Chapter 868: Southern Han

The Southern Han Dynasty was a grass-stage group regime, and the government structure, army organization, etc., were completely moved down from the stage, that is, the time, place, and people allowed them to catch up, otherwise let alone the founding of the country, it would be difficult to even hold on for a hundred days. Rong Lu, who is bent on expanding his territory, encountered such a thing when he arrived in Indonesia, and he was almost angry.

"The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Han Dynasty are all reckless in the mountains and fields, do not understand government affairs, and act arbitrarily, and the establishment of the Southern Han Dynasty is really a disaster for the Chinese!" After Rong Lu landed in Indonesia, not only did the Southern Han regime not send anyone to meet him, but the Southern Han army almost clashed with the Qing army.

"Junmen, the Southern Han Dynasty has become a protectorate of Manchuria in order to claim to Manchuria, if we move troops to destroy the Southern Han, I am afraid that the negotiations with Changchun will be a trouble!" A young general with a somewhat Henan accent hurriedly spoke out to dissuade the angry Rong Lu.

"How is it possible, they have only been founding the country for a few days, and they haven't even controlled the territory, how can they get on the line with Manchuria?" If the young general didn't say it, Rong Lu wouldn't know about this unfortunate news.

"The Southern Han Dynasty monarchs and ministers were civil and military, and they were born as merchants, so they were shallow but cunning. After the surrender of the Dutch in Jakarta, the first thing they did was to make overtures to Manchuria and cede land for asylum! "Although the Henan general is young but very knowledgeable, although he only has a five-grade honorary title, he can also talk eloquently in front of Rong Lu, quite a bit of what Rong Lu looked like when he was young, so Rong Lu especially appreciates him.

"These men are indeed cunning, but we have already set out when they arrived in Jakarta, so why would they rush ahead of us?" Rong Lu still couldn't figure out how these people could be so fast.

"The Dutch in Jakarta did not resist at all, and after less than half a day of negotiations, they surrendered directly. As soon as the Netherlands fell, the Southern Han Dynasty immediately established the country, and their kind of grass platform team, it didn't take a day to surrender and ascend the throne together. Immediately after the founding of the country, they sent envoys straight to Pontianak, and our warship group was delayed for some time, but the fast boats they used for smuggling were very fast, and they arrived soon after we left the port. And they and the Manchurian envoy Song Jingyuan were not negotiating at all, when Song Changqing saw them, he didn't even have a politeness, the little gangster named Wang Jiaqi began to cut the land and promised, how could the Manchurians not agree when they saw such benefits. "The young general has a lot of secrets, so he knows a lot of things.

"Yes! Having gained so much territory for nothing, how could Changchun not agree? These people are also ruthless, and many territories are given away so easily without blinking! Rong Lu was also helpless.

"The places controlled by the Southern Han are very limited, only a few big cities such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, and Palembang, and other places are not in their hands at all, and if they are cut, they will be cut, so what is there to feel sorry for!" The young man thought very clearly.

"The Manchurians will do this evil?" Rong Lu did not believe that the Manchurians would accommodate a small country with little emotion because of the territory they had conquered.

"What the Manchurians wanted to enter Indonesia was just an excuse, and the Southern Han gave this excuse, and the rest was not important. Moreover, the Dutch authorities have surrendered to the Southern Han, the Dutch governments everywhere have collapsed, and with the cession of the Southern Han, the Manchurian army can receive these territories by sending a hundred people! "The young people are obviously prepared and know the situation in Indonesia very well.

"In vain!" Rong Lu sighed in the sky, in addition to forcing the Southern Han regime and the Qing Dynasty to establish a suzerain-vassal relationship, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do anything, and the 20,000 army is really in vain.

"Don't be discouraged, the Manchurians have taken the outer islands and the Strait of Malacca, we can take the rest in our hands! The Southern Han regime is just a grass platform team, they know what to govern the country and organize the army, as long as we rectify it a little, this Southern Han court is just a puppet of our Qing Dynasty! "Young people are obviously not as pessimistic as Rong Lu.

"Comfort Pavilion! You're a clever kid! Rong Lu thought about it and laughed, he admired more and more the young man named Yuan Shikai that Wu Changqing recommended to him.

After the Southern Han Dynasty signed the land cession agreement, the Manchurian Nanyang garrison quickly dispatched a brigade of troops, and with the cooperation of the Nanyang Fleet, took over all the land. However, the Manchurian army was very ungentle, they wanted land, but they refused to accept the natives of the land, and expelled them in a very simple and crude way. Even the inhabitants of the islands were transported by Manchurian military transport ships to the two islands of the main Indonesian island. The Manchurian Army was highly efficient, but the large number of aborigines and the reluctance of many to leave their homeland made it almost impossible for them to complete their relocation in such a short time. However, the Manchurian Army had a more efficient way, and all the natives who were unwilling to get out of the way, they all used machine guns to solve them. In just one month, millions of Indonesian natives were forcibly relocated to the main island of Indonesia, and almost all the others were violently dealt with by the Manchurian army, and only a few lucky ones fled in the mountains and old forests.

While the Manchurians were seizing land, the Southern Han regime was in chaos. Lu Siyong, the king, was only a temporary leader elected by everyone, and he did not have a solid foundation and high prestige, and his edicts had no authority at all. Moreover, many Chinese actually preferred Lanfang's republic system, and were very dissatisfied with Lu Siyong's self-proclaimed king, which plunged the Southern Han regime into a clear split. After the Dutch were eliminated, the Chinese groups in various places went their own way, and Lu Siyong in Jakarta was not at all like Lu Siyong, if it weren't for the fact that Manchuria recognized the Southern Han regime, I don't know how many people would have pulled up the banner and worked alone.

