On the day of the absence of the emperor, the eldest son of the emperor fell ill suddenly, but in the end, he was only in danger.

The cause of this fright was that the young master fell while playing in the snow in the yard, at that time it was probably too much snow, he was not in the snow, some snow into the clothes, although the palace maids hurriedly carried him into the room to change dry clothes, but he was always frail He still caught a cold, and soon had a fever, and his life hung by a thread.

After that, the Empress Dowager Cisheng learned the news and sent a decree to the emperor to go with her, and the Empress Dowager Rensheng and the Empress also arrived, and the emperor was missing the Chang Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun asked Gao Pragmatic to go over at that time, and originally he didn't want to discuss what reforms Buzhhatu had made to Chahar as the mastermind of the Tumen, but wanted to ask Gao Pragmatic about another thing.

The matter was a pragmatic one: the emperor asked him if the Praetorian Guard could hold a parade after the beginning of the New Year.

The answer, of course, is yes.

Although the training time of the Praetorian Guard is not very long, Qi Jiguang is the first person to train soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and the Praetorian Guard now has the Beijing Production and Construction Corps under the supervision of Gao Pragmatic and personally to provide supplies, which can be called sufficient military salary, plus Liang Menglong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, has a close relationship with Gao Pragmatic, and the ordnance replenishment of the Praetorian Guard is also put in the first priority.

Before the New Year, Gao Pragmatic and Qi Jiguang carefully discussed the matters that need to be paid attention to in the big reading, and roughly arranged the big reading process.

Seeing that Xinzhai was full of people, Bai Yulou was full of traffic, but for Gao Pragmatic, this year is still a lonely year.

In the first year of marriage, his wife was already pregnant, which is of course a thing worth celebrating for Daming. It's a pity that his wife is thousands of miles away in Siam and cannot return, and even during the Chinese New Year, she can only live in the north and south, which is tragic.

Seeing that the day of Huang Zhiting's production is getting closer and closer, Gao Pragmatic is gradually becoming nervous.

But unlike many expectant fathers in film and television dramas he has watched, what he is most worried about is not how the children will be, but whether his wife will be in danger.

If he said this, it might be difficult for outsiders to believe it, but in his heart, the wife who had traveled thousands of miles with him was indeed more important than the child who had never met at all. Even, as a traveler in later generations, he still has a worry that "the child can be reborn if it is gone, and the wife is really gone".

He calmed down and thought about it, thinking about this mentality by himself, and he also felt very weird, and then he thought that it might be an incident that happened around him when he was a child in his previous life that affected him.

At that time, there was a young couple in his father's unit, and they were very good, and Gao pragmatic called them uncles and aunts. But the aunt may have been "unable to conceive" due to physical reasons, and the first time she conceived the child was almost before she gave birth, and both couples were very sad.

Later, when they got pregnant for the second time, the couple was cautious, and finally came to give birth, who knew that something would happen again. What exactly is Gao Shishi, who was young at the time, didn't figure it out, in short, the doctor asked the uncle to make a multiple-choice question: protect the adult or the child.

The uncle was in great pain, and finally chose to protect the child, but when the news reached his wife's ears, she resolutely refused, and was extremely determined to give birth to the child......

I won't mention the later things, in short, Gao Pragmatic was extremely impressed at the time, that uncle was a good man, and he cried several times because others mentioned similar situations, crying and scolding himself for not holding on at the time, and scolding himself for being a fluke.

This incident may have become one of the shadows of Gao Shipra's childhood, and now that Huang Zhiting's production is getting closer and closer, he always thinks about this old thing that had a great impact on him back then, for fear that he will have to do such a multiple-choice question, and even wrote the answer to this question in his mind in advance.

Sometimes he is even worried about the impact of the weather on production, for example, he is very worried that the high temperature in Siam is easy to breed bacteria, which will reduce the chances of a successful birth and a safe baby. Sometimes I even want to send a fleet over desperately and directly take Huang Zhiting back to Beijing for production.

But he was not a man of this era after all, and he finally chose to respect his wife's opinion, and only wrote a letter to persuade her to return to Beijing temporarily, and when everything went well and she was well, it would not be too late to return to Siam.

Unfortunately, on Chinese New Year's Eve, Gao pragmatic received a reply, and Huang Zhiting politely declined this suggestion. In the letter, she blamed herself for not being able to let him see the birth of her child in person, because a previous plan was at a critical time and she really couldn't get out of the way.

