February of the fifth year of natural selection (the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong)
Burma, Siam, Annan and other countries successively received personal letters from the secret envoys sent by Qianlong.
In the letter, Qianlong not only invited them to jointly send troops to attack Da Yi, but also made a promise that as long as they could send troops to deal with Da Yi's troops in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi when the Qing Dynasty went to war with Da Yi, then they could fight. No matter how much land is allocated to them, they will never ask for it again after the Qing Dynasty.
In order to defeat Da Yi, Qianlong had completely put down his face, and he was absolutely sincere in the money he promised to these vassal states.
This kind of temptation is not big for several countries such as Myanmar and Siam. You must know that the land in those three provinces is so big that they can only dream of it.
Needless to say, Yong Ji Ya of Myanmar was a founding monarch and was naturally arrogant. Although his pride was beaten to the point of losing his temper by Yi Chao, it does not mean that he has no ambition.
Facing Qianlong's sincere invitation, Yong Jiya nodded with satisfaction. In his opinion, this is a win-win situation.
However, in the spirit of harvesting wool, Yong Jiya did not rush to agree to Qianlong's emissary, but put forward his own conditions for sending troops.
First: The Manchu Qing Dynasty needed to pay Burma the food and wages needed to send troops, totaling 30,000 taels, and then needed to marry a royal princess to him.
According to him, only when he became the consort of the Qing Dynasty could he have the reputation of being a master.
Second: The Qing Dynasty needs to fight against Da Yi for three months before Burma can see clearly that the Qing Dynasty has the ability to defeat Da Yi. Otherwise, if Myanmar rashly sends troops, it will definitely have to bear the wrath of Dayi in the future.
Regarding these two conditions, Qianlong thought it was not difficult and agreed to them one by one.
Strictly speaking, the second condition is not a condition. The first condition is 30,000 taels of silver for the Manchus. It can be squeezed out by just squeezing it out. If it really doesn't work, it can be made up by killing one or two wealthy businessmen for any reason. enough.
As for asking the princess to marry, Qianlong's current biological daughter is only the seventh daughter of the emperor who is only fifteen years old. This is the one Qianlong plans to point out to Fu Heng's son. Naturally, it is impossible to point it out to the 46-year-old Yong Ji. tooth.
Qianlong had made a plan. When the time came, he would just select a suitable princess from among his clan members to be promoted as a princess and send it to Yong Jiya. However, Qianlong was not without conditions. He needed Yong Jiya to send troops for one year before he could let the princess go to Burma to marry the two.
Of course, Yong Jiya didn't care about these either.
Even if Qianlong didn't give him anything, he would still send troops, but instead of sending troops to Yunnan, he was more obsessed with the land of southern Myanmar that was cut off by Dayi.
The new emperor of Siam, Wen Lin, was once a prisoner of the Yi army, and later sat on the throne of Siam with the support of the Yi army.
If you ask him if he wants to take back the land that once belonged to Siam, he naturally wants to, but the power of the Yi army makes him have lingering fears.
You must know that when the Yi army attacked them, Siam only mobilized less than 20,000 troops. This more than 20,000 troops were enough to press the Siamese soldiers to the ground and rub them several times, even if Da Yi was really defeated by the Manchus , has become a tiger whose teeth have been pulled out. This is not something Siam can afford to offend. Making trouble for Yi Chao is almost like asking for death.
Instead of fighting against Da Yi, Siam was more interested in Annam, Champa, Cambodia, Vientiane, Nanzhang and other countries. As long as Qianlong could really defeat Dayi, he wouldn't mind adding insult to injury to take back these lands one by one.
Therefore, Wenlin promised Qianlong's secret envoy that if the Qing Dynasty could really defeat the Yi army on the front line, then Siam would not be unable to send troops to support the Qing Dynasty in the battle.
But the condition is that the Qing Dynasty must be able to defeat the Yi army and form an advantage.
Although Siam's attitude was only ambiguous, no matter what, it was finally moving, and Qianlong was very satisfied. After all, if the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty did not show some strength, it would indeed be difficult for the vassal states to dare to stand on their side.
Annan, if Annan of the Shanxi Dynasty was controlled by Ruan Hui, he might have agreed to Qianlong's offer without even thinking about it. After all, Ruan Hui had long coveted the land of Guangxi and Guangdong. But it is a pity that Ruan Hui was "expelled" by the Yi army and went to Luzon to "open up the territory and expand the territory".
The current emperor of Annan is Li Weicui, an emperor who was restored to power with the help of the Yi army.
The prince is Zhang Rui's little fanboy, and Annan's court is full of officials who are close to Yi. Even those who are not close to Yi do not dare to openly oppose Da Yi, because such people are dead.
Therefore, even if the emperor of Annan had the aversion, he would not have the courage to attack Dayi. Otherwise, he might have died inexplicably before he even finished his order.
Therefore, as soon as Li Weitu received Qianlong's emissary, he tied him up and escorted him to Guangzhou.
After receiving the news from Annan, Zhang Rui did not dare to neglect and ordered all major military regions to strengthen preparations for war, and stepped up the production and deployment of military supplies to be ready for war at any time.
In early March of the fifth year of Tianze (the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign).
At this time, the Japanese battlefield has reached a fever pitch, the population vacuum zone is constantly expanding, and the number of deaths is also rising rapidly. After every major battle, there are more than tens of thousands of casualties.
The emperor's family across Japan was bloodbathed, so that they could only flee and change their lives.
Originally, the armies of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms were evenly matched, but slowly, with the support of Da Yi's resources, the Northern Kingdom gradually gained an advantage. As the war dragged on, the Nanjing Army began to suffer from shortages of military rations.
Even the military is like this, and the civilians are even living less like humans. However, the entire southern country has no way to import food, so military rations can only be further collected from local people. Originally, the local squires were able to leave some rations behind, but now they have all been looted.
Even Maori Shige and others who were completely possessed by demons did not hesitate to kill civilians and use their flesh and blood as military rations. The emperor has no other option but to call on the civilians to endure.
Due to factors such as hunger, cold, and danger, the status of the Japanese Emperor in the hearts of the southern people has greatly declined, and local organizations have even begun to confront the southern Japanese troops.
Looking at this kind of intelligence, Qianlong didn't know how long Nanguo could hold off the Yi army under external and internal troubles. But he understood that once Da Yi successfully unified Japan, their strength would definitely increase to a higher level in the future, and the danger to the Qing Dynasty would increase.
At this time, the border war had basically calmed down, so Qianlong quietly ordered the border troops back.
Da Yi must not be allowed to continue developing like this, otherwise the Qing Dynasty will surely fall.
