Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1263 It turned out to be Liaodong

Under the seemingly simple but sharp-edged divisive scheme, the situation in the city of Ningxia became very dramatic.

The news of Chen Chengen's mobilization of the army was immediately learned by Tu Wenxiu, who is a close associate of Chen Bai.Since Tu Wenxiu's mansion is close to Chan Chengen's mansion, and he has a good relationship with Chan Chengen, he did not go to Chan Bai first, but went directly to Chan Chengen to inquire about the situation.

Yan Chengen didn't know that Tu Wenxiu had an idea of ​​his own before. When an old friend came to visit, he told the plan without saying a word, and encouraged Tu Wenxiu to work with him.

Just imagine, Tu Wenxiu, a person who started to think about his way back when the situation was still unclear, how could he still have the confidence to continue hanging on this tree now that the rebels are trapped in Ningxia?He heard that Gao Wushi not only promised to let his father and son live, but even made a promise to Yongzhen Ningxia, he couldn't help but agree to work with Chen Chengen on the spot.

The reason why Tu Wenxiu is so happy is not only because Gao Pragmatic has an excellent reputation, but because he thinks he sees the reason why Gao Pragmatic did it.what reason?The imperial court was short of money, and it was a huge and urgent shortage.

As for this, he had already figured it out on the way back to Ningxia. The reason was not complicated, and there were many clues that could be seen.

First of all, the troops mobilized by Gao Yushi this time were abnormal.Not to mention Liaodong around the capital of Ming Dynasty, there are still nearly 70 troops.But in the face of the critical situation of the great chaos in the Northwest, Gao Yushi actually only brought more than 4 troops and less than [-] people to the expedition. This is not the usual practice of the imperial court. The biggest possibility is that the imperial court has no money, so it dare not mobilize Too many troops.

Secondly, Gao Wushi's style of play this time is also different from his previous style.According to his previous style, he is actually a very cautious person, and he insists that "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall", not to mention that he will definitely not do things like charge into battle, even if the front line is only slightly dangerous, he himself is It will not appear, it will only stay in the rear to coordinate and command.

But this time, he actually took a risk, personally led the army to wander around the Hetao, and lured Boshuoketu to take the bait, which is very abnormal.Although Boshuoketu has been defeated and lost, you must know that in the field, no one dares to say that he will definitely defeat the Mongols. Mobei has always encountered this kind of thing, so although the five expeditions in Mobei seem to be swallowing mountains and rivers, in fact, they can't really do anything to the Mongolians.

Gao pragmatism's department is also dominated by infantry, and it must be unable to outrun the Mongols. It is equivalent to winning that there may not be much gain.However, even under such a situation, he is still willing to use himself as bait to catch the big fish Boshuoketu, and the reason is obvious: he is very eager to win Boshuoketu in one fell swoop, forcing the Ordos Department Exit the war.

But here is a relatively hidden question: what if Gao pragmatic ignores Boshuoketu?
Bosuo Ketu's troops are cavalry, and they have no means of siege. Under the circumstance that Daming does not lack troops, as long as Gao pragmatic has money and food, he can ignore Bosuo Ketu and directly mobilize several troops. Besieging Ningxia, Boshuo Ketu had no choice but to stare at the more than [-] Ming troops under the city.

However, Gao pragmatic chose the most unnecessary battle, not only did the bait himself, but even used his personal relationship to mobilize Tuotuo to come (this is Tu Wenxiu's personal judgment, the reason is that in terms of the conditions of the tribute at the time, Tuo Tuo Mert does not undertake the obligation to fight for Daming).This is not satisfied, Gao pragmatic also drew Yilduqi to the past, in order to quickly defeat Boshuoketu and let the Ordos Department withdraw from the war as soon as possible.

Why do you want to do this?There may be more than one reason, for example, worrying about Tumen Khan's intervention may be one of them, but Tu Wenxiu believes that the biggest reason for Gao pragmatism is not worrying about Tumen Khan, but that he knows that Daming can't afford a long-term siege of Ningxia. war.

If Ningxia is regarded as Luoyang, which was besieged by Li Shimin in the late Sui Dynasty, then Boshuoketu is actually equivalent to Dou Jiande. As long as this "Dou Jiande" is still outside and ready to rescue at any time, "Wang Shichong" in the city of "Luoyang" has the confidence to continue Stick to it, and the subordinates of "Wang Shichong" will not have their own thoughts because of despair.

In other words, as long as the elites of Boshuoketu's set of troops are still wandering around, Ningxia City will have the confidence to stick to it, but Gao pragmatically came to Ningxia this time, obviously lack of artillery, and can only choose a long-term siege.

