Chapter 859: Nammar as a Territory
Li Xiaofeng's sharp gaze slowly swept over these two of his most trusted strategists before he said in a deep voice: "Two, you only consider that Myanmar is now a foreign state, and it is not easy to govern, but have you considered how much benefit it will bring to our country if Myanmar really becomes my Chinese land?" ”
The two were stunned when they heard this, so they arched their hands and said, "May King Tang say it in detail." ”
Li Xiaosui said: "The location of Myanmar is the extreme of the southwest border of our country, with the sea in the west, many mountains in the east, plains in the south, and mountains in the north, which is a very important place in terms of geographical location. Not only is there a lot of minerals and land here, but more importantly, it will be the best outlet for our country to go straight to the sea from the southwest, and in the future, our navy fleet can completely start from this Burmese sea area and go directly to the Thai and Western countries, but it is much more convenient than other places. Such a rare feng shui treasure has fallen into the hands of our army, and Enke can easily abandon it. ”
As for the fact that the indigenous people of Burma have their original writing and language, as well as their living customs, which are very different from those of China, I think that although these things are difficult to deal with, it is not that there is absolutely no way to think about them, but whether we have the determination and perseverance to deal with them resolutely. There are millions of Burmese people, and even if they cannot be indoctrinated together, they can be divided and conquered. When Li Xiao said this, he already had a resolute look on his face.
Li Xiao said this, and paused deliberately. His words gave Chen Zilong and Jiang Yueguang great inspiration.
"What King Tang said is that although there are millions of people in Burma, we can deal with them separately and treat them differently." Jiang Yueguang had a suddenly realized expression on his face: "In the opinion of the students, it would be best to divide the Burmese people into several parts according to the degree of resistance and social hierarchy of this campaign, and treat them separately." “
"What Jiang Zanhua said is very true." Chen Zilong also nodded and said: "If it can really be divided like this, then those who have always been enemies with me can all be transferred to the cold places of Northeast Asia, and placed separately as punishment, so that they can live together with the local Han people, and after a few decades, they will disappear completely." “
The Burmese people in the fertile and fertile southern part of Myanmar have all moved out, some to northern Myanmar, and some to the Philippines and Australia. It is also mixed with the local Han or indigenous people, and gradually disappears its national identity. The land vacated in southern Myanmar was transferred from China to Han people for resettlement to ensure that the local development would be smooth and not abandoned. “
"As for the Burmese people in northern Myanmar, who are sparsely populated and beastly beings, because it is difficult to register and control, we will arrange for the temporary arrangement of Uchiyama Yujue and Sichen and others who surrendered to our army as puppet leaders of the Burmese people, so as to calm the mood of the Burmese people. Auxiliaries were then placed in large numbers in their localities to manage local law and order. Of course, in these places, a large number of Han instructors were also dispatched to let them know Chinese characters, learn Chinese customs, and wear Han clothes, and gradually change the local customs and customs, and eventually mix with Huaxia. If this approach is resolutely carried out, in a few decades, northern Myanmar will also be Han soil, and there will be no worries again. “
After listening to the words of the two praisers, Li Xiao's originally tense face finally showed a faint smile.
"Very well, just do what the two praise paintings say." Li Xiao finally made a decision: "Even if it takes a lot of money and time to absorb and digest Myanmar, it will be worth it in the long run." As the so-called planner of great things, he should count his descendants for all generations, and he will be comfortable for a while. “
Chen Zilong and Jiang Yueguang got up when they heard the words, and bowed together: "Obey the edict of King Tang." “
Li Xiaozhi's order, and then the flying pigeon was sent to Burma, and the two generals stationed in Burma, Zeng Ying and Mo Changrong, immediately acted according to the order.
According to preliminary statistics from the Department of Prison and Care, there are more than 5 million Burmese people in Myanmar. Among them, in the Tang Army's attack on Burma, the tribes and prefectures and towns that had been deliberately enemies of the Tang Army, with more than 600,000 people under their rule, were classified and selected as the first batch of immigrants.
They were all sent by land and water to Hokkaido, Trans-Manchuria, and East Siberia. In that bitter cold land, they mingled with the local indigenous people and the Han Chinese who had previously immigrated, and then taught Han culture and customs to gradually transform.
