"Yuan'er said that there was a place called 'Mengdun Shunhan' who sent an envoy to ask for an audience with him." Liu Xin awkwardly recited this strange term, with a strange look on her face, and said, "That 'Mengdun Shunhan' The chief said that they were originally the 'fences of the Heavenly Kingdom', but were later separated for some reason. Now that they know that the great power of tomorrow has been restored, they hope that the whole family and the land will join them."
Gao Pragmatic didn't think of "Meng Dun Shun Han" for a moment, but according to his understanding of the southwest border area of the Ming Dynasty, since it is related to the word "Meng", it is generally a tribe composed of local minority people, and the system is similar to the chieftain in Yunnan. .
The word "Meng" itself comes from the language of the Dai people. This is an administrative unit that is slightly more advanced than the tribe, but seems to be insufficient compared to the country. A "Meng" may be as big as one or two prefectures, while a small one may be as big as a county. As for the population, there is no certainty. It could range from hundreds of thousands or even close to a million to a few thousand or tens of thousands.
This "Meng" was often translated as "Meng" in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, during the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, the places where Liu Wei's army passed by, such as Meng Yang, Meng Gen, and Meng Ding, were actually also "Meng", but they were originally "Meng". I gave my land to the Ming Dynasty a long time ago.
Now that there is another "Mengdun Shunhan" coming to vote, Gao Pragmatic didn't take it seriously and nodded: "Since they are here to vote, let them vote. But who are they voting for? What if they vote for the Ming Dynasty? , I will turn around and ask the Yunnan Governor to contact him."
Liu Xin became happy when she heard this, and suddenly burst into laughter, making Gao Pragmatic laugh incomprehensibly, and wondered: "Why are you laughing? Could it be that this place is not bordering Yunnan? If so, let them go south." The territory is under the name of the Kingdom of Bago. If it is not bordering Bago, we might as well have surrendered to Myanmar. In this way, we can indirectly vote to the Ming Dynasty in name."
Who would have thought that when he said this, Liu Xin couldn't stop laughing, her teeth itched at the sight of Gao Pragmatism, and she said, "I want to see how long you'll keep laughing?"
Liu Xin waved her hands repeatedly and managed to control her laughter. She finally coughed and said, "I'm laughing. Finally there is a historical place that even Teacher Gao can't understand!"
Gao Pragmatic was confused and hesitated: "What do you mean? Where is this place?"
Liu Xin chuckled, but she ran over and took a map of Kantu, pointed to an area in the northwest of Myanmar that looked like a "7" shape, and said: "Well, look, this is 'Mengdun Shunhan'" .”
"The Kingdom of Assam? Why is this place called 'Mengdun Shunhan'?" Gao Pingshi was shocked. Suddenly he remembered what Liu Xin said just now and asked hurriedly: "Then the envoy said that they were originally the barriers of the Ming Dynasty? When did the Ming Dynasty happen? I even used them as a barrier, how come I didn’t know about this?”
It’s no wonder that Gao Pragmatic was shocked. You must know that he was the actual author of the Wanli version of the "Da Ming Huidian". He had read countless materials in the Hanlin Academy. He had never seen such a record in the Ming Dynasty. It was said that it had been collected The Kingdom of Assam was a tributary state.
But Liu Xin seemed to be unable to hold back her smile, hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe did not laugh for too long. She then raised her hands in the air under Gao Pragmatic Sheep's angry gaze and made a surrender gesture and said: " Okay, okay, I’m not laughing. In fact, I can’t blame you for this, because the Ming Dynasty did not accept them as vassal states, and they were not even part of the Three Proclaims and Six Weis... But, But they can’t be wrong about what they said—why don’t you guess what it is?”
This is nonsense, it doesn’t make sense anymore! Gao Pragmatic shook his head: "I'm too lazy to guess."
Liu Xin pursed her lips and snorted: "It's boring." But after a pause, she still said: "Forget it, I'll just tell you the story attached by Yuan'er. Anyway, it was your son who gave it to you. I'm just a secretary, how dare I make my boss unhappy."
