The dense fog is like a torn light veil gradually dissipating, a large-scale ancient city looms in the light fog, Zhu Jun is even more puzzled, although the city in the distance is slightly the same as the traditional Chinese attic, but a closer look, but found the subtle differences, then Mu Jianming patted the horse to the car window and said: "Your Majesty, Ava City is about to arrive, since the emperor lost his trace of hunting, my father doesn't know how anxious it is, please ask Your Majesty to allow me to go back to my father first." ”

Ava City? Zhu Jun had never heard of the name of this strange city, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of place is this, why haven't I heard of it?" As soon as the words fell, Zhu Jun felt that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, and glanced at Mu Jianming, who was riding on a horse outside the car window, and saw that he did not notice the language problem, so he was relieved.

"Your Majesty, you may have been frightened, and some things have been forgotten for the time being, this is the city of Ava, the royal capital of Burma, and our camp is over there." Mu Jianming pointed to the thatched village road on the other side of the rushing river outside the city.

Zhu Jun's face was pale, he had read some historical materials of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and knew that after Emperor Yongli entered Burma, at first the king of Burma, Wang Mangda, was polite, and prepared some gifts to give, even so, in order to avoid difficult handling of etiquette, the king of Burma refused to meet with Emperor Yongli, and only sent Han people to convey information.

As the domestic anti-Qing forces were gradually eliminated by the Qing army, only Li Dingguo's subordinate with tens of thousands of military horses was left to fight guerrillas on the border between Burma and Yunnan, and the attitude of Burma became arrogant, until the next year, a palace coup d'état occurred in Burma, and Wang Mangbai, the younger brother of King Wang Mangda, usurped the throne and decided to eliminate the entourage of Emperor Yongli. He sent someone to inform the Yongli courtiers to cross the river to discuss the matter. After that, 3,000 Burmese soldiers besieged a group of accompanying officials and killed them all. and captured Emperor Yongli and sent it to Yunnan to be disposed of by Wu Sangui.

Zhu Jun is most concerned about what year it is, if he has just entered Myanmar, then he can still do something, at least he can try to avoid the tragedy, if Wang Mangbai has already launched a palace change...... Zhu Jun couldn't help but shudder, and couldn't bear to continue thinking about it.

"Mu Aiqing, I ask you, what year is it?"

"Your Majesty, at this time it is the beginning of spring in the fourteenth year of Yongli, why do you ask like this, by the way, Weichen should die, he forgot that His Majesty was overworked, some things I am afraid I don't remember very well, it seems that I need to take care of myself after I go back." Mu Jianming replied with a concerned expression.

"Not necessarily." Zhu Jun lightly refused, relieved of his heart, if he didn't guess wrong, it should be 1660 now, there is still a year before Wang Mangbai usurped the throne, and his life is not in danger for the time being.

After arriving at the village, dozens of officials wearing Ming Dynasty costumes got up to greet him, Zhu Jun got out of the carriage, looked at the village built of thatch in front of him, and couldn't help sighing, the dignified king of the Ming Dynasty was actually committed to the country, and was so snubbed, if Zhu Yuanzhang in the underground knew, I am afraid that he would have to jump out of the coffin and copy the guy.

The officials were first overjoyed to see Zhu Jun, but after a closer look, they saw that Zhu Jun's long hair was shaved in half by someone, and the clothes on his body were even more bells and whistles, they thought it was caused by Zhu Jun's escape along the road, and then they hugged their heads and cried together.

"The emperor is tired, my colleagues should let the emperor rest first, if the Burmese people see this crying, I am afraid that they will be laughed at again." A very prestigious official gave a loud shout to stop the officials' crying.

"What Grandpa Mu said is very important, the emperor's dragon body is important, let's go back first." Some officials followed, and after a while, the officials were gone, and only the official who was called Grandpa Mu stayed in front of Zhu Jun.

Could it be that this person is Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo in Yunnan? Zhu Jun immediately thought of this person, since Zhu Yuanzhang pioneered, he ordered the general Mu Ying to be the Duke of Qianguo, the world guards Yunnan, since three hundred years, the Mu family has been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and the Mu Tianbo in front of him fled with the Yongli Emperor, after the reckless white usurpation, the officials who followed the Yongli Emperor were required to cross the river into the city of Ava to plan the matter, the Burmese arrested one person with twenty people, and none of the Ming Dynasty officials escaped. Mu Tianbo was grief-stricken and angry, and killed more than a dozen Burmese soldiers with a meteor hammer, but was finally killed because he was outnumbered.

