Chapter 237

Ava City, is the capital of Myanmar, in the meaning of Burmese, Ava is the meaning of "jewel", from the Irrawaddy River to the royal city, the Sanskrit-style pagodas, monasteries are lined up, the exquisite temples look like a few more magnificent than the palace. It can be said that if it comes to the splendor of the royal palace, it is far inferior to these monasteries, and such a thing is unthinkable in the Ming Dynasty, but here, in this place where the whole country believes in Buddhism, all this is perfectly normal. It can even be said that the people's devotion to the Buddha is far greater than that of the king.

Although it is the national capital of Myanmar, the city of Ava is no stranger to the people. After the establishment of the Donghu Dynasty, after decades of development and growth, it controlled most of the Indochina Peninsula, and its ambitions began to turn to the Ming Dynasty in China. More than 70 years ago, the king of Donghu, Nanda Boyin, sent hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Yunnan in multiple ways. The Ming Dynasty led the army to meet the fierce generals Liu Wei and Deng Zilong, and within a few months, more than 10,000 people of the invading Burmese army were wiped out, and then the victory was invaded into Burma, and it was fought until the city of Ava, where the uncle of Nanda Boyin, who guarded Ava, surrendered to the Hou of Awa. At that time, the city of Ava was not the capital of the Donghu Dynasty, and the unwilling Nanda Bo was defeated by the Ming army again, losing a lot of territory in the north, and Burma was once again a vassal state of China.

It's just that all this glory now belongs to yesterday, and the Ming Dynasty has lost the momentum of yesterday, at least for the Burmese, they have seen the decline of a dynasty.

After losing Kunming last year, the Yongli Emperor and the imperial court fled all the way south to Burma, and since then they have been in exile in Burma, and have been taken in by the Donghu king Mangda, and the exiled imperial court was placed near the capital city of Ava, and built a city with bamboo, which built ten grass houses as the residence of the Yongli Emperor, and other accompanying officials and other accompanying officials built their own houses to live.

Since then, after the Ming Dynasty settled down in the suburbs on the other side of the Ava City, it lost contact with the country, even if it was difficult to maintain contact with the anti-Qing forces in the border areas, and the so-called "imperial court" and "Zhengshuo" were just false names. Even the Burmese king, although allowed them to enter the country for refuge, never gave them an official reception. Although the Burmese king lived in the city of Awa and the exiled Yongli monarch lived outside the city of Ava, the two sides were close to each other across the river, but the two sides never met. What's more, the Burmese king sent troops to "protect" them, but the protection was nothing more than house arrest.

However, now it seems that all this is changing, and for the Yongli monarchs and ministers who are under house arrest in this bamboo city, they can intuitively feel the change in the attitude of the Burmese king towards them.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it must be the King of Jin who has won a great victory in Yunnan, otherwise, then Mangda will not be so polite!"

For the temperament of the Burmese people, Mu Tianbo, who has lived in Yunnan for a long time, naturally knows very well. After all, the Mu family lives in Yunnan, and they know these natives, and these natives have never had any so-called benevolence, righteousness and morality. It is their nature to bully the soft and fear the hard.

"This Burmese man is afraid of the soft and the hard, if it weren't for the great victory of the King of Jin, he would not have sent rice and grain one after another, let alone respect us."

At the mention of respect now, his face looked very ugly. I think that on August 13 last year, the king of Burma sent someone to invite him to cross the river to participate in the Burmese New Year Festival on the 15th. After Mu Tianbo crossed the river with the gifts that Emperor Yongli had originally planned to give, the Burmese monarchs and ministers did not allow him to wear Ming Dynasty clothes, and forced him to change into national clothes and go to the palace in front of the Golden Palace of the Burmese King with a courtesy with the envoys of the small Burmese states. According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, the Mu clan of the Qianguo Gong, who guarded Yunnan, governed the Tusi of Yunnan on behalf of the Ming Dynasty and handled the affairs of the surrounding vassal countries, and the system was very noble. "General Zhengnan" is almost no different from the imperial court in the southwestern countries, and the Mu clan of the Qianguo State is more noble than the Ming Emperor. At that time, it was completely reversed, and he wanted to pay tribute to the king of Burma barefoot and wear national costumes, and his inner distress can be imagined.

What he didn't expect was that after returning from the ceremony, he said to the courtiers full of humiliation: "I don't need to say anything when I am in the well in March, so I am in a dilemma today." If I don't give in, I'm already in the tiger's den. Whoa, who brought me here? After saying that, he began to cry for the grievances he had suffered. But as a result, Yang Zai, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and Ren Guoxi, a pedestrian, still impeached Mu Tianbo for losing his body and humiliating the country, and demanded that he be punished.

