Volume 3 The Struggle for the Country Chapter 95 The Kingdom of Manthorn

There are many countries in the South Seas, there are more islands, and the power of each country is even more complicated.

Let's say that the third prince of Srivijaya Bairi Missoula led 20,000 elite soldiers and six commanders to the outside of Batam in the Temasek Kingdom, and the officials there surrendered directly. So that he easily captured the city of Batam.

It is also very interesting to talk about this Temasek Kingdom, which is not large, only equivalent to the land area of our current Shanghai. The park has been the territory of Srivijaya since the 8th century, but in the 13th century, due to the weakening of Srivijaya and the gradual weakening of its control across the Strait of Malacca, it was occupied by the Kingdom of Phong Xiang at the end of the 13th century to establish Temasek Province. Later, as the power of the Pengxiang Kingdom gradually weakened, its control over Temasek, which is located in the southernmost part, also weakened.

In the mid-14th century, 50 years ago, Temasek became an independent kingdom. It's a pity that in addition to the wisdom of the first king Norma, Norma II and the current king Norma III are extremely mediocre, only eating, drinking, and looting the people's fat and ointment all day long, which makes the people of the whole kingdom complain, and the officials below the kingdom are even more corrupt.

It was after receiving a huge bribe and the threat of the Sriwijaya secret guard that the officials of Batam City surrendered to the third prince.

The third prince, Bairi Missoulah, began to show his military and political talents after settling the six chiefs and the army in Batam.

Bairi Missula recruited troops while reassuring the people, and also sent a large number of officers and soldiers to rectify law and order. The meaning of rewarding the former Batam officials who surrendered to Cheng and conferring the official position of prominent but not real power is very clear, you are not suitable to continue to be an official, and live a rich life! The six ministry officials he brought with him smoothly took over Batam City and got it up and running.

At the end of March, Barry Missoula swept the whole of Temasek with ease, and it took him just five days to do so. When he finished clearing the whole territory of Tatam, Batam also welcomed a special guest, who was the neighbor of Johor, the titular governor and the leader of the Four Saints Gang, Muhai Taidi.

Muhaitaidi was introduced by the head of the Tiger Trading House founded by the old king, and only then did he meet the third prince. He came here for a simple purpose, and that was to form an alliance. Despite their differences, Barry Missoula immediately agreed. Everyone knows that before you can't destroy each other at once, it's best to live in peace first.

And then things got a little weirder! When the alliance was completed, Muhaidei immediately borrowed 20,000 troops from Bairi Missoula, saying that he was going to attack a pirate gang of more than 10,000 people, and the gang had at least 50,000,000 taels of silver. Instead of immediately refusing, Bairi Missoula pondered. It's very simple, he even counts the new soldiers, and now there are only 30,000 horses, and 20,000 at once is absolutely impossible! But he was greedy for those gold and silver, you must know that he only got two million taels of silver by emptying the Sriwijaya treasury this time.

After pondering for a long time, Bairi Missoula made a decision that he regretted. He decided to lend 10,000 elite soldiers, led by his designated general, to follow Muhaidei to attack the Fat Sheep Black Shark Gang. And agreed that after defeating the Black Shark Gang, he would get one-fifth of the property!

Imagination is beautiful, reality is cruel. His Royal Highness the Third Prince, who was sitting in Batam and waiting for a large amount of goods, finally waited for a bad news: only 3,000 men and horses of his army of 10,000 escaped, ten warships went, and only four came back in tatters, and there was a danger of sinking at any time. The defeat has brought a hint of gloom to Temasek's newly stable situation, and the gossip in the city is full of rumors.

Shortly after the army returned from failing to rob but having lost more than half of its army, Barry Missoula heard news that frightened him. That Black Shark Gang actually led a large army to start a counterattack on the Four Holy Gang, and on the day he got the news, the Four Holy Gang had already been wiped out by two. He immediately retracted his forces and held on to Batam.

Bairi Missoula doesn't know if the other party knows, there are soldiers from the Temasek Kingdom in the coalition that attacked them, if they don't know, it's okay, if the other party knows, I'm afraid there will be a big battle. Thinking of this loss-making transaction, Bairi Missoula couldn't help but smile bitterly, greed is really deadly. In the past, I really underestimated the heroes of the world, although the Black Shark Gang is a pirate organization, it can gather so much huge wealth, how can it be a good match! I was really blinded by fish oil!

On the fifth day, Bairymissula waited for the news that the Four Holy Gang had been wiped out. He did not regret his reckless and blind participation in the operation before. But it's useless to regret it now. Fortunately, he still has more than 20,000 or 20,000 soldiers, and although the combat power of the recruits is very low, he should be able to cope with the bad situation in the future if he uses it to defend the city.

Apparently Lord Shiva heard his prayers, and after the Black Sharks destroyed the Four Holy Gangs, they had no intention of marching south, and their main force split up to occupy the three port cities, while the rest of the army returned to its old nest, Lombok. This reassured His Royal Highness the Third Prince, although he was not afraid of the Black Shark Gang, it was very unwise to fight now!

