In the battle ahead, Ma Gui and Chataiji were there, and Gao Pragmatic didn't care about it after arranging the strategy. He stayed behind the low walls of Ixibal and waited for the results, and by the way, he took care of the reports that had been sent to him from all sides.

The difference between Wen Shuai and Wu Shuai is very clear in Daming, if you want to put it simply, that is, no matter how high the rank of the military general, basically as long as he is responsible for the battle, but Wen Shuai is different, and all aspects of things must be managed with one hand.

Thanks to him, he is now only temporarily in charge of military affairs in the northwest as the commander of the reinforcements, and the affairs of government affairs are taken care of by the governors, so it is a little easier, and he only asks about military affairs.

However, with the current situation in the northwest, there are also great troubles in military affairs, and it can even be said that it is a mess.

Gao Guangxian is of course responsible for this messy situation, but in fact, he can't be blamed completely, because in the final analysis, the Ming army's own problems are the root cause of its inability to deal with various situations.

What's the problem? Old problem, lack of money. The root of all evil lies in the lack of money.

Although the three sides of Shaanxi are "nine-sided" areas, they are actually the least valued areas among the nine sides. This "relative" is not recent, Wang Yangming said at the beginning, there are four places in the Ming Dynasty that are the most important, and there is no room for mistakes, and if you lose them, the Ming Dynasty will be in danger.

Which four places? Jiliao Xuanda.

In fact, this is not Wang Yangming's unique opinion, the high-level of the Ming Dynasty have a clear understanding of this, otherwise why would Gao Pragmatic be able to control more than 800,000 troops in name after he concurrently served as the Seven Towns Economic Strategy? The reason is that Da Ming puts almost all the elites here.

In the case of limited resources, Ji Liao Xuanda took the big head, and the rest of the people could obviously only take the small head. Although the three sides of Shaanxi are more valued militarily than those in the south, they cannot stand up to the fact that the economic conditions of the southern provinces are relatively good, and the three sides of Shaanxi are here...... Since the decline of Guanzhong, it has long ceased to be the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, how can it be compared to the south? As long as the financial tilt of the imperial court is not enough, the three sides of Shaanxi can only live a hard life.

It is not enough, coupled with the large-scale reduction of military salaries and the opening of the ban on military salaries this year, relying on the inherent financial system alone, it is even precarious to maintain the situation, how can it not be bad if something happens? The reason why Gao Guangxian always wanted to calm down before was not because he felt that he couldn't afford to fight?

Of course, this problem needs to be dichotomous, for example, Gao Pragmatic believes that Gao Guangxian pinned his hopes on the other party not to make a big fuss, and seriously lacked subjective initiative and decision-making ability for major events. Because of this, after making up for the failure, he decisively gave up Gao Guangxian, and then went into battle in person to wipe his ass for the Trilateral Real School.

In the eyes of the layman, the current problem of the three sides is to be beaten in many ways, as long as the high-level and pragmatic army will defeat or even exterminate the rebels in one fell swoop, whether it is a bow or a Boshoketu, or a fire to fall on the Red Brothers, and the like, the problem of the three sides will be naturally solved.

This idea, if you have to say that it is wrong, is not wrong, but it is really a headache to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Since ancient times, the confrontation between the agricultural and mulberry civilization in the Central Plains and the nomadic civilization in the north has been dominated by the agricultural and mulberry civilization and the nomadic civilization in most of the period.

The two great eras of the Han and Tang dynasties launched counteroffensives at the peak of their national strength and achieved quite brilliant results, but the problem was not solved, because as long as you weakened a little, the offensive and defensive conversions would come back immediately.

Some people say that this is determined by national characteristics, saying that people are wolf totems and advocating offensive Yunyun. However, Gao pragmatic does not agree with this point of view, believing that this is mainly determined by the level of weapons and the degree of development of military tactics.

Later generations of Outer Mongolia still maintained the vast majority of the traditions and characteristics of the nomadic people, why didn't they go south?

This analogy may be a bit inappropriate, but the reason is still clear: hot weapons have developed to a certain extent, and the weapon advantage of the nomads has been reversed.

The horses of the cavalry are also weapons in themselves, just like the means of transport of mechanized troops, and even if they are not equipped with weapons, you cannot say that they are not part of the weapons.

So there is a question here: why is Jiliao Xuanda almost rarely beaten now, but the three sides of Shaanxi have been beaten this time? Military strength is one thing, financial resources are one thing, and the sum of these two aspects can get an answer: the leaders of the nomads believe that it is dangerous to fight Jiliao and Xuan, and it is safe to fight Shaanxi on three sides.

