Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2091 Zheng Guoben (Wei [-]) has a country to vote
"Yuan'er said that a place called 'Mengdun Shunhan' sent envoys to see him." Liu Xin pronounced this strange term very awkwardly, with a strange expression, and said: "The 'Mengdun Shunhan' The chief said that they were originally a 'fence of the Celestial Dynasty', but they were separated for some reason, and now they know that the great power will be revived tomorrow, and hope that the whole family will bring the land and vote."

Gao Wushi didn't think of "Mengdun Shunhan" for a while, but according to his understanding of the southwestern border area of ​​Ming Dynasty, since it is related to the word "Meng", it is generally a tribe composed of local minority people, and the system is similar to that of chieftains in Yunnan. .

The word "Meng" itself comes from the language of the Dai nationality, which is an administrative unit that is slightly more advanced than the tribe, but less than the country.A "Meng" may be as large as one or two prefectures, or as small as a county.As for the population, there is no certainty, as many as hundreds of thousands or even close to a million, while as few as a few thousand or tens of thousands.

This "Meng" is often translated as "Meng" in Ming Dynasty, so the places where Liu Ting's army passed by during the Yunnan-Myanmar War, such as Meng Yang, Meng Gen, and Meng Ding, were actually "Meng", but I donated land and voted for Daming a long time ago.

Now that there is another "Mengdun Shunhan" voting, Gao Yushi didn't take it seriously, nodded and said: "Since they are here to vote, let them vote. But who are they voting for? If they vote for Daming , I’ll turn around and ask the governor of Yunnan to get in touch.”

Liu Xin was overjoyed when she heard this, and suddenly she laughed, making Gao Yushi laugh inexplicably, wondering: "What are you laughing at? Could it be that this place does not border Yunnan? If so, then let them go to the South Xinjiang, under the name of the Bagu Kingdom. If it does not border with Bagu, it would simply vote for Burma, so in name it would be regarded as an indirect vote for Daming.”

Who knew that when he said that, Liu Xin couldn't stop laughing, she looked at Gao Yushi and said, "I want to see how long you can laugh?"

Liu Xin waved her hands again and again, managed to control her smile, finally coughed dryly, and said, "I'm laughing, and finally there is a historical place that even Teacher Gao can't figure out!"

Gao Wushi was confused and hesitated, "What do you mean? Where is this place?"

Liu Xin laughed, but ran over to get a map, pointed to an area in the northwestern part of Myanmar that looked like a "7" and said, "Here, look, this is 'Mengdun Shunhan' .”

"The Kingdom of Assam? Why is this place called 'Mengdun Shunhan'?" Gao Wushi was taken aback, and suddenly remembered what Liu Xin said just now, and hurriedly asked: "The envoy said that they were originally the fence of Daming? When did Ming come?" I even accepted them as fences, why didn't I know there was such a thing?"

It’s no wonder that Gao Yushi was shocked. You must know that he is the actual chief author of the Wanli edition of "Da Ming Hui Dian". The Kingdom of Assam was a fence—that is, a tributary state.

But Liu Xin seemed to be unable to hold back her smile. Hehehehe laughed straight away. Fortunately, this time, she didn't laugh for too long. Under Gao Wushi's feigned anger, she raised her hands and made a gesture of surrender, saying: " Okay, okay, I won’t laugh. Actually, I can’t blame you for this matter, because Daming did not accept them as a vassal state, and they didn’t even have a part in the three declarations and six comforts... But, But they can’t be wrong about what they said—or can you guess what it is?”

It's a fart, it doesn't make sense anymore!Gao Wushi shook his head, "I'm too lazy to guess."

Liu Xin pursed her lips and snorted softly, "It's boring." But after a pause, she said, "Forget it, I'll tell you the story attached by Yuan'er, anyway, it was originally given to you by your son. I’m just a secretary, how dare I make my boss unhappy.”

Gao Wushi rolled his eyes and said helplessly, "Again?"

Liu Xin ignored him, with a bored expression on her face, and said: "Yuan'er did a good job on this matter, at least he did a serious research in such a short period of time, no matter whether these claims are true or not, but it seems Always look the same.

It was hundreds of years ago... I guess it should be the Song Dynasty. The Dai people living in the Ayeyarwady River and Nujiang River basins had limited resources due to population growth, and began to seek livable land to immigrate to the surrounding areas.At this time, the Burmese in the south had risen, and the Dali power was also in the east, so they could only look west for new territories.

In the year when Kublai Khan was born, Sukafa, the head of the Dai people in Mengya and Mengka (later in Baoshan, Changning, Yunnan), brought the 'Suo Tuo', which symbolizes the kingship of the Dai people, about 9000 men and women, and two elephants. , more than 300 horses, through Mengmao (later Ruili, Yunnan), Hugong (later northern Myanmar) and other places, it took 13 years to cross the Pakai Mountains from the Hugong River Valley and enter the Brahmaputra Valley area.