Gao pragmatic rolled his eyes and said helplessly: "Are you doing this again?"
Liu Xin ignored him, looking a little bored, and said: "Yuan'er did a good job on this matter. At least he did some serious research in such a short period of time. No matter whether these statements are correct or not, it seems Always looks the same.
Hundreds of years ago...I guess it was during the Song Dynasty. The Dai people living in the Yinlowaddy and Nu River basins had limited resources due to population growth, and began to immigrate to surrounding areas in search of livable land. At this time, the Burmese people in the south had risen, and the Dali power was also in the east, so they could only look for new territories in the west.
In the year when Kublai Khan was born, Sukafa, the leader of the Dai people in Mengya and Mengka (later Changning, Baoshan, Yunnan), brought the "Suotuo" symbolizing the royal power of the Dai people, about 9,000 men and women, and two elephants. , more than 300 horses, passing through Mengmao (later Ruili, Yunnan), Hugong (later northern Myanmar) and other places, spent thirteen years crossing the Pakai Mountains from the Hugong Valley and entering the Brahmaputra Valley area.
In the first year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty and the fifth year of Jin Zhengda, Sukafa established a city-state in Dipan in the Brahmaputra Valley area, reclaimed rice fields, built water conservancy projects, and cooperated with the indigenous Morans and Morans in the Brahmaputra Valley. The Naga people and the Bola people made good friends and encouraged the Dai people to intermarry with local ethnic groups to expand their population and gradually grew stronger.
Twenty-three years later, Sukafa moved his fortress to Chalai fortress on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River and established "Mengdun Shunhan" - this name was also translated as "Ahom Kingdom" or "Asa" in our time. Kingdom of Mu'. "
Gao Pangshi suddenly realized: "So that's what happened. Then they said they were the Ming Dynasty. What's the situation?"
Liu Xin asked: "You are not familiar with 'Meng Dun Shun Han', so you should know 'Meng Mao Nong', right?"
"Of course I know this, it's Luchuan." Gao Pingshi waved his hand and said: "During the Hongwu period in the past, Luchuan Silunfa surrendered to our country and was granted the title of Luchuan Xuanwei Envoy. The areas under Sirunfa's jurisdiction were all between the Jinsha River and Jinsha River. In the south, in the Yuan Dynasty, it was the Xuanwei Division of Burma, but it had already occupied Burma as its own.
During the Hongwu period, our army attacked Yunnan, and Ping Burma was renamed Lucchuan Ping Burmese Military and Civilian Xuanwei Division, and the word "Luchuan" was used for the first time. In the 29th year of Hongwu's reign, Ping Burma paid tribute, and the Ping Burma Xuanwei Department was established, which was separated from the Luchuan Military and Civilian Xuanwei Department.
Soon, in the 30th year of Hongwu's reign, the chieftain Dao Gan of Ping Burma in Luchuan rebelled violently, and expelled him to comfort his envoy Silunfa. Taizu was furious and ordered Muchun to be the general in the southern expedition, with He Fu and Xu Kai as deputy generals. He led his troops to attack Daogan Meng and sent Silun back to Yunnan.
In May of the following year, Muchun sent He Fu and led five thousand troops to cross Gaolianggong Mountain and marched directly to Nandian to defeat it. Then he returned to attack Jinghan Village. The enemy relied on the high position and the danger to hold on and could not attack for a long time. So Muchun personally led five hundred cavalry to help and defeated them. The sword is strong, please surrender, but it is not allowed. In December, He Fu held a chopping knife and fought fiercely, thus quelling the Luchuan Rebellion. After that, Silunfa lost his official position and was changed to Meng Yang, Xuanwei envoy, and his original post was replaced by Diao.
In the early years of Zhengtong, Xuanwei envoy Diao Binyu was unable to pacify the barbarians due to his weakened strength. Silunfa's second son, Silenfa, began to invade. At that time, Burma was in crisis, and Sirenfa invaded and occupied the land. He wanted to restore the land that his father had lost, so he supported the people in Luchuan and rebelled.
