The Imperial Guard Headquarters is commonly known as the Beijing North Camp among the people. After several years of construction, it is now the symbol that best represents the powerful force of the capital. The Imperial Guard has been fully paid in recent years, with elite soldiers and equipment, and there is Qi Jiguang.
After long-term training by such a top military training expert, the combat effectiveness is no less than ten times higher than that of the remaining production and construction corps of the old Beijing camp, and it is by no means comparable to the pure army composed of Han generals and eunuchs.
In this battle to destroy the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor's greatest support for Gao Pangshi was not only to give him the title of Manager of the Yuan Dynasty, but also to give him the most powerful "Shang Fangjian Privilege" to date.
All the Imperial Guards were handed over to him as the core of the Chinese army of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
However, although the war started at the beginning of spring, due to the getting colder and colder in recent years, the beginning of spring showed signs of delaying each year, so that the imperial court delayed the formal sword-giving ceremony until mid-February, leaving Shang Fang
The sword bestows high pragmatism as a symbol of authority.
The next day, a swearing-in ceremony was held at the North Camp in Beijing, where Gao was awarded the pragmatic commander's seal, the king's command flag, the tiger talisman of the Imperial Guard and other powers.
At the same time, the Imperial Guards also conducted several simple drills, demonstrating some skills such as queue changes, three-stage firing platoons, artillery volleys, and cavalry shooting for the emperor and court officials who rarely visited the Beijing Camp.
Common tactical actions such as receiving and charging.
Seeing a large number of straw men being beaten to pieces with legs and arms flying around, both the emperor and the princes were very satisfied with the performance of the Imperial Guards - although Gao Jingshi felt that most of them did not understand the secret at all.
, is nothing more than a grand ambition, but it does not prevent him from being a Mongolian and Yuan strategist to provide some benefits to the Imperial Guards in advance, and ask the emperor for rewards on the grounds that the Imperial Guards have worked hard and performed well.
Although the emperor is an emperor, he is still a normal young man. He is definitely good at watching soldiers. Therefore, he is extremely happy and easy to talk to.
Gao Pragmatic's original idea was to let the emperor go along with the situation and just say "He will be generously rewarded by the household department." Anyway, Gao Situ had already prepared the money, silk and materials for this wave of rewards. Who knows that when the young emperor was happy, he did not say anything about giving up the household.
Instead of receiving a reward, he waved his hand and issued a verbal order: "I will take three hundred thousand taels of silver from my internal funds and give it to you. I will wait in the capital for the triumphal return of our three armies!"
The soldiers haven't even been sent out yet, but the three hundred thousand taels of silver have already dropped like water. The domineering spirit of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty filled the Beijing Camp, arousing the imperial guards' cheers and shouts of "Long live my emperor!"
Reverberating through the sky!
The proud Emperor held his head high and gladly accepted the worship of the Imperial Guards. When he left, he walked like a windy man, as if he never had any foot problems.
This amount of money was an unexpected blessing. The emperor did not prepare it before he came, so the Chief of Ceremonies had to coordinate it quickly. It would definitely not be distributed today. However, Gao Pragmatic did not secretly save money because of the extra reward from the emperor.
In one stroke, after the emperor and the officials left, he still announced his reward.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic's reward was given in his capacity as a Mongolian Yuan manager. According to the account transfer department, it was impossible to give 300,000 taels of cash, but to the "Ming Fed" in small-denomination banknotes with a face value of one tael.
Two pieces for each person; five hundred pigs, two thousand chickens, and one cotton coat. Everyone has a share of the banknotes and cotton coats. The pigs and chickens are slaughtered on the spot to add to today's meal.
Seriously speaking, the bulk of this is still issuing money, but giving banknotes and giving cash are actually very different. As mentioned before, this large-scale replacement of cash with banknotes can increase the Federal Reserve's banknotes -
—That is, the creditworthiness of banknotes, of course, the premise is that they can be redeemed.
