Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1426 The Rage Has Fallen (Part [-])
There are rumors all over the world that the Li family in Tieling has the saying of "Nine Tiger Generals" since Li Chengliang.The Nine Tiger Generals became the five sons of Liang and the four sons.

If this statement is evaluated pragmatically by Gao, he will definitely scoff at it, because Li Rugui, who was almost "handled" by him before, is also one of the nine tiger generals.If such a character can also be called a "tiger general", then the tiger general would be too shameful.

Gao Yushi still agrees with the mainstream view of later generations, which is what is said in the historical records: " Among the sons of Chengliang, Rusong is the most courageous and has a fatherly style, followed by Rumei."

The Li family's army was passed down to the second generation, and only Li Rusong could undoubtedly be called a tiger general. If there were to be more, then only one Li Rumei could be found.As for the others... huh.

One of Li Rumei's main characteristics is that she is good at shooting, and outsiders often call her Xiao Li Guang.But most people don't know that Li Rumei's saber technique is also known as the best in Liaodong. Li Rusong once praised in private that "it's not under Brother Yu".

There may be a sense of self-effacing in this statement, but considering Li Rusong's straight-forward style of dealing with people, it is more likely to be true.

E Yidu's arrow proved that Li Rumei's sword skills are indeed good.You must know that it is not as easy as in martial arts novels to poke flying arrows with a knife. From a mechanical point of view, it requires not only accurate timing, but also a cleverness, otherwise the body of the arrow will be cut off. , while the arrow and the front half of the arrow body will still maintain the flight path and hit the target.

Seeing that Li Rumei swung away the Jurchen's heavy arrow, E Yidu couldn't help but change his expression slightly, and then remembered that the other party's arrow almost killed him just now, knowing that this person is really a strong enemy, so he stopped entangled with Li Rumei martial arts.

With an order from E Yidu, Hongba Yala divided into two parts, one part stepped forward to stop Li Rumei and Li Ning's soldiers, and the other part attacked Li Pinghu with superior force.

Although Li Pinghu himself is brave, but there are less than a hundred people under his command at this time, how can he be the opponent of Ba Yala's personal soldiers with nearly three times the strength?Although he killed seven people in a row, nearly half of the soldiers under his command were lost in an instant, and they could no longer support them.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Chengliang had no choice but to recall Li Rumei, intending to risk his troops, so he simply raised the banner of his commander-in-chief of Liaodong to gather the scattered family soldiers.Unexpectedly, the Baylor Mansion behind him suddenly raised another Baiba Yala banner, but An Feiyangu had already conquered the Baylor Mansion and killed him from behind.

Li Rumei and Li Ning were attacked from both sides, and they couldn't resist, so they could only protect Li Chengliang and run south.

But this move undoubtedly harmed Li Pinghu, and Edu gave An Feiyanggu the great contribution of chasing Li Chengliang to Anfei Yanggu, and joined forces with Hongba Yala's personal soldiers to besiege Li Pinghu.Li Pinghu was hit by seven arrows and barely escaped. When he went around and caught up with Li Chengliang, he passed out before he could meet him.

Li Chengliang was sad and anxious, and he didn't dare to stop, so he could only order someone to run away with Li Pinghu.At this time, they had just arrived not far from the south gate of the city, but they heard shouts of killing at the gate of the city. When they looked closely, the gate of the city was opened, Jianzhou soldiers rushed in, and the Ming army at the gate of the city had already collapsed.

Li Chengliang gasped, all thoughts were lost for a moment, he drew out the dagger from his waist and planned to kill himself.Li Rumei has sharp eyes, and hastily snatched his knife, saying: "Father must not do this, if father dies, none of our soldiers will be able to survive."

Li Chengliang said sadly: "If I don't die, you can live?" Li Rumei didn't know how to answer for a while.

But at this moment, a loud noise suddenly sounded not far away, like the sound of a city wall collapsing, and Li Chengliang, his father and son's cronies were all taken aback.Li Rubai hurried forward to check, and quickly brought a general over, but it was Qin Deyi.

Qin Deyi was overjoyed to see Li Chengliang, and hurried forward to explain the situation.It turned out that he was guarding the city wall between the southeast gate tonight. In the middle of the night, he suddenly noticed that the soldiers outside Nurhachi's city had moved.

At that time, he didn't expect that the other party would dare to rebel. He just thought that the Nurhachi people in the city could not suppress the opposition from outside the city, and suspected that these people were going to attack the city.Since the enemy's situation is unknown, it is not very certain, so we only mobilized some cannons and a batch of gunpowder from the artillery battalion first, just in case.

Needless to say about the later situation, he saw that Nurhachi had rebelled, and saw that Jianzhou soldiers were attacking the southeast city gate, and his own party was retreating steadily, and it was estimated that he might not be able to survive.Since the two city gates in the southeast cannot be kept, the enemy's entry into the city is already doomed.