Ji Liao Xuanda replied to the Mongols through the two wars of the Battle of Monan and the Battle of Liaonan, in these two directions, as long as you dare to make a move, I will dare to cut off your hand, and I will be able to cut it!

The war must have a purpose, if the goal cannot be achieved, it will lead to serious losses of its own, no matter who is in power, it will not be stupid to fight all the time, the Mongols are of course no exception, not to mention that the Mongols' ability to bear losses is actually far worse than that of the Ming Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that after Buzhihatu became the mastermind of the Tumen, he persuaded the Tumen to give up the futile attack on the border in the past, and instead seized the time to recuperate and develop agriculture and commerce, while actively giving advice to Huo Luochi and others, and encouraging them to find trouble for the Ming Dynasty.

For Buzhihatu or the left-wing Chahar Department, the attack on Jiliao has become a loss-making business, and instead of fighting with heavy losses and no benefits every time, it is better to find a way to get the living needs produced by the Ming Dynasty from other means, and as for the increasingly severe and urgent military pressure of the Ming Dynasty on them, it needs to be released through other means.

Tumut followed the Ming Dynasty well, and he was definitely unwilling to do this "way", so Buzhihatu set his sights on the northwest and stirred up the chaos in the entire northwest.

I have to say that Burihatu is indeed a talent, not to mention hitting Daming's seven inches, at least it can be regarded as hitting Daming's weakness.

However, in this way, the problem to be solved by Gao Shishi is divided into two parts, the first is to solve the immediate military crisis, and the second is to smooth out other unstable factors as much as possible.

In Gao Shishi's view, the current military crisis itself is not terrible, and although the Bibai Rebellion in the original history was not as violent as the Northwest Rebellion this time, several forces were basically involved, but the extent involved was not as serious as this time.

From the point of view of military strength, as long as today's operation is successful - Gao Pragmatic does not doubt this - then the Northwest Rebellion will only be left with the Bibai Party and the Huoluochi and Rabbit Brothers, without the elite of Bo Shuoketu, Gao Pragmatic is confident that it will be settled in a short period of time.

At least it can be much faster than the original history of quelling the rebellion.

However, the next problem is more complicated, after all, it is an objective fact that the imperial court has no money, and the matter has come to this point, and it is impossible for the imperial court to press down the matter of opening the feudal ban again, and turn back to pay the military salaries to the three sides of Shaanxi.

The most taboo thing about the national plan is to change the order overnight, at most it is to make some adjustments in small details, otherwise the impact will be too great and it will be difficult to control at all. In the unlikely event that the ban on the feudal domain caused chaos due to the lack of money, not only would the losses itself be difficult to estimate, but it would also have a serious impact on the prestige of the emperor, the cabinet, and even the entire imperial court. Let's look for books

In a unified country, the prestige of the center must not decline, and once it declines, it is a sign that troubled times are coming, so Gao Pragmatic cannot expect the imperial court to allocate money to help, so he can only find a way to solve it himself.

Jinghua is of course the leading business giant in the Ming Dynasty, but Jinghua has invested a lot of money in southern Xinjiang now, and it still seems to be a bottomless pit for the time being, and the ghost knows how much money it will cost to complete the follow-up, so it is impossible for Jinghua to directly throw money in the northwest - not to mention that this move is still politically in danger of "buying the hearts of the people", and Gao Pragmatic does not dare to try it easily.

The best way is, of course, to find the silver on the spot, but this sounds almost like a barren talk, where to find silver in these places in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo?

Even though Gao Pragmatic can use his prestige within the Shixue School to mobilize local treasury silver, that is, those that do not need to be handed over to the center in various places, the amount of these silver may not be enough, and secondly, Gao Pragmatic cannot really empty all the treasury of other people, and no surplus grain will be left for anyone, so it is difficult to say which step he can achieve, but it is certainly not enough.

Gao pragmatically thought about it, and even began to consider whether the punitive treaty against Burma during the Yunnan-Burma War could also be applied to the Ordos Ministry.

Unfortunately, the situation in Ordos and Myanmar is really different and cannot be copied so simply.

Why? Because of Tumut.

Under the manipulation of Gao Gong and Gao Shishi's uncle and nephew, Tumut can now be regarded as a relatively loyal little brother of the Ming Dynasty, but although this little brother is relatively loyal, his status is still relatively special, and even the Ming must be treated with caution. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to treat Tumut like Gao pragmatically treated Nurhachi before, and he went directly to the letter, and he didn't bother to give the ground to let people withdraw from the army.

After all, Nurhachi only has three or five thousand soldiers now, but Tumut is the core of the Mongolian right wing that can pull out 100,000 cavalry in minutes, can this also be compared?

