When the Ming army invaded Yunnan in a large-scale manner, Zhu Youlang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, lived a prisoner life as a prisoner who was painted in a yard.

When Zhu Youlang fled to Myanmar, King Li Dingguo of Jin was still organizing the Mopanshan Battle with blood, trying to save the Ming Dynasty where the building was about to collapse. At that time, the Qing army could not directly threaten the security of the Yongli court that had fled to the border. Zhu Youlang could have waited for the King of Jin and the Qing army to decide the victory and defeat before making a decision. However, Yongli, who was afraid of the enemy, ignored the dissuasion of the officials accompanying the horse, and despite the bloody battle between the King of Jin and his soldiers, Ma Jixiang, Li Guotai and others surrounded him and boarded the Myanmar passenger ship, and since then he abandoned himself to countless military and civilians of the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Youlang escaped, except for him, Ma Jixiang and others, most of the civil and military officials and guards accompanied him were not located, and even the Queen Mother and the Eastern Palace ignored him. After Zhu Youlang took the boat, the Queen Mother was furious and said, "Does the emperor ignore his mother?" Zhu Youlang and others had been mooring for two days. On the sixth day of the lunar month, the waterway personnel were ready and drove south one after another. Along the way, the Burmese village people supplied goods. On the 18th, the boat arrived at Jinggen (Mandalay). On the 24th, the King of Burmese asked Emperor Yongli to send two ministers to the boat to speak.

Zhu Youlang sent the governor of the Central Government, Ma Xiongfei, and the censor Wu Changqi to "announce the intention of Nanxun". Although the Yongli court still regarded himself as the sect leader, in fact, he fled, so the Burmese monarch and ministers were naturally very clear about this. In order to avoid the difficulty of handling the etiquette properly, the Burmese king refused to receive the envoys, and only sent Han people to communicate information and allowed Emperor Yongli and his entourage to temporarily stay in the territory.

The Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers who were led by minister Pan Shirong to travel south on land arrived at the opposite bank of the river across the river by Awa City, Myanmar, on March 17. Due to the scattered people, the Burmese king caused uneasiness. He said: "This is not to avoid chaos, but to be a secret guide to our country!" He sent troops to surround them and forcibly placed these Nanming personnel in the nearby village houses, regardless of men, women, age and young. The family members were banned from traveling. In an instant, the wife and children were separated, their family property was exhausted, and their personal freedom was lost. The government envoy Zhu Yunjin and the central army Jiang Chengde were forced to hang themselves.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, the Myanmar authorities moved Emperor Yongli and his entourage from the well to the place across the river of Awa City, where people arrived by land, and built a city with bamboo, and built ten thatched houses as the residence of Emperor Yongli, and other officials and others built their own houses to live in it.

After Zhu Youlang and his entourage lived in the suburbs of Awa City, it was difficult for them to maintain contact with the anti-Qing forces in China. The so-called "mortal court" was just a false name. Although the Myanmar authorities allowed them to enter the country to take refuge, they never gave formal official receptions. Although the Burmese king lived in Awa City, the Yongli monarch and ministers who were exiled to Myanmar lived outside Awa City, across the river and were close to each other, the two had never met.

At the beginning, the Myanmar authorities also provided some material assistance, which is the so-called generous tribute. Zhu Youlang also brought some savings and intended to give a generous gift. In the customary terms of the Ming Dynasty, it was a condescending "reward". However, Burmese officials said that they did not receive the order of the king and dared not ceremonies, which meant that they were unwilling to perform vassal rituals to the Ming Dynasty emperor. Zhu Youlang had no strength, so he had to listen to it naturally.

The Yongli court was temporarily resettled, and most civil and military officials continued to live a life of peace and happiness without any loss of the country and worrying about the king. Local Burmese residents came to the residence of the monarch and ministers of Yongli to trade. Many Ming Dynasty officials ignored the state's body, garments and feet were worn, mixed in Burmese women, teased women, and sat on the ground. Myanmar officials looked down on the ugly behavior of the fugitive officials of the Ming Dynasty and said privately: "How can the world not perish if the ministers of the Celestial Empire play so much?"

A Han man also said sadly: "I see that these masters are becoming less and less like those who are Xingwang Tuba."

Zhu Youlang was also suffering when he saw this situation. In order to maintain the so-called security and convention of the court, he decided to send officials to take turns to patrol the night. He did not want to send officials to take the opportunity to drink high and sing all night. Zhu Youlang was sick with his left foot and moaned day and night, Ma Jixiang, Li Guotai and others would drink in the house of Prince Weigong. Weigong's family had Guangdong female actors Li Yingxiang and Jixiang. Guotai ordered her to sing and drink. Li Yingxiang shed tears and said, "The palace is forbidden to be close to you, and the jade body is inconsistent. How can you do this? You want to have fun. Although Yingxiang is a villain, he dare not respond." Wang Weigong actually picked up a stick and beat her.

