On the other hand, the expansion of the Champa direction, in which the empire was directly involved, also progressed very smoothly.

Or rather, the smooth is a little too much.

It took only two months for the Imperial Sea Route Army to occupy the entire territory of the city, and the army of the city, which claimed to have a strength of one million (actually less than 60,000, including auxiliary soldiers), caused direct casualties of less than 300 people to the empire.

And this is nothing, at the beginning of the war, Champa understood that he could not resist the invasion of the Chinese army, so he asked for help from other neighboring countries.

Their reason is very simple and realistic: Huaxia is not satisfied by destroying the Champa city, but the first is the Champa city, and then it will definitely be the turn of Chenla, Siam, and Donghu further west.

Now, only if everyone gives up the luck mentality and unites to fight against Huaxia together, can we have a chance to survive.

This statement is true, but it is useless, the relationship between Champa and Chenla, Chenla and Siam, and Siam and Donghu is endlessly hostile, and it is really pure thinking to expect them to unite.

Moreover, the king of Siam had a son-in-law who was a Han Chinese, and he believed that Siam was different from other countries and that he should be eligible for a status similar to that of Goryeo.

In addition, the emperor of the Donghu Dynasty (self-proclaimed) believed that he had the strength to resist the invasion of the Chinese army on his own - in a sense, he was not completely arrogant in this idea, because the Donghu Dynasty was a regional power, and it used to overwhelm Dali and Siam, and in addition, the terrain of the border between the northern part of the Donghu Dynasty and China was complex and the primeval forests were dense, and it was not entirely unreasonable to think that the Han army could not penetrate deep into Donghu.

This series of reasons led to the complete bankruptcy and failure of the policy of connecting with neighbors to fight against China, which doomed Champa and other Southeast Asian countries to perish.

Of course, not all of them perished, at least the interesting Siam, if they could be more submissive, they might not be able to continue to survive as a Tibetan state like Goryeo.

Around mid-July, the King of Siam sent an envoy to Jinling to ask for a canonization of China.

When the King of Siam refused the King of Champa for help, he was very resolute, but from the perspective of the composition of the mission, they were still a little uneasy - all the male members of the delegation were of Han Chinese origin or people of Han Chinese ancestry, and none of the men of pure Siamese blood came.

But there were quite a few women.

The king of Siam knew that the king of Goryeo had singled out all his school-age daughters and gave them to the Chinese royal family as concubines, although it seemed that his princess Baba was sent to the door to be a concubine at that time, but now looking back, this is a little different - is that a concubine? That's for the princes and princes of the empire as side concubines!

What better way to keep your home?

What's even better is that the prince born to a foreign concubine has no support from his relatives, so he cannot pose a threat to the main palace Niangniang, and he will not be involved in the whirlpool of competition for the throne (not qualified) and bring trouble to his own family.

And the empire will definitely admit it, even if they cede some land to China, they will at least definitely not really destroy their daughter-in-law's country.

With such a big benefit, the King of Siam couldn't be moved, so he packed all his daughters and the daughters of the royal family, top ministers, and aristocratic families over to him.

Of course, the king of Siam does not expect to send a few princesses over to solve his own security problems, and all the relatives in this world, the party who sends the daughter must come with a lot of wealth.

Siam will naturally be no exception this time, according to the Han envoy who was a lobbyist for the king of Siam, if the Chinese emperor agrees to make peace, the Siamese noblewoman will marry the king of the county as a side concubine, and each will marry 1,000 taels of gold; marry the prince as a side concubine, and each of them will marry 5,000 taels of gold; If you have the opportunity to marry higher, then marry 10,000 taels!

For Siam, this is not a small amount, but for Huaxia, this bit of gold has only symbolic significance.

The empire was not the poor Tartars of the past who did not need to rely on the money brought by their relatives to make up for the financial gap, and in fact the royal family did not like the princesses of Siam very much - because they were not beautiful.

However, the empire did not mean to refuse the generous gifts that came to the door on its own initiative.

Therefore, when the cabinet negotiated with the Siamese delegation, it proposed that those Siamese nobles could be accepted and given to the princes and princes of the county as side concubines.

The dowry gold can also be accepted, but it is impossible for the king of Siam to get the same treatment as a county king in Goryeo just by relying on this.

Because Goryeo surrendered early, the emperor had not even claimed the title of king at that time, and it was time for that time.

Moreover, Goryeo not only handed over the princess and relatives, but also ceded two territories, and accepted the "guidance" of the Chinese Empire in military, diplomatic, educational and other aspects, and handed over the customs to the imperial control.

This unilateral attitude and policy of completely opening up to China is the main reason why Goryeo was looked at differently and was able to survive as the first county king in the outside world.

Therefore, if Siam wants to gain a status similar to that of Goryeo in the Chinese civilization, then Siam should make concessions in the following areas:

First, in terms of territory, several ports along the coast of Siam should be handed over to the Chinese, and in turn, the customs should be headed by the Huaxia and be directly responsible.

Second, Siam received the full "guidance" of the Chinese Empire in three aspects: military, educational, and diplomatic.

Third, the entire territory of Siam allowed the Chinese people to travel, live, open factories, mines, and do business freely, and the ships of the Chinese Empire had the right to sail freely in the Siamese waters and inland waterways, and the crimes committed by the Chinese people in Siam should be handed over to the Chinese Empire for trial, and Siam had no right to interrogate and torture Chinese nationals at or above the civilian level.

Fourth, an embassy of the Chinese Empire was set up in the capital of the King of Siam, which was regarded as Chinese territory and allowed to garrison no more than 1,000 Chinese troops.

Fifth, the change of the Siamese throne needs to be officially recognized by the royal family of the Chinese Empire in advance, otherwise it is illegal, and the empire has the right to sanction or even crack down on the King of Siam who illegally ascended the throne.

Sixth, the rice available for export in Siam was purchased and sold by the imperial state-owned grain and oil companies, and this rice should not be less than 30 million stone per year (100 catties and 1 stone of new stone in the Chinese Empire).

A covenant without giving back could not last long, so the empire also promised Siam a lot of preferential terms.

The first was that the empire agreed to cede part of the territory of the Taungoo dynasty in the future to compensate for the loss of Siam's coastal ports.

In addition, the empire guaranteed the survival of Siam and did not recognize anyone other than the current Siamese royal family to replace the throne of the Siamese county.

In the end, the empire agreed to export various luxury goods to the Siamese royal family and nobles at lower prices to satisfy the enjoyment of the Siamese royal family and nobles.

In fact, this was also the main demand and feedback of China to Wai Fan - to control the military, diplomacy, education, and customs, to turn Wai Fan into an economic colony that exported raw materials and industrial goods, and at the same time bought the upper class with luxury goods, and severed the connection between the upper class and the lower class.