Liu Xin came to Jingang this time, not alone, and brought several Liu generals with him, as well as up to 1,000 Liu family members who moved the world - the Japanese and Yiding.

After the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, the number of Liu's family rose to more than 4,000. Liu Wei handed over a quarter of the Liu family's family to his sister this time and asked her to bring it to Jingang.

When making this decision, Liu Wei didn't even know what kind of conditions Huang Zhiting gave his sister, the only thing he knew was that his sister was smart since she was a child, and she would not squander the Liu family's family funds.

It wasn't until the arrival of the 1,000 Japanese soldiers in Dingnan that Liu Xin replied to Liu Ling, and although the letter did not directly explain, it also hinted at something slightly.

For example, Huang Zhiting once said that there has always been a tradition of rewarding meritorious deeds within Jinghua, and where meritorious service is made, there will be "rewards".

For example, Gao Silian, who used to be the colonization envoy of Huaying, once made meritorious contributions to the development of Huaying's territory, so although he himself is now serving in southern Burma, he has 3,000 acres of fertile land and about 500 acres of homestead land in Huaying. After his meritorious service in Burma, he was rewarded with a large warehouse land in Daguang Port (later Yangon) in southern Myanmar (only given land, which needs to be built according to Jinghua standards), and a marquis' mansion confiscated from the Burmese royal family in Bago City.

Gao Silian was only a general at that time, and his identity was only a pragmatic family, and his reward was already so rich, and this time Liu Xin was used as a "handsome man", and he was going to fight a "war to destroy the country", as long as he won the battle smoothly, the reward that the Liu family could get was definitely not a small number, which must only be good for the strengthening of the Liu family's strength.

After all, whether the door is strong or not depends on the family, and whether the family is strong or not depends on how much money can be spent.

A powerful general, such as the Tieling Li family, can smash out 40,000 families. is more powerful and pragmatic, Liu Wei doesn't know how many families he has.

Anyway, if the Gao family from all over the world is counted together, Liu Wei feels that even if Gao Pragmatic wants to gather an army of 100,000 people, it is not a difficult thing to do.

Fortunately, in the Gao family, the real part of the "army of the economic system" is mostly in the southern Xinjiang countries, except for a small number of Jiading guards stationed in Jingshi Jianxinzhai and Sanshenyuan in the Ming Dynasty, in other areas are basically to protect the factory team, the existence of the mine protection team, in addition to the perennial mouth to run out of the horseman, generally speaking, it is not so conspicuous.

However, the Gao family's "water master" is very strong and almost undisguised, which is different from the style of "Lu Shi". From top to bottom in the DPRK, whether it is a noble relative or a Confucian scholar, they all know that the "fleet" of Gao Pragmatic is very powerful, not only "crisscrossing the north and south oceans", but even the main inland rivers in the country, almost all of which are the sphere of influence of the Gao family's fleet.

Sailor...... In the eyes of ordinary people, it is "no matter how strong you are, you can't go ashore", so no one in the Ming court thinks that someone can rely on the sailors to rebel, and it doesn't matter how strong the Gao family's fleet is—your Xinzheng hometown is still in the Ming Dynasty, do you dare to do anything about the ancestral tomb?

But Liu Xin's current feelings are probably completely different from the princes in the court.

In her opinion, Gao Pragmatic's strength in southern Xinjiang is already terrifying just as far as she can see with her own eyes.

Liu Xin, who has stayed by Huang Zhiting's side for a few months, knows that after the "great expansion of the army in southern Xinjiang" a year ago, Gao Shicheng's strength in southern Xinjiang has climbed to a new peak.

In terms of land divisions, Jinghua now has a total of five main garrisons in southern Xinjiang, namely the Shenglong Garrison, the Jingang Garrison, the Vientiane Garrison, the Dingnan Garrison, and the Bago Garrison.

According to Huang Zhiting's suggestion, Gao Shishi readjusted the strength of the five major garrison forces in early October last year.

According to the latest establishment, the most powerful garrison has now become the Dingnan Garrison Army, with a total of 50,000 troops, and the defense area in charge is the "largest territory of Siam" including Angkor and Chiang Mai. Moreover, this garrison is not alone, it also has the support of the "Annan Cooperative Defense Army", including Huang Zhiting's wolf soldiers and Burmese surrendered troops, and this "auxiliary defense force" also has nearly 30,000 people.

In second place was the Thang Long garrison, which still maintained a heavy force of 50,000. The reason why it is ranked after the Dingnan garrison is because the army has always been in a state of "supplying blood" to other friendly forces since the outbreak of the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, and the veterans in the army have been transferred wave after wave, and now it is a troop of nearly 40,000 new soldiers - there are only about 10,000 veterans left, and the strength is much worse than its peak.

