Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1253 Dawn
There were Ma Gui and Chataiji in the battle ahead, but Gao Wuzhen didn't care about it after he arranged his strategy.He stayed in peace behind Ixibal's low wall and waited for the results, while dealing with the reports sent to him by all parties.

The difference between Wenshuai and Wushuai is very clear in Daming. To put it simply, no matter how high the military commander is, basically as long as he is in charge of combat, it is different for Wenshuai.

Thanks to him, he is only temporarily taking charge of military affairs in the northwest as the reinforcement coach, and the governors take care of government affairs, so it is easier to only ask about military affairs.

However, given the current situation in the Northwest, the military is also in great trouble, and it can even be said to be a mess.

Gao Guangxian was of course responsible for this messy situation, but in fact, he couldn't be blamed entirely, because in the final analysis, the Ming army's own problems were the source of its inability to deal with various situations.

what is the problem?Old problem, lack of money.The root of all evil is lack of money.

Although the three sides of Shaanxi are "nine sides", it is actually the area that is relatively least valued among the nine sides.This "relative" has not appeared recently. Wang Yangming said at the beginning that there are four most important places in the Ming Dynasty, and there must be no loss. If you lose it, the Ming Dynasty will be in danger.

Which four places?Ji Liao Xuan Da.

In fact, this is not Wang Yangming's unique opinion. The high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty all have a clear understanding of this. Otherwise, why did Gao Wushi manage to control more than 80 troops in name after he also served as the seven towns' strategist?The reason is that Da Ming put almost all the elites in these four places.

In the case of limited resources, Ji Liao Xuan Da took the big head, and the rest obviously can only take the small head.Although the three sides of Shaanxi are more valued militarily than other parts of the south, they cannot hold back that the economic conditions of the southern provinces are better, and the three sides of Shaanxi are here... Since the decline of Guanzhong, the Han and Tang Dynasties have long ceased to be prosperous, how is it possible Comparable to the South?Therefore, as long as the financial tilt of the imperial court is not enough, the three sides of Shaanxi can only live a miserable life.

This is not enough. In addition, this year’s large reduction in military pay and ban on feudal lords, relying solely on the inherent financial system, even the maintenance of the situation is in jeopardy. If something goes wrong, how can it not be bad?The reason why Gao Guangxian always wanted to calm down before was not because he felt that he could not fight?
Of course, this issue requires dichotomy. For example, Gao Guangshi believed that Gao Guangxian placed too much hope on the other party not to cause trouble, and seriously lacked subjective initiative and the ability to make decisions about major events.Because of this, after making up for the failure, he decisively gave up Gao Guangxian, and then went into battle in person to wipe the ass of the Three Sides School of Reality.

From the layman's point of view, the current problem of the three sides is that they are beaten in multiple ways. As long as the high and pragmatic army quells the rebels in one fell swoop, no matter whether they worship Bosuo Ketu, or Huo Luochi brothers and the like, they will all defeat and even defeat the rebels. Extermination, the three-sided problem will be solved naturally.

This idea, if you have to say it wrong, is not wrong, but it is really a headache, and it can cure the symptoms but not the root cause.Since ancient times, the confrontation between the farming and mulberry civilization in the Central Plains and the nomadic civilization in the north has been dominated by the farming and mulberry civilization in most periods, and the nomadic civilization is the main attack.

In the two prosperous times of Han and Tang Dynasties, they launched counterattacks at the peak of their national strength, and achieved quite brilliant records, but the problem has not been solved, because as long as you are slightly weakened, the transition from offense to defense will come back immediately.

Some people say that this is determined by national characteristics, saying that people are wolf totems and advocating attack.However, Gao pragmatic disagrees with this view. He believes that this is mainly determined by the level of weapons and the development of military tactics.

Later generations of Outer Mongolia still maintain most of the traditions and characteristics of nomadic peoples. Why haven't they been seen heading south?

This analogy may be a bit inappropriate, but the truth is clear: the development of hot weapons to a certain extent, the weapons advantages of the nomads are reversed, what are they going to do south, and give them away?

The horses of the cavalry are also weapons themselves, just like the means of transport for mechanized troops. Even if they are not equipped with weapons, you cannot say that they are not part of the weapons.

So here is a question: why is Jiliao Xuanda almost rarely beaten now, but the three sides of Shaanxi have been beaten this time?Military strength is one aspect, financial strength is one aspect, and the combination of these two aspects can give an answer: the leaders of the nomadic people believe that it is dangerous to attack Ji, Liao and Xuan, and it is safe to attack the three sides of Shaanxi.

