"Your Majesty, the minister has a matter that has been unknown, I hope Your Majesty can solve the doubts for the minister--- why did Your Majesty kill Ma Jixiang so decisively that day?"

On a platform where there were only the emperor and himself, Li Dingguo asked the question that had been haunting his heart.

Ma Jixiang is a minister that Li Dingguo trusts very much. Whenever Li Dingguo fought abroad, all kinds of things were actually handled by Ma Jixiang. But as soon as the emperor woke up, he cut off his head without saying a word?

Li Dingguo thought at first that this was a sign that the emperor did not trust him, but he would not lose his head when he held the military power; In addition, the situation is critical, and Li Dingguo has no time to think about these messy problems, so he just thinks that the emperor has figured it out and is no longer so cowardly.

However, the next series of operations made Li Dingguo dizzy: inspecting the army, selecting small officials, and suddenly containing the hearts of the army; On a whim, he creates a flintlock firebolt that allows the bird to shoot twice as much lead; After entering Awa, he directly ordered the establishment of the Burmese Undertaking and Envoy Department... Li Dingguo also read a lot of books later, and felt that what the emperor did was far from what ordinary monarchs did.

For the matter of being an official in the army, Li Dingguo can only come from the Han and Tang dynasties to find the minister, but there are officials, where are there officials? This kind of thing can only be done by Tyrant Qin.

It's easy to understand that the apocalypse is a carpenter emperor, and there seems to be nothing abnormal about this more blacksmith emperor.

It seems normal to divide Burma into a province, but it is not normal to take this opportunity to make a big change of blood for the court: after the Qin Dynasty, the operation of the state apparatus always needs officials, and His Majesty the Emperor seems to plan to replace more than half of the officials in one go?

If he hadn't known that Daming had a difficult time surviving at this time, Li Dingguo would even think that he was living in the Hongwu period!

And it all started with that knife.

"Ma Jixiang is in trouble with the dynasty, isolating China and foreign countries, how can he not be killed. In the past, there was collusion with Sun Rebellion, and then there was treason and defection to the enemy. ”

Zhu Youlang, who knew the later history, explained lightly, seeing that Ma Jixiang had so many second-hand operations in the back, pulling Yongli to die with himself (including but not limited to laying down his arms, intercepting and killing courtiers, withholding materials from ministers, and deceiving Gao Wengui and other Qinwang soldiers), if I didn't kill him with a knife first, wouldn't I have crossed it in vain?

Could it be that I came to Nanming inexplicably just to experience the despair before being strangled?

As soon as Ma Jixiang was mentioned, Zhu Youlang's whole body was filled with a sense of powerlessness.

But he couldn't say.

"Danger to life?"

Li Dingguo was surprised.

What Ma Jixiang did was also impeached by courtiers, and he was naturally not ignorant of it. But the life-threatening is sensational, could it be that Ma Jixiang plans to kill the king?

"Burma is a country of barbarians, tigers and wolves, if I have soldiers, I can make them fearful, if I have no soldiers, I will enter Burma like a sheep into the mouth of a tiger. If Ma Jixiang is not killed at that time, I will be isolated from China and foreign countries in the future, and I am afraid that I will become a prisoner of the Burmese people! ”

Zhu Youlang couldn't say that he knew history, so he made up a similar answer to fool Li Dingguo.

"Why is Your Majesty worried about this? Although the minister is dull, he also has tens of thousands of troops, which can ensure that His Majesty is safe in Burma. At present, although Ava has been captured and Burma has been destroyed, there are people attacking the official army dozens of miles outside Ava City, and it seems that Burma has been decided, but the minister secretly thinks that this may be the beginning of the chaos! ”

"After conquering Ava, the minister read some books, according to which the system of Burma is similar to that of the Warring States, and there are local officials everywhere who are similar to feudal kings, and conquering Ava can only control a place near Ava. Besides, the sons of Mangda are scattered all over the world, and they may raise the flag again at any time! ”

"Although the king division can fight two enemies with one, or even three enemies, how can he support the army for a long time in the land of projectiles? If His Majesty orders the King of Burma to pay millions of stone and a number of troops every year, there may be no such chaos. ”

"The ministers thought that the destruction of Burma and its country would be named and damaged."

"On that day, didn't the king of Jin say in the court that it was right to seize the country of Burma? Why did you rebel in front of me? ”

Zhu Youlang is unhappy, although you are a national hero in later generations, don't be so tricky---- I am still your boss.

"How dare the minister go back on his word and deceive Your Majesty! The diligent cultivation of such sour and rotten literati is a tribute to the thick and thin! The imperial court is already stretched, and it has to be rewarded to the tiger wolf? Although the country that stayed in Myanmar was left, His Majesty could send a prime minister to set up the king of Myanmar and turn the wealth of Myanmar into the wealth of the Ming Dynasty. Although it is not named, it is actually true, isn't it beautiful? ”

Zhu Youlang nodded and didn't say a word.

In fact, Zhu Youlang also considered this plan.

It was even considered to divide Burma into two, ceding Ava and its north to the Ming Dynasty, and canonizing a new Burmese king to the south of Ava. In this way, to the north of Ava, the imperial court can rely on military deterrence to slowly cut the meat, and to the south of Ava, it will order it to pay a lot of tribute to supplement military spending.

But as a traverser, Zhu Youlang couldn't bear the long-term harm caused by doing so.

After several months, Zhu Youlang fully realized how small his strength was in the face of the general trend of history.

This brings a question: if you don't push the Ming Dynasty onto the road of industrialization, then what should the Ming Dynasty do in the future? A reenactment of the "past" of the Opium War?

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the tributary states of the tributary system broke away from the influence of China and became colonies of Westerners.

And the begonia leaf of China was also nibbled by the bear in the north and turned into a chicken.

However, with the exception of Taiwan, which was ceded by Japan, and a bunch of almost no-man's lands ceded by Russia, China's territory was not seriously damaged.

If Myanmar is turned into a province, then, even if it does not embark on the road of industrialization, China's blood bar can be a little thicker.

But what can be said about these things?

Could it be that he said to Li Dingguo, "I watched the sky at night and found that two hundred years later, the red-haired people and the Franco-mechanical people were going to invade China?" Three hundred years later, the Japanese people of Fuso landed in Songjiang and Shenjing on a huge ship? ”

Saying it would only make King Jin feel like his brain was in water, and it would have no other effect.

"Alas..."Zhu Youlang couldn't help but sigh. It's really uncomfortable to be able to say it when you know it.

"The minister does not want to resist the decree and disobey it, His Majesty has an order, and the country should obey it, but I just feel that although the country is not an official, he should also fulfill his duty as a minister!"

Seeing that the emperor was racking his brains, Li Dingguo immediately made his position clear.

"It's okay, the King of Jin has a lot of opportunities, both military and civil affairs, and it's also excellent to check and fill in the gaps for me..."

"Has King Jin ever heard such a sentence? Ten years of trees, 100 years of people. ”

"Although the minister is a martial artist, he also knows that reading is important, and this statement comes from Guanzi."

"King Jin is really a civil and military all-rounder. But ten years of trees are easy to understand, and how many people in the world can live for a hundred years? There is Peng Zu in the distance, and Sun Simiao in the near, how many people are there in the world? Before a hundred years come, people will die, so how can this make people? ”