Chapter 283 Zheng Guoben () has a country that comes to surrender
"Yuan'er said that there was a place called 'Mengdun Shunhan' who sent an envoy to ask for an audience with him." Liu Xin awkwardly recited this strange term, with a strange look on her face, and said: "That 'Mengdun Shunhan'
The chief said that they were originally the 'fence of the Celestial Empire', but were later separated for some reason. Now that they know that the great power of the Ming Dynasty has been restored, they hope to join the clan and the land."
Gao Pragmatic didn't think of "Meng Dun Shun Han" at the moment, but according to his understanding of the southwest border area of the Ming Dynasty, since it is related to the word "Meng", it is generally a tribe composed of local minority people, and the system is similar to the chieftain in Yunnan
.
The word "Meng" itself comes from the language of the Dai people. This is an administrative unit that is slightly more advanced than the tribe, but seems to be insufficient compared to the country. A "Meng" may be as big as one or two prefectures.
, the small one may be the size of a county. As for the population, there is no certainty. It may range from hundreds of thousands or even nearly a million to only a few thousand or tens of thousands of people.
This "Meng" was often translated as "Meng" in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, during the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, the places where Liu Wei's army passed by, such as Meng Yang, Meng Gen, and Meng Ding, were actually also "Meng", but they were originally "Meng".
I offered my land to the Ming Dynasty a long time ago.
Now that there is another "Mengdun Shunhan" coming to vote, Gao Pragmatic didn't take it seriously and nodded: "Since they are here to vote, let them vote. But who are they voting for? If they vote for Ming Dynasty,
, I will turn around and ask the governor of Yunnan to contact you."
Liu Xin became happy when she heard this, and suddenly burst out laughing, making Gao Pingshi laugh incomprehensibly, and wondered: "Why are you laughing? Could it be that this place is not bordering Yunnan? If so, let them go south."
The territory is under the name of the Kingdom of Bago. If it is not bordering Bago, it might as well have surrendered to Myanmar. In this way, it can be regarded as an indirect surrender to the Ming Dynasty in name."
Who would have thought that when he said this, Liu Xin couldn't stop laughing. She looked at Gao Pragmatic and her teeth itched, and said, "I want to see how long you will laugh."
Liu Xin waved her hands repeatedly and managed to control her laughter. She finally coughed and said, "I'm laughing. Finally there is a historical place that even Teacher Gao can't understand!"
Gao Pragmatic was confused and hesitated: "What do you mean? Where is this place?"
Liu Xin chuckled, but she ran over and took out a map of Kantu, pointed to an area in the northwest of Myanmar that looked like a "7" shape, and said: "Well, look, this is 'Mengdun Shunhan'
.”
"The Kingdom of Assam? Why is this place called 'Mengdun Shunhan'?" Gao Pingshi was shocked. Suddenly he remembered what Liu Xin said just now and asked hurriedly: "Then the envoy said that they were originally the borders of the Ming Dynasty? When did the Ming Dynasty happen?
You even used them as a barrier, how come I didn’t know about this?"
No wonder Gao Pragmatic was shocked. You must know that he was the actual author of the Wanli version of the "Da Ming Huidian". He had read countless materials in the Hanlin Academy. He had never seen such a record in the Ming Dynasty. He said that he had collected it.
The Kingdom of Assam was a tributary state.
But Liu Xin seemed to be unable to hold back her smile, hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe did not laugh for too long.
Okay, okay, I don’t laugh. Actually, I can’t blame you for this, because the Ming Dynasty did not accept them as vassal states, and they were not even part of the Three Proclaims and Six Welfares... But,
But they can’t be wrong about what they said—how about guess what it is?”
This is still a guess. The logic no longer makes sense! Gao Pragmatic shook his head: "I'm too lazy to guess."
Liu Xin pursed her lips and snorted: "It's boring." But after a pause, she still said: "Forget it, I'll just tell you the story attached by Yuan'er. Anyway, it was your son who gave it to you.
