Chapter 282: Inside and Outside the Palace (11) Yuan'er, do you want to go to Southern Xinjiang?
For the South Asian subcontinent, there is indeed a kind of high pragmatism.
He had the idea of "not worrying about future generations", but due to several reasons, he had no intention of using troops against him.
Specifically, there are three main factors: first, the Mughal Empire is on the rise, and it can even be said that it is almost at its peak now. Its economic and cultural development, the degree of internal unity, and the most direct war-related factors.
The military strength is at its peak, so it may not be easy to conquer.
Secondly, Jinghua had two main tasks at that time. One was to establish Dingnan City and create a core town centered on Dingnan as the center of Jinghua’s rule in southern Xinjiang.
This is very important and is a key to high-pragmatic plans. The reason is not complicated. After all, the current era does not have as developed transportation and information transmission capabilities as later generations. If you want to rule a large territory, you must first have a core.
To give a few examples, this is like during the Three Kingdoms period. If you were from the northwest and wanted to dominate the world, the first thing you needed to do was to occupy Chang'an. Even if you wanted to separate one side, you must have Chang'an in hand, otherwise there would be no population and food in Chang'an.
With the danger of three levels, he was crushed to death by others in minutes.
If Chang'an is there, then you can go north to take Hetao, which was called Anding at that time, Beidi, Fengyi and other counties, and try to gather some strong cavalry. If you go west, you can take Liangzhou, which will ensure the stability of the rear and also get some cavalry.
With the cavalry, you will have a military advantage when you enter the Central Plains in the future. If the Central Plains already has a strong power and it is difficult for you to conquer it for a while, you can also rely on the danger of Tongguan to survive first, go south to take Shu, and strive to recreate the Qin Dynasty
The process of destroying the six kingdoms and defeating the Han Dynasty.
If that doesn't work, then we have to defend Tongguan until the world changes. Anyway, with Chang'an in hand, we can advance, attack, retreat and defend.
If you are born in the southeast, you must undoubtedly master Jianye and Kuaiji. This area can be said to be the basis of separatism in Jiangnan and the basis for hegemony that is suitable for the development of agriculture and commerce. And when this area is stable, you still want to compete in the Central Plains.
Then we must go north to seize the Hefei area. Only in this way can we have the capital to compete in the world. If we are strong, we can go north to the Central Plains. If we are poor, we can defend the river to the death.
As for establishing a position in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the most important thing in the early stage is naturally to defend Xiangyang. Only with Xiangyang in hand can the Central Plains powers be unable to pass
The "Nanyang Xiangyang" Basin, the must-take channel, moves southward, thus threatening your fundamental base, the Jianghan Plain.
With the control of the Jianghan Plain now firmly established, we can go up the river to the west to take the Shu lands, and to the east we can go down the river to take the south of the Yangtze River. In this way, we can at least have two heroes from the north and the south to rule across the river.
If the management was done properly at that time, or if the one in the north showed flaws, it would be possible to seize Huaibei from the south of the Yangtze River, advance to Hanzhong from Shu, and attack Guanzhong, or even march out of Nanyang from Xiangyang and directly capture the Central Plains. It all depends
That was the situation at that time.
All in all, I just want to say that since there are no cars and trains these days, you must first grasp an economically important area with a good geographical location to ensure that you can have stable money and food. Moreover, since it is not far from the main combat area in the future, transportation losses will not be
It is too large to ensure that the military power is not expensive.
Southern Xinjiang and Nanyang were collectively called Southeast Asia in later generations. At that time, it seemed that the most important area was Malacca. But in fact, although Malacca was also very important at this time, it was not that important.
"The foundation of hegemony". This is because it lacks strategic depth. Although it has plenty of money due to trade, it obviously lacks a stable food supply. If something goes wrong, it may not be able to survive for a long time.
Moreover, Malacca is located in the throat channel, so when it is strong, it can naturally radiate in all directions, but what if the naval battle fails?
Malacca will instantly become a place of death. If you are trapped here, no matter how long you persist, you will eventually die.
In later World War II, when the Japanese army attacked Malacca, the reason why the British army was lost so quickly was that, in addition to the fact that the British army was really strong at that time, there was also a key reason that Southeast Asia was in a panic at that time, and the main force of the British navy had already shrunk to Europe.
