Zhu Houzhao was gathering troops in Liaoyang, and ordered the nearby guards to send cavalry to join the division.

After Wang Yuan met with the emperor, he immediately summoned Cai Tianyou, the sub-inspector.

There was no inspection department in Liaodong, and the sub-patrol road acted as a prosecutor, responsible for inspecting the political and judicial conditions in various parts of Liaodong.

Cai Tianyou is almost fifty years old, and he was born as a six-branch official, if the game is attributed, then his stunts should be "disaster relief" and "field building".

"Liaodong General Soldier Han Xi is really sick?" Wang Yuan asked.

Cai Tianyou said: "I'm really sick, and I guess my life will be short." ”

Wang Yuan asked again: "What is the situation in Gaizhou?" ”

Cai Tianyou said: "Yu Xi, the eunuch guarding the town, has a personal vendetta with the commander of Gaizhou Wei. Gaizhou experienced earthquakes, snowstorms, and droughts, and the sergeants fled seriously, and the eunuchs persecuted them, and the commander of Gaizhou also fled without a trace. A few days ago, the imperial court had approved the dismissal of Yu Xi as a eunuch and sent Wang Zhao, a Shangyi eunuch, as the eunuch of Liaodong Town. ”

"Shangyi Supervisor?" Wang Yuan immediately woke up and asked, "Yu Xi, who was dismissed, which prison was he in before?" ”

Cai Tianyou said: "Yu Ma Jian has been in Liaoyang for three years. ”

Wang Yuan instantly understood that Yu Xi, who had been dismissed for personal vendettas, was mostly Jiang Bin's person before, but now he has become Gu Dayong's person. Zhang Yong took the opportunity to make trouble and replaced the eunuch guarding Liaodong with his confidant Wang Zhao, which can be regarded as the struggle of the inner government that has spread to the Liaodong region.

Cai Tianyou said again: "The eunuchs and the eunuchs who are guarding the guns have also changed. ”

The eunuchs living in Liaoyang and the eunuchs living in Kaiyuan are the two most powerful eunuchs in Liaodong. There are also eunuchs who supervise guns, presiding over the casting and use of guns and cannons.

Now, the three major eunuchs in Liaodong have all become Zhang Yong's people.

Cai Tianyou said bitterly: "Not only the disaster in Gaizhou, but also in all parts of Liaodong. I want to organize the displaced people to go to Gaizhou, resume farming, and enclose the polders to reclaim the wasteland. It's a pity that there are no households in Liaodong, and no matter how much land is cleared, it will be invaded by military attachés sooner or later. ”

Cai Tianyou does not belong to any faction.

Originally served as a clerk to give a professional troll. Because he sprayed too hard, he couldn't be a Beijing official, and he was thrown to Fujian as a prosecutor. When he was transferred to Shandong, the rebellion of Liu Liu and Liu Qi had been quelled, and he made outstanding achievements in post-war reconstruction, and was promoted all the way to the Liaodong Branch.

Historically, Cai Tianyou patrolled Liaodong for only a few years, and opened up tens of thousands of polders along the coast of Liaodong, and provided relief to countless victims of Liaodong.

Wang Yuan asked, "How is the Ma Zheng of Liaodong?" ”

Cai Tianyou said: "It is rotten and almost wasted. I know that Wang Shilang wants to reform the society and reform the politics of Liaodong, which should be the top priority! ”

Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, which is very suitable for raising horses.

During the Yongle period, there were more than 400,000 horses in Liaodong alone!

One way is that military households are free-range, and each regular soldier is equipped with three military surplers as helpers, who are responsible for raising a war horse for the imperial court.

One way is to concentrate farming, and there are a number of official ranches in eastern Liaoning.

But now, both ways of raising horses are gone.

First of all, if a horse dies unexpectedly, it is necessary to compensate the court for the loss. All commanded to pay three taels of silver, two taels of silver to be appeased, and one or two and five coins of silver to be paid by the flag officer, which could be paid in installments and expired in six months. It is equivalent to spreading the loss of horse breeding to military attaches at all levels, and the military households raising horses do not have to accompany them for a penny.

Up to now, the officers naturally do not lose money, but all the pressure is on the heads of the soldiers (when encountering a good-hearted general, a horse will lose two or three taels, and the rest will be solved by the military household). Doing so makes it difficult for the horse breeders to afford, and once they encounter a dead horse or a stolen horse, they will only end up ruined.