I'm just a secretary, how dare I make my boss unhappy."
Gao pragmatic rolled his eyes and said helplessly: "Are you doing this again?"
Liu Xin ignored him, with a bored look on her face, and said: "Yuan'er did a good job on this matter. At least he did some serious research in such a short period of time. Regardless of whether these statements are correct or not, it seems
It always looks the same.
It is said to be hundreds of years ago... I guess it should be the Song Dynasty. The Dai people living in the Yinlowaddy River Basin and the Nu River Basin had limited resources due to population growth, and began to seek livable land in the surrounding areas. At this time, the south
The Burmese have risen, and Dali is also powerful in the east, so they can only look to the west for new territory.
In the year when Kublai Khan was born, Sukafa, the leader of the Dai people in Mengya and Mengka (later Changning, Baoshan, Yunnan), brought the "Suotuo" symbolizing the royal power of the Dai people, about 9,000 men and women, and two elephants.
, more than 300 horses, passing through Mengmao (later Ruili, Yunnan), Hugong (later northern Myanmar) and other places, spent thirteen years crossing the Pakai Mountains from the Hugong Valley and entering the Brahmaputra Valley
area.
In the first year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty and the fifth year of Jin Zhengda, Sukafa established a city-state in Dipan in the Brahmaputra Valley area, reclaimed rice fields, built water conservancy projects, and established relationships with the Morans, the indigenous people of the Brahmaputra Valley.
The Naga people and the Bola people made good friends and encouraged the Dai people to intermarry with the local ethnic groups to expand the population and gradually grew stronger.
Twenty-three years later, Sukafa moved his village to Chalai fortress on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River and established "Mengdun Shunhan" - this name was also translated as "Ahong Kingdom" or "Asa" in our time.
Kingdom of Mu'."
Gao Pangshi suddenly realized: "So that's what happened. Then what's the situation when they say they are the Ming Dynasty?"
Liu Xin asked: "You are not familiar with 'Meng Dun Shun Han', so you should know 'Meng Mao Nong', right?"
"Of course I know this, it's Luchuan." Gao Pingshi waved his hand and said: "In the Hongwu years of the past, Luchuan Silunfa surrendered to our country and was appointed Luchuan Xuanwei Envoy. The areas under Sirunfa's jurisdiction were all between the Jinsha River and Jinsha River.
In the south, in the Yuan Dynasty, it was the Xuanwei Division of Burma, but it has already occupied Burma as its own.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! During the Hongwu period, our army attacked Yunnan and changed the name of Pingyang Burma to Luchuan Pingyuan Military and Civilian Xuanwei Division. The word "Luchuan" was used for the first time. Hongwu 20th
In the ninth year, Pingyang and Burma paid tribute, and the Pingyang-Burma Xuanwei Department was established, which was separated from the Luchuan Military and Civilian Xuanwei Department.
Not long after, in the 30th year of Hongwu, the local chiefs of Luchuan and Burma rebelled against each other and expelled Silunfa, the envoy who comforted them. Taizu was furious and ordered Muchun to be the general for the southern expedition, with He Fu and Xu Kai as deputy generals, and led his troops to attack
The sword was strong and sent to Silun back to Yunnan.
In May of the following year, Mu Chun sent He Fu and led 5,000 troops to cross Gaolianggong Mountain and march straight to Nandian to defeat it. Then he returned to attack Jinghan Village. The enemy held on with high security and could not attack for a long time. So Mu Chun personally
He led 500 cavalry to rush to the rescue and defeated them. Dao Gan Meng asked to surrender but refused. In December, He Fu killed Dao Gan Meng and put an end to the Luchuan Rebellion. After that, Silunfa lost his official position and was changed to Meng Yangxuan's comfort envoy.
He was replaced by Diao.
In the early years of Zhengtong, Xuanwei envoy Diao Binyu was unable to pacify the barbarians because of his weakened strength. Silunfa's second son Sirenfa began to invade and occupy the land. At that time, Myanmar was in crisis, and Sirenfa invaded and occupied the land, trying to regain all the land his father had lost. He had lost his land, so he supported the people in Luchuan and rebelled.