Of course, the 120,000 taels of silver can be redeemed, not to mention that the Ming Fed is not only a financial institution, but also has the collective endorsement of the entire Jinghua and northern large merchant groups in the past year. What is collective endorsement? It means taking the banknote to Jinghua or
When buying things from pan-Beijing-Chinese merchants such as the Sea Trade Alliance, the banknote will definitely be enough to buy the corresponding goods. This is an endorsement.
If you still don’t understand this truth, just think about how the Red Dynasty helped the Emperor of Japan stabilize the crisis caused by the over-issuance of rice yuan that was rampant at some time in later generations. If there is too much currency, if there is a shortage of goods, it will cause inflation, but there is one
The super-producing countries of goods continue to provide high-quality and low-price goods, and the impact of this excessive inflation will be offset accordingly.
In fact, there was no basis for inflation in the Ming Dynasty because there was always a shortage of currency on the market. This is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty became a bottomless pit of silver in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. It was because productivity was in excess relative to currency, and it was actually deflation all the time.
Prices have been so cheap in the past dynasties. At its most expensive, a cow cost no more than four taels of silver, and at its cheapest, it only cost more than two taels. This is typical deflation.
Because of this, Gao Wuzhi is not worried about overissuance of banknotes at all, and even wants to find ways to issue more banknotes. Not only did he invest a lot of paper currency in the Ming Dynasty, he was also engaged in another kind of financial war against neighboring countries.
For example, in Japan, Gao Pragmatic used his strong trade power to earn a large amount of silver and some gold from Japan. At the same time, he manufactured Yongle Tongbao in the Ming Dynasty and spent it in the Japanese market. As mentioned before, Yongle Tongbao is the most popular in Japan because of its good quality.
Absolute hard currency.
In this way, a large amount of Japanese silver flowed out and became the reserve of the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve. The Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve overissued some silver bills in proportion, which could alleviate the domestic deflation of the Ming Dynasty. However, to a certain extent, Japan did not lose money, because Japan itself made
The quality of Japan's copper coins is very poor, and there has always been a currency shortage in the market. Now that there is a large influx of genuine Yongle Tongbao, it can stabilize Japan's currency market.
But this is not all of the plan. Next - in fact, it has already begun - Jinghua will gradually use Mingfed Bank Notes to settle trade with Japan's big businessmen, and slowly promote it to the whole country of Japan, eventually forming Mingfed Bank Notes as a
Japan's de facto legal tender situation. At that time...well, there are a lot of things that can be done.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Imagine that one day in the future, the Japanese court, various lords and big businessmen have a massive amount of Ming Dynasty banknotes in their hands. At this time, Gao Pragmatic suddenly threatened: "Ruo Er
If anything happens, the Fed will not exchange it."
That scene... Wow, it's simply too beautiful to be imagined. Of course, with a highly pragmatic approach, we will definitely not threaten all the forces together, but threaten a certain part of them individually. How can the threatened person resist?
If Gao Pragmatic added, "If the other famous names in Japan can exchange their banknotes for their banknotes, I will tell the Federal Reserve Bank to still honor them." Then the unlucky guy who was refused payment would probably have to be quartered by other famous names.
Therefore, productivity is combat effectiveness, because productivity can support financial capabilities, and using financial means to control the enemy does not have to kill many of your own people, but you can also harvest leeks in a "civilized" way, and even control the life and death of the opponent, which is much less dangerous than fighting.
Yes, the price is also much smaller.
As a hegemon, you must make good use of your own power. If you were stronger than Daiying in a certain period, wouldn't you be disgraced by the Boer War? Ming Dynasty's current military strength is relatively not as good as that of Daiying in that period. Using this kind of
There must be no limit to power. Spending 20 years in the mountains to spend 2 trillion yuan but achieve nothing is such a stupid thing... Gao Pragmatic expresses his gratitude but is not sensitive.
After the money and supplies from the Ministry of Revenue were distributed, Gao Pragmatic did not stay to have fun with the Imperial Guards. Instead, he went to Jianxinzhai Courtyard not far from the main camp in Beijing.
