Gao Pragmatic told Huang Zhiting about his thoughts, Huang Zhiting's face gradually became solemn, and he thought for a while: "You handed over these things to me, it seems that you want me to sit in Annan for you during this war?" ”

Gao pragmatic nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Huang Zhiting asked: "In addition to guarding against changes in Annan, do I also have to coordinate various affairs of Annan's support for the war in Yunnan?" ”

Gao pragmatic still said: "Yes." ”

Huang Zhiting continued to ask: "Is Annan also going to send troops?" ”

"The issue of Annan's sending troops requires me to report to the imperial court first, especially to persuade the emperor to believe that Annan has the power to spare." Gao Pragmatic sighed lightly: "Actually, I planned this matter two years ago, but the conditions did not allow it to ...... at that time."

Huang Zhiting listened quietly, and said thoughtfully: "It turns out that you were thinking about these things when you met the sisters and brothers of the Dao family in Huanjian Lake...... Let's not talk about the question of whether the emperor agrees with Annan sending troops, I want to know how many troops you plan to send if Annan wants to send troops, and who will lead the troops? Also, since you are going to take the sea route, is this sea route safe now? Is the military rations transferred from Annam or? ”

Gao Shishi said: "My current idea is that 10,000 troops will be transferred south from the Thang Long garrison to Jingang to assist in the defense, and 10,000 will be transferred to prepare for the expedition from the sea to Siam. In addition to the 10,000 people in the Jingang garrison, Ruan Ti, Mo Yulin, and Ruan Huang each transferred three or four thousand, and gathered 10,000 to enlist. The original Guangxi Tusi who moved to Annan also transferred wolf soldiers according to the total amount of 10,000, roughly 3,000 each from your Huang family and the Cen family, and 4,000 from the rest of the Tusi. ”

Huang Zhiting frowned and said: "I know what your intention is to transfer the troops of Ruan Ti, Mo Yulin and Ruan Huang, but from the time you pacified Annan until now, we have never properly combined their soldiers and horses with ourselves to command, and they are all let themselves lead, it is a real 'conquest', but this time, it ...... Are you still going to do that? ”

Gao Pragmatic raised his eyebrows slightly and asked: "Are you afraid that the soldiers are too mixed, but it is inconvenient to command, and you can't be like an arm?" ”

Huang Zhiting said unceremoniously: "Like an arm? Then you have to take charge in person, I can't see it if you change someone else, neither me nor Cen Ling can do this. ”

Gao pragmatically said: "I plan to let Gao Jue lead the troops as the main general, and Cen Ling as the deputy." ”

"You sent the commander to Siam?" Huang Zhiting was surprised: "If he leaves, what will happen to the remaining 40,000 dragon garrisons?" ”

"Naturally, you are going to sit in charge." Gao pragmatic said: "Zhiting, the Shenglong garrison is sitting in Shenglong, 50,000 or 40,000, in fact, there is not much difference, the key is to control the Mo family's capital envoys, you have a special identity, as long as I have an order to convey to Shenglong, the Shenglong garrison will not disobey the dispatch, maybe after Gao Jue leaves, the other middle and high-level members of the garrison will only be extremely obedient in front of you, and will not deliberately make things difficult, you can rest assured." ”

Huang Zhiting didn't believe it at first, but after thinking about it, she understood, but her face turned a little red, and she took a sip: "I'm not Mrs. Gao now." ”

I have to say that her style of speaking is open enough in the ladies of Daming.

Gao Pragmatic smiled: "It's just a matter of time, it's good to experience it in advance." ”

Huang Zhiting's face became redder, and she subconsciously diverted the topic and said, "When will I leave?" ”

"I'm not in a hurry for the next few days." Gao pragmatic said: "The imperial court's reaction is not so fast, for the situation in Yunnan, they may have to discuss for several days before the result, plus I proposed to the imperial court, whether the imperial court agrees or not, we have to see again...... It will take some time, you should seize the time to understand the economic situation of Liaodong and Annan in the past few days, and then I will think of a balance for you to balance the problem of cargo ships, you can't always come with a full ship, half a load back, too wasteful of capacity. ”

Huang Zhiting said: "Actually, I have two ideas, do you want to listen to them?" ”

"Oh? Say it. Gao Pragmatic was a little surprised, and said in his heart: This girl has improved, I only knew that she would fight before, but I didn't think that now she is developing in internal affairs?

In fact, Gao Pragmatic thought about it, Huang Zhiting used to take care of internal affairs, after all, she was at the helm of their family back then, and if she didn't understand internal affairs, she would have had a big incident a long time ago, and now she can only say that she has been dating Gao Pragmatic for a long time, and her understanding of these things has improved.

