to invite their king to live in Xinjing.
Now there are two kings living here in Xingjing, one of them, the king of Ryukyu, is staying here and not leaving.
I believe more kings will live here in the future.
After entering Nanzhang, the Taiping Holy Kingdom team did not encounter any enemies except for the difficult mountain roads along the way.
It was not until they reached Luang Prabang that they encountered resistance.
A local native prince led an army of three thousand natives to attack the forward team.
However, the low combat power of these people did not cause much damage to the forwards. On the contrary, Chen Yucheng led his men to destroy this team.
Even the so-called prince wearing golden armor was killed by the Taiping Army.
Unlike Beiqi, there is not even a decent city here. Villages are scattered in the valleys between the mountains.
The altitude of Nanzhang is generally one to two thousand meters. There are low mountains everywhere. There are tropical rainforests up and down the mountains, and sometimes the advancing team will see elephants.
If it weren't for the fact that most of the people in the team are from Guangxi and Beiqi, their living environment is similar to here. Otherwise, there would definitely be a large number of people who are not accustomed to the local environment.
It was the rainy season at this time, and rain was a common occurrence. Shi Dakai thought he should find a place to stay first.
Otherwise, it will be really difficult for the team in hand to advance in such an environment.
Many people still fell ill during the transfer, especially women and children.
As for the elderly, there are almost no such people in the ranks of the Taiping Army.
The entire team, including Shi Dakai himself, are all young people in their twenties.
Fortunately, we traded a lot of patent medicines with China this time.
Patent medicines refer to traditional Chinese medicines made into pills or powders. These are one of Huaxia’s main products now.
For example, Chinese Bupleurum powder has a very good effect on colds. It has even been exported to Europe. In this era, Europe had a dirty and dirty environment, and various plagues occurred frequently.
The so-called plague is actually influenza, which is Chinese typhoid fever. There are no specific drugs in Europe.
After Huaxia's medicines gradually opened up the market in Europe through Prussia, those agents in Europe would automatically promote Huaxia's proprietary Chinese medicines.
Prussia also made a lot of money by distributing Chinese patent medicines.
Moreover, powders and pills are more acceptable to Europeans, who are still not used to strange-tasting decoctions.
In fact, the effect of the decoction will be better, but the decoction is not easy to preserve.
Chen Yucheng's vanguard reached Luang Prabang in a short time. Strangely, the king of this country did not become angry and resist because of the loss of his son.
This was a devout Buddhist. Under the persuasion of the monks, the king led his people to surrender directly.
Chen Yucheng didn't understand their thoughts.
However, Chen Yucheng was fascinated by this ancient city near the river. This place seemed to be his ideal Taiping Holy Kingdom.
Shi Dakai must have a reason to move with so many people, otherwise no one would be willing to follow him around and endure hardships.
This kind of life without a fixed place is a kind of torture for ordinary people's willpower.
Moreover, there were many women and children in Shi Dakai's team, and not all of them were soldiers.
Their propaganda in the Taiping Holy Army is to lead everyone westward to find a legendary heaven on earth.
After Shi Dakai returned to Guangxi, he reformed the God-worshiping religion and removed some of the things that Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan copied from Christian doctrines.
The Cult of Worshiping God was also changed to the Cult of Worshiping Heavenly Emperor. The Emperor of Heaven is the greatest god in heaven and earth. The Holy King is the envoy of the Emperor of Heaven in the human world.
People in China don't like playing religious tricks, but that doesn't mean they don't understand.
Believers believe in religion simply to find a spiritual sustenance. To put it bluntly, religion means following one's own preferences. People like to have an afterlife, so give them an afterlife that they can imagine.
If everyone wants to find a reason for the suffering in this life, then give them a reason.
Searching for the legendary heaven on earth is what Shi Dakai now finds for his followers.
So now, although the road is difficult, although many people are sick, and although some people have died, no one has backed down.
The missionaries in the team told them that if they die on the way to find the kingdom of heaven on earth, they can enter the kingdom of heaven in heaven.
Here in Nanzhang, the Taiping Army encountered many Han villages. These people were immigrants recruited from China by the Nguyen Dynasty regime.
The Ruan Dynasty was invaded by Nanzhang, so after defeating Nanzhang, it recruited many immigrants from China or sold the land of Nanzhang to those Manchu businessmen. Let them become a barrier between Nanzhang and the Ruan Dynasty
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The Taiping Army had no difficulties with the villages of these compatriots.
