My life skills in Daming Liver

Regardless of whether it was feasible or not, Xu Kun finally decided to let his son give it a try.

It is better to go to Chongming Island to cause trouble than to cause trouble for yourself in Songjiang Mansion.

After sending his son away, Xu Kun began to nervously prepare the personnel list of the Songjiang Railway Company and build up the railway company's profile as soon as possible.

Preparations are being made to build a railway in the southeast, and major events are happening in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Xun, the commander of the nine-border new army of the Ming Dynasty who entered North Korea, was not in a good mood these days.

At the beginning, the Ming court's new army still achieved some results while Yi Sunchen was not paying attention, and even almost reached the gates of Seoul.

However, with the support from the southeast, Yi Sun-shin quickly established a firm foothold, firmly occupied several large cities and coastal strongholds, and then relied on progress to consolidate the results step by step.

But Li Xun still continued to send battle reports back to the country. These battle reports were that the Ming army had won a great victory in North Korea and was about to drive the southeastern army into the sea.

These battle reports greatly boosted the morale of the Ming court.

As Li Chunfang's only military achievement after coming to power, and in order to eliminate the negative impact of losing Hanzhong, Li Chunfang promoted the Ming army in North Korea as a model.

Promoting Li Xun's achievements was also Li Chunfang's attempt to suppress the increasingly arrogant local power factions, especially Li Chengliang, who dominated Shandong.

In this way, Li Xun was praised as a famous general in the Ming Dynasty's newspapers. Li Xun achieved some victories in North Korea and was praised as an epic victory.

Today Li Xun defeated the southeastern army in such-and-such city and beheaded thousands of people. Tomorrow Li Xun defeated Yi Sun-shin's headquarters and Yi Sun-shin retreated to Seoul.

This propaganda has indeed had some stabilizing effect on people's hearts.

At the same time, Li Chunfang relied on Li Xun's victories to send people to tighten control of Liaodong.

Shandong, Jeju City, Shandong Governor's Office.

"Father is handsome!"

Li Rusong walked into the Governor's Mansion and saw Li Chengliang checking letters, and said eagerly:

"Commander Father! The imperial court is really bullying people too much! A letter came from Liaodong, saying that the imperial court forced another 10,000 civilians to go to North Korea! They also forced us to levy military supplies in Liaoyang!"

Liaoyang is where the Li family made their fortune. Li Chengliang made his fortune from the position of commander of the capital of Liaoyang, and since Li Chengliang made his fortune, Liaoyang has always been his base camp.

This is the foundation of the Li family.

A few days ago, when the Southeast New Army was in Huguang, Xiong Kuang used cavalry to defeat Liu Shiyan's musketeers. After the details of the war were reported back to the Ming court, Li Chengliang immediately wrote a letter requesting to rebuild the Liaoyang cavalry and asked the court to help him in the battle. Liaoyang recruited cavalry and reorganized the cavalry.

However, the Ming court spent a lot of money on cavalry to reject Li Chengliang's request. At the same time, Li Chunfang continued to make small moves in the Liaodong area, trying to use Li Xun's victory to take over Liaodong.

This was naturally intolerable to the Li family. Although they were in Shandong, Shandong and Liaodong faced each other across the sea. Although Dengzhou Port was still in the hands of the southeast, Li Chengliang still established a port in Laizhou and traveled between Shandong and Liaodong by sea. The remote control is controlled in Liaodong.

Li Chunfang's little actions were all noticed by Li Chengliang. For example, the civilian husbands recruited this time, although they were called civilian husbands, were actually the forces left by the Li family in Liaodong.

The Ming court also passed wartime decrees to occupy some workshops and military camps in Liaodong, hoping to erode control of Liaodong through this method.

Li Chengliang put down the letter in his hand and said to his son:

"Our Prime Minister Li's biggest problem is that he cannot recognize the situation."

"When Prime Minister Zhang was in power, he did not dare to touch the troops in Liaodong. Li Chunfang was so sure. Without our Li family, would those Jurchens in the north be safe?"

Li Rusong immediately understood his father's intention. He looked at Li Chengliang and said, "What does your father mean by asking the Jurchens to give some information to the Ming court?"

Li Chengliang said: "Ask Li Rushe to take some troops back to Liaodong and show our Prime Minister Li some colors."

July.

The Jurchen tribe among the white mountains and black waters welcomed several riders.

Li Ruzhen finally got the chance to return to the tribe.

He was wearing brand new armor. In addition to this team of trusted cavalry from the headquarters, Li Rusong only gave him the title of Commander of the Jianzhou Guard.

However, Li Chengliang's prestige in Liaodong was extremely high. Relying on this canonization, Li Rushe quickly built a team among the Jianzhou Jurchens.

By the end of July, the Zhongshu Province in the capital received a snowflake-like report that the Liaodong Jurchens had rebelled!

Because the Liaodong Jurchens were dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty's brutal conquests in Liaodong, they formed a cavalry alliance among the white mountains and black waters, attacked the Ming Dynasty's transportation routes in Liaodong, and even cut off the Ming Dynasty's supplies to support North Korea!

