Upper Burma, south of the river. Lashio, the largest city in the Shan State Highlands!

As the city with the highest degree of sinicization on the Shan Plateau, it is the concrete embodiment of the ruling power of the New Qin Empire in the Shan Plateau - the seat of the Shan State Mansion, and it is also the only railway connecting Yunnan and Myanmar.

Next to the roadbed of the rails, the sappers were directing a Huading No. 1 crawler tractor with the upper half covered with canvas to get off the train.

For the two sons of Prince Ming Zhuang and Prince Mikye, Suyanam and Suyabang, who had never left Burma and the rainforest, and the generals of the Burmese anti-British army who followed them, the feeling of these large machines moving in front of them was as terrifying as a landslide.

Prince Ming Zhuang and Prince Mikye are both sons of King Mintong, that is, the two brothers of King Xipao. It was not easy for these two people to survive from the hands of the tin robe.

And now they are the two banners of the armed struggle against the British in Burma. The two sons of Prince Tongkanang, Kun Yue and Lin Bin, as well as the Burmese Tusi Mudu Ji Po Rui and the high monk U Ou Dema, are the spiritual symbols of the entire Burmese anti-British struggle.

Now the armed forces of Prince Ming Zhuang have more than 2,000 people, the largest of the six, and they have repeatedly attacked the area around Mandalay, and even sent small detachments to infiltrate Mandalay.

In the vicinity of Shijie [near Mandalay], the anti-British armed forces led by Suyenan and Suyebang are also developing, and now there are nearly 1,000 people. They initially operated in the area around the real plane, but were threatened by the British army. It was also transferred to the southern Shan State two months ago.

After all, the Shan Plateau is Chinese land, and the British colonial army has not yet dared to cross the border. Enter Shan State to pursue the enemy.

Kunyue occupied Ruichang in December 1891 and organized a local force of more than 2,000 people. But it was soon defeated because it was encircled and suppressed by the British army. Now there are three or four hundred people left, who have joined up with another son of Ka Nang, Lin Bin, and have now entered the southern Shan state. I didn't see the two of them here in Lashio today, because the notice was too tight and urgent, otherwise four of the six leaders of Burma would have gathered in Lashio, and they were all from the Burmese royal family.

As for the Mudu Ji Borui himself, he is the feudal lord of the Minwu region, he is 57 years old this year, and he still raises troops to resist the British, which can really be described as a martyr's twilight and strong heart. Now the Minwu area has been broken by the British army. He is leading the crowd to fight in various places.

In fact, the senior monk Wu Oudema is not very old, just in his early thirties, he can be the grandson of Mudu Ji Borui, but his spirit is commendable, his fighting spirit is high, and the team led by Wu Shawei has grown to 1,500 people at its peak. In the two battles of Sarin, he killed British Captain Dunsford and Major Adikson. Because of this, he was especially hated by the British army, and was treated like Kunyue, and was surrounded and suppressed by the British army. Now the army has suffered heavy losses and is hiding in the rainforest. Naturally, these two will not be able to reach Lashio now.

"It's ...... Tractor, right? ”

"Look, that big shovel ......"

"Look at that big iron wheel, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of catties, right?"

This group of dirt buns from the tropical rainforest whispered like a diorama in the face of the latest Chinese-style road construction equipment. Everyone was blown away.

Myanmar, which has always focused on rice exports and teak exports, has ever seen such a device? Their army did not even have a few cannons. At the beginning of the Battle of Minla Fortress, the British army was resisted by 3,000 defenders. But on the next day. The British easily overcame the fortress of Minla with superior firepower and troops, and only paid 3 deaths. Wounded 24 people at a slight cost. The intelligence officer accompanying him smiled at the corner of his mouth, which was dumbfounded? If you go to Qinzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangdong, Shanghai and other places. Isn't it stupid to go and meet the industrial groups there that are no longer inferior to those of Europe?

When the intelligence agent imagined the Burmese with bad intentions, Prince Mingzhuang was really shocked, and there was no hint of fake.

What kind of country is this?!

Thirty-two years ago, Britain and France easily broke through the country, plundered countless treasures, and broke the backbone. Then the whole country set off a frenzy of foreign affairs, and in another twelve years, one of their provincial governors would be able to defeat the French, and they would be able to break through the capital of a country with fifty or sixty thousand new troops! The world violently curbed the carve-up frenzy set off by the Eastern civilization, and when the whole world lamented the decline of China and the great powers found all kinds of excuses to loot the Eastern countries, they fiercely laid a Zhenhai Divine Needle in everyone's hearts!

But just when Myanmar and other small neighboring countries had not had time to let go of their inner joy, the governor of a province reversed, and this blow was like a blow to the head, and Myanmar was about to be defeated.

However, I never expected that none of the dignified Celestial Empire, more than ten years of Western-style reform, hundreds of thousands of new-style troops, hundreds of new-style cannons, and countless foreign guns and bullets could stop the commander. Just like destroying the withering and decaying, the Admiral quickly seized the power of the entire country with one victory after another - a new dynasty, a new era has come!

