Chapter 516: No need to negotiate
The Fu Han army conquered the Burmese Governor's Mansion.
Yang Yingyuan, led by a major officer, walked towards Fuzhong, he was wearing a red Fu Han army uniform, with a sword hanging from his waist, and his expression was solemn.
The two walked along the long pavilion corridor towards the front, only to see that there were still some people in the courtyard cleaning up the flowers and rockeries, and the appearance of a row of fiery mountains made Yang Yingyuan slightly surprised, "The metropolitan governor really plans to stay in Ava for a long time?" β
"That's not it, the Metropolitan Governor likes these things on weekdays, but now after he arrives in Ava, he has manipulated them." The major smiled slightly, and pointed to the house in the distance, "Most of the governors are not used to Burmese houses, and they will definitely be demolished and rebuilt when the time comes." β
Yang Yingyuan thought for a while, but he didn't say much, and followed the major into the study of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, only to see Cheng Ming wearing a dark robe at this time, with light boots on his feet, the whole person looked relaxed and freehand, he saw Yang Yingyuan walk in, but he greeted with a smile.
"Staff Officer Yang is here, but why do you want to resign?"
Yang Yingyuan bowed his head and replied: "Originally, I was going to resign, but now I am a little more worried in my heart, and I don't know if I will be able to see the Metropolitan Governor in the future." β
"Oh?"
Cheng Ming's face revealed a little surprise, and said with a smile: "Why did Staff Officer Yang say this?" β
Yang Yingyuan sighed slightly, "Although the Metropolitan Governor likes good houses and beautiful houses, he has never distinguished between public and private, and will never take care of private affairs at this time, from the shallow knowledge of his subordinates, the Metropolitan Governor has no intention of concealing this matter, and he wants to do it for others to see, as for this Ava City, who else is worthy of the Metropolitan Governor's high look, it is nothing more than the Shan and Meng clans......
Cheng Ming restrained his smile, looked at Yang Yingyuan with deep eyes, and said, "Go on." β
Yang Yingyuan panicked in his heart, but the beads of sweat on his head flowed out, and he said in a low voice: "It seems to my subordinates that the Metropolitan Governor's move is nothing more than to confuse the Meng people, so that they will think that the Metropolitan Governor has the intention of staying in Upper Burma for a long time, so that they will not be suspicious....... Presumably, this meeting of Pinmana is the place where the Metropolitan Governor has worked hard and lonely......."
"Tell me, what kind of character are you?" Cheng Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Bait." Yang Yingyuan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and the whole person was a little nervous.
For a while, the atmosphere in the study became extremely dignified, especially under the momentum of Cheng Ming's eyes, which almost overwhelmed Yang Yingyuan, he lowered his head slightly, but he did not completely lower it.
"Good, daring!"
After a long time, Cheng Ming finally broke the tense atmosphere in the study, he stroked his palms loudly and laughed, but he took Yang Yingyuan's hand and walked towards the outside of the study, and said with a smile as he walked: "Before I first came to Myanmar, Major General Shi of the Military Intelligence Department specially recommended a person to me, saying that although there are many talents in the southwest, there are talented and intelligent people, and there are people with deep family backgrounds, but in front of you Yang Yingyuan, the rest of the children are insignificant. β
Yang Yingyuan shook his head lightly, "Lord Shi is really overrated, his subordinates just know a little about the affairs of the southwest, if you really want to talk about it, Wen can't be a country, Wu can't set the country, it's a mediocre person." β
"Huh, philistine? But the big and small things in the world are inseparable from mediocrity. β
Cheng Ming beckoned Yang Yingyuan to sit at a small square table in the flower hall, and saw that there were already seven or eight plates on it, which were hot and cold meat, but they were everything, and they were all dishes from the Central Plains, and there was a small clay pot next to it, and a faint aroma of wine wafted out of it.
After the two of them each drank a glass of wine, Cheng Ming smiled and said: "Staff Officer Yang, you are knowledgeable and talented, and you are also good at practice, you should be able to understand the old man's painstaking efforts." β
Yang Yingyuan put down his wine glass and sighed: "What the Metropolitan Governor means is nothing more than to let his subordinates do Tang Jian once, but now is the best way." β
The so-called Tang Jian, refers to the early Tang Dynasty ranked in the Lingyan Pavilion twenty-four meritorious Tang Maoyue, this person has outstanding life talents, can speak well, the most wonderful allusion is Yu Zhenguan four years, sent by Taizong, by a stagecoach to the Turks to say surrender, but in fact Tang Taizong sent Li Jing secretly sent troops to attack, almost put Tang Jian to death, fortunately Tang Jian was clever, this escaped from the chaos.
