Chapter 282: Inside and Outside the Palace (10) Octopus
There were so many things that happened in this day. When Gao Qingshi came out of the palace, he was still in an inexplicable trance, and it always felt a little unreal.
Obviously he just came back in the name of reporting on his duties to confirm the relevant matters within Korea and discuss how to continue the attack on Japan. Who knew that suddenly the empress gave birth to the emperor's legitimate son, and suddenly Burihatu led the army to invade Gansu?
Then it was the first assistant, and the second assistant planned to beg for his bones, but the position of first assistant was handed over to him.
This time, it was really God's calculations. None of the three major events could be known or predicted in advance by his pragmatic attitude. But now, the three major events suddenly came together. How could he still face this situation?
To take things calmly and adapt appropriately is to think too highly of someone else's state of mind.
Therefore, although Gao Pragmatic tried his best to control his emotions and demeanor, he only stayed in the cabinet for half an hour. Then he almost fled out of the palace on the pretext that he was tired and needed a rest. He planned to calm down after returning home and then carefully organize his thoughts.
, so that you can make a rational decision on what to do next.
However, maybe God thinks that he has been too smooth sailing these years, even if there are some dangers, he has resolved them one by one, so this time he really saved up a few big moves, and insisted on releasing them all in one day to see what he would do.
He had just returned home and met with his wives and concubines, and said a few words to his children respectively. When he sat down at the dining table, his buttocks were not even hot yet, Huang Zhiting spoke.
"Sir, the war between southern Xinjiang and the Mughals may be imminent and unavoidable."
Gao Pingshi was stunned. He stared at Huang Zhiting for a long time. Finally, he let out a long breath, put his hand on his forehead and said, "Tell me, what's going on."
Huang Zhiting opened her mouth but stopped talking.
She could tell from Gao's pragmatic demeanor that her husband was obviously tired. In addition, it had always been his previous policy not to have direct conflict with the Mughal Empire for the time being, so she was worried that speaking out now... at least would not be a good time.
"Tell me, I'm fine." Gao Pingshi sighed softly: "I just...just have something going on in the palace and the court today, but it has nothing to do with you, so just tell me."
"Okay, let me talk briefly first." Huang Zhiting knew Gao's pragmatic habits, so she no longer hesitated and said: "In the middle of this year, there was civil strife in the Kingdom of Arakan. One of the factions contacted us and hoped that we could help them.
Then... I will send the Bago garrison troops to the second and third towns to garrison the border and wait for the opportunity."
"Wait a minute." Gao Pragmatic frowned and interrupted: "What's going on with the civil strife in the Arakan Kingdom? Does it have anything to do with our Jinghua?"
Huang Zhiting hesitated for a moment and said: "Yes, there is, but the civil strife itself was not initiated by us."
"Tell me the whole story."
"Yes, sir." In front of all the concubines, Huang Zhiting has always been very polite and answered in accordance with the high pragmatic requirements: "Over the years, Jinghua has more or less penetrated various forces in the surrounding areas of southern Xinjiang. Arakan
So is nature.
Especially after the construction of Dingna City was basically completed, while we increased our penetration into Arakan, we also established contact with some of the country's upper echelons of powerful people through trade and other means to better safeguard Beijing's interests.
But as a result, we have some conflicts of interest with the Portuguese. As you know, the Portuguese have many strongholds in the so-called Indian region east of southern Xinjiang, and they also have various connections with many large and small kingdoms.
, some are cooperation and some are conflicts.
The Portuguese also have power in Arakan, the most critical of which is a group of mercenaries whose leader is named Philippe de Brito Nicot. This man is trusted by the leader of the country, Minyesaki, in Arakan.
, but he himself was actually very ambitious. Beijing once discovered some letters between this man and the Portuguese Governor of Goa, in which he even made proposals such as conquering Arakan."
Philippe de Brito Nicote is a highly pragmatic person, and he has done some great things in history.
In 1595 in the original history, Emperor Naresuan of Siam attacked Bago, and King Mingyesaki of Arakan sent Philip de Brito to rescue the Mang with reinforcements from the Kingdom of Lanna and Marquis Toungoo.
Yingli successfully defeated Narixuan.
But in 1599, Philippe de Brito, together with Mingyesaki, still formed a coalition with Toungoo Marquis to capture Bago City, capture Mangyingli, and divide the remaining territory.
In the same year, Naresuan sent troops to attack the Marquis of Toungoo, and Philip de Brito followed Mingyesaki to attack Naresuan's supply route, forcing him to withdraw his troops again.
