The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 841 This can also be used to seize land from the rich and redistribute it?
September 18, 1804. The 29th year of the Guangzhong reign of the Great Yu Dynasty in China, which was the 9th year of the Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty. It was the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The leader deliberately chose this day. After more than a dozen rounds of intensive negotiations, and with the mediation of the English, the Great Yu first signed a ceasefire agreement with the Russian Empire, and then the three parties jointly signed the China-Britain-Russia Tripartite Agreement.

The ceasefire agreement stipulates that both Seris and Ross must immediately end the state of war, and Great Yu must do the following:

First, all occupied Rus' Empire territories, except for Astrakhan and its surrounding fifty kilometers, shall be conditionally returned.

Second, release all 30,000-plus Rus' soldiers captured during the war and return their weapons and ammunition.

Third, the Seres Empire pledged that it would no longer seek further westward expansion, would no longer cut off the route for Seres goods to be sold to the Rus Empire through Anxi, and would no longer refuse the Rus Empire's sale of grain to Anxi.

The Rus' Empire, in turn, promised:

I. Recognize the Seres Empire's occupation of Astrakhan and transfer sovereignty to the Seres Empire, and thereafter not seek to claim sovereignty over Astrakhan by force or any other means.

Second, the Seres Empire was permitted to relocate all the Oirat Durbet tribes, also known as the Kalmyks, who lived on the east bank of the Volga River, from the territory of the Rus' Empire.

Third, acknowledge that the Caucasus region belongs to the Seres Empire and withdraw all relevant personnel, but the Seres Empire must allow the Rus Empire to take away personnel from Caucasus countries who are willing to pledge allegiance to the Tsar.

Fourth, we promise that the garrison at Tsaritsyn will never exceed 30,000 men, we will not seek to establish a shipyard in Tsaritsyn to build inland river warships, and we will not build a corresponding fleet for the Caspian Sea. The Seris Empire has the right to conduct two inspections every year.

Fifth, relinquish all sovereignty claims over the Xianbei ice plains beyond 100 kilometers east of the Ural Mountains, and recognize the legal ownership of these areas by the Seres Empire.

After both sides made their commitments, they reached an agreement with the Kingdom of England.

The agreement stipulated that the Seres Empire and the Kingdom of England would each provide the Rus Empire with low-interest loans of no less than six million silver dollars over the next three years.

Of course, these loans were not given in cash, but rather in half in the form of construction of gun factories, gunpowder factories, cement factories, steam engine factories, and steel factories.

The remaining half was paid in the form of various commodities, such as steel, tea, sugar, and rubber.

The Rus' Empire promised that it would complete arming its army within six months at most, join the Third Coalition against France led by England, and march to Western Europe to prepare for war against France.

After the tripartite agreement was signed, although Da Yu did not join the anti-French alliance, it had effectively sided with the anti-French alliance.

After the armistice and the Tripartite Pact were signed, Tsar Alexander I and his son, Crown Prince Alexander, actually signed a secret agreement as well.

This secret agreement outlines how a buffer state, which would later be known as the Grand Duchy of Astrakhan by the Rus' Empire and as the vassal state of Da Yu, should be established.

Alexander I wanted him to produce a son and Da Laosen a daughter, but this was immediately rejected. Da Yu would only accept a Rus Grand Duchess marrying into the country; it was impossible for them to send a princess to marry after winning a war.

Moreover, the elder brother Sen had a hunch. In the secret agreement, the two parties agreed on a Rus' princess, but did not specify that she had to be the daughter of Alexander I.

Of course, Boss Sen didn't know that Alexander I had no descendants who grew to adulthood. He only made an agreement with the Rus' princess, which was actually a small foreshadowing to incite internal strife within the Rus' Empire when the secret agreement could be reached.

As for the condition that the Great Yu agreed to return the Ural River and its downstream areas, the condition was that the Great Yu needed at least 300,000 white slaves.

These 300,000 white slaves could be serfs of the Rus' Empire itself, or they could be slaves captured from Wallachia, Modavia, or even Poland and the Ottoman Empire.

Regardless of their origins, the Great Yu Dynasty must not lose a single one of its 100,000 male and 200,000 female slaves.

Anxi was never very popular with the settlers in Dayu, and in many cases it was even ranked below Beihezhou (North America).

