For Indian sailboats, the southwest and northeast monsoons are available crosswinds.

While Chinese and Japanese merchant ships sail south to the Malay Peninsula during the northerly period, South Indian merchant ships do not have to, they can sail east during the southwest monsoon or return during the same monsoon, but traditionally most merchant ships choose to finish their business in the windy area and return west in December using the northeast monsoon to avoid the cyclone in the Indian Ocean in October.

The city of Malacca was developed in this monsoon relay trade.

The Africa and the Indians returned to the mainland, and Pan Hao and four others remained on the British ship.

The group was led by Bai Hua, the political secretary of Guangdong Province who came from Hainan, and the other three people were his escorts.

Pan Hao played with the huge ruby in his palm, the color was rich and bright, as red as the blood of a pigeon, this gem once belonged to the princess of the Mughal Empire.

Pan Hao decided to use this ruby to make a necklace for Parisatis. A woman's jewelry is a man's face, and Parisatis's face is adorned with blood-colored gemstones, which will definitely be able to shake the kryptonite eyes of the company's group of turtle colleagues, and it will not be beautiful at that time.

"Lieutenant Pan, it's time for us to get off board."

Pan Hao put away the ruby, "Okay, Mr. Politics." ”

Outside the ship is the Irrawaddy River.

A shipment of the Little Swan was going to Arakan and Burma. Burma is a great power, and the European colonizers have regained their status as businessmen along the Burmese coast, no longer armed bandits.

During the Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch drove the English out of the Bay of Bengal, and in 1657 the English withdrew from Burma, and now they are back.

Myanmar allows foreign ships to enter the Irrawaddy River, but they must remove their guns and require a pass to clear customs. However, the British did not intend to do so, and the Little Swan was unloaded at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River, and the merchandise was loaded onto two local river vessels, and Baihua and the East India Company's envoys were divided into two ships.

The Federation was an ally with Siam and Laos, and although it did not declare war on Burma, it was like an enemy country with Burma, and Bai Hua and others could only enter Burma by the British.

The rapid development of trade has brought unprecedented wealth to Lower Burma, and Po Sang, Bago, Salian and Madaban are all prosperous ports.

The city of Bago built by Mang Yinglong is one of the largest cities second to none. Bago is very flat and well-planned, with a total of 20 gates and 1,009 towers, the width of which can accommodate 10 or 12 people side by side.

A moat 40 meters wide and 10 meters deep surrounds the city walls. There are 10 wide avenues in the city, and Indian nut trees are planted on both sides of the streets.

The whole city is divided into 36 sections by the main street, 4 of which are the royal palaces, which are made of gold-inlaid timber, and the magnificent spires are covered with gold leaf, which are expensive, and the remaining 32 blocks represent the 32 provinces of Bago under the rule of Mang Yinglong.

Bago City is magnificent, magnificent, Pan Hao has admired it for a long time, I heard that this time I don't go to Bago, the caravan goes directly to Ava, Pan Hao is very sorry, the next time I have the opportunity to visit Bago City, I don't know what year it will be.

Merchant ships sailed north along the Irrawaddy River by the southwest monsoon.

The Irrawaddy River is the longest navigable river in Southeast Asia, with a length of 1,400 kilometers from the upstream, the port of Ba Mo (called Manmo in the Ming Dynasty) to the mouth of the river, compared to the Mekong River, although the river is longer and the volume of water is larger, the channel conditions are not as good as the Irrawaddy River, from Kong Waterfall to Haikou, the Mekong River has a navigable mileage of only 560 kilometers.

The Irrawaddy River boat is unique in that it has a shallow bottom and oars on the side. The sails, which are huge compared to the hull, have two layers, and at a third of the way from the top of the mast, two transoms are inclined upwards and spread out to the left and right, and the ends of the transoms are tied to the top of the mast by ropes.

The upper edge of the sail starts from the top of the mast, is laid along the rigging of the lifting cross girth, and the lower edge is fixed on the cross girst. Four large pieces of canvas form the mainsail, which is pulled from the transom to the hull, and since the transom extends so much beyond the hull that the upper part of the beam is a bit like a wing sail when unfolded.

During the southerly period, the journey from the mouth of the sea to Ava takes more than 2 months. In October 1660, Pan Hao and others arrived in the capital of Burma.

The British went about their own business, and Pan Hao stayed on board for the time being.

After Sun Kewang occupied Yunnan, he levied taxes on Tusi in Burma in 1649 and 1650, and the Burmese king reacted quickly and sent troops to meet the Ming army. Burma repelled the Ming army in the Mengmao area, and after entering Yunnan, they were repelled by the Ming army at Menglin (called by Burma, that is, Menglian County, Pu'er City), and the two sides found out the bottom line in a skirmish, and then maintained restraint.

Emperor Yongli entered Burma, and after the Burmese army disarmed the Ming army, he was allowed to enter the country. At this time, the ministers of Yongli still regarded themselves as the suzerains of Burma.

The Burmese said that they only knew Mu Tianbo, and what were the others, including the kings of the Ming Dynasty?

