Chapter 51: The War in the South Seas

Now that Nanjing has decided to fight a big fight, the entire direction of Daming's work has shifted to the southwest.

He Xi doesn't care how to fight on the battlefield. Without him, the advantage on the battlefield is too obvious. So much so that He Xi felt that who had lost the battle. I don't have to see him at all.

He is more logistically adjusted.

Tie Hyun is the governor of the cabinet as a university scholar, and the two Guangnan Seas have been front-line logistics. In other words, as long as it is along the way, the logistics of the war in the South China Sea will all be managed by Tie Xuan.

This is also inevitable.

The rise of He Xi is essentially the rise of civil officials.

Even though many civilians, officials, and doctors hate He Xi to the core, they are still very supportive of He Xi's military reforms. The reason is simple. It is because He Xi limited the power of the generals.

Yes, under He Xi's management, the power of the military generals is still very large, especially the combination of nobles and capital. It even created a class that was opposed to the traditional civil service.

But most civil servants still approve of Ho's reforms.

The reason is very simple, the military generals during the Hongwu period were simply unscrupulous, and they did not treat civilian officials as human beings at all. When the civil officials saw the military generals, they fell down in the smoke and dust from afar, and there was no room for equal dialogue.

Most of the generals in the early Ming Dynasty were proud soldiers.

Now, although it is said that Xun Gui is still in charge of the army. However, in military operations, the military generals lead the troops and horses in the front, and the civilian officials sit in the rear, presiding over the logistics, and there are a series of supervision procedures within the army. So that the army does not lose control.

In other words, it is not that most of the civil officials oppose the nobles in charge of the army, but that the nobles have never been willing to settle the rules form.

The so-called show talent meets soldiers, it is unreasonable.

Once the nobles talk to the scholars about the rules and rules, it will be determined that they will be eaten to death. Although it is said that the world is big and the truth is the greatest, they formulated the truth.

Now this is satisfying for most readers.

Under this system, the possibility of the army getting out of control is already very low.

Of course, I don't know if they have any ideas in the future.

And the other direction, that is, the Burmese direction, also requires a large army to march.

To tell the truth, the war has already started on Annan's side, and Myanmar He Xi didn't want to move. The reason is very simple, that is, fighting on both sides, the soldiers are taboo, but there are several reasons why He Xi has to move.

First, the battle of Annam, the consumption was not large, and the harvest was very large. 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 intervene in the Battle of Annam.

It must be known that the merchants who follow behind the army make a lot of money. After all, most of the soldiers in the army got the money and squandered it almost immediately. And needless to say anything else, any commodity before the occupation of the Ming army, and after the occupation of the Ming army, is two prices.

In fact, this is also an important support to support the prosperity of business within Daming.

They didn't participate in the battle of Annam, and they couldn't participate in the battle for Burma.

Second, it is also the specific form of the battle in Burma.

As mentioned earlier, in the battle of Burma, only two or three regiments were fought in rotation on the front line. What are they fighting? In fact, it is a road from Kunming to Myanmar. A road that is not hidden by mountain torrents.

How terrifying the rainforests of Myanmar are, and the fate of the expeditionary force Savage Mountain, has said a lot about it.

On the battlefield of World War II in Burma, both the Japanese army and the Allied side complained about the local roads. Almost all of the time it was repaired back then, but it was swallowed up by the tropical rainforest that year.

There is no good way to cross the rainforest into Myanmar, and that is purely deadly.

Of course, since ancient times, the ancestors have come and gone, and have also explored an ancient road of trade between Myanmar and Yunnan, after all, between China and India, trade has been recorded since the Han Dynasty, the so-called ancient tea horse road, of course, this road and the ancient tea horse road is not the same, and the Yunnan-Burma highway during the Anti-Japanese War has many similarities.

It's just that the road hasn't been repaired yet, and the front line has already broken Luchuan, and it will be broken again

Burmese Ava Dynasty.

Such a big victory almost directly hit the core of Myanmar, which is already the plain with Mandalay as the center.

At this time, the pursuit of victory is naturally what everyone is looking forward to.

Especially Annan fought so well.

However, He Xi also needed to send a candidate for the governor of the southwest.

In He Xi's view, fighting Burma is actually fighting logistics, as long as tens of thousands of troops can be safely and securely walked from Yunnan to Burma, and the loss rate of the non-war is not too high, this war will be won.

Although Myanmar is also a country with an ancient civilization, there are even legends of the Buddha preaching in ancient times. But Myanmar really developed in the late Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the remnants of Li Dingguo could press Burma to fight.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the old man was in Burma.

And Myanmar is not without resistance in the face of the British.

However, Myanmar itself is now falling apart, not to mention being divided into three. The level of civilization is also very low, and it is not an opponent of the Ming Dynasty at all.