Because there are still plenty of gold and silver mines to be found in Beihezhou, many people don't actually need to settle there permanently. They only need to be gold prospectors for ten years to earn a lot of money to buy property back home.

Moreover, although Beihezhou sounds far away, it is not difficult to travel there under the current navigation conditions. It takes less than three months to return from Beihezhou to the mainland of China or the East.

Even after conditions improved, the mortality rate on the route from Edo in the Toyo region to the port of Kitagazu Onsen (Vancouver) had decreased to two or three per thousand.

Anxi was a different story. There were no gold or silver mines to mine, and the round trip often took six or seven months, with the mortality rate during the journey still hovering around five percent.

In this situation, there was only one way to increase Anxi's attractiveness: to raise slaves.

At home, one is a poor peasant and has to work hard. Even after traveling thousands of miles to Anxi, one's status remains unchanged and one continues to be a middle peasant. What a waste of a trip to Anxi!

Therefore, only by keeping slaves, so that every Han Chinese who comes to Anxi, especially Hezhong and Beiting, has the opportunity to become a master, will this place become attractive in the eyes of the settlers.

A cool breeze was blowing, and it was the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth of August. Asen brought hundreds of tons of various delicacies from all over China. In addition, there was no shortage of beef, mutton and seafood in the area, so the celebration banquet to reward the expeditionary force was very lavish.

While the soldiers cheered, Boss Sen knew that his time in Anxi was numbered.

Now that immigration has reached a considerable scale, the Rus' people will not pose a threat for at least ten years, so there is no need for him, the crown prince, to continue staying in Anxi.

His father, Emperor Mo Zibu, had already written to him, asking him to return to the capital to rest for six months. After that, if his health allowed, he could go to Southeast Asia and stay for another five years. After that, his father did not elaborate further.

But Asen knew Mo Zibu's temperament. Five years later, it was highly likely that his father, who loved to be unconventional, would allow him to oversee the country in the central government for a few years before deciding to abdicate and become the retired emperor.

"Find a reliable person to reveal the contents of the agreement to the French," Boss Sen instructed his trusted confidant, Wang Guoyuan.

The French he was referring to were not the French who had fled to Dayu, but rather the current French government.

“We’ve got the English by the nose using India, and the English want to get us by the nose using continental Europe. Let them know that we’re just a little more inconvenienced without the English, but if the English lose us, they’ll pay a bloody price.”

"I am getting to the heart of this," said the big boss coldly. At this moment, he gradually realized that the English were so eager to mediate not only because they were genuinely afraid that France would invade the British Isles, but also because they wanted to use the European continent to control the Great Yu.

Even the big boss Sen had already sensed that the English might try to form an alliance with the Rus' in the future to oppose the Great Yu, so he was preparing to give the English a little lesson, uh, a test.

"I believe that the English may continue to court the Rus' in the future, and may even help them take over the Baltic coast, so that the Rus' will become a key land force against us."

Not only did the big boss Sen see it, but Wang Guoyuan also saw it.

"Then you should go to Vienna in person to meet with the Crown Prince of Lu and tell him that he can send the soldiers over thirty years old from the three guards of Lu who are willing to leave to Anxi. I have arranged farms, serfs and corresponding titles for these soldiers of Lu."

Boss Sen secretly calculated in his heart that if he could get 300,000 white slaves from the Rus' Empire within a year, plus the 150,000 slaves that the Kalmyks could provide, he could still settle a lot of people in the four provinces of Anxi.

Well, actually, the Kalmyks are also an unstable factor for the Great Yu, so the nobles among them will be rewarded and then relocated to other places, while the rest will be completely absorbed by the Anxi Envoy.

Moreover, given the Rus' cruel treatment of serfs, these so-called white slaves and herdsmen in the four provinces of Anxi could not be called slaves; they were essentially equivalent to the lowest level of people in the original Han lands—tenant households.

"Then you must tell the Crown Prince of Lu that a small number of the Jingying garrison and some Zhenjun and Yiconghui troops from the Anxi army will be added to the Three Guards of Lu. I will select the bravest warriors who are most eager to take risks and make merits to go there."

"Your Majesty's plan is brilliant!" Wang Guoyuan couldn't help but clap his hands in admiration. "In this way, the connection between the four provinces of Anxi and the Lu vassal state will be strengthened, making a large number of Lu vassal soldiers regard the four provinces of Anxi as their last refuge and escape route."

