Perhaps because Wang Tingzhuan's performance exceeded expectations, Gao Pragmatic was in a good mood when he returned home that day, and even his steps seemed three points lighter than usual.
However, this good mood immediately turned from sunny to gloomy after he heard Gao Qi's report on the latest news in southern Xinjiang.
Gao Qi reported: The Kingdom of Arakan seemed to be aware of Southern Xinjiang’s intention to launch troops against them, and urgently sent an envoy to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to contact the Governor of Bengal of the Mughal Empire, who was also the third son of Emperor Akbar. Daniyal.
The Secretariat's current presumption on this is that the Mughal Empire will not be indifferent to the affairs of the Kingdom of Arakan, but it is not certain whether the prince and governor Daniyar will choose to immediately use force to support the Kingdom of Arakan to resist the invasion of southern Xinjiang. Military action.
Gao pragmatic pondered for a moment and ordered Huang Zhiting and Gao Wuzheng to come and hold a high-level internal meeting with Gao Qi. As soon as this order was conveyed, Gao Pragmatic suddenly added something more, and sent someone to quickly ask for Gao Guoyan, executive chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of China and president of Beijing Capital Bank.
Gao Guoyan is Gao Pragmatic's cousin and the second son of a second wife. Because his elder brother died young, he ranked one place ahead and was second in the clan, second only to Gao Wuzi who was confined to the Shou Ancestral Temple in Xinzheng by Gao pragmatism.
Gao Guoyan entered Jinghua very early and was responsible for Jinghua's financial review in the early days. Later, he served as the president of Jinghua Bank when it was established.
When the Federal Reserve was established in the Ming Dynasty, Gao Guoyan was naturally the obvious choice for the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. However, Gao was too busy and could only take a general direction. Someone still had to be responsible for specific affairs, so Gao Guoyan took on the role concurrently as the president of Jinghua Bank. Executive Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of China.
Gao Pragmatic is often jokingly called the God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty. So by derivation, Gao Guoyan is the God of Wealth of Beijing. There is no doubt about his high status, great power, and heavy responsibility.
Since the headquarters of the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve is a little far away from the Nanning Marquis Mansion, this high-level meeting was postponed until lunch time. When Gao Pragmatic saw that it was time for dinner, he simply invited everyone to eat first.
After the meal, the five of them came to the small conference room for a meeting. Originally, Gao Jingshi wanted to keep Gao Mo for the meeting, but Uncle Mo was really old and visibly weak, so Gao Jingshi had to let him go and rest first.
As a result, the only ones left in the meeting were Gao Pragmatic, Huang Zhiting and his wife, Gao Guoyan, Gao Wuzheng, and Gao Qi.
According to Gao Jingshi's instructions, Intelligence Secretary Gao Qi first informed everyone about the newly obtained information, and then Gao Jingshi asked: "What do you think?"
Because it was related to Southern Xinjiang, Huang Zhiting, who had been in charge for many years, took the initiative and said: "The military strength of the Kingdom of Arakan is not worth mentioning to Southern Xinjiang. Since the country has noticed that the situation is different, it is the right thing to do to send people to seek reinforcements." There is meaning.
But from what I have seen, this country’s behavior is probably seeking the skin of a tiger. Thinking of it, the Mughal Empire is now in a period of expansion, and it has not been long since they captured the Bengal region. Now they suddenly find that there is an opportunity to go further, and they are expected to capture Chittagong, which they have been peeping for a long time.
I thought that Prince Daniyar would definitely be tempted - but not to help Arakan, but to annex Arakan before southern Xinjiang. "
After Huang Zhiting finished speaking, Gao Jingshi just nodded slightly, but without comment, he looked at Gao Guoyan instead. Gao Guoyan shook his head and said, "I never think about these things. Let Shiyi and Yufu talk about it first."
"Eleven" refers to Gao Wuzheng. He performs eleven in the clan and six in the sixth house. Gao Guoyan was his second cousin, so he was called "Eleven". As for "Yufu", it is the epitome of Gaoqi.
