A whole month!

From the third day of the seventh month of the 14th year of the Yongli calendar, the fleet arrived at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River after a three-month voyage, occupied the city of Rabuda without firing a single shot, and set up a consolation mission here. Although he had dozens of behemoths of warships, Wang Anmin, as the commander of the fleet, did not order the fleet to go up the river, even as the "escort" Qu Dajun, he also seemed not in a hurry, not only did he urge the army to attack, but even recruited local strong men to build a small city on the desert island at the mouth of the river - Pingnan City when the craftsmen were rushing to build multi-oared sailboats suitable for use in the river.

The scale of the fortress-like small city seems to be small, but this small city is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty taking root in Myanmar, and with this root, it can go up the river to the north step by step.

At the same time as the construction of the city wall, the governor of Pingnan City issued every order, that is, every citizen who moved here could get 50 acres of land and be exempt from paying taxes for ten years. This is the best way to recruit local people to come to the island to cultivate the land.

At the same time, starting from Abuda, Burmese cities along the Irrawaddy River one after another were successively subordinated to the Ming Dynasty, and the local Burmese officials and leaders accepted the seal of the Ming Dynasty and became the Ming Tusi officials who enjoyed the right of autonomy.

After all, many of them had only begun to accept Burmese rule for only a hundred years, and most of them were Tusi officials of the Daming Temple, and at this time, the Ming envoy once again issued them gold red cards in accordance with the Yongle system, and promised to send troops to protect them, which naturally won the support of the local Tusi leaders and even the Tusi leaders who tried to stand on their own in the Burmese people.

In the whole process, Qu Dajun seemed very cautious, and always insisted on fighting steadily, even if he needed to attack a certain city, he would first appease the people, and then sign a treaty with the local chieftain, recognize their rule, promise the Ming Dynasty's protection and respect for them, and give the golden red card and letter to those Tusi leaders, so as to cultivate pro-Ming forces, and even invite the head to send their sons and nephews to Pingnan City - the small city under construction when the time is right. Accept the teachings of the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent them from thinking that this was a hostage, Qu Dajun also deliberately said that this was not a hostage, and everything was voluntary, and there were no identity requirements for the selected teenagers, whether it was their children and nephews or the smart men in the clan, as long as they were recommended, they could go to Pingnan City to study.

Of course, all of this is based on the consideration of steady and steady, and after the foothold is firm, then continue to fight north, so as to achieve the goal of forcing the Burmese king to return to the imperial court. Compared with the previous Chinese dynasties in history, they always liked to use large soldiers to suppress the border, and the actions of destroying the people and the state were completely different.

Although in this month, it only advanced two or three hundred miles to the north, and even the farthest Ming army only reached Jiongbiao, but for the Burmese king Mangda and the courtiers in Ava City, thousands of miles away, it caused unprecedented pressure, and they could even feel the pressure from a kind of country.

"Zhu Mingzhong, the envoy of the Ming Jianghuai Economic Strategy, sent a message to the Burmese military and civilian propaganda envoy and the barbarian Mo Xuanfu Division......"

Listening to the title of the envoy read out by the minister, Mangda only felt dizzy, since a hundred years ago his ancestor Mang Rui Ti rebuilt the dynasty at the age of 15, and then Mang Rui Ti's son and brother-in-law Mang Yinglong ascended the throne, and led the army to capture Ava, destroy the Ava Dynasty, and then refused the Ming Dynasty's appeasement, and continued to attack the Ming Dynasty's jurisdiction under the jurisdiction of Mu Bang, Manmo, Meng Yang, Meng Mi, Cheli Princely States from the day of the day, Myanmar has long ceased to regard the Ming Dynasty as its own boss, Myanmar has completely become an independent country and turned to occupy the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

And now, the so-called Jianghuai Jing envoy Zhu Mingzhong actually directly called him a "consolation envoy" in the envoy's book, and did not regard him as the king of Burma at all, even if the Yongli monarch was subordinate to him, he also called him a king, not as arrogant as him.

There was a wave of anger in his heart, and his reckless eyes were staring ahead, and his face was full of dissatisfaction. And the ministers in the palace were also full of indignation and injustice.

"How can it be!"

The prime minister immediately shouted indignantly.

