"Myanmar is rich in gold, ivory, all of which are very precious and easy to transport." After encamping today, Deng Ming began to introduce the customs and customs of Myanmar to the officers. In fact, Deng Ming's knowledge of Burma is very limited, and many of it comes from popular history books, but despite this, these contents are still listened to by the officers with relish.

Needless to say, the impression of Myanmar's abundance of gold comes from "Five Thousand Years of History", which is a set of books that Deng Ming read as a child. The book talks about the conquest of Burma by the British Empire and says that the city of Yangon is full of stupas inlaid with gold and jade, and the tallest stupa is almost completely wrapped in gold leaf. In short, the officers and soldiers of the British Empire who captured Rangoon all became millionaires.

In addition, Myanmar also produces jadeite, but Deng Ming inquired about it, only to know that jadeite is not worth much now, and the people of the Ming Dynasty don't look down on that thing. Since this is the case, Deng Ming will not introduce this more at the military meeting. After listening to him talk about the two kinds of products, gold and ivory, many officers' eyes lit up -- most of the Ming army came either from auxiliary soldiers or poor peasants, and in the past, copper coins were eager to be broken in half, and they had never even seen silver, and when they heard that there was a pagoda of gold, many people began to sit still.

This kind of introduction of customs and customs not only had the effect of inspiring the morale of the Ming army, but also helped to eliminate the fear of an unfamiliar environment. Fear comes mainly from the unknown, and when a person understands his opponent, even if he thinks he knows him, he becomes much bolder.

Deng Ming only spoke for a short time every day, because the officers couldn't digest much knowledge at one time, and they also needed to hold a meeting with their subordinates to convey the latest chapter of the Three Kingdoms Demon Chaos.

"This time, the Burmese people committed rebellion and rebellion, but even so, after entering Burma to fight, I will not tolerate murder and arson, let alone do evil to Burmese women." Deng Ming had no intention of getting caught up in a people's war, and he had already mentioned the requirements for discipline many times. However, Deng Ming's repeated emphasis gradually formed a view among the Ming army that victory was inevitable, and their commander-in-chief had been thinking about the problem after the victory: "If I see it, I will definitely be severely punished!" ”

"Yes." The officers replied aloud at the same time. Not long ago, when an officer asked a question before the meeting, he conveyed the questions of his subordinates to Deng Ming, that is, if Deng Ming had not seen it, would he not have been severely punished? Deng Ming heard this, and once again reiterated that as long as he knew about it, the criminal would be punished by military law. Hearing Deng Ming talk about this matter again today, the officers immediately should not question whether this is a sergeant who treats King Qin harshly.

"As for the treasury of Burma, the palace of the king of Burma, and the pagoda made of gold, if our soldiers take a little, I will have no problem, as long as I can move back by myself, I will not care. If I need to borrow public vehicles, animals, and means of transport, I have to take 20% of the tax. "Deng Mingjian yì everyone handed over their personal booty to the army for unified transportation, so that the soldiers would not lose their combat effectiveness or be unable to undertake combat missions. The tax levied by Deng Ming was very limited, and the main purpose was to serve these warriors who followed him Qinwang: "The Burmese robbed the palace people of the Holy Lord, the female dependents of the elders, and also plundered the officers and soldiers as slaves. The king humiliated the ministers to death, and our army traveled thousands of miles to crusade against the ministers, just to shame the saint. And all the Burmese who commit such crimes are the main culprits, and are not protected by our military law, and the soldiers are not guilty of whatever they do to them. ”

"Understood." The officers shouted in response.

"Alright, adjourn."

The next day, when it was time to ask questions before the meeting, a large group of captains and lieutenants rushed to raise their hands, and Deng Ming casually clicked: "You ask." ”

"Dashuai, my soldiers want to know if it is true that Dashuai said that the Burmese used gold to build towers."

Many officers also nodded after hearing this question, and they also exchanged heads and ears:

"I was about to ask this."

"Me too."

"Yesterday my men couldn't believe it."

"It's true." Deng Ming replied forcefully: "But the inner layer of the tower should still be brick and stone, if it is a pure gold pagoda, even a hundred thousand troops will not be able to move back; It should have been a layer of gold on the surface of the pagoda, which was just right for us. ”

Many of the officers immediately burst into laughter, as if they were not now marching within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but had defeated the Burmese army and were marching towards their golden pagoda.

"What's the problem?" Deng Ming looked around and found that there were a lot fewer officers raising their hands all of a sudden.

An officer hesitated to raise his hand, Deng Ming nodded to him, and he noticed that the officer hesitated for a moment before speaking, as if he had a serious concern.

"Dare to ask Dashuai, are these pagodas all pagodas?" The officer mustered up his courage and spat out the question at once.

Not only Deng Ming was stunned, but the Sichuan Army officers present suddenly became uncomfortable.

