"Yes, the Chinese are the most loyal and patriotic, how can they disobey their emperor's orders?" At this time, even a straw had to be grasped, and Mang Bai planned to let the officials go to meet Yongli who was under house arrest, and be sure to get the edict of retirement written by Yongli himself.

One of the courtiers reminded: "If the Chinese emperor knows the situation at the front, he may not be obedient." ”

"There is one more thing, that is, if the Chinese emperor is willing to give an edict, he can't let his people take it to the Ming army." Another courtier said that the Chinese monarchs and ministers who were now under house arrest were full of resentment, and if they were allowed to see the Ming army, which had just won a great victory, they did not know what they would say; If the Ming army knew about the insults suffered by their court in Burma, I am afraid that it would further anger the Qin army.

In addition to the fact that he urgently ordered the troops in southern Burma to be prepared to reinforce Ava on their backs, it was also difficult to see how many troops could be drawn from southern Burma, because the garrison also had the task of monitoring the Mon, and if the people in southern Burma knew that Awa's control was declining, perhaps some people would have different intentions; Relations between Myanmar and Thailand are also strained, and Ava doesn't want his neighbors to feel like they have an opportunity.

Now that the Son of Yongli has no personal freedom at all, the guards of the court in exile have been taken away by the Burmese, and now the guards around the camp are all Burmese soldiers, and even the daily food needs are transported by reliable personnel selected by Ava, and no idle people are allowed to wait near the station of the Great Emperor.

After life and death were in the hands of others, the Burmese people's respect for the Son of Heaven also plummeted, and they sneered at the few remaining servants of the Yongli Emperor, and by last month, the attitude of the last few palace people waiting for the concubine was also similar to teasing. In this regard, neither the emperor nor the crown prince dared to be angry, and if there was no food from the Burmese, they would starve, so they simply pretended not to know.

In recent days, the attitude of the Burmese people who arrived at Yongli began to change, as if they had regained some respect for themselves, and the three meals sent to them became more and more abundant. The Queen Mother, the Emperor, the Empress and the Crown Prince discussed several times in private, but they never got the gist out of it, and they didn't know whether it was the conscience of the King of Burma or what had happened to the political situation in Myanmar.

The food sent today is still good, the queen mother and the emperor eat first, and after these two have eaten, it will be the turn of the concubine and the prince, and then the remnants of the palace and the chamberlain.

When the officials sent by Mangbai arrived, the Queen Mother was already full, and Yongli was halfway there. The envoy of the King of Burma walked in with a look of anger on his face, and said to Emperor Yongli in a rough voice: "Emperor Ming has taken refuge in our country for three years, but do you still remember the favor of our country?" ”

Now that Myanmar no longer regards itself as a vassal, Yongli is not resentful, and politely replied: "I am deeply grateful for the care of your country for three years. ”

"Then the king of Jin and the king of Gongchang of your country sent troops to harass the surroundings of Bamo, can the emperor know?" The Burmese official said angrily: "Today, our king received a report from Ba Mo that the Jin and Gong feudal domains entered and plundered our country, robbing a large amount of grain and people. ”

"I don't know about it." Yongli shook his head, he was camped by software, and he couldn't even see his own ministers, how could he still know what was happening outside, let alone know about the war on the border of Yunnan and Burma.

"In that case, then please also ask the emperor to issue an edict to the Jin and Gong domains, so that they can immediately withdraw from our country." As he spoke, the Burmese official took out the prepared paper and pen and ink and placed them in front of Yongli's table, and the Burmese soldiers who came with this official all looked at Yongli with fierce eyes.

"He said that he only received the news today, but the attitude of the Burmese people in the past few days has obviously changed, is it not related to this matter?" Yongli couldn't refuse, and when the waiter was slowly grinding ink, Yongli also picked up the pen, and his heart quickly turned his thoughts: "Most of this is fraud." ”

But before Yongli could figure out what was going on, the Burmese officials impatiently urged: "Why hasn't the emperor issued an edict?" Do you think that our country is not well entertained and deliberately connived at the Jin and Gong domains? ”

Burma already knew that the Sichuan army had also entered the war, but this envoy did not say a word, lest Yongli would understand that the Ming Dynasty was the master of King Xingqin.

Although he doubted that there was any article in this, Yongli did not dare to gamble with his own speculation on the safety of his own life, sighed in his heart, and wrote an edict to withdraw from the army according to the request of the Burmese officials, and covered it with his own jade seal.

If the Burmese envoy got the treasure, he dried the ink on the edict and left in a hurry with it, Yongli watched the envoy leave, when there were no Burmese eyes and ears in the house, Yongli sighed for a long time: "I don't know if Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan came to King Qin!" Most likely, that's why the Burmese will come to me to ask for an edict, but with this edict, they will definitely withdraw from the army, and won't my chance of escaping be in vain? ”

Yongli's words ignited some hope among the people around her, and the queen immediately echoed it, saying that the edict should not be given to the Burmese people.

"How can I do it if I don't give it? Even if they are Qinwang, they don't know if they have reached Bamo, and they are still 108,000 miles away from here, and the Burmese are just outside the door. Although Yongli understood something in his heart, he asked him to refuse the Burmese request with a hard neck, which was too inconsistent with his character.

