Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1366 Qualitative Change in Nancha Disturbance ([-])
Still the same as before, Gao Wushi learned that Liaobei Desheng was half a day earlier than the official channel of the imperial court. He got the news in the evening of the same day, and the official station sent the news to the capital at midnight.However, since the news of the victory was no more urgent than the military situation, the letter of victory was left in the office of the Ministry of War and lay there for half a night. It was not known to the court until the officials of the Ministry of War unpacked it the next day.

Perhaps the imperial court has reported a lot of victories in the past few years. Even if more than [-] horses were beheaded in the Battle of Liaobei, it did not cause much sensation. On the contrary, the accompanying news was more eye-catching than the victories.

There were two and a half pieces of news sent along with the Baojie Shu. One was that Nurhachi had an agreement with the Mongols to invade the Hada tribe in Nanguan, and had planned to join forces with Tumen; A tribute envoy has been sent and is heading for the capital.

The first message, while irritating, was honestly not a huge surprise.In fact, when the court heard that Nurhachi was going north to welcome his relatives, everyone guessed the reason. Now that the evidence of the crime is conclusive, it is nothing more than nailing the coffin, so there is no need to be shocked.

The second piece of news is also a foreshadowing. A few days ago, Cao Yu reported this matter, and the court also agreed. Now Ye He's tribute envoy is "officially" departing, which fully complies with the court's regulations.As for Ye He's wish to board a ship in Yingkou and come to Beijing by sea, the imperial court also "specially approved" to allow it.

The really shocking news is the remaining "half". Cao Yu mentioned a few words in the report, saying that after he recaptured Yehexi City, he found that Tumen had not been found in the mansion of the west city where Tumen had temporarily lived. And the letter taken away, from which some clues were found, which may involve someone providing gunpowder to the Mongols, and the amount is very large.

Cao Yu said that considering that Tumen may have deliberately designed to frame Zhongliang, he will not submit clues and evidence this time, and will submit a detailed report by himself after investigation.

This half of the news is far more explosive than the first two for the court officials.

First of all, since Cao Yu dared to bring up this matter, it means that he must have "clues" in his hand; secondly, since Cao Yu did not hide it, it is obvious that the person involved in this matter will neither be himself nor the Real School. A series of officials or generals; in the end, Cao Yu's half-spoken "sloppy eye" is more disturbing than directly poking it out.Because even if it wasn't done by yourself, what if it was done by your allies, or even officials recommended by you?

If it is done by an ally, out of "morality in the world", he will always reach out to try to rescue him; if it is done by an official recommended by himself, it will be even worse.When Gao Gong reformed the Ministry of Officials in the early years, he repeatedly emphasized a principle that the person who was promoted was punished for the matter, and the person who recommended it also needs to bear joint and several responsibilities.

For this reason, many officials, especially those with higher status, began to "self-examine and correct themselves" secretly, recalling who they had recommended to Liaodong.

Of course, there are still some people who hope that this incident was not done by local officials or generals. It would be better if a local tycoon chose to take the risk because of his obsession with money or for other reasons, and everything would be fine.It is said that a dead fellow Daoist does not kill a poor Daoist, but due to various reasons among Daoist officials, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between a Daoist and a poor Daoist, so it is better to kill an irrelevant person.

But there are also some smart people who know that things are not good at a glance, so they start to think of other ways.

Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue are obviously smart people. Judging from the test results of the year, these two people are simply extremely smart: the number one and the second place in the same list.

As soon as the two of them saw the news, they knew that the matter was mostly related to Li Chengliang, and it was for this reason that Cao Yu was hesitant to talk.

Involving Li Chengliang is now tantamount to involving the School of Mind, and Li Chengliang's situation is very special. As long as the School of Mind still wants to get a share of the war of destroying Yuan after three or four years, and not let the School of Reality focus on the former, then Li Chengliang will almost It is an unavoidable character.

Shen Shixing took the initiative to invite Wang Xijue to his office, and the two began to discuss countermeasures.

Before Gao Wushi set foot in Liaodong, Li Chengliang controlled most of the private markets in Liaodong. Even those who did not directly participate in it had to give him money, which was roughly equivalent to paying protection fees.

After the high-practice forces entered Liaodong, the situation changed slightly. With its strong economic power and trade capabilities, Jinghua developed in the short period of high-practice rule of Liaodong, and controlled four large-scale private markets and Nine small but important private markets.

Although in terms of the number of private markets, Jinghua is only about half of Li Chengliang's, but in terms of trade volume, the two sides are almost evenly divided.

Li Chengliang went from dominating the private market in Liaodong to fighting with Jinghua [-]-[-], the pressure in his heart was obviously enormous.Although Jinghua's entry is actually adhering to the consistent purpose of "making the cake bigger" and increasing the trade volume of the entire Liaodong, it has little impact on Li Chengliang's "absolute income". When Qianglong came over, it was very difficult to say how he would react.

