As the eastern and western kingdoms of Annam and Pyu were incorporated into the territory of Dayu and gradually put on the right track, Siam, Chenla and the Khmer inevitably felt the pressure of the behemoth. King Utong of Siam moved the capital from Song Galo in the north in the Yong River (Chao Phraya River) basin to Dafu Cheng (大城), where three major rivers converged, narrowing the distance to the Khmer capital city of Ankor City.

As a pair of good neighbors who loved and killed each other, Siam was once a Khmer dependency, and the same belief in Veda religion, the Ganmuddin Emperor who opened the previous dynasty, the Song Jalo dynasty, led his people to break away from the control of the Khmers, create an independent script, and introduce Buddhism. The current king of Utong was a very motivated emperor, and he was originally the son-in-law of a taishou in eastern Siam, and that territory was won by Siam from Chenla, sandwiched between Siam, Luchenla and the Khmer. The potential of this marginal land has always been very good, not only with battle-hardened warriors, but also with ample capital to join forces with the great powers. The timing of his choice to establish himself as king was very good, when the last monarch of Song Galo was addicted to Buddhism and ignored national politics, and the Khmer was trying to bring Lu Chenla back, but he was not affected by the war of the Three Kingdoms, and made great efforts to strengthen the country, expanding the territory to the area of the Gulf of Siam east of Taijing, gaining enough strategic depth to finally succeed in unifying Siam.

The climatic conditions of Songgarlo were not as good as those in the Dafu Fortress area, so the relocation of the capital was very beneficial to the development of Siam, and King Utong then promulgated a series of statecraft. On the one hand, we should unite all ethnic groups, treat them equally, establish Buddhism as the state religion, turn temples into educational places, and achieve the reputation of 'Yellow Robe Buddha Country'. On the other hand, all the people are also soldiers, and men are encouraged to become monks when they are minors, and all of them serve in the military when they are adults. He originally promulgated a 'food land system', according to the royal family, civil and military nobles, commoners, servants and serfs and other different identities to implement the land grant system, each rank has a fixed amount of land, but the land is owned by the state, can not be bought and sold, so this system is actually only to determine the number of commoners and serfs that people with different titles can withhold. At the same time, he also strengthened his armament, trained a powerful elephant army, relied on force to drive out the Khmers in the coastal areas south of Dafu City, captured the largest port in the Gulf of Siam, Taigyong (Bangkok), formed a huge trading fleet, actively carried out diplomacy, traded with the Tusi tribes in the Shan State Plateau, fully opened up trade, and instructed the Hongmaoyi people to go to Saigon to grab territory.

Even sensing the potential threat of Dayu, when Yu brought envoys, merchants, and monks to present his credentials, he agreed to allow Dayu to set up a pavilion in Taijing to open trade, and to apply for permits for Siamese ships to go to the South Seas, the East China Sea, and the mainland of Dayu, and in return, the seven ports of Dayu would provide the most preferential tariffs for Siamese ships.

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The next stop of the Dayu mission was the Khmer, which also demanded the establishment of an embassy at Kampong Son (Sihanoukville) and the purchase of Saigon. As Siam's long-time nemesis, the current king of the Khmer, the first god king Javarman, was not very happy to see the great monsters of the East in a neutral manner, but the purchase of Saigon's treasures was enough to make him happy, so he put Siam aside for the time being and turned to clean up Zhenla.

The reason why Javarman is called the god-king is not because of his superior ability, but because he established the Khmer theocracy, 'the king is the god'. His grandfather was a qualified monarch who re-expanded the Khmer Empire to its maximum territory, owning nearly 200,000 war elephants and a land of thousands of miles, spanning land and sea, becoming the largest power in the South China Sea. But Shui Zhen La was divided at the hands of his father, and Shui Zhen La was also occupied by Java and Champa. Javarman was captured and sent to Java, and after his father's death, he returned to Ange as a vassal to succeed him, and after several years of operation, he repelled Java, and if it wasn't for the Hongmaoyi and Dayu mixed foot, he would have been able to recapture the intact Shui Chenla.

