Of course, outside discussions will affect Gao Pragmatism. If it's just "Scholar Qingyue", it doesn't matter. Gao Pragmatic is now considered to be in a high position, so of course he can pretend not to know about it, but now it's not only "Scholarly" having Qingyun, but also talking about matters with officials, thinking that It cannot be the first time for a minister of military affairs to concurrently serve as the manager of a foreign town.
This did not allow Gao to be pragmatic and unresponsive, so he resigned as usual. One word, two words, three words.
Three words are enough.
The play needs to be performed in its entirety, so the next step is to "sultify the emperor, issue an edict and take responsibility, saying: You have made your intention clear three times. If you resign again, even though I am very ill, I will go to your house in person and follow the example of three visits to Marquis Wu."
So Gao pragmatic "dare not resign" - the emperor said that you have already made clear your intention three times. If you resign again, even though I have a serious illness that has not been cured, I will come to visit the thatched cottage in person. The implication is that now it depends on whether you as a minister dare to work or not. I am sick and come here in person.
Of course, he "dare not", so Gao Pragmatic had no choice but to "reluctantly" accept the decree on the ground and express his assumption of office as the manager of the seven towns. Then, as if he wrote it specifically for certain people, he said that after taking office, he would be careful in his words and deeds, and would report every move to the court and the emperor in detail, and would never make any decisions when it came to major events.
However, after the memorial was published, although the emperor happily expressed his satisfaction that Gao Pragmatic was finally willing to accept the order, he also "criticized" him. The meaning of the imperial edict is probably that the reason why the imperial edict is the imperial edict is that he is responsible for his own affairs and has overall authority. , if you report everything, what do I want you to learn about? You must not live up to my expectations, use your talents, and manage the military affairs of the seven towns properly.
Since Gao Jingshi once reminded the emperor that Buri Hatu might have the habit of collecting newspapers from the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun specially added a few words to the imperial edict, to the effect that Gao Jingshi should "be arbitrary in the overall situation and guard the situation with camera." ".
These eight words are very important, which is equivalent to the emperor having authorized Gao Jingshi to independently decide the Ming Dynasty's war stance - that is to say, whether to go to war with the Mongols or not is entirely up to Gao Jingshi.
Although it is said that the border ministers of the Ming Dynasty all have the power of "camera warfare" to a certain extent, it is obvious that other people's camera warfare and the highly pragmatic camera warfare are completely different in terms of influence.
After all, Gao Wuchen's army now has a nominal strength of 850,000, which can shake the earth if he sneezes. With such power, how many things do he need to do that require him to "camera and guard"?
Very few people knew about this important event. There were three people in the inner court, including the emperor, and the remaining two were of course Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju. Needless to say. Only three people in the outer court knew about it. Apart from Gao Pragmatic, only the first assistant Shen Shixing and the second assistant Xu Guo knew the truth.
The rest of the people, no matter how high their official positions or status, are all kept in the dark, and all this is to create conditions for a highly pragmatic deterrence plan.
The new official Gao Jingshi first announced one thing when he took office: the headquarters of the Seven Towns Economic Strategy will be located in Daning City.
What, the military headquarters is actually located directly in Daning City?
As soon as the news spread, all the officials in the capital were in an uproar at first, and then they all started to get excited.
The location of Daning City was Daming Town in the southwest of Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia. To the west was Qilaotu Mountain, to the east was Nuru Huer Mountain, and the Laoha River, the source of the Xiliao River, flowed from the south. Therefore, it can also be said that Daning controls the upper reaches of the Liao River in the north, the Daling River Basin in the east, is connected to Xuanfu in the west, and is adjacent to the Yanshan Great Wall in the south. Its strategic position is very important.
But the current situation is not that simple, because Daning City was recovered from the previous high-pragmatic Monan War. It has only been three years, and the various "indicators" are far from being so easily summarized.
After Gao Pangshi regained Daning City, Qi Jiguang personally guarded Daning City. Relying on his careful defense, Tumen and Burihatu did not have much to do with the temporarily renovated and reinforced city, but they came up with a plan. The idea is to attack the food channel - in fact, it is to attack the logistics line.
This strategy caused some trouble for the Ming Dynasty at that time, because the north of the Great Wall had been abandoned for many years, and the original guard posts on the road to Daning had long been abandoned. The Ming army, which was mainly infantry, was equivalent to hundreds of miles of wilderness and grassland. Marching up, Tumen was always in a position to attack, so they suffered some losses in the early stage.
It was precisely because of such losses that there was discussion within the imperial court at that time whether to stick to Daning City.