Li Chunfang was sitting in Zhongshu Province and felt numb when she received the news.

Li Chunfang also had a guess about where these Jurchens came from.

Li Chengliang, who has been running Liaodong for many years, cannot be unaware of these small moves he made in Liaodong.

The war situation in North Korea is Li Chunfang's only political achievement worthy of praise after he came to power. Once the war in North Korea fails, it will have a huge blow to the prestige of Li Chunfang, the Prime Minister of Zhongshu.

Personal prestige has become an issue that the rulers in charge of the Ming Dynasty must consider.

After losing the powerful imperial power, the role Zhongshu Province could play largely depended on the personal prestige and political skills of Prime Minister Zhongshu.

Compared with Zhang Juzheng before him, Li Chunfang's ability and prestige were obviously insufficient, and even the officials couldn't control it.

Looking at the noisy crowd below, Li Chunfang rubbed her head.

He relied on speculation in Longqing to welcome the emperor back to the capital and entered the cabinet.

At that time, Li Chunfang looked at the glory of the chief minister of the cabinet and secretly determined to become the chief minister of the cabinet.

Later, after Gao Gong left office, Zhang Juzheng reorganized the cabinet into Zhongshu Province. As the prime minister of Zhongshu, he suppressed the royal family. He was called prime minister but was actually regent. It can be said that he was in infinite glory.

As the deputy prime minister of Zhongshu Province, Li Chunfang watched Zhang Juzheng display his power with envy.

But after getting rid of Zhang Juzheng and sitting in this position, Li Chunfang found that everything had changed.

Today is an internal meeting held by Li Chunfang at his residence with his cronies, discussing matters in Liaodong.

But his own party members have already become a quarrel. As it is, the enemy is expected to invade the capital, and his subordinates will not be able to discuss any useful countermeasures.

Li Chunfang rubbed her head, looked at the arguing subordinates, and finally cleared her throat.

"Everyone, can't everyone come up with a useful plan for the Jurchen rebellion in Jianzhou, Liaodong?"

Everyone was silent.

Li Chunfang's style is different from Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng is not stingy with credit and rewards for his capable subordinates.

But Li Chunfang's character is that of a wallflower, he wavers when encountering things, and rarely expresses his views directly. He will guide his subordinates to express the results he wants, and then choose a side to support.

The advantage of this is that after something happens, Li Chunfang can quickly abdicate the responsibility and shift the responsibility to his subordinates.

Li Chunfang has indeed tried this trick repeatedly.

After getting along with Li Chunfang for a long time, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty missed Zhang Juzheng's style even more.

Although Zhang Juzheng is rather arrogant, he will not pass the responsibility to his subordinates.

The previous reforms to rectify the market in the capital aroused fierce opposition, including from the Li family of the imperial merchant Qingyuan Bo. Li Chunfang dismissed the officials who were in charge of rectifying the market in the capital and instead compromised with these powerful people, which chilled the hearts of his subordinates. .

While rectifying the capital market would only offend the interests of merchants, the matter in Liaodong would offend Li Chengliang.

In Shandong, Li Chengliang was very bossy to Shandong civil servants, and even went beyond the court's procedures and killed a county magistrate.

Although the county magistrate deserved his death, it can also be seen that Li Chengliang was arrogant and did not take civil officials into consideration.

If he made the wrong suggestions regarding matters in Liaodong, then if Li Chengliang led troops to Beijing to question him, wouldn't he have to "borrow his head" from Li Chunfang to apologize?

So the subordinates just had a heated "argument", but the discussions were all about vague topics, and no one came up with effective solutions at all.

And Li Chunfang himself didn't know how to fight, so this disadvantage was even greater.

He also looked at everyone blankly, not knowing how to respond.

After a long time, someone finally stood up and said:

"Prime Minister, in my opinion, Mr. Li, the Minister of the New Army, knows the situation in Liaodong best. Mr. Li has a high prestige among the Jurchens. I think I should not let Mr. Li take charge of the counter-insurgency in Liaodong?"

After saying this, he immediately received support from some people.

Li Chunfang also hesitated.

Shandong alone has already made Li Chengliang unable to lose. If he is really allowed to occupy western Liaoning, then the Gyeonggi region will be attacked from the north and the south. So, who is more powerful, the Prime Minister Zhongshu, or Li Chengliang, the Minister of the New Army?

But the people under his command could not put down the Jurchen rebellion at all. If it really affected the war in Korea, his prestige would be wiped out and he would be removed from power.

Li Chunfang hesitated, and then someone said:

"Prime Minister, my subordinates think that Mr. Li's son Li Rusong has outstanding abilities and can serve as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong."

Li Chunfang nodded slightly. Although Li Chengliang and Li Rusong were father and son, Li Chengliang did not only have Li Rusong as his son, and the father and son were not completely integrated.

The Li family's prestige in Liaodong can also be used by Li Rusong.

After much deliberation, this is the only way.

In August, the Ming court issued an order to transfer Li Rusong, the son of New Army Minister Li Chengliang, to the post of deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, responsible for countering the Jurchen rebellion.