December 30, the first year of Daxing in Dongping, Dashun.
Today is New Year's Eve. It should have been a day when all government offices have sealed their official seals and officials have gone home to celebrate the New Year, but now it is an extraordinary period. Kunming City, the most prosperous capital of the Great Shun Dynasty, is still operating efficiently without any festive atmosphere.
Just the afternoon of the previous day, Li Laiheng, who had issued the edict of succession, entered the city of Kunming that no longer belonged to him, escorted by Tian Jianxiu, Niu Jinxing, Li Zijing, Gu Junen and others, as well as thousands of dejected imperial soldiers.
The day after Li Laiheng, who had become the Supreme Emperor, returned to Kunming City, Li Jicheng, the new emperor who came to power, called an unprecedented large-scale court meeting on Wuhua Mountain. There were many court officials present, and even the generals of the Dashun Army stationed in Kunming Prefecture and nearby places were notified and came to attend the court meeting overnight.
Such a large-scale court meeting was unprecedented since Li Guo ascended the throne in Chongqing!
Including Sun Kewang, Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang and other five political kings, all the officials in the hall stood according to their rank and bowed their backs. No one dared to stand in front of the new emperor of Dashun and the first filial son. Not the slightest bit presumptuous.
All this shows that the system in which Dashun kings discussed politics no longer exists!
In fact, long before Li Laiheng ascended the throne and became the emperor, the Eight Kings' political system was on the verge of collapse due to the rise of Li Jicheng - the Long March soldiers created by Li Jicheng and his conquest of Arakan and plunder of Tianzhu were all greatly strengthened. The strength of Li Shun's royal family. In the battle between Sichuan and southern Shaanxi, which had been completely defeated, the strength of the Long March soldiers was not damaged. On the contrary, it became stronger because of the second Tianzhu robbery!
With the support of the Dutch, Li Jicheng's Tianzhu Expeditionary Force has obtained a long-term stronghold in Madras on the southeast coast of Tianzhu - a city that belongs to the British East India Company and was originally named Fort St. George. Now renamed Shunfeng Fort, it is jointly governed by the Long March troops sent by Li Jicheng and the Dutch India Trading Company.
With this trade center city on the southeastern coast of India, Li Jicheng can just lie down and collect money!
In addition, Myanmar's Salim Port has become more and more prosperous due to the joining of the Dutch and the big business of plundering India, and it has become a bit like "Little Shanghai".
Coupled with the commercial taxes in Chittagong and Mrauk-U, Li Jicheng's pocket becomes more and more bulging!
With money, Li Jicheng could not only purchase foreign guns and cannons from the Dutch and hire foreign futures to strengthen his Long March troops, but he could also recruit more second- and third-generation Fu soldiers to join the Long March troops.
Even though Dashun has as many as 600,000 soldiers, there are still a lot of second- and third-generation soldiers who have no soldiers to serve as regular soldiers. You need 40 shi of land to be a regular soldier. Dashun’s field is not enough. ! But being a soldier of the Long March for Li Jicheng does not require land, just getting military pay is enough.
Therefore, while a large number of lands in southern Shaanxi and Sichuan were lost, and the number of regular soldiers in Dashun was greatly reduced, Li Jicheng's Long March soldiers were rapidly expanding.
Many of the soldiers who fled to Yunnan had no property or income, so they could only serve as soldiers for Li Jicheng!
Therefore, in just a few months, the number of Long March soldiers loyal to Li Jicheng has swelled from less than 20,000 to 60,000.
With 60,000 Long March troops, Li Jicheng could not only seize the throne of his father Li Laiheng, but also overwhelm the five political kings including Sun Kewang, Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, and Liu Fangliang, and become the powerful Prince Dashun.
To put it another way, the Dashunfu military system that lasted for more than 20 years has ceased to exist in name only with the fall of Sichuan and southern Shaanxi.
The powerful Li Jicheng appeared in the Jinluan Palace supporting Li Laiheng, who had been promoted to the Supreme Emperor. The courtiers all looked up secretly and saw that Li Laiheng, who was still radiant a few months ago, had aged a lot and lost a lot of weight. , his face was almost as pale as paper, his waist was hunched over, and he stood there looking at everyone blankly.
"Father, please sit down." The voice of Dashun's first filial son rang out.
