"Oh, really?"
Although Zhu Youxiao doesn't personally manage the internal affairs of the court these days, he is not blind.Through his own intelligence network, Zhu Youxiao said that he didn't know everything about the outside world, but he also knew a lot.But sometimes, Zhu Youxiao will pretend to be blind and pretend not to know.After all, even if you are an emperor, sometimes it is necessary to hide your foolishness and clumsiness.Because only in this way can paralyze others, make others despise themselves, and gradually expose their true nature and clues, and even reduce their IQ as a result.In addition, Zhu Youxiao sometimes does this on behalf of his acquiescence to this practice.Now that he heard Bi Ziyan's report that Burma had attacked the border and arrested Xiao Juqian, the county governor, Zhu Youxiao also pretended to be surprised and asked."
The minister also just got the telegram, Xiao Juqian no matter how he said it, he is also an official of my Ming court, on behalf of the Son of Heaven to guard the place, this Burma invaded the border for no reason, arrested the official, its wolf ambition, has been clearly revealed, the minister thinks that the Privy Council should discuss this matter to decide whether to send troops to Burma, punish it, or directly destroy its country, and carry out indoctrination, so as to avoid such an incident again."
Bi Ziyan replied."
Accurate!"
Zhu Youxiao replied accordingly."
Yes!"
Bi Ziyan was secretly happy in his heart, he knew that he had guessed His Majesty's mind correctly, but he had already coveted the jade resources of Myanmar for a long time.Bi Ziyan is not worried about whether the Ming Dynasty can conquer Burma, what he is worried about is how to distribute the jade resources of Myanmar next, how much the royal family will take, how much to leave for the country, how much to share with these noble ministers, and how many war coupons to conquer Burma should be issued.Although he was in charge of internal affairs, he did not have the power to directly start a war, but he could first instigate Chongwen Temple and other Ming official media to build up momentum, and first report on Myanmar's brutal acts on the border, so that the people would have a sense of disgust and even hatred for Myanmar.It even continued to report on the Burmese occupation of Daming Mong Kung and Mu State decades ago.Naturally, the reaction of the people was great, and they all clamored for the imperial court to immediately wave the iron fist of justice against Burma.However, as far as Zhu Youxiao knows, since the ninth year of the Apocalypse, with the accession of a new king, the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma has given up the strategy of foreign expansion, but focuses on economic development, and has not disturbed the Ming border much anymore.And now most of the people who provoked the incident on the Ming-Burma border were actually the Tusi and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.After all, the current Ming Dynasty is stronger than the Wanli period, how can it be passive to be bullied all the time, and not take the initiative to bully and bully others, especially those Tusi in the southwest border that are not completely controlled by the central court, they can still greatly improve the level of equipment after purchasing the eliminated muskets from the central court of the Ming Dynasty, and have a feud with Myanmar, so they will naturally take the initiative to bully and bully Myanmar.What's more, Myanmar's jadeite resources are indeed very tempting.These toasts also hoped to mine more jadeite and sell it to the Han people in the wealthy areas of the Ming Dynasty in exchange for more wealth.Zhu Youxiao also has no good impression of Burma, and it is impossible for him to not allow the forces on his side not to fight back after Myanmar no longer takes the initiative to expand.In addition, Zhu Youxiao remembered that after the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty fled into Burma, Burma was afraid of the Manchus and sent the Yongli Emperor back.In Zhu Youxiao's view, since this is the case, it is better to take advantage of the strong national strength now, and take advantage of the opportunity when the whole people like to expand, and annex Burma.At that time, even if the Ming Emperor needs to flee into Myanmar, he will no longer have to worry about being extradited back, which is equivalent to another strategic transfer, which is still a domestic transfer, and there is more strategic depth.Of course, for Zhu Youxiao, this is also a way to solve the southwest army.These Miao soldiers, wolf soldiers, white pole soldiers and other southwestern Tusi soldiers can fight well, in fact, the military discipline is not very good.Therefore, after Zhu Youxiao now has all kinds of imperial troops, he no longer uses them to fight.However, it is undoubtedly a waste for these soldiers to stay in the southwest and not let them fight to earn money, and in addition, it will also affect the process of the imperial court's reform and return to the river.And if these southwestern soldiers who are good at mountain and jungle warfare are allowed to attack Burma, they can naturally consume these southwestern soldiers through Burmese soldiers, and at the same time achieve the goal of annexing Southeast Asia by the Ming Dynasty through the southwestern soldiers.In fact, attacking a country like Burma, which belongs to the tropical rainforest region, is more suitable for troops from places like Yunnan and Guangxi, and the troops from the north are sent over, and it is easy to get sick.The Privy Council soon came up with a specific strategy for the conquest of Burma, and the court pushed the veteran Qin Liangyu to take command.Because Qin Liangyu's prestige in the southwest is very high.All the Tusi in the southwest were afraid of Qin Liangyu, so it was convenient to unify the command.Qin Liangyu was familiar with the southwest war, and she seemed to have expected that the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who was so happy, would conquer Burma.Therefore, for this reason, when Qin Liangyu was appointed by Zhu Youxiao as the general of Dingxi and the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, he specially said that there were five difficulties in the expedition to Burma, namely: difficulty in handling horses, difficulty in handling grain, difficulty in marching, difficulty in transport, and difficulty in adapting.Therefore, Qin Liangyu suggested that the imperial court should first mobilize a large number of horses to the southwest, and the transfer of horses was naturally not for riding horses, but to carry food."