At that time, he led his army to invade and occupy Mengding and Wandian, killing and plundering wantonly. The Yunnan Army General and Duke of Guizhou, Mucheng, reported it. The court was unmoved at first and wanted to see his subsequent movements. Who knew that he would invade Nandian Prefecture again? The officials wanted to pay tribute to the land, so the imperial court ordered Mu Cheng to send officials to deliver gold medals and tokens, ordering them to return the invaded land, but Si Renfa refused to obey the edict.
In December of the third year of Zhengtong, Sirenfa attacked and plundered Tengchong, Nandian, Mengyang and other places. Diao Binyu defected to Yongchang and died without heirs. Sirenfa massacred Tengchong and occupied Lujiang, calling himself "Fa". The matter was reported Later, Yingmiao sent Yang Ning, the head of the Criminal Department, to issue an order, but Si Renfa still refused to accept it.
So in the fourth year of Zhengtong, the sixth year of Zhengtong, the seventh year of Zhengtong, and the thirteenth year of Zhengtong, our army marched on Luchuan in all directions. Later, Xu made Si Lu, the son of Si Renfa, the chief minister, and ordered his tribe to suppress the barbarians and live in Meng to support them as before. The Jinsha River was erected with stones as a boundary, and he swore: "If the stone is broken and the river dries up, you will have to cross it." Si Lu was photographed by the might of the heavenly soldiers and had no choice but to obey orders. From then on, it became our barrier to the Ming Dynasty.
This battle lasted for nine years, which was quite damaging to our court, but from a strategic point of view, it was also of great significance. Since then, the Luchuan territory has continued to disintegrate. The strategy of 'analyzing the Luchuan territory' has greatly weakened the power of Luchuan. By the end of Si Xingfa's reign, the only territories actually controlled by Luchuan were Longchuan, Ruili, Mangshi, Zhefang and some outlying areas, and Luchuan began to decline."
"Bah bang bang bang!" Liu Xin clapped, "It seems that Teacher Gao is quite familiar with domestic affairs."
Gao Pangshi had already made a rough guess at this time. He did not answer Liu Xin's words, but pondered: "So Assam - oh, I mean Mengdun Shunhan, they must have defected to Luchuan back then. ?”
"As expected of Teacher Gao, he hit the mark with just one guess." Liu Xin chuckled and said: "As early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the 'Mengmao Nong' in the east of Sunhan in Mengdun - what the Ming Dynasty called Luchuan rises. At that time Luchuan had great ambitions and attempted to establish a unified Dai empire and annex neighboring countries, so he launched an army to conquer Mengdun Sunhan in the west.
In the third year of Yanyou in the Yuan Dynasty, Luchuan assembled a large army of 900,000, with the "King's" brother Hun Sannong as the general, Dao Siyun, Dao Paluo, Dao Sihan Gai and others as generals, and led the troops to march westward to Mengdun. Sun Han and Mengdun Sun Han were defeated, so they had to surrender the whole country. Most of the Hun Sannong army stayed in Shunhan in Mengdun, while Sun Han of Mengdun sent Hungan, Bo Meng and others to form an envoy, along with part of the Luchuan army. The gold and silver tributes went to Luchuan's "royal capital", Yun Jielan, as a vassal and paid tribute.
After Sunhan of Mengdun surrendered to Luchuan, he paid tribute to Yunjielan every year, and his contacts with the Dai people of various Meng in Luchuan gradually increased. Many Dai people in the upper reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River began to immigrate to Sunhan of Mengdun, which has fertile land, which strengthened the Mengdun Sun Han’s strength.
In the 30th year of Hongwu, Su Dangfa, who was deeply influenced by the ideas of Indian Brahmanism, succeeded to the throne of Mengdun Sunhan, and the status of Brahmanism in Mengdun Sunhan was improved. During the period when Su Dangfa was in power, he gradually distanced himself from Luchuan and moved closer to India. Lucchuan was also busy dealing with the Ming Dynasty and had no time to pay attention to the distant west. Mengdun Sun Han began to accelerate Indianization.
