unclear

Chapter 93 Liaodong Li Family 2
The starting point is different, the input and motivation are definitely different, and the working methods are even different.Other generals were eager to settle the issue in one battle and kill all the Mongolian barbarians and Jurchen tribes.But Li Chengliang couldn't do this. As the ancients said, when the birds are gone and their bows are hidden, the enemy's troops will be useless after they have defeated them all.

How can you benefit yourself and your family in the long term?It's very simple. Li Chengliang was not the first to use this method, nor was he the last to use it. In four words, the most important thing is to protect the bandits!

If you want the Li family to have long-term peace and stability in Liaodong, you can't live without war. Even if you can live without it, you have to find a way to make it happen!The specific operation sounds very simple. It is nothing more than instigating the local tribes to attack each other and kill each other. I will be the referee on the side to control the scale at the right time and not make the situation too chaotic.

Among them, you can also find some corpses and heads of defeated people and bring them to the court to report their merits. You see, my Li family is not just a freeloader. I hold my head high to defend the Ming Dynasty all the time, shed my blood and devote myself to my life.

In addition to promotions, the Li family could also take the opportunity to ask the court for more military spending, and then sell Liaodong materials, such as grain and the like, to various tribes at high prices, making money on both sides.Anyway, the Liaodong area is under military control, and the commander-in-chief has the final say on this trivial matter. Even if someone complains to the court, they can only turn a blind eye and focus on the overall situation.

but!This kind of gameplay is a great test of the ability to control the field. Once the war expands, or a certain tribal force develops and becomes too big to lose, it will be counterattacked in minutes.

Li Chengliang played well in the first two to three decades of Liaodong and firmly stabilized the situation. Even if there were frequent small fights, no one could go further west.

Internally, the children of the Li family were recruited into the army to serve in the army, and they firmly controlled the army.He also raised a few more obedient dogs, and Nurhachi was the best biting one among them, and he would hit whoever he asked.

The Kuandian Six Forts were built under such circumstances. With the existence of solid military fortresses, and then connected to each other by city walls, it was a natural chasm that was difficult to overcome for tribal troops who lacked the ability and experience to attack fortresses.

But there is a saying that goes well, the peak will decline.When your military exploits and title are unmatched, and your position is as stable as Mount Tai, trouble is not far away.In the Ming Dynasty, when the civil servants controlled the government, no military general could be too outstanding or outstanding.

Speaking of which, Li Chengliang did not expect this. He was quite smart. He had been associated with Zhang Juzheng early on. With the chief minister of the cabinet sitting in the middle of the court, even if anyone wanted to impeach him, he could not succeed.

It's a pity that Zhang Juzheng didn't live long and passed away in his 50s. Li Chengliang and Zhang Juzheng cooperated so well at the beginning and left such a deep impression on others. No one wanted to change his family for a while, and he offended too many people!In the 19th year of Wanli, Li Chengliang was beaten to the end, leaving only the title of Ning Yuanbo.

The centipede is dead but not stiff, Li Chengliang is no longer the commander-in-chief, but the control of the Liaodong Cavalry is still in the hands of the Li family.This elite cavalry unit is nominally the imperial frontier army, but in fact it is the private army of the Li family.

Since Li Chengliang stepped down, the army in the Liaodong region seems to have lost its ability to fight. Even after changing eight coaches in ten years, there has still been no improvement.On the contrary, the tribal armed forces led by Nurhachi gradually increased their power, not only unifying the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou, but also including all the Jurchen tribes in the East China Sea and Haixi Jurchen.

Whether there was any arrangement by Li Chengliang, the Ministry of War, the Fifth Army Governor's Office, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang had no relevant information to check.But with Hong Tao's thief's mind, he still agrees with some.

After all, Nurhachi and Li Chengliang have a close relationship. When he was in office, he was the top thug under the Li family. As soon as he left office, he immediately stopped listening to greetings. His attitude toward the Liaodong garrison also made a 180-degree turn, from friendly forces to hostile forces. .

