The banquet of the Pu family was extravagant, with glittering silverware plates and shiny glassware. The best beef and mutton, the fattest sea fish, the sweetest wine, and the most beautiful dancers......

The Pu Hub and Pu Che brothers racked their brains to curry favor with Lu Jiala and entertained him with the greatest sincerity. There is only one purpose, that is, they also have a lot of industry in the country of Srivijaya Qi, and they can help the imperial court in some things.

Lu Jiala naturally knew that the Pu family's foundation in the old port and Malacca, compared to Lu Qi's upcoming plan, it was not worth it, but the Pu family was good friends with Tianfang Shang Jia Duo and had a certain influence in it, and the strength of the latter as a whole in Srivijaya could not be underestimated. Looking at the Pu family, who took the initiative to surround him, he smiled so happily that he agreed. In this kind of thing, one more person is one more strength!

And almost at the same time, also in a mansion in Guangzhou, Fang La was frowning and looking at the information. Helplessly, when a major event finally comes to the breaking point after being planned for a long time, and this plan has a lot of risks, then the implementers of the plan are not full of confidence in their hearts, but more will have a tendency to be not fully prepared enough.

The current Fang Shenggong looked at his money and food material statistics, and felt urgent panic. There was so much money and food, any of which was astronomical, but he only hoped that it could be doubled.

Just when Emperor Lu watched the soldiers and horses of the provinces of North and South Korea sweeping the peninsula more and more smoothly, Fang La's army was already ready to go south.

Preparing intensively, Fang La only felt that the time was too short. And God knows that when he had a banquet with a Manichaean important person during the Chinese New Year, he still sighed that time passed too slowly, and that his Holy Father Fang had been idle in Guangzhou for a long time, and he was afraid that he would be resurrected.

Sure enough, politicians have to be cheeky one by one.

The Pu family fundamentally guessed the purpose of Manichaeism, Ren Fangla did not want to punish the Three Buddhas, but to take the Three Buddhas, and this was the second shot in Emperor Lu's southward strategy, and it was the first shot to enter the South Seas.

And the first shot in the southward strategy is naturally the guide to cross. Li Renzong and the current misery of the Nanyue Kingdom are called Nanyang Cadre Country, who is not afraid to see it? If you don't look at it, the Zhancheng that has a great enmity with South Vietnam and deep suffering has not taken the opportunity to fall into the ground. I'm afraid I'll find an excuse for Lu Qi to make trouble.

And now Emperor Lu is going to take the sea gate of the Eastern World. The Strait of Malacca, the gate where the East and the West meet, is his must-have thing - so Fang Lajun must eat the Three Buddhas, and Fang Shenggong has also collected a lot of military and political information about the Three Buddhas over the years!

The actual population of the latter is not larger than that of the Kingdom of Angkor and the Kingdom of South Vietnam, and the real combat power cannot be said to be strong, or even weaker, but the latter two are land kingdoms, while Sriwijaya is a maritime power. With the support of the golden waterway of Malacca, Sriwijaya is far stronger financially than Angkor and South Vietnam.

Today, the only small power in the real sense of the South Seas region is these three countries plus Bagan.

South Vietnam was the first to be destroyed because of the Li Dynasty's search for death, and also because it was the easiest to fight. The South Vietnamese country, which had no defense at sea, could not support the situation at all under the simultaneous attack of land and water. But if you only attack by land, and desperately collide with the lofty mountains in the northern part of South Vietnam, it will be helpless, right?

As for the Sriwijaya, just looking at the size of the four countries, it occupies the western part of Sumatra and Java Island in later generations, as well as part of the Malay Peninsula, so the size of the South Seas at this time is definitely a giant. But it's also the best fight. Because their political center, the Old Port, later known as Palembang, was directly connected to the sea via the Musi River.

