Sun Kewang, who traveled south to Myanmar, continued to launch wars of expansion and robbery in various places. His main target was the local Buddhist monks in Myanmar, and he took various measures to win over the feudal lords of Myanmar who had armed forces.
Sun Kewang's divisive attack played a great role in enabling Later Ximing to quickly gain a foothold in Myanmar. He studied various documents and laws of the Shun Dynasty from the north day and night, studied Li Laiheng's arrangements and reforms, and selected from them for Later Western Ming Dynasty.
Strategies used by the Ming regime.
Sun Kewang knew very well that the Later Western Ming Dynasty was in a foreign country overseas and faced a situation where the whole country was the enemy. Therefore, in addition to burning, looting and looting all Buddhist temples they encountered under the banner of Catholicism, the Ming army also adopted various measures to deal with ordinary people and the powerful armed forces of feudal lords.
The attitude of drinking water from a well but not from the river.
The Ming army maintained strict discipline and never robbed ordinary people.
Because when Hou Ximing evacuated from Yunnan, he was well-organized and fully prepared for the transfer. Therefore, Sun Kewang was able to take away the savings he had accumulated in the public and private treasury of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces in Yunnan. This also made Hou Ximing of Myanmar
The government is in a very comfortable financial position.
We will not break up with the local people and feudal powers because of the issue of wages.
Just to resettle the Laoying family captives of the Later Ximing Dynasty, and to reward the local Chinese businessmen who cooperated with the Ming army's military operations, Sun Kewang destroyed a large number of Buddhist temples, and also distributed the land occupied by the temples equally to the Laoying family members, Burmese Chinese and local poor people.
, thus gaining the first batch of local supporters.
The large amounts of gold and silver treasures seized from Buddhist temples were not only given to Portuguese adventurers to purchase flintlock guns and new red barbarian cannons from Western colonists, but they were also used to bribe Burmese feudal lords so that they would not invade the Ming Dynasty.
Military confrontation adds to chaos.
It took Sun Kewang about four months to initially complete these measures to stabilize various parts of Myanmar. Although the rebellion of the feudal main forces loyal to the royal family was still large, the Ming army maintained an absolute superiority in force, and Sun Kewang carried out cruel measures one by one.
He continued to implement harsh measures to confiscate the property of temples in order to bribe the loyalty of local feudal lords through gold and silver rewards.
Only after the Ming army completely abandoned Yunnan, some Burmese feudal lords learned of this important news. They sent envoys to contact the Shun Dynasty and asked Dashun to send troops to Myanmar to restore the royal family. At the same time, they widely publicized the Ming army's defeat in Yunnan in Myanmar.
The news led to the largest resistance movement.
However, since Sun Kewang's withdrawal from Yunnan was completely planned, except for Ai Nengqi, who was intentionally abandoned by Sun Kewang to achieve his personal dominance within the post-Xi Ming regime, almost all of the main combat forces of the Ming army were
They completely evacuated to Myanmar without suffering much losses.
The local resistance forces in Myanmar believed deeply in the rumors that the Western Ming Dynasty was weak. They mistakenly believed that Sun Kewang's luck had come to an end. Even before the Shun Dynasty responded, they assembled a large number of troops, known as 50,000 troops.
Two hundred thousand troops rebelled, setting off a great uprising throughout Upper Burma in the third year of Tianfa.
After about a year of operation, Sun Kewang had moved 300,000 family members of the old camp of the Later Western Ming Dynasty to Burma, and the number of Ming army soldiers who had been transferred to Upper Burma was 70,000.
With 70,000 soldiers, it is extremely difficult to counter the Dashun army.
But such a capable force is actually an extremely powerful armed force in Myanmar.
Moreover, Sun Kewang also bribed local feudal lords, common people, and Chinese businessmen to quickly establish a Burmese militia with more than 20,000 troops.
