South Vietnam is a country of great significance in Chinese history.

A great man once commented on Zhao Tuo, saying that he was "the first cadre to go south."

If there were no Zhao Tuo, there would be no Nanyue Kingdom, and there would probably be no Lingnan region in the current territory of China.

Maybe the current Lingnan region will become its own country like Vietnam and Thailand.

At the time of the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were basically no Chinese people in the Lingnan area.

The people who occupied this place at that time were Baiyue people. These Baiyue tribes were still in the primitive tribal system and did not form a unified country. They used tribes as units and fought independently on the land of Lingnan.

Sometimes he would get involved in the wars of the Central Plains dynasties and act as a troublemaker.

Don't underestimate these Baiyue people. After all, they are next door to the Chu State. They also learned a lot of primitive bronze smelting techniques from the Central Plains, and received a lot of ideological education from "close relatives" of the Wu State and the Yue State.

They are extremely xenophobic towards Chinese people.

And because the Lingnan area was still a primitive rainforest at that time, the climate was hot and humid, and various poisonous insects emerged in an endless stream.

It is also difficult for the Central Plains army to effectively conquer Lingnan.

It's like the Americans fighting Vietnam. Even if your military weapons are more advanced than mine, if I play hide-and-seek with you in the jungle, you won't be able to conquer or even eliminate the local force.

They even have to face the constant non-combat attrition of their own expeditions, acclimatization, and miasma and poison.

Therefore, the Lingnan region has always been a place that Chinese people are reluctant to visit.

It was not until Qin Shihuang, the first emperor of the ages, unified the six kingdoms, that he set his sights here and sent general Tu Sui to lead an army of 500,000 to conquer Lingnan.

The Minyue, Xiou, Luoyue, Nanyue and other Baiyue tribes all suffered heavy losses in front of the Qin soldiers who unified the six kingdoms.

However, the Qin army suffered heavy losses during the southern expedition. After all, it was an expedition to a place with a very harsh climate and environment.

In the twenty-eighth year of the First Emperor of Qin, Tu Sui, the commander-in-chief of the Qin army, was killed in the rebellion during the conquest of South Vietnam.

At the same time, in order to solve the Qin army's supply problems of food, grass, equipment, etc., Qin Shihuang ordered the construction of the Ling Canal.

In the thirty-third year of Qin Shihuang's reign, the Ling Canal was built.

In the same year, Qin Shihuang appointed Ren Xiao as the chief general, and he and Zhao Tuo continued to attack Xiou and Luoyue tribes in Guangxi. It was also in this year that the Southern Expedition completed the great task of pacifying Lingnan, and the entire Lingnan was included in the Qin Dynasty.

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The Qin army at that time could be said to be the "Zenith Star People" in the true sense, unrivaled.

Then, Qin Shihuang established three counties in the Lingnan area: Guilin County, Xiang County, and Nanhai County. All three counties were controlled by Nanhai Wei Renxiao.

According to the script, the next step should be for Lingnan to be ruled by the Qin State, change customs, turn barbarians into Xia, and become an integral part of the Qin State.

But history has no script.

As we all know about the subsequent history, Qin II ascended the throne and was ignorant and immoral. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, and the aristocracy of the Six Kingdoms resurrected.

Qin lost its deer, and the whole world chased it away.

Ren Xiao, who was a lieutenant of Nanhai County at that time, saw that the Qin court was unable to look south, and he also had the ambition to separate the country.

It's just that the year is not a holiday. In the second year of Qin II, before the Qin Dynasty was completely destroyed, Ren Xiao fell ill first.

Before his death, he summoned Zhao Tuo and told him to build a country based on Nanhai County, which is close to the mountains and the sea. If there is any danger, he can take advantage of it to establish a country. He immediately issued an appointment document to Zhao Tuo and asked him to assume the duties of Nanhai County.

So the power of conquering the Qin army in the south was handed over to Zhao Tuo.

He did exactly what Ren Xiao said. After taking power, the first thing he did was to block all major transportation routes to Qin and cut off all connections with the Lingbei region.

After closing the door, he began to reorganize the interior of Lingnan, gradually using various reasons to kill the officials sent by the central government and replace them with his confidants.