Therefore, Gao’s pragmatic choice was actually the same as Li Shimin’s back then. He regarded the Huri and Huliang ambush as a battle at Hulao Pass, first destroying the strong aid, and then bringing the victory to force the surrender!

Judging from the situation in Ningxia City, Tu Wenxiu had to admit that Gao pragmatism was indeed very effective.

In later generations, a military wizard in China once put forward in his writings "win or lose, just don't make peace with it". This point of view is very suitable for a country with a vast territory like China, but the Ningxia rebels obviously can't do it. of.They do not have such a condition of "exchanging space for time", let alone such a far-sighted strategic vision.

Therefore, when Boshuoktu, the reinforcement they had high hopes for, failed, the Ningxia rebels' courage to fight against the imperial court had already disappeared under the pressure of the official army and the encirclement on all sides.

However, for Tu Wenxiu at the moment, it is no longer meaningful to understand the hidden worries of Gao pragmatic. Of course, the matter of Ningxia should be settled quickly. Forced surrender is the best choice. As for giving such favorable conditions to the father and son, it is just an accessory.

After all, from Tu Wenxiu's point of view, it is not his pragmatic business to hand over Ningxia to Yanjia Yongzhen.He is a civil official. As long as he retains the governors of the three sides and the governor of Ningxia, it doesn't matter who is the general soldier in Ningxia. Anyway, whoever is the general soldier must listen to the governor and governor - unless you rebel again, but that is already someone else's business, Can't rely on his high and pragmatic head.

Since he believed that Gao Wushi was sincere in persuading him to surrender, Tu Wenxiu was not polite, and when he returned to the mansion, he began to take active actions, and dispatched troops to prepare to cooperate with Yan Chengen to deal with the generals who were not directly related to the Yan family.

However, Tu Wenxiu was too careless this time. He didn't know that when he was on the expedition to Pinglu City, Liu Dongyang, the "General Soldier of Ningxia", took the opportunity to quietly plant a detailed work in his house.At this time, it only took Liu Dongyang half an hour to know everything about Tu Wenxiu's every move.

Liu Dongyang, as the No.1 of the "Four Battalions" who rebelled with Qibai at that time, had a deep foundation in Ningxia, otherwise he would not have been appointed as the "Ningxia General Soldier" by Qibai. Only one Ningxia town has been mastered.Liu Dongyang's status and strength are second only to Qi Bai among the rebels.

Liu Dongyang not only discovered the change of Tu Wenxiu, but also quickly discovered the change of Da Chengen.And Zhou Zhe was right, there were more than one lobbyist sent by Gao Pragmatist, Liu Dongyang also had them, and Liu Dongyang was moved by what he said.

At this moment, Liu Dongyang found out that Chen Chengen and Tu Wenxiu really didn't remember their old feelings, and naturally they would not be polite, and immediately mobilized troops and horses to go to Tu Wenxiu's mansion.

At this time, Tu Wenxiu was still dispatching troops, and there was not much defense in the mansion. The family members of more than [-] people and the whole mansion, including himself, were quickly killed, and Tu Wenxiu's head was also cut off by Liu Dongyang. In the past, only the regret of "unfulfilled ambitions" has been left behind for thousands of years.

At this time, Yan Chengen also made his move, but he and Tu Wenxiu had a different "division of labor" at that time, so he killed Xu Chao's mansion first.At this time, Xu Chao had just received the urgent information sent by Liu Dongyang. Since there were not many troops in his house, he was on his way to the military camp, but he was blocked by Yan Chengen.

As a result, there is nothing to say. Xu Chao was hacked to death on the spot, and Chengen stepped forward to cut off his head, which could only be vaguely distinguished, and ordered people to hang above the tower, and at the same time he went to Liu Dongyang. go in the direction you are in.

A fierce battle broke out between the troops of Yan Cheng'en and Liu Dongyang's troops. They fought back and forth for nearly two hours. In the end, the Cangtou army was stronger and defeated Liu Dongyang's troops.Jing Chengen followed suit and hung Liu Dongyang's head on the tower, and then sent someone out of the city to ask Gao Pragmatist to discuss the matter of surrender - of course, the rhetoric was not surrender, but reform.

The negotiation between the two armies is not listed here, because on the day when the civil unrest broke out in the city of Ningxia, there were other major events that had to be mentioned elsewhere.

On this day, the Tumen sent troops.

However, the direction of Tumen's dispatch of troops may be beyond everyone's expectations. He neither sent troops to the west to conquer Tumet, nor did he take advantage of the financial difficulties of the Ming court to pull out the nail in Daning City. Inexplicably, the Eastern Expedition was launched, and the target of the Eastern Expedition was even more strange, it turned out to be the Ye He Department.