In the first year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty and the fifth year of King Zhengda, Sukafa established a city-state in Dipan in the Brahmaputra Valley, cultivated rice fields, and built water conservancy. The Naga people and the Bola people made good friends, and encouraged the Dai people to intermarry with the local people to expand the population and grow gradually.

Another 23 years later, Sukafa moved his kingdom to Chalai Tower on the north bank of the Yarlung Zangbo River, and established "Mengdun Shunhan" - the name was also translated as "Ahong Kingdom" or "Assam Kingdom" at that time. '. "

Gao Wushi suddenly realized: "It turns out that's the case, so what's the situation when they say that they are the barriers of the Ming Dynasty?"

Liu Xin asked: "You are not familiar with 'Mengdun Shunhan', so you should know 'Meng Mao Nong'?"

"Of course I know that, it's Luchuan." Gao Wushi waved his hand and said: "In the old Hongwu period, Luchuan Silunfa returned to my university and was granted Luchuan's consolation envoy. The land under the jurisdiction of Silunfa is all in the vicinity of the Jinsha River In the Yuan Dynasty, it was the Ping Burma Propaganda Division, but it had already occupied Burma as its own.

During the Hongwu period, our army attacked Yunnan and changed Pingmian to Luchuan Pingburan Military and Civilian Propaganda Department, and it was the first time that the word "Luchuan" was used.In the 29th year of Hongwu, Ping Burma paid tribute, and the Ping Burma Xuanwei Division was established, which was separated from the Luchuan Military and Civilian Xuanwei Division.

Soon, in the 30th year of Hongwu, the local chieftain of Luchuan Pingburma rebelled sharply and expelled Si Lunfa, his consolation envoy.Taizu was furious, and ordered Mu Chun to be the general who conquered the south, and He Fu and Xu Kai to be the deputy generals.

In May of the following year, Muchun sent He Fu to lead five thousand troops to the Lianggong Mountain, and went straight to Nandian to break it, and then returned to attack Jinghanzhai.The enemy held fast with high evidence and danger, and could not attack for a long time.So Mu Chun personally led [-] horsemen to help them, and tried to overcome them.Please don't let the knife down.In December, He Fu wielded a beheading knife and fought fiercely, and finally put down the chaos in Luchuan.After that, Si Lunfa lost his official position and was changed to Meng Yangxuan and comfort envoy, with Diao Shi in his place.

In the early years of Zhengtong, Diao Binyu, the envoy of Xuanwei, was weakened and could not appease the tribes. Si Renfa, the second son of Si Lunfa, began to invade.At that time, Burma was in crisis, and Si Renfa invaded and occupied the land, so he wanted to restore the past land lost by his father, so he mobilized people to rebel in Luchuan.

At that time, he led the army to invade and occupy Mengding and Wandian, killing and looting wantonly. The general soldier of Yunnan and the Duke of Guizhou, Mu Sheng, reported it.Unexpectedly, he invaded the land of Diao Gonghan, a native official in Nandian Prefecture, so the court ordered Mu Sheng to send the official to give him a gold medal letter and order him to return the invaded land, but Si Renfa refused to obey the order.

In December of the third year of Zhengtong, Si Renfa attacked and plundered Tengchong, Nandian, Mengyang and other places. Diao Binyu went to Yongchang and died without heirs.Si Renfa slaughtered Tengchong and occupied Lujiang, calling himself "Fa".After the incident was reported, Yingmiao sent Yang Ning, the head of the criminal department, to order the order, but Si Renfa still refused to accept it.

So in the fourth year of Zhengtong, in the sixth year of Zhengtong, in the seventh year of Zhengtong, and in the 13th year of Zhengtong, our army marched against Luchuan four times.Then, with the Jinsha River standing stones as the boundary, I swore: "The stone is rotten and the river is dry, so you can cross it." Silu was photographed by the might of the heavenly soldiers and had to obey orders as a last resort.

This war lasted for nine years, and it was quite damaging to our court, but it was also meaningful in terms of strategy.Since then, Luchuan's territory has continued to disintegrate. The strategy of "analyzing the land of Luchuan" greatly weakened Luchuan's power. By the end of the rule of Sixing Law, only Longchuan, Ruili, Mangshi, Zhefang and some outlying areas remained in the territory controlled by Luchuan. Chuan Sui began to decline. "

"Papa papa!" Liu Xin applauded, "It seems that Mr. Gao is quite familiar with the affairs in this country."

Gao Wushi had already guessed the general idea at this time, he did not answer Liu Xin's words, but pondered: "So Assam—oh, I mean Mengdun Shunhan, did they take refuge in Luchuan back then? ?”

"As expected of Teacher Gao, I guessed right." Liu Xin laughed and said, "As early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the 'Meng Mao Nong' in the eastern part of Mengdun Sunhan—that is, the rise of Luchuan in Ming Dynasty. At that time Luchuan has great ambitions, trying to establish a unified Dai empire and annex neighboring countries, so he sent troops to conquer Mengdun Sunhan.

