Regarding Su Yue's perfunctory words of his subordinates, Wang Jiayin didn't believe a word. However, at the moment, he did not want to make the city of Yangon under his rule bloody, after all, this is not only the place of his future government, but also the main port of Burma's foreign trade in the future, and he does not want to make merchants from all over the world feel that Yangon is an unsafe place, thus harming his own interests.

Therefore, he stood on Su Yue's side, got up and said to his subordinates: "Since Ambassador Su wants to settle this matter peacefully, you don't have to think of any stupid ideas that make your own claims." I warn you first, if anyone spoils the affairs of the court, I will have to drive him to the swamp to the west to supervise the clearing of the wasteland.

Okay, let's go out and go about our business. As for Hui Dengxiang, you should take some people to the Mongols' dwellings to monitor their movements, and although we do not intend to do anything against them, we must not guard against any inappropriate actions by these Mons. If there is any news, report it as soon as possible. ”

As soon as Wang Jiayin's words fell, Su Yue also said casually: "It just so happens that my nephew is also going to visit those Meng leaders and listen to their private attitude towards the agreement, so let him go with General Hui..."

When Wang Jiayin's subordinates and Su Yue's subordinates left, the huge conference room suddenly became empty. Wang Jiayin propped his hands on the long table, turned his head to look at Su Yue and asked in a low voice, "As for being so impatient?" The Mons are still our allies now, after all, and we have just used them against King Talong, so we are about to start attacking them, how will the other allies perceive us? ”

Su Yue turned around and sat on the edge of the long table, looking at the large grass and flower beds outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and replied disapprovingly: "Ally? No, the only allies of the Ming were the merchants and the army of the Ming Dynasty. As for these people, they are just the current enemies of Da Ming and the future enemies of Da Ming. All we do now is to connect with the enemy of the future and fight the enemy of the present. The key to distinguishing them is when they are in the way of our national interests.

When dealing with the Kingdom of Burma, the Mon people are indeed our allies. However, when King Tharong gave in to us, the most important task of the Governorate of Burma at the moment became to open up the main transportation route from Yunnan to Yangon, and to develop the mouth of the Irrawaddy River in Lower Burma.

Over the years, with the expansion of China's foreign trade scale, our businessmen have broken through the limitations of the east and west oceans in the past and entered the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. However, as we became familiar with overseas geography and culture, we finally found that there were only four grain production areas that were close to Daming and suitable for large-scale transportation by sea.

The estuary of the Red River, the estuary of the Mekong River, the estuary of the Chao Phraya River and the estuary of the Irrawaddy River to the west of us, among these four areas, the estuary of the Red River and the estuary of the Chao Phraya River have been basically developed, and the estuary of the Mekong River is now being developed by our country, and then this last estuary of the Ayeyarwady River is left, because the Kingdom of Myanmar has been fighting for many years, so far there is no spare energy to develop here.

Based on the investigation of the entire lower reaches of the Irrawaddy River, we believe that at least 4 to 500,000 hectares of land in the area 2 to 300 kilometers west of Yangon City can be developed into fertile land. As long as the land in this area is developed, the granary of Myanmar will inevitably be transferred from the Ava region.

Thinking about the day when Emperor Shenzong wanted to raid several provinces in order to reward King Fu with 40,000 hectares of fertile land, the subjects of the world complained about it. And now in front of us, there is a piece of land ten times the number of fields given by King Fu, although it is still necessary to invest manpower and material resources to develop, but after such a piece of land is developed, it is enough for the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

Now there is only one question left in front of us, how to keep our hard work from being stolen by outsiders after we have worked hard to develop this land? Since we can use the Mon people against the Burmese Kingdom, do you know that no one will use the Mon people against my Daming?

Therefore, rather than waiting for the Mon people to be strong enough to threaten our control over the Lower Burma region in the future, it is more in our country's interests to keep the Mon people in a state of immortality.

The significance of this agreement was not to force the Mon people to submit, but to deprive the Mon of the basis for internal unity. Mon leaders who sign the agreement will lose popular support, and Mon leaders who have popular support will be attacked by the leaders who signed the agreement. Then the rule of the Ming Dynasty in this place will be as stable as Mount Tai. ”

Wang Jiayin only pondered for a moment, and then spoke: "So you have pulled so many foreign countries into the coalition army, and even the little-known France has become a member of the coalition army, it seems that the purpose is to completely cut off the hope of the Burmese people to ask for help from outside, so that they can only fight us independently?" ”

Su Yue looked at Wang Jiayin with some surprise, and then said with a smile: "The Governor is really not old, and he saw my plan so quickly.

Actually, I also want to keep a back hand, of course, we can rule the country directly is the best choice, but if the resistance to direct rule is too great, it is not impossible to share the ruling power of Myanmar with other forces. After all, for our country, in addition to collecting taxes directly from Myanmar, we can also harvest the country's wealth through trade.

What's so bad about the consequences of the influx of many forces into Myanmar that will not only effectively weaken the resistance in Myanmar, but also allow our allies to share some of the Burmese hatred for us? ”

Wang Jiayin pulled out a chair beside him and sat down again, ended the conversation in silence, and began to wait quietly for the news of Hui Deng's return of those Meng people. In fact, he had already understood in his heart that such a strategy could not be formulated by Su Yue, and no matter how talented Su Yue was, he could not influence the emperor's decision.