The reason why Yang Yingyuan pointed out Tang Jian's example is because there is another thing similar to this matter, that is, when Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang sent Li Shiqi to lobby the King of Qi to surrender, but on the other hand, he also sent Han Xin to lead the army to raid and destroy Qi, but Li Shiqi's luck was relatively poor, he did not have time to escape, and was killed alive by the King of Qi.
Whether to be Tang Jian or to be Li Shiqi is essentially just a matter of luck. And whether to do it or not, they have no other choice, after all, even Li Jing said that Tang Jian's death is not a pity, and even the emperor probably thought so in his heart.
At present, in the Governor's Mansion of Burma, Yang Yingyuan has no way to refuse this mission, unless he wants to die earlier.
Cheng Ming had a little smile on his face, he knew that Yang Yingyuan had already figured out the joints in this, so he didn't persuade each other anymore, but just raised the wine glass in his hand.
"Staff Officer Yang, when this matter is successful, the old man personally recommends you to study as a senior general foreman at the Central Military Academy in Nanjing, and when the time comes, you will be at least a colonel, and when you make some more merits, you will enter the general road, and the future can be expected."
"Thank you for the favor."
Yang Yingyuan clenched his palms, a hint of blush appeared on his face, the eldest husband has made great contributions, at this moment!
.........
Three days later, the Governor's Office of the Fu Han Army in Burma sent a delegation to Pyinmana to sit down with the Shan and Meng tribes to discuss the demarcation of the border, and the representative of the mission was none other than Yang Yingyuan, a staff officer, who was also the plenipotentiary representative in the talks.
However, when the two sides were talking, Cheng Ming had already gathered an army of 30,000, and the army went out day and night, secretly advancing towards the Shan gathering place in Upper Burma, and this time the goal was to completely occupy Upper Burma, where the Shan people were located, and then go down to level the Mon army in Lower Burma.
The plan was very simple, but it also meant that it was very efficient, when the Shan and Meng clans were still thinking about how to force Ning Chu to make concessions, they didn't expect that this meeting was just an excuse to cover people's ears, and Ning Chu had never regarded them as an equal opponent.
Do you want to negotiate too? You don't deserve it!
When the army moved ten miles outside the city of Lashio, the Shan rebels did not react at all, they were still kept in the dark, but it was only when the Fu Han army set up their positions and fired a salvo with artillery that they began to organize reinforcements everywhere in a panic.
I have to say that Cheng Ming's surprise attack was arranged just right, after all, only the high-level of the Shan rebel army would show hostility and vigilance to the Fu Han army, but the soldiers below did not have such a keen sense of smell, they were not prepared for the sudden attack of the Fu Han army, coupled with the huge difference in the firepower and training of the two armies, almost made this battle one-sided from the beginning.
"Boomβ"
In the roar of artillery fire, a large number of projectiles fell like raindrops in the Shan army, but it brought a bloody rain, and a large number of corpses fell to the ground like weeds, constituting an extremely tragic scene.
The Shan rebels did not have the courage to resist at all, they were only serfs with scythes in their hands in the past six months, and now they only hold spears and short knives in their hands, and the few muskets are distributed to a few elite troops, as for bows and arrows at all.
In this case, the Shan rebels armed with spears and short knives, in the face of the attack of the Fu Han army, almost staged a great escape, a large number of routs ran towards the rear, while the Fu Han army pursued vigorously.
A large number of spears and swords were thrown to the ground, and groups of Shan rebel captives fell to their knees, their eyes blank and a little terrified, and it was clear that they were all very worried about the future they might face.
"Those who resist die, surrender and do not kill, it is the purpose of our army!"
"You don't have to worry, from this moment on, you can all live!"
"Be honest and obedient, and don't try to run away and resist, or your results will be extremely miserable!"
Several Burmese-speaking Fu Han soldiers shouted that since Yunnan Province borders Burma, there are also some people close to Burma who can speak simple Burmese, so the Fu Han army has incorporated some of these people into the army, which can play the role of translator in many cases.
Under the leadership of this persuasion tactic, a large number of Shan rebels put down their weapons, and they entered the prisoner of war camps of the Fu Han army in batches, and according to the pre-war plan, these prisoners would be sent back to China for forced labor for ten years, and then the Fu Han army could implement the division of land in Burma.