As an outstanding architect and artist, the god-king Javarman was far more qualified than the status of the king of other countries. As both elders were devout Vedic followers, Javarman built many temples and royal palaces for his father's life's work, enshrined various Shiva gods, and included water conservancy projects of unprecedented scale. When it was his turn, the majestic Anko Temple took shape—surrounded by a moat simulating the Aral Sea, with a towering three-story platform for Mount Meru, carved mythological stories on the walls, and scenes from the lives of royals and ordinary citizens.

Later generations said that it represented the pinnacle of Khmer temple art, but for the current people, the country is engaged in large-scale construction, and from time to time to fight a war with Chenla, Siam, and Champa to the outside world, it is exhausted, and the Khmer is so war-torn that it has a tendency to crumble.

Da Yu shifted the focus of his business to the Indochina Peninsula, which is tantamount to letting Javarman take a breath, with the new big brother covering, he can hug his thighs if anything happens, and see that the envoys of Da Yu are very admired and appreciative of his palace, Yu Chamber of Commerce brings a steady stream of wealth to support the construction of the new palace, he is also a little complacent, and the people of the Celestial Empire are really knowledgeable!

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As a large number of merchants entered the Indochina Peninsula for profit, the imperial court clearly promoted the strategic position of this region through formal establishment, and at the end of the eighth year of Shenzong, Qiao Qi was promoted to the position of 'Bagambu Envoy', and the capital city was moved from Humble to Ava, and the Shan Plateau was brought under the jurisdiction of the Shan State Plateau, and he could let go of the governance of that group of Tusi. Gu Jue is the 'political envoy of Dali', the capital city is in Xinming City, in addition to the six edicts, there is also Kuizhou City, and the entire southwest Yi of the Dali Plateau is under his rule. Jia Peng was promoted to the 'political envoy of Funan', and the capital city is still in Thang Long City, in addition to the Annam area, it will also include Chenla in the future.

Compared with Siam and Khmer, two large grain-producing countries, Chenla, a country mainly mountainous area, is really a bit of a chicken rib, and it is definitely not cost-effective to fight.

The current king of Chenla is a Tay branch of the Lao Long clan from the Faang, who was born with teeth, was expelled from his homeland, met a Khmer monk, and was raised by him. At that time, the Khmer king was Javarman's father, and in order to recover Chenla, he gave him a daughter and helped him fight all the way back to Luang Phrabang (Luang Prabang). As a result, after Eon ascended the throne, he didn't listen to his father-in-law's words and set himself up as the king, known as the Lancang Dynasty in history. He learned the Khmer military and political system of integrating politics and religion, took Buddhism as the state religion, built Buddhist temples, forcibly demolished all the altars and buildings of his religion, and moved the capital south to the city of Bundan (Vientiane), which was surrounded by the Lanjiang River in front of him and the dense forest, so that he could have a small battle with the Khmer and Siam while trading with each other, and harassing Annam from time to time.

The nourishing days of the people of Chenla ended on the day of the widowhood of Faang, and the seventy-year-old man suddenly became tyrannical and capricious, frequently sending troops to conquer the Khmer, and the unbearable people rioted frequently, and the appearance of Dayu made people seem to see hope.

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Surprisingly, with the help of the Royal Trading Company and the Jinyiwei, it was Sriwijaya on the Malay Peninsula that was the first to be tackled. The long and narrow Malay Peninsula is like an inverted peacock feather, extending from the Gulf of Siam into the South Sea, Sriwijaya originally almost monopolized the entire peninsula, only the feather part was occupied by the Mon, but because Chenla and the Khmer have been stumbling for several years, the free hand of Siam not only occupied the Siam Bay area, but also along the Malay Peninsula all the way to the south, taking advantage of the heat of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Dayu, the Siamese ship directly crossed the Kra Isthmus, approaching the capital of Srivijaya Luo Kun.

Originally, the Three Buddhas who generously 'conceded' half of Longmen City to Dayu should be Dayu's most hardcore followers, but they have dealt with the West and big food merchants for many, many years, and they are more accustomed to receiving guests from afar, rather than taking back an ancestor and putting it at the door. Some of them hoped to replace Dayu and seize the Dragon Gate, some of them traded at the shore before the Dragon Gate, and the Samrijaya merchants bought goods, took a narrow land and then entered the South Seas, evading the control of the Dragon Gate to engage in smuggling, and some simply started piracy with the acquiescence and secret assistance of the Three Buddhas.

