Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1978 Inside and outside the palace ([-]) Yuan'er, do you want to go to southern Xinjiang?
Regarding the South Asian subcontinent, Gao Yushi did have an idea of ​​"not worrying about future generations", but because of several reasons before, he had no intention of using troops against it.

Specifically, there are three main factors: First, the Mughal Empire is on the rise, and it can even be said that it is almost at its peak, its economic and cultural development, the degree of internal unity, and the most directly related to the war. The military strength is at its peak, and it may not be easy to conquer.

Second, Jinghua had two main tasks at that time. One was to establish Dingnan City and build a core town centered on Dingnan as Jinghua's ruling center in southern Xinjiang.

This is very important and is a key element in the highly pragmatic plan.The reason is not complicated. After all, this era does not have the advanced transportation and information transmission capabilities of later generations. If you want to rule a large territory, you must first have a core.

To give a few examples, this is like in the period of the Three Kingdoms, if you were born in the Northwest and wanted to fight for world hegemony, then the first thing you need to do is to occupy Chang'an, and even if you want to separate yourself from one side, you must have Chang'an in your hand, otherwise there will be no population and food in Chang'an And the risk of three passes, being crushed to death by others every minute.

With Chang'an, you can take Hetao when you go north, that is, the so-called Anding, Beidi, Fengyi and other counties at that time, and strive to gather some strong cavalry, and you can take Liangzhou if you go west, that is, to ensure stability in the rear, and you can also get some cavalry.With cavalry, you will have a military advantage when you enter the Central Plains in the future.

If the Central Plains already had a strong power at that time, and it was difficult for you to handle it for a while, you can also rely on the danger of Tongguan to hold on first, go south to take the land of Shu, and try to reproduce the process of Qin destroying the six kingdoms and Han defeating the overlord.No matter how bad it is, then we will die at Tongguan and wait for the world to change - anyway, Chang'an is in hand, so that we can advance and attack and retreat and defend.

If you were born in the southeast, there is no doubt that you must master Jianye and Kuaiji.It can be said that this area in the south of the Yangtze River is the foundation of the separatist regime, and it is the foundation of hegemony that is suitable for the development of agriculture and commerce. If this area is stable and wants to compete in the Central Plains, then it must go north to capture the Hefei area. Capital, if it is powerful, it can go north to the Central Plains, and if it is poor, it can die to protect Jiangfang.

As for standing in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the most important thing in the early stage is naturally to defend Xiangyang. Only with Xiangyang in hand can the powers of the Central Plains be prevented from going south through the "Nanyang-Xiangyang" basin, which must be taken, thus threatening your fundamental Jianghan Plain .

The control of the Jianghan Plain is stable, and the west can go up the river to take the land of Shu, and the east can go down the river to take the south of the Yangtze River. In this way, at least two heroes from the north and the south can rule the river.

If the management was successful at that time, or if the one in the north showed flaws, it would be possible to seize Huaibei from the south of the Yangtze River and enter, it would be possible to enter Hanzhong from Shu to attack Guanzhong, and it would even be possible for troops from Xiangyang to leave Nanyang and directly take the Central Plains. That was the case.

All in all, I want to say that since there are no cars and trains these days, you must first grasp an economic powerhouse with a good geographical location to ensure that you can have stable money and food, and because it is not far from the main combat area in the future, transportation loss will not Too big, so as to ensure that there is no shortage of military strength.

Southern Xinjiang and Nanyang were collectively called Southeast Asia in later generations, and the most important area at that time was Malacca.But in fact, although Malacca is also very important at this time, it is not a "base of supremacy".

This is because it lacks strategic depth. Although money can be said to be sufficient due to trade, it obviously lacks a stable food supply. Once something happens, it may not last for a long time.

Moreover, Malacca is located in the throat of the sea, and when it is strong, it can naturally radiate in all directions, but what if the naval battle fails?Then Malacca instantly became a place of death.If you stay here, no matter how long you persist, you will eventually die.

