Rarely, Liu Xin expressed doubts about Gao Pragmatic's strategic planning opinion. While looking at the map, she pondered: "Why should we take over Bangladesh and gain ports in the South Asian subcontinent in separate steps? I don't think these two things will interfere with each other. They can be done at the same time, and from the point of time Judging from the above, it is also necessary to start making advance arrangements for the port now."
Although Gao Pragmatic has been able to get fewer and fewer objections in recent years, both from the court and within the Jinghua system, it does not mean that he is used to being arbitrary.
The thinking developed in his previous life is like a steel seal, deeply engraved in his subconscious. He knows that he is far from perfect and will definitely make mistakes, so he will never use a "you" in any situation. Do you know anything?" to treat different opinions with arrogance.
On the contrary, it is precisely because he can get fewer and fewer objections now that he is more cautious. Once objections arise, he will seriously reflect on whether he has really missed something.
"Zhuge was cautious in his life, but Lu Duan was not confused in important matters."
Gao Pragmatic has a clear understanding of himself. He is not a genius. What makes him better than the princes of the dynasty is nothing more than hundreds of years of historical insights and some principles proven by countless predecessors, such as the 'dual theory', 'criticism and Self-criticism', etc., so the more he has outstanding achievements, the more he reminds himself: Don't be conceited, don't be complacent, it's not that you are pragmatic or awesome, you just stand on the shoulders of giants, don't let yourself fall from the shoulders of giants. !
Zhuge Liang was such a great talent that he defeated Cao Wei in a single state of Shu and could only passively defend when he sent Sima Yi. However, he was the most cautious in his conduct. Even asking Ma Su to guard the street pavilion was originally an extremely simple task. Zhuge Liang clearly told Ma Su what to do every step of the way. But who knew that Ma Su was so smart that he wasted an opportunity to make meritorious deeds that fell from the sky to the ends of the earth? went?
Precisely because there have been lessons like this in history, various highly pragmatic strategic layouts often strive for stability and avoid radicalization.
This kind of thinking of his did not come out of thin air. It can even be said that it has a theoretical basis. That is what Sun Tzu said in "The Art of War: Form Chapter": "Those who were good at fighting in the past first made themselves invincible, and then waited for the enemy to be victorious." . The invincible lies with oneself, but the victorious lies with the enemy. Therefore, those who are good at fighting can be invincible, but those who cannot make the enemy will be victorious."
To put it simply: What is good fighting? It means that I first put myself in an invincible position, then wait for the enemy to reveal his flaws, and then I break through the enemy's flaws, and then I win.
The key to being undefeated lies in not showing any flaws, but the key to victory depends on whether the opponent shows any flaws. Therefore, the so-called good fighting mainly lies in being able to prevent oneself from showing flaws, rather than ensuring that the enemy will definitely reveal flaws - how do you know that the opponent is not a master?
The principle Sun Tzu described in this paragraph of The Art of War is actually very familiar to Gao Pragmatic in his previous life, and I am afraid that everyone in China has heard of it: bottom-line thinking.
You cannot expect the enemy to do everything according to your expectations or expectations, so your best way to deal with it is to insist on doing your own thing.
This is like Zhang Wuji, who has mastered the Nine Yang Divine Art, and allows you, Master Jue, to hit me with one, two, or three palms, so what? I have deep inner strength and can continuously repair myself. Therefore, the characteristics of the Nine Yang Divine Art are: "If he is strong, he will be strong, and the breeze will blow on the mountains; if he is allowed to cross, the bright moon will shine on the river."
At the national level, Nine Yang Magic is actually a method of defeating enemies specially customized for big countries: as long as I can be myself, no matter how tyrannical you are, no matter how deviant you are, I can withstand it, and in the end It will definitely consume you to death.
This truth is actually not difficult to understand or comprehend. It does not even require advanced strategic thinking, as long as you can adhere to a pragmatic attitude towards dealing with things.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, from Xiong Tingbi to Sun Chengzong, their strategies were actually the "Nine Yang Magic": relying on the national power of the Ming Dynasty to crush the Hou Jin Dynasty, not asking for a kill with one blow, but asking for a pawn from the sun, because time stands On the Ming side.