For this reason, he ordered people to collect the fleeing horses, and at the same time arranged for gunpowder to blow up the city.What Li Chengliang and the others heard just now was the sound of the city wall being blown down by him.

Qin Deyi blew up the city wall, but he didn't dare to leave for a while, because Li Chengliang hadn't arrived, and he probably would have died if he escaped.But it just so happened that Li Chengliang came, so Qin Deyi was overjoyed.

Li Chengliang himself hesitated. Of the [-] elites in the city, [-] are his own or the direct descendants of the Li family. In the eyes of everyone, he is one of the [-] "Li Family Army".

Such an elite force of the direct line, could it be so easy to give up now?

However, Li Chengliang couldn't hesitate for long, because An Fei Yanggu and E Yi had already rushed over, and this time they brought not only the red and white cows, but also the two thousand Jian who had just entered the city. State soldiers also came under their command to double-team Li Chengliang and others.

Li Chengliang sighed, and ordered to evacuate from the collapsed wall according to Qin Deyi's intention-it was said to be evacuated, but it was actually to escape.Fortunately, Qin Deyi had collected more than 500 war horses at this time. Although the red and white Ba Yala were strong in fighting power, they could not outrun galloping horses. Li Chengliang, his son and his cronies narrowly escaped.

After leaving the city, Li Chengliang looked back and burst into tears.Of the 400 iron cavalry, only [-] or so escaped. Li Pinghu, who he had always relied on as the guard of the Chinese army, was seriously injured.

For some reason, the news of Li Chengliang's defeat spread very quickly. Cao Yu found out the next day, and he was discussing with Qi Jin how to proceed with the next step. One of the conquests to build the state should be military affairs.

Cao Yu didn't know whether this was good news or bad news, and he was a prudent person. When Li Chengliang's defeat was inexplicable but he didn't know the exact inside information, he could only ask Ma Chengxun to keep in touch with him. It was decided to join forces at Mardunzhai first.This actually changed Li Chengliang's so-called four-way army's intention to encircle Hetuala.

Cao Yu is still struggling to understand the cause of the incident and how to play next, but the movement in the capital is actually faster than that in Liaodong—Gao Wushi didn't make a move, but someone impeached Li Chengliang first.

First, Han Xianyou, the censor of Shandong Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, impeached Li Chengliang for killing good men and taking meritorious deeds. The impeachment chapter said:
"I have been stationed in Liaoyang for a long time, and I asked Li Chengliang about the past, and I heard all the theories, such as saying that there are many first achievements and false increases, so it is not false. What's more: the Liao people are also, the growth and decline between the houses, and the penny and the baht. Rich families have sons, and they are recruited by selecting scholars, and bribes are enough. The bribes are based on production.

About tens of thousands of households are brought into one family, and the elite of hundreds of cities are gathered into one surname, so they can also fight; when they send out troops, their families or people carry one head out, which the Liao people call carrying.Bigui, there are many captives, and I don't know where they came from, so I can cry bitterly!
When Qian Renshen (the sixth year of Longqing, 1572) was viewing it, Li Chengliang had an inner master, and the flames were so blazing that the envoy ate a few times, and occasionally murmured to himself, saying: "This is a prosperous autumn, and I will be strong with a victory!"Tomorrow, the police will be sent suddenly, and the letter from Ejie will arrive, and dozens of heads will be captured.

He was also a native of Shanxi in the military constitution, and those who were well-off in the village asked him privately, and replied: "The generals here are doing things, why ask?"There is no captive in fact.Since there are many first meritorious service, all marital relatives and slaves all pay homage to the lord, and the rich salary goes to the private family.I have reported victories endlessly, captives and invaders have continued, and I have lost dozens of castles, all of which are plowed into fields. According to the old records, I will inquire about it, and I will not be able to trace it for a long time.All the bribes for partial benefits have a sum of money, and the soil and materials are wrongly produced in Liao Dynasty, and they are covered with scales and collected.It's not without military exploits, it really can't be blamed for the crime..."

According to this chapter, Li Chengliang's murder of the good and false meritorious deeds did not happen in a day or two, nor in a year or two. It turned out that it had already started during the Longqing period, but it started to happen more and more in the past few years.

With the appearance of this bullet, more bullets began to swarm in. At the beginning, everyone was still talking about the crime of killing the good and pretending to be meritorious, but gradually began to talk about corruption.Although Gao Pragmatism did not deliberately call for it, the officials of the Practical School could not bear to end it in person.

Hou Xianchun, who visited Liaodong last year, also impeached Li Chengliang. The impeachment said:
"Chengliang...is a daily business plan. In the market, he selects thousands of good horses every year, and deducts the official price of 5 to [-] taels. The big Sima loses the price of the horse to enter the border, and Chengliang only fills the desire of the valley.

In the salt class, there are thousands of references to salt.Another thirty or forty thousand was offered.Da Sinong opened Liaonan salt to pay for it, which became Liang's self-serving monopoly.In Kuandian, Qinghe and other places, the yearly military salary is 3 taels, and the annual ginseng is more than five thousand catties.