At the same time, she also said that several doctors sent by the Jinghua Artisan School of Medicine also emphasized another point to her: she is a native of Guangxi, and her adaptation to the climate in Siam may be better than that of Jingshi. Moreover, at this time, the climate in Siam is warm, and Jingshi is extremely cold, if she rushes back to Beijing at this time, the temperature difference between the two places is really too big, I am afraid it will be a bad thing.

This reply letter made Gao pragmatic mood more and more complicated. Logically speaking, Huang Zhiting's reply has made the reason very clear, and Gao Shizheng also believes that Li Shizhen's students are not talking nonsense.

But logically speaking, Gao Pragmatic felt more and more that he had not fulfilled his responsibilities in this matter - although officials in these years were often alone in other places, leaving their wives to give birth in their hometowns, Gao Pragmatic was not them after all, and could not take this practice for granted.

After a long pause, Gao Shicheng realized that Huang Zhiting's reply seemed to have an attachment in addition to this letter.

On second look, the attachment still seems to be a letter. Gao Shicheng took it and looked at it, it turned out that it was not a letter, but a note with the current situation in Siam, judging from the handwriting, it was not Huang Zhiting's handwriting.

This Chen Shang said that the internal situation in Siam has basically stabilized, the king of Siam has been completely hollowed out, and the edict announced that he would visit Dingnan, that is, the newly built Dingnan City in Jinghua.

Subsequently, he was taken to Dingnan City by Huang Zhiting and placed under house arrest.

At this time, two major events happened almost at the same time, one was that the Portuguese pirate Debrito, who had risen in Arakan, finally took the bait and invaded the southern coast of Burma, and also brought reinforcements sent to him by the Portuguese governor of Goa.

Although Huang Zhiting was certainly unable to go to sea now, under her arrangement, Gao Jing's Nanyang Fleet in Siam (provisional) finally found the main force of the Portuguese pirate army off the coast of eastern southern Burma, that is, the eastern part of the Andaman Sea, and a major battle broke out between the two sides in the sea area about 200 miles west of Dahua Point.

In service, Jinghua dispatched one first-class cruiser of 2,400 materials (the flagship Lang Son), three second-class cruisers of 2,000 materials (according to the previous instructions of this book, 2,400 materials are equivalent to a displacement of 1,200 tons), and 27 Jinghua standard armed transport ships; The number of civilian armed seagoing vessels that took the initiative to enlist also reached 19. Let's take a book

The size of the Portuguese fleet was not small, at least in the Far East, but the difference in size was somewhat large, with both Western-style soft sailing ships and Oriental-style hard sailing ships. There are 17 large ships and more than 20 small boats.

If you have to calculate it according to the total tonnage, the Jinghua side still has a clear advantage, and the total tonnage of the Portuguese pirate fleet is about two-thirds of the Jinghua fleet.

The battle lasted for nearly a whole day, and there is no need to elaborate on the process, in short, the Portuguese pirates were sunk four large ships, seven were captured, four of the remaining six ships escaped, and two were abandoned by Gao Jing's order because they were too badly injured to be towed away after being captured. The small ships of the Portuguese pirate army were not taken into account by Gao Jing, and almost all of them were directly sunk, rammed or escaped, because the battle situation was chaotic, the specific number of each was unknown, and Gao Jing's report only said that "about half of them were sunk or abandoned".

But the losses of Gao Jing's fleet were not small, or it should even be said that Jinghua suffered the largest casualties in the naval battle so far.

Jinghua lost a second-class cruiser "Thanh Hoa" - the ship was not sunk, but was seriously wounded, and was close to capsizing, because it was late afternoon and there was a strong wind at sea, Gao Jing thought that it could not be towed back to the shore (let alone return to the port directly), so he had to order it to be scuttled.

In addition to this serious warship, Jinghua also lost eight standard armed transport ships, of which three were sunk on the spot, and the remaining five were towed back to Dawei (a temporary port before the attack, belonging to southern Burma), but after returning it found that it could not be repaired - meaning that it is better to repair than to rebuild.

Almost all of the civilian armed seagoing vessels, which were only auxiliary forces in the battle, were wounded, ranging from light to severe, and the only thing to be thankful for was that there were no sinking of the battle.

In addition, the situation of the flagship Lang Son is also not optimistic, and it is said that one hundred and thirteen solid shells, including four chain shells, were cleared from Lang Son after the war.

Thanks to the fact that this meritorious battleship is a first-class cruiser built in full accordance with the requirements of warships, with large tonnage, good materials, and the most sophisticated manufacturing, there is no sinking of the war. But even so, after a post-assessment, it will take at least three months to repair this battleship, and it can't be repaired in southern Xinjiang - even Annan Golden Port doesn't have this strength, and it must be pulled back to the Ming Dynasty to repair, which means that it will take more than four months to repair it.