Huang Zhiting said: "In the short term, Annan can buy horses; In the long run, you can also buy tussah silk and all kinds of silkworm products in the future. ”

Horses are such a good thing in this day and age, and they are needed everywhere. There is a shortage of horses on the Annan side, that's for sure, and almost all of its own horses are bantams, including its neighboring Guangxi.

This bantam can be used for mountain transportation, or as a safe horse for women and children to ride, but it is more nonsense to fight with it.

However, as far as Gao Shishi knows, the terrain on the side of Annam, even including the Indochina Peninsula except for a few plains, the northern war horses do not seem to be very applicable, so Huang Zhiting said that "buying horses in the short term" is probably considered from here.

That is, Annan does need a batch of war horses, but the amount is limited. Of course, the limited return is limited, and the transportation of horses accounts for a very high volume of transportation, and this transaction can indeed avoid the return of empty ships to the south.

As for buying silkworm products in the future, that's a good thing, because the sericulture industry in southern Liaoning is a key arrangement for high pragmatism in southern Liaoning, and the future development will definitely be very fast - silkworm raising is actually not so difficult, and the silkworm itself is relatively easy to raise, and he is engaged in "centralized training", which is a preparation for large-scale explosion.

The two of them then discussed this matter for a while, and it was generally agreed that the amount of horses that Annan could buy was indeed not very large, but it was not very small, and that the fleet could buy about 500 horses at a time, and it might be at the level of 2,000 a year.

In fact, these horses may not all enter the army when they arrive in Annam, and many people with higher social status will buy them, especially military generals, but that is not something that Gao Pragmatic is interested in pondering in detail now.

Speaking of which, Liaodong's economy is already very deformed, and it is really not easy to reconcile Liaodong and Annam.

For example, in terms of agriculture, Liaodong is not the same as other parts of the country. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the total area of tuntian in the whole country, including Juntun and Mintun, was 903,313 hectares, accounting for about 10.62 percent of the total area of 8,57,623 hectares of cultivated land at that time. So what was the situation in Liaodong at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty? Liaodong is "outside Tuntian, there is no other land". 29GG

The record of "Quanliao Chronicles" is that "the fields are returned to the tun and planted, and the grains are harvested, and the surplus of each army is given to the public every year." That is, there is a tax on the field, such as the example of the river, but the whole town will be there, and the field of tun planting will be ten and eight or nine. It can be seen that in the early Ming Dynasty, the management form of Liaodong land was mainly Juntun, which was an important feature of Liaodong's economy in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this situation still changed later, first, the military nature of Liaodong's economy was weakening day by day; Second, the general trend of Liaodong's economy is becoming more and more dilapidated.

The economic and military nature of Liaodong is weakening day by day, which is mainly reflected in the decline of the tuntian fields in Liaodong from the early Yongle period to the last years of Jiajing, and the transformation of the military tuntian into the civilian land. During this period, although the tuntian in Liaodong declined, on the whole, the economy of Liaodong was still developing.

According to the files consulted by Gao Shishi since he was promoted to governor, the Liaodong military tun was the most developed in the last year of Hongwu and the early year of Yongle, with 25,378 hectares of tuntian, and the military tun accounted for 89 out of 10 of all cultivated land. In the 17th year of Yongle, there were only 21,171 hectares of Tuntian in Liaodong, a decrease of 4,207 hectares or 16.58 percent compared with the early years of Yongle.

Since then, the number of tuntian fields has been decreasing. In the third year of Zhengde, Tuntian was 17,931 hectares, which was 3,240 hectares less than that in the 17th year of Yongle.

However, the number of mintian was 21,593 hectares, an increase of more than 15,000 hectares compared with the early years of Yongle. At this time, tuntian only accounted for 45.37 percent of the cultivated area.

In the 44th year of Jiajing, the amount of tuntian was 10,924 hectares, which was 7,000 hectares less than that in the third year of Zhengde. Mintian is 27,491 hectares, an increase of nearly 6,000 hectares over the three years of Zhengde. Tuntian accounted for 28.44 percent of the cultivated area, a marked decline.

After Jiajing, the second change in Liaodong's economy was that it was becoming more and more dilapidated. Before the Jiajing period, although the military tun in Liaodong was declining, the land was increasing. However, after the Jiajing period, the number of military tuns and private fields was decreasing day by day.

For example, last year, that is, in the 10th year of Wanli, Liaodong had 8,903 hectares of military tun and 24,188 hectares of private land, with a total cultivated land area of 33,091 hectares.

Compared with the last years of Jiajing, the number of military tuns has decreased by more than 1,000 hectares, the number of civilian fields has decreased by more than 3,000 hectares, and the total cultivated land area has decreased by more than 4,000 hectares. If Gao Pragmatic's memory is correct, this development trend will be more serious in the original history to the period from the end of Wanli to the Chongzhen period, and the reasons are diverse, so there is no need to mention it for the time being.

