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Chapter 618 Internal strife

In Myanmar, apart from the royal family and local aristocratic landowners, the richest people are the monks and temples.

The temples here are even more extreme than the Buddhism and Taoism in China. Have you ever seen a temple that can breed slaves? And he blatantly keeps slaves.

Myanmar under the rule of the Toungoo Dynasty seemed to be a feudal kingdom, but in fact it was a mixture of feudalism, slaves (Ahmudan), and prefectures.

The reason for this lies in the Taungoo hero Mang Yinglong, because this guy is really good at fighting. He conquers everywhere and expands the territory of Myanmar without restraint, making it difficult for the control authority to keep up in time.

Even in the Taungoo Longxing land of Lower Burma, there are large areas of important towns along the river that maintain strong independence. In order to quickly digest these uncontrollable territories, Mang Yinglong's approach was to appoint royal nobles to seal the territory and strengthen control.

Then, these royal nobles quickly evolved into hereditary feudal states, which in turn challenged the authority of the Mang Yinglong court.

Mang Yinglong, the hero, had no choice but to try to emphasize his legitimacy from a religious and cultural perspective, such as shaping himself into Mahasamadhi, the divine king in classical Buddhist scriptures, and building large-scale temples and pagodas.

For the Dai chieftains in remote areas (Shan State), they required the other party to hand over their heirs as hostages.

A generation of Toungoo heroes, the "Lord of the White Elephant", could only use religion and the army at the same time to maintain the rule of the Toungoo dynasty, not to mention Emperor Sodibo, who was newly crowned and had just suffered a huge defeat. The last king of Burma.

Previously, the Burmese army only raided wealthy families in the city. Although those wealthy families were resentful, most of them did not dare to resist.

After all, Emperor Suadibo was still the king of Burma, and he had the blessing of religious temples. Without sufficient legitimacy, these Burmese people would not be able to successfully rebel.

But things are different now. Although Sagaing City is adjacent to Ava, it is not the royal capital after all, so there are only a few wealthy families. Moreover, the Ming army had a huge appetite and demanded too much money. Even if all was looted, it would still not be enough.

Of course it's not enough. Those Burmese soldiers who were responsible for the search and helped with the search also had to pay a large amount of hard work.

Emperor Suadibo, the king of Burma, was still too young. In addition, he suffered a huge defeat when he ascended the throne. He was directly besieged by the Ming army in the isolated city. This guy's mind was obviously not calm anymore.

In the name of the King of Burma, he actually ordered the soldiers to go to the temple in the city to borrow money and treasures to pay off the debt, and promised to compensate him afterwards.

As soon as the news came out, people in the city were excited.

Even many nobles and generals were resentful. Why bother invading the temple if they just wanted to plunder the wealthy families?

What's the point of promising compensation afterwards? Even the temple was ransacked and the Buddha was disturbed. So what's the use of talking too much?

"The Chinese army is just outside Sagaing City. Every day when I am at the top of the city, I can see them building siege equipment and their cannons blessed with witchcraft. Sagaing City will be captured sooner or later. We We can’t defend Sagaing City.”

"Mahadhāmāyāsādhipatī is not worthy of being the King of Burma, let alone having these titles. He has turned his back on the Buddha, and now he wants to plunder our temples and only survive for himself at the cost of invading the Buddha."

"That's right. Promising compensation afterward, even if it is really compensation, is nothing more than exorbitant expropriation."

"His Majesty, the late king, fought for many years and collected more tributes. Now, instead of recuperating and recuperating, the new king has rashly started a war with the Chinese army."

"We cannot allow Emperor Saadibot to continue to be the king of Burma, otherwise Burma will completely anger the Chinese emperor sooner or later, and we will all be buried with Emperor Suadipod, this faint king."

"Capture Emperor Suadibo and offer it to the Chinese army of the Ming Dynasty in exchange for forgiveness."

"..."

