On the way back to Baiyulou, Gao pragmatic was still thinking about the agreement he had just made with Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong. According to the principled opinions just reached, Jinghua will still take the lead in this expedition to Luzon, and the nobles will each become monks ranging from fifty to two hundred.
Roughly speaking, in terms of maritime power, each of the three major princes has five armed transport ships, the marquis has three ships, and the uncle has two ships. Don't think that this power is very small. The nobles who stayed in the capital during the Ming Dynasty included the Duke of the Three Kingdoms, the Thirteenth Marquis (including relatives who were granted the title of Marquis), and the Twenty-first Uncle (including relatives, but Li Chengliang was not included).
That is to say, according to this standard, the Guangxungui part of the fleet in this expedition to Luzon has as many as 96 armed transport ships and more than 2,600 ship-based artillery pieces.
Although these armed transport ships were originally equipped according to the standards for dealing with pirates, so that there were only 8 heavy guns out of 28 guns on a single ship. The remaining 20 light guns are actually difficult to participate in long-range bombardment and can only be used for defense against pirates' gang-hopping battles. However, even if calculated based on the firepower intensity of 8 guns per ship, this time the nobles took action with 768 heavy guns. In East Asia and Southeast Asia, where maritime power is relatively lacking, it is completely powerful.
It may not be intuitive enough to say this alone, so let's give a comparison: this year the Spanish Armada went on an expedition to England, and its fleet was equipped with only more than 3,000 heavy guns. (Note: However, this is related to the Spanish Navy’s combat thinking at this time. Because their army is strong, their navy’s combat thinking is still more focused on jumping gangs to join the ship instead of fleet artillery warfare, which has gradually become the mainstream. Let’s talk about it. No artillery battle on the battle line.)
Gao pragmatically planned to have Beijing's Beiyang Fleet dispatch 54 warships of all levels, adding up to 150 warships for the entire expeditionary fleet. Among them, the Beiyang Fleet's flagship "Liu Rengui" will serve as the flagship of the expeditionary fleet, and the remaining two classes and four cruisers will also Will go out together.
There are 150 armed ships. Judging from the number of ships alone, this expeditionary fleet is almost equivalent to the size of the Spanish Armada. But unfortunately, this is only the number of ships. If it is compared with the total tonnage of the fleet, it is obviously far behind.
Almost all the Spanish Armada dispatched were large ships, not to mention the Spanish Gallen ships as the core and main force. Even the Calais galleys and the like were serious warships. Regardless of the materials they were made of and the weapons they were equipped with, even Even the number of sailors on a single ship is more than one level higher than these Beijing-style armed transport ships.
In fact, if we only look at the combat effectiveness of single ships on paper, only the five pure warships of the Beiyang Fleet in the expeditionary fleet can compete with the Spanish warships in Manila. Therefore, the maritime tactics of this expedition can basically be summarized in one sentence: the ants kill the elephant.
According to the intelligence from the past few years, the Spanish fleet in Manila is not weak. Sometimes there are more than twenty Galen or Grand Galen, and sometimes there are as many as twelve Galen.
But that was before after all. Since this year is the time when Philip II is going to expedition to England, presumably some of Manila's military Galenic warships should have been transferred back to the mainland and incorporated into the Armada.
In this case, on the premise that the expedition fleet also has five regular warships, plus a large number of armed transport ships, it can fight a maritime encirclement and annihilation battle.
If the confidentiality work is done enough, the Spanish fleet in Manila may even be directly blocked in the port. Then the advantage of the expeditionary fleet will be even more obvious-a fleet that far exceeds the opponent's fleet is blocked outside the port, unless the Spanish The fleet can be transformed into a submarine, otherwise it would be impossible to rush out.
Gao Pragmatic's motorcade had not yet returned to Baiyulou Villa when someone suddenly came to see him from outside. Gao Mo stopped the convoy, went up to ask in person, and then immediately returned to Gao Pingshi's car and reported out of the car window: "Master, urgent report from Southern Xinjiang!"
Gao Pingshi felt a little strange when he heard his voice. He couldn't help but feel moved in his heart and asked, "What's the matter?"
Gao Mo outside seemed to take a deep breath, then coughed lightly and replied: "Madam, urgent report: King Nuo Jiao Gumeng of Nanzhang suddenly became a monk, and Mr. Huang Yinglei encouraged the princess of Nanzhang to compete without reporting it. Yajue declared the regency. Now the two of them have rushed to Vientiane, the capital of the southern state, and the accompanying Huang family wolf soldiers and the Vientiane security forces even fought..."
Gao pragmatic frowned and asked: "What was the result of the battle?"
