Of course, outside discussions will affect Gao Jingshi. If it is just "Shilin Qingyi", it doesn't matter. Gao Jingshi is considered to be in a high position now, so of course he can pretend not to know, but now it is not only "Shilin" who have Qingyi, but also
There are also people who talk about matters at the official level and think that it cannot be the first time for a minister of military affairs to concurrently serve as the manager of a foreign town.
This did not allow him to be pragmatic and unresponsive, so he followed the usual practice of resigning. One word, two words, three words.
Three words are enough.
The play needs to be performed in its entirety, so the next step is to "suppress the emperor, issue an edict and take responsibility for it, saying: You have made your intention clear three times. If you resign again, even though I am very ill, I will personally go to your house and follow the example of three visits to Marquis Wu."
So Gao pragmatic "dare not resign" - the emperor said that you have already made your intention clear three times. If you resign again, even though I have a serious illness that has not been cured, I will come to visit the thatched cottage in person. The implication is that it is up to you now.
Do you dare to work as a minister? I am sick and come here in person.
Of course, he "dare not", so Gao Pragmatic had no choice but to "reluctantly" accept the decree on the ground, saying that he would take office as the manager of the Seven Towns. Then he seemed to have written it specifically for certain people to read, saying that he would be cautious about what he said after taking office.
Act carefully, report every move to the court and the emperor in detail, and never make any decisions when encountering major events.
However, after the memorial was published, although the emperor happily expressed his satisfaction that Gao Pragmatic was finally willing to accept the order, he also "criticized" him. The meaning of the imperial edict is probably that the reason why the imperial edict is the imperial edict is that it is responsible for one's own affairs and has overall authority.
, if you report everything, then what do I want you to manage? You must not live up to my expectations, use your talents, and manage the military affairs of the seven towns properly.
Since Gao Jingshi once reminded the emperor that Buri Hatu might have the habit of collecting newspapers from the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun specially added a few words to the imperial edict, to the effect that Gao Jingshi should "be arbitrary in the overall situation and guard the situation with camera."
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These eight words are very important, which is equivalent to the emperor having authorized Gao Jingshi to independently decide the Ming Dynasty's war stance - that is to say, whether to go to war with the Mongols or not is entirely up to Gao Jingshi.
Although it is said that the border ministers of the Ming Dynasty all had the power of "camera warfare" to a certain extent, it was obvious that other people's camera warfare and the highly pragmatic camera warfare were completely different in terms of impact.
After all, Gao Wuchen's army now has a nominal strength of 850,000. It can shake the earth when he sneezes. With such power, how many things require him to "shoot and guard"?
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Very few people knew about this important event. There were three people in the inner court, including the emperor, and the remaining two were of course Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju. Needless to say, there were only three people in the outer court who knew about it. Apart from Gao Pragmatic,
, only the first assistant Shen Shixing and the second assistant Xu Guo knew the truth of the matter.
The rest of the people, no matter how high their official positions or status, are all kept in the dark, and all this is to create conditions for a highly pragmatic deterrence plan.
The new official Gao Jingshi first announced one thing when he took office: the headquarters of the Seven Towns Economic Strategy will be located in Daning City.
What, the military headquarters is actually located directly in Daning City?
As soon as the news spread, all the officials in the capital were in an uproar at first, and then everyone became excited.
The location of Daning City was Daming Town in the southwest of Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia. To the west was Qilaotu Mountain, to the east was Nuru Huer Mountain, and the Laoha River, the source of the western Liaohe River, flowed from the south. Therefore, it can also be said
Daning controls the upper reaches of the Liao River to the north, the Daling River Basin to the east, is connected to Xuanfu in the west, and is adjacent to the Yanshan Great Wall in the south. Its strategic position is quite important.
But the current situation is not that simple, because Daning City was recovered from the previous high-pragmatic Monan War. It has only been three years, and the various "indicators" are far from being so easily summarized.
After Gao Pangshi regained Daning City, Qi Jiguang personally guarded Daning City. Relying on his careful defense, Tumen and Burihatu did not have much to do with the temporarily renovated and reinforced city, but they came up with a plan.
The idea is to attack the food pipeline - in fact, it is to attack the logistics line.
This strategy caused some trouble for the Ming Dynasty at that time, because the north of the Great Wall had been abandoned for many years, and the original guard posts on the road to Daning had long been abandoned. The Ming army, which was mainly infantry, was equivalent to hundreds of miles of wilderness and grassland.
Marching up, Tumen was always in a position to attack, so they suffered some losses in the early stages.
It was precisely because of such losses that the imperial court debated whether to stick to Daning City or not.
