Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1361
Sweaty palms are not necessarily fear, or even nervousness, sometimes excitement.

It's hard to say whether Cao Yan is more excited or nervous at this time, but he must not be afraid.

Three letters, two major crimes.One involves Nurhachi, who is the default target of his Liaoyang deputy commander; the other involves Li Chengliang, which is the biggest obstacle for him to go further in Liaodong.

If these two pieces of evidence were handed over, if the imperial court wanted to move Nurhachi, the first person responsible would probably be him, Cao Yu.

If the imperial court wants to move Li Chengliang, it would be even better. Because of the special environment in Liaodong, its generals have always been dominated by local generals, supplemented by transfers from other places, and the ratio of primary and secondary is very clear. of.

Now among the local generals in Liaodong, if Li Chengliang is excluded, the remaining candidate who is most qualified to take over as the commander-in-chief, no matter in terms of seniority, military exploits, military prestige, or any other aspect, is none other than Cao Yu.

This is an advantage on the bright side, and there are also hidden advantages in addition to this.Li Chengliang is now a member of the School of Mind. If something happens to him, the School of Mind will definitely have a big head, and the School of Reality will definitely gain power.

Liaodong, especially the area west of the Liaohe River, is one of the two most convenient areas to launch an offensive against Chahar under the current national policy of "Western Huaidong System" of the Ming Dynasty, and it is evenly divided with Jizhen.

The area to the west of the Liaohe River is the direct jurisdiction of the Liaodong General Army (the east of the Liaohe River is usually in charge of the Deputy General Army, but Li Chengliang had too much prestige when he was in office, and he needed military exploits to generate income for his family, so he often came to mobilize troops in person). I have been wooing Li Chengliang all the time, hoping to get a wave of credit in the "Eastern System" national policy, so as to prevent the practical school from focusing on the imperial court again.

Under such circumstances, Cao Yu felt that Gao Situ would definitely not let go of this opportunity, and would definitely take Liaoxi into his own hands, forming a situation where the entire "Eastern System" was under his control.After all, in this way, it can not only ensure the prohibition of various ministries in the first battle of Chahar, and improve the chances of winning, but also allow the Real School to monopolize the great achievements, so as to suppress the Heart School above the court.

Ever since he was rescued by Gao Wushi, Cao Yu has always wanted to find an opportunity to repay him. In addition to serving as Entang's loyal "Cao Mou, a lackey under Mu En's sect", he has also always wanted to prove his ability.

This time the troops were sent to recapture Beiguan. Although the real battle was only the battle of Yehehe, from a strategic point of view, Cao Yu thought that the task was accomplished very well.

In Cao Yu's view, Nurhachi stopped at Nanguan and sent his younger brother to accompany the army, which shows that he is afraid of his own military power; although Buri Hatu played a lot of flower guns, he was eventually repelled by the Yehe River, and by the way forced The Mongols gave up the city of Yehexi, which they had already acquired; even after recovering the western city, they found two major crimes of collaborating with the enemy.

No matter how you look at it, Cao Yu played well in this battle.As for the specific battlefield performance, according to the battlefield inventory results sent by Zhang Wanbang just now, the casualties of the Ming army in this battle were even lower than that of the Mongolian cavalry.Considering that the mapmen even invested 1000 heavy cavalry in this battle, and the loss of the heavy cavalry was as high as 1000 or more than [-], the loss of the Ming army's total of less than [-] people is even more commendable.

The infantry faced the impact of the heavy cavalry and beat them like this. Anyone who judges it will have to give a thumbs up and praise it as a hero, right?
If there are more details, then the loss of Zhang Wanbang's headquarters is only more than [-] people, which makes Cao Yu feel more at ease-although there is no such thing as "Zhang Jiajun" in Zhang Wanbang's department, but his department is Gao Situ" He is a model of "controlling riding with steps", if his unit suffers a lot of losses, Gao Situ will not be able to explain it if he can't do it well.Now Zhang Wanbang's loss is very small, presumably Gao Situ must be satisfied when he heard the news.

Gao Situ's support is Cao Yu's biggest hole card and the source of his confidence.With this Beiguan victory, and Li Chengliang had an accident, Gao Situ didn't support him, who else could support Cao Yu as the general soldier of Liaodong?
Cao Yu was excited for a while in the Buzhai room by himself before gradually calming down, and then he thought of a question: Can these three letters be used as criminal evidence?

For Nurhachi, this letter should be enough, because Nurhachi is a "captive chieftain" and belongs to the group of people who "have different hearts if they are not my race".

