The Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar is in the golden age of history.
Its monarch, King Thalung, worked hard to govern and innovate to eliminate shortcomings, which made Myanmar's economy develop very well in this era and its strength was relatively strong.
Therefore, King Long did not show any panic about the Ming army's attack. He was even prepared for it. He knew that under the rule of Emperor Tianqi, the Ming Empire was now very different from before and began to actively expand externally. And very arrogant and domineering.
Frankly speaking, like many foreign monarchs, King Talong does not like the current Ming Dynasty.
After all, the Ming Dynasty in the past could be said to be large but not strong. Sometimes when domestic conflicts intensified, you could take the opportunity to rob the Ming Dynasty to divert the conflicts.
But now Daming is not afraid that you will cause trouble, but is afraid that you will not cause trouble.
Therefore, King Talong had to strictly order the chieftains everywhere to be more honest and not to provoke the current Ming Dynasty.
However, what King Long didn't expect was that Daming would still take the initiative to destroy him.
This made him, King Long, very aggrieved, and he had to admit that these days, as a king, whoever is weak and tolerates it is really wronged.
"Report! Ten Ming warships appeared in the Baigu (Bago) area. They are all warships with more than 100,000 materials, and they are armored warships. They have landed, bombarded our Baigu City, and looted all our food! "
But when King Long was seriously dealing with the Ming army coming from Yunnan, he suddenly learned from his subordinates that the Ming army was attacking from the water.
Since the Song Dynasty, China has used "materials" as the unit to measure the size of ships. A ship with one thousand materials is about 325 tons, and a ship with 100,000 materials is naturally a large ship with tens of thousands of tons.
The Ming Dynasty's steam engine technology was already proficient, and it already had iron-clad steam-powered battleships.
In addition, with the popularization of new education, a large number of talents in mathematics and physics have been cultivated. In addition, the Ming Dynasty has now opened the sea, which has led to a substantial development of navigation, and a large number of navigation talents have emerged.
Therefore, it is naturally normal for ten battleships to appear on the coast of Myanmar at once.
boom!
boom!
boom!
The steel dragon-like Ming Dynasty steam ironclad turned a blind eye and bombarded the Burmese wooden warships, and even directly rammed them away after approaching.
Myanmar's wooden warships could not withstand it and had no choice but to withdraw to Baigu City.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty Navy successfully landed.
At this time, King Talong was shocked after learning the news: "An iron-clad battleship with more than 100,000 materials? How is this possible? How can a ship made of iron float? Is it because the Ming army deliberately wrapped it with iron sheets or What kind of dye was applied to confuse us?”
"No! Our navy has tried it, and it is really like hitting iron. In addition, even if it is not a real armored warship, we can't beat it. Their artillery is also very powerful and can explode directly. On the sea, we They are no match for the Ming army."
His subordinates, King Long, reported back.
"Prime Minister Zong, you personally go to Baigu and withdraw all the naval forces to the shore. The troops and horses in Baigu are under your control and they must resist the defense. I must concentrate my forces to deal with the Ming army from Yunnan first. Ning If you lose Baigu, you cannot lose Ava!"
King Talong did not panic after hearing this, but calmly made arrangements.
The most important city in Myanmar, after Ava, is Baigu.
Because before the 16th year of the Apocalypse, the capital of Myanmar was still Baigu.
However, due to the continuous harassment of the coast of Myanmar by Western forces such as Portugal and later the armed merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, King Thalon had to move the capital to Ava.
"Reporter Yun, look, there is the impregnable Baigu City. I have ordered that today's dinner be eaten under the Baigu City! His Burmese soldiers can only be shy and will not dare to come out to fight with my Ming Dynasty King. Fight."
Admiral Shen Shouyue of the Ming Dynasty Navy, who was sent by the Privy Council to attack Burma this time, was standing on the flagship, holding binoculars in both hands and talking to Yun Lian, a reporter accompanying the army.
The soldiers Shen Shouyue mentioned refer to the chieftain soldiers from all over Myanmar.
In Myanmar, chieftain soldiers are often called subordinate soldiers, while the royal guards of Ava are called victorious soldiers.
The Ming Dynasty had already prepared for the conquest of Burma and naturally knew this information.
