Phnom Penh, the residence of the official Jin family.

In front of a square table sat several of the most powerful Zhenla people in the Zhenla country, and on the left sat Xie Su, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, and Deng Changbu, the head of the criminal department.

Sitting on the right are Kim Kit, the chief trader, and Kim Pan, the chief of the Foreign Affairs Office.

Sitting in the north and facing south, the old man in the purple robe in the center is named Parasu, and he is the great prime minister of Hala of Zhenla.

And the opposite of the old man is Hong Bufu, the commander of the Zhenla Forbidden Army.

Parasu spoke first.

"Since we are all here today, I won't say anything more than that. The more people die, my true heart will not die, in the name of counterinsurgency, the actual reduction of Ding, the destruction of my city, plundering my people, Chai Zhen Taishou Kiriha's entire clan was destroyed. If we continue to allow the Vietnamese people to do anything wrong, Kiriha will be down today, and we will be down tomorrow. ”

Deng Changbu, the chief of execution, slapped the table and sighed helplessly.

"Where is the king's law, where is the heavenly reason, isn't Ruan Yue afraid that the Buddha will appear and reincarnate?"

Most of the regions in Chenla and Vietnam are Buddhist.

Xie Suji, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, hated waiting for Deng Changbu's weakness, and didn't believe in Guan Jin Pan, so he said.

"By this time you still expect the Buddha to appear? Let's figure out how to save ourselves. Lord Guan Jinpan, is the Xiyi you said reliable? I'm afraid it's not the lackeys of the Vietnamese, the French, who pretended to be here to make us fooled? ”

The French had financed the Vietnamese, and when the Vietnamese became strong, they began to suppress the French at every turn, so the Chenla people mistakenly believed that the French were a client state of the Vietnamese.

"No, their languages are different, and the Westerners say that the Austrians are the bitter enemies of the French." Guan Jin Pan replied.

Xie Su naturally understood that the enemy of the enemy was the truth of the friend, and continued to ask.

"Are their firearms really that powerful? How is it better than our birds? ”

The commander of the forbidden army, Hong Bufu, said.

"Awesome! Compared with the new foreign guns, our bird guns are burning sticks. The new foreign guns are fast and accurate, and the power is still great, and it is useless to wear rattan armor under the iron armor. The best thing is that you are not afraid of getting damp, and you are not afraid of not being able to light it. ”

The climate of Chenla is hot and humid, and the lead of the arquebus is prone to moisture, which seriously affects the shooting.

The flintlock pistol had been developed for hundreds of years in this era, and the granulated black powder brought by Ambrosius was not comparable to the traditional black powder powder.

Granular gunpowder is granular, so they don't stick together even when squeezed throughout, and black powder powder is very likely to become a lump under the combined action of force and moisture.

The gap left between the granular gunpowder is convenient for oxygen to play a role in supporting the combustion of gunpowder, making the combustion rate more uniform and improving the efficiency of gunpowder combustion.

Powder powder ejects a significant portion of the unignited gunpowder out of the barrel in the same way that it is fired, so its power is greatly increased.

It's just that the officials of Zhenla don't understand this.

Although Xie Su was unwilling, he believed in Hong Bufu, the commander of the forbidden army. If it weren't for the presence of this great commander, the wealthy clan in Phnom Penh would have been wiped out by Zhang Ming.

Zhang Mingjiao was the confidant of Emperor Ming Ming of Vietnam, and was named the governor of Chenla by Emperor Mingming, and implemented a policy of extermination and assimilation in Chenla.

The old man in the center spoke again.

"But a hundred taels of silver is too expensive. No matter how good the weapons are, we can't afford to buy them. If you only buy a few thousand, I am afraid that it will be embarrassing, but Ruan Yue has an army of 100,000. ”

"Your Excellency Ambrosius has three conditions."

"Tell me about it."

"I have already arranged for someone to do this by giving them a piece of land in the township and letting them live in it."

"Well, yes, I really have a lot of resources, don't say it's a township, it's a county." The old man bowed his head, he didn't think that there was anything to set aside the land of Zhenla for foreigners to live in, as long as he paid taxes.

"They also want to build churches to honor their ancestors."

"Homesickness and worship ancestors, it is normal for people to be human, it seems that these Xiyi are not uneducated."

"Their leader wants to meet Her Royal Highness."

"Bastard! How dare the Yiren be so rude! It's really a big mistake in the world, how can Princess Fengyan be seen by this group of barbarians? The old man was so angry that he had to open his hair.

It's just that the other people here are not too angry.

"Now His Majesty An Zan is still in the hands of the Vietnamese, if you can welcome Your Majesty back, let alone see the princess, let the princesses go and kiss." Jin Jie, the trade administrator who has not spoken, said.

Prime Minister Parasu wanted to open his mouth to reprimand this undisciplined bastard, but the people around him were silent, and seemed to acquiesce to Guan Jinjie's statement.

Parasu thinks about it, the country is going to die, and it doesn't matter what the use of these rituals is.

"We promised them these three conditions, how much cheaper can we get."

"Thirty taels." Guan Jin Pan replied.

The old man thought for a moment, and then said.

"Tell them that we can give them a county. But the foreign guns cost fifty-one taels and sold them to us. ”

"I will do my best to live up to the prime minister and live up to the truth." Guan Jin Pan replied with righteousness.

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Night, Phnom Penh, Dongqiao Restaurant.

"Then now I also ask you to have the money to contribute, and make a strong contribution to the national disaster together" Parasu raised his wine glass, drank it all and said, "I am the prime minister of Zhenla, starting with me, I will pay 200,000 taels." ”

200,000 taels is definitely a very large number in Chenla, you must know that under the exploitation of the Vietnamese, the treasury of Chenla can only enter 30,000 or 50,000 taels of silver every year, and even the soldiers and officials can't afford to pay it. (At this time, the Qing Dynasty was 40 million taels)

Parasu really took out his old bottom, but because this number was too scary, no one responded for a long time, and everyone's arms were numb, looking at each other, waiting for the next person to make a statement.

Guan Jin Pan couldn't stand it anymore and drank the wine down.

"I am willing to give 10,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of rice."

Although Guan Jin Pan is a second-grade member of Zhenla, and the Guan Jin family is a wealthy family of Zhenla, this number is really a lot for his family.

Then Guan Jinjie also drank the wine.

"I'm the same as my eldest brother, 10,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of rice."

After Guan Jinjie finished speaking, he hugged Guan Jinpan and cried, because this was almost all the assets that their family could use, and any more would be sold property.

After that, Xie Su, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, was also willing to pay 5,000 taels, and the commander of the forbidden army, Hong Bufu, was 1,000 taels.

After that, it was outrageous, these merchants, officials, landlords, gentlemen, you have two hundred, I have three hundred, and the most outrageous thing is that Deng Changbu, the chief of execution, only paid 50 taels.

This made Parasu very angry, because this Deng Changbu took more than 200 taels of bribes at a time, he said tremblingly.

"You moths! The state affairs are in decline to this point, you can't go into battle to kill the enemy, and you don't want to give out that little bit of wealth? Deng Changbu! Why did you, the chief of execution, only pay fifty taels! ”

Deng Changbu also had a reason and said very disdainfully.

"My annual salary should be one hundred and fifty taels, and now I will be given twenty taels a year, I have been an official for seventeen years, and the country of Zhenla still owes me two thousand two hundred taels."

Parasu was so angry that he almost fainted, and he deeply felt the helplessness of Lord Chongzhen back then.