Chapter 762: Getting Rich with a Sullen Voice
After the Western Wei Dynasty took Chengdu, Gao Yihuan ordered people to load all the utensils of the original Shu Palace, along the Yangtze River into Huguang, and then against the Han River, Danjiang to Guanzhong Longju Village, and finally transported by the people to Wangjing by land.
Most of these furniture and porcelain were sent to the palace of the Wei Dynasty, and a small part was used to decorate the various yamen of the Western Wei Dynasty, which improved the aesthetics of the Western Wei Kingdom and the grade of the official government.
Gao Yihuan greeted, and after a while, many generals, as well as officials from the cabinet and the Ministry of War, entered the lobby, and after they saluted Gao Yihuan, they sat down on the mahogany chairs on both sides according to their grades.
In the years since the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty, all kinds of etiquette and etiquette have been gradually improved, and the structure of the ministers of the Western Wei Dynasty has changed.
At this time, Gao Yihuan sat upright in the middle hall, with straight backs on both sides, no chairs on his backs, half of his buttocks sitting on the seat, and his head was looking at Gao Yihuan with his head brushed, with the breath of a regular official.
At this time, the army of the Western Wei Dynasty was mainly controlled by the military department and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, of which the Ministry of War was in charge of recruitment, equipment, logistics, salaries, meritorious service, and the promotion of generals, while the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was responsible for the training of the army, the division of defense areas, the reporting of war merits, and the specific command in wartime.
In addition, Gao Yihuan set up a discipline and guidance department under the military department to be responsible for the political work of the army.
At this time, Gao Yihuan saw that everyone had already arrived, so he immediately spoke: "Gao Yicheng, this time Xuanyiwei made Haoge fall out with Dolgon, and also made Hong Chengchou be removed from the official rank of university scholar, which can be regarded as a great achievement. The Lone King has issued an order, and those who participate in the planning and execution will be promoted to one level, and when the Manchu Qing is destroyed, the Lone King will have a heavy reward. ”
Hauge and Dolgon split, with two blue flags to separate the pass, at least weakened nearly 30% of the strength of the Manchu Qing.
This is a result that can only be achieved with more than 100,000 troops and a huge amount of money, and Xuanyiwei completed it with only one fine work, which is indeed worthy of Gao Yihuan's praise.
"Minister, for the deployment of King Xie." Gao Yicheng hurriedly got up and hugged his fists, and there was a hint of trembling in his voice and posture in his fists.
Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, raised his hand and pressed down, let him sit down, and then said: "In this battle of Luoshui, my Great Wei has obtained a lot of war horses, but even if it is to train the dragoons, it will take at least a year. During this time, the Tartar cavalry still had the upper hand. In order not to give the Tartars a chance to rest, to prevent Dolgon from solving Hauge, and then to pose a threat to the northern front of our Great Wei again, the Lone King decided to take the initiative and launch a large-scale attack on the Tartars. ”
Although the Western Wei state had been fighting for a long time and was in great need of recuperation, and there was also pressure to resettle refugees, the situation in the Manchu Qing was even worse.
Now that Hauge and Dolgon have fallen out, it will be a rare opportunity for the Western Wei Kingdom.
If he didn't make a move at this time, when Dorgon solved Hauge, or if the Manchus reached a settlement within the Qing Dynasty, then he would have missed the opportunity.
In the hall, all the ministers of civil and military affairs whispered to each other, Chen Mingxia stood up and said: "The king, the ministers agree with the resolution of the king to take the initiative, but now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has arranged heavy troops in the east of the river, and they are on the defensive side and occupy a favorable position. If I want to make a difference in Hedong, I'm afraid it will not be easy. Besides, my Great Wei is too strong, will Nanjing follow the example of Eastern Wu and raid Jingzhou? ”
Li Dingguo took over the conversation, "King, the Qing army has deployed a total of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses in Hedong and Zhongzhou!" The total strength of our Great Wei is 340,000 people, and excluding the soldiers and horses guarding the town, it can mobilize up to 200,000 troops. Our army has the advantage of equipment, and the Qing army has the advantage of defending the city, and when the two are offset, our advantage is not obvious. The only way to improve the odds of victory is to rebel against Jiang Xiang, but Nanjing is indeed an unstable factor. If Nanjing's attitude changed, the Qing army would be able to use the 150,000 soldiers and horses of Lianghuai, and the situation would be complicated. ”
Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, in the past few years, it has been a great war between the Western Wei Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Cihong really has no sense of existence, which makes Gao Yihuan almost forget him.
