Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 701 War Accounts (4 changes over ten thousand)
When the emperor's imperial decree was urgently issued to Guangxi, Gao Wushi had just had a heart-to-heart talk with Zhang Ren, the governor of Guangxi.

Zhang Ren's Gu poison has basically been lifted, but he was too poisoned before and almost died of illness, so he is very weak until now, and he shouldn't have left Guilin so easily.

However, the fact that Gao Wushi wanted to conquer Annan still made him break out in a cold sweat. He ignored Miss Ali's warning that he should not be overworked, and went to Nanning to meet Gao Wushi in person.

Gao Wushi was very surprised by his visit. After talking with him, he found out that Zhang Ren came here because he was worried.

He was not very worried that Mo Chao would be able to fight in Guangxi, but worried that Gao Pragmatism would "promote his division due to anger" and underestimate Annan's complexity, resulting in heavy losses.

Zhang Ren asked Gao Wushi if he knew the request made by Zhang Jing, a famous official in Jiajing and the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, when he received Emperor Jiajing's southern conquest of Annan.

Of course, Gao Wushi knew that although his plan for Annan took only a few months, he still did a lot of homework during these few months, and he did not change his usual "excessive calculation" style.

Zhang Jing’s report to Jiajing at that time said that it was very troublesome to fight Annan. The fee is more than 30 yuan, and I have to transfer the public, and I am involved in the sea of ​​fire, and I have a different situation than that of others, so I must be judged and punished."

What do you mean?There are six ways to fight Annan, but it needs to mobilize an army of 30 people, and the annual military expenditure is 160 million taels, plus shipbuilding, buying horses, building weapons, and rewarding the army, and an additional 70 taels. , It costs 230 million taels of silver a year.

Besides, beating Annan is because the opponent is waiting for work at ease. We are at a great disadvantage, so we have to pay attention.

The last point can be ignored for the time being, because during the period between the memorial and the imperial decree, the Mo Dynasty has already mobilized the army to the south, and the war with the Li Dynasty is about to start, so it is no longer there. difference.

However, Gao Pragmatic has different opinions on the previous ones, especially the various figures mentioned by Zhang Jing.

First of all, it is said that 30 troops are needed to fight Annan.This is a typical style of fighting with the mentality of going to heaven, just like when Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goryeo, did he really need a million troops to fight Goryeo?Did Tang Gaozong Li Zhi send millions of troops when he destroyed Goryeo?
No need at all, in fact, whether it is an army of one million or 30, it is largely for the sake of style—the style of the heavenly kingdom.

Take a look at our Heavenly Kingdom, it's awesome, there are hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, overwhelming, with momentum like a rainbow, isn't it just like playing with you small countries?So this is actually more of a need for face than an actual need.

Of course, the troops that Zhang Jing was able to mobilize at that time were mainly guard soldiers. The combat effectiveness of the guard soldiers...probably was mainly to gather the number of people to make the army look more unstoppable. When the real fight started, it still depended on the servants and the squad The army relies on the chieftain three times.

However, calculated according to the proportion, the family members of the generals together do not exceed [-] at most, and the squadron is about [-] to [-]. At that time, the chieftain was able to mobilize Zhang Jing. His loyalty and combat effectiveness are questionable, so he doesn't use it much).

Calculated in this way, among the 30 troops mentioned by Zhang Jing, the part that is truly capable of fighting is only 8 to [-] people. significance.

Gao Wuzhen had now obtained the absolute support of the Cen and Huang families, and promised them generous profits and generous rewards, as well as providing them with logistical support.

The [-] households mobilized by Gao Yushi are also in place. To a certain extent, these [-] households are the "experimental troops" built by Qi Jiguang, Liu Xian and others with the money and efforts of Gao Yushi. The main experimental direction is It has a higher degree of firearms than Qi's army.

Although Gao Yushi has always doubted his commanding ability, he has no doubts about Qi Jiguang's military training ability. He feels that the combat effectiveness of this guard group is reliable. As long as he doesn't command blindly, there should be no major defeats Case.

