Chapter 282: Inside and Outside the Palace (Twenty-two) The day after returning to Beijing
Everyone was busy on this day, and Gao Pragmatic was no exception, but what he was busy with was meeting the various officials and dignitaries who came to visit.
Yes, he did not go to the cabinet or the Ministry of Revenue. After all, he was nominally returning to Beijing to report on his duties. It would seem that Baba was clinging to power when he went to work. Such "active work" was not a compliment in the Ming Dynasty.
As the largest force in the current imperial court, the Practical School is highly pragmatic and has long been the unspoken leader of the party. After returning to Beijing after more than half a year of expedition, he inevitably had to communicate with many people.
Some people have something to tell him, and some people have something to explain to them. Even if both parties have nothing to do, meeting each other is still an unavoidable "ritual".
Although Gao Pangshi did not return to the cabinet to work, he had already begun to prepare arrangements related to the war in the Western Regions. Yesterday, the news from Gansu arrived in Beijing, but only the emperor and a few people knew the details. Today, almost everyone in the court knew about it.
Although Gao Pragmatic did not return to the cabinet to work, in the Ming Dynasty, cabinet elders often influenced the military affairs of a certain place through unofficial means, such as sending private letters to major local officials or generals to make suggestions to them - called suggestions.
, in fact, orders should be called "guidance" at the worst. [Note: This point has been stated in Volume 1 of this book.]
Since private letters can give suggestions, let alone face-to-face "suggestions". In response to the Gansu Kou border incident, Gao Pragmatic has also made arrangements.
First of all, in principle, the invasion of border areas this time was indeed beyond the imperial court's expectations, and the conditions for a large-scale counterattack were not yet met. Therefore, Gansu Province still needs to have the governors of the three sides and the governor of Gansu Province to take charge of the defense work.
Secondly, the imperial court will mobilize material and financial resources to Gansu as soon as possible to support the local response to the border Mongolian troops, but it will not mobilize additional troops for large-scale support for the time being.
As for the issue of military strength, the three sides of Shaanxi will resolve it themselves. Whether it is recruiting the private army of local convicted generals, or temporarily raising civilian warriors to participate, the imperial court will support and recognize it - of course, the warriors will be rewarded after the war.
, those who should be disbanded after the rewards are disbanded immediately.
Once again, the performance of the Suzhou Guard in this battle seriously fell short of expectations. The three sides of Shaanxi Province and Gansu Province need to find out the reason as soon as possible. Is it because the Suzhou Guard itself is insufficient in strength and weapons, or is it because the Suzhou Guard generals embezzled military pay, resold military supplies, and neglected their duties?
Or for some other reason, the governor of Shaanxi Province and Gansu Province must give a reply as soon as possible.
Finally, the five guards of Ganzhou must stick to the Ganzhou defense line and are not allowed to retreat eastward. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished by military law. However, the Ganzhou defense line does not necessarily have to stick to the Ganzhou defense line and wait for reinforcements. The governor of Gansu can contact Qinghai Tumote as the left wing.
Contact Tumotesha Chixing Taiji in the Achatu area as the right wing, and the three parties will work together to defend Gansu.
Gao pragmatism issued these instructions through Song Yingchang, the Minister of War who came to visit. The last sentence of the three-pronged joint effort to defend Gansu deserves additional explanation, especially the right wing Shachixingtaiji.
Shachixing Taiji was the seventh son of Anda Khan and the second son of Sanniangzi. The half-brother of Shachixing was Butashri, who had a very close relationship with Erdemutu.
In the original history, the third wife made a big fuss for the three brothers of Butashri. This has been introduced in the previous article, that is, the battle of Dabansheng. I won’t say more here. Just one sentence,
From the Battle of Dabansheng, it can be seen that Sanniangzi attaches great importance to how many tribes and territories her son can gain.
However, before the Battle of Fayuan broke out, there was almost a big incident between Butashri and Erdemutu. In the end, the third lady asked Qi Jiguang to bring Butashli to Gao Pragmatic after the war. In addition to giving gifts to apologize,
In addition, he also asked Butashri to become his disciple.
At that time, Gao Jingshi felt very troubled. Such a woman, whether she simply loved her son or had a strong desire for power by nature, Gao Jingshi found it quite troublesome anyway.
Touching her? It's obviously inappropriate. She is a thorough pro-Ming sect, so what's the point of touching her properly? All Mongolians may feel frightened and uneasy because of this - the Ming Dynasty even has to deal with such a thorough pro-Ming sect leader, then
What is your attitude towards other people? Naturally, you can live and kill as you please. Therefore, this is likely to cause a right-wing chaos, and even Ordos will not be spared, let alone Transkarkha, which was just acquired at that time.
