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The spring rains are dripping, and the rainy season also means that the southerly season has arrived.

A group of cavalry walked into the coalition camp south of Phnom Penh. The camp was filled with the laughter of the conquerors, and the four ** officials gathered together to push cups and change lamps, and although most of them did not understand each other, they quickly mingled through their eyes, gestures, gambling chips, and tobacco.

At the request of the order, the enthronement ceremony of Prince Padang Raja was scheduled for two months after the Battle of Phnom Penh. According to the meaning of the order, there are still many rebels in the south of the Tonle Sap Lake, and troops must be sent to fight against them, and only after pacifying the whole country can the prince ascend the throne.

Some of the Zhenla guards who saw the opportunity quickly took refuge in Wudong City early after the coalition forces captured Wudong City. Of course, the coalition forces can't push all the more than 2 million Zhenla people to the opposite side, so it is necessary to make good use of these collaborators.

The Bodhisattva's Chenla defenders surrendered as quickly as possible, and the coalition forces took advantage of these traitors and then captured Madwan, Pailin, Kampong Chhnang, and Kampong Cham. Pailin is a small town on the border between Chenla and Siam, rich in rubies and sapphires. Occupy Pailin, and the order does not have to regret giving up the gems. The loot here will please all allies. For the Bodhisattva Damori who cooperated tacitly, the alliance of the four countries unanimously agreed that he would be the prime minister of King Chenla.

The coalition forces and the traitors provoked a general revolt in the southern part of the Tonle Sap Lake, and when Shou Xiang felt that he would lose money if he continued, he suspended the operation to the countryside, and the coalition forces turned southeast and slipped down the Mekong River to occupy Chai Zhen and Long Chuan.

Although they are both Khmers, there is not a strong sense of identity between Luchen La in the Tonle Sap Lake area and Shui Chenla in the lower Mekong River. Shou almost swept away the town of Sujinla in the Houjiang area. Until the general civil uprising was provoked, in addition to the true traitors who took the initiative to cooperate, the coalition army captured a total of more than 200,000 Zhenla Qingzhuang and tens of thousands of livestock, which is twice the population captured by King Na Lixuan after conquering Love. During this time, the food needed by the captives was taken from the grain depots in the cities of Udong and Phnom Penh.

The allies were shocked by Order's obsession with the population.

He handed over the chaotic land north of Udong to the newly enthroned Prince Padang Raja and the real traitors he had gathered. In Theravada Buddhism, King Chenla is a god who walks on the ground. Therefore, when the monarch officially ascended the throne, the momentum of the rebellion eased. In addition, the spring ploughing is approaching, and the remnants of the people everywhere will have to eat and continue to live in this odious era, and slowly, there will be fewer and fewer people who resist.

Upon hearing the news of the coalition victory, Quang Nam couldn't hold back a restless heart. The main force of their army had to be used to defend against the Zheng lord in the north, so they could only send more than 1,000 soldiers to cross the Saigon River and complete the military occupation between the My River and the Xianlong River. The people of Quang Nam renamed this place Jiading.

Prince Sutama was somewhat annoyed by Quang Nam's actions, and they exceeded the sphere of influence demarcated in the pre-war agreement. Shou Xu persuaded him that since the coalition forces were unable to stop the actions of the Quang Nam people, it was better to call the Quang Nam people over and talk openly and honestly.

Nguyen T´ Tạn arrived in Phnom Penh on behalf of Quang Nam, and the allied forces from Siam and the Dutch came forward to act as evildoers and expressed their protest and opposition to Quang Nam. When the two sides were tense, the long-planned five-nation Chenla Armistice and the Mekong Free Navigation Treaty, commonly known as the Phnom Penh Treaty, was thrown out.

In this treaty, it was agreed that Chenla would be a vassal to Siam and cede two border provinces, including Pailin, to Siam.

north of the My River ceded to Quang Nam;

ceded a province on the northern border to Laos;

Ceded Jinoujiao and leased the Houjiang estuary to Jincheng.

The five countries enjoy the same right of freedom of navigation on the Mekong River below the Khong Falls.

The five countries unilaterally enjoy the most-favored-nation treatment for Chenla.

The five countries have extraterritorial jurisdiction.

On the east bank of the four forks, a new wharf will be built, and the five countries will jointly own the joint concession, and the highest leading organ of the concession will be the Ministry of Industry Bureau.