The following year, in 1600, Philip was appointed governor of Salian by Minyesusaki. As a result, just three years later, in 1603, he raised the flag of rebellion and established himself on his own, and repeatedly defeated the conquests of the Kingdom of Arakan. By 1605, Arakan
Qian launched the Battle of Salian but was defeated. After that, the Kingdom of Arakan was forced to negotiate peace with it.
After that, Philip did not stop. In 1612, Philip and some surrounding feudal lords led their troops northward and sent troops to invade the territory of Anabilong of the Toungoo Dynasty.
However, this time he was not so lucky. In 1613, Anabilon went south to attack Chalian, and Philip was captured and killed, ending his ambitious life.
Of course, this is all in the original history, and the current Arakan naturally does not have the courage to send troops to Myanmar - there are four towns of the Bago garrison there, and a firearm-equipped army of about 50,000, which is obviously not something they can provoke.
Sure enough, Huang Zhiting's next words were obviously full of disdain: "Actually, this Philip is not very strong. He has less than five thousand troops in total, and most of them are servants cobbled together from the local area. The real
There are only over 200 Portuguese mercenaries."
No wonder Huang Zhiting looked disdainful. Gao pragmatically said that the Portuguese's combat effectiveness was not ranked first in Europe. Now Philip only has more than 200 people in his hands. How could this get Huang Zhiting's attention?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for the four to five thousand servant armies...it's basically a joke. If the local army had combat effectiveness, the Kingdom of Arakan would not have failed in consecutive conquests in its original history -
What can more than 200 Portuguese people do? Of course, they are officers, or "supervisors", and without these people, the Arakan Army will be able to do its job relatively naturally.
But...how did Jinghua and Philip "create some conflicts of interest"? Gao Pragmatic raised this question to Huang Zhiting.
Huang Zhiting said: "Because Ming Ye Saki appointed Philip to manage Guya, as soon as he took office, Philip began to cause trouble for Jinghua and other Ming merchants in Guya overtly and covertly. At the same time, he also quietly bribed some people to investigate Bago's business.
intelligence."
After the Yunnan-Burma War, Myanmar was actually divided into two. The southern Kingdom of Bago became independent from Myanmar and was completely controlled by Jinghua. Therefore, Philip's information about Bago was naturally not allowed by Jinghua, and the conflict arose.
.
Of course, the first half of Huang Zhiting's sentence was not in vain. Philip's suppression of Jinghua and other Ming businessmen cannot be tolerated, and it will definitely produce a "conflict of interest." The question now is, where is this Gu Ya?
Huang Zhiting told Gao Pragmatic that Guya was a small place, a small port in the south of the Kingdom of Arakan closest to Bago. Mingyesaki sent Philip to manage this place, which to some extent was a way to drive away tigers and swallow wolves.
Of course, Jinghua is not a wolf, and Philip is not a tiger at all in front of Jinghua. If you say that his power is like a cat, I am afraid the cat will be dissatisfied.
In any case, Gao pragmatically figured out the root of the matter, and he had no doubt that this was the basic situation at that time. Because in the original history, the "Shalian" area where Philip was named governor was in the south of Arakan - but not this ancient
Ya.
In fact, Salian is in Myanmar, or more precisely in the current Kingdom of Bago. The location is clear: Salian is opposite Yangon, and the two places are across the river, and the distance is very close.
The reason why Sha Lian is actually on the edge of Yangon will be clear when you look back at what is said above: In 1599, Philip, along with Mingyesoji and Dongyuhou, formed a coalition to capture Bago City and capture Mangyingli.
, divided its remaining territory - Shalian was occupied by Arakan at that time.
This scene did not happen in this time and space, and it could not happen, but the King of Arakan did not change his thinking significantly. He still sent Philip to the southernmost part of his country, which led to a conflict between him and Jinghua.
Gao pragmatic thought that the matter would be over at this point, but who knew it was not. Huang Zhiting continued to introduce the situation at that time.
It turned out that when conflicts arose, Jinghua first relied on its strong financial advantage to find high-level officials of the kingdom who had already been bribed in Chittagong, the capital of Arakan, to intercede. At the same time, he also had people secretly report that Philip had the intention of separatism, which made Mingyesaki suspicious.
, ordered Philip to be recalled to Chittagong to explain the situation.
