Chapter 763 Don't hit me, Dad Ming, I'll pay tribute
This is just as Gan Hui is busy moving silver from the treasury of the Ariba Sultanate into the fleet's cabin. In Myanmar, thousands of miles away, this will be in an unprecedented crisis.
Among all the vassal states, the Dongyu Dynasty that ruled Myanmar at this time was the most special. Most of its territory once belonged to the Ming Dynasty and was part of the "Three Xuans and Six Moments" of the Ming Dynasty, namely the Nandian Xuanfu Division, Ganya Xuanfu Division, Longchuan Xuanfu Division, Cheli Xuanfu Division, Myanmar Xuanfu Division, Mubang Xuanfu Division, Eight Hundred Days and Moon Yang Xuanfu Division, and Lao Xuanfu Division.
Therefore, from a legal perspective, Myanmar is not the outer vassal of the Ming Dynasty at all, but the inner vassal of the Ming Dynasty. That is, the Xuanwei Office in Yunnan and Guizhou, and they are both local autonomous regimes within the Ming Dynasty! For a hundred years, they were all chieftains under the Xuandian General Office in Yunnan. Their chieftains were hereditary and internally autonomous by local tribal leaders, but economically they had to bear the "selection and duty" and "tribute taxes" of the court, and the local soldiers had to accept the dispatch of the court or superiors. Although these chieftains were divided into inner border areas and outer border areas, the Ming Dynasty's rule and control methods and degree of control over them were different, they were all part of the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Although the "gold-font and red card" system that Ming Dynasty controlled chieftains was destroyed during the Jiajing period, and the improper handling of Myanmar prompted Myanmar to leave the Ming Dynasty, and the Mangruiti established his own regime and became king, and began to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty later broke the bones of Myanmar, it stopped here. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to look south and could not take care of the border affairs in the southwest. After all, it was North Korea first, and then Liaodong, one was more important than the other.
If the Ming Dynasty was still the same as before and could not make any moves, then the Mangdala king of Myanmar would not have to pay attention to the external vassals. The inner vassals, the Dongshu Dynasty, not only did not take the Ming Dynasty's vassal tribute system, but even established a set of its own. Basically, this was based on the Ming Dynasty's gold-word and red card system and adopted the practice of winning over the leaders of the surrounding chieftains. He gave other Xuanwei Divisions in Yunnan, except for the Cheli Xuanwei Division, to "given treasure belts and Myanmar" and became the kings of these areas.
In other words, he said that he wanted to replace the Ming Dynasty's rule in this area. In the past, the Ming Dynasty had no time to inquire about this. He could only allow Myanmar to occupy a large area of southwestern border land, and could only allow them to clumsyly imitate the golden-word and red-card system established by the Ming Dynasty, and then erode some of the chieftains little by little to establish their rule over them.
But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty has now revived. Not only has it revived, but it also reached around Myanmar by sea. The Mo family in Annan and the Chameng Xianguo in the south, and the counties were set up at the mouth of the Mekong River, and the Nantianmen also set up yamen.
Before the monarchs and ministers of the Touo Dynasty in Ava City could not have figured out what this meant, even more terrifying news came. The Ming Dynasty conferred a prince on Madalan's side.
Fortunately, it is far enough away from Greater Myanmar.
For the monarch and minister of Greater Burma, this is no big deal.
Later, Pingguo was also granted the title of India, and Malacca was occupied by the Ming Dynasty. There was a territory of the Ming Dynasty around Myanmar.
However, at this time, the Burmese monarchs and ministers no longer cared about these things, and Mr. Mu was coming to question the crime!
In fact, a few years ago, after returning to Kunming, the Duke of Qian, Mu Tianbo, began to prepare for attacking Myanmar. However, he did not immediately march south. Instead, he compiled the new army and collected the crimes of Myanmar. These crimes need to be collected. After all, as early as the third year of Wanli, Myanmar Mangyingli followed the Ming Dynasty's golden-font and red card system and presented treasure belts to the chieftains and accepted their tribute.
In the past, the Ming Dynasty didn’t bother to turn a blind eye, but now, these are all evidence of crimes!
When collecting evidence of crime, the Ming Dynasty naturally had to rebuild the system of gold-font and red cards and letters, win over the chieftains of all parties, and re-establish the rule of the chieftains of the Ming Dynasty. In a word, before taking action, the helpers in Myanmar will be dismantled.
Faced with the various rises of the Ming Dynasty, the Burmese monarchs and ministers in Awa City were simply unable to deal with it. After all, the current Dongyu Dynasty was no longer the heyday under Mang Yinglong's rule! Later, the Dongyu Dynasty, whose bones were broken and his vitality was severely damaged, met Emperor Nalixuan of Siam. He was beaten to the point of being blue and swollen, and the country was broken. It was not until more than 40 years ago that he was unified again by Mang Yinglong's grandson Anabilong.