During World War II, the Japanese army attacked Malacca. The reason why the British army lost so quickly was that apart from the fact that the British army was really stretching their hips at that time, there was another key point. At that time, Southeast Asia was in a hurry, and the main force of the British navy had already retreated to Europe. In the mainland, the navy in that area was not enough for the Japanese army to fight, so it was useless for the British army to defend Malacca, and it was a natural and helpless move to give up.

Therefore, although Gao Yushi attaches great importance to Malacca and Singapore, which are now the two cities of Longya and Huzhou named by Jinghua, he will not regard them as Jinghua's core ruling areas in Nanyang to build.The core area most suitable for Jinghua to rule the entire southern Xinjiang and Nanyang can only be Dingnan City - almost the Bangkok metropolitan area of ​​later generations.

From an economic point of view, the GDP of the later Bangkok metropolitan area accounts for 44.2% of the total in Thailand, and Bangkok alone accounts for 29.1%, which shows that its development has sufficient geographical and location advantages.

This is the Chao Phraya Plain area, which is conducive to the development of agriculture and the concentration of population. It is also located in the center of southern Xinjiang, so you don't have to worry about being stolen on land.It also has the advantage of a seaport, and can be dispatched quickly to radiate the entire Southeast Asia. If it does not act as the core, who will be the core?

Therefore, Gao Yushi gave Dingnan City a super-long construction period of 15 years (for the current Jinghua), in order to take Dingnan City as the core and fully grasp the entire southern Xinjiang and Nanyang regions.

But at the same time, since the Nanyang strategy was still being promoted at that time, the main task of the Nanyang Fleet was to expand Jinghua's influence in the Nanyang Islands, and this strategy was not enough for the navy alone, so it had to take turns from the six major garrison forces Deploying troops to fight south - but also to maintain combat effectiveness.

In this way, it seems that Southern Xinjiang has not fought any major battles for so many years, but in fact, it is busy with internal construction and has been constantly fighting small battles, so it is inconvenient to concentrate its forces to go west to the South Asian subcontinent and fight the Mughal Empire.

As for the third, Gao Yushi himself has been very busy these years, and he is indeed too busy to manage the conquest of the South Asian subcontinent for thousands of miles.

If we only talk about military affairs, maybe Huang Zhiting is also competent, but launching an all-out war with the Mughal Empire is not just a military issue, the entire force of Jinghua must be mobilized to serve it.

Why?Or geographical issues.When Jinghua wanted to attack the Mughals in the west, it must first attack Bengal, and there is no need to explain this at all.In this case, the Mughal Empire is fighting on its own territory, and its troops can be smoothly mobilized from its core area to Bengal along the Ganges River, and there will be no shortage of supplies and food.

In addition, although the river network in this area is not convenient for the main force of its cavalry, it is also not convenient for Jinghua to attack.The Mughal Empire has ruled northern India for some years now, and they don’t only have cavalry under their command. As long as they rely on the river network for defense, Jinghua, who came across the Arakan Rakhine Mountains for an expedition, will definitely not be able to withstand the logistical pressure. If you are not careful, the whole army may collapse.

Of course, Jinghua can also rely on sea transportation, but this can easily lead to a tug-of-war, which is not what Gao Pragmatic wants to see.

According to Gao Yushi's original general plan, in terms of time, he hoped to wait until Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire passed away in 1605 before starting.

Historically, after Akbar's death, the Mughal Empire was ruled successively by Jahangir and then Shah Jahan.King Jahangi reigned from 1605 to 1627. During his reign, Arjun, the fifth patriarch of Sikhism, turned the diocese into an administrative agency and collected taxes from believers.

This move caused great shock in the Mughal Empire, and it obviously meant to stand against the Mughal Empire government.Arjun also established a gold shop in Amritsar as a Sikh shrine and administrative center.The Sikh scripture, Ati Grant, was also written during this period.

Sikhism has always been advertised as a peaceful and peaceful group in the past. The patriarch only cares about preaching and never interferes in politics.However, Arjun was involved in the disputes of the Mughal royal family and sheltered the rebellious prince. As a result, he was jealous of King Jahangi, and finally led to his death in 1606.