"This minister is so disrespectful to my country, has he forgotten that his court is in our country? Don't you know how much help I can give? ”

"Exactly, the king, in the opinion of the minister, the king can directly order the Ming Emperor to write to the Ming minister, asking him to withdraw the army, if he does not withdraw the army, he will not blame me for being ruthless......"

In everyone's words and me, Mangda, the king of Burma who has never been canonized by the Ming Dynasty, his face changes from time to time, for him as a king, although he is secretly annoyed because of the contempt of the Ming ministers, but on the other hand, he knows the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and even the reason why he agreed to enter the Yongli and give it courtesy, is also afraid of this, even when they are obviously in a weak position, they have never considered handing it over to the Manchus, after all, the Ming Dynasty is a shadow for hundreds of years for Myanmar.

Even, secretly, Mangda also considered whether he would be canonized as the king of Myanmar if Yongli returned to the Ming Kingdom one day, after all, although decades ago, because of the retreat of the Ming Dynasty, Myanmar controlled the lands that once belonged to the Ming Dynasty, such as Mengyang and Mubang. However, the king of Burma has never been canonized by the Ming Dynasty, and because of this, although those Tusi ostensibly accept the rule and canonization of Burma, they privately say that this canonization of Burma is just a "crown and a monkey", and has not been canonized by China, all of which will eventually be questioned.

"Where has the Ming army arrived now?"

"Back to the king, although the Ming army is now stagnant, but they continue to send envoys to various places to give gold red cards and letters to the leaders of various places, and give them the official positions of the Ming State such as consolation envoys and pacification envoys, and those ambitious and despicable people have destroyed the Burmese Duo and Bayeux charms given by the king, such as hundreds of miles around the mouth of the river, almost all of them have accepted the canonization of the Ming Kingdom......"

Different from China's county system, the rule of the Burmese king ostensibly rules the entire country, but in fact, in addition to the core area, the country has hundreds of chieftains, and even the so-called Burmese themselves, also belong to the nine chiefs, they only accept the Burmese priest and Bayeux charm issued by the Burmese king, and grant the Burmese priest and Bayeux charm to those who take refuge in themselves, recognizing their territory in Myanmar under the protection of Burma, and it is also a system for Myanmar to learn from the golden red card of the Ming Dynasty.

In the middle and early Ming Dynasty, the system of letters and red cards was implemented in the outer border administrative regions of Yunnan, which played a very important and positive role in border management, protecting the country and defending the borders, mediating and dealing with internal contradictions. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty gradually relaxed the implementation of this system, and even basically abandoned the implementation of the letter and gold red card system in the southwest frontier. Almost from the first year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty for the last time to Yunnan Outer Frontier Administrative Region awarded the gold red card, the survey and the letter symbol, and then there was no regulations, where the imperial court changed the Yuan must be awarded the gold red card and letter of the record, which is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty to abandon this frontier management system. At the same time, the rise of the Houjin forces in the north, the Ming Dynasty was in danger, so it was too busy to take care of itself, and the operation and management of the southwest frontier gradually relaxed.

And this time, Qu Dajun was able to break up the resistance of the Burmese people by restoring the gold-lettered red card system, by issuing a large number of gold-lettered red cards, and canonizing those local leaders as consolation envoys and pacification envoys.

The reason why Mangda and others are panicked is that the Irrawaddy River is not a place for foreign leaders, it is a place where Burmese people live, and among the nine major ethnic groups of the Burmese people, four major ethnic groups live along the Irrawaddy River, and now there are two major ethnic groups who have accepted the canonization of the Ming Kingdom and become the consolation envoys of the Ming Dynasty, and those foreign leaders who have accepted the canonization of Burma have also been canonized.

"They are here to welcome back the imperial court, and they obviously want to seize our country!"

Mangbai, who had been silent, immediately said loudly.

"Brother Wang, if they are allowed to canonize my ministers of Great Burma so arbitrarily, then my Great Burma will cease to exist, and I ask Brother Wang to allow me to lead my troops south, and when the time comes, I will definitely kill them without leaving a piece ......of armor."

Compared with Mangda, who is already over fifty years old, Mangbai is only forty years old, he is in the prime of life, he once led his troops north to stop Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan from going south, and now, in the face of the threat of the Ming army, he naturally shouted to defeat them.

