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The king was captured by the Ming army!

When the news reached Mangbai's ears, he had just arrived in Hindda, and was about to enter the richest estuary area in Burma, because he learned that the tens of thousands of Ming troops were assembled by water, and that there were tens of thousands of Ming troops and tens of thousands of native soldiers gathered on the land route, and were waiting for him to go south.

But in any case, he did not expect that before he could figure out how to resist the attack of the Ming army and then recover the estuary area, the news that the city of Avaju was burned by the Ming army and the king of the country was captured by the Ming army came over.

How so?

The sudden news made Mang Bai not feel frightened, but he still caught him off guard. So much so that he didn't even know what to do about it, but even so, he still knew what to do right now.

"Block the news immediately, don't let it leak out!"

Unlike the indecisive Brother Wang, Reckless White has always acted extremely decisively, and he immediately realized what the consequences of this leak could be.

Although since the time of his ancestors, he has always envied China, a unified country, and in the face of his leaders, he has tried to turn Myanmar into a whole, into a country similar to China, but even if he has been working hard and trying to imitate China in every possible way, in fact, even until now Myanmar has never been a unified country. Although as early as 400 years ago Myanmar was under the rule of the Bagan Dynasty, but its territory is extremely limited, from the beginning of the Mongol Yuan to set up the Burmese Tusi, the capital is located in the city of Ava, at that time there were a number of Xuanwei Division in the Burmese region, after the Ming Dynasty, the tribes in Myanmar are still divided, most of them submit to the Ming Dynasty, accept the title of Tuguan, for the Ming Dynasty's "Tusi". In addition to the establishment of the Myanmar Propaganda Division, there are also many Propaganda Divisions, Propaganda Divisions, Pacification Divisions, Chief Officials Divisions, and Imperial Mansions.

More than 100 years ago, Mang Ruiti became the king, established his own power in Burma, and with the expansion of its power, it began to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was unable to look south, so it relaxed the management of the Tusi in the southwest region, and did not take practical measures to maintain the control of the Wuxuanwei Division, allowing it to alienate and break away from the Ming Dynasty. Myanmar had to learn from the Ming Dynasty's golden red card system, adopt the practice of winning over the surrounding Tusi leaders, and send envoys to lend a helping hand to solve problems for these weak outer border political regions, resulting in the weak outer border political regions falling to Myanmar without the support of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, there is the current Myanmar, and Myanmar is relying on the letter of the treasure bag and the book of Bayeux Burmese. It was as if he became the king of these regions, recruited tribal soldiers, and fought in the north and south to achieve what is now Burma. But this Myanmar is completely established on the weak Tusi system, and although these Tusi identify with the Burmese king, they maintain their independence internally, and even those Tusi's identification with the Burmese king is far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, and even Myanmar itself often regards itself as the Xuanwei Division, and those Tusi naturally also hold on to both ends, swinging between Myanmar and the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, those toasts held both ends and swayed between Myanmar and the Ming Dynasty, because for hundreds of years, those toasts had long been accustomed to surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, not Burma, and now the submission to Myanmar is only because of the contraction of the Ming Dynasty a hundred years ago, but even so, those Tusi's awe of the Ming Dynasty is also from the bones, just like their awe of the Mu family, even if the Mu family has fallen to this step, they are still extremely in awe of it. It is precisely because of this that last year, Mangda, who was the king of Burma, let King Mu wear Burmese clothes and barefoot, in order to hit the prestige of the Mu family and the Ming Dynasty in Burma.

Although Manda's goal was achieved and the prestige of the Mu family was hit, everything has changed now. Now, with the fall of Ava City and the capture of the kingdom, once those Tusi learn the news, they will understand that this is the punishment of the Ming Dynasty for "great disrespect" to Burma. Even if they don't immediately fall to the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid they will remain neutral, and without the support of Tusi, how can the Burmese fight against the Ming Dynasty? Even the natives in the army are now likely to leave this place.

It is precisely because he understands the temperament of the local Tusi to hold both ends that Mangbai, as the commander of the first army, will immediately order someone to block the news. But despite this, the news still spread quickly, just as Mang Bai expected, many Tusi after learning that the king was captured by the Ming army and the country was burned, all immediately fled from the military camp with their own soldiers and fled back to their respective Tusi places, but it was only a short half a day's effort, once mighty, known as 100,000 troops, there were only more than 10,000 people left, these people are Burmese soldiers, but even so, Mang Bai can still feel the turmoil in the barracks. After all, even among the Burmese soldiers, they came from various tribes. The changes of other ethnic groups will also affect the various tribes of the Burmese people, after all, for them, they value the interests of their own tribe more, and they will never sacrifice the interests of their own tribe for the sake of the world of the Mang family.