If they are willing to join the Taiping Army, it is better. If not, the Taiping Army will spend money to buy food from these villages and temporarily place sick people in these villages to recuperate.
Most of these villages are in a state of autonomy. They gather together in a family model and retain the traditional living habits of China.
Moreover, they do not marry local natives, but only intermarry with surrounding Chinese villages in order to maintain their cultural independence.
Shi Dakai was also a Hakka before. He knew that the life of the Chinese among the natives was not easy. The natives who were not engaged in production often regarded the Chinese as targets of robbery.
The natives don't understand why they all live on the same land. The Chinese live in windbreakers, have enough food, and live in big houses. No matter what the weather is like, they don't have to worry about running out of food.
But they live in a leaky bamboo house. In the continuous rainy weather, they have no way to go out to find food, so they starve in the village.
They did not see that when the weather was good, the Chinese were working hard in the fields and repairing their houses, while they only looked for enough food for a few days and slept in their bamboo huts.
After entering Nanzhang, the Taiping Army was not so friendly to the local natives.
Shi Dakai organized these people, and they drove elephants to help the Tianping army open the road ahead.
In this way, the advancing large forces will no longer be attacked by poisonous snakes and beasts.
After Chen Yucheng occupied Luang Prabang, he quickly launched attacks in all directions, all the way to the Kingdom of Vientiane in the south.
Here they also encountered Siamese soldiers.
It turned out that the Kingdom of Vientiane surrendered to Siam and became its protectorate.
But Chen Yucheng doesn't care who you are? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is now a wandering force in Bagh, so they don't need to worry about diplomatic matters.
Soon Vientiane was captured, and there were no fortifications at all.
Thousands of Siamese soldiers in the city were also taken away.
In the Indochina Peninsula, Siam and the Nguyen Dynasty are two big countries, and the southern part between them is their buffer zone.
Therefore, both sides are cultivating their own power in Nanzhang.
Not only the Nanzhang area, but Chenla over there is also the object of competition between the two sides.
These two countries openly claim vassal status to China, but they both want to build their own large empires in the south. Each of them has great ambitions.
During the Manchu and Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not care how they operated, as long as they sent people to pay tribute on time.
The traditional vassal system was too loose in the management of vassal states.
As a result, after these vassal states were colonized by the West, they in turn demanded territory from the suzerain state. This became an important inducement for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to lose its territory.
For example, toast in northern Myanmar.
During the Qing-Burma War, the Qing government once restored its rule over chieftains such as Meng Gong, Mu Bang, Meng Gen, and Zhengmai.
However, with the end of the war against Burma, Burma prepared to pay tribute, and the Qing Dynasty ignored these chieftains.
"If you leave the three ministers alone and leave them to Burma's disposal, you can still say that Burma has been submissive and obedient to all generations. Although the lands in Yanggong belong to Burma, they still belong to me." (Note: Li Genyuan: "Yongchang Mansion Wen Zheng")
Chronicle Volume 25, Page 12.)
The Qing government's concept of one's own people did not cause much problems as long as it could maintain its vassal system.
However, after frequent invasions by Western countries and the annexation of the Qing Dynasty's vassal states by the foreign powers, disputes over border territories would inevitably arise and the Qing government would be passive in negotiations with the foreign powers.
This kind of tragedy in history, Dong Shuheng will not let it happen again in this life.
Let’s talk about Shi Dakai’s arrival in Luang Prabang and he was also deeply fascinated by the scenery here.
Although most of them are Buddhist temples, which is inconsistent with his identity as the leader of the God-Worshiping Sect, in the future these temples can also become their temples of the God-Worshiping Sect.
He placed all his troops around Luang Prabang for temporary rest.
At this time a great monk found him.
This is for negotiation.
Shi Dakai knew that Buddhism was prevalent in the south, including Myanmar in the west and Siam in the south, which regarded Buddhism as their state religion.
The great monk did not try to be aggressive this time. He talked to Shi Dakai straight to the point. As long as Shi Dakai can guarantee not to destroy the Buddhist temple and not affect the normal Buddhist worship activities of the natives, then the temple will also guarantee to cooperate with Shi Dakai's rule.
Make sure no natives resist.
This great monk is not boasting, they can really do this.
