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The king was captured by the Ming army!

When the news reached Mangbai's ears, he led 60,000 Burmese people and local soldiers of various chieftains. He had just arrived in Xingshida and was about to enter the richest river estuary area of ​​Myanmar. Because he learned that tens of thousands of Ming troops gathered on water, and tens of thousands of Ming troops and tens of thousands of local soldiers gathered on land, waiting for his southward. In view of this situation, Mangbai ordered the army to stay in Xingshida in order to accumulate strength and wait for the time to move south.

But no matter what, he did not expect that before he could figure out how to resist the Ming army's attack and then recover the Hekou area, news that Awaju City was burned by the Ming army and the king of the country was captured by the Ming army came.

how so?

The sudden news made Mangbai not feel frightened, but it still caught him off guard. It made him not even know how to deal with this matter, but even so, he still knew what to do now.

"Block the news immediately and don't let it leak!"

Unlike the indecisive Brother Wang, Mangbai's behavior has always been extremely decisive. He immediately realized what consequences this news might bring.

Although his ancestors have always envied China's unified country since then, and facing the leaders under his rule, they have tried to turn Myanmar into a whole and a country similar to China. However, even though he has been working hard and trying every means to imitate China, in fact, even though Myanmar has never been a unified country until now. Although Myanmar was ruled by the Bagan Dynasty four hundred years ago, its territory was extremely limited. Myanmar chieftains were established since the Mongol Yuan, and the first town was set up in Awa City. At that time, there were multiple Xuanwei Divisions in Myanmar territory. After the Ming Dynasty, the tribes in Myanmar were still in a state of division. Most of them surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and accepted the title of local officials, and were called "Tashi" of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to setting up the Myanmar Xuanwei Division, many Xuanwei Divisions, Xuanfu Divisions, Fufu Divisions, Chief Litigation Divisions, and Yuyi Prefectures.

More than a hundred years ago, Mang Rui became king and established his own regime in Myanmar. As his power expanded, he began to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty was unable to look south, he relaxed the management of the chieftains in the southwest region and did not take practical measures to maintain the control of the Wuxuanwei Office, allowing them to alienate and separate from the Ming Dynasty. Myanmar had to learn from the Ming Dynasty's golden and red card system, and adopted the practice of winning over the leaders of the chieftains around him, sending envoys and lending help to solve the problems of these weak external political districts, resulting in the weak external political districts falling one after another without the support of the Ming Dynasty.

Myanmar. This is how the current Myanmar is founded. Myanmar relies on the letters and letters of the letters and letters of the Baye-leaf Burmese. It has become the kings of these regions, recruiting tribal soldiers and fighting south and north, which has made the current Myanmar today. But this Myanmar has completely established a weak chieftain system. Although these chieftains agree with the Burmese king, they maintain independence within. Even those chieftains’ recognition of the Burmese king is far less than that of the Ming Dynasty. Even Myanmar itself often regards itself as Xuanweishi, and those chieftains naturally also stick to both ends and sway between Myanmar and the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, the chieftains held both ends and swayed between Myanmar and the Ming Dynasty because for hundreds of years, the chieftains had long been accustomed to surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, not Myanmar. Now they surrendered to Myanmar, but only because the Ming Dynasty contracted a hundred years ago. Even so, the chieftains' awe of the Ming Dynasty came from their bones, just like their awe of the Mu family. Even if the Mu family had fallen to this point, they still had great awe of them. It is precisely because of this that last year, Mangda, who was the Burmese King, allowed King Mu to wear Burmese clothes and see barefoot, in order to attack the prestige of the Mu family and the Ming chieftains in Myanmar.

Although Mangda's goal was achieved and the prestige of the Mu family was hit, everything has changed now. Now, with the fall of Awa City and the captured kingdom, the chieftains will understand that this is the punishment of the Ming Dynasty for "great disrespect" to Myanmar. Even if they do not turn to the Ming Dynasty immediately, they will probably remain neutral. Without the support of the chieftain, how could the Burmese people fight against the Ming Dynasty? Even the local soldiers in the army may leave here.