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During the treaty negotiations, apart from the navigation rights of the Mekong, the Laos and the Dutch did not propose many amendments. The Dutch only additionally proposed to monopolize the right to purchase deerskins from Zhenla, and the four countries did not object to this, and the deerskins were bilateral treaties, and the Dutch and Zhenla people could sign them.

Siam and Quang Nam had little sense of the sheer number of tricks that had been put up by the order, and the main dispute between the two countries was over the succession to the throne. Siam demanded that Prince Chenla Annon, which was controlled by Quang Nam, permanently renounce the right to inheritance, but Quang Nam certainly did not agree. At the meeting, the two countries quarreled and even threatened each other with arms.

The atmosphere of the negotiations was so stiff that he felt that if it weren't for the presence of the three countries, they would really have to fight. In the end, there was no way, but the Dutch came up with an idea, considering that the current immigration range of Quang Nam had just reached the Saigon River, and they had not even come there to colonize a stable territory, so they simply set up another Shui Chenla country between the front and back rivers, and Prince Annon was enthroned as the king of Shui Chenla, and the Shui Chenla country was a vassal to Quang Nam Nagong.

Both the Shou and Lao people thought that the Dutch had a good idea, and they cut off the real wax. Guangnan saw that he had obtained real profits, and he did not object. It's just that Siam is a little uncomfortable, and the Zhenla country in hand is lost one-fifth.

Guarding the order and persuading Prince Sutama again, the essence of Zhenla is in the Tonle Sap Lake, and Shuizhenla is a wild land, forget it for Quang Nam, and it borders Quang Nam, even if Siam does not admit it, it will not be able to stop the Quang Nam army from going south. Prince Sutama said that for such an important matter, he wanted to ask the monarch and not make decisions without taking matters into his own hands.

The negotiations between the five countries were temporarily suspended, and the countries were not idle during the time they waited for the King of Siam to reply, and after the Battle of Phnom Penh, the King of Suryawangsa of Laos mobilized more soldiers to go south, apparently taking advantage of the fire to rob.

Siam and Kinseong each received 90,000 prisoners of war, and the remaining 40,000 or so went to Laos. The Dutch, as before, asked for deer skins and precious stones, and had a high eye for the prisoners of war, and only selected two thousand women with the whitest skin. Like other countries in Southeast Asia, the upper-class women of Chenla are usually fairer-skinned, while the lower-class folk women are darker-skinned.

Siam's 100,000 prisoners of war had to return home with the army, and for the time being, they could only be confined to the peninsula at the fork of the peninsula on the other side of Phnom Penh. The Code of Conduct began to transfer people to Jincheng via the Mekong River.

Lin Tongwen's merchant fleet has been carrying migrants and goods from China back to China during the northerly season. Taking advantage of the new southerly winds, nearly 100 junk boats sailed into the rising Mekong River. With a draft of 2 meters from a junk boat, they were able to go up the Kowloon River all the way to Phnom Penh.

When carrying ordinary migrants, the largest junk can carry 500 people, the smaller ones can carry more than 200 people, and the average ship is more than 300 people. The voyage from the mouth of the Houjiang River to Jincheng is very short, only 330 nautical miles. The transport ship sailed down the river from Phnom Penh, traveled more than 100 nautical miles along the coastline of the Jinou Peninsula, and waited for the wind in Jinou Bay.

Jincheng is located in the direction of the compass point two and a half points south-west of Jinou Bay, as long as the wind direction is southerly, the hard-sailed junk ship with bamboo trusses can eat a suitable crosswind angle and sail to Jincheng.

The voyage requires a strong wind, but it does not need to be a full journey, and the entire return time takes 1,520 days. The voyage from Jincheng to the mouth of the Houjiang River is directly downwind to the north in the southerly season, and the speed is faster without caring about the crosswind angle.

The voyage was shorter, and each junk ship carried as many people as possible, and the fleet could carry more than 30,000 people at a time. Jincheng regarded this population transfer as the most important task of the year, and the navy and Dutch warships escorted the whole process. The expeditionary army also allowed most of the volunteer battalions to return home first, and also escorted the ships.

The Dutch asked Shou Zhi that they could only be placed in foster care in the Golden City for the time being, as they did not have a transport ship to transport the slave girls back to Batavia. The orderly certainly agrees with this.

When the envoys of the King of Siam arrived in Phnom Penh with the intention of agreeing to the treaty, the second wave of prisoners of war had already boarded the ship. King Parasadong did not want to make a real enemy with Quang Nam when there was a great enemy of Burma. And Quang Nam will not really start a war with Siam under the pressure of Lord Zheng going south at any time. Both countries agreed to the Dutch solution.

