Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 789 I Have Inside Information
From the late Jiajing period to the Longqing period, there were many famous ministers and generals of the Ming Dynasty, but in the Wanli period, especially the early Wanli period, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang were the most famous.

Qi Jiguang belonged to the son of a general. He inherited his father's position at the age of 17 and became a commander. The conclusion of later generations is very clear that he is a national hero.

As for Li Chengliang, he is actually the descendant of the general, and is the hereditary Commander of the Tieling Guard. Unfortunately, in his generation, his family is in a weak state, and he is so poor that he can't afford the travel expenses to go to the capital to inherit his position. go to Beijing.

At this time, there was no Jurchen incident, and the main problem on the Ming border was still the conflict with the Mongols.Everyone has been fighting for almost 200 years. Today you rob me, tomorrow I will kill you.

In the first year of Longqing, Li Chengliang finally returned to Liaodong. At this time, he was already in his forties, but he started from scratch and lived a military career with one sword and one gun.

The position of Liaodong General Soldier is not easy to do. He has to face the Mongolian left wing and Jurchen alone.Regarding these two forces, the imperial court's attitude is to fight against one faction and pull against one faction. The Jurchen were deliberately supported by Daming, with the purpose of fighting against Mongolia.

However, Jurchen and Daming are inseparable in appearance, and in fact they each take what they need. Many of Li Chengliang's predecessors died at the hands of Mongols, and some died at the hands of Jurchen.

When Li Chengliang was a leader, he was actually somewhat similar to Gao Pragmatism. He led his troops and never instilled in his subordinates such things as the destiny and the emperor's benevolence.His style is very simple and rude, as long as the soldiers fight the enemy bravely, he is satisfied with all the glory and wealth, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling!So many Mongols and Jurchens came to serve him.

There are three Jurchen tribes in Liaodong: Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen, and Donghai Jurchen (savage Jurchen). These three tribes also fought with each other from time to time.

Among them, Jianzhou Jurchen is the most powerful. It was originally the three guards of Jianzhou established in the Ming Dynasty, but in this era, they have basically changed from defenders to robbers.

Li Chengliang has two main strategies to deal with the Jurchen: on the one hand, use the barbarians to control the barbarians, and fight one by one; on the other hand, he never kills them all, and always guarantees to keep the enemy behind. fight.

As a result, there were constant battles outside the pass, but his military exploits accumulated again and again, and he even won the title, becoming an indispensable pillar of the court, especially in Liaodong, no one disrespected him three points.

Compared with Li Chengliang, who is "good at making a living", Qi Jiguang is much more "stupid". He is more inclined to solve the problem at one time. In his opinion, the stability of the frontier depends on the devastating blow to the enemy. If you want to attack the enemy sexually, then strengthen yourself so that the enemy has nothing to take advantage of.

At that time, Qi Jiguang was transferred to the northern border to guard against the threat from Mongolia after clearing the southeast coast of Japan.He always wanted to adopt a one-and-done strategy from the very beginning, and strived to carry out destructive purges so that the enemy would not dare to commit crimes again. However, because Mongolia was different from the Japanese pirates, the Japanese pirates were basically infantry. Sexual strikes can be done, but not for Mongolia. After several attempts, they can only be defeated and repelled.

Coupled with the change of the imperial court's policy, it became "West Huai Dong System", so Qi Jiguang mainly turned to defense, began to repair the Great Wall, built hollow enemy platforms, researched and developed various weapons and military tactics, in order to consolidate the defense line for a long time.

Later, when the Mongols saw that Jizhen could not get any benefits, they gradually stopped committing crimes here.

This is of course a good thing for a country, but not necessarily for Qi Jiguang personally.In the tenth year of Wanli in history, Zhang Juzheng died of illness, and Qi Jiguang, who lost his value because of the stability of the border, was soon deposed as Zhang Juzheng's party. continue to be reused.

Qi Jiguang died in depression, and Li Chengliang was rich and honored all his life.The hugely contrasting ending told all the generals of the Ming Dynasty the best way to make a living. Therefore, during the great turmoil in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the generals of the Ming Dynasty, who were responsible for guarding the land, played the tricks of raising bandits and playing bandits to the extreme. In the end, the tragic ending of Chongzhen Emperor Meishan hanging himself was played out.

Perhaps, the self-respect of raising bandits was not the only reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but it must be one of the direct reasons.The most ridiculous thing is that when these people raised Kou, they regarded the Kou as a beast in a cage, but they didn't expect that the beast could tear the cage open and kill the hunter after being raised for a long time.

As for raising bandits, the No. 1 raising bandits in Ming Dynasty is Li Chengliang in his later years.

Originally, Gao Yushi thought that Li Chengliang should have started playing the game of raising bandits when he was in his 60s, but unexpectedly, he degenerated earlier than he thought, and started doing it before he was 60 years old.

Forget it, Zhu Yijun actually found out.

Did the Wanli Emperor in history ever discover this?I'm afraid there are some, after all, not all the idiots in the court, Li Chengliang has been impeached, it is impossible for Emperor Wanli not to have seen these memorials-he does not go to court, but it does not mean that he is ignoring politics. Is Zheng commanded by ghosts?
But why did the Wanli Emperor in history only depose Li Chengliang for a period of time, but finally let him return to his original post and continue to control Liaodong?

If I remember correctly, it should be in the 19th year of Wanli that Li Chengliang was impeached by the officials. In November, Emperor Wanli dismissed Li Chengliang from his position in Liaodong and asked him to come to Beijing to see him only as Uncle Ning Yuan.

In the 20th year of Wanli, Qi Bai rebelled in Ningxia, and the censor Mei Guozhen played, asking the court to re-appoint Li Chengliang, but Wang Dewan firmly believed that it was not possible, so the matter was shelved.In this way, Li Chengliang lost the opportunity to participate in the Battle of Ningxia.