Then Gao Pragmatic stood up and negotiated a "deal" with Bahannaji. The Ming Dynasty sent various teachers to Tumut to guide the Tumut Mongolians to learn Han cultural knowledge, while Tumut
The Qataiji troops were sent to the south of Daning to patrol and guard against Tumen's Mongolian cavalry.
This was a highly pragmatic approach when it came to Mongolia versus Mongolia, and the results proved to be very effective. The Ming Dynasty's grain roads were quickly unblocked, and the city of Daning was quickly renovated and reinforced.
Then the imperial court was not idle. In the next two years or so, it slowly built up the abandoned guard posts from the Great Wall to Daning, and resettled the Huizhou Guard, Fuyu Guard, Xincheng Guard and
Kuanhe guards the place of thousands of households.
According to the organizational structure of the Ming army, after the three guards and one were truly organized, the actual strength should be at least 16,000 to 16,000. If the strength of the border town guards is generally larger than the regular establishment, it should be more than two thousand.
Thousands of people.
However, in fact it is not that easy, because even the cities in these places are newly built, and there are too few Han people in the city. Although the guards can be recruited and dispatched from the mainland, it is not easy. So after more than two years, these three guards
There are only more than 11,000 troops in each one, which is not even full strength, and the population is also small. There are only 30,000 to 40,000 people in each city, which is not as good as a lower county.
But no matter what, with these three bathrooms and one hospital, a stable food route has finally been formed, so that Daning City is no longer completely isolated as before - in Gao Pragmatic's words, it is like a breather.
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Since only a breathing tube has been inserted, Daning City's military strength obviously cannot be that strong. In fact, there are only more than 32,000 people in Daning City now. It can be defended if it is on the defensive, but attacking is a complete dream.
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But Gao Pragmatic announced that he would put the headquarters of his economic strategy in Daning, and even a fool could guess what he wanted to do.
The location of Daning City was a "prominence" for the Ming Dynasty, and it was not easy to defend. For Chahar, it was even more uncomfortable. It was like a sharp knife always pressed against his vitals, even if it stuck in his throat, it was not enough.
To describe it, it can be said that it is a thorn in the flesh that has to be removed.
One of the two sides regards Daning City as their own personal thorn in the side, and the other regards Daning City as the starting point of their victory. Therefore, as long as Daning City is involved, both sides will pay special attention to it.
Now Gao Jingshi has announced that the headquarters of the economic strategy will be in Daning. If the Tu people get the news, they will definitely be very nervous, because Gao Jingshi feels that according to their expectations, as long as Ming wants to go to war with him, the starting point of its main army will definitely be in Daning.
This is quite certain. After all, Daning City is much closer to Chahanhot than other places. Starting from Daning can greatly offset the disadvantage of the Ming Dynasty's excessive infantry.
All the officials in the imperial court and even private restaurants and teahouses began to talk about whether Gao Jinglue was going to take action against Chahar this time, otherwise he would not have sent the carriage directly to Daning City. Moreover, the emperor's imperial edict seemed to have a certain meaning.
, which further proves that this guess is probably close to ten.
In the past few years of the Ming Dynasty, the country's power has been gradually increasing, and its military power has become increasingly prosperous!
On such an exciting day, a few businessmen leaving Beijing would not be noticeable at all.
However, on the second day, the news seemed a little strange: before Gao Jinglue left, he issued several orders, including one requiring the seven towns to count their soldiers, weapons, and supplies, and one requiring each town to report on the border wall.
Maintenance and restoration, but the most important one is definitely to require all towns to conduct spring exercises in accordance with his newly released standards.
Spring exercise? What is spring exercise?
The officials and people in the capital were very puzzled. Since ancient times, there had been only autumn exercises, also known as "big exercises". When did spring exercises appear?
The Great Exercise, the Great Parade Exercise, is also called the Autumn Exercise. After the completion of the Autumn Festival, the fields are vast, which is conducive to the training of the troops and will not harm the seedlings. Therefore, it is done to sympathize with the sufferings of the people.
Spring is the farming season. If you don’t plow the fields well at this time, you will have to work hard instead?
It should be noted that the exercise mentioned here does not mean getting up in the morning and running a few laps, but the army gathering on a large scale for training and drills, which belongs to the category of large-scale military activities. Although the time it takes has varied throughout the ages, it is at least monthly.
Keep in mind that it can't be done in three or five days.
This is strange. Spring has just begun, and everyone is waiting for the snow to melt and the ice to subside before the weather gets warmer so that they can start spring plowing, including the health offices in the seven towns. But you, Gao Jinglue, have given the order to do spring drills.
?You won’t go hungry, but others will. Are you not letting people live?
