In addition to the royal family, the Ming Dynasty cabinet officials have also become better these days. The Burmese people provided them with enough food and a slightly comfortable place to live. This improvement began after the Battle of Lijiang and ended with Bai Wenxuan’s withdrawal for dozens of miles.

Although Myanmar tried his best to conceal the truth from the exiled court, the Ming Dynasty's cabinet masters were not fools. They vaguely guessed that Li Dingguo might have sent troops to pick them up, and Myanmar could not resist the Ming army's attack. Before Bai Wenxuan began to retreat, there was already panic in Awa City, and the Burmese soldiers guarding the Ming cabinet also revealed their verdicts. Cabinet officials, Mu Tianbo and other nobles and captured Imperial Guards learned that the Ming army was less than fifty miles away from Awa City.

Although everyone did not dare to show it on the surface, after eating the food sent by the Burmese people every day, they gathered together to discuss when the King of Jin's army would be able to fight. Ma Jixiang also proposed to prepare for two situations: one was to prevent the Burmese people from jumping over the wall and hijacking the exiled court to escape; the other was that the Ming army suddenly entered the city, and the Burmese people scattered in panic, allowing them to restore their freedom.

If the former situation occurs, Mu Tianbo advocates a forceful resistance depending on the situation to try to escape the control of the Burmese people; if the latter situation occurs, he must immediately try to rescue the emperor and protect the emperor to enter the King of Jin's army safely. In either case, everyone thinks that it is necessary to buy the Myanmar guards. The plan has been decided, so the cabinet and the nobles began to talk to the Myanmar guards, expressing their understanding that the guards are involuntarily executed and that if the guards help themselves at critical moments, they can come forward to ensure the safety of them and their families when the King of Jin's army enters the city.

At first, the Myanmar guards did not comment and did not sternly scold the cabinet masters for this delusion, but further increased the food supply to the cabinet and secretly revealed more information about the outside war. Only then did the cabinet know that the royal army also included the Sichuan army.

However, the situation suddenly changed a few days ago, and the attitude of the guards changed drastically, and they became much worse overnight. They scolded the elders who were close to each other, and some people called them "Ming Dog" again - this is something that has not happened in many days.

Bai Wenxuan seemed to be trying to withdraw his troops by order, which greatly relieved the Myanmar government. In order to appease the hearts of the people in the city, Mangda ordered the news to be informed to the military and civilians of Awa as quickly as possible. When he learned that the Ming army had retreated for dozens of miles, the city of Awa was filled with joy and fear. As soon as the Myanmar guards guarding the members of the Ming cabinet were all full of hatred. It was explained that the place where the army passed, the temple was burned, and the people were killed and injured. If they had not been worried that their families would have ended up like this, these guards would not have treated the members of the Ming Dynasty well.

The Myanmar government was not ignorant of the small actions of the Ming Dynasty cabinet. There were several officials who even wanted to contact the Ming Dynasty cabinet to obtain their understanding of the Myanmar government, at least for themselves. But now, in order to prove that they have never wavered, many people simply suggested to Mangbai that after confirming that the Ming army retreated, they would kill all the Ming Dynasty prisoners, leaving only the Yongli family alone, and of course, this initiative also had the meaning of silence. This suggestion was approved by Mangbai.

Knowing that some people were hooking up with the Ming cabinet at the critical moment, the Ming imperial guards who were demoted to slaves were eager to try. These were Mangbai's internal worries. Killing the Ming army cabinet and the imperial guards could not only eliminate the threat of prisoners causing trouble, but also cut off the channels for affair between Awa and the Ming army. However, the Ming army has not yet gone far, and Mangbai does not intend to stimulate Bai Wenxuan at this time, so he planned to wait a few more days, and once the Ming army lifted the threat to Awa, he could attack without any scruples.

The members of the cabinet did not know that the Myanmar government had a murderous intention, but when the guards scolded them, they revealed a lot of valuable information. After learning that the emperor ordered Bai Wenxuan to withdraw the troops, these people beat their chests and stamped their feet, and wanted to cry without tears. Those who were as smart as Ma Jixiang immediately realized that something was wrong. Yongli was still useful to speak to the Ming army and was willing to cooperate with Mangbai, so the Burmese people probably would not make things difficult for him; but the cabinet and the Imperial Guards were large, and they also incited the guards in private. If the Burmese King knew about it, they would probably kill them. The Burmese King could also use the heads of these Ming people to appease the resentment in the country.

"Your Majesty is confused," Today's food is much less than yesterday. After dinner, Ma Shougong wanted to take everyone to play cards and kill time. Everyone in front of him looked frowning. Ma Shougong couldn't help but sigh: "King Gongchang is also confused, how can he retreat? Don't Gongchang know the story of Yingzong? Don't you know?"

Before the trouble of cursing water, officials in the exiled court gathered to enjoy gambling every day. When Yongli was sick, they shouted loudly next to the imperial camp, making the emperor unable to recover from his illness. They were scolded by the middle-level official sent by Yongli. The headmaster first apologized, and then led all the cabinet masters and nobles to find a remote camp to continue gambling.

After being under house arrest, the cabinet masters did not have to consider national affairs. The censor could not impeach the emperor Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, who were fighting bloody battles. The court no longer thought about how to provoke the relationship between Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan all day long, and only the only thing left to play cards. The Master Ma always shouted excitedly, but today he was sad: "I don't know how many days we have to play this card?"

"I have wine today and get drunk now." Li Ge Lao is the good son-in-law of the Ma Shoufu, so he immediately comforted his father-in-law. Anyway, his life is not long, so let's have fun in time.

"It's a pity that there is not even wine." Ma Jixiang cried out again: "Can my grand Yuanfu of the Heavenly Dynasty, can't even drink wine?"