"Prince, those old Dan people are also moving now, the villain is worried that those old Dan people will leave the camp, the prince might as well invite Bamo over, and then ......"

He Dan made a killing gesture, like the Shan and Mon, the Burmese are also a tribal alliance, and the Burmese are a large tribe of the Burmese people, and the same as the Tusi to accept the Burmese king's treasure belt, Burmese Duo, and was called to provide soldiers to the king, but because they are related to the Burmese, so their status in this alliance is higher, occupying the richest land in Burma, of course, in return, they need to send troops to jointly maintain the interests of the Burmese. But now that everything has changed with the burning of Ava and the capture of the king, the tribes will certainly think of their own interests first. And Bamo is the general of those Dan Lao native soldiers, and he hasn't moved yet, definitely because he is still hesitating.

"Yes, prince, if you don't kill him, if he brings those five thousand Dan veterans, then there will be less than 10,000 soldiers left under the prince's command, how can he compete with the Ming army with such a small number of troops?"

"But even if I kill Bamo and take away his military power, with less than 20,000 soldiers, how can I compete with tens of thousands of Ming troops? You must know that we had an army of 100,000 at the beginning, but we were unable to resist the Ming army. ”

"Those Ming troops won't stay long, the Buddha is on our side, and if the Ming army stays for a long time, there will naturally be epidemics to defeat them, just like in the past!"

Now, with most of the Tusi leading troops back to their tribes, they naturally did not have much will to fight, so they naturally pinned everything on the weather and disease in Burma, once upon a time, they used weather and disease to "repel" the Ming army, and now, they also put the last glimmer of hope on these natural conditions.

"Yes, we can wait here to see how the situation changes, if necessary, we can retreat into the forest first, the Ming army is afraid of the forest, afraid of the diseases in it, we only need to hide in the mountains and forests for a few months, at most a year, then the Ming army will inevitably retreat without a fight, and at that time, Burma will still be our Burmese Burmese!"

"What Na Hei said is extremely true, if this is the case, the prince may still need to persuade Bamo to stay in the army first, after all, after withdrawing into the mountains and forests, a large amount of food is needed, and the old man Dan can provide food to the army, with their help, we can gain a firm foothold in the mountains and forests!"

This suggestion immediately aroused the approval of the others, after all, in their opinion, it was the most feasible suggestion, let time and weather take the time and weather to defeat the Ming army.

"But don't forget, now that the Tuwa, Meng, and Shan have all surrendered to the Ming army, now the Ming army still needs to do it themselves, and only need to recruit local soldiers of all ethnic groups to defeat us, if we hide in the mountains and forests, it will give the Ming army the upper hand, so that the Tusi think that we have failed. Now the momentum of the Ming Kingdom is rising, and other ethnic groups will also be called by the Ming people to provide them with native soldiers to attack us, and at that time, what should we do! ”

"But no, now is not the year, the Ming army had the Ming Dynasty, and now the Ming army has come to Burma, but I don't want to leave, then Yunnan is now occupied by the Qing people!"

"Exactly, now that the Ming army has come to Burma, it will never leave easily, we are hiding in the mountains and forests, are we following the wishes of the Ming people?"

Listening to the words of the generals and staff under his command, the face of Mangbai sitting on the table became gloomy, perhaps in the past nearly 100 years, the Burmese king who lived in Ava seemed to have become the king of this region, but in fact, Burma Yu Daming, is still just a local official, while awarding treasure belts and Burmese priests to the Tusi, the Burmese king himself also keeps the edict of the Wanli period. The envoys sent to Zhengnan still saluted the general as a local official. In the past, the king of Burma was still like this, let alone those who held the toast at both ends?

What is the Burmese king, in Daming's opinion, he is just a toast, and as for the Burmese king, he is just a local official. For the toasts, the Ming is orthodox, if he takes refuge in the mountains and forests, on the surface it is to allow the weather and disease to defeat the Ming army, but that will take time, maybe a year, maybe two years, maybe even longer,

In the past two years, the Ming army will never retreat, the current Ming army is different from the past, in the past they will withdraw to Yunnan, but now, Yunnan is occupied by the Qing army, the Ming army will be stationed here, they will slowly adapt to the weather here.

