Chapter 661 Attacking Burma - Population and Planning
While Dao Baifeng was giving him a pick, he asked: "How did our Meng Yangren perform during the siege today?"
"Do you need to ask? Apart from the Han army, we, Meng Yangren, have made the most contributions. Today I am leading the charge. Although I am not the first one to charge to the top of the city, I did so earlier than all the other chieftains.
The most Ava people were killed." Dao Yubin said: "I asked them all to go inside the city before coming down from the city, and I don't know how many things I can rob."
"You're still robbing things! General Mu said you are not allowed to rob things at night, lest you can't see clearly and start killing each other. He also sent out military police to kill anyone found robbing privately on the spot." Dao Baifeng said.
"Well, wouldn't we have paid in vain?" Dao Yubin said anxiously.
"How is this possible! Alang will not treat the person who made the contribution this time badly." Dao Baifeng said.
"That's true, Zhu Zhen doesn't look like a mean and ungrateful person. And if he doesn't get any rewards for sending troops this time, no one will be willing to follow him in sending troops in the future." Dao Yubin said.
"I hope we can reward a few more slaves, even children. A lot of us have died in the past few years, and we need to add more. It would be great if we could be rewarded with all this land." Dao Yubin said again.
"How is this possible!" Dao Baifeng said. Dao Yubin himself knew it was impossible, so he didn't say anything more.
After a while, all the bubbles were picked. Dao Baifeng took out the potion and smeared it on him. After smearing it, he said to him: "Okay, it's all done. Don't go to the ground for the next few days and let them make you a potion."
Carrying it on a stretcher."
"Stretcher? What is a stretcher?" Dao Yubin asked.
"It's just a piece of cloth with wooden sticks on both sides, and it can be carried by two people. You will know when you see it tomorrow." Dao Baifeng explained.
"It's a new thing invented by the Han people. The Han people just have a lot of things that they don't know are useful or useless." Dao Yubin said.
"This thing is very useful. If someone who has injured his or her legs or feet cannot walk, it is much faster to put someone on a stretcher than to have someone help them walk." Dao Baifeng raised an eyebrow and said.
"Okay, I know. Let's see what a stretcher is tomorrow, and I'll also try the Han people's new stuff." Dao Yubin said.
Dao Baifeng said a few more words to him and walked out of the tent.
As soon as she left Dao Yubin's tent, a Meng Yang native soldier said to her: "Miss Third, the chieftain asked you to come over."
"It's so late, why did dad ask me to come over?" Dao Baifeng muttered and walked towards Dao Mudan's tent.
When she entered, Dao Mudan was reading something. When he saw Dao Baifeng walking in, he put down the book and stood up and said with a smile, "Have you been picking it up for Dao Yubin for a long time?"
"Well, Dad, the entire sole of my cousin's left foot was burned. Fortunately, he was wearing thick cloth shoes, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to save his foot," Dao Baifeng said.
The father and daughter said a few more words, and Dao Baifeng asked: 'Dad, why did you ask me to come here?'
"You tell King Min tomorrow that our Meng Yang does not want wealth this time, but only population." Dao Mudan said.
"Why?" Dao Baifeng asked puzzledly.
"Bai Feng, our Mengyang has suffered too many population losses in recent years. Thousands of people have died in conflicts. Today's attack on Ava City alone resulted in more than 300 deaths and more than 200 people suffering from injuries."
Hurt. We urgently need to increase the population." Dao Mudan said.
"I understand, I will talk to Zhu Zhen tomorrow," Dao Baifeng said. Just now Dao Yubin mentioned population, and now her father also mentioned population, which shows that their population is indeed in urgent need of replenishment.
"We must get King Min to agree to replenish our population. This is very important. It depends on you, Bai Feng." Dao Mudan turned his head and stared into Dao Baifeng's eyes.
Dao Baifeng didn't speak any more and just nodded.
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After breakfast the next day, Zhu Chu and Mu Ang led the army into the city. At this time, the city was still stained with blood. The bodies of those who died in the battle yesterday and those who were beheaded that night had not yet been cleaned up, and everything was in a mess.
However, order in the city has been restored. Military police wearing red scarves maintained order everywhere, and the people in the city were kicked out to welcome His Highness King Min into the city. Of course, although they were kicked out to welcome His Highness King Min, they did not come close at all.
When Zhu Chu had the opportunity, he could only watch from a distance, kneel down according to the order, and wait for Zhu Chu to walk over before standing up.
Zhu Chu and Mu Ang did not live in the most luxurious village in the city. Instead, they chose two adjacent houses of ordinary wealthy households and lived in one in the east and one in the west.
Generally speaking, the first thing to do after entering the city is to restore order, appease the people, treat the wounded, arrange the residence of the soldiers, collect food, etc. Zhu Chu and Mu Ang also did the same. They posted notices to calm the people everywhere in the city, and
Considering that most of the people in Ava didn't even know Dai, they also arranged for people to read the notices aloud in the main streets of the city.