Based on the principle of who benefits and who is suspicious, the sudden rise of Nurhachi and Jianzhou Jurchen must be related to Li Chengliang.Of course, it must also be related to the short-sightedness and incompetence of the Ming Empire.The tycoons, traitors, and heroes in history all started their careers in this way. In addition to personal efforts and help from nobles, they must 100% rely on at least one major change of the times.As the old saying goes, good times make heroes. Without good times, it is like without wind, no matter how good the kite is, it cannot fly.

What happened next is even more interesting. In the year when Hong Tao was canonized as the crown prince, the situation in Liaodong was on the verge of collapse, and it would be difficult for anyone to leave.Emperor Wanli had no choice but to listen to Shen Yiguan's suggestion and re-enable Li Chengliang. This year Li Chengliang was 76 years old...

As expected, Lao Li had a knack, and he quickly stabilized the situation after taking office, and another five years passed like this.But starting from the end of last year, Li Chengliang suddenly suggested that the court abandon Kuandian Six Forts and shrink back its troops.

The reasons sound quite sufficient. Firstly, the Sixth Fort of Kuandian is far away from Liaoyang and other important military towns. Secondly, the Jurchen power in Jianzhou is getting stronger and stronger. When more troops are sent out, the logistics supplies cannot keep up, and when there are few soldiers left, they cannot withstand the attack. .

Rather than watching helplessly as we are unable to cope, it is better to proactively shrink the defense line to reduce consumption, and then move tens of thousands of local immigrant households inward to a solid wall to clear the country, so as not to allow the Jurchens who may invade the west to take advantage.

There was no fierce debate in the court about Li Chengliang's suggestion, and most of them thought it was acceptable, including the cabinet bachelors and the six ministers and nine ministers. Even if they were unwilling to do so, they could not argue with the arguments.

If Zhu Yuanzhang was alive and heard this suggestion, Hong Tao would bet that whoever proposed it would be waiting to be clicked.Lao Zhu fought tooth and nail to snatch back the land from neighboring villages with a hoe, but you guys gave it up after just a few hundred miles away!
If Zhu Di were alive and heard this suggestion, Hong Tao would also bet that whoever suggested it would be exiled from the army.Our ancestors have worked hard on such a good irrigated land for more than 200 years, but you actually don’t want it because it’s so far away. What a waste!
They are all emperors of the Lao Zhu family, and they are all ministers of the Lao Zhu family. Why do they have such opposing views on the same issue?As the ancients said, it doesn't hurt if you sell your father's land.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di had both led troops and fought in battles. Naturally, the ministers around them were not sticklers, and they had to know more or less military common sense to know what was important and what was important.The most important thing is that they are not afraid of fighting and know how to fight and when to fight.

The emperors who followed were all born into the prosperous world with golden keys in their mouths. Their concepts of war basically stayed in books, and the same was true for the ministers around them.A group of armchair warriors who have never fought in a war or been in a sea of ​​blood and corpses have only two choices when facing war.

If you are more impulsive than anyone else, charging forward regardless of the situation, with great momentum but without the courage to fight to the death, once the three axes fail to work, you will basically be defeated, and then you will fall into the other extreme and be extremely afraid of war.

Or else you just faint, and you don’t know whether you should fight or how to fight. What the minister said today makes sense, and what the minister says tomorrow is also very realistic, and then you change your order day by day and hesitate.

And this kind of person usually has a stubborn problem, extremely distrusting the frontline generals and extremely contemptuous of the enemy's ability.If you win, you will be afraid of being too successful and think about how to restrain yourself. If you lose, you will be furious and always feel like you are surrounded by trash.

The end result is that amateurs command experts, leaving frontline generals at a loss as to what to do and confused. They are dealing with the enemy's sharp blades while guarding against the cold arrows in their backs, and are in constant panic all day long.

(End of this chapter)