For the South Asian subcontinent, there is indeed a kind of high pragmatism.
He had the idea of "not worrying about future generations", but due to several reasons, he had no intention of using troops against him.
Specifically, there are three main factors: First, the Mughal Empire is on the rise, and it can even be said that it is almost at its peak now. Its economic and cultural development, the degree of internal unity, and the most directly related to war Their military strength is at its peak, so it may not be easy to conquer.
Secondly, Jinghua had two main tasks at that time. One was to establish Dingnan City and create a core town centered on Dingnan as the center of Jinghua's rule in southern Xinjiang.
This is very important and is a key to high pragmatic planning. The reason is not complicated. After all, the current era does not have as developed transportation and information transmission capabilities as later generations. If you want to rule a large territory, you must first have a core.
To give a few examples, this is like during the Three Kingdoms period. If you were from the northwest and wanted to dominate the world, the first thing you needed to do was occupy Chang'an. Even if you wanted to separate one side, you must have Chang'an in hand, otherwise you would not have the population and food of Chang'an. With the danger of three levels, he would be crushed to death by others in minutes.
If Chang'an is there, then you can go north to take Hetao, which was the so-called Anding, Beidi, Fengyi and other counties at that time, and try to gather some strong cavalry. If you go west, you can take Liangzhou, which not only ensures the stability of the rear, but also can recruit some cavalry.
With cavalry, you will have a military advantage when entering the Central Plains in the future. If the Central Plains already had a strong power at that time and it was difficult for you to conquer it for a while, you could also rely on the danger of Tongguan to survive first, go south to take Shu, and try to repeat the process of Qin destroying the six kingdoms and Han defeating the overlord.
If that doesn't work, then we have to defend Tongguan until the world changes. Anyway, with Chang'an in hand, we can advance, attack, retreat and defend.
If you are born in the southeast, there is no doubt that you must master Jianye and Kuaiji. This area in the south of the Yangtze River can be said to be the basis for separatist rule, and the basis for hegemony that is suitable for the development of agriculture and commerce. If you want to compete in the Central Plains after this area is stable, you must go north to capture the Hefei area. Only then will you be able to compete in the world. If capital is strong, it can go north to the Central Plains; if it is weak, it can defend the river to the death.
As for establishing a position in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the most important thing in the early stage is naturally to defend Xiangyang. Only with Xiangyang in hand can the Central Plains powers be unable to pass
The "Nanyang Xiangyang" Basin, a must-take channel, moves southward, thus threatening your fundamental base, the Jianghan Plain.
With the Jianghan Plain under control, the west can go up the river to take the Shu land, and the east can go down the river to take the south of the Yangtze River. In this way, at least two heroes from the north and the south can rule across the river.
If the management was done properly at that time, or if the one in the north showed flaws, it would be possible to seize Huaibei from the south of the Yangtze River, enter Hanzhong from Shu and attack Guanzhong, or even march out of Nanyang from Xiangyang and directly attack the Central Plains. It all depends on the situation. That was the situation.
All in all, I just want to say that since there are no cars and trains these days, you must first grasp an economically important area with a good geographical location to ensure that you can have stable money and food. Moreover, since it is not far from the main combat area in the future, transportation losses will not be It is too large, so as to ensure that the military power is not expensive.
Southern Xinjiang and Nanyang were collectively called Southeast Asia in later generations. At that time, the most important area seemed to be Malacca. But in fact, although Malacca is also very important at this time, it is not something
"The foundation of hegemony". This is because it lacks strategic depth. Although it has plenty of money due to trade, it obviously lacks a stable food supply. If something happens, it may not be able to survive for a long time.
Moreover, Malacca is located in the throat channel, so when it is strong, it can naturally radiate in all directions, but what if the naval battle fails?
Then Malacca turned into a dead place in an instant. If you are trapped here, no matter how long you persist, you will eventually die.
In later World War II, when the Japanese army attacked Malacca, the reason why the British army was lost so quickly was that in addition to the fact that the British army was really strong at that time, another key factor was that Southeast Asia was in crisis at that time, and the main force of the British navy had long since retreated to Europe. In the mainland, the navy in that area was completely insufficient to fight the Japanese army, so it was useless for the British army to defend Malacca, and giving up was a natural and helpless move.
