My life skills in Daming Liver

Shen Guanyin did not directly agree to the Khmer Queen's request.

The Khmer Queen did not force them to make an immediate decision, but kept them in the palace and waited for them to make the final decision.

After dismissing the people arranged by the Khmer Queen to serve, Chi Hongmo asked:

"Chief, do you really want to agree to the Khmer Queen's request? Are we not going to Siam?"

Shen Yiguan said: "What is the purpose of our going to Siam?"

Shen Guanyi said: "Guarantee the balance of Southeast Asia and ensure the tranquility of Southeast Asia in the next stage."

"In this case, Siam is not our only choice."

Chi Hongmo said: "Today's Khmer does not even have an outlet to the sea. If we help the Khmer, will it arouse Siam's vigilance?"

Shen Guanyi smiled and said:

"You know too little about Siam, but I think doing this will make Siam more submissive."

Shen Guanyi said:

"The three major powers in Southeast Asia, Annan, Siam, and Burma, have basically been competing for hegemony with each other for the past hundred years."

"But due to ethnic issues, the three countries have completely different attitudes towards foreign affairs."

Chi Hongmo has studied the history of the three countries in Southeast Asia attacking each other, and summed up the three countries with his own words, which is that they are "foody and fun-loving".

Annan is considered a powerful country in the history of Southeast Asia. After Annan was violently beaten by the Ming Dynasty in the past hundred years, it disappeared for a while. However, when the Ming Dynasty abandoned Annan, Annan continued to conflict with Burma and attacked each other for a long time.

Myanmar is the craziest regime in the entire Southeast Asia. This regime is almost surrounded by enemies.

Sometimes they provoked the Ming court, such as the exiles who harbored Luchuan and often caused trouble in Yunnan.

Fighting for territory with Annan to the east, fighting Siam to the west, and hostile to everyone like a mad dog.

The rise of Siam was relatively peaceful. Whether it was regarding its old sovereign state, the Khmer, or Myanmar, Siam's attitude was relatively flexible, and its awareness of territorial expansion was not as great as that of Myanmar. That's why it was Selected to represent interests in Southeast Asia.

Shen Guanyi said: "The biggest problem in Myanmar is the ethnic issue. This problem also forces Myanmar to show an aggressive attitude and remain hostile to the surrounding countries."

"This root is the establishment of Myanmar."

"Actually, Burma, like Siam, was originally a 'barbarian' group around the Khmer Kingdom. The Burmese people, like the Thai people, were probably squeezed into Southeast Asia from the southwestern frontier of our Central Plains."

"At the beginning, the Bamar people were also regarded as Khmer barbarian mercenaries."

"Unlike the Thai people, the Thai people have absorbed and inherited the Khmer civilization culturally, but the Bamar people have always resisted the system of absorbing the Khmer civilization. But as they began to establish a country, they must have an effective system. system for managing the country.”

"Using the example of the Central Plains, if the Khmer Empire is regarded as a Southern Dynasty that has declined in force but maintained its clothing system, then Burma is equivalent to the Northern Qi Dynasty that retains the tradition of Hu culture, while Siam is the Northern Zhou Dynasty that has a more thorough integration of Chinese culture. .”

When Shen Yiguan said this, Chi Hongmo immediately understood.

The history of Chinese civilization is so long that similar cases can be found in history for anything that happens in this world.

Shen Yiguan's example can be said to be very appropriate.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was such an example.

The Southern Dynasties were equivalent to the Khmer, with a prosperous and developed culture, but overall military power was in decline and was being ravaged by the north.

There are two regimes in the north, the Gao family of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Yuwen family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, both of which were founded in six towns.

In terms of blood, these two families can be regarded as Han Chinese Hu people, and they are both multi-ethnic regimes that have absorbed advanced culture.

The corresponding ones are Siam and Burma, which have absorbed Khmer culture.

Shen Guanyi continued: "Siam, like the Northern Zhou Dynasty, is a country that has absorbed the entire Khmer culture and political system. Even some of the top leaders in the early days of Siam's establishment were themselves Khmers. Siam does not emphasize blood. Khmer and Thai people often intermarried, and now the Khmer and Thai people in Siam have integrated together."

"The founders of the country of Myanmar are the Bamar people, but the Bamar people are just like the Northern Qi Dynasty. Although they obtained political power and established the country, they are still unwilling to absorb Khmer culture. On the contrary, they are very resistant internally to the establishment of an advanced cultural system."

"Several Sinicization reforms in the Northern Qi Dynasty also failed because the Hu culture in the six internal towns was too strong and opposed comprehensive Sinicization. Therefore, when the Northern Qi Dynasty was first established, the military ethics were much richer than those in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. At the beginning, They always fought against the Northern Zhou Dynasty."

"But with the development of the times, Myanmar encountered the same problem as Northern Qi."

"Hu people with strong military virtues cannot govern the country and form a stable ruling system. No matter how powerful a country is, it cannot maintain its strength by relying solely on the military. Not to mention that the military cannot survive without the blood transfusion of civil affairs. .”

Chi Hongmo nodded repeatedly. After Shen Yiguan's metaphor, his understanding of the situation in Siam, Myanmar and Khmer suddenly became clear.

Shen Yiguan said: "Chi Shaosi, you know history, what was Northern Qi's plan later?"

Chi Hongmo thought for a while and said: "Appoint Han family members to become bureaucrats and manage civil affairs."

Shen always said with approval: "Very good, Myanmar uses the same method. There is an ethnic group in Myanmar called Shan. This ethnic group has a complete political, religious and cultural system. It can build temples and communities and appease the people. , although this system is very backward in our opinion, it is sufficient for Myanmar."

"So the founder of the Burmese state managed the country together with the Shan people. The Burmese were responsible for the military, and civil affairs were left to the Shan people."

"Then how did the Han people in Northern Qi live?"

Chi Hongmo immediately said: "Since the founder of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Huan, all Northern Qi emperors have been tyrannical and unjust. Political turmoil has continued in the country. Han families in Northern Qi have often been massacred because of team issues."

Shen Guanyi said: "Such a problem also occurs in Myanmar. The Bamar people control the military and the Shan people control the civil affairs. This looks very good, but because the Shan people manage the civil affairs, their living conditions when they are not fighting are better than those of the Burmese who are soldiers." Good people."

"This naturally caused dissatisfaction among the military leaders of the Burmese people, so the system often experienced unrest. The Burmese would accuse the Shan people of rebellion and often massacre Shan people."

"Once the Shan people control the land and population, they want to break away from the territory of Myanmar. So far, the two sides have formed a deadly feud."

"If the Bamar people want to maintain their rule, they must continue to attack foreign countries, so as to ensure their high status as a military aristocracy."

"So the Grand Governor said that among the countries in Southeast Asia, only Burma is the least worrying."