Li Rusong looked at this scene with an excited expression and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"No wonder my father wants me to learn the art of war from Mr. Ji Guo and tactics from Mr. Qingteng. Sitting in the rear, arranging troops, and looking for opportunities to make big moves is more exciting than charging into the battle and killing the owl's head!"
"This Burmese-Yi Dagon city looks quite wealthy. There are so many granaries and even the Great Golden Pagoda." At this time, Li Rusong immediately stood under the Great Golden Pagoda of Dagon and asked Yang, the military supervisor and the censor of Ji Gong. Hao talked about his inner feelings at this time.
"As the official said, I thought Myanmar was really a barbaric land, but when I went to southern Myanmar, I didn't know that they had so many gold, jade and jewelry. It was already a lot just to hand over to the official as usual."
"What's more important is that in the south of Burma and Yi, there are a lot of fertile fields!"
"However, in my humble opinion, since we can't stay here for long, we can only destroy the seedlings first, throw the corpses into the well, sprinkle the fields with lime, and burn all the grain that cannot be taken away. Destroy all the documents and books, hang up the gold powder of the golden statue in the pagoda, and bring only the gold back to China!" At this time, Yang Hao enthusiastically agreed and put forward his own suggestions.
After hearing this, Li Rusong glanced at Yang Hao. He felt that he had been ruthless enough, but he did not expect that these civil servants were more ruthless than him. Then he hurriedly gave instructions to his younger brothers Li Rubai and Zha Dashou who were accompanying the army: "Follow Yang Yushi's instructions." I’ll do it!”
"Yes!" After Li Rusong gave the order, he asked Yang Hao: "It stands to reason that Yang Yushi was born as a Jinshi. He did not go to sea to perform meritorious service with the army, but he could also be an official in the court. Why did he come here like us warriors and risk death in a foreign country? Is it possible to make great achievements here?"
"Why, you generals can go to sea and perform meritorious service, but we civil servants can't?" Yang Hao asked with a smile. Li Rusong smiled and said: "Yang Yushi knew that I didn't mean that, but I didn't expect Yang Yushi to be so courageous and willing to take this risk. It stands to reason that if you civil servants can observe etiquette and morality, you will have a prosperous official career! If you dare to use your name, Maybe even faster! Even if His Majesty attaches great importance to meritorious service now, and the prince is not a filial and honest man who has been neglected for many years, there is no need to come to Burma to perform meritorious service. After all, going to sea to conquer will lead to a narrow escape!"
"You are right, it stands to reason, but I was born in the same Jinshi class, and my ranking was not high. If I had not come to Myanmar, I would have only started as a county magistrate. However, because of the imperial edict to encourage scholars to go to sea and serve the country, quasi-new science Jinshi applied to go to the sea, and when going to sea to be appointed officials, they started with imperial officials such as censors or chief officials. Undoubtedly, if I came to Myanmar, I could naturally start directly as a censor or chief officer."
"What's more, I, Yang Hao, am different from them. Logically speaking, if I want to have a prominent official career if I am a Jinshi, I can only be virtuous, observant of etiquette, and have a good name. But I am more willing to make meritorious services!"
"Because they are loyal to etiquette, and I am loyal to the country. In my opinion, it is useless to worship etiquette in the country. Even if I really succeed in establishing my moral character, I will eventually turn the Zhang family's fields into the Li family's fields." It turns the Wang family’s property into the Liu family’s property; it cannot increase the world’s wealth at all;”
"So, I would rather die here than make a name for myself in the country. Even if I die without a name in the future, or even end up defeated and dead, it is better than talking about morality." Yang Hao smiled and expressed to Li Rusong own opinion.
After hearing this, Li Rusong said: "It seems that Yang Fengxian is pragmatic, which is really rare among scholar-bureaucrats." Yang Hao said: "The emperor's sage is magnanimous, and he has inherited the teachings of the grand master without any intention of neglecting his achievements, and even Respect his words of valuing practical knowledge, so more and more people will respect reality!”