...

The next day, several Burmese soldiers, like wolves and tigers, broke into the place where the cabinet was detained. The headed Burmese officials stood at the card table and walked around the prisoners who were sweating profusely, and ordered the chief minister Ma Jixiang and Qianguo Duke Mu Tianbo to take several senior officials to the Golden Palace of the Burmese King.

"Who is your Duke Bao? Is he a hereditary noble? Or a general who just received the title?" After seeing Ma Jixiang, Mangbai immediately roared and asked. The envoy sent to Bai Wenxuan to hurried back this morning and reported to Mangbai that the Ming army refused to retreat. Deng Ming, the Duke Bao of the Ming Dynasty, who had arrived from the rear, publicly claimed in front of the Burmese envoy. When the envoy of the Burmese rebuked him for being unfaithful, Duke Bao retorted, saying that the imperial edict was for King Gongchang, and it was mentioned by the way that if there were other officers and soldiers from the King of Jin's palace, they should also withdraw their troops at the same time, so they had no binding force on Duke Bao.

Myanmar did not have much understanding of the chaotic warlord affiliation of the Ming Dynasty. Although they heard that the Sichuan Army was involved in serving the king, they knew that Li Dingguo was the prince of the fake Huang Yue, and Bai Wenxuan was the commander of the serving the king's army, so they took it for granted that the Duke Baoguo must also obey the command of King Jin and King Gongchang. Moreover, the Duke's status was not too high, which also made Myanmar underestimate Deng Ming's influence and independence. However, according to the description of the envoy this time, Deng Ming seemed to be on an equal footing with King Gongchang, and seemed to be more authoritative than King Gongchang in some aspects. After Deng Ming stood up to express his opposition, the Ming army's attitude immediately changed by 180 degrees, and Bai Wenxuan became tough again.

Mu Tianbo stumbled his neck and looked at Mangbai coldly without saying a word. But before Mu Tianbo could figure out how to mock the other party, Ma Jixiang and several other officials revealed Deng Ming's situation like beans. Someone couldn't stop talking and even told the rumors about his royal family to the Burmese.

After hearing that Duke Baoguo was a member of Zhu Ming's royal family, the Burmese suddenly realized that no wonder this person was on par with Bai Wenxuan and had a great say in the next strategy. After obtaining the information they wanted, the monarch and ministers of Mangbai ordered the Ming Dynasty officials to be sent back.

After returning to the detention area, Ma Jixiang's face was flushed with excitement: "Duke Baoguo wants to continue attacking! It seems that the Burmese people dare not make things difficult for us."

While everyone was cheering in unison, Mu Tianbo couldn't help but blame: "Why did Yuan Fu tell Mangbai about Duke Bao? In this way, he would ask the emperor to issue an order to force Duke Bao to withdraw his troops. If Duke Bao also retreated, would Mangbai let us go? Tell Mangbai about these things, isn't this suicide?"

"Oh." Thinking of the weak emperor, Ma Jixiang sighed with regret, but Mu Tianbo's reproach was disagreeable: "Duke Qian just saw it, Mangbai was ready for the swordsman. If we say no, we will not be able to come back today."

"Mangbai just wants to scare us. If he really has the intention to kill, why should he let the swordsman come out?"

"Keep the green mountains here and you will not have to worry about burning firewood." At that time, Sun Kewang asked Ma Jixiang to persuade Yongli to abdicate him, but Ma Jixiang honestly did as he told him. Is it a big deal to provide some information to Mangbai today? Ma Jixiang continued to explain to Mu Tianbo: "We must maintain a useful body so that we can continue to serve the emperor in the future."

Several cabinet masters who went there nodded in agreement: "Now I can only hope that the emperor can withstand Mangbai's threat and refuse to issue an order to the Duke of Bao."

"You really misled the matter..." Mu Tianbo was so choked that he couldn't speak, and said in his heart: "You don't dare to resist, just count on the emperor, but who doesn't know the emperor's temperament? Can you count on it?"

"What if the emperor issued an order?" After a while, Mu Tianbo finally spoke up.

"Then I can only hope that the Duke of the State can understand the matter." The cabinet elders answered in unison.

...

After hearing the Burmese envoy's request, Empress Wang was both surprised and happy. What was happy was that there was someone in the Ming army who could make an idea, but what was shocked was that the Burmese people actually found Deng Ming clearly.

"It must be that cartilled Ma Jixiang!" Queen Wang sighed in her heart. But the prime minister and her husband were quite angry, which really responded to the saying "I don't know the other person and see her friends."

After hearing the Burmese request, Yongli asked his nearby servant to polish ink without saying a word, and then he wanted to write an imperial edict. Seeing this, Empress Wang could no longer bear it, and she ignored the royal ethics and walked out quickly from behind. Empress Wang did not dare to blame the emperor, nor did she dare to oppose the emperor's decision in front of others. She just knelt at her husband's feet, lowered her head, and shouted silently in her heart: "This imperial edict cannot be issued."

"The woman doesn't know the etiquette, so she makes the noble envoy laugh." Yongli wrote the imperial edict that the Burmese people wanted and handed it away to the Burmese envoy.

After the messenger left the house, Queen Wang couldn't hold on anymore and could not keep her straight kneeling posture. She supported the ground with her hands and sobbed.

"If I don't write an imperial edict, I may not be able to live up to my life today. I am a part of my ancestors and the country is so important. How can I act voluntarily?" Yongli shouted angrily: "Do you still understand or not?"

Queen Wang shed tears silently without answering.

"This must be because Ma Jixiang's bones are so weak that he will not share my worries," Yongli cursed hatefully: "I can only hope that the Duke Bao will understand the truth."
Chapter completed!