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Gao Pragmatic told Huang Zhiting his thoughts. Huang Zhiting's face gradually became serious. After thinking for a while, he said: "You leave these matters to me. It seems that you hope that I will take charge of Annan for you during this war."
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Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Yes."
Huang Zhiting asked: "In addition to preventing changes in Annan, do I also need to coordinate Annan's various affairs to support the war in Yunnan?"
Gao pragmatic still said: "Yes."
Huang Zhiting continued to ask: "Will Annan also send troops?"
"The issue of Annan sending troops requires me to report to the court first, especially to convince the emperor that Annan has the spare capacity." Gao Pragmatic sighed lightly: "Actually, I had planned this matter two years ago.
, It’s just that the conditions didn’t allow it at the time..." Then he explained the previous situation again.
Huang Zhiting listened quietly and said thoughtfully: "It turns out that you were thinking about these things when you met the Dao brothers at Hoan Kiem Lake... Let's not talk about whether the emperor agrees with Annan's sending troops. I want to know if
Annan is going to send troops. How many troops do you plan to send and who will lead them? Also, since we have to take the sea route, is this sea route safe now? Will the military rations be allocated from Annan?"
Gao pragmatically said: "My current idea is that the Thang Long garrison will mobilize 10,000 people to go south to Jinggang to assist in the defense, while the Jinggang garrison will mobilize 10,000 people to prepare for the expedition by sea to Siam. In addition to the 10,000 Jinggang garrison,
In addition to the people, Ruan Juan, Mo Yulin, and Ruan Huang each mobilized three to four thousand soldiers, making up a total of ten thousand for the expedition. The chieftains of the former Guangxi who moved to Annan also mobilized wolf soldiers based on the total of ten thousand, roughly including your Huang family and
The Cen family each contributed three thousand, and the other chieftains contributed four thousand."
Huang Zhiting frowned and said: "I know your intention in recruiting Ruan Juan, Mo Yulin and Ruan Huang to join forces, but from the time you pacified Annan until now, we have never seriously integrated their troops with our own.
We have commanded together before, always letting them lead by themselves, which is a real 'conquest', but this time... you still plan to do this?"
Gao pragmatic raised his eyebrows slightly and asked: "Are you afraid that the soldiers will be too mixed, which will make it difficult to command, and you will not be able to use your fingers like your arms?"
Huang Zhiting said unceremoniously: "Like an arm and a finger? Then you have to lead it yourself. I don't think anyone else can do it. Neither I nor Cen Ling can do this."
Gao pragmatically said: "I plan to let Gao Jue lead the army as the main general, and Cen Ling as the deputy."
"You transferred the army commander to Siam?" Huang Zhiting said in surprise: "If he leaves, what will happen to the remaining 40,000 Sheng Long garrison?"
"Of course you will be in charge." Gao pragmatically said: "Zhiting, the Shenglong garrison will be in charge of Shenglong, 50,000 or 40,000. In fact, there is not much difference. The key is to control those people in the Mo family's Commander-in-Chief Division. You
I have a special status. As long as I have an order conveyed to Shenglong, the Shenglong Guard Army will not disobey orders. Maybe after Gao Jue leaves, other middle and high-level guards in the Guard Army will only be extra obedient in front of you, instead of deliberately making things difficult.
You can rest assured on this."
Huang Zhiting was a little disbelieving at first, but after thinking about it, she understood. However, her face turned a little red, and she spat: "I am not Mrs. Gao now."
I have to say that her speaking style is quite open-minded among the ladies of the Ming Dynasty.
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "It's just a matter of time. It's good to experience it in advance."
Huang Zhiting's face turned redder and redder, and she subconsciously changed the topic and said, "When will I leave?"
"Don't rush these days." Gao pragmatically said: "The imperial court's response is not that fast. Regarding the situation in Yunnan, they may have to discuss it for several days to come up with a result. In addition, if I propose to the imperial court, whether the imperial court agrees will have to wait.
Look... this will take some time. You should seize the time these days to understand the economic situation of Liaodong and Annan. Then I will try to find a way to balance the problem of cargo ships for you. You cannot always be satisfied.
It’s such a waste of transportation capacity to come here and return with only half a load.”
Huang Zhiting said: "Actually, I have two ideas. Do you want to listen to them?"
"Oh? Come on, tell me." Gao Pragmatic was a little surprised and thought to himself: This girl has made progress. In the past, I only knew that she could fight, but now she has developed into domestic affairs?
In fact, Gao Jingshi had a different idea. In the past, Huang Zhiting was also able to take care of internal affairs. After all, she was in charge of their family back then. If she didn't understand internal affairs, big trouble would have happened. Now, in fact, it can only be said that she has been dating Gao Jingshi for a long time. For these
The understanding of things has improved again.
Huang Zhiting said: "In the short term, Annan can buy horses; in the long term, you can also buy tussah silk and various tussah silk products in the future."
