The problem Su A'ao discovered was that these Funan people were very divided and not scattered. Although the city-states in various places did not belong to each other, many of the big businessmen in Funan were married and cooperated with each other.
In this kind of mutual trust that has lasted for generations, they often protect each other.
It's like helping to hide some property, which is the most common thing.
"These people are indeed thieves. They would rather give away their wealth to outsiders than obey the king's decree. They are really a disaster and should have been killed long ago."
Su A'ao thought for a while and felt that if he wanted to hunt down the remaining wealthy merchants in Funan, he must have the order from King Huan Wen, otherwise he would ruin the king's great cause of attracting barbarians into the Han Dynasty.
"Do you know which families are doing this kind of cover-up business?" Su A'ao decided to ask first, and then report back to Huan Wen.
"Master Qi, I have already found out that there are these families..."
The Funan Leading Party had already recognized Su A'A as their adoptive father. They thought about pleasing these new conquerors every day, so they were naturally prepared for it.
However, after Su A'ao heard the list of colluders and rebels, he couldn't help but frown, thankful that he hadn't been too reckless just now.
Because among these Funan families, several were emerging Funan dignitaries who had obtained official positions under King Huan.
Several families even married their daughters to Huan Wen, and they were regarded as standard royal relatives.
Su A'ao did not dare to make any independent decisions and immediately led his troops back to the city to report.
However, Huan Wen's reaction when he heard this situation was far beyond Su's expectation.
"Although we now want to introduce the 'Barbarians' into the 'Han', the most important thing is that they need to be loyal and do things honestly. People like this who collude and rebellious will not be able to support them even if they gain the trust of officials. A mature wolf cub!"
Huan Wen commented on the newly attached Funan nobles with a cold attitude.
In fact, he had already noticed that those Funan people were honest on the outside, but secretly they hated the new Han Chinese.
"Ah La, how do you deal with unfed wolf cubs on your grassland?" Huan Wen asked.
When Su A'ao heard this, he immediately narrowed his eyes and answered with a smile.
"Your Majesty, for the wolf cubs that have not been raised well, they will naturally be strangled to death, and then skinned and eaten!"
"Hahaha, let's end it then. Since there are precedents for how to deal with wolf cubs, how to deal with these Funan rebellious people will use the same method."
Facing Huan Wen's relaxed words, Su A'ao was still a little hesitant.
"Your Majesty, several of these families belong to the Funan clan, and several of them have women from the clan serving beside the King."
"What do the rich families have to fear? Anyone who dares to collude and rebel will be uprooted!" Huan Wen said nonchalantly.
These Funan people could not withstand their own military power before, but now they don't care at all.
"As for those families, how can national affairs be neglected just because of a few women? What should be done? We must strictly enforce the law!"
Huan Wen finally made the ultimate order, that is, as long as he has anything to do with rebellion, no matter what identity he is from Funan, he will be punished by destroying his family and genocide.
"If one family dares to collude and rebel, then we will massacre one family. If there are ten families and hundreds of families, then we will massacre ten families and hundreds of families!"
"Only by keeping the most obedient ones, can the future efforts to introduce Funan to the Han Dynasty be solid."
Su A'ao's face was already red with excitement at this time.
He naturally knew the huge interests behind this order.
To kill a whole family of Funan people is to make a fortune by destroying the whole family.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the general will arrest all those rebellious families in Funan and torture them. As long as evidence of the crime is found, they will all be punished by law."
Su A'ao is now General Xingcao under King Huan. He likes to arrest people, confiscate their homes and behead them.
"Well, that's best. However, the stakes are so important that you shouldn't be too rigid in these methods. You have to act strictly. You'd rather kill someone by mistake than let him go!"
In just one sentence, these two evil 'Han' conquerors sealed the fate of hundreds of Funan people.
In the following months, throughout the Huan clan's feudal kingdom centered on Angkor Thom, countless Funan businessmen suffered the fate of having their families destroyed.
Under the guidance of some Funan scum, the executioner Su A'ata sent every family of devout Zoroastrian believers on the road to see the God of Light.
Facing the bloody butcher knife, the entire Funan people in Angkor Thom immediately woke up.
It turns out that the swords in the hands of these terrible Han people are so strong that they are not afraid of them not cooperating at all.