After the completion of the partition, the feudal monarch can pay a certain deposit, and then he can recruit people to go to Myanmar for armed reclamation, but it is the same measure as the armed reclamation in the Northeast at this time, to ensure that he can survive in Myanmar for a long time.
Of course, in order to protect the interests of the feudal monarchs as much as possible and not let their money be wasted, after the war, the Burma group army will be reorganized into the Annam Protectorate, and the strength of two divisions will be temporarily assigned to the Annam Protectorate to provide protection for the feudal monarchs, and it will not be withdrawn to the country until the Metropolitan Protectorate's own troops are full.
After the Fu Han army captured Lashio, the rest of the matter became much simpler, a large number of troops in the scale of regiments and battalions, penetrated into the Tusi of Upper Burma, and actually controlled the local Tusi patriarchs, so as to ensure that Upper Burma could be completely owned by the Fu Han army.
Because the action was so fast, that the Shan rebels were not able to report to the palace in Pimmana at the first time.
Binmana, the Shan leader Gong Liyan, who was still in the dark, was still bent on wooing the leader of the Mon tribe, Emperor Simitao Buddha Jidi, and was almost naked hostile to the arrival of Ning Chu's mission.
At the venue specially used for the talks in Pyinmana, the personnel of Ning Chu's mission had a very fierce argument with the Shan mission, and the two sides exchanged words and words, but it made the Meng mission who was watching the joke secretly happy in their hearts.
Let's fight! Grab it! It's better to fight you to the death, and when the time comes, they won't go to Myanmar to participate, they just need to sit on the rich Myanmar and laugh at the situation.
Emperor Simitao Buddha Ji looked at the unswerving palace geese and Yang Yingyuan, who looked indifferent, and said slowly: "The Meng people are still very grateful to Da Chu, if it weren't for Da Chu's troops, our Meng people would still be living under the oppression of King Donghu, and now that we have recaptured our homeland, many people even cry with joy.......
Hearing that Emperor Simitao Buddha Ji Di was talking some nonsense, Yang Yingyuan didn't panic at all, he just smiled and said: "The envoy is here today, naturally he is not here to listen to these words of the two, let's still discuss practical things - for example, what do the two of you think about the current land of Myanmar?" β
Emperor Simitao Buddha Ji Di smiled and said: "The Meng people naturally aim to rebuild the Baigu Kingdom, and all the land of the original Baigu Kingdom should belong to my Meng people. β
Not to be outdone, Gong Liyan snorted coldly: "My Shan people should restore the glory of the Ava Dynasty, and the land of Upper Burma must not be missing an inch......."
"Oh? Then wouldn't it be for nothing that I came to Myanmar? Yang Yingyuan sneered.
"Naturally, it's not for nothing....... All the land occupied by the king of Donghu was returned, and the harvest of your army in Ava was also quite rich. β
Emperor Simitao Buddha Ji hurriedly came out to play a round game, but at this time, the palace goose could no longer bear it, he stood up suddenly, looked at Yang Yingyuan and said coldly: "Myanmar is the Myanmar of the Burmese people, and it is not your turn to point fingers." If your army does not withdraw from Ava, my Shan and Meng tribes will definitely not be vegetarians. β
Yang Yingyuan smiled, since he rushed to Pinmana with the mission, this kind of meaningless dialogue has continued to this day, but for him, it is not for the purpose of real negotiations, so naturally he will not waste saliva on this kind of matter.
What is not available on the battlefield, it is impossible to obtain at the negotiating table.
This sentence was uttered by Cheng Ming himself when he was entertaining him, and it is said that it came from the mouth of His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, for the emperor sitting in Nanjing, negotiation has always been only an auxiliary means, and the only thing that can really decide everything is the musket in his hand.
Yang Yingyuan deeply agreed that the negotiations between the two sides were originally based on exchangeable interests, but there was no room for negotiation for those core interests that could not be compromised.
Want Myanmar? Then come up on the battlefield and get it!
Therefore, after getting the urgent news from the secret agent, Yang Yingyuan no longer intends to continue to be pretentious, he will leave Pimpana under the escort of the military intelligence department, of course, before that, he still needs to do one last thing.
Yang Yingyuan stood up and tidied up his collar, then raised his head slightly, and said arrogantly: "Regarding the division of Burma, it was originally a gift from Da Chu to you, but you don't seem to need this kindnessββ"
"But it doesn't matter, from now on, the negotiations are officially broken, goodbye!"