In the ninth year of Wanli, March 27th, Yiyou.
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 north to the Anh Du Mansion, imprisoned the leader, and knelt down in front of the Nancheng gate to plead guilty.
According to the pragmatic nature of the imperial censors in Guangxi, Annan and other places, Dai Tianxun, wearing a red silk flying fish suit, led a group of Guangxi chieftains, Annan civil and military officials, and went out to Hede Gate to see Ruan Huang in person. He personally removed his prison uniform and gave him robes and shoes. Join hands and invite us into the city to discuss Annan's important affairs...
Oh, that's official.
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 because of Ruan Huang himself, but because Gao Pragmatic wanted to use Ruan Huang's favor to buy horse bones with a thousand pieces of gold - you see, although I arrested Zheng Ni and Fu Ni very fiercely, , but we still attach great importance to and are very polite to the ministers of the Li Dynasty who are willing to actively change their ways!
In fact, to put it bluntly, being pragmatic is nothing more than a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other. Since Zheng Song had done a good job in seeking death, Gao Wuzhen's main target now was the Zheng family. And officials of the Later Li Dynasty like Ruan Huang, who did not deal with the Zheng family very well, especially those who were in power, naturally wanted to appease the Zheng family. It's the Lord.
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, things like "a glass of wine to release military power" will always have to be done. This is the proper meaning of the title. Otherwise, whether Hue and Quang Nam are named Nguyen or Gao? ?
What Gao pragmatism wants is not the kind of "Jizhou". What's more, the southern region of Annan was a dish that he had clearly put on his plate. How could he allow Ruan Huang to leave traces there?
Humph, how can you allow others to snore and sleep on the side of the couch?
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, which is now Ha Hua House; Da Nang, not far southeast of Hue.
Da Nang was the second largest port in Vietnam after Ho Chi Minh City and Saigon. This port was located in the south of Annam today and in the future central Vietnam, connecting Hue to the north and Nha Trang to the south.
The reason why Gao Pangshi is interested in it is that Da Nang Bay is a large deep-water port. It is backed by the Marble Mountains, so it is called. It has five peaks of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. There is the Son Tra Peninsula in the northeast as a barrier. The bay is horseshoe-shaped. The harbor is wide, the water is deep, and the situation is dangerous, making it a natural harbor.
This place was favored by Gao Pragmatic and was the main port of the "Beijing Nanyang Strategy" he was going to build. Not only was the commercial port to be placed here, it was even used as a military port in the early days.
It stands to reason that the best military port in Annam, or 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 experts around the world as 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 pragmatically dreams of is not yet in his arms, so he has to use Da Nang to make up the number first and 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 Annan people have been moving southward, their own strength is not very good, and their development efficiency is naturally low. If Hue hadn't been lucky in history, it had been the capital of the Old Nguyen Dynasty, the Tay Son Nguyen Dynasty and the New Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam. It was the ancient capital of three dynasties in Vietnam, and its development would not have progressed.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic thinks there is no problem in abandoning Hue and building Da Nang, and besides being a large 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, which 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 always plan and lay 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 "smart" decision, but if he hadn't built up a huge family business in the early years and recruited and mobilized it months in advance, how could he have ensured the necessary supplies for the expedition?
When building a city and port in Da Nang, it is even more important to plan in advance, because he is facing the Portuguese across the ocean, and he will soon have to face the Spaniards who are in their highlight moment. Even in a few years, they may not be able to do it again. To face the rise of the Dutch, if there is no good port deep into Southeast Asia, do we have to send troops from Guangzhou or Qinzhou every time? Thousands of miles away, what a delay!
The reason why he went south to Hue this time was already there - to patrol and massage, I didn't even go, so why did I just go on a patrol and massage? Besides, after Nguyen Hoang surrendered, didn't his nearly 20,000 troops in Hue and Quang Nam also have to be reorganized?
Of course, 20,000 people is too many. Gao Pragmatic feels that there is no need to raise so many soldiers. Now that Annan is 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 Just leave - well, just ten thousand 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 military strength, no one can object to any deployment I want, but the name is a bit troublesome.
Theoretically speaking, these surrendered soldiers and horses, especially those of Zheng and Ruan Huang, seem to belong to Mo Chao, and even Mo Chao himself surrendered to Gao Pragmatic's soldiers and horses, 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 work? Without soldiers, I might not be very safe if I rely solely on the fleet to deter Mo Chao!
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