Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1681

Napoleon once said: "Never do what your enemy wants you to do. The reason is very simple, because the enemy wants you to do it." But Burihatu understands this truth without Napoleon's instructions.

Since he judged that Gao Yushi wanted him to think that he was in a hurry, it meant that he could not use the premise of "Gao Rixin is very urgent" to guide his actions.However, for Gao Pragmatic's ultimate intention, Brihatu is really still a little confused at the moment.

The two sides on the battlefield do not see each other at a glance, otherwise the art of war would not regard "knowing yourself and the enemy" as a prerequisite for winning every battle.

There have been almost no large-scale battles in this battle until now, but there have been several confrontations between you and me, and nearly two months have passed, so it is hard to say that there are no weird things.Just as Gao Yushi's judgment on Chahar's strategic intentions is still uncertain, Brihatu now has some doubts about Gao Yushi.

In fact, compared with the strategy of nomadic tribes, it is difficult to judge. The strategic intentions of farming nations for foreign wars are very obvious, and generally speaking, it is unlikely that there will be any obvious changes.Of course Brihatu knew this, so his previous plans were executed well, especially the move of the golden cicada's escape, which was the biggest tactical victory since Chahar and Gao Yushi fought.

The incident that stirred up the situation in the Northwest before was also regarded as the opening king bomb for Brihatu.However, because after Gao Pragmatic's intervention, the situation in the northwest was quickly reversed by Daming, so Brihatu did not succeed in everything, and the whole thing seemed a bit anticlimactic and regrettable.

Of course, that operation gave Chahar at least one year of preparation for the challenge, which is recognized by the Chahar Khan Court and is also an important basis for Burhatu's current status.From this perspective, Brihatu's efforts are not in vain.

But in any case, messing up other families is not as good as turning the tide for one's own family.Tumen's entrustment of the Nine-White Banner to Brihatu outside Shacheng happened just after the golden cicada's plan to escape the shell was successful, and the reason for it is self-evident.

Since then, he has taken the initiative to invite Ying to come to Buyantaiji's side. This is not only a statement to Tumen, Buyan and his son, but also means that he has to assume greater and more direct responsibilities.He will no longer be just a nominal ruling and actual military adviser, but a future Mongolian grand master who has the "custodianship" of Buyan Taiji to some extent.

In other words, this time Buyantaiji came from a division of troops. In name, Buyantaiji is the coach, but in fact it is Brihatu who really speaks.This arrangement is somewhat similar to the fact that during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the prince was often used as the head of the march, but the actual person in charge was the deputy head of the march next to the prince.

Since it was the first time that he directly controlled the military power in Chahar, and he was facing a formidable and difficult opponent such as Gao Yushi, the "No. A possible danger is prevented before it happens.

Unlike Gao Yushi's self-examination, in Brihatu's eyes, Gao Yushi's advantages at this moment are completely overwhelming.The 60 army in his hands is undoubtedly the most elite field army of Ming Dynasty, accounting for at least five or four (four fifths) of the total troops of Ming Dynasty who completed the previous round of military reform and underwent reequipment.

Although Burhhatu predicted that the 60 troops going out of the fortress would not last for a long time, not only because of the cold winter in Mongolia, but also because of the high military expenditure of the Ming army.

Burhatu admitted that the ability of high-level pragmatism to manage money for the country is indeed unprecedented, but in any case it is impossible to maintain an army of up to 60 people to maintain a state of war abroad for a long time.In addition to the normal expenses of grain and grass and huge transportation losses, there is another simple reason that is "military pay during wartime".

The military pay of the army in war has never been different from that in peacetime, and when sending troops to fight abroad, they have to pay according to the highest standard.How much does war cost?In the "Three Great Expeditions of Wanli" in the original history, although the number of troops sent by the Ming army was not large, the battle to aid the dynasty alone cost 700 million taels, and the battle of Ningxia cost 200 million taels, all of which were in the early Ming Dynasty Unimaginable expense.

