Whether Qin Zhan was really loyal or not was a very secondary issue in Fang Yuan's opinion.

No one is born loyal to anyone, everything is just a matter of profit. Where the interests are, even Lao Tzu and his son can be betrayed, such as Mu Zhonghan; There was a conflict of interest, and the pillow man Xiaoyuan also rebelled.

Even if Qin Zhan is loyal, his descendants may not be loyal, and blindly forcing loyalty is just the need for imperial propaganda.

Fang Yuan's pattern of expansion in the countries surrounding the South China Sea was similar to the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire, the establishment of British colonies around the world, and the westward expansion of the United States. It will take a hundred years to fully digest these occupied areas.

The Ming Empire that Fang Yuan wanted to establish was actually a federal system that was different from the model of the subject state.

The territory of the Ming Empire included the main territory of the existing Central Plains, Liaodong, and Inner Mongolia. to the east to Japan and Korea; to the west to Tibet and Central Asia; to the north to the whole territory of Outer Mongolia; To the south, it includes Southeast Asian countries and all of Indonesia.

All other territories except the main territory were joined by the Ming Empire in the form of federalism. The subject state adopts the form of government autonomy, and the Ming appoints governors and officials to supervise the administration. The subject state can only set up a security force responsible for daily maintenance and continuity, and military affairs are taken over by the army appointed by the Ming Dynasty.

This is also an attempt by Fang Yuan to expand externally, as long as the stability of the main territory of the Ming Dynasty is maintained, as for the stability of other federalities, it can only be handed over to future generations to control.

In this federal management model, Qin Zhan's own identity is the governor of the countries appointed by the Ming Dynasty, and he must rely on the support of the Ming Dynasty in order to gain a firm foothold in the local area. Without the support of the Ming Dynasty, these appointed governors were nothing.

Under the constraints of such vital interests, it no longer matters whether you are loyal or not.

At least the British, American, and Mongol empires, which are great empires in history, have sent great khans, governors, and governors to rebel and set up separate portals.

After Fang Yuan returned to Kunming City, he immediately issued two letters of appointment.

One is to promote Mu Zhonghan to be the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces, in charge of government affairs; One is to remove Qin Zhan from the post of governor of Fujian and Guangzhou, and reappointed him as the governor of Nanyang, which includes Fujian, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Luzon, and the whole territory of Batavia. A fleet of artillery carriers, 500 large and medium-sized warships, and a huge fleet of 1,000 small warships were transferred to the Nanyang Governor's Office.

Fang Yuan also ordered the construction of another large shipyard in Taiwan to produce artillery carriers, which could increase employment, improve Taiwan's people's livelihood, and help Chen Ding and his son govern Taiwan; Second, at least two more artillery carrier formations should be built, which is also the need for external expansion.

This fee will be paid by Fang Yuan from the income of the Regent's Palace, such as chemical fiber silk, hybrid rice, and welfare lottery.

Good news came from the front of Burma, and Gan Hui's 200,000-strong army marched into Burma in five ways.

The Burmese king scraped together, gathered 100,000 soldiers from various ethnic groups in the territory to resist, and sent the most elite elephant soldiers to fight a decisive battle with the main vanguard battalion of the Ming army.

Although the special operations army under Hao Shaoqi's command had never fought against an elephant, it was strictly disciplined, and according to the previous tactics, it put out an attack formation of five sections to resist the impact of the war elephants.

Najib's mountain special battalion, on the other hand, adopted the most common method of disturbing war elephants, which was to burn them. Twenty large furnaces were set up on the left and right flanks, and three thousand archers pressed into formation to meet the charge of the elephant soldiers.

Thirty drums in the Ming army's formation sounded in unison, and the momentum shook the sky, which increased the killing spirit.

The fighting in Myanmar is nothing more than a battle of clans, at best, a battle formation of 1,000 people. But the current Burmese army is not facing a tribal war, where have these Burmese soldiers seen a tight military formation of tens of thousands of people? Where have you ever seen the suffocating atmosphere of the battlefield?

The armies of these tribes, which normally kill each other, are now reluctantly gathered together, and to put it bluntly, they are a rabble. Before, it was just the ignorant who was fearless, and he came to fight against the Ming army with a breath of courage.

But when he really went to the battlefield and saw the formation of the Ming army, he was so frightened that he didn't know what to do, and he regretted coming to the battle with his bloody bravery.

The man sent by the Burmese state to command this decisive battle was the prince of Burma, Nato.

He saw that the soldiers were frightened by the Ming army, and several times the snare drum sounded, but instead of advancing, he was still retreating. If it goes on like this, if the war really starts, won't these people escape?

The only way for the Burmese prince Nato to be able to plunge directly into the formation of the most elite elephant soldiers could inspire these rabble to charge.

When a major battle broke out between the two sides, the Ming army's guns and rockets rained down like bullets and bullets, densely sprinkled on the elephant soldiers.

Sniped by a rain of bullets, where did the frightened war elephants dare to rush forward, and in a panic, they ran towards their own camp like crazy. The Burmese army, which was already a rabble, also turned against the war elephants, and even more wished that their parents had two legs less, and they ran back like the war elephants.

In this way, the war is over as soon as it begins!

The 100,000 foot soldiers of the Burmese king were defeated, the elephant army was completely annihilated, and the prince Nato was killed on the battlefield with heavy casualties.

Gan Hui ordered to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and Gao Yuanjue's vanguard battalion pursued and killed countless Burmese troops along the way, and pursued directly to the Burmese capital before ordering to stop the pursuit.

The king of Burma had lost most of his elite and had no strength to fight, so he had no choice but to send a peace letter again, asking for a call to strike the army and compensate for the losses of the Ming army.

Gan Hui sent the letter back to Yunnan, and the vanguard of Gao Yuanjue's department did not sit idle while waiting for Fang Yuan's reply, and in accordance with Fang Yuan's order, they slaughtered all the villages near the Burmese capital, killing thousands of miles of red land and hundreds of miles of uninhabited.

The Ming army was like a bloodthirsty beast, tearing everything outside the capital to shreds. The king of Burma cut down on the city wall, and was already frightened, and cowered in the palace, not daring to come out again.

Half a month later, Fang Yuan accepted the peace proposal, sneered, didn't look at it, and directly rejected the request of the king of Burma for peace talks. Only one condition was issued to the Burmese royal family, either all the Burmese royal family was tied up to Daming for trial, or he died!

Because the conquest of Burma was a long one, Fang Yuan had been away from Beijing for more than a year. Although Jing Jie and the princess have full authority to handle military and political affairs on his behalf in the capital, he is still a little unsteady when he has been away from Beijing for too long.

After rejecting the Burmese king's peace agreement for the last time, Fang Yuan left Gan Hui's army to continue to besiege the Burmese capital, as well as pacify Burma, and make sure to slaughter all the resistance forces in Burma. When all the bloody ones are slaughtered, the rest of the obedient people can be easily ruled.

He only recalled the descendant troops, Hao Shaoqi and the 7,000 Special Operations Army.

Before Fang Yuan's departure, all military affairs in Kunming City were temporarily handed over to Qin Zhan to manage, and after Gan Hui and Xu Cheng returned victoriously, they would hand over military affairs.

After making these arrangements, Fang Yuan set off from Kunming and returned to Beijing with his army.