401. Champa Bura
Champa Buluo, originally placed by the Han Dynasty in Xianglin County, Ninan County, referred to as Linyi, in 137 AD, Xianglin County, the son of Gong Cao, killed the county order, called himself the king, and founded the country.
'Buluo' is the Sanskrit word for 'city', so the Central Plains Dynasty simply translated it as a city.
Since the founding of the country, the Champa began to Indianize, began to believe in Brahmanism and Buddhism, the Han Dynasty people saw the first group of Cham nobles were deep-eyed, high-nosed, black-haired, probably Aryans from South Asia, but later they were assimilated by the local race.
Politically similar to India, believing in the divine authority of kings, the integration of politics and religion, the introduction of the caste system from India, only the Brahmins and Kshatriyas of the four castes as ministers, and the king also came from the second caste.
The geographical features of the city are similar to those of the coastal areas of Fujian, with short, rapid-flowing mountain rivers swooping down from the coastal mountains and flowing into the sea alone, forming a narrow coastal impact plain.
Each plain is blocked by mountains that jut out horizontally into the ocean, forming a relatively independent and closed geographical unit.
It can be said that it is "forced between the mountains and the sea, and the sea on the east coast is all over", and "the islands are surrounded by countless small bays", and it has a unique geographical landscape.
Each small coastal plain has a strong autonomy, which leads to its political system being only a loose political union, equivalent to the nomadic people near the sea, and most scattered groups move around as they please, enjoying a relatively free life, fighting or uniting with each other, and changing rapidly.
As the leader of the alliance, the authority of the king of Champa was limited to his own estuary plain, and his rule depended on his ability to establish alliances and the merits of foreign force in establishing alliances.
Its natural conditions are superior, rice is cropped three times a year, and fishery resources are abundant, but it does not account for the production level of people, and it does not like to work in a down-to-earth manner, so its income is limited and unstable.
Plundering abroad became necessary for the survival of the occupiers, and the king also gained the respect of his subordinates by raiding and plundering in order to gain political recognition, much like the nomads.
Therefore, before the independence of Annam, Rinan, the southernmost part of Jiaozhou of the Central Plains Dynasty, was often harassed by the barbarians of Linyi, and then was beaten by the troops sent by the Central Plains Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty simply destroyed Linyi for a while.
After the independence of Annam, the Cham people also harassed the border and coast of Annam every year, and then Annam was forced to be anxious, accumulated strength for a few years, and then a big counterattack smashed the Yellow Dragon, the Cham people knelt down and shouted father, and when the Annam people evacuated, the Cham people and dogs could not change their, and it was another round of repeated operations that lasted for hundreds of years.
In addition, Champa and its southern Chenla also maintained a long war conflict, you fight for each other, you have destroyed me, I have also killed you.
With the rise of maritime trade between the East and the West, Champa became an important node on the sea route, and the Zhan people were not settled in only doing transit trade, but also started a very promising career of piracy.
The Champa authorities not only indulged in piracy, but often even directly involved in the use of the military.
It can be said that the political economy of the city was based on plunder, and the Champa people themselves were thieves and pirates, and the king and the government shared the fruits of plunder.
To sum up, the Zhan people live in the coastal mountains, fierce in nature, brave and ruthless, take maritime affairs as their business, seek what they lack abroad, plunder the sea boats, plunder the coast, or be invaded by Annam, or attack Zhenla in the south.
is obviously the weakest in the Three Kingdoms of the Indochina Peninsula, but he likes to cause trouble the most, is keen to provoke everywhere, and lives like a flat-headed brother.
In fact, the three kingdoms of Champong, Annam, and Chenla were all vassal states of the Song Dynasty, and they needed to rely on the Song Dynasty to protect themselves politically, and also to obtain benefits through tribute and trade economically.
Although the Song Dynasty at this time completely lost the prestige of the suzerain, the city was not really unscrupulous, and some superficial articles still had to be maintained.
Therefore, the warship carrying Pu Shiwen encountered many pirate ships along the way, but it was not attacked, and successfully arrived at the capital of the city of Cham, which was roughly Quy Nhon City in later generations.
Pu Shiwen, who had been terrified, was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, but the commander of the warship, Qian Long, was somewhat disappointed, he wished that someone who couldn't open his eyes could bump into him, not only because he wanted to try the combat effectiveness of the warship, but also because he could get a reason to 'declare war'.
Since it was an envoy, it should have an official status, so Zhao Mengqi arranged for Pu Shiwen to have the official title of Zhengjiupin Chenglang, and sent him to the southeast Jiedu Mansion Yuanying.
For the arrival of the envoy of the kingdom, Champa seemed respectful, but in fact it was cold and perfunctory, and sent a few officials of all sizes to the port to greet him.
According to etiquette, these Champa officials should pay homage to Pu Shiwen when they greet them, but they just hugged their hands, and they should have seen it.
Pu Shiwen, who was wearing a cyan official robe, stood there very embarrassed, but with the mentality that more things are better than less, he didn't want to be held accountable, so he only laughed twice and let these officials lead the way to the capital.
"Wait!"
