Chapter 4 Fight or Peace
"Liaoyang is here, Jianzhou said that the country wants to be the same as North Korea, what do you think of this matter?"
After receiving the report from Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, Xue Sancai, the governor of Miyun and Jiliao, immediately summoned Wang Donglai, the military garrison of Jizhou, the military garrison of Yongping, Zhou Qing, the military garrison of Ningqian, Ma Xiangde, the military garrison of Yuanma Siqing, and Lu Qinglin, the military garrison of Jin Fuhai, and other subordinates.
According to the canonical system, the governor of Jiliao should have controlled the governor of Shuntian, the governor of Baoding, and the governor of Liaodong, but in fact, the successive governors of Jiliao could not effectively manage these three members, especially the governor of Liaodong was not subject to the governor's order. The governors went their own way, and sometimes impeached each other, which led to the fact that the governor of Jiliao, who was supposed to play an important role in the situation in eastern Liaodong, was always like a fictitious one.
Xue Sancai's predecessor, Wang Xiangqian, was an official for two years, but the situation in Liaodong was self-dictated by Liaofu and he never went to inspect it in person. However, Wang's predecessor Jian Da made a difference, and at the age of more than 60, Hao took the lead and personally led troops to Liaodong to inspect the bullet pressure, which caused heavy losses to the Jurchen tribes and greatly delayed the rise of Jianzhou.
Xue Sancai was born in Jishi, and after being promoted to governor, he deliberately did something to get rid of the bad habit of the inner servants pretending to be in the forbidden army, and won the praise of the government and the public.
It was only in Liaodong affairs that Xue San was a little sticky and unwilling to interfere too much with the governor of Liaodong. The good thing about this move is to avoid discord between the superintendents, and the bad thing is that it is unwilling to take care of things.
Jizhou Bingbei Wang Donglai and Yongping Bingbei Zhou Yiqing were subordinate officials of the Shuntian Governor, but the second official has been working in the Governor's Palace, so it can also be said that it is the "descendant" of the Jiliao Governor.
Ningqian soldier Ma Xiangde is a bit special, although he is a subordinate official of the governor of Liaodong, but the station is in Ningyuan and Qiantun in the north of Shanhaiguan, so in order to facilitate official business, it is directly to the governor's palace "report".
Lu Qinglin, who was also the commander of the Yuan Ma Temple and Jin Fuhai's military equipment, was a "flying official", who was the main Liaodong Ma Zheng, but he also had the military equipment of Jin Fuhai's several states, and his position and power were not small. He is not a subordinate official of the governor of Jiliao, just because his hometown is in Miyun, so he was called by the governor's mansion during the New Year.
Previously, Xue Sancai had already told several people about the news about the establishment of the state and the state transferred by Liaoyang, and Xue wanted to listen to the opinions of these people before making a decision on how to report to the imperial court.
How to characterize the establishment of the state as the state is the most concerned matter for all the officials involved in the Liaodong yamen, including the governor of Liaodong.
If it is characterized as a rebellion, a war cannot be avoided. At present, there have been a series of major disasters in various parts of Liaodong, and the strength of the garrison has been halved after the campaign to aid Korea, and it is very difficult to send troops to encircle and suppress it in a hurry, both militarily and logistically.
Therefore, Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, agreed to establish a state to imitate the example of North Korea and call it a vassal after Nurhachi's envoy entered Liaoyang, but although the governor of Liaodong had the greatest say in this matter, it was useless if the governor of Jiliao did not agree.
"Your Excellency the Governor, although the left and right guards of Jianzhou belong to my Liaodong Guard, but they have always been independent, and the imperial court has not interfered too much, although the founding of the country has offended my Ming Dynasty, but they dare not openly raise troops to make trouble, so, the lower officials think that they should take care of the first, so as not to destroy the lives of Liaodong and consume money and food." Wang Donglai, a soldier in Jizhou, is in his forties, and he was a military officer in his early years, which can be regarded as a clear stream.
