After resisting the mercenaries composed of the Kingdom of Siam, the Portuguese, the Kingdom of Arakan and the pirates of the Kingdom of Siam for more than a year, the Kingdom of Burma received a messenger sent by the Governor of Yungui of the Ming Dynasty to hold accountable the various offenses of Burma on the Yunnan border, and realized that the Ming Dynasty might also participate in the war against Burma, and finally chose to give in to the Ming envoy and recognized that the Ming had the power to mediate the war. Three-inch room

The war in Myanmar, which was started by the anti-Burmese alliance, finally ended before the rainy season in Myanmar this year. From May to June, representatives of King Talong, Governor Yungui of the Ming Dynasty, and representatives of the Anti-Burmese Alliance gathered in Bago, the old capital of Burma, to negotiate an armistice.

In the face of the strong force of the anti-Burmese alliance and the political pressure exerted by the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, the representatives of the king of Tarong had to agree to the proposal of the anti-Burmese alliance, ceding the lower delta of the Irrawaddy River to the Kingdom of Arakan, returning Chiang Mai and other places to the Kingdom of Siam, opening the area around Salian as a free trade port, and the Ming Dynasty, Portugal, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries had the right to set up leased land in Bago to operate commerce.

Although Burma lost a small part of the Lower Burma region and the Siamese land occupied by the war, this peace agreement undoubtedly dealt a great blow to the Mon forces with Bago as the heart, and greatly stabilized the power of King Tarong, who moved his capital to Ava.

Although Da Ming's side did not directly send troops, it also received great benefits. Burma had to return the Mengyang Propaganda Division to the Ming Dynasty, and promised that the Mubang Xuanwei Division below Mengyang would be a demilitarized zone, and the Ming people could freely travel and engage in any occupation in this area.

The free trade port set up near Salem also fell under the control of the Ming Dynasty. Zhong Bin and Li Kui saw Salen as a base for advancing to mainland India, and began to move people from China and Vietnam to develop the area. Although Britain and the Netherlands did not contribute to the Burma war, they did gain a lot of benefits. Therefore, like the Portuguese, they hoped that the country would continue to expand its influence on the Indian continent, so that they could make profits, and began to provide their people with information about the Indian continent.

For Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, the softening of the king of Burma added a lot of prestige to him. The complex terrain and dense primeval forests in northern Myanmar have made Yunnan on the border with Myanmar have been in an embarrassing situation where it is difficult to fight back. As soon as the Ming army left, the Burmese army went and returned.

This strategy of continuous encroachment in Myanmar has made most of the three propaganda and six consolation systems originally set up here by the Ming Dynasty destroyed. After losing the protection of the system, many Tusi on the border had to face the invasion of Burma alone, which was obviously a war with no chance of winning.

As a result, under Myanmar's decades-long successful encroachment policy, Yunnan Tusi inevitably has an inexplicable fear of Myanmar. They couldn't defeat the Burmese, and the Ming army couldn't help the Burmese, so the Tusi in the border area with Burma had to communicate privately with the Burmese king, and wavered between the Ming and Burma.

But this time, the Ming Dynasty did not send troops, but only used a messenger to let the King of Burma return a large piece of land, which was something that the Qianguo Mansion failed to do. Almost as soon as the peace treaty with Burma was transmitted back to Kunming, Tusi from all over Yunnan had already gone to Kunming to congratulate Hong Chengchou on their allegiance again. For the first time, the deep-rooted influence of the Qianguo Mansion in Yunnan was truly overshadowed by the authority of the imperial court.

Taking advantage of the softening of the attitude of these Tusi, Hong Chengchou once again promoted the construction of transportation facilities to communicate with all parts of Yunnan, and strengthened the control over some Tusi areas, so that the influence of the imperial court really infiltrated the ordinary people, so that Yunnan could truly become the Yunnan of the imperial court.

While the southern frontier of the Ming Dynasty was being changed by the Burma War, the outcome of the ASEAN War against Batavia was also profoundly changing the Ming Dynasty and Japan.

In the past, except for those maritime merchant families who had maintained traditional trade habits for a long time on the southeast coast, the Ming merchants in the inland were afraid of overseas trade. Not only because of natural disasters such as sea winds and waves, but after leaving the mainland, they lacked the ability to defend their property.

But as news of the victory over Batavia returned home, various descriptions of the rich resources of the South Seas and the Ming navy's deeds of protecting their merchants in the region became popular in the newspapers. The consequence of this propaganda is that many merchants in inland areas began to accept that the security level of Nanyang is actually similar to that of Guangdong and other places, and there is also a court in Nanyang that can be relied on.

As a result, after the overseas trade boom that appeared after the opening of the sea ban, there was a second wave of overseas boom. Unlike the first wave of overseas trade boom dominated by merchants from the southeast coastal areas, this wave of overseas boom dominated by merchants from Huguang, Sichuan and other places rushed to overseas to occupy land and develop the plantation economy.

The imperial court's clean-up of the clan's land has obviously aroused the vigilance of many shrewd landlords. The less tax on overseas land and the Ming Dynasty's tax exemption policy for imported grain made these commercial landlords realize that they could buy back at least five to ten times the amount of land they could sell their domestic land and go abroad, and after the grain produced by these foreign lands was shipped back to China for sale, the profits were obviously higher than the profits of the land owned in China.

