Chapter 1292, the colonial policy of the Zhang brothers
Outside Bago City in Myanmar, Zhang Heling led tens of thousands of troops to surround the city.
"Fire~"
Putting down the telescope in his hand, Zhang Yanling coldly gave the order to attack.
Fighting all the way from the Emerald City, the army was invincible and invincible. There was no opponent at all. Almost everyone surrendered voluntarily wherever they went. Even those who did not surrender would immediately surrender under another artillery attack.
surrender.
The Bago City in front of us is the largest city we have encountered so far, and it is also an important gateway to Taungoo and Ava City.
However, he didn't take it to heart, because although the Bago City in front of him was a famous city in Myanmar, compared with the cities of the Ming Dynasty, it was only the size of a small county town, even the size of the city of the Ming Dynasty.
Small counties are not as good as that.
The city wall was short and in disrepair for many years, and was simply not enough to stop his own army.
"Dong dong~dong dong~"
Accompanied by the deafening sound of cannons, cannonballs roared in the sky and landed in Bago City in the blink of an eye. For a moment, the entire Bago City was in chaos, houses continued to collapse, and the panicked crowd seemed to be headless.
Flies generally run around everywhere.
The defenders of the Ava Dynasty on the city wall had no intention of fighting. With the falling of cannonballs, there were also casualties on the city wall.
"kill!"
"Kill me ruthlessly. If I don't massacre a few cities ruthlessly, these Burmese people may not be willing to accept the rule of our Zhang family honestly in the future."
With the artillery fire attacking one after another, the city of Bago was like a crumbling candle in the storm, ready to be destroyed at any time.
Zhang Yanling drew out the sword in his hand, a cold light flashing in his eyes.
The colonial rule in Tianzhu has been carried out all year round, and it is necessary to levy taxes on the colonies, plunder resources and wealth, etc. Naturally, there will be resistance from the local indigenous people.
Regarding the rebellious natives, Zhang Yanling has also summed up a lot of experience and lessons over the years. In his opinion, if the Zhang family wants to firmly rule a colony, it needs to be ruthless.
The first thing to do is to let the local natives know the Zhang family's methods and power, and make them afraid, so that they will not dare to resist the Zhang family's rule, and will honestly contribute wealth to the Zhang family.
If you treat them better, they will take advantage of you and think you are easy to bully and easy to talk to. Today they say you want to reduce taxes, tomorrow you say you want to take power, and the day after tomorrow they will kick you out.
In Bengal, his brother was the governor-general and was responsible for coordinating the colonies, while he was responsible for leading the army and developing the colonies while also adopting bloody governance strategies.
Any native who resists or disobeys the Zhang family's orders will be brutally suppressed by him.
Without these means, it would be difficult for the Zhang family to gain a foothold in Bengal. Just relying on the children of the Zhang family to rule the vast and fertile land of East India, the Zhang family could plunder tens of millions from the colony every year.
A huge fortune of two taels of silver.
If he wanted to colonize Myanmar, Zhang Yanling could think of a very simple way, which was to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys and use iron-fisted means to occupy, rule and manage this place.
The Zhang brothers are not civil servants, nor do they believe in the Confucian ethics of benevolence and righteousness. Their behavior is a bit like that of ruffians and bandits.
The purpose of colonizing this place is to plunder wealth, not to build this place, nor do we intend to regard this place as our home.
So there is no talk of construction or not, everything revolves around how to make money.
The grain grown in the fields was taxed, all minerals in the colony belonged to the Zhang family and no one was allowed to mine them, and the population of the colony also belonged to the Zhang family's slaves.
This kind of ruling policy also caused rebellions in East India to rise one after another, and there were often rebellions against their rule.
Fortunately, the Zhang brothers have some conscience when it comes to the most important agricultural tax. They only levy it according to the proportion of landlords in the Ming Dynasty. It is much lighter than the original tax, so the Zhang brothers are also allowed to pay taxes.
Dui Caobao has been able to stabilize the colony in East Tianzhu.
Now that we want to colonize Myanmar, this is the only way Zhang Yanling, a pig-headed man, can think of.
No matter what, let's kill for a while first and establish the majesty of the Zhang family first. This will facilitate the Zhang family's future rule and management.
The first target of the operation was the Bago City in front of us, because the cities in front of them basically surrendered when they saw Zhang's colonial army. Only the Bago City in front of us seemed to insist on resisting.
Following Zhang Yanling's order, the colonial army surged towards Bago City like a tide.
"Bang~bang~"
The musketeers stood under the city wall to suppress the city. Intensive gunshots and billowing white smoke rose. The defenders who were exposed on the city wall and were preparing to fight with the colonial army were immediately killed and injured.
The slave army carried the ladders, and the ladders came up one after another. The slaves rushed to the top of the city wall.