Of course, the great monk also made a threat. Although he did not say it explicitly, Shi Dakai could hear it.
What the old monk meant was that if Shi Dakai destroyed the Buddha in Nanzhang, the Kingdom of Myanmar and the Kingdom of Siam would unite to attack their guest army.
Shi Dakai is not stupid. This Indochina Peninsula is the home of Theravada Buddhism. If he really destroys the Buddha here, then he may really be beaten by a group of people.
So the two sides discussed that Shi Dakai's Baitian Emperor Sect would not preach among the native people, and Buddhism could not penetrate into the Taiping Army's deployment.
However, the natives must accept the rule of the Taiping Holy Kingdom and pay taxes.
Due to the weather, Shi Dakai temporarily settled down in Luang Prabang. The cool climate and rich products here attracted this migrating team.
At some point, word began to spread among the team that this was the heaven on earth that everyone was looking for.
There are indeed many paradise-like scenic spots around Luang Prabang, including beautiful waterfalls, clear springs, quiet valleys, winding rivers, mountains full of fruit trees, and a net full of big fish in the river.
This statement was really not made by Shi Dakai.
But he can guess who sent it.
As early as when the Taiping Army left Beiqi, there were objections in the team. These people were very qualified, but they did not know the agreement between the Taiping Army and the Fuxing Army.
At that time, these people questioned why they wanted to leave Beiqi with such good conditions. Especially since Beiqi was very close to their hometown of Guangxi.
Occupy it and you can return home to visit relatives after the relationship with the Renaissance Army has eased.
But the military power was firmly in the hands of Shi Dakai, and he liked to speak out, so these voices were quickly suppressed.
Unexpectedly, now that we have arrived in Nanzhang, these people no longer directly make suggestions, but actually start to encourage the people below.
In fact, Shi Dakai also likes this place very much. It has a plateau climate, which is drier than the plains and more similar to the environment in Yunnan.
It is really suitable for people to live here.
Along the Lancang River downstream, you can reach the Vientiane Kingdom that Chen Yucheng just occupied. This river runs through the north and south. If the capital is established here, it may not be impossible to dominate the Indochina Peninsula.
Once this thought occurred in Shi Dakai's mind, it would never go away. However, Shi Dakai was still young and had not lost his energy.
He immediately announced that they would rest here until the dry season, which meant that they would not move again before the dry season.
For a moment, the people below were happy and excited.
There are still a few months left before Shida Kaijian enters the dry season. According to the climate here, one season of rice can still be grown.
So he ordered his troops, except for some standing combatants, to lead the people to reclaim the land and plant rice.
These natives looked at such good land, but it was left uncultivated. Although they also planted crops, the land they developed was too little. They thought that as long as they could feed themselves, the rest of the land would be left uncultivated.
However, most of the soldiers under the Tianping Army came from poor peasants, and their desire for land was buried deep in their bones.
As a result, the good days of these natives came to an end. Under the leadership of the Taiping Army, they began to live a life of sunrise and sunset. The days of lying down before were no longer available.
This is a normal government order issued by Shi Dakai and does not violate the agreement with the Buddhist temple.
Not only did the monks not stop the Taiping Army from doing this, they also took the initiative to persuade the natives to obey the Taiping Army's orders.
In this way, a large amount of land around Luang Prabang was reclaimed and planted with rice.
The land here is fertile, and the humus on the mountains flows down from the mountains along with the rainwater and accumulates in the valleys.
The valley below the mountain is extremely fertile.
At this time, the Chinese people's love for the land was completely aroused.
They are like small landowners, driving these natives to continuously cultivate the land.
Chen Yucheng has been conquering the feudal states in the south and seized a large amount of property, which was continuously sent to Luang Prabang through the Lancang River.
At this time, the area bordering China in the north was also captured by the Taiping Army.
The exchanges between the Taiping Army and the Fuxing Army were once again opened up. Through border trade with Yunnan, Shi Dakai's supplies became more and more abundant.
Because Shi Da moved westward, the arms trade between the Renaissance Army and the Taiping Wheel started again.
The lives of the people below gradually stabilized. After their lives improved, the voices among these Taiping Army subordinates who wanted to stay became stronger.
After all, here, each of their teams can drive part of the natives to work, just like a small lord. This kind of life should be regarded as a life in heaven in their opinion.
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