"Buddhists talk about karma, but how can there be retribution in this world? As the saying goes, 'Good people don't live long, but disasters last for a thousand years.' Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info’。 Li Hui made a generous speech at the ceremony to commemorate Zheng Zhao after the war, defending China's behavior of sending troops to Siam, "However, from now on, 'good and evil will be rewarded in the end' will no longer be an empty word, good will be rewarded, evil will be rewarded, God will not report it, we will report it!" This is the way to do it! ”

Siam is a country where Buddhism is prevalent, and although Southern Buddhism is quite different from Chinese Buddhism, it also advocates karma. In this context, the tragic fate of the Bangkok royal family was naturally regarded by the Siamese as the retribution for the evil deeds of the year, which greatly weakened the Siamese people's sense of resistance, and the Siamese people were not very strong (just look at the military coups in history that were like child's play), so although sporadic anti-Chinese attacks continued until 1898, the resistance forces of more than 1,000 people ceased to exist less than a month after the fall of Bangkok. However, those sporadic attacks caused more casualties to the Chinese occupation forces than in the previous regular battles, allowing Li Hui to fully see the power of guerrilla warfare.

"Because guerrilla warfare is a small-scale battle, the superiority of our artillery cannot be brought into play, and the guerrillas, as the party that takes the initiative to attack, can choose the most favorable place and time, which can greatly narrow the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides. Li Hui gave the Siamese guerrillas a high evaluation, but he did not really take their threat to heart, because Siam is not a populous country like China after all, and the current China is not as short of troops as Japan that invaded China, and the 100,000 garrisons are released to Siam, which has a population of only about 7 million, no matter how powerful the guerrillas are, they don't want to be able to hold on for a long time.

What's more, Li Hui did not just rely on the barrel of a gun to suppress strongly, he also used his consistent "eradication of the upper class and benevolence of the lower class." The method quickly won over the hearts of the people of Siam. Siam is the country with the greatest agricultural potential in Southeast Asia, but on the one hand, the degree of development is too low, on the other hand, most of the good land that has been developed is concentrated in the hands of nobles, temples and merchants, and the vast number of peasants live in poverty. There are so many people at the top, as long as they can't incite the people at the bottom to be cannon fodder, their power is actually very limited......

It must be noted here that, with the exception of the Javanese and Malays, whom Li Hui considered "guilty", the other ethnic groups living in the newly occupied land were accepted as members of the Chinese family and were not subjected to any discrimination or oppression. The reason why Li Hui is treated differently is because they have no criminal record, on the other hand, because these ethnic groups are closer to the Chinese in terms of culture and blood, and the difficulty of assimilation is much smaller, so naturally there is no need to pay a huge price to forcibly move away as before, you must know that the cost of moving away the Javanese and Malays is even much higher than the military expenditure of the Sino-British War.

It is worth mentioning that during this period of time, there was one thing that caused a strong reaction among the Siamese people, that is, the Chen family, the richest man in Siam, who were Chinese, did not survive because of their Chinese ancestry, and they were also confiscated from their family property and their land was allocated, which suddenly reassured those Siamese who were originally worried that China would regard Siam as second-class citizens after the occupation of Siam, and the national mood was greatly weakened.

After the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, because the Chinese navy cut off the shipping route between Japan and Korea, Japan could not obtain North Korean grain, so it turned to buy grain from Nanyang for emergency relief, more than eighty percent of which came from Siam, and as the largest rice merchant in Siam and even Nanyang, the Chen family naturally benefited greatly from it, but this was undoubtedly a serious treason in Li Hui's view.

Zhang Zhenxun is just inaction, they are all choked enough, the Chen family actually funded the enemy to harm the mother country, the end is naturally even worse, the head of the family and the main handling personnel were executed for treason, dozens of people were sentenced to prison, and hundreds of people had to undergo short-term labor reform, as for the Chen family's property, naturally all confiscated, except for the land (and only the right to use) distributed to the Siamese peasants, all the others became state-owned assets......

That's right, even Li Hui privately admits that in fact, everything is for profit, if the Chen family doesn't have so much wealth and is just an insignificant small role, maybe they can escape punishment, and even if they can't escape, they won't alarm Li Hui, the head of state. But the Chen family itself is already guilty, and actually made his own death to give the government a reason to take it, Li Hui's black hand is naturally not the slightest psychological barrier, although the government of the Chinese Republic is already one of the richest governments in the world, but there are too many Chinese, there is not much per person, not to mention that this money is only too little, where is there too much?

Siam is a big country in the South Seas, and it has not been colonized by the West, and its family background is quite rich, but in Li Hui's eyes, Siam's most valuable wealth is not the accumulation of history, but its first arable land resources in the South Seas......

If only compared to the area of cultivated land, the Dutch East Indies is definitely the first in the South Seas, but these islands are basically tropical rainforest climate, rain erosion is serious, unless there is volcanic ash like the island of Java to constantly replenish the fertility of the soil, it is difficult to ensure a continuous and stable high yield, and after the cultivation of farmland, the ability to maintain water and soil is greatly reduced compared with the original forest, and soil erosion will also be a headache under the repeated erosion of heavy rain.

The same is true in Malaya, so Li Hui prefers to plant all kinds of economic forests, such as rubber and oil palm, rather than simply and crudely "focusing on grain", which is more economical and conducive to soil and water conservation.

In contrast, Siam is much smaller in size, but it is a vast plain except for the mountainous areas in the north, and with the exception of the Malay Peninsula in the south, the whole of Siam has a tropical monsoon climate with abundant water and heat, which is very suitable for rice growth.

Due to insufficient development (lack of labor is one thing, the difficulty of tropical land reclamation is another. As a result, Siam's cultivated land is less than 100 million mu, but there are at least 400 million mu of arable land worth developing within its borders, and these lands are suitable or can be transformed into suitable for growing rice with less difficulty, which is too valuable! (To be continued.) )