To put it bluntly, the imperial court may not even need any conclusive evidence to deal with these captive chieftains. As long as the imperial court or even the governor of Liaodong and the general town feel that you should beat them, then maybe they will come to you the next day A large army is crushing the situation.As for the captive chief himself, you can either choose to send envoys to surrender, and lie down and let the ridicule go;

To be honest, lying flat and letting the ridicule be the best option.For example, Gao Yushi killed the two Baylors without saying a word, but Ye He immediately lay down and let the ridicule go, and he didn't dare to say anything more. The result was that the Ming army went out to rescue them and life and death. Heaven recreates.

But it is not so good to choose to resist stubbornly. For example, Wang Gao refused to listen to Li Chengliang's greetings and insisted on being a hero. As a result, Li Yincheng Liting swept the hole and broke the Gule village twice—one time for his father Wang Gao and one time for his father. His son, Atai, was completely wiped out once.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for Wang Gao and his son who insisted on jumping on the grave and working to death, there would be no such thing as Nurhachi later.

So Nurhachi's criminal evidence must be useful, it is nothing more than whether Gao Situ intends to use this criminal evidence to trouble Nurhachi.However, whether it is necessary or not is a matter of high pragmatism, but he, Cao Yu, handed in this letter, which can be regarded as a meritorious service.

But whether the two letters of "Tong Weixun" count as evidence against Li Chengliang or not, Cao Yan came to his senses and thought about it, but felt a little uncertain.

The biggest hidden danger of these two letters is that the name of "Master" is not mentioned throughout, and the "Tong Weixun" who signed the letter, Cao Yan has no idea who it is.

The surname Tong is a common surname in Liaodong. It is said that it originated from the surname Gui.According to the historical book "Road History", at the end of the Xia Dynasty, King Tang actively prepared to attack Xia Jie.After Zhonggu returned to Shangtang, his descendants took the ancestor's name as their surname and called them Zhonggu Clan. Later, they changed the character "End" to the single surname "Dongshi" without the radical of "Si", and then added the radical of "Ren" to call it Tongshi. It has been handed down from generation to generation, and it is called Tong's authentic name in history, which is one of the very ancient surnames.

At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern Yan period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, there was a great scholar Tong Wan in Liaodong, and then a general Tong Shou. Therefore, the surname Tong took Liaodong as the prefect, just like "Longxi Li" and "Taiyuan Li". "Wang" and other famous surnames are generally Gaomen.Later, the Tong surname took Liaodong as its base and slowly migrated to the south.Probably in the Ming Dynasty, the population of the Tong surname was mainly concentrated in the Hebei area, but it was always the common surname in Liaodong.

However, it should be noted that the Tong surname at this time has both origins and differences from Tong Jia, the later Manchu family surname in the Tartar Qing Dynasty.

The Manchu Tong Jia family, Donggiya Hala in Manchu, originated from the Han Tong family. After entering the Manchurian Banner, a "jia" character was added after the surname to distinguish the Han surnames that did not enter the banner.

This Tong Jia family was originally a non-Manchu surname. It was originally a giant of the Han nationality in Liaodong, and Tong Jia was originally a place name in Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province.

At the beginning of the establishment of the post-Jin regime at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were two brothers, Tong Yangxing and Tong Yangzheng, who lived in Tongjia's land and thought they were clans.Brothers Tong Yangxing and Tong Yangzheng moved to Fushun to make a fortune in trade. After the Jin army conquered Fushun, Tong Yangxing donated money to Nurhachi, while Tong Yangzheng simply took his family and belonged to the Zhenglan Banner Han Army newly formed by Nurhachi.

Later, Tong Guogang, the grandson of Tong Yangzheng, said in the 27th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Tartar Qing Dynasty: "The minister was ordered by the Taizu to examine the genealogy of the branch clan with the ministers of Tong Jia's Batu Limeng Atu, and now please return it to Manchuria."

As a result, the Ministry of Tartarism concluded: "Since the Tong Jia family has many official positions, it should have belonged to the Han army; but Tong Guogang's branch should enter Manchuria, so he is a Manchurian Zhengbai Banner." So the Tong Jia family, who was originally from the Han nationality, came. A "Manchu and Han are divided into Li, and the clan is large and branched, and it is the most famous among the eight surnames in the country."

In addition, some tribes in Mongolia and Qing Dynasty changed their surname to Tong after entering the banner.For example, Mongolia has Brutt, Dalut, Tongnigot, Tongniyaote, etc.; Manchu has Tongcang, Donga, Hesheli, Jiamuhu, Li Jia, Sakda's, Tang Da's, Tong Qi's, Tong Eluo's, Tong Saiyan's, Tu Seli's and so on.

Although the above reasons for changing the surname to Tong are various, many of them may be because the surname Tong was originally a common surname in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty-they may think that this surname is more noble, so they changed it for themselves. Self-proclaimed superior.

