Chapter 51: Nanyang War
Now that Nanjing has decided to fight, the entire Ming Dynasty's work direction has shifted to the southwest.
He Xi doesn't care how the battle is fought. Without him, the advantage on the battlefield would be too obvious. As a result, He Xi felt that who had lost the battle. There is no need to see him at all.
He adjusted more logistically.
As a cabinet bachelor, Tie Xuan was the governor of Guangdong, Guangxi and Nanyang, and was already on the front line and in logistics. In other words, as long as it is along the South China Sea, all the logistics of the war in the South China Sea will be managed by Tie Xuan.
This is also inevitable.
The rise of He Xi is essentially the rise of civil servants.
Even though many civil servants hated He Xi to the core, they still strongly supported some of He Xi's military reforms. the reason is simple. It was because He Xi limited the power of generals.
Yes, under He Xi's management, military commanders still have great power, especially the combination of honor and capital. It even gave rise to a class that was opposed to the traditional civil servants.
But most civil servants still recognized He Xi's reforms.
The reason is very simple. During the Hongwu period, the generals were simply unscrupulous and did not regard civilian officials as human beings at all. When the civil servants saw the generals, they prostrated themselves in the smoke and dust from a distance, without even the space for equal dialogue.
Most of the generals in the early Ming Dynasty were arrogant and powerful generals.
Now, although the nobles are still in charge of the army. However, during military operations, military generals lead the troops at the front, civilian officials sit at the back and are in charge of logistics, and there are a series of supervision procedures within the army. Keep the military from losing control.
In other words, what most civil servants object to is not that the nobles control the army, but that the nobles are never willing to install rules and forms.
The saying that a scholar meets a soldier is not clear.
Once the honorable nobles talk about rules and regulations with scholars, it is determined that they will be eaten to death. Although it is said that the world is vast and the truth is the greatest, the truth is formulated by them.
Now this satisfies most readers.
Under this system, the possibility of the military losing control is very low.
Of course, I don’t know if they have any ideas in the future.
The other direction, that is, the direction of Myanmar, also requires a large army to march.
To be honest, fighting has already begun in Annan, and He Xi did not want to move in Myanmar. The reason is very simple, that is, it is a taboo for military strategists to start a war on two sides. However, there are several reasons that force He Xi to take action.
First, the Battle of Annan did not consume much but yielded great gains. It made many people red-eyed, including but not limited to the nobles who did not go to the battlefield, and many businessmen who did not participate in the Annan War.
It should be noted that the merchants who followed the army made a lot of money. After all, in the army, most soldiers got the money and squandered it almost immediately. And needless to say, any commodity has two prices before the Ming army occupied it and after it was occupied by the Ming army.
This is actually an important support for the prosperity of internal commerce in Ming Dynasty.
They couldn't participate in the Annan War, so they couldn't participate in the Burma War.
Second, it is also the specific form of development of the Burma War.
As mentioned earlier, in the Battle of Burma, there were actually only two or three regiments fighting on the front line in rotation. What were they fighting? In fact, it is a road from Kunming to Myanmar. A road that is not obscured by flash floods and vegetation.
How terrifying the tropical rainforest in Myanmar is. The fate of the expeditionary force at Savage Mountain has already explained a lot of things.
On the battlefield in Myanmar during World War II, both the Japanese and Allied forces complained about the local roads. Almost when it was built, it was swallowed up by the tropical rainforest.
Without a good road, crossing the tropical rainforest into Myanmar would be a life-threatening situation.
Of course, since ancient times, our ancestors have traveled back and forth and have explored an ancient trade route between Myanmar and Yunnan. After all, trade between China and India has been recorded since the Han Dynasty. The so-called Ancient Tea Horse Road, of course, This road is not the same as the Tea Horse Road. It has many similarities with the Burma Highway during the Anti-Japanese War.
It's just that the road hasn't been repaired yet, and the front line has already broken through Luchuan.
The Ava Dynasty of Myanmar.
Such a great victory almost directly reached the core of Myanmar, which was already a plain area centered on Mandalay.
At this time, everyone is naturally looking forward to pursuing victory.
Especially since Annan played so smoothly.
However, He Xi also needs to send someone to governor the southwest.
In He Xi's view, fighting Myanmar is actually about fighting logistics. As long as tens of thousands of troops can be safely transported from Yunnan to Myanmar, and the loss rate of the non-war is not too high, this war will be won. .
Although Myanmar is also an ancient civilization, it has existed since ancient times, and there are even legends about Buddha preaching. But Myanmar really developed in the late Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the remaining troops of Li Dingguo were able to suppress Myanmar and fight against it.
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Shiquan died in Myanmar.
When Myanmar faced the British, it was not without resistance.
However, Myanmar is now falling apart, split into three parts. The level of civilization is also very low, and they are no match for Ming Dynasty.