Horses are really a good thing in this era, and they are needed everywhere. There is a shortage of horses in Annan, that's for sure. The horses produced there are almost all kinds of ponies, including in neighboring Guangxi.
This type of pony can be used for transportation on mountain roads, or as a comfort horse for women or children to ride on, but it is nonsense to use it for combat.
However, as far as Gao Pingshi knew, the terrain in Annan, and even the Indochina Peninsula except for a few plains, did not seem suitable for northern war horses, so Huang Zhiting probably considered this when she said "buying horses in the short term".
That is to say, Annan does need a batch of war horses, but the quantity is limited. Of course, limited returns are limited, and transporting horses accounts for a high amount of transportation. This transaction can indeed avoid empty ships returning south.
As for buying tussah silkworm products in the future, that’s a good thing, because the sericulture industry in southern Liaoning is a key arrangement for southern Liaoning, and its future development will definitely be very fast - raising sericulture is actually not that difficult, and tussah silkworms
He is also relatively easy to maintain, and he has engaged in "intensive training". At first glance, it seems that he is preparing for a large-scale explosion in output.
The two people then discussed the matter for a while, and generally agreed that the amount of horses Annan would buy was indeed not large, but it was not very small either. A fleet could buy about 500 horses at a time.
It may be at the level of 2,000 horses a year.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In fact, not all of these horses will join the army when they arrive in Annan. Many people with higher social status will buy them, especially military generals, but they are not high-end horses.
I am now interested in thinking about it in detail.
Speaking of which, Liaodong's economy is already very deformed, and it is really not easy to bring Liaodong and Annan together.
For example, in terms of agriculture, Liaodong is different from other parts of the country. In the early Ming Dynasty, the country's cultivated land, including military villages and civilian villages, totaled 903,313 hectares, accounting for about 8.57 million hectares of the total cultivated land at that time.
Ten point sixty-two percent of one thousand six hundred and twenty-three hectares. So what was the situation in Liaodong in the early Ming Dynasty? In Liaodong, there was "no land except for farming."
"Quan Liao Zhi" records that "the fields were returned to the village for planting and the seeds were harvested, and the remaining soldiers of each army paid out the evidence every year for the public use. Even if there were tax fields, as in the case of Heji, it was always
The whole town gathered together to cultivate the fields, and nine out of ten of them were cultivated." It can be seen that in the early Ming Dynasty, the land management form in Liaodong was mainly military settlements, which was an important feature of Liaodong's economy in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, this situation changed later. First, the military nature of Liaodong's economy gradually weakened; second, the general trend of Liaodong's economy became increasingly dilapidated.
The military nature of Liaodong's economy is gradually weakening, which is mainly reflected in the decline of Liaodong's farming and the transformation of military farming into civilian farming from the early years of Yongle to the end of Jiajing. Although Liaodong's farming declined during this period, on the whole, Liaodong's economy is still
develop.
According to the archives reviewed by Gao Jingshi since he was promoted to governor, the military settlements in Liaodong were most developed in the late years of Hongwu and the early years of Yongle. The farmland reached 25,378 hectares, and military settlements accounted for nine out of ten of the total cultivated land. Yongle 17
Each year, there were only 21,171 hectares of farmland in Liaodong, a decrease of 4,207 hectares or 16.58% compared with the early Yongle year.
Since then, the number of cultivated fields has gradually decreased. In the third year of Zhengde, the number of cultivated fields was 17,931 hectares, which was a decrease of 3,240 hectares compared with the 17th year of Yongle.
However, the number of civilian farmland was 21,593 hectares, an increase of more than 15,000 hectares compared with the early Yongle period. At this time, farmland only accounted for 45.37% of the cultivated land area.
In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, the amount of farmland was 10,924 hectares, which was a decrease of 7,000 hectares compared with the third year of Zhengde. The amount of civilian land was 27,491 hectares, which was an increase from the third year of Zhengde.
Nearly 6,000 hectares. Farming accounts for 28.44% of the cultivated land area, a significant decrease.
After the Jiajing period, the second change in Liaodong's economy was that it became increasingly dilapidated. Before the Jiajing period, although the military settlements in Liaodong were declining day by day, the civilian fields were increasing. However, after the Jiajing period, both the military settlements and civilian fields were decreasing day by day.
For example, last year, the tenth year of Wanli, there were 8,903 hectares of military settlements and 24,188 hectares of civilian farmland in Liaodong, with a total cultivated area of 33,091 hectares.
Compared with the last years of Jiajing, the military settlements decreased by more than 1,000 hectares, the civilian farmland decreased by more than 3,000 hectares, and the total cultivated land area decreased by more than 4,000 hectares. If Gao Pragmatic’s memory is correct, this development trend has been reduced in the original period.
In history, from the end of Wanli to the Chongzhen period, the situation will become even more serious. There are various reasons, but there is no need to mention them for the time being.