With the emergence of high-value cash crops such as rubber plantations and oil palm plantations in the Nanyang area, it further promoted the interest of the Ming people to go to Nanyang to manage the land. This wave of overseas boom was even more durable than the trade boom that lasted until a hundred years later, when the Nanyang fever gradually subsided.

This kind of in-depth development of the Nanyang region not only greatly alleviated the contradiction between the domestic land and population, but most importantly, greatly activated the economic ties between the Nanyang and the mainland, and forced the Ming traders to expand and explore the wider ocean, looking for the next lucrative trade area.

In contrast to the high spirits of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese side suddenly became an undercurrent after receiving the news of the war end meeting from the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Ming Dynasty opened the door with war, the Japanese still do not admit that they were defeated by the Southern Barbarians, they always believe that the war of that year was an internal war in which Toyotomi Chiyo asked the Ming Dynasty to send troops to restore the Toyotomi family, and it was a war for the restoration of the country that the original dynasty helped the subject country, not a war in which outsiders invaded Japan.

The reason for this propaganda was that both the Southwest Domain and the Edo Shogunate needed to uphold the legitimate legal principles of their own rule over Japan. The powerful feudal lords in the southwest could not see themselves as puppets controlled by outsiders, and the Edo shogunate needed to prove that its compromise did not betray Japanese interests.

But no matter how much they advertise, Japan, which was gradually becoming closed, now has to open its doors to the outside world. In particular, the six ports of Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, Nagasaki, Aomori, and Yamaguchi that were open to the outside world were filled with new science and ideas from the Ming Dynasty and Nanban, which greatly affected some low-level samurai, market vendors, and handicraftsmen.

In Osaka, because of the establishment of Osaka University, Osaka has become the heart of Japanese thought that preaches new ideas from the Ming Dynasty. Originating from the mercantilism of the Southern Barbarians, the Akito's Theory of the Equality of All Peoples, and the Huayi Debate, the doctrines of the Akira were spread throughout Japan to the feudal lords who came to study in Osaka University.

When the news of the ASEAN Conference's rejection of Japan's share of the post-war benefits was transmitted back to Osaka, Osaka University students and local citizens were the first to march in the streets to express their dissatisfaction.

Zhang Pu, who has been teaching at Osaka University for more than half a year, was also a little dumbfounded when he looked at the procession passing in front of him. For the first time, he realized that in overseas countries other than the Ming Dynasty, there were also vibrant people.

He stood silently on the side of the road, watching the citizens of Osaka parade through the street in front of him, and his Akito outfit protected him well. Not all of these street marchers are sane. Not long ago, he saw that two Westerners who had been hiding in the shops were caught by some citizens who had lost their minds, and beat them as representatives of the ASEAN Association who bullied Japan.

If someone hadn't called the patrol to rescue these two Westerners, it is estimated that they would have lost at least half their lives. As for people like him who wore the clothes of the Ming people, those citizens did not dare to come to make it difficult. At this point, Zhang Pu also had to thank the Ming garrisons that he hated deeply, those who worked hard and lost money and violated benevolence and righteousness.

The defeat of the shogunate army by the Ming army in Japan by thunder has now almost been portrayed as a myth. No matter how much Zhang Pu looked down on these soldiers, the Japanese were honest with the Ming soldiers and did not dare to show any disrespect.

Well, they marched in the streets today, but they only dared to block the entrance of the Osaka City Hall and the Osaka Parliament, and did not dare to besiege the Daming Navy Station of the Osaka Governor's Palace and the Osaka Port.

Because of the behavior of these Japanese, Zhang Pu also changed from the uneasiness and panic of the marchers at the beginning, to an indifferent bystander.

However, when he saw a teenager in the procession, he finally couldn't help but pull him out of the procession and asked him, "Masuda Tokizhen, isn't it time for class now?" Why are you here? ”

The sixteen-year-old Masuda Tokisada was a student recommended by Nagasaki to study medicine at Osaka University, and was also one of Zhang Pu's students. It was really embarrassing to say that the leader of the Restoration Society, who was famous for his studies in Japan, found himself in an embarrassing situation when he arrived at Osaka University.

Zhang Pu's knowledge is indeed very good, but it is not suitable in Japan. Because Japan has no past, and if Japan wants to become strong, what it needs is a comprehensive reform that touches the soul like the Ming Dynasty, not something that respects the scriptures.

What's more, after nearly two hundred years of the Warring States Period, Confucianism in Japan is still at a very low level. For these Japanese samurai, the knowledge studied by Zhang Pu was too esoteric and difficult to understand, and it was difficult to apply it to real life, so naturally fewer and fewer people listened to his lectures.

Masuda Shizhen is one of the few students who still insist on listening to his classes, and for such students, Zhang Pu is naturally unwilling to let him get involved in demonstrations.

But in response to the teacher's questioning, Masuda Shizhen was just restrained, then bowed to Zhang Pu and pleaded guilty and said: "Teacher, hiding in the classroom now can't save Japan, only a parade petition can let those Southern Barbarians know that Japan is not the kind of inferior race that can be colonized and conquered by them, and we are also a nation with a great Ming and history..."

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