Gao Wujian, the "Fourth Master" of the sixth house of the Gao family, has been in charge of the Taiwan strategy for several years and has sufficient experience in establishing, consolidating and expanding strongholds.
Regardless of the situation Gao Wujian faced when he was in Taiwan, Gao Jingshi thought it would still be much easier than going to Nanyang in the future. This was mainly because Taiwan was basically in a state of "ownerlessness" at this time, and the local aborigines had a very low level of civilization.
It is said that it is still at the level of tribal civilization. There are not even cities. It is amazing that there are some settlements and small villages.
Gao Wujian, the "fourth master", is Gao Jingshi's biological brother and the youngest biological brother. Of course, his identity is very, very unique, so he has a very high degree of freedom of movement in Taiwan.
It can be said that as long as Gao Pragmatic's instructions are not violated at the strategic level, the leaders of the Gao family who are assigned to him will not have any possibility of violating his orders. In other words, he can almost do whatever he wants to expand in Taiwan.
to describe.
A young man in his early twenties has mastered an elite force that can move sideways among countless tribes in Taiwan. It is conceivable what his expansion style will be.
Fortunately, although this force is elite, it is still limited in number, so Gao Wujian still uses his brain. He does not simply choose to push all the way, but often stabilizes one part, attacks another, or plays a snipe and clam fight.
The fisherman gets a profit, or two peaches kill three people. In short, it can be regarded as crushing the local natives in terms of wisdom.
Historically, the Spanish and the Dutch also established short-lived colonial rule in Taiwan. Without Gao's pragmatic intervention, Taiwan would have been contested by Spain and the Netherlands about thirty years later.
In the early 17th century, the continuous rise of the Netherlands caused the trade of Southeast Asian countries centered on Spain to begin to decline. By 1624, the Netherlands successfully occupied Taiwan, and Spain became anxious, because once the Dutch power was established in Taiwan, Spain's
Overseas trade, especially Asian trade, will be severely hit.
Therefore, Spain could no longer sit still and wait for death. Not only did it need to start looking for some new colonies, but it also needed to expel the Dutch from Taiwan, so it also turned its attention to Taiwan.
In 1626, Spain assembled a large number of troops, set out from Manila, bypassed the back of Taiwan, discovered the city of Keelung, and successfully landed in Keelung.
Everything seemed to be going very smoothly, and they also discovered a natural island in Keelung, which served as a good barrier. Afterwards, the Spanish built a fortress on the island and sent a small number of
Troops were stationed here for defense.
In 1629, Spain began sailing to the northwest of Taiwan, continuously expanding its sphere of influence, and also discovered a Tamsui River. If all goes well, Spain will establish its own colonial territory with Tamsui as the center. The area of Taiwan Island
It is large enough, so it is very convenient to engage in food production and cash crops. If the fresh water is controlled, there is no need to worry about the Dutch.
However, Spain's dream did not come true. It soon discovered its mistake, that is: Taiwan is not a place that many forces compete for. There is not much development on the island, and development is very difficult and requires a lot of
It only requires manpower, material and financial resources, but it takes a long time to get returns.
In addition, there is another problem: there are still some indigenous residents in Taiwan. These indigenous populations are not particularly small, and they are not like the Native Americans who are culturally influenced and have some mysterious fear of white people.
The Taiwanese natives' perception of white people can be described in two words: alien.
Being alien means that the two sides must go through war to establish the relationship of victory and defeat, and the relationship of ownership. Such a tough native force is very difficult for Spain to deal with.
Because these natives have not received the baptism of civilization, their cultural level is very low, and they cannot communicate with them at all, so conflicts are inevitable. Due to the existence of these problems, Spain has been developing in Taiwan for more than ten years.
, but did not receive any reward, and did not achieve the achievements that Spain imagined. Moreover, the Spanish upper class still did not understand why they failed - why did they refuse to believe in God? The Americans are obviously very easy to "persuad"!
They wanted to control this place without finding the limitations of their own plan, which was obviously impossible to succeed. The Spanish royal family invested so much but saw no return, so they regarded this operation as a money-losing operation.
Buy and sell.
As Spain's biggest rival in Taiwan, the Netherlands had also occupied the south of Taiwan at this time, but they did not abandon northern Taiwan. However, their situation at the time was also very tense and their forces were limited, so they needed to use limited forces to deal with it.
battlefield.
But by 1640, Spain almost collapsed on its own in Taiwan. Many of the former military fortresses were dismantled, and some of the soldiers stationed here returned to the Philippines, leaving less than 400 people stationed in Taiwan.
