Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1047 Misunderstanding
On the seventh day of April in the 11th year of Wanli, Zhao Yumin, the procurator of Shandong Province, impeached Li Chengliang, Liaodong's chief military officer and Ning Yuanbo, on charges of selfishness and unfair rewards and punishments.

Zhao Yumin's impeachment this time was obviously inspired by Gao Yushi - he and Gao Yushi could be regarded as "old friends".

As early as the seventh year of Wanli, Zhao Yumin, who was in charge of the official department at the time, went to Shushu to impeach Ling Yunyi who offended Gao Yushi [Note: See "Whose Thunder" in Chapter 141 of "Guan Jinghua" volume], Later, when Gao Yushi was appointed as the inspector of Guangxi, Zhao Yumin had already been promoted to Zuo Zheng, the chief envoy of Guangxi. .

And at the end of last year, Zhao Yumin passed the three-year examination in Guangxi, was promoted to the inspectorate of Shandong, and met Gao Wushi again.

Of course, the main reason why Zhao Yumin could easily accept Gao Yushi's instruction to impeach someone like Li Chengliang was because his mentor was Guo Pu.

Since Zhao Yumin was on the gold list for the fifth year of Longqing, Gao Wushi usually called him senior brother.

Brothers and juniors, it's just a matter of the order of being on the gold list. In fact, Zhao Yumin's status is obviously far lower than that of Gao Yushi in the Real School. Since Gao Yushi asked him to do something, how could he refuse?Besides, he himself always felt that if the Shandong Inspectorate fell on his head, he might still be in the light of high pragmatism.

It is said that when the cabinet was handling these transfers, he had several places he could go to, including Yunnan, Shaanxi, and Shandong, and his duties were all as inspectors.Among these three provinces, Shandong is obviously the best, so the competition is fierce. In the end, Yuanfu Zhang Siwei made the decision himself.

Zhao Yumin felt that the reason why Yuan Fu urged him to come to Shandong was mostly because of high pragmatism—after all, Shandong and Liaodong are integrated in government affairs!
Sure enough, he had only been in Shandong for three months, and Gao Wushi asked him for help.

The impeachment of the provincial commander-in-chief is neither a big nor a trivial matter for a provincial procurator, but it also depends on the person. Li Chengliang is obviously not an ordinary commander-in-chief.

It would not be a big problem if the Shandong Xunguan or the Shandong Dao Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or the Bingke were impeached by the middle-level people, but it would be dangerous to impeach by the procurator.

However, Zhao Yumin was not afraid, and was even eager to try. The inside information was not humane. Anyway, in Zhao Lianxian's view, helping Gao Pragmatic was simply a precursor to promotion and fortune.

The impeachment of Zhao Lianxian is not serious, after all, the crime of "selfishness, unfair rewards and punishments" can be big or small, and Zhao Lianxian's impeachment is aimed at Li Chengliang's handling of Kaiyuan, Fushun and other horse markets. Since the status of the Jurchens in the eyes of the court is relatively ordinary, it should not be a big problem normally.

In Zhao Yumin's memorials, he mainly accused Li Chengliang that he believed that Li Chengliang was tricky about the distribution of imperial documents seized in previous wars.

He said that [-]% of the edict seized by Li Chengliang was distributed to the Hada Department, and [-]% each from the Huifa and Wula Departments. Jurchen.

Leaving aside the Yehe Department, which has been heavily guarded against for the past few years, the five Jianzhou Departments only get [-]% of the total, and the Changbai Mountain Three Departments basically don't have any. , and the wilder Jurchens who are farther away will not be mentioned.

Regarding this situation, Zhao Lianxian believed that it was a manifestation of Li Chengliang's "selfishness", because the Fourth Haixi Division was the closest to Li Chengliang's hometown Tieling, and many of Li Chengliang's servants were from the "Yiding" of the Fourth Haixi Division. Especially the hada department is the worst.

Zhao Lianxian even came up with a statistic, saying that among Li Chengliang's servants, there are only "Yiding" who came from the Hada tribe, as many as 4000 people, and "nearly a thousand" who came from the Huifa tribe. There are five or six hundred "Yiding" from the He tribe, but only about a hundred of the Ula tribe served in Li Chengliang's army because of the barriers of the previous three tribes.

Zhao Lianxian said that it was for this reason that Li Chengliang paid special attention to the Hada Ministry in distributing the edicts, which led to a serious consequence, that is, "all the ministries harbor resentment" and are "hostile to Hada", which not only makes the Hada Ministry " Every eye is an enemy", and it also made the Jurchen tribes think that the court's handling of affairs was unfair, which seriously damaged the emperor's prestige.