But even if the three major Wanli expeditions in history were tied together, there were not as many people as this high-level military dispatch.Even though he has historically fought wars relatively quickly and seldom dragged on for years, it is conceivable that the cost of dispatching such a huge force may be tens of millions.

Of course, since a lot of military supplies have been hoarded and put away slowly over the past few years, it does not mean that the Ministry of Accounts has to spend the tens of millions of taels of silver at once. .

However, Brihatu didn't fully understand the high-practical financial means, and he didn't understand some things either.In addition to "advance installment", in fact, there is also a "pay first and then settle" installment payment - Ming Fed Small Bank Notes.

After Gao Pragmatically collected financial power and established the Department of Large Households, he had persuaded the imperial court to agree that the whole world could use these small-amount banknotes of the Ming Fed to pay taxes. Therefore, the small-value bank notes of the Ming Fed actually have the function of legal paper currency.

Moreover, this banknote is not the "anchor-free currency" that gradually evolved from the global currency after the disintegration of the Bretton Woods system in later generations.Ming Fed’s small-value banknotes have an anchor currency, which is anchored in silver—you can exchange them for Kuping silver at face value if you take a small-value banknote to Ming’s Federal Reserve Bank.

When the country's sovereign credit has not reached the level of later generations, only the reputation of this kind of anchor currency can be guaranteed, avoiding the trend of the original Ming Dynasty's precious banknotes depreciating all the way until they become waste paper.

Since the banknote itself has value, it also has the property of reserve.This means: since the credibility of the banknotes is guaranteed, I can directly keep the banknotes with me as savings for a rainy day, or deposit them in a bank. In short, I can spend them immediately without getting them.

In this way, assuming that Gao Yushi issued 500 million taels of small bank notes for this battle as the military pay of the troops participating in the war, half of the face value of which was stored, then the impact on the market would only be 250 taels. Ten thousand taels, which is acceptable, even if it causes a certain degree of inflation, the intensity is relatively limited.

Even if the remaining 250 million taels will be released slowly, it will no longer have any impact on a huge market like Daming. Therefore, the time and scale will directly dissipate the economic impact of this war, and the country will not be affected by it. What a turmoil.

Even to a certain extent, if the money is distributed, for example, 250 million taels will enter the market, it will also have a positive effect on economic development-you, a soldier who comes back from the war and has money, will naturally spend it. Then the person who sells things makes money.Either they buy other things too, or they continue to invest, expand production or trade, and in the end all contribute to economic prosperity.In the north, where the commercial tax has already been established, the economic prosperity means that the imperial court can recover part of it.

The above is easy to understand for people of later generations, but it is not so easy for "ancient people", even smart people like Brihatu.After all, a long-standing thinking deviation in ancient society is to regard "world wealth" as a constant value. If it is in the hands of the court, the people will be embarrassed, and if it is in the hands of the people, the court will be embarrassed.This is also the basis of the so-called "do not compete with the people for profit".

Of course Gao Yushi does not believe in such backward thinking.Wealth is something created. In this era, there is no ghost called "world financial capital class" in the world, so the lack of wealth only means insufficient production and insufficient trade. The solution is to increase production and increase trade. ,that is it.

Daming's current production must be increasing year by year, and trade is also gradually increasing, so a certain amount of inflation is actually beneficial.The really bad thing is that deflation occurs like in the original history, that is, the so-called money shortage, which will instead lead to underemployment and shrinking trade, and then force some people to go to the doctor in a hurry, violate the law and go to fight with Mongolia and Jurchen. Some transactions are strictly prohibited.

So in the final analysis, Brihatu thought that the high-practical urgency was likely to come from financial pressure rather than military pressure, which was actually a miscalculation.

On the contrary, the highly pragmatic "urgency" really comes more from military pressure.This pressure is largely due to his high demands on the political goals that need to be achieved in this battle - to completely eliminate the remnants of Yuan, to ensure the long-term stability of the northern frontier and to become a military horse farm for Ming Dynasty, so as to deal with the coming Tsarist Russia in the future East expansion.

