Chapter 1043 1134 Good news arrives in Beijing

Chapter 1043 1134 Good news arrives in Beijing

"Use benefits to lure them."

Mu Changzuo repeated it twice in his mouth, and suddenly he felt that he was clear-headed.

He had realized the mistake he had made, which was to think about Myanmar with the military system of the Ming Dynasty.

I had heard the news before that Mang Yinglong often mobilized tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops to attack a certain state. For example, in the two wars against Siam, more than 100,000 troops were sent.

It was just that Mu Changzuo thought that this force was a claim to the outside world, and the actual force was only tens of thousands.

But this time, in a very short period of time, Myanmar successively mobilized troops to attack Mubang and besiege Mengyang, which made him realize his past misjudgment of Myanmar's military strength.

"Now our army has only 20,000 troops in Yongchang and its surrounding areas. We are unable to intervene in any way. We must get the court's assistance as soon as possible.

If possible, send troops to attack the Burmese army when it attacks Mengyang, and destroy the main force of the Burmese army in one fell swoop."

Mu Changzuo finally lost his composure. He used to think that the Ming Dynasty could sit back and relax, and had a great advantage, but now he finally realized that the situation was critical and the Burmese army could gather far more troops than he expected.

"Prepare paper and ink, I want to write a letter to Wang Ning."

Although their family is known as the King of Yunnan and has the title of Duke of Qian, the court did not really hand over Yunnan to them completely.

The Governor of Yunnan is the most powerful person in this land.

And because the governor and governor-general of the Ming Dynasty were originally in charge of civil affairs and military affairs, but in actual practice they were confused with each other.

Where there is a governor, it is natural that the governor controls the governor and the general, and then the local governor and prefect. In places where there is no governor, the governor manages civil affairs and can influence the military affairs of the general, becoming the de facto governor.

Although Wang Ning's reputation in Yunnan is not good, he is the governor of Yunnan and is still the highest official here.

Mu Changzuo wants to draw troops from Yunnan to the vicinity of Yongchang Prefecture for defense, but without Wang Ning's permission, it is absolutely impossible.

Soon, the housekeeper ordered the servants to send pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and Mu Changzuo also picked up the pen to write a letter to Wang Ning, explaining the current situation that he had heard from outside the region.

As for the affairs of the Toungoo Dynasty in Myanmar, in fact, more of the results of analysis are now available, but in the letter, Mu Changzuo certainly would not say so, but used the news he had heard from merchants to prevaricate.

In the letter, the emphasis is on the news spread by those merchants, that is, the Burmese army has appeared near the border of the Ming Dynasty.

Mu Changzuo believed that when Wang Ning saw this, he would be shocked and sweat coldly, so it was natural to authorize him to mobilize Yunnan troops.

Of course, Mu Changzuo did not forget to remind Wang Ning to report the matter to the court as soon as possible and notify Li Chengliang in Yong'an.

Yunnan is now in urgent need of imperial troops.

Years ago, the court ordered to stop transporting money and grain to Yunnan, and it should be allocated to various guards as soon as possible to facilitate the mobilization of troops.

It can only be said that Mu Changzuo now admires the capital, which can plan and plan thousands of miles away from Yunnan, and knows the real situation of East and West Myanmar.

In fact, if Wei Guangde had not had the impression of later generations, and knew that China and Myanmar had fought a long war during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and lost a lot of places that were considered to be territories, he would never have thought that Myanmar dared to scratch the dragon beard of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the gap in strength between the two countries is there.

Who would do something like hitting a rock with an egg?

But Myanmar really did it, and it did it very well.

Although the Emperor of Poetry and the Ten Perfect Old Man also spent a huge price during the Qing Dynasty, and the four commanders he appointed either committed suicide or died of illness because of the expedition to Myanmar, they did scare Myanmar.

But it is undeniable that the Qing Dynasty's war against Myanmar did not achieve its strategic goal.

It was just because the Burmese army failed to stop the Qing army's offensive in several wars, and the battlefield was transferred to Myanmar, causing huge losses to Myanmar's domestic economy, making Myanmar unable to continue fighting.

What's more important is that the timing of the Qing army's attack on Myanmar was surprisingly good. Although this was not what Emperor Qianlong wanted, the Qing army's attack on the Burmese army gave Siam, which had been annexed by Myanmar, a chance to be reborn.

When the Qing army and the Burmese army were fighting fiercely, the defeated Siamese generals rearmed themselves and eventually defeated the small number of Burmese troops stationed in Siam, and finally gained independence.

The loss of Siam was also the reason why Myanmar chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty at that time.

In fact, Wei Guangde's Southeast Asia strategy, which turned the Indian Ocean into the West Sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty, was essentially still full of omissions, that is, he did not fully understand Myanmar and its surrounding areas.

Due to the special terrain and numerous ethnic minorities in Myanmar and its surrounding areas, the rulers of Myanmar mostly controlled in form.

