Liu Shizeng had indeed talked about it, and to a certain extent, there was no need to talk more at all.
Mang Yingli is now besieged on all sides. There is only one Toungoo city left in Myanmar that belongs to him. What is there to talk about? Originally, he couldn't swallow this breath and wanted to rely on the defense of Toungoo City to carry it out, hoping to be able to carry it out until the Ming army ran out of food and retreat.
However, this idea is so stupid that it is suffocating, because the Ming army now occupies almost the entire Myanmar, especially the central and southern plains of Myanmar are all under the control of the Ming army, and the food can be requisitioned by the Ming army. Although it is only May, rice is harvested three times a year in southern Myanmar. Now is the harvest season. How can there be a shortage of food?
On the contrary, there is not much food in Toungu City - in fact, it was quite a lot originally, but after Mangyingli's Northern Expedition and Southern Expedition, there is not much food left in Toungu City. Now it seems that it can only last for two months. It's about to bottom out.
This bottom is for the Burmese royal family and nobles. In fact, the bottom has almost reached the bottom among the people. Therefore, when Mang Yingli was still holding on and wanted to resist, a riot broke out in Taungoo City.
The hungry mob almost rushed into the palace, and the palace guards went on a killing spree, killing at least seven to eight hundred people before they could barely maintain the situation. At that time, the situation was fierce and the situation was critical. Beimiaohou, the royal dignitary who was the first to arrive at the gate of the palace, expressed his position in public and said that he would give food and porridge to the hungry people for three days. This was how the situation was truly stabilized.
After this incident, the distraught Mang Yingli became really afraid and seriously considered the conditions offered by Ming Dynasty.
In fact, there was nothing to consider. In his opinion, the conditions given by Ming Dynasty were basically equivalent to the destruction of the country. Not only did he become a puppet, but the Toungoo Dynasty's decades of achievements were almost wiped out in one fell swoop.
Even Mang Yingli found it very strange to save half of northern Burma. He always felt that Ming Dynasty must have some ulterior secret in doing this.
But Hou Beimu believed that this was not an ulterior secret. In fact, the Ming Dynasty deliberately left northern Burma for Burma. Because if the Ming Dynasty takes northern Myanmar, they can only return a few Xuanweisi, but if they stay in the hands of Myanmar, they can also provide them with compensation - the Ming Dynasty takes the benefits, and the bad things such as forced taxation are all taken away from Myanmar. It would be extremely shameless to do it.
However, this can also show that Ming's position is very clear: I only want money, not this land, which will in turn increase my burden.
At this time, Mang Yingli didn't care anymore. As long as he could retain the throne, he could at least survive and be still the White Elephant King of Jinlou. But if the talks with Mingren collapsed, everything would be over, and the imperial hegemony would be in vain. , can't even save his life.
How to choose? No choice.
Mang Yingli, who was worried about the long nights and long dreams, was still as "decisive" as before. He immediately sent someone to make an appointment with Liu Shizeng to sign the contract the next day, but he made a condition: let Liu Shizeng go to the city in person to sign the contract.
He originally thought that the civil servants were timid and Liu Shizeng might not dare to come. However, the fact was that Liu Shizeng decisively agreed - Myanmar was still meat on the chopping block anyway, and he did not believe that Mang Yingli dared to do anything rude to him at this time. , let alone kill him.
Because killing him would be of no benefit to Mang Yingli, it was simply a move to seek death. Huang Zhiting had more than a hundred cannons placed outside the city. It wasn’t that she couldn’t fire them, but the strategic restrictions of the imperial court prevented her from firing them. If Mang Yingli was not If you want to die, these cannons can "take a stand" at any time.
Early the next morning, Liu Shizeng symbolically handed over the command of the army to Huang Zhiting. He brought only two hundred Fu bids into the city and signed a peace treaty with Mangyingli.
As expected by Liu Shizeng, Mang Yingli did not dare to be rude to him at all. He spoke "Celestial Dynasty" and said "Shangguo". His attitude towards the Ming Dynasty was much better than before when he did not put aside the "Xiaoyu" of the Yunnan Fuchen. The appearance in the eyes is very different.
This peace treaty is very long, with a total of nineteen paragraphs and thirty-seven articles according to the format given by Gao Pragmatic. There is no need to elaborate on the specific terms. Anyway, it is a highly improved version of the conversation between Gao Pragmatic and Zhu Yijun.
Generally speaking, in addition to some control over Myanmar's politics and economy, there are strict restrictions on its military power and so on.
The other is partition: Lanna in eastern Myanmar was assigned to Siam; the Bago dynasty in southern Myanmar "restored" and established the "Grand Ku Laxuan Wei Division" again; northern Myanmar followed the line drawn by Gao Pragmatism, and the northern part of Myanmar was returned to Siam. Several Xuanwei divisions of the Ming Dynasty were retained by Myanmar in the south. The Ming Dynasty stationed troops north of that line to establish a defense line, and Myanmar was not allowed to station more than 5,000 troops in northern Myanmar.
