Under the occupation of the Queen's Kingdom, the Fallen Bowl Kingdom, and a dozen smaller states, the territory of the Khmer State became rapidly smaller.

But—

This kind of moment of dividing the cake, only hiding behind, it is impossible to get the biggest and sweetest piece, take a step back, if you don't make any effort, if you don't show your strength, even if you are lucky to get a big cake, others will be worried.

Therefore, after destroying the large remnants of the army in Annam-and Champong, the Liangsan army came to Angkor Thom, preparing for a decisive battle against the Khmer army.

In this battle, Shuibo Liangshan dispatched a total of 100,000 troops.

The Queen's Kingdom, the Fallen Bowl Country, and a dozen smaller nations also sent more than 100,000 troops.

In total, there were more than 200,000 troops on the side of the coalition forces.

On the Khmer side, a total of nearly 300,000 troops and more than 100,000 war elephants were dispatched.

The two sides fought a decisive battle on a plain between Angkor and Pakse.

In this battle, Li Yan appointed Han Shizhong as the commander of the capital with full authority.

Han Shizhong smashed the Khmer army with a conscienceless cannon, a bed crossbow, and a thunder cart equipped with flying divine thunder and thunderbolts, and won the battle, killing and wounding more than 100,000 Khmer troops, capturing more than 100,000 Khmer troops and more than 70,000 war elephants.

The Queen's Kingdom, the Fallen Bowl Kingdom, and a dozen smaller countries took advantage of the opportunity to annex the territory of the Khmer State.

Of course, the largest and wealthiest area (that is, south of Angkor Thom, including a large area of Bangkok and Phuket in later generations) was still included in the territory of Shuibo Liangshan.

Li Yan painted this territory into three counties (i.e., Chenla, Bangkok, and Phuket), and also painted a large piece into Champa County, so as to digest this huge territory.

Li Yan attached great importance to the Indochina Peninsula, not only appointed Wang Lun as the governor of Indochina (and Zhenla County Taishou) to be fully responsible for all civil and political affairs in the Indochina Peninsula, but also appointed Lü as the Taishou of Annam, Guo Yong as the Taishou of Champong, Jin Fuzhe as the Taishou of Bangkok, and Hu Quan as the Taishou of Phuket, and also transferred thousands of experienced officials from Seoul to manage here.

It is not difficult to see from Li Yan's series of appointments how much Li Yan attaches importance to the Indochina Peninsula.

Later, at Wang Lun's suggestion, Li Yan also sent troops to occupy all the Malay Peninsula that the Khmer State and Sriwijaya had been fighting for, and then annexed all of them into Phuket County and was governed by Hu Quan.

In this way, Shuibo Liangshan strangled the trade channel between China and the West.

It can be said that Li Yan is now fully capable of strangling the greatest source of wealth of the Northern Song Dynasty.

As long as Li Yan forbade the merchant ships of the Northern Song Dynasty to go to sea, even if there was no invasion by the Jin army, it would not take two or three years for the Northern Song Dynasty, which relied heavily on this trade route financially, to boast about its economy and collapse.

Not only the Northern Song Dynasty, even if the Southern Song Dynasty can be established by luck.

Without the support of this great trade road, the Southern Song Dynasty would never have had a chance to turn over, let alone last.

This is one of the main reasons why Li Yan attaches so much importance to this great trade road - as long as he masters this great trade road, Song Guo is the dough in Li Yan's hands, Li Yan kneades it if he wants to knead it, and if he wants to knead it, he can knead it flat, and Song Guo has no power to resist at all.

It's just that the Song Kingdom, which is now in chaos, has not noticed this extremely important matter.

The Indochina Peninsula is extremely important here, and it is too important to be missed.

Therefore, after defeating the Khmer army and leaving the Khmer country without a chance to turn over, Li Yan, who had been in Hainan County for several months, finally set off for the west again, and then came to Angkor Thom.

This is not the first time Li Yan has come to Angkor Thom, in fact, Li Yan has been to Angkor Wat as a tourist in his previous life, and the reason why Hu Yanqing and Han Shizhong were able to attack Angkor Thom from the waterway and go down to Angkor Thom is that Li Yan heard from the tour guide that the Cham people destroyed the Khmer country.

