Chapter 853: Angkor

Chenla used to be a prosperous country, and its predecessor was called Funan.

"The Book of Nanqi: The Biography of Funan" describes: The people of Funan are clever and skillful, and the people who are not in the border are slaves and maids, and the goods are bartered for gold, silver and silk.

The men cut the brocade for the banner, the women for the head, and the poor covered themselves with cloth.

Forged gold rings and silver tableware.

Logging up the house, the king resides in the pavilion, and takes the wooden fence as the city.

The seaside has large leaves, ** feet long, and its leaves are braided to cover the house. The people are also lofts.

For the boat, it is cut six or seven feet widely, and the head and tail are like fish.

The residence does not penetrate the well, and dozens of families have a pool to draw it.

The gods of mundane things, the gods of heaven are like bronze, the two-faced ones have four hands, and the four-faced ones have eight hands, each holding his own hand, or a child, or a bird or a beast, or the sun and the moon.

His king went in and out of the elephant, and so did his concubines. The king sat on his knees, lowered his left knee to the ground, and put a golden pot of incense burner on top of it before applying it with white stacking. Cockfighting and raccoon for fun.

But by the time of the Book of Sui, the once rich and powerful country of Funan was conquered by Zhenla from the north.

There has also been a huge cultural setback

"Near there is a mountain of Lingapa, and there is a shrine on it, and each of them is guarded by five thousand soldiers. In the east of the city, there is a god named Boli, who sacrifices human flesh.

And the king shall not kill in the year of the king, but pray by night.

And when the king ascends to the throne, his brother shall be put to death, or shall have his finger removed, or his nose slashed, and shall be provided elsewhere, and shall not be allowed to advance. ”

The capital of this period was located north of Lake Dongsari.

Later, the Angkor dynasty liberated Chenla from the suzerainty of the "Mountain King" of Java.

The new king ruled in the city of Hari Halloya, and in order to escape the rule of the Javanese "king of the mountain", he had to be taught by the brahmins on a mountain to build a linga that would show holy signs, making himself the king of the mountain.

The supreme power of the kings has since resided in this ringa.

The king at that time, Jevarman II, chose Mount Gulun.

In order to demonstrate the royal power and divine power and trigger the worship of the king, large-scale construction of temples began on the Gulen Mountain.

Although Jeyavarman's actual power did not extend beyond the Great Lakes region, he found the location of his future capital in the northern highlands adjacent to the Tonle Sap Lake.

The place is outside the scope of the annual flooding, more than 30 kilometers from the sandstone quarry where the temple is used, and next to the key passes of the Nakhon Ratchasima Plateau and the Kowloon River basin.

Later kings, they founded the Tiho Roye Ceremony.

Since then, the pyramid-shaped temple of Ti and Roye has become the symbol of every royal capital.

Tiho Royer means the king of heaven.

Each king's temple was built on a natural or man-made hill where the statues of Tiho Royer of the rulers stood in the presence of a linga made of stone or precious metal.

Fan Shengkai was not born into a royal family, but was a great warlord who rose in the midst of domestic and foreign wars, similar to Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms era, so he attached more importance to determining his royal power.

As a result, Angkor was once again caught up in large-scale construction.

There are many temples in Angkor, and the Chenla people also understood the benefits of water conservancy, and built reservoirs and canals in the upper reaches of the Great Lake to supply Angkor Thom.

The kings built their own temple mountains in great luxury, each one growing grander and stronger.

The previous king excavated the East Balai Lake and built the Ba Phong Temple on the edge of the lake, a temple is a stone temple covering the entire hill, "the view is gloomy", and the mountain is set up with a golden Shiva Linga.

His successor ordered the excavation of a large cistern eight kilometers long and two kilometers wide to the west of the capital. The West Barai Lake, which is larger than the East Barai Lake, has a temple on a small island in the center with a huge bronze statue next to it. It depicts a drowsy Vishnu resting on the surface of the ocean.

There are also countless reliefs and inscriptions in the temple, which record the major scenes of the life of the kings of the past dynasties, as well as their "great achievements".

Li Shunju and Su You sat side by side on a gorgeous elephant seat and entered the city.

The pattern of the great city has begun to take shape, with two walls, and a moat, and a large bridge on the moat, and on both sides of the bridge are stone carved samurai, with hideous faces, a total of fifty-four.

There is the head of the big Buddha on the city gate, and the city wall is a stone wall, which is as high as two zhang, which is quite spectacular.

The palace is also very splendid, with a lot of gold ornaments.

There is no gold or silver in Chenla, which is derived from trade.

