Since the war to conquer Liao and save Korea was temporarily put on hold by Li Laiheng with his strong will, no one in the DPRK and China ministers had the motivation to touch the emperor's bad luck. When Korea's two groups of scholar-officials and civilians were being slaughtered by the Manchurians,
At that time, the Dashun Army, which had a powerful military force, could only watch on the shore.
Many years later, this matter will be unearthed again by republican historians to attack the legitimacy of the Dashun Dynasty's so-called "raising an army for only a few common people".
Of course, those things that will happen hundreds of years later are not considered by Li Laiheng at all now.
Li Laiheng adopted a strategy of waiting and watching its development in the Northeast, so the Shun Army's powerful elite troops and national financial resources could move unscrupulously toward the Southwest.
Moreover, the use of troops in the southwest to completely wipe out Sun Kewang's post-Xi Ming regime was also a reason used to prevaricate the world and explain why the Shun army did not rescue North Korea.
This point was also fully utilized by royalist historians in later generations.
For example, Jiang Zhiqing, the famous military novelist and royalist politician who created "Bullet Marks" and "Special Forces' Blades Unsheathed", once wrote an heroic article titled "Shocking! Shun Shizu defeated the enemy with one move and pacified the heroes", in which
Therefore, the Dashun Army was deeply trapped in the southwest battlefield as the reason for not saving North Korea.
In addition, there are many royalist scholars who have proposed such things as "the strategic location of Yunnan is more important", "theory of opening up the Indian Ocean", "the necessity of pursuing the Ming Emperor", "the threat of the Mughal Empire", "Western colonists"
A series of reasons such as "the development of power in Myanmar" justified Li Laiheng's inaction in the early years.
On the side of the republicans, the most powerful scholar's argument is undoubtedly the "theory of Lee Rae-hyung enriching the harem" proposed by Kim Sung-ju, a republican historian who was exiled in the Demier People's Federation before World War II.
This argument is based on an extensive search of palace archives. During the First Republic, the Republicans opened up a large number of court archives of the Shun Dynasty, so later scholars could easily investigate after Dashun listed Korea as a province.
The number of female officials, palace officials, concubines, and palace maids with Korean origins increased dramatically. At most, the number of female officials and palace servants with Korean origins reached as much as 20% of the total.
This is very inconsistent with the proportion of North Korea's population at that time in the overall population of Shun Dynasty.
Therefore, the argument that Li Laiheng sat back and watched the demise of North Korea because he coveted North Korean beauties was also very popular for a period of time.
Because this argument was very helpful in breaking the sacred myth of Sun Sejo's royal family, the Republicans once spent a lot of resources promoting this theory.
Of course, later, through the collection and examination of local county chronicles in North Korea, most scholars believed that Li Laiheng sat back and watched the demise of North Korea and had nothing to do with enriching the harem. The so-called increase in the number of Koreans in the harem was mainly due to the republican historians in the past
The statistics leave out a lot of lists.
It's just that during the Cold War, the Daimier People's Federation widely publicized this view that was unfavorable to the Dashun royal family, especially in its epic drama "The Six Hundred Years of the Ming Dynasty", directed by Amir John.
Lee Lai-hyung, played by Wang, has amazing acting skills and his lecherous image has left a deep impression on people all over the world. Finally, Lee Lai-hyung generally appears as a lecher in popular movies and TV shows.
Even the major-themed TV series "Lee Lai Hyung at the Turn of History" that he later filmed in China actually used a lustful image, which directly caused some of the rather hilarious clips in the show to become popular on Danmaku video websites.
, this is definitely not something Li Laiheng could have predicted hundreds of years ago.
What Li Laiheng is now concerned about is how to stir up public opinion for peace in Yunnan and divert the attention of both the government and the public from his determination not to send troops to conquer Liao and save Korea.
Li Dingguo has already taken up his post in Chengdu. In addition, Ma Bao is in Guangxi and Miao Lichen is on standby in Guizhou, ready to invade Yunnan at any time.
