Southern Ming, my destiny is too abstract

Chapter 57: My Lifetime Achievements Can't Outweigh My Mistakes

Zhu Cixuan opened the north gate.

The Siamese soldiers attacking the city immediately filed in.

Under the impact of the jade scepter, the few soldiers who occasionally rose up to resist were instantly drowned in the wave of attack by the Ming army.

As Bai Wenxuan led the elite Ming army, Midan led the Shenji Camp into the eight cities of Madu.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Dutch threw down their weapons and surrendered one after another. The large-scale resistance of Maduba disappeared with the rain.

The Siamese soldiers, under the command of Papilaja, attacked the palace of Madubal.

The palace gates were wide open, and a richly dressed soldier riding an elephant rushed towards the Siamese army.

After the elephant trampled more than a dozen soldiers, the Siamese soldiers thrust their spears into the gaps in the elephant's armor.

Madubal's final resistance was also overwhelmed by the Siamese army.

Zhu Cixuan looked at the messenger who had brought Bie Daiyun's family to surrender and asked, "Where is Bie Daiyun?"

Bie Daiyun's confidant burst into tears: "My master's grandfather once fought with King Helong. He was valued as an elephant soldier and entered the palace to serve the royal family."

"My master said that he is Bedaiyun of Toungoo, the Marquis of Pegu, and as a minister of Toungoo, he should follow the two former kings."

Zhu Cixuan nodded slightly, not caring too much.

He was arranged to bring Bei Daiyun's family into the temple as servants.

He turned to Bai Wenxuan and asked.

"And the Dutch?"

Bai Wenxuan replied, "Your Highness, we have captured three hundred Dutch and Javanese."

"After we entered the city, some Dutch people went out of the south gate and boarded the Dutch warships."

"The Dutch warships bombarded the city gates with their cannons, blocking our pursuit. Seeing that the eight cities of Madu had been conquered by our army, they were outnumbered."

"The Dutch then sailed out of the harbor with their warships."

Zhu Cixuan thought for a moment and said, "Concentrate the cannons at the South Gate and East Gate to prevent the Dutch from coming again."

"Let some of the ships of the Han Chinese of Southeast Asia and the King of Pegu come to dock at the port of Maduba."

After taking care of everything, Zhu Cixuan took a short rest in the palace.

By the way, take a look at the prompt that just popped up on the system.

[You conquered Maduba and gained 100 Mandate points.]

As a big city and a major port for maritime trade, Maduba provides just enough destiny points.

[You have recruited the first-class cleric Nan Huairen, the second-class cleric Bai Yingli, and the second-class civil servant Constantine, gaining 200 Mandate points.]

Wei Kuangguo was still recovering from his injuries, having suffered the humiliation of being beaten with bricks and having his head shaved, and he obviously had no intention of surrendering to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cixuan didn't care. After the Tatar missionary finished writing about the defeat of the Tatars, he would surrender even if he didn't want to.

After merging the destiny and drawing the principal, there was a useful three-shot combo, and the destiny value was exhausted.

While your luck is still strong.

Zhu Cixuan planned to draw one shot and keep 200 life points as a backup.

The destiny value jumped from 300 to 200, and the panel glowed.

The silhouette changes and jumps to the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

"Tang Xuanzong, hiss."

Zhu Cixuan took a breath.

Li Longji is of course good.

Half the Emperor of the Ages.

The first half of his life was spent learning from Li Shimin, and the second half was spent learning from Li Yuan.

"Except for the oddities like loving his daughter-in-law and pure love for warriors, Li Longji's destiny seems to be of some use."

Kill three sons in one day, and you will have ten kings’ houses.

Special attack on his son is what Zhu Cixuan wants most.

With this skill, he can achieve both the kindness of a father and the filial piety of a son.

Secondly, special attack on the Empress.

He rebuked the Wu family, defeated the remaining forces of Empress Wu Zetian, and re-established the Tang Dynasty.

The Tanglong coup d'état killed Empress Wei, the half-empress.

Xiantian launched a coup and killed the future empress, Princess Taiping.

Zhu Cixuan thought about it and felt that the coup expert seemed pretty good.

In addition to starting a coup, he also prevented his son from staging a coup.

After the Mawei Incident, Li Heng was about to ascend to the throne according to the Xuanwu Gate Succession Law of the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, the blame was directly put on Yang Guozhong, and the mutiny was suppressed, forcing Li Heng to go north to Lingwu.

Even the Anshi Rebellion was good for Zhu Cixuan. When the southwestern chieftains really rebelled, it gave him a reason to concentrate power.

A Buddhist warrior, a founder of opera, a master of calligraphy, a master of music, he was just an ordinary person.

As for the Kaiyuan Period of Prosperity, the territory was expanded, civil and military achievements were made, and the rebellion was suppressed after the continuation of the dynasty.

Zhu Cixuan no longer expected the abstract system to allow him to randomly draw these serious destinies.

The scene slows down to the scene where Emperor Xuanzong of Tang escapes from Chang'an.

Zhu Cixuan frowned slightly: "The Mawei Rebellion?"