Moreover, after Dingnan City was planned by Gao Pragmatic as the core of southern Xinjiang in the future, Gao Pragmatic was also the most generous in supplementing the armaments of the Dingnan Garrison, and the new muskets and artillery were first equipped with the Dingnan Garrison after the finalization and mass production, and relatively speaking, the status and strength of the Shenglong Garrison Army also declined accordingly.

In third place is the Golden Harbor Garrison. The situation of the Golden Port Garrison is contrary to that of the Thang Long Garrison, because Gao Shi has already planned to attack the Mekong Delta, so its importance is on the rise, and its strength has also increased from 30,000 to 40,000, and the priority of equipment is relatively high.

In fourth place is the Bago garrison. In addition to guarding the "restored" "Bago Kingdom", the remaining territories of the Donghu Dynasty were also within its scope of supervision, but because the "Bago Kingdom" itself still had a part of the local army of the Mon people (reorganized from the former rebel army, it was difficult to dismantle all of them for a while), so the number of this garrison army was only maintained at 30,000.

However, the strength of the 30,000-strong Bago garrison is not bad, because most of them are from the expeditionary force, that is, veterans account for the vast majority, so the combat effectiveness is relatively reliable.

Among the five major garrisons, the Vientiane Garrison is the last in strength. This garrison is newly organized recently, and the core part is only 3,000 people, all of whom are drawn from the Thang Long garrison, and the total strength is only 20,000 - mainly because the southern state is really poor, and the Jinghua garrison is usually paid by the local kingdom, and Jinghua itself is only responsible for armament.

Nanzhang is not only poor, but also has a small population, Gao Pragmatic estimates that there are three million people, and their place is inaccessible, although two minerals have been discovered now, but Gao Pragmatic doesn't even have any interest in developing them - unless it's a large gold mine, what's the use of not being able to transport it? Gold mines are high because of the small quantity and high price, and the unit transportation cost is low.

Therefore, at present, the Nanzhang State can only maintain a garrison of 20,000 troops at most, and if there is more, Gao Pragmatic will have to post the military salary upside down - in fact, it is now being posted upside down, but not much, because Princess Biajue should be asked by Gao Shipra to dismiss part of the Imperial Forest Army of the Nanzhang State, save the military salary to the garrison, and she herself went to Annan to complete the marriage.

Huang Yinglei is still quite satisfied with marrying a princess. Although it is only a princess of a small country, Nanzhang is still a kingdom no matter how small it is, and its land area is actually not small, larger than the whole of Guangxi. (Note: Laos at this time was larger than later generations because the southwestern part was not occupied by Siam)

This incident is the most satisfying thing Huang Yinglei has been with his sister in many years, but he may have made one mistake: he thought that Princess Biajue had been the regent of Nanzhang Kingdom, and he would have the opportunity to go to Nanzhang in the future.

This is actually because he thinks too much, and Gao Pragmatic has not considered letting him go to the regent south to take charge of the country. Gao pragmatic asked him to marry Bi Yajue, just to stabilize the southern palm, and by the way, he also raised the lintel of the Huang family on the side.

In this way, the five major garrison armies have a total of up to 190,000 official establishments, plus the Cen Huang wolf soldiers, the old army of Annam, and the three colonization armies (Huaying, Zhancheng, and Nanpan, which are small in number and belong to the subordinate army of the Jingang garrison in terms of establishment), Gao pragmatic can mobilize at least 250,000 troops in southern Xinjiang!

Liu Xin even sometimes couldn't help but think that if the overall situation in southern Xinjiang is completely calmed down now, Gao Pragmatic will manage it well and make 200,000 elite Northern Expeditions to the Central Plains, I am afraid that there will be a complete chance.

Based on Liu Xin's understanding of the current strength of the Ming Dynasty, she felt that if Gao Pragmatic used an elite northern expedition like 200,000 garrisons to the Central Plains, not to mention turning the tide in one fell swoop, at least to draw the river and govern it, it would be no problem no matter how you look at it.

In terms of his pragmatic background and scholarly reputation, it is very likely that he will not be completely resisted by scholars, at least a hundred times stronger than Li Zicheng and other rogues later, and it is easy to win over a group of landlords and wealthy businessmen who hope to become "heroes of the dragon", and the probability of a successful rebellion is not low.

It's just that...... I don't know if Gao Pragmatic has such an idea.

At this point, Liu Xin is still unsure. Because in her opinion, Gao pragmatic performance is more contradictory. While working hard to expand his strength in southern Xinjiang, he was honest as an official in the Ming Dynasty.

The generals of the Ming army that he inherited from the three former chiefs and assistants were also used by him on the front line of northern Xinjiang, and it seemed that they were completely prepared for foreign wars, and he couldn't see the intention of taking action against the Ming court at all.

