Dong U (i.e., the official name of Myanmar in the Ming Dynasty), Awa.

This is a relatively flat area in central Myanmar, which is extremely rare in Myanmar, which is full of hills and mountains.

And because of the irrigation and nourishment of the Irrawaddy River, it has countless natural fertile fields and fertile soil, and has long become the granary of the whole Myanmar.

Historically, every power has coveted this place.

In the past, the ancestors of the Shan people in Myanmar relied on this fertile water and soil to establish an ancient dynasty, which was called the Ava Dynasty.

However, since the 13th century, the Ava Dynasty, which was dominated by the Shan people in the center, and the Baigu Dynasty, which was dominated by the Mon people in the south, fought continuously for 40 years, which is known as the "Forty Years War".

In the end, both sides were defeated, causing a large number of homeless refugees to flee to a small country called "Donghu".

So this small country reaped the benefits and gradually became stronger.

When the two dynasties of Ava and Baigu were finally exhausted, Donghu was finally strong enough to bare its fangs and destroy both countries in one fell swoop.

Subsequently, it unified the whole of Burma and established the most powerful dynasty in Burmese history, the Taungoo Dynasty.

And now in the Ming Dynasty, the official prefers to call it "Dongwu".

If the Dong U Dynasty is the most powerful dynasty in the history of Burma, then the Dong U, which is currently under the reign of King Tarong, is the strongest of the strong.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Ta Long succeeded him as the king of Dongwu.

He was a very effective king, and he implemented a series of reforms, such as abandoning unnecessary wars of foreign expansion, allocating land to the unemployed peasants, and devoting himself to the recovery and development of the domestic economy.

Ta Long also has the pride of a generation of heroes.

Although he no longer plundered the land of the Ming Dynasty, he also refused to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, in order to gain closer control of the granaries of Burma and achieve long-term rule of the dynasty, the ambitious Tarong decided to move the capital from the Baigu region in the south to the Ava region in the center.

The time of moving the capital began in the eighth year of Chongzhen.

However, unlike in history, the news that Talong was going to move the capital to Ava has been widely circulated among the aborigines of the Ava region since the beginning of the seventh year of Chongzhen.

The indigenous people here are predominantly Shan, and the rich Ava was cultivated by their ancestors for generations.

After the establishment of the Dongwu Dynasty, they were allocated some land, but much less than before.

They endured, who let them be under the rule of the Burmese now?

But now, it is rumored that King Tarong is planning to move the capital to Ava, and at the same time to take most of Ava's land into the royal family for the Burmese to cultivate.

As for the Shan aborigines, they either lived in place as tenant slaves for the Burmese, or moved further north to the mountains and forests.

The rumor spread more and more widely, and by October of that year, hundreds of thousands of Shan people knew about it.

They boiled and were furious!

Taking away their fertile land is simply a signal to drive them out!

The Shan have always been fierce and have never really submitted to anyone—even during the Forty Years' War, they never flinched.

Many Shan people secretly contacted each other, agreeing that if Ta Long really moved the capital, they would not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the inheritance of their ancestors!

And at this time, a group of mysterious Shan people suddenly stood up and predicted that when he moved the capital, it would be the time when the dynasty collapsed!

Where did the prophecy come from?

They uttered a very unfamiliar name: the Childless Mother.

According to those people, the insatiable greed of King Taron has angered the lifeless old mother, and he will send divine soldiers to inflict divine punishment.

When many people hear about it for the first time, they ask what is a childless mother?

The Shan people asked, "Do you know the Ming Dynasty?"

A lot of people nodded, "Yes." ”

"Do you know that there is now a person named Qin Shuhuai in the Ming Dynasty, who has already ruled the world?"

Many people shook their heads now, after all, the news is closed in this era, and many farmers have never left home in their lives, and it is normal to not know what is going on outside.

But there were still a few people who nodded, they were the leaders of the clan, and they had naturally heard some news from the outside when they had been to the city a lot.

"That Qin Shuhuai is the disciple of the Childless Mother! Look, if the king dares to occupy our territory, the Motherless Mother will definitely let Qin Shuhuai bring the heavenly soldiers to send down divine punishment!"

Since ancient times, many ethnic groups have coexisted in Myanmar, and the contradictions between ethnic groups have not been resolved until the 21st century.

Even during Thron's reign, it was no exception.

Although Ta Long implemented a series of policies to alleviate ethnic contradictions, due to the deep-rooted contradictions between various ethnic groups for thousands of years, as well as the serfdom that was still prevalent in Dong U and other factors, the ethnic contradictions here were only temporarily suppressed and never really resolved.

At the instigation of a group of people with ulterior motives, an undercurrent surged in the Ava region.

And King Talong, for the sake of the empire's strategy, it is obviously impossible to give up the plan to move the capital.

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In July of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong led a huge fleet to fight another battle with the Dutch in Jawa, and finally defeated the Dutch fleet at the cost of losing three battleships, and occupied the main ports of Jawa, forcing the Dutch on the shore to go to sea.

The headquarters of the Dutch East India Company was trapped on land.

At this time, as of September, 11 new battleships were launched in Weihai Port, and another 39 were under expedited construction, and the Ming Beiyang Naval Division was beginning to take shape.

This vast empire is not far from taking full control of the Far East.

This also means that the plan to attack Burma the following year will be on the line.

At the beginning of July, Hua Shen and Lao Dao rushed from Tianjin to report to Qin Shuhuai.

The last few reports have naturally been based on intelligence from the Tung U Ava area.

As early as last year, Qin Shuhuai found a group of Shan people who had fled in Yunnan, and in addition, he found some Shan people who had taken refuge in Zheng Zhilong's fleet, and took them to the headquarters of the White Lotus Sect in Tianjin, so that the old Taoist sent people to teach them the teachings.

These Shan people may not really believe in the White Lotus Sect, but after a period of training and exposure to it, they have gradually become familiar with the teachings, and some even really believe in the White Lotus Sect.

After that, Hua Shen returned from Fujian and personally selected about fifty of the most reliable Shan, gave them a handsome honorarium, and even helped them start a family in Tianjin.

About a year later, the time came to use them.

All of these Shan people were secretly sent back to Ava, taking advantage of their own Shan status to spread the White Lotus Cult locally.

Of course, the most important thing is to let them spread the rumor that Talung is about to move the capital and seize the land of the Shan people, and let the Burmese people represented by him occupy the rich land of the Ava region and make the Shan people become serfs.

This incident is based on a foundation, that is, in history, Ta Long really moved the capital to Ava in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and forcibly occupied a large amount of land of the Shan people.

This incident had aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Shan people, and what Qin Shuhuai wanted to do was to escalate this dissatisfaction into violent resistance.

Myanmar's ethnic contradictions have always been acute, and if the Shan people resist, then other people, such as the Mon and Karen people, may join the rebellion, because they all have a deep blood feud with the Burmese represented by Tarong.

At that time, the Ming army's re-attack on the Talon regime will be like a tiger with wings, and the result will be twice the result with half the effort.