At that time, he led his army to invade and occupy Mengding and Wandian, killing and plundering wantonly. Mucheng, the commander-in-chief of Yunnan and the Duke of Guizhou, reported this. The court was unmoved at first and wanted to observe his subsequent movements. Unexpectedly, he invaded the land of Diao Gonghan, a local official in Nandian Prefecture, and the imperial court ordered Mu Cheng to send officials to give gold medals and letters and order him to return the invaded land. Si Renfa refused to obey the edict.
In December of the third year of Zhengtong, Si Ren launched an attack to plunder Tengchong, Nandian, Mengyang and other places. Diao Binyu defected to Yongchang and died without heirs. Si Renfa massacred Tengchong and occupied Lujiang, calling himself "Fa". After the matter was reported, Yingmiao sent Yang Ning, the head of the Criminal Department, to issue an order, but Si Renfa still refused to accept it.
So in the fourth year of Zhengtong, the sixth year of Zhengtong, the seventh year of Zhengtong, and the thirteenth year of Zhengtong, our army marched across Luchuan. Later, Xu made Si Lu, the son of Si Renfa, the chief minister, and ordered his tribe to suppress the barbarians and live in Meng to support them as before. Then he set up a stone as a boundary with the Jinsha River, and swore: "If the stone rots and the river dries up, you will have to cross." Silu took pictures of the power of the heavenly soldiers, and had no choice but to obey orders. From then on, it became our barrier to the Ming Dynasty.
This war lasted for nine years, which was quite harmful to our court, but from a strategic perspective, it was also meaningful. Since then, the Lucchuan territory has continued to disintegrate. The strategy of 'analyzing the Luchuan Territory' greatly weakened Luchuan's power. By the end of Sixingfa's rule, the only territories actually controlled by Luchuan were Longchuan, Ruili, Mangshi, Zhefang and some outlying areas. Sichuan Sui began to decline. "
"Bah bang bang bang!" Liu Xin clapped, "It seems that Teacher Gao is quite familiar with domestic affairs."
Gao Pangshi had already made a rough guess at this time. He did not answer Liu Xin's words, but mused: "So Assam - oh, I mean Mengdun Shunhan, did they defect to Luchuan back then? ?”
"As expected of Teacher Gao, he hit the mark with just one guess." Liu Xin chuckled and said, "As early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the 'Mengmao Nong' in the east of Mengdun Sunhan - what the Ming Dynasty called Luchuan rises. At that time Luchuan was very ambitious and attempted to establish a unified Dai empire and annex surrounding countries, so he launched an army to conquer Mengdun Sunhan.
In the third year of Yanyou's reign in the Yuan Dynasty, Luchuan assembled an army of 900,000, with the "King's" brother Hun Sannong as the general, Dao Siyun, Dao Paruo, Dao Sihan Gai and others as generals, and led the troops to march westward to Mengdun. Sun Han was defeated by Mengdun, so he had no choice but to surrender the whole country. Most of the Hun Sannong army stayed in Shunhan of Mengdun, while Sun Han of Mengdun sent Hungan, Bo Meng and others to form an envoy, and accompanied part of the Luchuan army with gold and silver tributes to Yun Jielan, the "king capital" of Luchuan, to proclaim himself a minister. Pay tribute.
After Mengdun Sunhan surrendered to Luchuan, he went to Yunjielan to pay tribute every year. His contacts with the Dai people of various Meng in Luchuan gradually increased. Many Dai people in the upper reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River began to immigrate to the fertile land of Mengdun Sunhan, which strengthened the Mengdun Sun Han’s strength.
In the 30th year of Hongwu, the Dharma King of the Soviet Party, who was deeply influenced by the ideas of Indian Brahmanism, succeeded to the throne of Mengdun Sunhan, and the status of Brahmanism in Mengdun Sunhan was improved. During the period when the Soviet Union was in power, it gradually alienated Lucchuan and moved closer to India. Lucchuan was also busy dealing with the Ming Dynasty and had no time to take care of the distant West. Sun Han of Mengdun began to accelerate Indianization.
