Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1051 Preparation
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Gao Wushi shared his thoughts with Huang Zhiting, and Huang Zhiting's face gradually became serious, she thought for a while and said, "You entrusted these matters to me, it seems that you want me to sit in Annan for you during this war." ?”

Gao Wushi nodded and said, "Yes."

Huang Zhiting then asked: "In addition to guarding against Annan's change, do I also need to coordinate various affairs of Annan's support for the war in Yunnan?"

Gao Wushi still said: "Yes."

Huang Zhiting continued to ask: "Is Annan also going to send troops?"

"The issue of Annan's dispatch of troops requires me to file a request with the imperial court first, especially to convince the emperor that Annan has the power to do so." Gao Wushi sighed softly: "Actually, I planned this matter two years ago. , it’s just that the conditions at that time did not allow it…” Then he talked about the previous situation.

After listening to it quietly, Huang Zhiting said thoughtfully: "So you were thinking about these things when you met the Dao family siblings at Hoan Kiem Lake... Let's not talk about whether the emperor agrees to Annan's sending troops, I want to know if Annan is going to send troops, how many troops do you plan to send, and who will lead them? Also, since you are going to take the sea route, is the sea route safe now? Will the military rations be transferred from Annan or not?"

Gao Wushi said: "My current thinking is that the Thang Long Garrison will transfer 1 troops to the south to assist in the defense of Jingang, and the Jingang Garrison will deploy [-] people to prepare for the expedition by sea to Siam. In addition to the [-] troops from the Jingang Garrison In addition to others, Ruan Juan, Mo Yulin, and Ruan Huang each mobilized three or four thousand people, making up a total of [-] to join the conquest. The former chieftains of Guangxi who moved the town to Annan also mobilized wolf soldiers with a total of [-]. The Cen family will each contribute three thousand, and the rest of the chieftains will contribute four thousand."

Huang Zhiting frowned and said, "I know what your intention is to transfer Ruan Juan, Mo Yulin, and Ruan Huang's trilogy, but from the time you pacified Annan until now, we have never seriously combined their soldiers and horses with our own." I have commanded together before, and let them lead by themselves, which is a real 'conquest', but this time... you still plan to do this?"

Gao Wushi raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked, "Are you afraid that the soldiers will be too complicated, and it will be inconvenient to command, and you won't be able to use your fingers?"

Huang Zhiting said unceremoniously: "Using your arms like a finger? Then you have to lead it yourself. I don't think it will work if it is someone else. Neither I nor Cen Ling can do this."

Gao Wushi said: "I plan to let Gao Yu lead the army as the main general and Cen Ling as the deputy."

"Are you raising the commander to go to Siam?" Huang Zhiting asked in surprise, "If he leaves, what will happen to the remaining [-] Thang Long Guards?"

"Of course you are going to sit in town." Gao Wushi said: "Zhi Ting, the Thang Long Guards sit in Thang Long, [-] or [-], the difference is actually not that big, the key is to control those people from the Mo family. I have a special status. As long as I have an order to send to Shenglong, the Shenglong Garrison will not disobey. Maybe after Gao Yu leaves, the other middle and high-level garrison will only be very obedient in front of you, and will not deliberately make things difficult. You can rest assured on that."

Huang Zhiting didn't believe it at first, but after thinking about it, she came to understand, but her face turned red, and she spat: "I'm not Mrs. Gao yet."

I have to say that her speaking style is considered open enough for Daming's ladies.

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "Sooner or later, it's good to experience it in advance."

Huang Zhiting's face became redder, subconsciously changed the subject, and said, "When am I leaving?"

"There is no rush these few days." Gao Wushi said: "The imperial court's response is not that fast. Regarding the situation in Yunnan, they may have to discuss for several days before reaching a result. In addition, I proposed to the imperial court whether the imperial court agrees or not. Look...it will take some time. You should take the time to understand the economic situation of Liaodong and Annan in the past few days. Then I will try to balance the problem of freight ships for you. It’s a waste of shipping capacity to come and return with half the load.”

Huang Zhiting said: "Actually, I have two ideas, do you want to hear it?"

"Oh? Let's talk about it." Gao Wushi was a little surprised, and thought: This girl has improved. I only knew that she could fight wars before, but now she is developing into internal affairs?

In fact, Gao Yushi's thoughts were diverted. In the past, Huang Zhiting also knew how to manage internal affairs. After all, she was at the helm of their family back then. The understanding of things has improved again.

Huang Zhiting said: "In the short term, Annan can buy horses; in the long run, he can also buy tussah silk and various tussah silk products in the future."

Horses are really good things in this day and age, they are needed everywhere.There is a shortage of horses in Annan's side, that's for sure. The horses produced there are almost all kinds of pony horses, including the neighboring Guangxi.

