Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1133 Burma fell, Daming was full
Liu Shizeng's talk is almost done, and to a certain extent, there is no need to talk about it at all.

Mangyingli is now besieged on all sides, and the only remaining Toungoo city in the whole of Myanmar is still his, so what is there to talk about?Originally, he still couldn't swallow this breath, and wanted to rely on the defenses of Dongyu City to carry it hard, hoping to carry it until the Ming army ran out of food and retreated.

However, this idea is so stupid that it is suffocating, because the Ming army now occupies almost the entire Myanmar, especially the central and southern Myanmar plains are all under the control of the Ming army, and the food can be requisitioned by the Ming army.Although it is only May, the rice in southern Myanmar is also cropped three times a year. Now is the harvest time. How can there be a shortage of food?
On the contrary, there is not much grain in Toungoo City—actually, there was quite a lot at first, but after Mangyingli’s Northern Expedition and Southern Expedition, there is not much food left in Toungoo City. Now it seems that it is at most two months It's about to bottom out.

This bottoming is for the Burmese royal family and nobles, and the folks have almost bottomed out. Therefore, when Mangyingli was still trying to resist, a riot broke out in Toungoo City.

The hungry mob almost rushed into the palace, and the palace guards went on a killing spree, killing at least 800 people to barely maintain the situation.At that time, the situation was turbulent and the situation was critical. The first dignitary of the royal family who rushed to the gate of the palace, Bei Miaohou, publicly stated that he would give food and porridge to the hungry people for three days. Only then could the situation be truly stabilized.

After this incident, Mang Yingli, who was out of his mind, was really scared, and seriously considered the conditions offered by Daming.

In fact, there is nothing to consider. In his opinion, the conditions given by Da Ming are basically tantamount to the subjugation of the country. Not only has he become a puppet, but the achievements of the Toungoo Dynasty for decades are almost wiped out in one day.

Even Mang Yingli found it very strange to keep half of northern Burma, and always felt that Daming must have some ulterior secret in doing so.

However, Pumiaohou thinks this is not an ulterior secret. In fact, the Ming people deliberately left northern Myanmar to Myanmar.Because if the Ming people take over northern Myanmar, they can only return it to a few propaganda and comfort divisions, and if they stay in the hands of Myanmar, they can also provide them with compensation-the benefits are taken by the Ming people, and the bad things like forced taxation are all in Myanmar. To do it is shameless to the extreme.

But this can also show that Daming's position is very clear: I only want money, and I don't want this piece of land that will in turn increase my burden.

At this time, Mang Yingli doesn't care anymore, as long as he can keep the throne, he can at least survive, and he is still the King of Jinlou White Elephant. , I can't even save my life.

How to choose?No choice.

Mang Yingli, who was worried about Ye Changmeng and many dreams, was still as "decisive" as before, and immediately sent someone to make an appointment with Liu Shizeng to sign the contract the next day, but he put forward a condition: Let Liu Shizeng come to the city to sign the contract in person.

He thought that civil servants were timid, and Liu Shizeng might not dare to come, but the fact is that Liu Shizeng agreed decisively—anyway, Myanmar is still meat on the chopping block, and he did not believe that Mang Yingli would dare to do anything rude to him at this time , let alone kill him.

Because killing him is of no benefit to Mang Yingli, it is purely an act of courting death. Huang Zhiting's more than 100 cannons are placed outside the city. Desperate to die, these cannons can "state their position" at any time.

Early the next morning, Liu Shizeng symbolically handed over the command of the army to Huang Zhiting, and he brought only two hundred bids into the city to sign a peace treaty with Mang Yingli.

As expected by Liu Shizeng, Mang Yingli didn't dare to be rude to him at all. He talked about "Heavenly Dynasty" and kept "Shangguo". The appearance in the eyes is very different.

This peace treaty is very long. According to the format given by Gao Pragmatism, there are a total of 37 clauses and [-] articles.There is no need to elaborate on the specific terms, anyway, it is a highly refined version of the conversation between Gao Yushi and Zhu Yijun.

Generally speaking, in addition to some control over Myanmar's politics and economy, there are strict restrictions on its military power and so on.

The other is the division: Lanna in eastern Myanmar was assigned to Siam; the Pego Dynasty in southern Myanmar "restored the country" and established the "Grand Gula Xuanweisi" again; northern Myanmar followed the line drawn by Gao Yushi, and the north belonged to Siam. Daming has several propaganda and comfort divisions, and the south is reserved by Myanmar. Daming has established a defense line north of that line, and Myanmar is not allowed to station more than [-] troops in the northern area of ​​​​Myanmar.

