The Practical School originally did not have any basic base in Liaodong. The concept of "Liaodong Basic Base" probably only slowly emerged after Gao Pragmatic took charge of Jin Fuhai's military preparation.
At that time, he used both soft and hard tactics to win over a group of local guard generals, including Jiang Enyuan, Pu Yuanyi, Cao Jian, etc. It was even because of Cao Jian's relationship that Gao Pragmatic thought of getting Cao Yun out of prison.
Later, when he was in charge of Liaofu, Gao Jingshi also attracted some local generals from Liaodong who were not from Tieling, such as Zhao Yingchang, Yang Jian, etc. Now, one of them is the left commander of Ningyuan, and the other is a guerrilla in Qiantun. They are both " "Behind enemy lines" served in Liaoxi.
Gao Pragmatic discussed with Wu Dui and Liang Menglong and believed that Jiang Enyuan and others should be considered for promotion to ensure their advantages. Wu Dui agreed in principle and signaled Liang Menglong to propose specific arrangements.
Liang Menglong pondered for a while and said: "This is a bit difficult to handle. In the past few years, Liaodong's military strength has gradually increased, and now there is almost no shortage of personnel..."
"Then set up a new one." Gao Pragmatic said decisively: "I think the troops in western Liaoning are already abundant, but the eastern part of Liaoning can be strengthened. We can consider upgrading the Shenyang guerrillas to Shenyang generals, and set up another Fushun guerrillas under the command of Shenyang generals. Also, We can consider setting up two new guerrillas in Liaoyang, such as the left camp guerrilla and the right camp guerrilla in Liaoyang.
In addition, in view of the establishment of Kuandian Six Forts, it seems that the Dingliao Youwei garrison can be tilted eastward. In my opinion, the Dingliao Youwei can be moved to the vicinity of Zhenjiang Fort. The specific location can be set on the west side of the Yalu River estuary southwest of Zhenjiang Fort. .My court can build a new city here to form a close-range deterrent to North Korea. The city can be named Dandong. Then based on the Dingliao Youwei, a new Dandong guerrilla will be established."
Gao Pragmatic didn't seem to notice the surprised expressions of Wu Dui and Liang Menglong, and pondered for a moment, saying: "In addition, the Liaohe River Loop has not been able to operate well since it was recovered. Although it has been determined to build a new border wall, if there is no city in the Liaohe River Loop, If you immigrate, it will always be difficult to defend. I intend to build a new city here, called Fuxin, and also set up a guerrilla force."
Wu Dui and Liang Menglong were stunned for a while. They looked at each other, and Wu Dui asked: "Rixin, you want to set up five new guerrillas at a time? Even if guerrillas are easy to handle, it may not be easy to build two cities. I mean this amount Money...the household department has a surplus now?"
Since the ban on opening vassals was implemented, the Ministry of Revenue has been spending money like water. This is known to the world. Under such circumstances, Gao Pragmatic, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, actually took the initiative to propose the construction of two new cities. Wu Dui and Liang Menglong simply I thought my ears were broken.
Unexpectedly, Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "As long as the location is well chosen, it doesn't have to cost money to build the city, and you might still be able to make money."
The two big men who knew the military were stunned at the same time, and asked in unison: "What's the explanation for this?"
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "Which place do you two want to listen to first?"
"Loop!"
"Fuxin!"
Gao Pragmatic also estimated that the two of them must first listen to the new city of Fuxin in the Liao River Hetao, because the location of this place is obviously more important in their eyes: it is connected to Liao (Liaoyang), Shen, to the east, to the sea, Gai, to the west, to the west of Liaoxi, and to the northeast is Horqin. , and in the northwest is Chahar, which is the so-called battleground for military strategists.
Gao Pragmatic smiled and said simply: "After the Battle of Southern Liaoning, Jinghua conducted a detailed exploration of this area. Although it has been a pasture for the Mongols for many years, about 20-30% of it can actually be cultivated, especially suitable for planting.
corn, and the rest of the mountainous areas are mostly hills and grasslands, which can be used for planting, hunting, herding cattle and horses, and building border walls.
In addition, according to Jinghua’s exploration, there are two important outputs here, one is coal mine, and the other is agate. Among them, the coal mine can ensure that our immigrants can survive the cold winter safely, and the agate is extremely productive..."
"Agate?" Wu Dui frowned and said, "The output is huge, how big is it?"
Gao pragmatically raised his eyebrows and said firmly: "I will make an appointment for half of the world tomorrow."
Not only Wu Dui, but also Liang Menglong was shocked: "Half the world?"
Gao Pragmatic laughed: "To tell you the truth, I was shocked when I heard the news, but Jinghua has found two large agate mines, which is enough to prove that what he said is true."
This news is of course true, but mainly thanks to Liu Xin, it was she who told Gao Pragmatic about the prosperity of agate in Fuxin. According to her, the agate reserves in Fuxin accounted for more than 50% of the country's later generations, and the sales of agate handicrafts accounted for 70% of the country's total.
%, and tourism product sales account for 90% of the country's total. Therefore, Fuxin agate carvings are not only listed as a national intangible cultural heritage, but also officially named the "Agate Capital of the World" by the World Crafts Council.