It is precisely because of the understanding of the local chieftain's nature that Mangbai, as the commander of the first army, immediately ordered people to block the news. However, despite this, the news spread quickly. Just as Mangbai expected, many chieftains immediately took their soldiers from the military camp and fled back to their respective chieftains after learning that the king was captured by the Ming army and the country was burned. However, in just half a day, they were once a mighty army of 100,000, with only more than 10,000 people left. These people were Burmese soldiers, but even so, Mangbai could still feel the turmoil in the military camp. After all, even among the Burmese soldiers, there were also tribes. The abnormal movements of the chieftains of other tribes will also affect the Burmese tribes. After all, for them, they value the interests of their clan more. They will never sacrifice their clan's interests for the Mang family's world.

"Prince, those old men Dan are also moving now. The villain is worried that those old men Dan will leave the camp. The prince might as well invite Bamo over and..."

He Dan gestured a beheading gesture. Like the Shan people and Meng people, the Burmese people were also a tribal alliance. Dan was a large tribe of the Burmese people. Like the chieftains, he accepted the Burmese king's treasure belt and the Burmese dou and was called to provide troops to the king. However, because they were both Burmese people, they had a higher status in this alliance and occupied the richest land in Myanmar. Of course, in return, they needed to send troops to jointly maintain the interests of the Burmese people. But now with the burning of Awa and the king being captured, everything has changed. The tribes will definitely consider their own interests first. And Bamo is the general of the Dan veteran soldiers. He has not moved yet, and must be because he is still hesitating.

"Yes, prince, if he doesn't kill him, if he brings the five thousand Dan veterans, then there will be less than 10,000 soldiers under the prince. If he builds such a small amount of troops, how can he compete with the Ming army?"

"But even if we kill Bamo and seize his military power, how can we compete with tens of thousands of Ming troops with less than 20,000 troops? You must know that we had a hundred thousand troops at the beginning, but we could not resist the Ming army."

"Those Ming troops can't stay for long. Buddha is on our side. If the Ming troops stay for a long time, there will naturally be epidemics that will defeat them, just like in the past!"

Now, as most of the chieftains lead their troops back to their tribe, they had no intention of fighting, so they naturally put everything on the weather and diseases in Myanmar. Once upon a time, they used weather and diseases to "repel" the Ming army. Now, they also put the last glimmer of hope on these natural conditions.

"Yes, we can first watch the situation change here. If necessary, we can retreat into the forest first. The Ming army is afraid of the forest and the diseases in it. We only need to hide in the mountains and forests for a few months, at most a year. At that time, the Ming army will inevitably retreat without fighting. By then, Myanmar will still be our Burmese!"

"That Hei said very much. If this is the case, the prince probably needs to persuade Bamo to stay in the army first. After all, after withdrawing into the forest, a large amount of food is needed. Old Man Dan can provide food to the army. With their help, we can gain a foothold in the forest!"

This suggestion immediately aroused other people's approval. After all, in their opinion, this is the most feasible suggestion, allowing time and weather to defeat the Ming army.

"But don't forget that the Tuwa people, Meng people, and Shan people have already surrendered to the Ming army. Now the Ming army still needs to do it themselves. We only need to recruit local soldiers from all races to defeat us. If we hide in the mountains, the Ming army will firmly gain the upper hand and make the chieftains think that we have failed. Now the momentum of the Ming country is rising, and other ethnic groups will be summoned by the Ming people to provide local soldiers to attack us. What should we do then?"

"No, it's not the time when the Ming army had the Ming Dynasty. Now the Ming army has come to Myanmar, but I just don't want to leave. Yunnan is now occupied by the Qing people!"

"That's right, since the Ming army has come to Myanmar, we will never leave easily. We hide in the mountains and forests, aren't we just following the wishes of the Ming people?"

Listening to the words of the generals and staff, Mangbai's face, who was sitting on the table, became gloomy. Perhaps in the past nearly a hundred years, the Burmese King, who lived in Awa, has become the king of this region. But in fact, in the Ming Dynasty in Myanmar, was still just a local official. While awarding treasure belts to the chieftains and the Burmese King, the Burmese King himself kept the imperial edicts from the Wanli period. The envoys sent to the Nans still treated the local officials to the General of the Conquest. This was the case in the past, let alone those chieftains who held both ends?

What is the Burmese King? Yu Daming seems to be the chieftain, and as for the Burmese King, he is just a local official. For the chieftains, the Ming Dynasty is the orthodox. If he avoided the mountains and forests, it seemed to be to defeat the Ming army by the weather and diseases, but that would take time, maybe one year, maybe two years, or even longer.

