The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 189 White Elephant Death Curse Water Hate

Ava, the royal city, the Glazed Palace.

Although there were many dim oil lamps, they could not illuminate the entire palace.

Amid the fluttering flames and the interweaving of light and darkness, the White Elephant King sat withered on the magnificent golden throne, not knowing what he was thinking.

Outside the palace gate, there was the sound of weapons clashing, but not much.

Because by this time, there were only a few guards still loyal to the White Elephant King.

With a clang, the palace door was roughly pushed open, and a group of warriors holding sharp blades and covered in rattan armor rushed in.

The palace maids, who were already extremely frightened and had been sitting in the corner trembling, screamed and crawled on the ground. Anyone who dared to run around was killed without mercy.

"Xin, my brother, you have let me down." King Baixiang recognized at a glance who the person surrounded by the warriors was, his half-brother Xin Tamin.

Xintamin trembled and turned away, not daring to meet the White Elephant King's gaze. "Saint King, you have also failed the ministers and the people who followed you."

Originally, the White Elephant King was relatively calm, but after hearing what his younger brother Xintaminin said, he suddenly became furious.

"I have failed no one. I am the king, the supreme king, the son of the great Alangpaya, and I have made this dynasty stronger than ever before.

I destroyed the Siamese, occupied their capital, and captured their princes and princesses, so I am honored as Sin Pyu Shin!"

There were two Sin Pyusin (White Elephant Kings) in Myanmar's history. The previous one was Mang Yinglong of the Toungoo Dynasty, who also conquered Siam.

The title of White Elephant King that Meng Bo gave was actually given to him in tribute to his idol Mang Yinglong.

"But you shouldn't have provoked the Qing. It was the four wars with the Qing that dragged all of us into the abyss of despair.

We could have taken Siam, and you could have been greater than the first Sin Pyu Shin."

Having said that, Xintami took a breath and tears began to well up in his eyes.

"But your stubbornness and your refusal to listen to advice have turned you into Nanda Boyin. He brought punishment from the Ming Dynasty, and you brought an attack from the Qing Dynasty."

The White Elephant King, who had already stood up and pointed his spear at Xin Tamin, felt as if struck by lightning when he heard this. After a long silence, he slowly sat down.

After a while, he finally turned his hateful eyes towards the warrior who came in with Shintami.

“I am not Nanda Boyin. Nanda Boyin was defeated and died because he underestimated the Ming Dynasty, but I did not underestimate the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing emperor cannot mobilize an endless number of Han people, and I can defeat him."

"What went wrong?"

The White Elephant King, muttering to himself, suddenly pointed his finger and said, "It's you, the shameless ones who can't persevere. If everyone is united with me, we will never fail!"

Hearing what the White Elephant King said, the warriors who had surrounded Xintamine were all embarrassed. Angry and humiliated, they encouraged each other and walked towards the king, whom they had originally regarded as a god, with their swords in hand.

Seeing no escape, the White Elephant King immediately shouted, "A king cannot starve to death. This will send him to hell. I want to eat coconut rice!"

"King, stop struggling. The Khmer King's army has defeated the reinforcements from Laoguantun at Ong Minh Li Lake. Deng Jiaminkang's body has sunk to the bottom of the lake."

The warriors knew very well that the White Elephant King was stalling for time. Nasi lemak is not a delicacy that can be prepared instantly. It has a complicated process and takes at least forty minutes.

For the White Elephant King, even if he waited one more minute, something might happen. After all, he had ruled Ava for almost ten years and conquered Siam, so his prestige was still very high.

However, Shinthamine and these warriors came from the battlefield of Lake Wengmingli, and they immediately and ruthlessly shattered the White Elephant King's fantasy.

The White Elephant King finally gave up hope. He slumped on the throne as if he had lost all his strength, muttering to himself.

"Don't I have a loyal minister?"

"Yes!" A guard laughed cruelly, "Your loyal minister, Chevalier Miral, committed suicide five days ago!"

"Ah, I'm going to kill you!"

Hearing that his 'lover' had committed suicide, the desperate White Elephant King howled in pain and suddenly pulled out a loaded flintlock pistol from his waist.

With a loud bang, the warrior who mocked the White Elephant King was hit directly on the forehead by the pistol. He died on the spot without even a grunt.

But this also caused panic among the surrounding warriors. Some of them were originally hesitant to kill the king, but under stress, they raised their swords and stabbed and chopped the White Elephant King randomly.

"Brother, brother!" Looking at the White Elephant King struggling in a pool of blood, King Xintamine's spirit collapsed. He threw himself on the White Elephant King and burst into tears.

