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At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Burmese region was still full of states, with Shan, Burmese, Baigu, Mon and other kingdoms, and Dongwu was just one of them.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, after the Shan ruled Ava, the Wa people could not bear the oppression and moved to Dongwu one after another, which made Dongwu's strength increase rapidly.

At that time, there were frequent wars between countries in the Burma region, and Dong Wu was located in a corner of the country, far away from the war zone, and was not damaged by the war, and the population continued to increase.

During the reign of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Dongwu married Ava and obtained the "granary" area of Kyaukxi, which promoted the development of agriculture; He also formed an alliance with the powerful Baigu Dynasty to contain the invasion of the Ava Dynasty.

In the fourteenth year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Dongwu opened the curtain of expansion and began to attack his ally Baigu Dynasty. It took four years to defeat the Baigu Dynasty.

Dong Wu pursued a policy of uniting the Mon people, using Mon soldiers to his advantage, and employing Portuguese soldiers with modern weapons and warships. It took another two years to capture the foreign trade key port and Maduba. During the Jiajing period, the basic reunification of central and southern Myanmar was completed.

Immediately afterwards, Dong Wu successively destroyed the Ava Dynasty and conquered various Shan states, completing the pattern of Myanmar unification.

Human desires are endless, and the powerful Dongwu Kingdom has never given up the pace of expansion, conquering several small countries in the southeast and occupying two-thirds of the territory of the Indochina Peninsula. He invaded Siam several times in an attempt to bring Siam and the entire Malay Peninsula into his territory.

The current king of Dongwu, Talong, has been in power for nearly 30 years, which is the heyday of Dongwu, and the country is rich and the people are strong. Looking around, there was little room for expansion, and Talong began to devote himself to the recovery and development of the domestic economy, distributing land to landless peasants.

Eight years ago, he also conducted a nationwide census and compiled survey statistics on household registration, cultivated land area, output, and taxes in various localities, which were used as the basis for taxation and labor transfer, and further increased the strength of the country.

Overall, Thron was a very accomplished king.

It's a pity that he is old, and he provoked Qiang Qin who shouldn't be messed with.

Since the Great Qin Emperor promulgated the edict of the Emperor of the Cave. He Long regretted very much that he had sent troops to Yunnan and mixed up with the Central Plains Dynasty, and he was extremely depressed, coupled with his old age and frailty, he had been bedridden for the past few months.

Located in the north-central part of Myanmar, the city of Awa (Mandalay City) is the largest granary in Myanmar where the Dajinsha River and the Ava River meet, forming a huge alluvial plain, which is rich in rice, cotton, sugarcane, sesame and other crops.

Ava City is surrounded by Mandalay Mountain in the north, and is surrounded by the Dajinsha River and the Ava River. It is surrounded by a vast land of fish and rice, which is uniquely blessed. It's just that now the whole house is shrouded in a heavy atmosphere, as if the sky is cloudy and rainless, which makes people feel breathless.

The news of Pingdali's defeat at the Mangshi Division in Yunnan Province just came from the north, and the bad news of the invasion of the Qin army's naval division came from Dagong City in the south.

For a time, the people in Ava City were panicked. Rumors spread, some said that the Qin army could fly, some said that the Qin army sucked human blood, and some said that the Qin army's firearms could blow up the mountain. Some say that the Qin army is a three-headed and six-armed monster. There are all kinds of rumors, and they are all different.

Immediately afterwards, it was reported that the general Wu Jing was defeated in Siam, and was defeated by hundreds of Qin troops and Siamese remnants. Twenty thousand troops were lost.

Bad news came one after another, and I don't know which one will be the straw that will break the camel's back.

He went to court with illness and asked the officials for countermeasures. The hundreds of officials in the court were silent one by one.

He coughed so hard that he finally stopped, and his face showed a strange flush, which made people feel ominous when they saw it.

He took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, and said by name: "Du Su, you said cough cough, now that the Qin army is invading on a large scale, how should we deal with it?" ”

Dong Yu and Jiaozhi, the structure of the imperial court is mostly set up in imitation of the Central Plains Dynasty, Du Su is the secretary of the military department, after being named, he had to go out of the class and said: "Back to the emperor, there are many Han people in the capital, and the minister thinks that these Han people should be arrested first to prevent them from making internal responses to the Qin army." ”

When the ministers in the palace heard this, they couldn't help but secretly despise Du Su, he was obviously avoiding the important and trivial, and wanted to get by.