Starting from this, the period of peaceful development of Sikhism ended, the relationship with the Mughal imperial government also dropped to freezing point, and the empire began to be in turmoil.In Gao Yushi's view, that time is the best time for Jinghua to send troops... Oh, if Gao's lifespan is as long as the sky, then it would be better to wait a few more years, but that would be too nonsensical.

In short, Gao Yushi originally believed that the timing of sending troops should be at least after 1606, which is seven years from now.At the same time, he believed that in another seven years, he would have almost done the major tasks at hand, and he would be able to spare time to deal with this war.

But to say a thousand words and ten thousand, man's calculation is not as good as heaven's calculation after all, who knew that the butterfly wings are so powerful, and now the situation of the Arakan Kingdom is different from the original history?
What's more, the six major garrison forces in southern Xinjiang have been training for many years now, and there are no resistance forces in southern Xinjiang who dare to jump out to die. An impulse that even high pragmatism cannot ignore.

This situation is probably similar to the pressure faced by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after the unification of Japan.

Of course, there are still differences.Theoretically speaking, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's pressure mainly lies in his generals and even a certain low-level samurai, all of whom have military merits and need to be rewarded, but Japan is too small and the land has been sealed, so he can only Forced to launch wars abroad in order to relieve this pressure.

But Jinghua is different. There are a lot of land in Nanjiang and Nanyang that can be rewarded by Gao Yushi to his subordinates, but Gao Yushi can't, doesn't want, or even dare to award a large amount of rewards now.

Large-scale rewards means that a group will inevitably be formed, a "military meritorious group" similar to the "military meritorious group" after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.The strength of such a military and political group is quite astonishing. It can even force the emperor to consider their interests first, and even make princes and princesses marry them one after another, which in turn makes their strength and influence even more terrifying.

Zhu Yuanzhang's mass murder of heroes in the later period is inseparable from his connivance with the expansion of the power of the military meritorious group at the beginning - the general situation of the world was uncertain earlier, I endured it first, and later the overall situation stabilized. ?
In the first generation, he almost killed all the famous ministers and generals under his command. If there is no accident in the future, he can only rely on God's favor. Gao Wushi doesn't want to make it like this.

Since you don't want to do this, you can't award rewards wantonly now, and you must control the disorderly expansion of the "Military Merit Group" until there are other internal forces that can restrict it.

As for the ruler, the so-called imperial power is nothing more than playing balance, otherwise what else?Could it be that if you become Zhu Yuanzhang, you will become a workaholic?You can do it, can your son do it?Grandson okay?As for the great-grandson, there is always something wrong, right?

Not to mention so far, Gao Yushi himself doesn't like to get into the management of many specific things, but prefers to propose strategic plans, and then "subcontract" various affairs to his subordinates, and he is in charge of the overall management .

Jinghua's expansion in southern Xinjiang and Nanyang is already fast enough. Among them, the garrison system and the Nanyang Fleet have contributed the most. Although the "civilian system" in charge of government affairs also has credit, it is definitely not as obvious as the military system.

In this way, it is necessary to be highly pragmatic and extend the time, so that the civilian system can have a deeper control over the local area, and at the same time strengthen their control over the logistical affairs of the military system, so as to form a balance of power, so that it can be controlled.

But just because the major members of the military system are his servants, he can't think that they have no ideas of their own like NPCs, and will only act according to the master's instructions.It's good that they are their own servants, but at the same time, they are all normal people with their own thinking and interests. Treating them as NPCs will cause big troubles.

Of course, the family system is different from the family system, but their relationship with Gao Yushi is somewhat similar to the relationship between the emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the banner owners and generals in the early years of the Qing Dynasty.

These people did call themselves slaves to the emperor, but they still had their own interests and power, and they wouldn't have other ideas just because they called themselves slaves.

Of course, there is no "banner master" in Jinghua, and the main officers in the garrison and the two-ocean fleet system have to take turns as usual, but even if the senior generals cannot firmly control a certain force, they will still have a certain prestige after all.

This is like Gao Wu’s prestige in Nine Borders of Ming Dynasty. Even if he doesn’t have the power to directly manage a certain town in Nine Borders, if he gives an order to a certain town in Nine Borders to mobilize their troops, unless the order is for them to kill The capital, otherwise, if it is only transferred within the jurisdiction, which town on the Nine Sides will disobey?
This is called prestige.

