The person sent by King Mangtala to Dashun was the king's brother Mangbai, who was the one who caused the cursed water disaster in history. However, he is not the one in power in Myanmar now, and there is no Ming Dynasty emperor who wants to join him.

However, there was a Ming Dynasty emperor who had already sent troops to Siam, next door to Burma!

Before leaving the royal city of Ava, Mangbai had already read a copy of the "Ming-Siam Treaty", and he was frightened just by looking at it!

It doesn’t matter how harsh the treaty is - from the perspective of the suzerain and his vassals, the "Ming Siam Clan Treaty" is quite mild.

The Ming Dynasty's request for Siam was entirely the benefit that the suzerain country should enjoy, and it was not excessive at all! If Siam did not give it, the Ming Dynasty would suffer a loss if it continued to assume the obligation to protect Siam.

It is precisely because of gentleness that brothers Mangdala and Mangbai are afraid!

The powerful Annan and Siam have already accepted the Ming Dynasty's "Treaty of Suzerains and Vassals", and the two weak countries Chenla and Lancang (called Laos in China and Nanzhang in Annan) may also accept the treaty.

In this way, Myanmar's immediate neighbors to the east will all become part of the Ming Dynasty's world empire!

And the chieftains in Lanna (Lanna Thai Kingdom, the Kingdom of Eight Hundred Daughters in Chinese History), Mubang (Shan State) and other places in Myanmar who are unwilling to be ruled by Myanmar will also take the opportunity to join the Ming Dynasty - serving as a vassal for the Ming Dynasty is no better than

Is it happy to be a dog in Myanmar?

By then, if the Ming Dynasty does not come to attack, Myanmar will also be severely damaged.

That's why Mang Bai accepted the mission to go north to embrace Tongguo, and then headed for Chongqing, the capital of the Dashun Empire in the north, with the mission and gifts as quickly as possible.

But when Mangbai entered Yunnan and then headed north to Chongqing, this Burmese prince who was extremely cruel to Yongli monarchs and ministers in history became even more frightened.

Because what he saw was a newly-established Tang-style feudal country, with a martial and warlike atmosphere everywhere. The soldiers from the Tianfu who came from the north were all simple and brave, and the equipment seemed to be very well-equipped. So he was reckless.

Every group of Dashun troops that the White Mission encountered along the way were all murderous and not afraid of hardships.

As for their equipment, it is not bad. The armor coverage rate of the infantry is very high. Almost most of the soldiers (regular soldiers) have a body-protecting armor. Their weapons are mainly spears, swords, bows and arrows, and fire guns.

Soldiers with these four weapons formed a flower formation, with approximately 40 spearmen, 20 swordsmen, 30 archers and 10 gunmen for every 100 people.

Mang Bai also discovered that the fireguns held by these Dashun gunmen were all Western-style, which were heavy matchlock guns that the Han people called turtledove-footed fireguns. The quality of these fireguns was actually not very good, and they were all unprofessional.

The Sichuan blacksmiths made it haphazardly, but it just looks bluffing. In order to avoid exploding the barrel, the charge had to be reduced, so the turtle-dove foot gun can only produce the power of a shotgun.

But Mang Bai couldn't see that there was anything wrong with the quality of the fire gun!

In addition, Mangbai also noticed that some of the advancing troops would also carry bronze artillery. Although the number was not large, this kind of artillery that could be dragged by war horses was still very effective against the Burmese army, which relied on elephants for impact.

threatening...

Today, Mang Bai arrived in Chongqing, the capital of the Dashun Empire, and saw a capital full of murderous intent and quite serious.

There is no atmosphere of wealth and peace in this capital. You can't even see a shop when walking on the street! There are high walls on both sides of the street, and along the high walls stand the Jinwu Army of Emperor Dashun - they hold fire guns.

The proportion is even higher, almost one-third!

The rest have spears in their hands and a knife hanging from their waist. You can tell from one glance that they are very capable of fighting!

In addition, a large group of cavalry appeared, all of them armored lancers, standing in order at the entrance of the castle where Emperor Dashun lived.

Mang Bai followed Dashun Zuofu Niu Jinxing who came out of Chongqing City to meet him, and the military advisor Song Xiance dismounted his horse together, then walked across the wooden bridge outside Chaotianmen (Chaotianmen has been moved) at the south gate of the imperial city, and then walked from the column

They passed through two square formations of cavalry, not even daring to breathe a sigh of relief.

