Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1340 The Nancha Disturbance ([-])
The Gao family has a large number of armed servants, and after so many years, they have not only relied on the accumulation of qualifications to promote talents.In addition to the various wars in southern Xinjiang, the mountain bandits and horse killers in the Ming Dynasty and outside the customs, the Gao family's armed servants had a "military academy".

Of course, Gao Wu has always been cautious in such matters, and it is absolutely impossible for him to directly use a name such as "Military Academy" or "Jiangwutang".The "Military Academy" of the Gao family's armed servants is called the "Fresh Class for Protecting Merchants".

As for the name, the more inconspicuous or even humble the better, but in fact, this "Nursing Entrepreneur Training Class" is really more than a low-level "class". Every year, there are more than a thousand members of the Gao family who participate in the training of the Nursing Entrepreneur Training Class .

The training class for business protection is divided into two "classes", namely "studying class for business protection on land" and "study class for business protection at sea".

In addition, there is another type of special training class, which is the type of land and sea links, and the number of people is relatively small.Gao Pragmatic's original intention was to provide training like the Marine Corps Academy.However, since the current landing operations are actually not too many, as a result, most of the armed servants trained among them were sent to the inland river line for "training", and a small number of them were sent to southern Xinjiang as reserve talents.

Gao Yimin, who was originally assigned to Meng Gebulu and now reassigned to work under Cao Yu's command as an aide, graduated from the Wanli 13-year special training class, and his assessment results are quite excellent: first in the theoretical written test, second in war game deduction, and comprehensive actual combat drills First.

Originally, Gao Wushi sent him to Menggebulu instead of Nanjiang, because he considered that the location of Hada, where Menggebulu was located, was very important, and Menggebulu's own strength was relatively weak, so he specially selected him. The best military staff.

Who knows that the old saying is good, thin mud can't support the wall.Gao Yimin's suggestion was obviously correct, but Meng Gebulu just didn't listen to it, and the only time he listened to it, he chose a bad strategy.

You can still live if the sky does evil, but you can't live if you do evil yourself.When encountering such an "employer", Gao Yimin had no choice but to run away before Menggebulu was bound to be defeated.

Gao Yimin was very worried that the master would be furious because of this, and he would blame Menggebulu for his lack of staff because of his defeat, so he used his emergency liaison authority as an expatriate military staff officer and wrote a letter of apology in extremely humble words. The letter was sent to Gao Yushi.

But Gao Yushi is not an ignorant person. He knows that a strong Jurchen chieftain like Meng Gebulu, especially a guy who has not received any reliable education, expects him to know how to treat the existence of Gao Yimin. Can be a luxury.

To put it bluntly, the high-level officials of the kingdom in southern Xinjiang are much smarter than Menggebulu. At least they all know that the staff officers sent by Gao Yushi to their side—whether they are political staff or military staff—are all of them. People who can't be offended, their every word and deed depends on the faces of these staff officers.

To them, these people are equivalent to envoys of the emperor, all of them are "imperial envoys", how dare they offend?Also dare not disobey.People say they mean "suggestions", but in fact every word is an order.However, Meng Gebulu did not understand these things.

Of course, Gao Wu's authority in southern Xinjiang must be far greater than his authority in Liaodong, and the difference in strength is also great. This is another reason why Meng Gebulu did not regard Gao Yimin's suggestion as an order.

All in all, Gao Wushi didn't think that Gao Yimin was responsible for Menggebulu's defeat, so he still reused him.

It only took more than three days for the news of the six-hundred-mile urgency to reach Cao Yu's hands. After Cao Yu read Gao Yushi's handwritten letter, his expression was basically as usual. Jiang Ma Chengxun, Shenyang Guerrilla Qi Jin, etc., and other high-level and pragmatic "old subordinates" such as Zhang Wanbang, Pu Yuanyi, and his own younger brother Cao Jian.

Such a connection is not a military order, because the emperor's imperial decree has not yet arrived, and the mobilization of troops must be approved by Li Song, the governor of Liaodong, and even the approval of the military preparations everywhere, which is more troublesome.

However, since Gao Pragmatic's letter has arrived, Cao Yu of course knows that Shengyi must be on the way, and his private notice is just to let everyone make preparations in advance, so as not to delay the time when the time comes.

Gao Pragmatism limited the approximate number of troops he sent this time, and bluntly said that this battle is "more expensive than many", and asked him to carefully count the number of troops.

So Cao Yu thought about it, and he simply recruited [-] family members, and explicitly recruited Ma Chengxun's [-] Ma Jiada soldiers, Qi Jin's [-] Qi family troops, Zhang Wanbang and other generals, a total of [-] family members. There are ten thousand family members.