Looking at the magnificent temple mountain complex and the city wall with stone statues carved on the outer wall, Li Shunju secretly said to Su You: "If the officials of the Great Song Dynasty do this, I am afraid that they will be sprayed to death by the courtiers long ago." ”

Su You smiled: "Eunuch, which emperors in Chinese history do you think of?" ”

Li Shun couldn't hold back his face: "In my opinion, Xia Wei and Shang Zhijun's ears." Mingrun, are we doing this as aiding and abetting? ”

Su You said: "It's still different from Ji Xuan, at least you look at its people, when will it be mourned?" Both the women and the women are dead! But what the hell? ”

Walking on the white elephant in front, Fan Shengkai waved frequently to the people.

When the elephant team passed by, the people knelt down and prostrate, and their expressions were really heartfelt and loyal.

Li Shunju looked at this situation, and finally shook his head and stopped talking.

Fan Shengkai's move also has the meaning of pulling the banner and pulling the tiger's skin, showing the support of the Great Song Dynasty for him.

Tyrants don't say tyrants, but Fan Shengkai is really a good host.

The funniest thing is that there are many beautiful women in the palace, and they are all working women.

They have special costumes, like uniform signs, they have husbands outside the palace, they go to work in the palace every day, for the palace to call, and go home at night, similar to the 9 to 5 in later generations!

Here the line of Hinduism, the folk score, etc.

In high-ranking families, there were slaves captured from all over the world, one or two hundred, and one or twenty.

In addition, there are a large number of "wild men" in the wild, who are covered in **, make shields with rattan, and hunt with javelins. The javelin was tied with a rope of more than ten feet, and this thing was the only possession, and it must be recovered.

If a person with a high surname provokes a woman of these ranks, he will be considered "unclean", and everyone will stay away from eating the next day.

There is also the custom of hunting gall, and the local state will organize to catch wild people and take their gall to sacrifice to the king, which is a remnant of the evil custom of human sacrifice in the Middle Ages.

Sightseeing is one aspect, and the main thing still needs to be done.

Fan Shizhe asked Shi Wei to treat the pain of the Angkor people, and Shi Wei readily agreed.

Su Hui signed an economic treaty with Fan Shengkai's minister Gao Xiangping, injecting a boost into Angkor's economy, and preparing to purchase wood, spices, precious stones, as well as many special products such as incense, yellow wax, purple stem, etc.

And there are too many things that Zhenla people need.

First of all, gold and silver, they had to build temples and statues of Buddha, and the demand for gold and silver was extremely strong.

This is followed by metalware, lacquerware, silk, cloth, medicinal herbs, and even comb grates, bamboo weaving, umbrellas, fans...... Everything.

There are also the most desired - cooling oil, golden elixir and steel needles.

The agreement was signed, Su Yan was not angry, I am doing big business, this kind of single of steel needle umbrella cool oil, is it really not an insult to me? !

Wait until Gao Xiangping talks about the price, five needles can be exchanged for one or two real incense, Su Hui immediately changed his attitude, then we also have a small mirror, brass thimble, small scissors, all very good things, or I will make you a sewing set for you, you can see how it ......

The Zhenla Kingdom also has a feudal system, similar to the six ministries with five ministers, but most of them are divided between the prince's relatives and relatives.

The law stipulates that the king is the master of the state, and this master means that the people, water, land, forests, and mountains of all the kingdom are the property of the king.

The peasants only have the right to use the land. The king divided the land among his subordinate nobles, and the peasants had to pay a certain amount of rent in kind and labor to the feudal lord in exchange for the right to use the land.

The level is very strict, and the official subordinates go out to take a sedan chair and a parachute at different levels, and the height and width of the houses are customized.

The official mansion is not confused with the people's houses, and the people can only build thatched houses, and the ministers of the state are allowed to use tiles.

However, their sedan chair is very funny, it is a bamboo pole tied with a brocade, saying that it is a sedan chair, but it is actually a hammock carried by a person.

Su You and Li Ruoyu don't sit on this thing, and would rather walk gracefully.

Fan Shengkai saw that it was not a problem, and gave Su You and Li Ruoyu two horses.

The native horses of Chenla are small, but these two horses are extremely powerful, no less than the Persian horses, and one of the most interesting features of this horse is that the tips of the two medium-sized ears are turned inwards as if they are comparing hearts.

When I inquired, it turned out to be the Yuezhi horse, which was a gift from the lord of Tianzhu when Fan Shizhe traveled in Tianzhu back then.

It's a pity that both horses have undergone surgery like Li Shunju, which makes Su You so sad.

But at least I know a piece of good news, it turns out that you don't have to go too far, there is an excellent horse breed on the Indian mainland.