Chapter 118: The Town of Siam

Siam is the center of the pragmatic Nanyang plan, and there is absolutely no room for error, which Huang Zhiting has been very clear about since marrying him. Because of this, as soon as the news of the Siamese rebellion came, she ordered the maids and servants to start packing up without waiting for Gao Shishi to return home.

She knew that this trip was the only one she could go.

Although Gao Pragmatic was extremely annoyed by Siam's chaos at this time, he also had to agree with Huang Zhiting's judgment. He was silent and thought for a while, and found that there was really no better option, so he couldn't help but sigh and said with a wry smile: "Now my official is doing more and more like a shackle." ”

Huang Zhiting said softly: "It's okay, you are a good official in Beijing, I remember the ideal you said, and I believe that you will be able to achieve your wishes." As for me...... When I was a child, I didn't learn what ordinary women often learned, and now I don't know if I can be a good wife of the Gao family. ”

Gao Shishi smiled, stroked her hair and said, "Why did you say this suddenly?" There is no shortage of 'ordinary women' in my family who cook with clothes, and it is you who I love in my heart. ”

Huang Zhiting's heart was warm, and her face was a little red, but she still forcibly changed the topic back to business and asked, "What does the husband have to explain when I go to Siam this time?" ”

Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said, "No." ”

Huang Zhiting was slightly stunned, and subconsciously asked, "No?" ”

Gao pragmatically smiled and nodded, "No." I have already told you all my plans, so this time I plan to hand over the power of Jinghua in the entire southern Xinjiang to you to take charge on my behalf, since this is the case, there is nothing to explain in particular, I believe you can handle it. ”

Huang Zhiting was taken aback: "The whole southern Xinjiang? Is this appropriate? I'm afraid ......"

"There's nothing to be afraid of." Gao pragmatic interrupted her words, shook his head and said: "Although the stall in Southern Xinjiang is not small, Jinghua is my private property, and you are also its hostess, isn't it natural for you to take charge on my behalf?" ”

Huang Zhiting was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shook his head and said, "This is not right. ”

This time, it was Gao Shishi's turn to be surprised, frowning and asking, "How can this be wrong?" ”

Huang Zhiting said: "Husband, have you ever heard that the emperor handed over the affairs of the world to the queen's mother? ”

Gao Shi was stunned for a moment: "What kind of analogy is this, I am not the emperor." ”

Huang Zhiting got up and went to the door to send everyone away, and when he came back, he said pragmatically with a thoughtful look: "Husband, I don't know how heavy the emperor is in your heart, but there are some things to say...... Maybe it's only me who is fit to ask. ”

Gao Pragmatic frowned and groaned for a while, and asked solemnly, "Do you think I have objections?" ”

Huang Zhiting shook her head and said, "No, husband, I think you have concerns in your heart, big concerns. Are you afraid that the emperor will turn his face and deny people one day, and he will ...... you The bird is hidden. ”

Gao was silent for a moment and asked, "So what?" ”

"So at the latest when you signed the "Jinghua Sixteen Articles" with Annan, you have already begun to prepare for a retreat - Annan and now the whole of southern Xinjiang are your retreat."

Gao Pragmatic sighed: "Zhiting, you should know that the Ming Dynasty has not been good at killing heroes for a long, long time, and it can even be said that since Yongle, the Ming Dynasty has not killed heroes at will." ”

"Really?" Huang Zhiting shook his head and said, "Is Yu Qian a hero?" Is Xia Yan a hero? ”

"They do have great merit, but for the emperor, they are all very controversial." Gao replied calmly.

"Do you think you will have no controversy?" Huang Zhiting raised her eyebrows slightly: "Everything you have done, and everything you will continue to do in the future, I am afraid that the controversy will be greater than the two of them, and at that time...... What to do? ”

This time, Gao was silent for an extraordinarily long time, and he didn't say anything for a long time, and he was even a little stunned, not at all like Gao Longwen, who was always holding the wisdom pearl.

Huang Zhiting sighed: "Husband, I want to know, if there is really such a day, what will you do?" ”

Gao Shishi came back from his thoughts, glanced at her, and then looked away, looking through the window screen at the crescent moon in the sky.

After a while, he said lightly: "If there is really such a day, I will go to southern Xinjiang." Seal the knife to look at the sea, put down the pen and listen to the waves. ”

Then he paused and laughed again: "Oh, by the way, I can also teach you to read - what you mentioned when you were in Guangxi, does it still count?" ”

Huang Zhiting's face was originally solemn, but when she heard this, she couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Husband, you ......"

