During the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong refers to the Liaodong Command Division, that is, the Liaodong Town in the Nine Border Towns of the Ming Dynasty, which belongs to the Shandong Xuancheng Buzheng Division, and is the largest military town in the Ming Dynasty, with an area of jurisdiction that is only slightly smaller than the current Liaoning.

The military town is a unique local administrative unit in the Ming Dynasty, and it is a border area set up to resist the counteroffensive of the Yuan and Mongolia. For example, Liaodong Town is composed of 25 health stations and two prefectures, and the area under the jurisdiction of one health station is equivalent to a county today.

Ning Yuanwei, the place where this mutiny took place, is such a small county, so why are the governors of Liaodong and the general army of Liaodong nesting in such a small county? All because since the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618 AD), the Jianzhou Jurchen, that is, the Houjin Dynasty comprehensively attacked Liaodong Town, to the first year of Chongzheng, the entire Liaodong was almost completely lost, leaving only a small area from Shanhaiguan-Ningyuan-Jinzhou as the last fortress to resist the invasion of the Houjin, which is the famous Ningjin defense line.

You must know that after the Shanhaiguan Pass, it is the boundary of the Beijing Division of Beizhili, and the importance of the Ningjin defense line can be imagined. Therefore, as soon as I heard about the Ningyuan mutiny, the entire Ming court was shocked, this is simply a self-destruction of the Great Wall, as soon as the Ningjin defense line is lost, Houjin's iron cavalry can drive straight into the capital for a long time!

Sun Chengzong naturally knew the importance of the Ningjin defense line, and he hurriedly summoned Yuan Keli, the commander of the three military camps, and Yuan Chonghuan, the left attendant of the military department, and then led more than 1,000 Jinyi guards to set off.

There are almost 1,000 miles from the capital to Shanhaiguan, and Wang Zhichen originally thought that the ministers of the imperial court would have to walk for at least ten days and half a month to arrive, but he never thought that he would run into Sun Chengzong, a fierce man, so he only took a thousand guards to fight horses and gallop all the way, and rushed to the Shanhaiwei station in three days!

Wang Zhichen is organizing a group of cronies to cover up the evidence and create a false appearance, and Sun Chengzong was arrested by Sun Chengzong just after the operation began. As a result, a huge corruption group was presented in front of Sun Chengzong, and Rao was used to seeing strong winds and waves, and was also taken aback by the greed of these people!

They not only deduct food and salary, but also eat empty quotas, shoddy goods, smuggle and sell contraband, and so on, in short, they do everything that can make money, but they just can't do a good job of arming and fighting!

Originally, Wang Zhichen did not intend to deduct Ning Yuanwei's salary, because Ning Yuanwei only had a total of less than 50,000 horses, but he reported 100,000, even if all the food and salary were sent to them, half of the empty salary went into his pocket! However, this time, the imperial court cleaned up the eunuch party too thoroughly, and an official like him who climbed up from the eunuch party was also the target of the cleanup, so he had to spend money to get up and down.

This money was spent a lot, and he began to feel distressed, so he simply didn't do anything, deducted all the money, and sent food and grass alone, anyway, he didn't fight, and he was idle all day long, so it was good to be able to feed you!

He thought that there were people on top anyway, and there shouldn't be an accident, but he didn't expect that the top was around, but the bottom was not, Ning Yuanwei actually made a collective trouble, and Bi Zisu actually committed suicide!

Wang Zhichen was originally the kind of person who was good at flattery, he knew that he couldn't hide from being caught by Sun Chengzong, so he simply confessed honestly, tried to give a good time, poured beans into the bamboo tube, and confessed all the things about his deduction of food and salary, and bribery.

Now he is happy, but Sun Chengzong is not happy, the backbone of the Donglin Party has been corrupted by nearly half of this goods! If this is poked out, won't the Donglin Party be notorious!

Sun Chengzong is facing a difficult choice at the moment, either report truthfully, then the reputation of the Donglin Party will be completely ruined, or conceal it and not report, then his personal reputation will be ruined, maybe others will not know, but he knows it in his own heart!

According to his style of acting, if it weren't for the Donglin Party, he would dare to poke a hole even if it was a day. But when it comes to the Donglin Party, he hesitates, Ye Xianggao, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, etc., the voices and smiles of the leaders of the Donglin Party appear in his mind.

In the end, Sun Chengzong painfully chose not to report it, he gritted his teeth and pronounced the verdict to Wang Zhichen: "List all the officials under you who are suspected of corruption, and make up all the arrears of wages and silver, and I will spare you from death!" ”

Wang Zhichen couldn't believe his ears, he thought that falling into the hands of Sun Chengzong was definitely dead, it would be good to be able to fight for a good time, as long as he was not executed by Ling Chi, he was acceptable, but he never thought that he still had a way to live!

He is not the kind of stupid person, he understands the key with a slight 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.

With this understanding, he naturally actively cooperated, and he did not pull any of those involved in corruption, and explained everything. The problem of arrears is not very big, and the empty salaries they eat alone are two or three times that of the salaries, and more than half of them are spent, and the rest is enough to make up for the arrears.

As a result, Wang Zhichen was dismissed from the post of Jiliao Governor and Liaodong Economic Strategy, and was replaced by Yuan Keli, and Yuan Chonghuan was reappointed as the governor of Liaodong. As for Ning Yuan's mutiny, with the silver, what is there to deal with, first take the lead in making trouble, and then put the arrears of wages and silver hair, who else dares to make trouble? Who would be bored and want to die!

After quelling the Ningyuan Mutiny, Sun Chengzong set up a strategy for the whole Liao, which can be summed up in four:

First, military training, the actual strength of the entire Ningjin defense line is less than 150,000, and more than half of the empty salaries are available; he has recruited the vacant personnel in the local military households, and ordered people to practice day and night to be ready for battle at any time.

Second, to build the city, all the guards of the Ningjin defense line were reinforced, and they were built into battle fortresses one by one, and all of them became hard bones to gnaw, so that the iron cavalry of Houjin had no way to speak.

Third, Tuntian, encourage local military households to open up the wasteland, the imperial court to provide seedlings, reduce taxes, can ensure the supply of grain and grass for the garrison, if it can't be guaranteed, it doesn't matter, the main thing is to let them plant, these fields are their own, Houjin comes, can they not desperately protect?

Fourth, it is necessary to recruit talented people and establish the Zhantian Hall, the Didi Investigation Hall, the Translation and Examination Hall, the Spy Hall, the Alien Talent Hall, and the Vigorous Hall to recruit all kinds of talented people and strengthen the army's combat effectiveness.

Under Sun Chengzong's management, the Ningjin defense line became stronger and stronger, and Huang Taiji was not even in the mood to send a small force to harass him, and he went to the Mongolian steppe to expand his power.

The Ningjin defense line is impregnable, so will the Ming sit back and relax? Of course not, the Ningjin Line has a striking resemblance to the Maginot Line in World War II, the earth is round, it is useless for you to only hold one side, although Huang Taiji is not Hitler, but such a simple strategy of detour, can you expect him to never come up with it?

Of course, Zhu Cijiong is not Zhu Youzhen, the detour is a surprise, if it is discovered by the opponent in advance, it will not be known who will go around who will go in at that time.