Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1339 The Nancha Disturbance ([-])
Nurhachi is of course a very ideal person, but this is actually not the key point, at least not the current key point.

Military conflicts must have prerequisites as a foreshadowing. This foreshadowing is sometimes due to political reasons, but more often, especially for the Jurchens with difficult living conditions, the origin of conflicts and conflicts mostly stems from disputes over economic interests.

Even in the early Wanli period when Nanguan and Beiguan were fighting each other, the trade scale between Fushun Horse Market and Kaiyuan Horse Market was at least ten times different.This shows that the Fushun horse market was only partial, and was limited to trade with the Jianzhou Jurchen; the Kaiyuan horse market was a trade between Liaodong, Eastern Mongolia, and the entire Jurchen region.In other words, under the pressure of the Kaiyuan horse market, the Fushun horse market has been in a state of suppression for a long time, and can only be used as a local mutual market of the Ministry of Jianzhou.This is also the economic root of Jianzhou Jurchen's long-term control by Haixi Jurchen, especially Hada and Yehe in the North and South Passes.

Over the past 200 years, the Ming Dynasty used the original horse market trade to control the Jurchen chieftains in the North and South Passes, and then indirectly restrain the Jurchen tribes. This high-level pragmatic view is very clear.

In this way, the rise of Jianzhou Jurchen will inevitably impact the Liaodong frontier system centered on Kaiyuan, as well as the economic structure of inland Asia, especially the trade alliance between Kaiyuan and Nanguan and Beiguan.

The rising Jurchen chiefs in Jianzhou not only represent the challenge to the vested interests of the frontier leaders by the middle class or small nobles of the Jurchen tribes (that is, the vested trade interests of Kaiyuan and the strong chiefs in the North and South Passes), but also want to break the long-standing Haixi Jurchen suppressed Jianzhou Jurchen, and Kaiyuan Mashi suppressed Fushun Mashi.

Among them, Wang Gao, Atai and his son can be regarded as the pioneers of Nurhachi's challenge to the North and South Passes.

The deeds of Wang Gao and his son were mentioned earlier in this book, so I won’t repeat them here.In short, the emergence of powerful chieftains such as Wang Gao, Atai, Lai Lihong, and Wang Wutang marked the rise of the Jianzhou Department and was gradually challenging the trade monopoly of the North and South Passes.In this regard, they are indeed Nurhachi's pioneers.

As for the failure of Wang Gao and the Atai Group, the reason for their failure is actually very simple. It lies in the deterioration of their relationship with the Liaodong frontier generals. Li Chengliang's military group retaliated like a nest.

Although Gao Pragmatic's ass has always sat upright, it doesn't mean he doesn't understand the truth.In fact, the development of Jianzhou Jurchen's agricultural economy will inevitably increase its dependence on Fushun Mashi.It is also because of this that how to expand the trade scale of Fushun Mashi and break through the suppression of Kaiyuan and Haixi Jurchen must become the primary goal of the rise of the Jianzhou Jurchen Department.

This is the case with Wang Gao and his son, and now Nurhachi can only do the same, and he has no other choice—unless he is willing to work like a cow and a horse in Jianzhou Jurchen, working hard and not getting what he deserves.

Gao Yushi thought about it carefully and found that since the early Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchen had been suppressed by the Haixi Jurchen.From Dong Shan to Wang Gao and Wang Wutang all tried to break through the suppression of Haixi Jurchen, but they were all killed by Haixi Jurchen and Kaiyuan border generals.

The rise of the Wang Gao Group, and its request to expand the scale of trade in Fushun Mashi caused the rebellion to be unusual, and it itself had the intention of challenging the trade monopoly of the North and South Passes.Unfortunately, this is exactly the reason why Li Chengliang and Nanguan Qiang Chief jointly suppressed the Wang Gao Group.

Therefore, in the early days, Nurhachi learned the lessons of Wang Gao and his son, and adopted the same strategy as Wan Khan: by maintaining border order, in exchange for the right to control the horse market trade, and forming a benefit transfer alliance with Liaodong frontier generals and aristocratic families.This is also the reason why Nurhachi was able to be forced back to his lair with a letter from Gao Pragmatic last time.

The door of life is pinched by Gao Wushi, and he doesn't have the ability to resist with force now, what can he do if he doesn't admit his counsel, can he give him his head?

Gao Wuzhen carefully reviewed the original history and found that the rise of Nurhachi itself was a process of continuous competition with Kaiyuan, Yehe, and Ula for trade control.

This discovery made him a little excited. After leaving the palace gate, he immediately got into the green sedan chair and ordered to hurry back to the household department.The accompanying member of the Gao family thought that something serious had happened, and strode the master back to the yamen of the household department on the east side of Yujie Street.

Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili had heard that Gao Situzhao had returned, and they were going to wait for his summons to discuss the troubles they encountered today-there must be troubles in rushing back.Who knew that there was no movement after waiting left and right, so he sent someone to ask and found out that Gao Situ locked himself in the guard room alone.

