After finishing visiting the Chinese communities around Manila, Zhao Xuening visited the Chinese communities in the surrounding areas.
These days, Chinese and other foreign populations basically live in and around Manila. Zhao Xuening spent some time visiting these Chinese communities and brought the Chinese in these places under Lan Fang's rule, initially completing one of the goals of conquering the Philippines. .
However, after accurate statistics, he found that the number of Chinese he could gather at this stage was not large, less than 100,000, which was more than double the previous estimate of 200,000, which made him a little depressed.
These damn Spanish guys, in order to control the number of Chinese, carried out five massacres, greatly reducing the Chinese population that they could have expanded.
Not only that, they also continue to raise the threshold for Chinese residence, so that the number of Chinese in Manila is now inferior to places like Borneo and Java.
Zhao Xuening did some calculations and found that after conquering the Philippines this time, the number of Chinese under his rule was less than 800,000. This number was still a small number compared to the more than 5 million natives of the East Indies.
Although as his reputation and strength increase, it will not be difficult to further obtain populations from Guangdong, Fujian and other places, but this requires a process and a lot of time. Compared with his plan to build an elite army of 100,000 mainly Chinese, Generally speaking, there is still a lack of population.
According to his needs, he would need at least a Chinese population of about 1.5 million to barely be enough for him to form an elite army dominated by Chinese, and now this number is still short of 700,000.
According to the normal model, it will take at least ten years to gather these 700,000 people. In another ten years, France will have a revolution, and Louis XVI will be confused.
Nowadays, penicillin has not yet come out, and Nanyang is still a "promised land" where man and nature "live in harmony". Everyone's lifespan is not long. No one dares to say how long he will live, and he will die in his thirties or forties. Still a very common thing.
Time waits for no one...
While troubled, Zhao Xuening was flipping through military, political and economic information about the surrounding areas. Suddenly, he was attracted by a piece of news.
Nguyen Phu Anh, the Nguyen lord of South Vietnam, suddenly killed his top general Do Thanh Nhan for unknown reasons, causing the Dong Son Army under Do Thanh Nhen to launch a rebellion. Nguyen Phuc Anh was unable to restrain the rebellion of these troops, so Nguyen Phuc Anh's jurisdiction, which had finally obtained a base area from the Tay Son Dynasty, fell into Civil unrest.
The Xishan Dynasty reacted immediately and prepared to send troops to deal with Ruan Fuying.
On the other hand, Taksin, the head of the Thonburi dynasty of Siam, also ordered his son Zhao Shui to be the commander-in-chief, and his brother-in-law Thongluan Chakri and Sula Sinhana to be the generals to make military preparations together. The trend of dispatching troops.
Chenla was more friendly to the Thonburi dynasty a few years ago, but because King Chenla, who was pro-Thonburi dynasty, was killed in a coup, the new king was supported by Nguyen Phuc Anh's forces, so Zheng Xin has always been concerned about this He is always worried about this and has been looking for opportunities to prepare to regain control of Zhenla.
Now, he has found an opportunity.
War clouds were gathering in the Indochina Peninsula, and another Three Kingdoms War was about to take place, but Zhao Xuening thought of something at this moment.
If he remembered correctly, Taksin, a Chinese tycoon, was seized power and killed by his subordinate and brother-in-law Thongluan Chakri.
Tongluan's routine of seizing power is a bit similar to that of Guo Wei and Zhao Kuangyin. They were both leading the army when a coup occurred in the DPRK, and then used their military power to return to the DPRK to seize power.
Zhao Xuening couldn't remember when Zheng Xin overturned his car, but he remembered that Zheng Xin did overturn his car in the end, and more importantly...
The Thonburi Dynasty under Taksin's rule had a large number of Chinese people.
Because of Zheng Xin's status as a Chinese descendant, after the establishment of the Thonburi Dynasty, the Chinese in Guangdong and Fujian were very excited. Many people were recruited by him and came to Siam to defect to Zheng Xin. During this period, Siam became the country with the largest number of Chinese in Southeast Asia. place.
Zheng Xin was known as "King Zheng" among the local Chinese population. Before the rise of Zhao Xuening, he was the number one Chinese tycoon in Southeast Asia and another Chinese light.
