Chapter 59 The End of Peninsula History - The Limit
Chapter 2184 The End of the Peninsula’s History The Limit
Liu Jirong, the third generation king of Linyi, officially succeeded to the throne in the 12th year of Jianlong. From the 2nd year of Zhengtong to the 14th year, he basically launched wars twice a year.
Of course, the scale of the war was not that big. All the big battles had been fought by the predecessors, and half of the energy was spent on internal turmoil and suppressing the rebels.
Linyi State, as a multi-ethnic feudal state, and with the Han ethnic group as an outsider occupying the main dominant position and enjoying most of the country's resources, it is impossible to resist resistance. Public security wars have also been fought in Linyi for decades.
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Especially those lands of Chenla that were conquered and annexed by Linyi, those tribes, princes, and those Khmers whose interests were harmed could not help but object in the face of the strong rule and oppression of the Han people.
On the basis of decades of management by two generations of ancestors, and with the hard work of hundreds of thousands of Han descendants, Liu Jirong adopted a strategy of combining "internal pacification and external warfare" to completely conquer the southern part of the original Zhenla Kingdom.
, especially the vast plain area of Tonle Sap Lake, which is also the foundation of the Angkor Dynasty. Without this place, Chenla Kingdom will only have a false name.
After Liu Wen campaigned against Chenla and won the last decisive victory over the enemy, he established the two states of Dun and Lam from the southwest of Tonle Sap Lake to Linhai.
By the second year of Zhengtong, after Liu Jirong inherited his father's will and fourteen years of non-stop conquests and annexations, the Linyi Kingdom had completely occupied the Tonle Sap Lake area and the Mekong River Basin in the east, basically including modern southern Vietnam and Cambodia.
Jizhou, Siam, and Zhanzhou were set up in the area east of Tonle Sap Lake, and Kezhou, Nazhou, and Bozhou were set up in the Mekong River Basin in the upper reaches.
At this point, the Linyi Kingdom ruled by Liu Jirong already owned 18 states more than half a century after the founding of the country, and had usurped the national destiny of the Angkor Dynasty that was supposed to lead to a glorious history.
After the imperial army knocked him down, Lin Yiguo quickly stepped up, kicked him hard several times, and stepped on him until he was killed, and drew nutrients for the development of the country from his corpse. From this, Lin Yiguo became the peninsula.
The second largest country, it is also an imperial state with extensive influence in the Nanyang region.
The Northern Expedition launched by Liu Jirong in the second year of Zhengtong went a step further on this basis. Although it was nominally to pursue and suppress the Chenla court that had moved north to "Phitsanulok", it was actually to attack those who were originally divided into four parts.
The tribal princes carried out conquests.
This is destined to not be a simple, easy and quick thing. The complexity and difficulty lies not in the military, but in the unfamiliar geography, difficult environment and backward transportation, which greatly consumes Linyi's national power.
Therefore, after the arduous conquest of several northern plateau princes, Liu Jirong, who also suffered enough, finally suppressed his eagerness for conquest and changed to direct annexation and rule for Jizu.
This move indeed reduced the resistance to the Northern Expedition. On the premise of ensuring the power and class interests of the original princes and chiefs, the Khmer people were naturally unwilling to go against the powerful and ferocious Han Kingdom.
Therefore, imitating the native chieftain system of the empire, Liu Jirong also granted a large number of chieftains in the northern area of Linyi, and those who showed "filial piety" could also be given titles of nobility.
Ji Si was a helpless choice, but its positive and positive significance was not denied. While opening up territory and expanding territory, it also ensured the stability of the northern territory of Linyi Kingdom for a long period of time.
With the stability of the north, Liu Jirong was able to free up his hands to continue to cultivate the country, develop and colonize, recruit and govern, and localize the system.
The "Hezhou area" in the lower reaches of the Mekong River was regarded by Lin Yi as the basis for its rise more than 40 years ago, and it fought hard to compete with Chenla. As a result, the Donghu area gave birth to the so-called "Khmer Empire"
, that great plain is even more fertile and has a rich foundation.
When these two fertile lands fell into the hands of the Linyi State, they would obviously be able to achieve better development under the rule of the Han people, and the level of civilization would be greatly improved.