In the mainland, the navy in that area was completely insufficient to fight the Japanese army, so it was useless for the British army to defend Malacca, and giving up was a natural and helpless move.
Therefore, although Gao Pragmatic attaches great importance to Malacca, Singapore, and the two cities of Longya and Huzhou that Jinghua is now named, he will not regard them as Jinghua's core ruling areas in Nanyang to build.
It is most suitable for Jinghua to rule the entire southern Xinjiang. The core area of Nanyang can only be Dingnancheng, which is almost the Bangkok metropolitan area in later generations.
Economically speaking, the GDP of the Bangkok metropolitan area in later generations accounted for 44.2% of Thailand's total, and Bangkok city alone accounted for 29.1%, which shows that its development has sufficient geographical and location advantages.
This is the Chao Phraya Plain area, which is conducive to the development of agriculture and population concentration. It is also located in the center of southern Xinjiang, so there is no need to worry about people stealing your home on land.
It also has the advantage of a seaport and can be deployed quickly to radiate throughout Southeast Asia. If it doesn’t serve as the core, who will?
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic gave Dingnancheng a very long construction period of fifteen years. For the current Jinghua, the purpose is to use Dingnancheng as the core to comprehensively control the entire southern Xinjiang and Nanyang regions.
However, at the same time, since the Nanyang Strategy was still being promoted at that time, the main task of the Nanyang Fleet was to expand Jinghua's power in the Nanyang Islands. However, this strategy only had the navy, so it had to take turns from the six major garrison forces.
Deploying troops to fight south is also to maintain combat effectiveness.
In this way, it seems that southern Xinjiang has not fought any major battles in so many years, but in fact it is busy with internal construction and has constant small battles, which makes it inconvenient to concentrate its forces westward on the South Asian subcontinent and fight against the Mughal Empire.
As for the third one, Gao Pragmatic himself has been very busy in recent years, and he is indeed too busy to travel thousands of miles to conquer the South Asian subcontinent.
If we talk about military affairs alone, maybe Huang Zhiting is also qualified, but launching a full-scale war with the Mughal Empire is not just a military issue. The entire power of Beijing must be mobilized to serve it.
Why? It's still a geographical issue. If Jinghua wants to conquer the Mughals in the west, Bengal must be the first place to attack. This doesn't need to be explained at all.
In this case, the Mughal Empire would fight on its own, and its troops could be smoothly mobilized from its core area along the Ganges to Bangladesh, and supplies and food would not be scarce.
In addition, although the river network in this area is not convenient for the main force of the cavalry, it is also not convenient for Beijing to attack.
The Mughal Empire had been ruling northern India for some years at this time, and they did not only have cavalry at their disposal. As long as they relied on the river network for layer upon layer defense, Beijing, which had come from the expedition across the Arakan Mountains in Arakan, would certainly not be able to withstand the logistical pressure.
If you are not careful, the whole army may collapse.
Of course, Jinghua can also rely on sea transportation, but this can easily lead to a tug-of-war, which is not what Gao Pragmatic wants to see.
According to Gao Jingshi's original rough plan, in terms of time, he hoped to wait until Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire died in 1605 before taking action.
Historically, after Akbar's death, the Mughal Empire was ruled by Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
King Jahangir reigned from 1605 to 1627. During his reign, Arjun, the fifth generation founder of Sikhism, changed the parish into an administrative agency and levied taxes from believers.
This move caused great shock in the Mughal Empire, and it obviously meant to compete with the Mughal Empire government.
Arjun also established a gold shop in Amritsar as a Sikh holy place and administrative center. The Sikh holy book Adi Grant was also written during this period.
Sikhism has always been billed as a peaceful and monastic group. The founder only cared about preaching and never interfered in politics.
However, Arjun got involved in the disputes of the Mughal royal family and protected the rebellious princes, which made him jealous of King Jahangir, and finally led to his death in 1606.
With this as the starting point, the period of peaceful development of Sikhism ended, the relationship with the Mughal Empire government also dropped to a freezing point, and the empire began to be turbulent.
In Gao Jingshi's opinion, that time was the best time for Jinghua to send troops. If he lived as long as Tianqi, then it would be better to wait a few more years, but that would be too nonsense.
