In the palace of Ava, the capital of the Ava dynasty, young Ruinan Juexin was walking around in annoyance.
Since the Ava Dynasty, King Wen Duo has been erratic on the issue of the Ming Dynasty. He first helped the Ming Dynasty suppress the chieftain rebellion in Luchuan, and then helped the Si family and his son in Luchuan to resist the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, feeling that they were powerful, they invaded Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty.
Due to such frivolous maneuvers, the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Myanmar has never been very good. Although it was considered one of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty in the past, there would only be a perfunctory tribute every ten or eight years.
In this regard, North Korea does the best and has always been the most loyal younger brother of Ming Dynasty.
"Yelang is arrogant~Yelang is arrogant~"
"The Ming Dynasty is so powerful. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, our Myanmar is simply insignificant."
"If my grandfather hadn't overestimated his capabilities and attacked the Ming Dynasty back then, maybe things would be completely different today."
Thinking of this, Ruinan Juexin couldn't help but look at the portraits of the previous kings of the Ava Dynasty. When he saw the portrait of King Wen Duo, Ruinan Juexin couldn't help but shake his head.
The Ava Dynasty is now in a state of turmoil, with various princes and rebel forces rising one after another. Mushan, Taungoo, Pyay, Danavadi, Bangdi, Segu, etc. are all constantly stirring up the situation here.
But Rui Nam Kyaw Hin didn't really take these to heart. What worried him most was the Zhang brothers who were eyeing Myanmar.
Over the years, the Ming Empire has expanded aggressively. In the Indochina Peninsula, it successively destroyed Annan, occupied the city, and established the two provinces of Jiaozhi and Xianglin.
Later, he gave Siam a severe lesson and forced Siam to cede territory and pay compensation. The huge war compensation made Siam still breathless.
Later, they raided Malacca, established Zhenghe Province here, and controlled this important transportation chokepoint. Then the army went south, killing all directions on Java Island and other islands, and wiped out several countries.
This was the power of the Ming Dynasty, which was like a super hurricane, sweeping away the entire Southeast Asian region.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty vassal kings, large merchant houses, and large private families also established vassal states and colonies overseas. The huge Tianzhu continent has now been divided up neatly, with dozens of vassal states and dozens of colonies.
These vassal states and colonies have long set their sights on Burma. Burmese jade was very valuable in the Ming Dynasty, and countless people coveted it.
Among them, the intention of the Zhang brothers to annex Myanmar has become obvious. Under the strong pressure of force, Myanmar has no choice but to hand over the power of foreign trade to the hands of the Zhang brothers.
But Rui Nam Kyaw Hin knew very well that this could not satisfy the Zhang brothers, and their goal was to completely colonize Myanmar.
"The Emperor of Heaven has always refused to accept Myanmar as a vassal state. It must be related to what happened back then."
"Now I finally have to reap the consequences."
What Ruinan Juexin actually likes the most is that Burma, like Korea and Japan, has become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, not only can it be protected from the invasion and colonization of the Ming Dynasty, but it can also gain huge benefits from the Ming Dynasty.
Help, which is very helpful in suppressing internal rebellions.
However, Myanmar submitted credentials to the Ming Dynasty many times and was rejected by the Ming Dynasty. For the capricious Myanmar, no one dares to accept such a little brother, and he may come back to bite you that day.
Because Myanmar has done this kind of thing many times, the key is that it has no brains and thinks that it is so powerful that it can even invade the boss's territory.
"Your Majesty~ King Serongfa of Dongyu sent people to ask for 300,000 taels of silver for the military expenses of suppressing bandits~"
Just as Ruinan Juexin was thinking, a minister hurriedly walked in to report.
"Hmph~"
"This Seronfa, he actually dares to ask me for military expenses~"
"If King Wen Duo hadn't helped them rebel against the Ming Dynasty, move from Luchuan to Mengyang, and make them vassals of Mengyang, would they be where they are today?"
After hearing the minister's report, Ruinan Juexin immediately became furious.
This Serongfa is the descendant of the Si clan, the chieftain of the Ming Dynasty who rebelled against Lucchuan. King Wen Duo of the Ava Dynasty directly sent troops to Yunnan of the Ming Dynasty for them to contain the Ming Dynasty's military strength.
After arriving in Myanmar, they settled them in Mengyang, and slowly granted vassal status to them. Now they are powerful and can be regarded as the most powerful among the many vassals. They are the most powerful among the rebel tribes. They claim to have an army of one million (the Burmese people brag more than sticks)
They are all powerful. Their history says that there were 1.5 million cities in Myanmar’s history...so as long as there is an army of 10,000 or 20,000 people, it can be called a million)
Now that rebellions are continuing throughout Myanmar, Rui Nam Kyaw Hin needs the support of Taungoo Serongfa, and has repeatedly issued orders for Serongfa to lead his army to help quell the rebellion.
However, the Ava dynasty and the Toungussi family once again staged the story of the farmer and the snake.
