Zhu Zhen first activated the Duan clan in Dali and used their reputation to win over some places in his fiefdom.
The Duan family of Dali founded Dali in 937 AD and ruled most of Yunnan for more than 400 years. Even after the Mongols destroyed Dali in 1254 AD, they still appointed the Duan family as the general manager of Dali, together with Liang who was conferred by Kublai Khan. Wang managed Yunnan together. Duan Xingzhi, the last emperor of the Dali Kingdom, served as the general manager of Dali for another seven years after the fall of the Dali Kingdom.
Duan was the manager of Dali for thirteen generations, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty captured Dali in the 15th year of Hongwu that the Duan family's hereditary lineage was completely eliminated. "The Duan family's land has come to an end."
After the fall of the Duan regime, the tribe was divided into several branches. Some of them were moved to Yanmen Pass in Shanxi by Zhu Yuanzhang, and some were moved to Wuchang in Huguang. Those who stayed in Yunnan also left Dali and dispersed in various places.
After repeated decisions, Zhu Chu brought Duan Guiyi, the son of Duan Ming, the penultimate general manager of Dali, back from Wuchang and asked him to assist him.
Relying on the prestige of the Duan family and the military deterrence of the Ming Dynasty - including the pacification of the Daoganmeng rebellion that just ended in the 31st year of Hongwu's reign - Zhu Ming succeeded in subduing most of the native officials who were assigned to him, and he could obtain from them After collecting money and food, they can also send troops to follow them in war.
However, although several of the most powerful chieftains are very respectful on the surface, they are not so easy to talk to when it comes to key issues, including the Mu family of Lijiang, the Sijia family of Luchuan, the Han family of Mubang, the Dao family of Meng Yang, and the Meng family. Lian's sword family, and a chieftain force he successfully recruited after taking office: Meng Gen's sword family.
These families are very powerful, with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in their hands. Under the system of integrating military and civilians, they can recruit tens of thousands of troops. For Min King who has just arrived in Yunnan and does not have many troops at his disposal. They were not very convinced. The reason why they were willing to obey his orders to a certain extent was because they were afraid of the great Ming behind him.
Since Zhu Ming wanted to make this place a feudal state, he could not tolerate this situation, and he also needed to establish his authority when he first arrived in Yunnan, so he started thinking about going to war in the second year of Jianye.
He originally targeted the big chieftains within his jurisdiction, such as Mengyang, Mubang, and Luchuan. Especially Luchuan. Originally, Mengyang, Mubang, and other chieftains were subordinate to the Luchuan Xuanwei Envoy Division. However, in the first year of Jianye's reign, the original chieftain of Luchuan, Silunfa, died, and his successor, Sixingfa, was unable to maintain such a large country. The Ming Dynasty took the opportunity to appoint ten native officials and split Luchuan. Zhu Ming originally wanted to attack Luchuan One battle completely wiped out the forces of homesickness.
But just then he learned that there was a foreign country called Burma to the south of Mengyang, and this foreign country was quite powerful. It often fought with Mengyang, Luchan, and Mubang, and also invaded Meng Lian and Meng Gen.
After understanding the strength of Myanmar, Zhu Zhen first felt that the troops he could mobilize now were enough to defeat Myanmar; secondly, after all, Mengyang and other places had expressed their submission to the Ming Dynasty, and there had been no rebellion recently, and their troops were unknown; thirdly, Mengyang These powerful chieftains had a feud with Burma and would try their best to fight against Burma and take this opportunity to consume the power of these chieftains. So he decided to send troops to Burma and at the same time recruited all the native officials in his fiefdom to send troops.
At this time, Zhu Min was sitting in the main seat, pointing to the map on the table and facing his generals. The local official said: "For this expedition, we have mobilized a total of 27,000 Han troops, 4,000 Shunning troops, and 4,000 Dahou troops. There are 7,000 people in Lijiang, 16,000 people in Mengyang, 15,000 people in Mubang, 10,000 people in Luchuan, 10,000 people in Menggen, 6,000 people in Menglian, 5,000 people in Mengding, and other places. Six thousand people, a total of 110,000 troops, will definitely be able to defeat Burma."
The reason why Zhu Zhen waited until this time to formulate a battle plan was because although some local officials had promised to send many troops, they might not actually send so many troops. He had to first determine how many troops would participate in the battle.
'The Mu family in Lijiang clearly promised to send 8,000 men, but in the end they were short of 1,000; Chief Meng Lian sent too few troops. Taking advantage of my absence on the southern front, he only sent 6,000 men. But it doesn't matter, these troops
It's enough to defeat Burma. When the battle is over, I can use this as an excuse to punish Meng Lian and send the chieftain's knife.' Zhu Ming thought.
He continued: "Gu planned to divide his troops into two groups. Among them, the northern group was led by Gu himself, with 22,000 Han troops..., a total of 86,000 people."
"Most of the troops on the North Road are now gathered in Mengyang City, but Gu has sent 5,000 Meng Yang troops and 5,000 Han troops to station in Jiangtou City. It is the southernmost city of Meng Yang Chieftain, and he is currently stationed in
Mengyangcheng's army will also set off for Jiangtou City. From there, they will move southward by land and water, along the Dajinsha River (Yiluowa River) to attack Taigong City, the northernmost city in Myanmar. After capturing Taigong City, they will continue to move down the river.
All the way to Awa, the capital of Myanmar (near present-day Mandalay, Myanmar).”