At the same time, these people were all ruthless veterans from the battlefield, and were far more capable of suppressing the two million serfs in the four provinces of Anxi than ordinary people.

Furthermore, the fresh blood of the Lu vassal state was mostly provided by Anxi, which strengthened blood ties and affection, and also made the Crown Prince of Lu realize that his most reliable allies were still his motherland, Da Yu, his uncle, His Majesty, and his elder brother, His Highness.

Ah Sen was very satisfied with his brilliant idea. After making all the arrangements, he began to write a letter to his father, Mo Zibu, to report on the matter.

Although he had the full authority to act arbitrarily, over the years, whenever there was a major issue, Asen would report it to Mo Zibu immediately.

After finishing his memorial to his father, Da Laosen hesitated for a long time before writing his approval in red ink on another memorial presented to him below.

This memorial, written by the newly appointed Chief Administrator of the Liaodong region, Lin Zexu, on behalf of his tenth brother, Prince Mozhou of Liaodong, requested the establishment of a cement plant in Baku with an annual output of 100,000 tons and a state-of-the-art blast furnace steel plant with an annual output of 20,000 tons. With these two facilities, the Liaodong region could pacify the Caucasus region more quickly and form the capability to independently confront the Ottoman Empire.

"Give it, give it, give it all!" Boss Sen muttered a few words. Brothers, whether they are blood brothers or cousins, are much more reliable than outsiders. Arming them is better than arming outsiders.

Thinking of this, Da Lao Sen finally invited his sixth uncle, Mo Zisheng, the Duke of Wu, who had already officially learned that he could not be promoted to the title of Prince An.

"Sixth Uncle, I will be returning to the capital soon. I will entrust the four provinces of Anxi Envoy to you. I am very confident in the rest. There is only one thing I need to tell you."

We must be extremely cautious about distributing the six million taels of aid from the Rus' Empire over three years.

Only after witnessing the Rus' Empire truly fighting tooth and nail against France on the European battlefield can aid be provided as planned. If it is discovered that the Rus' Empire is feigning compliance while secretly preserving its strength, you must conduct a thorough assessment, up to and including halting aid altogether.

Mo Zisheng nodded. "Furthermore, we must be careful that if France is too weak to be a match for the Rus' Empire, England, and the Holy Roman Empire, then we should immediately suspend aid to prevent the Rus' Empire from becoming too powerful."

"Hahahaha!" Ah Sen laughed loudly, "With Sixth Uncle here, I can go back to the capital with peace of mind."

. . . .

Rewind two months to June 1804, to the Hungarian Parliament Palace in Vienna.

"I can tell you very clearly that times have changed. It is difficult for a weak nation to survive independently on this dangerous land of Europe."

From the perspective of a Hungarian, from the perspective of someone who, like all our ancestors, came from the Seres, and from the perspective of all the innocent children living in this kingdom.

My sincere suggestion is to allow Hungary to remain within the framework of the Empire, and for the Imperial Emperor to continue to serve as King of Hungary.

Only in this way can we protect the interests of us Hungarians to the greatest extent possible and fight against those who attempt to enslave us.

This great empire is the homeland upon which the Austrians and Saxons depend for survival, and it is also the homeland of all of us in the Kingdom of Hungary. We need it.

The one giving the speech, urging the Hungarians to remain within the Holy Roman Empire, is none other than Prince Mogölze of Lu.

Two years ago, he was invited back by the Holy Roman Emperor, who was also his cousin, Franz II, and had been in charge of the integration of the entire Hungarian region as the Governor-General of Hungary.

In fact, Hungary's problems are not complicated; there are only two.

First, the corrupt Hungarian nobility seized most of the benefits, while they had little power and were extremely dependent on the Holy Roman Empire for the protection of their status.

In this situation, the Holy Roman Empire could not provide the power and benefits that the lower and middle classes of Hungarians needed.

The calls for independence from the lower and middle classes of Hungary were not suppressed by the Hungarian nobility, who had no choice but to rely on the Holy Roman Empire to take action.

For example, the Hungarian serf uprising in 1795, instigated by János Boczani and other major leaders of the Hungarian Jacobins, was completely beyond the control of the Hungarian nobility. In the end, it was only after Francis II sent secret police to arrest and kill these Jacobins that the riot was quelled.

Secondly, Hungary's location meant that they had to face pressure from all sides and constantly make sacrifices for the interests of the empire.