Shou Xuan scolded secretly, two mouth cannons.

Diplomatic negotiations in Asia are always very subtle, and even if the main dispute is resolved, it takes half a month for the order to mediate between countries, and it can be regarded as a result that no one opposes. For Batavia, Laos, Siam, Cam Thanh and Quang Nam, the Phnom Penh Treaty was a very equal treaty.

Chinese, Thai, Dutch, Latin, the six-nation treaty was signed in 4 text versions, which made the Dutch feel very strange. Generally, it is necessary to sign 7 text versions. Normally, Latin is a dead script that does not change, and it is considered a neutral version, and other countries exchange and sign according to the script version. However, Quang Nam chose Chinese as the treaty text, Geumseong chose Chinese and Latin, Siamese and Chenla used Thai, and the Treaty of Geumseong ended up in four scripts.

Throughout the treaty negotiations, everyone seemed to have forgotten to ask Jinla for advice. After the five kingdoms reached an agreement, Prince Sutama and his guards personally brought the text of the treaty to the new king of Chenla, and persuaded the king to sign and seal it in a few words. Shou Xuan didn't know how Prince Sutama managed to do it, but he was quite appreciative of his work efficiency.

Shortly after the signing of the treaty, the Lao army resigned to Prince Sutama and Shou Xu. A total of 12,000 Laotians came, and Prime Minister Jindala explained that the latter 4,000 belonged to the feudal lords of southern Laos and came to take advantage. The military discipline of the mountain people in Laos is the worst, and those who provoke civil revolt, they have to bear half of the blame. The last people captured by Laos must have been more than the coalition forces had given them, and Jindala could not figure out how many had been captured. Even the king of Chenla did not have precise demographic figures, except for the Tonle Sap area, whether it was the mountains in the northeast or the water Chenla, which was originally regarded as an inferior barbarian in the country. It's a mess.

According to tradition, the two swore to heaven after drinking, and Shou Xiang reached a secret agreement with him.

Given the mountainous terrain and poor traffic in Laos, the heavy artillery was clearly unsuitable for them, and the cannons were up to 6 pounder, mainly selling arquebuses and Francophone machines. Correspondingly, Laos agreed to set up three trading stations in Savannakhet, Vientiane and Luang Prabang to purchase Laos' specialties and precious metals.

More important than trade profits, the right of way in the upper Mekong River is more important to Shou Order.

When the third wave of the convoy arrived in Phnom Penh, Prince Sutama found the order, and he was a little worried these days.

Orderliness knows what his problems are.

The Siamese army now has just over 8,000 men, but it has to guard nearly 90,000 prisoners of war. As it has entered the season of green and yellow, the grain stock in Chenla has been swept away, and the prisoners of war in Siam are malnourished and in poor health, and the attrition rate is very high.

Shou Order, who noticed the problem of the nutrition of the prisoners of war earlier, hired a group of Quang Nam ships and purchased some grain from Quang Nam. And because the Tonle Sap area is the largest freshwater fishery in Southeast Asia, the catch is abundant. Shou Xu used Song Zutai's boat to carry fishermen and prisoners of war to fish in the lake area, providing the prisoners with additional nutrition, and the prisoners of war were in much better physical condition than the Siamese. Shou ordered to promise these fishermen that if they completed a certain quota, they would be released to return home.

In fact, the idea of taking advantage of the abundant catch of the Tonle Sap Lake is not difficult to think of, and it can only be said that these high-ranking Siamese nobles do not have that heart. Wait until the problem is serious before you pay attention to it.

Prince Sutama sighed to the order, and finally plundered these populations, which could fill his dwindling fiefdom. Seeing that the number of deaths was increasing, if one considered the tribute to the king after returning home, the gifts given to other ministers, and the distribution of spoils with the two border provinces that sent troops, Prince Sutama was worried that he would not be able to make much money from his expedition.

Shou Xuan explained him and said, "Your Highness, you can return to the division right now, and you can return to the country before the food is completely exhausted." There has never been a shortage of food in your country, and it will not be a problem to return to Prachinbhu. ”

Prince Sutama shook his head, the river swelled in the rainy season, and he feared that half of the prisoners of war might die on the way home.

The prince asked Shou Order: "Your Excellency, are you and your army going to return home by ship?" ”

Shou Xuan nodded, "Of course." ”

Prince Sutama asked a nonsense, Shou Xiang would definitely not step on the mud in the rainy season, wade north to Siam by land, and then take a boat against the south wind to return home, that is simply impossible.