Zhu Youlang heard the sound of crying and sent someone to send an edict, "Everyone who is indifferent to his mother's death, he should also miss his new mourning, so it is not advisable to hear it." Wang Weigong and others temporarily restrained themselves. In addition, Bo Puying of Suining, eunuch Yang Guoming and others opened a casino, calling for a 6-day and night, and there was a noise. Emperor Yongli was furious and ordered the Jinyi Guards to go to demolish the casino. The ministers were so happy that they were so happy that they could not help but open the casino in another place, and the noise was still the same.

The King of Burma sent someone to invite Duke of Qian, Mu Tianbo, to cross the river to participate in the Myanmar Festival. After Mu Tianbo brought the gifts originally planned to be given by Emperor Yongli across the river, the monarchs and ministers of Burma did not allow him to wear Ming Dynasty clothes, and forced him to put on national clothes and go to the Golden Palace with the envoys of the small states of Burma to meet with ministers. According to the custom of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, the Duke of Qian, who was guarding Yunnan, represented the Ming Empire to take charge of Yunnan chieftains and handle the exchanges of surrounding vassal states. Their tradition was very noble. At this time, they turned over and wanted to wear national clothes barefoot to pay tribute to the King of Burma. Mu Tianbo's distress was conceivable.

After returning from the ceremony, Mu Tianbo said to the court officials: "I don't need my words when I was in Jinggen (Jigeng) in March, and I have been in a dilemma today. If I refuse to surrender, the carriage will be in the tiger's den. Alas, lament, who will make me come here?" After that, he burst into tears. Yang Zai, the Minister of Rites, Ren Guoxi, at this time, even wrote a memorial to impeach Mu Tianbo's loss of body and humiliate the country. Emperor Yongli had no choice but to stay in the city without reporting.

In June, Ma Jixiang and Li Guotai told Emperor Yongli that the court officials and their entourage had difficulty in living. Some of them had no food to put them in the pot, which meant that Zhu Youlang had taken out the "inner treasury" to help. Poor Zhu Youlang was already the emperor who was exiled to take refuge in other countries. He had no family property and had suffered many disasters. The savings given by the King of Jin were already stretched. In anger, he threw the new national seal made of gold on the ground and let them scatter it to the ministers.

The eunuch Li Guoyong kowtowed and said, "I will never dare to break this treasure if I die!"

Ma Jixiang and Li Guotai were scrupulous and smashed the seal in front of Yongli and distributed it to each ministers to count the money to one or two taels. Soon, Myanmar sent a batch of newly harvested rice, and Zhu Youlang instructed it to distribute it to the poor accompanying officials. Ma Jixiang regarded it as his own thing and only distributed it to people who had close friendship with him, and no one else was distinguished. This incident caused great dissatisfaction within the exiled court.

The general of the guard Deng Kai was so sad that he shouted: "The current situation is here, but you still dare to deceive the superiors. If you don't give him a favor, where is your conscience?"

Yongli heard Deng Kai's cry in the house and was about to come out to ask clearly. However, the chief assistant Ma Jixiang ordered his younger brother Ma Xiongfei to lead someone to knock Deng Kai over to the ground, so that Deng Kai was injured and could not walk, and he became a cripple from then on.

Zhu Youlang is actually a person who likes lively. In Wuzhou, Guangxi, a group of idle people played with him. He thought that after becoming emperor, he could live a more comfortable and lively life. However, facts proved that since he became emperor, he had never lived a comfortable life. He was first bumpy and then hostage by Sun Kewang, and now he is wandering in a foreign land. What makes him even more unbearable is that the group of ministers around him have always lived a life of living a favorable life with the king's salary, but now, the emperor has no money to reward and no land to give, and has become a veritable bare emperor. However, these ministers still stretched out their hands to ask Emperor Yongli for this and that.

Not long after he smashed the jade seal, Ma Jixiang and the others asked Zhu Youlang for things. Zhu Youlang had no choice but to take out some of the treasured jewelry to give to the ministers to the ministers to enjoy. Later, the treasure was gone, and Zhu Youlang asked for gold, silver and jewelry from Queen Wang to share it with the ministers. Later, there was nothing left, and the ministers still came to ask Emperor Yongli for salary.

Zhu Youlang was so angry that he pointed at Ma Jixiang and asked, "Why do the elders always bring people to ask me for salary?"

Ma Jixiang was actually unchanged and said with confidence: "As the saying goes, eat your salary and share your worries. If we don't eat your salary, how can we share your worries?"

(To be continued.)
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