As for him hiding in the mountains and forests, it may not be a threat to the Ming army, when the time comes, the Ming army only needs to levy Tusi to be able to enter the mountains to crusade against the Burmese, and even at that time, the Ming army can reward the land that originally belonged to the Burmese to other ethnic groups as a reward for their help in the war.

For the Burmese, this is the deadliest thing!

In fact, even if at least half of the land along the river cultivated by the Burmese is now snatched from other ethnic groups, those tribes who were defeated and driven into the mountains are naturally willing to be driven by the Ming army to obtain the land that belongs to them, and as for the Burmese, they will also be driven into the mountains and forests to live in the barren mountains, just like the Mon people at the beginning.

At that time, the Burmese who once occupied the whole of Burma were just like the current Tusi, just like the barbarians in the mountains.

Tusi, Tuguan......

For the Ming Dynasty, aren't the Burmese people just Tusi? As for what kind of prince he is, he is not even a local official!

Tusi, Tuguan...... groaning, suddenly, the reckless white eyes lit up, and he, who was originally clueless and even worried about his future, suddenly saw a glimmer of hope.

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, is it okay for us to just sit here and wait to die?"

It is not possible to escape into the mountains and forests, nor is it possible to defend here, and it is even more impossible to attack. What options are there now?

"Of course not!"

Standing up, he looked at everyone and said.

"Since you can't fight, then let's surrender! I believe that with the Holy Ming Emperor, I naturally know that I am just waiting for the courtiers, and everything I have done before is just helpless! ”

Reckless words made the eyes of those who were originally desperate and panicked, yes, if it is a big disrespect, it is also a great disrespect to the king and his close ministers. What does it have to do with them?

As for them?

Are they just on the king's orders?

If the Ming Dynasty is held responsible, there will naturally be a king to take responsibility, and when the time comes, it will be the king who will lose his life and lose his head, as for them...... Daming still needs local officials! Yes, the Ming Dynasty needs to be consoled in Burma, after all, now Yunnan has been occupied by the Qing army, since the Xuanwei Division is needed, then the Tuguan is needed, and they are not Tusi Tuguan!

In an instant, everyone who was still full of sadness suddenly opened their tightly knit brows, and even Mangbai himself said with a smile.

"Since this is the case, then we will ask Emperor Ming and Mu Guogong for the guilt!"

Daming still needs local officials!

Mang Bai guessed well, Da Ming really needs local officials to govern the southwest frontier, and he needs to rely on local officials to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty here. It's just that he doesn't know that now, it's not just one Mu Guogong who is in charge of Myanmar. In addition to the Mu family, there was also an official from Jiangbei who was also ordered to participate in this matter, and even rushed to Ava as soon as he learned that the Burmese king had been captured, and met with Mu Tianbo to discuss how to manage the southwestern divisions.

And this is exactly the goal of Ding Yujie, who is the director of the Economic and Strategic Envoy and the Domain's Housing Commission, and Qu Dajun came to Burma to welcome back the emperor and the imperial court, and the establishment of the Nanyang Army after the military came here, as the head of the Domain's Housing Commission, he is to manage the southwestern divisions, and even now he is still the Dingnan Tongzhi in charge of the affairs of the Emperor, responsible for local affairs in Myanmar.

Of course, the real masters of the Southwest Zhutusi now are no one else, it is Mu Tianbo and Mu Guogong who have no soldiers in front of them. Perhaps, he has no soldiers, but he is a member of the Mu family! He is Mu Guogong and the "general of Zhengnan" of the Ming Dynasty.

When he came to Ava and saw the awe of those local officials and soldiers, Ding Yujie finally understood why Jingluo would say that "the Mu family can top 100,000 male soldiers in the southwest", for no other reason, it is precisely because the Mu family has been in charge of the southwest Tusi on behalf of the Ming Dynasty in the past hundreds of years, for those local officials who have never been out of the mountains, they may agree with the Ming Emperor, but they are more in awe of the Mu family and the Duke of Mu Guo.

In the past hundreds of years, the hereditary position of "General Zhengnan" of the Mu family, the majesty established among the Tusi in various places is incomprehensible to others, even if there is no soldier, only a seal is needed, Mu Tianbo is enough to mobilize the Tusi Tusi soldiers in the southwest, and make it useful.

