Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1977 Inside and Outside the Palace ([-]) Octopus
Too many things happened in this day, when Gao Yushi came out of the palace, he was still in an inexplicable trance, always feeling a little unreal.

Obviously just came back in the name of a job report to confirm the related matters attached to North Korea, and to discuss how to continue to attack Japan. Who knows that the empress empress gave birth to the emperor's son, and Buri Hatu led the army to invade Gansu. All of a sudden, the first assistant and the second assistant planned to beg for the bones, and handed over the position of the first assistant to him in front of him.

This time, it was really not as good as man's calculation. None of the three major events were known or predicted in advance by his high pragmatism.But now, three major events suddenly came at the same time. To say that he can deal with this situation calmly and respond appropriately, it is too high to see him at a higher level of someone's state of mind.

Therefore, although Gao Yushi tried his best to control his emotions and demeanor, he only stayed in the cabinet for half an hour, and then he excused that the pommel horse was tired and needed to rest, and almost escaped from the palace.He planned to calm down after returning home, and then carefully organize his thoughts, so that he could make a rational decision on what to do next.

However, maybe God thinks that he has been too smooth these years, and even some dangers have been resolved one by one by him, so this time he actually saved a few big moves, and insisted on releasing them all within one day to see what he would do.

He had just returned home to meet his wives and concubines, and had a few words with his children, and when he sat at the dining table, Huang Zhiting spoke up before his butt was warm.

"Master, the war between Southern Xinjiang and the Mughals may be imminent and inevitable."

Gao Wushi was stunned, staring at Huang Zhiting for a long time, finally let out a long breath, put his hand on his forehead and said, "Tell me, what's going on."

Huang Zhiting opened her mouth, but stopped talking.

She saw from the high-level pragmatic demeanor that her husband was obviously a little tired, and it was his consistent proposition not to have a direct conflict with the Mughal Empire for the time being, so she was worried that speaking out now...at least the timing was not good.

"Tell me, I'm fine." Gao Wushi sighed lightly: "I just... just have some things in the palace and the court today, but it has nothing to do with you, you can tell."

"Okay, then let me briefly talk about it first." Huang Zhiting knew Gao's pragmatic habits, so she no longer hesitated, and said, "During the middle of this year, there was a civil strife in the Kingdom of Arakan, and one of the factions contacted us, hoping that we can help them out." As for...the concubine, I will send the second and third towns of the Bagu Garrison to garrison the border and wait for the opportunity."

"Wait a minute." Gao Wushi frowned and interrupted: "What's the matter with the civil strife in the Kingdom of Arakan? Does it have anything to do with us in Jinghua?"

Huang Zhiting hesitated for a moment, then said: "There are, but the internal turmoil itself was not provoked by us."

"Clarify the ins and outs."

"Yes, master." In front of the concubine's room, Huang Zhiting has always been very polite, and replied in accordance with high pragmatic requirements: "Over the years, Jinghua has more or less infiltrated various forces in the surrounding areas of southern Xinjiang. Arakan So is nature.

Especially after the construction of Dingnan City was basically completed, while we intensified our efforts to infiltrate Arakan, we also established contact with some upper-level power figures in the country through trade and other means, so as to better safeguard the interests of Jinghua.

But in this way, we have some conflicts of interest with the Portuguese.The master knows that the Portuguese have many strongholds in the so-called Indian region to the east of southern Xinjiang, and they also have various connections with many kingdoms, large and small, some of which are cooperation and some conflicts.

The Portuguese also had forces in Arakan, the most critical of which was a mercenary group whose leader was Philip de Britonicte.This person is trusted by the lord Mingyesaki in Arakan, but he himself is very ambitious. Jinghua once detected some letters between this person and the Governor of Goa in Portugal. Among them, he even proposed to conquer Arakan. proposal. "

Philip de Britonicket is highly pragmatic and impressive. He has done some great things in the original history.

In the original history, in 1595, Emperor Naresuan of Siam attacked Bagu, and King Mingyesaki of Arakan sent Philip de Brito to rescue Mang with the reinforcements of Lanna Kingdom and Dongyuhou. Ying Li successfully repelled Na Lixuan.

However, in 1599, Philippe de Brito, together with Mingyesaki, still formed a coalition force with Dongyuhou to capture Bagu City, captured and killed Mangyingli, and divided its remaining territory.

