Chapter 284 President Bai Kui (81) Internal Meeting (Part 1)
Perhaps because Wang Tingzhuan's performance exceeded expectations, Gao Pragmatic was in a good mood when he returned home that day, and even his steps seemed three points lighter than usual.
However, this good mood immediately turned from sunny to gloomy after he heard Gao Qi's report on the latest news in southern Xinjiang.
Gao Qi reported: The Arakan Kingdom seemed to be aware of southern Xinjiang's intention to launch troops against them, and urgently sent an envoy to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to contact the Governor of Bengal of the Mughal Empire and the third son of Emperor Akbar.
Daniyal.
The Secretariat's current presumption on this is that the Mughal Empire will not be indifferent to the affairs of the Kingdom of Arakan, but it is not certain whether the prince and governor Daniyar will choose to immediately use force to support the Kingdom of Arakan to resist the invasion of southern Xinjiang.
Military action.
Gao pragmatic pondered for a moment and ordered Huang Zhiting and Gao Wuzheng to come and hold a high-level meeting within Beijing together with Gao Qi. As soon as this order was conveyed, Gao pragmatic suddenly added something more and sent someone to ask the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve to implement it.
Chairman, President of Capital Bank, Gao Guoyan.
Gao Guoyan was Gao Guoyan's cousin and the second son of a second wife. Because his elder brother died young, he ranked one place ahead and was second in the clan, second only to Gao Wuzi, who was restricted by Gao Jingshi to the Shou Ancestral Temple in Xinzheng.
Gao Guoyan entered Jinghua very early and was responsible for Jinghua's financial review in the early days. Later, when Jinghua Bank was established, he served as president.
When the Federal Reserve was established in the Ming Dynasty, Gao Guoyan was naturally the obvious choice for the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. However, Gao Pragmatic was too busy and could only take a general direction. Someone still had to be responsible for specific affairs, so Gao Guoyan took on the role concurrently as the president of Jinghua Bank.
The position of executive chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of China.
Gao Pragmatic is often jokingly called the God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty. So by derivation, Gao Guoyan is the God of Wealth of Beijing. There is no doubt about his high status, great power, and heavy responsibility.
Since the headquarters of the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve was a little far away from the Nanning Marquis Mansion, the high-level meeting was postponed until the meal time. When Gao Pragmatic saw that it was the meal time, he simply invited everyone to eat first.
After the meal, the five of them came to the small conference room for a meeting. Originally, Gao Jingshi wanted to keep Gao Mo to join the meeting, but Uncle Mo was really old and visibly weak, so Gao Jingshi had to let him go and rest first.
As a result, those left in the meeting were Gao Pragmatic, Huang Zhiting and his wife, Gao Guoyan, Gao Wuzheng, and Gao Qi.
According to Gao Jingshi's instructions, Intelligence Secretary Gao Qi first informed everyone about the newly obtained information, and then Gao Jingshi asked: "What do you think?"
Because it concerns Southern Xinjiang, Huang Zhiting, who has been in charge for many years, took the initiative and said: "The military strength of the Kingdom of Arakan is not worth mentioning to Southern Xinjiang. Since the country has noticed that the situation is different, it is the right thing to do to send people to seek reinforcements.
There is meaning.
However, from what I have seen, this country's behavior is probably seeking the skin of a tiger. I think the Mughal Empire is now in a period of expansion, and it has not been long since it took over the Bengal region. Now it suddenly found that there is an opportunity to go further, and it is hoped that they can take over their peeps.
Chittagong for a long time.
I think that Prince Daniyar will definitely be tempted - but not to help Arakan, but to annex Arakan before southern Xinjiang."
After Huang Zhiting finished speaking, Gao Jingshi just nodded slightly, but without comment, he looked at Gao Guoyan. Gao Guoyan shook his head and said: "I never think about these things, so let Shiyi and Yufu talk about it first.
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"Eleven" refers to Gao Wuzheng, who performs eleven in the clan and six in the sixth house. Gao Guoyan is his second cousin, so he is called "Eleven". As for "Yu Fu", it is Gao Qi
The expression of .
