Wanli 1592

Chapter 375 What is seen in the eyes of the beholder

But Song Yingchang also thought about it, and felt that if Xiao Ruxun could really get them money, with these people's integrity and love for money, it might not be impossible to give this barren land to Xiao Ruxun as a favor, to satisfy Xiao Ruxun and them. Isn't the thinking of both parties a situation where you are good, I am good, everyone is good?
This is their favorite situation, and they have benefited, and they can ease the relationship with Xiao Ruxun, and further isolate the emperor, why not do it?As for Myanmar... who cares?Didn't Master Yongle give up when he was so awesome back then?This proves that it is not easy to govern there, and there is no money to make money in the poor mountains and rivers. If it weren't for a group of unruly people to make trouble, Daming would not have sent troops to these places.

However, it doesn’t matter if these people don’t understand the value of Myanmar. It’s enough for Xiao Ruxun to understand. Myanmar’s rich natural resources can make many countries feel jealous. It is said that resources such as gold, silver, copper, iron, and lead are also distributed everywhere. What's more, Myanmar also produces rubies and sapphires. These things are not too valuable.

Now it’s just not developed. When it is developed, Myanmar’s geographical location is unique. Not only can food be cooked twice and triple, forest resources are very rich, and all kinds of precious wood are produced in Myanmar. More importantly, Myanmar is not worried at all. Without water, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty is worried about insufficient precipitation and the wells will dry up every year. In Myanmar, there is no problem of insufficient precipitation or the drying up of rivers. Instead, they have to worry about too much water causing floods.

The average temperature of the coldest month is 20°C-25°C, and the average temperature of the hottest month is 25°C-30°C, which means that food and economic crops can be grown throughout the year.

This unique condition is an important factor for Myanmar to challenge China in history, but it is also the main reason why a country like Myanmar, which is rich in resources and enviable, cannot become a powerful country. These countries have a good environment and a great location. There is something to eat, you don’t have to work hard, you don’t have to fight against heaven and people for living space, like Brazil, the country’s organization has become a serious shortcoming, and the loose national character is hopeless.

But if Daming is allowed to own this area, it will be completely different. In the coming Little Ice Age, owning this geomantic treasure land in Myanmar is one of Xiao Ruxun's important bargaining chips. In the future strategy of managing Nanyang, Xiao Ruxun will also Various methods are used to acquire territory in Southeast Asia. All in all, the entire South China Sea area should be included in the bag.

To achieve this goal, it is very important to have the qualification of "Yongzhen Myanmar", so that he can run Myanmar with peace of mind, without worrying that someone will pick his peaches at any time. Yongzhen Myanmar, rule this area by himself, and be able to do For a more thorough independent rule than Yunnan, the Mu family of Yunnan only has a detached status. The government needs to respect the opinions of the Mu family of Yunnan, and cannot decide to handle it by themselves like Xiao Ruxun. Yunnan still has civil servants and governors.

But Myanmar is different, there is only one master in Myanmar, Xiao Ruxun!
After getting this letter, Song Yingchang began to think about how to operate this matter skillfully, how to skillfully use his political power to achieve this important goal.

Before that, Song Yingchang had already passed some necessary communication, and got the news from some subordinates that "everyone doesn't want Xiao Ruxun to stay in the capital to take up a post in the capital". It is said that the news came from the palace and got a lot of The reason for people's approval is that through the investigation, they believed that Xiao Ruxun's prestige in the local armies was too high. If he turned to the emperor and formed an alliance with the emperor, it would be a disaster for the civil servants.

They believe that Xiao Ruxun managed the relationship between Ningxia, Xuanda, Shandong, and Southern soldiers through two major wars. It is a very bad thing for a general who can make good friends with various places and can be trusted. For this reason, not only can he not be kept in the capital, but it is best not to stay in the Central Plains, and put him in a remote area. Time to wear down Xiao Ruxun's influence in various local armies.

And this battle against Burma is the best opportunity given by God. Burma is not a land of China, but a barren land. No one has anything to do with it. Throwing Xiao Ruxun over there and letting him go on his own, is it possible? Can you still make money in Myanmar?