The ruined economy of Liaodong was also reflected in the large number of Liao people who fled. In the first year of Hongzhi, "more and more Liao people fled". In the seventh year of Wanli, "half of the military and civilians fled" in the entire Liao town.
Some "haunted the islands of Shandong to live in the fishing sea, avoiding the more important and taking the less important, never returning." Some fled to the Jurchen settlements, where they farmed and worked for the Jurchen nobles.
In the last period of history, in Liaodong, "young and brave men died in Jianzhou." Pan Zongyan, who wrote about Kaiyuan Road's military preparations, wrote: "When I went to Huan Tieling, the residents along the way were in groups of hundreds, or thirty or fifty.
Everyone in the group, no matter they were fifty or sixty, complained one after another, crying that they could not find grass beans to buy, that the local produce had been exhausted, and that all the spring seeds were gone. Seeing that the people now live without grains, they had no choice but to flee.
The current situation is not that serious, but it is beginning to have this trend, especially under the operational ideas implemented by Li Chengliang, who do not "defend the territory" very much, but tend to attack the opponent's soldiers and horses, which has caused some areas to
We are always hit by wars, and of course the economy is getting worse day by day.
The economic ruin caused Liao people to flee, and the Liao people's flight accelerated and aggravated the economic ruin of Liaodong. This was already a dead end, and the only way to change Li Chengliang's combat thinking was to change it.
The economic situation in Liaodong can be roughly divided into three regions. The first is the area west of the Liaohe River, which is often invaded by the Mongolian occupation tribes. From the east of Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Yizhou, the area is "fertile but fertile."
"Desolate", "Village fields have been exhausted", "There are no villages for more than three hundred miles, but there are a few villages near Guangning, but they are scattered like morning stars."
One hundred and eighty miles from the east of Guangning to the Sancha River, you can see yellow sand and white grass, and the sight is desolate." "The land is desolate, but there is no one to cultivate it, the grain is in arrears, and there is no one to pay for it. The degree of desolation is, "Although there are many places along the border.
There are only forty or fifty houses in the fort with a large number of soldiers and civilians, and only twenty houses with a small number."
For the Mongolian tribes, "there are no villages to rob in front of Ning". For the Ming Dynasty border generals, "each general can only defend three or four forts, and there are no villages to protect." Gao Pingshi also came to Liaodong when he took office.
Having passed through western Liaoning, I have some experience with this.
The second is the area east of the Liaohe River and north of Liaoyang. The Puhe, Xunhe, Kaiyuan, and Tieling areas are "surrounded by barbarians on three sides." In this area during the Wang Gao and Atai periods, "there was land but the army did not dare to cultivate it." Of course, the people
We no longer dare to plant, so we have to let the land become barren.
The third is the area east of the Liao River and south of Liaoyang. This area faces the sea on three sides and is less directly threatened and harassed by Mongolia. When the economies of the two Shishu areas were in ruins, this area became the "fundamental place of the entire Liao". Although
"The land here has no profit, but there are many hillsides, sand and carbon, and the harvest is relatively small." This cannot save the general trend of economic collapse in Liao Dynasty, and the Yuemengzhan and Jurchen tribes have long been "coveted."
Now Gao Pragmatic plans to bring these three areas together, but develop them with different priorities.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Liaonan belongs to the "inner line" and is not easily destroyed by military disasters, so the previous Liaonan plan is implemented as usual. Except for Liaonan, Liaonan is slightly further north.
That is to say, the Liaoyang area is a key industrial area, mainly driven by the Anshan Iron Mine and Liaoyang Iron Works that are about to start construction. This area is highly pragmatically included in the Liaonan Plan.
As for the western Liaoning region, his idea was to change Li Chengliang's current fighting style and not always allow the Mongols to rush into the pass and plunder.
Because for the Mongols, the gains from looting were actually limited, but for the Ming Dynasty, the damage caused by looting was huge. This situation might not matter in one or two years, but it would be a bad thing in eight or ten years. Li Chengliang's raids
Although Fa gained himself a lot of military merit and created a military merit group, the damage to the economy of western Liaoning was extremely great.
As for the northern Liaoning region, the main opponents here are more complicated. There are Mongolia in the northwest, and the Jurchens in the north, northeast, and east. The Jurchens are not particularly dishonest at the moment, but the trend is already somewhat bad, and Gao Pragmatic is thinking of ways to change it.
But no matter how it is changed, it is inseparable from Liaodong's war and defense strategy. In a word: you can't develop if you are beaten every day. Nomads can still run away after being beaten all the time. Farming people like the Ming Dynasty can really run away. Monks can't run away from temples.
Even if people can run away, the fields cannot.
Therefore, even if Liaodong and Liaonan plant corn, and even develop it within a few years, it is still difficult to save the entire Liaodong economy with Liaonan alone. If the situation in western Liaoning and northern Liaoning does not change, Liaodong will always have to import grain from outside.
Just fine.
It seems that Annan's grain "export" can continue for a while, at least until Gao pragmatism changes the entire Liaodong war and defense strategy.
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