Li Chengdong is a natural warrior, and it is really boring to have nothing to do in Guiyang for more than a year, and now he is very happy to hear the emperor say that he will lead troops to pacify Yunnan again.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, as long as you give an order, Lao Li will go to Yunnan to arrest Zhu Youlang!"

Zhu Hongsan was very unhappy when he heard that Li Chengdong was going to arrest Zhu Youlang, what did he do when he was arrested? I'm going to die! But this can't be said in front of Lu Daqi, after all, when Lu Daqi surrendered, he promised him to guarantee Zhu Youlang's life.

Zhu Hongsan scolded the ignorant Li Chengdong in his heart, but he had no choice but to smile and say to Lu Daqi: "Lu Aiqing, Yunnan is located in the southwest border, and the people are brave, what are you going to do?" ”

"Your Majesty, is Yunnan also learning from Guizhou to clear the township and merge the tun?" Lu Daqi is not like Hou Fangyu, after a brutal political struggle, Lu Daqi knows that he can't be merciful to these foreigners, so Lu Daqi still appreciates Zhu Hongsan's strategy of clearing the countryside and merging it.

"No, Yunnan and Guizhou are different, although there are many Yi people in Guizhou, there are also many Han people, and after more than 200 years of naturalization, most of the Yi people still identify with my Confucian culture. However, Yunnan is different, the Han people in Yunnan are sparsely populated, and if you use Qingxiang and Tun, it will intensify the national * contradictions, and it may be us who will be driven out at that time! ”

What Zhu Hongsan said also has a certain amount of truth, just a few years ago, Mu Wangfu, who has lived in Kunming for more than 200 years, was beaten out of Kunming by Yunnan Wang Tusi Sha Dingzhou, causing Mu Tianbo's wife and children to die in the chaos. Therefore, the problem of the people in Yunnan cannot be suppressed, but can only be supported. However, Zhu Hongsan has a more ruthless move, that is, to defeat raze.

When Zhu Hongsan arrived in Guizhou, he learned that the Yunnan of the Ming Dynasty was not the Yunnan that later generations understood. In addition to Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan also occupied a large area of Burma, and one-third of the later Myanmar was under the control of the Ming Dynasty. However, this kind of control is not directly appointed by the central government to manage the locality, but the local Tusi is called a minister, and then the central government gives an appointment, so at this time, northern Burma and the Ming Dynasty belonged to that kind of tributary relationship.

During the reign of Myojin Sect, the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma became strong and expanded in various conquests, annexing most of present-day Burma. The Mengyang Propaganda Division, the Mubang Propaganda Division, the Myanmar Propaganda Division, and the Eight Hundred Propaganda Division were occupied by it successively. The central government of the Ming Dynasty at that time ignored this and allowed it to develop, which allowed Myanmar to lay the foundation of today's territory, and many territories in northern Myanmar that had been controlled by the Nanzhao, Dali, and Yuan dynasties for seven or eight hundred years, such as Myitkyina, Bhamo, and Lape, were occupied by the newly rising Burma, and Laos also developed independently.

In the ninth year of Wanli, the Burmese king Mang Yinglong died, and his son Mang Yingli succeeded to the throne, and after he inherited the throne, he was not satisfied with the territory that had been seized from the Ming Dynasty, and continued to use force to expand northward. In the first month of the 11th year of Wanli, the Burmese army captured Shidian (now Shidian, Yunnan), attacked Shunning (now Fengqing, Yunnan), Zhanda (now Yingjiang, Yunnan), and penetrated more than 100 kilometers into the current border, and the front of the troops pointed directly at Chuxiong and Dali. Everywhere he went, he burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil.

The Ming court quickly sent Liu Wei and Deng Zilong to lead the Ming army to resist, and the Ming army, with the cooperation of the local Tusi armed forces, defeated the Burmese army at Panzhihua, south of Yaoguan, and won a great victory in Panzhihua. The Ming army pursued the victory, and Deng Zilong led the army to recover Wandian and Gengma. And Liu Wei led the army to drive straight in, occupied Longchuan, and captured Yue Feng, the prime minister of Burma. After Yue Feng surrendered, the Burmese army was about to collapse, and the Ming army recovered Manmo, Mengyang and Menglian all the way, Mengmi Tusi also announced that it was annexed, and Mang Zhuo, the Burmese guard of Ava, also surrendered to the Ming court.

In May of the twelfth year of Wanli, the Burmese army invaded again, captured Mon Mi, and besieged Wuzhang. The Ming army led Gao Guochun to defeat the Burmese invasion. Since then, the forces of the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma have been driven out of the Tusi areas of Mubang, Mengyang, and Manmo, and Yue Feng, a traitor who has betrayed the country and defected to Burma, was escorted to Jingshi to be executed, and the Tusi in the border areas have returned to the Ming Dynasty. But the war did not end here, the thirteenth year of Wanli, due to the corruption of the government, Yunnan continued to be encroached upon by Burma, and Burma expanded to Jinghong, Ximeng, Lincang, Tengchong and other places.

The last war broke out in the thirtieth year of Wanli, and the Ming Dynasty was finally unable to look south due to the outbreak of the war to aid Korea, and began to make peace with Burma, and the two countries resumed normal relations on the condition that the Ming Dynasty ceded to Myanmar Mengyang, Mubang, and Xingwei.

And Zhu Hong's abacus is that the previous contracts were signed by you Burma and Emperor Wanli, and I inherited the mantle of Emperor Taizu Gao, so the previous contracts are all invalid. Zhu Hongsan's idea was that he did not want to negotiate peace with Burma at all, but wanted to annex Burma. Zhu Hongsan knew that in later generations, China would make great efforts to get rid of Burma in order to bypass Malacca, which was controlled by Britain and the United States.