In 1641, the Netherlands saw the decline of Spain, so it tentatively launched an attack on the remaining Spanish troops. In order to better understand the true strength of Spain, the Dutch Governor in Taiwan also wrote a letter to Spain, stating that
He directly informed Spain of his intention to attack the Spanish army.
Spain's reply gave the Netherlands hope, because the biggest hope the Netherlands saw in it was "arrogant tone" and "blind self-confidence".
In 1642, the Netherlands sent an expeditionary force to attack Keelung, and 369 soldiers successfully landed in Keelung. These more than 300 Dutch soldiers knew that their opponents were 400 Spanish soldiers and countless Taiwanese indigenous troops. Although Spain's defensive measures
It was still in place, but the Dutch occupied the commanding heights on the island in advance and bombarded the Spanish stronghold as soon as they opened fire. Finally, after six days of fighting, the Spanish colonial army surrendered.
After that, they handed over the Spanish national flag and all weapons, and these surrendered soldiers were sent back to Spain. Because the battle was so hasty, the Philippines did not have time to assist, although the Philippine Governor was dismissed because of the battle.
But Spain has no plans to fight back.
After the Netherlands occupied Keelung, they found that Keelung was not as valuable as they thought, so they only formed a symbolic army to defend here.
The above historical facts indicate a key point: For Europeans, the cost of ruling Taiwan is very high. Both the West and the Netherlands think it is not cost-effective, so they have not made serious large-scale investments for long-term rule.
This is a bit strange. Gao Pragmatic believes that Taiwan is of great governance value (as mentioned above, I won’t go into it here). Why is there such a big difference in the understanding between the two sides?
The reason is very simple. When Spain and the Netherlands occupied Taiwan, they were not aiming at Taiwan itself, which had a low degree of civilization. In fact, the two countries' occupation and competition for Taiwan were essentially aimed at the Ming Dynasty and Japan.
What then? The Spanish indirectly obtained trade qualifications with the Ming Dynasty through the presence of the Portuguese in Macau. The Dutch have always failed in their attempts to trade with the Ming Dynasty, but they succeeded in obtaining certain trade permissions in Japan.
At this moment, it is meaningless for the Spaniards to occupy Taiwan, and of course they are too lazy to entangle with the Dutch in Taiwan. To put it bluntly, it is that simple. The economy not only determines the economy itself, but also determines the political direction and military actions.
But that was the original history, and the current situation is very different from the original history.
First of all, due to time constraints, the Dutch have not yet arrived. The European trade leader in East and Southeast Asia is Portugal. Portugal’s trade with the Ming and Japan existed at the same time; Spain had just entered the country not long ago, and had not yet achieved the same status as the Ming Dynasty.
Although direct trade is allowed (but Ming merchants can go to the Philippines to trade), trade with Japan has just started and can basically be ignored.
At this time, changes came, and Gao Pinggong used a battle in Luzon to tell the Europeans: What you call the Far East is decided by Ming Dynasty and Jinghua.
This war was originally launched by taking advantage of the Spanish Armada's expedition to Britain. Considering Spain's losses in this battle, even if they were in their most arrogant era, it was impossible for them to consider counterattacking the Philippines - in fact, this was exactly what Portugal wanted
Without obtaining direct authorization from the king (because the king of Portugal is also the king of Spain, Philip II), the governor of Goa will send a special envoy to Dingnan to discuss the reasons for the peaceful transfer of Malacca.
The Portuguese did things according to their own customary understanding, so they did not know that Gao Pragmatic's actions did not represent the "Ming Empire". They only thought that this was the Ming Empire showing its suzerainty over the countries in East Asia, so they were defeated in Spain.
Under such circumstances, the Portuguese directly lost the courage to resist.
According to the preliminary verbal agreement reached between Special Envoy Alfredo and "Her Excellency Baroness Huang Zhiting", Portugal needs to completely give up its colonial behavior in Southeast Asia. With a highly pragmatic understanding of Europeans, he believes that the Portuguese are very likely to be submissive, and through
Their trade power in the so-called "Spice Islands" secretly interfered and hindered Jinghua's Nanyang strategy.
Of course, the Portuguese may regard Jinghua's Nanyang strategy as "the Ming Empire's actions to strengthen its Nanyang suzerainty." Therefore, in the eyes of Portugal and even Spain, these lagging actions are actually part of their colonial war with the "Ming Empire."
In the Southeast Asia region, there are countries such as Aceh, Tammu, Banten, Sumatra, Johor, Borneo (Brunei), and Sulu, which have formed national organizations for a long time. There are also many tribes or tribal alliance groups. In short, there are many small countries.
