After the puppet war, Nguyen Hoang, the commander-in-chief of Hue and Guangnan of the Le Dynasty, took his beloved son Nguyen Phuc-Yuan to the north of Ingdu Palace, imprisoned the leader, and knelt down in front of the south city gate to plead guilty.
On behalf of Tianxun, the imperial censor of Guangxi, Annan and other places was a pragmatic man. He wore a red silk flying fish suit, led a group of Guangxi chieftains, Annan civil and military officials, went out from Hedemen to see Ruan Huang in person, took off his prison uniform with his own hands, and gave him robes and shoes.
Join hands and invite us into the city to discuss Annan's important affairs...
Oh, this is the official statement.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic was naturally not so polite, but his attitude towards Ruan Huang was indeed much better than that towards other surrendered ministers of the later Li Dynasty.
However, his attitude was not entirely due to Ruan Huang himself, but because Gao Pragmatic wanted to use Ruan Huang's favor to get a lot of money to buy horse bones - you see, although I arrested Zheng Ni, Fu Ni was arrested very fiercely.
, but we still attach great importance to the officials of the Li Dynasty who are willing to actively change their ways and are very polite!
In fact, to put it bluntly, Gao Wushi is just using a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other to win over and win over others. Since Zheng Song is very good at risking his own life, Gao Wushi's main target now is the Zheng family, and people like Ruan Huang and Zheng family are
The ministers of the Later Li Dynasty who were not easy to deal with, especially those who were in power, naturally focused on appeasing them.
If we were to suppress them all, wouldn’t we be like Ma Qi?
Of course, to appease is to appease, to win over is to win over, and such things as "a glass of wine to release military power" will always have to be done. This is the proper meaning of the title. Otherwise, whether the surnames of Hue and Quang Nam are Nguyen or Gao?
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What Gao pragmatically wants is not the kind of "Jizhou". What's more, the southern region of Annan is a dish that he has clearly put on his plate. How can he allow Ruan Huang to leave traces there?
Humph, how can you allow others to snore and sleep on the side of the bed?
Nguyen Huang came, but Gao Pingshi planned to go to Hue - well, actually this statement is not accurate. In fact, the places he really wanted to see were Ha Tinh, which is a little further north, and the other is Ha Hua House;
Da Nang, not far southeast of Hue.
Da Nang was the second largest port in Vietnam in later generations, second only to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). This port was located in the south of today's Annam, and in the future central Vietnam, connecting Hue to the north and Nha Trang to the south.
The reason why Gao Pangshi likes it is that Da Nang Bay is a deep-water port with a large area. It is backed by the Marble Mountains (it’s really called this, with five peaks of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth). There is the Son Tra Peninsula in the northeast as a barrier, and the bay is surrounded by mountains.
Horseshoe shape, wide harbor, deep water and dangerous situation, it is a natural harbor.
This place was favored by Gao Pragmatic and was the main port of the "Beijing Nanyang Strategy" that he was going to build. Not only would the commercial port be placed here, it would even be used as a military port in the early stages.
It stands to reason that the best military port in Annam, or in Vietnam, must be Cam Ranh Bay in Nha Trang. That place was favored by the French during the colonial era. After it was built into a military port, it has been praised by military strategists from all over the world.
Asia's No. 1 Military Port - This No. 1 refers to the geographical location and topographical advantages of Cam Ranh Bay.
But it is a pity that Cam Ranh Bay is not in the hands of the Annamites yet, but the land of the Champa people. Although Gao Pragmatic disdains the military strength of the Champa people - this is a group of people who were defeated by Ruan Huang's son Ruan Fuyuan in minutes.
Good things, high pragmatism can be appreciated - but now I have no time to mind other people's business.
Therefore, the Cam Ranh Bay military port that Gao pragmatism dreams of is not yet in his arms, so he has to use Da Nang to make up the number first, and then wait for a few years.
In fact, Da Nang is not bad. It is a very good commercial port location. There is just one problem - this place is probably just a small fishing village now. I don’t know how much it will cost to improve the surrounding traffic conditions.
, and how long it would take to build, so Gao Jingjing felt that he needed to check it out for himself.
As for Hue, it is actually a small city now. Although the Annamites have been moving southward, their own strength is not very good, and the efficiency of development is naturally low. In history, if Hue had not been lucky, it had been one of the old cities of Vietnam.
Nguyen, the capital of Xishan Nguyen Dynasty and the New Nguyen Dynasty, is the ancient capital of three dynasties in Vietnam, and its development has actually not improved.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic thinks there is no problem in abandoning Hue and building Da Nang, and in addition to being a deep-water port, Da Nang has some other advantages.
First of all, the first advantage is that it is just a small fishing village now!
Why is this an advantage? Because the small fishing village means that there are very few Annan people there. Gao Pragmatic can immigrate a large number of Han people to enrich the local area and make it one of his main bases in Annan!
As for the other main base, it is of course Ha Tinh. After all, there is a high-quality large iron ore, so it must be used as an industrial base, and Ha Tinh can also deter Thanh Hoa and even Thang Long in the north at any time.
The second advantage of Da Nang is that it is currently a large port relatively south of Annan. Gao Pragmatic plans to not only build a commercial port here, but also place a fleet - the fleet is here to deter Annan and secondly.
In order to slowly compete for control of Nanyang.
People who are highly pragmatic in doing things have always planned and laid out things in advance. It is rare to decide what to do in a "moment of inspiration" - how can it be that easy!
Including the attack on Annan this time, this was originally his most "ingenious" decision. But if he hadn't built up a huge family business in the early years, and recruited and mobilized months in advance, how could he have ensured the necessary supplies for the expedition?
When building a city and a port in Da Nang, it is even more important to plan in advance, because he is facing the Portuguese who are crossing the ocean, and he will soon have to face the Spaniards who are having their moment of glory. Even in a few years, they may not be able to do it again.
To face the rise of the Dutch, if there is not a good port deep into Southeast Asia, do we have to send troops from Guangzhou or Qinzhou every time? They are thousands of miles away, what a waste of time!
The reason why he went south to Hue this time was ready-to patrol, I didn’t even go, so why did I patrol and press eggs? Besides, after Nguyen Huang surrendered, he had almost 20,000 troops in Hue and Guangnan
, doesn’t this also need to be reorganized?
Of course, 20,000 people is too many. Gao Pragmatic feels that there is no need to maintain so many soldiers. Now that Annan has been settled, it is time to invest in construction. There are many people needed. Those who can be demobilized should be demobilized as soon as possible. They are really good soldiers before considering
Leave - well, just leave 10,000 people.
On the way south, Gao Pragmatic also began to think about his troop deployment and nominal issues in Annan.
The deployment is easy to say. Anyway, now that I have an absolute advantage in terms of troops, no one can object to my deployment no matter what I want, but the name is a bit troublesome.
Theoretically speaking, these surrendered troops, especially the surrendered troops of Zheng and Ruan Huang, seem to belong to Mo Chao, and even Mo Chao himself surrendered to Gao Pragmatic's troops, if the Ming Dynasty did not come to directly govern Annan in the end.
, it seems that it should still belong to Mo Chao.
How can this be done? Without soldiers, I am afraid that it is not very safe if I just rely on the fleet to deter Mo Chao!
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