Then Gao Pragmatic stood up and negotiated a "deal" with Bahannaji. The Ming Dynasty sent various instructors to Tumut to guide the Tumut Mongolians to learn Han cultural knowledge, while Tumut The Qataiji troops were sent to the south of Daning to patrol and guard against Tumen's Mongolian cavalry.
With Mongolia versus Mongolia, this is a highly pragmatic and consistent approach, and the facts have proven that the effect is indeed very good. The grain roads of the Ming Dynasty were quickly opened, and the city of Daning was quickly renovated and reinforced.
The imperial court was not idle. In the next two years or so, it slowly built up the abandoned guard posts from the Great Wall to Daning, and resettled the Huizhou Guard, Fuyu Guard, Xincheng Guard and Kuanhe guards the place of thousands of households.
According to the organizational structure of the Ming army, after the three guards and one were truly organized, the actual strength should be at least 16,000 to 16,000. If the strength of the border town guards is generally larger than the regular establishment, it should be more than two thousand. Thousands of people.
However, in fact it is not that easy, because even the cities in these places are newly built, and there are too few Han people in the city. Although the guards can be recruited and dispatched from the mainland, it is not easy. So after more than two years, these three guards There are only more than 11,000 troops in each one, which is not even full strength, and the population is also small. Almost every city has only 30,000 to 40,000 people, which is not as good as a lower county.
But no matter what, with these three guards and one hospital, a stable food route was finally formed, so that Daning City was no longer completely isolated as before - in Gao Pragmatic's words, it was like a breather. Tube.
Since only a breathing tube has been inserted, Daning City's military strength obviously cannot be that strong. In fact, there are only more than 32,000 people in Daning City now. It can be defended if it is on the defensive, but attacking is a complete dream. status.
But Gao Pragmatic announced that he would place the headquarters of his economic strategy in Daning. Even a fool could guess what he wanted to do.
The location of Daning City was a "prominence" for Ming Dynasty, and it was not easy to defend it. For Chahar, it was even more uncomfortable, as if a sharp knife was always pressed against his vital points. It was not enough to describe it as if it was lodged in his throat. It could be said that it was a thorn in his side and he had to pull it out.
One of the two sides regards Daning City as their own personal thorn in the side, and the other regards Daning City as the starting point of their victory. Therefore, as long as Daning City is involved, both sides will pay special attention to it.
Now Gao Jingshi has announced that the economic strategy will be based in Daning. If the Tumen get the news, they will definitely be very nervous, because Gao Jingshi feels that according to their expectations, as long as Ming wants to go to war with him, the starting point of its main army will definitely be in Daning. This point is relatively certain. After all, Daning City is much closer to Chahanhot than other places. Starting from Daning can greatly offset the disadvantage of too many infantry in the Ming Dynasty.
All officials in the imperial court and even private restaurants and teahouses began to talk about whether Gao Jinglue would take action against Chahar this time, otherwise he would not have sent the carriage directly to Daning City. Moreover, the emperor's imperial edict seems to have a certain meaning, which further proves that this guess is probably close to ten.
In the past few years of the Ming Dynasty, the country's power has been gradually increasing, and its military power has become increasingly prosperous!
On such an exciting day, a few businessmen leaving Beijing would not be noticeable at all.
However, on the second day, the news seemed a little strange: before Gao Jinglue set out, he issued several orders. Some of them required the seven towns to count their soldiers, weapons, and supplies, and some asked each town to report on the border wall. maintenance and restoration, but the most important one is definitely to require towns to conduct spring exercises in accordance with his newly released standards.
Spring exercises? What is spring exercise?
The officials and people in the capital were very puzzled. Since ancient times, there had been only autumn exercises, also known as "big exercises". When did spring exercises appear?
The Great Exercises, the Grand Parade and Combined Exercises, are also called Autumn Exercises. After the completion of the Autumn Festival, the fields are vast and open, which is conducive to the training of troops and will not harm the seedlings of the fields, so it is done to sympathize with the sufferings of the people.
Spring is the farming season. If you don’t plow the fields well at this time, will you have to do some work instead?
It should be noted that the exercise mentioned here does not mean getting up in the morning and running a few laps, but the army gathering on a large scale for training and exercises, which falls into the category of large-scale military activities. Although the time it takes varies from generation to generation, it is at least monthly and cannot be completed in three or five days.
This is strange. Spring has just begun, and everyone is waiting for the snow to melt and the ice to subside so that the weather can get warmer so that spring plowing can begin, including the health offices in the seven towns. But you, Gao Jinglue, have given the order to do spring exercises. ? You won’t go hungry, but others will. Are you trying not to let people live?