The Andong army could not get the cooperation of Sriwijaya, and in order to solve these troubles, they patrolled day and night, which is why Annan urgently needed to establish the Cam Ranh military port to provide supplies. Although it has not yet fought a naval battle, at least the Andong Army has rich experience and effectiveness in fighting pirates.

Now that Siam is coming, the Three Buddhas panicked and hurriedly asked Dayu for help. According to the plan of the Privy Council, the Anton Army could wait for Siam to reach Longmen, and then Dayu would return to Taijing, and then take advantage of the situation to ask for a schedule or cede the port. However, Wu Shikan, a merchant from Yuexiu, stood up and solicited the opinions of most of the nobles and wealthy merchants, persuaded the Srivijaya royal family to resign, accept the jurisdiction of Dayu, and proposed to contract the right to mine bird's nest in the territory of the peninsula at the price of 300 catties of silver per year, and asked Dayu to demarcate the border with Siam to avoid the misery of life.

Dayu accepted this condition and made the Srivijaya royal family the general of Huaiyuan, regarded as the prince of Dayu County, and retained his due treatment in Luokun, but moved the royal court to Selangor City (Selangor) near Longmen. Tin ore can be mined here, and it must be an important place for Dayu to exile criminals in the future. He also built a city in Songkhla, where the lakes were dense, and rewarded Wu Shikan as the hereditary lord of the city, as the general agent of the royal trading company in the Sriwijaya region. The Sriwijaya region of Sinna is bounded by the Maodang Pass at the southernmost foot of Ta Nin Ta Weng Mountain and the line of Bashu City on the east coast, and has a clear national boundary with Siam, and the government affairs are temporarily under the leadership of the Bagambu political envoys, while the military affairs are directly under the jurisdiction of Longmen City.

Wu Shikan was overjoyed to contribute money and efforts to help Selangor City build a new royal palace, and three months later, the Srivijaya royal family moved under the escort of Anton's army. The people are the most elated, they don't have to fight, they can do business well, plant trees, plough the fields, pick up bird's nests, and casually buy all kinds of good things shipped from China, and they don't lack anything.

Gu Ci was very happy to hear the news, in the future, this is one of the largest producers of rubber, and it is best to belong to his own home. When talking to the children, she accidentally rebuked nonsense and gave Ah Sheng inspiration, "There are fights every day in these areas, there are many men and girls, and the men of the Central Plains do not need to participate in the war, and they are rich in business, isn't their status getting higher and higher there." ”

The Han people are regarded as civilians in the Indochina Peninsula, and they and their descendants do not have to serve, and local girls love to marry Han Chinese, and their blood relationship is getting closer and closer. For the local indigenous nobles, the son-in-law and the nephew are not very different, Wu Shikan is the son-in-law of a nobleman in charge of the army, and the two sons-in-law did not agree with the royal family's behavior of riding the wall, and the rampant piracy also seriously affected their own interests, so they naturally 'abandoned the dark and turned to the light'.

Surrendering soldiers without a fight, the merchants took a piece of land without blood, which was somewhat unexpected by the Privy Council, and was specially discussed as a case to see if it could be concocted in other areas with a high degree of sinicization.

Because of the laughter of a few dripping pillow winds, Emperor Shenzong decided not to rush to personally use force against the small states in the south that had not yet really submitted, and let the merchants go first, so that the Privy Council could concentrate on the threat from the north.

The three political envoys of Dali, Bagan, and Funan sent a mission to Chenla together, on the one hand, to take advantage of its internal strife to exert pressure, and on the other hand, they did not want this not wealthy country to be repeatedly involved in internal and external wars.

The example of the Three Buddhas also gave a reference to the people of Chenla, under the pressure of the endless civil unrest, the son of Faang Santai made a statement to Dayu, willing to be a vassal, pay tribute every year, and sent his father to Beijing as an envoy, imploring Shenzong to let him live permanently, which was equivalent to banishing Faang in disguise and successfully inheriting the throne.

Since then, Zhenla has been open to Dayu and formed a unique 'Tribute Elephant Road', which was militarily included in the jurisdiction of the Pingnan Army of Thang Long City, and has been honestly staying in the territory of Dayu, and has become good friends with the Shan Plateau and the Six Edicts.