After entering Chaotianmen, Mang Bai found that it was still full of murderous atmosphere. There were no decorations and the houses were very simple, but they had all the defense facilities!

There were no palace maids or eunuchs to be seen in the imperial city, but groups of soldiers wearing helmets and carrying spears and guns.

Mang Bai was a little suspicious. Did the emperor of the Dashun Dynasty sleep with his arms around his armor at night?

Finally, we entered the "Juyi Hall", which was Li Guo's Qinzheng Hall. However, it didn't have the style of a royal palace. It was small in size and poorly decorated. There were just too many chairs, ten in total. One for Li Guo and one for Li Laiheng.

One person controls each of the eight kings.

Among them, two of the chairs for the eight co-ruling kings are empty. Neither Li Dingguo nor Yuan Zongdi is in Chongqing. So now there are eight people sitting on the chairs, and they are all wearing aqua blue robes!

Mang Bai looked a little confused. There were so many people sitting there, all wearing similar clothes, so who should he kowtow to? Not everyone has to kowtow, right?

"Who is the emperor?" He turned around and asked, "Who should I kowtow to?"

A general officer followed him and translated his words into Chinese.

Li Guo, who was sitting on the throne, laughed loudly after hearing this and said: "Well, here is the emperor Chui Gong, eight kings co-ruling, and a prince Fujun, but two kings are not here. According to the rules, you have to kowtow one by one! But!

Well, I’ll spare you the trouble... I’ll give you a seat!”

Fortunately, after listening to Tongshi's translation, Mangbai breathed a sigh of relief. Now there were eight people to worship, and each person had to kowtow twenty-four times to the three of them. He would have fainted!

Seeing Mang Bai sitting down, Li Guo asked again: "Second Military Advisor, are you ready for the treaty?"

"Your Majesty, we are ready." Gu Junen held the text of the unequal treaty in his hand.

Li Guo waved his hand and said, "Then just read it."

"I accept the decree."

After Gu Junen received the imperial edict, he began to read out the unequal treaty.

Of course, the content of the treaty is also "formatted". Isn't this the practice of the Chinese dynasty?

There were only a few requirements that Dashun made. First, Dashun was the suzerain, and Myanmar was a foreign vassal. The new king of Myanmar had to go through the process of canonization by Dashun.

Secondly, Dashun wants to protect Myanmar.

Thirdly, Myanmar must obey Dashun's command in military and diplomacy.

Fourth, Dashun wanted to rent a seaport on the coast of Myanmar to station troops.

Fifth, Dashun wanted to enclose another piece of land near the military garrison seaport to garrison troops.

Sixth, Dashun wanted to set up a pavilion along the leased seaport in Yunnan to protect trade.

Seventh, Myanmar must not impose taxes on Dashun officials and merchants, and must not obstruct the freight shipments of Dashun officials and merchants.

Eighth, Myanmar must protect the academies established by Dashun Confucian scholars on Myanmar soil.

Ninth, if Dashun subjects break the law in Burma, they must be handed over to the governor-general of the Dashun concession for trial.

There are only nine articles in total, and they are not copied from the Ming Dynasty's standard articles, but they are roughly the same. They just clarify the rights and obligations between the suzerains and the vassals.

And it’s an unequal treaty!

Nonsense, how can the suzerain and the vassal state be equal?

Legally speaking, part of the sovereignty of the vassal state belongs to the suzerain state, so of course they cannot be equal!

"You guys, why are you like Daming?" Mang Bai's face turned green after listening to Tongshi's translation.

"This is the custom of the Celestial Empire!" Sun Kewang said calmly. "Prince, tell me, which one should I not do?"

Mang Bai said: "Isn't it necessary to station troops?"

Sun Kewang snorted: "You prince look very smart, why are you so confused? What are you doing here? Aren't you just asking for protection from E Dashun? How can you protect us without stationing troops?"

That seems to be the case! How can we protect without soldiers? Empty words are of no use!

"That enclosure..."

"The troops in the garrison have to eat! I don't want your contribution. Is it too much to enclose a piece of land and grow it yourself?"

It’s not too much! Who would come if you don’t have food to eat?

"This trade..."

"Just to borrow a way!" Sun Kewang said, "You still want to collect taxes from the country?"

"Don't dare, don't dare..." Mang Bai really couldn't say which one he shouldn't.
Chapter completed!