Xia Muming (Abrabang) was the king of the Bagu Kingdom, but he called himself the Dagula Xuanweisi Xuanwei envoy to Daming.The Bago Kingdom itself only retained a garrison force of 2 people, which was the remaining rebel army selected by Gao Silian - now called Gao Lian -. stationed in major cities.

The Bagu Garrison was commanded by Gao Lian, who was stationed in Bagu, Daguang and other places under the pretext that the Bagu Kingdom invited Jinghua Group to provide military protection.

Gao Wushi approved his current establishment of [-] troops, and by the way, agreed to temporarily transfer the garrison part of the expeditionary force to him before Huang Zhiting's withdrawal, so as to deter the local area.

Huang Zhiting stayed in southern Burma temporarily until she received further orders from the court, and was responsible for reorganizing the surrendered army.

This time she surrendered a lot of troops. The Burmese army and the Siamese army of Naresuan's department together captured [-] to [-] people, and more than [-] people were willing to continue serving as soldiers and eating food—mainly because of the wars and wars these years. Too much, the people's livelihood and the economy are very depressed, and soldiers can barely eat their fill.

However, this batch of surrendered troops is not high-level, and Huang Zhiting can't afford so many surrendered troops. In the end, 2 troops were recruited, and she also asked Liu Xin to choose.Who knew that Liu Xin's requirements were higher than hers, and she only wanted more than 3000 people.

In fact, it's not that Liu Xin doesn't want it, but that the Liu family's financial resources are limited, and they can't compare to Huang Zhiting, who has his own land, so he can only choose the best.Of course, she was unwilling to lose her momentum, and declared that she did so only because she refused to lower the overall level of Jiangwoyiding.

But in this way, there are still nearly 4 people left unaccounted for. If they are released to the people, I am afraid that these guys who are used to soldiers will cause trouble everywhere, which is really a big trouble.

Fortunately, Gao Shishi's letter came quickly. Seeing that he was going to build a city again, Huang Zhiting simply packed up nearly 4 people as laborers and sent them to assist Gao Mengnan in building Dingnan City. I can't even close my mouth.

Gao Mengnan even considered looking for Gao Yushi to ask for a group of servants or Ming-born veterans from the two major security forces in Annan to join this army, and then save the chaff and save the essence, and directly form the Dingnan Garrison—of course, this will have to wait. Dingnan City can only be built after it has a rough shape.

Through this incident, Huang Zhiting and Liu Xin were very moved. It is different to be rich and powerful. As long as you win a war, you can almost always fight more and more troops.This kind of thing is very difficult for Liu Xin, because reorganization and expansion of the army are very expensive, and her Liu family doesn't have enough money, and even the former Huang Zhiting would definitely not be able to do it.

It took some time for the news of southern Xinjiang to reach the capital, and when the news arrived, the whole court waited for the emperor to announce the income—no way, this time Gao Pragmatic fooled a large group of people to buy the Yunnan War treasure banknotes, not only Xun's relatives and relatives, many officials also bought it.

Zhu Yijun did not disappoint them, held a temporary court, and publicly announced a large number of benefits. Here are a few of the most important ones:
Myanmar needs to pay Daming 160 million taels of silver, which is tentatively divided into 20 years, 8 taels per year, and the interest is 5% (that is, [-]%). Jinghua Bank undertakes the collection, transportation, storage, distribution, etc. The fee is the interest;

Myanmar opened its borders and allowed Ming merchants to enter and trade freely in Myanmar.All Han merchants are exempted from all taxes, and all merchants of other ethnic groups in Yunnan are taxed every hundred and three times. Jinghua Group is responsible for supervising the fairness of tax collection and accepting reports from merchants of all ethnic groups;

The Burmese jade and gemstone industry is handed over to the "Pearl and Jade Federation" under the name of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance. This federation is composed of Jingshi Jingnan nobles represented by Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, and they are highly pragmatic and do not intervene.

The bamboo and wood industry in Myanmar is exclusively contracted by Jinghua Group. Of course, it is mainly exported, and it is left-handed and right-handed. Basically, Jinghua itself eats it.

The main target wood is of course Burma’s national treasure teak, in addition to sandalwood, shrubs, chicken wing wood, iron wood, rosewood, rosewood and other precious hardwoods. In addition, Myanmar is also rich in bamboo. classes and vine resources.

However, these resources have hardly been developed in Myanmar itself, and Gao Wushi has no energy to develop them for the time being. After all, he has supplies from Guangxi and supplements from the northern mountainous areas of Annan, so he is not in a hurry for bamboo and rattan.

In Myanmar’s Bolton mining area (a large mining area with a wide range of minerals), gold and silver mines are mortgaged to Neiku for mining, and other minerals such as copper ore and lead are mortgaged to Jinghua Group for mining for a period of 20 years.

