378 Meet the Admiral
All the resistance in Bago was cleared, and all that remained was a group of quail-like resigned people, and the Ming army did not continue to kill, but imprisoned them all, because they had a greater role.
Xiao Ruxun wants to negotiate a deal with some people.
Looking at some military and political maps found from the Burmese royal palace, Xiao Ruxun roughly demarcated a territorial area for the entire current Myanmar according to his memory, and then sent Zhao Hu Wang Hui and the Ma family boys to each lead a group of men and horses to continue to attack the city in the north, south and west, occupy villages and cities, clean up the local uncaptured Burmese, and make room for his immigration filling plan.
In addition, according to the report, Deng Zilong and Liu Ling's troops also wiped out the last Burmese border guards on the Yunnan border, and are crossing the mountains to the capital of Myanmar, although the speed is slower, but those places are really not easy to walk, and Myanmar is not as difficult to deal with as Xiao Ruxun imagined, these two people still did not get a big credit this time, but it's okay, Xiao Ruxun also asked people to go to the north to give these two people an order, so that they can take the troops to attack the city and plunder the population.
Only the place where the army is defeated and a military stronghold is set up can be counted as the land that is really mastered, this is not like drawing a big circle on the map and saying that the land in this circle belongs to me, the territory of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States is so large, especially the territory of the State of Chu occupies almost half of the south of the Yangtze River in the textbook, please, what is the total population of the State of Chu? Need half of Jiangnan to settle?
In many places, a sentry post is set up, and even the surrounding area is considered territory, but can an area that is not occupied at all be considered territory?
In Xiao Ruxun's view, if it is occupied, it must be actually occupied, regardless of whether it is useful or not, it must be actually occupied, if it is not used now, it may be used in the future, and it cannot be left for future generations!
This time, Xiao Ruxun wants to play a little bigger.
Isn't that a bit inappropriate? These people are born and raised in Sri Lanka, I'm afraid it's not so easy to move the place, and you don't agree with each other, is it too much? Ji Xin, the old man didn't say anything about you before, you ...... Alas! Do not say! You yourself have said before that you are not afraid to kill for the sake of the generals, but you must not be thirsty for killing, otherwise you will surely leave a disaster to future generations, have you forgotten? ”
It seems that Yuan Huang is a little dissatisfied with Xiao Ruxun's recent large-scale killings.
"Yuan Gong, what I said myself, of course I will not forget, if I love to kill, I will not keep these men and women but kill them together to prevent future troubles, killing the elderly and young children is not to waste food to persecution, killing soldiers is to prevent resistance, deter civilians, Yuan Gong, everything, take the interests of the Ming Dynasty as the criterion, this is my style of acting, a little killing, not in my eyes."
Yuan Huang didn't say anything, he also knew that what Xiao Ruxun said was the truth, the Ming army did not have much food, after the Siam side was destroyed Peng Shilok's granary, his own food was also affected, and he had to reduce the supply of the Ming army.
He sighed.
"Moreover, these barbarians are different from my Huaxia, my ancestor Mr. Yu Si grew up in Si for hundreds of thousands of years, and has long been rooted in the local area, and it is difficult to leave the homeland, how long has this small country been established? How long have these people been settled and how long have they been multiplying? How many local complexes can there be? If you are not willing to go, it means that the benefits are not enough, just give a little more, if you are not willing to go, then you are cheap, just kill them, and there is nothing to say about these uncivilized barbarians. ”
Xiao Ruxun looked at the map and explained his method expressionlessly.
"But they all came here because of Daming's reputation, in order to make offerings to Daming, Daming's reputation matters!"
"The best reputation of Daming is that meritorious deeds must be rewarded, and those who have done so must be punished! And there is no need for Daming to take action in this matter, Yuan Gong, at least some of these tribes are willing to leave the place where they originally lived and enter the place we have specified, so some who are unwilling to leave will call on these who are willing to leave to attack and divide up all their population and property, isn't it? Da Ming can solve it without even a single shot. ”
Yuan Huang was stunned for a moment, and then worried: "What you said is reasonable, but those tribes are under the oppression of the Dongwu people, I am afraid that they have already formed an alliance and have been interacting with each other for a long time, can this simple divisive plan be effective?" If it is not good, they tell each other and form an alliance against the Ming Dynasty, won't they have another dispute? ”
"Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu are still righteous father and son, don't they still turn against each other? Now that the Dongwu people are finished, the alliance of these people is meaningless, now what they should think about most is how to get close to the Ming Dynasty, so as to get the support of the Ming Dynasty, and get a lot of benefits, in the face of sufficient interests, there is no credibility between these tribes and countries, otherwise why can so many crude discord schemes in the world succeed repeatedly? ”
Yuan Huang had nothing to say, he knew that what Xiao Ruxun said was right, as long as he was willing, he could throw out the interests of letting these tribes fight each other and reap the benefits of the fisherman, wouldn't it be beautiful?