As for intensive farming, it's even more powerful. The military general took up the official ranch, and he still raised a fart?

Liaodong Xingtaifu Temple, Yuanma Temple and its subordinate prison garden are responsible for the management of the official pastures in Liaodong. This thing in the Xuande years, has been unbearable to look at directly, the Yongle Dynasty in Liaodong official breeding of 40,000 horses, to Xuanzong only bred more than 900 horses, so angry that the emperor wanted to streamline the relevant establishment.

The record of "Quanliao Zhi Ma Zhengzhi" is very interesting: "Liaodong Xingtaifu Temple...... I don't know what year and month, I will stop the horse and point the brake, and the breeding thing is irrelevant. ”

What does it mean?

The horse breeding institution set up by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong is also responsible for imprinting the horses, and the breeding matter has long been ignored. Moreover, I don't know when this phenomenon began.

Wang Yuan thought carefully and decided to deal with the politics of Liaodong first.

If you want to rectify the situation in Liaodong, you must first recover the land of Duoyan Sanwei, so you must have enough cavalry. Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, as long as the horse administration is done well, there is naturally no shortage of war horses. Not to mention the 400,000 horses in the restoration of Yongle years, 100,000 horses can be raised, and thousands of war horses and 10,000 pack horses can always be selected.

Thinking of this, Wang Yuan immediately went to see the emperor: "Your Majesty wants to regain your face?" ”

"Of course I want to," Zhu Houzhao asked in surprise, "What plan did Erlang come up with?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "If Your Majesty hands over the Liaodong horse administration to the ministers with full responsibility, thousands of war horses will be offered within three or five years." Add thousands of fine riders, why worry about the three guards? ”

Zhu Houzhao slapped his thigh: "Then let's say it, I'll let you take charge of Liaodong Ma Zheng, and you can get me thousands of war horses!" ”

"You might as well give a high-five." Wang Yuan raised his hand and said.

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "A word is a certainty." ”

Syllable!

The two monarchs and ministers high-fived and made a covenant.

Zhu Houzhao asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "First fight a victory and establish power, which Jurchen does Your Majesty want to send troops?" ”

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Of course it's Xijianzhou." ”

West Jianzhou is the right guard of Jianzhou.

At its peak, there were eight Jurchens in Jianzhou and three in Changbai Mountain. But what really got the recognition of the Ming Dynasty was mainly the Jianzhou Three Guards, namely the Jianzhou Guard, the Jianzhou Left Guard, and the Jianzhou Right Guard, and the leaders of the three guards were all named governors by the Ming Dynasty.

During the Chenghua period, the Jianzhou Jurchen was in deep trouble, so the imperial court sent a large army to put the Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Zuowei to the end, which was known as the "Chenghua Plough Court" in history. The commander of the right guard of Jianzhou, led his troops to hide in the mountains, narrowly escaped, and has been taking revenge for decades since.

Up to now, Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Left Guard are no longer in the climate, only Jianzhou Right Guard is still jumping in various ways - Nurhachi belongs to Jianzhou Left Guard, and his grandfather and father have been the horses of Wang Gao, the leader of Jianzhou Right Guard.

At present, the head of the right guard of Jianzhou is Wang Gao's father Dole, who should be Nurhachi's great-great-great-uncle in terms of seniority.

This cargo did not dare to send troops on a large scale, nor did he have the ability to send troops on a large scale, but every year he would send a small force to plunder, and I don't know how many Han people were taken into slavery by the cold man.

Of course, the Liaodong generals also wanted to retaliate, often leading troops to slaughter the Jurchen people, cutting off their heads and sending them to the imperial court to ask for rewards.

Who is right and who is wrong, it is not clear.

Because the Han people in Liaodong are "all soldiers", and the Jianzhou Jurchens are also "all soldiers", they cannot be said to be killing innocents. Anyway, the grudge between the two sides is growing, and it must be repaid with blood.

In the autumn of the sixteenth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao drove the expedition in person, accompanied by Wang Yuan, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Han Xi, the general soldier of Liaodong, sent his son to accompany the army, and led a total of 5,000 cavalry to the right guard garrison in Jianzhou.