Ever since the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was put on the hat, and because the weather could not send troops immediately, Gao Pragmatic had a reason to openly skip work - he lived in Jianxinzhai close to the Beijing North Camp, so he didn't have to go to the Ministry of Household Affairs every day to work.
So ever since Narita Kai arrived in the capital, he basically lived in Mianshinsai.
New news also came from Huang Zhiting at the right time. Although she returned to Beijing last year for a short period of time, she was not pregnant. Therefore, this time she was specially reminded that Narita Kai was in her late teens, and even according to her husband, she was suitable for adulthood.
The age of pregnancy, so... in short, there are not enough children, and the husband must work harder.
Gao Jingshi was also satisfied with Kafei. After all, she was the "most beautiful woman in the Eastern Kingdom". Moreover, she was a warrior Ji who could go into battle and kill generals. Although she was a head shorter than Gao Jingshi, she was already taller than ordinary Japanese.
She was a grown man, which made Gao Pingshi feel relieved when he saw her.
What makes Gao pragmatic even more satisfied is that Ji Feiji can actually speak Chinese. Although she is a bit stumbling, she can at least communicate. After asking about it, Gao pragmatic found out that she had actually learned some Chinese when she was a child, but the emphasis was on written language.
Not spoken language, because many books in Japan at this time were purely in Chinese.
As a princess of the Fujiwara Kita family with a high family status, Kaihime started learning Chinese at the age of five. However, because she only read books, she rarely had the opportunity to communicate with others in Chinese, so her oral skills were very poor.
After arriving at Narita's house and negotiating the important matter of marrying her to Gao Jingshi, Kaiji took the opportunity to practice her oral skills without having to come to Ming Dynasty immediately. She asked Luo Yuan to help buy several Chinese girls as maids, and used them every day.
By communicating in Chinese, you basically don’t have to worry about language issues when you come to meet Gao Jingjing.
Gao Pragmatic actually has a special liking for Kaiji's speaking style, because compared to Chinese, which has four tones, Japanese is characterized by almost all unstressed tones, and the ratio of vowels to consonants is very good, making it sound soft and waxy.
It has Wu Nong's soft-spoken style, which Gao Pragmatic thinks is very suitable for women of this era.
Kafihime, who is used to this kind of pronunciation, is still soft and soft when speaking Chinese, which makes Gao pragmatically feel like when he used to watch anime. If Gao pragmatically didn't intend to learn Japanese, he might just let Kafeimei just say it.
Forget about speaking Japanese, it can be regarded as a way to remember the past.
However, he doesn’t need to learn Japanese. He still needs to know a lot of first-hand information about Japan. The two people Gao Pragmatic is more concerned about are Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. However, Kafihime doesn’t know much about Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's understanding can only be said to be general. He probably heard about it after Ieyasu occupied Takeda's old territory after the Honnoji Incident, became an in-law with the Hojo family, and almost became close neighbors with the Narita family.
However, Kaihime doesn’t know much about Tokugawa Ieyasu in recent times. She only knows that Ieyasu is appeasing the locals while preparing for flood control. She doesn’t know much about other aspects. If I have to say anything else, I probably heard that he is also wooing him.
Misaki Castle's Maritime Trade Alliance Kanto Fleet - But there is no need for Kafei to tell this, Gao Pragmatic knows much better than her.
However, there was one thing that happened around Kanto, and the news brought by Kaihime was clearer than the report submitted by the Kanto fleet, and that was the Kasai Osaki Kazuki incident.
As early as the beginning of October of the 18th year of Japan's Tensho era, the old territory of Osaki, that is, the Miquan area of Nakahinda in the current territory of the Kimura family, was dissatisfied with the ancient Fenggong people (old ministers of Osaki) and local people due to the issue of horse service. More than 30 of them were
A person was killed, and this incident was considered by Kafihime as a precursor to Kasai Kasai's death.
Later, many old ministers of Osaki and Kasai did not leave their skills, and were taxed by Kimura's retainers, which led to the accumulation of dissatisfaction among these old ministers. First, an outbreak broke out in the Kashiwa Mountain area of Tanzawa County, killing Kimura's retainers, and later spread to Kesen, Iwai
, Tamazukō County and other places. Some Kimura retainers escaped and were attacked by Ikki midway. With the help of former Osaki clan retainers and pro-Date Kata clan Kanetsugu, they fled into Date Territory.
