Daming Yuanfu

Time flies, and autumn is approaching in a blink of an eye. As soon as Gao Pangshi returned home that day, he saw Gao Qi following him with a letter in his hand, so he asked, "Where did you send it?"

Gao Qi didn't say much and simply replied: "Tamari."

Gao Pragmatic was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and suddenly asked: "Oh, Calcutta?"

"Yes, uncle." Gao Qi said, presenting the envelope in his hands with both hands.

Gao Pragmatic looked at the signature and found that it was not Gao Yuan, but Liu Xin. But soon he frowned slightly again. Why didn't Liu Xin's letter be sent by Fei Ge to rush it, but instead it was a formal letter?

"Is there anything else you want to say?" Gao pragmatically asked.

"Nothing important, nephew, please leave." Gao Qi bowed.

Gao Pragmatic was about to agree, but suddenly his heart moved and he said: "I have been staring at some letters from North Korea in the past few days. Calculating the time, Nalinbulu and Buzhai should be ready. It is time to make a move."

"Yes, uncle, nephew, don't worry." Gao Qi replied, seeing Gao pragmatically, he waved his hand and left.

Gao pragmatic took the envelope and went directly into the Rixin Building. When he went upstairs and entered his study, the sharp-eyed maids had already taken the time to serve him tea. Gao pragmatic nodded slightly to them, walked to the desk, opened the envelope and read the letter.

As soon as he opened the letter, Gao Pragmatic was stunned.

The format is wrong. This letter actually uses the later format of writing horizontally from left to right. Obviously, apart from himself, the only person in this era who can write Chinese characters in this way is Liu Xin.

When he looked at the content again, it became even more interesting. This letter was directly written in the vernacular of later generations. At this moment, it was almost more colloquial than spoken language.

“To the recipient who no one else dares to open this letter anyway:

I originally thought you were already quite troublesome. You have so many and difficult ideas. Not only do you have to devote your whole life to it, but I also have to work hard. But I never would have imagined that your son, who I have watched grow up, is not even an adult yet, but he already has his own set of ideas like you. He made me a big mess here in India!

Come on, let me get down to business, lest you say that I wrote the letter specifically to complain.

Oh, I won’t go into detail about the last time your son was punished. I’ll just briefly mention a few situations that you may not be aware of. This kid was aware of the strangeness of his generals beforehand, but the fact that he didn't stop him seriously was not what you thought. It was because he wanted to express his killing power in the eyes of outsiders through such a killing. Decisive, but he forgot that this matter would in turn show that he lacked the ability to intimidate the army, especially senior generals.

I had a special conversation with him about this issue afterwards, and it was obvious that he himself was very upset. After all, the generals did not dare to go against his will - unless his will goes against yours.

Of course, I also know that it is common for military commanders in this era to kill people on enemy soil, sometimes to intimidate others, and sometimes simply to vent their anger, so I did not blame him for this. I just told him that sometimes the more you want to show something, the easier it is to lose points on that issue.

I advised him to fight this battle according to his own will, rather than fight this battle for "how my father wants me to fight." As for how much he can listen, I don't know. Perhaps you would prefer that I not talk too much about this matter?

Then let’s talk about the current battle situation. The current overall performance of the Indian battlefield is good, especially our military's own combat performance is basically in line with expectations, and may even slightly exceed expectations.

When I came to the front line, Gaoyuan and the others had completely controlled Chittagong, and at noon on the third day after the Battle of Chittagong, they defeated an army of Mughals from the original Bengal Sultanate near the mouth of the Ganges River in the Bay of Bengal. fleet.

This fleet is relatively weak. According to post-war inquiries, the Mughals were not only unfamiliar with water warfare, but also had no interest in water warfare at all. Therefore, this fleet has been gathering dust for a long time. This time they thought of sending out temporarily, just hoping that they could take advantage of the favorable wind direction to inquire about Chittagong news earlier.

The fleet was not large in size, and the ships were old and old, and they were all small and medium-sized ships. Gao Yuan was disappointed after seeing it, and was about to order it to be burned down. I originally thought it was of no use and would be lost after burning it, but the Navy thought it could be reused.

They think they can keep these ships and use them to enter some Ganges tributaries with limited water depth when we attack Bangladesh. After all, those places may not be suitable for our large-scale ship operations. Gao Yuan and I agreed after looking at the topography and water system maps sent by Xi Zuo, because the entire Bangladesh region is almost criss-crossed by river networks, similar to Jiangnan. Then we contacted the Mughal prince and the leader of the local Bengali people. I have a relatively general impression of this eldest prince. Although I have never met him, judging from his reply, I think there is a comment that suits him very well: 'Forgetting your righteousness when you see small gains, and cherishing your life when doing big things'.