Since the surname Tong is a common surname in Liaodong, it would be very troublesome to find out who and where an unknown person with the surname Tong is.In other words, it is very difficult to prove that the "master" mentioned in Tong Weixun's letter is Li Chengliang.

First of all, you have to find this Tong Weixun, which does not need to be explained; secondly, because the more common the surname is, the easier it is to have the same name, so you have to prove that this Tong Weixun is the other Tong Weixun; finally, you have to prove that the master Tong Weixun said is Li Chengliang, not that he has another name in private. The identity is actually serving others, and it is just to hide the eyes and ears of Li Chengliang's house.

Take a look at this difficulty: first you have to find a needle in a haystack, after you find it, you have to prove that what I am looking for is this needle, and finally you have to prove that the owner of this needle is really his owner.

The dungeon is too difficult, and the player applied for weakening... Sorry, only Gao Wushi would have such an idea, and Cao Yan could only figure out a way by himself.

Think of a way, it's not that there are no ideas.

Although Li Chengliang had many followers, since Tong Weixun was in charge of dealing with the Mongols and wrote the letters himself, he must understand the "Fan language". Even if the two letters were written in Chinese, it would not change this fact.

Writing in Chinese only shows that Tong Weixun has a psychological advantage over the Mongols. He knows that even if he uses Chinese, the other party can't say nonsense like you are not polite.

What's more, these two letters were written to Burihatu, and as we all know, Burihatu is a scholar among the Mongolians, and his Chinese level is as high as that of the Ming Dynasty. He might be able to test for a scholar or something. Tong Weixun wrote in Chinese It doesn't bother him at all.

Therefore, Tong Weixun's identity only needs to be secretly checked among Li Chengliang's disciples, especially those who understand Fan language, and most of them will gain something.

The next problem is to prove that "this Tong Weixun is that Tong Weixun". This is not difficult at all, as long as you find the handwriting of "Li Chengliang's guest Tong Weixun" and compare it with these two letters, you can judge.

Confirmation of handwriting basically requires professionals in future generations. It is quite difficult for ordinary people to handle, especially if the other party deliberately conceals it. However, this matter does not need to be so "professional" in the present.

These days, the bigwigs in the imperial court are all academic masters, and their calligraphy attainments are higher than the other. Otherwise, they would probably fail in the imperial examinations. If you can be named on the gold list, at least the special fonts for imperial examinations must be solid. It is profound, and it is basically not difficult to write other fonts after the Taige script is written, because the foundation is hard enough.

Therefore, as long as the handwriting can be obtained, even if Cao Yu doesn't judge it, hand it in to the big bosses of the court for a look, judging the handwriting or something is just a child's play.Not to mention the bigwigs of the imperial court, even the current emperor is known for his good handwriting, so it is not difficult for Chen to decipher the handwriting of the two.

There are authentic works and photos of Wanli calligraphy, and the level can probably make some calligraphers feel ashamed.Historically, his handwriting was very good when he was a teenager. Zhang Juzheng exaggerated it at the beginning. As a result, Wanli was encouraged and worked harder to practice handwriting.Who knew that Zhang Juzheng would not exaggerate later, until one time, Zhang Juzheng finally spoke, but he advised the little emperor not to put all his energy on writing, but to read more useful books so that he can govern the country in the future .

Zhang Juzheng said to the young emperor at that time in his essay: "The emperor has paid attention to calligraphy for several years, and yesterday he saw the great book given to his ministers. The pen is powerful and the physique is dignified. The study should be the most important. From Yao and Shun to the sages of the Tang and Song dynasties, they all practiced morality, governed the world and stabilized the people. It is not known that there is skill. Only Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty knew the rhythm and could play Xiao Duqu. The Empress, Sui Yangdi, Song Huizong, and Ningzong were all able to write well, but there was no way to save them from chaos. It can be seen that the greatness of the emperor is not in skills. Now that the emperor's sage is blooming, it is appropriate to pay attention to governance in time, so as to The Holy Emperor Ming Wang is the Dharma, if writing is a matter of writing, if it is just for reassurance, even if it goes straight to Zhong and Wang, what is the benefit?"

What Zhang Juzheng said was actually true, but it may have caused a lot of psychological blow to little Zhu Yijun.However, Gao Gong replaced Zhang Juzheng in this life. He did not take responsibility for Wanli's love of calligraphy. Gao Wushi also told him that "it is better for the emperor to love writing than to love nonsense", so Wanli's calligraphy level in this life is better than in history.

People can be found, words can be correct, but there is only one difficulty, that is, even if the person is found, the other party is under the protection of Li Chengliang, how can he make him admit that the "master" mentioned in the letter is Li Chengliang What about me? ——
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