It is true that Gao Guoyan rarely expresses his position directly on political and military issues prematurely. Everyone is used to this and they don't pay much attention to his attitude. Therefore, everyone's eyes first focused on Gao Wuzheng's face.
In the past, Gao Wuzheng was often more eager and expressive when he had the opportunity to speak, but this time he seemed to have changed his mind and did not express his views immediately. Instead, he pondered for a moment before speaking. However, when he spoke this time, he was not talking about himself.
point of view, but asked Gao Qi.
"Yu Fu, how many troops does the Kingdom of Arakan have? How many troops does Daniyar, the governor of Bengal, have?"
Gao Qi replied: "The Kingdom of Arakan does not have many troops, usually no more than 20,000 at most, and currently it should not exceed 15,000, and this is the total strength including their standing navy. As for the army specifically...I'm afraid
That's about 10,000 people.
As for the Mughal Governor of Bengal, we don’t know whether the information we got is accurate: the Mughal Empire, which had just taken over Bengal, had about 30,000 to 50,000 troops stationed in Bengal - this is just an estimate, the exact data
Unknown.
However, more recent news shows that around the beginning of last year, the Mughal Emperor Akbar began to mobilize troops from Bangladesh, drawing 15,000 to 20,000 troops. If all are calculated according to the maximum scale
, so before there were 50,000 'official troops' in Bangladesh, after taking away 20,000, there are still 30,000 left."
Gao Wuzheng frowned and said with some confusion: "If there are only 30,000 people, then I don't even think this matter needs to be discussed in detail, just let Yuan'er and the Secretary-General on the front line solve it.
Yuan'er can now mobilize a sufficient number of troops. In addition to the Nanyang Fleet at sea, which will definitely help him, he can mobilize more than 100,000 garrison troops in southern Xinjiang alone. Although these many troops cannot be mobilized all, but
It should be easy for him to mobilize 50,000 to 60,000 people, right?
In this way, Yuan'er's troops on hand are almost twice as many as those of the enemy, and in terms of ordnance, training, etc., they must be at least not weaker than their opponents.
On the other hand, if Daniyar knows our strength, I always feel that it is hard to say whether he dares to send troops. Even if he sends troops, I am afraid he must first reach out to the Mughal court for a supporting army, and this
It will waste a lot of time..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this time, Gao Qi suddenly interrupted: "I'm afraid the Mughal court will not give him support."
"Oh? Why is this?" Gao Wuzheng asked in surprise.
"Not long ago, the news was that at the beginning of the year, the Mughal Emperor Akbar had personally led his army south to conquer the Deccan countries." Gao Qi spread his hands and said: "The main force of the Mughal army should be with him now, the center of the Mughal court.
I'm afraid there aren't many mobile troops left that can be mobilized.
Considering that they were a foreign court in India, just like the Yuan Dynasty was to the Han Dynasty, rebellions in various places were commonplace. Although Akbar should have left an army for possible counter-insurgency, at the same time this army was
It is unlikely that he will be transferred to Bengal to fight another conquest.
Oh, by the way, there is one more thing at the same time. Uncle Six previously told us to tentatively contact Akbar’s eldest son Salim, and this matter has initially yielded results.
This man was a staunch supporter of his own sect and opposed his father Akbar's policy of sectarian reconciliation, so the relationship between father and son was very tense. This time when Akbar went south for an expedition, he originally thought that he should be left behind to take charge, but in fact Akbar
Keba did not give him any actual power, leaving him with nothing to do in the rear, and then he harbored resentment..."
Gao Qi paused for a moment and said: "Although he was unwilling to make any promises when we contacted him, according to the report, this person should not be opposed to joining forces with us to deal with his father Akbar - provided that
, the most we want is Bengal, while he wants the entire Mughal Empire except Bengal.
Of course, in the final analysis, what Salim wants is to replace Akbar, re-establish the authority of their Mughal sect, trample Hinduism under their feet, and force Hindus to convert."
Gao Wuzheng cursed in a low voice: "I really don't understand these people. If they are fighting for the throne, just fight for the throne. Why do they have to have anything to do with the sect? They are full."
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PS: The second half of this chapter has actually been coded, but the sensitive words have not been found, so it cannot be published. I will update it when I have time to fish tomorrow morning.
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