Anyone who dares to resist will face death. No matter what noble status he once had or what official position he holds now, he will not be let go.
In an instant, all the Funan people inside and outside Angkor Thom were obedient.
Faced with the orders issued by King Huan, everyone accepted them without hesitation.
Whether it was Huan Wen ordering all Funan people to change their surnames to Han surnames, ordering the destruction of Zoroastrian temples and massacres of various religions and rebuilding schools, or ordering a ban on intermarriage by blood relatives and other laws that broke the local customs of hundreds of years, all of them received absolute support.
After all, the eagle dogs headed by Su A'ao killed nearly 30% or more of the Funan people in Angkor Thom. It was good that the remaining people were not frightened to death. How could they have the courage to resist.
Faced with such fruitful results, Su A'ao and others couldn't help but be proud of their martial arts. They flaunted their dignity in front of the Funan people every day to highlight their nobility as a 'Han'.
However, in their hearts, those Funan people did not think that these ferocious 'Hans' were the same as the Hans in the Nanzhong Protectorate.
People in Funan believe that only the Han people in the Nanzhong Protectorate are the real Han people. Although they are also very tyrannical, they are reasonable and law-abiding.
And these ferocious 'Han people' in front of them are simply fakes, just some descendants of the ferocious forest barbarians who pretended to be Han people.
Because of the evil reputation of the Linman people, these Funan people gradually called Huan Wen's soldiers Bai Linman.
In the Funan language, it means a pure forest barbarian.
Don't you executioners want to call yourself Han people? Then we Funan people are not as good as you want and want to call you Lin Barbarians!
No matter how much you promote your Han identity, in the eyes of the Funan people around you, all the 'Han people' in Angkor Thom are known as 'Bai Lin Barbarians'.
However, these "Bai Lin Barbarians" in Angkor Thom are greatly Sinicized, and there is no trace of the legacy of the Lin Barbarians of the past.
Huan Wen relied on his thunderous methods to set off a surge of enlightenment in Angkor Thom.
According to his idea, it would take two years to integrate the Funan people near Angkor Thom, and then three years to control the Funan people in the entire river area.
Five years was enough for him to use the people's power of the Funan people to travel south over the mountains and ridges to seek revenge from Murong's tribe.
However, human calculations are always not as good as heaven's calculations, or in other words, Huan Wen's calculations are not always perfect.
Five years later!
Although Huan Wen had captured most of the Funan people's land and became the nominal "King of Funan".
However, the actual dominance made him feel very helpless.
"Your Majesty, there are new barbarian invasions in the north of Fanxi City. Thousands of residents have been killed and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep have been robbed. Several Funan lords in Fanxi have said that their vitality has been seriously damaged and they will no longer be able to pay tribute this year."
"Your Majesty, the king of Linyi in the southwest sent troops to drive away our herdsmen and robbed cattle, sheep and livestock for no reason. This is the third time this year. Please allow us to send troops to protect us!"
"Your Majesty, the Funan people in Yue Ni City in the south have rebelled again and have colluded with the Suyi people. More than 20 Funan tribes, large and small, have already responded. We need to send troops as soon as possible to quell the rebellion."
In Angkor Thom, Huan Wen with a serious face was listening to the generals and officials reporting on major military and national events.
As a place with four wars, Funan is like a leaky sieve. All the neighboring countries and tribes may become enemies.
In particular, new conquerors like Huan Wen, who were coming in force but had no advantage in numbers, always had to face more severe challenges.
"Year after year, either the east was pacified and the west rebelled, or the north was repulsed, and the south came again."
"If this continues, when will Gu's plan of raising troops and food and going south for revenge be realized?"
Huan Wen's mood became worse and worse as he heard a bunch of border emergencies.
The Funan people's territory is too large, and their troops are too few.
In places far away from Angkor Thom, you must use those Funan people with the first rat and the two ends.
Once strong pressure is not exerted in time, these Funan people will often be passive and sabotage, shirking various collections and offerings, or colluding with external forces to cede territory and rebel.
For five years, Huan Wen spent most of his time either fighting the rebellion or on the road to fighting the rebellion.
"Your Majesty, I feel that only after the barbarian kingdom is properly managed can we think about going south for revenge. If we rush for success, I'm afraid we will lose both sides."