"Then, Ji Xin, are you really ready to be here in Yongzhen?"
Yuan Huang looked at Xiao Ruxun very seriously.
Xiao Ruxun nodded.
"It's decided, since they don't want me to go back, then I hope that they will always satisfy me, even if I don't have merit, I have hard work, and the more than 10 million taels of silver is even the cost of buying an official, buying a wild land, they won't be unwilling, right?"
Thinking of the Taoist officials in the Jingshi who had unimaginably low discipline values, Yuan Huang shook his head helplessly.
"Ji Xin, after this time, no matter what you do in the future, you must think carefully before making a decision!"
Xiao Ruxun laughed.
"How can I have so much time on the battlefield to think? It's just a heart to go out and do it, desperately fight for a splendid future, Yuan Gong, if you think twice, the meat will be robbed! ”
Yuan Huang burst out laughing and was amused.
He knew that he couldn't stop Xiao Ruxun, who had made up his mind, and he also decided to put his future and the only little hope left on Xiao Ruxun's body, from Xiao Ruxun's body, he could see the pure heart of his young self, but he could also see the heart of change and cold heart that his young self did not have.
Yuan Huang still remembers that after a battle with the Japanese Kou, an old soldier scolded him with a sword - when the troubled times came, there were fucking beasts everywhere, and the comparison was who was more brute than whom! Don't pretend to be anyone! Lao Tzu has eaten the meat and drank the blood of the Japanese, is he no longer human!?
At the beginning, that passage brought a huge shock to the young Yuan Huang, but Yuan Huang also thought about it, I am afraid that if he really becomes a beast, there will be no chance to turn back into a human being, and the final winner must be the "beast" who has never forgotten that he was once a person.
Yuan Huang only knew that he was a human being from beginning to end.
On the first day of October in the twenty-first year of Wanli, the heads of the major tribes in Myanmar each brought the brave men of their respective tribes and ethnic groups and the precious specialties to pay tribute to the Ming Admiral, and rushed to the Ming military camp outside Bago City, looking at the Bago City that had become a ruin, and felt a little happy, embarrassed and afraid.
Happily, the brutal ruler who has been pressing on his head for many years is finally finished, and he heard that the Ju clan was wiped out, and none of them survived, and they deserved it! Let them be so arrogant and bullying, how many of our people have been killed over the years, robbing us of so much food every day, and we ourselves are not enough to eat, looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looking forward to the savior.
What is embarrassing is that a country and an army that were once so powerful were actually destroyed, and they were destroyed so simply, do you think this is retribution?
Then he began to be afraid-will Da Ming be more ferocious and tyrannical than Reckless Yingli? Will it be more tribute and taxes than Mangyingli demanded? Will it squeeze us more harshly than Recklessly? We can't even beat Mang Yingli, can we wrestle with Da Ming?
All in all, there were all kinds of ideas, and twenty or thirty tribes came to the military camp of the Ming Dynasty with their own thoughts, asking to meet Xiao Ruxun, the governor of the Ming Dynasty.
Xiao Ruxun gave an order, and the Ming army lined up to greet his friends!
A war drum sounded, rumbling, making these tribal leaders feel that the ground under their feet was trembling, and then accompanied by a long horn sound, the gate of the Ming military camp opened, and two teams of soldiers and horses walked towards them with distinct armaments, standing in line on both sides of them, clearly coming to meet them, but in the eyes of these leaders, there was a little more idea that the Ming was showing military might in it.
Such a well-equipped army, if it really fights, it is estimated that it will not be able to defeat it.
Many leaders of relatively large tribes looked at the Ming soldiers with serious faces on both sides, and their hearts beat drums.