Wu Dui and Liang Menglong had already experienced Jinghua's "turning stone into gold" prospecting skills countless times, so they naturally did not dare to doubt Gao Pragmatic's words. However, there was one thing in it that Wu Dui found very strange and couldn't help but ask: "Rixin
In the past, I didn’t seem to pay much attention to jade and gemstones, so why are you interested in the agate business this time?”
Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said: "That's not the case. The two mines dug by Jinghua are just to prove that Fuxin agate is of high quality and high yield. However, Jinghua itself does not plan to expand the agate mine. These agates are reserved for others, and Jinghua itself is still the capital."
OK, I’ll focus on coal mines, and also plan to make some purple clay pottery—Fuxin also has a lot of purple clay pottery.”
Gao Pragmatic's words are really not a joke. Jinghua really does not intend to get involved deeply in the agate industry, because although this industry belongs to gem mining and processing and the profits are definitely considerable, it is not an industry related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Jinghua still plans to take the lead in corn planting in Fuxin
and coal mining.
Corn planting is firstly to solve the food ration problem for immigrants, and secondly to raise war horses. These two things are major issues in Gao Pragmatic's eyes. Can Fuxin be successfully built and grown, and can it become a self-supply place for war horses for the Ming army?
, what we can rely on in an emergency is definitely not the intensively cultivated wheat, we can only rely on corn.
Besides, the grain output of Fuxin in later generations was also quite high in Liaoning Province, and it also relied on corn. This proves that corn cultivation in Fuxin is definitely suitable.
[Note: In 2019, Fuxin City’s total grain output was 2.775 million tons, of which corn output was 2.480 million tons. Of course, the important thing about this output is the proportion, not the absolute value. Otherwise, if Gao Pragmatic can grow so much corn, the entire Liaodong Han people will only rely on
There is food everywhere in Fuxin.]
As for coal, Fuxin has provided 800 million tons of coal to the country after the establishment of the later Red Dynasty, and the mineable reserves are about 800 million tons. These almost 1.6 billion tons of mineable reserves are very important for Jinghua’s mission here.
For example, that is more than enough. Even if the mining technology at this time is backward, even if it is only one-tenth of the later generations, there will still be a lot left over. After all, Jinghua does not intend to make iron here. The coal mines are mainly provided for military and civilian heating.
Just burn some purple clay pottery by the way.
But when Gao Pragmatic said this, Wu Dui and Liang Menglong understood. Liang Menglong asked: "Should we leave it to the nobles?"
Gao Pragmatic said: "There are no restrictions on investors this time. Anyone who wants to go can go. The Ministry of Household Affairs only requires a policy: any investment needs to provide a 10% 'priority purchase tax'. This tax is earmarked for the construction of Fuxin."
If there is any remaining money, it can also be considered to be used for the construction of the side wall of the Liaohe River Hetao section."
"The balance?" Wu Dui said in astonishment: "Rixin is saying that this 'preferential purchase tax' can exceed 300,000 taels?"
According to the construction investment of the Ming Dynasty, the usual cost of building a new city is about two to three hundred thousand taels. However, Wu Dui thought that the location of Fuxin City was a bit far away due to the high pragmatism in terms of labor and material transportation.
It would be a little inconvenient and the cost might be higher, so he calculated it based on 300,000 taels.
Three hundred thousand taels was obviously a huge sum of money in the Wanli Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. The first installment of military pay for the Yunnan-Burma War was only this amount. Now that Gao Pragmatic actually thought that this tax could be so high, Wu Dui was certainly surprised.
came to this conclusion.
But Gao's pragmatic answer was simple, saying: "Half of the agate output in Ming Dynasty will come from here in the future. How can a discerning wealthy family miss it? Although the investment in this business is high, it may not be able to recover its capital in five years.
, but what about ten years? What about a hundred years? This is a long-term business with huge profits, and it also guarantees harvests despite droughts and floods."
Liang Menglong smiled and said: "Rixin said it so well. If it weren't for the fear of being impeached, Menglong would have wanted to share some of it."
"Then go." Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "What are you impeaching? The Ministry of Revenue is building a new border town, and the cost of the border wall will come from here. That means investing in Fuxin is to support the 'solid border' and is actually beneficial.
It is a great plan to benefit the country and the people. How could the emperor be so wise as to not know the truth behind it? No impeachment by him will be effective."
Liang Menglong laughed and said: "If this day really comes, I will definitely ask Rixin to point you to a rich mine."
Gao Pragmatic also smiled and said: "Easy to say, easy to say, for sure."
Liang Menglong was from Zhending, Beizhili, and he was not opposed to investing in places like Fuxin. However, Wu Dui was from Shanyin, Zhejiang, and was not sensitive to investing in such a far away area, so he did not intervene.
After the topic was over, Wu Dui asked: "There are so many agates in Fuxin, and there is such a clever strategy as Rixin in building a new city. It seems that it is a big mistake. But what is the situation in Dandong? Is there any treasure?
Pearl?"