"The Vientiane Garrison itself is the weakest among the garrison forces in southern Xinjiang, and many of them were originally from the Royal Guards when Princess Bia Jue was regent, and these so-called Royal Guards were from when she led the uprising. Old department." Gao Mo was obviously smiling bitterly.
After a pause, he continued: "Although it has been reorganized for several years, many people in the garrison are still unwilling to fight when facing Princess Biajue. In addition, some people are worried about Huang Yinglei's identity, so after a brief exchange of fire, The garrison troops withdrew from Vientiane and were stationed in Ban Yi Lai, a small town not far northwest of Vientiane, waiting for orders."
The performance of the Vientiane Guard Army obviously did not meet Gao Pragmatic's expectations, but Gao Pragmatic did not express his position immediately, but began to think about it.
In fact, the root cause of this matter probably starts with the division of territory after Cambodia was pacified. At that time, Gao Pragmatic had decided to regard Dingnan City, which was under construction in Siam, as the core of southern Xinjiang in the future. This meant that Siam's power needed to be strengthened, so Huang Zhiting, who was in charge of Dingna City on his behalf, made a carve-up plan.
First, Siam took away half of Cambodia's western half, which was to directly strengthen Siam. Secondly, Annan delimited the territory on the southeastern coast of Cambodia, which was roughly equivalent to the part captured by Vietnam in later generations.
This is understandable, because Annan is the foundation of Jinghua in southern Xinjiang, and the southern part of Annan has always been the part directly controlled by Jinghua. If this part is assigned to Annan, it is actually directly assigned to Jinghua.
Gao Pragmatic has been thinking about the Mekong Delta for a long time. Of course Huang Zhiting knows it very well, so her plan is to let Jinghua directly acquire this part of the area.
The most amazing thing at that time was that Huang Zhiting gave Nanzhang Kingdom a northeastern corner of Cambodia, and when she reported it to Gao Pinggong, Huang Zhiting did not explain the reason.
Although judging from the map, the land allocated by Nanzhang is not large, no more than one-fifth of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and it is also the land of the Bolofing Plateau in the northeast, which is relatively not very rich and suitable for development. But you must know that Nanzhang Kingdom did not exert any strength in the battle to destroy Cambodia. There is obviously something strange here.
Gao pragmatic thought for a while before he understood Huang Zhiting's intention: this land was for Huang Yinglei to move the town.
In other words, she hoped that Gao Pragmatic would transfer Huang Yinglei from northern Annan as early as possible and transfer him to the territory assigned to Nanzhang from Cambodia.
At that time, Gao Pragmatic felt that it was not impossible to do so. It was considered to be 70% beneficial and 30% disadvantageous. The advantages are mainly two points: first, it can separate Huang Yinglei from the other Guangxi chieftains, cutting off the way to continue to connect;
Secondly, Princess Bijue can "return to Nanzhang", which will help stabilize Nanzhang and contain her younger brother. Although her brother was not a big threat in the original history, this can after all make Nanzhang's top power Being divided, in turn, made Jinghua's position more stable.
However, Gao Pragmatic also expected another possibility at the time, that is, doing so would also lead to Huang Yinglei gaining a new status. Not only would the ruling area be twice as large as the original one in Annan, but he would also be able to use Princess Biajue's reputation to fight against the enemy. The South Palm Kingdom has some influence.
This improvement is neither big nor small. If Jinghua only controls one southern country, Gao Pragmatic will definitely not agree to this, but Jinghua has actually controlled almost the entire Indochina Peninsula. Gao Pragmatic thinks that this situation is not too bad, at least things are still under control. .
Because at that time Gao Pragmatic discovered that according to Huang Zhiting's plan, although Huang Yinglei's strength had strengthened, his geographical location was actually not conducive to him "making trouble."
In this position, there is the Vientiane Guard Army to the north, the Jinggang Guard Army to the east, and the Phnom Penh Guard Army to the south. Surrounded by the three major guard forces, Huang Yinglei, even if he has great abilities, cannot get out of Dingnan's palm.
At that time, Gao Jingshi only felt that Huang Zhiting was really not easy. As a sister, although she knew that Huang Yinglei was stubborn, she still wanted to give her younger brother a higher status and more territory. But at the same time, as a highly pragmatic wife, she tried every means to limit the ambitions of this restless brother.
But now it seems that Huang Yinglei is indeed unable to stand up to the wall. Whether he couldn't restrain his ambition, or simply couldn't understand his sister's painstaking efforts, he didn't even understand that Gao Pragmatic, his brother-in-law, had already put a tight spell on him.
Judging from the urgent report just now, this guy heard about Nuo Jiao Gumeng becoming a monk in his own fiefdom, and then immediately asked his wife, Princess Biya Jue, to declare the regency of Nanzhang, and at the same time took his wife to the north. Going to Wanxiang, intending to kill first and then report, she became the behind-the-scenes regent of Nanzhang - Princess Biajue had no ambitions for power, which Gao Pragmatic had known for a long time.
