Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2170 Little Marquis ([-])
Back in the mansion, Gao Wushi screened back and asked Gao Mo to bring all the recent reports on southern Xinjiang, and carefully read each page.After a long time, Gao Wushi put down the last page of the report, closed his eyes, and leaned back on the grand teacher's chair without saying a word, as if resting and contemplating.

As mentioned earlier, after Gao Yuan arrived in southern Xinjiang, he clearly showed signs of being close to his uncle's Huang family at the reception banquet that day.Not only did he obviously elevate Huang Hu's status, but he also praised his second uncle Huang Yingpin the next day, and ordered the Nanyang Fleet to immediately send ships to Ngee An Mansion, Huang Yingpin's hereditary territory, and urgently recruited 500 Huang's wolf soldiers to fight with Huang Yingpin. The [-] people brought by the applicants formed a team to accompany him on the expedition.

Then, he began to "woo" Liu Xin's garrison generals who stayed in Siam.Liu Weizhong, deputy commander of the Dingnan Garrison Headquarters, is the leader of more than 1756 soldiers Liu Xin left in Dingnan.He also won Gao Yuan's win this time, and was ordered to allocate one of the two bids in his hand to Gao Yuan [Note: There are about [-] people in one bid], as part of Gao Yuan's personal soldiers.

At this time, Gao Yuan represents Naifu Gao, who is pragmatic and has sufficient authority to mobilize these troops.Theoretically speaking, before Liu Xin and Huang Zhiting came to Southern Xinjiang successively, both the military and political circles in Southern Xinjiang had to obey him.

In addition to the above two forces, as Huang Zhiting's biological son, Gao Yuan also unceremoniously called his mother's wolf soldiers and a group of soldiers [Note: The group is 4038 people].This Xielang soldier came from Hailong Mansion, Huang Zhiting's hereditary territory. Many of them participated in the battle of Lang Son, and they were famous elites in southern Xinjiang.

In this way, as soon as Gao Yuan arrived in Dingnan, he immediately prepared about 1 Chinese soldiers for himself, and they were all elite.

However, this also made many people feel worried immediately - the pro-army that the young master prepared for him was actually all "foreign relatives soldiers and horses". This... is not a good sign.

That night, Gao Ruichu was invited to visit Gao Mengnan, accompanied by his younger brother Gao Ruilong and cousin Gao Zhang.

This is the first time these two people have appeared, and a brief introduction:

Gao Ruilong is the second brother of Gao Ruichu's same mother.He had been admitted to Quanzhou General Judge, but he resigned from office.Originally, Quanzhou has always been a famous seaport city in China, and also an important trading port after the Ming Dynasty opened the sea, so it is definitely a big fat job to be a general judge here.

However, Gao Ruilong knew very well that he was not a Jinshi. Being able to "take the exam and teach general judgment" may be a reflection of his own ability. But if he was arranged to take up a post in Quanzhou, it must be due to the influence of his uncle Gao Pragmatic's face - this is not You need to speak in a pragmatic manner, or even hint, and the officials will naturally make good arrangements.

However, Gao Ruilong didn't want to bring gossip to his uncle, and secondly, he also thought that his official career limit was too low (because he was not a Jinshi), so after discussing with his elder brother, he simply took the initiative to come to southern Xinjiang, planning to stay in southern Xinjiang I have worked hard in this "family business".

He also informed Gao Wushi of his coming.Gao Yushi did not object to his idea, and he was very useful, so he was immediately appointed as Beiboni's guardian envoy.

"Boni", also known as Kalimantan Island in later generations, is the third largest island in the world, covering an area of ​​more than 74 square kilometers, which is twice the size of Japan.Of course, the population of this island is far less than that of Japan.According to a simple census organized by southern Xinjiang not long ago, there may be only a million people on the island at present, and its Han people (including naturalized Han people) do not exceed [-].

Judging from such a population size and structure, Jinghua's rule on Boni Island can be said to be extremely weak, but the facts are not entirely true.Boni was originally one of the tributary states of the Ming Dynasty, but a few years ago King Boni passed away, and because he had no sons, the clansmen fought for each other, and the internal fighting was fierce.

But at this time, Boni was only nominally a tributary state of the Ming Dynasty, but actually surrendered to Java. Therefore, after the completion of the Nanyang Raiders, Jinghua became the de facto master of Boni.

Of course, like other kingdoms in southern Xinjiang, Gao Yushi retained the nominal ruling position of "Queen Boni" and actually ruled by the Jinghua Advisory Group.And after Gao Ruilong was appointed as the guardian envoy of Beiboni, the so-called Queen Boni became even more insignificant, not even a rubber stamp. [Note: The degree of development of Beibo Ni is relatively high, and Nanbo Ni also has a highly pragmatic appointed guardian envoy, so it is said. ]
Gao Ruichu is currently the patrol envoy of Longya, which is equivalent to the governor of the Longya Peninsula (Malay Peninsula). .This is because the Longya Peninsula is much more developed than Boni and has a much larger population.Anyway, in short, the two brothers are relatives of the Gao family with a certain status in southern Xinjiang.

Another person Gao Ruichuan brought was his cousin Gao Zhang.Gao Zhang was born in the fifth room of the Gao family and was the son of Gao Wuben, Gao Pragmatic's cousin.

Gao Wuben is very good at giving birth, but not very good at raising it.He had ten sons, but only two survived to adulthood: the second son Gao Qi and the tenth son Gao Zhang.

Gao Qi needs no introduction. His courtesy name is Yufu, and he is the current intelligence secretary of the Secretariat. With Gao Mo's old age and frailty recently, Gao Pragmatic has been cultivating him and preparing him to take over the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He is an important confidant. .