This is so strange, when did the Mongols become interested in the Yehe tribe to which the Hercynian Jurchen belonged?
But don't worry, Tumen Khan was not the only one who started the war on the same day, but also a recently high-spirited Jurchen leader-Nurhaci.

On this day, Nurhaci also launched a war, targeting the Hada Ministry.His reason for the war was that Mengbulu was responsible for the death of his Nurhaci father-in-law.

Ah this... Didn't you kill your father-in-law yourself, why is it Mengbulu's turn to be responsible?

However, Nurhaci has always been a very reasonable person. His reasoning method is mainly to make the other party unreasonable, and this matter is easy to handle: just kill it, the dead person cannot make sense.

It is obviously no coincidence that Tumen and Nurhaci raised troops together.Yes, this incident is part of Brihattu's grand strategy.

According to Burihatu's conception, or his rhetoric to Nurhaci, Ye He has already formed a deadly feud with Jianzhou Zuowei because of the deaths of Qingjia Niu and Yang Ji Niu, and sooner or later they will meet in battle.The reason why Ye He is silent now is that Ye He has not yet recovered from the last loss. Once they regain their strength, the first target to be operated on will definitely be you, Nurhaci.

The reason is obvious: let Ye He seek revenge from Daming, and they will definitely not dare to borrow ten bear-hearted leopards. The only object they dare to make can be you, Nurhaci.As for why they didn't look for Hada's Mengbulu, the reason is the same: Hada was originally a puppet introduced by Daming, and there is a fart difference between beating Hada and Daming?You beat up someone's son, why won't someone's father beat you?

But this alone is not enough to convince Nurhaci, because Nurhaci also knew that he had just been warned by Gao Wushi, although he quickly withdrew his troops after receiving the letter, but his previous actions may have left Gao Wushi bad. Impression, at this moment, it is best to be more obedient, don't jump out and cause trouble.

However, the messenger of Burihatu told Nurhaci that there is a greater benefit for Mongolia and Jianzhou to join forces to destroy Yehe and Hada, and this benefit is the trade route.

As long as Chahar defeats and annexes Yehe, and Nurhaci defeats and annexes Hada, then the trade routes of special products in Liaodong will be monopolized by both of them. If Daming does not pass them, they will no longer be able to get goods from Liaodong.

Now that Daming is short of money, he is definitely not willing to cut off the Liaodong business road. At that time, Mongolia and Jianzhou will no longer be the same as in the past. They can only rush to ask Daming to open the tribute market. Instead, it is Daming's turn to find them in a hurry.

As for how to distribute the benefits of this trade route, Burihatu did not bully others and deliberately treated Nurhaci harshly. He said that in principle, Chahar can monopolize the trade of deer antlers and furs, while the Jianzhou side mainly monopolizes the trade of ginseng—that is, the Mongols. The adjacent "North Pass" set up the deer antler and fur market, and the "Nan Pass" adjacent to Jianzhou set up the ginseng market.

Under this situation, even if the Mongolians have ginseng in their hands, they will go to the Nanguan market, while the Jurchens have deer antlers and furs, they will also go to the Beiguan market.

Although it seems that the Mongolians have mastered the two transactions of deer antler and fur, but because deer antler and fur have not formed a complete monopoly on Daming, the profit is not higher than that of ginseng, which is almost a complete monopoly. Therefore, this idea is generally for Nurhaci. It is still very fair, and Nurhaci can completely accept this in his heart.

But Nurhaci has other worries, that is, once Daming recovers, for example, what if Gao pragmatism is about to come to crusade?
Nurhaci is really afraid of high pragmatism. Whether it is from resourcefulness or strength, Nurhaci now has an obvious fear of high pragmatism. Formed, and this fear is even worse than his fear of Li Chengliang.

Burihatu gave a comfort and a promise. His messenger told Nurhaci that Daming was in a great chaos in the northwest, and it would take time to recover even after it was pacified.And Daming's primary enemy is always Mongolia, to be precise, their Mongolian left wing. Since the Mongolian left wing also launched an attack on Ye He in this battle, even if Daming wants to retaliate in the future, he must find them first, and it is absolutely impossible to find them first. Nurhaci.

And once that time comes, even if you Nurhaci go to Daming to surrender, I Mongolia will not blame you, presumably Daming will not accept your surrender at that time, so why do you have to worry about it?

Nurhaci felt reasonable after hearing it, and he was really itching to control the trade route proposed by Burihatu, so he agreed.As for why Daming took the initiative to look for them to trade with them, he did not report much hope, and he knew that even if there was such a day, it would only appear after Daming found out that he could not defeat them and restore Ye He and Hada. It is still too late to think about those premature.

What we should do now is to take advantage of the chaos in the northwest of Daming to conquer Ye He and Hada first! ——
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