When the last gunshot on the grassland of Saibei ended, the country seemed to have set off a wave of Westernization again, all kinds of large-scale machines were transported back from the Western Ocean one by one, and China's steel, railways, machinery, people's livelihood, finance, electricity, and the wave of construction again and again were far hotter than during the Westernization Movement! China's development is also stronger!

It was not until two years ago that China overthrew Russia, a powerful land enemy that caused headaches for the British Empire, and not only completely recovered the land that had been ceded by the former Qing Dynasty, but also seized half of China's new land. The economic crisis in the Western world has not affected China at all, and if the British had been able to do it a year later, they would have persuaded the country to attach to the Central Plains, and Burma and the royal family would have been in a much better position than they are now.

Thinking of this, Ming Zhuang couldn't help but sigh, in the final analysis, this country is too big, so big that it can't be annexed by a few great powers fighting a few wars along the coast. As long as the civil strife is resolved and the stability of the country is maintained, wealth is just a string of numbers for the people of the country. And with wealth comes advanced machines, new foreign guns and cannons, and warships that crisscross the seas. Relying on these, China will be able to become a great power that is not inferior to the Western powers in the blink of an eye.

And what about Myanmar, where the people are sick? That's the opposite. The British bit off half of Burma in one bite. After years of hard work and reform by his father and Uncle Wang, Myanmar is still in the midst of a dire disaster, lacking resources, lack of money, lack of depth, and even lack of food. In particular, the death of Uncle Wang of Gabon made the already dangerous Myanmar fall into the abyss with one foot.

The Chinese are now able to make these large-scale advanced machines themselves, but there are not even a few manufacturing bureaus in Myanmar, which makes Ming Zhuang even more sad to think about.

"Which one is Prince Mingzhuang?"

When Ming Zhuang and his two nephews and a group of Burmese generals were dazzled by all kinds of construction machinery, a voice came from behind. Turning his head, he saw more than a dozen soldiers from Shangguo hugging a middle-aged soldier with a short figure and a very delicate appearance. Ming Zhuang turned around, the distance was closer, and then looked. This man had no rank on his military uniform, and his feet were dimly lit high-commute leather boots, but they were not military boots. The middle-aged man walked over with a big grin, and when he saw him Mingzhuang, he immediately realized who it was, and hurriedly took a few steps forward and arched his hand: "Little Wang Mingzhuang, I have seen Mr. Yuan." ”

- Yuan Shikai!

A Chinese who was still unknown in Myanmar last year has been a heifer handstand in the last month - Niu B soared into the sky!

Liu Xian has made up his mind, so he will do it.

"You're welcome, prince." Yuan Shikai's round face smiled harmlessly, people who didn't know him, seeing his face, couldn't imagine that this was a capable general who had been listed in the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Yuan Shikai was also looking at Prince Mingzhuang carefully. Not taller than him, with dark skin, a slightly straight nose, and sunken eyes, he is typical of Burmese physiognomy. These Burmese people, except for their teeth are very white, really can't find many handsome places from the aesthetic point of view of Chinese.

Prince Ming Zhuang claimed to be "a descendant of the Arangpaya (Gongbang) dynasty" and "the son and heir of the fifth Buddha King Min Tong". His aim was to "expel the pagan, barbaric, and lawless foreigners" and "restore the Burmese monarchy." Not far from him, Suyenan, who was taller than Ming Zhuang, also claimed to be "the grandson of King Min Tong, the lord of life", whose purpose was to "restore the throne and royal power" and save "the religion of the Lord of Buddhism".

Yuan Shikai knew very well what the reasons for these people's anti-British and anti-British were be. The purpose of these Burmese feudal aristocrats in leading the anti-British struggle was nothing more than the restoration of royal power and the revival of religion - Buddhism. The same is true for the eminent monk Wu Oudema.

There are now many anti-British forces in Burma, about 30,000 people. But the basic weapons were knives, spears, bows, arrows, and primitive muskets. What is even more serious is that the anti-British armed forces are scattered in various places, without unified leadership, and lack cooperation and necessary trust among themselves.

The main figures who led the anti-British struggle in Burma were feudal aristocrats and powerful monks from all over the country. The invasion of the British deprived them of their rights, and they naturally resisted. So at the moment, whether it is the six spiritual symbols of Myanmar or the other lesser-known leaders, they essentially represent Myanmar's past, not its future. This is a fatal weakness, and to preach it with the theory of the Red Dynasty is to mobilize the masses of the people, and the anti-British struggle they led is not a national liberation struggle in the modern sense, but a counterattack by decadent forces, so the support they receive is difficult to last.

The six anti-British spiritual leaders plucked off their glorious skins, and inside they were the traditional forces of the Gongbang Dynasty. Liu Xian thought with his toes, without foreign aid, they were destined to be unable to succeed. As it turned out in history, Burma would eventually become a province of the Indian colony. (To be continued......)