If the windows of Gao Situ's room were not wide open, he could be seen scribbling in it from afar, and Cheng Wen would have to send someone to see if there was any accident.

In fact, Gao Pragmatism is just straightening out some basic relationships between Liaodong Mashi trade and the rise of Nurhachi, so that he can accurately judge how Nurhachi and other forces around Liaodong will react under certain circumstances.

"Forecasting things like a god" has never relied on genius or intuition, but can only rely on careful logical thinking.

In the original history, Kaiyuan's central position in the Liaodong frontier system made Fushun Mashi and Jianzhou Jurchen suppressed for a long time.Of course, the situation at that time was different from the current situation. At that time, the alliance between Ye He, Nuantu and Huotai continued to oppress Nanguan, so Li Chengliang took advantage of the marriage between the Jianzhou Department and Nanguan to support Nanguan to fight against Beiguan. policy.

For example, in history, Nurhachi's marriage to evil businessmen, his promotion to the governor, and even the dragon and tiger generals were all conspired by Li Chengliang and others.

There is evidence for this statement. According to Gu Yangqian's "Mr. Chong'an Gu Fu Liao Memorial" records:
"Deputy envoy Cheng Xun said to the minister: Ha Chi, the chief slave of Jianzhou, wanted to marry a bad businessman in Beiguan, so he spied on my movements and became the eyes and ears of Beiguan. Now that I heard that I was anxious for a bad businessman, he wanted to marry a bad businessman. The marriage between Shang and Xu is like a feather, so it is better to make it because of it. The commander-in-chief sent Tong Wei, the general official, to Fushun Pass to tell the slaves: "You have missed the deadline and don't pay tribute, and you want to marry Beiguan. And punish you. You stopped the marriage at Beiguan, and the marriage was a bad businessman, and you came to pay tribute quickly. It was Shiru who made Dongyi the chief. After the word was passed on, Tong Weidong returned it and didn't care about it."

The commander-in-chief here refers to Li Chengliang, Cheng Xun is also a close person of Li Chengliang, only Tong Weidong's life and deeds are unknown.However, Tong Weixun, a coordinator at the end of Wanli, was executed as a spy of Houjin. Considering that the traditional characters of the word "Dongxun" are very similar, the two may be the same person.

In the original history, on March 16th, the [-]th year of Wanli, Gu Yangqian and Li Chengliang conquered Beiguan and returned in defeat.Entering the border on March [-], and on April [-], Nurhachi sent Ma Sanfei to welcome his relatives.It can be seen that this marriage was led by Gu Yangqian, Li Chengliang, etc., aimed at supporting Nurhachi, and also confirmed the affiliation relationship between Li Chengliang and Nurhachi.

Nurhachi sent Ma Sanfei to Kaiyuan, "Those who are barbarians and horses in Jianzhou can kowtow and say in Chinese: "Xiangzhe's soldiers are coming to Beiguan... Xiaoyi heard that they are all afraid of submission, so that Jianzhou chieftains marry evil businessmen , wishing to guard the eastern frontier for a long time. It is to order the evil businessman to marry him, and send him with a little reward."

"Wishing to keep the eastern frontier for a long time", it is obvious that Nurhachi has learned the lessons of Wang Gao and his son, and adopted the same strategy as Wan Khan: that is, by maintaining border order, in exchange for the right to control the horse market trade, and with Liaodong. , The aristocratic family formed an alliance of benefit delivery.

Therefore, in the 16th year of Wanli, Nurhachi proposed to marry a bad businessman in Nanguan in order to gain the support of the military and political circles of Liaodong and Ming Dynasty.When the Northern and Southern Passes divided the edict equally, Nurhachi had already paid tribute first to express his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the current situation is significantly different from the past.Although Nurhachi still respected Gao Yushi, he also felt that Gao Yushi was too powerful, and worried that he would never be able to get rid of the dilemma of being "forced to retreat by a letter" by Gao Yushi.

At the same time, Tumen's expedition to Yehe also showed Nurhachi another opportunity, that is, taking advantage of Tumen's east wind and "dividing the north and south passes equally" with it.

Why do you say it is to take advantage of Tumen's east wind?Because Tumen is Daming's number one thorn in the side, and Nurhachi and Tumen sent troops at the same time, Daming's focus must be on Tumen, and he will not pay too much attention to Nurhachi.

In this way, assuming that the map of this battle is superior, not to mention defeating Ming's "intervention army", as long as Daming can be repelled, Nurhachi can easily obtain Nanguan and will not be "focused on" by Ming, which is very cost-effective.

Another hypothesis is that Tumen was defeated, and Ming continued to maintain actual control over Beiguan Yehe.At this time, Nurhachi is of course going to face Daming directly, but Gao Yushi has every reason to believe that once this situation is reached, Nurhachi will definitely quibble.