At this time, the Central Plains was completely in chaos, and princes from all over the country were fighting for the throne.

The Qin Kingdom was completely gone, and the era of Chu-Han struggle for hegemony began.

But Zhao Tuo was not idle either.

After the fall of Qin, some Yue tribes in Guilin and Xiang counties also became independent and were no longer controlled by Nanhaiwei.

Zhao Tuo was also busy conquering these rebellious tribes and maintaining and consolidating the rule of "outsiders" such as the Qin Army in the Southern Expedition over Lingnan.

By the time Liu Bang unified the world, Zhao Tuo had almost joined Lingnan.

He implemented the policy of "harmonizing the Baiyue" in Lingnan, allowing a large number of Qin troops to marry the local Baiyue tribe, marry the daughter of the leader, and assimilate the local Baiyue people.

At the same time, he introduced the farming technology and advanced culture of the Central Plains, allowing the Lingnan region to quickly transition from a clan society of the Baiyue Conquest and slash-and-burn farming to the era of farming civilization.

When the Qin army first occupied Lingnan, Lingnan was still a barbaric and backward place with only a bunch of primitive tribes with no written language, no cultural inheritance, no sense of shame, and even no clothes, so they could only wear furs.

When Zhao Tuo died, the Nanyue Kingdom was no different from the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains in terms of culture, people's lives, social appearance and customs.

It has become a country that speaks Chinese, writes seal script, learns Chinese culture, and understands Chinese etiquette!

Since Zhao Tuo, in the following two thousand years, the Lingnan region has become an inseparable part of China!

From the perspective of the nation and the country, what Zhao Tuo has done is undoubtedly a lasting contribution!

In a sense, his achievements can be compared with those of the founders of unified empires in the past.

And from the beginning to the end, Zhao Tuo always cared about his homeland and always believed that he was a native of the Xia. What he implemented in South Vietnam was to use Xia to control the barbarians, implement the Chinese system, and transform the barbarians into Xia!

As a result, in modern Vietnam, there are many people who are shameless, shamelessly seeking relatives, recognizing Zhao Tuo and the South Vietnam Kingdom he founded as their ancestors, and brazenly referring to South Vietnam as the history of their country.

Emperor Wu of South Vietnam appears clearly in Vietnamese history books.

It really makes people laugh out loud.

If Zhao Tuo was resurrected and saw that he was recognized as an ancestor by the descendants of the primitive tribe who were driven to the jungle further south, I don't know what he would think.

I'm afraid he will be even more angry than seeing the fifth generation of Nanyue Kingdom die and be wiped out by the Han Dynasty.

After all, although South Vietnam was destroyed by the Han Dynasty, at least everyone was part of Zhuxia, so it was not a shame.

It's not like he has never experienced Qin's destruction of the Six Kingdoms, and he even participated in it back then.

But he is a dignified Longchuan Order of Nanhai in the Qin Dynasty, the "Elder of the South" personally recognized by Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty as the King of Nanyue!

Although when he was alive, he didn't pay much attention to the Han Dynasty. He closed the door in his own house and used the emperor's system, enjoyed the emperor's rituals and music, and proclaimed himself emperor several times.

But after his death, he was regarded as his ancestor by the descendants of the Baiyue Yi people and the small country?

How could Zhao Tuo, who had been trained in the Spring and Autumn Period to "respect the king and fight against the barbarians", served as a veteran with Qin Shihuang, and held the Qin household registration book, accept this?

I came to Lingnan to conquer the local barbarian tribes! I came to transform the barbarians into kings!

I’m not here to leave the summer and join the barbarians!

I am the Emperor Wu of Zhuxia and Nanyue!

Not the Vietnamese Emperor Wu!

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After writing and writing, I found out that one of the elder brothers was attacking the leader of the alliance.

I burst into tears, I didn’t expect someone to be a leader in such an unpopular book.

Thanks to the leader of the legendary coordinate system for the reward!

If you speak out, the water will be poured out!

The leader has added ten more updates!

But it is definitely not possible to add it all at once, and writing this thing would be extremely time-consuming.
Chapter completed!