Xia Muming (Arabang) was the king of the Bago Kingdom, but he called himself Dagula Xuanweisi to the Ming Dynasty. The Bago Kingdom itself only retains a garrison of 20,000 people, which is the remaining rebel army selected by Gao Silian - now called Gao Lian. This army was split into seven or eight groups and served as a "security army" Stationed in major cities.
The Bago Garrison was commanded by Gao Lian and was stationed in Bago, Daguang and other places in the name of the Bago Kingdom inviting Jinghua Group to provide military protection.
Gao Pragmatic approved of his current strength of 30,000 troops, and also agreed to temporarily transfer the garrison part of the expeditionary force to him before Huang Zhiting's withdrawal to intimidate the local area.
Huang Zhiting temporarily stayed in southern Myanmar until he received further orders from the court, responsible for reorganizing the surrendered troops.
This time she surrendered a lot of troops. The Burmese army and the Siamese army of Naresuan's tribe were captured together, with 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers. However, there were more than 60,000 soldiers who were willing to continue to serve as soldiers and eat food - mainly because of the wars they had fought in these years. Too much, the people's livelihood and the economy are very poor, and the soldiers can barely have enough to eat.
However, this batch of surrendered troops was not of high pragmatic importance, and Huang Zhiting could not afford so many surrendered troops. In the end, she recruited 20,000 troops, and she also asked Liu Xin to choose. Who knew that Liu Xin's requirements were higher than hers, and she only asked for more than 3,000 people in total.
In fact, it's not that Liu Xin doesn't want it, but the Liu family's financial resources are limited and cannot compare with owners like Huang Zhiting who have their own territory, so they can only choose the best. Of course, she was unwilling to lose her momentum, and claimed to the outside world that she did this just because she refused to lower the overall level of Jia Wa Yi Ding.
But in this way, nearly 40,000 people are left unaccounted for. If they are released to the civilian population, they are afraid that these guys who are used to being soldiers will cause trouble everywhere, which is really a big trouble.
Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic's letter came quickly. Seeing that he was going to build another city, Huang Zhiting simply packed up the nearly 40,000 people as labor envoys and sent them to assist Gao Mengnan in building Dingna City. Gao Mengnan and the people from Jinghua Infrastructure who had just received the transfer were delighted. I can't even close my mouth.
Gao Mengnan even considered asking Gao Pragmatic to ask for a group of servants or veterans of the Ming Dynasty from the two Annan garrison armies to join this army, and then remove Wucunjing and form it directly into the Dingnan garrison - of course this would have to wait. It will only happen after the construction of Dingnancheng has a rough shape.
Through this incident, Huang Zhiting and Liu Xin both lamented that being wealthy was different. As long as they won the war, they could almost always use more troops to fight. This kind of thing would be difficult for Liu Xin to handle, because reorganizing and expanding the army is very expensive. Her Liu family doesn't have enough money, and even Huang Zhiting would definitely not be able to do it.
It took some time for the news of southern Xinjiang to reach the capital. When the news arrived, everyone in the court was eagerly waiting for the emperor to announce the profits - there was no other way. This time, Gao pragmatism deceived a large group of people into buying Yunnan War treasure banknotes. Not only Honoring relatives and nobles, many officials also bought it.
Zhu Yijun did not disappoint them. He held an impromptu court meeting and announced a lot of good things in public. Here are a few of the most important ones:
Myanmar needs to pay 1.6 million taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty. It is tentatively divided into 20 years to pay 80,000 taels per year. The interest will be 5% per 100 (i.e. 5%). Jinghua Bank will undertake the collection, transportation, warehousing, Distribution, etc., the handling fee is this interest;
Myanmar opened its borders and allowed Ming merchants to trade freely in Myanmar. All Han merchants are exempt from all taxes, while merchants of other ethnic groups in Yunnan are taxed three times out of every hundred. The Jinghua Group is responsible for supervising the fairness of taxation and accepting reports from merchants of all ethnic groups;
Myanmar's jade and gemstone industry is fully managed by the "Pearl and Jade Federation" under the name of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance - this federation is composed of nobles from the Jingnan Clan of the capital represented by Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, and is highly pragmatic and does not interfere.
Myanmar's bamboo and wood industry is exclusively undertaken by Jinghua Group. Of course, it is mainly exported, and it is left-handed and right-handed. Basically, Jinghua owns the money.
The main wood it targets is of course teak, the national treasure of Myanmar in later generations. In addition, there are various precious hardwoods such as sandalwood, shrub, wenge, ironwood, rosewood, rosewood, etc. In addition, Myanmar is also rich in bamboo. Class and vine resources.
However, Myanmar itself has hardly developed these resources, and Gao Pragmatic has not yet had the energy to develop them - after all, he has supplies from Guangxi and supplements from the mountainous areas of northern Annan, so he is not worried about bamboo and rattan for the time being.
