The negotiators of the Gur Dynasty were stunned when Su Haisheng heard this series of conditions.
They felt that the last two were okay, but the first two really couldn't bear it, so they asked Su Haisheng not to be so open-minded, but to be a little less open, so that they could go back and have an explanation, otherwise it would be really difficult to explain.
Su Haisheng frowned.
"Too much? How about I take the army to your capital to continue negotiations? That way there won't be much, right?"
Su Haisheng was very dissatisfied with this opponent who took the initiative to come to fight. He didn't have a good attitude towards them. He only became tougher and tougher, and he didn't give any good words to them.
So the Gur Dynasty envoy was forced to return to the capital with this news to discuss whether they should agree or not.
The final result is that there are more people who support than those who do not support, and they are more powerful. The people who do not support are mainly Ghiyasuddin and some officials and dignitaries whose base is on the northern border.
They are very opposed to this method of negotiation because it will greatly harm their own interests.
But their voices were too low, and Ghiyasuddin himself had just suffered a major defeat, his power and position were shaken, and he could no longer speak easily, so it was useless.
In the end, the capitulation faction represented by Merzug, a representative of the local powerful faction who had always been dissatisfied with Jiasuddin, suppressed the voices of the resistance faction and decided to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty.
Then Merzug, as a representative, went to negotiate with the Ming army in person. At the negotiation table, his only demand was that the Gur Dynasty had suffered heavy losses after the war and was in poor financial condition. The Ming army wanted to see if they could slightly reduce the amount of compensation. They also It’s better to explain internally.
Su Haisheng was quite pleased to see Merzug's low-browed look, thinking that selling him face might be useful in the future, so he decided to agree to his request and lower the compensation figure requested by the Ming Dynasty by 30%.
Merzug was overjoyed and expressed his deep gratitude to Su Haisheng. He then presented Su Haisheng with a number of valuable personal gifts, saying that he was willing to establish a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty's military leaders in this region.
Su Haisheng immediately felt that this man was a little different, so he asked him about his position within the Gur Dynasty and his own identity.
When he learned that Merzug's responsibilities within the Gur Dynasty were equivalent to that of a member of the former Song Prime Minister's team and that he also had the status of a local powerful faction, he realized that there was probably no reason why Merzug was so flattering to him. So simple.
He further thought that the Gur Dynasty had just suffered a military defeat, its leaders had suffered a disastrous defeat, and its prestige and strength had been greatly reduced. The internal conflicts that had been suppressed before were probably no longer suppressed and were likely to emerge.
And the intention of this local representative of powerful factions to establish a relationship with him is obvious.
When the country faces a crisis, some people see danger and become worried, while others see opportunity and become ambitious and excited.
This Merzouga obviously belongs to the latter.
The decline of central power means the rise of local forces, which means that representatives of local forces like them have opportunities.
For this kind of person, national interests don't matter, his own interests are the most important, and it's hard to say how much family and country feelings this kind of person has in his heart.
In other words, they generally do not have as strong a sense of family and country as the people of the Ming Dynasty. They are all hermit crabs. To them, the national government is just a temporary residence that can be changed at any time.
If the end of the Gur Dynasty can bring them greater benefits, they will accelerate the process without hesitation.
At present, Merzug has interests in Su Haisheng. Perhaps he hopes to use Su Haisheng to suppress the central forces of the Gur Dynasty so that they can gain more benefits.
Su Haisheng does have this ability.
According to the information Su Haisheng knows so far, he learned that Su Yonglin was planning to establish a border defense force mechanism in the face of the new military situation in the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, Su Yonglin is also preparing to appoint him to be stationed in the Western Region while serving as the commander of the Second Corps, and serve as the Ming Dynasty's border defense force commander in the Western Region.
Because after practical considerations, the Ming Dynasty decided not to set up a main battle corps in the Western Regions, but to use the troops of the Second Corps and the Sixth Corps to garrison the Western Regions in turns to maintain their military presence in the Western Regions.
So at present, on the surface, there is no direct military person in charge of the Western Region.
However, this area cannot be without the deployment of troops, nor can it be without the highest military leader. The military stations are scattered, and a unified order is needed to control the army.
So after thinking about it and ruling out the feasibility of establishing the Western Region Corps, Su Yonglin decided to make some changes without increasing the number of troops and use the combat effectiveness of the existing elite corps to do something.
The Ming Dynasty now has a regular standing army of 800,000 people, three naval divisions of Beihai, East China Sea and South China Sea with a size of 90,000, and a Tiger Guards of 50,000 people. The active standing army has reached 940,000. scale.
The organization is large and the combat effectiveness is strong, which has basically met the needs of defense and territory expansion.
Not to mention the villagers’ self-defense squads, township squadrons, and county brigades scattered in every administrative village with militia status across the country, as well as a series of retired soldiers who retired voluntarily or in accordance with policies for various reasons during the revolutionary war.
If we really want to mobilize the whole country, the number of troops that the Ming Dynasty can mobilize can create a record-breaking number in history. As long as there is sufficient transportation capacity, it will be invincible in the world.
Under such circumstances, it is unnecessary to continue to expand the military. It will only use the money used to develop the economy and science and technology to raise troops, which is not conducive to the development of the economy and science and technology.
Therefore, Su Yonglin plans to introduce a standardized military service and retirement system in the coming years, fixing the total number of troops within a certain range, and constantly replacing new blood.
He planned to build an iron-clad camp with flowing troops, focusing on enhancing the training of the army and maintaining combat effectiveness. The general spent money wisely, streamlined the army and streamlined administration, controlled military expenditures, and prevented the Ming Dynasty from embarking on the wrong path of destroying the army.
On this basis, Su Yonglin brainstormed with Xin Qiji, Ma Weiying and other military leaders, and finally came up with a border defense army system.
This border guard force is not an army number, but a mechanism.
That is, without disrupting the scale of the existing main battle corps, a border defense force framework is established, and a command system is built for this framework, and any army can be filled in the framework to accept the command of this command system.
The troops deployed within the framework of the border defense force still maintain their original designations and organizational affiliations, but in terms of military operations, they obey the command of the commander of the border defense force, rather than the command of the commander of the corps to which the establishment belongs.
For example, in order to cope with the changing military situation in the Western Regions and Central Asia, Su Yonglin planned to establish the Western Regions Border Defense Force and put 60,000 troops stationed in the Western Regions into the framework of the Western Regions Border Defense Force.
The first batch of troops stationed in the Western Regions were the Fourth Army of the Second Corps and the Sixteenth Army of the Sixth Corps. The Fourth Army naturally accepted the command of Su Haisheng, but the Sixteenth Army was not originally under Su Haisheng's command.
However, under the border defense force mechanism, Su Haisheng did not command the 16th Army as the commander of the Second Corps, but commanded the 16th Army as the commander of the Western Region Border Defense Force.
Not only the 16th Army, but also the eight main battle army corps across the country and even any army of the Huben Guards that is invested in the framework of the Western Region Border Guard Force will obey the command of the Commander of the Border Guard Force.
Su Yonglin had this idea because he considered that the Ming Dynasty had a vast territory and many things were sudden. Border areas often had to take action before they had time to ask for instructions, otherwise they would encounter very serious strategic problems.
However, Su Yonglin had no intention of increasing the military establishment, so he decided to use the existing foundation to create a brand new mechanism to deal with the current situation.
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