Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 948 The Uneasy Li Chengliang
Uncle Ning Yuan and Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief guarding Liaodong, have been in a bad mood recently.

Originally, as the main force on the right side of the Battle of Monan, although it was said to be only a secondary theater of the entire war, since he and his eldest son Li Rusong both obtained the record of a Mongolian leader's battle, they actually ranked first in terms of merit. quite forward.

In addition to Gao Yushi and several governors, he is the number one military official in the Ming Dynasty, even higher than Qi Jiguang and Ma Gui. As for his eldest son Li Rusong, his merit is also higher than Ma Chengxun, the descendant of the Ma family.

Hmph, Dong Li and Xi Ma, after all, I, Dong Li, is pressing Xi Ma!

But that's pretty much the end of the good news, because what follows is a series of troubles.

First of all, the Ministry of War is picking and choosing the credits reported by Liaodong—well, it is said that it is not the Ministry of War that is making trouble for him, but the Ministry of Households is picking and choosing.

The Ministry of War has nothing to do about it. Sima Wu even condescended and wrote him a letter to explain the situation, asking him to understand the difficulties of the Ministry of War. If the lion opens his mouth, the household department will directly drop the pick, and simply not give a penny. Whoever can play around in this household department will come, and the headquarters will invite him to become an official.

Of course Da Sima had to give him face, and Li Chengliang also had a headache when he heard the news. After careful consideration, he had no choice but to erase part of the credit for the false report, which was rare and honest.

Who knows that this is not over yet, the military department is very cooperative, without changing a single word, and directly forwarded the report, but the household department still refuses to give money, saying that in this war, the main force of Tumen was attracted to Tumote, In the end, it was Xuanda who fought the main force of Tumen, so in terms of rewards, Xuanda had to be higher than Jiliao—in any case, Liaodong’s rewards were cut across the board, directly reduced by [-]%.

This made Li Chengliang so angry that he almost scolded his mother in public. Rewards are the key to stabilizing his military morale. Thirty percent, he will not have no money to send it on.

However, 17% is not a small amount. The rewards and weapons, gunpowder and other supplements reported by the Liaodong Army add up to as much as [-].

And because the Liaodong Army itself did not have many casualties in this battle, in fact, the 11 taels here are pure rewards. If he is 3% less, that is a loss of more than [-] taels of silver. What is missing is that Li Chengliang could have put it in. The silver in my pocket!
There is one thing to say, Li Chengliang is greedy, but he does not go greedy for the rewards that should have been given to his servants, because these [-] cavalry are almost all the capital of his career!

Therefore, if the Ministry of Accounts does not give this money, Li Chengliang is equivalent to losing money himself-although in fact he just took less rewards.

The issue of money was still in a state of desperation, and Tumen continued to rob Qi Jiguang's food road first-of course, this was not Li Chengliang's business, he was too lazy to bother.But then Tumen went to Tieling to cause a wave of big incidents, not only broke Zhenxi Fort, defeated Tieling Guards, and even urinated on Li Chengliang's ancestral grave!

Li Chengliang was almost pissed off at this moment. When he heard the news, he was so angry that he let go of his anger and finally woke up. Without saying a word, he clamored to beat Chahanhot again Tumen Khan's head was made into a chamber pot and used to apologize to the ancestors.

But it didn't work out, because the rewards from the previous wave hadn't arrived yet, and the servants were really not interested in beating Chahanhot again. To get them moving again, except for being hit on the head by Tumen Except for the possible situation, we can only wait for the reward to come down first.

Li Chengliang could not take the thoughts of the guards seriously, but he couldn't take the thoughts of the servants seriously, so this matter was stranded in such a thunderous and rainy way.

If these two things are purely bad things that will make Li Chengliang very upset, then the third thing is more complicated. It makes Li Chengliang at a loss, his mind is in a mess, he can't figure it out, he doesn't know what it is Good and bad.