Obviously, for this undeveloped land, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is already eyeing it. It's just that the current Internal Affairs Office has also become cunning, and it doesn't want to come out and make trouble in its own name. After all, it is better for the emperor to call on his subjects to send troops to defend the property of Ming subjects overseas than to call on soldiers to defend the emperor's private property.

However, Wang Jiayin will not stab all this, no matter how big the emperor's appetite is, he will not swallow all these 4 or 500,000 hectares of land, so he and his subordinates will naturally be able to benefit from land development. In his position, his words and deeds no longer represent him personally, but have become the interests of the small group behind him.

When both of them were silent, the conference room was quiet, and Wang Jiayin, who was leaning on the back of the chair, looked at the sunlight on the table, which kept extending, crawling from the west edge of the long table to the east side.

In his eyes, the sunlight stretched very slowly, and he could hardly see any changes in the extension, but as time passed, the sunlight had suddenly crawled over the center line of the long table, and he couldn't react quickly. Just when Wang Jiayin was thinking about the relativity of time, the silence of the conference room was finally broken.

Su Youdao broke into the conference room out of breath, and said to his uncle in a panic: "Oh no, uncle, I didn't return to the place of residence with a few Meng leaders, they ran out of the city directly." General Hui is gathering his men and horses to arrest the remaining Meng people, and personally lead his troops to hunt down the few Meng people who have escaped..."

After hearing the news, Su Yue and Wang Jiayin still maintained enough composure, and after the two exchanged glances, Wang Jiayin asked Su Yue lightly: "Then next, will you handle it, or will I handle it?" ”

Su Yue thought for a while and said, "Naturally, I should deal with it, but if there is any loophole on my side, I will ask the Governor to check and fill in the gaps for me." As for General Hui's side, he also asked the Governor to let him calm down and not to do anything to these Meng leaders in the city, but also not to let them continue to run out of the city. ”

Wang Jiayin glanced at Su Yue, then got up neatly and said, "Okay, if you have any other questions, remember to inform me at any time." ”

When Wang Jiayin left, Su Yue called his nephew over and asked in detail the names and clans of several Meng leaders who had escaped. He then returned to his lodgings, not far from the governor's residence, and asked his attendant to bring out two pigeons, and then wrote two copies of the pigeon letters, and let them fly into the sky.

An hour later, a carrier pigeon arrived 80 kilometres northeast of Yangon, over Bago, the old capital of Myanmar, on the east bank of the Bago River. After hovering over the city for a week, the pigeon swooped down into a house on the west side of the city, where the Burmese branch of the Four Seas Trading Company was located, and was also tasked with negotiating privately with the Burmese aristocracy.

The news brought by the carrier pigeon was quickly sent to the person in charge of the branch, and after checking the secret note left by Su Yue on the letter, the person in charge read the brief content of the letter. After reading the letter, he got up and walked to the bookshelf on the side, opened a secret compartment on the shelf, and took out a booklet from it.

The person in charge looked through the booklet, found the names and tribes corresponding to the pigeon letters, and after a little thought, he called the subordinates from the outside and told him to invite some people over. From this moment until dark, about seven or eight Meng people in the city quietly came to the house, and after meeting and talking with the person in charge, they left quietly.

The three Mon nobles who had fled from Rangoon did not return to their homes in Bago until the afternoon of the next day. As the old capital of Burma and the center of Mon power, as long as the powerful Mon leaders would choose to live in and around Bago City. This is also one of the factors why King Talong had to choose to move the capital, and the power of the Mon people here is too great.

After these three Meng nobles returned to Bago, they agreed in front of the city gate to convene everyone to discuss the next day, and after gathering the strength of the Meng people to deal with the oppression of the Ming people, they parted ways and went back to their homes. However, at seven or eight o'clock that night, the mansions of the three nobles were attacked by unknown samurai, and the city guards who maintained the safety of Bago City were blocked by the Japanese, British, and Dutch troops in their camps.

Five days later, the Mon chiefs, who were under house arrest in Yangon, found that the troops outside their homes had finally withdrawn, but before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a messenger from Bago brought them bad news. The three leaders who had left Yangon to refuse to accept the peace agreement had been executed by a group of righteous men because they were found to be in collusion with King Talon, and none of the three leaders, including the servants, survived.

It took only one day for the Meng nobles who remained in Bago to confirm the charges of the three chiefs, and then re-recommended three to replace the three chiefs in the peace negotiations. The candidates recommended to replace the three were all the cronies of the three leaders who were killed in the past. This result made the Mon leaders who remained in Yangon shudder, and according to this situation, it is very likely that the murderers of the three leaders were these three cronies.

After two sleepless nights, the Mon chieftains, who went to the governor's mansion again, finally quietly accepted the peace agreement of the Kingdom of Burma determined by the Ming Dynasty, and obediently signed their names on the agreement. At this moment, these leaders of the Meng people, the objects of most concern and vigilance, have turned from the Ming Dynasty and the coalition army to their companions. They weren't sure if there were any traitors around them who had colluded with the Ming people.

With the exception of the Burmese, all parties in the coalition were extremely satisfied with the peace agreement. For this reason, the coalition forces held a three-day celebration in the city of Yangon, and it was at this time that the fleet of the Ming mission to the Indian mainland arrived in Yangon.

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