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In the ninth year of Shenzong, Dayu submitted an official note to Siam and Khmer, and the three Buddhas and Zhenla are now under the cover of their brothers, and they dare to get them again and cut you to death.

King Wutong couldn't get the Three Buddhas, and the God King didn't dare to fight Zhenla anymore, so he could only turn around and pinch each other.

At the beginning of March, King Wutong led 50,000 war elephants and 100,000 troops by land and water, and went down the river to Ange. The main forces of Javarman were scattered everywhere to suppress the revolt against heavy labor, and the hastily assembled army of King Qin was exhausted and retreated. Before the rainy season came, Ange was captured for the first time, because the Dayu embassy in Dafu City greeted him in advance, and the Yu envoy came forward in time with a small team of escorts to mediate and shelter Han merchants, civilians, and old and weak women and children. As for the noble royal family, they had long abandoned the city and fled into the forest, waiting for the Siamese army to retreat before showing up. Although the city was sacked, it was not burned down, and the angry Javarman sent his son to lead the army back, and decided not to play with the king of Utong and move!

The new capital city is selected in the lower reaches of the Lanjiang River, there is a better name here is 'Phnom Penh', originally just an artificially raised hill, used to worship Buddhist temples, now it is designated as the Shenwang Mountain, the lowlands are filled, the canal is excavated, six Buddhist temples were built in one go, and the lesson of the beautiful but impractical city wall of Anko was built, and a high parapet wall was built.

With the construction of hundreds of bags in full swing, Javarman's son Yevarman fought very the front line, and as soon as the rainy season passed, Ango was once again attacked and plundered. Until Dayu couldn't stand it anymore, he included the entire city of Ange in protection, erected a monument as a boundary, and became an independent Seoul Buddha Garden, and also used it as a refuge for civilians. Anyway, the overstretched Javarman was very willing to exchange the old capital for a large sum of money to continue to build the new capital. In the following year, Yevarman could not resist the offensive of the Siamese army, abandoned Dongsari Lake, and retreated northeast to the upper reaches of the Lanjiang River, but heard the news of his father's death halfway through, and did not arrive at the new capital, and his uncle Suvarman ascended the throne to succeed him.

Subrama's noble mother, a descendant of a princess, barely managed to get the royal family to accept him to replace Yevarman, but within a month, Subama was assassinated by the minister Tribdie and seized the throne. As the most orthodox heir, Yevarman had to continue to retreat north to the mountains and forests of southern Chenla, where he lived in seclusion and began a long hibernation life. Tribunei was not in a proper position, and was anxious to establish his prestige, and while courting Dayu, he stopped the construction of Xindu and gathered national strength to build ships frantically, pretending to counterattack Dafu City from the river of Dongsari Lake, but in fact he bought off a certain Nanyang Chinese merchant, pretended to be his merchant ship, gathered soldiers and sailed to Taijing, and at the same time went north along the Mekong River (Chao Phraya River). The city is connected to the Mekong River by a canal, and the river is a lively and prosperous floating market during the day, and there is no bustling paddle boat at night, and the Khmer fleet takes advantage of the night to fight all the way into the city of Dafu, robbing and kidnapping people. The neutral embassy Yu Jun also prevented the Khmers from setting fire to the city, protecting the ancient city's architectural integrity.

This victory made Tribunii establish prestige in the eyes of the people, but the royal family was not willing to lose power and planned to elect one of their own to succeed him, and both sides seemed to have forgotten that Yevarman, who was still fighting guerrilla warfare with Siamese and mountain people in the dense forests of the upper reaches of the Lanjiang River, began a struggle for power and profit, and made the declining Khmer Empire even more difficult for the people. Siam was not much better after this defeat, the king of Utong and the important ministers had a quarrel, and the royal branch that remained in Songgaro to rule northern Siam took the opportunity to compete for the throne, and civil strife also broke out, and the country gradually declined.

In the tenth year of Emperor Shenzong, in the midst of the lively defeat of Siam and Khmer, the two sides fell into a hot civil strife, Dayu quietly sent the Pingnan army to open embassies in Siam's Taijing, Dafu City and the Khmer's Anko, Kampong Son, and Bainanben, lease or purchase estates, collect grain and sell tea.

The Anton Army, escorting more merchants, began to rush to the Nanyang Islands, and slowly began to encroach on these small states.