What's more, with Sanniangzi's character, if Daming really shows signs of attacking her, who knows if she will fight back? Attacking Daming may be impossible, after all, she should be very afraid of Daming now.
However, Guihua City has always been in her hands as Anda's inheritance, and Han Naji is still her current husband. If she pretends not to know, she will wait until Han Naji returns to Guihua City.
, what kind of tricks will be used to "deal with" Han Naji, how will this matter end?
From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, the first step was to quickly confer Erdemutu as the new King of Shunyi. However, the problem was that Tumote's ruling structure had not changed, and the basis of his rule was still the alliance of the "elite elites of the Western Sentinel Khan Court". Changes
In other words, no matter how Han Naji died, Erdemutu had to continue to form an alliance with Sanniangzi if he wanted to secure his position.
In this way, if the Ming Dynasty did not want to see Tumut's internal divisions and rule out the possibility of sending troops to quell the rebellion, it could only go back and persuade Erdemutu to marry his stepmother Sanniangzi to maintain political stability.
This was definitely not possible. Although it was a Mongolian tradition, Gao Pragmatic found it difficult to accept it, so he had no choice but to keep Butashri by his side for a while.
This period of time was not too long, and in the end Gao Pragmatic did not officially accept Tashri as his disciple, but came up with a compromise plan to accept him as a "named disciple" - nominally you can call me teacher, but
I don’t preach and accept karma to resolve doubts.
As for how to explain to Sanniangzi, this matter was easy to handle. Gao's pragmatic reason was that Butashri had other appointments and did not have time to stay by his side to slowly teach him: he arranged a new position for Butashri and asked him to do so.
Go with Bu Zhai and Ming'an to conquer the Sauron tribe.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Buzhai is Xicheng Baylor, one of Yehe's two Baylors, Ming'an is the leader of the Horqin tribe, and the Sauron tribe is further north of Horqin, which is actually the Ming Dynasty.
The "Savage Jurchen" as people call her.
What Gao pragmatically meant at that time was that the wild Jurchens would be conquered by the three parties, and the Ming Dynasty had no intention of getting involved in the tribe. After the conquest was completed, the tribe would be divided evenly among the three parties that sent troops.
Letting go of Ye He first, Horqin aside, the tribes Butashri got will belong to him from now on. This is the "legitimate benefit" Gao Pragmatic arranged for Butashli.
Although Sanniangzi is not particularly satisfied, considering that the conflict between Butashili and Erdemutu before and after the Northern Expedition was indeed quite serious, if she forced her son to "reward according to his merits" in the Battle of Yuan, I am afraid that
Neither Han Naji nor his son would agree, especially Gao Pragmatic, who might not support it.
Therefore, it was better to settle for the second best than nothing, so we agreed. In the end, the three armies jointly attacked the Savage Jurchens and won. Although the battle was fought intermittently for more than two years because it was too cold there, but no matter what, it was still
Won.
In the end, Butashri was assigned about ten thousand savage Jurchens in their prime as his own tribe, and was then assigned to serve as a general under the Outer Khalkha tribe in Erdemutu, in charge of the expedition east of Outer Khalkha.
——This time against the Buryat people. Geographically speaking, he is now in charge of the conquest on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.
After Butashri was sent to the east of Lake Baikal, his second brother Sha Chixing and his third brother Yi'er Jiangxun also needed to be arranged. Unexpectedly, something happened suddenly. Yi'er Jiangxun suddenly fell ill and died suddenly, so only Sha Chixing was left.
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Still under Gao Pragmatic's intervention, Shachixing was sent to the Achatu area by Hannaji. The main force of his tribe was the 3,000 men given to him by his mother Zhongjin Hatun, who was the earliest Ada Khan.
The elite of the royal court, and the remaining 7,000 people are Chahar, the captured army of the Outer Khalkha tribe. In this way, Sha Chixing only has about 10,000 troops.
The Achatu area is basically the Alxa League of Inner Mongolia in later generations. It is located in the westernmost part of the "Western Outpost" of Hannaji. It has a large area of 270,000 square kilometers, but the population is relatively small.
In later generations, the Alxa League had less than 300,000 people. As for now...let’s remove the zero.
Of course, although the population does not seem to be very large, because it is bounded by Ningxia and Ordos to the southeast, the Hexi Corridor to the south, and Hami to the west, the so-called location is critical, and the responsibilities it bears are still very heavy. Among them, Sha Chixing's most important responsibility is "
"Guard the border" - to prevent the Chahar tribe from fleeing to Yarkant.
Since he is guarding the border, according to the current master-slave relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Tumut, Sha Chixing must of course accept the arrangements of the three sides of Shaanxi, especially to form a cornering force with Gansu, so he must also obey the arrangements of the governor of Gansu. Highly pragmatic
Therefore, he ordered the governor of Gansu to assign the Shachixing tribe as the right wing. This is the reason.
