Daming Military Empire

Chapter 35 Liaodong
During the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong refers to the commander of Liaodong, that is, Liaodong Town in the nine border towns of the Ming Dynasty. It belongs to Shandong Xuancheng Chief Secretary. It is the largest military town in the Ming Dynasty. The area under its jurisdiction is only slightly smaller than the current Liaoning. a little.

Junzhen is a unique local administrative unit in the Ming Dynasty. It is a border defense area set up to resist Yuanmeng's counterattack. There are almost no administrative units such as counties, prefectures, and states in Junzhen, and most of them are guards.For example, Liaodong Town is composed of 25 guards and two prefectures, and the area under the jurisdiction of a guard is equivalent to a current county.

Ningyuanwei, where the mutiny took place this time, is such a small county, so why are the governor of Liaodong and the general army of Liaodong nested in such a small county?Since the 46th year of Wanli (AD 1618), Jianzhou Jurchen, that is, Houjin, has attacked Liaodong Town in an all-round way. By the first year of Chongzheng, the entire Liaodong Town was almost completely lost, leaving only a small area from Shanhaiguan-Ningyuan-Jinzhou As the last bastion to resist the invasion of Houjin, this is the famous Ningjin line of defense.

You must know that after passing Shanhaiguan, it is the boundary of the Beijing Normal University in Beizhili, and the importance of the Ningjin defense line can be imagined.Therefore, when they heard about the mutiny in Ningyuan, the entire Ming court was shocked. This is simply self-destructing the Great Wall. Once the Ningjin defense line is lost, Houjin's cavalry can drive straight in and rush all the way to the capital!
Sun Chengzong naturally knew the importance of the Ningjin line of defense. He hurriedly recruited Yuan Keli, the admiral of the Three Army Battalion, and Yuan Chonghuan, the left servant of the Ministry of War, and then set off with more than 1000 Jinyi guards.

It is almost a thousand miles from the capital to Shanhaiguan. Wang Zhichen originally thought that it would take at least ten days and a half months for the imperial envoys to arrive, but he never expected to meet such a fierce man as Sun Chengzong. I rushed to the Shanhaiwei resident in three days!
Wang Zhichen was organizing a group of cronies to cover up the evidence and create false appearances. Sun Chengzong caught him right at the beginning of this operation.Thus, a huge corrupt group appeared in front of Sun Chengzong. Even though he was used to big storms, he was taken aback by the greed of this group of people!
They not only withhold food and pay, but also take empty allowances, shoddy goods, smuggle and sell prohibited items, etc. In short, they will do anything that can make money, but they don't prepare for war properly!

This Bi Zisu was pushed out by them because he was too clean and honest. Originally, Wang Zhichen did not intend to withhold Ning Yuanwei’s food and salary, because Ning Yuanwei had a total of less than 5 horses, but he reported [-], even if the food and salary were all paid. They sent it, and half of the empty salary went into his pocket!However, this time the imperial court cleaned up the eunuch party too thoroughly, and officials like him who climbed up by relying on the eunuch party were also targeted for cleaning up, and he had to spend money to manage it up and down.

The money was wasted too much, so he started to feel distressed, so he just kept on doing nothing, withholding all the salary, just sending food and grass, anyway, there was no war, and being idle all day long, it is not bad to feed you all !

He thought that there should be no accident because there were people on the top, but he didn't expect that the top was covered, but the bottom was not. Ning Yuanwei actually made a commotion, and Bi Zisu committed suicide!
Wang Zhichen was originally the kind of person who was good at flattering and flattering. He knew that he couldn't escape being caught by Sun Chengzong, so he simply confessed honestly and tried to give it a good time. .

Now he is happy, but Sun Chengzong is not happy. The backbone of the Donglin Party has been corroded by nearly half of this guy!If this gets out, wouldn't the Donglin Party be notorious!
Sun Chengzong is facing a difficult decision at the moment. Either report the truth and the reputation of the Donglin Party will be completely destroyed, or if he does not report it, then his personal reputation will be destroyed. Maybe others will not know, but he knows in his heart ah!
According to his style of conduct, if it wasn't for the Donglin Party, he would dare to poke a hole even in the sky.But he hesitated when it came to the Donglin Party. Ye Xianggao, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, etc., the voices and smiles of the leaders of the Donglin Party came to his mind. Going out, how will the history of these strong and incorruptible Donglin party leaders be evaluated?

In the end, Sun Chengzong chose to conceal it in pain and refused to report it. He gritted his teeth and pronounced the sentence to Wang Zhichen: "List all the officials under your command who are suspected of corruption, and give me all the owed salary. I will spare you! "

Wang Zhichen couldn't believe his ears. He thought that if he fell into the hands of Sun Chengzong, he would definitely be dead. It would be good if he could fight for it. As long as he didn't kill him quickly, he would accept it, but he never thought that he still had a way out. !
He is not that kind of stupid person, and he understood the key point after a little turn in his mind. This Sun Chengzong is also a member of the Donglin Party, and he is also the leader of the Donglin Party. The so-called family ugliness should not be publicized. Shame!

With this understanding, he naturally cooperates actively. He will not hold back anyone who is involved in corruption, and will confess everything.The arrears of salary is not a big problem, the empty salary they eat is two or three times the salary, and more than half of the flowers are spent, the rest is enough to make up for the arrears of salary.

As a result, Wang Zhichen was dismissed from the position of Ji Liao Governor and Liaodong Economic Strategy, and was replaced by Yuan Keli, who was reappointed as Governor of Liaodong.As for the mutiny in Ningyuan, there is nothing difficult to deal with if you have money. First, click the one who took the lead in making trouble, and then pay the arrears. Who else would dare to make trouble?Who would want to die in boredom!

After quelling the Ningyuan mutiny, Sun Chengzong set up a strategy for the whole Liao Dynasty, which can be summed up in four points:
First, military training. Now the actual strength of the entire Ningjin defense line is less than 15, and more than half of the vacancies are empty. He recruited all the vacancies from the local military households and ordered them to drill day and night to prepare for battle at any time.

Second, build the city. All the garrisons of the Ningjin defense line were reinforced and built into battle fortresses one by one.

The third is to garrison the fields. Encourage local military households to open up wasteland and garrison fields. The court will provide seedlings, reduce taxes, and ensure the supply of food and grass for the garrison. It doesn’t matter if they can’t guarantee it. Yes, after Jin came, can they not protect it desperately?
Fourth, recruit talented people, establish Zhantian Hall, Land Search Hall, Translation Examination Hall, Spy Hall, Special Talent Hall, and Dali Hall to recruit various talents and strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army.

Under Sun Chengzong's management, Ning Jin's line of defense became stronger and stronger, and Huang Taiji was no longer in the mood to send a small group of troops to harass him, and he went to the Mongolian grassland to expand his power.

Ning Jin's defense line is indestructible, so Da Ming can sit back and relax?Of course not. The Ningjin Line of Defense is strikingly similar to the Maginot Line of World War II. The earth is round, so it’s useless for you to defend only one side. Although Huang Taiji is not Hitler, you can bypass such a simple strategy. Do you expect him to never figure it out?
Of course, Zhu Cijiong is not Zhu Youjian either. The important thing about detours is to be surprised. If the opponent finds out in advance, he will not know who will go in by then.

(End of this chapter)