"All of you go out and let the maid clean my brother's body. My king cannot die in such a filthy state."

The warriors looked at each other and stepped back a little, but did not completely leave the hall.

The White Elephant King did not feel any pain, but felt a burst of coldness. What flashed through his mind was the time when his father Alangpaya (Yongjiya) first started his army and the father, son and brothers worked together to conquer a vast territory.

"Xin, you are still too weak." The White Elephant King said intermittently and vaguely:

"Meng Yun will definitely come back from Laoguantun. Don't fight him. You are no match for him."

"Tell Meng Yun not to worry about the Qing. They can't fight any longer. Be careful. Be careful of Hexian. Hexian, that Ming. Chinese man."

"General, you have seen that my brother has died. Can you leave his body intact?" After seeing the White Elephant King slowly losing vital signs, Xintamine stood up and turned around to ask.

Li Quan took off the Burmese iron helmet on his head and nodded expressionlessly.

"Order the painter to come in and depict the White Elephant King's death. Confiscate his armor, pistol, golden seal, and robes."

After saying this, Li Quan looked at King Xintamin and said loudly: "This is the grace of King Mo, allowing a once wise king to meet the Buddha with dignity."

. . . .

The 1770th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, the th day of the second lunar month, the th day of the third lunar month in the year AD.

Under the urging of Mozibu, Xintamine led his men into the Glazed Palace of the Ava Royal City and killed the White Elephant King in the main hall.

Historically, this king, who provoked four Qing-Myanmar wars and plunged the country into bankruptcy, was not punished, but the once-glorious Konbaung Dynasty began to decline. Unable to bear this loss, the White Elephant King began to suffer from mental illness, becoming paranoid and cruel, and died six years after the war ended.

But in this time and space, his situation was even more miserable. Mo Zibu, who had attacked from nowhere, took advantage of the moment when he and the Qing Dynasty were desperately confronting each other with all their might and killed him.

On the third day after the White Elephant King was executed, Mozibu led his army to Ava City.

However, Mozibu did not enter the city. Instead, his entire army crossed the Irrawaddy River and arrived opposite the city of Ava.

Before crossing the river, Mo Zibu ordered more than 2,000 people from the Hexian Group and the Yicong Group, and 2,000 Chaozhou soldiers from Chen Lian to wear white clothes, cover their horses with white robes, and wrap their swords and guns with white cloth. The sons of the Mo and Chen families of the Hexian Group also wore mourning clothes.

Leading the army was the white sun flag with a red border and a blue background of the former Ming Dynasty.

The flag on the left reads "Chen, the General of the Three Towns of the Ming Dynasty Gao, Lei, and Lian"

On the right, the flag minister is "Ming Chongzhen 9th year county examination student, Imperial College student, Xuwen County Magistrate Mo"

Under the guidance of the Burmese, thousands of people came to a flat land in Jiangyou, which they called Miaoxiang Palace. This was where the Yongli Emperor and his ministers who fled south lived.

The so-called difficulty of cursed water does not refer to a river, but means cursed water.

At that time, Burmese customs and practices were similar to those in Yunnan and other regions. Whenever a king ascended the throne, he would invite sorcerers and wizards to perform dances and pray to the heavens. This practice was also often used when making oaths.

After the dance, the sorcerer or wizard will burn the herbs, paper and other items offered to the sky and then put them into the water. This is the cursed water.

When congratulating or swearing an oath, both parties must drink cursed water together to fulfill the oath.

At that time, the Burmese King Mangbai used the excuse that he was a newly established ruler after usurping the throne to force Emperor Yongli and his ministers to cross the river and drink cursed water to take an oath.

Yongli did not dare to go as the Burmese were pressing him hard. Finally, Mu Tianbo, the last Duke of Qian, stepped forward.

But Mangbai had already planned to hand Yongli over to Wu Sangui, so Mu Tianbo and others were surrounded as soon as they crossed the river.

Mu Tianbo, a skilled martial artist, seized the long sword from the Burmese soldiers and killed nine of them. The remaining Ming Dynasty generals also rose up to resist, but were ultimately outnumbered and were all killed.

The Burmese army then rushed into Yongli's residence, killing more than 200 people and looting property and women.

To avoid being humiliated, Yongli's two concubines, Liu and Yang, the last Prince Ji and his wife, and more than a hundred noble ladies and palace maids hanged themselves to death.

After Mozibu determined the location, he immediately ordered people to demolish the houses built by the Burmese there. He chose a high hill and offered cattle, horses, and pigs as sacrifices. He also ordered the accompanying civil servant Zheng Xiu and others to write an essay to mourn.