In short, Gao Pragmatic originally believed that the time to send troops should be at least after 1606, which was still seven years from now.
He also believed that in another seven years, he would be almost done with the major tasks at hand, and by then he would be able to take time to deal with this war.
But when it comes to everything, man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation after all. Who knew that butterfly wings are so powerful that they have already made the situation of the Arakan Kingdom different from what it was in the original history?
What's more, the six major garrison armies in southern Xinjiang have been training for many years, and there are no resistance forces in southern Xinjiang who dare to jump out to commit suicide. The conquest of Nanyang is also going more smoothly than imagined, so the garrison army has long been ready to move and formed a
An impulse that even high pragmatism cannot ignore.
This situation is probably similar to the pressure faced by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after the unification of Japan. Of course, there are still differences.
Theoretically speaking, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's pressure mainly lies on his generals and even specific low-level samurai. All of them have military merits and need to be rewarded. However, Japan is too small and the land cannot be sealed, so he can only
Forced to launch wars with foreign countries in order to relieve this pressure.
But Jinghua is different. There is a lot of land in southern Xinjiang and Nanyang for Gao Jingjing to reward his subordinates, but Gao Jingjing cannot, is unwilling, or even dares to grant large-scale rewards now.
Large-scale rewards mean that a group will inevitably form, a group similar to the one after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
The strength of such a military and political group is quite astonishing. It can even force the emperor to consider their interests first, and even let princes and princesses marry them one after another, which in turn makes their strength and power more powerful.
Even more terrifying.
Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of heroes in the later period is inseparable from his initial move to condone the expansion of the power of the military meritorious group. Earlier, the general situation of the world was uncertain. I endured it for the first time. Later, the overall situation stabilized. If you still don't restrain yourself, then who will you kill if you don't kill me?
He killed almost all the famous ministers and generals under his command in just one generation. If nothing happened later, he could only rely on God's favor. Gao Pragmatic didn't want to end up like this.
Since you don’t want to do this, you can’t give out large rewards now, you must control
The power of the "military group" expands disorderly until other internal forces can restrain it.
As a ruler, the so-called emperor is nothing more than playing with balance, otherwise what else can you do? Do you think that by becoming Zhu Yuanzhang, you will become a workaholic?
You may be able to do it, but can your son do it? Can your grandson do it? What about great-grandchildren, there are always some who can’t do it, right? Don’t go that far. Gao Pragmatic himself doesn’t like to get involved in the management of many specific things, but prefers to propose strategies.
Plan, and then organize all matters layer by layer
"Subcontracting" is done by his subordinates, and he is responsible for taking charge. Beijing is in southern Xinjiang, and the expansion of Nanyang is fast enough. Among them, the garrison system and the Nanyang fleet contribute the most, and those responsible for government affairs
Although the "official system" also has merit, it is definitely not as obvious as the military system. In this way, it is necessary to be highly pragmatic and protracted for a long time, so that the official system can have deeper control over the local area, and at the same time strengthen their control over the military system.
Control the logistics affairs to create a balance of power, which is easy to control.
But just because all the important people in the military system are their own servants, it doesn't mean that they have no ideas of their own like NPCs and will only act according to their master's instructions.
It's good that they are his own servants, but at the same time, they are also normal people with their own thoughts and interests. Treating them as NPCs will cause big trouble.
Of course, the Jia Ding system is different from the Jia Ding system, but their relationship with Gao Pragmatism is, to a certain extent, similar to the relationship between the Tatar emperor, the major banner lords, and the main generals in the early Tatar Qing Dynasty.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! These people do call themselves slaves when facing the emperor, but they still have their own interests and their own power, and they will not have other ideas just because they call themselves slaves.
Of course, Jinghua did not
The "flag master", the main officers in the garrison and the two-ocean fleet system also have to take turns as usual, but even if the senior generals cannot firmly control a certain force, they will still have a certain prestige after all.
This is just like Gao Pinggong's current prestige in Jiubian, Ming Dynasty. Even if he does not have the power to directly manage a certain town in Jiubian, if he orders a certain town in Jiubian now to mobilize their troops, unless the order is to let them kill.
Capital City, otherwise if it is just transferred within the jurisdiction, which town in Jiubian will disobey?
