The fighting in Myanmar came to a halt for several months after the rainy season arrived in June. However, after two years of fighting, the grass-roots kings of various families who had accumulated deep hatred and hatred had no idea of using this opportunity to take a breather to establish a unified national front.
Just like when the Manchus attacked the Southern Ming Dynasty, several so-called "orthodox" stabbed each other in the back. Under the unified crushing of the imperial court, all parties in Burma did not feel the cold, and attacked each other until they were all destroyed.
Several major newspapers in the country have reported on the war in Myanmar one after another, stirring up the hearts of the people in the country. Several relatively profound articles talked about ethnic issues, and explained the principle of brothers fighting against each other and resisting humiliation from outsiders several times from different angles - the effect was quite good.
On December 12, the eighth year of Wanli, Bago City was captured by the Ming army. Escorted by the Portuguese Diego and several mercenaries, Mangyingli left Myanmar by boat and fled to Malaga.
On January 21, the ninth year of Wanli, Luo Wanhua, the governor-general of Myanmar, entered Bago City, which Liu Xian had cleaned up. Afterwards, he issued a Chinese-Burmese bilingual notice to calm the people and sent troops to guard various places.
On the third day of February, Governor Luo Wanhua, escorted by the Ming army, traveled from Bago to Dagon Village at the intersection of Lishui River and Lai River, and visited the Ruiguang Pagoda enshrining the hair relics of the Buddha.
After visiting the Buddha's relics, Luo Wanhua spoke to the surrendered Burmese officials and issued an imperial edict to rename Dagon to Yangon, which in Burmese is "the city where the war ended".
According to the post-war arrangements of the Governor-General's Office, Myanmar will be divided into eight provinces. They are: Lishui, Myanmar, Bagan, Bago, Yangon, Gongmo, Dagu La and Yunxia Province.
When Luo Wanhua demarcated these provinces, he basically disrupted the original spheres of influence of all parties in Myanmar. When naming, except for Bago and Yangon, all other provinces used Chinese names.
Among them, Yunxia Province is adjacent to Yunnan and includes most of the chieftain lands such as Mu State and Meng State, making it the largest of the eight provinces.
At the same time as the province was established, Luo Wanhua was also responsible for completing the construction of Yangon City before the fifteenth year of Wanli. At that time, the governor-general's headquarters, which was temporarily living in Bago, would be moved to Yangon.
Due to the brutality of the Burmese civil war and the overwhelming superiority of the Ming army, the original Burmese nobles and chieftains were now almost gone. Those who saw the opportunity quickly, such as Sihanyu, the lord of Ava City, saw that the Ming army was strong, opened the city and surrendered, and handed over the Lishui Delta, they were naturally rewarded - directly promoted to the chief envoy of Bago.
Sihan Meng and other Burmese people were included in the governance system, and most of the resistance of the Burmese people was eliminated. Under the leadership of Si Hanyu, the small forces that were already facing attacks from powerful neighbors were happy to see the Ming Dynasty's rule: if the Ming Dynasty had entered the country two years later, these forces would have been devoured to their bones.
As for those who were originally more powerful, they were all the targets of the Ming army's focus. Throughout the entire expedition, those who defended their territory or wanted to negotiate with the Ming army about the terms of surrender were all massacred. It was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to retain a large power in the newly occupied land and form a separatist situation.
At the end of the eighth year of Wanli's reign, when Zhu Yijun received the report on the Burma strategy, he lamented at the Privy Council meeting: "Managing political affairs in a newly expanded land is much cleaner and neater than the difficulties in the country."
No one dared to answer this at the time. But after word spread from the meeting, the chieftains in Yunnan, Guizhou and other border areas of the empire who were still lucky and unwilling to return to their native land were scared to death.
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In April of the ninth year of Wanli, the situation in Myanmar stabilized. Officials urgently transferred by the imperial court took their respective positions and set up a ruling team according to the design of the Governor-General's Palace. Although there is still a severe shortage of local officials, it is not very difficult to temporarily maintain order and resume agricultural production with the surrendered Burmese officials.
In May of the ninth year of Wanli, Si Han Yu reported to the Governor's Palace that Rujiri, a missionary from Goa, asked to see the Governor and said that he had brought a personal letter from the Portuguese Governor of Goa.
Before Luo Wanhua left Beijing to take office, he had discussed with Zhu Yijun many times the various situations that the Western Barbarians would face when conquering Myanmar. After reading Si Hanyu's report, he immediately asked him to send Rujiri to the Governor's Mansion.