We were already discussing taking over the entire Bengal region, and he was still wondering whether this was the best time to rebel. According to the words of his envoy, the eldest prince hopes that he will raise troops to rebel only when we successfully capture Bengal and stimulate his father, Emperor Akbar, to send a large army back to Bengal.

I guess he may have hoped to wait until the reinforcements sent by the Mughals to Bengal fought with us, then raise troops behind them, and then attack us from front to back to completely eliminate the reinforcements. I know this seems a bit unwise. After all, the reinforcements are also the property of the Mughal Empire. If his rebellion succeeds, isn't this his own property?

However, after a collaborative analysis by our frontline generals, the eldest prince may believe that the reinforcements sent by Akbar this time are either direct troops controlled by his third brother Daniyar, or that his father Akbar personally led the army. . Regardless of whether the visitor is his third brother or his father, in his eyes, it is probably best to become dead. That makes sense.

However, in this case, when we offered to spend 50,000 taels of silver in exchange for the right to free trade in the entire Mughal Empire in the future, he agreed without hesitation and said that if the money could be used in what he called If he gave it before the emperor, then when he successfully ascends to the throne of God, he can make "your businessmen only need to pay half of other people's taxes forever."

We were originally worried that his envoy was just perfunctory, but afterwards the eldest prince personally sent a letter to confirm this promise again. Although the expenditure of fifty thousand taels of silver is within the limit you have allowed, I think it is best for you to confirm in person whether you want to pay it or not.

Regarding the results of the liaison with the eldest prince, our frontline discussion believed that it was basically acceptable, so we quickly launched an attack on the entire Bengal - of course, our eastern front had already won the victory before this, leaving only a small number of troops. While stationed in Arakan, I sent a letter to Nan Ding, asking Sister Zhiting to send more manpower to ensure the stability of Arakan.

Oh, by the way, the Portuguese pirate mercenaries you mentioned several times before were also wiped out. The navy said that apart from the fact that these Portuguese dared to fight more than the local Arakan army, it was actually no big deal. The so-called advanced tactics meant that they were a little more advanced than the Arakan people, whether it was ships or guns, or even the final battle. The performance of the musket array is average.

The battle to attack Bengal was generally smooth. It can be seen that most of the main Mughal forces stationed there were indeed transferred away by the third prince Daniyar. However, the Battle of Tamori that we launched at the beginning was still delayed for a few days because some coastal defenses were actually built here.

Later, I learned that this place has always been a seaport city. The Europeans came here as pirates, which scared many seaport cities and built some coastal defenses, including embankments with forts and intrusions at the bottom of the main entrance to the port. There are thick pointed wooden stakes and so on. In order to get these things, the navy spent a lot of effort and time, and even damaged several ships.

Of course, we eventually captured the port and successfully advanced in subsequent operations. The local leader also launched an uprising on time, although the scale was smaller than what we had said during the previous negotiations... But anyway, the target was achieved in the end, and neither Gao Yuan nor I intend to pursue this small issue.

The thing that needs your personal order now is whether to appoint or allow this person to call himself the Sultan of Bengal? I think he really wants to declare himself the Sultan of Bangladesh.

Of course, I have to tell you that the frontline generals, including Gao Yuan, do not want him to become the 'Sultan'. In other words, even if you allow him to become a nominal ruler like the King of Siam and the King of Bago, they do not want this person to be titled "Sultan". They believed that the ecclesiastical nature of this title was too obvious, and they would rather call him the King of Bengal than the Sultan of Bengal.

Then there was a piece of news that made the eldest prince happy, or should be said to be two pieces of news: the first was that Daniyar drank too much on the front line and drank himself to death; the second was that Emperor Akbar had personally led his troops to Bangladesh is coming.

I estimate that by the time you read this letter, even if Akbar's army has not fought with us, it should not be far away. Therefore, it was around this time that the eldest prince raised his troops. Ha, how about you go to the temple and burn incense sticks first, hoping that Emperor Akbar, whom you highly praised, will not be angered to death by his only remaining unfilial son?

That’s pretty much what I’m going to say. Let’s talk about something personal at the end. I heard that my brother suffered a defeat near Turpan and lost a lot of baggage. I had to plead with him: he was not a general good at fighting in the grasslands and Gobi, and now he had to fight this battle. It would be like this. This kind of mistake that does not cause too much loss of troops should be within your tolerance range, right?

Of course, looking at it now, it must be quite a headache for you to have a war that should be fought quickly and be delayed for a year, but after all, these are all problems that money can solve. I believe you must have a way. Then don't embarrass my brother too much.

Finally, I gave Chun'er and Zhen'er a hug, and said that my mother would soon defeat the bad guy and come back to accompany them to watch the sea in Tianjin Port.

Boo!

Not well-known. "

When Gao Pingshi saw the end, he couldn't help but show a rare sincere smile. He subconsciously brought the letter to his lips and kissed it gently.

"I promise you all." He whispered.
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