"Yang Fengxian is right! Otherwise, there would be no joy in the bloody slaughter of the barbarians today!" Li Rusong said after saying: "I want to set up a capital to watch here, and carve words on the stone to remember this. I wonder if Yang Fengxian is willing to write an article. ?”
"How can you not be willing to do this in order to reward your ambition and make you famous?"
"It's more interesting than gaining some false fame in China!" Yang Hao said with a smile.
"Okay! I will tell them to do this right away." Li Rusong said with a smile. Next, Li Rusong actually built the Jingguan in Dagon City and carved inscriptions on the stone. What he inscribed was an article commemorating his merits in capturing Dagong on behalf of the Emperor of Heaven and eradicating the barbarian stench. The article was written by Yang Hao write.
Li Rusong was very satisfied with this, and felt that he had finally done something as great as Huo Qubing and Dou Xian.
Yang Hao was the same, and after finishing the work, he looked at his article and said to Li Rusong with a smile: "This is more enjoyable than reading my article after passing the exam!"
"This should be a pleasure that no prince in the court can experience." Li Rusong also replied with a smile. Then, Li Rusong looked to the north and said to Yang Hao: "I have ordered Ma Shilong to lead a battalion of pro-military guards and Yang Huan's Liao Town soldiers and horses, and Zha Damhou's green battalion to go north along the riverside plain and approach Awa, when you see grain, burn it, when you see seedlings, you trample them, when you see government offices, you slaughter them, when you see literature, you destroy them, when you see embankments, you blow up them." Yang Hao nodded and said with a smile: "In this way, next year the Burmese barbarians will not even think about invading our Ming Dynasty. , it is difficult to reestablish rule. Undoubtedly, it will be easier to destroy Burma."
"Exactly!" Ma Shilong, Yang Huan and Zha Damou were indeed leading their troops to continue their sweep northward under Li Rusong's order.
Because the world market center in this era was the Ming Dynasty, the capital of Myanmar was located in Ava in the north, near Mandalay in later generations, in order to facilitate the control of trade routes to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the Burmese and Yi people are basically concentrated in the riverside plain near Ava. The Ming army made rapid progress, especially Zha Damou's Green Camp, which was the most active.
Although their wages are the lowest, the Jurchen Yiding in this era are cheap labor. For them, the wages given by the Ming Dynasty court are already too much than their original chieftains, not to mention that they are not a farming people. It is indeed more favorable to plunder the property of farming people.
Therefore, Zha Damou's Green Camp was the first to arrive near Ava and killed the most Burmese and Yi people, especially Burmese and Yi nobles and officials.
Because ordinary people are mostly in the countryside, relatively scattered, and are good at hiding with the help of their familiarity with the terrain, but the nobles are mostly in towns, and they are not diligent and do not know the mountains and rivers, so they are more likely to be captured and slaughtered by the Ming army. .
It can be said that the Ming army's sudden invasion of Myanmar's rear was a precise strategic strike of this era, specifically designed to eliminate the foundation of rule within Myanmar.
"Behead!" More than a hundred noble officials, including Mang Yingli's uncle Mang Ruilu in Donggu, were escorted to the river by Zha Dashou on this day. They waited after Zha Dashou gave the order. Behead everywhere.
Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! All these Mang nobles and officials were beheaded, and their bloody heads rolled into the river like dumplings in soup.
At the same time, the food they had hoarded and their collection of Chinese-language books were also set on fire, making half of the sky red.
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"What did you say?!"
"There are Ming troops appearing in the south?" Mang Yingli also learned the news shortly after that that Li Rusong and other Ming troops suddenly took his retreat, and he stood up in shock.
"Yes, I dare not hide it from the king. Dagon has been captured, and the third prince and the fifth prince were all beheaded!"
"The iron cavalry of these Ming people are very fast. One person rides with many people, like the wind. Now they have arrived in Taungoo!"
"Moreover, their artillery and firearms are also very powerful. We tried to concentrate our troops and horses to regain the lost city, but we were defeated by their firearms." Mangyingli's general Pa He replied.
After hearing this, Mang Yingli murmured: "How could this happen? Why did the Ming army arrive behind us?!"