As for the left-wing Huo Luochi tribe of Qinghai Tumute, this is even more complicated. Huo Luochi played a lot of roles in the Northwest Rebellion that broke out before the Battle of Yuan Dynasty. To put it simply, Huo Luochi was killed by Bu Riha
Tu said that he participated in the rebellion and supported Kuaibai.
At that time, brothers Huo Luochi and Zhulitu were deceived by Gao's pragmatic strategy. In the decisive battle, Li Rusong's formation killed Zhulitu, and Huo Luochi was defeated and fled.
Afterwards, because Gao Pingshi was recalled by the court, Wei Xuezeng took his place and continued the attack. Huo Luochi fled while gathering the defeated troops. He fled back to his old place in Qinghai and concentrated his strength again, but was defeated by Zheng Luo who was ordered to regain Qinghai.
Although Huo Luochi was defeated this time, because he had learned the lesson from the previous time, the loss was not huge. He still had a fortune of 30,000 people. However, Huo Luochi was very frightened now and did not dare to confront Daming again.
So he sent people one after another to ask for surrender.
After studying and judging, Zheng Luo believed that the rest of Huo Luochi had lost the courage and strength to oppose the Ming Dynasty. At this time, Yin Erduqi and others also threatened Huo Luochi and warned him not to do stupid things again, so the Ming court finally accepted it.
His request for surrender ordered him to guard the remaining Tumut territory in Qinghai - as for the surrounding areas of Xining that were recovered by the Ming Dynasty during the war, he would naturally not be given.
In this way, Huo Luochi lost his younger brother and 20,000 Buqu in the rebellion, and returned to the Ming Dynasty - or under the rule of Tumut.
However, this defeat affected Huo Luochi's prestige in Qinghai. In the following years, several tribes emerged in Qinghai to resist his rule, causing him to have to send troops to quell the rebellion. Therefore, the overall strength of Qinghai Tumut continued to show
The trend is downward. I don’t know if he can still produce an army of 30,000 people - there is a high probability that he can’t. Maybe he can still have a strength of more than 20,000 people.
Due to the location of Tumut in Qinghai, the rule of Huo Luochi was nominally under the jurisdiction of Tumut. However, since Qinghai and the headquarters of Tumut were separated by the Hexi Corridor of the Ming Dynasty, naturally he was actually semi-independent.
There are advantages and disadvantages to semi-independence. The good thing is that the Tumut Headquarters usually doesn't care what they do in Qinghai. The bad thing is that it is difficult to ask for support from the Tumut Headquarters when something happens in Qinghai. In fact, not only do people in Qinghai resist from time to time,
We also have to face the invasion of some Tibetan tribes in the snowy area.
As a result, his total force of more than 20,000 people was already insufficient, and now he was ordered to serve as Gansu's left wing... Even if he dared not send troops, the power he could muster would be limited.
Gao pragmatically estimated that he could only provide 10,000 Mongolian cavalry, and he was probably not willing to fight tough battles, and could only be responsible for some tasks such as containment and harassment.
Of course, no matter what, it is better to send troops than not to send troops, better than to be persuaded by Burihatu to fight back again. In this way, there will be 10,000 Mongolian cavalry available on both sides, which will be somewhat better for Gansu's current guard situation.
effect.
Song Yingchang very much agreed with Gao Pragmatic's arrangement, and he knew that there was another key to it, which was that the orders directed at Sha Chixing and Huo Luochi would only be most effective if Gao Pragmatic issued them.
This is not to say that the orders issued by other Ming officials are useless, but that Sha Chixing and Huo Luochi may not be so concerned about other people's orders, and may even engage in indirect and indirect disobedience, shirk the blame, etc., which is completely inadequate.
strange.
But Gao Pragmatic's order is different. No one in right-wing Mongolia dares to ignore it, not even Han Naji and Zhongjin Hatun. After so many years of infiltration, coupled with Gao Pragmatic's prestigious reputation in Mongolia, now he
The order may be far more useful among the right-wing Mongols than the emperor's imperial edict.
Song Yingchang quickly implemented the order. At the same time, Gao Pragmatic also personally wrote books for relevant people and gave them "suggestions." Therefore, a society governed by people is different from a society governed by law. In this era, even if Gao Pragmatic resigns immediately and goes home, he will
There are still many people who dare not listen to it.
The next day after returning to Beijing, he spent the next day busy like this. Gao Pingshi, who finally planned to take a rest, was just about to go back to the bedroom from the study when he suddenly found that the light was still on in Gao Yuan's room, and he couldn't help but be a little curious.
After pondering for a moment, he walked over.
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