Then, they were taken into the military camp of the Ming Dynasty and met with the Admiral of the Ming Dynasty.
Due to the language barrier between the two sides, the translators were two foreigners, one was a Portuguese missionary and the other was Matteo Ricci.
This Portuguese missionary mixed in with the captured Portuguese soldiers, and waited until he was confirmed to be safe before finding Matteo Ricci to reveal his identity, Matteo Ricci was still very surprised, and said to Xiao Ruxun that he knew this person, what was his name Brown or something, it seemed to be Matteo Ricci's colleague, who was originally going to India to preach, and he didn't know what was going on here, according to this Brown himself, he was captured by the Burmese during the war......
Anyway, this Brown has been in Myanmar for more than ten years, in line with the concept that wherever he preaches is a mission, he has learned some local ethnic languages, and he can communicate with the locals. How many languages can you master one by one?
Matteo Ricci himself is a language genius, and Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world to master, and it is still difficult for foreigners in modern times, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, where intellectuals widely used classical Chinese and did not have a unified standard language.
The specific way is that Xiao Ruxun speaks, conveys it to Matteo Ricci, and Matteo Ricci translates it into Portuguese to Brown, and then Brown translates it into the local language to these heads, and these heads then tell Brown, and Brown tells Ricci, and Matteo Ricci then waves back to Xiao Ruxun.
The method seems to be effective, but I just don't know if these leaders can understand it, and they can switch and communicate in three languages, thanks to Matteo Ricci and Brown mastering multiple languages at the same time, otherwise how can they communicate?
But the exchange did come together, but this brought a little worry to Xiao Ruxun,—— when he talked about private matters with some of these guys, he also needed to go through Matteo Ricci and Brown, wouldn't that mean that there was a possibility of leakage of intelligence? And can these two really be sure of their own use? Won't you leak information to other clan leaders of interest?
If only there was a Han Chinese who knew these languages.
Of course, Xiao Ruxun is also thinking about it, these years, English has almost become the world's common language, and English is still a lowly language, Chinese is the supreme dominant language in the East Asian cultural circle, only others learn Chinese to write Chinese characters, no scholar has to learn a foreign language, even if it is to learn, it is also out of the need for diplomacy to learn, of course, these years are basically others to learn Chinese, and then diplomacy with the Ming Dynasty, very few Ming take the initiative to learn the other party's language to diplomacy with the other party, well, Mongolian must be learned.
Not to mention the local indigenous languages of these small tribes, is there anyone else who will learn them except these missionaries with abnormal brains who have worked hard to teach them?
I just don't know if there are Han people who do business with the natives of these places, if there are, there must be Han people who know the language of this place, merchants do not belong to scholars, in order to make money, what is it to learn a little language?
Xiao Ruxun couldn't find this kind of person, for now, let's use Matteo Ricci and Brown!
These leaders stepped forward one by one and knelt down and kowtowed, and then reported their names and tribal names, as well as their own head status, and then described the gifts they brought one by one, showing their sincerity, anyway, Xiao Ruxun didn't understand the indigenous language of Ricci, and he couldn't understand the Portuguese language, so he understood the Chinese translated by Matteo Ricci.
"This is the head of the XXX, XX tribe, sent XX a box, XXX a car, XX a box, XXX ten cars......"
What I hear is boring things, even if it is gold, silver and jade products, and what kind of meat is a local specialty, but occasionally I can hear something special worth paying attention to, such as "cow genitals", "tiger genitals", "elephant genitals" or something, these things are probably the only common treasures that men all over the world know, and they are absolutely valuable......
Finally, the boring ceremony session was over, Xiao Ruxun sat on the top and rubbed his smiling somewhat stiff face, took a sip of tea, and slowly spoke.
"I am very happy that you can come here, this governor accepted your gifts on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, and decided to accept you as a part of the Ming Dynasty, and when the time comes, I will also ask the Holy Decree of the Ming Emperor to give you an official and a knight, you don't have to worry, but before that, this governor needs you to promise the governor one thing."
After Xiao Ruxun finished speaking, he motioned to Matteo Ricci to translate, Matteo Ricci did not have any doubts, and translated it to Brown, and Brown also translated it to these leaders, and the leaders looked at each other, and then looked at Xiao Ruxun together.