Now, both the army and the navy in southern Xinjiang feel that the credit they can get in the southern Xinjiang and Nanyang regions is running out, and they are eager to continue to launch foreign wars.But to whom can the so-called foreign affairs be targeted? You can't go north to fight against Ming Dynasty, right?Then the only way to fight the Mughals is to go west.

Once this kind of "public opinion" is formed, and there is no sufficient reason to suppress it, it is inevitable to go to war against the Mughals.It is precisely because Huang Zhiting feels that she will soon be unable to suppress such "popular opinion" that she puts the matter in front of Gao Yushi.

Gao Wushi thought for a while, and then asked, "What opinions or suggestions do you have for the Garrison and the Nanyang Fleet on the possible upcoming war with the Mughal Empire?"

This is to ask how to fight.When Huang Zhiting heard this, she couldn't help being refreshed, sat up straight, and slowly explained the plan of the Southern Border Army and Army.

Huang Zhiting said: "The army and the army have discussed this many times in the military headquarters. The process does not need to be elaborated. The final conclusion is roughly like this: the first step is to completely seize the kingdom of Arakan as a countermeasure against the Mughals." The bridgehead for the empire to launch its offensive is of course also an important logistics base."

This is the meaning of the question. Gao Yushi had already expected this to be the case, so he was not surprised. He just asked calmly: "Then, how to take Arakan? The security forces will not think about forcibly crossing the Rakhine Mountains, will they?" ?”

"Of course not." Huang Zhiting shook her head and said, "The Rakai Mountains can be described as a natural barrier. The guards estimate that even if the Arakanese don't send a single soldier to defend, they may lose [-]% of their strength just by crossing over. Assuming that the Arakanese If [-] troops can be sent to guard a few important places, then this loss may reach half, and this should not be considered at all."

That's right, Gao Yushi also thinks so, because the Rakhine Mountains are above 2000 meters above sea level, while the two sides are plains, which is a relatively big difference.The only passable Dongge Pass is 1168 meters above sea level, located in the middle of the mountain range, so you can only go here to cross it, but the Arakanese will obviously arrange the main force to garrison here, so a fierce battle will break out to attack the pass.

In terms of terrain, this battle will probably be more difficult than the battle of Loushanguan, because it is difficult for the garrison to outflank from the flanks, and they can only be forced to attack the fortifications.However, the terrain of this mountain pass is like a sword pavilion, and it is difficult for artillery to deploy to form fire pressure, so it can only rely on human lives to pile up, and the ghost knows how many people will die.

Seeing that Gao Wushi nodded, Huang Zhiting continued: "The opinion of the military command is that, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Kingdom of Arakan, let the Nanyang Fleet carry the land division to Chittagong or the surrounding areas under the banner of support, completely avoiding the natural danger of the Rakhine Mountains. , directly control its capital.

As for what to do next, it would be best to decide on the entire kingdom. If not, just attack Dongge Pass from the rear. After all, if you attack from the rear, there is no danger to defend that place. "

"Arakan was known for its navy in the past, is the Nanyang Fleet confident enough about this?" Gao Yushi asked.

"Yes." Huang Zhiting said with certainty: "Although Arakan is famous for its navy, the reason why its navy seemed strong in the past is actually because of the support of the Portuguese. Now that Philip has fallen out with the king, the navy must be in turmoil. It is difficult to form a joint force as in the past, and this is a good opportunity for us to send troops."

"How long is this window period?" Gao Wushi asked again.

"The window period, it depends on whether we want to procrastinate on purpose." Huang Zhiting pondered: "If we don't care, the king may be eager to quell the rebellion, and might send troops soon. If he quells the rebellion smoothly, this window The window period will disappear quickly. If he fails to suppress the rebellion, the window period will be longer.

Of course, if we intervene, such as telling the king that we need a little time to prepare, and then attack Philip with him from the north to the south, and at the same time send a fleet to support him, then the king may be patient for a while, and the window period will be extended. "

Gao Wushi nodded, and suddenly said to Gao Yuan, "Yuan'er, do you want to go to southern Xinjiang?"
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