The remaining 1 people were also carefully selected from various guards, and they were all elites who could be pulled out to fight in the field in the defense zone east of Liaohe River.

Cao Yu felt that this kind of combat power was completely enough, because the servants were different from ordinary soldiers. The same number of servants could not only beat three times or even five times the ordinary guard soldiers, but they would not hesitate at all even in the face of Mongolian soldiers. It was able to force the Mongols to voluntarily withdraw when one thousand beats two thousand (the Mongols at this time were very unwilling to fight tough battles with large losses).

However, the family system that made Cao Yu confident like this actually has hidden worries, and Gao Wushi noticed it before he stepped down as Rongzheng Minister.This hidden worry is not to say that the current generals have already begun to show signs of disobeying orders-this is really not the case in the current 15 years of Wanli.

The hidden worry lies in the fact that Gao Wushi has discovered that the phenomenon of paying wages has also begun to appear in the establishment of the generals and servants-this is also the root cause of Gao Wushi's explicit request for Cao Yu to count the number of people carefully this time.

During the Jiajing period, the imperial court officially recognized the establishment of family members and assumed the responsibility of paying family members' salaries.Generally speaking, householders can eat double food. For example, when the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers is two cents and five cents, householders can "eat double grain and five cents".In the 15th year of Wanli in history, the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers increased to four qian, and the monthly salary of servants rose to nine qian.In the middle and later period of Wanli, the monthly salary of servants increased to one tael, one cent and five cents, and the treatment was not unreasonable.

What's more, because of the butterfly wings of Gao Pragmatism, the trade circulation in the north has been greatly strengthened compared with the same period in history, which indirectly led to a slight drop in prices. It also slightly improved the deflation among the people.

So up to now, the food and salaries of the generals of the frontier army have reached the level of one or two yuan in advance (only referring to the court salary, not including other benefits, subsidies issued by the generals themselves, and "dividends" of spoils of war, etc.).

Since the reform of the military system is still only in its infancy, and the court's finances have been tight to be honest, the overall situation of the court's relying on family members to fight has not fundamentally improved.As a result, thousands of family members were often mobilized in previous large-scale battles.

For example, Li Rusong brought thousands of Liaodong servants to join the battle in the Northwest rebellion, and it was precisely because of this that he dared to directly launch the attack when his foothold was not stable, and opened the curtain of a big victory.

The situation in the original history was even worse than it is now, and the dependence on servants was even more serious. For example, in order to deal with the rising Manchu forces, a large number of servants gathered in Liaodong.

In later wars such as Sarhu, the imperial court often ordered the generals to "let them lead the generals who are accustomed to war, and bring their family members with thousands or hundreds of plans."Calculated in this way, plus the family members of the generals in the Liaodong area, the Ming Dynasty may have assembled tens of thousands of family members to fight at most.

So here comes the question, if the fighting power of the Jiading at this time is still the same as that of Ma Fang's Majia cavalry, Liu Xian's surrender to the Japanese barbarians, or even the Liaodong Army in Li Chengliang's heyday, then the Ming Dynasty with so many elite soldiers, Why can't I still beat Houjin?It doesn't make sense!
Gao Yushi believes that from the point of view of a servant, this servant is no longer that servant.

In the middle and early stages of the family's development, due to the informal establishment, the family's salary was almost entirely borne by the generals themselves, and the generals had no room for empty pay, let alone such a need.Under such circumstances, the selection of servants is naturally extremely strict. After all, no general is willing to cheat himself on the battlefield.So at this time, the servant's combat effectiveness is really strong, and the winning rate is really high.

The servants of this period, such as Majia cavalry, Majiada soldiers, Jiangwoyi Ding, etc., as long as their generals feel that the battle must be fought and let them fight, let alone one fight two or one fight three, it is counted as one fight Five records can be found everywhere.For example, when Liu Xian suppressed the rebellion in the mainland, because his opponents were much weaker than the Mongolian and Japanese pirates, it was not uncommon for him to fight against ten.

But in the middle and late period, the imperial court officially recognized the state establishment of servants, and all kinds of things about eating empty wages began to appear among servants.Although the imperial court has not conducted an investigation, Gao Wushi had heard Liang Menglong and three servants and his colleagues check the numbers at the "Five Hall Officials Meeting" of the Ministry of War, and found that there were nearly 20 patriarchs across the country at this time.

how can that be!

