Chapter 288: Burma fell, and Daming was full
Liu Shizeng's side did talk about it, and even to some extent, there was no need to talk about it at all.
Mang Yingli is now embattled, and there is only one Donghu city left in the whole of Myanmar that is still his, what to talk about? Originally, he couldn't swallow this breath, and wanted to rely on the city defense of Donghu City, hoping to carry it until the Ming army ran out of food and retreated.
However, this idea is simply stupid to suffocation, because the Ming army now occupies almost the whole of Burma, especially the central Burma and southern Burma plains are all under the control of the Ming army, and the grain can be requisitioned by the Ming army. Although it is only May, the rice in southern Myanmar is also harvested three times a year, and now is the harvest time, how can there be a shortage of grain?
On the contrary, there is not much grain in Donghu City - in fact, there is a lot of it, but after the operation of Mangyingli's Northern Expedition and Southern Expedition, there is not much food left in Donghu City, and now it seems that it will bottom out in two months at most.
This bottoming out is for the Burmese royal family and nobles, and the people are actually almost bottoming out, so when Mang Yingli was still holding on and wanting to resist stubbornly, there was a riot in the city of Donghu.
The hungry mob almost stormed the palace, and the palace guards went on a killing spree, killing at least seven or eight hundred people before they could barely hold the situation. At that time, the crowd was raging and the situation was critical, and the first royal dignitary to rush to the gate of the palace said in public, saying that he would put food and porridge for the hungry people for three days, which could be regarded as truly stabilizing the situation.
After this incident, the reluctant Reckless Yingli was really afraid, and seriously considered the conditions offered by Daming.
In fact, there is nothing to consider, the conditions given by the Ming Dynasty are basically equivalent to the death of the country in his opinion, not only has he become a puppet, but the achievements of the Donghu Dynasty for decades have almost been lost.
The matter of keeping half of northern Myanmar, even Mang Yingli felt very weird, and always felt that there must be some ulterior secret for Daming to do this.
On the other hand, Bei Miu Hou believes that this is not an ulterior secret, in fact, the Ming people deliberately left northern Burma to Burma. Because if the Ming people take northern Burma, they can only return a few Xuan Wei Divisions, and if they stay in the hands of Myanmar, they can also provide them with compensation - the benefits of the Ming people will be taken, and bad things such as forced taxation will have to be done by Myanmar, which is shameless to the extreme.
However, this can also show that Daming's position is very clear: I only want money, and I don't want this piece of land that will in turn increase my burden.
At this time, it doesn't matter if Mang Yingli can keep the throne, as long as he can retain the throne, he can at least live, and he is still the White Elephant King of the Golden Building, and if he talks to the Ming people, then everything is over, and the emperor's hegemony is empty, and he can't even save his life.
How to choose? I don't have a choice.
Mang Yingli, who was worried about the long nights and dreams, was still as "decisive" as before, and immediately sent someone to agree with Liu Shizeng to sign the contract the next day, but he put forward a condition: let Liu Shizeng personally enter the city to sign the contract.
He thought that the civil officials were cowardly, and Liu Shizeng might not dare to come, but the fact was that Liu Shizeng decisively agreed - anyway, Myanmar is still meat on the chopping block, and he didn't believe that Mang Yingli dared to do anything rude to him at this time, let alone kill him.
Because killing him is not beneficial to Mang Yingli, it is purely a move to find death, more than 100 cannons of Huang Zhiting's department are placed outside the city, not that they can't be fired, it's just that the strategic restrictions of the imperial court make her unable to open cannons, if Mang Yingli has to beg for death, these cannons can "express their attitude" at any time.
Early the next morning, Liu Shizeng symbolically handed over the command of the army to Huang Zhiting, and he only brought 200 Fubiao into the city and signed a peace treaty with Mang Yingli.
As Liu Shizeng expected, Mang Yingli did not dare to be rude to him at all, opening his mouth "Heavenly Empire" and closing his mouth "Shangguo", his attitude towards the Ming Dynasty was very different from the appearance of not taking the "Message" of Yunnan Fuchen in his eyes at all before.
This peace treaty is very long, according to the form given by Gao Pragmatism, there are 19 paragraphs and 37 articles. There is no need to elaborate on the specific terms, anyway, it is a highly improved version of Gao Pragmatic's conversation with Zhu Yijun.
Generally speaking, in addition to some control over Myanmar's politics and economy, there are strict restrictions on its military power.
The other is the partition: Lanna in eastern Burma is assigned to Siam; The Bago Dynasty in southern Myanmar "restored" and once again established the "Dagula Propaganda Division"; Northern Burma is based on the line drawn by Gao Shipra, the north side belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and the south side is retained by Burma, and the Ming Dynasty garrisons troops north of that line to establish a defensive line, and Burma is not allowed to station more than 5,000 troops in northern Burma.