Prince Sutama asked Shou Order, "Can your country help me transport a part of the population?" ”

Shou Xuan frowned, "Your Highness, I am personally willing to help you. But most of those merchant ships are also hired by our country, and we have to pay them. You also know that for this expedition we have emptied the treasury and owe a large debt, and we are really powerless. ”

Shou Xuan was telling the truth, and Prince Sutama had also heard about the fact that Kaneshiro had borrowed money everywhere to expand his fleet last year.

Prince Sutama let out a long sigh and gritted his teeth, "Your Excellency, there are only more than 8,000 people left in my army, and the number of people who are transported in food and escort is not enough. If I sold you half of those populations, would you want them? ”

Shou Xuan was a little surprised, "Your Highness, but I don't have any money right now." ”

"I know, I accept your payment with artillery."

Ammunition? Shou Xiang hesitated for a while, the 4-pounder and 6-pounder cannons, the Fran machine and the light mortar cannon Jincheng can now produce their own, and these cannons are not very difficult to make, and Ayutthaya can also produce them. However, seeing Prince Sutama's longing expression, Shou Xuan understood that Ayutthaya could give birth, but Song Jialuo and the other provinces couldn't.

Shou Xuan nodded and said, "I can sell firearms under 6 pounds, but Your Royal Highness, these cannons are not very valuable." ”

"You sell me what you have, keep the rest of the book, and return it when you return home."

"What about interest?"

"3% per month."

In other words, the annual interest rate is 36%, and the order touches the chin, which is not high in Southeast Asia.

"Okay, I agree."

In the end, Prince Sutama sold more than 40,000 men to Order, leaving only 30,000 for himself, in exchange for all the light artillery, some other booty, and 150,000 taels of silver that Order's current possession.

Shou Xiang accepted this group of people, part of the silver does not need to be borrowed for 1 year, Sanya Iron and Steel Company is in need of the population, Shou Xiang originally planned to return to China to buy again, since the prince sold it so cheaply, then solve it now. After he returned to China, he would be able to repay the prince's principal of 50,000 taels and the corresponding interest.

Because of this additional group of prisoners of war, the orderly army had to stay in Chenlado for a while. After the departure of the Siamese army, the existing strength of the Dutch was only 3,000 men. The Dutch are leaving so late because they want to collect more deerskins for free.

Given the small number of troops and the large number of prisoners of war, Phnom Penh was not safe. Shou Xian decided to move to the mouth of the Hou River, and he asked Prime Minister Chenla to collect a group of fishing boats, which, together with the Quang Nam boat, carried 40,000 prisoners of war and more than 2,000 cattle, and went down the Mekong River in batches.

Shou Xuan and Holren retired half of their officers and soldiers in Houjiang Mansion, and Jincheng's finances could not afford to maintain a full-fledged field brigade on a daily basis. Some of the retired officers and soldiers were hired by the Sanya Company, and some joined the Houjiang Fu Guard Battalion.

The Chinese Volunteer Battalion, Song Zutai and the Chinese families of Phnom Penh, retired officers and soldiers, in the name of the consuls, divided their entrusted custody in Houjiang Province and sold them 15,000 prisoners of war and some cattle at a slightly higher price than the Siamese selling price.

When the fourth wave of transport fleets that Lin Tongwen and Li Junchang had painstakingly organized arrived, the number was only half of the first wave. Those who didn't come, some of them were wrecked, and some were unusable and needed to be maintained.

Between the Minister of Trade and Shipping and the Chief Executive of Houjiang, Lin Tongwen chose to be a feudal official. He took the initiative to apply to the Senate for transfer to Houjiang. The attraction of this wild land is very average, and no one robs him.

Hai Shuzu arrived at the same time as the fleet, and he and Li Junchang took 45 ships carrying 10,000 prisoners of war and 800 cattle in the best health, and Stirling led 2 cruisers, 4 frigates, and messengers to escort him. The entry of 10,000 foreign slaves into Qiongzhou must have been an appalling thing in the past, but the current Ming Dynasty really can't control it. The hard work in the mines may cause a large number of attrition in a few months, and with the low efficiency of the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, they may not be able to pay attention to the ends of the earth next year.

The remaining prisoners of war were also eaten by the Sanya Company, but they could not be transported to the mines at present, so they were placed in Houjiang and set up several plantations under the company.

Keeping the order at the end and 1,000 key army officers and soldiers,

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