However, Gao Jinglue obviously still left a way for people to survive, so when everyone looked at the order, it turned out that after the first plowing, the spring exercises would be held after the farm work was completed. In this way, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, some people noticed one thing. Gao Jinglue mentioned this very inconspicuously in his order: As soon as the spring parade is completed, he will lead the army to attack Daning.
This is very strange. It will only take two months for spring plowing to be completed, and then it will take at least another month for spring exercises. After all these things are done, you will go to Daning? Isn't it going to be summer by then?
Well, even if the spring plowing cannot be delayed, the spring exercises must be held, but when you arrive in Daning, even if you launch an attack immediately, the time left for you will be very short - you will never go out with a large army.
Are you leaving your own grain to rot in the fields?
The guardsmen who can go out are the number one laborers in the family. If they don't come back for the autumn harvest, how can we expect the women, children and the elderly at home? I'm afraid next year's life will be quite difficult.
Is this high-level manager really reliable?
Regardless of whether it is reliable or not, Gao Jinglue's order has been passed on, and he himself has begun to prepare for "inspection of the Imperial Guards and spring exercises in various towns." Since the Imperial Guards are now only training troops, they basically don't do any other work.
, so one patrol after another is the Praetorian Guard.
Qi Jiguang's gold-lettered signboard was not picked up on the roadside, so there is not much to say about the Guards' patrol. The really interesting things happened in Mongolia - Chahar, Tumut, and Ordos are all quite interesting.
I have to say that no matter what future generations think, the Ming Dynasty is really the overlord of East Asia, and every move affects the surrounding situation.
After Tumut paid tribute, due to his high pragmatic mediation, he had certain privileges in the Ming Dynasty, that is, he could send several permanent envoys to Yanjing to contact King Shunyi at any time and notify the Ming Dynasty's requests or notifications as soon as possible.
Conveyed to the court of King Shunyi. Therefore, Tumut was the first Mongolian household to learn that Gao Pragmatic was appointed as a general manager.
Han Naji was very excited and ordered on the spot to mobilize the relatively scattered tribes to the royal court in an orderly manner, especially those originally placed on the eastern front. A lot of them were mobilized back.
His intention is obvious. With Gao Pragmatic in charge, Ming Dynasty is afraid that he will take action against Tumen. This moment is the best time for him to subdue Ordos, so he must start to gather strength and prepare for the southern expedition.
The next person to receive the news was Tumen. Relying on Burihatu's hard work in the past three years, Tumen had already planted spies in Yanjing, and these spies relied on tips, and the messengers were faster than the Tumote envoys, so
Although Tumen was further away than Hannaji, it was only one day slower than Bian received the news.
As soon as Tumen heard that Gao Pingshi was appointed as the manager of the Seven Towns, he felt a chill rising from his feet and going straight to his forehead, and he woke up with a start.
Daming is about to take action!
It was a matter of life and death. Tumen had no time to think too much and issued an urgent sweat order to recall Burihatu to Chahanhot.
After the Khan's order was issued, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to look back and think about the true meaning of Gao Pragmatic's appointment as the manager of the Seven Towns.
Tumen felt that Gao Jingshi's target in this seven-town strategy must be himself, rather than dealing with Huo Luochi and Jilitu's sneak attack on Xining. Because if it was the latter, Gao Jingshi at least did not need to manage Jiliao.
There are three towns on three sides and four towns as the main force, and there are three towns of Xuanda as the backup. Let alone the big fire and the weak effort, even if they fight together with Ordos, it is probably enough to fight.
Ji Liao is too far away to be of much help to the northwest. Moreover, we don’t think that the Ming Dynasty will transfer troops from Ji Liao to the northwest. After all, I am the real leader. How can I transfer troops to other places?
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Therefore, Gao Pragmatism, who is also in charge of the seven towns of Jiliao and Xuanda, must have come for their Tumen.
So Tumen then began to think about what Gao Pragmatic might do.
At this time, Tumen's first doubt arose: Gao Pragmatic put the headquarters of the economic strategy directly in Daning. Didn't he know that food and even many living supplies in Daning City had to be transported from within the customs? These things were transported
When it comes to Daning City, the price increase will exceed 30% to 40%. Once Gao Pragmatism really comes with the "heroic army" first, let alone other things, can the Ming Dynasty's treasury support it?
Tumen thought that when Burihatu left Chahanhot for Qinghai, he once said that the Ming Dynasty was extremely poor because of the continuous wars. This year, they are going to open the vassal and ban the government. The tighter the treasury is.
There may be something big going on.
But the current situation made Tumen not fully believe in Burihatu's judgment. He even wondered whether Gao Pragmatic had made another Yunnan War treasure banknote or something like that.
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