Michel Ruggieri was born in a city in south-central Italy in the 22nd year of Jiajing (original year 1543, the same below). He obtained two kinds of doctorate degrees in law while studying. In the sixth year of Longqing (1572), he joined the Society of Jesus.
In the fifth year of Wanli, after completing his studies in philosophy and theology, he applied to go to Goa to preach. In the sixth year of Wanli, he arrived in Macau again, began to learn Chinese, understood Chinese customs and habits, and changed his name to Luo Mingjian.
While in Macau, Luo Mingjian carefully read the southern newspapers for several years and found that the great eastern country had undergone tremendous changes from top to bottom. At that time, he wrote to the Archbishop of Lisbon, believing that the time was ripe for missionaries to enter China.
When Luo Mingjian wrote the letter, he also showed it to his senior Fan Li'an. Fan Li'an also believed that, and believed that Saint Xavier's long-cherished wish of not entering China would soon come true for the two of them.
Zhu Yijun heard of Matteo Ricci in later generations, but did not know Fan Li'an and Luo Mingjian.
Although he sent people into Macau to obtain relevant intelligence, he was not in a hurry to start the exchange process between the East and the West from the highest level of the empire - the reform was just beginning, and the more variables there were, the more complicated things became.
Therefore, he accepted the memorials of Li Jisi and Wang Pan, two successive prefects of Zhaoqing. The two missionaries had no idea and only knew how to give gifts to Wang Pan. Wang Pan accepted it with a smile, but did not mention the fact that his own question book was left out.
After Luo Wanhua became the governor of Myanmar, he launched an aggressive war against Myanmar. Luo Mingjian and Fan Li'an, who were waiting for news but couldn't get it, discussed it and split up. Luo Mingjian went to Goa to look for opportunities, while Fan Li'an traveled east to Japan.
While they were acting, Zhu Yijun also judged that the Ming Dynasty would inevitably encounter Portugal in Southeast Asia.
Portugal and Spain were the first generation of European colonial explorers. Although the main colonial idea was to control the sea routes to make super profits, the Portuguese still had many interests in Bago, Myanmar.
Because of this judgment, before Luo Wanhua took up his duties, Zhu Yijun had already explained the ways and means of dealing with Xiyi.
After being around Zhu Yijun for many years and being reminded by the emperor, Luo Wanhua is no longer what he used to be. Among the entire bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Wanhua also ranks among the top ten with international vision and aspects.
Therefore, when Luo Mingjian entered the governor's residence and met Luo Wanhua, he was surprised to find that he was facing a kind Chinese official who had a certain understanding of Portugal, Spain and European countries - this simply made him overjoyed. .
He first performed a Western-style bow, intending to kneel down and kowtow if Governor Luo was unhappy. But Governor Luo was not displeased because of his bow, but nodded slightly in return.
Luo Mingjian handed over personal letters from Alfonso, the Portuguese Governor in Goa, and Vincennes, the Bishop of Goa. After Luo Wanhua took it, he found that it was in Portuguese, so he handed it to the clerk next to him and asked him to find an interpreter to translate it.
Luo Mingjian hurriedly asked in Chinese that he was not yet proficient in: "Your Excellency, Governor, can I help you translate?"
Luo Wanhua nodded and said, "Of course." Then he handed the letter to him.
The letter from the Governor of Goa was very polite. After paying tribute to the Governor of Luowanhua, he stated in the letter that the chaos in Myanmar that has lasted for more than two years has left the spice trade and gem trade in the entire region in a state of chaos. As a result, the profits of the A-Nagasaki-Malaga route have been reduced by 15%, which is detrimental to all stakeholders.
Now that the Ming Empire has included Burma in its territory, I, Alfonso, Governor of Goa, on behalf of His Majesty Felipe II, respect the interests of the Ming Empire and have no objection to the Ming Empire's inclusion of Burma in its territory.
In return, I hope Governor Luo will protect the interests of the Portuguese Empire in Bago and take appropriate care of Portuguese merchants and ship owners. The Goa authorities are also willing for the Portuguese to continue to engage in transportation business in stable Bago.
Luo Wanhua listened to Luo Mingjian's translation and sneered: "What Governor Alfonso said is interesting. Burma is the land of China, and its leader was originally our ambassador. Because he launched a rebellion, His Majesty the Emperor destroyed him. .”
"What? Now that Alfonso says 'no objection', the court and the governor should thank him?"