The result of this naval battle can be regarded as a fierce stiflation of the idea of "Lao Tzu is the best in the world" that the Jinghua Fleet had been a little bold some time ago.

The same Gao Jing commanded, the same concentrated the most elite warships, in the face of the combination of Portuguese officers and Arakan sailors, the Jinghua fleet relied on the advantage of artillery and total tonnage to achieve victory, and it paid such a big price. Just imagine, if the Portuguese used their main force in the Far East, all of which were Portuguese ships and Portuguese people, would Jinghua be able to easily defeat?

Even Gao Jing himself felt a little suspenseful, because he was still unsure how much Portuguese sea power in the east could be used - Goa was still a bit far away for Jinghua.

In conclusion, Tiao Chen said that after the war, Huang Zhiting's interest in the Arakan region increased greatly, especially for Alakan, which is rich in excellent sailors, and he asked Gao Jing several times to immediately strengthen the reconnaissance of Alakan, especially Chittagong, for "future raids".

By the way, she also asked Gao Jing to make persistent efforts and find a way to hit Debrito's nest in the Indian Ocean - Sri Lanka Island.

However, Huang Zhiting does not know that the current Sri Lanka Island is not actually occupied by the Portuguese, the island is actually only an area that Portugal is attacking, and the strength of the Starhuaca Kingdom on the island is not bad at present. (In the original history, the Portuguese never captured the entire island, and even suffered several defeats, such as the Battle of Mullieva, and even the annihilation of the entire army, such as the Battle of Dantour - of course, mainly because the Portuguese army was relatively stretched and severely understaffed.) )

DeBrito actually only occupied a small area of the seafront, but Gao Jing was not aware of this, and he had already begun to prepare for an expedition to the west according to Huang Zhiting's orders.

In addition to the news from this sea, another major event in the article is about Cambodia.

King Gita I of the Phnom Penh Dynasty of Cambodia did not admit that Cambodia had anything to do with the previous Siamese rebellion, but after a detailed investigation, the Jinghua side found that the Phnom Penh Dynasty not only provided grain and grass to the rebels in eastern Siam, but even sold a batch of ordnance at a low price, including spear heads, knives, etc., and even 20 obsolete muskets that were obtained from nowhere.

In addition, Jinghua even obtained a letter from the Cambodian Kampong Chhnang (place name) to the leader of the rebel army in eastern Siam, which mentioned some sensitive information, including arms deals, grain and grass support, etc., and even hinted at a deal.

This deal presumably meant that once the rebels achieved initial success, the Phnom Penh dynasty would directly send troops to fight them until the "Ming army" was driven out of Siam. And the Phnom Penh dynasty was not "excessive" - they demanded that Siam cede the northwestern part of Cambodia that Siam had forcibly occupied after the Battle of Angkor in the fifth year of Ming Xuande (1430).

In fact, the rebels' "base area" at that time was that area, and the deal was actually to exchange all of Siam for the old Cambodian land.

Although the rebels did not find a reply, they presumably agreed. It's a pity that the plan is just a plan after all, and the rebels were quickly pacified, and all plans were returned to dust.

However, the discovery of this letter made the situation in eastern Siam confusing. The Cambodian Phnom Penh dynasty was extremely nervous, and immediately took action, desperately strengthening the northwest defense line and the defense of the capital Phnom Penh.

Huang Zhiting did not have the surprise of the Phnom Penh Dynasty, and immediately sent 6,000 troops to the eastern front.

However, after the "Ming army" arrived on the eastern front, it did not really launch an attack, but suddenly died down after making some preparations for war with great fanfare, and the defenders and reinforcements actually turned to a defensive posture at the same time, holding on to several important border points.

The Phnom Penh Dynasty urgently sent a detailed investigation into the details, only then did they know that Huang Zhiting was pregnant, and now she may not be far from giving birth, and it is impossible to command this big war - according to the Phnom Penh Dynasty's view, such a national-level war, of course, Huang Zhiting must personally command.

However, Gao Shishi's Chen Zhong made it very clear that Huang Zhiting would not personally command this operation, because the plan of this operation was not at all what the Cambodian side imagined.

"I have been entrusted by Madame Venerable to march to Annam by sea tomorrow, and in a month I will lead the main force of the Golden Port Garrison into Cambodia from east to west. I hope to use Phnom Penh as a gift to your father. - Late friend Liu Xin, respectfully. ”

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