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Zhu Cihuan will be in danger, this Yang Chao has long thought of this, Myanmar is not a civilized country, this country also has many races, there are four main ethnic groups, divided into Mon, Shan and Burmese.

The current Burma is the Taungoo Dynasty established by the Burmese, which was unified from the past Taungoo State, and the Taungoo State was established by the Burmese people who moved south under the oppression of the Ava Dynasty established by the Shan people, and the Taungoo Dynasty was able to dominate the world because of the 40-year war between the Baigu Dynasty and the Ava Dynasty of the Mon people, when both countries were exhausted.

Therefore, the Burmese people do not have an absolute advantage, and the civilization is basically not much higher than the Tusi in Yunnan, so the maintenance system is not a unified ideology and culture, but violence, such a country maintains too much primitive wildness, you expect him to be wise and know how to compromise, it is really too difficult for him.

But if you don't fight, just like Li Dingguo, it will be equivalent to being coerced by the Burmese, and it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to obey Burma in the future?

Therefore, it is necessary to march into the army, and since the Donghu people dare to kill the Son of Heaven in China, then the so-called Donghu Dynasty will come to the end of its life.

Song Kun immediately marched into the army.

The vanguard was a thousand-headed war elephant from Siam.

The Siamese were slightly more civilized than the Burmese at this time, because they were closer to China, and they could also maintain contact with India by sea, between the two centers of civilization, so they naturally accepted more civilizations, while Myanmar was basically difficult to absorb cultural nutrients from China except for its proximity to India.

So Siam has been able to maintain unity for the last 500 years, while Myanmar has been divided for a long time, and it is the Ayutthaya Dynasty, the second dynasty in their history, that now rules Siam.

It is precisely because of the higher level of civilization that ancient Greece was influenced by Macedonia and ancient Rome by Germania. Just as ancient China was invaded by the Huns, the Siamese were often attacked by Burmese tribes throughout history.

Therefore, Siam was very active in uniting other countries to attack Burma, and the merchants who returned from Vietnam learned that the Ming Dynasty planned to send troops to Burma, and they actively sent envoys to echo.

The Siamese even provided food supplies for Song Kun's army. It's a pity that their weapons and equipment must also be transported from China by water, the distance is too great, and the supply of 30,000 people is already the limit, at least before Yang Chao ends the Northern Expedition. It is absolutely impossible to send more troops south.

But Song Kun felt that it was enough, and with his contact with the Cambodians in Cambodia, he felt that the combat effectiveness of these southern countries was not worth mentioning, and he could destroy these countries with 10,000 people.

Song Kun did not act with the Siamese either, but split his troops into two routes, with the Siamese starting from their northern highland city of Chiang Mai and invading directly into the Salween River valley.

Song Kun stayed in the southern Siamese city of Bangkok to recuperate, waiting for news that the Burmese were fighting the Siamese, when the news came that the Siamese army had divided into two routes and went east to counterattack Siam. When resisting Li Dingguo all the way north, Song Kun finally acted.

He marched directly into Rangoon by sea, which was more than 400 miles north of Rangoon and was connected by water.

At this time, Yangon was not the Yangon of later generations, but a small fishing village called Dagon, and it was a fishing village belonging to the Mon people.

This Mon people ranked the fourth largest ethnic group in Myanmar in later generations, but it is true that the first ethnic group to be civilized in the history of Myanmar, when other ethnic groups were still in a primitive society, they absorbed Indian civilization and had their own writing. Architecture, painting, sculpture, music and dance.

And this is an agrarian people.

It is a pity that most of the farming peoples in the world have been decayed, integrated and died out again and again under the invasion of nomads.

Not every ethnic group has the resilience of the Han people, who can always fight back again and again. The small nation does not have a solid capital, and it will not be able to stand up after suffering a fatal blow.

The only people who have this kind of capital are probably the Indian nation and the Han nation, but unfortunately the Indian nation has been conquered by the Aryans, Greeks, Huns, Kushans, Turks, Afghans, Persians, Mongols and other strong peoples, they are accustomed to submission, and in the past thousand years, the Indians have not established a country of their own. Of course, the nomads who invaded India were mostly assimilated, just like the nomads who invaded China.

The Han nation has both super internal cohesion and better luck, so it was able to survive, perhaps it cannot be explained simply by luck, because the Han nation not only survived again and again, but also fought back again and again, not only conquering the backward nation with its own culture, but also counterattacking the backward nation with absolute force, which is the fundamental difference between the Han nation and the Indian nation.

Even the Indian and Han nations, as well as powerful nations such as the Greek, Roman and Egyptian nations, could not resist the aggression of backward peoples, let alone small ethnic groups such as the Mon, in fact, the Mon, who were the first to establish a dynasty, were assimilated by the Burmese from generation to generation, and became a minority in later generations.

But at this time, the Mon people were at least able to compete with the Burmese in terms of numbers, because their country had only been in existence for about a hundred years, so the Mon was still a big clan, and many people were dissatisfied with the rule of the Burmese.

This led to Song Kun's battle against Ling Dagong, not only did he not encounter resistance, but after the Siamese interpreter preached it, he soon gained the support of the local Mon tribe, who were also willing to join Song Kun's army and overthrow the Donghu Dynasty with Song Kun, but hoped that Song Kun would help them restore the country.