Moreover, the actual area controlled by the Southern Han regime was very limited, except for some large cities where Chinese were originally concentrated, all other places fell into anarchy after the withdrawal of the Dutch, and the natives also created many grass-stage group regimes. After the Manchurians drove all the natives in the areas under their control to the territory of the Southern Han, the strength of the natives increased greatly and even began to attack the Chinese-controlled areas. The Chinese who were working independently were inevitably a little weak in dealing with the attack of the natives, and the newly established Southern Han regime was a little precarious.

Rong Lu, who was squatting in the wilderness, was not idle, and they began to co-opt the scattered Chinese real power factions, steadily increasing the area of control, and after slaughtering several indigenous groups in a row, the Qing army also had its own territory on the island of Java. The Manchurians had completed the liquidation of their jurisdictions, Rong Lu had also completed his expansion, half of the Chinese forces in Indonesia had been brought under his command, and Lu Siyong was able to exert only thirty percent of his influence. And as long as the Qing army is given some more time, the Qing army can pull the other 20% forces that are free from the outside world into their own command, and they can dig into the corner of Lu Siyong.

In the face of the crisis, Lu Siyong's first thought was to ask Manchuria for help, but the Manchurians were anxious to Beishan and didn't want to care about the Southern Han Dynasty with no big things and a bunch of small things. Lan Fang Republic had some intention of supporting them, but he didn't want to take the lead himself, but suggested that Lu Siyong go and talk to Rong Lu first. A month and a half after the establishment of the Southern Han regime, Jakarta was also attacked by the natives, and Lu Siyong, who could not bear the pressure, could only enter Ronglu's military camp in person and took the initiative to ask to become a vassal of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty would help them through the current crisis. Lu Siyong didn't dare to think about it, as long as the Qing Dynasty could preserve his throne, he wouldn't ask for anything.

After taunting Lu Siyong, Rong Lu gladly accepted Lu Siyong's request to be a vassal, and moved to the Southern Han Palace in Jakarta, which was the original Dutch Governor's Palace, and began to help Lu Siyong govern the Southern Han Dynasty. Rong Lu already controlled more than half of the Chinese forces, and if he helped Lu Siyong stabilize the Southern Han regime, he could turn the Southern Han into a puppet of the Qing Dynasty. This can not only avoid the risk of offending Manchuria, but also achieve the goal of the Qing Dynasty to actually control Indonesia, and this trip will not be in vain. After entering the palace, Rong Lu either accepted filial piety every day, or condoled one by one to win over the powerful figures of the Southern Han Dynasty, and handed over all the practices to Yuan Shikai.

"Ridiculous, nonsense, this kind of person can actually become a landlord of a dynasty, it's a big joke!" After enjoying a white beauty paid tribute by Lu Siyong, Rong Lu was admiring the exotic architecture in the palace of the Southern Han Dynasty when he suddenly heard the scolding of Yuan Shikai, who was in charge of practice, crying and laughing.

"Comfort Pavilion! What's wrong? It's rare to hear you speak ill of you! Rong Lu became curious, walked up to Yuan Shikai and asked with a smile.

"Junmen, Shi Kai Tang suddenly lost his words!" Yuan Shikai hurriedly got up and saluted Rong Lu.

"You don't have to be polite! What happened to make you angry like this? Rong Lu smiled and sat down.

"Alas! …… It's hard to put into words! Dare to ask if the military gate has ever seen the king of the Southern Han Dynasty today? Yuan Shikai did not answer, but asked about Rong Lu.

"He showed up to me in the morning, and then said that he was busy with government affairs and retired, maybe he was busy with politics!" In Rong Lu's eyes, Lu Siyong is not important at all.

"He is really busy with politics, but the government affairs he manages are really laughable! The so-called governance of the king of the Southern Han Dynasty is to seal the official and divide the land, and there is no other action, and the official he has sealed is really ...... No words! The current Wenchen of the Southern Han Dynasty has two prime ministers, thirteen scholars, eight Hanlin, and three military divisions, these people have no rank, and their powers are not stipulated at all. There are also a lot of marshals, generals, pillars, assassins, Zijin Liang or something, and they don't know what they do at all. "The truth that Yuan Shikai learned about the Southern Han Dynasty is like a storytelling story in the countryside, and he can't understand it at all.

"And how do they govern the country?" Rong Lu was also a little confused, as soon as the official positions of Zhuguo and Zijin Liang came out, he found the feeling of storytelling and interpretation.

"The Southern Han regime is completely a big gang, and Lu Siyong is a little clever, but he is all a means of rivers and lakes, and he doesn't understand any national politics. Everything they did was copied from the interpretation of the storytelling, and they did nothing except make a lot of messy official positions. Everyone is either indulgent in pleasure or talking nonsense. Yuan Shikai felt that the Dutch who surrendered were a bit stupid, if they insisted at the beginning, the Southern Han gang would definitely not be able to withstand it.

"No matter what, you have properly arranged the affairs of the Southern Han Dynasty and elected officials as soon as possible!" Rong Lu wants to control the Southern Han, and as for what kind of people the Southern Han gang are, he doesn't care at all.