An official wearing the official uniform of a Han foreign vassal persuaded Huan Wen.
"Sir, don't you think I should seek revenge from Murong Xianbei?" Huan Wen was a little unhappy.
"Your Majesty, I don't have this intention. Of course I have to avenge the country, but if the foundation is not stable, how can I take revenge?"
This official faced Huan Wen without any fear or nervousness.
"In that case, sir, do you have any good advice for me?"
Huan Wen also realized that his attitude just now was inappropriate.
The Han official in front of him was not the generals under Su A'A, who were just rough people who could be scolded casually.
This person was a descendant of a famous noble family in the Central Plains. He came from the Wang family in Taiyuan and was the brother of the Empress of the Han Dynasty.
Because he violated the Han emperor's ban on powerful migration, he was sent to the Nanzhong Protectorate.
By chance, Huan Wen, who was suffering from a shortage of civil servants, wrote to Liu Yu and begged, and all the criminal officials in the Nanzhong Protectorate were seconded.
"Your Majesty, the land of Funan now extends five thousand miles, and there are at least a dozen neighboring states, including many large countries like Linyi in the west!"
Although Wang Shu had not been in Angkor Thom for a long time, with his agility, he quickly figured out the situation facing Funan Kingdom.
In such a standard place of four battles, if an ordinary person is left alone, he will be easily defeated if he doesn't pay attention.
However, Huan Wen managed to stumble and control most of the land in just five years with the tens of thousands of powerful 'New Han' soldiers and horses in his hands.
In Wang Shu's opinion, this is definitely a talent that can be called a king's tyrant.
However, Huan Wen's subsequent strategy went astray.
Faced with the newly attached land and population, Huan Wen did not want to integrate and annex. Instead, he wanted to gather manpower and material resources to go south to seek revenge from Murong's tribe.
In Wang Shu's opinion, this is absolutely stupid.
"As for Murong Xianbei in the south, it is already different from what it used to be!"
"Murong Xianbei went south to conquer the entire territory of Guishuang, even directly to the Shendu border. It can be said that he has a strong army and strong horses. Moreover, the Murong clan intermarried with Guishuang's Shendu dignitaries. It can be said that he gained 70 to 80% of the people's power. It is definitely not with the help of a few people in the king's hands. An expedition with thousands of soldiers and horses over the mountains and ridges can be victorious."
"Not to mention anything else, in the past two years alone, among the rare treasures that Murong has paid tribute to the Emperor of Luoyang, there have been more and more ivory and other items. Does your Majesty know what this means?"
Huan Wen was puzzled when he heard this and asked immediately.
"Sir, please give me some advice!"
"Your Majesty, I heard that the ivory and other items are sacred objects to the country of Shendu in the south. They will not be given to them unless they are very close friends. This means that the Murong family has already made good friends with each other. In other words, Murong has already subdued the poisonous person."
"They have already prepared to annex and fuse the Kushan people. If the king rushes to attack, they will definitely fail."
Hearing this, everyone in the room all looked at Huan Wen.
They all knew that Huan Wen was very persistent in seeking revenge on Murong Xianbei.
Apart from Wang Shu, the convicted royal relative in front of him, no one else would dare to say this.
"What sir said does make some sense."
Huan Wen thought about it and had to admit it.
In the past two years, the Daxue Mountain Pass in the south has been tightly guarded by troops sent by Murong Xianbei.
Not to mention tens of thousands of soldiers and horses crossing mountains and ridges to attack, even ordinary caravans have to face extremely strict inspections.
In this case, Huan Wen had not thought about the changes in the situation.
"The king is in danger now. If you don't pay attention, you will be doomed, but you don't know it. It's really heartbreaking!" Wang Shu sighed again, stroking his palms.
When Huan Wen heard this, he couldn't help but feel unhappy.
"Sir, now that we have the Han Nanzhong Protectorate, with tens of thousands of elite warriors in our hands, where is the danger?"
"Your Majesty, don't you know that the Nanzhong Protectorate only has a total of 10,000 soldiers, minus some garrison soldiers. Even if there are reinforcements, they will not exceed 3,000!" Wang Shu said loudly.
All the generals in the room were so frightened that they lowered their heads and pretended not to hear.
This kind of military information is actually a very important secret.
They don't want to cause trouble for themselves.
