Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1971 Inside and Outside the Palace ([-]) Mongolian Musketeers

Generally speaking, the emperor is very taboo to use the word dead, especially when it is used on himself.Although Zhu Yijun is far less harsh than his grandfather Jiajing on this point, he usually doesn't say that.Now that he said it today, it means that he is indeed very annoyed.

Gao Wushi entered the side hall, and was about to go up to see according to the rules of His Majesty.However, at this time Zhu Yijun did not sit in the main seat waiting for him to bow down, but was walking towards him.

Just as Gao Wushi bowed down, he was supported by Zhu Yijun, and said in his mouth: "Okay, there are no outsiders here, save these silly things, let's get down to business."

The emperor's tone was a little eager, which surprised Gao Yushi.The fact that there is a military situation in Gansu is certainly a major event, but in fact, generally speaking, it is not an "urgent matter".The distance between the two places is too far. No matter how eager the capital is, there will be no new orders for a while, let alone immediate support. There will always be a long period of time that can only be handled by the locals themselves.

To put it simply, it is useless for the capital to be impatient. In the final analysis, it is still necessary to "plan for the long term."

But Zhu Yijun seemed really in a hurry, and he dragged Gao Yushi to the warm pavilion in the side hall, so that the two of them would not have to sit separately from the monarch and his ministers—separating the monarch and his ministers and sitting far away, in Zhu Yijun's opinion, is not good for communication— ——and said again: "You were supposed to be returning triumphantly today, and there was also a happy event on my side. The queen finally gave birth to a son for me, but it's a pity that you were harmed by this incident in Gansu..."

Gao Wushi couldn't help asking: "What's going on in Gansu? Even if it's Brihatu Kou, we just need to deal with it in an orderly manner. If you are in a hurry, you won't be able to quench your thirst..."

"What's the situation?" Zhu Yijun sighed, shook his head and said, "In just six days, the two guards of Suzhou and Weilu were almost wiped out, and the city of Suzhou fell. Bu Rihatu led an army of one hundred thousand, and threatened Gan. The five guards of Ganzhou and Ganzhou did not dare to fight, so they could only defend the city to the death.

The governor of Gansu, the capital of Shaanxi, ah, and Su Wang's mansion played a total of seven urgent calls for help on the same day.According to their words, if no reinforcements arrive within a month, not only Ganzhou will be lost, but Yongchang, Liangzhou, and even Zhuanglang, Xining and other guards will fall one by one. Surprised by the number of days! "

This news was so shocking that Gao Yushi, who has always been in front of the collapse of Mount Tai, couldn't help but change his expression: "How could it be so tragic? As far as I know, there are 46 castles in Suzhou Yiwei alone, with six or seven soldiers." More than a thousand. In terms of ordnance and military salaries, the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War have also paid in full these years, and there was no shortage of them even during the most intense war. If this is the case, how could it be defeated within a few days?"

"I also want to ask this question!" Zhu Yijun said angrily, "I will give you whatever you want, and you will repay me like this! But Xu Sanwei mentioned a sentence in the memorial, saying that Burihatu's former army 'had firearms, almost Don't be inferior to me', do you think this is credible? Mongols also use firearms? Where did they get firearms?"

Xu Sanwei is the current governor of Gansu. Gao Wushi was taken aback by his statement. His first reaction was whether there were frontier soldiers in Gansu smuggling arms.

But on second thought.Gao Pragmatism felt that something was wrong.It is not to say that the Gansu frontier army will not smuggle arms, but that if firearms are to be supplied to an army, it is not enough to smuggle a batch of guns and ammunition. It also needs related systems to maintain it.

In terms of reliability, the guns of this era are far inferior to those of later generations. Some damage during daily use is unavoidable, not to mention if it is a large-scale battle, it must be repaired by a special craftsman.Moreover, the users themselves also need certain simple maintenance capabilities, and these seem unlikely to be problems that the Mongols of the Chahar Department can handle.