After the resettlement of this group of people was completed, about 2 million Burmese people in southern Myanmar, who were established by Li Xiao, were all transferred to Taiwan, the Philippines, the island of New Guinea, and Australia for resettlement. Due to the vast area of southern Myanmar and the inconvenient transportation, the civil officials of the Supervision Department estimated that there were at least more than 100,000 border residents who could not be found because of their remote location, so these people could only go with him temporarily. After all, after a large number of Han Chinese emigrated, they would gradually integrate into the Han Chinese and eventually completely dissipate their national identity.
The northern part of Burma was divided into dozens of places, and the former Burmese generals who surrendered to the Tang Army were arranged to be puppet leaders to govern their borders. Of course, for example, Xizhen and Uchiyama Yujue and others, who made great contributions to the Tang army's attack on Burma, divided the territory much larger than other surrendered Burmese generals, and the land was more fertile.
In northern Burma, the Burmese were forced to mix with the immigrant Han Chinese, and their children were forcibly enrolled in Han schools.
After all, the Tang army planned to emigrate more than 6 million people from the country to the entire territory of Burma, and at least two-thirds of them would be resettled in southern Burma, where the land was fertile and suitable for farming, and the other one-third would be resettled in northern Burma, where transportation was convenient and suitable for farming. The arrival of so many Han Chinese immigrants should be enough to dilute the remaining Burmese people in Burma.
At the same time as emigrating from southern Burma and northern Burma, Li Xiao ordered that the soldiers and horses of the 10th town of Zeng Ying's department be stationed in Burma for a long time, and his soldiers and horses would be stationed in various key areas of Myanmar to ensure long-term peace and stability in Myanmar. And Mo Changrong's 11th town soldiers and horses, after completing the resettlement work, were all transferred back to China and stationed in Hanzhong, ready to be used to attack Li Zicheng's Dashun Kingdom.
Due to Li Xiao's proper arrangements and the abundant Tang army soldiers and horses to maintain local law and order, although there were constant movements in various parts of Burma, there was no great turmoil and turmoil from beginning to end, and a relatively calm state was maintained.
Time flies, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, a year and a half flies by, and in a blink of an eye it is the end of the summer of the second year of Anping.
In the past year and a half, Burma, which has been relocated, resettled Han people, and redivided prefectures and towns, and completely disposed of in accordance with the plan set by Li Xiao that day, has basically completely returned to calm, life in various places is stable and orderly, and the rice field operations in the south are in full swing.
The mouth of the Nayelodi River in southern Myanmar, the impact delta formed over tens of thousands of years, is very fertile, and is the most important and extensive grain producing area in Myanmar, and it is also an important rice producing area in the world today. Since the immigration of millions of Han Chinese, the land in southern Myanmar has been fully developed, and as far as the eye can see, the banks of the Irodi River are already full of rice paddies and palm bushes, a peaceful and tranquil idyllic scene.
In northern Burma, the Tusi territory, which was divided into dozens by the Tang army, because the Tang army stationed troops everywhere and firmly grasped the local finance and education in their hands, the local millions of Burmese people will only become more and more sinicized, and people such as Uchiyama Yujue and Xizhen can't afford to make any big waves except for being nominal leaders.
Myanmar is peaceful, so next, Li Xiao naturally shifted the focus back to the country.
Within this year's time, the work of local land reform and repatriation in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan has been basically completed, and most of the original Tusi land boundaries have been dispatched to the imperial court, and Li Xiao has finally achieved complete control and firm control over these places.
In other parts of the country, it is even more stable and peaceful, the economy is prosperous, and the people's livelihood is stable.
Now the realm under Li Xiao's rule is peaceful and prosperous, and his military preparations are becoming more and more perfect and complete.
The newly formed soldiers and horses of the 14th and 15th towns in the country have already been formed and skillfully coordinated, and their combat strength is not inferior to that of any town of the Tang Army, and they can be put into use.
In this way, in the southern region, in addition to the third town stationed in Southeast Asia, the tenth town stationed in Burma, the ninth town stationed in Annam, and the eighth town guarding against Zheng Zhilong's troops, the military towns available to the Tang army were the second town stationed in Dongchuan, the sixth town stationed in Nanzhili, the seventh town stationed in southern Henan, the eleventh town stationed in Hanzhong, the twelfth town stationed in central Henan, and the fourteenth and fifteenth towns that could be used after the reorganization of Chengdu.
In this way, the Tang army had a total of seven military towns in the south that could be engaged in the war against Dashun.
