Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1462 Changes in Southern Border ([-])
On the way back to Baiyulou, Gao Wushi was still thinking about the agreement he had just made with Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong.According to the principled opinion reached just now, this expedition to Luzon will still be led by Jinghua, and each of the nobles will be [-] to [-] monks.

Generally speaking, in terms of sea power, the three major states each have five armed transport ships, three for the princes, and two for the uncles.Don't think that this power is very small. The nobles who stayed in the capital in the Ming Dynasty included the Duke of the Three Kingdoms, the Thirteen Marquis (including foreign relatives, and the 21st uncle (including foreign relatives, but not including Li Chengliang).

That is to say, according to this standard, there are as many as 96 armed transport ships and more than 2600 ship-mounted artillery ships in the honorable part of the fleet for this expedition to Luzon.

Although these armed transport ships were originally armed according to the standards for dealing with pirates, so that there are only 28 heavy artillery pieces out of the 8 artillery pieces on a single ship.In fact, the remaining 20 light guns are difficult to participate in long-range bombardment, and can only be used for defense against pirates' jumping gangs.However, even if calculated according to the firepower of each ship with 8 guns, this time the nobles shot 768 heavy guns, which is completely powerful in East Asia and Southeast Asia where the sea power is relatively vacant.

It may not be intuitive enough to say this alone, so it is better to give a comparison: this year the Spanish Armada expedition to England, and its fleet is equipped with only more than 3000 heavy artillery pieces. (Note: However, this is related to the combat thinking of the Spanish navy at this time. Because of their strong army, their naval combat thinking is still more focused on jumping from side to side at this time, rather than the fleet artillery battle that gradually became the mainstream later on. No line artillery battles.)
Gao Pragmatism intends to let the Jinghua Beiyang Fleet dispatch 54 warships of all levels to make up 150 warships for the entire expedition fleet. Will go together.

150 armed ships, judging from the number of such ships alone, this expeditionary fleet is almost equivalent to the size of the Spanish Armada.But unfortunately, this is only the number of ships. If it is compared with the total tonnage of the fleet, it is obviously far behind.

The Spanish Armada dispatched almost all large ships, not to mention the Spanish Galen ships as the core main force, even Calais galleys and the like, are all serious warships, regardless of the materials they are made of, the weapons they are equipped with, even Even the number of sailors on a single ship is more than one level higher than this batch of Jinghua-style armed transport ships.

In fact, if you only look at the combat effectiveness of a single ship on paper, only the five pure warships of the Beiyang Fleet in the expeditionary fleet can compete with the Spanish warships in Manila.Therefore, the sea tactics of this expedition can basically be summed up in one sentence: more ants kill elephants.

According to the intelligence of the previous years, the Spanish fleet in Manila is not weak. Sometimes there are more than [-] galleons or large galleons, and sometimes there are as many as twelve ships.

But that was before after all. Since this year is the time point when Philip II will go on an expedition to England, it is presumed that some of the military Galen warships in Manila should have been transferred back to the mainland and incorporated into the Armada.

In this case, on the premise that the expedition fleet also has five regular warships, plus a large number of armed transport ships, it is possible to fight a sea encirclement and annihilation battle.

If the secrecy work is done well enough, the Spanish fleet in Manila may even be directly blocked in the port, then the advantage of the expeditionary fleet will be even more obvious-the number of fleets far exceeds the opponent's fleet blocked outside the port, unless the Spaniards The fleet can be transformed into a submarine, otherwise it would be impossible to rush out.

Gao Yushi's motorcade hadn't returned to the Baiyulou courtyard when suddenly someone came to see him.Gao Mo stopped the convoy, went up to ask questions in person, then immediately returned to Gao Yushi's car, and reported outside the car window: "Master, urgent report from Southern Xinjiang!"

Gao Wushi heard his voice was a little strange, he couldn't help but feel moved, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Gao Mo outside seemed to take a deep breath, then coughed lightly, and replied: "Madam urgent report: King Nuojiao Gumeng of Nanzhang suddenly became a monk, Young Master Huang Yinglei urged Princess Nanzhang to compete with you without reporting it." Yajue announced the regency. Now the two have gone to Vientiane, the capital of the southern state, and the accompanying Huang Jialang soldiers even fought with the Vientiane garrison..."

Gao Wushi frowned and asked, "How was the result of the battle?"

"The Vientiane garrison itself is the weakest of the garrison troops in southern Xinjiang, and many of them were originally from the Royal Forest Army when Princess Bijuechang was in charge, and these so-called Royal Forest Army were from the uprising when she led the uprising." The old department." Gao Mo was obviously smiling wryly.