All in all, Zhao Lianxian believes that the Hada tribe was attacked by Yehe and the Mongolian coalition forces last year, while the Haixi Jurchen Huifa and Ula Erbu were clearly recognized by the imperial court as "restrained by Hada" tribes, but they all chose to stand still. Because the imperial court is already unfair in their minds, and Baylor of Hada is not worthy to be the "Lord of Manchuria" in their eyes.

In other words, all of this was caused by Li Chengliang's selfishness and unfair rewards and punishments.

Except for a few data, impeachment like this is almost all deduction. Of course, there will be no immediate effect, so the reaction of the court is not big. It just transfers this impeachment to Li Chengliang in Guangning as usual. Let him defend himself.

When Li Chengliang received the news, he was discussing with his three younger brothers Li Chengcai, Li Chengshi and Li Chenglin.

Coincidentally, what they were discussing was Kaiyuan's situation.

On weekdays, Li Chenglin, the fourth younger brother who "stayed behind" in his hometown in Tieling and was in charge of the Li family's affairs in northern Liaoning, said that he discovered that someone had recently secretly investigated the Li family's business in Kaiyuan Mashi, but was interrupted by Li Rubai who came in a hurry.

"Father, the second uncle, third uncle, and old uncle (the youngest uncle is called old uncle in Northeast China), there is an urgent report from the court."

Li Chengliang frowned and looked at Li Rubai, and asked in a displeased tone: "Urgent report, how urgent is it?"

"You have been impeached." Li Rubai said, "The imperial court asked you to defend yourself."

Li Chengliang snorted softly: "Your old man, which month of the year will I not be impeached? What's the rush? Let the masters have a look first, let them draft a self-defense and bring it over for me to see."

Li Rubai hurriedly said: "This time it's a little different. It was Zhao Yumin, the new Shandong Inspectorate at the end of last year, who impeached him."

"Zhao Yumin?" Li Chengliang tilted his head and thought for a while, then frowned and said, "I remember he is Guo Dongye's disciple... Heh, why is he impeaching me?"

"He impeached you for selfishness and unfair rewards and punishments." Li Rubo raised the official document in his hand, and said, "He said that the reason why the Hada tribe was beaten last year was because you favored Hada, which caused the Hada tribe to be hated by the Jurchen tribes. He joined forces with the Mongol Tartars and beat them."

"Ridiculous!" Li Chengliang leaned back on the back of the Grand Master's chair, and said with disdain on his face: "Guo Dongye's disciple is actually at this level? How did this guy get here?"

Li Rubai couldn't answer this question, but Li Chengcai was very familiar with the court's anecdotes, and immediately replied after hearing the words: "This guy Zhao Yumin climbed up along Gao Qiuzhen's thigh. In the seventh year of Wanli, he and his brother Lin Yicai The two cooperated to help Gao Qiuzhen impeach Ling Yunyi, and later...if I remember correctly, he and Gao Qiuzhen worked together in Guangxi. If there is no accident, he, the procurator of Shandong, might be Gao Qiuzhen who helped him I got it from Zhang Puzhou."

As soon as he heard that it was related to Gao Yushi, Li Chengliang suddenly got serious, sat up straight, and waved to Li Rubai: "Let me see."

Li Rubai quickly put up the official document in his hand, Li Chengliang grabbed it and opened it for a closer look.

After looking at it for a while, he handed the official document back to Li Rubai, and instructed: "Give it to your second uncle." Li Rubai didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly sent it to Li Chengcai again.

After reading it, Li Chengcai frowned and handed it to Li Chengshi, while hesitantly said to Li Chengliang: "This matter...seems a little strange."

"It doesn't seem like it's strange." Li Chengliang said with some annoyance: "I don't know this Zhao Yumin before. He probably has no reason to play this game with me. I think this should mean seeking truth."

Li Chengcai nodded, but then said: "But what's the use of Gao Qiuzhen talking about this thing? Zhao Yumin's stuff, except for the few people who counted clearly, the rest are all bullshit , there is no evidence, if this kind of thing is sent to the supervisor of ceremonies, can the emperor believe it?"

"That's why I said it's very strange." Li Chengliang frowned, and said in a deep thought, "We have dealt with Gao Qiuzhen a few times, do you think he might be a fool?"

Li Chengcai waved his hand and said, "That's naturally impossible. Brother, what you mean is that Gao Qiuzhen's move... has no intention?"

Li Chengliang twisted his beard in thought and said: "I don't have any intentions, I'm sure, the question is what is his intention... This kind of innocuous thing really doesn't seem like his method. Don't forget me What I told you a few days ago, the downfall of Zhang Taiyue and Feng Shuanglin was very strange as early as the time when Emperor Xianlong controlled Bintian. Really style."

