The Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 423: The pension is in trouble

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Gillenhae seems to have noticed that he was hitting the arrow, but now the battle is going on, and he can't spare any effort to take care of Talong. Everything that happens to Talong is the best material to inspire Dongyu's soldiers.

"Brothers, your majesty is injured, kill, avenge your majesty!"

"Kill, take revenge for your majesty!" The soldiers of Tongyu seemed to have been beaten with duck blood suddenly, all of them were made of stainless steel, and they rushed towards the soldiers in Dacheng desperately.

The soldiers of Ayutthaya once again saw the Toungoo soldiers they were familiar with. Although they had a geographical advantage, the Toungoo soldiers seemed to be crazy, all crazy, together with their commander.

The brave wins when we meet on a narrow road.

The soldiers of Ayutthaya gave way. Even though their superintendents slashed and killed three soldiers who had retreated without authorization, they still could not stop the soldiers of Tongyu. Once the gate was opened, the flood was difficult to close.

Under the leadership of Gyllenhae, the soldiers of Tongyu finally broke through an opening.

Until the remaining Toungoo soldiers were too few and the impact weakened, the Ayutthaya soldiers closed the opening again under the officer's butcher's knife, but there were fewer than 5,000 Toungoo soldiers, and more than 10,000 Toungoo soldiers broke through.

The Ayutthaya soldiers vented all their anger and frustration on these five thousand Toungoo soldiers. The 30,000 Ayutthaya soldiers attacked from all directions. They had already let the thousands of Toungoo soldiers get rid of them. They wanted to take these Toungoo soldiers. His life made atonement to the Ming army.

When Mu Qiyuan crossed the Baigu River, the battle on the river bank was basically over. The soldiers in Dacheng were harvesting the wounded soldiers in Dongyu. Among the more than 5,000 soldiers surrounded by Dongyu, none of them escaped.

Hearing that more than 10,000 Dongyu soldiers had escaped, Mu Qiyuan frowned. These Dacheng soldiers could not even stop Talong until the arrival of the Ming army. They were really useless, but Dacheng soldiers told them that he was dead. When the body was on the embankment, his face was a little better.

In Mu Qiyuan’s eyes, he had seen the combat effectiveness of Dacheng soldiers, not weak, but he had forgotten that the Ming army’s combat effectiveness was based on flintlock and artillery. Dacheng soldiers and Dongkuu Soldiers are all knives, guns and bows, and their weapons are more than one generation behind.

Mu Qiyuan was unable to hold the Dacheng army accountable for the time being. They had tried their best and shot Talong to solve Daming’s biggest hidden danger, but Mu Qiyuan did not intend to let the 10,000 Dongyu army escape. He ordered Liu Zhenyu’s 55th Division immediately pursued it lightly, and by the way regained the land from the southeast of Toungoo up to the Malay Peninsula. He would then send a corresponding army.

Liu Zhenyu pursued to the southernmost part of the Toungoo Dynasty, and along the northern part of the Malay Peninsula between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Siam, but Gyllenhae led his army to the southern part of Mansaka.

The fall of Bai Gucheng and Talong’s death marked the end of the Toungoo War. The Ming army gathered more than 60,000 prisoners of war in Bai Gucheng, of which more than 50,000 were from the Tongyu army and more than 10,000 assisted the Tongyu army. People.

Mu Qiyuan issued a military report to the National Defense Agency, reporting the results of the battle.

In the military report, Mu Qiyuan also planned his next plan. There are still sporadic troops and resistance forces in Toungoo, which need to be cleared in time.

Mu Qiyuan was actually carrying out Zhu Youjian's secret decree. Although Talong is dead, there are still dignitaries in Dongyu. Of course, all those who oppose Daming are regarded as dignitaries by Mu Qiyuan.

There was no established army in the whole area of Dongxu, and a large area of land in the north was firmly controlled by the Ming army. Mu Qiyuan dispersed the army and began to surrender the anti-Ming forces extensively in the territory of Dongxu.

When Lin Chengxiang paid along the southern coastline, he found another country called Aragan on the southwest coast of Toungoo. This was the only small country that the Tonggu dynasty had not conquered.

This is not the fact that Araghan’s army is particularly powerful. When the Tongyu Dynasty’s Mang Yinglong was attacking Araghan, he happened to encounter an attack from the Dacheng Dynasty. Mang Yinglong was forced to withdraw his troops. Later, the Dongyu Dynasty invaded. Mainly Daming in the north and the big city in the east, where there is a large amount of land enough to attract the kings of Toungoo.

Araghan was neglected in this way, and it was fortunately preserved.

Now that Toungoo is gone, and the Ming army is here, Lin Chengxiang has no plans to let Aragan continue to keep it.

Araghan was on the southwest coast of the Tunyu Dynasty, separated from the Tunyu Dynasty by the Rakhine Mountains. In the Ming texts, it is also called the Rakhine State.

The territory of Araghan is small, but the geographical position along the coast is superior. When Lin Chengxiang entered the Rakhine Mountains, he conquered Aragand easily, and expanded the land of the original Toungoo Dynasty to Chittagong. .

In the middle of May of the Chongzhen 5th year of Ming Dynasty (AD 1632), the army cleared the whole territory of Tongyu. However, Mu Qiyuan's 100,000 troops were still stationed in Tongyu for the time being. He was waiting for the court to send civilian officials to Tongyu.

Zhu Youjian sent an envoy from Li Tengfang, the former servant of the Ministry of Rites, to Toungoo.

Li Tengfang brought Zhu Youjian's imperial decree to give commendations and awards to the 100,000 soldiers and three commanders who participated in the Burma War. As for their merits and material rewards, they will be issued separately after the National Defense Agency has completed the calculation.