Therefore, although Gao Pragmatic attaches great importance to Malacca and Singapore, which are now the two cities named Longya and Huzhou by Jinghua, he will not build them as Jinghua's core ruling areas in Nanyang.
The most suitable core area for Jinghua to rule the entire southern Xinjiang and Nanyang can only be Dingnancheng, which is almost the Bangkok metropolitan area in later generations.
Economically speaking, the GDP of the Bangkok metropolitan area in later generations accounted for 44.2% of the whole of Thailand, and Bangkok city alone accounted for 29.1%, which shows that its development has sufficient geographical and location advantages.
This is the Chao Phraya Plain area, which is conducive to the development of agriculture and concentration of population. It is also located in the center of southern Xinjiang, so there is no need to worry about people stealing your home on land.
It also has the advantage of a seaport and can be deployed quickly to radiate throughout Southeast Asia. If it doesn’t serve as the core, who will?
Therefore, Gao pragmatically gave Dingnancheng a very long construction period of fifteen years. For the current Jinghua, the purpose is to use Dingnancheng as the core to comprehensively control the entire southern Xinjiang and Nanyang regions.
However, at the same time, since the Nanyang Strategy was still being promoted at that time, the main task of the Nanyang Fleet was to expand Beijing's power in the Nanyang Islands. However, this strategy was not enough to have a navy alone, so it had to take turns from the six major garrison forces. Deploying troops to fight south is also to maintain combat effectiveness.
In this way, it seems that southern Xinjiang has not fought any major battles in so many years, but in fact it is busy with internal construction and has constant small battles, which makes it inconvenient to concentrate its forces westward on the South Asian subcontinent and fight against the Mughal Empire.
As for the third one, Gao Pragmatic himself has been very busy in recent years, and he is indeed too busy to travel thousands of miles to conquer the South Asian subcontinent.
If we talk about military affairs alone, perhaps Huang Zhiting is also qualified, but launching a full-scale war with the Mughal Empire is not just a military issue. The entire power of Beijing must be mobilized to serve it.
Why? Or a geographical issue. If Jinghua wants to conquer the Mughals in the west, Bengal must be the first place to attack. This does not need to be explained at all.
In this case, the Mughal Empire would fight on its own, and its troops could be smoothly mobilized from its core area along the Ganges to Bangladesh, and materials and food would not be scarce.
In addition, although the river network in this area is not convenient for the main force of the cavalry, it is also not convenient for Beijing to attack.
The Mughal Empire had been ruling northern India for some years at this time, and they did not only have cavalry at their disposal. As long as they relied on the river network for layer upon layer defense, Beijing, which had come from the expedition across the Arakan Mountains in Arakan, would certainly not be able to withstand the logistical pressure. If you are not careful, the whole army may collapse.
Of course, Jinghua can also rely on sea transportation, but this can easily lead to a tug-of-war, which is not what Gao Pragmatic wants to see.
According to Gao Pragmatic's original rough plan, in terms of time, he hoped to wait until Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire died in 1605 before taking action.
Historically, after Akbar's death, the Mughal Empire was ruled by Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
King Jahangir reigned from 1605 to 1627. During his reign, Arjun, the fifth generation ancestor of Sikhism, changed the parish into an administrative agency and levied taxes from believers.
This move caused great shock in the Mughal Empire. It obviously meant to compete with the Mughal Empire government.
Arjun also established a gold shop in Amritsar as a Sikh shrine and administrative center. The Sikh holy book Adi Grant was also written during this period.
Sikhism has always been billed as a peaceful and monastic group. The founder only cared about preaching and never interfered in politics.
However, Arjun was involved in the disputes of the Mughal royal family and protected the rebellious princes, which made him jealous of King Jahangir, and finally led to his death in 1606.
With this as the starting point, the period of peaceful development of Sikhism ended, the relationship with the Mughal Empire government also dropped to a freezing point, and the empire began to be turbulent.
In Gao Jingshi's view, that time was the best time for Jinghua to send troops. If he lived as long as Tianqi, then it would be better to wait a few more years, but that would be too nonsense.
In short, Gao Pragmatic originally believed that the time to send troops should be at least after 1606, which was still seven years from now.