Gao Yihuan stood up when he heard this, strode to the sand table, and the ministers of civil and military affairs sitting on both sides immediately got up and gathered around.
"Tell me about the situation in Nanjing!" Gao Yihuan looked at the sand table and said in a deep voice.
At this time, Li Dingguo said: "According to the intelligence collected by Xuanyiwei, in recent years, Nanjing has gradually reformed, rebuilt the forbidden army, strengthened the centralization of power, and the areas actually controlled by Nanjing include Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, southern Huguang and Liangguang, only Fujian and Wuchang are in a state of separation. Nanjing has a total of more than 500,000 troops, including 100,000 forbidden troops, 150,000 soldiers and horses from Jiangbei, and 50,000 troops stationed in various places. These 300,000 are the soldiers and horses that Nanjing can directly mobilize, and the remaining 200,000 are the soldiers and horses of the Zheng family in Fujian and Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang. Although the combat power of Nanjing's soldiers and horses is not strong, the strength of the troops is quite considerable, and Huang Degong is still relatively capable of fighting! ”
Gao Yihuan listened to Li Dingguo's words and remembered a word "make a fortune in a muffled voice", which was Gao Yihuan's previous strategy, he didn't expect to be learned by Zhu Cihong.
In the past two years, Zhu Cihong watched the Western Wei and the Manchu Qing Dynasty fight, and he reformed in Nanjing and achieved certain results.
Gao Yihuan originally thought that there were too many internal problems in Nanjing, and Zhu Cihong would inevitably fail, but in fact, in the face of external pressure in Jiangnan, there was indeed a strong voice of internal reform, which allowed Zhu Cihong to achieve some results.
Gao Yihuan remembered the news he had received before, saying that the Nanjing Imperial Court opened Ningbo and allowed ships from the Netherlands, the Japanese Kingdom, Spain, Portugal and other countries to come to trade in order to counter the Zheng family's monopoly on maritime trade.
The Nanjing court has been unstable in Jiangnan because the Nanjing court needs money, and Zhu Cihong wants to solve the financial crisis by levying taxes from the gentry and landlords in Jiangnan. This made the Nanjing court and the southeastern gentry and landlords conflict, so there were constant internal disputes, and the matter of increasing taxes could be quarreled for several years.
At present, Zhu Cihong is tantamount to making certain compromises with the gentry and landlords in the southeast, like the Southern Song Dynasty, and has co-opted a number of landlords to attack the smuggling syndicates in eastern Zhejiang, so as to solve Nanjing's financial problems from the sea trade.
In this way, the Nanjing court gained the support of some large landowners, and the situation improved.
Gao Yihuan felt that Zhu Cihong was orthodox in the Ming Dynasty after all, and he controlled the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, and he had a little army in his hands, if he was allowed to develop, I was afraid that he would become a difficult opponent in the future.
Gao Yihuan groaned slightly, it seems that he must pull his brother-in-law into the water, and he can't let Nanjing watch the play on the side.
At this time, Gao Yihuan looked at the sand table, "This time Hauge broke with Dolgon, it is an opportunity for us, and it is also an opportunity for Nanjing. Defend the river and guard the Huai, let Nanjing attack the Manchus alone, they don't have the guts, if the lonely king invites Nanjing to march together, do you think Zhu Cihong will agree? ”
Chen Mingxia groaned: "If Nanjing can send troops, we don't have to worry about Jingzhou being threatened, and at the same time, we can also disperse the pressure on our Great Wei to send troops." The minister is in favor of inviting Nanjing to send troops, and the two families share the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but whether Nanjing is willing or not, I don't know~~~"