Chapter 283 Zheng Guoben (forty) must have a sword
Big deal? It certainly seems so.
For the Western Expedition, Gao Pangshi planned to change a Gansu governor and make him the manager of the Western Expedition - although it is still unclear what he would name it after; he planned to change a Gansu governor to supervise the Western Expedition army.
His identity is to supervise the army's food, grass and ordnance and not interfere with the frontline command; he plans to mobilize two Mongolian cavalry units from Tumut and Ordos to accompany the expedition and use Prince Shunyi as the main general to ensure that the Western Expedition Army can still gain the legitimacy to carry out military attacks on Oara.
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However, after Gao Pangshi heard this, he waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I haven't finished speaking yet."
Liu Xin opened her eyes wide: "Any more?"
"Yes." Gao Pragmatic frowned slightly and said, "I think the Qinghai issue should also be properly resolved during the Western Expedition."
"Qinghai?" Liu Xin's eyes narrowed: "You mean Huo Luo Chibu?"
"Naturally, the Huoluo Chibu have been entrenched in Qinghai for a long time. Last time, their brothers colluded with the rebels and attacked Shaanxi and Gansu. Although they quickly went to the petition to apologize after being hit hard, they have done some wrong things and will eventually have to pay the price."
Liu Xin laughed: "I understand. At that time, you were busy pacifying Kuaibai and could not take care of Huo Luochi and the others. In addition, the emperor urged you to return to the court, so you only let your successors Wei Xuezeng, Zheng Luo and others pursue them.
After a while, I announced that I accepted Huo Luochi's apology, but you have actually blacklisted him, and now is the time to settle the scores, right?"
Gao pragmatic flattened his mouth and said slowly: "roughly speaking, that's the case, but I'm actually very talkative. If Huo Luochi can be smarter this time, then although the blacklist is real, it's not the same.
This Death Note - It is true that living sins cannot be avoided, but capital crimes can be avoided."
"Really, then how can he be smarter this time?" Liu Xin asked.
Gao Pragmatic said calmly: "If the Ming Dynasty regains the Western Region but cannot control Qinghai, the Hexi Corridor and the Silk Road will still be in a situation where neither the north nor the south are our masters. Now, although Tumote has been firmly controlled by the Ming Dynasty, as long as the heat
Until weapons have evolved into the machine gun era, I will not easily believe that nomadic tribes have no desire to covet China.
Today, I, the Ming Dynasty, can control Tumut. Who knows that after Tsarist Russia moves eastward in the future, no extravagant figures will appear, disrupting my current layout, and wooing the Mongols to cause trouble for me again? Although the probability of this possibility is not high, but
Politicians must not ignore it, let alone take precautions against it.
Therefore, I intend to completely take Qinghai into Han territory and connect it with our Hexi Corridor and the Silk Road. As for the Huoluochi and other tribes who originally occupied Qinghai, regardless of whether they are Mongolian or other ethnic groups, they must move
Migrate to ensure the absolute safety of the arm extending from the Central Plains to Central Asia."
Liu Xin thought about it and said: "You want to move Huo Luochi and other tribes? Where to move to, the Western Region?"
"That's right." Gao pragmatically said calmly: "After all, the Western Region is too far away from the Central Plains. Even if I follow the strategy I proposed to the emperor and use the Ili Valley as the basic base of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Region in the future, I am afraid that this power will not be enough to shock the entire country.
Central Asia.
If you want to control the entire Central Asia on this basis, you need to use other means, such as using barbarians to control barbarians... using nomads to control nomads. As for the power that our Ming Dynasty placed in the Western Regions, it is strategic and cannot be used tactically.
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Liu Xin thought for a while, nodded first, then couldn't help but shake her head slightly, and said: "I understand what you mean, but I always feel that this matter... If you are personally in charge of the Western Region, you will naturally have such means.
, you can pull one faction to fight against the other. With your ability, it is easy to maneuver in that kind of environment.
However, I always feel a bit doubtful whether these scholars in the Ming Dynasty can understand your intentions, or whether they are capable of doing such a job well."
"That's not necessarily the case." Gao Pingshi shook his head and said: "In the final analysis, these high-ranking officials and ministers in the Ming Dynasty are all academics. If they can hold high positions, who is not a human being? The reason why they gave
Your feeling of being unable to handle the vertical and horizontal affairs well is probably more caused by the performance of some mediocre officials in the late Qing Dynasty in history.
But Xin'er, you have to know that a big reason why we saw some mediocre officials in the late Qing Dynasty as fatuous was that we, as descendants, looked at them from God's perspective. The fundamental reason was that we knew what state Europe was in at that time, and those
The so-called mediocre people know nothing about the West.
Let me give you an example. Since the Qing Dynasty began to send people to Europe and the United States, and even sent young students to study in the United States and Europe, has the behavior of these people after they come back been completely different from those mediocre people earlier?
I always think that the Chinese are extremely smart. As long as they understand the real situation of the other party, they can really find a way to deal with it. The reason why you and I can see many things more clearly than the Dukes of the DPRK today
, it’s not that you and I are really smarter than them, in the final analysis it’s just that we have a few hundred more years of vision.”
Liu Xin was quite surprised and said in amazement: "I didn't expect you to be quite sober after making so many contributions. Not bad, not bad. You are indeed a person who understands dialectics. Ma Zhe and Mao didn't read it in vain."