"Kill a woman to stabilize the army's morale. My concubines are all married to each other. They all have power behind them. Which one can I kill casually?"

The scene does not take place at Mawei Posthouse. Li Longji had just escaped Chang'an, and the emperor and his ministers had yet to eat, when the common people rushed to offer their wheat, bean and rice.

The Eternal Half Emperor took a bite and covered his face with his hands and cried.

"Are my life's achievements not enough to offset my mistakes?"

【Ding……】

[Tears of the Emperor (Tang Xuanzong Li Longji): The day I left Chang'an, I saw the Emperor's tears; your tears made those around you feel sad and angry.]

The king hid his face and couldn't save him. He looked back at the blood and tears.

"Shit, what's the use of this?"

"You are nothing compared to me. You brought Chinese civilization to its peak. During the An Lushan Rebellion, even the Ming Dynasty was unable to completely pacify the northern and western regions."

"No more random poetry from now on. Give me this."

Zhu Cixuan felt that the luck brought by the principal had been used up.

……

After Maduba was taken, Xiahongsha was completely pacified.

Then it's time to prepare to return north.

Zhu Cixuan waited for three more days in the eight cities of Madu.

Still no Dutch envoys came again.

Let Bai Wenxuan lead the troops to Pegu first and prepare to march north along the Jinsha River.

As for the eight cities of Madu, he planned to model them after the old port during the Yongle period and not include them in the territory of Pegu King Subiya.

"Pan Huang, you and Wu Dading will stay in Maduba to prevent the Dutch from invading again."

"Move all the Han people from Southeast Asia who have come to surrender here and discuss this with Chen Ande, who is in charge of Xia Hongsha."

"Maduba will be set up as a military and civilian pacification office, not belonging to Toungoo and Pegu, but nominally directly under the Mu Palace in the southwest of Shizhen."

The Ming Dynasty is now the actual controller of Hongsawadi, Upper Toungoo and Lower Pegu.

But this control is not in place.

The power in the hands of chieftains and temples will be taken back in the future.

This process will be long, probably taking ten years.

The lessons of the Ming Dynasty are before us.

The Yunnan-Yunnan border generals repeatedly demanded bribes from the chieftains and forced them to rebel.

Annan suffered backlash for its brutal suppression and heavy taxation, and lost the fifteen prefectures and thirty-six counties of the Jiaozhi Provincial Administration.

Maduba was a pilot area and a Han Chinese colony directly under the Ming Dynasty.

Pan Huang leaned forward and said yes.

Then he looked up and asked, "Your Highness, you were in Shanghongsha and returned to Yunnan after defeating Wu Sangui."

"Should Pegu Boshen Daguang in Lower Hongsha also set up a military and civil comfort office?"

Zhu Cixuan nodded: "Of course, choose Bosheng."

"I promised Midan that I would give him a governor to retire to."

"But there's no rush for this. We don't have enough manpower right now."

"Select soldiers from the Han Chinese in Southeast Asia, form an army, and let them protect their own land."

Pan Huang: "Yes."

Zhu Cixuan turned to look at the group of missionaries:

"You Westerners seem to have a university system. Constantine Falcon, you come and build a university and serve as the vice-president. I will be the president."

"Bai Yingli and Lu Rihai, while you're not teaching and preaching in Maduba, try to see if you can improve firearms. I've already asked the Han people in Nanyang to set up a workshop to manufacture firearms."

"Remember, you can't force them to preach. Respect the students' own etiquette. Mainly teach them various Western knowledge and Chinese characters."

"As for the students, the Nanyang Han people are secondary, and the Hongsha people are mainly selected. Tell them that Hongsha graduates can directly become local officials in Hongshawadi."

“People-oriented, appointing people based on merit.”

Zhu Cixuan said, smiling:
"My cousin, Emperor Tianqi, also said something similar to his brother. Unfortunately, his cousin, Emperor Chongzhen, failed to do so."

"My elder brother once told me that he should be like Yao or Shun."

"Just do your best in Maduba."

After Zhu Cixuan left, everyone in the room started talking.

Constantine rubbed his hands and approached Bai Yingli and the others.

He couldn't help but be excited. The university of the Crown Prince of Ming was obviously different from the one in Europe. It was for training officials.

He also had some power to appoint and dismiss officials, and he could guess how much money the native chiefs would bribe him just by thinking about it.

Nan Huairen did not participate in their discussion.

He has been appointed by the prince as a traveler, following him and recording all things happening in Middle-earth so that they can be passed on to the West.

"Your Highness's two elder brothers were lost among the common people when they were very young, and they even talked to him about becoming a saint."

Nan Huairen had great qualities as a missionary. After only a few days, he had already figured out the situation in the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Cixuan's family.

Pan Huang lowered his head and said, "The two former princes were indeed scattered among the people in their early years. I was young and never heard of this."

Nan Huairen walked up to Bai Yingli with a puzzled look on his face and told him that there was some information about artillery in the books he brought with him.

Pan Huang glanced at the missionaries out of the corner of his eye.

He didn't dare say it, as he vaguely remembered that the Crown Prince had said that Jesus was his brother.

(End of this chapter)