The Kingdom of Bago was led by Xia Muming (Abrabang) as the king, but to the Ming Dynasty, he called himself the Great Gula Propaganda Division. The kingdom of Bago itself retained only a garrison of 20,000 men, that is, the rebel army selected by Gao Silian - now called Gao Lian - This army was split into seven or eight and stationed in major cities as a "security army".
The Bago garrison was commanded by Gao Lian, and was stationed in Bago and Daguang under the pretext that the Bago Kingdom invited the Jinghua Group to provide military protection.
Gao pragmatically approved his current establishment of 30,000 troops, and by the way, agreed to temporarily transfer the garrison part of the expeditionary force to him to help him before Huang Zhiting withdrew his troops, so as to deter the localities.
Huang Zhiting temporarily stayed in southern Myanmar until he received further orders from the imperial court, and was responsible for the reorganization and surrender of the army.
This time, she surrendered a lot of troops, the Burmese army and the Siamese army of Na Li Xuan were captured together by 60,000 or 70,000, and more than 60,000 were willing to continue to serve as soldiers to eat food - mainly because there have been many wars in recent years, the people's livelihood and economy have withered very much, and the soldiers can barely eat enough.
However, this batch of surrenders is not pragmatic, and Huang Zhiting can't bear so many surrenders, and finally recruits 20,000 people, and at the same time she also asked Liu Xin to choose. Who knew that Liu Xin's requirements were even higher than her, and there were only more than 3,000 people in total.
In fact, Liu Xin didn't want it, but the Liu family's financial resources were limited, and they couldn't compare to Huang Zhiting, a master with his own territory, so he could only choose the best of the best. Of course, she refused to lose her momentum, and declared to the public that she was only unwilling to lower the overall level of the Japanese Emperor.
But in this way, there are still nearly 40,000 people left, and if they are released to the people, I am afraid that these guys who are used to being soldiers will cause trouble everywhere, which is really a big trouble.
Fortunately, Gao Shishi's letter came quickly, and Huang Zhiting saw that he was going to build a city again, so he simply packed the nearly 40,000 people as laborers and sent them to assist Gao Mengnan in building Dingnan City.
Gao Mengnan even considered finding Gao Shishi to ask a group of family members or veterans from the two major garrisons of Annan to come over, mix into this army, and then go to the chaff and directly form the Dingnan garrison - of course, this has to wait for the construction of Dingnan City to have a rough appearance.
Through this incident, Huang Zhiting and Liu Xin were very emotional, wealth is different, as long as the war is won, almost always more and more troops can be fought. This kind of thing is very difficult to do here with Liu Xin, because it is very expensive to reorganize and expand the army, and her Liu family's money is not enough, and even Huang Zhiting will definitely not be able to do it if she is the former Huang Zhiting.
It took some time for the news of southern Xinjiang to reach Beijing, and when the news arrived, the emperor of the Manchu Dynasty announced the benefits - no way, this time Gao Shi fooled a large group of people to buy the treasure money of the Dian War, not only the relatives and nobles, but also many officials.
Zhu Yijun did not disappoint them, temporarily opened a big court, and announced a large number of benefits in public, here are a few of the most important:
Myanmar needs to pay 1.6 million taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty, tentatively divided into 20 years, 80,000 taels per year, with interest drawn 5% per 100 (i.e. 5%), and Jinghua Qian Zhuang will undertake the collection, transportation, warehousing, distribution, etc., and the handling fee is this interest;
Burma opened its borders and allowed Ming merchants to trade freely. All Han businessmen, all taxes are exempted, all Yunnan businessmen, tax every 100 draws, Jinghua Group is responsible for supervising the fairness of taxation and accept reports from businessmen of all ethnic groups;
The jade and gemstone industry in Myanmar is under the full management of the "Pearl and Jade Federation" under the name of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, which is composed of the nobles of the Jingshi Jingnan Department represented by Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, and is highly pragmatic and does not interfere.
Myanmar's bamboo and timber industry is exclusively contracted by Jinghua Group, of course, mainly exported, and it is left hand to right hand, basically Jinghua itself eats.
The main wood is of course the teak, which is the national treasure of Myanmar in later generations, but there are also various precious hardwoods such as sandalwood, shrubs, wenge, ironwood, sorrel wood, rosewood, etc., and Myanmar is also rich in bamboo and rattan resources.
However, Myanmar has hardly developed these resources itself, and Gao Pragmatic has no energy to do it for the time being - after all, he has supplies from Guangxi and supplements from the mountainous areas in northern Annam, so he is not in a hurry to bamboo and rattan for the time being.
In Myanmar's Boton Mining Area (a large mining area with a wide range of minerals), gold and silver mines are mortgaged to Neiku for mining, and other minerals such as copper ore and lead ore are mortgaged to Jinghua Group for mining for a period of 20 years.