In the same year, Naresuan sent troops to attack Dongyuhou, and Philip de Brito followed Minye Suki to attack Naresuan's supply route, forcing him to withdraw his troops again.

In the following year, that is, in 1600, Philip was appointed Governor of Shalian by Mingyesaki. As a result, only three years later, in 1603, he raised the flag of rebellion and stood on his own, and repeatedly defeated the conquests of the Kingdom of Arakan.In 1605, Arakan launched the Battle of Shanlian but was defeated. After that, the Kingdom of Arakan was forced to negotiate peace with it.

After that, Philip did not stop. In 1612, Philip and some surrounding feudal lords led an army to the north and sent troops to invade the territory of Anabillon of the Toungoo Dynasty.

However, this time he was not so lucky. In 1613, Anabilon went south to attack Shalian, and Philip was captured and killed, ending his ambitious life.

Of course, this is all in the original history. Now Arakan naturally does not have the courage to send troops to Burma - there are four towns of the Bagu garrison, and an army of about [-] guns, which is obviously not something they can provoke.

Sure enough, Huang Zhiting's next words were obviously full of disdain: "Actually, this Philip is not very powerful. He has a total of less than 200 soldiers, and most of them are servants cobbled together from the local area. There are only more than [-] Portuguese mercenaries."

No wonder Huang Zhiting looked disdainful, Gao Wu said frankly that the fighting power of the Portuguese was not ranked first in Europe, and now Philip only has more than 200 people in his hands, how could this fall into Huang Zhiting's eyes?
As for the four or five thousand servants... it's basically a joke.If the local army had combat effectiveness, the Kingdom of Arakan would not have failed successive crusades in the original history-what can only more than 200 Portuguese do?Of course, they are officers, or "supervisors", and the Arakan army without these people is relatively natural.

But... How did Jinghua and Philip "create some conflicts of interest"?Gao Wushi raised this question to Huang Zhiting.

Huang Zhiting said: "Because Ming Yesuoji appointed Philip to manage Guya, Philip began to trouble Jinghua and other Ming businessmen in Guya overtly and secretly as soon as he took office. intelligence."

After the Burma War, Myanmar was actually divided into two, and the Bago Kingdom in the south became independent from Myanmar and was completely controlled by Jinghua.Therefore, Philip's inquiring about Pegu's information was naturally not allowed by Jinghua, and the conflict broke out.

Of course, the first half of Huang Zhiting's sentence was not in vain. Philip's suppression of Jinghua and other Ming businessmen cannot be tolerated, and there will definitely be a "conflict of interests".The question now is, where is this Guya?

Huang Zhiting told Gao Wushi that Guya is a small place, a small port closest to Bago in the southern part of the Arakan Kingdom, and Mingyesaki sent Philip to manage this place, to some extent it was a way to drive away tigers and wolves— Of course, Jinghua is not a wolf, and Philip is not a tiger at all in front of Jinghua. If he is said to be a cat, the cat will be dissatisfied.

In any case, Gao Pragmatically figured out the root of the matter, and he had no doubt that this was the basic situation at the time.Because in the original history, the "Shalian" area where Philip was named the governor was in the southern part of Arakan—but not this Guya.

In fact, Shalian was in Myanmar, more precisely in the current Bago Kingdom.The location is easy to understand: Shanlian is just opposite Yangon, and the two places face each other across the river, so the distance is very close.

The reason why Sha Lian is actually on the edge of Yangon is that you can understand it when you look back at the above: In 1599, Philip, along with Min Yesaki and Dongyu Hou, formed a coalition army and captured Bago City, and captured and killed Mang Yingli. , divided its remnants of territory - Shalian was occupied by Arakan at that time.

This scene has not happened in this time and space, and it cannot happen, but the king of Arakan has not changed his thinking much. He still sends Philip to the southernmost tip of his land, which leads to his conflict with Jinghua.

Gao Yushi thought that the matter was almost over at this point, but who knew it was not.Huang Zhiting continued to introduce the situation at that time.

It turned out that when the conflict arose, Jinghua first relied on its strong financial advantages to intercede with the high-level officials of the kingdom who had already been bribed in Chittagong, the capital of Arakan, and at the same time had people secretly report that Philip had the intention of separatism, which made Mingye Suoji suspicious , ordered Philip to be called back to Chittagong to explain the situation.

