Land in the provinces of central Myanmar and Yangon is not to be sold, and there are many merchants from the coastal provinces who often travel between the two provinces, and they know the situation in both places very well.

After the hype of the "Ming Imperial Daily", many businessmen in the empire showed a strong interest. In this era, the Chinese are definitely hungry for land beyond money, and the land here is notoriously fertile.

The officials sent to the two provinces were mainly high-level personnel from the imperial examination, while the middle and low-level officials were mainly former officials, and some of them went to the two provinces by land and some by sea.

When Xu Chengming's army arrived in Bago, the Donghu royal family had already fled Bago. Xu Chengming learned that after the Donghu royal family stayed in Bago for a short time, he had already evacuated Bago and went to other places at this moment. And the envoy of Arakan also arrived at Xu Chengming's military camp at this time.

"The envoy of Arakan is coming, this trip must be to ask for peace talks, Your Majesty's will is to take Donghu, and Your Majesty has no will for the disposition of Arakan." Xu Chengming said.

"Arakan is just a small land, I think I can just destroy Arakan by the way." Ma Xianglin suggested.

Now the entire Donghu is fleeing to the Ming army, either to the mountains or to Arakan. After the first battle of Ava, the Ming army almost never fought any major battles again, and Ma Xianglin also looked forward to being knighted after this battle, but he didn't expect Donghu to be so vulnerable, and he was now eager to fight.

"General Ma, this matter can't be reckless, Arakan and the Mughal Dynasty don't know if there is a connection, and the Mughal Dynasty is not weaker than the empire." Xu Chengming said.

"In that case, this matter needs to be consulted by Your Majesty, and a decision will be made after Your Majesty's will is issued." Zhang Fengyi said.

"It will take two months to travel back and forth from here to Jingshi, and during this period it will be enough for us to clear the remnants of Donghu, no matter what Your Majesty will to stabilize Donghu first." Xu Chengming said.

"In addition, I think that Arakan must hand over the people of the Toungoo royal family, otherwise, without waiting for His Majesty's will, he can use troops against Arakan." Ma Xianglin said.

"If the Arakanese want to make peace, this is a prerequisite, and if the Arakanese can't even agree to this condition, it can only mean that the Arakanese are playing conspiracy." Xu Chengming agreed.

"I will meet the Arakan envoy later, do you need to order the dragoons to line up in front of the camp?" Ma Xianglin asked.

"This is not necessary, after the war between the empire and Donghu, the military prestige of the empire no longer needs any proof. After the peace talks with the Arakanese were completed, the dragoons would set off at once, regardless of the outcome. Xu Chengming said.

……

Whether to fight or make peace with the Arakan people, Xu Chengming and others could not decide, so the content of this peace talk was very simple, that is, to let the Arakan people unconditionally hand over all the members of the Donghu royal family who had taken refuge in Arakan.

After seeing the military might of the Ming army, the Arakanese immediately agreed to the Ming army's request. Ma Xianglin personally led 3,000 dragoons to the border with the envoys of Arakan to hand over the members of the Donghu royal family.

After getting the members of the Donghu royal family, Ma Xianglin immediately sent all the members of the Donghu royal family to Ava. In Ava, all the men of the Taungoo royal family were beheaded, while all the women were sent to Gyoshi.

"My lord, this batch of women is the most valuable in the entire Donghu, each is worth a thousand taels, adults don't need to send them all to the Beijing Division, just send a few people such as the princess to the Beijing Division, and the rest of the others will be handed over to the next to deal with, and each person will be paid according to one thousand taels." Xu Xinsu saw that Xu Chengming wanted to send all these people to Jingshi, and he felt a lot of regret.

"Xu Xinsu, you are really greedy, you also know that this group of people has a noble status, if you dare to move one, I guarantee that someone will participate in you tomorrow, and even someone will participate in your rebellion." Xu Chengming said.

"A phoenix with a falling hair is not as good as a chicken." Xu Xinsu said disappreciatively.

"But they used to be phoenixes, so I don't have to mention this again. If you want to find death, don't drag me, the court has countless eyes staring, you don't know the sinister nature of the temple if you are not in the temple, and a wrong step will be a catastrophe. Xu Chengming said.

"These women really can't be touched, unless there is His Majesty's will, if something really happens, no one can protect you." Ma Xianglin said.

"Xie and the two generals mentioned that they were blinded by the lard just now, and they will definitely not be next time. I have recently acquired a number of wives and daughters of the Donghu ministers, and their appearance is not satisfactory, and I will send a few to the two generals tomorrow to serve the generals. Hearing Ma Xianglin say the same, Xu Xinsu also realized that he had underestimated the seriousness of the matter.

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When Zhu Youxiao received Xu Chengming's secret letter about the peace suing for peace in Arakan, he immediately made a decision.

"By decree, I agree to Arakan's request for peace, but Arakan must compensate the empire with 200,000 taels of silver, and at the same time cede the south of Dandui to the empire, otherwise, everything will not be discussed." Zhu Youxiao said.

"No."

"Your Majesty, the first batch of slaves sent to the empire by Admiral Xu to build roads have been placed in Yunnan, are all the next road slaves placed in the three feudal divisions of Yunnan, Guichuan and Sichuan?" Wang Liqian asked.

"Yes, settle in these three provinces first, the roads in these three provinces are the most difficult to repair, and the road from Mubang to Luokeng must also be arranged with enough road slaves, this road is very important." Zhu Youxiao said.

"No."

At this moment, Siam's 50,000-strong army was also divided into 1,000 troops to sweep through the territory of Donghu, and Xu Chengming's army was mainly deployed in the main cities of Donghu to guard against the remnants of Donghu.

The scorched earth strategy practiced by the Siamese army, with the tacit consent of the Ming army, was destroying most of the creatures in the land of Taungoo. In order to escape the military disaster, most of the people of Donghu took refuge in the mountains.

"General Xu, the people of Donghu are becoming more and more difficult to catch now, and most of them have fled into the mountains." By the end of the year, King Baseton had captured more than a million slaves, of whom the ratio of men to women was about four or six kai, mainly because many men were killed for resistance. Of the 2.6 million people in Donghu, King Basethong estimated that there were less than 1 million left.

"I want no less than one of the 500,000 road slaves, if Your Majesty blames it, Lord Wang, you and I can't afford it." Xu Chengming said coldly.

"That can only burn the mountain, this weather is the best time to set fires and force them out with fire." King Baseton said helplessly. Regarding Xu Chengming's words, he didn't dare to refute them at all.

"Lord, no matter what method you use, what you promised the court must be completed, otherwise, it will be a crime of deception." Xu Chengming said in a threatening tone.

(End of chapter)