However, Emperor Wanli sent his eldest son Li Rusong as the commander-in-chief to participate in the pacification of the Gaibai Rebellion. As a result, although Li Chengliang lost the opportunity to make a contribution, Li Rusong became a new generation of famous generals.At the same time, the generals led by Li Chengliang were also reused one after another.His subordinates Li Pinghu, Li Ning, Li Xing, Qin Deyi, Sun Shoulian and others all gained wealth and became important generals who ruled a place.

Since Li Chengliang left Liaodong, Liaodong has changed eight coaches in ten years, and Liaodong's border defense has been weakened step by step, providing objective conditions for Nurhachi's rise.

In August of the 29th year of Wanli, Ma Lin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, was impeached and convicted because of a dispute with Gao Huai, the tax envoy.University scholar Shen Yiguan wrote that although Li Chengliang was old, he could continue to lead troops.So the imperial court ordered Li Chengliang to town Liaodong again.

At this time, Li Chengliang was already 76 years old.However, at this time, the Tuman, Chang'ang, and Tu'er who faced the left wing of Mongolia in Liaodong had all passed away, and there were very few Mongolian invaders.Before Kaiyuan, Fushun, and Guangning, Kaima, Mu, and other cities, the Jurchen tribes were quite submissive in order to obtain profits.

This is a good thing for the imperial court, but it is a bad thing for Li Chengliang, because in his thinking, "the cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks", if the border is stabilized, the Mongols and the Jurchens will honestly kneel down and call Da Ming's father, then there will be more What's the use of his lackey?

So in order to completely destroy the possibility of the alliance between Daming and other Mongols and Jurchens, he carried out violent conquests, first attacking Subahai of the Taining Ministry, and then Yehe Jurchen and others successively.During this period, Nurhachi had unified the Jianzhou Jurchen, and was gradually eroding the Haixi Jurchen, and his strength continued to grow. In order to cultivate the enemy, Li Chengliang deliberately turned a blind eye.

In the early years of Wanli, Li Chengliang proposed to build the Six Forts of Kuandian. By the middle and late Wanli period, there were already more than [-] households in the Six Forts. The strength of Ming Dynasty in the eastern part of Liaodong was obviously strengthened, and it had enough deterrent power against Jianzhou Jurchen. It was the correct decision he made from the standpoint of Daming in his early years.

But in the 34th year of Wanli, Li Chengliang, in order to support himself, abandoned the six forts of Kuandian on the grounds that the six forts of Kuandian were isolated and difficult to defend, and moved more than 36 residents there to the inland. Attached to his family and did not want to leave, Li Chengliang even drove them away with a large army, and even caused a lot of bloodshed, causing many casualties. For this reason, he was impeached again. In the [-]th year of Wanli, Li Chengliang was impeached again.

When Xiong Tingbi was guarding Liaodong, he once clearly said that Li Chengliang's crime could lead to death.However, Zhu Yijun still didn't kill him, he just "dismissed him" instead of killing him.

Now Gao Wushi feels that the most important thing for him is to understand that the Wanli Emperor in history should also be able to see that Li Chengliang is raising his own self-esteem, so why didn't he kill him?
Even judging from what Zhu Yijun said to him today, he already knew Li Chengliang's self-respect for raising bandits like the palm of his hand.

In this case, the problem is even bigger: why not kill him?

Li Chengliang is not a man of high pragmatism. With Gao Wuzhen's current reputation, if the emperor kills him, he will definitely be "infamy." However, Li Chengliang is a military general. Dare to rebel?

What a joke, Liaodong at this time is not the "Bei Dacang" of later generations. Even if the Liaodong army really rebelled, as long as the Central Plains cut off food and pay, Liaodong itself would kill each other, and Shanhaiguan would not be able to enter.

Gao Yushi scratched his head a bit, he really couldn't think of a perfect answer, he could only guess in his heart that there must be some situation that he didn't grasp, and that or those situations seriously affected Wanli's decision.

So he tentatively asked: "If the emperor thinks that Li Chengliang is guilty of the grace, he should be dismissed. Why bother?"

"Who should I use after dismissal?" Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "I have carefully reviewed the resumes of the generals in Liaodong. Now except for Li Chengliang, I am afraid that it is not safe to replace anyone else. Besides, the situation in Mongolia is not convenient for the imperial court to use now. Li Chengliang replaced."

"Why is that?" Gao Wushi asked.

Zhu Yijun sighed, and said: "I'm going to die now, and even sent my eldest grandson to Chahar. It seems that I don't have any ambitions, but Tumen is restless. I doubt if I answer now. If he dies suddenly, I am afraid that Tumen will have no worries. At that time, no matter whether he goes to seek the Mongolian right wing, or continues the "Eastern Expedition" to seek my Liaodong, it will be a bad thing for Daming.

Although Li Chengliang's victory has a lot of water, it was deliberately promoted by the court in order to frighten Chahar and Jurchen. Will something happen?If something goes wrong, how do you clean up the situation?How much will it cost to clean up this situation?All these have to be considered... To tell you the truth, this year I have already reduced or exempted more than 70 taels of taxes across the country. If there is trouble in Liaodong now, this money will be a hole. "

"So," Zhu Yijun concluded, "Li Chengliang can't be changed now, but I can't watch him mess around like this... This matter is difficult to handle before you come back. Now that you are back, I have I have an idea, let Li Chengliang be lawless for a while, wait for me to die and see the situation, and then I will take action."

Gao Wushi was surprised and said: "Your Majesty, when will I die? Is this matter... accurate?"

Zhu Yijun smiled triumphantly: "To be sure, I have inside information."
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