Since he fled into Burma, the king of Namyanmar also gave some material help at the beginning, that is, the so-called "tribute is quite generous". But later, after figuring out their truth, they often cut off supplies, so that the court had to rely on pawns for a living, and even then, they were often bullied. But in the past two months, the Burmese king has given a large amount of supplies many times, and even the attitude of the Burmese king's officials has never been seen before, and the words are even more respectful.

"If it was at the beginning, listen to your advice, I will wait for the monarch and ministers, why is it like this! Ended up in today's field! ”

Yongli said with a gloomy expression, the king of Jin had tried to welcome him back to Yunnan, but he was unwilling to return to Yunnan, unwilling to be displaced in the turbulence, and unwilling to suffer such a fearful displacement. So he chose Myanmar.

Before entering Myanmar, Mu Tianbo also tried to persuade him to stay at the border instead of going deep into the hinterland of Myanmar. They believed that placing the fate of the imperial court under the protection of Burma would have unpredictable consequences in the event of a change in the attitude of the Burmese authorities. But in the end, he chose to go deep into Myanmar, but he never thought that he would not only be "sent under the fence", but even under house arrest. Even personal safety is dependent on people's breath.

And now I feel a change in the attitude of the Burmese people. It only made him feel a little depressed. has improved a little,

"If the King of Jin can win a great victory, it is really blessed by God, and I hope that Emperor Gao will bless me and restore the Ming Dynasty to ......"

Although he has long lost the vigor to restore the rivers and mountains, and he is reluctant to settle in this feudal barbarian land, it does not mean that he does not want to return to the Ming Dynasty and does not want the Ming Dynasty to recover.

Because of this, although I don't know why the attitude of the Burmese land king has changed greatly, I can't help but have expectations for Li Dingguo. After all, this expectation is directly related to his life here.

"Mu Qing's family, you go and investigate, but the King of Jin has won another big victory recently, if so, test it and ask him if he can agree to send someone to send a letter to the King of Jin, wishing him a great victory......"

A few hours later, in the royal palace of Ava on the other side of the river, Mangda looked at the ministers who had come to report it, and his brow suddenly tightened.

"Emperor Ming wants to send someone to make an order with Li Dingguo to congratulate him?"

When did Li Dingguo win the battle?

Just when Mangda was puzzled, the prime minister over there said conveniently.

"The king, it must be that the Ming Emperor thought that the king had recently acted benevolently and righteously to him, but it was actually Li Dingguo's defeat of the Qing army, and he didn't know that it was really the king's benevolence and righteousness, and he couldn't bear to suffer from hunger and cold......"

Although Hu Nai said so, none of the ministers in the palace knew why the king changed his attitude towards Emperor Ming, wasn't it because he brought news from the foreigners on the foreign ship that sailed two months ago.

At first, they were suspicious of the shocking news, but eventually, they heard some rumors in Yunnan. Despite the fact that the Qing army in Yunnan did everything possible to block the news, the news of the Qing army's defeat of the Ming army in China last year still spread.

Although the news from Yunnan did not say what kind of defeat the Qing army suffered in the hinterland of China, it corroborated the news brought by those Westerners - the Qing army lost the entire south of the Yangtze River, and even in the mouths of the foreigners - "the emperor of the Tatars has been defeated by the Ming army", it was this news that made Mangda regret his previous decision, and he dared to have the slightest disrespect for the Ming Emperor. That's why he ordered people to "pay tribute" many times. In order to redeem the contempt of the previous opponent.

"Brother Wang, this matter must not be allowed, if the Yongli envoy informs Li Dingguo of the treatment he has received in the past few months, if Li Dingguo raises troops to retaliate, how should Brother Wang deal with himself at that time?"

Mang Bai, who was standing aside, immediately stood up against him, as Mangda's younger brother, he can now be said to be at the center of rumors, in the past few months, there has been a saying of "two kings" in Myanmar, and it is because of this that he will be recruited back to the palace by Mangda.

"If we don't agree with him to send Li Dingguo to deal with it, if Li Dingguo raises troops here, how should we deal with it?"

As the prime minister of the king of Burma, since he learned that Jiangnan has been recovered by the Ming army, he will always be awakened by nightmares, and in his memory, there is still a scene of the Ming army breaking the national capital decades ago, when there were hundreds of thousands of people killed in Burma.

