Master, I'm so happy! "
In the front garden of Baiyu Building, Gao Mo held a secret letter and excitedly walked towards Gao Pragmatic, who was sitting in the shade of a tree reading a book.
Gao pragmatically put down the book in his hand and pointed to another chair next to him: "Sit down and talk, what's the big news?"
"The situation in Siam has been completely controlled." Gao Mo said while handing over the secret letter in his hand: "Huang Dutong and Miss Liu joined forces to defeat Na Li Xuan in eastern Myanmar. Na Li Xuan himself died on the spot. , more than 4,000 of his troops were killed by the formation, more than 10,000 people were captured, and the rest were scattered."
Gao Pangshi's eyes lit up at first, but then he asked: "In what name did they use their troops to kill Narixuan?"
"Breaching the covenant, intending to rebel, etc." Gao Mo said with a smile: "Ruan Huang had previously sent several blank Siamese 'Imperial Edicts' to Huang Dutong, which were stamped with the great treasure of the King of Siam. Huang Dutong then In this way, Naresuan was sentenced to death for many crimes, such as disobeying the king's orders. Then, in the tone of the King of Siam, he asked me, the Ming Expeditionary Army, to exterminate the rebels, and promised to be rewarded with many great powers in Siam. "
"Okay!" Gao Pingshi smiled and said, "Ruan Huang has made great achievements this time, and the performance of Zhiting and Liu Xin is even more unexpectedly outstanding."
Gao Mo smiled and said: "Annan, Nanzhang, Siam, and southern Myanmar are finally connected. Master, Huaying and Nanpan in southern Annan have been obtained. Shouldn't the progress of occupying the city be accelerated? As long as Once these three places are completely controlled, Cambodia will be the only place in the entire Indochina Peninsula that is not controlled by Jinghua, but Cambodia was promised to me by the Holy Spirit, so it must not be a big problem to win it."
The Indo-China Peninsula plan that had been planned for several years has now been completed more than half of the time, taking advantage of the Ming Dynasty and Burma War. Gao Pragmatic was naturally happy, but he still maintained his usual rationality and replied: "The city is weak, so the colonization task should be accelerated. There’s nothing wrong with speed, but don’t worry about Cambodia just yet.
Although Cambodia is not strong, it has a special place, that is, its royal family has a long history. If calculated based on bloodline, it has been maintained for about 1,400 years, and it should still have some prestige among the people. If we want to enter Cambodia, we have to find some reasons to come out and cannot do it by force. Although His Majesty made a promise, it was only an acknowledgment after the fact. It was hard for His Majesty to say anything while we were taking Cambodia. "
Gao Mo heard the song and understood the elegant meaning, nodded and said: "The younger brother will send someone to understand the situation in Cambodia and see if there is anyone or anything that can be used."
Gao pragmatic nodded slightly and said: "Besides, there are many reasons why we need to wait. For example, Nanzhang and Siam are now under indirect control, which is far inferior to the rule in Annan. Strong. Especially on the Siamese side. Naresuan is the crown prince after all, and now we have killed him. I think no matter how cowardly the Siamese king is, he must be filled with resentment and must find a way to deal with it."
Gao Mo hesitated and said: "Kill the King of Siam and replace him with another one?"
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "It's definitely not possible now. We still need his banner to command the heroes. Didn't Ruan Huang ask Annan to give him some more support before? I promised him that the Thang Long Garrison will deploy another 10,000 people. Go to Ayutthaya and ensure that the capital of Siam is completely controlled.”
Gao Mo hesitated for a moment and said: "In this case, the strength of the Shenglong Guard Army will be weakened too seriously. After two deployments, the strength of the Shenglong Guard Army will be reduced to about 34,000. In addition, Huang Dutong is not in Vietnam, so it may not be able to deter some people."
Gao Pragmatic thought for a moment, nodded and said: "Then let the garrison continue to expand. The Thanglong garrison will be expanded to 16,000, and the strength will still be maintained at 50,000; the Jinggang garrison will also be expanded. The previous 30,000 were taken away by Zhiting. We have received 7,000, and this time we will expand it to 17,000, keeping 40,000 in southern Annan. As for the 7,000 under Zhiting’s command, let them stay in southern Myanmar and guard the area."
Having said this, Gao Mo took advantage of the situation and said: "Master, I think this kind of force is not enough. Annan's two major security forces will be enough after expansion, but Nanzhang doesn't have many of our troops now. Nanzhang Although the country is poor, according to preliminary estimates, its population is about 2.6 million to 3 million..."
"Haven't the Imperial Guards of the Nanzhang Kingdom been infiltrated by us? Next, we will start reorganizing them according to the methods of Annan's two major guard armies to completely control them."
Gao Mo thought for a while and said: "If we want to do this, then Nanzhang may also need a "Jinghua Sixteen Articles"."
"Since they need it, then give it to them." Gao Pragmatic thought for a moment and then added: "The chief princess of Nanzhang Kingdom, Bia Jue, I remember she is not married yet?"