This made Liu Xin more hesitant, because if Gao Pragmatic wanted to turn the tide, these descendants should be used near the Beijing division as much as possible, and once they decided to do it in the future, Yanjing could be taken directly, and the army in southern Xinjiang could also reach Songhu by sea, and then capture Nanjing by lightning.

The two capitals have changed hands and the soldiers are dominant, isn't this Ming Dynasty equivalent to getting it?

But now it seems that Gao Shishi does not have such a plan, he not only threw all his descendants in the frontier important places, but also helped the imperial court to organize the Beijing camp, and let Qi Jiguang train 60,000 Praetorian Guards...... Hey?

Could it be that this Praetorian Guard is a secret move, ostensibly to strengthen the "Central Army" directly under the imperial court, but in fact this army is controlled privately by Gao Shipra?

Liu Xin is not sure about these things now, she just wants to finish the war in Cambodia quickly, and then find an opportunity to go to Yanjing to meet Gao Shishi in person and ask him what he wants to do.

As for why he wanted to meddle in this matter...... Liu Xin told herself: I just look at the face of "the same person who has fallen from the end of the world" with him, and I can help him - besides, if I don't help him, the problem of my father writing letters twice in three days to urge marriage will not be solved.

If Gao Shishi wants to rebel and become the emperor himself, then I have made meritorious contributions to help him fight, and in the future, he will change to a "golden mouth" and never marry for life, won't no one dare to say more?

As for whether this reason is reliable or not, Liu Xin herself persuaded herself in this way anyway.

In addition to about 10,000 of the Jingang garrison that could not be mobilized with a clear garrison mission, the remaining 30,000 people gathered in Jingang and held an "unroutine" big competition - according to Huang Zhiting's authorization, Liu Xin will transfer 20,000 of them as the lineup for this expedition.

20,000 people, it doesn't seem like a lot of troops, but it depends on who you compare it with.

When the Burmese Dynasty was first attacked, the Burmese Donghu Dynasty was basically at its peak, and Huang Zhiting's troops were slightly more than that. Although there were still Liu Wei and Deng Zilong's subordinates in northern Myanmar at that time as a containment, in fact, Huang Zhiting defeated the invincible Mangying Li by relying on the few people at her disposal.

And now, all she has to deal with is Cambodia, and the 20,000 garrisons are fully capable of taking it - Cambodia is the defeated general of Siam, Siam is the defeated general of Burma, and Burma is the defeated general of Jinghua.

Can this still be lost?

It took five days to watch the whole competition seriously, and Liu Xin felt that although there were a lot of recruits in the newly expanded Jingang Garrison Army, it did look worse than the previous expeditionary force, but it should still be a big question to take out 20,000 people to fight Cambodia.

This idea is not completely "on paper", because of the strength of the Phnom Penh Dynasty, not only Jinghua has been scouting for several years, but also the envoy sent by Geeta I to the Ming Dynasty has also explained a lot.

If we talk about the number of troops alone, Cambodia is indeed quite a lot now.

It may be because of the fertile soil in the Mekong Delta, Cambodia's population is even about the same as Siam, and it may be slightly better than the current Annam, about six million, and the key is that it is not short of food, so after Huang Zhiting sent troops to "reinforce" Angkor, Gita I released more than 40,000 people on the northwest border alone, and there are at least more than 10,000 troops around Phnom Penh, and although the eastern parts are relatively empty, there should be more than 10,000.

In this way, Cambodia has at least 60,000 or 70,000 troops.

However, although there are many people, in Liu Xin's eyes, they are just chickens and dogs - according to the envoy of Gita I, Cambodia's domestic productivity is low, these troops can't even get together a knife per person, and many of them are only armed with bamboo spears.

Bamboo spears are not incapable of fighting, for example, wolf soldiers like to use bamboo spears very much, but the bamboo spears of wolf soldiers are not only special products soaked in tung oil, but also the spear heads are made of fine iron.

However, Cambodia's bamboo spear is really just a bamboo spear, and the so-called spearhead is the bamboo sharpening.

If you want to say that this thing can kill people, that's not true. However, poor equipment is poor equipment, facing the latest Wanli II type with bayonet muskets equipped by the garrison, as well as more than 100 light and heavy artillery pieces equipped with 20,000 people......

With such garbage armaments, Liu Xin felt that even if the Cambodian army was replaced by Cen Huang Wolf soldiers to help them fight, they would not be able to lose this battle, it was nothing more than that the casualties might be larger.

She now believes that Huang Zhiting is not joking when she talks to her about being too pragmatic.

"Actually, pushing all the way is my favorite way to play, because I can use less brain."

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