Mu Tianbo is the Saba of Mong Si in the concept of Burmese, which is about the transliteration of Mu Tianbo's name.

It should be said that the Burmese began to treat Yongli and his party okay, Yongli accompanied nearly 2,000 civil and military officials and soldiers, counting the family members to do more, the supply of grain, rice and cloth is a large expense.

Yongli went south in two waves, the emperor took the Irrawaddy River waterway, there were more than 600 people, living in the bamboo city on the other side of the Awa River, and more than 900 people on the other road went south by land, the Burmese disrupted the soldiers and their families who arrived in Ava by land, and placed them in the village, a Burmese family lived in a Chinese, and the soldiers immediately dispersed their wives and their family property.

Bai Hua could not establish contact with the emperor, so he came forward through the British, bought three river boats, and ransomed the Ming soldiers and their families in Burma one by one.

There are also many Chinese settled in Myanmar, and some of them serve in the Burmese government, mainly as translators. Through this ransom, Bai Hua established contact with the translator.

From the translator, Bai Hua got some recent information about the Yongli Emperor.

The Burmese king Pindagri did not receive Yongli, which was to give the emperor face.

Mu Tianbo's white-clothed vertebrae were enough for Burmese ministers to pay homage to the Burmese king, and the exiled ministers of the Ming Dynasty had actually accepted the status of Burmese vassals, and only a few civil servants still regarded themselves as the superior kingdoms of the Celestial Empire and regarded Burma as their vassals.

Yongli is a very important political card in the hands of the Burmese king, Bai Hua entered Ava in the name of the British, he could not take the emperor out of the siege of the Burmese army, he could only try his best to rescue the refugees first.

There was a bazaar outside Bamboo City, where exiled officials used the last bit of their fortune to buy food, wine and other daily necessities from the Burmese.

Wine is quite popular, the end of life, a day is a day, some ministers accompanied by a play, such as the famous Guangdong singer Li Yingxiang, in the bamboo city every day to drink high lights, all night singing, gambling and frolic.

Tongshi sighed and said: "The emperor smashed the gold and jade seal, handed over the horse auspicious and distributed it to the officials, I think they are really running out of money." ”

Bai Hua arched his hand and said: "Please sir spread the word inward, if the officials of the court sell women, I will ask for them all." ”

The general glanced at Bai Hua suspiciously, "Why did the master buy those women?" A brothel sold into the South Seas? ”

"No, I have slave girls. They are all poor people who are exiled in a foreign land, and I will bring them back to China. ”

Taken by the Burmese general, Bai Hua and Pan Hao and others crossed the Irrawaddy River by boat and came to the outside of Zhucheng.

In the bazaar guarded by the Burmese army, some Ming ministers, dressed in short clothes, sat on the ground with Burmese women, laughing and playing. Burmese soldiers also laughed loudly from time to time.

Pan Hao gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Frolicking, the minister of the dead country." ”

Bai Hua coughed and reminded Pan Hao, "Extraordinary place, Brother Pan is cautious." ”

Tongshi entered Zhucheng, and Bai Hua and others were in the market.

I heard that someone paid money to buy people, and the ministers in Bamboo City were quite happy.

The imperial prince Wei Gong rushed out Li Yingxiang, "My family is a famous drama singer, and it will not be sold if it is less than 100 taels." ”

The woman cried, and Wang Weigong picked up the stick and beat it.

Pan Hao couldn't bear it in his heart, and kicked Wang Weigong over.

Bai Hua hurriedly grabbed his companion and dropped the silver.

"100 taels, I'll pay."

"The princess is 200 taels each."

"Pay."

"50 taels of palace maids."

"Give money."

The emperor sent people out to scold these courtiers, but no one paid attention to them, and the rules of the exiled court were completely gone.

Bai Hua used 13,000 taels of silver to buy more than 120 ministers' concubines, palace maids, and singers.

The Burmese soldiers in the bazaar took 3,000 taels and left 10,000 for the Ming monarchs.

Worried that the night would be long and dreamy, Bai Hua sent two other guards to lead the Ming army and the woman who had been bought back to leave immediately by boat.

During the northerly wind, the merchant ships sailed south with a smooth sail and could go to sea in 2 or 3 weeks, and there were other people in the port of Salem to pick them up, and as long as they reached the high seas, they were free.

Bai Hua and Pan Hao continued to stay on the British ship, and the Burmese were very well guarded, and Bai Hua had no chance to infiltrate Zhucheng. He had to find an opportunity to identify himself to Mu Tianbo, who was relatively free-moving, and put Hainan Song Shu in a bamboo tube, and asked Mu Tianbo to bring it into Bamboo City.

Hainan asked Yongli to issue an edict to Hui Prince Zhu Youliang to attack Hui Domain, and then Hui Wang to supervise the country.

Bai Hua didn't know how Yongli Junchen felt when he saw Hainan's music.

Three days later, Mu Tianbo trembled and sent back two edicts to Bai Hua.

Yongli personally wrote down the two edicts of Zhucheng and canonization of King Hui, and there were tears left on the paper.

Bai Hua and Pan Hao kowtowed in the direction of Zhucheng and left Ava.