Emperor Suadibo, the king of Burma, was finished. Since he defied all opinions and personally led an army of nearly 200,000 to engage in an all-out war with the Ming army, and lost more than 100,000 troops in one battle, this guy's fate was already doomed.

Looting the property of Buddhist temples for their own ransom and being disrespectful to the Buddha...these are just excuses for the aristocratic generals of the Burmese army to take the opportunity to launch a mutiny.

The Ming Dynasty's army sent troops from three sides, east, west, and south, and surrounded the entire Burma. These aristocratic bureaucrats in Burma were not fools, and they could naturally smell something unusual.

In particular, they had lost all their elites in this battle and basically had no ability to resist the Ming army. Ava City was very close to Sagaing City, and the Irrawaddy River connected them in the middle. It has nothing to do with them whether the Toungoo dynasty falls or not. What matters to these guys is whether they can retain their wealth and fiefdom after the fall of Toungoo.

Emperor Suadibo, the king of Burma, was still unaware that he had just looted all the Buddhist temples in Sagaing City, big and small, and was about to send the looted goods to the Ming army outside the city.

Some of the noble generals in the city have quickly connected with each other.

"Capture the faint king Emperor Suadibo alive! Emperor Suadibo is not worthy of being the king of Burma!"

"Kill the treacherous minister Zhan Duomang!"

These aristocratic generals raised their arms and shouted slogans of rebellion. They even felt that the king of Myanmar was not enough to support him. Even Zhan Duomang, a close confidant of the king of Myanmar who had recently ascended to the throne, was counted among the traitors.

A large number of noble generals, with their own private armies, went directly to the temporary palace of Emperor Suadibo, the king of Burma.

The soldiers of the Burmese king were at a loss and resisted hastily. The two armies suddenly started fighting in the city. When the other noble officers saw this, some joined the ranks of the mutinous nobles, and some chose to watch from the sidelines. Anyway, no one ran away. Go up to King Qin.

The chaos and shouts of death in the city were quickly noticed by the Ming army outside the city.

"What's going on with these Burmese troops on the city wall?" He Xiangming was confused as he held the telescope.

Two hot air balloons quickly took off and used telescopes to explore the city.

After a while, the watchman of the hot air balloon signaled back.

Wei Min looked surprised: "Is there internal strife among the Burmese army in the city?"

He Xiangming was also a little amused: "From the king to the generals, the country of Myanmar will never disappoint anyone. Forget it, just attack the city! Don't waste any more time."

The Ming army had previously negotiated with the Burmese army and demanded ransoms and bribes. On the one hand, it is to stabilize the Burmese army in the city and prevent these Burmese people from actually fighting to the death in despair. On the other hand, it is also building siege equipment for our own side, transporting cannons to buy time, and also through the Burmese people themselves. , taking the opportunity to search for gold and silver loot.

After all, the Ming army would definitely not be able to annex all of these territories, but it would be a real loss if they just withdrew like this. They had to reap some benefits.

But I never thought that this could cause the Burmese people to fight among themselves.

Outside Sagaing City, in order to paralyze the Burmese army in the city, the Ming army had not attacked the city before, nor had they filled in the moat.

But now, there is no need to build a moat bridge to cross the river. Large pieces of wood are simply laid on the moat, and a simple temporary pontoon bridge is quickly made.

On the city wall, the Burmese soldiers on duty were at a loss.

They were already aware of the chaos and shouts of death in the city, and there were Ming troops taking the opportunity to build a floating bridge outside the city. Even the noble officers had no idea what to do at this moment.

"Boom boom boom!"

The Ming army's artillery quickly helped them make a decision.

It was just a test of artillery, and only two or three shells hit the city wall. All the Burmese troops on the top of the city were frightened and fled in panic.

The pontoon bridge had been built at this time, and the Ming army had not yet moved. The chieftain army and the Han army of the Gui family took the lead in raising their weapons and wooden ladders to cross the river and ran to storm and seize the city.

(End of this chapter)