Empress Wang was reprimanded by the emperor like this, and immediately closed her mouth, but just glanced at the prince deeply, and was extremely worried in her heart - the situation is so dangerous now, maybe one day the Burmese will take the royal knife, the queen is most worried about the safety of her son, looking forward to the army of King Qin will be able to fight under the city tomorrow.

The queen's worried gaze was clearly seen by Yongli, knowing that the other party still had resentment in his heart about writing an edict according to the requirements of the Burmese, which made the emperor even more unhappy, and scolded again: "It's not because of you, the woman's opinion, otherwise why would our father and son be here?" ”

Before Yongli fled from Yunnan, the accompanying officials, including Chen Zuocai, and others persuaded the emperor bitterly, saying that if he resolutely refused to enter Sichuan as planned, then it would be better to go to Burma with the Empress Dowager, and that the prince might as well go to Li Dingguo's army, or go with Feng Shuangli, and enter Sichuan by way of Jianchang as originally planned.

At that time, it seemed that Burma was much safer than Sichuan, and the queen was unwilling to be separated from her son, so Yongli refused the advice of the courtiers on the grounds that the queen cherished her young son.

Seeing that the emperor turned over the old accounts, the queen hurriedly knelt down and apologized: "It's all the concubines who are ignorant." ”

Seeing that the queen solemnly pleaded guilty, Yongli's anger subsided, and he snorted and continued to eat. The queen kept kneeling down and the emperor left after eating, and only then did she get up with the support of the prince and start dining with the concubines.

Although she confessed her guilt just now, Queen Wang was very aggrieved in her heart, although she was reluctant to give up her son at that time, but of course the final decision was still in the hands of Yongli. At that time, Feng Shuangli sent several envoys in a row, urging the emperor to let the prince go to his army as soon as possible, and hurry up to Jianchang, but the first assistant Ma Jixiang observed the words and guessed the emperor's hidden worries, so he said to Yongli: "Feng Shuangli wants to make another meritorious contribution to the establishment, but he wants the saint to become the emperor of Tang Ming." ”

Ma Jixiang's words said that Yongli was in trouble, so he used the excuse that the queen was reluctant to take the prince to resolutely take his son into Myanmar together, which caused Feng Shuangli to be disappointed, and Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan had no choice but to run south.

Just before the reckless coup d'état and the curse of the water, Mu Tianbo and others thought that the Burmese side was no longer reliable, and they had to protect the emperor and the prince immediately, and because of the Yongli target wife, Mu Tianbo and others made a plan and selected a team of guards, asking them to desperately protect the prince and escape back to Li Dingguo's army. Like Deng Ming's previous life, Ma Jixiang reported the planning of Mu Tianbo and others to Yongli, saying that it was a rebellion; And Yongli was also furious: another one who wanted me to be the emperor was undoubtedly a treacherous plot.

Because Mu Tianbo was more prestigious among the Burmese, Yongli did not dare to cure Mu Tianbo's crimes, but ordered the death of those guards who were ordered to protect the prince's escape. Mu Tianbo, as a generation of nobles of the Ming Dynasty, had to carry out the emperor's will no matter what, so he executed his own family guards to show that he was purely thinking about the future of the emperor and had no dissent.

After this incident, the queen understood that although the emperor often shouted in private with his family that the throne was boring and that there was no benefit except to cause trouble, when it came to a critical moment, Yongli would instinctively defend it - as long as it did not endanger his life.

The queen looked at her son, and her heart was so sad that she couldn't eat, and she originally wanted Yongli to go and ask the Burmese to agree to use the prince's decree as a quid pro quo for him to draft the edict. But judging from today's performance, thinking back to the past, Empress Wang knew that the emperor would definitely not do this.

"Son," the queen stroked the prince's hair sadly, and whimpered, "how can my mother help you?" ”

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After the great victory, the Ming army's actions were far from rapid, Bai Wenxuan and Di Sanxi learned that the main force in northern Burma had been swept away, and thought that the victory was in hand, and the Burmese surrendered on their knees, and proudly advanced along the main road to Ava. Officers at all levels also had similar views to the commanders-in-chief, believing that it was only a matter of time before Burma surrendered, and connived at their subordinates to loot and loot; Now that the Ming army has entered the rich Lijiang River valley area, the Dian army, which has lived a hard life in Yunnan for several years, is busy collecting grain, grass and livestock every day, anyway, the enemy will surrender when he goes to the city of Ava, so why are you in such a hurry? It is better to take this opportunity to have a few good meals, fill your pockets and take two Burmese daughters-in-law back.

On the other side of Lijiang, Deng Ming's march may have been slower than that of the Dian army, and he explained to his subordinates at the officers' meeting that the task of the Sichuan army at this stage was to consolidate the rear with the help of a great victory, and to prepare for the Burmese government's refusal to surrender and drag the war into a situation of offensive and defensive warfare and protracted warfare in the city.

After receiving the invitation and threats sent by Deng Ming at the same time, the surrounding temples expressed their willingness to send monk envoys to meet Deng Ming - now that there were no regular Burmese troops around, the temples knew that the slightest refusal would lead to severe retaliation from the Ming army.

"Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed." Seeing that the first wave of monks was about to arrive, Deng Ming told his subordinates that he still needed to prepare something.