However, after all, the situation in Burma is complicated, this place is far away from the Central Plains Dynasty, the Han population is not large, and only relying on Li Chengdong's 50,000 horses is really more than enough and not enough, so Zhu Hongsan's strategy for Burma is to use razing to defeat the people, that is, Zhu Hongsan's best at fighting the masses with the masses.

Zhu Hongsan was a township cadre in later generations, if he said what he was best at, it must be fishing in troubled waters, fighting the masses with the masses, after all, there are a lot of examples there, and it is impossible to learn without learning.

Zhu Hongsan knew that there was an ethnic minority in Myanmar in later generations, known as the Rohingya in later generations, and now known as the Arakan people. This people has a complex history, descending from Moors, Arabs, Persian traders, Afghans from the northwestern borders of India, Mughals, Turks, and Bengali soldiers and immigrants. From the 7th century AD, he crossed the sea from Bengal in the Indian subcontinent to Burma and settled in the Arakan region near the sea, which is later known as Rakhine State of Burma.

These people are not ethnically Burmese, believe in Islam, and are incompatible with Burmese Buddhism, and these Rohingya are naturally ostracized by the locals. This situation did not change until the British reached Burma in the nineteenth century. After the British came, the Rohingya, who had been bullied by the Burmese, immediately became accomplices of the British and carried out genocide against the Burmese, but the feng shui took turns, and in later generations, these Rohingya were naturally expelled from their homes by the Burmese.

Zhu Hongsan's use of razing to control razing is what he said about these Rohingya, who are now called Arakans. Zhu Hongsan plans to use interests to win over these people, let them fight to the death with the Burmese, and then the Ming Dynasty will be behind him and the mud, just like the British did back then. At the same time, these Rohingya are inextricably linked to the Bengalis across the sea, and can also prepare for Zhu Hongsan's Indian strategy.

"Lu Aiqing, after you arrive in Yunnan, you can first contact the Arakanese in Burma, and promise their interests that you can support them to establish an independent state, and then we will attack Burma together in the north and in the south, so that a big thing can be done!" After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he took out all kinds of strategies for Burma that he had written down for more than half a month and handed them to Lu Daqi.

Lu Daqi took it and saw that he really broke out in a cold sweat, how did this emperor's heart grow. It is written to support the independent establishment of all Burmese Tusi, as long as they pay tribute to the Celestial Empire, they can be recognized by the Ming Dynasty. If it is written above, Burma will immediately be full of war, and when the Ming Dynasty hides behind those toasts and sells weapons, this kind of ruthless trick is that the old fritter Lu Daqi can't think of it.

Zhu Hongsan saw that Lu Daqi had put away his strategy for Burma, and then said: "That Arakan people believe in Islam, it just so happens that there are many Hui generals in Li Chengdong's army, and there are also many old Hui Hui in Yunnan, you must be good at taking advantage of this!" ”

Li Chengdong was born in Shaanxi, which is a gathering area for the Hui people, although after years of war, the Hui people who participated in the rebel army were almost dead, but Li Chengdong still had more than a dozen Hui generals under him. Although there have been many changes in the spread of Islam to China, after all, they are all of the same species and the same origin, and they are still easy to speak.

Lu Daqi and Li Chengdong bowed down to receive the order, and then withdrew to prepare to set off for Yunnan. Zhu Hongsan saw that they were about to go out and said, "King Jianning County, wait a minute, I still have something to explain!" ”

Lu Daqi looked at Li Chengdong, Li Chengdong didn't know what the emperor left him for, but the emperor didn't dare to disobey the order, so Li Chengdong had to go back to the house again and wait for the emperor to ask.

Zhu Hongsan saw Lu Daqi walking away, so he said: "Brother Jianning, this Yunnan expedition is thousands of miles, and it is not convenient for me to command in the rear, and there are some things you can do on your own!" ”

The emperor's words made Li Chengdong confused, now all the grassroots company and platoon-level officers in the army are the emperor's cronies, where do they dare to do their own thing? Could it be that the emperor is testing himself? Li Chengdong knew that the emperor in front of him was ruthless, and he didn't have a when he gave birth to a son, so he must be testing himself.

Li Chengdong hurriedly knelt down and said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister must ask for instructions early and report later, and if you don't understand, you must discuss with Governor Lu!" ”

Seeing that Li Chengdong didn't understand what he meant, Zhu Hongsan scolded in his heart: It's really a fucking waste, or how to say that it's better to be a donkey than not studying for three days!

Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to spread out: "King of Jianning County, you go to Yunnan this time, if you catch Zhu Youlang, don't bring it back to Nanjing, the mountains and rivers are far away and the food is wasted, do you know what to do?" ”

Hearing what the emperor said, Li Chengdong knew what the emperor meant, and it turned out that he let himself kill Zhu Youlang. But Li Chengdong is not a fool, he is not the emperor's descendant, now it is easy to say, if you really kill Zhu Youlang in the future, what if you don't admit it to the emperor at that time? In the end, it wasn't Lao Tzu who was unlucky?

"Your Majesty, how much food can be wasted by one person, the minister must guarantee the safety of King Gui!"

Zhu Hongsan was going to die when he saw that Li Chengdong was not angry, but he couldn't directly say that he wanted Li Chengdong to kill Zhu Youlang, so Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to wave his hand and let Li Chengdong go down. As for Zhu Youlang, Zhu Hongsan handed it over to Jinyiwei to handle.