Since pacifying the Central Plains, what Liu Yu lacked most was population.
Because there was not enough population, many of his grand plans could only be implemented slowly and little by little.
Even the most basic recuperation and recuperation are not progressing quickly due to the lack of population base.
While Liu Yu was having troubles in this regard, Huan Wen and others in the Angkor Man area far away in Dongfunan also had the same troubles.
Angkor Man City.
As a newly built city, it already looks a bit vicissitudes of life.
Before coming to Funan, Huan Wen and others had never thought that it would rain for several months.
The heavy downpour had already washed away a layer of adobe from the outer layer of the city wall.
"Mr. Liang, if this continues, I'm afraid the Angkor City will collapse."
A group of Di and Qiang generals looked at the heavy rain in the sky and couldn't help but feel sad.
"There's nothing we can do about it. The rain this year has been particularly severe. If the city wall collapses, we'll have to rebuild it."
Huan Wen didn't seem to care much about the city wall.
What he is most worried about now is that after such a heavy rain, many Angkor natives will definitely be reduced to abject poverty.
Angkor Man is a place close to the mouth of the Funan Holy River, and there are frequent thunderstorms and heavy rains, and tragic floods often occur.
Once a flood breaks out, it often means a large-scale plague.
"If the city wall collapses, it can still be repaired. If there is another plague this year, then our tribe will die, but they will never come back."
Huan Wen looked at the heavy rain outside and continued.
When the Di Qiang refugee generals heard this, they all showed painful and sad expressions.
Ever since Huan Wen and the others came to the Angkor Man area in Dongfunan, they have encountered major floods for two consecutive years.
After every flood, a terrible plague broke out.
However, such a terrible plague caused heavy casualties to Huan Wen's tribe, but the local Angkor natives suffered many fewer casualties.
For two consecutive years, the Huanwen and Diqiang refugees who had no advantage were suppressed again.
Under this ebb and flow, Huan Wen and others seemed to have seen themselves being slowly consumed by natural disasters and plagues.
Realizing his crisis, Huan Wen summoned everyone to discuss the matter.
The matter of discussion is naturally not the issue of whether to cross the Angkor Man city wall, but how to deal with this big trouble.
"Mr. Liang, what do you mean by this?" General Yang Nandi was the first to ask.
"Do you know what the emperor meant by conferring the title of Duke of Liang?" Huan Wen said slowly.
Yang Nandi and others looked at each other when they heard this, wondering what Huan Wen meant by asking.
Since they crossed Nanzhong and arrived in the Dongfunan area, they continued to obey the orders of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and it was equivalent to completely clearing the Han Dynasty's southwestern Yi trade route.
With such great achievements, it is absolutely normal for Huan Wen to be granted the title of Duke of Liang County.
"My Duke Liang is not just a title, but His Majesty has important matters and expectations!" Huan Wen said.
"Mr. Liang, what do you expect?"
Huan Wen smiled and then continued.
"In the past two years, you have already seen how strong the Funan Manggontuo Kingdom's military is. I don't need to tell you."
When Yang Nandi and others heard this, they all smiled.
In the past few years, they have fought against various Funan forces, and they have fully understood the fighting capabilities of the Funan people.
"That can be said to be very sparse. I'm afraid it's not even half of ours."
Yang Nandi shouted loudly.
The rest of the people also laughed when they heard this.
After arriving in Dongfunan, Huan Wen and others quickly made peace with the Manggontuo dynasty and gained the power to rule the area, and received the personal nod and consent of King Manggontuo.
In return, Huan Wen and the Di Qiang refugee army, as the new force of the Manggontuo dynasty, launched an attack on a group of small states in the south of Funan.
Huan Wen and the others had already kept in mind the strength of the Funan people.
"However, although our military strength far exceeds that of the Funan natives, we have a big disadvantage and may suffer backlash in the future." Huan Wen said.
"Mr. Liang, what's the disadvantage?"
"There are no other people. Even here in Angkor Man, our people are too few, far from being comparable to the number of people in Funan!"
Huan Wen's words immediately attracted everyone's approval.