In Burma’s Bolton Mining Area (a large mining area with a comprehensive range of minerals), gold and silver mines are mortgaged to Neiku for mining, and other minerals such as copper ore and lead mines are mortgaged to Jinghua Group for mining for a period of twenty years.
Burmese tin mines are mined by the Jinghua Group. The Jinghua Group is required to donate no less than 12,000 taels of silver to various ministries and academies in the capital every year for twenty years.
Myanmar……
All in all, the net income of 1.6 million taels can make all those who bought Yunnan War Treasure Banknotes more than twice as much.
In addition, the Jingnan Xungui Group obtained the monopoly rights for gemstones; Jinghua obtained the monopoly rights for bamboo and wood; the emperor obtained the twenty-year mining rights of a large gold and silver mine; Jinghua obtained the copper mine in the same mining area and lead mine mining rights for twenty years; the civil servants also received a highly pragmatic promise of "tin mines in exchange for office funds" for twenty years, totaling 240,000 taels of silver over twenty years.
Not only did they make a lot of money, but they also got additional benefits, which made everyone happy.
Gao Jingshi, who was temporarily called to the court, immediately gained a lot of favor. Not to mention those from his own school, a large number of officials from the neutral school all smiled when they saw him, and even some officials from the heart school found him more pleasing to the eye.
However, everyone is still not satisfied with one thing, that is, the compensation period is too long, and it takes twenty years to get all the benefits, which is a bit... what if you have already retired by then?
However, Gao Pragmatic is a good person who will fight to the end. He took the initiative to say at the court meeting that if any of his colleagues felt that twenty years was too long and did not want to wait, they could also take the Yunnan War treasure banknotes and go to Jinghua Bank to do "death pawns" - that is, The collateral is directly exchanged for money without the intention of getting it back.
Of course, the rules of dead pawns are similar to those of various pawnshops in the Ming Dynasty. They definitely cannot be charged according to the original value. However, Jinghua is extra kind and charges "die pawns" at 90% of the original value. For example, the Yunnan War treasure banknotes originally worth 100,000 taels for Myanmar's compensation were "deadly pawned" by Jinghua as 90,000 taels.
Everyone thinks that this approach is extremely reasonable, and can even be said to be extremely conscientious. It is much better than the dead-end scams on the market. Therefore, many people can't help but discuss with their colleagues before the court is over, whether they should just go to Jinghua Bank directly to do it. Forget about "death", after all, twenty years is too long.
Zhu Yijun was very happy to see that there was a rare quarrel among the officials, because he had just announced that the inner bank had taken away the gold and silver mine in the Bolton mining area, but he did not say how big the gold and silver mine was.
In fact, this gold and silver mining area is not small. It can obtain more than 1,000 taels of gold and more than 8,000 taels of silver every year. The current gold and silver price ratio is about one to ten, which is equivalent to 18,000 taels of silver - you must know Myanmar If the compensation is implemented every year, it will only amount to 80,000 taels of silver.
As for the "Pearl and Jade Federation" temporarily formed by the Jingnan nobles under the name of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, they couldn't help but be happy. As the saying goes, "Gold is priceless, jade is priceless." Although it is difficult to mine jewelry and jade, as long as a few high-quality pieces are found, no one can tell how much they will sell for. Where is "bi"?
Besides, some of these nobles from generation to generation are involved in jewelry shops and have good craftsmen at their disposal. After receiving these jade stones, they can gain value through exquisite processing, which is a good business with huge profits.
To be honest, everyone has a hard time understanding Gao Jingshi's particular preference for "buying wood". Although everyone knows that Gao Jingshi always likes to build his own ships when engaged in maritime trade. Now Jinghua's shipyard may have controlled at least 70% of the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry. market, but it is still a bit difficult for them to understand such an "unlimited" purchase of wood.
But it doesn’t matter if you understand or not, most people don’t want to grab this business anyway – shipbuilding is a high-cost industry, and if you don’t spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in it, it won’t even count as a splash in the face of high pragmatism.
The simplest point is that currently only the highly pragmatic Jinghua Shipyard can handle seagoing ships with more than 2,000 pieces of materials. Other shipyards, including Songjiang Xujia, rarely take on this kind of work. Even if Xujia does it occasionally, it usually starts work at once. It's just one or two pieces, how can you "make dumplings" like Jinghua.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry, except for Jinghua, is basically based on small boats. Sea-going ships that can go to Southeast Asia and the East usually cost 800 to over 1,000 yuan, and they are not like Jinghua's ships. There are clear "gradations".
Of course, this doesn't matter, because capital is limited, and few people are jealous of this deal. What everyone is really coveted is the maritime trade business, and things like ships... just buy it.
Zhu Yijun waited for a while, and when he saw that the ministers had finally calmed down from their excitement, he briefly motioned to Chen Ju, who was standing not far away.
Chen Ju took a step forward and said loudly: "Officials, be silent, the Lord has an order!"
As expected, all the officials fell silent immediately, knowing in their hearts that the reward should be coming.
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PS: This chapter is to make up for the chapter I owed three days ago, and there will be another chapter tonight.