Qian Long, who was in full armor, took a step forward, glanced at several Zhancheng officials with sharp eyes, and said coldly, "Why don't you worship!?" Don't you know humility!? ”
The Indianization of the Champa was very serious, and Sanskrit was used as the official language, but it was also deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and the upper class learned more Chinese and Chinese, and even many Champa people could use Chinese poetry to compose lyrics.
Hearing Qian Long's words, several people were stunned, obviously not expecting to be questioned in person.
After reacting, the first official raised his chin slightly, and said solemnly, "Strictly speaking, you don't have the edict of the Song court, and you are not a regular envoy, how can you come to pay respect, if you want to talk about respect and humility, then Pu Chengfeng is just the last official of the ninth grade, which is much lower than our official positions, in fact, we are the Venerable, and he worships us if you want to worship!" ”
"Yes, yes, it's obviously Pu Chengfeng who is rude, but adults don't remember villains, and we don't care about it......"
Several other officials triumphantly chimed in, with mocking expressions on their faces.
Qian Long's eyes narrowed, a sneer squeezed out of his round face, his body shook, and a loud slap was thrown on the face of the leading occupation official.
"Joke! A small country in the lower state, what kind of official position can we talk about!? It's that I'm a dog who is so honorable as Bill! ”
This big mouth blinded all the people present in the city, and what Qian Long said was really too deceitful, and it was completely trampling on the dignity of the people who occupied the city.
Immediately, the Cham people were filled with righteous indignation, and more than 100 Cham soldiers showed their weapons and prepared to surround them, as if they were going to chop Qian Long into meat sauce.
The forty or fifty armor soldiers behind Qian Long also drew their thousand cattle swords, and the warships not far away were even more open-ended with crossbows and arrows, and it seemed that a big battle was about to break out.
The beaten Champa official covered his face, and his heart was full of anger, but when he looked up, he found that Qian Long not only did not have the slightest nervousness and regret, but his eyes were full of excitement, and he couldn't help but feel very wrong in his heart.
"Stop it all! Take the weapon back! ”
The official raised his hand and shouted, and then said in Champa dialect, "He did it on purpose, deliberately provoked us to do it, everyone must not be fooled, and we can't beat it." ”
Although there are more soldiers in the city, they are all clothed and have basically no protection, where can they beat the ironclad Song army.
Even if you can beat it, what if you can do it?
Although the possibility is very small, even if the Song Dynasty does not do it themselves, Zhenla and Annan will definitely take advantage of the problem to play, under the guise of doing the way for the sky, to conquer the city.
The relationship between Zongfan is like the relationship between father and son, in fact, it is indeed Qian Long who beat and insulted people first, but Lao Tzu beat his son a few times and scolded a few words, if you dare to fight back as a son, it will be a great rebellion, and everyone can be punished.
With the support of the Song Dynasty, Zhenla and Annam can justifiably destroy and occupy the city.
Several Champa officials were not stupid, and they figured out the relationship inside in a blink of an eye, and they were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat.
So he hurriedly dismissed the soldiers, and then respectfully paid homage to Pu Shiwen and Qian Longxing, and then diligently arranged the car and led the 'mission' to the capital.
Originally, the officials of Zhancheng also wanted to limit the number of accompanying Song troops to no more than ten, but at this moment, looking at the fifty armor soldiers in the team, they didn't dare to mention a word.
Qian Long pursed his lips in disappointment and muttered, "Yidi, beasts are also afraid of power but not virtue." Sima Gongcheng does not deceive me. ”
Pu Shiwen was scared into a cold sweat just now, and at this moment he could still feel that his back was greasy and cold, and he didn't forget to thank Qian Long, "Thank you to the general for speaking up and saving ......face for the lower officials."
He knew very well that he was only a nominal envoy, and Qian Long was the real speaker.
He also knew that Qian Long was not actually looking for face for himself, nor was he for the majesty of the suzerain, but deliberately arrogantly stirred up trouble to make Champa fall into political passivity.
Even King Yan deliberately chose himself to be his envoy, just to lure Pu Chongmo to kill people, and then he could not only obtain the righteousness of the king of Zhancheng, but also make his own eye-catching rebel minister disappear, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.
The capital of Champa used to be Indra Bura, 500 miles to the north, which was later known as Da Nang.
Around 979 A.D., the king of Champa took advantage of the death of the emperor of the Annam Dinh dynasty to lead an army to attack the capital of Vietnam, Hua Lu.
So Li Huan, who usurped the throne of the Ding Dynasty, in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, personally led the army to attack the city, ransacked the capital of the city, Indra, and razed the city, and then the city had to move the capital south to the city of Buddha.
Of course, the Cham people did not learn from this, and later continued to provoke Annan and Chenla from time to time, and this Buddha oath city was occupied by the two countries several times.
Just three years ago, Chen Xuan, the founding emperor of the Chen Dynasty of Annam, personally conquered the city, captured the city of Buddha Oath, captured the wife of the king of Zhan and a large number of subjects, and the city was almost destroyed again......
Therefore, when Pu Shiwen and Qianlong entered the city of Buddha oath, they saw a dilapidated scene everywhere, and there was not even a post house connected to the envoys, so the Champa officials could only borrow the mansion of a wealthy Han merchant to house the mission.
Early the next morning, the king of Champa, Jaya Indravarman VI, summoned Pu Shiwen and Qian Long in the newly rebuilt palace.