The old port is located in the lower reaches of the Musi River, and it is not close to the sea, but because of the huge flow of the Musi River, the banks under the old port are all swamps. The only way to get in and out is by boat, so as long as the sailor is capable, he can completely smash the Yellow Dragon.

Just as the Chola Empire once did, in the early 11th century, its king Zhendra sent troops to the east, first conquered the Srivijaya vassal state of Katoha, and established the Katoha puppet regime. Then they went south and smashed the old port, the capital of Srivijaya, which was occupied by the Chola army. But Sriwijaya did not bow his head and admit defeat, and the battle lasted for seven years before it ended. Although the Sriwijaya did not perish, it was also severely damaged, and it was only slowly recovered by relying on the Malacca waterway to pay taxes to and from merchant ships.

It was not until fifty years later that the Chola Kingdom was overthrown by the puppet regime of Inkya Toha, and the king of Vilila and Gandhara once again sent troops to the east to pacify the Katoha and restore the puppet regime. Dominating the Strait of Malacca, Sriwijaya had no choice but to recognize the suzerainty of the Chola Kingdom over it.

Now if China wants to take the South Seas, the first step is naturally to take the Srivijaya Empire, and it will also learn from the Chola Empire and directly attack the old port. Occupying the Malacca waterway is the center of the entire South Seas, and it is the true division of the Three Buddhas into three: Sumatra, West Java and Malay. It is a decapitation operation in another sense, and it is not too late to calmly conquer the Quartet.

You must know that the country of Srivijaya is not a centralized country, but a feudal monarchy, and there are always hundreds of feudal lords, large and small. The feudal lords scattered in the rainforest were actually the kings of small countries, and they were not very closely united around the Srivijaya royal family.

If the Sriwijaya can be allowed to mobilize all its strength, it will be a good strength, but if the war suddenly starts and the enemy army approaches the old port, then the only strength that Sriwijaya can mobilize is the power of the royal capital and the surrounding forces directly belonging to the royal family. That strength is much smaller than the previous one.

Because the total population of the Old Port itself and the surrounding cities under the rule of the royal family is only in the hundreds of thousands, and it is not known whether it can be in the millions. How strong can it be under such a population base?

As for how the Sriwijaya continued to resist the Chola Empire after losing the old port earlier, it depends on the beliefs of the two. While the Srivijaya was a country where Buddhism was the dominant religion and the vassals around it believed in the state, the Chola Empire was a Brahmin state. Faith can give people infinite strength, which is the fundamental reason that sustained the Three Buddhas through the first calamity. But not on the second time.

Now, the Mani of Manichaeism is already the Mani Buddha, and the full name is the Mani Light Buddha, referred to as the Great Mingzun. Fang La: They are all very flexible people, and they naturally know how to take advantage of the trend.

Although the teachings of Manichaeism have been greatly integrated with Chinese civilization, and are very different from Southern Buddhism, which, as mentioned above, is not at all the same path as today's Middle-earth Buddhism, it is at least name-more acceptable to the natives.

Such a kingdom is much easier to conquer than the Angkor Dynasty, which was completely shrunk inland in the Indochina Peninsula.

Think about the topography of Cambodia and Laos in later generations. Today's Angkor Dynasty covers Cambodia, Laos, and the eastern part of Thailand. This Angkor Dynasty is to fight, and it can only be fought from the south to the north! To the south is the Gulf of Thailand. The same is true of Bagan, where it is far less laborious to attack Burma from the sea than to attack Burma by land from the north.

Fang La put down the money and grain account book in his hand, the matter has been decided, what can he do if he feels in a hurry? For a person like him, he became a king and lost a king, and now he is not dead and has no place to be buried, but is exiled overseas, and he can have a relatively decent ending, which is already the best result.

For him, for his children, for his daughters, for his family, and for Manichaeism, this is the best outcome.

With a sigh, Fang La got up and walked to the wall, stretched out his hand to pull the curtain, and a large, realistic and detailed map of the South Seas appeared in front of him. Fang La's eyes looked at the old port, and then at the location of Temasek, and there was a saying in his heart that MMP didn't know whether to talk about it or not.

