In the blink of an eye, it is already 1650 AD.
This year is the fourth year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the seventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and the second year of the co-rule of Dashun. The three era titles are now placed in front of King Mangdala of the Toungu Dynasty for worship. He chooses.
Of course, he could not choose any of them and use his own accession time to mark the year. Then this year would be the third year of King Mangdala.
Unlike the Kingdom of Siam ruled by the Ayutthaya Dynasty next door, most of the territory of the Kingdom of Burma ruled by the Taungoo Kingdom once belonged to the "Three Xuan and Six Wei" of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Nandian Xuanfu Division, Ganya Xuanfu Division Department, Longchuan Xuanfu Department, Cheche Xuanwei Department, Myanmar Xuanwei Department, Mubang Xuanwei Department, Babaidadian Xuanwei Department, Mengyang Xuanwei Department, Laos Xuanwei Department.
Legally speaking, Siam is an external vassal of the Ming Dynasty, while the land under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Burma basically belongs to the internal vassal of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Shizhu Xuanweisi and Qin Liangyu's family, as well as the current Pingxi, Shuofang, Sichuan, Sichuan East, Dongning, Jinghai, Jinou and other Qifang Towns belong to the same nature, they are all local autonomous regimes within the Ming Dynasty!
Although there is only one word difference between "Outer Fan" and "Inner Fan", they seem to be similar and both are "fan", but the difference in legal principles is huge.
Oh, if the Ming Dynasty is living half-dead, then King Mangdala doesn't have to worry about external vassals and internal vassals - the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma does not follow the Ming Dynasty's vassal tribute system!
But the problem is that although the Ming Dynasty has lost half of the north and most of Sichuan and Yunnan, and seems to be in ruins, it has broken out at sea and in the south.
First, it was reported that the Ming army entered Annan, supported King Li, and conferred four princes, completely pulling Annan back to the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty.
Then came the news that the Ming Dynasty-Annan coalition forces destroyed Champa and the Ming army encroached on the Jin Mau and Jiulong River plains in the east of Chenla, and established two small towns, Jin Mau and Jinghai, on the land of Chenla and Champa!
Just before the kings and ministers of the Toungoo Dynasty in Ava City could react to the drastic changes in the east, even more terrifying news came from neighboring Siam.
The King of Siam had just signed a "Ming-Siam Treaty" under the pressure of the Ming Dynasty's naval fleet, fully accepting the "foreign vassal obligations" proposed by the Ming Empire, and also agreed to the Ming Dynasty occupying only one block away from the city of Ayutthaya. The 200,000 rai (approximately 480,000 acres) of land within the inner island and its surroundings can be used to station 1,000 troops - does 1,000 troops need 200,000 rai of land? The kings and ministers of Taungoo thought that the spies sent to Siam could not count, either because they counted too many lands, or because they counted too few troops.
Maybe the Chinese soldiers stationed in Siam were not 1,000, but 100,000...
Does the Ming Dynasty want to bring Siam and Annan together to attack Taungoo?
The current Toungoo Dynasty is no longer the heyday it was under the rule of Mang Yinglong! After Mang Yinglong's death, the Taungoo dynasty, which had been seriously injured by Mang Yinglong's bellicose national policy, met the erupting Emperor Naresuan of Siam, and was beaten to pieces. In the end, Emperor Naresuan died. Smallpox saved his life. However, the country was torn apart as a result, and it was not reunified until more than 20 years ago by Mang Yinglong's grandson Anabilong.
However, after the reunification, Myanmar has lost its vitality and no longer has the strength to march eastward and northward. Therefore, during the more than 20 years of King Mangtala's father, King Thalong, the Toungoo Dynasty has been pursuing a peaceful policy and working hard to recuperate and restore national strength. .
Although the national strength has been restored now, it is still a bit difficult to fight against the coalition forces of Ming Dynasty, Siam, and Annam. Moreover, Ming Dynasty has picked up the skill of navigation again. Not only can it be fought from land, but also by sea. .
Because King Anabilon conquered the Portuguese-controlled Salian (near Yangon) colony, Myanmar's relationship with the Westerners was not so good, and it no longer introduced a large number of foreign guns, cannons, and generals, so it was also very difficult. It is difficult to rely on the strength of Westerners to resist the Ming Dynasty...
Therefore, there is only one option before King Mangdala now, and that is to rule together with Dashun for two years!