That is, the actual power holders here are hereditary chieftains, who pass on power from their fathers to their sons, and from their sons to their grandsons.

The chieftains' subordinates are mostly of a certain ethnic group, who only support their own chieftains and do not care about the distant Burmese regime at all, let alone the Ming Dynasty court.

The chieftains gave formal courtesy to the government, which was to pay a certain amount of "flower horse gift" regularly, that is, the money and grain offered, in exchange for their independence.

Naturally, the chieftains were not allowed to rebel against the government at will, otherwise the latter might also send troops to conquer.

However, this kind of expedition was mostly fruitless. The government soldiers would be dumbfounded when they entered the jungles of northern Myanmar. At most, they would burn, kill, and rape and then retreat.

The chieftains suffered a small loss and turned to the government in exchange for continued rule.

It can be imagined that even if the Ming Dynasty captured the capital of Myanmar, it would be difficult to actually control it. The best that could happen was to turn Myanmar into another Annan.

Unless the Ming Dynasty is really confident, it will station heavy troops here for a long time to suppress all disobedience.

It took the British 60 years to conquer Burma in the 19th century, and the price they paid can be imagined.

Mu Changzuo knew that the Yunnan government was actually very troubled by the local chieftains, and this was the reason.

But he didn't know Wei Guangde's plan, otherwise he would definitely tell him the truth and let Wei Guangde think about it again.

As for the border, Mu Changzuo sent some agile guards from the Qianguo Mansion to sneak out to find out the news secretly, and more could only wait for a reply from Kunming.

At this time, Wang Ning had received Mu Changzuo's warning letter in the Yunnan Governor's Office, and he was also worried.

This time, of course, he didn't dare to suppress the news like his predecessors. The court was already paying attention to this side, and if he continued to conceal the news, he might really be thrown into prison.

While drafting a memorial and attaching Mu Changzuo's letter to the capital, he also wrote to Li Chengliang, the left governor of Yongning, asking him to reorganize the troops and be ready to enter Yunnan at any time.

Of course, Wang Ning did not forget the most important thing, which was to send a letter to Mu Changzuo, allowing him to start withdrawing troops to prepare for everything.

After receiving Wang Ning's official document, Mu Changzuo also began to reorganize the troops.

While ordering the Heqing Qianhu Suo, Dali Wei and Erhai Wei in the north to prepare for war, at the same time, mobilizing Qujing Wei, Yuezhou Wei and Luliang Wei in eastern Yunnan to mobilize soldiers to rush to Yongchang Prefecture.

The place with the most troops in Yunnan is naturally Kunming and its surrounding areas. The five guards of Yunnan, front, middle, back, left and right, and Guangnan Wei have also received orders to reorganize the troops.

As for Jingdong, Menghua, Chuxiong and the guards near Yongchang Prefecture, which have always been controlled by the Qianguo Mansion, they have already completed the preparation of troops.

When the war alarm was sounded in the southwest, the document sent by Yu Dayou to the capital to report the victory finally arrived in the capital.

The speed of using the centipede boat to transmit messages is indeed first-class.

Unlike the Fuchuan, which needs to rely on wind power to sail, the centipede boat's long shuttle hull and the oars on both sides can sail at high speed relying on manpower.

From Luzon to Guangdong, two shifts of sailors took turns rowing and completed this route in just half a month.

What happened next was naturally that the express delivery shop delivered the victory report to the capital day and night.

When the victory report was delivered to the capital, it was already a month later.

The Ministry of War and the Cabinet received news from Luzon one after another. Lin Feng was captured alive, and the entire Lin Feng pirate group was annihilated, either dead or surrendered.

In addition, the Ming army captured the big city of Daimao City built by Lin Feng near the Pengasilan Bay in Luzon, and obtained the Luzon land north of the 16th degree north latitude in negotiations with the Manila barbarians.

In fact, there are two important things in Yu Dayou's memorial. One is that the Lin Feng pirate group no longer exists, and the other is that the Ming Dynasty has been allocated nearly half of the land in Luzon.

However, there are still some things that the people in the Ministry of War do not understand. That is, in Yu Dayou's victory report, the barbarians in the trench mirror are called "Portuguese" for the first time, and the barbarians in Luzon are called "Spanish". There is also the way of drawing the boundary, what does the sixteen degrees north latitude mean.

When the battle report was sent to the Ministry of War, Tan Lun was shocked after reading it.

He knew about the matter of getting involved in Luzon, but he thought the possibility of success was very low.

Not only did the Ming Dynasty have no ambition to expand abroad in reality, but in fact, after the Ming army withdrew from Annan, the Ming Dynasty shrank its strength and stopped expanding outward.

Even if Li Chengliang proposed to build six forts in Kuandian and expand the territory by 800 miles, it was actually just to restore this territory.

After all, in the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty army even reached Sakhalin Island and established the Nurgan Dusi here.

As the troops were reduced, the army of Nurgandusi withdrew to Liaodong to redeploy, leaving the Outer Khingan Mountains and other places as Ming territory in name only.

