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Chapter 484 Strategic Deployment
After setting the general strategy for Myanmar and the Netherlands, the rest is to deal with the details.

Although the Netherlands will not send troops until March next year, it must collect intelligence in advance now. The British intelligence cannot be fully trusted.Even if everything is true, we must take precautions, and how many troops the Dutch have in Batavia, how many troops are appropriate for the Ming Dynasty to send, and the neighboring indigenous countries must also win over in advance.

The Ministry of Rites has been engraving the golden seal of the vassal country these days, and Honglu Temple is also selecting envoys. When the time comes, they will go to discuss strategic cooperation with the ship while ennobling the vassal country.

The situation in Myanmar is more complicated. After a cabinet meeting, it has been found that Toungoo has already become a strong external force and a strong internal force, so it does not take several years to prepare for sending troops.It is definitely not possible to send troops this year, because the Ming Dynasty is still fighting in the grasslands, but next year... or the year after next at the latest, troops must be raised to conquer, and it will be a sea and land division together, attacking from both sides, and surrounding countries that have enmity with the Toungu Kingdom will have to be called on to join forces.

Prior to this, Zhu Yijiong first issued an order to move He Xiangming from Guiyang to Kunming to take charge. He also sent agents to Toungoo to inquire about the military situation and contact the Burmese chieftains such as Meng Yang, Meng Mi, and Mubang who were dissatisfied with King Toungoo. Those Myanmar Mon people also need to contact and win over.

The Ming Dynasty's naval alliance plan was to first capture Baigu City, the old capital of the Mon people in Myanmar.

Historically, in another ten years, the Meng people in Baigu City would not be able to endure the brutal rule of the Toungoo Kingdom. Taking advantage of the full-scale war between Manipur and the Toungoo Kingdom, they took the opportunity to revolt and rebuild the Bago Dynasty, and annexed all of Burma. .Later, they joined forces with domestic rebels, Manipur and other foreign forces to directly overthrow Toungoo.

Then, the big one came, and the newly rising Gongbang Dynasty quickly picked the peaches first.In addition, the Mon people, the King of Chiangmai, the King of Lampang, and the Kingdom of Manipur who participated in the rebellion against Taungoo were all wiped out and destroyed by the Konbaung Dynasty.Even the Kingdom of Siam, which was watching the whole show and waiting for the fighter plane, was destroyed by the Gonbang Dynasty.

By the way, the Chinese Emperor Zheng Xin of Siam took advantage of the Konbaung Dynasty to start a full-scale war with the Qing Dynasty, and then waited for an opportunity to raise troops in Siam's hometown, pushing back the insufficient Konbaung army.

I have to say that these Burmese people are really good at fighting. No matter Taungoo or Gongbang, they can fight all over Southeast Asia, and they can even compete with China.Although it also has the advantage of geographical location, it can send hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, so it is considered a number one figure in China.

Zhu Yijiong is now mobilizing troops against Myanmar, which really helps small countries such as Siam and Manipur. Now they are attacking Taungoo so fiercely that they will all be wiped out in less than 20 years.

The Ministry of Rites carved the golden seal of the vassal state and set off directly by boat.Before the official ship of the Ministry of Rites set off, Kang Zifei had already led the Fujian caravan to go to Myanmar for maritime trade.

They were really doing business, but while doing business, they were inquiring about some state affairs in Toungoo, and they also brought some craftsmen with them to contact the Baigumeng people.

Batavia in the Netherlands was handed over to Guangdong merchants, and Zhu Yijiong also specifically promised that as long as these Guangdong merchants could assist the court in taking Batavia, they could be granted imperial merchant licenses based on their merit, and they could even be granted a business license in the Netherlands. Batavia Port's trade priority, commercial tax exemption and many other privileges (limited to several years).

However, Zhu Yijiong obviously thought too much. Even without these privileges and benefits, those Guangdong businessmen were still willing to work for the court.

For no other reason than the Dutch are just too disgusting, in other words they just can’t afford to play.

Because Chinese businessmen are so good at doing business, and their business base is much larger than that of the Dutch.Although the Netherlands has a monopoly on Ming-Dutch trade, it can only barely maintain its small market share under the impact of Chinese merchants.