Subsequent historical development has proved that thanks to the unique and excellent soil and water conditions of these two plains and rivers, after decades of management, the national power of Linyi State rose rapidly, and once approached or even surpassed Annan.
In his later years, Liu Jirong, the king of Linyi, moved the capital from Jinlan City to Maozhou because Jinzhou was too narrow to control all parties, and built a tower across Yanshui (Liu Jirong) on the basis of the old city.
A comprehensive Chinese name change movement was carried out in the country, and Tonle Sap Lake was named Yanhu Lake, and the new capital of Yantongyan was Nanjing.
It should also be mentioned that although Liu Jirong's Northern Expedition in the second year of Zhengtong did not achieve the achievement of expanding the territory thousands of miles and conquering all nations, it was the first time that Lin Yi's army crossed the plateau and deep mountains surrounded by the Yanhu Plain on three sides, and ascended the mountain.
Northern Plateau, set foot on the Chao Phraya Plain of modern Thailand.
The latter also caused Linyi State to once again encounter an embarrassing problem. From the land, it was bordered by Linhai State to the west. As early as thirty years ago, when Linhai State was still ruled by Liu Wenhai, Linyi State was established in the coastal area of Bangkok Bay.
After decades of development, a new city-Binzhou has been formed, and it took advantage of the collapse of Chenla to go more than 200 miles inland.
Here, I have to mention the Linhai Kingdom established by Linhai King Liu Wenhai. Compared with Linyi Kingdom, this is really an extreme regime.
Because of the lack of support from the empire (Linhai Kingdom can be said to be Liu Wenhai, who relied on the legacy of Jin King Liu Xi to fight with sword after sword), Liu Wenhai could only rely on himself to build Linhai Kingdom.
It became an extremely aggressive military state, and Linhai State also relied on a military system to maintain development and even survival.
The combination of the Han civilization's foundation, high-level military organization, and profit plundering, in Liu Wenhai's hands, unleashed an extremely powerful fighting force, and directly pushed back the Bagan Kingdom, which was originally on the road to prosperity and development.
The truth is that for a time, we could only rely on the complex geographical terrain in the north to defend the country and pathetically maintain the regime.
Of course, the military kingdom established by Liu Wenhai could not be healthy, happy with war, and short of production and development. Once the benefits of war could not make up for the cost losses, big problems would arise.
Liu Wenhai was already aware of this in his later years and started to change it. He also received certain support and achieved certain results. Many agricultural production areas were established in Lower Myanmar.
Unfortunately, Liu Wenhai died too early. He died of illness on the way to counter the rebellion in the sixth year of Jianlong. He was only 54 years old at the time, which also interrupted the difficult transformation process of Linhai Kingdom.
After Liu Wenhai's death, his second son Liu Jixu succeeded to the throne. Liu Jixu obviously did not have the prestige and ability of his father, and he was not able to handle the major changes in Linhai's system. Therefore, in those years, Linhai Kingdom has been struggling, especially in war and development issues.
, can never find a balance.
Even the suppression of the Bagan state, which was hiding in the northern mountainous area and struggling to survive, was relaxed. If it weren't for the Yunnan-Guizhou Rebellion, the "Dian people" entered Myanmar and merged with Bagan. Later, there was internal strife, leading to Bagan's chaos. Linhai State would also have
It may not be possible to pacify the north and achieve full annexation of Myanmar.
However, the problems of such a Linhai country are obviously not small, and the contradictions are very serious. When facing one after another internal turmoil, Linhai, a country founded by military force, inevitably faces a question: where to expand next?
The coastal area to the east is obviously a good direction, and a good foundation has been laid. When the extremely expansionary Linhai Kingdom and the equally powerful Linyi Kingdom under the rule of Liu Jirong simultaneously extended their reach to the "Thailand" Great Plains
It is also normal for some sparks to appear when the claws are rubbed.
In fact, by the second year of Zhengtong, after more than half a century of development by the Three Kingdoms, there was not much space left in the entire Indochina Peninsula.
The fertile land and advantageous land have been almost divided, and the remaining wild and remote areas are not very attractive. Under this situation, the "crowded feeling" of the Three Kingdoms will only become more and more obvious, and how
Dealing with such a situation is a difficult problem for the three countries. It is also a difficult or even unsolvable problem for the Central Empire.