This kind of short-footed horse can be used for transportation on mountain roads, or it is also good for women and children to ride as a safety horse, but it is more nonsense to use it for combat.

However, as far as Gao Yushi knows, the terrain on the Annan side, even including the Indochina Peninsula except for a few plains, seems to be unsuitable for northern war horses, so Huang Zhiting's "short-term buying of horses" is probably based on this consideration.

That is to say, Annan did need a batch of war horses, but the quantity he wanted was limited.Of course, the limited return is limited, and the transport volume of horses is quite high. This transaction can indeed avoid returning to the south with empty ships.

As for buying tussah silkworm products in the future, that would be a good thing, because the sericulture industry in southern Liaoning is a key arrangement for Gao Yu in southern Liaoning, and it will definitely develop very fast in the future-the matter of raising silkworms is actually not that difficult, and tussah silkworms It is also relatively easy to raise, and he is engaged in "intensive training", which seems to be preparations for large-scale explosive production.

The two of them discussed this matter for a while, and they generally settled on it. The amount of horses that Annan bought was indeed not very large, but it was not too small. Roughly, the fleet could buy about [-] horses at a time. It may be at the level of [-] horses a year.

In fact, not all of these horses will join the army when they arrive in Annan. Many people with high social status will buy them, especially generals, but that is not something Gao Wuzhen is interested in thinking about in detail now.

Speaking of which, Liaodong's economy is already deformed, and it is really not easy to match Liaodong and Annan.

For example, in terms of agriculture, Liaodong is not the same as other parts of the country.In the early Ming Dynasty, the national farmland, including military and civilian villages, was 90 hectares, accounting for about 310% of the total cultivated land area of ​​850 hectares at that time.So what was the situation in Liaodong in the early Ming Dynasty?Liaodong is "there is no land other than farmland".

"Quan Liao Zhi" records that "Leading the fields back to the village, harvesting their seeds, and each army's Yu Ding will give it to the public every year. That is to say, there are taxes on Ketian, such as the example of Heji, but the total The whole town gathers it, and the fields that are planted are ten to eighty-nine." It can be seen that in the early Ming Dynasty, the land management form of Liaodong was mainly military settlements, which was an important feature of Liaodong's economy in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this situation has changed since then. One is that the military nature of Liaodong’s economy is gradually weakening; the other is that the general trend of Liaodong’s economy is becoming increasingly dilapidated.

The economic and military nature of Liaodong gradually weakened, mainly manifested in the decline of Liaodong farmland and the conversion of military farmland to civilian farmland from the early years of Yongle to the end of Jiajing.Although the villages in Liaodong declined during this period, the economy of Liaodong was still developing on the whole.

According to the files reviewed by Gao Wushi since he was promoted to governor, the military settlements in Liaodong were most developed in the late years of Hongwu and early years of Yongle.In the 370th year of Yongle, there were only 17 hectares of land in Liaodong, which was a decrease of 170 hectares or [-] hectares compared with the early years of Yongle.

Since then, the number of villages has gradually decreased.In the third year of Zhengde, the farmland was 930 hectares, a decrease of 17 hectares compared with the 240th year of Yongle.

However, the number of civilian fields is 590 hectares, an increase of more than 40.00 hectares compared with the early years of Yongle.At this time, farming only accounted for [-]% of the cultivated land area at [-].

In the 44th year of Jiajing, the amount of farmland was 920 hectares, which was 490 hectares less than that in the third year of Zhengde.The number of people's fields is 20.00 hectares, an increase of nearly [-] hectares compared with Zhengde's three years.Tuntian accounted for [-]% of the cultivated land area at [-], a significant drop.

After Jiajing, the second change in Liaodong's economy was that it became increasingly dilapidated.Before the Jiajing period, although the military settlements in Liaodong were declining day by day, the civilian fields were increasing.However, after the Jiajing period, the number of military settlements and civilian fields decreased day by day.

For example, last year, in the tenth year of Wanli, there were 180 hectares of military settlements in Liaodong, 91 hectares of civilian land, and a total of [-] hectares of cultivated land.

Compared with the last years of Jiajing, military settlements decreased by more than 1000 hectares, civilian fields decreased by more than 3000 hectares, and the total cultivated land area decreased by more than 4000 hectares.If Gao Pragmatism's memory is correct, this development trend will become more serious in the original history from the end of Wanli to the Chongzhen period. There are various reasons, so there is no need to mention it for the time being.

The dilapidation of Liaodong's economy is also reflected in the escape of a large number of Liao people.In the first year of Hongzhi, Liao people "fleeed more and more".In the seventh year of Wanli, "half of the military and civilians deserted" in the entire Liao Town.

