The Burmese wanted to benefit from both Yongli and Zhu Yongxing, Yongli was under house arrest and was completely passive, but Zhu Yongxing in turn wanted to use the Burmese to trap Yongli and buy time for himself. Since the Burmese regard the Yongli monarchs and ministers as hostages, of course they will not let them enter Yunnan easily, which gives Zhu Yongxing a lot of room for maneuver.

The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, even if it is a real holy decree, as long as it is not good for himself, Zhu Yongxing can also refer to it as a false edict and a conspiracy of the Burmese people. For the time being, agreeing to the demands of the Burmese and acting weak is also part of the plan. He was able to send people to monitor and observe the Yongli monarchs and ministers nearby, and to win over some officials, such as Ma Jixiang and others. If these emperor's close ministers relayed Yongli's will or words, it would obviously be more convincing.

Even Zhu Yongxing, Yi Cheng, and Zheng Zhaoren discussed the possibility of the edict, if Yongli had an accident, could the first assistant Ma Jixiang or the eunuch Li Guotai and others announce the ownership of the throne, so as to justifiably carry out the transfer of imperial power.

Although I don't think it's very mature, it's still a last resort. Now that the crown prince is dead, and the Yongli monarch and ministers are controlled by the Burmese, it should be safer to slow down.

The roadmap for usurping power is slowly becoming clear, first attacking the lord, then supervising the country, the country has no prince, the brother is the last brother, and the righteous name is in the hands.

"When the country changes greatly, all the descendants of Emperor Gao should work together to rejuvenate and recover. After success, the king of the entrants. His Royal Highness has great merit and power, and the emperor should also be a Zen leader. ”

"The king of meritorious people is not grinding. If His Royal Highness can recover the provincial capital, it will be half of Zhongxing's feet, and it will already be famous. Compared with the first time when entering Yunnan, those who are dying of narrow land are more difficult to reverse, and they will last forever. Justice remains. If you can rejuvenate the emperor, then where the merit is, who should fight? ”

The exhortation of Zheng Zhaoren and Yi Cheng made Zhu Yongxing make up his mind to recover Kunming as soon as possible.

"Strike first. After recovering the provincial capital, he will re-supervise the country. Zhu Yongxing felt that since he had less concerns, it was time to speed up the pace of the counteroffensive, and his military merits and prestige were obtained by working harder.

Kunming is not only a provincial city, not only of great political significance, but also not only an opportunity for its prestige to increase, but also other things. If he's not mistaken.

After this toss by the Burmese envoy, Yi Cheng and Zheng Zhaoren really became Zhu Yongxing's hardcore cronies, including the Zheng family's strength behind them. Although the truth of the prince's death was rotten in his stomach, the work of "making a decision" and "supporting it" could not be run. Moreover, as bystanders, they usually observe carefully, and their minds are not as focused on money, food, and military affairs as Zhu Yongxing did. So. He can see it more clearly than Zhu Yongxing, and he is more optimistic in his heart. It is believed that when the time comes, some officials will compete for these two credits.

"In addition to paying attention to the emperor and ministers, I also have the opportunity to peek into the reality of the Burmese people and understand their internal contradictions."

Zhu Yongxing agreed to most of the Burmese demands and lost some money. Naturally, he was unhappy in his heart, and began to calculate Burma again, "The king of Burma has a brother who is quite ambitious, and it seems that he can be wooed." Other than that. There are many ethnic groups in the country, and there are also some ethnic groups with extraordinary strength and disobedience to the Burmese people. If it can provoke its internal strife, it will save a lot of effort. ”

Regarding the strength of Myanmar, Zhu Yongxing scoffed at it when he remembered that the Burmese army was beaten by more than 10,000 remnants of the Ming army in history. But now he can't take the time to clean up Burma, if he can provoke civil strife in Myanmar, it will be a good thing to get the effect of not being able to fight. In the long run, occupying Burma and entering India to learn more about Myanmar's reality and reality in order to win over and divide Myanmar is not a useless effort.

Zheng Zhaoren respectfully agreed, he was used to obeying orders unconditionally, because Zhu Yongxing didn't say it, if he said it, he would be a little sure. The brother of the king of Burma, ambitious; There are ethnic groups in Myanmar who are not satisfied, and he wrote down these two important points with his heart.

"There is no need to be anxious, there is no need to be reluctant, lest the Burmese people will notice it and have the intention of causing harm." Zhu Yongxing deliberately admonished again.

This is the difference between Zhu Yongxing, who comes from the thinking of later generations and attaches great importance to human life. This kind of natural concern for his subordinates made Zheng Zhaoren even more grateful and agreed.

Zhu Yongxing thought about it again, but still dispelled the idea of moving to southwest Yunnan. Although it is close to Myanmar, it is easy to deal with it if something happens, but his identity is there, and it is not so simple to move where, it has already involved military, political, popular support, and morale.

Negotiations with the Burmese envoy have been completed, most of the Burmese demands have been agreed, and money and gifts have been sent, and this matter that has made Zhu Yongxing think about it and take a lot of trouble is finally over. Then he discussed with Yi Cheng and arranged several copies of the Yongli edict brought by the Burmese envoy, as well as the forged edicts mixed in them, and Zhu Yongxing and Yi Cheng turned around.

It has been more than two months back and forth, although it has been delayed for some time because of the handling of Myanmar, but fortunately, it is still in time for the Chinese New Year. Although he was on the road, Zhu Yongxing also constantly received information sent to him, constantly issued orders, commanded various armies by remote control, distributed military supplies, and only waited for major events to occur, he had to move according to the time and launch a counteroffensive.

The number of muskets manufactured by the Annam Arsenal and the Yongchang Arsenal finally exceeded 100 a day, and with the purchase from the French, it was expected that nearly 10,000 flintlock muskets would be distributed to various theaters of war by the time of the counteroffensive. And the months of hoarding reserves, the Ming army will also have the ammunition and supplies it needs to launch a campaign.

However, Zhu Yongxing realized that firearms increased the pressure on logistics, and the fixed ammunition obviously could not meet the needs, and could only satisfy a part of the army first, and the rest was still loaded with loose ammunition. The production of bayonets could not keep up, so Zhu Yongxing ordered samples of bayonets to be sent to various blacksmith shops in the private sector, and the army paid for the purchase of them.

The finances are stretched again, which made Zhu Yongxing sigh that this war is indeed burning money. I've tried my best, but it's still hard to have enough. There was no way, he had to ask the merchant group for help again, issued 300,000 national bonds, and took out three civil titles, so that he finally passed this year.

I have a noble status, but I am also in debt, and I have to be supported by my wife, which is really embarrassing. Zhu Yongxing looked at some of the extra maids in the house, and remembered the money and gifts he had just received from the Mengshan Ke clan and the Long family, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. There's no way, I can only be cheeky and pretend to be confused, and I'll find a way to make up for it later! (To be continued......)