"On the southern front, Mu Ang is the leader, and there are 10,000 Meng Gen, 6,000 Meng Lian, 13,000 Mu Bang, and 5,000 Han troops, a total of 34,000 people. Now they have gathered at Mu Bang
The Sibo City of Bang Tusi will also attack Burma along the Awa River (Nandu River), and finally meet with the Northern Route Army led by Gu Gu personally at the foot of the Awa City and encircle the Awa City."
No one spoke. Everyone had already known about this combat plan before, and there was actually no other better route to advance. The southwest is different from the Central Plains in that many places have not yet been developed. There are only three roads from Yunnan to Myanmar:
One is the northern route this time, the other is the southern route this time, and the other is starting from Longchuan (Ruili) and passing through Mengmi (now Mengmi, Myanmar) to attack Ava.
Among them, the Longchuan-Mengmi route is all within the territory of Luchuan. Now not only is Zhu Ming determined to completely kill Luchuan, Luchuan's Si Xingfa also hates the Ming Dynasty for splitting Luchuan, so he is very afraid of Si Xingfa.
Xingfa's head was hot and he destroyed their army in the territory, so he did not take the Longchuan-Mengmi route, and the troops from Luchuan were also transferred to the northern front to fight with the army.
After that, Zhu Ming ordered each army's army who would be the center army, who would be the rear army, who would be the left army, who would be the right army, and who would be the front army, and each of them would appoint their chief generals. The Han army on the northern front only had a total of 20,000 taels.
With a thousand men, Zhu Zhen did not dare to spread out these real main forces too much, so the left and right armies were both chieftain's armies, and the chief general was also a chieftain.
Finally, Zhu Ming said: "Dear local officials, I won't say much more. Since you are following my Ming Dynasty to fight this time, you must obey my Ming Dynasty's orders. If there is any crime of disobedience or violation of military discipline, I will definitely do it."
You don’t know how to show mercy!”
The people present all said in skilled or unskilled ways: "Your Highness, please rest assured, we will absolutely obey His Highness's orders. If anyone does not obey the orders, I will deal with that person first without waiting for Your Highness."
Zhu Ming suddenly laughed again and said: "In fact, I know that you will not do such unwise behavior. You are just afraid that your subordinates will act randomly. Since you all said that you must strictly restrain your subordinates, I don't have anything to say to you."
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He then smiled at Mengyang Chieftain Dao Mudan and said, "Master Dao, why don't you serve us some food? Why, Master Dao, are you still stingy about this meal?"
Dao Mudan smiled and said: "What did you say, Your Highness? No matter how poor I am, Meng Yang can still afford a meal." Then he ordered his son Dao Siluan a few words in Thai. Dao Siluan stood hurriedly.
Get up and go out.
Dao Mudan said to Zhu Ming again: "Your Highness, I, Meng Yangren, will not entertain distinguished guests in such a small place. Please come with me."
Zhu Zhen hurriedly followed him out. After walking for a while, he came to an open space in the middle of the village.
Dao Mudan turned to Zhu Chu and said: "Your Highness, I, Meng Yangren, entertain distinguished guests not only with delicious food and wine, but also with singing and dancing. Your Highness has not seen the singing and dancing of our southwestern ethnic groups, right?"
"In Yongchang, Dali, Shunning, Qujing, and Kunming, I have seen the songs and dances of the southwestern ethnic groups, but I don't know if they are the same as those here." Zhu Chu said.
After hearing his words, Dao Mudan felt relieved and said with a smile: "Yongchang, the songs and dances of Dali are different from those of Meng Yangren. Your Highness can see how the songs and dances of Meng Yangren are different from theirs."
"Oh, I need to take a closer look at that." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.
However, Luchuan's Si Renfa and Meng Ding's Dao Minggan and others are disdainful in their hearts. What Meng Yangren's songs and dances are not the common songs and dances of their Dai people? It just happened that His Highness King Min was the first to come to your Meng.
Just raise it.
Of course, Dao Mudan couldn't hear the thoughts of Si Renfa and Dao Minggan, and even if he heard them, he wouldn't care. Dao Mudan arranged for Zhu Zhen and others to sit down in a place with gorgeous carpets, and then arranged for the dishes to be served.
, while people began to perform songs and dances.
He first introduced it to Zhu Zhen: "This is our famous Meng Yang dish, sour pork. It is made from beef that is pickled and then stir-fried. It is very sour and fragrant."
Zhu Xi tried to take a bite, but immediately showed a disgusted expression and said: "What does this taste like!" However, he still swallowed the food in his mouth.
Dao Mudan saw that Zhu Chu didn't like sour meat, so he asked people to take away all the sour meat in front of him, and immediately served the second dish.
"Your Highness, this is the roasted fish of our southwestern people. Would you like it, Your Highness?" Dao Mudan said nervously.
Zhu Ming also carefully picked up a piece and tasted it, but this time his brows immediately widened and he said: "Not bad, soft, tender, fresh and sweet, very good."
When Dao Mudan saw that Zhu Chu liked it, he smiled and said, "If your highness likes it, eat more."
Zhu Chu ate up all the fish in front of him and asked, "How do you make this dish?"
"Your Highness, the recipe for this dish is to remove the gills and internal organs from the fresh fish, wash it, mix chopped green onion, minced ginger, minced garlic, etc. into a stuffing, put it into the belly of the fish, fold the head and tail, and then tie it with lemongrass to form a cross.
, wrap it with banana leaves on the outside, bury it in the charcoal or hot ashes of firewood, and cook it. Take it out, remove the banana leaves and lemongrass, and serve it on a plate." Daomudan added: "If your highness likes it, I will send a chef.
Go to His Highness’s palace.”
"That's not necessary. Why should you eat delicious food all the time?" Zhu Zhen said.