Of course, the wealthy people in the city do not belong to the category of "people". Except for a few merchants who did business in Mengyang, Mubang, Dali and other places who survived, hundreds of other middle- and upper-class households were
The house was ransacked, not only the property was confiscated, but also the master and the slaves were arrested. Zhu Chu arrested a total of ten or twenty thousand people.
The fate of the children was very tragic. "Your Highness, according to the custom, any children caught on the border must be castrated and sent to the capital to serve as eunuchs. Your Highness, when I returned from the capital, I remembered that your Majesty reduced the number of servants in the palace, and there were only about 2,000 eunuchs.
, it is better to castrate only 300 young children this time, send 200 of them to the capital, and the other 100 to enrich the servants of His Highness the palace." Mu Ang said.
"Well, we don't need so many eunuchs." Zhu Ming said. He couldn't bear to castrate children, but rules are rules, and the eunuchs in the palace either come from here or there. It is better to castrate barbarians than to castrate them.
The Han people are better. But he still doesn't want to add eunuchs to his palace this time. Seeing this with his own eyes is completely different from other people's castrations being sent to the palace.
"If your Highness doesn't need it, you can give it to the princes of the Central Plains. The princes of the Central Plains are not close to the border. The eunuchs can only obey the wishes of the Han people, but there are so many people who volunteer to be eunuchs! I heard before that the Prince Zhou's Mansion in Kaifeng is very
I am so embarrassed that I have to ask His Majesty to allocate dozens of eunuchs." Mu Ang said.
"Then you can figure it out, and I won't bother you." Zhu Zhen could only say in the end.
The people who were captured except children were all locked up with the prisoners captured a while ago. These people would be sent back to Dali and Yongchang, dispersed and distributed to various places. Some of them would also be distributed to the chieftains who followed the war.
The ordinary people in the city showed no panic at the arrest of the rich people in the city. Some people even scolded the rich people behind their backs: "It's time! We should have arrested them all a long time ago. They are a bunch of people who are unkind for the sake of wealth. They are the new ones."
It would be great if your Majesty could share some of these treasures with us."
After all these things are done, the most important thing is to reward them according to their merits. Although the war is not over, they will probably have to fight another battle with the main force of the Ava people who have returned to the army, but at least they can finish this attack now.
The merits of Ava City were clearly assessed, and the rewards that should be given were also determined, and they would be rewarded together after the war was over.
It is easy to assess the merit. Mu Ang and Zhu Zhen stood beside the battlefield and watched the entire siege process - there are no cannons in Ava City, and they have clairvoyance, so they can see the whole process clearly - so it is fair and just
After evaluating the merits, the local officials gave Meng Yangren the first credit, Mubang the second, etc., and everyone had no opinion. The generals also made their own evaluations.
But it was different when the rewards were decided later. The generals did not dare to fight for anything, but the local officials were not only Meng Yang, but almost all the local officials agreed: they wanted population. It does not mean that they did not want wealth, but in addition to wealth, they wanted
, every native official also wants some population.
This made Zhu Zhenzhi unable to make a decision. In the end, he decided that in addition to rewarding each family with a lot of property, he would put down the reward of slaves for the time being and wait until the battle was over before making a decision.
Privately Zhu Chu and Mu Ang said: "According to what they said to Gu in private, Gu has to reward them with all the 20,000 people captured this time to satisfy their request. How can Gu reward them with all the people?"
"Even Meng Yang can't do it?" Mu Ang thought for a while and asked.
Zhu Ming was silent for a moment and then said: "Neither Meng Yang can do it! The most important thing for these native officials is balance, and in the balance, their power is weakened bit by bit. One of the reasons why Gu decided to send troops to Ava is that Ava
His strength is too strong and affects the balance here. So how can I support a powerful Meng Yang?"
Zhu Zhen's policy towards native officials was consistent with Zhu Yuanzhang's, which was to beat every chieftain who was too powerful and either split it or defeat it, and at the same time continue to sinicize the barbarian people near places with a large number of Han people.
"Awa, what are you going to do?" Mu Ang asked again.
"Establish the Ava Military and Civilian Prefecture and move some Han people over. I know that there are not many Han people in Yunnan now. In the 26th year of Hongwu, there were only more than 250,000 people. Even if a few were exiled, they would not even fill the current state capital.
Not enough. The number of Han people in Yongchang cannot be too small. Zhuo Jing and I will discuss whether we can move a few thousand people here."
"At the same time, the left and right guards of Awa were established. The left guard was mainly Han people with a small number of local people, and the right guard was composed of local people. A state capital was established slightly further away from the city of Ava, and the local people served as hereditary governors of the state.
Prefect."
"Establish medical clinics and Confucianism in Ava City and nearby Tuxian County, use medicine to attract their interest in learning Chinese, and then use Confucianism to educate them."
"The city of Ava is too far away from Yongchang. There are chieftains in the middle. Keep troops stationed here. Unless you move the palace from Yongchang to Ava and guard it with the vassal king, it will be dangerous," Mu Ang said.
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"Then I will move the palace here and live in Ava forever." Zhu Zhen asked firmly.
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Thanks to book friend Chang Ge Youying for the reward.