He also believed that in another seven years, he would be almost done with the major tasks at hand, and by then he would be able to take time to deal with this war.
But when it comes to everything, man’s calculation is not as good as God’s calculation after all. Who knew that butterfly wings are so powerful that they have already made the situation of the Arakan Kingdom different from what it was in the original history?
What's more, the six major garrison armies in southern Xinjiang have been training for many years, and there are no resistance forces in southern Xinjiang who dare to jump out to commit suicide. The conquest of Nanyang is also going more smoothly than imagined, so the garrison army has long been ready to move and formed a An impulse that even high pragmatism cannot ignore.
This situation is probably similar to the pressure faced by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after the unification of Japan. Of course, there are still differences.
Theoretically speaking, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's pressure mainly lies on his generals and even specific low-level samurai. All of them have military merits and need to be rewarded. However, Japan is too small and the land cannot be sealed, so he can only Forced to launch wars abroad in order to relieve this pressure.
But Jinghua is different. There is a lot of land in southern Xinjiang and Nanyang for Gao Jingjing to reward his subordinates, but Gao Jingjing cannot, is unwilling, or even dares to grant large-scale rewards now.
Large-scale rewards mean that a group will inevitably be formed, a group similar to the one after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
"Military Merit Noble Group". The strength of such a military and political group is quite astonishing. It can even force the emperor to consider their interests first, and even allow princes and princesses to marry them one after another, which in turn makes their strength and influence even more terrifying.
Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of heroes in the later period is inseparable from his initial move to condone the expansion of the power of the military meritorious group. Earlier, the general situation of the world was uncertain, so I endured it for the first time. Later, the overall situation stabilized, and if you still don't restrain yourself, then who will you kill if you don't kill me?
In one generation, he almost killed all his famous officials and generals. If nothing happened later, he could only rely on God's favor. Gao Pragmatic didn't want to end up like this.
Since we don’t want to do this, we can’t give out large rewards now, we must control
The power of the "Military Merit Group" expands disorderly until other internal forces can restrain it.
As a ruler, the so-called emperor is nothing more than playing with balance, otherwise what else can you do? Could it be that if you become Zhu Yuanzhang, you will become a workaholic?
Maybe you can do it, but can your son do it? Is it okay for grandson? As for the great-grandson, there is always something wrong, right? Don't go that far, Gao Pragmatic himself doesn't like to get into the management of many specific things, but prefers to put forward strategic plans and then organize various matters layer by layer.
"Subcontracting" tasks to his subordinates, while he himself takes charge. Jinghua's expansion in southern Xinjiang and Nanyang is fast enough. Among them, the garrison system and the Nanyang fleet are the most powerful. Those responsible for government affairs
Although the "official system" also has merit, it is definitely not as obvious as the military system. In this way, it is necessary to be highly pragmatic and extend the time, so that the official system can have deeper control over the local area, and at the same time strengthen their control over the logistics affairs of the military system, so as to form a balance of power, which is easy to control.
But just because the important people in the military system are their own servants, it doesn't mean that they have no ideas of their own like NPCs and will only act according to their master's instructions.
It's good that they are his own servants, but at the same time, they are also normal people with their own thoughts and interests. If you treat them as NPCs, big trouble will happen.
Of course, the Jia Ding system is different from the Jia Ding system, but their relationship with Gao Pragmatism is, to a certain extent, similar to the relationship between the Tatar emperor, the major banner lords, and the main generals in the early Tatar Qing Dynasty.
These people do call themselves slaves when facing the emperor, but they still have their own interests and their own power, and they will not have other ideas just because they call themselves slaves.
Of course, Jinghua didn’t
The "flag master", the main officers in the garrison and the two-ocean fleet system must also take turns as usual, but even if the senior generals cannot firmly control a certain force, they will still have a certain prestige after all.
This is just like Gao Jinggong's current prestige in Jiubian, Ming Dynasty. Even if he does not have the power to directly manage a certain town in Jiubian, if he orders a certain town in Jiubian now to mobilize their troops, unless the order is to let them kill. Capital City, otherwise if it is just transferred within the jurisdiction, which town in Jiubian will disobey?
