Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1607 Unexpected Dilemma

In the previous 20 years, Chen Ju often visited Gao Yushi's residence and was a frequent visitor to Gao's residence.However, since the last time the emperor ordered Huang Mengyu to retire, Chen Ju has rarely come here, so his visit to Gaofu today can even be regarded as an ice-breaking trip in a sense-not that there is a relationship between him and Gao Yushi. "Ice", but to break the ice on behalf of the emperor.

The chief eunuch, the chief inspector of ceremonies, came to "bring a message" in person, which meant that the emperor believed that the relationship between him and Gao Yushi had not been affected by the previous events. "Talk" - this is the treatment enjoyed by Gao Pragmatism when he was a companion student in the past. At that time, he had a hat of "observing politics".

To be honest, Zhu Yijun's move was somewhat beyond Gao Pragmatic's expectations.

Judging from Zhu Yijun's original words directly recounted by Chen Ju, His Majesty the Emperor obviously guessed the high-practical position, that is, the court's focus should be shifted to Liaodong, and it must be ready to intervene at any time, so he said, "If He thinks that this matter will eventually involve a war, so let him arrange how to fight.” Such words.

But the problem is that Gao Wuzhen's current job is the Minister of the Ministry of Households, which has nothing to do with the Ministry of War, which is in charge of combat matters, and has nothing to do with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which often assigns officials to feudal borders. It is not easy to say, so the governors and governors of the towns are all officials dispatched by the central government, and they often hang the Minister of the Ministry of War, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the Royal Censor of the Right Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Deputy Capital Censor of the Left and Right, and the Capital of the Left and Right. Historical title.

Although these governors have actually become the local feudal officials, they have always belonged to the central system in terms of official system, and their power does not come from the establishment, but from the imperial decree.

Under this system, the governor’s nominal superiors are his superiors, such as the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Zuodu Yushi, but in fact they only need to be responsible to the emperor, because they are appointed by the emperor.

Some people may want to ask: what about the cabinet?
Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the Zhongshu Ministry after the Hu Weiyong case, so the serious "power of prime minister" no longer exists in the system, and the power of the cabinet is actually "acting part of the imperial power on behalf of".In the final analysis, the power of the cabinet comes from the transfer of imperial power-no matter what the reason for this transfer is and continues to this day.

That is to say, normally speaking, if the Liaodong side wants to fight, whether it is to actively send troops to intervene, or to rescue after Tumen launched an attack on Horqin and even Yehe, the only people involved are the emperor, the cabinet, the minister of the Ministry of war, and Zuo Du. There are only a few people such as Yushi, and they basically have nothing to do with Gao Yushi, the Minister of the Household Department-unless the emperor summons him to ask him if he can pay for the army, then it is considered to have something to do with him. In short, the war is definitely not his business.

However, the emperor was speaking privately this time, that is to say, let Gao Yushi do the work of the cabinet and the Minister of War in private, and put forward his meaning through the mouth of the minister of the Ministry of War, and then the emperor confirmed it.

Gao Yushi always felt that this seemed to be a bit of closed room politics, but he was not sure what the emperor's purpose was.

Is it to express to Gao Yushi that he still trusts him, or does the emperor think that it is safe for Gao Yushi to make up his mind about the war, or is there another purpose?
The possibility of the first two is very high, maybe it is both, but Gao Yushi has always preferred to think more than to think less, so he still thinks very carefully whether the emperor has other purposes for doing this.

After Chen Ju left, Gao Wushi stood on the balcony of the Rixin Building facing Shichahai and seemed to be looking at the scenery, but in fact he kept making calculations in his mind. After a long while, he thought of a possibility, which was based on the current situation of the second town of Jiliao The situation has come.

Although Jizhou and Liaodong are both under the jurisdiction of the governor of Jiliao, they have always been two towns. Jizhen is Jizhen, and Liaodong is Liaodong.Not only do these two towns have their own generals, but even the governors are different.

From the perspective of the governor's jurisdiction, Ji Town is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Shuntian, and Liaodong is of course under the jurisdiction of the governor of Liaodong. What's interesting is that the current main military and political officials in Ji and Liao belong to different factions.

At this moment, the governor of Jiliao is Li Song, the former governor of Liaodong who succeeded Zhou Yong. Of course, his faction is the Heart School, and his duty is to take charge of the military affairs of the two towns of Jiliao; Gu Yangqian, governor of Liaodong, belonged to the faction of the Real School; Cao Yu, the chief soldier of Jizhen, belonged to the Real School;

This situation is very interesting. The forces of the Practical School and the Heart School are intertwined in Jiliao Second Town.The highest military officer in name is Li Song, the governor of Jiliao, but the governor of Ming Dynasty has always had the power to manage the army, and when a war really breaks out, it is the various commanders who are directly responsible for leading the army.

This means that if this battle is fought now, almost no one can be sure whose orders the underlying army is ultimately acting on.It may be an order from the Zhijun, it may be from the Fujun, or it may be from the General Army... The ghost knows who the people below should listen to.

