Chapter 225: Riot

Originating in India, Songkran is a ritual of ancient Brahmanism, which was later absorbed by Buddhism and introduced to the Dai region of Yunnan in China through Burma from the late 12th century to the early 13th century. With the deepening of the influence of Buddhism in the Dai area, the Songkran Festival has become a national custom that has been handed down for hundreds of years, and is a traditional festival in Southeast Asia, popular in Siam, Laos, Dongwu, Khmer and other countries. In the process of the Songkran Festival, people gradually combined it with their own national myths and legends, giving the Songkran Festival a more magical meaning and national color.

Songkran is also a beautiful time for unmarried young men and women to find love and cultivate happiness. During Songkran, unmarried young men and women like to play "packet loss" games. The flower bag in the girl's hand made of flower cloth is a token of love. On the day of the packet loss, the girls tried their best to dress up, and then came to the "charter field" with flower umbrellas and small flower bags, and the boys were separated from each other, thirty or forty steps apart, and began to throw flower bags at each other. If the young man could not catch the bag thrown by the girl, he had to put the flowers prepared in advance on the girl's hair, and if the girl could not catch the bag thrown by the young man, she had to put the flowers on the young man's chest...... In this way, the other party was gradually selected, and a romantic love story began.

It should be said that Songkran is a romantic festival, and many romantic things will happen in this romantic festival, but if the romance is too much, not so romantic things will happen, and even bloody things will happen, Liu Wei is waiting for this unromantic thing to happen, even if it doesn't happen by itself, Liu Wei will create an incident to make it happen, only in this way can we hide what really happened.

On the banks of the scenic Irrawaddy River, at the foot of the cool and inviting Mandalay Mountains, there are young people reveling everywhere, and pairs of young men and women are doing what they like. At this wonderful moment, discord began to appear, a pair of young men and women who were in love were savagely separated, the young man was set aside by several men, the disheveled female companion was replaced by another young man, and the female companion who was still immersed in love was inexplicably catered to, which made the young man endure it, so a fierce fight began. The same thing happened in different places, the downed boys began to gather their companions, and the women who were abused also showed their own people crying about the humiliating incident, and chaos inevitably appeared, and there were fighting crowds everywhere, and many officials who ran the city were also involved, and there was no way to control the chaos at all, and slowly the city of Ava was full of fighting calls.

In the palace of Dongwu, Anabilon is also carnivaling with his female companion, in such a good day, how can Anabilon be willing to let go, he doesn't have to rob people at all, the beauties sent by the leaders from all over the country let him enjoy it inexhaustibly, although he is a little overwhelmed, but he is still trying to show his majestic figure, and the female companion is also trying his best to cater to it. At this wonderful moment, an untimely eunuch broke in and interrupted Anabilon's good deed, and the whole of Ava was in chaos, and the official in charge of the security of Ava City had to report the matter to Anabilon.

Anabilon was interrupted by joy when he was angry, and immediately ordered the soldiers to suppress it on the spot, and all those who fought must be killed on the spot. Originally a joyous festival, the romantic and wonderful city of Ava was quickly overshadowed by the smell of blood, but these soldiers found something bad in the process of suppression, and many fighting crowds began to storm them, and the murderous atmosphere became stronger and stronger.

Because of the chaos caused by the peach incident, there was a riot, the city was full of killings, the soldiers who maintained law and order were gradually killed and retreated to the palace, and more people who did not know the truth also wanted to pour into the palace, and the soldiers had to start using bows and arrows to isolate the surging crowd, and people continued to fall, but many of the soldiers were killed by the bows and arrows that were fired, and the resistance was becoming less and less, and the chaotic crowd finally hit the palace.

Anabilon finally understood at this time, and immediately asked the Praetorian Guards to guard the gate of the inner palace, and countless bows and crossbows shot at the chaotic crowd, and a large number of corpses fell at the gate, and the swarming crowd began to be chaotic. At this moment, suddenly several black objects flew over, and they fell into the gate of the palace, and there was an explosion, followed by a fire, which at once disrupted the soldiers' formation, and the crowd rushed into the palace.

The soldiers could no longer stop the angry crowd, they had been completely scattered, and the most important thing was to flee, Anabilon's palace was breached, the palace was full of robbers, poor Anabilon was trampled by the frenzied crowd with footprints, and was dying, and the beautiful wife and concubine did not know who had robbed them, and with full unwillingness, Anabilon closed his sad eyes and died. The chaotic crowd of looted belongings and women began to leave, but they were bloodily slaughtered at the gates of the palace, and there was no doubt that these were the real Ming soldiers, and they had long been ready.

Liu Wei's strategy was a perfect success, the incident that caused the riot at the beginning was his masterpiece, and when the large-scale riot began, most of the soldiers had already evacuated the scene, and the elite soldiers hid in the chaotic crowd, constantly shouting to anger the already angry crowd, guiding the crowd to storm the palace, and when the soldiers who maintained law and order suppressed, they secretly killed them with crossbow arrows, and successfully let the chaotic crowd seize the palace, and then began to counter-surround the palace and kill the robbing crowd, Take back the treasures of the palace.

The chaotic city of Ava was restored to calm the next day, and Liu Ling, dressed in Cochin costumes, announced the establishment of a new regime and launched the name of the Great Ming Dongwu Xuan Comfort Envoy, which was the name of the Yongle Emperor canonized in the 22nd year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, and reappeared more than 200 years later, and Liu Wei, who had obtained the seal of Anabilon, also used this seal, claiming that Anabilon, who was beaten by the rebels, issued this will at the last moment, hoping that the armies and ordinary people everywhere would obey this will.

In this era of closed news, how many people can understand the mystery, the barracks in Ava City have long been controlled by the Ming army, the Praetorian Guard has died, Liu Wei's orders began to be carried out here, Ava City was completely controlled by the Ming army, as for the local governments in various parts of Dongwu, now I don't know whether they are following the orders of this so-called Dongwu Propaganda Envoy, some of them are willing to accept it, and the remote places have announced their separation.

The terrain of Dongwu is good, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water, Ava City is surrounded by small hilly areas of plains except for Mandalay Mountain, it is located in the most elite area of Dongwu, where there is the most fertile land, the largest population, occupying Ava City basically controls the economic lifeline of Ava, and the mountainous areas on three sides do not have too many populations. Because of the seal of Anabilon as evidence, the order of the Dongwu Propaganda Envoy was recognized in the nearby area, and then Li Xin was appointed as the Dongwu Propaganda Envoy, and the affairs of Yunnan were temporarily handed over to Mu Wangfu to take care of, and the old woman Mu was also careful to help Li Xin temporarily manage Yunnan.

Except for the elite area from Ava City to the seaside that received the orders of the Dongwu Comfort Envoy, the mountainous area in the north was not too chaotic due to the influence of the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers who fought against the Ming in the Wulu River Valley had pledged their allegiance to the Ming Dynasty. Only Chin State and Rakhine State on the western plateau, and then Mon State on the coast, announced their independence from the Dongwu Propaganda Mission. Li Xin did not immediately put his soldiers into the war of counterinsurgency, after all, there are not many soldiers and horses who have entered the Dongwu Propaganda Envoy Division, only 20,000 people, and the rest of the states still need comfort, I am afraid that they will rush for quick success to quell the rebellion, and in the end it will be troublesome to cause rebellion in other places, but if these small states that have declared their secession are not suppressed, for other states, it will be a negative example, and it must be solved as soon as possible at this time, and it also needs to have a deterrent effect on others, and there can be no charitable means, Thunder strikes to settle the matter.