The temple was built to commemorate the last Prince of Ji, Zhu Ciying, and his wife, the last Duke of Qian, Mu Tianbo, and his son Mu Zhongliang, who died here, and the generals Wei Bao, Wang Sheng, and Wang Qilong who rose up in resistance.

The remaining 42 people who died, including Ma Jixiang, Ma Xiongfei, and the eunuch Li Guotai, were randomly piled up in a few mounds of earth. The only thing that could be praised about these thieves was that they did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The cenotaph and the shrine were set up, but before Mo Zibu could do anything, he heard crying sounds behind him.

Compared to Mo Zibu, the time traveler, the children of the Mo and Chen families are the real Mingxiang people.

No matter how the people above have wanted to be canonized by the Qing Dynasty to solve the current difficulties in recent years, after hundreds of years of education in their homeland, the children below still consider themselves to be the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, and their feelings for the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty are also very sincere.

After all, the ancestors of both the Mo and Chen families had accepted official positions from Emperor Yongli, who was also one of the few legitimate rulers of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

After everyone finished crying, Mo Zibu set up shrines for Yongli's two concubines, Liu and Yang, and then said to everyone:
"In the past, when the Emperor visited Burma, Ma Jixiang, Li Guotai and other clowns, despite the Emperor's leg disease and insomnia, reveled lavishly on the Mid-Autumn Festival. They even summoned a Cantonese actress, Li Yingxiang, to sing. Yingxiang angrily rebuked Ma Chou and his companions, and was eventually whipped by Ma Chou.

A dignified minister of state is not even as good as an actress.

But this is the pride of us Cantonese people. I heard that Li Nv was also killed when she cursed the water, so she should also be included in the worship."

Everyone nodded in agreement. During the sacrifice, Mo Zibu couldn't help but burst into tears under the impact of the sad atmosphere.

Although Yongli was a running man, he was ultimately a banner. His death marked the end of hope for the Han nationality's resistance on the mainland.

After the sacrifice, Mo Zibu, dressed in mourning clothes, said to the crowd: "One hundred and nine years ago, loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty were killed here, and the emperor was abducted and killed in Kunming, causing us to lose our homeland.

Over the past hundred years, our ancestors have suffered so much bullying and so much contempt, all because we have no motherland and no one to rely on.

Therefore, I, Mo Wu, do not want gold, silver, treasures, beautiful women, fine wine, or luxury cars. What I want is to rebuild my country and have the Ming Dynasty again in Southeast Asia.

So that our compatriots and future generations will no longer be bullied or looked down upon."

"Gentlemen, please let us work together and strive!"

Thousands of people knelt simultaneously and pledged in unison, "We are willing to follow the king and rebuild the Ming Dynasty!"

"Good!" Mo Zibu shouted, "One day when he establishes his own business, you and I will both go down in history."

Then Mo Zi Bu clapped his hands again, and more than 300 Burmese were brought over with iron chains. These people were the remnants of the Toungoo Dynasty who had been cleared out.

In 1752, the last king of the Toungoo Dynasty, Mahadamayasadepati, was captured by the Mon people when they conquered Ava and eventually died in Pegu, but his children were not all killed.

After Yongjiya destroyed the Mon regime of Post-Pegu, he brought these princes and grandchildren back to Ava. Some of them were married to new royal families, and some were given titles and kept alive.

These people are their descendants.

Mo Zibu personally picked up his long sword, walked up to the frightened Burmese who were howling like ghosts and wolves, and roared to the sky:

"Duke of Qian, Your Highness Prince Ji, I have avenged you today. Please open your eyes and see the fate of Mangbai's descendants!"

After saying that, Mo Zibu chopped off the leading man's head with a knife, and blood spurted into the sky.

After Mo Zibu took action, the sons of both the Mo and Chen families drew their weapons and rushed forward. Right in front of Mu Tianbo's cenotaph, they hacked to death hundreds of remnants of the Toungoo Dynasty, regardless of gender, age or status.

“Tell Xintamin that the inner and outer cities need to collect two million taels, otherwise I will go into the city and get it myself.

In other areas, they tortured people door to door and asked everyone to pay one or two taels of silver to buy their life. If one tael was missing, the person would be killed.

If they have no money, let them use young women to pay off their debts. One woman is worth two taels of silver!

In Dasuo City, we searched for the relics of the royal family, relatives, and officials who had accompanied Emperor Yongli into Burma, and brought them back to Ha Tien as souvenirs.

(End of this chapter)