After a pause, he continued: "Although it has been reorganized for several years, there are still many people in the garrison who are unwilling to fight against Princess Biyajue. In addition, some people are worried about Huang Yinglei's identity, so after a brief exchange of fire, The garrison has withdrawn from Vientiane and is stationed in the small town of Ban Yi Lai not far northwest of Vientiane, waiting for orders."

The performance of the Vientiane garrison obviously did not meet Gao Yushi's expectations, but Gao Yushi did not express his position immediately, but began to think about it.

In fact, the root cause of this incident may have to start with the division of territory after Cambodia was pacified.At that time, Gao Yushi had decided to regard Dingnan City, which was under construction by Siam, as the core of southern Xinjiang in the future, which meant that Siam's power needed to be strengthened, so Huang Zhiting, who was in charge of Dingnan City as her husband, made a plan to carve up.

First of all, Siam took away half of the country in the west of Cambodia, that is, it directly strengthened Siam.Secondly, Annan delineated the territory along the southeast coast of Cambodia, roughly equivalent to the part captured by Vietnam later.

This is also understandable, because Annan is the foundation of Jinghua in southern Xinjiang, and the southern part of Annan has always been directly controlled by Jinghua. This part is assigned to Annan, which is actually directly assigned to Jinghua.

Gao Wushi has been thinking about the Mekong Delta for a long time, Huang Zhiting is of course very clear, so her plan is to let Jinghua directly acquire this part of the area.

The most amazing thing at that time was that Huang Zhiting assigned Nan Zhangguo to the northeastern corner of Cambodia, and Huang Zhiting did not explain the reason when reporting to the high affairs.

Although judging from the map, the part of the land that Nanzhang took away is not large, at most no more than one-fifth of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and it is still the land of the Boluoven Plateau in the northeast, relatively speaking, it is not very rich and suitable for development.But you must know that Nan Zhangguo did not exert any strength in the war against Cambodia, and there is obviously something weird about it.

Gao Wushi thought for a while before he understood Huang Zhiting's intention: this land was for Huang Yinglei to move the town.

In other words, she hoped that Gao Yushi would transfer Huang Yinglei from northern Annan earlier, and transfer him to the territory assigned to Nanzhang from Cambodia.

At the time, Gao Yushi felt that it was not impossible to do so. It was [-]% beneficial and [-]% disadvantageous.The advantages are mainly two points: one is that Huang Yinglei can be separated from the rest of the Guangxi chieftains, cutting off the way to continue to connect;

The second is that Princess Bijue can "return to Nanzhang" again, which is beneficial to Nanzhang's stability and to contain her younger brother. Being separated will in turn make Jinghua's position more stable.

However, Gao Wushi also anticipated another possibility at the time, that is, doing so would also lead to a new promotion of Huang Yinglei's status, not only that the ruling area was twice as large as that in Annan, but also could use the fame of Princess Bijue to fight against Huang Yinglei. Nanzhang Kingdom has some influence.

This improvement is neither big nor small.If Jinghua only controls one South China, then Gao Wushi will definitely not agree to do so, but Jinghua has actually controlled almost the entire Indochina Peninsula, Gao Wushi thinks that this situation is not too bad, at least things are still under control .

Because Gao Wushi discovered at that time that according to Huang Zhiting's plan, although Huang Yinglei's strength has been strengthened, his geographical location is actually not conducive to him "making troubles".

In this position, there is the Vientiane garrison in the north, the Golden Port garrison in the east, and the Phnom Penh garrison in the south—surrounded by the three major garrison forces, Huang Yinglei, even if he has great skills, cannot find the palm of Dingnan.

At that time, Gao Wushi only felt that Huang Zhiting was really not easy. As a sister, although she knew that Huang Yinglei was stubborn, she still wanted to give her younger brother a higher status and more territories.But at the same time, as a highly pragmatic wife, she did everything possible to limit the ambitions of this restless younger brother.

But now it seems that Huang Yinglei is indeed too muddy to support the wall.No matter whether he couldn't restrain his ambition, couldn't understand his sister's painstaking efforts at all, or even didn't understand that Gao Wushi's brother-in-law had already put a magic spell on him.

Judging from the urgent report just now, this guy heard about Nuojiao Gumeng becoming a monk in his own fief, and then immediately asked his wife, Princess Bijue, to announce the regent of Nanzhang, and at the same time took his wife to go north together Going to Vientiane, the intention is to be the regent of Nanzhang behind the scenes—Princess Bijue Princess has no ambitions for power, which Gao Yushi has long known.

