Is there any prince in the world who has lived for forty years?
Really.
The Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty and the Crown Prince of Tianzhu have both been canonized for more than 40 years.
Zhu Zaiyi died in the 51st year of Shaofeng at the age of 65. His temple name was "Zhongzong" and his posthumous title was "Chengdi".
Zhongzong of the Ming Dynasty became emperor, and his coffin was highly praised. Not everyone can be the emperor. When Zhu Houzhao died, Wang Yuan tried to give Zhongzong a temple title but failed. The first Zhongzong in history was Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.
Prince Zhu Yiju successfully succeeded to the throne. A middle-aged emperor who ascended the throne was more than calm but lacked courage and was just a conservative.
This guy only served as emperor for ten years and died in his fifties. His temple name was "Muzong" and his posthumous name was "Zhuangdi".
Wang Zheng was also relatively miserable. He succeeded to the throne at the age of 46 and had a Supreme King above his head (in the previous chapter, Wang Zheng's age was 10 years younger, which has been revised).
When Wang Yuan announced his abdication, he was already 78 years old...
"Father is going to abdicate?" Wang Zheng was surprised, but also a little happy.
Wang Yuan said: "It's time to retreat."
Wang Zheng said: "Father will always be strong..."
"Don't talk nonsense," Wang Yuan interrupted directly, "Your seventh brother (Xia Chan's second son Wang Hao) is ambitious. If he stays in the country, he will cause trouble sooner or later. Just send him thousands of soldiers to Taungyu to found the country."
Wang Zheng said: "If the father arranges it properly, the child will definitely follow it."
Toungoo State is a smaller version of Myanmar, and it is also the most powerful regime in the history of Southeast Asia. There is no one.
However, Taungoo in this time and space hit a brick wall during its expansion.
Taungoo, like Laos, has been the Xuanwei Department of the Ming Dynasty since the Yongle Dynasty, or in other words, the entire Southeast Asia has been the Xuanwei Department of the Ming Dynasty. However, the limit of how long this restraint system can last for decades, and the six major Xuanwei Departments in Southeast Asia have long been
Disengagement and morality.
When the country was in a state of fragmentation, a fierce man named Mang Yinglong came out of Taungyu. It took four years to complete the reunification, and then began to expand wildly.
Just a few years ago, Taungoo actually invaded Laos and was defeated by the Ming army. In history, it even went to attack Yunnan.
Mang Yinglong was injured during the expedition and both his legs were disabled, but his life was not in danger for the time being.
The military and political affairs of Toungoo were gradually handed over to Prince Mang Yingli.
Like his father, Mang Yingli was very brave in battle. Unfortunately, he did not know how to adapt to political affairs, or was too lazy to adapt. If ministers disobeyed, they would be executed, and if tribes disobeyed, they would conquer.
This country has been expanding, and ethnic conflicts, religious conflicts, and tribal conflicts have all been hidden due to expansion.
After being severely beaten by the Ming Dynasty, Taungoo's expansion failed, and the prince was brutal in politics. Now the country is in chaos. The king Mang Yinglong, who was paralyzed in both legs, wanted to stand up and clean up the mess, but was put under house arrest by his son Mang Yingli.
Before Wang Yuan officially abdicated the throne, Wang Hao, the seventh prince of Tianzhu, led three thousand troops and more than ten thousand soldiers and their families, and took a boat to Yangon, which was later known as the land.
They settled the soldiers' families in Yangon, then changed boats and sailed upriver.
After traveling more than a hundred miles on the inland river, they disembarked and attacked for dozens of miles, and then directly hit Bago, the capital of the Toungu Kingdom.
The capital of this country is only 200 miles away from the seaport, so it is really easy to fight. They don't even have muskets, and the city wall is not very strong. They were breached in half a day, captured the paralyzed king Mang Yinglong alive, and beheaded Prince Bingzheng Mang.
Yingli.
All the Mang clan's descendants in Bago City were slaughtered by Wang Hao.
There was no royal family left, because when Mang Yinglong unified the country, he killed all his uncles and brothers, and most of them were killed on the battlefield.
As soon as King Toungoo and the prince died, the capital was captured by Wang Hao, and the entire country instantly returned to a state of tribal autonomy.
The leaders of each tribe respected Wang Hao as king, but refused to send officials from the central government. Wang Hao could only clean up the surrounding tribes by force.
It took two years for the nobles from all over Myanmar to finally obey, because those who disobeyed died.
Wang Hao sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty and was canonized as King Toungoo. Its land area is about two-thirds of Myanmar. Of course, it can continue to expand. In the nearby Ayutthaya City (Thailand), half of the land was eaten by the Nanyang Navy.
Half of them were defeated by Mang Yinglong, and Wang Hao could just continue to fight.