Kafihime said that in the document dated October 18th from Date Masamune to Maeda Toshiie's retainer Tokuyama Hidegen, only Senhoku Ikeke was mentioned but not Osaki Kasai Ikeke. However, it was mentioned on the 23rd, maybe on the 18th
At that time, Date Masamune didn't know that a fire broke out in Kasai Osaki's territory, or he pretended not to know.
After receiving the news, Masamune immediately organized his troops to go into battle and planned to go out in person on the 26th; while the Kamao clan, which was newly moved to the area under the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, planned to go out into battle on the 1st after receiving the news on the 26th.
The intention of Masamune's letter was to let Masamune wait for the opportunity to act, and Masamune was constantly adjusting the situation and achieved certain results.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But somehow, the Kamao clan seemed unable to trust Date Masamune, so they delayed going into battle until November 5th, and took the battle on November 20th.
After he was born in the castle, he was unable to leave due to illness. On the 24th, Kimura and his son were rescued by the Date Army. On the 28th, Masamune and Ujigo exchanged invitations.
Kaihime believed that the Kimura clan's suppression of Osaki Kasai's former ministers had caused the local forces to form a resistance, and Masamune's actual participation seemed to be invisible at this time. However, after Date and Kamou sent troops one after another, the two sides were unable to effectively win each other's trust.
, causing Ujigo to be very uneasy about Masamune, and both sides reached the point of exchanging letters of invitation.
Moreover, Suda Boki, who had a grudge against Masamune, reported to the clan that Masamune had contact with Ikkei. Kaiji believed that there were two possibilities here. One was that Suda Boki held a grudge and framed Masamune; the other was that besides Suda Boki, there were other
There was Sone Shirosuke, who was Masamune's right-hand writer and had the opportunity to come into contact with the Date family's documents. Therefore, Masamune may indeed have contacts with Osaki Katsanishi's forces, such as Osaki's former minister Nakame Shigetane and Ichikukata's Tokyu Itamo.
Sai and others later defected to Masamune - of course, it is possible that they simply surrendered.
All in all, Kaihime believed that the situation in the northeastern part of Kanto was very unstable at this time. For some reason, Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not make much action or even express his position. At the same time, although Tokugawa Ieyasu did not
They expressed their stance, but they seemed nervous. It was said that they mobilized some troops to the northeast and put on a cautious defensive posture.
Although Kaiji expressed some personal guesses, she did not use a single word of certainty and left the power of judgment to Gao Pragmatic.
Gao Pingshi stepped on the half-melted snow and stopped after walking a few steps. He shook his head slightly and said: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi pretended to be calm, and Tokugawa Ieyasu pretended to be nervous. It's interesting."
Kafei just said "Hey" in a slightly surprised voice, but didn't ask any more questions, but there was some confusion in her eyes.
Gao Pragmatic laughed and said to her: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi deliberately let the Kamo clan suppress Date Masamune. This is to establish the prestige of the Kamo clan. After all, he is also one of the important figures who will look after Tokugawa Ieyasu in the future.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was busy developing Kanto, but he was also afraid that Toyotomi Hideyoshi would miss him too much, so he pretended to be nervous. This was for Hideyoshi's sake, and the other was to keep himself out of irrelevant matters...
"
"You are so wise, sir!" Kaiji complimented in a very Japanese style.
Gao Pragmatic was speechless for a moment, and after a while he smiled bitterly and said, "Do you know that the way you talk like this is very much like sarcasm? In other words, it's very sarcastic."
Kafei Ji was very surprised: "How could that happen?"
Gao pragmatic laughed again, shook his head and said: "I will go on an expedition in a few days. You can talk more with Secretary-General Liu... and Meng Guzhezhe. There are some contextual issues that you will understand once you get familiar with them."
"Hai...oh, yes, sir, I will do as you ask."
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