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Under the capture of the Queen's Kingdom, the Kingdom of Folubudy and more than a dozen small countries, the territory of the Khmer Kingdom has decreased dramatically.

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It is impossible to get the biggest and sweetest piece when you are sharing the cake at this moment. If you don’t work hard and don’t show your strength, even if you are lucky enough to get a big piece of cake, others will be thinking about it.

Therefore, after destroying the large-scale remnants of Annan County and Chameng County, the Liangshan army came to Angkor Thom and prepared to fight the Khmer army.

In this battle, a total of 100,000 troops were dispatched on the Liangshan Mountain.

The Queen's Kingdom, the Falcon Kingdom, and more than a dozen small countries also dispatched more than 100,000 troops.

In total, there are more than 200,000 troops on the coalition side.

The Khmer country dispatched nearly 300,000 troops and more than 100,000 war elephants.

The two sides fought a decisive battle on a plain between Angkor and Pakse.

In this battle, Li Yan appointed Han Shizhong as the commander-in-chief.

Han Shizhong defeated the Khmer army with his unconscience cannon, bed crossbow, and a thunder car equipped with flying divine thunder and sky thunder. He won the battle, killed and injured more than 100,000 Khmer troops, captured more than 100,000 Khmer troops and more than 70,000 war elephants.

The Queen's Kingdom, the Kingdom of Fallopod and more than a dozen small countries took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and annexed the territory of the Khmer Kingdom.

Of course, the largest and richest piece (that is, south of Angkor Thom, including Bangkok in later generations and a large area of ​​land in Phuket) was included in the territory by the waters of Liangshan.

Li Yan painted this territory into three counties (namely Zhenla County, Bangkok County, and Phuket County), and also painted a large piece into Chameng County, which allowed him to digest this huge territory.

Li Yan attaches great importance to the Indochina Peninsula. He not only appointed Wang Lun as the Governor of the Indochina Peninsula (the prefect of Zhenla County) to be fully responsible for all civil and political affairs of the Indochina Peninsula, but also appointed General Lu as the prefect of Annan, Guo Yong as the prefect of Chameng, Jin Fuzhe as the prefect of Bangkok, Hu Quan as the prefect of Phuket, and in addition, thousands of experienced officials were transferred from Seoul to manage the place.

It is not difficult to see from Li Yan's series of appointments that Li Yan attaches great importance to the Indochina Peninsula.

Later, at Wang Lun's suggestion, Li Yan also sent troops to occupy the entire Malay Peninsula that the Khmer Kingdom and the Sanfoqi had been competing for, and then merged them into Phuket County and were governed by Hu Quan.

In this way, the water of Liangshan strangled the trade channel between China and the West to death.

It can be said that Li Yan is now fully capable of strangling the greatest source of wealth in the Northern Song Dynasty.

As long as Li Yan prohibited merchant ships from the Northern Song Dynasty from going to sea, even if there was no Jin army invasion, the Northern Song Dynasty, which relied heavily on this business road in less than two or three years, would be boasted about the economy and collapse.

Not only the Northern Song Dynasty, but even the Southern Song Dynasty was lucky enough to be established.

Without the support of this great business road, the Southern Song Dynasty would never have had the chance to turn around, and it would not have been possible to last.

This is one of the main reasons why Li Yan attaches great importance to this great business path. As long as he masters this great business path, Song State is the dough in Li Yan's hand. Li Yan will knead it if he wants to knead it, and pinch it if he wants to knead it. Song State has no power to resist at all.

However, the Song State, which is now in a mixed bag, has not noticed this extremely important thing.

The Indochina Peninsula is extremely important, so important that it cannot be missed.

Therefore, after defeating the Khmer army, the Khmer country had no chance to turn around, Li Yan, who had been in Hainan County for several months, finally set off again and came to Angkor Thom.

This is not the first time Li Yan has been to Angkor Thom. In fact, in his previous life, Li Yan visited Angkor Wat as a tourist. The reason why Hu Yanqing and Han Shizhong were able to attack Angkor Thom from the water road was that Li Yan heard from the tour guide that the Champa people destroyed the Khmer country.