Therefore, no matter what, Ding Yujie, who wants to make a big difference in Myanmar, must win the support of Mu Tianbo, and even he is full of complaints and dissatisfaction with Xiao Xinren not taking him out of Ava City, after all, the Mu family is the most important bargaining chip in the southwest.

"In the past, the Yunnan Outer Border Administrative Region of our DPRK implemented the system of letters and red cards, which played a very important and positive role in border management, protecting the country and defending the border, mediating and resolving internal contradictions. However, the implementation of this system was gradually relaxed, and the pros and cons of it were naturally very clear to the public. ……”

When Ding Yujie said this, the Mu family naturally knew more about it because of the management of the southwest Zhuyi on behalf of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and it can even be said that the Mu family has always dominated the management of the southwest Zhuyi, but later the Mu family also relaxed the management of these toasts, but the Mu family's relaxation was because the Mu family could not go against the wishes of the imperial court, after all, the Mu family had written to the imperial court many times, asking for the rectification of the southwest Yiwu, but did not get the permission of the imperial court. Hearing him say this, Mu Tianbo immediately nodded in agreement.

What Director Ding said is extremely true, so there is a saying that "the imperial court cherishes a piece of paper and loses two thousand miles of place"! If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court had no intention of giving the toast seal letter outside, how could it have ended up like this! ”

Although it is too one-sided to say "cherish a piece of paper and lose 2,000 miles of land", it is also a fact that during the Jiajing period, Cao Yi, a gold-toothed guard cadre with gold letters, red cards and letters, went to Burma and other foreign border political regions to Tusi, hoping to mediate the dispute, but unfortunately was killed by Burma. Later, because of the inability to send troops to investigate the matter, after reprimanding the Burmese, they will no longer pursue it, as for the Mu family, although they had the intention to deal with this matter, and wanted to use this to crusade against the "unministers", but the contraction of the imperial court, so that the Mu family could only choose to be silent, and could only watch the Burmese rampant outside. Since then, the imperial court has never sent envoys to the Yunnan Outer Frontier Administrative Region to issue golden red cards and letters, and the Tusi of the Yunnan Outer Frontier Administrative Region has not received any support and protection from the Ming Dynasty, and the crisis in the southwest frontier has naturally become even more serious. This has led to the gradual growth of Myanmar, and Mu Tianbo is naturally very clear about this.

Of course, he also knows very well that in this matter, the Mu family also plays an inglorious role, after all, what the Mu family hoped at that time was to use Myanmar to sit big, which would lead to a crisis in the southwest, and then let the imperial court let go of the southwest affairs to the Mu family, not the officials of the three divisions of Yunnan, in the more than two hundred years that the Mu family guarded Yunnan, the Mu family in order to consolidate and enhance the power of the family, the Mu family and the officials of the three divisions of Yunnan, the local governors, the eunuchs, and even the vassal king and the emperor had a long-term political struggle and game. And it is precisely by virtue of the strong influence on Yunnan that the Mu family has been able to withstand countless impeachments and avoid crises that are enough to wipe out the family and the clan again and again.

When the Burmese were growing up, the Mu family also needed the crisis in the southwest to remind the imperial court, so that the imperial court could see that the Mu family in Yunnan was uncontrollable, but no one thought that before the external crisis in the southwest evolved to make the imperial court vigilant, the Li thief had already attacked the capital.

And now that the Mu family has landed in today's field, it is not "bitter fruit". However, the key to this, Mu Tianbo naturally can't tell outsiders, he naturally can't tell outsiders that the imperial court was unable to take care of the Tusi outside the southwest, and the reason why the Mu family sat back and watched all this happen was to show the importance of the Mu family to the imperial court, which would naturally push all the responsibility to the imperial court.

"The letter of the local official and the red card with gold letters are of course the best choice for ruling the southwest Tusi, but Director Ding needs to know that the red card of this letter is recognized by it, and the key is that it needs to be protected and mediated in its conflicts.

However, although he wants to push the responsibility to the imperial court, it does not mean that Mu Tianbo does not "understand" the difficulty of the imperial court.

"At that time, the imperial court used troops in Liaodong, and the situation in Liaodong collapsed, and the southwest naturally had no time to take care of it, so it would lead to the Burmese sitting on the throne like this, at that time, although we were in the southwest, we were also powerless......

Ding Yujie had deliberately studied the gains and losses of the Ming Dynasty's domination of the southwest along the way, and he also knew that behind this "piece of paper", what was needed was soldiers, what was needed was deterrence of strength, and what was needed was silver grain, and these were not just what the Mu family could provide, which required the strength of the imperial court, so he nodded in agreement.