In addition to vigorously developing people's livelihood, he sent 10,000 troops to the sea to rob passing merchant ships and train soldiers. He knew that Temasek alone would not have a future and decided to follow the south coast of Peninsular Malaysia around Johor after half a year of training. When he conquers the entire cities along the South China Sea, then his strength will no longer be afraid of the Black Shark Gang and the White Shark Gang, and then this Johor State and the entire Pengxiang Kingdom will be occupied! And the whole Malay Peninsula must also prostrate itself at its feet.

At the beginning of the seventh month of the 30th year of Hongwu (July 1397), bad news came from the old port, and his father, two elder brothers, and the century-old palace turned into ashes. Hearing this, Bairi Missoula was heartbroken! Although he had already prepared for it, he still couldn't accept it when the day came! He suddenly felt very lonely, the kind of loneliness abandoned by the world!

At this time, Prime Minister Sutanri Su came to the former city lord's mansion, which is now the palace of Bairi Misura.

"Your Highness, the old king has an edict, if he has an accident, His Royal Highness will succeed him as king."

Although Sutanlisu was sixty-one and his hair was all white, he still sounded like a bronze bell, and his body was as strong as an ox. He has been prime minister for thirty years, has been through two kings, and now he is watching the third king in his life succeed him.

"Well, my father once said that I had me, but my father had just died, and I was in turmoil for a while. Let's choose an auspicious day for the zodiac! Bairi Missoula said with a weakened expression.

"Yes! After the old minister consulted with Liu Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, he would return to His Highness! ”

The name of Liu Wenbo in the Ministry of Rites is real, and he is also an authentic Han Chinese. The situation is similar to that of Shi Jinqing's family, and it was at the end of the Song Dynasty that he fled here, and his ancestors had his achievements and status today after a very inspirational struggle.

"Good! Go ahead, I'm not in the mood to care about other things now, the prime minister will take care of it more! After Bairi Missoula finished speaking, she couldn't help but hide her face and weep.

"Alas! Your Highness's condolences! The old minister retires! ”

Prime Minister Su Tanlisu looked deeply at the silent third prince, and what he usually saw was the image of him commanding Ruoding. At this time, when I saw him crying silently, I remembered that the third prince was only seventeen years old. What were you doing when you were seventeen? It seems like riding a horse and hunting all day? Or do you chase and frolic with your handmaidens all day long? After a moment of distraction, the old prime minister came back to his senses and quietly exited the temple door. Looking around again, it looks too shabby! I don't know why the third prince doesn't live in Temasek Palace, which is at least much more spacious than here!

The 18th day of the month is said to be the most auspicious day of the month, as it is the day when Bairi Missoulah will inherit the throne and the official establishment of the country, and he will change the name of Temasek to the Kingdom of Manchurian.

On the South Sea side, Amla is a type of tree (Amla, Melaka tree). It all started with an incident that happened when Bairi Missoula led troops to sweep the whole territory of Temasek.

After leading his army to attack the city of Dharmarat, he continued to attack the next city, and the army was resting in a wood, and Bairi Missoula happened to be leaning under a thorny tree when he saw a hunting dog cornering a mouse deer, which kicked the dog into the river in self-defense. I couldn't help but feel abnormal, and from this I thought of the current situation of Srivijaya, isn't he just like this mouse deer? I hope that one day he will be able to rise up and defeat the Javanese! He decided to wait for the day he succeeded to the king, and he must change his name to Manthorn Plus, so as to remember today's embarrassment. Let future generations remember that without today's resistance, there would be no quiet years for them!

None of them knew that perhaps it was fate or coincidence that another nascent regime was officially established on this day, that is, the new Srivijaya Kingdom. These two seedlings grew at the same time after the old and decaying tree of the old Buddha Qi fell, absorbing the nutrients of the big tree, but their development in the future has gone to two extremes!

On July 18, Bairi Missoulah was crowned with the King's red crown and appeared at Temasek Palace. The clothes he wore were based on the royal clothes given by the Han emperor, and it is said that as long as the king was recognized by the Han emperor, he would receive a gold seal and a crown of the king. This is described in the "Da Ming Zhi. There has been a record in the Western Chapter: Gong Crown, Wang Zhiji's clothes, with nine crowns, Xuanyi and clothes, clothes painted dragon, mountain, Chinese insects, fire, Zongyi five chapter patterns, clothes embroidered algae, pink rice, yellow, yellow four chapter patterns, a total of nine chapters.

Prime Minister Su Tanlisu led hundreds of officials to worship, and then the attendants read the edict of the founding of the country. He did not inherit the throne at home, but re-established the country, so it was the first edict of the founding of the country. After reading the edict, the hundred officials bowed again. After that, it was re-sealed, and basically the hundred officials brought over were returned to those positions, and some local officials were newly sealed. At this point, the establishment of the Manchurian Kingdom was also the first step taken by the future Malacca Empire to dominate the South Seas!