Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 706 Code Name: Snake Catching

When the Battle of Lang Son came to an end, another battle that made Gao Yushi even more worried was about to start.

This battle has a code name drawn up by Gao Yushi himself: Snake Catch.

The capital of the Mo Dynasty, and even the capital recognized by the entire Annan including the Le Dynasty, is called Thang Long, which is the Hanoi of later generations.

The city was established at the beginning of 621 AD. It was called "Zicheng" at that time, and it was called "Songping" in Tang Dynasty. In 886, it became a fortress, called "Da Luo", and was the seat of Gao Pian in the Tang Dynasty.

In 1010, Li Gongyun took advantage of Youchong, the heir of the former Li Dynasty, usurped the throne, changed Yuan to Shuntian, and established the Li Dynasty.

The first policy promulgated by Li Gongyun in the first year of Suncheon was to move the capital from Hoa Lu to Da Luo City and change it to Thang Long.Li Gongyun said to his subordinates: "I look at the map. Gao Pian's old capital, Daluo City, is located in the world. There is a tendency of dragons and tigers. The four directions converge, and the people are rich. It is also the capital above the emperor. I want to take advantage of this place. , to settle down."

Li Gongyun asked all the ministers for their opinions in the court, and all the ministers said: Your Majesty said that this is the benefit of all generations.Li Gongyun Dayue moved from Hualu to Daluo City.When Yu Zhou arrived at the city, a dragon saw him, and he ordered the city to be renamed Shenglong City.

After the capital was established in Shenglong, Li Gong gathered the assets of the whole country, and made a large-scale construction according to the Chinese architectural style.

Thang Long is located in the resource-rich Red River Plain, and is close to the sea. It has rich products and a thriving population. As the center of the dynasty's foundation, it can get rid of the restrictions of the old capital's mountain tribe's herdsman economy, which is very beneficial to the rule of the new dynasty. As a result, the Chen Dynasty and the Houli Dynasty after the Li Dynasty both laid their capitals here.

However, Gao Yushi may have committed Wang Mang's fault for a while, and he was a little bit disapproving of the name of Shenglong City, so he named this combat operation that took Shenglong City as the target "Snake Catching".

dragon?
Outside of China, how dare you call yourself a dragon!
It was Gao Yu who was in charge of carrying out the "snake catching" operation.

After Gao Yu's honeymoon, he was transferred from Gyeonggi to Annan. If it was an ordinary family, he would be very unhappy, not to mention Gao Yu himself would be unhappy, and his new wife would definitely be even more unhappy.

However, Gao Yu and his wife were just the opposite. Both of them were very satisfied and even grateful for this transfer order.

Because Gao Yu's wife is none other than Gao Yushi's maid Shangyue in the past, um...now she is called Gao Shangyue.

Gao Yu was originally an older youth. Although he was highly valued before, no one solved his "big life-long affairs" for him.

Later, he has become a member of the servant guard group, and he is still alone. It just so happens that Gao Yushi is gradually getting older. Be pragmatic and call the shots, marry Shangyue to Gao Jue, and Tingqin to Gao Xiaozhuang.

In fact, before this, no one in Jinghua dared to propose the idea of ​​the second daughter, Yue Tingqin. According to them, the result of Shangyue Tingqin should be taken over by Gao Yushi.But it turns out that Gao Yushi does not have this idea, he would rather use it to strengthen the loyalty of his subordinates.

Of course, this is actually a side benefit. Gao Yushi mainly thinks that he has no lust for their two daughters, and taking over the house is not good for them-the status of a housewife entering a concubine actually does not improve much. Instead of being a concubine, It would be better to marry Gao Yu and Gao Xiaozhuang as regular wives.

Whether the two daughters of watching the moon and listening to the piano have any regrets, this outsider does not know, but they can definitely feel that Gao Pragmatism really cares about them.

Although Gao Yu is only the leader of the servants in name, he is not an ordinary leader of the servants. He usually has thousands of direct subordinates, distributed in many places such as Gyeonggi and Henan. Jinghua's local mine protection team and factory protection team will also be uniformly dispatched by Gao Yu.

In other words, he is the top general of Gao Yushi's "Guanjun".

Gao Jue was in charge of the army, while Gao Xiaozhuang was in charge of money.Gao Xiaozhuang has always been in charge of the three major factories in Kaiping. Later, after the completion of the Jinghua Gun Factory and the Jinghua Artillery Factory, Gao Xiaozhuang also dispatched them. It can be said that the most important industrial base of Jinghua, "Kaiping Industrial Zone", is fully in the hands of Gao Xiaozhuang.

Therefore, Gao Yu was transferred to Qinzhou not long after his honeymoon ended. Not only is it not a bad thing, but it is also a manifestation of his continued trust by Gao Yushi.That being the case, how could their husband and wife be unhappy?

However, Gao Yu's mood was still a little tense at the moment.He has fought Japanese pirates, traveled to the north of the Great Wall, and suppressed bandits, but this is the first time he has fought against the Annan people.

But fortunately, the master handed over the mountain warfare on the northern front to the two chieftains of Cen Huang, and he was in charge of the Thang Long area in the plain area.

The Red River Plain, where the water network is criss-crossed, should be similar to the geographical environment when he fought in the south of the Yangtze River, but the big situation is also somewhat different.

