Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

What is Lin Yi's identity? He is the prince of the Daxia Empire. How could he meet a stranger casually?

So the son of a wealthy businessman surnamed Li was desperate and wanted to take a chance outside the palace to see if he could meet Lin Yi and ask him to restore Lanfang Kingdom.

As a result, this middle-aged man was always wandering outside the palace, and was noticed by Fang Zhong, who was responsible for the security of the palace, and had him arrested.

Fang Zhong handed over the son of a wealthy businessman to Fang Xiao. Later, after Fang Xiao was interrogated, he discovered that he had made an own mistake.

However, although the identity of the other party was figured out, the problem was that the empire did not plan to participate in the war at that time. (It was 1912, the eve of Daxia's entry into the war).

Therefore, Fang Xiao let the wealthy businessman's son live in the capital and told him that when the time was right, he would naturally introduce him to Lin Yi.

As a result, the wait lasted for more than a year. It wasn't until Lin Yi mentioned that he wanted to attack the Kingdom of Sumatra that Fang Xiao suddenly thought of this person.

Therefore, Fang Xiao brought the son of a wealthy businessman who had been stranded in the capital for a year to Lin Yi.

Regarding Lan Fang Country, Lin Yi knew about this country from a few words in the history of his previous life, but it was not detailed.

After having a detailed chat with the son of a wealthy businessman, Lin Yi finally had a general understanding of Lan Fangguo.

Lan Fang Kingdom was founded in 1776 and was destroyed in 1888. It existed for 112 years and had 15 heads of state.

Lan Fangguo was initially a political organization similar to the East India Company. Later, the country became independent. The country adopts a republican system of leadership. The head of state is elected by the parliament. He is known as the "General Commander of the Tang Dynasty", while the locals prefer to call him the "King of Pontianak".

When the land area was the largest, it reached 45 square meters, with many cities such as Kuching, Dongwanlu (now Pontianak), Sangkowang, and Singkawang City.

It has a very high social reputation in the local area, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

(This seems to be a unique quality of the Han people. Even if it is fatal, it can still make the locals live a good life, unlike some Western countries)

In 1886, Lan Fang Kingdom was invaded by the Dutch. Although the people across the country put up a tenacious resistance, they ultimately failed due to poor weapons, and Lan Fang Kingdom declared its demise.

From 1886 to 1888, the Lan Fang Kingdom experienced another two years of resistance. The remaining forces of the Lan Fang Kingdom were eradicated by the Dutch. The wealthy businessmen took the last remaining members of the Lan Fang Kingdom across the sea and arrived in Kuala Lumpur on the Malay Peninsula.

The name of this wealthy businessman is Li Yuchang, and his son is Li Chenghua.

Moreover, Lin Yi also learned that Li Yuchang was Lan Fangguo's last chief of staff and deputy commander of Lan Fangguo. After the Lanfang Kingdom was destroyed, he himself led an army of [-] to fight the enemy.

Lin Yi still admired Li Yuchang. After all, at that time, he had gone deep into the enemy's territory, and then led the remaining soldiers of Lan Fang Kingdom to resist for two years.

Regarding Li Yuchang's hope that Daxia would help him recover, Lin Yi also had his own plans.

It's not impossible to help Lan Fang's country recover, but as the saying goes, brothers will settle the score.

Restoration is possible, but Lanfang State can only become a vassal of Daxia. For example, tariffs and diplomacy must be consistent with Daxia. The army and weapons can only purchase equipment from Daxia.

Soldiers also need to be trained by Daxia's officers and obey the unified command of Daxia's military headquarters.

Li Chenghua did not dare to agree to Lin Yi's request. He said he needed to ask Li Yuchang for instructions.

Lin Yi agreed with this matter. In Lin Yi's view, it actually doesn't matter whether Li Yuchang agrees or not.

Although Lin Yi admired Li Yuchang very much, this did not mean that he could give up the interests of the empire for Li Yuchang. For the empire, if the empire wants to control Nanyang, it really needs an agent.

But this agent is not necessarily Lan Fangguo.

Hong Fang Country and Huang Fang Country are also possible. After all, if the empire wants to control Nanyang, the agents there must be obedient.

If you can't even provide basic military power, how can you reassure the empire? Besides, it's better for God to bring up this kind of thing from the beginning than to have everyone break up later.

Therefore, Lin Yi's idea is very simple. If you agree to hand over military power, I will agree to help you restore the country. Otherwise, I would rather support a more obedient country.

Soon, Li Yuchang's reply was delivered to Li Chenghua.

Although Li Yuchang is now in his seventies, he still knows it very well in his heart.

They have almost no connection with Daxia except that they are people from the same ethnic group. In the past, when Lan Fangguo was still there and Daxia was still weak, there was no contact between the two countries. Now, suddenly, you come to your door, hoping that the other party will help you restore the country.

This kind of thing is very abrupt and disrespectful. But Daxia still agrees to help you restore the country. They just made some normal requests.

The first is the treatment of a vassal state. To put it bluntly, it is what it should be.

Your Lanfang country relied on Daxia to recover and became a vassal state of Daxia. This is a matter of course. Along with the vassal state comes the obligations and rights of the vassal state and the suzerain state.

The tariffs only mean that they will be implemented in accordance with the tariff standards given by Daxia. This standard can still be discussed by both parties. This is not excessive. If you look at the other vassal countries in the history of Daxia, do you dare to collect the commercial taxes of the suzerain country?

Let's talk about the military aspect. Strictly speaking, this is indeed a bit excessive and has seriously damaged the sovereignty of Lanfang State.

But again, weak countries have no diplomacy and can only obey strong countries. Put aside the matter of Da Xia's restoration of Lan Fang's country. Just say how big is your Lanfang country? How many soldiers can be recruited?

Are you looking at how many soldiers Daxia has now? To put it simply, you are surrounded by Daxia's territory. Daxia's armaments are many times higher than yours. What can you do with the few soldiers you have?

Moreover, if the military power is handed over to you, Lanfang Country, do you, Lanfang Country, dare to take over? If you take over, it means that there is an army in the hinterland of Daxia that cannot be commanded. Do you think Daxia will target you?

In short, in the hinterland of Daxia, you will be better off without military power than with military power.

Because, whether he has military power or not, if Daxia wants to beat you, he will beat you without any hesitation, so the result will be the same.

And without military power, at least Daxia's army will not be on guard against you.

Moreover, what Daxia said was not that Lanfang State was not allowed to have an army, but that Lanfang State's army was under the command of the Daxia Military Headquarters. In fact, the army of Lanfang State still belongs to Lanfang State in name, and that is enough.

In Li Yuchang's view, nothing is more important than rebuilding Lanfang Kingdom now.