However, Gao Jinglue obviously still left a way for people to survive, so when everyone looked at the order, it turned out that after the first plowing, the spring exercises would be held after the farm work was completed. In this way, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, some people noticed one thing. Gao Jinglue mentioned this very inconspicuously in his order: As soon as the spring parade is completed, he will lead the army to attack Daning.
This is very strange. It will only take two months for spring plowing to be completed, and then it will take at least another month for spring drills. After all this is done, you go to Daning? I’m afraid it’s going to be summer by then, right?
Well, even if the spring plowing cannot be delayed, the spring exercises must be held, but when you arrive in Daning, even if you launch an attack immediately, the time left for you will be very short - you will never go out with a large army. Are you leaving your own grain to rot in the fields?
The guardsmen who can go out to fight are the number one laborers in the family. If they don't come back for the autumn harvest, how can they expect the women, children and the elderly at home? I'm afraid next year's life will be quite miserable.
Is this high-level manager reliable?
Regardless of whether it was reliable or not, Gao Jinglue's order had been passed on, and he himself began to prepare for "inspection of the imperial guards and spring exercises in various towns." Since the Imperial Guard is now only engaged in training and basically does not do any other work, it is the Imperial Guard that conducts patrols one after another.
Qi Jiguang's gold-lettered signboard was not picked up on the roadside, so there is not much to say about the Guards' patrol. The really interesting things happened in Mongolia - Chahar, Tumut, and Ordos are all quite interesting.
I have to say that no matter what future generations think, the Ming Dynasty is really the overlord of East Asia, and every move affects the surrounding situation.
After Tumut paid tribute, due to his high pragmatic mediation, he had certain privileges in the Ming Dynasty, that is, he could send several permanent envoys to Yanjing to contact King Shunyi at any time and notify the Ming Dynasty's requests or notifications as soon as possible. Conveyed to Wang Ting, King of Shunyi. Therefore, Tumut was the first Mongolian household to learn about Gao Pragmatic's appointment as a manager.
Han Naji was very excited and ordered on the spot to mobilize the relatively scattered tribes to the royal court in an orderly manner, especially those originally placed on the eastern front. A lot of them were mobilized back.
His intention is obvious. With Gao Pragmatic in charge, Ming Dynasty is afraid that he will take action against Tumen. This moment is the best time for him to subdue Ordos, so he must start to gather strength and prepare for the southern expedition.
The next person who received the news was Tumen. With Burihatu's hard work in the past three years, Tumen had already planted spies in Yanjing, and these spies relied on tips, and the messengers were faster than the Tumote envoys, so Although Tumen was further away than Hannaji, it was only one day slower than Bian received the news.
As soon as he heard that Gao Pingshi was appointed as the manager of the Seven Towns, Tumen felt a chill rising from his feet and going straight to his forehead, and he woke up with a start.
Daming is about to take action!
It was a matter of life and death. Tumen had no time to think too much and issued an urgent sweat order to recall Burihatu to Chahanhot.
After the Khan's order was issued, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to look back and think about the true meaning of Gao Pragmatic's appointment as the manager of the Seven Towns.
Tumen felt that Gao Pragmatic's target in this seven-town management strategy must be himself, rather than dealing with Huo Luochi and Jilitu's sneak attack on Xining. Because if it is the latter, Gao Pragmatic at least does not need to attack Jiliao. There are three towns on the three sides and four towns as the main force, and there are three towns on Xuanda as the backup. Let alone the big fire and the rabbit, even if they fight together with Ordos , I’m afraid it’s enough to fight.
Jiliao is too far away to be able to help Northwest much. And Tumen doesn’t think that the Ming Dynasty will dispatch troops from Jiliao to the northwest-after all, I am the real leader, how can anyone dispatch troops from me to go elsewhere?
Therefore, Gao Pragmatism, who is also in charge of the seven towns of Jiliao and Xuanda, must have come for Tumen.
So Tumen then began to wonder what Gao Pragmatic might do.
At this time, Tumen's first doubt arose: Gao pragmatically placed the headquarters of the economic strategy directly in Daning. Didn't he know that food and even many daily necessities in Daning City had to be transported from within the customs? When these things are delivered to Daning City, the price will increase by more than 30% to 40%. Once Gao Pragmatic really comes with the "heroic army" first, let alone other things, can Daming's treasury support it?
Tumen thought that when Burihatu left Chahanhot and went to Qinghai, he once said that the Ming Dynasty was extremely poor because of the continuous wars. This year, they are going to open vassal bans. The tighter the treasury is, is it not? There might be something big going on.
But the current situation made Tumen not fully believe in Burihatu's judgment. He even wondered whether Gao Pragmatic had made another Yunnan War treasure note.
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