The tin mines in Myanmar are handed over to Jinghua Group for mining. Jinghua Group needs to donate no less than 1 taels of silver to the ministries and institutes of the capital every year for a period of 20 years.

Myanmar……

All in all, the net income of 160 million taels has more than doubled the income of all those who have bought the Yunnan war banknotes.

除此之外，靖难系勋贵集团得到了宝石专卖权；京华得到了竹、木专卖权；皇帝得到了一座不小的金银矿20年开采权；京华得到了同一矿区中铜矿和铅矿20年开采权；文官们额外还得到了高务实允诺的20年“锡矿换办公经费”，20年总计24万两银子。

Not only did they make a lot of money, but they also gained extra benefits, which made everyone happy.

Gao Yushi, who was temporarily called to the court, immediately gained a lot of favor. Needless to say, many officials of the neutral school smiled when they saw him, and even some officials of the heart school thought he was much more pleasing to the eye.

However, everyone is still unsatisfied with one thing, that is, the compensation period is too long, and it takes 20 years to get all the benefits, which is a bit... What if I have already retired by then?
But Gao Yushi is a good person who will do his best to the end. He took the initiative to say at the court meeting that if any colleague feels that 20 years is too long and does not want to wait, he can also take the Yunnan war treasure banknote to Jinghua Bank to do "death pawning" - that is, mortgage The goods are directly exchanged for money, which means not getting them back.

Of course, the rules of dead pawns are similar to those of various pawnshops in Daming at present, and they definitely cannot be paid according to the original value, but Jinghua is extraordinarily kind, charging "dead pawns" at 10% of the original value.For example, the original value of 9 taels of Burmese indemnity banknotes for the Yunnan War, Jinghua "deadly pawned" at [-] taels.

Everyone thinks this approach is extremely reasonable, and it can even be said to be extremely conscientious. It is much better than the dead discounts on the market. Therefore, many people can't help but discuss with their colleagues around them before they leave the court. Should they just go directly to Jinghua Bank to do it? Forget about "death", after all, 20 years is too long.

Zhu Yijun was also very happy to see that there was no quarrel between the officials, because he just announced that the internal treasury had taken away the gold and silver mines in the Bolton mining area, but he did not say how large the gold and silver mines were.

In fact, this gold and silver mining area is not small. It can obtain more than 1000 taels of gold and more than 8000 taels of silver every year. The current ratio of gold and silver prices is about 8000:8, which is equivalent to [-] taels of silver. Every year, it is only [-] taels of silver.

As for the "Pearl and Jade Federation" temporarily formed by the nobles of the Jingnan family under the name of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, they couldn't help but be overjoyed.As the saying goes, "Gold has a price and jade is priceless." Although it is difficult to mine such things as jewelry and jade, as long as a few high-quality pieces are produced, no one can determine how much they will sell for. Bi"?

Besides, some of these generations of nobles were involved in the jewelry business, and they had good craftsmen under their hands. After getting these jades, they could gain value through exquisite processing, and it was a good deal with huge profits.

To be honest, it is difficult for everyone to understand that Gao Wushi likes to "buy wood". Although everyone knows that Gao Wushi has always liked to build ships by himself in maritime trade, Jinghua's shipyard may have controlled at least [-]% of Daming's shipbuilding industry. market, but it is still difficult for them to understand such an "unlimited" purchase of wood.

However, it doesn’t matter if you understand it or not. Anyway, most people don’t want to grab this business. Shipbuilding is a high-cost industry.

The simplest point is that at present, only the highly pragmatic Jinghua Shipyard can pick up sea-going ships with more than [-] materials. Other shipyards, including Songjiang Xu’s, rarely take up this kind of work. Even if Xu’s occasionally picks up, it usually starts at one time There are only one or two, which is like "making dumplings" like Jinghua.

Now the shipbuilding industry in Ming Dynasty, except for Jinghua, is basically dominated by small boats. The ships that can go to Nanyang and Dongyang are usually in the early [-]s to [-]s, and they are not like Jinghua’s ships. There is a clear "grading".

Of course, it doesn't matter, because the capital is limited, few people are jealous of this transaction, what everyone is really envious of is the sea trade business, things like ships... just buy it.

Zhu Yijun waited for a while, and seeing that the officials finally calmed down from their excitement, he gave a little signal to Chen Ju who was standing not far away.

Chen Ju took a step forward and said loudly: "All the officials are quiet, the Holy Spirit has a decree!"

As expected, all the officials became silent immediately, and they knew very well in their hearts that this should mean that the reward was about to come down.
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PS: This chapter can be regarded as making up for the chapter owed three days ago, and there will be another chapter tonight.

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