"How do I? I'm serious. Gao pragmatic smiled: "In case Da Ming can't tolerate me one day, I still have thousands of miles of sea and territory, enough to send this body." ”

Huang Zhiting wanted to ask: "What if Da Ming doesn't give up?" But after thinking about it, he pressed it anyway, and just sighed lightly: "I hope there won't be that day." ”

Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "I don't want that day either, after all, although I am easy to leave, but the Gao family is such a big family, plus many colleagues and friends ......" and then waved his hand: "Forget it, don't talk about these disappointments." ”

Huang Zhiting nodded, and asked again: "By the way, in what name should I go to Siam this time?" ”

Gao Shishi seemed to have already thought about this question, and replied directly: "Since Ruan Huang will not leave the city, then the king of Siam, Tanmaroja, should always be in my hands, and when the time comes, let Ruan Huang 'invite' the king of Tanmaroja to write to Mo Maoqia, saying that Siam needs to 'borrow a teacher to help suppress', and then invite you to come over." ”

Although Gao Pragmatic has said that the power of southern Xinjiang will be handed over to Huang Zhiting this time, Huang Zhiting still asked: "How many soldiers and horses do I bring?" ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said, "You don't have to ask me, you decide for yourself." ”

Huang Zhiting was silent for a moment, and then asked: "In addition to Annan, can troops from other places also be used?" ”

Gao pragmatic replied, "As long as you think it is necessary, you can do it." ”

Huang Zhiting's eyes suddenly turned beautiful: "If I need Liu Ling's help......"

Gao was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "Not really, right?" ”

Jinghua's strength in southern Xinjiang is impossible to suppress even Siam no matter how you look at it now, Huang Zhiting's words are really a little weird, and Gao Shishi subconsciously feels that there is a problem.

Who knows that Huang Zhiting said: "Don't worry, husband, I won't borrow many soldiers and horses from General Liu, but I may borrow a few generals under his command - you know, he has a lot of old people left to him by his father, all of whom are characters who have been fighting horses for half their lives." ”

So that's the case? Gao Pragmatic breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "There should be no problem with this, after all, his department is the army of the Ming Dynasty, and it will be a lot of trouble to move at will, at least Liu Zhongcheng needs to nod to do it." But if you just ask him to borrow a few people, then it's easy to say. I will write him a letter asking him to cooperate with you. ”

Liu Xian, Liu Wei father and son have long worshiped under the Gao Dang, and now they are regarded as one of the descendants of Gao Pragmatic, since he personally wrote to Liu Ling, of course there will be no suspense in this matter.

Huang Zhiting showed a satisfied smile and nodded: "That's good, the husband trusts the concubine so much, the concubine must handle the Siam matter properly, and strive to turn Siam into the second Annan." ”

Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly: "Just let it go, everything has me." ”

These words were nothing, but Huang Zhiting's heart warmed when she heard it, and she nodded: "Thank you, husband." ”

"Thank you, it's all for us...... and his future. Gao pragmatic said, stretched out his hand and pointed at Huang Zhiting's flat abdomen.

Huang Zhiting's face turned red, and she said coquettishly: "Husband is laughing again, this is ...... Who knows if there is? ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said, "I have calculated, most of them will be." ”

Huang Zhiting was stunned: "Husband will ...... This one? ”

Well, this is a bit troublesome to explain, Gao Pragmatic said with a dry smile: "My scripture is "Zhou Yi", you know, although Yarrow Bu is a side road, but your husband and I are also somewhat involved, somewhat involved." ”

People who are not good at reading always like to associate Zhou Yi with fortune-telling, Huang Zhiting's level is almost like this, and he couldn't help but be in awe when he heard the words, and said: "I can't imagine that my husband still understands hexagrams, so it's better to take a hexagram and look at this battle ......."

"It doesn't have to be." Gao pragmatic waved his hand and said: "You don't have to settle the hexagram in this matter, you win steadily." ”

Huang Zhiting was surprised: "Why is the husband so sure? ”

Gao pragmatic said secretly: I gave such a big permission, and it was you, the hostess of Jinghua, who went out in person, and the people and horses in southern Xinjiang still had to shake their spirits and behave well? A lot of people are waiting to change the name and add the word king. Don't say that you are in full command of this battle, even if you just go to the town, you will already win and not lose, okay?

Hmph, just with those few pieces of Siamese, Na Li Xuan was all destroyed by you in the first battle, and now without the 'Emperor' of Na Li Xuan, who is known as the Siamese God of War, what waves can the Siamese people make?

Gao pragmatic smiled without saying a word, looking like a senior god.

Oh, he's a veteran god - in Tumut, he's the reincarnation of the Third Ming King.