The Funan Angkor barbarians here are all lowly and stooped. If you smile at them, it will not be of much use except frightening them.
It is such a group of mean and dark-skinned natives, but each one is more fertile than the last. The entire Angkor area is densely populated, almost comparable to some large counties in the Central Plains.
"Does Mr. Liang mean that we should hurry up and have children? But nowadays there are so many women. Even if we go to snatch the women from the natives now, it is too late."
"No, no, no, the number of Angkor's barbarians far exceeds ours. If we had ordinary births, we might not be able to catch up in this life."
Huan Wen wiped his sweat and continued.
"If we grow up too slowly, why not try another method?"
Yang Nandi and others looked at each other in confusion, wondering which other method there was.
"If the number of Funan people is reduced, wouldn't everyone be happy! At that time, our manpower will open up wasteland and cultivate land, and we can completely create another Han family land!"
It turns out that Huan Wen's plan is to find a way to kill Hao Qiang, a powerful clan in Asan.
Then kill their people and take their lives, which has become ours since ancient times.
When Yang Nandi and others heard Huan Wen's plan, they were all excited and restless.
Because according to the plan, they almost killed half of the local tycoons in Angkor Manor, and then ran around to occupy those unclaimed lands.
Three days later, the heavy rain just stopped easily.
Huan Wen had already been lost in the mysteries and couldn't extricate himself.
It can already be determined whether any gods have violated it.
"Mr. Liang, it's time to start!"
Yang Nandi and other generals were all dressed in armor and ready to go out to kill people at any time.
"Well, that's right. My army has received auspicious blessings recently, but we must not let the good concubine get into trouble, or just admit the ancient theory in a wanton way!"
The host stared at the crowd in front of him and then said.
Huan Wen now wants to settle the grievances of the local Angkor barbarian wealthy families. There will be some words of encouragement in the ordinary publication, and he will definitely seize a large number of rewards for internal fighting.
The Di Qiang refugee army led by Huan Wen suddenly launched an attack and launched successive raids on the indigenous powerful people in the Angkor area.
Under the attack of Huan Wen's army, which was well prepared, every village was captured.
The blazing fire enveloped the towns and houses of these Funan people, and all the Funan people who had not had time to escape were killed one by one.
Wherever he went, except for leaving some women and children behind, he almost brutally killed all the local Funan people.
Within hundreds of miles of the Angkor Man City, in addition to the dead and injured Funan Angkor barbarians, there were more Funan people who fled this hell on earth.
Huan Wen led a murderous army outside a city.
This city was originally owned by a local Funan Angkor man leader. It not only has strong city walls, but also has many arrow towers and sentry towers, which can be said to be fully defended.
However, when Huan Wen's general Yang Nandi led his army to the outside of the city, all the Funan people in the city had already fled.
"Is this city so intact?"
Huan Wen looked at the undamaged city and couldn't help but ask Yang Nandi beside him.
"Reporting to Duke Liang, the thieves in this city ran too fast. Maybe they abandoned the city and fled after seeing the general's forward flag, and they didn't have time to destroy the city wall." Yang Duryodhana said.
In the past half month, Yang Nandi and other Diqiang tribe members have fully unleashed their ferocious nature.
They not only killed all the Funan monks, nobles and warriors they met, but also killed and looted all the ordinary people they met.
In just half a month, at least tens of thousands of people had been killed.
Now around Angkor City, Huan Wen can completely let his generals encroach on the territory as they please.
Before that, the local Funan nobles, monks and others occupied the most fertile land, and Huan Wen and others could only exploit the miserable common people.
"I'm afraid it's not that simple!"
Huan Wen glanced at the city in front of him again, and then gave instructions again.
"Send more cavalry scouts and focus on the northwest. These thieves must have gone to King Manggontuo to complain. Maybe Manggontuo's army will come to investigate at some time."
After hearing Huan Wen's words, Yang Duryodhana was extremely unconcerned.
Those loose soldiers and horses of the Manggontuo Dynasty simply couldn't resist even one of their own charges.
Even if they come, they are just giving away their heads.
"General, I obey, let's make arrangements now!" Yang Nandi agreed happily.