The tin ore in Myanmar is handed over to Jinghua Group for mining, and Jinghua Group is required to provide no less than 12,000 taels of silver to all ministries and institutes of Jingshi every year for a period of 20 years.
Myanmar......
All in all, the net income of 1.6 million taels can already make all the people who have bought the Dian War treasure more than twice as much.
In addition, the Jingnan Xungui Group obtained the right to monopolize gemstones; Jinghua obtained the monopoly rights of bamboo and wood; The emperor was granted the right to mine a small gold and silver mine for twenty years; Jinghua obtained the mining rights of copper and lead ore in the same mining area for 20 years; The civil servants also received an additional 20-year "tin mine for office expenses" promised by Gao Shipra, totaling 240,000 taels of silver for 20 years.
Not only did they make a lot of money, but they also had additional benefits, which was a great joy for everyone.
Gao Shipra, who was temporarily called to the court, immediately gained a lot of favor, needless to say, a large number of neutral officials of his own school of truth all smiled when they saw him, and even some officials of the heart school felt much more pleasing to the eye when they looked at him.
However, everyone is still not satisfied with one point, that is, the compensation period is too long, and it takes 20 years to get all the benefits, which is a bit ...... What if I already have a career by then?
But Gao Pragmatic is a good person to do it to the end, and took the initiative to say at the court meeting that if any colleague feels that 20 years is too long and doesn't want to wait, he can also take the Dian Zhan Treasure Money to Jinghua Qianzhuang to do "death" - that is, the collateral is directly exchanged for money, and it does not mean that he will not get it back.
Of course, the rules of the dead pawn are similar to the various pawnshops in the Ming Dynasty at the moment, and they must not be according to the original value, but Jinghua is extraordinarily kind, and it is charged according to ninety percent of the original value. For example, the original value of 100,000 taels of Burmese indemnity in the Yunnan War banknote, Jinghua according to 90,000 taels to carry out "death".
Everyone thinks that this approach is extremely reasonable, and it can even be said to be extremely conscientious, and it is much more preferential than the death on the market, so many people can't help but muttered to their colleagues before they have dispersed, whether to simply go to Jinghua Qianzhuang to do "death", after all, twenty years is too long.
Zhu Yijun was also very happy to see that it was rare that there was no quarrel between the hundred officials, because he just announced that Neku had taken the gold and silver mines in the Bolton mining area, but did not say how big the scale of the gold and silver mines was.
In fact, this gold and silver mining area is not small, you can get more than 1,000 taels of gold and more than 8,000 taels of silver every year, and the current ratio of gold and silver prices is about 1 to 10, which is equivalent to 18,000 taels of silver - you must know that the compensation in Myanmar is only 80,000 taels of silver every year.
As for the "Pearl and Jade Federation" temporarily established by the nobles of the Jingnan Department under the name of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, they couldn't help but be overjoyed. As the saying goes, "gold is priceless and jade is priceless", although it is difficult to mine jewelry and jade, as long as there are a few pieces of high-quality, how much it will be sold for, no one can really determine, maybe dig out a piece of "He's Bi"?
In addition, among these generations of nobles, there are already those involved in the jewelry industry, and there are good craftsmen under their hands, and these jade can be added through exquisite processing after they are obtained, which is a good business for a million profits.
Although everyone knows that Gao pragmatic has always liked to build their own shipbuilding, now Jinghua's shipyard may have controlled at least seventy percent of the market in the Ming shipbuilding industry, but they are still a little incomprehensible to buy wood in such an "unlimited" amount.
But it doesn't matter if you understand it or not, anyway, the vast majority of people don't want to grab this business - shipbuilding is a high-cost industry, if you don't throw hundreds of thousands of taels of silver into it, you won't even be a wave in front of high pragmatism.
The simplest point is that at present, the sea ships with more than 2,000 materials are almost only accepted by the highly pragmatic Jinghua Shipyard, and other shipyards, including the Songjiang Xu family, rarely accept this kind of work, and even if the Xu family occasionally picks up, it is usually one or two at a time, where is the "dumpling" like Jinghua.
Now the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty, except for Jinghua, is basically based on small boats, and the ships that can go to sea to the South Seas and the East Ocean are usually 800 to more than 1,000 materials, and they are not as clear as the ships of Jinghua.
Of course, it doesn't matter, because the capital is limited, few people are jealous of this deal, and what everyone really covets is the sea trade business, the ship, and so on...... Just buy it.
Zhu Yijun waited for a while, and when he saw that the ministers finally gradually calmed down from their excitement, he slightly gestured to Chen Ju, who was standing not far away.
Chen Ju took a step forward and said in a loud voice: "All the officials are quiet, there is a decree in the saint!" ”
The officials were really silent immediately, and they all knew in their hearts that this should be a reward coming down.
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PS: This chapter is a make-up for the one that was owed three days ago, and there will be another chapter in the evening.