Li Chengcai said, "Yes, brother is right. It is true that Gao Xinzheng does things in a hurry, but he rarely plays tricks and schemes. He always goes straight. But Gao Qiuzhen is like a poisonous snake, either not moving or not moving." It's going to cost people's lives... It's really weird to say that such a painless impeachment came from him."

Li Chengshi, the youngest of the Li family, suddenly interjected at this moment, and said, "Eldest brother, second brother, have you noticed something? Although this guy Gao Qiuzhen is not on good terms with our Li family, he seems to have never sent the eldest brother to him. Offended in the dead, it seems that there is always some strength left."

Li Chenglin also agreed with this sentence, and said: "Yes, the younger brother has also discovered this. Although he always has trouble with the elder brother, he has never been cruel... Uh, second brother, forgive me."

Li Chengcai knew what the youngest meant. In his words just now, he said that Li Rugui's dismissal and imprisonment by Gao Wushi was "not cruel", so he said "forgive me".

It doesn't matter. Although Li Rugui is Li Chengcai's son, his status in the Li family is obviously not that important. Although Li Chenglin's words are a bit straightforward, they are not wrong, so Li Chengcai waved his hand to say it's okay.

Li Chengliang thought for a while, and asked: "Is there a possibility that Gao Qiuzhen is convinced that I, Li Chengliang, have already voted for Shen Cifu and the others, and Gao Qiuzhen has nothing to do with me at the moment, so he only uses these small means to remind or warn I?"

Li Chengcai shook his head and said, "I don't think so. Brother, if it is true as you said, Gao Qiuzhen dared to take action against someone like Zhang Jiangling ten years ago, so ten years later, is he timid?" Is it true? Although Gao Xinzheng was still in power ten years ago, isn’t it Zhang Puzhou who is in power now? How big of a difference can this be? What’s more, Gao Qiuzhen’s real reliance now is probably... that Lord.”

When Li Chengcai said this, he pointed to the sky with his finger, and then continued: "If this is the case, why would he be so cautious because he was worried about Shen Cifu's reaction?"

At this moment, Li Rubai couldn't help but said: "I think what Gao Qiuzhen is afraid of is the army in father's hands..."

"Shut up, talk to your three uncles on behalf of the father, is it your duty to intervene?" Li Chengliang glared at his son.

Li Rubai didn't dare to refute, and shut up sullenly.

"Brother, do you think Gao Qiu is really interested in our business?" Li Chenglin frowned and said, "Otherwise, why didn't Zhao Yumin mention anything else, and always talked about the situation at Kaiyuan?"

Li Chengliang frowned and said, "You mean the horse market?"

"Yes, brother, don't forget that Gao Qiuzhen just returned to Liaoyang from Kaiyuan." Li Chenglin replied.

This time, Li Chengliang did not answer immediately, but began to think seriously. On the contrary, Li Chengcai shook his head and said: "Although Gao Qiuzhen is rich and powerful, he doesn't look like a money-grubbing person. I heard that he and For the business of Tumed, the Ministry of Households received 10,000+ taels a year, and it was even more powerful for a few ports. Last year, it seemed that they gave the Ministry of Households nearly 40 taels.

If some other businesses are added, last year alone, the Jinghua family alone gave the court 100 million taels of silver instead of 80 million taels... How much money is this?How much is our income in Kaiyuan, or even in the entire Liaodong Horse City?Have eleven (one-tenth) of this money?I don't think Gao Qiuzhen can appreciate this kind of money. "

Li Chenglin was a little dissatisfied, and said: "Second brother, that's not what you said, who would think too much of money?"

Before Li Chengcai had time to speak this time, Li Chengliang spoke up and said, "I don't believe that Gao Qiuzhen is interested in this money." His eyes were a little cold and said: "I think Gao Qiuzhen wanted to remind me that I already know where the money for our Li family's soldiers comes from..."

Li Chengshi was a little puzzled, and asked: "But what if you know this? There are so many generals in the court, who has no servants? The money to support the family is always from those sources. We rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water, and we don't rely on the generals." What does the horse market rely on? Could it be possible to feed on the military book (empty salary)?"

Li Chengliang shook his head and said: "I think Gao Qiuzhen should understand this truth, but he may not want me to spit out the money... I still suspect that he is forcing me to 'get off the boat'."

disembark?

Li Chengliang's three younger brothers looked at each other and understood the meaning of the word.Li Chengcai hesitated: "Brother, what you mean is that Gao Qiuzhen is forcing you to side with their high party? But he was not afraid of Zhang Taiyue ten years ago, and he should not be afraid of Shen Yaoquan now. Is it necessary to do this?"

Li Chengliang thought for a while, and felt that Li Chengcai's idea was not unreasonable. He pondered, and said in a cold tone: "If not, then there is only one possibility——Gao Qiuzhen wants to completely grasp Liaodong, so he insists on forcing I have to bow down to him and obey him."
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