Chapter 98 Strategizing
Xiao Chen is not only a romantic talent, but also the prince of the former dynasty. If he is worthy of being the eldest princess of Myanmar, he is worthy of it.
The problem is that I only covet your beauty, but I don't want to marry you as my wife either.
If it is Murong Danqiu... I am very willing.
Duanmu Nanqiao is also fine.
Moreover, this matter is not up to you, Liu Ruyun.
Now it is a feudal society, and this kind of free love is not allowed.
Ordinary girls need the orders of their parents, and the words of a matchmaker, can you marry whoever you want as a princess?
Besides, I'm still a eunuch in theory, will your father marry you to a eunuch?
"I know you don't believe me, you have never believed me!" Liu Ruyun suddenly lost her temper, "I said I will marry you, and no one can stop me."
"It's not that I don't believe you, it's that I don't believe your father, and I don't believe that prince Jiba either!" Xiao Chen said loudly.
"What, he's Prince Seba!" Liu Ruyun was originally stern, but Xiao Chen amused him.
"I don't care who he is, he's a bastard anyway!" Xiao Chen said.
If you think you're unlucky, it will be unlucky for this bastard!
"Hehe, you know?" Liu Ruyun covered her mouth and smiled.
"Know what?" Xiao Chen was stunned.
"If you don't know that he has always wanted me, then why are you jealous of him?" Liu Ruyun misunderstood, because Xiao Chen really didn't know.
What the hell is this?
This fucking bastard not only wants my life, but also my woman!
Prince Saiba has always coveted Liu Ruyun's beauty. When Liu Ruyun was sixteen years old, he went to Myanmar to propose a marriage, but Liu Ruyun didn't like that rude guy.
Resolutely do not agree.
I would rather be Li Wanjiang's noble son than his concubine.
Li Wanjiang is at least a hero, but Prince Seba is a wolf with ambition!
His purpose of marrying Liu Ruyun is certainly to covet her beauty, but he also wants to use this to control and even annex the entire Burmese country!
Liu Ruyun's ambition is not small.
The purpose of marrying Li Wanjiang is to use her beauty to confuse him, even control him, and make him a mess from top to bottom, so that she can find opportunities and take advantage of them.
Unexpectedly, the sky does not obey people's wishes, and I really did not expect that the brave Li Wanjiang turned out to be an incompetent man!
From the day she entered the palace until now, Li Wanjiang has never touched her... On the contrary, Xiao Chen, a brat, took advantage of her!
But in the past few years in the palace, she has also noticed that the interior of Da Zhou is actually quite chaotic, with constant factional disputes, father and son are separated, the treasury is empty, disasters occur frequently, wars continue, and the people are in dire straits...
The eagles of the Japanese kingdom in the East China Sea watched the wolves, and all the ministries in the northern border stared at each other. Among them, various resistance organizations such as the Tianxuan Society made trouble.
The Western Regions are also not stable, and Murong Heng, the governor of the West, has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but he is an old minister of the previous dynasty. Li Wanjiang has never fully trusted him...
Under such circumstances, if Burma and Siam join forces to attack the southern border, it will be very difficult for Li Wanjiang to deal with it.
But Liu Ruyun felt that the time was not yet ripe, and Myanmar shouldn't be the first to attack.
It is best to wait for other people to rebel first, and then they will send troops in the name of King Qin. It will be justified, and there will be room for advance and retreat, and they can maximize their own interests.
But King Myanmar was coerced and lured by that Prince Saiba, so he insisted on raising troops in a hurry, which made Liu Ruyun very angry.
Send someone to send a letter to the king of Burma to explain his interests and advise him not to act rashly for the time being, but the king of Burma is hesitant and continues to send troops to southern Xinjiang under the urging of Prince Saiba.
At this time, Li Wanjiang offered to let her go home to visit relatives...
Liu Ruyun was both a noble concubine and a hostage in the Great Zhou Dynasty. As long as she was in Li Wanjiang's hands, the Burmese king and those Burmese generals who were loyal to her would be afraid. Now that Li Wanjiang sent her back directly, wouldn't that mean letting the tiger go back to the mountain?
Li Wanjiang is not so stupid.
The reason why he did this was to let Myanmar and Siam take the initiative to attack the Great Zhou, so that he could justifiably send troops to suppress the rebellion.
Because he can't take the initiative to send troops. There are so many small affiliated countries around the four borders that are vassals of the Great Zhou. If he attacks Burma without any reason, wouldn't everyone in those affiliated countries be in danger? They will definitely join forces to deal with Da Zhou
That is to say, Li Wanjiang has already thought about it carefully and planned a strategy.
Although Dazhou has various problems now, its military strength is still strong.
Especially Li Wanyun, King of Zhongcheng, has a 100,000 army under his command. They are all brave and skilled fighters. They have been fighting for many years and have almost never lost a battle.
Burma and Siam, even though they claim to have an army of 500,000, are not necessarily his opponents.
Li Wanjiang's move probably stems from two considerations.
One is to demonstrate, to show those who have evil intentions the power of the Great Zhou Xiongbing, so that they will be afraid and dare not act rashly.
The second is for money, the Great Zhou has been in war for many years, most of the fields have been barren, and natural disasters have been encountered continuously, which can be described as scarred and ruined.
However, there has never been any war in Myanmar, and the weather has been smooth and rainy for more than ten years. Almost every year there is a bumper harvest, and there is too much food to eat.
Even though the king of Burma didn't have any great talents, he was well versed in economics. He not only encouraged the reclamation of farmland, but also vigorously supported the development of other industries, especially the extremely developed commerce.
He purchased all kinds of porcelain, silk and other goods from the resource-rich Dazhou at low prices, shipped them to the southern port, and sold them to the other side of the ocean by sea, earning a huge difference from them. Cash in!
I heard that the palace of the king of Burma was built with gold bricks...
He's so fucking rich, but he's still crying to Da Zhou every year, asking for all kinds of relief?
This is also the main purpose of Li Wanjiang's decision to use troops against Myanmar.
All he needs now is money.
So why is Li Wanyun unwilling to fight this battle?
But he also has his own considerations.
First of all, let’s talk about the war together, it’s sure that the lives will be destroyed, and the people will suffer, especially the southern border has been stable for a few years, and the people have just had a good life for a few days. Who the hell wants to fight?
Secondly, this battle is actually not easy to fight. Firstly, there is a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, so it must be difficult to fight.
Secondly, the terrain in northern Myanmar is complicated, with many bumpy roads, mountains and rivers, and it is extremely difficult for the army to march.
And the most powerful thing in Dazhou is the cavalry, but in the mountainous terrain, the cavalry can't give full play to its advantages at all, and it can't be used.
There is also logistics supply.
One hundred thousand troops, how much food and grass do people need to feed horses every day?
All these food and grass needs to be transported from southern Xinjiang, which requires at least 300,000 peasants and countless horses and horses. The food and grass they consume every day is an astronomical figure!
He had to send troops to guard the grain road along the road to make it unblocked, which would lead to his weak force.
Someone asked, isn't there plenty of food in Myanmar? Wouldn't it be enough to just grab theirs?
Then you think the problem is too simple, people are not stupid, even if they are burned, they will not leave you a piece, okay?