After that, the king of Mengdun Sunhan began to use Hindu titles as his titles. Dai titles such as Zhaofa and Tao Meng were gradually replaced by Brago Hain, Balgo Hain, and Bapatla Gohain. And replaced by titles with Indian colors such as Rajko Was, Barua, Hazarika, Saikiya, Bora and so on.
As a result, a large number of foreign words were incorporated into the local Dai language, and Mengdun Shunhan gradually became known as Assam. As for the relationship between it and Luchuan, it was slowly broken off... Yuan'er didn't say exactly when it was broken. I guess either the envoy was inconvenient to say it, or the envoy himself didn't know it.
After all, they have become Indianized, and Indians basically do not remember history. Therefore, if we in India wanted to understand our own history at that time, we had to look for our history books to study it. "
Gao Pragmatic nodded, roughly understanding what was going on, but after thinking about it, an idea suddenly came to his mind: "Let me guess, since Assam has long been Indianized, and their original so-called suzerain country Luchuan was just an ordinary Yunnan chieftain now, and it was obviously not attractive enough for them to lure them to seek refuge again...
Therefore, when Assam suddenly came to Yuan'er to talk about his contribution this time, it would definitely not be a "Jiu Mu Wanghua". I think there are only two possibilities for why they did this. "
This time it was Liu Xin's turn to be stunned and said in surprise: "How can there be two possibilities?"
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "I think I guessed your inner judgment, which is one of the possibilities, but I think there should be two possibilities."
Liu Xin flattened her mouth and said, "Then you go ahead and say it."
"I'll go first." Gao Pragmatic didn't care and waved his hand: "The first possibility is that we are gathering a large army in Bago in southern Xinjiang, which must also use the power of Myanmar, such as mobilizing the Myanmar army to mobilize food and fodder for our army. etc.
These actions may have aroused Assam's vigilance, so the king of the country was frightened and sent people to understand and test. When he learned that Yuan'er was the commander of this operation despite his young age, he used the pretense of surrender to test it out to see if Southern Xinjiang or the Ming Dynasty coveted them. "
Liu Xin said in surprise: "I didn't expect this. What I thought of was another point... Well, tell me first and see if we have the same possibility."
Gao Pragmatic nodded and said: "Another possibility is that Assam is facing a huge threat, which may even be a life-and-death threat in their eyes, so they have no choice but to come to us to see if we are willing to help them.
This may be very simple. It must be that after the Mughal Empire conquered Bengal, it also regarded the surrounding small countries and states as its own sphere of influence, or even as its own territory, so it pressed Assam step by step. Assam felt the powerful threat of the Mughal Empire, so it resorted to a common tactic in small country diplomacy - two tigers competing for food.
The threat from the Mughal Empire was imminent. They established a governor in Bengal. Although the Ming Dynasty also had a governor in Yunnan, the Ming Dynasty only acted as a supervisory authority outside the Yunnan mainland and was not willing to intervene personally.
Comparing the two contrasts, Assam has a powerful Mughal enemy, so it is naturally willing to surrender to the protection of the Ming Dynasty, but in the final analysis, it just hopes to use the Ming Dynasty's tiger skin as a banner. If my prediction is correct, what they most want to see is not that the Mughals attack him and we, the Ming Dynasty, send troops to help them attack the Mughals, but that the Mughals take advantage of our great power and simply give up on beating him. thoughts.
In this way, Assam is just a name for the Ming Dynasty, and may not even need to pay tribute, or even though it pays tribute, it will make money, but it can survive between the two powers. Isn't it wonderful? "
"Hey, even if we think of going together this time, I feel the same way." Liu Xin laughed, but immediately asked: "Then it's your turn to make up your mind now, as for this person who popped up halfway Little brother, do you want to accept it or not?"
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ps: I guessed it would be busy, but I didn’t expect it to be so busy! I owed a chapter yesterday. Although it is still early today, I am so sleepy that I can't even open my eyes. I'd better go to bed first, so as not to end up with my mind so confused that I don't even know what I wrote...