Song Kun can't do these things, but someone can do it, Xu Sinan who accompanied the army immediately said that it was absolutely impossible to restore the Mon people, and promised to help them restore the old capital Bagu.

In this way, the Mon revolted, and Song Kun was in charge of fighting the regular army of the Burmese, while the Mon began to attack the small Burmese troops everywhere, sneaking up on their grain and grass baggage, creating a terrifying atmosphere everywhere, and at the same time propagating the idea of recovering the country.

Before Song Kun reached Donghu, war was already raging in Burma.

By the time Song Kun reached the city of Donghu, the Burmese regime had basically lost its ability to control the locality, and at the same time, they did not wait for Song Kun to attack the city, they abandoned the capital themselves, and set a fire before leaving.

Song Kun occupied Donghu and began to use political means to woo and contact ethnic groups like the Mon and Shan people everywhere, and on the condition of promising to help them restore the country, he was supported by these people, and basically he didn't have to do it himself, and he had these people who were more familiar with the local terrain to chase down the Burmese army everywhere, and the only thing Song Kun had to do was to provide weapons and equipment to these people.

By the time the war situation in the south was received, the north had basically stabilized.

As Dolgon fled to Mobei with the whole clan, and the Great Wall was basically restored, Hong Chengchou surrendered with 40,000 Shaanxi Green Battalions after poisoning Li Guohan in Jingzhou.

Wu Sangui turned over and slaughtered Sichuan, slaughtered a group of young and ambitious little slave owners, liberated all the clothes, and surrendered to Yang Chao.

At this point, the whole of China, except for the Western Regions and Qinghai-Tibet, was already under Yang Chao's control, and even Liaodong had been recovered.

At the same time, it was discovered that Yang Chao had unified China, and the emperor Zhu Cihuan, who was patrolling Burma, was also dead.

"To be an emperor? Didn't this king say, there will be only one king in the Ming Dynasty in the future, and the emperor is the honorific title of the Son of Heaven, and there can only be one emperor and one Son of Heaven in the entire East! Who is not convinced, this king still has to respect the king, how can he be the emperor himself! ”

Faced with the persuasion of his subordinates, Yang Chao replied.

"A meritorious man? Hey, you can't wait? This king has been ready for a long time. ”

Yang Chao agreed to canonize the hero.

The army stopped within the Great Wall and did not immediately go out to fight, but turned to rest.

But this did not mean that the Northern Expedition was over.

"Do you know why Dorgon gave up on Beijing so easily? It's because they don't value the land that much. For us, when we lose our land, we lose everything. And for them, cattle, sheep, livestock and slaves are everything. This is fundamentally different. So they took people, they took horses, and they had their cattle, sheep and livestock on the steppe. In fact, Dorgon didn't necessarily think he had lost completely. ”

"When is the Northern Expedition? The time has not yet come. The two generations of emperors of Ming Taizu and Chengzu have been on the Northern Expedition for so many years, but they have not completely defeated Meng Yuan. Because they can't stand on their feet, the steppe is naturally the rear of the nomads, so Dolgon will flee back to the steppe to rest. When I can gain a foothold on the grassland, I will go on a northern expedition, and I will succeed once and leave no hidden dangers for future generations! ”

Eighteen years of Longwu.

Yang Chao was a great hero in Beijing.

The two people with the heaviest military achievements, Li Wuliu and Wang Pu were divided into marquises, Li Wuliu was named the Marquis of Chengdu, and Wang Pu was the Marquis of Taiyuan, in recognition of their meritorious achievements in fighting in Shandong and Henan.

Among the remaining high-ranking generals, most of them were knighted.

Many of the men are Cangzhou Bo; Lu Mo is the uncle of Tongzhou; Hu Quan is Yang Qubo; Song Kun is Taigu Bo; Xie Fei is the uncle of Qi County; Zhao Kang is the uncle of Guan County; Zheng Yongwang is the new uncle; Sun Changfu is Chongningbo.

Even Huangfeng Mansion has sealed a Huayang Bo.

These titles of Yang Chaofeng are all corresponding to the field, this is not a miscellaneous earl such as Sincerity and Loyalty, and all the places are concentrated in Beizhili (Hebei), Shanxi and Sichuan, because Yang Chao really intends to give these heroes fiefs.

Beizhili, Shanxi and Sichuan, these three places, happen to be the Manchu Qing Dynasty selected enclosures, the Manchu Qing Dynasty all ran away, the land here naturally became a borderless land, although most of them have to be divided to appease the civilians, but to their own heroes to divide a large piece of land, it should be fair, and because they are all taken from the enemy, Sichuan is full of tigers, want to find people to farm can not find it, it is even more no problem to distribute to the heroes.

Not only to give the heroes land, but also Yang Chao can also choose the best geographical location for them, Cangzhou and Tongzhou in the north are all traffic arteries, and Changping is also close to the land of Beijing.

Yangqu, located in Shanxi, is directly where the Taiyuan Mansion is located, and Taigu is the hometown of the Jin merchants and tyrants, and the land here will definitely be very valuable in the future.

Located in Guan County, Sichuan, this is the location of Dujiangyan, Yang Chaoke found a fertile land for his cousin, Xinfan, Chongning are good land on the Chengdu Plain.

Huayang County, where Huangfeng Mansion is located, is also the same city as Chengdu Mansion, which is also a good place.

To besiege the fiefdom, does Yang Chao want to list the territory and seal the territory? Of course not! (To be continued.) )