In the third year of Yuan Yanyou, Luchuan assembled an army of 90, with Hun Sannong, the younger brother of the "King" as the general, Dao Siyun, Dao Paluo, Dao Sihangai, etc. , Meng Dun and Sun Han were defeated, so they had to surrender the whole country.Most of Hunsanlong's army stayed in Mengdun Shunhan, and Mengdun Sunhan sent Hungan and Bomeng to form a mission, and accompanied some Luchuan troops to bring gold and silver tributes to Luchuan's capital of Luchuan, Yunjielan, to become a vassal pay tribute.

After Mengdun Sunhan surrendered to Luchuan, he paid tribute to Yunjielan every year, and the exchanges with the Dai people of various "Meng" that belonged to Luchuan gradually increased. Meng Dun Sun Han's strength.

In the 30th year of Hongwu, King Su Dang, who was deeply influenced by Indian Brahmanism, inherited the throne of Mengdun Sunhan, and the status of Brahmanism in Mengdun Sunhan was improved.During Su Dangfa's reign, he gradually distanced himself from Luchuan and moved closer to India, and Luchuan was also busy dealing with Ming Dynasty and had no time to take care of the far west. Meng Dun and Sun Han began to accelerate Indianization.

Since then, the king of Mondun Sunhan began to use Hindu titles as his titles, and Dai language titles such as Zhaofa and Taomeng were gradually replaced by Brago Hain, Balgo Hain, Bapatra Gohain, etc. And replaced by Indian-colored titles such as Rajko Wass, Barua, Hazarika, Sekiah, Borah, etc.

As a result, a large number of foreign words have been incorporated into the local Dai language, and Mengdun Shunhan has gradually been called Assam ever since.As for the relationship between it and Luchuan, it was slowly broken... Yuan'er didn't say when it was broken. I guess it was either inconvenient for the messenger to say it, or the messenger himself didn't know.

After all, Indianization, Indians basically don't remember history, so if we wanted to understand our own history in India at that time, we still had to look for our history books to study. "

Gao Wushi nodded, and roughly understood what was going on, but after thinking about it, he suddenly had an idea, and said, "Let me guess, since Assam has been Indianized long ago, and their original so-called suzerain country Luchuan is just an ordinary Yunnan chieftain, obviously not enough to attract them, and can attract them to seek refuge again...

Therefore, Assam suddenly found Yuan'er to talk about his contribution this time, and it was definitely not some kind of "King of Jiumu". The reason why they did this, I think, is nothing more than two possibilities. "

This time it was Liu Xin's turn to be taken aback, and said in surprise, "How could there be two possibilities?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "I think I guessed the judgment in your heart, which is one of the possibilities, but I think there should be two possibilities."

Liu Xin pursed her lips and said, "Then you go ahead."

"I'll go first." Gao Wushi didn't care, waved his hand and said, "The first possibility is that I am gathering a large army in Bagu in southern Xinjiang, which must also use the power of Burma, such as mobilizing the Burmese army to mobilize food and fodder for our army. etc.

These actions may have aroused Assam's vigilance, so the king of the country was frightened and sent people to understand and test.After learning that Yuan'er was the commander of this operation when he was young, he used the pretense of making a contribution to make a test to see if we in Southern Xinjiang or Daming had any coveted intentions for them. "

Liu Xin was surprised and said: "I didn't think of this point, I thought of another point... Well, you go ahead and see if we are thinking of the same possibility."

Gao Wushi nodded and said: "Another possibility is that Assam is facing a huge threat, even in their view, it may be a threat of life and death, so they have no choice but to come to us to see if we are willing to help them.

This may be very simple. It must be that after the Mughal Empire conquered Bangladesh, it even regarded the surrounding small countries and states as its sphere of influence, or even the country, so it pressed Assam every step of the way.Assam felt the threat of the powerful Mughal Empire, so he played a common trick in the diplomacy of small countries-two tigers competing for food.

The threat of the Mughal Empire is close at hand. They set up a governor in Bengal, and although my Ming Dynasty also has a governor in Yunnan, Daming only acts as a prisoner outside of Yunnan itself and is unwilling to intervene in person at all.

Comparing the two, Assam has a strong enemy of the Mughals, and is naturally willing to surrender to Ming's protection, but in the final analysis, it just hopes to use Daming's tiger skin as a banner.If my prediction is correct, what they want to see the most is not that Mughal beat him and I, Ming sent troops to help him fight Mughal, but it was Mughal who took pictures of my Da Mingwei, so I simply gave up beating him thought.

In this way, Assam is just a name in my Daming, and may not even need to pay tribute, or even though paying tribute, it will make money, but because of this, it can survive between the two powers, isn't it beautiful? "

"Hey, even if we want to go together this time, I think so too." Liu Xin laughed, but immediately asked: "Then it's up to you to make up your mind now. Brother, do you accept it or not?"
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PS: I guessed it would be busy, but I didn't expect it to be so busy!I owed a chapter yesterday. Although it was still early today, I was so sleepy that I couldn't keep my eyes open.I'd better go to bed first, so that I don't get dizzy when I don't know what I wrote...

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