Gao Yushi had personally commanded the armies of Xuanda and Jiliao towns, which had the largest military strength, and he could almost tell exactly how many families the generals in these towns had.As far as the seven towns of the "Seven Towns Strategy" he was famous for a while are concerned, the number of family members of the main generals will definitely not exceed one hundred thousand.

But the problem is that they have nearly 15 servants recorded in the Ministry of War.

One-third of the vacancies for servants are already filled!
The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant's nest. It is reminiscent of the original history when it was near the end of the Ming Dynasty. Famous invasion of wages".

For example, an investigation report in the 37th year of Wanli showed that "Dong Yiyuan, the chief soldier, paid more by abolishing the rank, and more than 770 members of each family took over."

What is the nature of this?There are nearly ten thousand servants, all of whom are unqualified. It can be seen that the quality of servants at this time has not been as good as before.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Xiong Tingbi came to an even worse and pessimistic conclusion after investigation. .

The reason why Gao Yushi said in private that the cost of firearms, clothing and food can be "opened up" in this battle to rescue Yehe and fight against Tumen in Beiguan, and also personally wrote to ask Cao Yu to count the personnel carefully and not to impersonate, It is out of such concerns.

Now Gao Pragmatism's only tangled point is whether to keep the servant system.If it is retained, how can it be reformed to maintain its excellent combat effectiveness and will not be paid; and if it is abolished, how to ensure that other troops can be used and that the generals of the towns will not strongly oppose or even resist.

This matter has not only national-level strategic security factors, but also various concerns about ensuring the stability of the rule.Even though Gao Pragmatism can influence the Ministry of War through factional factors and influence the Holy Will through his personal relationship with the emperor, he himself is in a dilemma.

Soldiers, the country's major events, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must be observed.

But...you can't act recklessly, if you accidentally make Wang Mang change the system, what should you do?
Not to mention Gao Pragmatic's worries, but said that the next afternoon when Cao Yu sent people to notify the generals in various places to prepare for dispatching troops in advance, the imperial decree and the Ministry of War orders arrived.Li Song, governor of the Liao Dynasty, invited Cao Yu to enter the Fuyuan for discussion-in fact, it was not a big deal. The imperial decree said that Li Song was asked to effectively dispatch food, grass and military resources, and "plan the overall situation in northern Liaoning", while Cao Yu was directly responsible for related operations.

There is no clear statement on "related operations" in the imperial decree, but it is in the Ministry of War's order.Cao Yu looked at the Fuyuan, and sure enough, what the Ministry of War said was basically consistent with Gao Yushi's requirements, and it was even just a simplified version of Gao Yushi's personal letter, which was nothing more than some clichés.

In addition, another sentence was mentioned in the Ministry of War order: Zhou Yong, governor of Jiliao, is about to come to inspect the defense of Liaodong, and this matter "has nothing to do with the general, so there is no need to delay the opportunity of the war."

The general is Cao Yu. The words of the Ministry of War mean: Zhou Zhitai is coming, but you don't have to worry about it, just fight.

The problem is that Zhou Yong can't fly, and when he comes to Liaodong, Cao Yu must have already set out to fight, so he can't control it if he wants to?
This sentence is obviously implied, and Gao Situ did not mention it in the letter.Cao Yu didn't realize until he was going out that Zhou Zhitai probably had nothing else to do here, and the inspection of Liaodong's defense was just an excuse. His real purpose was only one: to suppress Li Song.

Cao Yu took a deep breath, a little moved.

He knew that it was definitely not because of how much face he, Mr. Cao, was able to let Zhou Yong, the master of Taiwan, go to Liaodong in person. The person with this face is Gao Situ, and only Gao Situ would care about him, Mr. Cao Will it be held back by others?

This battle, no matter how hard I fight, I have to win for Gao Situ!

Cao Yu, who had made up his mind, moved faster. He ordered troops himself, and set off with [-] troops the next day, including [-] family members and [-] elite guards.

In less than two days, Cao Yu joined Shenyang guerrilla general Qi Jin in Shenyang.Qi Jin selected [-] Qi's troops and [-] elite guards from Shenyang, and went north to Kaiyuan with Cao Yu.

At the same time, Ma Chengxun on the Kaiyuan side is also making military preparations. He not only needs to select elites, but also inspect various armaments—the base camp for this expedition is Kaiyuan, and most of the materials needed come directly from Kaiyuan. Allotment, only a small part needs to be transshipped from Liaoyang.

Other generals such as Zhang Wanbang and Pu Yuanyi were also on their way to Kaiyuan.

An early winter battle is about to begin.
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