As for the Ordos Department, it is the tacit "sphere of influence" of Tumut, and even part of what they think is their own strength, otherwise how could Gao Pragmatic say that this time Hannaji still sent 30,000 troops to Hetao under the condition that he was "likely" to be attacked by the Tumen?

Without him, Tumert sees Ordos as a part of himself.

So in other words, if Gao Pragmatic asks the Ordos Ministry to cut meat, it is equivalent to Tumut is also cutting meat, and when the time comes, how to smooth out Hannaji and Zhongjin Hatun internally, there may be trouble.

And Tumut can't get into trouble now, because the premise of the eastern system is Xihuai, and if the right wing can't stabilize the situation, this eastern system will be impossible to talk about - at least it will greatly delay the success of the Ming Eastern system, which is tantamount to contradicting the national policy.

According to a highly pragmatic calculation, the punishment of the Ordos Ministry that can be accepted by Hannaji or Tumut can only be basically limited to the punishment of Boshoketu himself, and with the addition of a few "war criminals", the scope of the attack cannot be too expanded, and in particular, the strength of the Ordos Ministry cannot be seriously damaged.

However, it is not impossible to do any work here, such as putting Hannaji will definitely not oppose the suppression of Bosoktu a little harder, and even as planned, using the deposition of Bosoktu Jinong as an intimidation, so that Boshoketu's prestige within Ordos will be greatly weakened - Gao Shipra and Hannaji have no real intention of abolishing him for the time being, because the current situation does not allow for too much turmoil within Ordos.

But in any case, this is another matter, and it has nothing to do with the pragmatic solution to the financial dilemma in the northwest.

As for the brothers Bibai and Huoluochi, there is nothing to say about Bibai, it must be that everything is returned to the public after the fight, but after Bibai recruited troops and bought horses, I didn't know how much money was left in the treasury of Ningxia Mansion, and it was basically unreliable to expect to get rich from him, and it was already Amitabha Buddha if he didn't lose too much.

And the Huoluochi brothers...... What money can these two have? Even if even the tribe is exterminated together, it is estimated that you can get some cattle, sheep and horses, although this is also property, but that also has to consider the digestive capacity of the northwest. Now that there is a war in the northwest, it is even more impossible for the people to spend money to buy cattle and sheep indiscriminately, and there are many horses that are not allowed to be purchased by the people, so even if everything goes well, it will be even more difficult to realize these things.

What's more, this matter may not be so smooth - Huo Luochi and Zhuli Rabbit are no better than Bo Shuoketu, these two are not impulsive young people, it is difficult for them to have the courage to think about arresting Gao Shishi, so the strategy of luring the enemy deep and ambushing and encircling is basically not feasible.

If you can't lure the enemy deep and ambush and encircle and annihilate them, the Ming army really doesn't have a good way to deal with these tens of thousands of cavalry. With a bayonet array and hot weapons far beyond the original historical level, if these two brothers come up to the hard bar, of course they are not afraid, but they are afraid that people will not come.

Qinghai is so big, if the two brothers turn around and run away when they see that the situation is not good, even if they are pragmatic, they can only stare dryly. If he dares to assemble all the Gaojia cavalry deployed in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and cooperate with the cavalry units in the Ming army, or if he can persuade Tumut to send troops to assist, it does not mean that he cannot pursue deeply, but the problem is that he does not have the time at all now.

There is no doubt that the main task of his coming to the northwest was to re-stabilize the situation in the northwest, and not to pursue two Mongolian long-legged generals for thousands of miles.

Therefore, Huoluochi can't make money here, and the silver needed to stabilize the northwest has to find another way.

Just when Gao Pragmatic, the god of wealth of the Ming Dynasty, began to have a big head, the battle report came - Ilduqi found out the situation as soon as possible and came to report the battle situation in person.

Gao was a little surprised, because Ilduqi only had two tasks in his plan, first to lure the enemy, and then once Boshoktu successfully broke through, Ilduqi and Chataiji would pursue it together.

Since he should go after him, shouldn't the one who came to report the situation be Ma Gui, who completed the ambush but couldn't outrun Bo Shuoketu?

However, Ilduzi brought good news, and the smoothest of the original battle plans may have occurred - Bosoktu did not run away.

After it was surrounded, because of the sudden appearance of Toto, the morale of the Ordos Division, which had been stunned by the ambush, collapsed directly, and Boshoketu himself lost confidence and finally led his troops to surrender.

At the same time, Ilduzi also brought another unexpected good news, which made Gao pragmatic overjoyed, and even seemed to see the dawn of solving the financial problems in the northwest.

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