Why are wars so easy and smooth?
Overwhelmed by military technology, using flintlock rifles to bully cold weapons is like a grandfather beating his grandson. Historically, the Toungoo dynasty fell because the local nobles colluded with the Dutch when they rebelled, and several hundred muskets were used to defeat them.
Catch the king.
Wang Hao can only be called King Toungoo, not King of Myanmar.
Because there is another Damao Kingdom in the northern part of Myanmar. The king was destroyed long ago and became a vassal state of Tianzhu. It was jointly ruled by several large clans. The Dao clan, the largest clan, even married his daughter to Wang Yuan as his concubine.
Wang Yuan's eleventh son Wang Sheng, the son of his concubine Dao Baifeng, was escorted back when he was fifteen years old and became the king of the Damao Kingdom. His territory was not only northern Myanmar, but also Assam in India.
corner areas.
"Changde, I know you can't sit still." Wang Yuan called Changde Bibi over.
Chand Bibi was in her early forties, and her charm was still there, but her figure had become thicker. She said, "What plans does your Majesty have?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "After Afghanistan became independent, its domestic nobles have been fighting for several years. Not only has the people's livelihood been in decline, but also trade has been cut off, and they have also been invaded by Persia. The nobles all hope to return to the embrace of Tianzhu. You take your son there, two sons
, place it as you wish."
Chand Bibi said: "Your Majesty, I need troops."
Wang Yuan said: "500 Fire Gun Cavalry and 1,500 Fire Gun Infantry are enough to suppress the Afghan nobles. If I give you more, you will definitely not be able to afford it."
Afghanistan is too difficult to govern and extremely poor, so it is very suitable as a mining base.
Chand Bibi took her two sons and two thousand soldiers with her to Afghanistan. The local nobles welcomed her very much, because if Chand Bibi became queen, Tianzhu would be able to resume trade immediately, and the wars among the tribes could be calmed down.
The religion has not changed, and Afghanistan still believes in the Green Religion. It is not only the mineral base of Tianzhu, but also a natural strategic buffer.
As for the Island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), after the Buddhist prince from the Ming Dynasty returned to the country, the entire island gradually converted to Buddhism. After the death of the king, it fell apart and was annexed by Tianzhu.
Two years after Wang Yuan abdicated the throne, and just after his 80th birthday, bad news suddenly came from Luzon.
Wang Ce, the leader of the Luzon Kingdom, died of illness.
When her eldest son passed away, Song Ling'er fainted and fell ill.
Beside the hospital bed, Wang Yuan personally carried the medicinal soup and, with the help of the maid, fed Song Ling'er himself.
Huang E held Song Ling'er's hand and said with a smile, "Sister, she looks better today."
Song Ling'er also grinned, showing her few remaining teeth: "Yeah, it's better. Last night I had a dream about an outing with my sister, and there was Sister Lan from the Jin family. You guys ride in the car, and I'll ride a horse, and I'll meet you when I go out of the city.
When we got here, the old man smiled at us. Smiling, the old man turned into Ce Geer, and when he opened his mouth, he called me grandma..."
Huang E smiled with tears in his eyes: "When my sister said this, I miss Brother Su too. After I went to sea, I only went back once. It was because my mother died of illness that I haven't seen Brother Su for twenty years."
Wang Yuan sighed: "You all blame me for separating your flesh and blood."
Song Ling'er suddenly said to Wang Yuan: "Old man, after I die, I want to be buried in Beiyahou Mountain (Guizhou)."
"I'll take you back." Wang Yuan said.
Song Ling'er suddenly shook her head again: "No, I want to be buried outside Baguio City, where there is the Baguio Palace that Brother Ce built for me."
"Everything is fine." Wang Yuan's eyes were wet.
Huang E smiled and said: "Sister, let's bury the three of us together."
"That's good." Song Ling'er became happy, kept laughing, kept laughing, kept smiling and closed her eyes.
Half a month later, Wang Yuan took Song Ling'er's ashes and Huang E, who could hardly walk, to Baguio City in Luzon over bumpy land and sea.
It's warm in winter and cool in summer, and feels like spring all year round. It's really a good place to spend your old age, and it's also a good place to bury your bones after death.
Although Wang Ce died of illness, he left behind a powerful country. At this time, the national power was even stronger than that of Tianzhu. The country included Luzon Islands, Kalimantan Island, Java Island, Mindanao Island, Sulawesi Island, Guinea Island, Australia, and New Zealand.
For its colonial territory, the number of registered Han people has exceeded 10 million.
Baguio City in Luzon is a holy place. Wang Yuan, Song Linger, and Huang E were buried together here. Wang Ce, the great emperor of Luzon, was buried next to his parents.