Chapter 281: Celestial Empire
The decisive battle was delayed repeatedly. From late September to early October, the Ming army had not found any main force of the Si family except for conquering and destroying some military camps.
It turned out that Zhu Gaoxu wanted to solve the Meng Yangsi problem before Guo Wei gave birth, which seemed impossible.
He also had to consider a difficult problem: Sijia may choose not to fight this battle.
Sixing has a choice. He could completely abandon Mengyangsi Governor, the surrounding villages and fields, and avoid the Ming army's military. In this way, Sijia would lose a lot of wealth and population, but it would definitely save its troops. It was too difficult for the Ming army to catch Sijia Chief Army in the mountainous woods.
But the facts are in front of you. If you think and act, you think there is no chance of winning this battle, there is indeed only one best tactic: not to fight.
...At this moment, the Myanmar Xuanwei envoy Tatumipaya sent envoys to the Ming army camp.
The Myanmar Xuanwei Office is further away from Yunnan, and the customs seem to be even more different. Zhu Gaoxu couldn't even pronounce the name of their leader; he didn't remember the name of the messenger sent.
After the army set up camp, Zhu Gaoxu first asked the chief secretary Qian Xun about some things about Myanmar.
The Myanmar Xuanwei Department is also called the Awa State because its capital is in Awa City (Mandalay). The rulers of the Awa State were Zen nobles, which were similar to the natives in the Luchuan area before; but the Awa State's rulers have now accepted the customs and languages of the Burmese people.
Zhu Gaoxu received the envoy of Tatumipoya in the central army's tent.
After the messenger bowed, he spoke Chinese. Zhu Gaoxu listened with all his attention, guessing and confusing, and then he roughly understood what he said. The Chinese language the messenger said was simply difficult to understand, and Zhu Gaoxu even doubted whether he was listening to foreign languages.
The Myanmar envoy denounced the rude behavior of Si's disrespect for the country, and insisted that the Myanmar Xuanfu envoy Tatumipoya recognized the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain country and wanted to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty every year.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't understand what it meant when Burma sent envoys from afar and saw him as a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty; and he couldn't hear the language clearly. For a moment, he could not hear it.
Later, the messenger finally finished talking about the flattery and talked about the actual things...
The messenger presented a letter of writing, and Zhu Gaoxu understood even more clearly when he read the Chinese characters.
The general idea written by Tatuomi Poye is that Meng Yangsi is too far from Central Earth, and the Ming army is inconvenient to attack and govern. The Myanmarsi respects the force and etiquette of the Ming Dynasty and respects it as the superior country of the Celestial Empire, so they are willing to send 100,000 troops to help the Ming army completely defeat Sijia, who disrespects the kingly world.
After the completion of the incident, Myanmar hoped to obtain all the land west of the Great Jinsha River (Inowidy River) and the entire territory of the Naga Mountain area.
When Zhu Gaoxu saw this, he suddenly realized that praising the Ming Dynasty is a country above the heavenly state, it is simply a routine!
He thought for a while and quickly replied: "Myanmar Xuanfu may have some misunderstandings. Meng Yangsi was the Xuanweisi enthroned by the Ming Dynasty court. I never intended to destroy Meng Yang."
Diao Tuyu and the military and civilians on the spot were all stunned and looked at each other, as if they thought Zhu Gaoxu had said the wrong thing.
The Burmese envoy was also surprised and said, "His Highness of the Han Dynasty has risen from afar, what's the matter?"
Zhu Gaoxu said: "I only want to punish the crime of thinking and practicing law and not being a minister, but did not want to eliminate the entire Meng Yangsi."
The Burmese envoy was at a loss, confused and embarrassed. Zhu Gaoxu ordered the officials to take him down to settle down.
As soon as the envoy left, the central army was in an uproar and everyone was talking about it, not knowing why.
Zhu Gaoxu raised his hands and everyone became quieter one after another. He was silent for a moment and said, "Si's family is arrogant and unruly, and I have the heart to be unjust. I only attacked him with 50,000 Yunnan soldiers (known as) . And Myanmar always sends 100,000 troops. If Myanmar is unjust in the future, what should we do?"
Everyone then realized that Liu Ying was the first to praise: "His Royal Highness of Han is far-sighted and sees what the last generals and others see!"
The matter was clearly stated. The Ming Dynasty was not afraid of the 100,000 troops in Myanmar, but it was another matter to expedition 100,000 people.
Zhu Gaoxu turned his head, looked at the pampered Diao Tuyu, and the woman who followed him on the battlefield, and said, "Myanmar has ambitions. If the Diao Envoy wants to take Meng Yang alone, he has to think about whether he can win against Myanmar."
...However, Si Shi refused to go to the battle, and what happened in front of him still made Zhu Gaoxu helpless.
The army was getting closer and closer to Mengyang Sidi, and Zhu Gaoxu ordered the marching speed to slow down. He was afraid that he would be scared away and think about how to do things, and then the two armies chased and played hide and seek. Is there any way to fight this battle?
Since Si Shi didn't seem to want to fight this battle, Zhu Gaoxu thought hard and came up with a way not to fight.
The only way to avoid war is to negotiate peace.
In such a forest area, fighting is really a hot topic, and it seems that only by fighting and talking.
Things in the world often fail to do as they wish, and justice revenge is often not so vigorous. The world is always gray and difficult to distinguish between black and white.
Zhu Gaoxu felt anger... But after weighing the pros and cons, he still decided to swallow the anger! Those who know the times are heroes and choose to compromise.
He wrote a letter in person, sending an envoy to Mengyangsi to negotiate with the white flag.
Zhu Gaoxu's method was to leave the Burmese envoy first; then wait for the Meng Yangsi envoy to arrive, just like the Duan Yang family in the Han Wangfu, and ask Meng Yangsi people to listen to the Burmese ambitions. Then ask Meng Yangsi people to read the letters of the Burmese envoy... It was so that I could understand the method, and that the wolf who wanted to eat his meat was not only the Ming Dynasty court.
...When the way of thinking and practicing understands his situation, Zhu Gaoxu is ready, and at that time he will put forward a condition that everyone can accept.
The crimes of the Jade Mine Massacre and Killing incident were all attributed to a family general of the Si family. Sixingfa saw who was disliked, so he arrested a group of people to take the blame. Then he taught Sixingfa to write a letter to apologize for the crime. The crime was to protect his shortcomings and refused to hand over the family general who committed the crime.
The Mengyangsi District Office had to move westward to the west of the Dajinsha River, and Sixingfa was still the leader of Mengyangsi; Mengyangsi also wanted to give up the territory where the jade mine was located and hand it over to the Diao family and the Ming army to jointly manage it.
Yunnan will also make compensation. The method is: the previous annual profit-sharing treaty of 800 taels of silver is still valid; the Ming army retreated and both sides repaired it again.
Zhu Gaoxu made the abacus "crackling" in his stomach, feeling that each other should be able to accept this condition... The Ming army's people were rudely slaughtered in the mine, so it's all forgot. Shouldn't Sijia make some concessions?
Chapter completed!