"Mangbai!" King Mangdala, who was sitting high in the court of Ava, pointed at his brother Mangbai.
"Brother Wang!"
Mang Bai, who was not white at all, stood up quickly, bent down and walked to Brother Wang's throne, and then knelt down again.
Unlike the Ayutthaya Dynasty, where the ministers went to court shirtless, the monarchs and ministers of Myanmar all wore clothes, and rich gold was not popular, but Mangtala still had a big gold chain hanging around his neck.
King Mangdala asked: "What is the name of the envoy sent by the Dashun Kingdom in the north?"
"My name is Huang Shu," Mang Bai replied, "Do you want this unreasonable guy to be executed as an elephant?"
To kill an elephant is to trample him to death with an elephant!
Huang Shu is unlucky now. He has been detained by the Burmese for several months. He has no good food or drink. Every day, he may be dragged out and let elephants step on him.
The reason for this is that he was sent as an envoy to Burma by Li Guo, the emperor of the Dashun Dynasty, and he also made a request that was very unreasonable to the Burmese people - Dashun demanded that Burma declare itself a vassal, pay tribute, and stop supporting Lijiang. Mu Tianbo also asked the Dashun army to use Meng Mi and Meng Yang to attack Longchuan, Ganya, Nandian and Tengchongwei and other places controlled by the Mu army.
It turned out that the Mu family in Yunnan was not finished yet, but with the support of Yang Weizhi, Wang Yunkai and others, they retreated to the northwest of Yunnan Province.
Now the main city of the Mu family has been moved to Lahezhuangsi in Lijiang Prefecture, while Yang Weizhi and Wang Yunkai stationed troops in Yongchang Prefecture, relying on the dangerous terrain of Gaoligong Mountain to resist Li Dingguo's army.
The reason why the remnants of the Mu family can persist to this day is of course inseparable from the support of many pro-Ming chieftains in Myanmar - this matter actually has little to do with the Toungoo dynasty. The so-called unification of the Toungoo dynasty is actually the feudal lords everywhere. Loyalty and tribute did not establish comprehensive and effective bureaucratic rule within Myanmar.
The influence of the Ming Dynasty and the Mu family, Duke of Guizhou, in northern Myanmar has not been completely eliminated, and many chieftains have one foot in two boats. While supplying supplies to Ava, they also provided supplies to the Mu family army.
On the other hand, although Li Dingguo was good at conquering and fighting, there were some problems after his army entered Yunnan. First of all, people from Shaanxi and Henan are not used to the climate of Myanmar!
Secondly, Li Dingguo's political ability was poor. He crudely copied the two basic national policies of "land enclosure" and "land equalization" implemented by the Dashun Dynasty in Sichuan to Yunnan.
This is a hornet's nest!
The chieftains in Yunnan who originally had high hopes for Dashun all of a sudden became loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty and old friends of the Mu family. The chieftains in northern Myanmar supported the Mu family army mostly because of this - national borders these days. Who can you scare? Da Shuntian soldiers said they would come and they came...
So Li Dingguo ran into trouble in Yunnan, with endless battles to fight and endless thieves to kill!
The Dashun court in Chongqing was unwilling to give up the line of "enclosure" and "equalization of land" in Yunnan. Because in the eyes of the political kings and Emperor Li Guo, Yunnan was not an unimportant remote territory, but a retreat for the Dashun Dynasty.
If we don't work hard, if Sichuan fails to defend it in the future, the Dashun Dynasty will perish.
Therefore, the Dashun court not only did not give up "enclosure" and "equal land", but also pointed the finger at the Toungoo dynasty of Myanmar. It sent the unfortunate Huang Shu as an envoy to visit Awa, demanding that Myanmar become a vassal, pay tribute, and Help the suppression!
Of course Mang Dala refused, so he detained Huang Shu and prepared to pick a good day to kill him.
But after picking and choosing, I didn't find a good day suitable for elephant shooting, but things have changed in the country of Siam next door!
Considering that both the Ming Dynasty and Siam were enemies of Myanmar, Mangdala did not dare to let the elephant trample Dashun's envoy to death.
"No, no, no..." Mangdala shook his head and said to his brother, "Instead of killing Dashun's envoy now... we have to surrender to Dashun! If The allied forces of the Ming Dynasty, Annan, and Siam are coming, and only the Dashun Dynasty can send troops to assist us!"
