Rebirth of the Four Seas Emperor

At the beginning of the founding of the Xia Dynasty, the imperial court used the policy of using barbarians to control barbarians, and established chieftains in all areas where hundreds of barbarians were inhabited, to govern the barbarians on the border of Yunnan.

Baiyi generally refers to the Baiyi, Piaoren, Gula, Hala, Burmese, Jiexie, Hadu, Nuren, Puman, Achang and other tribal groups under the rule of the Sansi of Yunnan.

In addition to toast, the Daxia court also established three Xuan and Liuwei for zonal governance in the southwest region on the Yunnan border and Indochina and other major settlement areas of the Indochina, and selected the most powerful chieftain in the area as the Xuanfu envoy.

The three are: Nandian Xuanfu Division, Ganya Xuanfu Division, and Longchuan Xuanfu Division; the six consolations are: Cheche Xuanwei Division, Myanmar Xuanwei Division, Mubang Xuanwei Division, Babaidadian Xuanwei Division, Mengyang Xuanwei Department, Laos Xuanwei Department.

The "three announcements and six consolations" were all hereditary by the local chieftain chiefs, with internal autonomy. Economically, they had to bear the imperial court's "conscripts and tributes", and the soldiers had to accept the dispatch of the imperial court or superiors.

Due to different geographical locations, these chieftains were divided into two types: inner border areas and outer border areas, and the court's governance methods and degree of control over them were also different.Basically, the closer to Yunnan, the higher the degree of control.

However, as Daxia's national power declined, the tightly controlled inner border area was mainly the Sanxuan area, which was densely populated and close to the Yunnan Chief Envoy. It had always been relatively peaceful, while the outer border area was not peaceful.Especially the Myanmar Propaganda Department.

More than 50 years ago, Ava Wang Sihongfa, the chieftain of the Xuanwei Department in Myanmar, massacred Burmese monks, destroyed pagodas, and burned Buddhist scriptures, which aroused strong indignation among the Burmese people in the territory. The small country Taungu took advantage of the situation under the leadership of Mang Ruiti. , it took more than 20 years to slowly erode and eliminate the Ava dynasty. Since then, the Toungoo dynasty has officially replaced the Ava dynasty. At the same time, it no longer recognizes the suzerainty relationship with the Daxia court, and the relationship between the two parties was naturally dissolved.

Afterwards, the Toungoo Dynasty spent another 30 years attacking and occupying other forces in Myanmar, and gradually unified the entire territory of Myanmar's Xuanwei Division.

After the reunification, the Taungoo Kingdom set its new strategic goal to conquer the Shan states in northern Myanmar and even advance into Yunnan.

In the following years, several invasions of Yunnan did not cause much turmoil until the position of Longchuan Xuanwei envoy Duo Shining was stolen by a Han merchant Yue Feng, who took the initiative to join the Toungu dynasty. From then on, the situation on the Yunnan border began to gradually deterioration.

Three years ago, the new king of the Toungoo Dynasty, Mangyingli, ascended the throne. He was so ambitious that he did not care about the uprising peasants in the country. As soon as he came to power, he began to attack the border areas of Yunnan in Daxia. He made three announcements and five comforts. All of them defected overnight, allowing the Dongyu army to march straight in and invade Mengmao City.

The imperial court was furious and sent the famous general Liu Wei to fight. After successive battles, the situation was finally brought under control at the beginning of this year. Especially the chieftains who captured Yue Feng and expressed their condolences to him were greatly shocked and expressed their He expressed his willingness to accept the dispatch of the Great Xia court again.

It was originally thought that the Toungoo dynasty would stop here, but no one expected that Mangyingli would be so aggressive. In less than three months, it came back again.

After Hou Yao checked all the information about the Toungoo Dynasty, he sighed deeply.

On the surface, it seems that the chieftains are capricious and covet the wealth of the Central Plains Dynasty, but in fact, if you analyze it carefully, you will find that it is because Daxia does not regard the common people and chieftains as citizens at all. To put it bluntly, they only take benefits and ignore other things.

This also resulted in the local people having no sense of identity with the Daxia court. This was the fundamental reason for the capriciousness of these chieftains.There may also be some incidents of malicious oppression of chieftains by some Yunnan officials.

If you want to solve the problems in Myanmar from the root, it is by no means as simple as sending [-] troops to smooth things over. If the court does not fundamentally solve the way Myanmar is governed, rebellion will only happen sooner or later.

Sending troops to Burma is something that must be done carefully. If it is not done well, it will be dragged into a protracted war. Hou Yao cannot stay there for too long.

Yesterday, Ji Wenjun left in anger, but he didn't chase her out immediately. He was a little petty at the time, feeling that she was mentally ill and making trouble unreasonably.

When he figured it out that night and knew that he had to go over to apologize, Ji Wenjun avoided seeing him.

There is nothing he can do now. A woman is unreasonable when she is angry. He can only wait for her to calm down. However, just in case, the information in Myanmar must be investigated first. If the situation develops, support will be provided. To such an extent, you can’t turn a blind eye.

So I searched for information about the situation in Myanmar early this morning. After the search, it was almost time to leave the office, so I hurried to the Princess Hotel to see Ji Wenjun, intending to have a good talk with her.

Unexpectedly, it was in vain. The maid outside the door said that the princess had gone out and had not come back.

Hou Yao guessed that she might have gone out to relax, so he didn't pay much attention to her.

After leaving the Princess Hotel, go to Mingzun Liulicang to find Zhou Sheng.