The early main forces of the eastward expansion of Tsarist Russia have always been the Cossacks, which has led to a great increase in Gao Pragmatism's attention to cavalry.When he found out that the cavalry company of the Ming Dynasty could not kill the Mongols who had been blocked for 200 years, he naturally thought about what would happen when they faced the Cossacks in the future-then they must not be hanged?

Because of the nature of his work in his previous life, Gao Yushi, a Soviet writer Sholokhov, had read "The Quiet River on the Don" carefully. The heroic image of the protagonist Gregory was as deeply carved in Gao Yushi's mind as a saber.

This book mainly writes about the history of the Don River Cossacks in Russia in the first 20s of the [-]th century. The author uses his wonderful pen to vividly depict the magnificent historical picture of wars during this period.In fact, the real Cossack history is probably more colorful than literary works.

From Gao Pragmatism's point of view, they were born for the war of this era.A history of the Cossacks is most of the history of Russia.Since the day they were born, they have been entrusted with the important task of expanding the territory of Tsarist Russia, so that more than half of Russia's territory in later generations was actually conquered by them for the Tsar's little father at that time.

Gao Yushi still has some confusion about the future direction of Ming Dynasty, or the future direction of Chinese civilization, but the expansion of Ming Dynasty from the north to the west by land is basically his main idea.

Since it is going north to west, conquering and assimilating Mongolia is just the first step. The main "BOSS" in the later period must be Tsarist Russia and the Cossacks.If you can't beat the Cossacks, no matter what the long-term plan is, you are doomed to fail.

Many people in later generations did not have a deep understanding of the Cossacks, and probably only had a few labeled images in their minds: fierce, saber, Don horse; manic, good wine, and stupid fighting.

Some of the previous labels for Cossacks are not bad, the only strange thing is "combat stupid".It seems that when it comes to Cossacks, one can only think of [-] Cossacks during the Russo-Japanese War, which could not take down a mere [-] Japanese soldiers.

But the fact is that the responsibility lies mainly in the commander being too stupid, and the art of commanding has not kept up with the times at all!Take a look at the status and record of the Cossack cavalry in the Soviet army at the beginning of the establishment of Soviet Russia.That was the existence of the guards in the Soviet cavalry, so that the Soviet cavalry at that time was proud of how many Cossacks there were in its army, and it was not until it was replaced by armored troops that its glory ended.

The wild Cossack cavalry has always been an important pillar of the Tsarist Russia's armed forces, known as the "tsar's horsewhip".In the hundreds of years of history, the Cossack cavalry played an important role in every foreign war of the tsar.From the conquest of the Kazan Khanate to the conquest of Siberia, from the bloody battle against the Ottoman Empire to the European battlefield, the Cossack cavalry played a decisive role.

In the Seven Years' War, the Prussian army, which was invincible due to the "slant attack" tactics, was swept by the Cossack cavalry, and the Russian army occupied Berlin in one fell swoop, forcing the mighty Frederick II the Great to almost commit suicide. The Cossacks have been powerful in Europe since then ; After the Battle of Borodino in 1812, Napoleon, who had learned the strength of the Cossack cavalry, expressed emotion: "If my army has these Cossacks, they will run amok in the world!"

And Tolstoy has a famous saying to describe the Cossacks: "The Cossacks have no cowards, they are born fighters!"

Such a powerful cavalry actually became synonymous with "stupid" in the end, which is outrageous.

What's more, even though there is still some preparation time for the war with the Cossack cavalry, Gao Wuzhen now also thinks of the decisive role of cavalry for the battle to aid Korea that is likely to be imminent.

In fact, in the history of Japan, cavalry was often seen in wars.Decades ago in the late Warring States period in Japan, the cavalry of the Takeda family claimed to have reached the scale of thousands of cavalry. Before Oda Nobunaga used iron cannons on a large scale, Takeda Shingen’s cavalry had almost no opponents in Japan.

