The prestige of the Bagan Kingdom was already extremely prosperous in ancient East Asia, and it was no less than that of the great Burma kingdom in the 21st century.

Because of the separation of Dali, the Bagan Kingdom did not have a war with the Great Song Dynasty, but it had crusaded against Dali in the era of the Bagan lord Anuruda the Great. It is said that it has been attacked to the vicinity of Dali City, forcing the lord of Dali to pay tribute to be a minister, and only then did the class return to the court, and on the way back to the court, he also forced the Dai tribe that was originally subordinated to Dali to be a vassal. It was around that time that the Shan states of later generations began to have one servant and two masters, and at the same time to the north and south - of course, the Dai people also had a time when they were bullish, and in the 13th and 14th centuries, they also produced a few cattle and established the kingdoms of Ahong (Assam), Ava and Luchuan.

At present, the Dai people have not risen, the Burmese kingdom of Bagan has not weakened, and because of the decline of the Khmer kingdom, it has become the leading power on the Nanfan Peninsula. Both the Arakan kingdom in the west and the Kozhan Bi kingdom in the north are now paying tribute to Bagan, and the Khmer in the east, who has been at war with Bagan, is now also afraid of Bagan's power, and constantly sends envoys to offer gifts and pray for peace.

However, what excited the king of Bagan the most, Narodi Hapti, was not the submission of his old enemy Khmer, but the envoys sent by the great Song Dynasty, a great northern power, to offer beautiful women and gifts. This was not a reward received by Bagan after paying tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty took the initiative to offer a gift under the threat of Bagan's envoys.

This is equivalent to the Great Song Dynasty paying tribute to Bagan! And the Great Song Dynasty is Chinese orthodoxy, and the Great Song Dynasty paid tribute to Bagan, which is equivalent to Huaxia paying tribute to Bagan!

More than 100 years ago, the "humiliation" of Jiang Xituo, the first king of Bagan, who sent envoys to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, can now finally be washed away. And let Huaxia bow down to tribute. It also made Naroti Hahapatti feel that he was already as great a male lord as Anuruda the Great.

In the Bagan Royal Palace, the monarchs and ministers of Bagan gathered together. A large banquet was held to entertain the diplomatic monks from Dali. He was accompanied by envoys from the states of Arakand, Ahom, Kobi, Khmer, and Ceylon (Ceylon and Burma were traditional allies). These envoys were all monks of the Great Monastery School of Theravada Buddhism.

Buddhism declined in Tianzhu though. However, it is popular among the southern countries, among which the great Buddhist monastic sect of the upper part of the country, which is supported by Ceylon, has been adopted as the state religion by most of the southern countries - this kingdom of Ceylon has spared no effort to preach for many years, but the other great power of the southern fan, the Three Buddhas, has Mahayana Buddhism as the state religion, so it has been in a state of hostility with Ceylon, and has no contact with Bagan.

However, Srivijaya was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, Java was bulldozed by the Ming Dynasty, the city of Cham was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and the Khmer State was now invaded by the Ming Dynasty, and even the Arakan Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ceylon were threatened by the Ming Dynasty. Under such a general trend. The monks and envoys who were invited to the Bagan Palace to watch the Great Song Dynasty tributary ceremony were all difficult to laugh about. On top of the banquet, only the Bagan monarchs were laughing heartily, which always seemed a little unsuitable.

Naroti Habodi also put away the smile on his face, revealing a gloomy and angry face. The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became gloomy, and even the music and singing stopped. The king's gaze swept over the faces of the bald envoys, and finally stopped on the high monk Yao Shixiang of Tianlong Temple in Dali. Yao Shixiang is a member of the Gao clan in Dali, such as the presiding officer of today's Dragon Temple, an old monk who is about sixty years old. It is quite famous in Dali. When he was young, he also visited Bagan on behalf of Dali. He had some dealings with the monks of the great monastery sect in Bagan. However, Dali's Buddhism is Tantric Azhali, which belongs to Mahayana Buddhism, and is not the same path as the upper Buddhist temple, so this medicine monk Xiang and Bagan's monks are not enthusiastic.

See the gaze of the King of Bagan. Monk Yaoshixiang's heart was bright, and he immediately got up and folded his hands. In Burmese, he said, "O king, now the Dawn has risen in Middle-earth. Abandon benevolence and righteousness and practice domineering. Invade the Quartet, poison the creatures, first destroy Java, then destroy the city, attack the Khmer, and try in vain to get involved in Tianzhu, it is really a wolf's ambition, and the desire is difficult to fill. And looking at the southern sky today, only the soldiers of the Great Bagan are strong and strong, and they are blessed by the Buddha, and they are actually the leaders of the nations, and the southern heavens look up. ”

Speaking of this, Monk Yao Shixiang paused, raised his eyes and glanced at the triumphant King of Bagan, and then said in a solemn tone, "The lord of the Great Song Dynasty asked the little monk to bring a message, hoping that the king of Bagan can be the emperor as soon as possible, the leader of Nantian, uphold justice, and fight against the tyranny!" ”

The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty actually asked the King of Bagan to be the emperor! Please also ask the king of Bagan to come out and lead Nantian, be the leader of the alliance of nations, and fight against the tyranny together!

The envoys of several countries present all widened their eyes and looked at this medicine master monk carefully.