As for the Jiliao officials mentioned above, the others are all old acquaintances, so I won't introduce much here. I will mainly talk about Governor Cheng Xun of Shuntian. This is the first time this person has appeared on the scene.

Cheng Xun, courtesy name Weiqian, was born in Changyuan County.In the fifth year of Longqing of Mu Zong (1571), Xin Weike was a Jinshi, and was initially awarded the magistrate of Nanyang County.Because of the real government, he was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Officials, a calendar official in Shandong, and a deputy envoy in Yongping's military preparations, and went to Shanxi to serve as an inspector.In September of the 19th year of Wanli, he was ugly, and he was awarded the governor Shuntian until now.

In his hometown, he was courteous to his fellow villagers, and he was known as his stepmother for being extremely filial. He also taught his two younger brothers to study hard and make progress.One of the younger brothers became a Taoist, and he was selected as a Juren in Jimao (1579) of Wanli.

Changyuan County belonged to Henan in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty it belonged to the Daming Mansion of Beizhili, so it was not considered a high-ranking and pragmatic township party, but Cheng Xun was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Longqing, and the examiner that year was Zhang Siwei .Cheng Xun worshiped Zhang Siwei as his teacher, so he became a member of the Real School.

Now that he has become a member of the Practical School and a disciple of Zhang Siwei, the former chief assistant, naturally, as long as he does not have any accidents, his future is basically promising.

It can also be seen from his resume that although his starting standard was not high when he first became an official, he failed to stay in the capital and was sent to the county magistrate, but he is still an official with real power, not very bad, besides, he served as the county magistrate The most important place is Nanyang County, which is even more particular.

Nanyang County is the seat of Nanyang Prefecture, and its land belongs to Henan.Henan!In the Long and Wan eras of this life, Henan represented the "province" of the real school, and because of his background in the real school, he was exiled to Henan when he first took office.

And Nanyang (fu) was a developed area during the Han Dynasty. Later, with the gradual development of the Yangtze River Basin, although it was a bit behind the Han time, it was still a good place in Henan.Nanyang County, as the administrative seat of Nanyang Prefecture, is the most developed area in the entire Nanyang Prefecture. It is obviously the easiest to "make achievements" as a county magistrate here, so Cheng Xun "promoted the head of the Ministry of Officials because of his real government."

What is Cheng Xun's biggest real policy in Nanyang County?It was during his tenure that he introduced investment from the Jinghua Cement Plant to Nanyang County, and built the Nanyang Branch of the Jinghua Cement Plant.

In Nanyang, clay, marble, cement limestone and other minerals for making cement are relatively abundant, so Gao Pragmatism allowed the fourth branch of Jinghua Cement Factory to be established in the past, forming a win-win situation with Chengxun.

By the way, the Wucheng Alkali Mine in Tongbai County, the largest trona mine in Asia mentioned above when talking about glass manufacturing, also belongs to the jurisdiction of Nanyang Prefecture, and its mining area is only [-] miles away from Nanyang County.

When Gao Pragmatically developed this alkali mine on a small scale, he also took advantage of Cheng Xun's official reputation and popularity in southern Henan to make it easier for him to obtain the land in the area where the alkali mine belongs-after all, mining can drive employment, create profits and increase income. This kind of benefit is the same regardless of ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

Of course, the premise is that Jinghua’s capital-style real mining is not the kind of eunuch supervision and royal mining that Wanli engaged in in the original history (even though the bulk of the mining tax is actually commercial tax, mining still exists). Mining is an extra. The main "profit" is to squeeze or even blackmail local rich households.

All in all, Cheng Xun was promoted by creating "real politics" under the step-by-step "investment" of the Real School.Of course, this does not mean that he himself is dispensable. If a local official is not capable of cooperating, even if Gao Yushi is willing to invest, he may do nothing. There will be many such officials in later generations, let alone China in the [-]th century?Therefore, if he didn't mess up, it means that he is capable.

In any case, his identity and background are now very clear: Zhang Siwei's disciple, a cadre of the Practical School, and the governor of Shuntian who was personally supported by Gao Yushi.

Looking at it this way, from the perspective of the civil service system, the current situation in Jiliao is that the governor of Jiliao with the highest title is a member of the Xin school, while the governors of Jizhen and Liaodong are all members of the Real school, and both It belongs to the high-practical line of the Practical School.

Theoretically speaking, if there is a war between Ji and Liao, Li Song, the governor of Ji and Liao, should have the highest command (if the central government does not directly intervene), but in terms of Jizhen and Liaodong towns, as the two actual "Fujun" The governor of the school of thought can also give orders to the army-it depends on who the commander-in-chief listens to.

The commander-in-chief of Ji Town is Cao Yu, he was rescued from prison by Gao Yushi, and later returned to the peak with Gao Yushi, and even got his wish to become the commander-in-chief, so he must have listened to him— — That is to say, listen to the high and pragmatic.