Only then did Li Laiheng come to his senses and slowly sat down - it was not the dragon chair he was used to sitting on, but a grand master's chair placed next to him. It was covered with thick cushions and looked very comfortable. But Li Laiheng didn't want to sit...but sitting was better than lying down!
So he sighed and sat down obediently.
The first filial son of Dashun sat down with a straight face and said slowly: "Dear ministers and ministers, the country is now weakened and precarious. The land of Sichuan Tianfu is no longer owned by our government. Millions of soldiers and civilians are in exile, and they are swarming into Yunnan. My father, the emperor, was injured by a bandit's arrow in front of the Chongqing army and was unable to govern, so he passed the throne to me. Dashun has been in power for more than 20 years, and our country has spread over thousands of miles. From today on, I and you all will Shared responsibilities! Although the mountains and rivers of Sichuan in the north are broken, Myanmar in the south has great potential. I am willing to work together with you ministers and hundreds of thousands of soldiers in our government to expand the land in the south, re-establish the Great Shun Dynasty, and then share Wealth and honor for generations to come!”
Li Jicheng's words sounded high-sounding, but what he actually meant was that we all should run away together! Sichuan is gone, and Yunnan seems to be unable to hold on. Fortunately, Dashun still has Myanmar... Myanmar is a good place. It is more than two thousand miles from north to south and more than a thousand miles from east to west. There are large plains in the central and southern parts. If fully developed, it will definitely surpass Sichuan, a land of abundance.
Moreover, Myanmar is also close to the extremely rich country of Tianzhu!
Li Jicheng continued: "We in Dashun have always had the northern and southern capitals standing side by side. Now the northern capital Chongqing has fallen, leaving only the southern capital Kunming, which is slightly isolated. Therefore, I plan to change Kunming to the northern capital, and the land of Burma Shalian to the southern capital, and Change Sha Lian’s name to Haidufu!”
Shalian is now Li Jicheng's old camp, and it is also the sea-connected capital of Dashun. The purpose of turning Sha Lian into the Nanjing Haidu Prefecture of Dashun is to show his determination to achieve success in the Thirty-Six Stratagems... Of course, this is also done to Zhu Cixiang - I have already slipped away to Burma. , you should stop chasing after me.
Myanmar is a land of miasma. If the Northern Army invades in large numbers, less than half of them will die of the disease!
As Li Jicheng spoke, his tone suddenly became extremely heavy, "Although Tiannan is good, the remaining mountains and water in Bashu cannot be given up easily. Because Bashu protects Yunnan, and Yunnan leads to Tiannan. If the mountains in southern and western Sichuan are not Bao, how can millions of nationalities who are currently in exile in Yunnan enter Myanmar calmly? Myanmar is a land of miasma. If you enter in a leisurely manner, many people will inevitably die of illness, let alone if you enter in a hurry?
In order to defend southern Sichuan and western Sichuan, I decided to recruit 20,000 soldiers who dared to die in exile in Yunnan to form an army to support Sichuan and defend Dongchuan and Xichuan... Anyone who applies for the conscription, their family members can be given priority. Myanmar, and granted 100 acres of paddy fields within 200 miles around the capital of Myanmar. In addition, those who are recruited for the conscription do not need to bring their own armor and food. They can also receive five dou of rice and two taels of silver every month!
In addition, I have to reorganize the armies in Kunming and recruit 100,000 new Long March soldiers. They can go north to southern and western Sichuan at any time to fight to the death with the invading enemies! "
The establishment of Haidu was to show the determination to escape, while the training of new troops and the recruitment of brave men were to show the determination to defend Yunnan.
Because without Yunnan serving as a transit point for soldiers heading south, there would be no resurgence of Dashun in Myanmar!
And entering Myanmar on a large scale is a process, and it won’t take more than three to five years! In this process, Yunnan must not make any mistakes. Otherwise, Li Jicheng will become a lost dog, and even if he can maintain his rule in Myanmar, it will not last long.
So Li Jicheng now had to arrange his escape while also deploying defenses to withstand the Ming Dynasty's successive attacks on Yunnan!
This is also the reason why he is eager to usurp the throne - the sooner he seizes the throne, the sooner Dashun can start the national policy of moving south to defend the north. At the same time, the government military system can be changed to a recruitment system as soon as possible... For Li Jicheng, the fourth generation king of Dashun, time is really precious!
