Chapter 83: The Burma Question
Before the vigorous anti-smoking campaign ended, there was unrest in the northern part of Myanmar, where the people did not accept the management of Huaxia, some pro-British elements who were originally under British management deliberately made trouble, and local landlords and bandits also harassed those sent by Huaxia from time to time.
What Britain ceded to China was the northern part of Maurat Ratchasima, Lashio, and Bang Kang, that is, all of Kachin State, the north-central part of Sagaing Province, the northern part of Mandalay Province, and the north-central Shan State, Kachin State is mostly inhabited by Kachin ethnic groups, and Shan State is the concentration area of Shan State groups, and there is a special place called Kokang in Shan State, which is the junction of Myanmar and Yunnan, which is where the Kokang people live.
The Kokang people are the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Burma, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang set the capital of Nanjing, and later moved the capital to Kunming, known as the "Dian Capital", and was later expelled by Wu Sangui to the border of the Ming Dynasty subject country Myanmar Wacheng (that is, the ancient capital of Ava in the suburbs of Mandalay), and the Burmese king kept them to live there. In December 1661, Wu Sangui led 100,000 Qing soldiers into Burma, forcing Burma to hand over Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang and escort him back to Kunming.
The Qing Dynasty set up the "Mubang Xuanwei Division" to manage the region, and ordered a general surnamed Yang to be the "Tusi King", and implemented unification but not governance. In 1897, the British and the Qing Dynasty signed the Sino-British Treaty of Renewal of Burma, marking the British Empire's invasion of the region, the annexation of the region into British Burma, the area became the territorial scope of British Burma, and began to cultivate opium poppies, and forced the Han to change their name to "Kokang", Chinese to "Guoyu", Chinese to "Guowen", Na Yang family took advantage of the situation to rely on the British wing to continue to maintain rights in Kokang, becoming British lackeys.
After the British ceded northern Burma to the Chinese, the Chinese government immediately sent government personnel to take over these areas, among which the Yang family of Kokang was very dissatisfied with the Chinese government robbing them of their rights, and they united with the Kokang and the ethnic patriarchs in the vicinity to make things difficult for the Chinese people everywhere. After the Chinese government promulgated the ban on smoking, the Chinese government personnel in these areas wanted to destroy their opium poppy and opium manufacturing tools, which made the Yang family completely angry, opium poppy is the main source of income for the Yang family, and the destruction means that the Yang family basically has no economic income, so they mobilized the brave people to oppose the Chinese government's anti-smoking campaign.
The opium poppy is the main cash crop in the Kokang region and even in the whole of northern Myanmar, and the ban on smoking in China completely angered the interests of the high-level ethnic groups in northern Myanmar, and under the temptation of the Yang family, they formed an alliance against the destruction of opium poppy and the prohibition of opium poppy cultivation, and they decided to mobilize a large number of people at the bottom to oppose the Chinese government personnel. The administrators of the Huaxia government took the militia to destroy the opium poppy and confiscate opium and were blocked by the local people, and the administrators of the Huaxia government saw the unreasonable resistance of the people and the persuasion was ineffective, so they let the militia shoot to deter the people, but they did not expect that the gun was immediately chaotic, and the Yang family who was hiding among the people took the opportunity to take out their guns and attack the militia, and because the scene was chaotic, the militia was also disrupted.
After a while, the gunshots rang out from time to time, the Huaxia militia fell one after another, dozens of Yang family members mixed in the crowd shot at the militia, the gunshots became more and more, at this time the militia finally found that the situation was wrong, they looked for those who sneaked attacked, but because the crowd was too chaotic only found a few, they concentrated their fire to solve a few, but the remaining sneak attackers fled with the flow of people.
A total of 15 militiamen were killed, which made Cai very angry, and he ordered 100,000 militiamen and 20,000 troops in northern Burma to impose martial law on the entire Kokang, but as soon as he gave the order, there were several incidents of sneak attacks on the militia, and then more than a dozen such incidents broke out in one day, and the number of people killed exceeded 120. When he received all the news, he found out that someone was targeting the anti-smoking campaign in Huaxia, because the militia that basically went to ban smoking was sneak attacked, and it was a premeditated action, he immediately reported these things to Qin Yu.
When Qin Yu received the news, he was listening to the recent achievements of the anti-smoking movement in the conference room, and he was just happy to hear it when he was broken up by Cai Yi's telegram, and after reading it, he threw the telegram on the conference table fiercely, and said angrily: "I can't imagine that a small northern Myanmar has caused me to lose more than 100 militiamen, more than the number of casualties among the entire Chinese anti-smoking personnel, it is really unreasonable, let me check, who is making trouble, I will not spare them." ”
The officials below were very surprised when they heard Qin Yu's words, they couldn't imagine that there was such a thing in Myanmar, no wonder the chairman was so angry, the chairman was still satisfied with the smooth development of the domestic anti-smoking campaign just now, wasn't this a slap in the face? All the officials were in a cold sweat, and they didn't speak, so they could quietly wait for Qin Yu to continue.