However, they ignored one point. Although the comprehensive national power of Ming Dynasty was far stronger than that of Hou Jin, the structural problems of Ming Dynasty were too serious, so that the comprehensive efficiency was too low to bear to look at. Therefore, once there is a slight problem internally, the enemy will find a loophole on the front line, violating Sun Tzu's taboo of "the invincibility lies with oneself".
Because of this, Gao Pragmatic has always regarded internal reform as a top priority and devoted far more effort than external combat. In his opinion, what's there to worry about in combat? Use the Nine Yang Divine Skill and directly use your internal energy to crush it. When have you ever seen him so pragmatic and dangerous that he insisted on using 3,000 elite soldiers to defeat an enemy army of 100,000 or 80,000? Almost all the troops pressed forward and crushed them.
What, you think my battle was not exciting enough? You are wonderful, you are wonderful, you come out to fight me with such a strong and powerful army, can you do it? You can't take it out, but I can take it out. This is my ability!
What is a great country? A big country means that I don’t need to play so many tactics with you. I will push forward all the way. I will be the main force in every aspect along the way, and you can’t beat any of them! This is called one force subduing ten societies, this is called a great country!
However, although this style of play may seem unsophisticated during the war, all the emphasis is placed before the war, that is, a comprehensive crushing situation has been achieved before the war.
When it comes to dealing with the Mughal Empire specifically, Gao Pragmatic's previous strategy was to wait until the internal conflicts among the Mughals intensified after Akbar's death, and the momentum for military expansion had been exhausted, and then suddenly send out heavy troops and march all the way back along the Ganges River Basin. Push and forcibly defeat its main force - this is the "right combination" of the art of war.
Then another navy was sent all the way, leading the elite marines to bypass the Indian peninsula and land on the west coast of India. They landed in the Gujarat area and went northeast to the core of the Mughal Empire such as Delhi and Agra. At this time, the Mughal Empire's army gathered on the eastern front, and may have been severely defeated. If it heard that the back route was taken, it would definitely collapse - this is the "surprise victory" in the art of war.
As a regime established by a foreign military group, the Mughal Empire's legitimacy of rule came almost entirely from its military violence. Therefore, once this violence was forcefully destroyed by Beijing, the foundation of its rule would instantly collapse.
At that time, Gao pragmatism can quickly fill the power vacuum after the collapse of the Mughal Empire through various political means - at this point, Gao pragmatism has complete confidence.
However, the problem is that because Jinghua’s expansion in southern Xinjiang, Nanyang and other places was too smooth, and because the benefits brought by the expansion far exceeded expectations, the Nanjiang Group within Jinghua has generated an endogenous expansion momentum, and now it has It was difficult to suppress, so Gao Pragmatic was forced to agree to temporarily release some of this expansionary momentum.
As a result, the plan that he had already planned in his mind could only be modified temporarily, and temporary modifications to a large plan are obviously prone to various problems. For example, once a behemoth like Jinghua is ready to make a move, the various small forces around it will definitely be restless and will definitely seek... cooperation or confrontation.
Judging from the current situation, these small forces represented by Assam have chosen to cooperate. This may be attributed to certain agricultural civilization characteristics of the Ming Dynasty and even the entire Chinese dynasties - self-restriction on expansion.
Although this self-restriction itself stems from the correct understanding of the "cost of governance", knowing that as a farming civilization, it is neither able nor necessary to expand infinitely, so as not to exceed its own governance capacity and cause the cost of governance to increase rapidly to the point where it cannot make ends meet. .
However, just because China itself knows it does not mean that surrounding countries or tribes with relatively backward cultures also know it. Most of them don't know why Chinese dynasties have no interest in their territory. They can only attribute it to the pride of the Chinese people, who look down on their remote areas and don't care about the three melons and two dates they produce.
But in any case, this kind of thinking now has a positive effect. Neither the Assamese nor the Bangladeshi rebels, and perhaps even Prince Salim, seemed to think that the introduction of Jinghua's support force would lead to the wolf entering the house.
In their view, this is a simple strategy to drive away tigers and devour wolves, as long as they pay some economic benefits or other benefits in exchange.
It is precisely because Gao Pragmatic has such a judgment that he decided not to consider launching a simultaneous scramble for ports across India before taking over Bangladesh, so as not to alarm his current "partners".
"What's the reason?" Gao pragmatically asked.