After that, the king of Mengdun Sunhan began to use Hindu titles as his titles. Dai titles such as Zhaofa and Tao Meng were gradually replaced by Brago Hain, Balgo Hain, and Bapatra Gohain.
And replaced by titles with Indian colors such as Rajko Was, Barua, Hazarika, Saikiya, Bora and so on.
As a result, a large number of foreign words were incorporated into the local Dai language, and Mengdun Shunhan was gradually called Assam. As for the relationship between it and Luchuan, it was slowly broken...specifically
As for when Yuan'er didn't say it, I guess it was either because the envoy was inconvenient to say it, or the envoy himself didn't know clearly.
After all, they have become Indianized, and Indians basically don’t remember history, so if we in India wanted to understand our own history at that time, we had to look for our history books to study it.”
Gao Pragmatic nodded, roughly understanding what was going on, but after thinking about it, an idea suddenly came to his mind and said: "Let me guess, since Assam has long been Indianized, and their original so-called suzerain country
Luchuan, now just an ordinary Yunnan chieftain, was obviously not attractive enough to attract them to join him again...
Therefore, Assam suddenly came to Yuan'er to talk about his contribution this time. It will definitely not be a 'King of Jiu Mu'. I think there are only two possibilities for why they did this."
This time it was Liu Xin's turn to be stunned and said in surprise: "How can there be two possibilities?"
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "I think I have guessed your inner judgment, which is one of the possibilities, but I think there should be two possibilities."
Liu Xin flattened her mouth and said, "Then you go ahead and say it."
"I'll go first." Gao Pragmatic didn't care and waved his hand: "The first possibility is that we are gathering a large army in Bago in southern Xinjiang, which must also use the power of Myanmar, such as mobilizing the Myanmar army to mobilize food and fodder for our army.
etc.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! These actions may have aroused Assam's vigilance, so the king of the country was frightened and sent people to understand and test. When he learned that Yuan'er
After being the commander of this operation at a young age, he used the pretense of offering sacrifices to test whether our Southern Xinjiang or Ming Dynasty coveted them."
Liu Xin said in surprise: "I didn't expect this. What I thought of was another point... Well, tell me first and see if we have the same possibility."
Gao Pragmatic nodded and said: "Another possibility is that Assam is facing a huge threat, which may even be a life-and-death threat to them, so they have no choice but to come to us to see if we are willing to help them.
This may be very simple. It must be that after the Mughal Empire conquered Bengal, it also regarded the surrounding small countries and states as its own sphere of influence, or even as its own territory, so it pressed harder and harder on Assam.
Sam felt the powerful threat of the Mughal Empire, so he resorted to a common tactic in small country diplomacy - two tigers competing for food.
The threat from the Mughal Empire was imminent. They had a governor-general in Bengal. Although the Ming Dynasty also had a governor in Yunnan, the Ming Dynasty only acted as a watchdog outside the Yunnan mainland and was not willing to intervene personally.
Comparing the two contrasts, Assam has strong Mughal enemies, so it is naturally willing to surrender to the protection of the Ming Dynasty. But in the final analysis, it just hopes to use the tiger skin of the Ming Dynasty as a banner. If I expected it to be true, they will eventually
What I hope to see is not that the Mughals beat him and we, the Ming Dynasty, send troops to help him fight the Mughals, but that the Mughals take advantage of our great power and simply give up the idea of beating him.
In this way, Assam is just a name for the Ming Dynasty, and may not even need to pay tribute, or even though it pays tribute, it will make money, but it can survive between the two powers, isn't it wonderful?"
"Hey, even if we think of going together this time, I feel the same way." Liu Xin laughed, but immediately asked: "Then it's up to you to make up your mind now, as for this guy who popped up halfway.
Little brother, do you want to accept it or not?"
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