"The rebellion in the southwest is to quell the land and return to the current situation. At this time, it is probably not appropriate to provoke border provocations."

In the court, Li Banghua and Ni Yuanlu had a close relationship, so there were some things you didn’t have to worry about. Today, Li Banghua came to the Censorate to do business, and by the way he talked about the southwest.

The overall situation in the Northeast has been settled, and the rebellion in the southwest was pacified with lightning speed. It turned out that many officials, including Li Banghua and Ni Yuanlu, believed that the imperial court would hurriedly change the land and return to the southwest at this time, and would definitely be very embarrassed in the end.

Some officials expressed their opinions and said a few words to persuade him. Seeing that the emperor couldn't listen, he still did his own thing and took great measures. He stopped persuading him, and even secretly hoped that the situation would be chaotic and that the emperor would suffer a great loss and might restrain himself in the future.

As a result, several armies advanced, and in just a few months, the news of pacification of the southwest had already been heard. I couldn't believe it. In the past, in the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the battle between two fields in Guizhou, the Yang family rebellion of Bozhou, or the She'an rebellion, any chaos would have to last for a long time and it took countless efforts to pacify it.

Guizhou has had the She'an Rebellion and the Bozhou Rebellion within 50 years, and Yunnan has also had popular reputation and the Shadingzhou Rebellion. These are all lessons from the past, but the facts have left them speechless.

The court seemed to have dispatched more than 200,000 troops, but they have also participated in the meetings of the Military Affairs Office and heard reports from the Ministry of War and the Privy Council.

After fighting the war in the southwest for half a year, the court did not go out and instead made an advance. There was not much money, grain, weapons, and other expenses. The materials prepared in advance were only transported to the first batch, and the later ones were already replenished on the spot, which was more than enough.

The casualties of the army were even smaller. Until now, a war of quelling chaos that swept several provinces for less than half a year, but the casualties reported by the official army were less than a hundred. The official number was thirty-seven people killed in battle and more than 80 people were seriously injured and disabled. No need to count the minor injuries.

This number once made the imperial court unbelievable. Is this a war?

In the past, when the government army suppressed any bandits, thousands of casualties might have been killed or killed. Now the court quelled the rebellion in the southwest, involving several provinces and dispatched more than 200,000 troops, but only 37 died?

But the Censorate, Jinyiwei, Dongchang and others are also supervising agencies. Not only are the military generals below who say that they are dead, but there are several systems that report separately, and the numbers reported all the same. They are all thirty-seven.

All the officials in the capital thought that the turbulent rebellion in the southwest was so fierce that it was another She'an Rebellion. The She'an Rebellion lasted for more than ten years, including Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Hunan, involving several provinces. Four hundred thousand people died in the siege of Guiyang alone.

At that time, the official record was that more than 2,000 people were killed and more than 20,000 rebels were killed. It is said that more than 10,000 were injured or killed. Now the southwest riot is much larger than the Shean Rebellion. As a result, only more than 30 deaths were killed by the official army.

In addition, about a thousand militias died in battle.

However, in the eyes of all officials, militias are soldiers, at most they are civilians. As usual, the casualties cannot be calculated within the casualties of the official army.

Therefore, the official record of the official army was these thirty-seven.

However, the record of the war in the southwest quelling the rebellion was that the three armies killed more than 56,000 rebel soldiers and captured more than 138,000 prisoners.

On the one hand, there were 37 casualties from the official army. On the other hand, the official army killed 56,000 and captured more than 130,000. The difference between these two numbers is too huge. But no matter what, this is the result of the official confirmation of the court, and now the court is also considering the merits based on this result.

Regardless of whether this number is moisture or not, at least the official army has put down the rebellion in the southwestern provinces and has already rushed to Myanmar.

Li Banghua did not agree with the act of crossing the border into Myanmar after the rebellion was quelled.

As for the so-called Three Propaganda and Six Comfort Places established during the Ming Dynasty such as Laos and Myanmar, it was nothing in his eyes.

After all, Laos Xuanwei Department, Babaidadian, etc. are already far away in the sky. What's the point of fighting for the southern barbarians in the mountains that are in the 100,000 mountains?

In his eyes, those places are just like Annan, and there is no need to make a big fight for this, it is not worth it.

But the emperor and the military have obviously different views.

Now the three troops from the southern expedition have directly attacked the Myanmar-controlled area and have seized more than a hundred miles of territory at once. This is just a matter of provocation.

After finally quelling the rebellion in the southwest, one wave after another was not quelled, and another wave started again. Li Banghua couldn't understand that it was necessary to fight like this for a wild land in the sky?

Ni Yuanlu just smiled, holding the cup in one hand and the spoon in the other hand gently stirring the milk powder brewed in the cup. He added a piece of sugar cube to the milk powder. He liked this fragrant and sweet taste.

"Even if the Xuanweisi Department of Eight Hundred Miles and Dadian is a wilderness, it is also the wilderness of the Han Empire. How can others steal it? The Burmese people have been stealing the comforts in the southwest for a hundred years, and it is time to get it back."

Li Banghua was surprised, "Brother Yuru actually supports the military's nonsense?"

"This is not a nonsense. It's ours. How can you give up just now?"

Li Banghua shook his head, too lazy to argue with Ni Yuanlu.

"How do you think Burmese will react?"

