On the 78th birthday of the Qianlong Emperor, Burma suddenly sent an envoy to negotiate peace, and the Qianlong Emperor was overjoyed, and he finally found the steps down.
The Qing-Burma War lasted seven years, four times before and after, although the size of the Qing Dynasty and Burma was not at all on the same level, but the result was very embarrassing, because the Qing Dynasty lost troops in small Burma and fell into a quagmire.
In the end, Burma still refused to bow its head, and the Qing Dynasty was also seriously injured and unable to continue to attack, and the two sides were deadlocked and no one obeyed anyone, until the Burmese side asked the Qing for peace for its own reasons, and the Qianlong Emperor fell down the donkey and ended the Qing-Burma War.
To put it bluntly, the phrase "pacify Burma" is a joke, let alone the occupation of Burma.
Burma at its peak encountered exchanges between the Central Plains Dynasty and Burma in its heyday, dating back to the Han Dynasty, but because Myanmar had been in a relatively backward state for a long time and was remote, its relationship with the Central Plains was not close.
During the Ming Dynasty, many toasts were set up in the southwest and loosely managed, and due to the weakness of the Ming Dynasty in the local area, the Burmese Donggu Dynasty at that time continued to encroach on the Yunnan region.
During the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to defeat Burma, allowing many wobbly toasts to re-annex the Ming Dynasty, but at this time, the Ming Dynasty was already weakening and the Western Mountains were precarious, and Burma soon returned and invaded the Yunnan borderlands.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, because of its own troubles, there was no direct contact with Burma, and the attitude of the Qing Dynasty was to hope that Myanmar would take the initiative to submit to the tribute, so it was very cautious about Burma.
There is a large number of toasts in the southwest, and although the Qing Dynasty is powerful, Burma is the greatest danger at hand.
In order to survive, many frontier toastmasters chose to pay tribute to Burma while paying money to the Qing Dynasty.
Of course, not all, some toasts feel that they are the territory of the Qing Dynasty, why pay tribute to Burma, so they reject Burma and take the initiative to face the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty Yunnan region is afraid of offending Burma, and repeatedly rejects those toasts.
At first, there was nothing, but as Burma grew stronger, they repeatedly attacked the toasts in the yunnan border areas and demanded tributes and taxes, and the Yunnan region also turned a blind eye, for fear of causing trouble.
This state of appeasement lasted for a long time, and Burma also felt that the Qing Dynasty was a soft persimmon, and its boldness grew, and eventually it openly invaded the yunnan territory, which eventually led to the later Qing-Burma War.
During the Qianlong period, the strength of the Qing Dynasty reached its peak state of more than two hundred years, and during this period, the territory of the Qing Dynasty reached its maximum, and the treasury was full of population and multiplied, reaching its peak.
Burma in Southeast Asia, on the other hand, entered the era of the Gongpung Dynasty, which was also a peak of burma's ancient times.
The Gongpung Dynasty almost swept through Southeast Asia, swallowing the kingdoms of Manipur and Assam to the northwest, subjugating many Shan toasts, swallowing the Nanzhao Kingdom, and destroying the Siamese Aygi Dynasty, occupying most of the Indochina Peninsula.
Overall, the Gongpung Dynasty naturally cannot be compared with the Qing Dynasty, but there is a saying that the strong dragon is difficult to suppress the ground snake.
Although the Qing Dynasty was strong, the Qing Dynasty at that time was still busy cleaning up the Dzungars, and there was no time to run the southwest, and the southwest was too far from the core area of the Qing Dynasty, so in the local area, the Qing Dynasty did not have much advantage over Burma.
Four Qing-Burma wars, the Qing Dynasty fought a lonely Qianlong twenty-seven years, Burma invaded Yunnan, the Qing-Burma War officially began, at that time Burma because it was at war with Siam, so it needed a lot of money and food as military pay, so it set its sights on Yunnan.
At first, the Qing Dynasty still wanted to "calm things down", and even let Burma invade everywhere for two years, and the Qianlong Emperor did not feel that Burma was an opponent of the Qing Dynasty, so he did not care at all.
It was not until the thirty years of Qianlong, after some fundraising, that the Qing Dynasty officially began to attack Burma.