In the past or two years, the Ming army would never retreat. The current Ming army was different from the past. In the past, they would withdraw to Yunnan, but now, Yunnan is occupied by the Qing army. The Ming army will be stationed here, and they will slowly adapt to the weather here.

As for the Zhonghe who was hiding from the mountains and forests, it might not be a threat to the Ming army. At that time, the Ming army only needed to recruit chieftains to enter the mountains to attack the Burmese people. Even then, the Ming army could reward other ethnic groups with the land that originally belonged to the Burmese people as a reward for helping him in the war.

For Burmese, this is the most deadly thing!

In fact, even at least half of the land along the river that the Burmese people cultivated today was stolen from other tribes. Those defeated tribes who were driven into the mountains were naturally willing to be driven by the Ming army and obtain the land that originally belonged to them. As for the Burmese people, they would be driven into the mountains and forests like the Meng people and live in the barren mountains.

At that time, the Burmese people who once occupied the entire Burmese were just like the toasts now, they were just the earthen men in the mountains.

Chieftain, local official...

For the Ming Dynasty, weren’t the Burmese people the chieftains? As for what prince he Mangbai is there, he is not even a local official!

The chieftain, the local official... pondered, and suddenly, Mangbai's eyes lit up. He had no idea and was even worried about his future, and suddenly saw a glimmer of hope.

"This is not possible, that is not possible. Are we just sitting here and waiting for death?"

It is not possible to escape into the mountains and forests, and it is also impossible to defend here, and attacking is even more impossible. What are the choices now?

"Of course not!"

Standing up, Mangbai looked at the people and said.

"Since you can't fight, then surrender! I believe that with the wise wisdom of the Ming Emperor, I naturally know that we are just for the ministers. Everything we have done before is just helpless!"

Mangbai's words made everyone who was originally desperate and in a panic lit up. Yes, if you say it is very disrespectful, it is also very disrespectful to the king and his close ministers. What does it have to do with them?

As for them?

They are just ordering the king?

If the Ming Dynasty holds accountable, there will naturally be a king to take responsibility. At that time, the king will lose his life and the head will be lost. As for them... the Ming Dynasty still needs local officials! Yes, the Ming Dynasty needs to be in the Xuanwei Division of Myanmar. After all, Yunnan has been occupied by the Qing army now. Since Xuanwei Division is needed, then local officials are needed, and they are not the chieftain local officials!

In an instant, everyone who was already full of sorrow all opened their frowns, and even Mangbai himself said with a smile.

"Since that's the case, then we will apologize to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and Duke Mu!"

The Ming Dynasty still needs local officials!

Mangbai guessed well, and Daming actually needed local officials to manage the southwest border and rely on local officials to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty here. However, he did not know that now, there was not only one Duke Mu in Myanmar. In addition to the Mu family, there was also an official from Jiangbei who was also ordered to participate in this matter. He even rushed to Awa as soon as he learned that the Burmese King was captured and met Mu Tianbo to discuss how to manage the Southwest Division.

This is exactly the goal of Ding Yujie, who is the head of the vassal state-owned government office, the head of the vassal state-owned government office. It is different from Qu Dajun coming to Myanmar to welcome the emperor and the court. It is different from the establishment of the Nanyang Army after the military came here. As the head of the vassal state-owned government office, he was in charge of the southwest departments. He is even now a Tongzhi Dingnan who is in charge of the affairs of the vassal state-owned government office, responsible for local affairs in Myanmar.

Of course, the real master of the chieftains in the southwest is not others, but the Mu Tianbo, Duke Mu, who has no soldiers in front of him. Perhaps, he has no soldiers in his hands, but he is from the Mu family! He is Duke Mu, and the "General of the Southern Conquest" of the Ming Dynasty.

When he came to Awa and saw the local officials and soldiers respecting him, Ding Yujie finally understood why Jingluo said, "The Mu family can reach 100,000 powerful soldiers in the southwest." The reason is that the Mu family has been serving the chieftains of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. For those local officials who have never left the mountains for their entire lives, they may agree with the Ming Emperor, but they are even more afraid of the Mu family and Duke Mu.

In the past few hundred years, the Mu family, which had hereditary position as the "General of the Conquest of the South", established the majesty among the chieftains in various places is beyond the understanding of others. Even if there is no soldier and only one seal is needed, Mu Tianbo is enough to mobilize the chieftain soldiers from all over the southwest and make them use it.