It is true that Gao Guoyan rarely expresses his position directly on political and military issues prematurely. Everyone is used to this and they don't pay much attention to his attitude. Therefore, everyone's eyes first focused on Gao Wuzheng's face.
In the past, Gao Wuzheng was often more eager and expressive when he had the opportunity to speak, but this time he seemed to have changed his mind and did not express his views immediately. Instead, he pondered for a moment before speaking. However, when he spoke this time, he was not talking about himself. point of view, but asked Gao Qi.
"Yu Fu, how many troops does the Arakan Kingdom have? How many troops does Daniyar, the Governor of Bengal, have?"
Gao Qi replied: "The Kingdom of Arakan does not have many troops, usually no more than 20,000 at most, and currently it should not exceed 15,000, and this is the total strength including their standing navy. As for the army specifically...I'm afraid That's about 10,000 people.
As for the Mughal Governor of Bengal, we don’t know whether the information we got is accurate: The Mughal Empire, which had just taken over Bengal, had about 30,000 to 50,000 troops stationed in Bengal - this is just an estimate, the exact data Unknown.
However, more recent news shows that around the beginning of last year, the Mughal Emperor Akbar began to draw troops from Bangladesh, drawing away 15,000 to 20,000 people. If all are calculated according to the maximum scale, then there were 50,000 "official troops" in Bangladesh before. After taking away 20,000, there are still 30,000 now. "
Gao Wuzheng frowned and said with some confusion: "If there are only 30,000 people, then I don't even think this matter needs to be discussed in detail, just let Yuan'er and the secretary-general on the front line solve it.
Yuan'er now has sufficient troops at his disposal. In addition to the Nanyang Fleet at sea, which will definitely help him, he can mobilize more than 100,000 garrison troops in Southern Xinjiang alone. Although it is certainly not possible to mobilize all these many troops, it should be easy for him to mobilize 50,000 to 60,000 people, right?
In this way, Yuan'er has almost twice as many troops as the enemy, and in terms of ordnance, training, etc., he must be at least not weaker than his opponent.
On the other hand, if Daniyar knew our strength, I always feel that it would be hard to say whether he would dare to send troops. Even if we send out troops, I'm afraid we have to reach out to the Mughal court for reinforcements first, and this will waste a lot of time..."
At this time, Gao Qi suddenly interrupted: "I'm afraid the Mughal court will not support him."
"Oh? Why is this?" Gao Wuzheng asked in surprise.
"Not long ago, the news was that at the beginning of the year, the Mughal Emperor Akbar had personally led his army south to conquer the Deccan countries." Gao Qi spread his hands and said: "The main force of the Mughal army should be with him now, the center of the Mughal court. I'm afraid there aren't many mobile troops left that can be mobilized.
Considering that they were a foreign court in India, just like the Han Dynasty in the BC Yuan Dynasty, rebellions in various places were commonplace. Although Akbar should have left an army behind for possible counter-insurgency, it was unlikely that this army would be transferred to Bengal to fight another war of conquest.
Oh, by the way, there is one more thing in the meantime. Uncle Six previously told us to tentatively contact Akbar's eldest son Salim, and this matter has initially yielded results.
This man was a staunch supporter of his sect and opposed his father Akbar's policy of sectarian reconciliation, so the relationship between father and son was very tense. This time when Akbar went south to conquer, he originally thought that he should be left behind to sit in command, but in fact Akbar did not give him any actual power, leaving him with nothing to do in the rear, and then he harbored resentment..."
Gao Qi paused for a moment and said: "Although he was unwilling to make any promises when we contacted him, according to the report, this person should not be opposed to joining forces with us to deal with his father Akbar - provided that , we only want Bengal at most, while he wants the entire Mughal Empire except Bengal.
Of course, in the final analysis, what Salim wanted was to replace Akbar, re-establish the authority of their Mughal sect, trample Hinduism under their feet, and force Hindus to convert. "
Gao Wuzheng cursed in a low voice: "I really don't understand these people. If they are fighting for the throne, just fight for the throne. Why do they have to have anything to do with the sect? They are full."
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PS: The second half of this chapter has actually been coded, but the sensitive words have not been found, so it cannot be published. I will update it when I have time to fish tomorrow morning.
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