"If you don't agree, Jianzhou has already claimed the country, does the imperial court really want to send a large army to suppress it? Banju in the southwest has just been pacified, and the treasury is afraid that it will not be able to come up with the money to fight another war. ”
Yongping Bingbei Zhou Qing also echoed Wang Donglai's opinion, believing that he could agree to the request of the envoy of Jianzhou, which would be good for the country and the people. every day
Ning Qianbei Ma Xiangde did not advocate it, but Lu Qinglin, the secretary of Yuanma Temple, opposed the opinions of Wang and Erren. He was the official in charge of the Ma Zheng of Liaodong, and he had been to the Jurchen ministries and horse markets many times, so he knew more about the strength of Jianzhou than the officials in Guannai.
“...... In the past, when Ning Yuanbo was there, Nurhachi had a grudge against the court because of the death of his father and ancestor, and he did not dare to oppose because he was afraid of Ning Yuanbo. Now that Ning Yuanbo has returned to Beijing, there is no tiger to seize the system, and he has tens of thousands of soldiers in Jianzhou, how can he not rebel? The lower officials thought that since Nurhachi dared to claim the country, he would inevitably betray our Ming Dynasty in the next step, and all the imitation of the Korean example was a prevarication, and the purpose was nothing more than to deceive our dynasty and lose vigilance..."
Compared with Wang and Erren, Lu Qinglin is obviously the "main battle faction".
In view of the land armament of the main battle, Wang Bingbei and Zhou Bingbei must refute it, so the three of them "theorized".
But no matter how fierce it is, the last one to make the decision has to be Xue Sancai, the governor.
How the Governor General characterized the establishment of the state, several soldiers have no way of knowing. But on the same day, the official letter of the governor of Jiliao was sent to the cabinet. At about the same time, the official document of Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, was also presented.
The head of the cabinet is Fang Congzhe, who is named the second assistant, but in fact he is already a "lonely".
For his inexplicable becoming a "solitary phase", Fang Congzhe himself also felt helpless. A few years ago, Shoufu Ye asked Gao Lian for sixty-two songs, although the emperor still did not let go, but Ye Xianggao had already directly taken his illness and did not "work" at home, so it is almost certain that as soon as the New Year's Day holiday is over, the emperor will definitely agree to Ye Xianggao's return home.
The Donglin Party has accepted this fact, before that, a group of officials led by Yang Lian had wanted to block Fang Congzhe's first auxiliary road by attacking the admiral maritime eunuch Wei Liangchen, but by mistake there was a "palace gate case", although the murderer in this case has been imprisoned in the edict prison, but the plot of Yang Lian and others has been indirectly powdered.
A group of important ministers of the Donglin Party then came forward and called on the government and the opposition to recommend the comeback of Shen Li, a member of the Donglin Party and a university scholar who had been a secondary assistant.
In view of the fact that Fang Congzhe was recommended by Ye Xianggao to join the cabinet, and the Zhejiang Party's power in the court was not as strong as Donglin, and now he and the Wei eunuchs were conspiring with the maritime affairs in the southeast, so he also wanted to retreat into advance, so he repaid Li and followed the trend, and wrote a letter requesting Shen Li to enter the cabinet as the first assistant, but the emperor did not accept this song.
Wu Daonan, another bachelor who entered the cabinet with Fang Congzhe, was timid by nature, and he has not done anything since he entered the Beijing Counselor Machine, and the hundred officials have long since taken him seriously, which has led to the situation that Fang Congzhe has now become a "lone minister".
After receiving the official documents from the governor of Liaodong and Jiliao, Fang Congzhe felt a headache, although the governor of Liaodong and the governor of Jiliao had the same opinion, and they both thought that they should agree to build a state to imitate the Korean example and call the minister a tribute, but Fang Congzhe felt that the two suggestions were afraid that they would not pass the emperor.
Because, the emperor is extremely greedy for money and extremely warlike.
In addition, Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, finally impeached the governor and the maritime eunuch Wei Liangchen for killing Shi Tingzhu, the guerrilla Sun Degong, Jin Li, and Guo Zhaoji, and asked the imperial court to bring them to justice.
This made Fang Congzhe even more headache.