When the "Southern Xinjiang Community" in Beijing was unable to launch a formal war against Nanyang due to the domestic situation in the Ming Dynasty, it could only abandon military means as much as possible to expand in these areas, and instead resorted to military, political, and economic threats or co-optation methods to respond flexibly.
, in Gao Wugong's view, this requires a lot of skill, and he was a little worried that Gao Wongjian would mess it up.
Everyone discussed for a long time, especially Gao Mo, who used the latest Nanyang situation map to explain the current complicated situation in Nanyang to Gao Yingshi, his wife and Liu Xin in detail based on the intelligence from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the end, Gao Yingshi decided to let Gao Wujian hand over the tasks in Taiwan first.
, came to Beijing to report his work to him. After the report, he had to communicate with Gao Wujian in person - of course it could also be understood as a face-to-face meeting.
By the time these matters were discussed, it was already getting late. Not long after the four of them had returned from the Nanyang issue to the industrial layout arrangements in southern Xinjiang, news came from the servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reporting the latest developments in the palace and cabinet.
The Chief of Ceremonies sent the emperor's latest edict to the cabinet, which promoted him to be a high-ranking and pragmatic pillar of the country and a senior official; the first-class wife of Huang Zhiting of the Jin Dynasty, "with her original position, she has the power to control Siam, Bago, Myanmar, Nanzhang, Cambodia and other countries."
"Memorial". After the cabinet received the imperial edict, it quickly signed and approved it, and sent it to the Sixth Section. The sixth section also quickly passed it and signed it, making it a legal imperial edict.
The biggest difference between this imperial edict and the previous imperial edict is that almost all the content related to the "Dingnan Protectorate" has been removed, but a little bit has been retained, that is, the sentence asking Huang Zhiting to "take charge of Siam and Bago in his original position"
, Burma, Nanzhang, Cambodia and other countries."
"With the original position" means that Huang Zhiting's official position is still "Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Annan", but she "temporarily takes charge" of the "Shuwenbizuo" of Siam, Bago, Myanmar, Nanzhang, Cambodia and other countries.
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What is "Shu Wenbi's memorial"? It means that they originally needed to symbolically report to the emperor, talk about the domestic situation, and ask the emperor for instructions on what to do - of course these are superficial things, even if what they said is true
The emperor wouldn't even check the truth. And the emperor's replies were usually just clichés, and they probably just taught them to govern the country with benevolence and righteousness. Both sides were talking nonsense to nonsense.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But nonsense is nonsense, this is still a form of "the king and his ministers call each other", and it is important evidence to determine who is the king and who is the minister. At this time, the emperor asked Huang Zhiting
"Control" - that is, "temporary control" of the matter, does not mean that Huang Zhiting becomes the supervisor of rites.
In fact, this means that in the future, in southern Xinjiang, except for the Annan Dutong Division, the Dutong Envoy Mo Maoqia will directly report to the emperor. Other countries will report to Huang Zhiting, and Huang Zhiting will be ordered to reply to them on behalf of the emperor.
The Si Li Jian can also make approval on behalf of the emperor, but the approval of the Si Li Jian must be approved by the emperor. In fact, the Si Li Jian said seriously that he only signed and sealed the emperor's signature, and did not have the authority to approve - through other means such as deceiving the emperor.
Or obscuring the emperor's oral instructions and other means to achieve this will not count.
The power Huang Zhiting enjoys now is different. She is a "temporary supervisor" - it doesn't matter for now. Anyway, she is a "supervisor" now. Since she is a supervisor, it means that she is only responsible to the emperor himself. How to answer these kings specifically?
her thing.
Originally, the emperor did have the right to "manage" these vassal states in theory, but that was just a theory. The emperor did not station troops in these places, and he was far away. This so-called management never existed.
However, it was different when this power was given to Huang Zhiting. Several of her husband's security forces were the de facto regular armies of various countries in southern Xinjiang, and she herself sat in Dingnancheng on behalf of her husband. This management itself was actual management, only in name, and now
The emperor gave the name.
Southern Xinjiang has actually been handed over to the pragmatic management of Representative Huang Zhiting, and it only lacks a unified administrative structure.
However, this is only the emperor's first edict. In addition to this edict, there is another edict: the Ministry of Civil Affairs selects and nominates Chen Yubi, Chen Jingbang, and Xu Xuemo as candidates for the successor of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The date of the recommendation is
Set for three days later.
The second boot has basically landed on the ground.
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