Although it was not the first time I came to Angkor Thom, Li Yan was still shocked by the majesty of Angkor Thom.

The total area of ​​Angkor Thom actually reaches nearly two million acres!

This huge city is even bigger than London and Paris in later generations!

Let’s take another vivid analogy. Bianliang City, the first city in the East, is only more than 500,000 acres. In other words, the area of ​​Angkor City is four times that of Bianliang City!

Perhaps, Angkor Thom is the largest city of this era.

The shock of Angkor Thom is not only reflected in its size, but also in its grandeur and exquisiteness.

The stone used in Angkor Wat alone (that is, the temple group in Angkor Thom) is as many as five million pieces. The average weight of these huge stones reaches one and a half tons, and the largest one even weighs seven or six tons. If all the stone consumed in all the temples in Angkor Thom, the stone consumed will be much larger than that of all Egyptian pyramids.

As for the exquisite aspects.

Such a huge building complex can make every detail nearly perfect, and its exquisiteness, exquisiteness and delicateness all reach an unprecedented height.

It is not surprising that Angkor Thom can be so large, so exquisite and delicate, because the Khmer Kingdom has used almost all craftsmen from Southeast Asia and India to build Angkor Thom. The total number of these craftsmen is more than 200,000, and they are all top in the world, among which there are as many as 600,000 to 70,000.

Very lucky!

When Hu Yanqing and Han Shizhong captured Angkor Thom, all these more than 200,000 craftsmen built temples in Angkor Thom.

Li Yan honestly and bluntly "invited" all the more than 200,000 craftsmen to Seoul, and then contributed to the construction of Shuibo Liangshan.

In addition to "inviting" all the craftsmen to Seoul, Li Yan also sent the 100,000 Khmer prisoners of war, 60,000 to 70,000 Li Chao, the warpova prisoners, and 60,000 to the eight counties of Kyushu, and asked them to dig gold and silver mines with the previous 50,000 Koryo, Taifeng, and Japanese prisoners of war.

Angkor Thom is so large and so grand that Li Yan even moved. If he cannot compete for the Central Plains, he can consider the idea of ​​establishing a country here and treating it as the capital.

Of course, this idea flashed through Li Yan's mind.

As a Chinese, Li Yan naturally wanted to get the Central Plains, and in the end it was just a few counties in his own country.

Angkor Thom is so grand that the wealth it has is naturally amazing, and even Li Yan, who is used to seeing the world, is shocked!

Li Yan can no longer estimate or describe the amount of these wealth.

Li Yan could only use some adjectives he knew to express the huge amount of this wealth.

Under Li Yan's order, more than 200 civilians and prisoners of war, as well as the Sun-Ba Fleet, which had more than 2,000 sea ships, took three months to move the wealth owned by Angkor Thom (including the wealth owned by the Lee Dynasty and Champo) to Taiwan County. Then, the Sun-Ba Fleet Right Army took more than half a year to transport all of this wealth to Seoul.

This wealth even caused Zhao Kaibaba, the Minister of Revenue, to get from Seoul to Angkor Thom.

After Zhao Kai came, Li Yan and Zhao Kai chatted secretly for three days.

During these three days, Li Yan and Zhao Kai agreed on a major event, which was monetary reform, changing the gold and silver replica system originally implemented by Shuibo Liangshan to the gold and cost position, eliminating the hidden dangers of the denomination of coins.

This reform requires an extremely large amount of gold.

Previously, even though the people from the Shuibo Liangshan Industrial Department found more than a dozen gold mines in eight counties including Kyushu, including the Rhinoka Gold Mine, Sado Jinshan, and Dasha Jintian, Li Yan did not have the intention to reform this.

Now that the Khmer country has been conquered, Li Yan is ready to implement this reform immediately.

This shows how rich the Khmer country is.

Of course, Zhao Kai is only formulating this reform plan at present. The actual implementation has to wait until Li Yan returns to Seoul. The reform involves too great interests. If Li Yan does not take charge of the situation personally, Zhao Kai will not be able to complete this reform.

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Chapter completed!