In terms of Ji-Liao Xuan Da, I answered the Mongols through the two battles of the Battle of Monan and the Battle of Liaonan. In these two directions, as long as you dare to do something, I will dare to cut off your hand, and I will be able to cut it off. !

The war must have a purpose. If it cannot achieve its purpose, it will cause serious losses to itself. No matter who is in power, it will not be foolish to fight all the time. Of course, the Mongols are no exception, not to mention the Mongolians bear the losses. The ability is actually far worse than Daming.

Because of this, after Burihatu became the mastermind of the Tumen, he persuaded the Tumen to give up the futile raids in the past, and instead seize the time to recuperate, develop agriculture and commerce, and actively contribute to the fire. Luo Chi and others made suggestions and encouraged them to make trouble for Daming.

For Burihatu or the left-wing Chahar department, the attack on Jiliao has become a loss-making business. In order to obtain the needs of life produced by Daming, as for Daming's increasingly severe and urgent military pressure on them, they need to be released through other means.

Tumet got along well with Daming and was definitely unwilling to do this "path", so Burihatu set his sights on the northwest, stirring up the chaos in the entire northwest.

I have to say that Burihatu is indeed a talent. Not to mention that this hand hit Daming's seven inches, at least it hit Daming's weakness.

But in this way, the problem to be solved by Gao pragmatism is divided into two parts. The first is of course to solve the immediate military crisis, and then the other unstable factors must be smoothed out as much as possible.

From the perspective of Gao pragmatism, the current military crisis itself is not terrible. Although the Chaobai Rebellion in the original history was not as violent as the Northwest Rebellion this time, several forces were basically involved, but the degree of involvement was limited. Not as serious this time.

From the point of view of military power, as long as today's action is successful - Gao pragmatic does not doubt this - then the Northwest Rebellion will only be left with the one party, the fire and the red, the focus on the rabbit brothers, and there will be no Boshuoketu. The set of elite, high pragmatic and confident to settle in not too long time.

At least it can be much faster than the pacification of the Chaobai Rebellion in the original history.

However, the next problem is more complicated. After all, it is an objective fact that the imperial court has no money, and it is impossible for the imperial court to press down on the issue of opening the ban and go back to the three sides of Shaanxi to pay military salaries.

The most important thing to do is to make some adjustments in small details, otherwise the impact will be too great and it will be difficult to control.In the event that the opening of the ban on the feudal lords would cause trouble due to insufficient money, not only the losses caused by itself would be difficult to predict, but it would also have a serious impact on the prestige of the emperor, the cabinet, and even the entire center of the imperial court.

In a unified country, the central prestige can never decline. Once it declines, it is a sign of troubled times. Therefore, Gao pragmatic cannot expect the court to allocate money to help, and can only find a solution by himself.

Jinghua is of course the top business giant in the Ming Dynasty, but Jinghua has invested a lot of money in the southern border, and it seems to be a bottomless pit for the time being. The ghost knows how much it will cost to finish the calculation, so it is impossible to let Jinghua directly Spending money in the Northwest - what's more, this move has the danger of "buying the hearts of the people" politically, and Gao pragmatic even dare not try it lightly.

The best way, of course, is to find money on the spot, but this sounds like a wild talk. Where can you find money in places like Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia?
Even though Gao Pragmatist can use his prestige within the Shi School to mobilize local treasury silver, that is, those that do not have to be handed over to the central government, but the amount of money may not be enough, and secondly, Gao Pragmatist can't really make people's government work. The warehouse has been emptied, and no surplus grain is left, so it is hard to say which step can be achieved, but it is definitely not enough.

Gao pragmatically thought about it, and even began to consider whether the punitive treaty against Burma during the Burma War could also be applied to the Ordos Department.

Unfortunately, the situation in Ordos and Myanmar is really different and cannot be so simply copied.

why?Because of Tumt.

Under the manipulation of Gao Gong and Gao Wushi's uncle and nephew, Tumut can now be regarded as a relatively loyal little brother of Daming, but although this little brother is relatively loyal, his status is still relatively special, even Daming must Be cautious.When Daming treated Tumet, it was impossible for him to send a letter directly in the same way that Gao pragmatically treated Nurhachi before, and let him retreat without giving the reason.

