Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 129 Factional Dispute (Part [-])
Speaking of which, Gao Yushi himself is a little suspicious. It may be a habit developed in his previous life. After all, he has been in the system and is used to seeing people who are different in person, so he will not trust anyone easily.

In his view, the so-called loyalty is nothing more than the price of betrayal is too high.Only in rare cases, some people have developed a loyal mentality, but such people must be very few.

Gao Pragmatism doesn't feel that the current self has the conditions to make people unconditionally loyal, so he would rather make all "loyalty" directly linked to benefits and costs, rather than relying on the other party's conscience to find out.

And the reason why he specifically mentioned selecting a group of guards from Bailixia just now, there are actually two reasons:

One is to let any faction around him see the hope of winning the "competition for favor", so that they can spend their minds on pleasing their own master, instead of trying to escape their own control.

The second is to cultivate one's own cavalry team. After all, this era is still the era of switching from cold weapons to hot weapons. There is no war killer such as the Maxim machine gun that will directly eliminate cavalry, so cavalry must be there.

What's more, Ming's main combat targets, at least for the time being, are mainly Mongolia or the Tunguska wild boar skins a little further away. The cavalry of these two companies are superior troops. After the development of firearms, some tactical advantages have been obtained, but no matter how you have tactical advantages, the movement and raid capabilities of cavalry are always there.Whether it's Qi Jiguang's chariot formation, or the hollow phalanx of lobster soldiers that made the "Eight Banners Elite" suffer enough in later generations, they are essentially defensive counterattacks, which is an obvious way of positional warfare. Fight with you.

In addition, since Bailixia's own strength has far exceeded Gao Yushi's previous expectations, he must also make some adjustments in thinking about Bailixia.

Originally, Gao Yushi only intended to regard Bailixia as a "trading company" for trade with Mongolia. Although he knew that there were nearly a thousand thieves or nearly a thousand cavalry in Bailixia, at first Gao Yushi only regarded them as horsemen. Escort, with the nature of a grassland transport team.

But when Gao Wushi discovered that Bailixia had accumulated such wealth and strategic resources, he had the idea of ​​using Bailixia to a greater extent.Maybe it could become the cradle of cavalry training in the future.

Helping Bailixia to open the Datong trade route is not a high-level nonsense, Xuandasu is one, but Bailixia was limited by its status at the beginning, and only found a foreign trade opening in Xuanfu.That was based on the fact that Ma Fang, a very rare general in Ming Dynasty who insisted on "riding by riding", had too much demand for horses, and official transactions were not allowed.

But Daming is always a country that lacks horses, and the gap is not easy to calculate for Gao Pragmatism. If Datong Town, which is close to Gaogong, can quietly open such an opening, not only will the business of Bailixia be improved, Wouldn't the transition from economic penetration to economic control and from economic control to political control that I advocated for Mongolia take another step forward?
Of course, this matter cannot rely solely on Gao Gong's face, it's not that Gao Gong's face is not enough - as long as Emperor Longqing is still in power, Gao Wushi believes that Gao Gong's face is good enough in a mere Datong Town.

But still the same sentence, loyalty without interests must be unstable.Today, you are an old man with power all over the world and critics all over the world. If I don’t listen to you, I might die a miserable death. Then of course I am loyal, maybe a hundred times more loyal than your watchdog.But I can't get any benefits from you. You sat on the table and ate meat. I worked hard to help you but didn't even get a bite of the soup. Can I be convinced?When the situation changes in the future, can I come out and bite back?
If you pay, you must get something in return. They are not your parents, so why should you expect them to work for you without asking for something in return?

So Gao Wushi confessed to Cao Gan again: "You have to remember, although I will find ways to contact you in Datong, whether it is the governor of Xuanda Wang Jianchuan, or the general soldier of Datong Zhao Ke, I will help you to contact, but you must Remember to leave a share for them... I don't know if you have left some money for the specific people who dealt with it in addition to leaving a benefit for the frontier army in the Xuanfu, but in the future, these money must be spent De: We ate meat, we must leave soup for others, if we eat alone, there will be accidents, understand?"

Who knew that Cao Gan said with a smile, "Don't worry, young master, I understand these business matters." But he frowned again, and asked tentatively: "But there is one thing that must be told to young master, Governor Wang Chonggu and Yan Sui The two chief soldiers, Zhao Ke, were originally transferred from Shaanxi, and the younger one had never dealt with them at all before. If the young master wants the young one to wait for others to open up the Datong trade route, besides the young master, you should inform them in advance, and you should also You need to leave two famous cards for the young one, otherwise you might not be able to see them as the young one."

Gao Wushi nodded and said, "This is easy. After I return to Beijing, I will contact them first, and then I will naturally write two greeting cards and hand them over to you as the door opener."

Wang Chonggu was only transferred from Shaanxi Trilateral Governor-General to Xuanda Governor-General this year. Gao Pragmatic not only knows about this, but also knows what accidents may have occurred here: because historically, Wang Chonggu seems to have been transferred in April this year, but Now, he was transferred three months earlier. When Gao Yushi heard the news, he still doubted that something had gone wrong in history.

The three major positions in Shaanxi, Xuanda, and Jiliao can be said to be a gathering of famous ministers and generals during the Longqing period. Gao Yushi sometimes even wondered whether the ability of Emperor Longqing was seriously underestimated by later scholars. Leaving aside other things for the time being, just this ability to employ people can be called a Mingjun level.

Let’s not mention Shaanxi is a little further away, let’s see what kind of people are there in Xuanda and Jiliao:
Governor Wang Chonggu of Xuanda, under the command of Ma Fang, the general of the Xuanfu, and Zhao Ke, the general of Datong; Tan Lun, the governor of Jiliao, Qi Jiguang, the general of Jizhen under his command, Wang Zhidao, the general of Liaodong, and Li Chengliang, the deputy commander.

Here, Wang Chonggu and Tan Lun are typical "military civil servants", and they have been in war for a long time, and their ability to command troops is needless to say; while Ma Fang, Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, etc., are all famous in later generations, and their military exploits can be used for military affairs. They testify.

Historically, Wang Zhidao died in battle this year. He was too pragmatic to intervene in this matter, and he had no interest in intervening.His main concern was Zhao Ke, the commander-in-chief of Datong.

Zhao Ke was not well-known in later generations, and he was not even biographyed separately in the history books. At first glance, he should be a side general with average ability.But Gao Wushi remembered that when he read Mu Zong's book, there was a sentence in it: In the third year of spring and the first month of Renzi, Zhao Ke, the commander-in-chief of Datong, defeated me and answered in Hongci Fort.

In this year, the power of Ida can be said to be unmatched for a while. There are many people in the Ming army who turn around and leave when they see the flag of Ida.It's Qi Jiguang, Ma Fang and other ostentatious people who dare to hear that I'm here, and go to work without saying a word.

And this Zhao Ke, who was able to defeat me in Hongci Fort, no matter how you say it, he should be someone with some ability under his command.

(End of this chapter)