There are almost no gems, but Dandong itself is a gem. Its value mainly lies in its geographical location. In a more pragmatic way, it is a location advantage.
Dandong is located on the southernmost side of the Yalu River at the junction of Ming Dynasty, Liaodong and North Korea. The name of Zhenjiang Fort to the north comes from the meaning of guarding the Yalu River. Opposite Zhenjiang Fort is Yizhou, an important town in the north of North Korea.
The important location of Dandong has a lot to do with North Korea. However, North Korea originally paid tribute from Yiju, and the first stop was Zhenjiang Fort in the Ming Dynasty. If Dandong City was built, if the Koreans still set off from Yiju,
Then the second stop should be to Dandong.
It can be said that Gao pragmatically wanted to build Dandong City because he was interested in trade with North Korea, or to put it more clearly, he planned to expand trade with North Korea.
However, border trade is only part of the reason. There are two bigger reasons.
First, Dandong is located at the mouth of the Yalu River, and although the entire Yalu River is not navigable (the river in the upper reaches of the Changbai Mountains is narrow, the water flow is relatively large, and navigation is inconvenient, so later the Red Dynasty simply built a bunch of hydropower stations.), the lower reaches are navigable, and even
Large ships that can navigate three thousand tons. In other words, even large ships can enter the lower reaches of the Yalu River at this moment.
Gao Pragmatic had no intention of sailing a large ship into the waves. He mainly thought that it was very convenient for transporting supplies - the navigable section of the Yalu River could reach Kuandian, which meant that the Ming Dynasty could supply the military supplies needed by Kuandian by water transport.
There is no need for people to transport supplies from Liaoyang or even further inland. If Kuandian has sufficient supplies, the Jurchens in Jianzhou will not dare to covet them.
In addition, Dandong itself is also suitable for building a seaport. Although this seaport has a small population and its trade function is not obvious yet, it has an advantage, that is, it can play a huge role in the war to aid Korea in the near future.
I have said before that North Korea is now very weak. When Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 200,000 troops attacked North Korea, North Korea had no resistance and could only rely on Ming's father to save it.
But the Ming Dynasty actually fought a dull war at that time. Since the Korean mainland was almost completely lost, almost all the military supplies needed by the Ming Dynasty's reinforcements had to be carried by themselves (it was better in the later period, after recovering half of Korea, how much could North Korea provide
A little military rations, but still not enough), so the Ming Dynasty continuously transported supplies from Liaodong to North Korea by land.
To be honest, this operation is very silly, because firstly, Liaodong itself is not rich in materials, and secondly, most of the transportation lines along this road are mountainous, and transportation is quite difficult and the losses are quite high, so this kind of transportation can almost be said
It is a typical waste.
After the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, the two most important grain-producing areas were actually Huguang and Shandong (this is not only related to grain output, but also to the collection system). Therefore, according to Gao's pragmatic meaning, this battle is the most economical to fight.
The method must be to transport grain from Shandong to Dandong by sea, and then decide whether to take the land route from Dandong to the interior of North Korea, or continue to take the sea route to the coastal areas of the Korean frontline, depending on the war situation.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Based on a high pragmatic estimate, this method of transportation can at least reduce the loss by more than half. Even if other aspects of this battle are exactly the same as in the original history
, the change in transportation methods alone can ensure that after Li Rusong takes Kaicheng, he will not dare to enter again due to lack of supplies.
Just imagine, if Li Rusong in history could push the Japanese troops into the sea all the way, how could there be such a thing as the second phase of the war to aid Korea later? That would be a major event that would save a few years of fighting.
There is another point that Gao Pragmatic will not tell outsiders now, that is, the establishment of Dandong was actually due to his coveting North Korea. Although North Korea is one of the countries that Zhu Yuanzhang decided not to conquer, Gao Pragmatic has always found a way to "carry on the will of the ancestors"
Instead of following the ancestral system," he has some thoughts about North Korea.
Without the Korean Peninsula in hand, it would actually be quite troublesome for the Ming Dynasty to send troops to Japan. Although Jinghua's fleet was strong enough, no matter how strong it was, it would not be as good as launching a close-range attack from North Korea.
Even if we don’t mention attacking Japan, taking Korea will make it easier for the Ming Dynasty to defend Japan. Japan’s invasion route in later generations is not complicated: first Korea, then Manchuria and Mongolia, and finally all China. In fact, not only the "Tanaka Memorial", Toyotomi Hideyoshi almost had the same idea
, in short, we must capture North Korea first.
In this case, wouldn't it be better for the Ming Dynasty to capture North Korea first? At least it would have an extra buffer. Just like during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, if the Qing army could win in North Korea, obviously the entire situation would be different.
As for the country without conquest... In fact, after the Wanli War to Aid Korea, some officials in the imperial court believed that Korea should be directly annexed. However, the conservative forces were stronger, and the Ming Dynasty, which was too shameless, felt that it was a bit difficult to save face, so in the end they did not
Just make it happen.
Now that Gao Pragmatic, a guy who "doesn't make money or loses money" is here, how can we tolerate a wasted fight?
People cannot be without ideals, and a country cannot be without ambitions.
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