However, due to the Qianlong Emperor's misjudgment of the local situation and the excessive lightness of the enemy, the first troops suffered amazing losses, and the first battle was scorched by Burma.
After the defeat in the initial battle, the Qing Dynasty returned the following year, but unfortunately, many defenders in the southwest did not remember to eat and fight, fantasizing that they could conquer Burma with more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers in Yunnan.
During the Qing Dynasty, most of the Soldiers of the Yunnan Green Battalion did not go to the battlefield much, and the equipment was very backward, the combat effectiveness was weak, and the generals who led the troops were also very incompetent, and the commander-in-chief of the Governor of Yunnan was from a literati background and did not understand the military at all.
As a result, it can be imagined that in the second Qing-Burma War, the Qing Dynasty was beaten to the ground.
In the thirty-second year of Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty attacked for the third time, and this time the Qing Dynasty continued to repeat the same mistakes, destroying the enemy by 1,000 and losing 800.
In the first three Qing-Burma wars, the Qing Dynasty was caught off guard by Burma because it despised its opponents too much, and many aspects such as strategy were frequently wrong, and three consecutive huge losses finally made the Qing Dynasty have to face its opponents squarely.
After having a certain understanding of Burma, the Qianlong Emperor, in order to hate the snow and hate at any cost, he recruited a large number of elite soldiers and strong generals, and appointed Fu Heng, Aligun, Ah Gui, E Ning and others to go to the southwest.
The huge Qing Dynasty expeditionary army was highly motivated, but after arriving in Yunnan, it found that the logistics could not keep up, not only the food supply was insufficient, but also a large number of Qing Soldiers fell ill one after another.
For the Qing Dynasty's attack, Burma is also all-out, the Burmese army almost poured out of the nest, the two sides frequently fought, however, the Qing Dynasty has fallen ill and sick, more than on the battlefield.
The war lasted for more than a year, and both sides suffered heavy losses, but neither side refused to accept defeat, until finally the Qing Dynasty took the initiative to withdraw.
After the end of the Fourth Qing-Burma War, the Qing Dynasty no longer went to war with Burma, Burma had no strength to continue the war, and the Qing Dynasty realized that it could not make Burma bow its head at all, and the two sides no longer fought and no longer made peace, and fell silent.
Burma took the initiative to give the steps, the Qianlong Emperor claimed that the martial arts lasted seven years, the loss of nearly ten million silver In the Qing-Burma War, the Qing Dynasty suffered huge losses, and such a large price still failed to take Burma, so that the Qianlong Emperor felt that the face was very difficult.
Soon after the Qing-Burma War, the big and small Jinchuan were in turmoil again, and the Qing Dynasty did not have the energy to pay attention to Burma.
Moreover, because of this war without any results, the Qing Dynasty paid not only silver and silver, but also lost a large number of generals, and the losses in all aspects were very large, far more than the Qianlong Emperor had predicted.
However, on the Burmese side, due to the Qing Dynasty's troops, Burma's strength was greatly damaged, causing Siam to counterattack and gain the opportunity to recover, and myanmar's situation in Southeast Asia began to become difficult.
Just after eighteen years of stalemate between the two sides, Burma, because of its internal and external difficulties, felt that it was better to shake hands with the Qing Dynasty and make peace and obtain a more stable external environment, so it took the initiative to bow its head.
On the occasion of the seventy-eighth birthday of the Qianlong Emperor, Burma took the initiative to send emissaries to seek peace and expressed their willingness to submit and submit.
Of course, the Qianlong Emperor was also very happy about the attitude and practice of the Burmese side, after all, the Qing Dynasty did not have the ability to really make Burma submit at that time, and since Burma took the initiative to seek peace, it was almost enough.
After bargaining, the Qing and Burma finally reached a tributary agreement, and Burma officially joined the ranks of the Qing Dynasty's vassals.
Although "pacifying Burma" was incorporated into his so-called Ten Complete Martial Arts by the Qianlong Emperor, this matter was really mixed with too much water, and the Qing Dynasty did not really pacify Burma at all, but was made into a mess, let alone occupy Burma.