Liu Xin didn't know what Gao Pragmatic was thinking about. She pointed to the entire map of the South Asian subcontinent and said, "You just said that Akbar, the great emperor, spent his life conquering Rajput, Gujarat, Malwa, and Gondwa. He has conquered such a huge territory such as Namibia and Bengal in the past few decades. Moreover, until the past few years, he has been continuously invading the Deccan Peninsula, which is central and southern India, right? "
Gao Pragmatic nodded and said: "This is a fact, and it is exactly what I said. He has almost exhausted the Mughal Empire's military expansion momentum."
"Okay, then I have a question." Liu Xin didn't pay attention to the second half of the sentence. She just pointed at the countries in the central and southern parts of the Indian peninsula and said, "Faced with Emperor Akbar's decades-long struggle, What are these countries thinking about the continuous invasion of the south? In other words, are they afraid or not?"
The answer is obvious. Gao Pragmatic nodded and said: "Akbar has been almost invincible in recent years. Although these countries on the Deccan Peninsula are large and small, they are obviously inferior to the Mughal Empire. Naturally, they It’s because of fear.”
"Since they are afraid, what can they do to deal with it?" Liu Xin raised her eyebrows and asked: "For example, Ahmed Negal, Golconda, Surya Vadra, who are on the front line, and even those on the second line Bijapur, Bidar, Vijayanagar and others, have they ever come up with some means of joining forces to fight against the Mughals?"
"I must have thought about it, but... haha." Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "The six countries can have Su Qin's alliance, and the Qin Dynasty can also have Zhang Yi's alliance. As long as the Mughals are not bordering all countries at the same time, Then the degree of threat faced by each country will naturally be different.
Therefore, even if they form a coalition, they must have different ideas in their minds. If one or two people in charge in the Mughal country can be divided and disintegrated, what can this coalition accomplish? It's just that the jujube alliance and the eighteen princes all have their own agendas. If I were the one in charge of the Mughal Empire, I would be able to destroy it without a single soldier. "
"Awesome, awesome." Liu Xin said with a smile, stroking her hands: "But that's it? Now that the Deccan countries feel threatened, but they also have their own agendas, what do they need?
I would say that since local neighbors are unreliable, it is better to bring in external forces to assist. At least it seems that what external forces covet them is nothing more than economic interests. Compared with maintaining their own rule, what is the transfer of some economic interests? "
Gao pragmatic smiled and said, "I know this."
"I also think you should know." Liu Xin did not doubt the authenticity of Gao Pragmatic's words. After all, this was a political issue. As her teacher Gao, it was definitely not difficult to see this.
"That is to say, you are worried about the execution level?" Liu Xin tentatively said: "I think the execution level is not a problem. We have enough power to complete the two goals of Bangladesh and South India ports at the same time.
In Bangladesh, the main force we need is the Army. Even if the Bangladesh delta region is crisscrossed by rivers, we will only need some shallow-water gunboats at most. Considering that our military equipment has obvious technical advantages over them, whether it is the Mughals or the Bengals, it does not need to be too large. Well, this is not difficult to handle, and it will not even affect the maritime strength of the Nanyang Fleet.
As for the Deccan countries, we only want ports. As for how to "want" them, I think we can refer to the Portuguese - as long as they have ports, they don't care about the interior. At this time, what they need is to use our power to deter the Mughal Empire. As you just said, the Mughal Empire is actually very worried about its waterway to the west.
Then, as long as our Nanyang Fleet goes to the west coast of India to show its strength and let the Mughal Empire know that we are even far more powerful than the Portuguese navy and fully capable of cutting off its western shipping lanes at any time, then all this can be accomplished without any effort. achieved. "
"These ideas of yours can indeed be realized, but I also have two questions to ask." Gao pragmatically said: "The first question is, if we intervene in the Deccan countries and ask them for ports, will this alert them? Will it hinder our future actions across the entire South Asian subcontinent?
The second question is, according to the original agreement between Zhiting and the Spanish and Portuguese Empire, Nanyang belongs to me and India belongs to him. If we directly intervene in Indian affairs and start occupying ports, will the Spanish and Portuguese Empire think that we have crossed the line and therefore have Are we hostile?
Of course, I am not afraid of being hostile to them, but I am worried that after they intervene, the problems in the Indian Ocean will become more complicated. In the worst case scenario, there may even be conflicts between the Spanish Portuguese Empire and Indian countries - whether it is the Mughals or the Germans. Do all the countries join forces to fight against us? "
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