To put it bluntly, the Tusi system means that the local officials are hereditary by the head of the local tribe or regime, and they are internally autonomous, but economically they have to bear the "conscription and distribution" and "tribute" of the imperial court, and the native soldiers have to accept the dispatch of the imperial court or superiors. Roughly, at the beginning, can be fulfilled, view of my dynasty, the control of the three Xuan Liufu Tusi because of its geographical location, it is divided into two kinds of inner and outer areas, the inner border area "conscription and poor hair", and the outer border area often only levy "tribute", as for the native soldiers are only occasionally for mediation levy, so that there are foreign local officials swaying, and there are Burmese people sitting and watching, when coming, Jing Luo had said in the lower officials, the rule of our dynasty in the outer area is often regarded as the place of vassal, only to take the righteousness of the vassals, not the heart of the land; There is the martial arts of conquest, but there is no politics of construction. When the Central Plains is strong, the local officials outside are naturally called to be subdued, and both inside and outside are ordered by the court. ”

Although he had never met Zhu Mingzhong, after hearing this sentence from Ding Yujie's mouth, Mu Tianbo, who lived in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, naturally knew the key to it, and immediately agreed with it.

"Only take the righteousness of the vassals, and the heart of the land is not beneficial; There is the martial arts of conquest, but there is no politics of construction. When the Central Plains is strong, the local officials outside are naturally called to be subdued, and both inside and outside are ordered by the court. After this remark, he broke the shortcomings of my dynasty and the southwest, which really made my father ashamed, and I don't know what to do with the southwest? ”

Mu Tianbo, who tentatively asked this sentence, knew very well that maybe the Mu family had prestige in the southwest, but now he had no soldiers in his hands, although with his prestige, he could levy tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of native soldiers, but what about after the levy? What do I need after the levy?

Need money and food!

If there is no money and food, even if those native soldiers are recruited today, I am afraid it will not last long, the army will disperse without pay, and if those native soldiers have no food and no military salary, they will also be dispersed, and it will not only be the army that will be dispersed at that time, I am afraid that there will be hundreds of years of prestige of the Mu family.

Because of this, in the past many years, although he knew that with the name of "General Zhengnan", he could recruit native troops outside the southwest to help in the war, but he chose to remain silent every time, and the reason why this was so was because he had no money! He didn't have the money to maintain the army, so he couldn't risk the last capital of the Mu family, the prestige that the Mu family had accumulated in the southwest for nearly three hundred years.

But now, the arrival of the Loyal Army has given him an opportunity, because the Loyal Army has everything he needs there. That's why he wanted the help and support of the Loyal and Righteous Army, and relied on their help to rebuild the prestige of the Mu family in the southwest.

And the reason why he chose to turn to Zhu Mingzhong and the Loyal and Righteous Army for help, did not turn to Li Dingguo and others before this, of course, he also had his own considerations, the key to which is because Li Dingguo is also stationed in the southwest, maybe Li Dingguo needs the prestige of the Mu family, and needs to borrow him Mu Tianbo and the name of General Zhengnan to levy native soldiers from all over the country, but he will never allow the Mu family to rebuild in the southwest, let alone allow him to take charge of the native soldiers.

In contrast, Zhu Mingzhong, who is far away in Jianghuai, has no scruples about this at all, for Zhu Mingzhong, what does he need? is an ally, a help, in Mu Tianbo's opinion, he even needs someone to contain Li Dingguo in the southwest.

Although he inherited the position of Guogong when he was young due to the death of his father, Mu Tianbo, who grew up in the Guogong Mansion, can be said to have his natural sensitivity to the power field, and he can see why Zhu Mingzhong sent people to meet him thousands of miles away, and he also knows what is the best choice for Zhu Mingzhong, whether it is in Jianghuai or Southwest.

It is precisely because of this that there is this temptation, of course, it is also because of this reason that Mu Tianbo will sit at the same table with Ding Yujie, a five-grade small official, with the respect of the national prince. Many times, people always need to compromise with reality, and now, for Mu Tianbo, the only reality is that he has no soldiers in his hands, not even a few taels of silver, except for name and prestige, he has nothing, and Ding Yujie in front of him may be just a five-grade official, but there is a fleet, an army, and silver behind him, all of which Mu Tianbo needs and needs.

"Wherever there is a need for help, my father will do his best to help! No postponement! It's just that I don't know what the plan is to go through the southwest? ”