But he has a problem here, and that is the issue of residence.The governor of Jiliao has two garrisons, one is Miyun and the other is Zunhua; the resident of Shuntian governor is relatively stable, and he is stationed in Jizhen; but he, the chief soldier of Jizhen, is not stationed in Jizhen now, but is also stationed in Zunhua. of.

Here is a brief explanation. Originally, the chief soldier of Jizhen could be stationed in either Jizhen or Zunhua. It mainly depends on where the chief soldier himself feels is more dangerous and weak, so he will station there.Relatively speaking, Zunhua is closer to the border, and was often "patronized" by the Mongols in the past, so there are more general soldiers stationed in Zunhua-Qi Jiguang is an exception, he is in Jizhen most of the time, and the Mongols found out after several attempts This may be a trap, and I don't like to play in his defense zone.

Later, under the command of Gao Yushi, Qi Jiguang captured Daning, and Daming began to rebuild Daning City and insisted on stationing. At this time, Zunhua is the closest border to Daning, so its strategic position is even more important. The military officers then began to stay in Zunhua.

Well, that’s all for the explanation. In short, the current situation is like this: Cheng Xun, governor of Shuntian, is stationed in Jizhen, while the governor of Jiliao, the chief soldier of Jizhen, and the imperial envoy guarding Shanhaiguan eunuch are also stationed in Zunhua.

Therefore, the problem Cao Yu faced was that the governor was too far away and the governor was too close—so close that he could give him orders face to face at any time.

The civil governor gave the order to the general under his command face to face. Unless the general was not afraid of being beheaded by the governor on the spot with the emperor's sword, it would be difficult for him to have the courage to resist the order.After all, if a military general was executed by the governor for disobedience, it might be difficult for Gao Pragmatic to rehabilitate him.

The situation in eastern Liaodong was not too good either. General Li Rusong was stationed in Guangning in western Liaoning, while governor Gu Yangqian was stationed in Liaoyang in eastern Liaoning.The straight-line distance between these two places is 250 miles. In fact, because the Liaohe Hetao area was not in the hands of Daming for a long time, the existing roads made a big circle from the coast.

Therefore, if Li Rusong wanted to, he could ignore Fu Jun's order and act first on the pretext that the order he received was not timely.Considering Li Rusong's temper, this is very likely to happen, and he can even say that he received the governor's order first.

However, the above analysis is based on the premise that "Da Ming took the initiative to intervene in an all-round way", so Jizhen needs to be involved.

If Daming did not intend to interfere in an all-round way, then Jizhen could generally stay still or only make false moves, and even Li Rusong, as the general officer of Liaodong, was mainly in charge of the western Liaoning area, it was not necessary to move.

With reference to the previous situation when Cao Yu sent troops to rescue Ye He's tribe, if the Liaodong deputy commander can complete the aid task with the force east of the Liaohe, it can also force Jizhen and Liaoxi to stand still and put out "the town's mission" Come in a calm, ready to go" formation.

After deliberation, Gao Yushi felt that this matter was somewhat troublesome.Although judging from the combat effectiveness of the Chahar Department when Cao Yu sent troops to rescue Ye He, this time Xiao Ruxun (as mentioned above, he succeeded Cao Yu as the deputy commander of Liaodong) as long as he can normally display his combat power in Liaodong, he will be able to rescue Ye He. It shouldn't be a big problem.

However, Xiao Ruxun and Cao Yu cannot be regarded as the same. Xiao Ruxun was suddenly promoted to his current position because he defended the lonely city alone during the Northwest Rebellion.But this shows the ability to defend the city. It is not clear to Gao Pragmatism what his ability in the field is.

Besides, although Xiao Ruxun's department was already considered a "pan-realistic school" in the early years, Yansui's side was not considered a direct descendant. The new firearms they got were very limited, and they might not be very familiar with the new tactical system promoted by Gao Yushi over the years.

This means that there may be differences in tactical habits between Xiao Ruxun and the current group of Xuan generals who are familiar with the new tactics in Liaodong. No one knows whether the two sides can cooperate perfectly.

Then there is the Horqin issue.If the Liaodong side only needed to help Ye He and keep Ye He from losing, then even if Xiao Ruxun was not familiar with the coordination with the generals Xuan, as long as they could perform normally and not mess around, they should be very confident.

However, because of the geographical relationship between Ye He and Horqin, they actually depended on each other when they faced Tumen.That is to say, if Yehe wants long-term peace, he must ensure that Horqin will not be annexed, otherwise the Tumen can drive straight in at any time, and without the cover of Horqin, the Tumen may not even have time to ask Daming for help when they come next time. No.

Gao Wushi frowned, unexpectedly, after careful consideration of this question, the trouble would be how to keep Horqin.

This Horqin is now a "true nomad". To rescue them, it is almost impossible to send an infantry-based force, only cavalry... How many cavalry can be mobilized from the eastern part of Liaodong?
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