It can't be said that the guard craftsmen in Gansu defected to the Chahar Department in large numbers, right?It's okay to say that one or two defected. If there were a large number of defections, even the governor of Gansu would not dare to know about it and not report it.

However, if the smuggling of firearms by the local guards in Gansu is excluded, then the situation reported by Xu Sanwei is difficult to explain.If it should be difficult for the Chahar Department to even maintain their firearms, can they still imitate the Wanli Type II by their own ability?Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Gao Wushi thought for a while and asked, "Does Li Zhijun have an explanation?" Zhijun is the governor, and of course the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi is being mentioned here.Gansu in the Ming Dynasty was different from other dynasties in that it was under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division militarily, so the Gansu governor's area was also under the military responsibility of the trilateral governors.

Zhu Yijun shook his head: "Li Wenyuan is in Guyuan. He will wait two days to arrive in Beijing after receiving news from Gansu. Besides, since he is so far away, I don't think he will know too many details. Instead of listening to his second-hand news, it is better to read the local memorials in Gansu."

Sure enough, he is a mature emperor, and he already has his own opinions on which memorials are more credible.Gao Yushi is very pleased with this, but now is not the time to be emotional, and solving the problem is the top priority.

Thanks to being a veteran of strategy games in his previous life, Gao Pragmatically thought for a moment, and he really had a guess as to how Burihatu could have a large number of muskets to equip the Mongolian army: "Your Majesty, I guess from my ministers, the troops under Burihatu's army The musket probably originated from the Lumi country, that is, the country called Ottoman Turkey in the Jinghua Kanyu atlas."

"Ottoman Turkey?" Zhu Yijun nodded, knowing something in his mind - since Gao Yushijin presented the Kanyu Atlas, he has often read it, not to mention that he is familiar with it, at least he has it in larger countries A relatively clear concept.

Of course, Zhu Yijun's concept is not particularly accurate to some extent.For example, although Gao Yushi often emphasizes that certain countries in Europe "will rise in the future", Zhu Yijun inevitably sneers when he sees that they are only so big on the map.

Conversely, he paid more attention to Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, because these two countries looked relatively large on the map-big is strong, which is a relatively deep-rooted concept of Zhu Yijun.

After pondering for a while, Zhu Yijun asked: "From the geographical point of view, Ottoman Turkey can indeed pass firearms to the Chahar tribe in the Western Regions through the Silk Road, but I can't figure out why they would do this?"

According to Zhu Yijun's point of view, firearms, an "important weapon of the country", should not be sold casually as ordinary goods. Although Chahar and Ottoman Turkey can be connected by the Silk Road, they are still quite far apart.Therefore, if there is no special situation, how can there be a firearms transaction between the two sides?It doesn't make sense at all.

But Gao Yushi knew that his idea was too bright. In Europe and the Middle East, businessmen's thinking dominated the country's will, not the farming thinking of the past dynasties in China.Europe does not need to explain much, and the Middle East has always been like this.

In the past, the Arab world was characterized by connecting the east and the west, and its millennium-long tradition was to do resale trade.Many scholars in later generations have said that their sacred text is essentially a trade code formulated under the veil of theocracy, and many regulations are to ensure freedom of trade.

[Note: The regions involved may be sensitive, so I won’t say much here. Interested friends can check the information by themselves. ]
Although the rulers of Ottoman Turkey were not originally native Arabs, they were almost completely Arabized in sect, so they also inherited this thinking.

Of course, Europeans believed that the Ottoman Empire blocked East-West exchanges, especially trade exchanges, but that was during a certain period of time, and it was some blockade measures made by the Ottomans when they were trying to conquer Europe.In essence, the Ottoman Empire still needed to do resale trade, but they wanted to monopolize more at that time.

Long story short, let's get down to business.The Ottoman Empire also has a demand for Ming's goods, especially now that the Ottoman Empire has discovered that the Portuguese and the Spaniards have a relationship with Ming (actually with Jinghua), and the Dutch are also frantically following the Portuguese exploration. The channel is heading east, and it is said that it is fiercely competing with the Portuguese for Mauritius.

