Gao Jingjing's residence in Thang Long City was arranged in the original Prince Khim's Palace. Originally, Mo Moqia planned to make a show of giving up the palace, but it was obvious that Gao Jingjing would not accept living in a building with dragon-shaped decorations.
Therefore, he declined Mo Maoqia's kindness and actively asked to live outside the "Dutong Envoy's Mansion", so Mo Maoqia ordered that the former Prince Qian's Mansion be given up as the highly pragmatic Annan trip.
As for the heir to Prince Qian's Mansion, Prince Dunhou Wang Mo Jinggong, it was too late for him to curry favor with Gao Jingshi now, so how could he have any objections? Not only did he happily help Gao Jingshi introduce the layout of Prince Qian's Mansion and some of the ingenious features of the design, he even
All the original servants and maids of Prince Qian's Mansion were retained.
However, Gao Jingshi drove most of them away because these servants could not speak Chinese, and the remaining ones who could speak Chinese stayed temporarily. Of course, Gao Jingshi's personal guards around him were still the last remaining ones.
There are about fifty servants below, and wolf soldiers are deployed on the outside - five hundred from each of the Cen and Huang families, divided into two squads, taking turns to guard Prince Qian's palace.
In fact, the area of Shenglong City at this time was also limited. Although Prince Qian's Palace was the palace of Mo Jingdian, the most powerful official in Annan before, it was not very big in terms of area, not to mention that it was not as good as Longwen Yayuan outside Xinzheng County, or even
It is also inferior to his Jian Xin Zhai Villa in the suburbs of Beijing - even if the school part of Jian Xin Zhai's later expansion is not included.
The area of Prince Qian's palace is probably slightly smaller than the former residence of Zhang Zheng in the capital, and the decoration is incomparable. Fortunately, Annan has plenty of water, and the palace is complete with pavilions, trees, and ponds.
The creek has its own unique scenery.
After Gao pragmatic sent everyone from Annan away on the pretext of being tired, Gao Jue came to see him.
Gao Jue has been following him for nearly ten years. There is no need to say more nonsense. He just said a few words and then started to get down to business.
"Master, I checked Annan's 'Household Department' before. This place is also very poor, but it still has an army of 100,000 people. Life is tight. I originally thought that the master would let them lay off some of their troops -
-For example, the part that was damaged in this battle can be used to save expenses and avoid civil unrest. Unexpectedly, the master actually spent this money on the wolf soldiers... The master is not afraid that the Annan people will cause trouble like Yongle and Xuande years.
Get up?"
"It's not impossible to reduce the army, but that will have to wait until the Zheng family is pacified." Gao Pragmatic waved his hand and said: "The Mo family's Bei Annan is only the size of western Guangxi plus southern Guangxi. It will really take a lot of effort to raise 100,000 soldiers.
Search, but don’t forget, this place is no better than western Guangxi. Southern Guangxi is dominated by mountains. Except for the northern border and the northwest area, the other areas of North Annan are large plains, and there are much more fertile fields than the entire Guangxi.
, it is estimated that... it may be comparable to Guangdong, so even with such plunder, ordinary people can still barely survive."
"As for transferring the military pay and supplies of the 30,000 Mo troops who lost in the war to the Cen and Huang families, firstly, we can save ourselves some expenses, and secondly, we can see how respectful the Annan people are to us. As for the Annan people's meeting
Will not rebel... Gao Jue, let me ask you, if the local people on the ground of Cen and Huang's family rebel, will the court take care of it?"
Gao Jue suddenly realized.
Here we need to talk about the status of Annan in the Ming Dynasty. The Annan Dutongsi area, roughly speaking, is somewhat similar to a highly autonomous region in later generations.
But what is the difference between the Annan Metropolitan Division and the Annan Kingdom? Why did Gao Pragmatic finally say "possibly restoring the country's title to Annan" today, causing Mo Maoqia to suddenly lose his "principle"?
This is because King Annan is a vassal king, similar to the prince of the Ming Dynasty. The rank of Annan's envoy is the second-rank official rank, which is very different.
The local administration of the Annan Dutong Division was changed to the "Xuanfu Division", which means that it is similar to the establishment of the Jizhou Prefecture around the Ming Dynasty, such as the Bozhou Xuanwei Envoy in Guizhou. Of course, the status of the Annan Dutong Envoy may be regarded as a comparison
The Bozhou Xuanwei envoy was a little higher, so he could still "promote and depose on his own", but every three years he had to pay tribute and "report according to the total number of officials promoted and deposed".
Also, when Annan succeeded King Annan, the Ming Dynasty often sent angels to read out the edict and confer the king's title; as for Annan's envoy, there was no need for the Ming Dynasty to appoint a special envoy to confer the king's title. Instead, the Ming Dynasty would seal the relevant edicts on the appointment and entrust them with it.
It was paid to the local officials of Guangxi and the commander-in-chief of Annan went to Zhennanguan in person to undergo inspection and receive the edict back on the spot.
The two councils of Guangxi Province granted Annan a thousand copies of the Ming Dynasty's Calendar every year, allowing it to be promulgated and passed in Annan's territory to show that it was part of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, although Annan still insisted on paying tribute every three years, Annan's envoys were not treated as accompanying ministers in the Ming court.
For example, in the 22nd year of Jiajing, Annan's envoys paid tribute, and the Ministry of Rites believed that "since Annan has been deposed and is no longer king, the tribute officials should not be accompanied by ministers at different times, so it is appropriate to reduce their rewards." Last year, Gao Pangshi actually presided over the compilation of "
In the "Da Ming Hui Dian", Annan Dutongsi was also included in the invasion of Tuyi.