However, the Japanese cavalry can only be fierce on the island, and they are vulnerable to the cavalry on the mainland.In the Imjin War when Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded the dynasty, the Japanese cavalry was no match for the Liaodong Cavalry of the Ming Frontier Army. Their size, horses, and tactics were all at a disadvantage. They did almost nothing throughout the war. the whole field.

The reason for the weakness of the Japanese cavalry is that it is poor in size and the horses are short.As an island country, Japan has a small territory and limited resources.Cavalry combat on the scale of thousands of cavalry is already the most spectacular war scene in Japan, and the Japanese cavalry is not good at fighting in large groups, but is obsessed with "one cavalry".

Japan's native horse breed "Zailaima" is a Mongolian horse imported from China. It was originally short in stature, but it was further degraded in the environment of the island country.

What about the Don and Orlov horses of the Cossack cavalry?Their shoulder height is about 1.5 meters to 1.6 meters, and their speed and strength are much better than Japanese horses.The combat mode of the Cossack cavalry is usually to launch an overwhelming assault on a large front with tens of thousands or even more than a hundred thousand cavalry, which is simply unimaginable in Japan.

The advantages should be continuously strengthened, and the disadvantages should be filled as soon as possible. Anyone with vision and ability to be responsible for the strategic level will consider this, and high-level pragmatism is no exception.

In his view, it is imperative to clean up the remnants as soon as possible, re-examine the development direction of the cavalry, and determine a new way of thinking.At the same time, this will also help to defeat Japan faster in the upcoming battle to aid Korea, preserve the vitality of Ming Dynasty, especially the Liaodong frontier army, and curb the rise of the Jurchens.

It's just that the Mongols are acting suspiciously now, and if they don't create some conditions to lure them to take the bait, even if the main force of the Ming army is all out this time, they may not be able to complete the task, so they have to take risks.Who knew that Brihatu would not take the bait because he couldn't judge his true intentions. After much deliberation, he finally ordered an anti-high and pragmatic approach. For this reason, he issued four orders:
Expand the scope of the Mongolian army's investigation to 150 miles to ensure that there are no other Ming troops approaching at all times; closely monitor the movements of Gao Yushi's headquarters to prevent it from suddenly making unexpected new moves; send someone to report Gao Yushi to Tumen Khan The headquarters is abnormal, but the messengers are not allowed to hint at any degree or level to the Great Khan; Buyan Taiji's headquarters retains physical strength and horsepower, and always maintains a distance of [-] miles from the high-practice headquarters, that is, fully maintains "Walking can go, must go The state of being able to fight".

At the same time, many generals in the Ming army believed that reducing the scope of horse detection would bring serious threats to their own side. It was very likely that the early warning would not be timely, and the Mongols would suddenly kill them before they could put on their armor in time.

They strongly suggested that the horse detection distance should be restored immediately, otherwise they could only keep marching in armor-this is basically impossible, and it consumes both horsepower and human energy.Moreover, once detected by Mongolian scouts, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the other party and expose the high-level pragmatic intentions.

Danger is definitely dangerous, but right now Gao Pragmatism is taking risks. If it is not true, then it is better not to pretend.At this moment, he thought of Herodotus' famous saying: Great deeds come from taking risks.

After eating some cold and dry food for lunch this day, Gao Wushi first called the last batch of returned secret envoys to ask for some key information, and then gesticulated on the map for a long while by himself, and then summoned all the eight guerrilla generals to give lectures .

"Keep a distance of hundreds of miles to explore horses, keep a distance of hundreds of miles to travel a day, and keep the goal straight to naturalization." Gao Yushi didn't give any explanation. He put on the only red silk silk in his army and sat on a python, proudly looking around at the generals, He reiterated the military order with a stern face: "Anyone who wavers will be charged with disturbing the morale of the army...they will not be pardoned!"

All the generals raised their voices awe-inspiringly, and the whole audience fell silent immediately, no one dared to discuss further.
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