Skipping these troubles, he looked at Sriwijaya with his eyes, and now he has a deep and systematic understanding of Srivijaya now.

First of all, he knew that although the Three Buddhas were a subject state of the Brahmanical Empire, the dominant sect in the country was Buddhism, even if it was Southern Buddhism, which was completely different from the Buddhism of the Central Plains. The second is Brahmanism – a country that is somewhere between China and Tianzhu, but there is no doubt that Tianzhu has had a greater influence on it! In the words of his cheap son-in-law, the Three Buddhas are on the edge of the radiation zone of the Tianzhu civilization.

Two years ago, the Holy Father couldn't understand this sentence, but now he speaks it himself very smoothly. This is just like the relationship between Gaochang and Dali and China, and the two can be regarded as the edge of the radiation area of Chinese civilization.

After all, whether it is Buddhism or Brahmanism, it is all from Tianzhu! Although the Three Buddhas were canonized by the Song State, it was more closely connected with Tianzhu through religious and economic exchanges. Now add politics.

Although Na Chola subdued the Sriwijaya, the distance between its homeland and the Sriwijaya was far away, and it could not affect the internal affairs of the Sriwijaya at all. The latter, with the help of Malacca's taxes, still maintained a relatively strong naval army.

Even the naval expedition of the Chola Empire to Sena, which is the coast of modern-day Bengal, the Necuba Islands and the Kingdom of Bagan, approached the Strait of Malacca. And when attacking Bagan, the Mongols in the southern region of Myanmar in later generations marched north, and their army defeated the Bagan army in the Battle of Bitota Island, and once hit the city of Bagan, and another prince of the Bagan Dynasty in the war, Jiang Xituo, suddenly rose up, defeated the Mong army, and was embraced as king. During his reign, Jiang Xituo learned a lesson and adopted a policy of equality and solidarity with the Meng people. According to the coronation ceremony of the Meng people, the grand occasion is engraved on the inscription of the stupa of Ruixi Palace in Meng. He reused the Minister of Humanities and Military Affairs of Meng, married the princess of the Meng people as a concubine, abolished the hereditary throne system, and made an exception to set up the grandson of the Meng bloodline, Alongsidu, to inherit the throne. These measures eased the contradictions between the Mon and Burmese to a certain extent. It also brought the Gamble Dynasty into its heyday. The latter launched a counterattack against the Chola forces in the coastal areas, which was also an important reason why the Chola naval army failed to truly expand to Malacca.

It can be said that the strength of Buddhism in Nanyang during this period was still very large, and all countries, including South Vietnam, were Buddhist countries. But the Heavenly Sect has definitely taken root in the South Seas. They may be merchants and sailors from the east, like the Pu family. There are quite a few people, the financial resources are not weak, and the forces are not small. It's just that the great Tianfang itself is also divided, and there are more factions in it, and the Tianfang people want to come to a big integration, which is not inferior to India to unify now.

And the Chinese in Nanyang are not nothing, but there are really very few.

Before experiencing the tragedy of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty and the sorrow of Mongol rule, going to Nanyang was not an option for the Chinese. After all, the great development of the south was only truly realized during the Southern Song Dynasty. Compared with the power of the indigenous people and the power of the Tianfang people, the Chinese are shrimp in the true sense. The only difference is that the status of the Chinese is very high at this moment. The Chinese who settled in Nanyang were not only higher than the low-level natives in terms of social level, but also surpassed the Tianfang people. The latter is not only a foreign race, but also a pagan?

But the Nanyang Chinese, who exist like small shrimps, will obviously be a big assistant to Fang La in the future. "It's a pity that these people are not interesting."

After determining that the period of going south is this year, Fang La did not make people move to Nanyang, but it is a pity that those Chinese who settled in Nanyang are ......, and it is difficult to explain them.

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