Knowing that he couldn't stand the investigation, Philip contacted the Governor of Goa while procrastinating for time, hoping that the Governor of Goa would reconsider his previous plan and come to conquer Arakan, and he could "strongly cooperate" in Arakan at that time.

However, the Governor of Goa had neither the time nor the strength to intervene at this time.As I said a long time ago, Spain and Portugal share one monarch at the moment, and the Anglo-Spanish war is still going on. The capital of Portugal, Lisbon, has even been the starting point of Spain’s expedition to the United Kingdom. This means that the Kingdom of Portugal has also been drawn by Spain. The thief ship is caught in the struggle for European hegemony.

At this time, Spain is still like an octopus, not to mention fighting Britain, the Netherlands, and the Ottomans, and intervening in the religious wars in France from time to time.

Portugal's national strength is not considered strong in Europe. How can there be energy to do things after boarding this thief ship?The governor of Goa must burn incense if he can stabilize the current situation in India.

However, the governor of Goa did not know why, but he came up with a magical idea and revealed the matter of Arakan to the Mughal Empire.

At this time, the Mughal Empire was basically at the peak of the dynasty, and immediately became interested after receiving the news.The Bengal governor of the empire quickly intervened: he made an excuse casually, saying that a merchant ship of the Mughal Empire disappeared during a transaction in the Arakan Kingdom, and asked the Arakan Kingdom to find the murderer, and the king personally went to Bengal to apologize to him, Otherwise he would make Minye Suki feel the wrath of the Empire.

This excuse sounds like nonsense, and Mingyesaki naturally knows it, but the Mughal Empire obviously didn't come to reason with him, and Mingyesaki didn't dare to go to Bengal, so he could only find a way to resist.

The reason why Arakan was not annexed by Myanmar in the most powerful period was not because its own army was really strong enough, but because of the super terrain advantage of the Arakan Mountains.But this advantage is only useful for the Burmese side. When facing the Mughal Empire, the terrain is plain to plain, and everyone is on the same level.

Since it is on one level, and it is still on the plains, the Mughal cavalry, an empire established as the descendants of the Timur family, can obviously completely crush the Arakan Kingdom.

At this moment, it is definitely not enough to rely on one's own strength, so Mingyesaki thought of using Jinghua's strength—in other words, he hoped that the Bagu Guards would dispatch to help Arakan.What Huang Zhiting said just now is exactly this situation.

However, because the Bagu garrison did not receive Gao Yushi's order, and Huang Zhiting did not dare to go to war with the Mughal Empire directly because of Gao Yushi's confession in the early years, so the Bagu garrison did not allow the two orders of the Bagu garrison. The town runs directly from the south of Arakan to the north (the capital Chittagong is in the north).

In fact, it was the Nanyang Fleet with greater autonomy who came forward to help in the end. They sent 21 armed transport ships docked in Chittagong to force the Mughal Empire to The governor of Bengal could not advance an inch, and finally retreated after a period of stalemate.

However, although this battle was successfully avoided through the intervention of the fleet, it led to a significant increase in Jinghua's power in Arakan.To some extent, Arakan became a protectorate under the name of Jinghua.

No one would give up such a good thing, and Huang Zhiting immediately further increased her control over Arakan, which in turn stimulated the Mughal Empire, especially the Governor of Bangladesh.

As a result, the relationship between the two sides deteriorated rapidly, and now, signs of a large-scale war have begun to appear.

Huang Zhiting told Gao Wushi that she has received news that the Governor of Bangladesh is not only gathering troops and hoarding food and grass, but also building warships... Obviously, he wants to take revenge.

At the same time, Huang Zhiting also implicitly stated that since the southern border—especially the garrison had not fought any battles for some years, they all had a strong desire to go to war with the Mughal Empire.

This is not difficult to understand. How can one be "promoted" without a war?You can only rely on mixed qualifications, and fighting is the best way to get promoted.

For the first time, Gao Wushi felt that although his power was growing, even within Jinghua, people from all walks of life inevitably had their own interests and began to force him to make corresponding compromises.

The problem now is very clear: if there is no fight, the Arakan region will definitely be out of control, and it will even be controlled by the Mughal Empire. The Er Empire is officially at war, and there is no turning back, and it is unlikely to resume trade with it soon in the future, so this decision must be made cautiously.
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