However, in the past two years, the Ministry of War under his leadership actually expanded a large area of ​​territory.

The first one was naturally Dongfan Island. Although it was just opposite the Fujian Sea, it was restricted by the ancestral system and the Ming army had never been there.

Now the South China Sea Navy has not only established military ports in the three places of the north, south and center, but also moved a guard post and two thousand households there, and established a stronghold along Dongfan Island, which can be regarded as truly taking root in Dongfan Island.

Now, Yu Dayou has occupied Daimao City and got nearly half of the land in Luzon. Isn't this a meritorious achievement in expanding territory?

"You can study how many guard posts and thousand households are suitable for moving to Luzon, and the rewards for the meritorious soldiers this time. Our Ministry of War must also come up with a rule first."

Tan Lun gave instructions to the two assistant ministers, and he went directly into the palace with the victory report.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng had returned to the duty room in the cabinet.

After the Jinyiwei went to Liaodong to arrest Liu Tai, Zhang Juzheng left the mansion a few days later and returned to the cabinet to handle official business.

Wei Guangde and Lu Diaoyang did not ask Zhang Juzheng about his opinion on Liu Tai's treatment. They would wait until he was caught and then decide on the situation.

Anyway, the precedent of this student impeaching the teacher is not a good thing, and it must be dealt with severely.

Let Zhang Juzheng do the final result.

Tan Lun moved quickly. When he entered the palace gate, he met the Tongzhengshi who hurried into the palace.

"Congratulations to Minister Tan, the great power of the Ming Dynasty."

The Tongzhengshi saw Tan Lun entering the palace and roughly guessed where he was going, and hurriedly bowed and smiled.

"Are you sending a victory report to the Silijian?"

Tan Lun asked with a smile.

"That's right, such a big thing should naturally be sent to the palace as soon as possible so that His Majesty can know it."

The general affairs envoy said with a smile.

A hundred years ago, this good news would have been delivered directly to the imperial court by him, the general envoy.

But now it has changed. He can only hand the good news to the Secretary of Ceremony, and the eunuch there will deliver it to His Majesty the Emperor.

The General Affairs Department has really become a yamen that delivers messages, and can only be a retirement home for those officials who are content with the status quo.

Separating at the palace gate, Tan Lun went directly to the cabinet.

"Good loan, good news has arrived."

When they arrived outside Wei Guangde's duty room, Tan Lun took the good news and walked in without waiting for Lu Bu to report.

"Where?"

Wei Guangde was stunned when he heard this, then put down the official document in his hand and asked.

"Luzon, I didn't expect that Yu Dayou really captured half of Luzon."

Tan Lun quickly walked to the desk and handed over the memorial in his hand.

"hehe."

Wei Guangde smiled. At first he thought it was Qi Jiguang who took action in Liaodong.

After all, although the capital already knew that the Nanhai Navy had gone to Luzon to suppress Japanese invaders, it had not received any battle reports for a long time and had somewhat forgotten about it.

No warning message came from Yunnan, but in order for Qi Jiguang to handle the situation in Liaodong flexibly, the imperial court gave him an order to act expediently.

The governor of Liaodong also knew about this, and the purpose was naturally to reduce constraints.

But I didn't expect that the good news brought by Tan Lun actually came from Luzon.

After receiving the good news and quickly browsing it, Tan Lun was still talking about how he met the general envoy at the gate of the palace and attacked to deliver the good news.

"I'm afraid it has spread throughout the outer court."

Wei Guangde said calmly.

"Well, such a great thing must spread quickly, and I'm afraid the rumors will also spread in the market."

Tan Lun said cheerfully.

"This is a good thing, but for some old-fashioned people, it may not be the case."

Wei Guangde whispered, then looked at Tan Lun and reminded: "The Ministry of War will draft a charter and submit it as soon as possible. We must cut through the mess quickly and handle this matter quickly to avoid unnecessary complications."

Expanding territory is a good thing, but there are still some old scholars who hold Confucianism against external expansion, especially when the imperial power is declining.

He is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and maybe he will ask Yu Dayou to find the bloodline of the King of Luzon in Luzon, and support them to re-establish the country.

"I've asked people to take a merit test. Report as soon as possible."

Tan Lun smiled and said, "What do you think of Shan Loi, those surrendered generals Lin Fengchun, and others?"

"We'd better discuss it with my uncle. He's the chief assistant. We'll listen to his opinion first."

Wei Guangde said.

Without being sloppy, Wei Guangde got up with the good news, walked out of the check-in room with Tan Lun, and went to the first assistant check-in room.

When they arrived in front of Zhang Juzheng, after bowing to each other, Wei Guangde handed over the good news directly and said with a smile: "Lu Song's matter is done, this is Yu Dayou's good news."

Hearing this, Zhang Juzheng took the good news report from Wei Guangde's hand and quickly read it. (End of chapter)