In the original history, in the 20th year of Wanli, the Li Dynasty in the south of Annan was restored to power, entered Tokyo, and destroyed the Mo Dynasty. The Ming court once again prepared to "continue the rise and fall of the Mo Dynasty" on the grounds that the Mo Dynasty was China's "inner minister".
, crusade against the Later Li Dynasty.
At that time, the Li Dynasty was greatly frightened, and Li Shizong hurriedly sent envoys to the court to report the situation in Annan to Emperor Wanli, and then fearfully requested Emperor Wanli to restore the previous canonization of "Annan King".
However, the father of the Ming Dynasty directly ignored him and refused his request on the grounds that the situation was undecided. He still granted him the position of "General Envoy of Annan" and ordered him to carve out Gaoping and Taiyuan to the descendants of the Mo family to show that it was the Mo family's ancestral temple.
Continuously.
The Li Dynasty had no choice but to comply - this situation lasted until the end of the seventeenth century.
Therefore, to put it bluntly, Annan is actually an "autonomous region" within the Ming Dynasty in legal terms. Its status is the same as that of the chieftain, except that its autonomy is greater.
This is a matter of nature, and Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to this kind of stuff.
Now that Gao Wuzhi is marching south, he wants to give Annan a feeling: We are really going to become internal subordinates, not only in name, but also to listen to orders and propaganda like the chieftains in Guangxi and other places!
Gao Wuzhen now wants to make the Annan people have this kind of awareness - as for the final arrangement, it depends on Gao's pragmatic methods, and now is not the time to tell them.
Gao pragmatically decided to take away the power of the "prince" who controlled the army with one word, and decided the use of his "domestic" wealth with one word. This was Gao Pragmatic's deliberate move.
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Ningping, the camp of Zheng Jun of the Later Li Dynasty.
While Gao Pangshi was talking to Gao Jue, the thirty-one-year-old right minister of the Later Li Dynasty, Duke Liang Zheng Song, looked at a pile of memorials in his hand with a serious look on his face.
Huang Ting'ai, Ruan Youliao, and Zheng Du, the three most trusted generals under Zheng Song, all stood in front of his case with serious expressions on their faces, and no one was willing to take the initiative to speak.
After a long while, Zheng Song sighed and said: "Although Li Guanghua and the others got the job done, who could have expected that Mingren would react so violently and actually send troops south... Stealing a chicken will end up losing a lot of rice, as they say.
Maybe he is my father-in-law."
Huang Tingai said dissatisfiedly: "The Wu thieves are treacherous. The troops sent out this time may just be to take advantage of the situation, not necessarily because of what Li Guanghua and the others did."
Wu thieves refer to Ming people, because Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Nanjing when he founded the country, and called himself King of Wu before proclaiming himself emperor. Therefore, when the Li Dynasty later showed off, it liked to call Ming people and Ming troops "
Wu Thief".
Zheng Song frowned slightly but said nothing.
Another member, Ruan Youliao, said: "Now, the general thinks that it is meaningless to bother about the reasons why the Ming people sent troops. Instead of wasting time thinking about this, it is better to find a way to win Henan as soon as possible - to be precise, to eliminate Mo Mo in Henan.
The main force of the army."
He paused for a moment, then immediately continued: "I'm afraid it's not very accurate at the moment about the number of troops sent by the Ming Dynasty. These military reports and detailed reports all agree on one thing. Some say that the army will send 30,000 troops, and some say that the army will send 50,000 troops.
There is even a statement stating that the army will send 150,000 troops...the difference is too big, and it is impossible to be accurate.
However, we cannot just wait for the Ming army to rectify the Mo family, then use the power of the Mo family to attack us in the south. The general thinks that we must act quickly to deal with the 30,000 defeated soldiers of the Mo family in Henan first, and then we can
Possessing the strength to compete with the Ming army...Although the enemy forces in Henan are newly defeated and their morale is low, there is no guarantee that they will not be cheered up by the assistance of the Ming army. Therefore, we must send troops quickly rather than slowly this time."
Zheng Song nodded slightly and asked, "How do you think we should fight?"
Speaking of fighting, Huang Tingai became more interested and said quickly: "Right Prime Minister, I don't think there is any need to use any tactics in this battle, so I just go up and attack Mo Dunrang with a fierce attack, and defeat Mo Dunrang again.
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Zheng Song asked: "What's the reason? To show force?"
"Yes, it's just a show of strength." Huang Tingai said: "In terms of national strength, we definitely cannot compare with the Wu thieves, but the Wu thieves' army came to our Annan. After all, the journey was long and the transportation was inconvenient, which caused a considerable loss of national strength...
In this case, our army must find ways to let them know that although our army is not as numerous as theirs, it is powerful and united. If they insist on fighting hard, they will definitely suffer heavy losses. Only in this way can we make them face our government."
Zheng Song nodded slightly and asked Ruan Youliao: "What do Youliao think?"
"The general seconded the proposal." Ruan Youliao said: "That's why the general said that this battle cannot wait. We must send troops immediately while the Ming people have just captured Shenglong and should not be able to fully control the power of the Mo clan.
, completely destroy Mo Dunjang’s troops, so as to force the people of Ming Dynasty to face up to the power of our dynasty and know that our dynasty is not a place where they can wipe out everything."
Zheng Song looked at Zheng Du again and said, "Third brother, what do you think?"
Zheng Du is Zheng Song's younger brother. Xing San seems to be a person who doesn't like to talk too much. After hearing this, he just nodded and said simply: "I think so too."
Zheng Song stood up, pressed his hands on the table, looked around the three of them, and raised his head slightly: "In that case, send troops to Henan!"
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