As a result, these Dutch people began to break the rules. They not only imposed heavy taxes on Chinese merchants, but also increased taxes on merchants from all countries. They even contacted pirates to attack merchant ships from various countries except the Netherlands. They also took the initiative to unite with cotton-growing countries such as India. The purchase price of local commodity raw materials is deliberately raised, while the Netherlands itself enjoys tariff-free access to Batavia and Malacca.

To put it simply, it is a price war by any means necessary.

With this set of rules, not only the Chinese merchants were disgusted, but the British, French, and Spanish were all disgusted. They even had to guard against increasingly serious pirate hijackings.It can be said that in this wave, although the Netherlands successfully regained a lot of market share, it also paid a huge price. Not only was its income reduced, but it also successfully made enemies on all sides in the Far East.

Such an outrageous operation is not surprising at all when it comes to the Dutch at this time. They are really capable of it.

National interests, in the eyes of Dutch businessmen, are nothing!
This is why Spain and the British all asked China to punish the Dutch. Spain, because of its lack of strength, only grabbed the Dutch market share, while the British wanted to use troops to directly defeat these crazy Dutch people.

If the Toungu Kingdom sends an envoy to Kunming and wants to request canonization, then let the Yunnan side hold it back first, and then the central government will send officials from Honglu Temple to negotiate, reprimanding the Toungu Kingdom for encroaching on China's old territory, so that they must return these territories first, and then Only then can we continue to discuss the matter of canonizing a vassal country.

Today's Toungoo Kingdom has been declining for a long time, so there is no need to make excuses. Moreover, King Toungoo will never return his hometown in China. There is still a rebel rebel in the country.If we continue to show weakness at this time and show the weakness of the central government, it will only cause other people of all ethnic groups in the country who are oppressed by the Burmese, as well as careerists to come out and cause chaos.

Moreover, as long as the Ming Dynasty takes the attitude of asking for the chieftains in northern Myanmar, no matter what King Toungoo decides, the chieftains in northern Myanmar and the Toungoo Kingdom will also completely break apart, and it will be easier for the Ming Dynasty to instigate rebellion and self-reliance in northern Myanmar.

The Ming Dynasty did not intend to completely wipe out Burma, because the Ming army could not fight for a long time in this poor place. It was full of mountainous areas and rugged terrain, which was a huge test for the adaptability of the logistics and soldiers, and could only be eaten away slowly.

But the Toungoo Kingdom must be destroyed. At that time, the Ming Dynasty can use Toungoo's corpse to support and canonize several small countries that are not ruled by the Bamar people, such as the Bago Kingdom that once ruled Lower Myanmar and the Awa Kingdom that ruled Central Myanmar. They confront each other and even engage in civil war so that this region will never be able to give birth to a strong nation.

After the Ming Dynasty has digested northern Burma, it can take action against Central Burma and Lower Burma.

The conquest plans of Burma and the Netherlands are being continuously improved, and the official ships of the Ministry of Rites have also been traveling to Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian countries in the past few days to lobby in advance.The Fujian Navy also received the order immediately. Tang Tongjiang was currently stepping up his time to prepare for war and train troops, and the local government was also hoarding grain, grass, baggage, and artillery.

The British mission had already left Nanjing, and it was estimated that it would soon reach Bencoolen, where it would have to transfer ships back to the East India Company's headquarters to prepare for the deployment of troops from the East India Company.

Sichuan, Tibet, and Shaanxi-Gansu also received the order. The Shaanxi-Gansu side will have to cooperate with the friendly forces in Shanxi and Hetao to launch troops against the tribes west of the Monan Grassland until almost next year, so as to completely clean up the grassland forces.

There is also Sichuan and Tibet. Zheng Dingrui is based in Chengdu and is presiding over immigrants to reclaim wasteland. Not only immigrants from Huguang, but also families of soldiers and generals.In the future, the Third Army will be stationed in Sichuan for a long time as a Sichuan garrison, not only to enrich Sichuan households, but also to cope with the future Sichuan-Tibet War.

Kangzang and Tibet are both places to be attacked, and we must cooperate with the Shaanxi-Gansu Army to deal with the Western Regions and Qinghai.

By the way, Zheng Dingrui is still purchasing large quantities of saffron and hoarding saffron. Otherwise, if these Han troops go to Tibet, they will suffer from altitude sickness.

Even when Yongzheng went to Kangzang, he prepared saffron in advance.

(End of this chapter)