They also sent ten catties to each family, or five or seven catties, and the price was 3 to [-] taels of silver.Those of the scientific school, confidants Xia Shoumao, Miao Wei and so on.The recipient, family member Li Dingye.If the family is fat, the people will be barren.

Kaiyuan Wudian and other places offer 3000 pieces of mink fur every year.Each of the generals offered more than twenty taels of sand gold.Another [-] taels of gold was given to the residents.The vendor sold three thousand mink furs, worth no less than twenty thousand taels.Dispersed, confidants Zhang Wenxue, Xiao Xie and so on.The recipient is Li Dingye from Yi's family.The gathering of wealth, the residence of resentment.

In the event of an accident in the place, the generals from all walks of life will give out five hundred silver each, and the name is: Xie Bu Li.If you count it once, you will receive ten thousand gold and put it into your private pocket.The Xiebu and other fees, whether thousands of gold or ten thousand gold, come from the generals of the camp.If Li Ning fails, the four cattail bags of silver can be pushed.

In case of rewards from the imperial court, half of the troops will be distributed to each army with clothing, skins and other items, saying: "Yes."It is calculated that the ten thousand gold received each time is half filled into private pockets.As for promotion to an official position, one thousand taels of vacancies, or 500 taels, each has its own quota.For example, if Dai Liangdong was recently promoted to be a general, he would get 1000 taels of silver..."

One by one, one by one, reading it is like seeing it in person.

In fact, Gao Yushi knew about Li Chengliang's murder and false merit in his previous life, but he didn't deliberately investigate it carefully.In fact, as far as he knew, at least as early as the sixth year of Wanli, Li Chengliang condoned his subordinates to kill and surrender.

In "Yixian Chronicles", it was recorded that Li Chengliang's subordinates bought the heads of Han people as military exploits.But the history of the past life is different from the present. In the previous life, ten years before Wanli, Li Chengliang was sheltered by Zhang Juzheng, so most of his criminal evidence was not exposed. of various crimes.

Li Chengliang's faults were continuously reported, and most of them accused him of falsification, cover-up, and even killing good people and pretending to be enemies, committing the crime of deceiving the emperor.

For example, in March of the 16th year of Wanli, Li Chengliang was rewarded for his meritorious service in killing the enemy when he crusaded against the Yehe tribe in Haixi.However, according to the "Wanli Dichao" record: "In the spring of 16th, the siege of Nalin Polo (Nalinbulu) was suppressed. Half of the soldiers died. Thousands of sergeants carts were frozen to death in the cold weather. Because there was no meritorious service , So he cut off more than 550 dead soldiers and submitted them for inspection. The censor Xu Shou'en wanted to impeach him. But the governor tried to stop him by coercing him, but he rewarded him with merit. Now Shou'en is in Shu, so he can be summoned and asked."

It can be seen that not all of its merits are true.In addition, "Shenzong Shilu" also records that "Chengliang knew that the attack and killing of the barbarians had filled the mouths of the barbarians, so he secretly taught Guo Mengzheng to lure the barbarians, using the wealth of Shimen Flower Valley to guide the way, and ordering robbery to prove the crime of barbarians. Deputy General Sun Chaoliang was afraid of his success, so he ordered Li Pinghu to bribe the barbarians and rob Liaoyang two or three times a day. He also secretly ordered Beiyu Zhang Dong and others to support him, so that Chaoliang could not join forces with the bandits. Therefore, (Bing Section Zhang) responded The matter of participating in Shimen on the topic is to realize Liang's contribution to concealing the murder. Singing and singing together, it is like responding." There are many things such as the impeachment of Li Chengliang for greed and murder, so I won't list them one by one.

However, even so, the palace never responded.

No response, there are two possibilities for this situation, one is that the emperor did not report, because he thought that the evidence was insufficient or he did not want to pursue it for other reasons; .

So the next day, Ren Yang, the imperial censor of Zhili, was careless. He impeached Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, his father and son, and his brothers, and listed them in Xuanliao Jibao.

Ren Yangxin played Zhang Yun: "When Shi Heng and Qiuluan did not rebel, they held the handle first. Fortunately, they all attacked early, and it was easy to wipe out their traitors. Now Chengliang is stationed in the left of Liao, like a pine stationed in Xuanfu, like a camphor stationed in Miyun , Chengcai stationed in Huanghua, and Li Pinghu, Li Xing, Li Ning, Wang Weifan, etc. were all married and raised as towns, and there are countless tours. Surrounding Shenjing, there is nothing to shake the arrogance, but Rubai is greedy. He is very domineering, and if he is expelled, something else will happen..."

This time, the accusation of Li Chengliang's crimes was not limited to the actual crimes, but began to rise to the fact that there were too many military officials. When the court and civil and military officials saw this bullet, they all held their breath and waited for the emperor to judge.

(End of this chapter)