After all, Nurhaci has only three or five thousand soldiers now, but Tumet is the core of the Mongolian right wing that can pull out one hundred thousand cavalry in minutes. Can this be compared?
As for the Ordos Department, it is Tumet's default "sphere of influence", or even a part of their own strength. Even when the Tumen attacked, they still sent Chataiji to lead [-] troops to the Hetao?
Without him, Tumert regards Ordos as a part of himself.

So in other words, if Gao pragmatically asked the Ordos Department to cut the meat, it would be equivalent to Tumut cutting the meat too, and then there might be trouble in how to settle Han Naji and Zhong Jin Hatun internally.

And Tumet can't get into trouble now, because the premise of the Eastern system is Xihuai. If the right wing can't stabilize the situation, this Eastern system will be impossible to talk about - at least it will greatly delay the success of the Ming Dynasty's Eastern System. It is equivalent to contradicting national policy.

According to a highly pragmatic calculation, the punishment that Hannaji or Tumet can accept against the Ordos Department is probably limited to the punishment of Boshuoketu himself. It should not be expanded too much, especially the strength of the Ordos Department should not be seriously damaged.

However, it is not impossible to do any work here. For example, Hannaji will definitely not oppose the suppression of Boshuo Ketu, and even as planned, use the position of deposed Boshuo Ketu Jinong. Intimidation greatly reduced Boshuoketu's prestige within Ordos - Gao pragmatic and Hannaji did not really plan to abolish him for the time being, because the current situation does not allow too much turmoil in Ordos.

But in any case, this is another matter, and it has nothing to do with Gao pragmatic solving the financial predicament of the Northwest.

As for the brothers Yanbai and Huoluochi, there is nothing to say on the other side of Yanbai, he must have finished everything and returned to the public, but after Chenbai recruited soldiers and horses, the original Ningxia government treasury did not know how much money was left, and I hoped from him. It is basically unreliable to make a fortune, and if you don’t lose too much, you are already Amitabha.

And brothers Huo Luochi... what kind of money can these two have?Even if the tribe is destroyed together, it is estimated that some cattle, sheep and horses can be obtained. Although this is also property, it must also consider the digestion ability of the northwest.Now that the Northwest is fighting, it is even more impossible for the people to spend money on cattle and sheep, and there are many horses that are not allowed to be purchased by the people, so even if everything goes well, it will be even more difficult to realize these things.

What's more, this matter may not be so smooth - Huo Luochi and Focus Rabbit are no better than Boshuoketu, these two are not impulsive young people, it is difficult for them to have the courage to think about arresting Gao Qishi, so the temptation is. The strategy of the enemy going deep, ambushing, encircling and annihilating is basically unfeasible.

If you can't lure the enemy to go deep, ambush and annihilate, then the Ming army really has no good way to deal with these tens of thousands of cavalry.With the bayonet array and the hot weapons far beyond the original historical level, if these two brothers come up with a hard bar, of course they are not afraid, but they are afraid that they will not come.

Qinghai is so big, if the two brothers turn around and run away when they see the situation is not good, even Gao Shishi can only stare blankly.If he dares to assemble all the Gao family cavalry deployed in the Ming Dynasty, and then cooperate with the cavalry troops in the Ming army, or he can persuade Tumet to send troops to assist, it does not mean that he cannot pursue in depth, but the problem is that he has no right now. this time.

His main mission in the northwest was to re-stabilize the situation in the northwest, not to pursue two Mongolian long-legged generals for thousands of miles, there is no doubt about this.

Therefore, Huo Luochi couldn't make any money here, and he had to find another way to stabilize the money needed to stabilize the northwest.

Just when Gao Wushi, the God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty, started to fight like a battle, the battle report came - Ilduqi immediately found out the situation and came to report the battle situation in person.

Gao Wushi was a little surprised, because Ilduqi had only two tasks in his plan, first to lure the enemy, and then once Boshuoketu successfully broke through, Ilduqi and Chataiji would join forces to pursue him. suppress.

Since he should go after him, shouldn't it be Ma Gui who completed the ambush but couldn't escape Boshuoketu?
However, Ilduzzi brought good news. The most successful possibility of the original battle plan appeared - Boshuoktu did not run away.

After being surrounded, due to the sudden appearance of Tuotuo, the morale of the Ordos troops, who had been ambushed and stunned, collapsed directly. Boshuoketu himself lost confidence and eventually led his troops to surrender.

At the same time, Ilduzzi also brought another unexpected good news, which made Gao Wushi very happy, and even seemed to see the dawn of solving the financial problems of the Northwest.
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