With Li Dingguo here, he knew Sun Kewang's personality and character well, so the Dashun army gave up the plan to recruit Sun Kewang very early and made preparations to use force to quell Yunnan.
The war against Liao was put on hold, and the large amount of grain, fodder, and military supplies originally raised by Bai Wang were diverted to the southwest battlefield. Truck after truck of food was sent to the southwest borderlands. Li Laiheng wanted to develop some innovative inventions such as rail carriages.
However, after calculations by the Industrial Government and Ordnance Supervision and other departments, the rail carriage is completely uneconomical and has no effect on reducing costs or improving efficiency...
Only then did Li Laiheng give up this unrealistic idea.
Railroad carriages only have value between industrial towns and mines.
It is obvious that Dashun is not yet in need of rail carriages. In fact, even in the future, rail carriages may not be on the stage of history in Shun Dynasty.
After all, China's urbanization has developed too early. Currently, there are very few cities formed due to mining development. Even if the industry develops to a certain extent in the future, it will be many years later. By then, new technologies will be better than those of rail carriages.
Much more efficient.
The separatist forces entrenched in Yunnan include, in addition to Sun Kewang, Mu Guogong's Mansion. Since Sun Kewang was still under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, he did not completely eliminate Mu Guogong's power, but retained a certain degree of independence.
At this time, Myanmar was still under the governance of King Thalong, and it adopted a policy of recuperation internally to repair the pain caused by the war with the Arakan Dynasty. Its national strength was in the recovery period, and it had no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of the Celestial Dynasty.
However, Sun Kewang took advantage of Burma's peaceful attitude and repeatedly sent troops to plunder Burma. Using Chinese businessmen in Burma as internal agents, he continued to attack Burma's cities. Especially as a Catholic, Sun Kewang burned Buddhist temples and robbed Buddhist temples under the banner of religious war.
Many Burmese Buddhist temples have accumulated wealth over hundreds of years, which has aroused the anger of the Burmese people.
But in response to this situation, Sun Kewang adopted diplomatic and tolerant measures. He killed some Xiying soldiers who participated in burning the Buddhist temple, and sent their heads to Ava as a sign of friendship. He also continued to talk about friendly trade with Myanmar, and even
He declared that from now on he would give Myanmar a certain amount of coins every year so that the two countries could have everlasting friendship.
In this way, while Sun Kewang stabilized the monarchs and ministers of Myanmar, he continued to expand his territory at the junction of Yunnan and Myanmar, allowing Xiying's forces to continuously penetrate into Myanmar.
After Sun Kewang learned that Dashun had appointed Li Dingguo to go out to Sichuan to attack him, he felt that Yunnan was not a long-term residence, and he stepped up his grand plan to move overseas and "open a new world."
In February of the second year of Tianfa, Sun Kewang established contact with the Portuguese in Macau through Pang Tianshou, the eunuch beside the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Emperor Zhu Youlang, and based on this, formed an alliance with Portuguese adventurers operating on the Andaman Sea.
There were already many Portuguese adventurers active in Lower Myanmar. A few years ago, King Thalon of Myanmar fought against these Portuguese adventurers. Although the Burmese army won the final victory, the Burmese army attacked Portugal with 30,000 people.
The fortress was fortified with more than 300 people, but suffered heavy casualties, which left a deep impression on the Burmese people.
Sun Kewang appeared in front of the Portuguese as a devout Catholic. He claimed to be the legendary King John of Catholicism. He rewarded Portuguese adventurers in various ways and finally reached a plan with them to invade Myanmar from the north to the south.
In May of the second year of Tianfa, Sun Kewang learned through the spies he sent that a large number of Shun troops had been transferred to Hunan. He had a premonition that the time for the Shun troops to pacify Yunnan by force was not far away, so he stepped up his plans to attack Myanmar and move overseas.