This incident helped Song Yingchang a lot. He began to realize that his plan with Xiao Ruxun coincided with the opinions of the courtiers. The difference was that he hoped that Xiao Ruxun would find a way to save the country in Burma. The courtiers just hoped to take care of this troublesome baby, and he might be needed to fight in the future. After all, Xiao Ruxun was a rare and true general in this era when civil servants and military officials were even more pitiful.

Being able to fight wars, make money, not form cliques or seek personal gain, can really solve problems. Although everyone is usually very pitiful, they also understand that things are there, and someone has to do it. It doesn’t matter if you fight for power and profit, but things Always have to do it, it’s really a big deal, everyone has no good fruit to eat, so everyone who can do things wants to compete for it, even if it’s cheating like Yan Song, there must be Hu Zongxian under him to support the facade, right?

If Xiao Ruxun is calmed down, then he is Hu Zongxian, and if he is useless at that time, he can still be tricked, how good?

But these people certainly didn't expect that what they abandoned was a piece of beautiful jade wrapped in stone.

When Song Yingchang received Xiao Ruxun's letter, Xiao Ruxun had already led his troops to the Bagu City. After destroying several fortresses outside the Bagu City through shelling and simple attacks, the main city of Bagu City appeared under the Ming army's control. Within the shooting range of the artillery, the not-so-high city walls did not bring much confidence to the Burmese on the city. They looked at the army that killed their [-] troops with panic and fear.

This is the Heavenly Soldiers?

The Burmese looked at the Ming army with bright armor, clear banner and even more distinctive weapons, and looked at the black muzzles and muzzles. They were timid before fighting, and they would not dare to fight. After supervising the battle, they have already collapsed. Their last will to resist has completely collapsed along with the Ming army's shelling of the outer strongholds, so there is no need to talk about other things.

Xiao Ruxun looked at the deployment of the Burmese army with binoculars, and then looked at Yuan Huang. Yuan Huang nodded, waved his hand, and the sound of drums sounded. A hundred artillery pieces immediately entered the combat state, loaded and ready to ignite.

"Still not surrender?"

Xiao Ruxun asked Matteo Ricci, the envoy who came back from Bagu to persuade them to surrender, and Matteo Ricci shook his head and said, "Their king said that although they can attack, they will never surrender voluntarily, and they must die with dignity. .”

"Hmph! Dignity? Is dignity something they should be talking about?"

Xiao Ruxun sneered a few times, waved his hand again, the drums sounded, and the Ming army officially declared war.

After several rounds of shelling, the Burmese army on the top of the city collapsed completely, and no one dared to resist was found. When the Ming army attacked the city gate, no one came to stop it. Xiao Ruxun didn't see it until the city gate was broken by the Ming army with a ram. The Burmese army who dared to resist fought bravely towards the Ming army, but it was too late, they had no capital to defend. The Ming army entered Bagu City, and the Burmese army was defeated like a mountain.

The battle lasted until the afternoon of this day, before the Ming army completely controlled Bago City, killed all the resistance forces of the Burmese army, broke through the palace of Mangyingli, and killed the entire Burmese royal family including Mangyingli , Even the old man and the baby were not left behind, and then the entire palace was burned down. All the valuable gold and treasures in the palace were moved out and became the spoils of the Ming army. The captured Burmese soldiers and people in the city kept looking at the direction of the palace. cry.

In order to further deter these people, Xiao Ruxun ordered the Burmese soldiers captured to be shot collectively, then dug a pit, buried them, and burned them all. This action greatly deterred the civilians. The escaped Portuguese musketeers received Xiao Ruxun's forgiveness at the request of those Macau Portuguese, and joined Xiao Ruxun's command in a transformed form, becoming Ming's mercenaries.

After that, Xiao Ruxun ordered the prisoners of war to be separated from men, women, and children. All the old and young were tied up and separated, and they were going to be taken to the nearby woods to be shot by the Portuguese. Some women cried and hugged their children and refused to let go. After killing together and frightening a group of people, the old and the young were separated.

Locking up the men and taking good care of them will be useful in the future. As for the young women, according to the usual practice, they are rewarded to the soldiers of the Ming army who have not tasted femininity for several months, so that they can vent their anger.

