Chapter 273: Establishment of Taungoo Province

On January 23, 1651, the capital of the Burmese dynasty, Ava, fell, and King Mangda gave up resistance and surrendered.

The good news reached Yunlong Prefecture, and Gao Junshan immediately held a pledge meeting in Yunlong Prefecture to enter Donghu.

First of all, Gao Junshan named the recovered Burma province as Taungoo Province, and Zhou Shichen served as the temporary governor of Toungoo to manage the entire newly recovered area.

During the period when the expeditionary army was fighting with the Burmese army, Gao Junshan had already transferred a large number of Chongwen disciples from the capital, and the task of these Chongwen disciples was to take over the entire Taungoo Province, and these Chongwen disciples would serve as the governors of Taungoo Province at all levels.

It was his group of Chongwen disciples who participated in the Donghu Oath Conference. The purpose is to guide them in their work in Tangoo.

Gao Junshan's guidance is as follows:

First, the establishment of the Huaxia Prefecture at all levels of government in Taungoo Province;

second, to give full autonomy to the local toast and respect the local customs, culture and beliefs;

Third, tax exemption for one year, the formation of militia organizations, and the stabilization of law and order.

Gao Junshan specifically emphasized the second point, because there are many ethnic minorities in Taungoo Province, it is necessary to fully respect the local folk customs and adopt a stable and excessive strategy to govern Taungoo.

Gao Junshan sent two more orders to Zhou Shichen, first, the conquest army controlled the captured Zhu Youlang and restricted his freedom; Second, the conquest army immediately divided its forces to occupy all the Xuanwei Divisions in Taungoo Province, controlled all the assets of Taungoo, ensured that these assets were not occupied by the Tusi, and did not allow these assets to flow out, recognized the legitimate status of the local Tusi who cooperated with us, and resolutely eliminated any Tusi who did not cooperate with our army.

Gao Junshan was originally intended to pay tribute along the south of the Irrawaddy River.

Dagon is the Yangon of later generations, located in the middle of the Irrawaddy River Delta, which is the most developed and richest region in Myanmar due to its flat terrain and fertile land. The Irrawaddy Delta and the Sitang Valley are the main rice-producing regions, accounting for more than two-thirds of Myanmar's total rice production.

Li Hu and Li Derong resolutely disagreed, not to mention that the river was three or four thousand miles away, and they were not familiar with the water conditions and did not understand the local language, so there were too many potential safety hazards.

Gao Junshan thought about it seriously and thought it was inappropriate, because the entire Donghu Province was included, Gao Junshan was a little happy, and under the persuasion of the two guard officers, he calmed down with excitement.

Controlling such a large area of fertile land, it will be difficult for anyone to calm down, especially in the face of the Xiaoice period, the reduction of grain harvest in the north, this area of the Indochina Peninsula will continue to deliver rice to the Chinese country, solving the problem of hunger of the Chinese people.

At this time, Taungoo is no longer the Toungoo of history, because Myanmar was at war with Siam before and occupied a large area of Siam. Now that all of these lands belong to the Chinese state, Siam retains less than a third of its territory.

Moreover, all the coastline of Siam has been returned to China, which has far-reaching significance for the future development of China, which means that the territory of China has extended to Southeast Asia, and Southeast Asia in the future can no longer be touched by European empires, and Southeast Asian countries will be subject countries of China.

After the war with Burma, Siam demanded that Huaxia return the areas occupied by Burma, and Gao Junshan replied to the King of Siam, if we have usurped your territory from you, we will return it 100% completely, but if it is the territory obtained from the Burmese army, we regard it as Taungoo territory.

The king of Siam regretted it so much, why didn't he think of taking advantage of the defeat of Burma to send troops to seize the lost land? Now that these lands are occupied by the Huaxia Army, why should people give them to you if you ask for them yourself? What conditions do you have to ask for others, it is not for Huaxia to attack Burma out of help, and it is a question whether Siam still exists now, and it is too late to thank Huaxia for it, how can you ask Huaxia for land again?

Thinking of this, the King of Siam was also at ease.