Although it was not the first time to come to Angkor Thom, Li Yan was still shocked by the majesty and magnificence of Angkor Thom.

The total area of this Angkor Thom has reached nearly two million acres!

This sprawling metropolis was even bigger than London and Paris in later generations!

To take another vivid analogy, Bianliang City, the first city in the East, is only more than 500,000 acres, that is to say, the area of Angkor Thom is four times that of Bianliang City!

Perhaps, Angkor Thom was the largest city of this era.

And the shock of Angkor Thom is not only reflected in its size, but also in its grandeur and sophistication.

There are more than five million stones used in Angkor Wat (that is, the temples in Angkor Thom) alone, and the average weight of these megaliths is one and a half tons, and the largest even weighs seven or six tons.

As for the refinement aspect.

With such a huge complex, every detail can be almost perfect, and its exquisiteness, delicacy, and delicacy have all reached an unprecedented height.

It is not surprising that Angkor Thom can be so large-scale and so delicate, because the Khmer State used almost all the craftsmen in Southeast Asia, including India, to build Angkor Thom, and the total number of these craftsmen exceeded 200,000, and all of them were the world's top carvers, including as many as 60,000 or 70,000 top carvers alone.

Very lucky!

When Hu Yanqing and Han Shizhong captured Angkor Thom, these more than 200,000 craftsmen were all building temples in Angkor Thom.

Li Yan honestly and unceremoniously "invited" all the more than 200,000 craftsmen to Seoul, and then contributed to the construction of Shuibo Liangshan.

In addition to "invited" all the craftsmen to Seoul, Li Yan also sent the 100,000 Khmer prisoners of war, 670,000 Li Chao and the war women, and the 670,000 war elephants to the eight counties of Kyushu, so that they could dig gold and silver mines with the previous 560,000 Goryeo, Taifeng, and Japanese prisoners of war.

Angkor Thom is so large, so grand, even Li Yan moved, if he can't win the Central Plains, he can consider building a country here and regard this place as the capital.

Of course, this thought was only fleeting in Li Yan's mind.

As a Chinese, Li Yan naturally wanted to get the Central Plains, which was ultimately just a few counties in his own country.

Angkor Thom is so magnificent, and the wealth it has is naturally very amazing, and even Li Yan, who is used to seeing the world, was shocked!

There are so many of these riches that Li Yan can't estimate or describe their amount.

Li Yan could only use a few adjectives he knew to express the enormity of this wealth.

Under Li Yan's order, more than 200 people and prisoners of war, as well as the left army of the Sunset Fleet and the Right Army of the Sunset Fleet, which had more than 2,000 sea-going ships, shared three months to move the wealth of Angkor Thom (including the wealth of the Li Dynasty and the Champa Kingdom) to Taiwan County, and then it took more than half a year for the Right Army of the Sunset Fleet to transport all this wealth to Seoul.

This wealth was so great that it even made Zhao Kai, the head of the household, rush from Seoul to Angkor Thom.

After Zhao Kai came, Li Yan and Zhao Kai chatted secretly for three days.

During these three days, Li Yan and Zhao Kai agreed on a major event, that is, monetary reform, changing the original gold and silver standard system originally implemented in Shuibo Liangshan to the gold position, and eliminating the hidden danger of deriving coins.

This reform will require an extremely large amount of gold support.

Previously, even if the people from the Shuibo Liangshan Ministry of Industry found more than a dozen gold mines in eight counties including Kyushu, including Lingjia Gold Mine, Sado Gold Mountain, and Dasha Gold Field, Li Yan did not have the intention of reforming it.

Now that the Khmer State has been defeated, Li Yan is immediately ready to implement this reform.

This shows how rich the Khmer country really is.

Of course, Zhao Kai is only formulating this reform plan at present, and the real implementation will have to wait for Li Yan to return to Seoul - the interests of all parties involved in this reform are too great, and it is impossible for Zhao Kai to complete this reform without Li Yan personally taking charge.

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