There is no way, Xiao Ruxun does not allow them to harass the Siamese women, even if those very open Siamese women take the initiative to throw themselves into their arms, they are rejected by Xiao Ruxun, and they are not allowed to enter the barracks, which makes Narisuan admire Xiao Ruxun's strict military discipline , But this made it hard for those Ming soldiers who watched Siamese women scratching their heads and making poses.

Everyone endured it before, for the sake of the so-called celestial dynasty's face, but this time it's not necessary, right?There is nothing to be polite with prisoners of war!Then these Burmese captives cannot be let go.

Xiao Ruxun didn't care, and waved his hand, and more than ten thousand young women belonged to the soldiers of the Ming army.

The sound of howling ghosts and howling wolves all night made Xiao Ruxun a little irritable, unable to think about the memorial to the court... These bastards!Can't you keep your voice down? !

On this night of howling ghosts and howling wolves, Matteo Ricci was not at peace. He lit up the lights in the apartment he was assigned to, took out a pen and paper, and began to record his mental journey—this should be very It's a valuable experience.

"I think I should be the first missionary to witness the cruel and bloody war of annihilation among eastern countries. Just this night, I heard the howling, cursing and laughing outside, and felt that this I am so restless at this moment, feeling that everything around me is so strange and unreal.

I swear to the Lord, this is the first time I have experienced a war. Although it was not my intention, I did participate and even served General Xiao as an envoy to persuade him to surrender. Although I did not succeed, otherwise, I should have been able to avoid such a cruel situation. ending.

China is too powerful and terrifying. General Xiao told me that he is just one of thousands of generals in China, and his [-] troops are just one of millions of Chinese troops. He is just a very ordinary general. , but I think a general with the title of marquis should be extraordinary. Even though I talked about mathematics, astronomy and geography with General Xiao, I still feel that I can't see this general clearly.

He is very smart and easy to learn, and he is very interested in all the knowledge of my country that I brought. He is interested in globes, glassware, world maps, and mathematics. I translated some of Euclid's originals together, and I can see that General Xiao has a certain foundation in mathematics, which means that there are also people in China who are studying mathematics. Although our language barrier and research directions are different, but I am a firm believer that a large country cannot run without mathematics.

He is very good at using guns and artillery. His war mode is inseparable from guns and artillery. He is good at using artillery to attack the enemy's dense army formation, and then attack the enemy with a strange but very efficient formation of guns and knives. , and the efficiency is extremely high. It looks like a Macedonian phalanx, but its core is countless musketeers and archers, which makes this formation have long-range and process lethality, and it increases exponentially.

On the battlefield, he was cold-blooded and ruthless. Just this night, I saw him order the shooting of thousands of captured Burmese soldiers who lost their will to resist, and then threw them into the big pit, and set their fire on fire. Under the reflection of the burning corpse, I seemed to see countless wronged souls begging the Lord for salvation. Please forgive me for my cowardice and incompetence, because I really didn’t have the courage to raise even the slightest objection at that time.

Then, I saw him divide the captured civilians into batches, men and women were separated, the elderly were separated from children, some women seemed to realize something, hugged their children and refused to let go, and General Xiao ordered the mother and son to kill together. A man stood up to resist, and was shot in the forehead in an instant. The courage of the civilians quickly disappeared. The old man and the child were taken into the jungle by some Portuguese. What awaited them must be death, I have no doubt.

Next, the man was locked up by him, I don't know what he was going to do, and the woman was given to his army by him, he said that his soldiers haven't played with women for a long time, it's time to release , Please forgive me, as a man, I can understand his approach, and I also have such a desire, and even plan to participate in such a carnival with those soldiers, but I still restrain myself with reason.

General Xiao didn't seem to intend to participate in such a carnival. I saw him walking into his command post alone. I didn't know what he was going to do, but I still couldn't understand this guy talking about mathematics and astronomy with me. And the general of geography became a bloodthirsty murderer at this time.

He said that he doesn't trust the Lord, he doesn't trust any gods and demons, he only believes in human beings, I think, from General Xiao, I can roughly understand what kind of existence the Chinese are. Terrible and admirable people, I will walk with them until I come to an accurate conclusion, I will use my eyes to witness what this group of people do, and record it, please be merciful Me, Amen. 』

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