The imperial court now has places for raising horses such as Mobei, Monan and Qinghai, and has also cultivated a lot of good horses over the years, so you can transfer enough horses over!"
Bi Ziyan said to Zhu Youxiao because of Qin Liangyu's suggestion.However, Qin Liangyu also suggested that the tactics of the imperial court's large-scale march in the past should be changed, and instead of a large-scale interspersed method, not to deal with the Burmese native soldiers in the outer mountains, but to penetrate directly into Ava, so as not to drag the war for too long, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to the Ming side.Because according to the investigation of Emperor Qin Liangyu, the miasma in Myanmar starts from the fourth month of the lunar calendar and peaks in July, August, September and March, so the time to send troops can only be after September, and it is best to end in March.Zhu Youxiao agreed to all of Qin Liangyu's proposals, and asked the Daming naval division stationed in Zhenghe Port to attack Burma from the sea, but Burma mistakenly thought that the Ming Dynasty was attacking by land and water.September 24th.Qin Liangyu took 6,000 carefully selected 10,000 white pole soldiers, 5,000 wolf soldiers and 5,000 Miao soldiers, a total of 6,000 native soldiers of other ethnic groups, and more than 3,600 mountain special battalions of the Guards transferred from the capital, totaling nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses, and officially set out from Yongchang to Burma.The mountain special battalion of the Guards Army is the elite of Jiao Lian's special training in the mountainous areas under the order of Zhu Youxiao, and the whole army uses new firing rifled guns and all kinds of individual self-defense weapons, with strong individual combat ability, and is specially used for special operations under difficult conditions.Now, this time, Zhu Youxiao sent them to the southwest, naturally to let them exercise their ability to fight in the tropics.Qin Liangyu's initial plan was "one positive and two auxiliary", and the soldiers were divided into three routes, but she knew that the soldiers he brought this time were mainly southwest native soldiers, that is, Tusi soldiers, with complex composition, and the confidentiality of information was definitely not as good as commanding the guards before, which was the traditional way of mobilizing troops and horses from all sides to command operations before the Ming Dynasty, so in order not to let Myanmar know her purpose, she temporarily changed her plan before departure, turning the three roads into two roads, the north road, the main force of more than 10,000 people, and she personally led it, and the north road was led by Qin Bangping, And the purpose is to Ava, the capital of Burma.Because there is no standing army in Burma, there are only more than 10,000 royal guards in Ava, and the soldiers and horses in the rest of the places are the same as the military forces of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest, they are all Tusi soldiers from all over the country, these Tusi soldiers are the same as mercenaries, whoever gives them military salaries, they will listen to whomever they want.Therefore, as long as Ava is taken, Burma will be annihilated.Naturally, it didn't take long for Burma to learn the news that the Ming Dynasty was marching against him, and he made preparations in advance, but what made the king of Burma, King Talong, angry, the commander of the Ming army temporarily changed the strategy of marching, so that his soldiers and horses were also arranged wrongly.This arrangement is wrong, and if you want to rearrange it, it will naturally be much more troublesome."
The commander of the Ming army is a difficult figure to deal with!
We have to be careful!
”Therefore, King Talong had to admit that the commander of the Ming army was very cunning, so he said it.