"Well, how did I forget this? The British soldiers are all Neo-Christians, right? Of course, they didn't have a psychological burden to tear down the stupa. Deng Ming cried out in his heart. As a person who uses mathematics and logic to understand nature, he did ignore this problem, knowing that even modern art was developed under the great influence of Newton's optical theory.

After pondering for a moment, Deng Ming said: "The Buddhism of the Burmese people is very different from ours, their abbot is of grade, I have heard people say before, there was once a mountain in Myanmar where two temples fought by themselves, guess why?" ”

"Needless to say, it must be a special teacher who fights for land to read the full text." Among all the officers present, Zhao Tianba was probably the most disrespectful to Buddhism except for Deng Ming, and he said proudly: "Didn't you tell the marshal about encircling and suppressing the thieves of Tiantai Mountain last time?" They often fought for water, land, and pilgrims, and as a result, the government had to set up a special yamen, which was called the monk yamen. ”

Several people cast dissatisfied glances at Zhao Tianba, because many military officers believed in Buddhism, and the people of western Sichuan have always had a tradition of believing in gods and Buddhas.

"No," Deng Ming shook his head: "It's because of the grade." ”

"What grade? Is there still a grade of monk? ”

"Absolutely. The official mansion is at the foot of the mountain, and the abbot of the temple on the mountainside runs more frequently to the yamen, and there are fewer on the top of the mountain, and as a result, the abbot of the temple on the mountainside is rated by the government as a division...... Well, I mean the positive five pins, and the abbot of the temple on the top of the hill is the deputy five pins. As a result, the monks at the top of the mountain quit: Why is our abbot half a level inferior to you? The abbot and the presiding officer took all the monks in the temple to the mountainside to demolish the temple. ”

"How can it be!" Many Ming army officers shouted: "They are monks, they are chanting scriptures in front of the Buddha, how can they be so greedy!" ”

"Also, the temples in Myanmar also organize games, and the fee is predicted to open the cup, and if the people invite the Buddha statue and the Bodhisattva statue home, they will also charge money for the consecration."

The officers of the Sichuan army were in an uproar, and the more devout believers became, the more angry they became, and the officer who asked the question just now had a red face: "Are the monks in the temple all fat and big-eared, and their faces full of oil?" Isn't this a Shaolin Temple? ”

"Well, I also think this is the Shaolin Temple." Deng Ming nodded.

After successfully eliminating the guilt of his subordinates, today Zhao Tianba explained some geography on the Yunnan-Burma border, but Zhao Tianba's understanding is not very detailed, just to give these officers who have never been to Yunnan a basic impression. After arriving in Kunming, Deng Ming would naturally ask Li Dingguo for a group of guides, and then ask them to popularize everything they knew to these 8,000 Sichuan army soldiers.

When he was in China, Deng Ming would never allow soldiers to loot temples and Taoist temples, even Shaolin Temple, and he didn't even have to think about destroying places of interest. Deng Ming always felt that he had a responsibility to protect these buildings and facilities. And now before he went to the territory of Burma, Deng Ming began to use this to improve the combat ** of the troops, although rationally he knew that it was probably wrong to do so, but there was no problem emotionally.

"I know that the Manchurians of this era are playing the role of Japanese devils, and they are even worse than Japanese devils." After the meeting, Deng Ming looked at his heart and said to himself: "But I still see them as people like me." When I heard that the Burmese had killed our men and robbed our women, although they could not be compared with the Manchurians in terms of scale, I gritted my teeth with hatred and was determined to pay the debt with blood. Since it was the Burmese king who started the war, it is only natural that the Burmese should pay the price. ”

"I'm not really an internationalist." After carefully analyzing his feelings, Deng Ming came to such a conclusion again.

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The following day, Deng Ming was not able to continue his symposium, because several Ming envoys caught up with him from the rear and brought him the committee's request.

"It's true that I'm not thoughtful, I thought that with Liu Jinge and Yuan Xiang in charge, Li Xinghan in charge of the army, plus the criminal officer, the bank, and the tax, there should be nothing that I can't deal with." Deng Ming thought about it carefully and found the problem, that is, the previous system was able to work well because Deng Ming completely took on the external responsibility. The current system of western Sichuan is no different from before, but the external shape has changed, and western Sichuan has begun to have the ability to deal with war in two directions at the same time. And when Deng Ming left, he did not leave the Chuanxi Group with an organization that could deal with such incidents.

"I can't handle this matter, I can't rely on the messenger to ask the details of the matter, and time doesn't allow such a toss. How to respond to the changes in the southeast should be the responsibility of those left behind. Deng Ming did not give any instructions to Chengdu and Xuzhou, but went through the left-behind personnel from his mind, but did not find a suitable candidate to make external decisions.

"Fortunately, this incident happened and reminded me, otherwise I don't know how long it will take me to come back when I go to Myanmar, wouldn't the capital and Xuzhou have nothing to do?" Deng Ming told the envoy to wait for two days, and he had to think about it.