Gao Mo was stunned, thinking that Gao Jingshi was going to take her in, and asked in astonishment: "What do you mean, sir?"
Gao Jingshi said calmly: "Find a way to match her up and see if we can get her to marry Huang Yinglei."
This idea was completely beyond Gao Mo's expectation. He hesitated before asking, "Huang Dutong's younger brother?"
"That's right."
"This... I heard that this person..."
Gao Pragmatic said with a deadpan expression: "This person is frivolous, greedy and irritable. He fails to achieve anything but fails more than he does."
"Well, since the master knows..." Gao Mo looked slightly uneasy.
"If he wasn't such a person, would I let him marry the chief princess of Nanzhang?" Gao Pingshi sneered: "Gao Mo, think about it, even if Biajue is the chief princess of Nanzhang, but The Nanzhang Kingdom’s superiority of men to women is even greater than that of the Ming Dynasty. If she marries Huang Yinglei, she will naturally not be able to stay in Nanzhang forever and will have to go to Annan to live permanently. In this case, who will be in charge of the Nanzhang Kingdom?”
"Of course it's her brother Nuo Jiao Gu Meng."
Gao pragmatic smiled slightly: "You should have found out about Nuo Jiao Gumeng very clearly. He is not a courageous master. He has grown up under the wings of his sister throughout his boyhood. Bia feels that since he married Annan, he Is there anything else that can be done? Moreover, according to intelligence, this young man Lang Chong was obsessed with Buddhism and once wanted to become a monk and practice..."
This is not nonsense, Nuo Jiaogu Meng died childless in original history. So the nobles of the South Palm at that time supported Setatira's nephew and son-in-law Vurawangsa as the regent to assist their son Opanovara - Opanovara's mother was Bijue.
Of course Gao Mo didn't know this, so he came up with an idea: "In that case, sir, I think... we can consider marrying Nuo Jiao Gumeng."
Gao Pingshi was stunned for a moment before he realized what was happening. He frowned and said, "You mean you want me to marry a sister to him?"
Gao Mo bowed and said nothing, but his meaning was already very clear.
Among the six rooms in the Gao family, Gao Jingshi has two biological sisters and a half-sister. In terms of age, both biological sisters can now get married, and even the youngest half-sister cannot marry. , but it will take two or three years.
It stands to reason that Nuo Jiao Gu Meng is not very old anyway, so he can afford to wait.
But when Gao pragmatic thought that Nuo Jiaogu Meng died childless in history, he immediately refused and said bluntly: "No."
Of course it won't work. Regardless of whether this guy is really superstitious about Buddhism and refuses to be close to women or simply has a physical problem, Gao Pragmatic will not agree to let his sister marry him and become a widow, even if it is his half-sister.
As for why Gao Mo suggested this, Gao Jingshi could guess the reason. He shook his head and said: "Nuo Jiao Gumeng won't die for a while, so it's actually not bad for such a person to be the King of Nanzhang. Even if he dies in the future, At that time, we have been in control of Nanzhang for long enough, and we are not afraid that Nanzhang can turn the world upside down. Even if we take a step back, we will need a puppet when the time comes, so we can also let Huang Yinglei and Biajue's sons do it."
Gao Mo agreed with this, so he changed the topic and asked: "What will Siam do next?"
"Siam..." Gao pragmatic thought for a while and said: "Siam should not make any big moves for the time being. Try to maintain the situation first and wait until Nanzhang and Myanmar are completely under control."
"Oh, there is one more important thing." Gao pragmatically said, he found the map of southern Xinjiang from some books piled around him and opened it. He pointed to the location of the Chao Phraya River outlet at the top of the Gulf of Siam and said to Gao Mo: "Send someone to explore the terrain here. This place should be just a small fishing village at the moment, but I plan to build a city here. You ask Jinghua Infrastructure to send out capable personnel to explore it carefully."
Gao Mo looked at the place, nodded, and asked, "Master, what is the scale of this city and what is its positioning?"
"Scale and positioning..." Gao Pragmatic narrowed his eyes slightly: "The scale is at least equivalent to two golden ports, and it doesn't matter if it is bigger. As for the positioning... I plan to name it Dingnan, do you understand?"
Dingnan?
Understand, it seems that this place was at least built to replace Ayutthaya and become the new royal capital of Siam. Or perhaps the royal capital remained in Ayutthaya and Dinnan became the foundation of Jinghua in Siam. If we look at the current layout, Dingnancheng may become the center of the entire southern Xinjiang in the future.
In fact, the location chosen by Gao Pragmatic was where Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, would later be located. (Note: In fact, according to Gao Pragmatic’s designated location, Dingnan is a little further south of Bangkok, directly on the edge of the sea.)