This is called prestige. Now, both the land and sea armies in Southern Xinjiang feel that there is not much credit they can get in Southern Xinjiang and the Nanyang region, and they are eager to continue launching foreign wars.
But who else could we target externally? We couldn’t go north to attack the Ming Dynasty, right? Then we could only go west to attack the Mughals.
Once this happens
When "public opinion" is formed, and there is no sufficient reason to suppress it due to high pragmatism, war against the Mughals is inevitable.
It was precisely because Huang Zhiting felt that he was about to be unable to suppress such feelings.
"Public opinion", then put the matter in front of Gao Jingshi. Gao Jingshi thought for a while and asked: "Both the garrison and the Nanyang Fleet are concerned about the possible upcoming war with the Mughal Empire.
Any comments or suggestions?" This means asking specifically how to fight.
When Huang Zhiting heard this, he inevitably became energetic. He sat up straight and slowly explained the plans of the navy and army in southern Xinjiang.
Huang Zhiting said: "The navy and army have discussed this many times in the military headquarters. There is no need to go into details about the process. The final conclusion is roughly like this: The first step is to completely seize the Arakan Kingdom as a way to counter Momo.
The bridgehead for the Wol Empire's attack is of course also an important logistics base." This is the proper meaning of the question. Gao Pragmatic had already expected this, so he was not surprised and just asked calmly: "Then, how to win?
What about Arakan? The security forces are not thinking of forcibly crossing the Arakan Mountains, are they?"
"Of course not." Huang Zhiting shook his head and said: "The Arakan Mountains are a natural chasm. The garrison assessed that even if the Arakanese did not send even a single soldier to defend them, they would lose 30% of their strength just by climbing over it. Assume that the Arakanese people would lose 30% of their strength just by climbing over it.
If the Gan people can send 10,000 troops to guard several important places, then this loss may reach half, which should not be considered at all." Yes, Gao Pragmatic thought so too, because the Arakan Mountains are all above two thousand meters above sea level.
, but there are plains on both sides, which is a huge difference.
The only easy-to-travel Cave Mountain Pass, with an altitude of 1168 meters, is located in the middle of the mountain range, so the only way to cross is through this place. However, the Arakanese will obviously arrange the main force to be stationed here, so a fierce battle will break out to attack the key pass.
From the terrain point of view, this battle will probably be more difficult than the Battle of Loushanguan, because it is difficult for the garrison to outflank the enemy and they will have to attack the enemy.
However, the terrain of this mountain pass is like a sword pavilion. It is difficult for artillery to deploy and create fire pressure, so it can only rely on human lives. Who knows how many people will die.
Huang Zhiting saw Gao pragmatically nodding, so he continued: "The view of the Military Command is to take advantage of the civil strife in the Arakan Kingdom to let the Nanyang Fleet carry the land division to Chittagong or the surrounding areas under the banner of support, completely bypassing Arakan
The mountains are naturally dangerous and directly control the capital. As for the next step, it is best to spread the word and decide the entire kingdom. If not, just attack Dongge Mountain Pass from the rear. After all, if you attack from the rear, the place is unsafe to defend.
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"Arakan has been known for its navy in the past. Is the Nanyang Fleet confident enough about this?" Gao pragmatically asked.
"Yes." Huang Zhiting said with certainty: "Although Arakan is good at its navy, the reason why its navy seemed strong in the past was actually because of the support of the Portuguese. Now that Philip has fallen out with the king, the navy must be in turmoil.
It is uneasy and it is difficult to form a joint force as in the past. This is a good opportunity for us to send troops."
"How long is this window period?" Gao pragmatically asked again.
"What about the window period? It depends on whether we are deliberately delaying it." Huang Zhiting mused: "If we don't care, the king may be eager to put down the rebellion, and may send troops soon. If he puts down the rebellion successfully,
This window period will disappear soon. If he fails to suppress the rebellion, the window period will be longer. Of course, if we intervene, for example, tell the king that we need some time to prepare, and then attack Philip from the north and the south with him, at the same time
A fleet will also be sent to support him, so the king may be patient for a while, and the window period will be extended." Gao pragmatically nodded, and suddenly said to Gao Yuan: "Yuan'er, do you want to go to southern Xinjiang?" Thank you book friend
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