"Exactly, the king, if you don't give the Ming army a head-on blow, they will definitely think that I have no one in Burma, and I am weak and can be bullied!"

In the shouts of the ministers, Mangda cast his eyes on Mangbai, looking at his younger brother, the whole Myanmar knew that his younger brother was very brave, and it was naturally appropriate for him to lead the troops south, but, thinking of the rumors related to his younger brother now, what rumors that there were two kings in Burma. Mangda is inevitably still a little worried in his heart, what if he takes the opportunity to mutiny?

For this younger brother of his, Mangda has never been at ease, and even among the ministers, he has a lot of support. However, after thinking about it, it occurred to him that going south was the territory of the Burmese people, and his queen was from the Yue tribe, and Wu Shu of the Yue tribe would never betray him for the sake of recklessness.

Just as Mangda was about to open his mouth to agree to let Mangda's white-collar soldiers go south, he heard another minister get up and say.

"The king, in the opinion of the ministers, it is absolutely impossible to lead the troops to the south now, if the army goes south, in case the two Ming ministers of Li and Bai in the north lead the troops to attack again, then the national capital Ava is empty, what should we do?"

Being reminded like this, Mangda thought that the threat to Myanmar now is not only the Ming army in the south, but also the Ming army in the north.

After all, Myanmar is not a big country, although it claims to have hundreds of thousands of troops, but in fact, the strength of the Burmese is only a few tens of thousands of troops, and even these tens of thousands of troops belong to the nine ethnic groups of the Burmese people.

While Mangda was still worried about whether his younger brother would take the opportunity to rebel, Mangbai laughed on the side.

"This is not simple, the king can just order all clans to send troops to help in the war!"

Recruit native soldiers of all tribes.

Over the years, the reason why Myanmar has continued to expand and can conquer the east and west to make all parties submit is precisely because it has continuously recruited native soldiers of all ethnic groups and maintained the "strongness" of Myanmar with the help of Tusi native soldiers. Even if Mang Bai didn't make this suggestion, they would still mobilize the native soldiers, but now they would recruit more than in the past.

As soon as the princes and ministers of the Burmese court were finished, a Burmese man left the palace and went straight to a business in the market, and then passed on the decision that had just been made in the palace to the shopkeeper of the business.

"They've decided to recruit native soldiers?"

After getting the news, Li Tianlin pondered for a moment, and then said to the Burmese.

"Tell your master, as long as this matter is done, when the time comes, my master will definitely be grateful!"

The Burmese then left the business, and in this lively market, no one would notice such a Burmese at all, and after the Burmese left, Li Tianlin's face showed a slight smile.

"Now the first step is basically done, only the next step is left!"

Unlike the fleet that arrived in Burma a month ago, Li Tianlin came to Burma on a Dutch merchant ship as early as the beginning of the year, and then came to Ava, became a merchant in the market, in the past six months, he has made friends with a lot of Burmese magnates in Ava City, although he has not established an intelligence network, but through the understanding of the internal situation in Myanmar, he has initially established contacts with some Burmese magnates, and now, what he needs is to take advantage of the instability within Myanmar and the ambitions of some magnates to complete his task as much as possible.

"In fact, the most critical place to defeat the Burmese is to divide the Burmese, and those Tusi, as long as they can be divided, this Burma is not to be afraid!"

For Li Tianlin, who has been in Burma for more than seven months, he is naturally very aware of the internal intelligence of Burma, and also knows the weaknesses of Burma, and it is precisely because of this that he will get in touch with the fleet as soon as the fleet arrives in Burma, and inform the fleet of the information he has.

These natives have never had a sense of home and country, and for them, the interests of their own people are far higher than the so-called state, and because of this, as long as a certain amount of investment is made, they can be easily divided and disintegrated. And now judging from the news from the south, the fleet's strategy is undoubtedly costly, of course, this also has a lot to do with the intelligence provided by Li Tianlin, after all, his intelligence allows the fleet's intelligence personnel to directly find the most persuasive Tusi and persuade him to accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty.

"Now it's just one last step......"

Thinking of another task, Li Tianlin's expression became more and more solemn......