He Long was also extremely dissatisfied, panting for a breath, and coughing violently, and the entire hall was full of him coughing one after another, without stopping.

In the end, he coughed up a mouthful of black blood, which frightened the ministers of the palace, and they knelt down and bowed, and the eunuchs of the palace screamed and rushed to some of them, some served tea, some let the imperial doctor, and some helped him to get off the golden chair, and it was a mess for a while.

This court meeting, because of this change, ended halfway, and Taron was helped back to the harem for treatment, and the ministers stayed outside the palace, panicking.

After consulting with the six ministers, Prime Minister Aung San Yidan urgently sent someone to pick up Prince Pin Dali back to Beijing.

Although he suffered a great defeat in the Dead City Division and almost lost his army of 20,000 men, he was not discouraged and retreated to Shan State to continue to organize troops to resist the Qin army.

It's just that the firearms of the Qin army are too good, and no matter how strong the fortifications are, they won't last long to break under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Qin army's rockets.

Cui Feng's five-way army is mostly soldiers who are good at jungle warfare.

Especially those Tusi troops, climbing mountains and wading through rivers and walking on flat ground, coupled with the powerful firepower of the Qin army, are even more powerful, and those scouts of the Qin army, like ghosts, are elusive and pervasive, making people unguardable.

Ping Dali tried his best, but except for an ambush battle, which annihilated the more than 300 Tusi soldiers in Chen Ruizheng's first road, the other roads were basically defeated and won less.

In the face of such an opponent, Pindari could only cry out in vain, retreating one after another, and the entire Shan State soon fell.

At this moment, a messenger sent by Prime Minister Aung San Yidan arrived in a hurry, and Pindarit was shocked when he heard the news that his father was critically ill.

The competition for the throne is usually extremely fierce in the royal family of various countries, and the Dongwu Kingdom is no exception, Ci Dali's younger brother Bai Mang has long been eyeing the throne, if his father returns to the west at this time, and he is not in the capital, his younger brother Bai Mang will definitely not let go of such an opportunity.

Ping Dali couldn't care about anything else, and hurriedly told his general Wu Jin to continue to organize resistance to the Qin army, and then hurried back to the capital Ava with his own soldiers.

Pindari hurried slowly, and it took two days to see that the city of Ava was already in sight, and when crossing the Ava River, no one expected that the weak boatlady suddenly burst into attack, and Pindari was caught off guard, and was stabbed into the chest and abdomen by a dagger, and blood spurted out.

The two soldiers on the same boat roared angrily, drew their knives and slashed, and the boat lady jumped into the river, and then the soldiers found that the boat was rapidly entering the water, and the soldiers on the other boats had no time to rescue, and the seriously injured Pindari even sank into the surging river.

The news soon spread to the capital, and the sick Ta Long fainted again after learning about it, and the second prince Bai Mang immediately forcibly broke into the palace on the grounds of serving his father's decoction.

Seeing this, the minister of the Dongwu State took the lead in the military department, and proposed to appoint Bai Mang as the crown prince, which was strongly opposed by Prime Minister Aung San Yidan.

Aung San Yidan said to everyone: "The prince can fight well, won the support of the people, and is a legitimate prince, now the prince's life and death are uncertain, and the emperor is unconscious, how can another prince be established at this time?" ”

Du Su immediately retorted: "Now that the Qin army is attacking from the north and south, I am in danger, I am in danger, I am tired, and the emperor is unconscious. ”

"Yes, now state affairs can't be presided over by no one, the emperor can't be on the council, the prince has encountered an accident, and now someone really needs to supervise the country."

"In addition to the second prince, is there a more suitable candidate now?"

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The ministers talked a lot, although everyone knew that the assassination of Pindari was not simple, but at this time, except for Aung San Yidan and others from the prince's faction, no one else wanted to investigate the matter, and the water was too deep.

And even if you find out who did it, what can you do?

Thinking of the sinister part, many officials who originally belonged to the faction of the crown prince Pindali also began to defect and began to support the second son Bai Mang to supervise the country

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(To be continued......)