On the surface, it is not very cost-effective to confront Jinghua head-on, and Li Chengliang is not very courageous as a general.Although his backer, Shen Shixing, is the chief assistant, in recent years, he has also shown a lack of pressure on Gao Pragmatism. Of course, a smart person like Li Chengliang would not beat an egg to a stone.

Under such circumstances, it is completely understandable to "develop" some new ways to make money.

Wang Xijue said to Shen Shixing: "The imperial court has not traded with Chahar for a long time, but there is no Ming Dynasty goods in Chahar? No, Chahar has always been able to get all kinds of goods, didn't Yuanfu know?"

Shi Shixing could only respond with a wry smile, of course he knew about this situation.

In the fourth year of Longqing, Wang Chonggu became the governor of Shanxi Xuanda Military Affairs, and advocated peace and mutual market with Ida.Under the strong support of Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and other important court officials, in the fifth year of Longqing, the Ming Dynasty canonized Altan Khan of Mongolia as the "King of Shunyi".

In addition to the official market, Wang Chonggu also promoted non-governmental Ming-Mongolian trade. Therefore, under the situation of Ming-Mongolian peace talks, the scale of trade between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia became larger and larger. "Rest at the border, starting from Yanyong in the east, and arriving in the seven towns of Jiayu in the west, thousands of miles away, the army and the people are happy to work, and there is no need for soldiers and leather, and the province is seven years old."

The resulting social effect is not only a long-term peaceful environment for Xuanhua and Datong, but also a continuous population return. In the past, Mongolian soldiers often went south to attack, and the locals ran away. There are worries about military disasters, and the opening of the border horse market provides opportunities for doing business, so everyone runs here.

But this brings up another problem, that is, Tumed has the right to conduct any trade with Ming, including exchanging horses, cattle and sheep for any category of goods they want.

Tumed is now almost Daming's die-hard younger brother, they can buy and sell Daming's products, this is no problem, and Gao Pragmatism has always insisted on it before.However, although the relationship between Tumed and Chahar is tense, they have the same origin after all, and the "Khans" on both sides are descendants of Genghis Khan, so the confrontation is the confrontation, and it is actually impossible to sever contact.

Especially the business connection, not to say that it can be broken, even if Hannaji is ordered, there must be countermeasures under the policy.What's more, it is more convenient for the Mongols to communicate with each other than the Ming Dynasty, and there are not many clear boundaries between them. Some tribes and generals secretly traded with each other, and it was impossible to find out even Hannaji.

This kind of thing not only happens now, but also led to the so-called "Shanxi merchants betraying the country" in the original history.

At that time, Jianzhou Jurchen was rising in Liaodong. After Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty in 46 years of Wanli, he also attached great importance to contacting various ministries in Monan Mongolia.After Huang Taiji inherited the Khan throne, he adopted a more active strategy against Mongolia through various means of both soft and hard.

In order to suppress the Jianzhou Jurchen, Daming once wooed and supported the Haixi Jurchen such as Ye Hebu.But in the 47th year of Wanli, after experiencing a series of setbacks such as the defeat of Sarhu, the fall of Kaiyuan and Tieling, and the attack of Yehe, Daming began to support the Chahar tribe of Monan Mongolia.

Chahar is the khan tent personally led by Emperor Dayuan and Mongolian Khan.In the early years, Daming reached a peace agreement with Tumed, but did not reach a similar tribute clause with Chahar. However, facing the aggressive Houjin at that time, in line with the principle of "the enemy of the enemy is an ally", Daming began to offer rewards Chahar.

Chahar Lindan Khan was also quite ambitious, trying to re-establish his status as a Great Khan in the Mongolian tribes in Monan.However, Hou Jin, who was actively managing Monan Mongolia, naturally had a direct military conflict with Chahar Lindan Khan, who was trying to establish his position in Monan Mongolia.

In February and March of 1626, when I heard that Nurhachi had just been repulsed by Yuan Chonghuan at the foot of Ningyuan City, Chahar Lindan Khan instigated the five coalition forces of Neikalkha to harass Houjin.

However, although Nurhachi met the nail of Yuan Chonghuan under the city of Ningyuan, the significance of this incident was mainly boasted by Yuan Chonghuan. Nurhachi did not suffer much loss and his military strength was still strong. Means of disintegration.

The battle went very smoothly. Nekarka was nomadic at the Xilamulun River in western Liaoning to Chifeng. After they were defeated by Houjin and fled, there was no buffer zone between Houjin and Chahar, and they were directly adjacent.

In 1627, in order to win over Aohan and Naiman, Houjin and Chahar clashed again.In order to avoid the threat of Hou Jin Bingfeng, Lin Danhan, who is strong on the outside and in the middle, made a move this year-moving west.

A chain effect like dominoes appeared at this time—Later Jin rose in Liaodong, conquered or wooed Monan Mongolia to the southwest, and fought against the Chahar tribe; Chahar was defeated, They had no choice but to move westward, oppressing Karaqin and Tumot who were originally in Xuanhua and outside the northern frontier of Shanxi.