Is this guy really an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty? Didn't Bagan find an old monk to pretend to be? The Great Song Dynasty is orthodox in China! China has been a kingdom since ancient times, and it has never looked at the heroes of the Southern Heavens. Why do you come to shoot Bagan's ass now?

The envoys of the countries here were still puzzled, but the king of Bagan over there, Narodi Hapodi, had already laughed: "Okay, well, since it is a request from the lord of the Great Song Dynasty, how can this king refuse?" Seven days later, this king ascended the throne and became the emperor of the Burmese Empire! Then it is necessary to converge with the heroes of the Southern Heavens, send a million soldiers, first drive back the tyrannical Ming, and then go north to China, help the lord of the Great Song Dynasty to eliminate the traitors, and restore the society of the country! ”

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"All the people in two rows, put on helmets, put on cuirasses, and only carry horizontal knives and rattan plaques......"

"The order of getting off the sampan, the first shift, the second shift, the third shift, and the platoon leader last. God bless us! Let's go! ”

When the Burmese Empire was rising, Chen Huaiqing's British army had already arrived outside Chittagong on the ships of the Ming Nanyang Fleet. A landing operation launched from the sea has begun! Second Lieutenant Splash Li is now the leader of a platoon, with more than forty sword and shield soldiers under his command. Now he is directing his team from a fortune boat to three sampans, and they will be the first to rush to the beachhead of Chittagong.

"One God bless us! Follow me to the first class! ”

Lai Toad is now a squad leader under Popi Li, and I saw that he had already put on a helmet and cuirass - a full set of Ming-style steel armor was no longer very popular on the Nanfan battlefield, first, it was too hot; The second is that the bows and crossbows and archers of the Nanfan natives are not good, and they can't shoot far or fast, so they can't be compared with Mongolia at all, so they don't need too strict protection. And now it's a beach-grabbing landing, and if you fall into the water wearing a full set of steel armor, then the gods have no moves.

Lai Toad carried his shield on his shoulder, stood by a rope ladder lowered from the deck railing, and watched his warriors climb the rope ladder down to the sampan one by one, and Lai Toad was the last to go down.

"All, put up your shield!"

As soon as the toad boarded the sampan, he gave a loud order, then walked to the bow, took off the rattan tag he was carrying, put it on the bow deck, and then half-crouched down and covered his body with the rattan card. The boat did not need to be rowed by their sword and shield hands, and their own naval sailors were in charge, and rowing on the rough seas was a technical task, and untrained army sword and shield hands could not play it at all. And they, the soldiers of the army, need to maintain their strength now, and the fiercest battle may be waiting for them on the beachhead!

"As if defenseless! Father, Chittagong seems to be empty and unprepared, it seems that we can take Chittagong without blood! ”

On the Nanyang Fleet's new flagship, the "New World"-class sail battleship "Nanyang," Chen Defang was holding a telescope watching the landing.

The landing operation seems to be going very well. When the main force of the Nanyang Fleet reached the outside of Chittagong, not a single ship in Chittagong (Chittagong is a river port with docks in a river channel leading to the sea) dared to take the lead. Honestly look at the gunboats of the South Sea Fleet blocking the exit from the harbor. Then the Nanyang Fleet organized several galleys and gunboats to carry out artillery bombardment near the beach in the city of Chittagong, and bombed several buildings suspected of being watchtowers and arrow towers. As soon as the shelling ended, the beach-grabbing landing began. Since the blockade of Chittagong Port, Tran Duc Fong has never put down his binoculars, and has been searching for the Arakanese army defending Chittagong. But it was nothing!

Chittagong seems to be an undefended city!

"Your Royal Highness, the Kingdom of Arakan is a weak and decaying country, and Bagan in the east is their suzerain, and that is the real strong enemy."

The speaker was Kuma Zhipolo, the national teacher of the British Kingdom - a hereditary religious leader, although the British Kingdom did not explicitly adopt Buddhist Tantra as the state religion, but the principle of Buddhism governing the mind and Confucianism had been established. As the leader of Tantric Buddhism, His Holiness will be the fourth most valuable person in a kingdom after kings, queens, and princes, and on a par with the British prime minister.

Such a noble status, of course, has to pay to get it. It's not enough to offer two empty threads. To this end, Kuma Zhipolo mobilized the remnants of the Tianzhu Tantra and conducted a thorough investigation of the situation in Arakan, Bagan, Ceylon, and Bengal. And Chen Huaiqing's plan to first take Chittagong as a foothold and then take Bengal as his home was formulated on the basis of the information provided by Kuma Zhipolo.

"The people of Bagan are good at domesticating elephants, and they have the title of the land of all elephants in Nanfan, so the king of Bagan has an army of war elephants, which is said to have a thousand elephants, and they are real elephants, not baby elephants in Java."

Kuma Zhipolo introduced the armament of the Bagan Kingdom, and the Southern and Tianzhu Kingdoms all had a tradition of raising elephants. However, the elephant industry in Bagan is the most developed, and trained elephants are a specialty of the Bagan Kingdom's exports, and only countries that have good relations with Bagan can buy them - elephants are a strategic weapon in Nanfan!

Chen Huaiqing also put down the binoculars at this time, and just laughed: "The Dharma King is too worried, the Bagan Kingdom is insignificant, the death of the country is only in sight, even if he has 10,000 war elephants, it is only 20,000 tusks!" (To be continued......)