The main goal of the envoy was to make a contract with the Ayutthaya Dynasty.

According to the agreement reached between Dacheng State Master Puti and Daming Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Huang Xiaofu, after Daming sent troops to Donggu, the Ayutthaya Dynasty gave the Ming army 300,000 shi of grain and 2 million taels of silver. Later, he was included in part of the land of the Ayutthaya Dynasty and advised Laos to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Now that Toungoo is gone and the foreign troubles of the Dacheng dynasty have been eliminated forever, Li Tengfang came to Dacheng on behalf of Daming and asked Dacheng to fulfill his contractual promises.

King Parasai of Ayutthaya met with Li Tengfang in the palace.

"See His Royal Highness!" Li Tengfang bowed and saluted Parasai. He represented Shangguo Ming, so he called Parasai His Highness, not His Majesty, and he did not kneel down to pay respects.

"Your envoy has worked hard!" Parasai's face was pale, and his eyes were blank, as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Thank your Highness for your concern!" Li Tengfang saluted Parasai again, "I was appointed by His Majesty Emperor Daming to discuss the implementation of the contract with His Highness."

"Oh! I see, I don't know what your envoy thinks?" Parasai gave Li Tengfang anxiously, then turned his gaze to Puti.

"Thinking?" Li Tengfang was startled, is it that Parasai wants to fall back on the bill? If Palasé does not recognize the contract signed by Puti, Mu Qiyuan’s 100,000 army will be in Dongkuo. It is convenient to fight, but as an envoy, the task will be difficult to complete. "Daming and Dacheng have signed the contract long ago. As for the responsibilities of both parties, the contract is clearly written, and now is the time to implement all the treaties."

"Well," Palasé answered when Puti hadn't spoken. He thought about it all night last night, but he didn't think of any excuses.

"According to the contract, Dacheng should compensate Ming Dynasty 300,000 shi for grain. 50,000 shi has been delivered, and 250,000 shi is left." Li Tengfang saw that Parasai didn't like sharp profits, so he had to recite the contents of the contract.

"The remaining 250,000 shi of grain can be shipped at any time, and you will not worry about it." Parasai is not worried about grain. The Ayutthaya Dynasty is rich in grain. As long as there is no war, there is a lot of grain in the country.

"Then, on behalf of the officers and soldiers of Daming, I thanked Your Highness in advance," Li Tengfang gave another salute. "There is still a pension of two million taels of silver. Now that the war is over, it is time to issue the pension."

"Regarding the pension, can your envoy make some accommodation?" Puti finally spoke. Originally, he signed the contract on behalf of Dacheng. At that time Dacheng was in a critical condition. He cried and begged others. He thought that the Ming army wanted it. There were tens of thousands of casualties, but Daming relied on advanced firearms, and fewer than a thousand soldiers were killed. Parasai felt that the two million taels pension was too high.

"What is the meaning of the words of the national teacher?" Li Tengfang had already guessed vaguely that Dacheng wanted to reduce his pension. He sneered in his heart. Your Majesty's guess was correct.

"Dacheng is just a small country, two million taels of silver. Dacheng really doesn't know how long and how long will it be able to fully pay." Puti followed Li Tengfang's way and gave Li Tengfang a salute.

"The words of the national teacher are very bad. The contract is clearly 2 million taels. This was negotiated earlier. The next time I will go to Dacheng, I will only implement the contract. The national teacher will reduce the pension. When he returns to the country, once the emperor is angry, How do you deal with it in the future? The national division who signed the contract is probably also discredited, right?"

"This..." Puti hesitated, "Xiaguan originally thought that to defeat Dongkuo, the casualties of Daming soldiers would be at least tens of thousands, but now, as far as the Xiaguan knows, the total casualties of Ming soldiers are less than 1,000. This pension..."

Li Tengfang's face turned sullen, "Does the national division hope that Ming soldiers will suffer tens of thousands of casualties?"

"No, no, that's not what it meant to be an official," Puti quickly denied. "The official just thought that since the Ming army had less than a thousand casualties, the amount of this pension should not be set at two million."

"Is the national division going to cross the river to demolish the bridge? Daming soldiers have few casualties, but because Daming used the latest firearms. These firearms are sharp weapons to kill the enemy, but their consumption is also very alarming. The bullet of the flintlock gun is just one or two. One piece of silver, one flower bullet, and more than two hundred taels of silver. Daming consumed all this money for the sake of Dacheng." Li Tengfang was expressionless, as if he was telling a fact that had nothing to do with him.

"..."

Not only Puti, but even Palasé was shocked to close his mouth, the embarrassment on his face froze there.

"Daming has paid so much for the brotherly friendship of Dacheng, not only for his silver, but also for the sacrifice of precious soldiers, but Dacheng does not appreciate it. I have known that today, why did my soldiers of Daming work on the expedition?" Li Tengfang seemed to forget Daming. His original intention was to conquer Burma, and he locked all of Daming's goals to rescue the big city.

"It's not that we don't appreciate it," Puti glanced at Parasai, but my Dacheng Elementary School really couldn't afford these silver taels.

"Yes, we can't afford to pay. Your envoys have a look... to see if some can be exempted?" Parasai followed Puti's words and finally said what he wanted. He really couldn't bear the two million taels of silver. Besides, even if he sold the palace, he didn't have two million taels.

"His Majesty, National Teacher, the contract is made on the basis of mutual consent. No one will force you." Li Tengfang cast his gaze on Puti's face until he lowered his head, "I am only ordered by the emperor to collect the pension. , There is no right to exempt pensions."