Gao pragmatic rolled his eyes at her and said angrily: "You have also learned it, why can't I see that you are a bit combative?"
Liu Xin chuckled and waved her hands: "Don't use this method of provoking me. I have no future. I just want to relax and get through this life. Why do I have to put so many responsibilities on myself? Look, I
Now that rich people are here, and I don’t have to think about my responsibilities as the main wife all the time like Sister Zhiting, how wonderful my life is!
Sigh, if you didn't insist on squeezing me to help you manage the secretariat, I could still be happier... For example, didn't you promise me such a large area in Singapore - oh, Huzhou City?
?If I don’t have to be this secretary-general, I will build it into a super park in the name of building a palace for you, and then live my whole life happily there. Oh, I wake up every morning.
Facing the sea and seeing spring flowers blooming, that’s a beautiful thing!”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but laugh. After finishing laughing, he joked: "It's not impossible to stay there if you want. It doesn't matter if you want to build a garden or a separate courtyard."
, this is easy to handle, but the time of going here needs to be discussed, for example... wait until I retire. "
"Quickly pull him down. Senior officials of the Ming Dynasty did not retire until they were seventy years old. They are already seventy years old. What the hell am I doing?"
However, this time, Gao Pragmatic became serious and said seriously: "You can rest assured that I will not delay it until so late."
"Huh?" Liu Xin was surprised, and took a serious look at Gao Pragmatic. Seeing that he didn't seem to be talking nonsense, she couldn't help but ask, "Are you serious?"
Gao Pragmatic nodded. Liu Xin suddenly became interested, looked him up and down seriously but exaggeratedly, and said: "Then when will you decide to retire? I can make an agreement first. If you are sixty, it will be in vain.
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Gao Pragmatic smiled bitterly and said: "After all, I still have a lot of reforms to push forward. You can't ask me to eliminate the long-standing shortcomings of Ming Dynasty in three to five years and give China a strong Ming Dynasty, right?"
"Tch...if you want to know the time, you start talking about him." Liu Xin sighed, lazily sat back in her seat again, and said: "Forget it, forget it, you are the master, I can't force you.
You, let’s get down to business. Regardless of who will be in charge of the Western Region in the future, I still have something to ask: Is it true that you are taking Qinghai just to cover the southern line of the Hexi Corridor?"
Gao pragmatic pondered for a moment and said: "Of course not, Qinghai... in the final analysis, it is just a part of the crabapple leaf."
"Haitang Ye, I understand." Liu Xin let out a long breath, hesitated, and finally couldn't help but ask: "After Begonia Ye, are you... willing to retire?"
Gao pragmatic smiled bitterly again and said: "I'm only in my thirties, do you plan to keep urging me to retire?"
"Huh, do you think I don't know? Even if you retire in the Ming Dynasty, once you go to southern Xinjiang, you will have no concept of retirement at all." Liu Xin shook her head: "Forget it, there is no point in expecting you to retire anyway.
, why not discuss when I will retire?
You know, my position is really sensitive right now. Many people in southern Xinjiang think that my duties as secretary-general are a bit like...well, like the chief minister of the cabinet in southern Xinjiang. Chief minister, what's wrong with this position?
How can a woman do it? Especially since I am still your inner chamber, this is even more slanderous and feels like a 'harem interfering in politics'!"
Gao pragmatic looked at her seriously and asked: "I have always had a question. You said that many times in Chinese dynasties, because the young emperor was young, he had to let the empress dowager or even the empress dowager actually serve as regent. How could it be done at such a time?
No one said that the harem interferes with politics?"
Liu Xin was stunned for a moment. It was obvious that she had never thought about this question. However, she thought about it seriously and still had no answer. She frowned and said, "Yeah, why wouldn't it be considered as someone involved in harem politics at this time?"
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Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "You don't understand? Don't be in a hurry. Sometimes you can think about it slowly. I'll put this matter aside for now. I'll tell you the next thing first."
Liu Xin said in surprise: "You still have something to explain? I think you have explained everything very clearly."
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "No, there is one more important thing... In fact, this thing may be more important than any of the above things."
Liu Xin was shocked to find that when Gao Pingshi said this, he narrowed his eyes slightly subconsciously, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. She had an intuition that this matter was indeed of great importance.
"I know, I'll listen, you can tell me."
Gao pragmatic closed his eyes and said slowly: "After the Western Expedition, I hope that the Western Regions can have freedom of belief. I personally think that Taoism, Buddhism, including yellow and red lamas are all fine, but...
That’s it for now.”
Liu Xin's heart trembled, and she hesitated: "This matter... doesn't seem to be easy."
"So, that's why I asked Sheng Wu to lead the Liu Jiajun to be the general of the Western Expedition, instead of mobilizing the Ma Jiajun, Ma Jiajun, Ma Gui and Ma Dong."
Liu Xin suddenly felt a little uneasy and asked, "Do you want my brother to... go on a killing spree? But, I'm afraid this matter can't be solved with a knife!"
"I know that." Gao Pingshi closed his eyes and said word by word: "But you must have a knife."
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PS: If it was updated before dawn, it wouldn’t be considered a broken promise, right? It’s 1K less, it’s not because it’s uncoded, it’s because it was deleted.