The method of sophistry is very simple. For example, he can say that he sent troops to prevent the Tumen from continuing to invade Hada in the south.Of course Daming can choose not to believe it, but as long as Nurhachi expresses that he is willing to return to Zhao intact and hand over Hada to Daming for disposal, he will not care about it if he wants to come to Daming.

After all, there is a cost to fighting, and the cost is very high. Before Tumen is destroyed, it is impossible for Ming to waste time, effort and money to fight Jianzhou. This move is contrary to national policy.

Not only did Daming not care about it, but according to his usual habits, he might have to give Nurhachi some rewards to reward his loyalty—even if everyone knew what was going on.

Politics, it's never about conscience, it's only about interests.

Straightening out this relationship, high pragmatism can be sure of one thing: as long as Daming does not take the initiative to attack Nurhachi before solving the Tumen, Nurhachi will never take military provocations against the Ming army!
This is of course a very weighty judgment, but with high prudence and prudence, he still cannot give Cao Yu an order based on it.

The "excessively calculated" Gao Yushi planned to add another insurance to this matter, so after a little thought, he decided to write another letter to Nurhachi.

In the letter, Gao Wushi did not blame Nurhachi for sending troops to Hada without permission. Instead, he pretended not to know the agreement between Nurhachi and Tumen. unexpected disputes.

However, Gao Yushi emphasized at the same time that Meng Gebulu was a person of merit when he was in charge of the Liao Dynasty. Although he did something wrong this time, "the two of you have no deep hatred" and are both "old friends of the Ministry".Therefore, "Honbutang" intends to be a mediator and make peace between the two of you.

The proposals and methods put forward by Gao Shishi are also very sincere. He said that he would ask Mengge Bulu to change his original intention, not only to allow Nurhachi to cross the border freely, but also to provide Nurhachi with some conveniences within his capacity, such as designating some places for Nurhachi as Temporary station.

At the same time, the temporary trade between the two parties can be opened, and the Hada folks will trade with Nurhachi's department, and provide Nurhachi's department with some daily necessities such as fruits, vegetables and wild vegetables.

At the same time, Gao Wushi even said that since "the two of you" are "old friends of the Benbutang", the "Benbutang" also hopes that you can take this opportunity to understand each other, deepen friendship, and jointly maintain the stability of Liaodong and Jurchen. Create a new situation of common prosperity and so on.

This article was not written by Gao Pragmatic suddenly. Since Nurhachi was willing to marry Nanguan in history, of course it is also possible now.You know, no matter in history or today, Nurhachi still does not have the strength and confidence to confront Daming head-on.

At this time, if the Nanguan side is willing to cooperate with him, and there is the support of the Ming side behind him, then the situation where Fushun Pass is jointly suppressed by the North and South Passes will be greatly improved.

Why do we have to fight a problem that can be solved without fighting?He, Nurhachi, only has a few thousand soldiers in total, why should he have to consume them?Wouldn't it be nice to keep it in your hands and keep saving?

Gao Yushi felt that there should be at least [-]% or [-]% chance that Nurhachi would be willing to accept his peace agreement, and the remaining [-] to [-]% may not be objections, but may make more demands.

It's okay to make a request, I'm not afraid of your request, I'm just afraid of you messing around.As long as you are honest now and don't be mischievous, I will take care of Tumen in three or four years, and I will talk to you slowly later.

Nurhachi's problem is considered to be basically settled, and Gao Wushi will then consider how Cao Yu will fight this battle.

Cao Yu was able to become the No. [-] figure in the Liaodong military circle after Li Chengliang by fighting in the past. Of course, he had a few brushes. The ordinary tactical command and the combat effectiveness of the elite servants under his command should be more reliable.Gao Pragmatic mainly needs to explain his matters, which are basically strategic judgments.

Generally speaking, four points are the most critical: First, although Nurhachi is not a friendly army, he is not considered an enemy army either, so try to appease him first.

Second, although Meng Gebulu, Kang Gulu, and Dai Shan in Hada are not of the same mind, and their abilities are relatively worrying, they are all afraid of the power of Daming. Serve.

Third, although the two old Baylors of Ye He died not long ago, they are now facing a desperate situation. If they want something from me, they have to submit to Daming's order, so they can also win over.

Fourth, Tumen is not scary, but he must have brought Burhatu with him when he sent troops this time. Be careful of Burhatu's means, whether it is military or other conspiracies.

Among these four items, Gao Wushi thinks that the first three items are relatively easy to handle. As long as he reminds himself, Cao Yu can handle them well.Only for the fourth article, Gao Yushi is really worried.

After thinking about it, Gao Yushi still listed the most likely tricks that Buri Hatu would play in his letter to Cao Yu, and at the same time told Cao Yu: Gao Yimin, the military staff officer sent to Meng Gebulu's command before, was quite aggressive. Capable, Meng Gebulu failed because he did not listen to his persuasion, so he had decided to temporarily send Gao Yimin to Cao Yu's command "temporarily as an aide", and asked Cao Yu to contact him and pay attention.
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