From Thang Long to Thanh Hoa, this area has been fighting for decades. Now the north and the south are confronting each other, and Mo Chao happened to send troops to the south. It would be fine if Mo Chao wins. The situation to be faced is even more complicated.

Gao Yu didn't think his master's actions were strange this time. In his opinion, the so-called "battle of revenge" of the master was definitely just an external rhetoric. Based on his understanding of the master, he could use so many resources to fight against the enemy. The purpose of promoting this war can only be profit.

And it's a huge benefit.

But Gao Yushi didn't say it clearly, and Gao Yu could only rely on guesswork: What benefits can Annan have?
When he became the ancestor, he could only collect more than 7 taels of silver tax in Annan every year, and the highest silver consumption was nearly one million taels a year, even when nothing happened. A few 10 taels, if it weren't for such a huge financial hole, how could Xuanzong simply lose Annan?

Unless Annan has a mine!

Gao Yu guessed in his heart that if Annan had a big mine, the master would not have such a great interest in this kind of barren land, but how big must Annan's mine be for the master to spend such a capital?
The point is, the master doesn't seem to be short of mines now.

Come on, don't think about making money if you can't figure it out. Anyway, the master is better than yourself. Right now, the key is to think about how to win Shenglong.

Gao Yu now has a copy of the general layout of Shenglong City, which Gao Mengnan asked Gao Mengnan to transfer to him. In addition, there is also a description of the hydrology of the Red River.

These two things were provided by a merchant in Guangzhou Port. The merchant's surname was Hu, who happened to be in the pepper business, and of course occasionally traded in agarwood and the like.During the Ming Dynasty, Cantonese merchants were also a considerable commercial force, which is why the highly pragmatic Jinghua has only laid a foundation in Guangzhou Port for so many years.

However, this Boss Hu (the term "boss" has existed since ancient times, and he came from the south) is not a native Cantonese businessman. Repel bullying.After the highly pragmatic Jinghua's influence expanded to Guangzhou, he observed it for a while, and then made up his mind to take refuge in the past—to take refuge in the past did not mean selling himself, but that all his cargo ships used Jinghua's private port of Guangzhou.

Boss Hu's fleet is not that big, even calling it a fleet is a bit exaggerated. In fact, he only has three ships in total, and they are much smaller than Jinghua's own armed transport ships.Because Jinghua's armed transport ship needs to be equipped with cannons, its tonnage is relatively large on the coast of Daming. [Wufeng Note: Regarding the ratio of "material" to "ton", there are several different opinions on the Internet, and some experts' statements are also contradictory. This ratio is adopted in this book, mainly because it is more convenient. ]
Boss Hu's three ships are only [-] materials in size, but they also have armed forces. At the beginning, they only hired some sailors who dared to fight and fight. Later, after investing in Jinghua, he bought twelve Jinghua ships. The naval gun was installed on his own ship, and since then it has been walking sideways along the northern coast of Annan, and even Mo Chao's navy seldom troubled him.

His business is also mainly in Annan and the north, and he occasionally goes to the south, but not much, because Mo Chao in the north is nominally the commander-in-chief of Daming, and Daming's face is better here.

His boat was not too big, and he often sailed directly from the mouth of the Red River to Thang Long for trading. He was familiar with the hydrology and waterways of the Red River.So this time, Gao Wushi wanted to attack Mo Chao. When he was mobilizing sea power in Guangzhou Port, Boss Hu took the initiative to ask for help. He not only provided the layout of Shenglong City, but also provided a more critical hydrological description of the Red River.

He even personally joined Gao Yushi's sea expeditionary force, and his three cannon transport ships became part of the two hundred or so sea ships mobilized by Gao Yushi.In fact, for a sea merchant like him, there are still [-] or [-] ships in the highly pragmatic fleet this time.

Of course, Boss Hu can’t say that he has any loyalty to Gao Yushi. They have no commanding relationship. What he and other bosses who are willing to join the Gao’s expedition fleet value is Jinghua’s thigh, um… maybe it should be called giant thigh.

In their opinion, Jinghua is really powerful, with a port, a fleet, a shipyard, and a gun factory, not to mention that Jinghua's owner is also the emperor's classmate, the six champions of Gengchenke!

What does it mean to hug Jinghua's thigh?It means that they are basically not afraid of finding fault with the government, which means that they can buy anything they want from Jinghua...whether it is a ship, a gun, or even equipped with some muskets for the sailors-although in theory it is against the law, But out of the sea, Daming's method is not very easy to use, only firearms are easy to use.

Gao Yu looked at the brochure in his hand again, turned his head and finally confirmed to Boss Hu, who is tall and fat, who does not look like ordinary southerners at all: "Boss Hu, at this time, our fleet can really run directly along the Red River. Is it under Shenglong City?"

Although Boss Hu is tall and fat, he looks like a Bodhisattva when he smiles, cheerful and not nervous at all: "Don't worry Gao Tuanzuo, the Red River is wide and deep enough. This waterway has been going down for more than ten years. , there will be no problem. If Annan had been prepared, it would be possible to plant something like a dark toon in the river, but their navy is far stronger than the Southern Dynasty, and they don’t know that they will suddenly send troops to attack Shenglong by water. , These things are definitely not available right now... After all, after the dark toon is installed, his own navy will not be convenient."

(End of this chapter)