With the application of wired telegraphy, the media industry in Ming Dynasty has developed rapidly, the newspaper industry has entered a golden age, and even the profession of military reporters has emerged.
These reporters would accompany the army to record some details of the war, and transmit the reported content back to the domestic newspaper headquarters at the nearest cable newspaper base where the war took place, so that people in the country could learn the details of the war as quickly as possible.
After hearing what Shen Shouyue said, Yun Lian, the reporter accompanying the army at this time, couldn't help but praise: "Admiral, you are so brave! This war has just begun, and you can bring my soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to land for dinner."
Shen Shouyue smiled indifferently: "What's the matter? Looking at the world today, on this blue wave, who is my opponent of the Ming Dynasty? They are all ants!"
Yun Lian therefore asked: "In the opinion of the admiral, why is the country so prosperous?"
Shen Shouyue replied with a smile: "Of course it's because our Chinese civilization is the brightest! If you think about it carefully, in terms of greatness, is it comparable to our Chinese civilization? Next, you can see that after my master Wang landed in this barbarian land, , how will their backward civilization collapse!"
Yun Lian also replied proudly and proudly: "I'm looking forward to it very much!"
Next, after Shen Shouyue led the Ming Navy to land, he began to send missionary officers to various places to preach the Ming Dynasty's sinicization policy.
In order to unify the civilizations of this world, Zhu Youxiao had long ago decreed the establishment of a Sinicization University to specialize in cultivating talents who are familiar with foreign languages and cultures.
The future mission of these talents is to spread Chinese civilization and formulate cultural colonial policies through familiarity with local culture.
The teachers of Sinicization University were the country's scholar-bureaucrats, that is, intellectuals, whom the navy and royal guards of the Ming Dynasty came from various countries with all kinds of coercion and inducement.
After being bribed by the Ming Dynasty with various benefits, these scholar-officials were very willing to contribute to the great cause of the unification of the Ming Dynasty.
Even because of the Ming Dynasty's superior national power, many scholar-officials believed that doing so was also saving their own people, and consciously admitted that he was helping their own people get rid of ignorance and become kings.
Different regions implemented different colonial policies.
The Ming Dynasty used Koreans and Japanese to carry out colonial expansion in India. The Japanese were purged first, and the Koreans were responsible for building the basic Confucian civilization system. In the end, the court directly moved Han people there, making the area directly a Han settlement.
In the northwest area, the Ming Dynasty used the unnaturalized Mongolian army led by Lin Dan Khan to cleanse all forces on the way westward, thereby giving the Western Expedition troops an opportunity to appease the people and establish civilization along the way.
But now in the coastal areas of Myanmar, the Ming Dynasty Navy has no power to use, so it can only mix elements of the agrarian revolution in the process of external expansion. In the name of the savior, it mobilizes the bottom people of Myanmar to form peasant associations to rebel. Divide the land and isolate the upper-class Burmese nobility.
At this time, the missionaries brought by Shen Shouyue were doing this with the military support of the Marine Corps of the Ming Dynasty. They graduated from Hanhua University, learned the Burmese language, and mastered the customs and habits of the Burmese people, so as soon as they came to Burma, they It can immediately start the work of mobilizing ordinary people in Myanmar to divide the fields and land, and at the same time, set up Han schools like in Monan and Mobei, popularize Han culture, and establish the only economic activity based on Ming Dynasty silver coins. currency.
And for this reason, like other places affected by the new Ming Dynasty government, the first Chinese figure the locals knew was Zhu Yuanzhang.
"What are you talking about! After the Ming Dynasty navy landed, they did not attack Baigu City, nor did they plunder the surrounding people, but instead divided their fields among them?!"
Zonghe, the Prime Minister of Myanmar, learned about this phenomenon after he was ordered to come to Baigu City and was shocked.
Mang Renti, a big local Burmese landowner in Baigu City, cried because of this: "Yes! All the fields of the common people outside the city were divided. The missionary officers of the Ming Dynasty Navy also formed a Gui Ming Army from the Ming Dynasty navy. The division is training, meaning to submit to the Ming Dynasty, to become a king, and to protect the homeland. They all changed their clothes and changed their names. Now their troops have increased to more than 30,000!"
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