As the tenth son, Gao Zhang is seven years younger than his second brother.His alias is Banfeng, and he was born as a student, but he is not fond of reading, but likes business matters, so he gave up his ambitions for fame and fame, and ran to southern Xinjiang.After Gao Wushi approached Gao Qi to get to know him, he appointed him as the director of Longya Port (Malacca Port), responsible for the daily management of the most important commercial port in Southeast Asia, and considered it a phased training.

The common feature of these three people is obvious: they are all relatives of the Gao family.The three of them visited Gao Mengnan hand in hand, which is understandable in normal times, to meet the elders of the clan.However, at this moment, if you come to visit the Gao family with the highest status in southern Xinjiang, it will inevitably attract attention-for example, someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs recorded the time when they entered the Siam Prime Minister's Mansion and the time when they left the mansion. As for them What did you say to Gao Mengnan in the prime minister's mansion...

"Second Uncle, we haven't seen the young master very much. You are always an elder. I don't know how to evaluate the young master's behavior in the past two days?" The person who asked the question was Gao Ruilong.

Gao Mengnan took the main seat, and said calmly: "Yuan'er is quite assertive, which can be said to be like a father's style."

Gao Ruilong raised his eyebrows slightly: "Sixth Uncle has always been a confidant to the clansmen, and we are all deeply indebted to him for this, but what about the Eldest Young Master... At least from the present point of view, he may be more confidant to Uncle's family."

Gao Mengnan thought about this question that day, but there were some things that he couldn't say directly to the three nephews, so he said: "You also said that you haven't seen him much, how do you know him well? Now that he is close to his uncle's family, Maybe it's just borrowing the strength of my uncle's family to raise soldiers, what's the crime?"

"Of course you can't say you're guilty." This time it was Gao Ruichu who took over the conversation and said: "The young master was ordered by the sixth uncle to take charge of the military affairs of the Western Expedition. Of course he said which army he wanted to recruit as his own soldiers. Calculate.

However, my nephew was puzzled by one thing: the troops in southern Xinjiang were all the troops of the sixth uncle's servants, and the eldest and young master was the Marquis of Nanning who responded, and these soldiers and horses belonged to him after all.Then why did he refuse to select his own soldiers from these garrison troops, but he chose to send troops from his uncle's house instead of close relatives and friends?
What's more, the Huang family's wolf soldiers are still the soldiers of the mother's family and uncle's family, so it's fine for him to call them as personal soldiers, but Liu Weizhong...they are the secretary-general's personal soldiers, and they are also the garrison army of Dingnan City.He transferred half of them out of his mouth like this, so he wasn't afraid that if something happened, it would be hard to explain in the future? "

Gao Mengnan shook his head and said: "Although the defense of Dingnan City has been in charge of the Madam and the Secretary-General's personal soldiers all these years, under the pseudonym of the Siamese Palace Guards. But you should also know that this is only because Madam is acting on behalf of Nanning. The expedient measure when waiting to sit in southern Xinjiang is not the economic system.

Siam originally had five towns in Dingnan, which were the most powerful military forces in southern Xinjiang, and the first town in Dingnan was stationed in Ayutthaya (the capital of Siam, the later Bangkok, is only [-] miles northwest of Dingnan City.), Don't talk about transferring half of them, even if Dingnan's troops are recruited and transferred, who would dare to make trouble under the eyes of the first town?What's more, nearly half of the main force of the Nanyang Fleet is also stationed in Dingnan Port, and there are tens of thousands of sailors on it. Does anyone dare to ignore this force? "

Gao Ruichu and Gao Ruilong brothers looked at each other, each frowning in silence.Gao Zhang on the side couldn't help but said: "Second Uncle, we are all from our own family, so we might as well say some things clearly. Although I am young and ignorant, I have studied for a few years after all. There is something I just can't help but want to ask now... ..."

Gao Mengnan glanced at him and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Gao Zhang took a deep breath and asked, "Second uncle will never forget the chaos of Zhu Lu, right? At first glance, the situation of our Gao family is very good, but the two aunts Huang and Liu, compared to Queen Lu... It doesn't seem to be much different."

"Bastard!" Gao Mengnan suddenly slapped the armrest and stared at him: "Is this what you learned from studying?"

Gao Zhang didn't expect Gao Mengnan's sudden change of face, he was terrified by his yelling, and flinched: "Why is the second uncle angry? What my nephew said is the truth... Madam has been in southern Xinjiang by herself for so many years, and those who have benefited from her are countless The number, and the secretary-general is like the chief assistant of Jinghua.

One of these two aunts is in charge of the military, and the other is in charge of politics. Judging from the eldest young master's words and deeds today, I am afraid that the two aunts have a very good relationship in private.Right now, Uncle Six is ​​already the chief assistant of the court, and he has a lot of things to do every day, how can he have the energy to intervene in Nanjiang?In this way, don't we worry about the morning rooster in Jinghua and our southern Xinjiang? "

Gao Mengnan took a deep breath and said slowly, "If you have any other ideas, you might as well say it once."

"Just say it, my nephew has nothing to say to others." Gao Zhang stiffened his neck and said, "Uncle Six has become the chief assistant, and he also sent away that annoying Shen Yiguan. Now there is only one Zhou Yong beside him. When you are around, you should raise your hand to be an old man, and the cabinet is nothing more than the sixth uncle who governs alone.

At this time, the imperial court is deploying troops to the northwest again, so the Sixth Uncle must be preoccupied with the imperial court's great affairs, and can't care about our southern border at all.Right now, the young master is coming first, the secretary-general is coming soon, and after that, the wife must be going south...Second uncle, if the two aunts are close, and the young master is all about getting close to his mother and aunt, and he only listens to their orders in everything, then What are we Gao family clansmen?Why can't we become outsiders instead! "
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