Some "dwell on the islands of Shandong to live in the fishing seas, avoiding the most important things and taking the lightest ones, and never return."Some fled to the residence of Jurchen, where they worked and worked for the Jurchen nobles.

In the last period of history, in Liaodong "a young, strong and brave husband died in Jianzhou Shisiwu." Pan Zongyan, Kaiyuan Daoist soldier's preparation for gold, wrote, "When I went to return to Tieling, the residents along the way were in groups of a hundred or ten, or thirty or fifty. As a group, regardless of fifty or sixty, one after another concealed the complaint, crying that the grass beans could not be found, and that the local production had been exhausted, and that the spring seeds were all gone. Seeing that all the people have no grain to live on now, they had to flee.

The current situation is not that serious, but it has begun to have this trend, especially under Li Chengliang's operational thinking, he does not "defend the soil" very much, but tends to attack the opponent's soldiers and horses, which has caused some areas Always suffering from military disasters, of course, the economy is getting worse day by day.

The broken economy caused Liao people to flee, and the flight of Liao people accelerated and aggravated the economic damage of Liaodong.This is already a deadlock, and it can only be done by changing Li Chengliang's combat thinking.

The economic status of Liaodong can be roughly divided into three regions.One is the area west of the Liaohe River, which is often invaded by the Mongolian tribes.From the east of Shanhaiguan, the area of ​​Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Yizhou is "fertile and barren", "villages have been exhausted", "there are no villages for more than three hundred miles, and there are a few villages near Guangning, but they are scattered like morning stars.

From the east of Guangning to the Sancha River for 180 miles, there are yellow sand and white grass, which is a sad sight. ""The land is barren, but there is no farming, the grain is in arrears, and there is no one to pay.The degree of its desolation, "Although there are forts along the border, there are no more than forty or fifty families in the forts, and there are only twenty families in the forts."

For the Mongolian tribes, "Ningqian has no villages to rob".For the frontier generals of the Ming Dynasty, "Each general can only guard three or four forts, and there are no villages to protect." Gao Yushi also passed through Liaoxi when he came to Liaodong to take office, and he has experience of this.

The second is the area east of the Liaohe River and north of Liaoyang.The Puhe, Xunhe, Kaiyuan, and Tieling areas are "surrounded by barbarians on three sides." During Wang Gao and Atai's period, this area "had fields but the army dared not plant them." Of course, the people did not dare to plant them, and the land had to be left barren .

The third is the area east of the Liaohe River and south of Liaoyang.It faces the sea on three sides, and is less directly threatened and harassed by Mongolia. When the economies of Shishu and Shushu were in ruins, this region became the "fundamental place of the whole Liao Dynasty".Although "there is no land left, but there are many hillsides, sand and carbon, and the income is relatively small", it cannot save the general trend of the entire Liao economy being dilapidated, and the Yuemengzhan and Jurchen ministries have long been "coveting".

Now Gao Pragmatism intends to combine these three areas into one, but develop them with different priorities.

Southern Liaoning belongs to the "inner line", and it is not easy to be damaged by military disasters there, so the previous plan for southern Liaoning is carried out as usual.In addition to southern Liaoning, southern Liaoning is slightly north, that is, the Liaoyang area is a key industrial area, mainly driven by the Anshan Iron Mine and Liaoyang Iron Works that are about to start construction. South plan.

As for the western Liaoning region, his idea was to change Li Chengliang's current style of play, and not always let the Mongols rush into the pass to plunder.

Because for the Mongols, the gains from looting are actually limited, but for Daming, the damage caused by looting is very large. This situation may not matter for one or two years, but it will be bad for eight or ten years.Although Li Chengliang's style of play has won him a lot of military merit and created a military merit group, it has done great damage to the economy of Western Liaoning.

As for the Northern Liao region, the main opponent here is more complicated. There is Mongolia in the northwest, and Jurchens in the north, northeast, and east.Jurchen is not particularly dishonest at the moment, but the trend is already a bit bad, and Gao Yushi is trying to change it.

But no matter how it is changed, it is inseparable from Liaodong’s strategy of fighting and defending. In a word: being beaten every day can’t develop. Nomads can always run away after being beaten. Farming people like the Ming Dynasty can really run away. Monks can’t run away from the temple. People can run, but fields cannot.

Therefore, even if Liaodong has Liaonan planted corn, and even developed it within a few years, it is still difficult to save the entire Liaodong economy by relying on Liaonan alone. The situation in Liaoxi and Liaobei will not change. just work.

It seems that Annan's grain "export" can continue for a while, at least until Gao Pragmatic changes the entire defense strategy of Liaodong.
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