As for the so-called blind command, Gao Yushi thinks that the biggest blind command is love to divide troops.

Love to divide troops is really a characteristic of Ming Dynasty. In the historical battle of Sarhu, although the Eight Banners soldiers in Jianzhou were at their peak, if the Ming army did not divide their troops randomly, they would actually be able to fight. Almost broke the teeth of the Eight Banners, and at that time Liu Ting didn't wait for the Sichuan soldiers he was used to bringing, but went out with the troops assigned to him by the imperial court.

It can be seen that the division of troops is really worthy of the taboo that the Taizu of the Hong Dynasty emphasized countless times. On the contrary, it was Nurhachi's "Ren Er came a few ways, I only went all the way" style of play, which was similar to the Taizu of the Hong Dynasty's "concentrate forces, each Break" is the same idea.

Therefore, in terms of military strength, Gao Wushi felt that he had enough at hand now, and he didn't need a 30 army at all-although he was rich, he didn't dare to say that he could support a 30 army for an expedition.

Now that it was about money, Gao Wushi had a careful discussion with Zhang Ren. Generally speaking, he thought there was something wrong with Zhang Jing's financial account, at least compared to the situation he was facing now, it was Totally inconsistent.

First of all, the first point is that the 30 army is gone, and only [-] to [-] troops need to be raised. This does not need to be explained.

Then, for the [-] to [-] troops, the chieftain wolf soldiers do not pay military salaries, only the highly pragmatic servants have to pay, and the salary standards are relatively high.However, Gao Pragmatic's servants also paid their salaries in normal times. During wartime, it was only a part of the increase, plus the reward after winning. Even if the final total was doubled, it would not have much impact on Gao Pragmatic.

At present, the regular salary of Gao Jiajia is four taels a month, a typical high salary, if the reward is included, the final total expenses will be doubled, that is, eight taels, how much is a month? 4 taels.

Is it low?Certainly not low, quite high, close to 50 taels a year.But in fact, the increase is only more than 20 taels. How can he be so pragmatic that he can't afford this amount of money?

Therefore, the monthly expenditure calculated by Gao Pragmatically is a sky-high 10 taels of silver. Even if the battle is fierce and the loss is relatively large, it is better to add 5 taels, which is only 15 taels, and he can still support it—he is far away from himself. It has only been half a year since he left office, but he never thought that this battle would last for more than a year. What he wants is to fight fast, so the military salary must be enough, and it won't even drag down Jinghua. The great thing is that Jinghua is here Expansion was suspended during the war.

As for the other 70 taels in Zhang Jing's account, Gao Yushi ignored it at all-he has ships, horses are not lacking, weapons are prepared in advance, and rewards... this money has been calculated just now It's in the military pay.

Zhang Ren was a little dazed after hearing Gao Yushi's analysis. Why did the court need so much expenditure to fight Annan, but Gao Yushi's fight was so much less all of a sudden?
But he can't say that the highly pragmatic analysis is unreasonable, because the account is really clear, and the only question is whether the 6 or [-] people are really enough.

After all, when Zhang Ren and Liu Yaohui attacked Bazhai before, their idea was to encircle and suppress the Bazhai army, not Gao Wushi's current onslaught of elite troops, so he was still a little suspicious for a while.

In his mind, 30 troops naturally sounded more powerful...

Gao Wushi smiled and said nothing, he knew that Zhang Ren and his group's ideas were outdated long ago, just looking at Qi Jiguang, he knew that now is not the time to engage in crowd tactics.When the sea-of-crowd tactics came into play again, it had already entered the period of industrialized mass production, but now, it is the period of elite soldiers fighting, just like those European colonists, a few hundred people can destroy a big country (such as Spain destroying Aztec, of course, this has accident factor and Spain has native allies), so now the quality era has begun.

In the end, Zhang Ren failed to persuade Gao Yushi, so he could only sigh and wish Gao Yushi good luck.

(End of this chapter)