It was just that Zhu Xiongying proposed a candidate for governor of Southwest China that surprised He Xi. That is Huang Zicheng.
He Xi also put Huang Zicheng in a high position, letting him serve as the Minister of Academic Affairs and responsible for the construction of many schools in Nanjing and the south. On the one hand, Huang Zicheng does have this ability. On the other hand, Huang Zicheng did a lot of things when he was in the Nanjing court, and during the Civil War, Huang Zicheng had almost no credit. We can't let Huang Zicheng jump up and be on top of everyone.
Not to mention others, Huang Zicheng is back, what will Yang Shiqi do?
They didn't make any mistakes either.
He Xi arranged a book, which is already considered good.
If you look at promotion resume alone, it's not bad. But for He Xi's original team and Huang Zicheng's current situation, it is inevitable that they are a little sad.
Zhu Xiongying suddenly brought up Huang Zicheng, and the reason was very clear.
That is, the roads in Yunnan and Guizhou are difficult to travel, and it is already very troublesome to transport all materials from the Central Plains to Yunnan. If we go from Yunnan to the front line, the logistics route is more than a thousand miles away.
But wouldn’t it be much easier if an industrial system was established in Yunnan and supplies were supplied locally? It can also speed up the construction of roads between Yunnan and the Central Plains.
And in this way, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou must know how to establish an industrial system. Is there anyone in the world who is more experienced than Huang Zicheng?
He Xi had no objection to this choice.
Not to mention the friendship between Huang Zicheng and him, not to mention that He Xi himself had the idea of expanding industrial zones and building an industrial base in the southwest. The Ming Dynasty would have a deterrent effect on Myanmar and even India.
after all. The distance for transporting logistics materials from Nanjing to Yunnan is almost equal to the distance for transporting logistics organizations from Kunming to India. In other words, when Kunming's industrial system matured, the time was ripe for Ming Dynasty to attack India.
This is good for He Xi to conquer India.
Moreover, He Xi also realized that Zhu Xiongying might have other thoughts about Huang Zicheng. However, He Xi didn't care.
So the logistics were determined.
The war in Southeast Asia is naturally in a state of fury.
Let’s talk about the Annan War first.
Thang Long City is not good to begin with. After refusing to surrender, the nobles in the city decisively killed the Hu family and his son. He sent the head over and said he wanted to surrender.
Even they knew the Ming Dynasty's vassal policy and were willing to welcome a member of the royal family as the new king.
This makes Zhang Ming feel very difficult.
It is very easy to force. But at the meeting before the war, He Xi said that Ming Dynasty was not prepared to completely annex these countries. After all, in history, Annan's best result was to give up the ground after more than 20 years of fighting, and He Xi should take this as a warning.
And sending a member of the royal family as the King of Annan is not unacceptable to most Annan people.
After all, these days, don't talk about others. Even in the Ming Dynasty, nationalism was not fully awakened. Not to mention that there are also many Han people in Annan. Their control over the Ming Dynasty
Treatment is not unacceptable.
In history, when Annan surrendered and then rebelled, it was certainly due to the uneven distribution of Annan's local interest groups and the Ming Dynasty's interests, but it was far from rising to ethnic conflicts.
Because there is no such concept, it is more because the generals and eunuchs stationed in the Ming Dynasty extorted excessive taxes. Money is needed everywhere compared to Ming Dynasty. Yongle made several Northern Expeditions, moved the capital, etc. I don’t know how much money was needed. Although this has the foundation left by Zhu Yuanzhang, a lot of money also comes from overseas.
Zheng He's voyages to the West were said to be costly, but not unprofitable. So the question is, does Annan belong to overseas or domestic?
He Xi knew very well that it would not be a problem to sweep all the countries on the Indochina Peninsula with the military power of the Ming Dynasty. But it is very difficult to wipe out the anti-Ming forces on the Indochina Peninsula.
The former is a decisive battle between regular troops, and the latter is a long public security battle.
The topography of Southeast Asia is covered with dense forests. With the technology of this era, it is really difficult to conquer and completely control the peninsula. This is also the reason why Ming Dynasty abandoned Annan.
But this title of king means vassal. To the original nobles, it was just a new royal family. Even the more powerful this royal family was, it would not be without benefits to their local nobles.
Don't say anything else. It's just a matter of commerce and trade. In the Ming Dynasty, no one in Siam took a serious look at these foreign vassals without the surname Zhu. They were simply treated as outsiders.
When the king's surname was Zhu, the whole situation changed.
They purchased within the territory of Ming Dynasty and immediately sent them in priority order. The great merchants in the Ming Dynasty could despise a foreign vassal, but they would never dare to despise a prince.
If they get really anxious and make the matter bigger, the government will not look good on them.
This is also a great thing for the locals in the feudal country.
This also isolates the enemy. The Ming Dynasty only attacked the kings of various countries and their direct descendants, not everyone.