Mauritius is a small island in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar, the largest island in southeast Africa.Of course, this is not the key point, the key point is that from here you can float to the Nanyang Islands along the ocean current.In other words, once the Dutch defeated the Portuguese and captured Mauritius, it might not be long before they could reach Nanyang and establish a relationship with Daming (Jinghua).

The Ottoman Empire worried about this.Although Ottoman is still powerful at this time, it is also faintly dangerous.

Internally, with the rise of the new Turkish army, Sultan Murad III dared not leave Istanbul, or even the Topkapi Palace in the last few years of his reign, because the new army threatened him that as long as he dared to leave, the new The army is about to depose his sultan. [Note: The new army is the Ottoman Janissaries. ]
The New Army is of course a military group, but it is also an interest group that needs to be appeased by the Sudan with various interests.Since they want to benefit, they have to think of ways in all aspects - obviously, re-opening the trade line with Daming is also one of the things worth trying.

From the outside, although the current Ottoman Empire still maintains a strong deterrent to Europe, its expansion is actually close to the limit. In game terms, it is "unable to push", and at this time Europe seems to be united Signs of confrontation.

Of course, the current Ottoman Empire is not very worried about this, because the Turks are confident that even the combined Christians in Europe cannot beat them.

But Tsarist Russia is another threat, especially what happened this year. Tsarist Russia completely wiped out the Siberian Khanate and expanded its power eastward.

Siberia is cold, and in the eyes of the Ottoman Empire, it is a big bad land, and they are not important in themselves.But the Ottoman Empire believed that if the Russians continued to expand eastward, they would sooner or later border on Ming Dynasty, which was very bad.

The Turks were not worried that Tsarist Russia might invade Ming Dynasty, but they were afraid that Tsarist Russia would open up a trade line with Ming Dynasty and obtain those high-value goods from Ming Dynasty, so that they would not be able to sit on the ground and make a lot of money in the future.

Although far away, Mehmed III, the new sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sent people to contact several Khanates in Central Asia, hoping that they could find a way to pull Tsarist Russia in the north. .

The unexpected happened, and the other khanates did not respond. On the contrary, the Chahar tribe, the former Yarkand Khanate in the east and now occupied by maggots, responded eagerly to the Sudan.

On behalf of Buyanchechen Khan, Burhatu expressed to the envoys of Sudan that they were willing to go north to stop Tsarist Russia's eastward advance, and they were also willing to contact Ming Dynasty to the east in order to "help Sudan develop trade".However, their strength is insufficient, especially the lack of firearms at hand, and they may not be able to defeat the vanguard of Tsarist Russia's eastward expansion.

This is really nonsense, because Tsarist Russia’s eastward expansion after defeating the Siberian Khanate was hardly considered an act of state for a long time, but the tsar supported some adventure groups in his own name, and these were often only one hundred and ten An adventure group of hundreds of people spontaneously marched eastward.

Tsarist Russia's degree of weaponization at this time is not very high, and may not even be as good as Ottoman.In contrast, because of the highly pragmatic military reforms in Ming Dynasty, the degree of weaponization on the whole was higher than that of Tsarist Russia at this time.

Of course, Daming and Tsarist Russia are still far away. Even if Tsarist Russia moves eastward crazily, at most they will encounter the Tumed tribe, which became very powerful after the victory in the Battle of Yuan. Tumed is still much taller-at least Tsarist Russia's "shooting army" has been established for about 50 years.

Even so, the Chahar Department has obtained the Yarkand and Hami regions in recent years, and its strength has recovered quickly. It is always no problem to fight the Russian adventure team.

However, the envoy of the Sudan was not aware of this. He believed that the tribe that claimed to be the orthodox Yuan Dynasty might only have a total population of more than 40. It was indeed quite difficult to defeat the advance team of Tsarist Russia.Therefore, it is feasible and appropriate to provide them with some firearms, but... this cannot be free assistance, it must be bought and sold fairly.