At that time, King Wen Duo did not hesitate to offend the Si family who was helped by the Ming Dynasty. Now, not only did he not help the Ava Dynasty suppress rebellions in various places, he even used it to constantly threaten the Ava Dynasty.
He repeatedly asked Ruinan Juexin to expand his fiefdom, ask for military expenses to expand his army, and even asked for a larger title. He was no longer satisfied with the title of marquis.
This time, Ruinan Juexin once again issued an order to Serongfa. Serongfa did not directly resist the order, but asked for military expenses.
The military expenditure of 300,000 taels of silver was an astronomical figure for the Ava Dynasty of Myanmar, and it was simply impossible to come up with it.
Even if he could get it, Ruinan Juexin would not foolishly cut the meat to feed the tiger again. This Taungyu Serongfa was more cunning and the most powerful compared to other rebellious princes and tribes.
Feudal lords in various parts of Myanmar have a long history of being kings. There are many tribes in Myanmar, coupled with Myanmar's special geographical environment.
Myanmar is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with mountains to the west, north and east, and the sea to the south. Therefore, except for some plains in the central and southern parts of Myanmar, almost all of Myanmar is steep mountains and rivers, and transportation is extremely inconvenient.
This can easily lead to separatist forces in various places, making it difficult to unify. Even if unified, it will not last long.
"Your Majesty, everyone knows about the ambition of Selung Fa. I think that the best thing we should do is to destroy them first, so that we can kill the chickens and scare the monkeys, and deter other princes and tribes."
When the minister heard Ruinan Juexin's words, he also hurriedly reported.
"If he could be killed easily, I would have killed him long ago."
When Ruinan Juexin heard this, he sighed and shook his head slightly.
Today is different from the past. The national power of the Ava Dynasty is not as good as before. What's more, the princes from all over the world are obedient to themselves. They are all local emperors from all over the country and do not care about themselves at all. There are also the Shan people in the north. They have always been eyeing them.
I want to go south.
All of this made Ruinan Juexin unable to concentrate his strength to deal with Serongfa, and he could only keep thinking of ways to delay it.
What's more, there are the Ming people here in Emerald City, they are the real tigers.
Like a nail stuck in the most fertile land of Myanmar, they control Myanmar's economy and trade, and the Zhang brothers may dispatch an army to invade Myanmar at any time.
Compared with the few people and strength of the princes and tribes in various places, once these Ming people really invade, I am afraid it will not be a small fight, but a life and death moment.
"Report~"
At this moment, someone ran over in a hurry, without even having time to take a breath.
"Your Majesty, Emerald City, the Ming people here in Emerald City have gathered a large army to attack Ava."
"What?"
When Ruinan Juexin heard this, his whole person became sluggish.
"Here it comes, finally here~"
"The karma that was sown back then has finally paid off."
Then he muttered to himself.
"Your Majesty~ Your Majesty~"
The minister next to him looked at the dull Ruinan Juexin and shouted quickly.
"I'm fine, I'm fine."
Ruinan Juexin quickly came to his senses, and then asked calmly: "How many people are there?"
"Your Majesty, based on what we have learned so far, they have 20,000 musketeers, 10,000 cavalry, and 30,000 slave troops. The total strength exceeds 60,000."
"Sixty thousand people!"
When Ruinan Juexin heard this, he was suddenly in a trance.
The 60,000 people in the Ming Dynasty are the real number, rather than the people in Myanmar who like to exaggerate the data and insist on claiming to be a million-strong army when they clearly only have 10,000 or 20,000 people.
The 60,000 colonial troops armed to the teeth are absolutely determined to destroy their Ava dynasty.
Ruinan felt helpless and walked around, constantly thinking about how to deal with the situation in front of him.
With an army of 60,000, the Ming Dynasty only need to go upstream along the Jinsha River to directly reach Awa. This central and southern part of Myanmar is completely undefendable. Facing the Ming Dynasty with muskets and cannons, they can use
What to resist?
"Immediately tell Serongfa the news of the Ming attack. He should know what to do."
"When they defected to the Ming Dynasty, they killed many Ming Han people. The Ming Dynasty had a blood feud with them. If they didn't want to wait to die, they should know what to do."
"Pass my message to Mu Shan, Pyai and other princes. Now we have reached the moment of life and death in Myanmar. Only by uniting as one can we drive away the Ming people."
"The main thing is that they are willing to send troops to resist the Ming Dynasty's attack. After driving away the Ming Dynasty people, I will make them king."
"Immediately recruit young people from all over the country and deploy troops to defend our Burma and drive out the Ming people."
Ruinan Juexin thought for a while, and soon stopped wandering, and orders were issued from him one after another.
The tiger is coming, not the wolf.
A truly powerful and terrifying enemy is coming.
He has heard too much about the power of Ming people.
In these years, the Ming Dynasty carried out military reform. Here in Yunnan, where Myanmar and the Ming Dynasty took over, when the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers suppressed bandits and rebel chieftains, the Burmese people had already seen how powerful and terrifying the Ming army was.
Although only the colonial army of the Zhang brothers came now, for Myanmar, it was still a powerful tiger, pressing down like a mountain.