From 1627 to the beginning of 1628, Chahar, which moved westward, fought many battles with the Tumed-Karaqin coalition forces outside Zhangjiakou, Guihua City and other places.At this time, the originally powerful Tumed had obviously corrupted, and the coalition forces gradually lost. In February 1628, Harqin Tabu Nang urgently dispatched envoys to seek help from Houjin, hoping to conclude an alliance against Chahar, and asked Tian Cong Khan Huang Taiji to send troops.Later Jin got the opportunity to launch the Western Expedition again.

In September 1628, October 1629 and May 1632, Hou Jin launched three western expeditions against Chahar.Finally, this time in May 1632, it arrived in Guihua City (Hohhot) of Tumote.

After Jin came to Guihua City, he also got an unexpected harvest: he got the opportunity to use the name of the Tumote Department to start a horse market trade with Daming.

In the middle and late June of that year, Huang Taiji went south from Guihua City, and sent letters to the Ming Dynasty defenders in Datong Deshengbao and Xuanhua Zhangjiakou respectively, requesting for the annual reward silver originally given to the Chahar tribe by the Ming Dynasty, and according to the past and the Tu Mert's example, open border market trade.

At the same time, he displayed his power outside the side wall, acting as if he was preparing for war and was about to attack the city, "negotiate peace or start a fight" to deter the Ming troops in the two places.

1632 was the fifth year of Chongzhen. The Ming guards in Datong and Zhangjiakou must have known about the long-term war between the Ming and Qing armies in Liaodong and Liaoxi, but they did not expect the Qing army to come to Tumed Mongolia so soon. In the distant Shanxi and Zhangbei areas.With a serious lack of defensive countermeasures, the Ming armies in Datong and Zhangjiakou quickly chose to compromise with the Qing army.

"On June 16th, the Ming Army sent 180 envoys to the camp to contribute, two cattle, eight sheep, four pieces of silk, four packs of tea leaves, six packs of tobacco leaves, 39 packs of white sugar, and nine packs of rock sugar...", The Qing army "rewarded each person with a sheep"; "on June 28, the Xuanfu guard sent envoys to discuss peace."

Therefore, after the Zhangjiakou Ming army guards reached a private agreement with the Qing army, the Ming army guards condoned the local businessmen and the Qing army to trade horses.The local people and businessmen in Zhangjiakou are naturally mainly from Shanxi.This is how the "Shanxi Merchants" in the late Ming Dynasty came into contact with the Qing army.

Falsely using the name of other ministries to carry out horse market trade and tribute exchanges with Daming has always been called "suppressing tribute" and "suppressing rewards". This phenomenon was very common in Mongolian and Jurchen ministries at that time.For example, when the relationship between the Chahar Department and Ming Dynasty was tense, the Ming Dynasty closed the horse market to him.For a long time, Chahar falsely used the names of the two ministries of Kabalin and Uqiyet in Neika to go to Guangning to hold tribute and to Kaiyuan Horse Market to hold rewards, and the Ming court did not intervene too much in this regard.

Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Qing army and the merchants of the Eight Banners of the Qing army used the name of Tumote to come to Datong and Zhangjiakou to trade with Shanxi merchants, taking advantage of the favorable conditions that opened the frontier Saima City after the Longqing Peace Conference. .Some Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou, with the permission of the local military and political officials of the Ming Dynasty, did business with the Qing army under the name of Tumet.

As for Shanxi merchants going out of the Great Wall to go outside the Great Wall or even within the territory of Houjin, including the so-called "providing information" to Houjin, there is no official historical basis, and they are all groundless rumors.

In other words, there was trade, not only later, but actually now.But to say that this is traitorous, at least from the legal level of Ming Dynasty, it is not yet possible to talk about it.

Chahar is now also prohibited from trading, but there are several channels for Chahar to obtain the output of Ming Dynasty, including "smuggling" with certain tribes in Tumet that are not directly under the Hanaji, including the two tribes of Nei Khalkha The name was legally privately marketed in Guangning (Li Chengliang's residence), and even obtained from Ye He before he invaded the east. As I said before, Ye He often acts as a second-hand dealer.

But Shen Shixing knew that Wang Xijue's statement was deliberately confusing the nature of the trade: Chahar obtained Ming output from Tumed, Yehe and even Neikalkha, and they were all resold, which was equivalent to an extra layer of "dealers". Definitely not worth the price.

The reason why Daming didn't pursue it much before is also the reason: since the ban is definitely unstoppable, it's not too bad for Chahar to spend more money, and it's okay to turn a blind eye.

However, what Cao Yu said this time is different. Li Chengliang may have directly conducted a transaction with Chahar this time. The profit must be shared between Li Chengliang and Chahar, and both parties can earn more.

And in this way, can the Ming Dynasty be satisfied?Obviously not.
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