After arranging all the military affairs, Huan Wen led his army to settle in the city.
The current army is attacking from all sides, trying its best to kill the local indigenous powerful people, and then drive away other local indigenous Funan people.
The personal guards led by Huan Wen played a role in mobile suppression.
Whenever resistance was fierce wherever he encountered it, Huan Wen personally led the three thousand armored troops into battle.
When we arrived at Yang Nandi's place today, there was actually no resistance, which gave Huan Wen's personal guards a chance to rest.
At night, the lights in this small town are still brightly lit, and all kinds of shouts and laughter can be heard from time to time throughout the city.
Those were all the soldiers who had captured the local Funan women having fun. Huan Wen had allowed the troops to kill, loot and have fun at will. Except for not drinking, he had almost completely relaxed military discipline.
After all, in addition to high-intensity continuous battles, brutal massacres have also made it difficult for the army to maintain strict military discipline.
Huan Wen had little interest in these things. After giving several Funan girls sent by Yang Duryod to his guards to enjoy, he stayed alone in the house.
In this gorgeous room filled with the scent of sandalwood, Huan Wen unfolded a huge treasured map, holding a candle in his hand and examined it carefully.
On this map, not only the rough outline of the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains is drawn, but also most of the Western Region and the entire Funan Continent.
"Hmph, you drive the tiger and devour the wolf. You really look down on me, Huan Wen."
Huan Wen looked at the map and couldn't help but sneer.
Didn't he know that Liu Yu kept sending these refugee and barbarian military forces out for the purpose of driving away tigers and devouring wolves?
Not only did it reduce the border threat of the Central Plains Dynasty, it also allowed Huan Wen and others to open up a new sphere of influence for the Han Dynasty.
However, Huan Wen understood that in this plan of 'driving away tigers and devouring wolves', there was definitely not just one 'tiger'.
He learned from the merchants in Nanzhong of Yizhou that the governors and governors of Yizhou and Ningzhou were now busy "driving barbarians to expand their business."
The so-called "driving the barbarians to expand their business" meant that Liu Yu allocated manpower and material resources from Yizhou and Jingzhou to support the Han forces in the Ningzhou area in the south to attack and drive away the local Baipu barbarians, seize the fertile land they occupied, and expand the influence of the imperial court.
Under the influence of this situation, it won't take long for a large number of Baipu barbarians to emerge from the Nanzhong area.
Their most likely migration direction is where Huan Wen himself came from.
After all, the main road of the Southwest Yi Business Road has been opened by himself. If you don't follow the road, it will definitely be extremely dangerous if you go into the mountains and forests.
Therefore, Huan Wen had already made up his mind to expand the strength of his own army in the Angkor barbarian area as early as possible. After the barbarians of Baipu migrated from the southern Pyu area, he would immediately start to annex and assimilate them all.
"As long as I have 100,000 soldiers, I can truly tear apart the earth and become king here!"
Huan Wen looked at the huge area of Funan Continent on the map and couldn't help feeling proud.
"It's not a world here, maybe it won't just be a king's problem by then!"
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While Huan Wen was massacring the Funan people of Angkor and dreaming of the Funan emperor, the real king of Funan now, well, or the nominal king of Funan, Fuman Mang Gongtuo I.
He no longer even had nightmares. He had a splitting headache from worrying about national affairs every day, so there was no chance for him to dream.
There was no way, the entire Manggontuo dynasty was frequently invaded by foreign enemies. In addition to the old enemies of the Cypriot states in the south, the Murong Xianbei people in the northwest also showed their greedy ambitions. Not only did they collude with the Sasanian Persians, but they also repeatedly Testing on the border is a sign of starting another war.
In the east of the Manggontuo dynasty, things had settled down a bit through humiliating suing for peace.
At that time, now the war has been rekindled.
Moreover, the way this war started was very unusual.
"Are those Orientals crazy? Why are they massacring locals and businessmen?"
Fuman Manggontuo I couldn't help but feel baffled when he heard that the "Easterners" actually massacred nobles and civilians.
These people are all shining money!
If it were killed, it would be worthless at all.