Huang Zhiting didn't say anything when she saw Gao Shipra, and thought that it was really "the secret of heaven cannot be revealed", and nodded: "Since the secret of heaven cannot be revealed, the concubine body will not ask much." Please ask the husband to inform Tianjin Port overnight to prepare the ship, and the concubine will plan to leave early tomorrow morning. ”

Gao Shishi sighed and nodded a little disappointedly.

The honeymoon is still two days away, and my wife is going to travel far away, and Lao Tzu's life doesn't look too good.

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Early the next morning, Gao Shishi was on duty in the early days, and by the way, he set off with Huang Zhiting, who also traveled early, and only said goodbye reluctantly to the north of the city, and they were busy.

However, there are not too many major events worth mentioning here for the time being, so you might as well show Huang Zhiting first.

It is said that Huang Zhiting boarded the ship at Tianjin Port, and after all the way to Fujian, it was delayed for several days in Quanzhou Port due to tropical storms, and finally arrived in Annam in mid-August.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has no chance to have a good time, since she has been granted full power, she naturally took responsibility, first asked how the expansion of the two major garrison forces in Annan is progressing, and learned that the expansion of the two major garrison forces is extremely smooth, and she is relieved first.

In fact, it was easier to expand the garrison, because the highly pragmatic naturalized household registration system played extremely beautifully, and artificially divided the Annan people into three, six, nine, and so on.

"Ancient" is really different from modern times, there are no people who really think that "all beings are equal", everyone is accustomed to the fact that all people are born unequal, so the local ordinary people in Annam accepted this division under the highly pragmatic policy, and then they very much hope to change their identity attributes to naturalized Han through military exploits, so that the enthusiasm to join the army is frighteningly high.

How tall is it? Originally, the number of recruits in Jinghua was not very large, but the number of Annan people who signed up to join the army according to their fingerprints was as high as 210,000 within 10 days, of which after selection, the number of young people who were serious was as high as 170,000.

In the end, not to mention one out of a hundred, it can be regarded as one out of ten among the young and strong, and the recruitment task was completed more than two months ahead of schedule, and then it has been trained for nearly two months now, and its combat effectiveness has quickly formed.

Of course, this is not to say that the recruits only need to train for a little time, but because Jinghua has organizational advantages, it can carry out the "veterans with recruits" mode without any scruples, first use veterans to build the core of the new team, and then add new recruits. This common military model of later generations is much stronger than the rigid model of the present period.

Perhaps because Huang Zhiting was "full" in the last intake, this time her own descendants mobilized 12,000 people, including 8,000 wolf soldiers and 4,000 former Burmese troops, and the army was obviously stronger when she conquered Burma.

And Jinghua's strength has also been improved because of the expansion, so she also mobilized 13,000 this time, making up 25,000 main forces. At the same time, she also ordered the conscription of 10,000 troops from the southern palm of the Imperial Forest Army to join her, and the 35,000 troops swore to march west in Vientiane, the capital of the southern state, and joined the 15,000 troops from the Burmese side in Chiang Mai.

The 50,000 army was gathered, and according to the current custom, the 100,000 army, under the name of the King of Siam, went south to Siam to quell the rebellion.

With an army of 50,000, which was larger than the previous battle she commanded in Burma, the Siamese were naturally relaxed and comfortable, and within four days they rushed to Hari Benjing, an important town in northern Siam, and in less than a morning they blasted open the city gates, and that night they held a banquet in Hari Benjing to celebrate their success.

However, Hari Benjing was only the "vice-city" of the rebellion in northern Siam, so Huang Zhiting did not delay there, and only two days later, he led the army to continue southward again, and the front of the troops was directly aimed at the number one town in northern Siam, which was also the northern rebel nest of the three major rebels.

Cha Liang is an ancient place name, and Gao Shishi is not very clear which city in Thailand this place is in the later generations, but from the point of view of its location in the east between Chiang Mai and Sukhothai, it should probably be Si Sachanarai.

The city is characterized by the fact that there are many Buddhist temples in the city, but the city walls are not very tall, and after inspecting the terrain, Huang Zhiting and his generals thought that this battle might save some artillery shells - almost all the roads along the way are mountain roads, and ammunition should be used as much as possible.

Huang Hu, the first general under Huang Zhiting, who didn't get the opportunity to go out the battle before, hurriedly said that he could fight, and he would definitely be able to climb the chaliang first, once again proving the strength of the wolf soldiers.

However, this time he has one more opponent, an opponent who doesn't take him very seriously.

A young general sent by Liu Jiajun said that he was willing to fight this first battle.

Huang Hu was originally very unhappy and was about to speak, but was stopped by his eldest lady waving his hand.

"If the humble man knows about today's events, he will be extremely pleased, Liu-General, you have to work."

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