Brihatu readily accepted the proposal from the Sudanese envoy, and immediately discussed the specific matters of the transaction with the Sudanese envoy seriously.

The economy of the Yarkand region has always been dominated by nomads, and there are not many goods that can be provided to the Ottomans, and the Ottomans are not short of those.However, Brihatu, who has experienced high-level pragmatic reforms and "Tumote reforms", has tried to take a new path in the past few years.

He actually began to allocate manpower to farm in the Yili River Valley!

Of course, the Mongols of the Chahar tribe really had no interest in this, and most of the people assigned to farm by Brihatu were locals who had been conquered by them.In addition, there are some Han Chinese who came all the way from the original left-wing Mongolia.

These Han people were plundered to the Chahar tribe a long time ago. Their status was very low at first, but now they are very precious, because almost all of them have become technicians—specialized in farming.

In addition to farming, they also planted cotton, and by the way, they also made Daming looms to weave cloth with cotton.This is the right way to go. The local conditions are extremely suitable for growing cotton. As a result, the yield is increasing year by year. The cotton cloth produced is sold in the Khanates of Central Asia. It is very popular and has become the flagship product of the Chahar Department.

Although these Han people were taken away early, and they had never seen the jenny spinning machine brought by Gao Pragmatic Copy, their spinning efficiency is not high, but no matter how low it is, the weaving of cotton cloth for trade is better than the original grazing. Too strong.

So Brihatu discussed with the Sudanese envoy and the result was "cotton cloth for guns". In this way, Burhatu found that the current population of the Chahar tribe was not enough.

Whether they hope to expand cotton cultivation, or expand the size of the textile industry, they now need people very much.

However, the population of Central Asia has always been relatively limited. Even if they conquer the Kazakh Khanate, the Bukhara Khanate and other places, I am afraid they will not be able to grab many people. Moreover, these Khanates have not yet declined too much. Chahar, who was wounded, did not dare to use force rashly.

What about the northern expedition to the Junggar tribe?Although Junggar is divided badly, their current combat effectiveness is not bad. Brihatu tried it twice cautiously and launched two limited-scale battles, but found that the effect was not good-they are also a horseback nation, even if they win, they will be defeated. It's hard to catch a few people.

As a result, Brihatu had no choice but to turn his attention back to Daming again.

To be honest, Brihatu actually didn't want to fight Daming again, especially Gao Yushi.This old opponent is too difficult to deal with. Although his fighting methods are not particularly clever in Brihatu's opinion, his strength is all-round - he has settled the country first, and he can rely on Daming to be strong enough to crush If the strength is strong, this is ten times with one force, no matter how clever Burhatu is, there is really no way out.

But this time, Brihatu got good news - Gao Wushi is not in the court!He left for North Korea half a year ago (the news was delayed for some time).

The news that Brihatu got was that North Korea, as the loyal vassal of Ming Dynasty, was almost subjugated by the Japanese pirates, and the Japanese pirates dispatched more than 20 troops. It is especially worth mentioning that these Japanese pirates have excellent muskets.

Burihatu has seen enough of the powerful muskets, so when he heard that the Japanese pirates dispatched an army of 20 muskets (a misunderstanding), he immediately decided that Gao Yushi's dispatch of troops is unlikely to be a quick victory, and at least he should fight one or two times. year.

Based on this judgment, Brihatu frantically urged the Ottoman Empire to provide a large number of muskets, and traded all the cotton cloth that he could even out.At the same time, he also accelerated the training progress, motivating the Mongolian warriors of the Chahar tribe with the experience of being beaten by a highly pragmatic firearms army in the past, making them willing to give up bows and arrows and use muskets.

Revenge, this word is easy to use in any martial nation.As a result, the firearms training of the Chahar Department has progressed rapidly, and the expansion of the firearms troops has also been rapid.Before the dispatch of troops this time, Brihatu had gathered [-] Musketeers.

Although this ratio seems to be still not high compared to their so-called "[-] troops", but with the cavalry advantage still present, it is at least worthy of a battle with the local Ming army in Gansu.
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