This is called prestige. Now, both the land and naval forces in Southern Xinjiang feel that they have little merit in southern Xinjiang and Nanyang, and are eager to continue launching foreign wars.
But who else could we target with the outside world? We couldn’t go north to attack the Ming Dynasty, right? Then the only option is to go west to fight the Mughals.
Once this happens
"Public opinion" is formed, and there is no sufficient reason to suppress it due to high pragmatism, so war against the Mughals is inevitable.
It was precisely because Huang Zhiting felt that he was about to be unable to suppress such feelings.
"Public opinion", then put the matter in front of Gao pragmatism. Gao pragmatic thought for a while and asked: "What opinions or suggestions do the garrison and the Nanyang Fleet have on the possible upcoming war with the Mughal Empire?" This is to ask how the war will be fought.
When Huang Zhiting heard this, he couldn't help but perked up. He sat up straight and slowly told the plans of the navy and army in southern Xinjiang.
Huang Zhiting said: "The navy and army have discussed this many times in the military headquarters. There is no need to elaborate on the process. The final conclusion is roughly like this: The first step is to completely seize the Arakan Kingdom as a way to counter Mo Mo." The bridgehead for the Wol Empire to launch an attack is of course also an important logistics base." This is the proper meaning of the question. Gao Pragmatic had already expected this, so he was not surprised and just asked calmly: "Then, how to win What about Arakan? The security forces are not thinking of forcibly crossing the Arakan Mountains, are they?"
"Of course not." Huang Zhiting shook his head and said: "The Arakan Mountains are a natural chasm. The garrison assessed that even if the Arakanese did not send even a single soldier to defend them, they would lose 30% of their strength just by climbing over it. Suppose the Arakanese If the Gan people can send 10,000 troops to guard a few important places, then this loss may reach half, which should not be considered at all." Yes, Gao Pragmatic thought so too, because the Arakan Mountains are all above two thousand meters above sea level. , but there are plains on both sides, which is a huge difference.
The only pass that is easily accessible, the Cave Pigeon Pass, is 1,168 meters above sea level and is located in the middle of the mountain range. Therefore, the only way to cross over is through here. However, the Arakanese will obviously arrange the main force to be stationed here, so a fierce battle will break out to attack the pass.
In terms of terrain, this battle will probably be more difficult than the Battle of Loushanguan, because it is difficult for the garrison to outflank the enemy and they will have to attack the enemy.
However, the terrain of this mountain pass is like a sword pavilion. It is difficult for artillery to deploy to create fire pressure, so they can only rely on human lives. Who knows how many people will die.
Huang Zhiting saw Gao pragmatically nodding, so he continued: "The military command department's view is to take advantage of the civil strife in the Arakan Kingdom to let the Nanyang Fleet carry the land division to Chittagong or the surrounding areas under the banner of support, completely bypassing Arakan The mountains are naturally dangerous and directly control the capital. As for the next step, it is best to spread the word and decide the entire kingdom. If not, just attack Dongge Mountain Pass from the rear. After all, if you attack from the rear, the place is unsafe to defend. "
"Arakan has been known for its navy in the past. Is the Nanyang Fleet confident enough about this?" Gao pragmatically asked.
"Yes." Huang Zhiting said with certainty: "Although Arakan is good at its navy, the reason why its navy seemed strong in the past was actually because of the support of the Portuguese. Now that Philip has fallen out with the king, the navy must be in turmoil. It is uneasy and it is difficult to form a joint force as in the past. This is a good opportunity for us to send troops."
"How long is this window period?" Gao pragmatically asked again.
"What about the window period? It depends on whether we are deliberately delaying it." Huang Zhiting muttered: "If we don't care, the king may be eager to put down the rebellion, and may send troops soon. If he puts down the rebellion successfully, This window period will disappear quickly. If he fails to suppress the rebellion, the window period will be longer. Of course, if we intervene, for example, tell the king that we need some time to prepare, and then attack Philip with him from the north and the south, and at the same time A fleet will also be sent to support him, so the king may be patient for a while, and the window period will be extended." Gao pragmatically nodded, and suddenly said to Gao Yuan: "Yuan'er, do you want to go to southern Xinjiang?" Thank you book friend
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