However, Gao Wuchen is still a little dissatisfied and asked: "The Vientiane Guard Army has been reorganized for so long, but it fell apart at the critical moment. What happened?"
Gao Mo sighed outside the car and said with a wry smile: "The reorganization itself is not actually a big problem. If Princess Biajue had not gone, the Vientiane Guard Army would still be honest. And the problem now is not just Biajue. The eldest princess has gone, and Young Master Huang Yinglei is also going, which is very troublesome, because... Master, Mo Yulin is from Annan after all."
Gao Mo obviously didn't finish what he said, but as soon as he reminded him, Gao pragmatic understood immediately.
Mo Yulin is a demoted general from Annan. Although he is actually serving as the commander of the Vientiane Garrison in Beijing, his official position in Annan is still retained. In name, he is still an Annan general.
Huang Zhiting's nominal official position is the deputy commander-in-chief of Annan, and she is Mo Yulin's direct boss. At the same time, Huang Zhiting is Gao Jingshi's wife, and sits in southern Xinjiang on Gao Jingshi's behalf. Under such circumstances, when Mo Yulin suddenly faced Huang Yinglei and Biajue, he definitely didn't know whether to fight or not.
Although Southern Xinjiang is still nominally ruled by separate kingdoms, in fact it is regarded as a highly pragmatic "family world" within the Jinghua system. Mo Yulin is now also a member of Jinghua, and he has to consider this, so...if he offends his wife after the fight, and she is still a "remainer in southern Xinjiang", how can he get along in the future?
[Note: After the stay, the acting title was set up when the Jiedushi and Observer were absent in the Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, if the Jiedushi of a certain town was overthrown internally, the newly elected Jiedushi would often claim to be a successor before being appointed by the court, and the Tang court would usually ratify it. ]
Now he can resist casually and then retreat, but not retreat too far. In addition, there is no loss of troops. Even if Gao Pragmatic is dissatisfied, he will not directly beat him to the end, so there is room for maneuver.
Next, he just needs to wait for the order. If Gao Pragmatic says to fight, then he will go back and fight; if Gao Pragmatic says not to fight and has other ways to deal with it, then he will do it. He didn't offend his wife because of this, but at most he was criticized. It was the worst of both worlds.
Gao Pragmatic snorted in his heart: Bureaucracy is really everywhere.
That's what he thought, but he really wasn't too angry. What's wrong with bureaucracy? He is highly pragmatic and he also has a sense of bureaucracy.
Being in the officialdom without the atmosphere of bureaucracy means that everyone will regard you as an alien, and there will be no other end than death. Just now, Li Rusong's problem was solved in a bureaucratic way, so there is no need to pretend to be aloof now.
But the key issue now is not the issue of doctrine, but how to solve it. Nuo Jiaogumeng suddenly announced that he would become a monk. This must have been strange in the Ming Dynasty, but it was actually not uncommon in the countries in southern Xinjiang.
Like Nanzhang and Siam, the kings of these countries sometimes become monks for no apparent reason. After all, Hinayana Buddhism is popular in those places, and Buddhism has a great influence on the royal powers of various countries. Many kings believe deeply in Buddhism and sometimes feel that practicing Buddhism is much better than being a king.
Moreover, Gao Pragmatic still had some doubts. In addition to Nuo Jiao Gu Meng being dedicated to Buddha, he might also feel that the power is in the hands of Jinghua anyway. He, the king, is just a carrot seal. Whether he has it or not does not matter at all. What.
Gao Pragmatic was initially wary of him. He agreed to Huang Zhiting's plan and arranged for Huang Yinglei and Biajue to live in the northeast of Cambodia. Biajue also meant that Biajue was warning Noujiagu Meng - if you don't obey, your sister will immediately can replace you.
But now that Nuo Jiaogu Meng has really become a monk, Gao Pragmatism is a bit restless. Because Biajue now is different from before. She was arranged to marry Huang Yinglei. Now if Huang Yinglei causes trouble, he will definitely be held accountable afterwards. How can Gao Pragmatic feel confident that Biajue will be named the regent of Nanzhang Kingdom?
As for the Queen, there is no need to think about it. Nanzhang Kingdom does not have this tradition. Historically, Nokyaukumeng loved Buddhism. After his death, he had no children. The nobles of Nanzhang supported his father Setathila's son-in-law Vurawangsa as regent to assist his son Opanowara - here Vlawangsa. Sa is the husband of the eldest princess.
The son can become the king, but the eldest princess herself has no chance to be the queen. This shows the tradition of Nanzhang.
Gao Pingshi pondered for a moment and asked: "Since it is an urgent report from Madam, does she have any suggestions for this?"
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