Although he was not yet born at that time, in the memories of his grandfather and father, the bitter lesson of arrogance has always affected him, and because of this, even when the king ordered people to continue to deliver food to the Yongli exiled court, he would privately provide food to him through the monks of the monastery, in order to find a glimmer of life in the future.

From last year's selfish instigation of the king to be rude to Mu Tianbo, and now he intends to prevent Yongli from sending Li Dingguo, in Sunai's view, it is simply to stimulate the Ming Kingdom and plunge Myanmar into internal and external troubles, so as to seize the throne.

Now in case the thunderous wrath of the great powers comes, how can the national strength of Myanmar resist it, thinking that Li Dingguo's defeat with the remnants of the army a few months ago can make the whole of Myanmar panic, if it were not for their unadaptability to the weather in Myanmar, a large number of soldiers were infected with diseases, and now I am afraid that this country has been occupied by the Ming army. If it was replaced by the early years, the elite of the Ming army, a few months ago, it was not known who would win and who would lose.

"If he, Li Dingguo, dares to send troops, we only need to order that Yongli to send an envoy to withdraw his troops, so what's the worry?"

Mang Bai sneered,

"Just like the last time Li Dingguo intended to attack our country and recapture Yongli and others, not to mention the loss of troops, in the end, all it takes is a letter from Yongli, and he will withdraw from the army?"

Mang Bai looked at the hesitant brother sitting on the throne and said.

"Brother Wang, now that the emperor of the Ming Kingdom and the imperial court are in my hands, we just need to treat him with courtesy, and when he wins the Ming Kingdom, he will return it to the Ming Kingdom, which can be regarded as a great achievement, but if he hands it over to the Ming Kingdom now, in case the Qing Kingdom defeats the Ming Kingdom, when the time comes, the Qing army will investigate the fault of returning the Ming Court to the Ming Court today, and how should we deal with it at that time?"

Mang Bai seems to have a fist for the country, but in fact, he has his own plans in his heart, and even in his private residence, there are envoys of the Qing Kingdom, for him who has been trying to seize the throne, he naturally hopes to detain Yongli in Ava, only in this way can the Wang brother be in a dilemma, and the Qing State and the Ming Kingdom can exert heavy pressure on him every time.

In the future, when the army of the Qing and Ming countries will press the border. That's when his chance came.

"But, Brother Wang, you also know that the Westerners say that the Ming Kingdom has recovered Jiangnan, not only Nanjing has been recovered, but also tens of thousands of elite Qing troops, all of them were defeated by Zhu Mingzhong, the general of the Ming Kingdom, and tens of thousands of troops are not returned to one, under such a big victory, it is only a matter of time before the Ming Kingdom recovers the world, if we hold the Ming Emperor again, he will be blamed by the Ming Emperor, and when the time comes, how can our country resist the wrath of the thunder of the great powers?"

As the king, Mangda naturally knows very well that with the power of Myanmar's small state, he naturally can't compete with the Ming State, he is not his grandfather Mangyingli, he will be arrogant enough to make a big mistake with a small one, thinking that he can defeat a big country, Mangyingli's fiasco that year made Myanmar's national strength plummet, not to mention, the country was lost due to Siam's independence. A big country like Xiao Ming is by no means something that Myanmar can provoke.

"Brother Wang, that news is just the words of a few foreigners, who knows if they are exaggerating, and besides, as we all know, how can Li Dingguo have had a great victory since Yongli fled into Burma?"

Mang Bai looked at Brother Wang and continued.

"And today, the threat of the Qing State is imminent, so even if Li Dingguo repeatedly violates our state, how can he tolerate me? As long as the eternal calendar is in my hands, what is there to fear? ”

As long as Yongli is in hand, those Ming troops naturally have nothing to fear. And for him, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom is a bargaining chip in his hand. Whether it is for the Ming Kingdom or the Qing Kingdom, that emperor is a priceless treasure. Of course, it was also an opportunity for him. An opportunity that can be used in exchange for more returns. Now he just needs to seize this opportunity and not let this opportunity leave his hands easily. As for everything else, it will be borne by the royal brother.

For him, who is not the king, there is no need to think about all the problems caused by the house arrest of the emperor and the court of the Ming Kingdom, and even for him, whether it is the thunderous anger of the Ming State or the coercion of the Qing State, it is an opportunity, and it is an opportunity for him to seize the throne.

Although he keeps saying that he is for Burma, in the final analysis, it is for himself and for the sake of seizing the throne.

"But Li Dingguo ...... there"

Don't wait for others to finish. Mang Bai spoke.

"It's just a bunch of lost dogs, so what's there to fear?"