However, at this time, Myanmar did not have the same strength as before to go to the north to fight. Now, at most, the southeast and Siam are attacking each other. It is precisely because of this that the current Tou Dynasty has always pursued a "peace policy" and strived to recuperate and restore national strength.
Although the national strength has recovered now, it is simply a dream to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
As for the Westerners, there is no need to think about it. Not to mention that forty years ago, King Anabiron recovered Shahlian, who was occupied by the Portuguese and offended the Portuguese. Even the British, which set up a shopping mall in Myanmar, did not dare to provoke the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, there is only one option in front of King Mangdala, that is, to be a grandson with silence!
"Mangbai!"
In Awa's court, King Mangdala pointed at Mangbai.
"Brother Wang!"
Mangbai hurriedly got up, bent down and walked to Brother Wang's seat, then leaned down and knelt down.
Just like the Thais in later generations who met the kings, the Burmese monarchs and ministers at this time also knelt on the ground when they met.
Mangdala asked:
"It seems that General Zhengnan is determined to be our Myanmar!"
General Zhengnan was the Duke of Qian. His name was the Ming Dynasty in the southwest border, but General Zhengnan was even more famous. This was made by Duke of Qian in all dynasties, and was also exchanged for mediating conflicts between chieftains and the heads of some chieftains. Even Siam sent envoys to the Duke of Qian's mansion every year until now.
"yes,"
Mangbai replied,
"After spies who returned from Kunming, General Zhengnan's new army has been trained and will send troops to our country at any time. Those chieftains who once accepted our enthronement have returned to the Ming Dynasty one by one. As long as General Zhengnan gives orders, they will definitely send chieftains to help. Should we fight a few chieftains first and revitalize the momentum?"
For those chieftains, they are also slaves, and they are more willing to be slaves of the Ming Dynasty. After all, they have been working for hundreds of years. The Burmese people... in the past were also slaves of the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for the fact that the Ming Dynasty did not ask about this in the early years and Myanmar was too strong, how could they be happy to accept the enthronement of Myanmar!
But now the Ming Dynasty is different. Not only did they re-enthrone them, but they also brought them all kinds of scarce things such as salt, cotton cloth, iron pots, etc. The Ming Dynasty was much more generous than the Burmese people.
In fact, even if it is not the salt, cotton, iron pot, etc. that were rewarded by the Ming Dynasty, many toasts in Myanmar were personally in the Ming Dynasty. After all, they were used to the rule for hundreds of years. The so-called "unification" of the Tou Dynasty was actually just the canonization of the toasts and the symbolic tribute. As for establishing a comprehensive and effective bureaucratic rule in Myanmar... that was nothing.
Even before this, when accepting the Myanmar treasure belt and Myanmar, many chieftains still took the initiative to pay tribute to the Mu family. After all, the influence of the Ming Dynasty and the Mu family of the Guizhou Duke of the Kingdom of China in northern Myanmar has not been eliminated, and it is normal for the chieftains to take two boats.
In history, one of the important reasons why Li Dingguo was able to persist in the border areas of Yunnan was that those pro-Ming chieftains kept providing them with supplies.
Now, the Ming Dynasty just shouted "My sons", and the chieftains ran to Kunming happily and became loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty again, well, the old friend of the Mu family.
Therefore, as long as Mr. Mu leads his troops south and gives orders, the chieftains will immediately send a large number of local soldiers. At that time, Mr. Mu will not even need to take action. Just the local soldiers can clean up the Dongxu Dynasty!
After several years, Mr. Mu, who had regained the hearts of all the chieftains and collected evidence of the crime, finally couldn't wait to raise an army to question him.
The sin is that Myanmar is so bold that he dares to give the head of the Ming Dynasty, the treasure belt and the Myanmar Duo. This is simply a plot to rebel.
How about this crime?
It is a serious crime to kill the nine clans.
And it is a mountain of iron evidence. If you don’t provoke a military force and ask for punishment, where will the Ming Dynasty put its face?
Faced with such a "indictment", Mangdala certainly refused. If he had put his grandfather's grandfather, he would probably have a little jump. Now, considering the strength of the Ming Dynasty, Mangdala only had one thought in his mind that this battle could not be fought.
Not only can he not fight, he also has to eliminate the "misunderstanding" as soon as possible, otherwise when Mr. Mu sends troops over, his head will definitely not be able to be saved.
"No, no, no"
Mangdala shook his head and said to his brother,
Chapter completed!