Therefore, no matter what, Ding Yujie, who wants to achieve great things in Myanmar, must win the support of Mu Tianbo. He even complained and dissatisfied with Xiao Xinren's failure to take him out of Awa City. After all, the Mu family is the most important bargaining chip in the southwest.

"In the past, the Yunnan-based political districts in Yunnan implemented a system of trust and red cards, and played a very important and positive role in managing the border, protecting the country and defending the border, mediating and handling internal conflicts within the organization. However, later, the implementation of this system gradually relaxed. I think the pros and cons of it is naturally very clear about the pros and cons of it......"

When Ding Yujie said this, the Mu family naturally understood this better because they had been managing the southwest barbarians for hundreds of years. It can even be said that the Mu family has always dominated the management of the southwest barbarians, but later the Mu family also relaxed the management of these chieftains. However, the Mu family relaxed because the Mu family could not go against the will of the court. After all, the Mu family had written to the court many times to request the rectification of the southwest barbarians, but they did not get permission from the court. After hearing what he said, Mu Tianbo immediately nodded in agreement.

"What Director Ding said is very true, so there is a saying that "the court cherishes a piece of paper and loses a place for two thousand miles"! If the court had not intended to give the seal of the outside chieftains, how could it have ended up like this today!"

Although it is a bit too one-sided to say "Cherish a piece of paper and throw 2,000 miles of land" is a bit one-sided, but it is also a fact. During the Jiajing period, Cao Yi, a Jinchiwei official, brought a golden red card and a Xinfu to give to the chieftains of Myanmar and other outside political districts, hoping to mediate the dispute, but unfortunately was killed by Myanmar. Later, because he was unable to send troops to investigate the matter, he no longer pursued the case after scolding the Burmese people. As for the Mu family, he was willing to deal with the matter at that time, and wanted to use it to attack.

", but the contraction of the court made the Mu family choose to remain silent and could only watch the Burmese people rampant outside. From then on, the court never sent envoys to Yunnan's outside political districts to award gold and red cards and letters. The chieftains of the Yunnan outside political districts did not receive any support and protection from the Ming Dynasty, and the crisis in the southwest border naturally became even deeper. This led to Myanmar's step by step growth, and Mu Tianbo was naturally very clear about this.

Of course, he was also very clear that in this matter, the Mu family also played a disgraceful role. After all, what the Mu family wanted to use Myanmar to grow up, which led to a crisis in the southwest, and then let the court let the southwest go to the Mu family, rather than the officials of the Yunnan Sansi. During the more than 200 years of the Mu family's guarding Yunnan, in order to consolidate and enhance the family's power, the Mu family and the officials of the Yunnan Sansi, local governors, eunuchs, and even vassal kings engaged in a long political struggle and game with the emperor. It was precisely because of their strong influence on Yunnan that the Mu family could withstand countless impeachments and escape the crisis that was enough to confiscate and exterminate the family again and again.

When the Burmese people became popular, the Mu family also needed a crisis in the southwest to remind the court, so that the court could not defend the Mu family in Yunnan Africa, but no one expected that before the external crisis in the southwest evolved to make the court alert, the Li thief had already attacked the capital.

Now that the Mu family has reached the current stage, it is not a "taste of the bitter fruit". However, the key point of this is that Mu Tianbo naturally cannot tell outsiders, and he naturally cannot tell outsiders that the court was unable to take into account the chieftains outside the southwest. The reason why the Mu family sat on the sidelines was to show the importance of the Mu family to the court, which naturally pushed all the responsibilities to the court.

"Granting the local official's letters and golden red cards is certainly the best choice to govern the southwest chieftains, but the head Ding needs to know that the key to the red cards of this letters is to protect them and mediate their conflicts. If there is no military power, how can you protect them and how can you mediate them?"

However, even though you have to put the blame on the court, it does not mean that Mu Tianbo does not "understand" the difficulty of the court.

"At that time, the imperial court used troops to Liaodong and the situation in Liaodong collapsed. The southwest naturally had no time to take care of it. Therefore, the Burmese people were so powerful. At that time, although we were in the southwest of Shizhen, we were still powerless..."

Ding Yujie had specially studied the gains and losses of the Ming Dynasty's rule of the southwest along the way, and knew very well that behind this "paper" was the soldiers, the deterrence of strength, and the silver and grain were needed. These were not what the Mu family could provide, and this required the strength of the court, so he nodded and agreed.