The Zhang family's slave army is similar to the colonial armies of other colonies and vassals. Its members come from all over the world, including Slavs, Poles, Hungarians in Europe, Ottomans from Central Asia, Persians, Arabs, natives of Tianzhu, etc.
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As a slave, being able to fight for the master is also an opportunity to make a comeback.
Because the Zhang family also learned from the Western United Trading Company and promised some things to these slaves, such as fighting bravely and killing a certain number of enemies to gain freedom. After gaining freedom, they can also perform meritorious service by killing enemies and obtain land.
Houses, women, etc.
These things are naturally the most attractive to slaves, so the slave army is the most active and brave in fighting, always rushing to the front, because only by rushing to the front can they kill the most enemies.
The defenders on the city wall were suppressed by muskets. The slave army encountered almost no resistance and successfully scaled the city wall, and then started a bloody killing.
On the top of the city, these slave soldiers were covered in blood, with human heads tied around their waists, like demons from hell. In addition, each of them was tall, and they were like mountains pressing down on Bago City.
The defenders were heartbroken.
The two Zhang brothers are also rough people. Regarding the merits of these slave armies, they only look at the heads. This is the simplest and most primitive method.
The result was that these slave armies, each with human heads tied around their waists, looked extremely ferocious and terrifying, and the killings were also extremely heavy.
Wherever they go, they kill almost everyone they see without mercy. As long as the Zhang brothers don't give the order to seal the sword, they will keep killing.
Because for these slaves, the more people they have, the more wealth and rewards they can obtain.
The city gate was quickly opened, and the colonial army poured into this small Bago city like a tide.
In Bago City, beacon smoke was everywhere, and there were cries and the sounds of killing everywhere.
The river flowing out of the city began to turn red, and the thick smell of blood spread for more than ten miles. Carload after car of corpses were continuously pulled out, dug into big pits, and buried directly.
When the slave army counted their heads and battle achievements, countless heads piled up together to form a terrifying hill. Most people would probably pee their pants when they looked at it.
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When Zhang Yanling led his army to kill all the way and attack Ava City, the capital of the Ava Dynasty, Zhang Heling who was in charge of the Emerald City was also busy.
The Zhang brothers' army directly began to invade Myanmar, and they wanted to turn the entire Myanmar into a colony of the Zhang brothers. This was naturally a big event for the tribes and princes of the entire Myanmar.
Compared with Zhang Yanling's killing, Zhang Heling is more calm, sophisticated, and has some methods. He knows that occupying Myanmar is not for killing, but to colonize here and plunder the wealth here.
Therefore, unlike his younger brother Zhang Yanling, he knew better how to effectively manage and control a place and work out an appropriate tax ratio, so that he could better obtain wealth from the colony.
At the same time, he also knows how to divide the enemy and achieve his goals at the minimum cost.
"You go back and tell your Lord Pyaoi that as long as he is willing to surrender to our Zhang family and send troops to help attack the Ava Dynasty, our Zhang family will not treat Hou Pyayu badly after we get Burma, and I can make him King Pyaimai.
, and also expanded his fiefdom."
Zhang Heling looked at the retainers of Hou Pimai in front of him, his face was full of smiles, and he started to draw big cakes with empty teeth.
Anyway, the Ava dynasty should be destroyed first. As for the princes in various places, it is not too late to deal with them slowly later. The purpose of painting the cake now is to stabilize the situation and prevent them from uniting and sending troops to fight against themselves.
Although Zhang Heling is not afraid of all parties in Myanmar uniting together, it is naturally best to defeat them one by one and deal with them one by one slowly.
"Dad, do we really want to make that so-called Marquis Beimai king?"
When Hou Beimai's retainers left, Zhang Zhijie, Zhang Heling's second son, asked quickly.
"Be crowned king?"
"Fuck you, what the hell is that Prince Pimai, a guy with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks? Give him a crown, will he look like it?"
"What's more, are our Zhang family qualified to be crowned king?"
"This is just a delaying tactic. After the Ava dynasty is destroyed, we will slowly deal with these Burmese princes and tribes."
Zhang Heling smiled and said.
"That's it~"
Zhang Zhijie nodded repeatedly after hearing this, and then said: "The Burmese Toungoo Marquis Serong Fa also sent people over and sent some top-quality jade and ivory. They want to submit to us on the condition that our Zhang family controls Burma.
After that, they will still be allowed to control the Mengyang area."
"Mengyang's Dongyuhou Selongfa?"
"It must be the chieftain Si who betrayed our Ming Dynasty back then, if I remember correctly."
"Yes, that's them."
"There is nothing to discuss about the traitors. Kill them all. Our Zhang family is still hanging around in the Ming Dynasty. We still need to make our position clear!"