The third thing is Li Chengliang's "Beijing Office" Kuai Ma Fei reported: Gao Wushi is coming to Liaodong to serve as Yuanma Siqing!
Li Chengliang was shocked by this news, he still couldn't figure out why he refused to spend his days in Beijing honestly with his highly pragmatic identity and status.

It was nothing more than fighting the Battle of Monan. At first, it seemed that this matter itself was mainly a "diplomatic incident", and then it caused a shocking change and a big war. Li Chengliang had this impression, but it was actually because the information he received was not good enough. It was completely caused. In fact, his judgment was obviously inaccurate.

After defeating Monan, you should stop being pragmatic. You are the heir of Gao Wenzheng, the only recognized six-scholar champion in the Ming Dynasty, and a classmate of His Majesty the Emperor. You will definitely be able to stay in the Imperial Academy for ten years at the latest. Add a servant, and then just hang out with the old man who has been an iron man for three years!

He almost wanted to run up to Gao Wushi and question him: Do you think you have a brain problem?Ge old man in his early thirties with a bright future ahead of him, you don't want to join the fun in Liaodong, what the hell are you doing? !
However, the overall situation of Gao Yushi's coming to the east has been settled, and the question that Li Chengliang needs to consider has become "what will happen when he comes?"

In fact, Li Chengliang was not worried at this time that Gao Yushi might try to move him. In his opinion, this should not be done at all—he, Li, honestly helped Daming to guard Liaodong. Without him, Li Chengliang, how could Liaodong have the current stable situation?
Therefore, he doesn't feel that Gao Yushi's visit here is aimed at him, but he has to worry about another issue, which is actually directly linked to his foundation, that is, once Gao Yushi comes to Liaodong in person, Jinghua's treatment of Liaodong may be very serious. It's not like it is now.

There is no doubt about the strength of Jinghua. Before Gao Yushi came to Beijing, he had a small test in Yanjing City, and taking down a Liang family with a net worth of hundreds of thousands was as easy as drinking cold water, which already explained the problem.

Previously, even though Jinghua's largest base was in Kaiping City, west of Shanhaiguan, it did not pay much attention to Liaodong, and its power basically stopped at Shanhaiguan.

Jinghua's only presence in Liaodong was to build a port near the mouth of the Liaohe River in Gaizhou's jurisdiction, called "Yingkou", and used it as a port for transferring materials to Liaodong.

Li Chengliang didn't care much about this. After all, Jinghua was famous for building ports. Although it built Yingkou Port, it didn't show any signs of further development in Liaodong. It seemed that it was just to earn money from those maritime merchants.

For Li Chengliang, the sea merchants' coming to Liaodong obviously has more advantages than disadvantages. In this way, he and his generals who also have a large amount of real estate in Liaodong can directly establish trade contacts with Jiangnan and other places, and many Liaodong specialties can be directly resold to These maritime merchants exchanged for the Jiangnan products brought by the maritime merchants at the same time. Both sides took what they needed and made a fortune together.

But... what happened when Gao Wushi personally came to Liaonan to sit in town?Will this still be the case?If Jinghua's forces enter Liaodong on a large scale, even if you think about it with your feet, it will inevitably erode the interests of him and Liaodong's generals. What will happen then?

Fighting with Gao Wushi?
Li Chengliang shuddered directly, which was unimaginable.

so what should I do now?
A tall young man in his late thirties hurried over and shouted at Li Chengliang, "Father, Gao Longwen has already passed Caozhuang Horse Station, and he will arrive at Ningyuan in an hour at most. Look...?"

Li Chengliang suddenly got up, grabbed the helmet with one hand, and immediately walked out, saying coldly: "What are you looking for, can I not go to greet you?"

The young man glanced at his father who was wearing the armor and hesitantly said: "Father, you don't look like you are going to greet him..."

"What do you know?" Li Chengliang snorted and pointed at him: "You are the same, I asked your younger brothers to go and change into military uniforms, and accompany me to meet this high inspector."

Observation is a respectful title for the inspectors and various ways.

(End of this chapter)