"This chieftain system, to put it bluntly, is that local officials are hereditary and internally autonomous by the leaders of local tribes or regimes, but economically they have to bear the "selection and service" and "tribute tax" of the court. Local soldiers must accept the dispatch of the court or superiors. Generally speaking, they can be implemented at the beginning. Looking at our dynasty, the control of the San Xuan and Liuwei chieftain is divided into two types: inner border area and outer border area. The inner border area is "selection and service" and the outer border area often only "selection and service" is "selection and service" of the outer border area.

"As for local soldiers, they only occasionally intervene to mediate and issue. This is why the local officials outside swing and the Burmese people sit and watch. When they came, the Minister once said to the lower officials that our dynasty rule in the outer area often regarded the place of vassals and subjugation, and only took the meaning of restraining the subordinates, without the intention of benefiting the land; there was martial arts of conquest, without the politics of construction. When the Central Plains was strong, the local officials outside were naturally called the vassals and subjugation, and both the inside and outside were ordered by the court. In this way, there was no distinction between inside and outside, and when it was in the decline, they would have martial arts without it."

Although he had never met Zhu Mingzhong, after hearing this from Ding Yujie, Mu Tianbo, who lived in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty for generations, was naturally aware of the key points and immediately agreed with the Tao.

"Only take the meaning of restraining subordinates, without the intention of benefiting the land; have the martial arts of conquest, without the politics of construction. When the Central Plains is strong, the local officials outside will naturally be called "senior and patriarchal, and both inside and outside are ordered by the court. In this way, there is no distinction between inside and outside, and after the decline of the season, they will have martial arts without it. In this way, they will have martial arts without it. In this way, they will be able to tell the disadvantages of our dynasty's jurisdiction in the southwest. This is really a shame for me. I don't know what plans are for managing the southwest?"

Mu Tianbo, who asked this sentence tentatively, knew very well that the Mu family might have prestige in the southwest, but now he has no soldiers. Although he can recruit tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of local soldiers with his prestige, what should he do after the recruitment? What is needed after the recruitment?

Need money and food!

If there is no money or food, even if the local soldiers are recruited today, it may not last long. The army will disperse without pay. If the local soldiers have no food and no military pay, they will also disperse. At that time, it will not only be the army, but also the prestige of the Mu family for hundreds of years.

It is also because of this that over the past years, although he knew that with the name of "General of the Conquest South", he could recruit local soldiers outside the southwest to assist in the war, but he chose to remain silent every time. The reason for this is that he has no money! He did not maintain the money and food of the army, so he could not take risks with the last capital of the Mu family - the prestige accumulated in the southwest over the past three hundred years.

But now, the arrival of the Zhongyi Army gave him the opportunity, because the Zhongyi Army had everything he needed. That's why he wanted to get the help and support of the Zhongyi Army, and rely on their help to rebuild the prestige of the Mu family in the southwest.

The reason why he chose to seek help from Zhu Mingzhong and Zhongyi Army did not seek help from Li Dingguo and others before that, of course, he also had his own considerations. The key was that Li Dingguo also stationed in the southwest. Perhaps Li Dingguo needed the prestige of the Mu family and needed to use him to Mu Tianbo and General Zhengnan to recruit local soldiers from all over the country, but he would never allow the Mu family to rebuild in the southwest, let alone allow him to hold local soldiers.

In contrast, Zhu Mingzhong, who is far away in Jianghuai, has no scruples in this regard. For Zhu Mingzhong, what does he need? He is an ally and a helper. In Mu Tianbo's view, he even needs someone to restrain Li Dingguo in the southwest.

Although he inherited the position of Duke of the Kingdom when he was young because of his father's death, Mu Tianbo, who grew up in Duke of the Kingdom's mansion, can be said to be naturally sensitive to the power field. He could see why Zhu Mingzhong traveled thousands of miles to send people to welcome him. He also knew what was the best choice for Zhu Mingzhong, whether in the Jianghuai or the southwest.

It is precisely because of this that this test was made. Of course, it is also because of this reason that Mu Tianbo sat in the same seat as the Duke of the Kingdom and Ding Yujie, a fifth-rank official. Many times, people always need to compromise with reality. Now, for Mu Tianbo, the only reality is that he has no soldiers or soldiers in his hands, and even has a few taels of silver. He has nothing except name and prestige. Ding Yujie in front of him may be just a fifth-rank official, but behind him there is a fleet, an army, and a silver. All of this is what Mu Tianbo needs and needs to rely on.
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