Ni Yuanlu smiled and said, "The Burmese people stole the territory of our Han Dynasty back then, but now the Han Dynasty regained their hometown. What can they do and what dare they do?"

In fact, the country is the prey of the weak. Ni Yuanlu now has a deep understanding of this. The country is weak, just like in the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the Mongols, Jurchens, or even Japanese Japanese pirates, they will bully you. But if the country is strong, then it will naturally expand its territory. Everything is spoken by strength. Now the great Han country is booming, but I heard that Myanmar is beginning to decline. How dare I fight against the great Han Dynasty, anger the great Han Dynasty and destroy them directly. At that time, even their territory will be the territory of the great Han Dynasty.

But Li Banghua talked about Annan.

At that time, the Ming Taizu once listed Annan and other places as a country that was not expropriated, but during the Ming Chengzu, they sent troops to destroy Annan, set up prefectures and counties, and classified them as directly under the Han Dynasty.

But since then, Annan has been in turmoil and rebellious. The court has been using troops in Annan, spending countless money and food, and killing and injuring countless soldiers. In the end, it has had to evacuate Annan.

Li Banghua was very worried that the big man's actions in Myanmar would be the ending.

With the strength of the Han Dynasty, it would not be too difficult to defeat Myanmar, but it is probably not easy to rule the wild land for a long time. Just like the kings of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they really had to fight against Goguryeo in order to deal with a Goguryeo. As a result, even if Goguryeo was destroyed during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, they still had to withdraw their troops soon, and instead made wedding clothes for Silla for vain.

Li Banghua felt that this kind of expedition was even more awesome for the king. He was very fond of military force and military force, which would not be of any benefit to the country and the people.

Liu Jun is also paying attention to the reactions of the Burmese people.

After the three Han troops crossed the border for more than a hundred miles, they stopped and did not go too deep. They abide by Liu Jun's will and were waiting for the Burmese reaction.

But until now, the Burmese lost hundreds of miles of places without any response.

This surprised Liu Jun. Are these Burmese people pretending to be ignorant?

The new Privy Councilor Liu Yongsheng asked the emperor, "We cannot understand their intentions when the Burmese people react so well, and we don't know how to arrange the next step."

Liu Jun thought for a while, "Since the Burmese people are like this, we don't have to be polite to them. We will take advantage of the current army to focus and recover Meng Yang, Mubang, Babaidadian, Laos, Cheli, and Myanmar Liufu."

"If the Burmese resisted, it could lead to a total war."

"We don't have to worry about the full-scale war. This time the imperial court quelled the rebellion in the southwest. If these six consolations are not taken back at the moment, I'm afraid we will have no reason to take them back in the future. We must not miss the opportunity, and we will not miss it."

These six comforts are now controlled by the Han army. The small eight hundred and eight hundred of the eight hundred and Mubang are also controlled by the Han army. It is not difficult to win the remaining Laos and Myanmar.

However, the two comforts of Myanmar and Laos are not Myanmar and Laos in later generations, but are only equivalent to part of the territory of the two countries in later generations. Among them, the Myanmar Sun Weishi Department is close to the Upper Myanmar region of Mengyang and Mubang, and later it was the territory of the Awa dynasty. However, the Awa dynasty and the Baigu dynasty's 40 years of war completely dragged them over, giving the small country Dongshu a chance, and finally conquering Upper Myanmar and other regions.

Therefore, the Myanmar Sunwei Department and the Laos Sunwei Department are actually close to the Yunnan region.

However, the area of ​​these six Xuanwei Offices is still very large, which is equivalent to expanding Yunnan Province one circle. Together, the area is not smaller than that of Yunnan.

Liu Jun plans to split Yunnan and Sansi Liuwei into three provinces by then, Sansi and Mubang, Mengyang and Myanmar into one province, while Menggen, Cheli, Babaidadian, Laos and other provinces in southeastern Yunnan will form one province, and the narrower Yunnan will become three provinces.

Such a subdivision is also to strengthen the central court's control over these places.

Of course, if you want to divide it into three, the first premise is to take back the six comforts, otherwise everything will be in vain.

"Preferential treatment will be given to the Liufu local officials who are willing to take the initiative to surrender, and some rights will be given appropriately."

"Ava and Bagan City must be taken down." Liu Jun specifically asked.

Awa is the center of Upper Myanmar and was once the capital of the Awa dynasty. Bagan City, to the south of Awa City, was once the capital of the powerful Bagan dynasty in Myanmar.

Both cities are built on wealthy plains and are grain-producing areas. The Great Jinsha River converges with the Mole River and the Ava River and flows eastward into the sea.

Although Liu Jun now said that he was just to recover Liufu, and the Myanmar Consolation Department only refers to the Myanmar region, in fact, Liu Jun would not be satisfied with this. If he could successfully control Mengyang, Mubang, and seize Awa and Bagan, the Han army could completely follow the Dajinsha River and open up the southern sea outlet. At that time, the imperial court had an sea outlet and controlled the coast, and could establish a port. At that time, he would no longer rely entirely on crossing mountains and ridges, and could come directly from the sea.

Even if it has a seaport in Myanmar, the imperial court can in turn use it to develop towards the South China Sea with its base.

"By the way, Vietnam, don't take action for the time being." Liu Jun explained again.

Since we are going to fight in Myanmar, it is naturally not suitable to take action in Vietnam at this time. We should try to avoid fighting on both sides. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!