In the north, there are the first town stationed in Shandong, the fifth town stationed in Waiman, the fourth town stationed in Jintang City, and the thirteenth town soldiers and horses, a total of four towns and horses, of which except for the fifth town can not be moved lightly, the other two towns can be used for the conquest of Dashun.
Added to the north and south, Li Xiao has a total of nine military towns that can be used to fight against the Shun army, plus a large number of auxiliary soldiers, the number of which is nearly 500,000, which is enough to complete this war to destroy the country.
According to the secret report of the Tang Army's Security Department, in the past year and a half, although the Shun army was also actively preparing for war, because its territory in the country had been fighting for many years and had gone through war, although there were many recoveries, it had not reached the ideal state. Therefore, the recovery of the population is not optimistic, and the number of conscripts is very limited. As for what Li Zicheng has always longed for, wanting to reach the same level of firearms as the Tang Army, it is even more completely empty talk. He has no accumulation of talents and technology, and he has a major investment in funds, and it is simply foolish to expect the rapid development of firearms research day by day.
Up to now, the firearms in the Dashun country have only barely been able to make the most crude traditional firecrackers and three-eyed guns, this kind of firearms produced by Dashun have a very short range, not much longer than bows and arrows, and because the level of the system is not up to par, the explosion and no sound are commonplace, so that the soldiers who are forced to use them all complain again and again.
As for all kinds of artillery, it can only copy the big general cannon and the second general cannon commonly used in the Ming Dynasty, as well as some small iron cannons and small copper cannons and other firearms commonly used by the Ming and Qing dynasties. Like the gun, the artillery produced by Dashun with all its might also has various shortcomings such as low output, poor performance, and easy to explode. Such an extremely poor artillery is more suitable for suicide bombing than a siege weapon.
Therefore, as the Tang Army's firearms became more sophisticated and Mini ammunition was widely used, the gap between the Tang Army and Dashun in the field of firearms research and equipment was not narrowed, but further widened.
Therefore, up to now, the only thing standing in front of Li Xiao is actually the peace agreement that has only half a year left.
Therefore, for the current Li Xiao, all he needs is a reason or excuse to tear up the agreement, which is naturally extremely easy.
After secretly consulting with several close ministers, Li Xiao sent an envoy to inform Li Zicheng that he would prepare troops and horses to go north with him to attack the Manchus.
In Li Xiao's handwritten letter to Li Zicheng, he implicitly emphasized that if Da Shunguo opposed or ignored the Tang army's request, it would be regarded as hostile to the Tang army, and the Tang army would consider no longer abiding by the peace agreement and would act freely.
After Li Zicheng read Li Xiao's letter, the anger in his heart was indescribable.
In the East Warm Pavilion, Li Zicheng's roar shook the roof tiles.
"Fuck! Lao Tzu has long said that Li Xiao is unreliable! Damn, it's only been more than a year, and this guy is going to find an excuse to tear up the peace agreement, which is really hateful! Li Zicheng gritted his teeth viciously: "He forced my country to attack the Manchu Qing with them, knowing that it was impossible for my Dashun to agree to such conditions, but he used this condition to force us, isn't it just to find an excuse to tear up the agreement, the Tang army is so hateful!" ”
"This guy still dares to threaten me in the letter, saying that if he does not send troops, it will be regarded as tearing up the agreement, and the two countries will return to hostilities. His attitude is as if he is ordering his subordinates to do things, which is simply rampant to the extreme! This person is so arrogant and rude, he is really angry! ”
Li Zicheng was like a trapped beast going back and forth in the house, and the emperor of the Great Shun Kingdom, like a rough country man, scolded Li Xiao's eighteenth generation ancestors in the most obscene language.
On the side, the two important ministers who were silently listening to Li Zicheng's roar, Prime Minister Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, the secretary of the Ministry of War, had an embarrassed expression on their faces, enduring Li Zicheng's foul language.
Finally, after Li Zicheng finally finished venting and sat back on the dragon chair to pant for breath, Niu Jinxia cautiously said: "Your Majesty, you are angry and hurt your liver, please take care of the dragon body." ”
"Take care of your fart!" Listening to Niu Jinxing's words, the anger in Li Zicheng's heart surged again: "Don't tell me that it's useless!" I just want to ask, now that the Tang Army really wants to tear up the agreement and fight against our Dashun Kingdom again, what can you do, huh?! ”