The dynasty of King Mangda was destroyed, and the Tusi of the nine Xuanwei Divisions, including the Luchuan Xuanwei Division, the Cheli Xuanwei Division, the Mubang Xuanwei Division, the Burmese Xuanwei Division, the Dagura Xuanwei Division, the Diwula Xuanwei Division, the Disama Xuanwei Division, the Eight Hundred Dadian Xuanwei Division, and the Laos Xuanwei Division, declared that they belonged to Huaxia.

The whole of Myanmar was safely transitioned to the jurisdiction of the Huaxia State, and there was no violent conflict.

Stabilizing the political situation was the key, and Gao Junshan, who was in charge of Yunlong Prefecture, kept sending troops into Taungoo Province from the interior, and he sent a telegram to the Military and Political Yuan to immediately organize 10 first-class divisions to be stationed in Taungoo.

The Chinese state has a militia system of several million, and these militias are reserve forces, not to mention the formation of ten first-class divisions, even the formation of 100 first-class divisions is also a matter of an eye in the blink of an eye.

Throughout the spring, the newly formed troops were being mobilized, and Gao Junshan established the 10th Army Corps in Donghu and appointed Feng Shuangli as the commander of the 10th Army Corps.

Feng Shuangli followed Gao Junshan in his early years and has been engaged in intelligence work, and now he is the commander of the Tenth Legion, which is more than enough.

Donghu is worthy of being a big granary, and the grain reserves here are enough for the entire Huaxia country to eat for half a year, and the transport team now has another task, that is, to move the grain from Donghu Province to the interior.

In May, the rainy season fell, and heavy rains affected the build-up of the 10th Army, reaching only four divisions in Taungoo Province, and six divisions were blocked by heavy rains.

In view of this situation, Gao Junshan did not rush to mobilize the 101st Division and other five combat divisions that had previously entered Dongoo, and let them wait for the 10th Army to completely take over Dongoo before withdrawing from Dongoo.

This kind of ghost weather will last for at least three months, and Gao Junshan can only stay in Yunlong Prefecture and can't go anywhere.

Fortunately, there was a transmitter, and Gao Junshan could manage the government and military affairs of the entire China even if he did not leave home.

What he is most concerned about is the construction of the Zheng He-class battleship, the prototype of the Zhenghe-class battleship is a 10,000-ton battleship, and his engineers carried out repairs and sea trials on the three Zheng He-class treasure ships abandoned by the previous dynasty, and did not succeed once, Gao Junshan ordered them to carry out rectification, search and refit the original treasure ship, and change the 10,000-ton battleship to 8,000 tons.

Through the efforts of the engineers, the modified Zheng He-class battleship was successfully launched, and the first giant battleship was equipped with an improved steam engine, and the sea trials were very successful, with a maximum speed of 21 knots.

The Zhenghe-class giant battleships were equipped with eight improved steam engines, and only four steam engines were turned on in peacetime sailing, and the speed was maintained at 16 knots.

Another four Zheng He-class ships are under construction, and because seven Wuchang-class large battleships are being refurbished, the naval fleet is no longer in service with steam engines.

Gao Junshan ordered the newly launched battleship "Zheng He No. 1" to be incorporated into the Sixth Fleet, and at the same time ordered the Sixth Fleet to sail to the South China Sea to prepare for the next attack on Cam Ranh Bay.

Gao Junshan's next military direction is to recover Annam. Annan is the ancient Jiaozhi, which has always belonged to Huaxia and belonged to Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period.

The name of Annam, the earliest seen in the Tang Gaozong Yonghui six years, after 655, Guangzhou, Guizhou, Rongzhou, Yongzhou, Annan five prefectures are all subordinate to Guangzhou, the governor is called the five prefectures (management) by the strategic envoy, by the Guangzhou Thorn Shi concurrently, the first year of Tang Tiaolu (679) placed the Annam Protectorate. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the localities were divided into prefectures and counties. The 45 prefectures of Lingnan are divided into five prefectures, and the five prefectures are also known as the five governors of Lingnan.

Now Gao Junshan is ready to go to recover Annam, which is a matter of course.