As for why he chose a small fishing village at the seaport, Gao Mo has followed Gao Pragmatic for so many years, and he can guess most of it - the seaport means that it is a seaport city, which can usually develop at a high speed, but once something abnormal happens in Siam, Jinghua Reinforcements can also arrive quickly from the sea.
Of course, the opposite can also be said, in case of emergency, you can quickly evacuate from the sea, but Gao Mo will not say this.
Gao Mo took a closer look and found that Dingnan was really the most suitable "center" for the entire Indo-China Peninsula.
Although Annan is good, it is too remote. If Annan is the center, it is too far away from Myanmar. But Dinnan is different. It is in the center of Myanmar and Annan, and controls Annan, Myanmar, like two wings.
If we follow the previous Nanyang plan, it will be easy to continue southward to the Malay Peninsula from here. In the future, we can consider taking Malacca by sea or by land, or even by sending troops from both sea and land together. The odds of winning are greatly increased.
Moreover, small fishing villages also have the advantages of small fishing villages. Just like Jingang, there were not many locals originally. When the city was built, vigorously introducing Ming immigrants could effectively ensure that the city was a completely Chinese city and help to stabilize the city. foundation.
Gao Mo immediately agreed and said: "I will arrange the terrain exploration as soon as possible, but if the scale of Dingnancheng is larger than Jinggang, the construction funds and the person in charge..."
Gao pragmatically said: "The issue of construction funds can be calculated carefully. As for the person in charge, I would like to let the second brother go. He is the most experienced in this now."
The second brother is Gao Mengnan, who is currently the chief of the three towns of Annan and Guangnan.
Gao Mo was not very surprised, and just asked: "If General Gao goes to Dingnan, what will happen to the three towns of Guangnan? Now that the master has decided to expand the Jingang garrison, Huaying, Nanpan and Champa will soon be Including them, they are the six towns of Guangnan, and they must be guarded by loyal and reliable people."
"Let Wuqin be named as the commander-in-chief." Gao Jingshi said calmly: "Gao Jue was transferred to the commander of the Jingang Garrison Army, and concurrently served as the deputy commander-in-chief of Guangnan Three Towns or Guangnan Six Towns; Gao Sijin handed over his original post of Jingang Garrison Army and was promoted to Shenglong Garrison Army. Commander; Gao Silian is actually the commander of the Bago Garrison."
Gao Mo quickly wrote it down, but he would not interrupt such a pragmatically decided appointment. He just asked another question: "Gao Sijin and Gao Silian have both made great contributions this time. In addition to promotion, should they consider changing their names?" ?”
Gao pragmatically said: "Gao Sijin changed his name to Gao Jing, and Gao Silian changed his name to Gao Lian. I will personally write a commendation for this matter."
After a pause, he continued: "Who leads the garrison under Ruan Huang?"
Gao Mo replied: "It's Gao Siwei."
Gao pragmatic smiled: "So it's him. I gave him this name. I remember that he was the one with the best defensive performance in the internal exercises of the Thang Long Garrison? That's good. When the construction of Ding Na City starts, we will start with him." His department will serve as the core to establish the Dingnan Garrison. How many personnel will be needed? When the time comes, let him report it to me for review."
"When the master said this, I happened to ask: How much is the establishment of the Bago garrison?"
Gao pragmatically said: "It's only 30,000 now, don't increase it. Zhiting's letter said that Myanmar has been fighting for so many years, and the prosperous land in southern Myanmar has become somewhat dilapidated. If there are too many troops stationed in southern Myanmar, Beijing's burden will be It's too big. We need to revive the economy first and then consider things like military expansion.
To tell you the truth, if Zhiting hadn't mentioned this, I actually wanted to move Bago's capital to Daguang (Yangon), which is a seaport and is better located than Bago. Now we can only make do with it and only repair the port facilities in Daguang, lest in case something happens, the fleet can only temporarily dock on the shore like this time, and the wind shelter facilities are not complete - Gao Jing also wrote last time Xin complained. "
Gao Mo thought for a while and said with slight surprise: "Guards have been set up in Shenglong, Jingang, Dingnan, and Bago. Do you want one set up in Vientiane in Nanzhang Kingdom?"
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "Don't be hasty now, let's use the Southern Palm Guards to support us for a while. If Biajue's marriage to Huang Yinglei can be negotiated, we can do this after they get married and Biajue goes to Annan. "
"Who do you plan to ask to talk about this matter?"
Gao Jingshi thought for a while and said: "As for Biajue, let Ruan Huang communicate with her. I think Ruan Huang is quite capable of deceiving... As for Huang Yinglei, I'll let Zhiting talk to him first. In addition, Huang Chengzu's I will personally write a letter to persuade you."
Gao Mo didn't ask any more questions and simply repeated to Gao pragmatic what he had just written down. After there were no mistakes or omissions, he immediately went down to make arrangements.
Gao pragmatically held the book in his right hand, rolled it into a cylinder, clapped it in the palm of his left hand, and said to himself: "The negotiations with Liu Shizeng should be almost done, right?"
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