It's just that this candidate for the governor of the southwest, Zhu Xiongying proposed a candidate that surprised He Xi. That is Huang Zicheng.

He Xi also reused Huang Zicheng, and let him serve as the secretary of the school, 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, when Huang Zicheng was in the Nanjing Imperial Court, after all, he did a lot of things, and in the Civil War, Huang Zicheng had almost no credit. You can't let Huang Zicheng jump up and be above everyone.

Don't talk about others, Huang Zicheng is back, what should Yang Shiqi do?

They didn't make a mistake either.

He Xi arranged a book, which is already good.

If you look at the promotion resume alone, it's not bad. But for He Xi's original team, Huang Zicheng's current situation is inevitably a little gloomy.

Zhu Xiongying suddenly proposed Huang Zicheng, and the reason was also very clear.

That is, the Yunnan-Guizhou road is difficult, and all the materials from the Central Plains to Yunnan through Yunnan-Guizhou are already very troublesome. If we go from Yunnan to the front line, the logistical route will be thousands of miles away.

But wouldn't it be much easier to establish an industrial system in Yunnan and supply supplies on the spot? It can also speed up the construction of roads between Yunnan and the Central Plains.

And in this way, the governor Yungui's person must know how to establish the industrial system, in the world, is there anyone more experienced than Huang Zicheng?

He Xi is not easy to object to this candidate.

Not to mention, Huang Zicheng's friendship with him, not to mention, He Xi himself has the idea of spreading the industrial zone, building an industrial base in the southwest, and the Ming Dynasty will have a deterrent effect on Myanmar and even India.

After all. The distance from Nanjing to Yunnan is almost equal to the distance from Kunming to India. That is to say, when Kunming's industrial system matured, the time was ripe for the Ming Dynasty to attack India.

This is good for Ho Xi to conquer India.

And He Xi also had insight that Zhu Xiongying might have other thoughts about Huang Zicheng. However, He Xi didn't care.

So the logistical aspects were determined.

The war in Southeast Asia is naturally in a state of rapid advance.

Let's talk about the war in Annam first.

Thang Long City is not good in the first place. After refusing to surrender, the nobles in the city decisively killed the Hu family father and son. Send the head over and say that he wants to surrender.

Even they knew about the Ming dynasty's feudal policy and were willing to welcome a member of the royal family as the new king.

This made Zhang Ming feel very tricky.

It's easy. But at the meeting before the war, He Xi said that the Ming Dynasty was not ready to completely annex these countries. After all, in history, Annan has fought for more than 20 years, and it is best to have the end of abandoning the land, and He Xi must also take it as a warning.

And sending a member of the royal family as the king of Annam is not an unacceptable thing for most Annamite people.

After all, these days, don't talk about others. Even in the Ming Dynasty, nationalism has not fully awakened. Not to mention that there are also a lot of Han people in Annam. Their unification of the Ming Dynasty

Governance, not unacceptable.

Historically, Annan surrendered and rebelled, although there was an uneven distribution of interests between Annan's local interest groups and the Ming Dynasty, but it was far from rising to the level of national contradictions.

Because there is no such concept, it is more because the generals and eunuchs stationed in the Ming Dynasty are tyrannical. Than Daming everywhere you need money. Yongle went on several Northern Expeditions, moved the capital, etc., and I don't know how much it costs. Of course, this has the foundation left by Zhu Yuanzhang, but there is also a lot of money from overseas.

Zheng He went to the West, saying that the cost was huge, but it was not unprofitable. The question is, does Annan belong overseas or domestic?

He Xi understands very well that it is not a problem to sweep all the countries on the Indochina Peninsula with the military strength of the Ming Dynasty. However, it is very difficult to sweep away the anti-Ming forces on the Indochina Peninsula.

The former is a decisive battle for the regular army, and the latter is a long law and order war.

Southeast Asia's topography is full of dense forests, and with the technology of this era, it is really difficult to completely control it. This is also the reason why Daming gave up on Annan.

But this king is a vassal. For the original nobles, it was just a new royal family, and even the stronger this royal family was, it was not without benefits to their local nobles.

Don't say anything else. It's a matter of commerce and trade, before Siam, these non-Zhu foreign vassals, in the Ming Dynasty, no one took a serious look at it at all, and they were simply regarded as foreign savages.

When the king's surname was Zhu, the whole situation changed.

They procured in the territory of Daming and immediately sent a priority order. The big businessmen in the Ming Dynasty can despise a foreign vassal, but they will never dare to despise a prince.

If you are really in a hurry, make things bigger, the government will not give them a good face.

This is also a great thing for the locals of the vassal country.

And the enemy is isolated. What the Ming Dynasty attacked was nothing more than the kings of various countries and the descendants of the kings of various countries, not everyone.