However, the Holy Roman Empire's southward march to end Ottoman rule was a complete failure, and it was nowhere near as successful as the Tsarist Rus' Empire.

This resulted in Hungary paying a heavy price, but receiving very little in return, which was not even enough to make up for the losses.

These two problems seem easy to solve. The first is what's the point of keeping these worthless nobles around, and the second is to share the benefits, otherwise only a fool would continue to make sacrifices.

But it's not easy to solve.

The first problem is that the Kingdom of Hungary had a population of nearly ten million, and the majority of the benefits were taken by the Hungarian nobles, or the Magyar nobles.

Hungarians make up just over 30% of this nearly 10 million population, roughly three million, which is why the Hungarian nobility has difficulty controlling their subordinates.

This also led the Holy Roman Emperors to wonder what kind of monsters and demons would emerge after they abandoned these Hungarian nobles.

Their social status meant they were cut off from the lives of ordinary people in the Kingdom of Hungary, making them utterly incapable of reform.

The second problem is more troublesome, as the ruler of this land is, after all, the Holy Roman Emperor of the Germans.

Therefore, successive Holy Roman Emperors had to focus most of their energy on the north and on the Germans, and were simply unable to devote too many resources to the south and the Balkan Peninsula.

The empire's attention was not on this side; no matter how corrupt the Ottoman Empire was, it was still a behemoth that could not be easily defeated.

However, these two issues were not major problems for Mo Gongze.

With Transylvania under his control and the Lu Fan Army as a backup, coupled with his considerable abilities, he was fully capable of penetrating into all aspects of the Kingdom of Hungary, bypassing the previous nobles, and independently discovering fresh blood from among the Hungarians to replace them.

Furthermore, Mo Gongze dreamed of heading south, hoping to seize wealth from the corrupt Ottoman Empire to make up for this deficit.

Therefore, during these two years, the only thing Mogonze did was to unite the middle class in the Kingdom of Hungary and constantly take action against the corrupt Magyar nobles.

Under Mogonze's decisive and efficient leadership, many of Hungary's original revolutionary fighters joined his ranks and became his assistants.

Well, to put it more simply, Mogongze was essentially fighting the local tyrants in the Kingdom of Hungary to distribute land, uh, no, it should be called fighting the nobles to distribute resources.

The vast social wealth and resources controlled by the corrupt aristocracy were redistributed to the capable middle class, replacing the old, toxic blood with fresh blood.

Of course, things didn't go smoothly. Of the 150 seats in the Kingdom's parliament, the majority of Hungarians, who originally held the majority, were reduced to less than half, about 68 seats. As a result, he faced a lot of opposition from Hungarian nationalists.

Last July, he was assassinated by the Magyars in Buda City. If it weren't for the Jinyiwei experts from Dayu who discovered it in advance, Mo Gongze would have been beaten to death in the street.

Even so, one of his half-brothers, Mo Gongjing, lost a leg in the explosion and survived only by sheer luck after the amputation.

As for the rebellion launched by the Hungarian nobles, even now, there are still many rebels in Vojvodina in the south and Transcarpathia in the northeast that have not been quelled.

However, these difficulties could not prevent the reality that the reforms led by Mo Gongze had gained the support of the majority of the people.

No setbacks can stop it, they can only delay it, because this reform will benefit most people.

Therefore, when Mo Gongze finished his speech, enthusiastic applause rang out in the Parliament Palace.

The newly elected nobles and intellectuals of the 150 sub-Kingdoms of Hungary and the Duchy of Transylvania unanimously agreed to remain within the Empire and were prepared to travel to Schönbrunn Palace today to pledge allegiance to Francis II.

The reason for this urgency is that the Holy Roman Empire is about to disappear.

Amidst thunderous applause, Shen Yao, the Prefect of Lu, a native of Shanxi, rushed in. He spoke to Mo Gongze with a tone tinged with shock:

"Your Highness, news has just arrived that Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul of France, has ordered the execution of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, the Duke of Enghien and son of the Prince of Condé, in Vincenburg!"

"That's great...uh." Mo Gongze's eyes lit up, and he almost jumped up with joy, but he finally came to his senses. He immediately squeezed out a few tears, stood up, and shouted in grief and indignation:

"Napoleon Bonaparte, that madman, that regicide! He murdered the Duke of Engienne! We must avenge the Duke!"

(End of this chapter)