After Zhao Xuening seized the trading rights of the East India Company, he also took over the commercial routes established by the Netherlands from Japan to Vietnam and Thonburi. Therefore, he had commercial relations with Vietnam and the Thonburi dynasty.
Because he admired Zheng Xin's achievements, Zhao Xuening also wrote a letter to Zheng Xin, trying to make friends with him.
But Zheng Xin didn’t reply.
As time passed, Zhao Xuening forgot about it, but now that he saw this information, he remembered it.
No matter what reason Zheng Xin didn't reply to, Zhao Xuening didn't care. He only cared about whether he could do something during the handover between the Thonburi Dynasty and the Bangkok Dynasty.
According to rough estimates, there are at least three to five million Chinese in the Thonburi dynasty. This is really a huge temptation for Lan Fang and is almost impossible to ignore.
If Zheng Xin is still alive, Zhao Xuening will certainly not be able to seize these Chinese people from Siam and bring them to Lanfang, but if Zheng Xin dies...
The situation is completely different.
It is said that after Tongluan killed Zheng Xin and usurped the throne, because Zheng Xin's prestige was too high, he did not dare to say that he had killed him to seize power and become king, so he announced that Zheng Xin died of illness.
Later, because he was worried that the Qing Empire would question him, when confirming the vassal relationship with the Qing Empire, he claimed to be Zheng Hua, the son of Zheng Xin, and was even recognized by the uninformed Hongli.
As a result, this behavior was continued and became a customary tradition, so every ruler of the Bangkok Dynasty would have a Chinese name surnamed Zheng.
In order to deceive others, Tongluan held a grand state funeral for Zheng Xin while blocking the news. He designated his birthday as a major festival and held a grand memorial event every year, which continued, full of black humor.
Perhaps, this is also because Tongluan's heart is so strong that he can't get rid of the guilt and fear.
Zhao Xuening had no interest in their internal disputes, but he was extremely greedy for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Siam.
In addition, the ruling area is now larger and the scope of rule is wider, requiring more people to enrich the foundation. Therefore, Zhao Xuening began to think about how to intervene in this great change in Southeast Asia.
After thinking about it, Zhao Xuening remembered a "famous saying" - sometimes, the dead are more useful than the living.
Don't you, old boy, don't want people to know what you've done?
But sometimes, the more you fear something, the more it will happen.
Now, Lan Fang has no reason to intervene in this major change.
but.
As the saying goes, there is nothing wrong with trying to inflict crimes. As long as I want to, as long as I have the ability, I can naturally create an opportunity to intervene out of thin air.
Zhao Xuening had an idea in his mind, so he wrote an order to be sent back to Seoul and handed over to Chen Qilong, who asked Chen Qilong to use the intelligence network throughout Southeast Asia to start executing Zhao Xuening's plan.
If we act faster, we should be able to catch up with this catastrophe in Southeast Asia and successfully capture crucial and precious population resources.
After the operation was arranged, Zhao Xuening continued to consolidate his foothold in the Philippines and paid close attention to the war between the native Filipinos and the Spanish.
Much as Zhao Xuening expected, the Filipino indigenous leaders were all excited when they learned that the colonial government in Manila had been overthrown.
Whenever there are Spanish commercial and military strongholds in the surrounding areas, they all organize their own armed forces to attack these Spanish commercial and military strongholds, trying to eliminate them and restore their independence.
As long as the Spaniards are here, they are second-class citizens. The Spaniards enjoy the best, but they can only enjoy the second-class. They used to be able to live a more luxurious life through exploitation and oppression, but now they have to accept the pain on their heads. There is a situation of being too emperor.
This is very unpleasant for them.
In the past, there was nothing they could do, they couldn't fight, and they didn't dare to resist, but now that Manila has been overthrown, the main force is gone, and there are only two or three kittens in the place, how can they not think about it?
In the Cavite area, the local Filipino indigenous people elected the bravest warrior Apu as their leader. They combined the power of seven indigenous tribes and organized a team of more than 5,000 people to attack an area guarded by only more than 200 Spanish colonial troops. , launched an offensive against the military fort that collected taxes from the tribes in Cavite.