Such a person can be trusted, Zhu Jun thought in his heart, and said to him: "Mu Qing's family comes with me, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Zhu Jun lived in only a dozen thatched huts, because of fear of arousing the suspicion of the Burmese people, so the fleeing team did not dare to build a large number of buildings, so they had to grieve the Yongli Emperor to live here temporarily, but the furnishings in the thatched huts were also luxurious, the ground was covered with gold silk carpets, and the palace lamps with yellow paper covers were placed all around, and antiques, calligraphy and paintings were hung on the walls around them to cover the yellowed thatch.

After taking a seat, Zhu Jun said to Mu Tianbo, who was about to salute: "Mu Qing's family, please sit down, it doesn't have to be like this." ”

Mu Tianbo has reached the age of sixty, and stubbornly knelt three times and bowed nine times, and then sat on the lower seat tremblingly: "Your Majesty, I don't know what is the matter with summoning Weichen." ”

"I ask you, how many men do we have, and how much money do we have saved, and you can convert it for me."

Mu Tianbo smiled bitterly and said: "When the emperor entered Burma, there were 30,000 people to escort him, but the Burmese people were afraid that there would be many of us and the heart of the dove's nest, so they scattered the rest of the people into various tribes in Myanmar, so now there are only more than 9,000 people accompanying the emperor, as for the silver money, there are many treasures in the treasury, and there are more than 70,000 taels of silver." ”

"Only nine thousand?" Zhu Jun frowned, and then asked, "How many Han people are there in the whole of Burma?" ”

"I'm afraid there are more than 100,000 people, and if you add Li Dingguo's department who confronted the traitor Wu Sangui on the border of Myanmar, there should be 150,000 people."

"And how many sergeants are there among the attendants?"

"There are only two thousand, all of them are the right guard of Longjiang led by General Zhang Youde, and the Burmese disarmed everyone when they entered the border just in case, and now the sergeants can only practice with long sticks."

Zhu Jun suddenly remembered that when he was discovered by Zhang Youde, except for some high-ranking officers who wore long knives around their waists, the rest of the people were armed with long sticks.

"Mu Aiqing, if we recruit some Han Chinese from Myanmar to come here, will the Burmese people react?"

Mu Tianbo shook his head and said: "This matter is absolutely impossible, we are only a river away from the king of Burma, and all movements are in the hands of the Burmese people. ”

Zhu Jun's face sank, if it was really as Mu Tianbo said, then he could only be slaughtered.

"It's not impossible, though." Mu Tianbo pondered for a moment and continued: "If the emperor moves to another place, leaving the Burmese capital Ava far away and breaking away from the control of the Burmese people, there is something to be done. ”

"Go on." Zhu Jun seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and urged hurriedly.

Mu Tianbo said: "In fact, the emperor is also a hot potato for the king of Burma, if they continue to take in the emperor, the Manchurians will definitely put pressure on the king of Burma." If they handed over the emperor to the Manchus, they would have to bear the infamy of bullying and faux pas, not to mention that there was Li Dingguo's department in northern Burma to confront the Manchus, and they were also afraid that Li Dingguo would suddenly lead his army south and retaliate against Burma in the name of avenging the emperor, so if the emperor took the initiative to go to other places, the Burmese king would definitely agree, and at that time, what the emperor wanted to do, they could not bear it. ”

"Yes, then according to Mu Aiqing's thoughts, where should we go?" Zhu Jun applauded.

Mu Tianbo said: "Of course, the best place to go is to go north and join forces with Li Dingguo's troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty. ”

"No, the remnants of Li Dingguo have lost several battles in northern Burma in succession, and sooner or later they will be wiped out by Wu Sangui, we will go south, where it is close to the sea, and we can use sea ships to do business with the countries of the South Seas, if the Qing army arrives, as long as they get on the boat, the Manchurians may only look at the ocean and sigh." Zhu Jun said.

Mu Tianbo sighed, secretly wondering in his heart that the emperor was still the same, fled from Hunan to Guangzhou, and then fled from Guangzhou to Yunnan, and then to Myanmar, and now wants to go to the sea again, no wonder his subordinates are privately talking about the emperor as a runaway emperor, he originally wanted to persuade Zhu Jun, but after thinking about it, he just shook his head and said: "Since the emperor said to go south, then he will follow the emperor." But if we go south, the king of Burma will definitely cut off the food given to us, and if we run out of food, we will inevitably starve. ”

"Don't worry about this, I have my own way." Zhu Jun thought of the bottle of rice seeds hidden in his backpack, and said with a calm smile: "You can buy more from the natives in the surrounding villages, as long as you survive this year, I can ensure that everyone has no worries about food and clothing." ”

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Ava City: The capital of Myanmar at that time, located in central Myanmar.