In this way, Sun Kewang had nearly 100,000 actual soldiers and horses, and his force was far superior to that of the anti-Ming feudal main alliance.
In terms of the Shun Dynasty, after Li Dingguo received the news that the Ming army had conquered Awa in Myanmar and established the foundation for the restoration of the country, he did not immediately report the news to the court. Later, when the anti-Ming feudal lords in Myanmar successively sent envoys to Yunnan to report the news, most of the news was also
Li Dingguo pressed down.
The complicated feelings between him and Sun Kewang prevented the Shun Dynasty from responding immediately to the revival of the post-Xi Ming regime.
It was not until Sun Kewang completely suppressed the Great Burmese Uprising that the Shun Dynasty learned the specific information about the post-Western Ming Dynasty and the Burmese War through Guangzhou.
The imperial court immediately ordered General Li Ding Guoquan to be removed from his military rank and from his position as Prime Minister of the Southwestern Road March, and ordered him to return to Beijing for investigation.
Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang have known each other for more than ten years, and their deep relationship is beyond the imagination of outsiders.
When the Dashun army attacked Sichuan, although Sun Kewang abandoned Li Dingguo and fled, it was Sun Kewang who felt sorry for Li Dingguo, and therefore Li Dingguo could surrender to Dashun without any psychological burden.
But after the battle to capture Yunnan, Li Dingguo did not want to kill Sun Kewang.
He wanted to submit a self-defense memorandum to the court, claiming that Myanmar was an overseas country and the Chinese people could not understand its language and writing. Moreover, Myanmar was full of miasma, and the Chinese people would definitely not be accustomed to the climate in Myanmar.
Sun Kewang fled to Burma in panic, just like the two Yuans fled to Liaodong during the Three Kingdoms period. Don't worry about Dashun's troops, as long as you wait and see the development of the situation, it will only take less than half a year and only one or two years. The Burmese people will definitely destroy Sun Kewang and Zhu Youlang.
The head was sent to China.
Li Laiheng said nothing and did not make any reply. He was most aware of Sun Kewang's ambition and talent. If he allowed Sun Kewang to pass through Myanmar, it would surely cause trouble for the great success the next day.
Liu Wenxiu, who was living the life of the Taiping Duke in Kaifeng, also wrote to the court to protect Li Dingguo at the risk of his family's lives.
The emperor was reading the memorials of his ministers, feeling suddenly annoyed and envious:
It makes me so jealous that Sun Kewang's character can have such brothers!
He thought about it again and again, until the child in Youci's arms laughed out loud. Li Laiheng played with the child's little hand and said with a calm smile:
"Xuan Yu laughed! Why should I hate the minister? I will send Li Dingguo to the Yunnan Army to plead guilty and perform meritorious service. He will be temporarily given the rank of General Guo Yi. The title of Xining Duke will be reduced to Viscount first to see the effect."
Li Dingguo concealed the military situation on the front line in Myanmar. After investigation by Long Yiwei, it was confirmed that there was no connection between him and Sun Kewang. It was purely because of his personal emotions and his unwillingness to kill Sun Kewang.
Li Dingguo's actions and motives were really difficult for the officials in the DPRK to understand.
For a period of time, the generals and ministers who had only joined Dashun in the past few years were in panic and could not control themselves.
Everyone was worried that Long Live would take advantage of the situation and use the Li Dingguo case to launch a massacre and launch a purge to kill the surrendered ministers.
Unexpectedly, the emperor let the matter pass lightly, making it difficult for the officials to understand what he meant.
Only Guo Junzhen is guessing: Is the emperor repeating what happened in Korea and letting Sun Kewang be the king's vanguard to prepare for the Dashun Army in Myanmar?
It's just that Sun Kewang is not Daishan, so Li Laiheng's plan is likely to fail this time.
Guo Junzhen learned a lesson this time and did not publicize his little prediction everywhere.
Otherwise, even if the emperor has no intention, it may be difficult to avoid a major case of founding the country!