My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 671

c660 The dawn of great unification

Su Ze wrote a sentence in his book “On War”:

“The most important thing for a commander is not to think about how to start a war, but to think about how to end a war.”

The development of the northern war situation exceeded everyone’s expectations, which is also the most fascinating part of the war.

Strength on paper is not real strength. Once the war starts, it is equivalent to sitting on the gambling table, and anything can happen.

The only difference is that some players have thick cards, some players have weak cards, and some players are lucky.

In the historical timeline before Su Ze traveled through time, Jurchen was such a player with weak cards and good luck.

If it weren’t for the fact that the hips were too stretched in the late Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens would not have established an overwhelming advantage even in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In many things, the Jurchens relied on luck to bet correctly, and finally occupied the Central Plains step by step.

But the Jurchens in this life have no such opportunity at all.

The Jurchens had too few trump cards. After the sacrifice of their elite troops, Li Rushe had actually lost all his trump cards, and the remaining defeat was only a matter of time.

There are too many such border tribes. They rely on generations of speculation and accumulation. When they get a chance to get on the table, they will rush into it. If they are lucky, they will appear on the stage of history. If they are unlucky, they will be directly erased from history.

Su Ze understood that he had once again been misled by the history of his previous life. The current Jianzhou Jurchens had been completely crushed by the two millstones of Southeast and Ming Dynasty before they even entered the stage of history.

However, Li Ruzhen probably did not expect that his ambitious move would turn the outside of the pass into another battlefield for the confrontation between Southeast and Mingting, and a fierce conflict broke out between the two sides.

The conflict caused by the Jurchen rebellion gradually turned into a full-scale confrontation. Li Chengliang even ordered the Ming army in Shandong to launch several attacks to contain the southeastern army in Xuzhou.

The direction of the war was completely beyond everyone’s expectations. The entire Staff Department, the Army Department and the Navy Department were busy, and various troop deployment and supply plans were seriously discussed. Now that the northern front has been drawn up, it cannot be given up. The southeast In the near future, troops may be mobilized to go north to support Yi Sun-shin’s defense line.

Thanks to Southeast’s mature staff system, Su Ze could safely leave all these matters to his staff to prepare.

Now that the battle has reached this point, what Su Ze needs to think about is no longer the battle outside the Pass. What he needs to think about is how to end this battle for the fate of the Central Plains.

Standing in front of the map, with Shaanxi and Henan included in the southeastern territory, the encirclement of the remaining areas of the Ming Dynasty has taken shape.

How to end this civil war in the Central Plains with as little damage as possible is what Su Ze needs to think about.

Su Ze looked at the map and didn’t consider the direction of Shanxi.

Shanxi is mountainous and has dangerous terrain, which has been the hardest nut to crack since ancient times. Taiyuan is notoriously easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Now the main directions of attack in the war to destroy the Ming Dynasty are Shandong, Dagu and Guanwai.

Just like before, land in Dagu from the sea and attack the capital directly from Tianjin?

Su Ze started to think.

The key to ending the war is not the ownership of a city, but the complete elimination of Li Chengliang’s military power.

How to prevent this trapped beast from dragging the entire north with it in the final battle is what Su Ze needs to think about.

The Gyeonggi area has a population of millions, and it was the political center for the three hundred years of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. If it was destroyed due to war, it would be a loss for the entire Central Plains.

And although Nanjing is good, in Su Ze’s opinion, the capital is still the best capital area.

Starting from the Yuan Dynasty, almost all subsequent regimes that could be unified chose the capital as their political center. This is not accidental.

The location of the capital is really important.

The uniqueness of Chinese civilization lies in its unified tradition.

But in fact, the casting process of this great unity is quite complicated. The Chinese civilization is also the only country among the classical empires that has spanned multiple climate zones and established a long-term stable empire.

The north of China is a cold zone. Since ancient times, Youzhou has often been regarded as an independent geographical unit, free from the Central Plains.

This started with the Yan State during the Warring States Period. During the Three Kingdoms period, the Gongsun family divided Liaodong and the Bohai State in the Tang Dynasty. In fact, the north has always been a geographical unit with independent conditions.

In the same way, there are the grasslands outside the Great Wall, the North China savanna, and the tropical and subtropical climates in the south. The ability of these completely different geographical and climatic units to unify is a miracle of civilization in itself.

Therefore, in the land of Chinese civilization, the position of the securities center is very important, because it must be the first political center that can govern various geographical administrative regions, communicate in a timely manner, and handle border issues in various places.

This political center must be very close to each geographical center area to ensure administrative efficiency.

This political center must also facilitate the dispatch of troops to various geographical centers and be able to suppress rebel forces in these places.

In the entire Central Plains, such a political center is currently the capital.

The capital is very close to the Northeastern region, the grasslands outside the Great Wall, the Guanlong region, and the North China region, and can also easily influence the Western Regions and the Plateau.

Through Tianjin’s shipping and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it can control the Jiangnan and Yangtze River basins, and can also convey administrative orders to the southern coastal areas.

The only shortcoming is that it is relatively far away from the southwest region, so since the invention of faster transportation in modern times, the southwest region has always been away from the center of rule.

Therefore, the capital is currently the best administrative center. This city also has the supporting facilities and population base to become an administrative center.

The capital must be captured smoothly to end this war perfectly.

Su Ze and the entire staff office of the Governor’s Mansion began to work, seeking the optimal solution to quickly complete the unification.

Compared with the caution of the Metropolitan Governor’s Office, the entire southeast is now filled with positive emotions that unification is about to be completed.

The war is about to end, and the dawn of peace has appeared. The news of the surrender of a certain area published in newspapers can no longer arouse the cheers of the people in the southeast as before, because there are too many such reports!

From Hanzhong to Shuzhong, to Yunnan and Guizhou and then to Henan and Shaanxi, in the eyes of ordinary people, it was probably the place where Wang Shi went that spread the message. The Ming army generals who resisted stubbornly fell one after another, and the world was about to be reunited. .

For the people of Nanjing, instead of caring about the ownership of the city that ordinary people don’t know about, the newly rehearsed plays at the Chongming Island Theater and the latest products in Nanjing in the newspapers are news that are closer to ordinary people.

In this way, the news that King Su led Lanzhou to surrender was hidden in many news and did not cause too many waves.