The devastation of Liaodong's economy is also manifested in the flight of a large number of Liao people. In the first year of Hongzhi, the Liao people "fled more and more". In the seventh year of Wanli, the entire Liao Town was "half of the military and civilian fugitives".

Some of them "wander to the fishing sea of Shandong Island to live, and they all avoid the heavy and light, and do not return". Some fled to the Jurchen residences to farm and serve as servants for the Jurchen nobles.

At the end of history, Liaodong "young and strong and brave men died in Jianzhou." Pan Zongyan, the military reserve of Kaiyuan Dao, wrote, "When I went to Huantieling, the residents of the road were a group of 100 people, or 30 or 50 people, no matter fifty or sixty cases, they all covered up, crying that the grass beans could not be bought, and the local production was exhausted, and it was also said that the spring seeds were all extinct. Seeing that the people now have no food to eat", they had no choice but to flee.

The current situation is not so serious, but this trend has also begun to appear, especially under the operational idea implemented by Li Chengliang, who does not "defend the territory" very much, but tends to attack the opponent's soldiers and horses, so that some areas are always affected by military disasters, and the economic aspect is of course worse day by day.

The economic devastation caused the Liao people to flee, and the flight of the Liao people accelerated and aggravated the economic devastation of Liaodong. This is already a dead knot, and only by changing Li Chengliang's combat thinking can we do so.

The economic situation of Liaodong can be roughly divided into three regions. The first is the area west of the Liao River, which is often harassed by the Mongol and occupied tribes. From the east of Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Yizhou are "fertile and anti-famine", "the village is exhausted", "there are no villages for more than 300 miles, there are a few villages near Guangning, and the three or two fall like the morning star."

One hundred and eighty miles from the east of Guangning to the Sancha River, the yellow sand and white grass are sad at a glance. "The land is barren, and there is no cultivation and grain is in arrears, and there is no one to pay for. Its desolation is "although there are forts along the border, there are only forty or fifty soldiers and civilians in the forts, and only twenty when there are few."

For the Mongol tribes, "there are no villages to rob in front of Ning". For the border generals of the Ming Dynasty, "each general can not guard three or four forts, and there is no village to protect." "Gao Shishi also passed through Liaoxi when he came to Liaodong to take office, and he has an experience of this.

The second is the area east of the Liaohe River and north of Liaoyang. Puhe, Xunhe, Kaiyuan, Tieling area, "surrounded by Yi on three sides", this area in the Wanggao, Atai period is "there is land but the army does not dare to plant", of course, the people dare not plant, the land has to be left barren.

The third is the area east of the Liaohe River and south of Liaoyang. Facing the sea on three sides, it was less directly threatened and harassed by the Mongols, and when the economy of the two regions of Shishu was ruined, this area became the "fundamental land of the whole Liao". Although "there is no land to spare", but there are many mountain slopes, sand and carbon, and the harvest is relatively thin", it cannot save the general trend of the ruined economy of Liao, and the Yuemengzhan and the Jurchen tribes have long been "coveted".

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Now Gao pragmatic intends to pinch these three places together, but with different priorities for development.

Southern Liaoning belongs to the "inner line", which is not easy to be damaged by military disasters, so the previous plan for southern Liaoning will be implemented as usual. In addition to southern Liaoning, Liaonan is a little north, that is, the Liaoyang area is a key industrial zone, mainly relying on the Anshan Iron Mine and Liaoyang Iron Plant, which are about to start, and this area is classified as a plan in southern Liaoning.

In the western Liaoning region, his idea was to change Li Chengliang's current style of play, and he couldn't always let the Mongols enter the pass and loot at every turn.

Because for the Mongols, the harvest of looting is actually limited, but for the Ming Dynasty, the damage caused by looting is very large, and this situation may not be tight for a year or two, and it will be a bad thing for eight years and ten years. Although Li Chengliang's style of play has earned him a lot of military merits and created a military merit group, the damage to the economy of western Liaoning has been extremely great.

As for the Liaobei region, the main opponent for this is more complicated, with Mongolia in the northwest and Jurchens in the north, northeast, and east. The Jurchens are not particularly dishonest at the moment, but the trend is already a little bad, and Gao Pragmatic is thinking about changing.

But no matter how it changes, it is inseparable from Liaodong's strategy of war and defense, in a word: it can't develop if it's beaten every day, and the nomads can still run when they're always beaten.

Therefore, even if there is corn planted in Liaodong and even developed in a few years, it is still very difficult to save the entire economy of Liaodong by relying on only one Liaonan, and the situation in Liaoxi and Liaobei will not change, and Liaodong will always have to import grain from outside.

It seems that the grain "export" of the Annam side can continue for a while, at least until Gao Pragmatic changes the strategy of war and defense in Liaodong as a whole.

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