However, Gao Wuzhen was still a little dissatisfied, and asked, "The Vientiane Garrison has been reorganized for so long, but when it comes to a critical moment, it loses its chain. What's the matter?"

Gao Mo sighed outside the car, and said with a wry smile: "The reorganization itself is actually not a big problem. If Princess Biyajue hadn't gone, the Vientiane Guard Army would still be honest. And the problem now is not just Biyajue. The eldest princess is gone, and Mr. Huang Yinglei is also going, which is very troublesome, because...Master, Mo Yulin is from Annan after all."

Gao Mo obviously didn't finish his sentence, but after he reminded him, Gao Wushi immediately understood.

Mo Yulin is Annan's general. Although he actually serves as the commander of the Vientiane Garrison in Jinghua, his official position in Annan is still retained. In name, he is still Annan's general.

Huang Zhiting's nominal official position is Annan's deputy capital envoy, and Mo Yulin's direct superior. At the same time, Huang Zhiting is Gao Yushi's wife, and sits in southern Xinjiang on Gao Yushi's behalf.Under such circumstances, when Mo Yulin faced Huang Yinglei and Biyajue suddenly, he definitely didn't know whether he should fight or not.

Although Southern Xinjiang is still ruled by each kingdom in name, in fact, it has been regarded as a highly pragmatic "family world" within the Jinghua system.Mo Yulin is also a member of Jinghua now, and he has to consider this, so...if he offends his wife after the fight, and this lady is still a "student in southern Xinjiang", then how will he mess around in the future?
[Note: After staying, the acting titles set when the Jiedushi and Observation Envoys of the Tang Dynasty were absent.In the late Tang Dynasty, if the Jiedushi of a certain town was overthrown internally, the newly elected Jiedushi would often claim to be Liuhou before he was appointed by the imperial court, and the Tang court would generally ratify it. ]
Now he retreats after resisting casually, but he doesn't retreat too far, and there is no loss of troops. Even if he is dissatisfied with pragmatism, he won't directly push him to the end, so there is room for maneuver.

From now on, he only needs to wait for the order. If Gao Wushi says to fight, then he will fight back;I didn't offend my wife because of this, at most I was criticized, it was the best of both worlds.

Gao Yushi snorted coldly in his heart: bureaucracy is really everywhere.

I thought so, but he really wouldn't be too angry.What's wrong with bureaucracy, he is highly pragmatic and he also has bureaucratic atmosphere.

Being in the officialdom, without bureaucratic atmosphere means that everyone will regard you as a different kind, and there will be no other end except death.Just now they used bureaucratic methods to solve Li Rusong's problem, but now they don't need to be arrogant.

But the key now is not the question of doctrine, the question is how to solve this matter.Nuojiao Gumeng suddenly announced that he became a monk. This matter must be very strange in Ming Dynasty, but it is actually not uncommon in countries in southern Xinjiang.

Like Nanzhang and Siam, the kings of these countries sometimes become monks for no reason.After all, Theravada Buddhism is popular in those places, and Buddhism has a great influence on the kingship of various countries.Many kings believe in Buddhism, and sometimes feel that practicing Buddhism is much better than being a king.

Moreover, Gao Yushi still has some doubts. Apart from his dedication to Buddha, Nuojiao Gumeng may also feel that Jinghua is in charge of the power anyway. He is just a king with a radish stamp. what.

Originally, Gao Shishi was wary of him. He agreed to Huang Zhiting's plan to arrange Huang Yinglei and Biajue's couple in northeast Cambodia. He also used Biyajue to warn Nuojiao Gumeng that if you are not obedient, your sister will immediately can replace you.

But now that Nuojiao Gumeng has really become a monk, Gao Pragmatism is a bit embarrassing.Because the current Biajue is different from before, she is arranged to marry Huang Yinglei, and now that Huang Yinglei has caused an accident, he will definitely be held accountable afterwards, how can Gao Wushi rest assured that Biajue will be named as the regent of Nanzhaoguo?
As for the queen, there is no need to think about it, and Nanzhang Kingdom does not have this tradition.In history, Nuojiaogumeng loved Buddhism. After his death, he had no sons and no heirs. The nobles of Nanzhang supported his father Setattila's son-in-law Fulawangsa as the regent, and assisted his son Opanovara—here Fulawang Sa is the husband of the eldest princess.

The son can be the king, but the eldest princess herself has no chance with the queen, which shows the tradition of Nanzhang.

Gao Wushi pondered for a while, and asked: "Since it is an urgent report from Madam, does she have any suggestions for this?"
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