"Hmph, don't think I'm merciful, inform me of General Cai Yi, dispatch the army and militia in Burma to impose martial law throughout northern Burma, unconditionally confiscate guns and artillery, and punish or shoot anyone who resists and refuses to surrender according to the circumstances, and anyone who dares to resist the smoking ban can be suppressed, and if the suppression is not carried out, it will not matter if they are killed, whoever participates in the sneak attack on the militia and incites the people to make trouble will be shot, and the participating families will confiscate their property and expel them from the territory of China, and those who participate in the ethnic group will carry out strong suppression, shooting one-third of the high-ranking and masterminds. The northern regions of Myanmar were incorporated into Yunnan Province, and this region was changed to the Ming and Han regions, and the Kokang people restored their Han identity, abolished the title Kokang language, and those who did not want to stay in the Ming and Han regions could leave on their own after this incident, and the rest would automatically become Chinese nationals. Qin Yu said after thinking for a while.
The next day, the Chinese government officially announced that the northern part of Burma would be incorporated into Yunnan Province and renamed the Minghan region, and announced that more than 120 militiamen had been killed in the Minghan region while implementing the anti-smoking policy, solemnly declared that it would not let go of the murderers, and also ordered martial law in the entire Minghan region until the incident was resolved. The second thing is to announce that the Bengal region, which has been renamed Nanhai Province, and the area north of the Ganges River in India to Islamabad that has been renamed Beiheng Province, plus the people of Nepal, can leave on their own within half a month, and the people who remain will automatically become Chinese nationals and must abide by the laws of China, while the Ming and Han regions will be implemented after the lifting of martial law, and the people in these areas will have to learn Chinese, and Chinese will become the first language.
Cai Ye, who received Qin Yu's order, immediately asked the army to impose martial law in the entire Ming and Han regions, and the anti-smoking campaign would have the whole process of the army or militia cooperating, a large number of troublemakers were arrested, and some people who seemed to carry out the attack were shot or captured, and slowly the conspiracy against the smoking ban surfaced. When the guns and ammunition and other weapons were confiscated, they were opposed by many forces, and after the conquest of the troops failed to persuade them, they shot directly, and all those who resisted were executed, and after several unlucky forces were destroyed, all the people cooperated, and the confiscated troops continued to sweep in the Ming and Han regions.
In the interrogation country, the troublemakers and the captured attackers finally understood the whole conspiracy, because he did not rush to deal with the many ethnic groups involved, he was waiting to see how many ethnic leaders could realize their mistakes and admit their mistakes to the Huaxia government. Not to mention that the leaders of several ethnic groups brought the high-ranking members of the clan to ask Cai Ye for their guilt, hoping to punish their ethnic group lightly, these ethnic groups are all dependent ethnic groups of those big clans, they were forced, Cai Ye asked them to go to the Huaxia government administrator to surrender themselves to be punished lightly, because it is not his responsibility.
The two large ethnic groups, the Kachin and the Shan States, did not come to surrender to the officials of the Huaxia government, and they naively thought that the Huaxia would not embarrass them too much, after all, they were the two overlords of the Ming and Han dynasties, and they were relatively numerous.
Two days later, seeing that no one had surrendered, Cai ordered the army to enter the core areas of the Kachin and Shan groups, and the IDF, which had long been angry with these natives, was directly annihilated by the Kachin people who dared to resist along the way. When the Kachin patriarch learned that the Chinese army was coming towards them, he immediately organized armed forces to resist, and they used their familiarity with the terrain and forests to attack the national defense forces, and after a series of wars in Tibet, the national defense forces had adapted to the changeable terrain and terrain, so they did not suffer losses, but the Kachin private soldiers were defeated because of the inferiority of military quality and weapons, and the Kachin people were completely defeated in just over an hour of contact, and the national defense army commander drove straight into the place where the Kachin high-level people lived. The IDF escorted all of the Kachin leaders back to Myitkyina, which had been renamed Minh Han City, and the top officials of the Shan State Qun were almost all arrested, and the Chinese government would try and execute them in a few days.
The Yang family in Kokang was very afraid, because they not only participated in it but also played a leading role, they didn't expect Huaxia to be so ruthless, now their Yang family has been surrounded by the national defense army, the head of the Yang family has no choice, he gave up resistance in order to keep the blood of the Yang family, and let the national defense army copy their Yang family. All the people involved in the Yang family will be executed, and the Yang family will also be expelled from Huaxia, and the Yang family will be no different from civilians after this change, and those who have enmity with the Yang family will also fall into the ground, and the rest of the Yang family will not have a good time.
A few days later, in front of thousands of people in Minghan City, the Huaxia government tried the Kachin and Shan State leaders, as well as the Yang family, and a series of main culprits involved in the incident.
The day after these people were executed, the Huaxia government announced the lifting of martial law, and at the same time indicated that within half a month, people in the Minghan region could leave the Minghan region on their own, and the Shan and Kachin people packed up their belongings and prepared to move on the day of the Huaxia announcement, and within half a month, the vast majority of the Kachin and Shan people moved out of the Minghan region and into southern Burma, Thailand, Laos, and other places, and only a small number remained in the Minghan region.
At this point, the problem of Myanmar was basically solved, and all the opium poppies in Myanmar were destroyed, opium was confiscated, and opium addicts were forced to detoxify.