When Zhou Sheng saw Hou Yao approaching, he hurriedly came to salute:

"Why did Brother Yao come here in person? If you have anything to do, just ask someone to say hello and I will go over."

Hou Yao waved his hand:

"You're welcome, family. Find a secluded place. I have something to tell you."

Zhou Sheng nodded, walked out of the room, looked outside, and led Hou Yao to the inner hall:

"Brother Yao, I don't know if there is anything important that requires you to make this trip in person."

Hou Yao found a chair and sat down on his own and said:

"That's right. Now our family has a big business. In order to ensure safety, I want to set up an intelligence network to keep abreast of the trends of forces around us. Just like what happened in Guangzhou this time, fortunately they attacked Guangzhou City. If they attacked Bao'an City, the consequences would be disastrous. I have too few sources of information, so I have to find a way to increase my eyes and ears."

Zhou Sheng poured Hou Yao a cup of tea and looked a little embarrassed. He was a small businessman before. He could be said to have become rich overnight. His time to become a wealthy businessman was still short. He was not very adapted to his current status and abilities in all aspects. They have not yet fully grown up:

"This matter can only make shops everywhere pay more attention, but most shops are newly built, and many shopkeepers are novices. They may not know how to do it. I have no experience in this area, so I can only try my best. .”

Businessmen generally operate intelligence networks and pay close attention to market trends in various places. However, "Mingzun Liulicang" has developed too fast. In addition, the Liulic business is an exclusive business and there is no market information. Therefore, the construction of intelligence networks has always been faster than that of shops. Much lag.Up to now, the shops have completed basic coverage in Guangdong Province, but the communication between the shops is still relatively slow.Efficient communication channels have not been established.

In fact, businessmen are not good espionage spies. Although businessmen come into contact with many people, almost no one will believe them.Therefore, even white gloves from big forces usually do not have a high status.

For example, Liang Yongzhen of the Tianwu Gang is already the commercial manager of the gang, but his status in the gang is not as good as that of a fleet captain.Even half a step lower than Miao Siniang, who specializes in intelligence work. He is in charge of the financial power of the gang.

It is difficult for businessmen to find out the core confidential information, but the information Hou Yao needs is basically the most confidential information of the major forces. It is not appropriate for Zhou Sheng to do this.But he had no one else available, so he could only let Zhou Sheng make up his mind.

"Let's do it first, I haven't found a suitable candidate..."

Before he finished speaking, a coquettish and excited voice suddenly came from the inner room:

"Cousin, you can leave this matter to the Lun family."

Zhou De ran out of the inner room wearing a silk robe, which shocked Hou Yao and Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng pointed at Zhou De in surprise:

"You...when did you come back? Why was there no sound at all?"

Zhou De pouted and said:

"The Lun family came back at five o'clock. It's because you don't care about others. You didn't even know that such a big living person came back. Humph, I don't want to care about you."

As he said that, he rushed up to pull Hou Yao's arm and shook it:

"Cousin, you should leave the inquiry to the Lun family, otherwise the Lun family will be bored with nothing to do all day long."

Hou Yao smiled bitterly, Chen Junnan asked for leave today, he came here alone, and he was at Zhou Sheng's house, so he was not so vigilant. He didn't expect that there was Zhou De hidden in the back room.

"Cousin, why are you hiding in there and eavesdropping?"

"I didn't mean to eavesdrop. The Lun family was sleeping in the room. It was you who woke up the Lun family by talking and blaming the Lun family.

Cousin, leave it to the Lun family to inquire about things, otherwise the Lun family will be very boring.

Besides, the Lun family likes to inquire about other people's private affairs. The Lun family can find out whoever you want to know.

Let me tell you, there is nothing in Baoan County that the Lun family doesn't know about. "

"Oh? Tell me what you know?"

Zhou De counted on his fingers:

"The Lun family knew that Mr. Cheng Jiang of the county had a concubine with two rooms in Guanlan Village. Mr. Liu, the newly appointed chief secretary, was having an affair with Widow Du, the owner of the Chunhua Hotel in the outer city. General Liu Chengfu could not last more than a cup of tea at a time. That’s it, General Zhu Liang’ao likes to stare at the girls’ feet, and kisses the girls’ feet every time before doing things, and when my cousin and Her Highness the Princess are there, they like to let the Princess…”

"stop……"

When Hou Yao saw that Zhou De was about to say something about himself, he suddenly broke into a cold sweat and shouted to stop:

"That's enough, that's enough. Then you will be responsible for setting up the intelligence network. I will give you ten thousand taels first. When the money is spent, I will ask your brother for it. In the early stage, we will establish the intelligence system in Guangdong Province. The more careful we can be, The better, you can find the manpower yourself, and focus on the information about Franji and the Yao family."

Zhou De immediately jumped up happily:

"It's my cousin. The Lun family must handle the errands well. By the way, brother, you gave the Lun family errands. How do you calculate the remuneration?"

Hou Yao thought for a while:

"Let's do it this way. You will work for five to two months in the early stage. When the intelligence network is established, you will be given a salary increase. The salary will be based on the size and size of the intelligence network you have established.

Depending on the level of information that can be heard, it is possible to earn a million a month. "

Zhou De almost took off his clothes in excitement, and then rolled his eyes at Zhou Sheng with disdain:

"The Lun family has its own errands, and I won't use your bad money anymore."

Then he looked at Hou Yao and said:

"My cousin is the best to the Lun family. Don't worry, cousin, the Lun family will definitely not tell others the secret that you like to be with the princess..."

Hou Yao looked like he was about to cry but had no tears... He didn't know if Zhou De was reliable.