Philip knew that he could not withstand the investigation, so he contacted the Governor of Goa while stalling for time, hoping that the Governor of Goa would reconsider his previous plan and come to conquer Arakan, and at that time he could "strongly cooperate" in Arakan.
However, the Governor of Goa had no time or strength to intervene at this time. As he said a long time ago, Spain and Portugal currently share the same monarch, and the Anglo-Spanish War is still going on. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, has always been Spain.
The starting point of the expedition to England meant that the Kingdom of Portugal was also dragged onto a pirate ship by Spain and fell into the struggle for European hegemony.
At this time, Spain was still like an octopus. Not only was it at war with Britain, the Netherlands, and the Ottomans, but it also intervened in the religious wars in France from time to time. It was attacking from all sides, with enemies on all sides.
Portugal's national power is not strong in Europe. How can it still have the energy to do anything after boarding this pirate ship? The governor of Goa will have to pay high tribute to stabilize the current situation in India.
However, for some unknown reason, the Governor of Goa came up with a magical idea and revealed the affairs of Arakan to the Mughal Empire.
At this time, the Mughal Empire was basically at the peak of its dynasty, and it immediately became interested after receiving the news. The empire's Governor of Bengal quickly intervened: He made a random excuse, saying that there were merchant ships from the Mughal Empire in Ala.
He disappeared while doing business with the kingdom and asked the Arakan Kingdom to find the murderer and the king to go to Bangladesh to apologize to him in person, otherwise he would let Minyesaki feel the wrath of the empire.
This excuse sounded nonsense, and Minyesaji naturally knew it, but the Mughal Empire was obviously not here to reason with him, and Minyesaji did not dare to go to Bengal, so he could only think of ways to resist.
The reason why Arakan was able to avoid being annexed by Myanmar during its most powerful period was not because its own army was really strong enough, but because of the super terrain advantage of the Arakan Mountains. But this advantage was only useful for the Myanmar side.
During the Wol Empire, the terrain was plain to plain, and everyone was on the same level.
Since it is on the same level, and it is still on the plains, as an empire established by the descendants of the Timur family, the Mughal cavalry can obviously completely crush the Arakan Kingdom.
At this moment, it was definitely not enough to rely on one's own strength, so Mingyesaki thought of using the power of Jinghua - in other words, he hoped that the Bago garrison would be dispatched to help Arakan. This is exactly what Huang Zhiting was talking about.
However, because the Bago Guards did not receive orders from Gao Shishi, and because Huang Zhiting did not dare to go to war directly with the Mughal Empire now due to Gao Shishi's instructions in the early years, the Bago Guards did not allow these two actions.
The towns drive directly from the south of Arakan to the north (the capital, Chittagong, is in the north).
In fact, it was the Nanyang Fleet with greater autonomy that finally came to help. They assembled 21 armed transport ships docked in Chittagong, relying on river and sea advantages (Chittagong is a river mouth seaport) to force the Moghul
The Governor-General of Bengal could not make any further progress and finally withdrew his troops after a period of stalemate.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, although this battle was successfully avoided through the intervention of the fleet, it led to a great increase in Jinghua's power in Arakan. To a certain extent, Arakan became Jinghua
Protectorate in name.
No one would be willing to give up such a good thing, and Huang Zhiting immediately further increased her control over Arakan, which in turn stimulated the Mughal Empire, especially the Governor of Bengal.
As a result, the relationship between the two sides deteriorated rapidly, and now, signs of a large-scale war have begun to appear.
Huang Zhiting told Gao Pangshi that she had received news that the Governor of Bengal was not only gathering troops and hoarding food and grass, but also building warships... This was obviously an attempt to take revenge.
At the same time, Huang Zhiting also implicitly stated that since southern Xinjiang, especially the garrison, had not fought any wars for some years, they all had a strong desire to go to war with the Mughal Empire.
It is not difficult to understand. How can one be "promoted" without fighting? You can only rely on mixed seniority, and fighting is the best way to get promoted.
For the first time, Gao Pangshi felt that although his power was growing, people from all walks of life within Jinghua inevitably had their own interests and demands, and began to force him to make corresponding compromises.
The problem now is very clear: if we don’t fight, the Arakan region will definitely be out of control and even controlled by the Mughal Empire. In the future, the Mughal Empire’s guns will be pressed against the head of southern Xinjiang; if we fight, we will have to fight with the Mughal Empire.
The Empire has officially started war, and there is no turning back. It is unlikely that trade with it will resume soon in the future, so this decision must be made with caution.
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