Chapter 158: Top Ten Generals
Gao Junshan set up a family banquet for Gao Guiying in the Qianqing Palace, and gave her the Yanxi Palace, which was still empty in the East Sixth Palace.
After he met Tian Jianxiu and returned to the Qianqing Palace, the family banquet to entertain Gao Guiying had not yet begun, his three wives had been comforting Gao Guiying for a long time, and when Gao Junshan saw her, the haze of losing her husband had dissipated a lot, and the person was also cheerful, not like when he first entered the palace.
Before the family banquet started, Gao Junshan invited Gao Guiying to the Xinuan Pavilion on the second floor and summoned him alone.
"Sister, the matter of Brother Zicheng came suddenly, who couldn't have imagined it."
Gao Guiying sighed and said, "This is his creation, and it should be like this." You are already the emperor today, and you respect your sister so much, your sister is already satisfied. ”
Gao Junshan said: "Brother Gu and Zicheng followed his father to start an incident and fought with the court for more than ten years, just for a peace. Today, the second half of the country is under the control of Lone. And Zhu Youxiang set up another court in Jinling to confront Lone, and there are still many things to do if he wants to play a peaceful world. Today, in order to boost the morale of the soldiers, Lone must ascend to the throne and give his brothers a future and hope. ”
"I understand."
Gao Junshan said: "A court can't have two palaces, so Gu asked Liu Fangliang to take you into Beijing and move all the palaces in Xi'an to the capital, only in this way can Gu be able to ascend the throne with peace of mind." ”
Gao Guiying is a reasonable person, originally this throne was sat by Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng did not have the fate to sit on the throne of the emperor, she saw that only Gao Junshan was the best candidate to sit on the throne of the emperor. She herself has to recognize the situation and recognize Gao Junshan as the emperor, not to mention that Gao Junshan is still her cousin, Gao Junshan is the emperor, and she is still a member of the royal family. Now Gao Junshan is talking to her, asking her to stand up and support Gao Junshan, so as not to split the ranks of the rebels, Liu Zongmin and Song Xiance are examples.
Gao Guiying said: "After my brother ascends the throne, I will be the emperor's sister, and my sister should fully support the emperor to level the world in one fell swoop." ”
Speaking of which, Gao Junshan's mood was relaxed, and he announced to Gao Guiying that he would take back all the belongings that Li Zicheng was preparing to ascend the throne, and take over all the belongings that Li Zicheng had worked hard to accumulate for more than ten years, including manpower, material resources, and financial resources.
Who is Li Zicheng working hard for? but he made a wedding garment for another!
Gao Junshan properly accepted all of Li Zicheng's property and prepared to officially ascend the throne on July 20.
The matter of ascending the throne was urgently prepared by the ten auxiliary ministers, and at this time, the officials from all walks of life who were transferred to the capital were also in place, and the Military and Political Yuan, the Civil Affairs Yuan, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate had already opened offices in the imperial city, and the imperial city suddenly became lively.
The team of the Third Academy is composed of three parts, the first part is the talented and capable rebel army, which is dominated by the rebel army under Gao Junshan, and then the old department of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong; the second part is the Chongwen disciples of Gao Junshan; The third part is the officials of the Ming court.
Because Gao Junshan attaches great importance to talents, the proportion of people in the first part is very small, and it is mainly the personnel of the core leadership, and the proportion of the second part and the third part is half each, which shows that Gao Junshan attaches great importance to the appointment of Ming court officials and does not discriminate against them.
At this time, there was no war in the north, Gao Junshan ordered Bai Wenxuan's brigade and Li Dingguo's brigade to be stationed in Korea, the Red Army's friendly brigade to stay in Shenyang, and Ma Yuanli's brigade to follow Dolgon to the north of the Hunhe River to supervise Dolgon's Jurchen tribe.
He only allowed Dorgon's Eight Banners to leave behind 1,000 men with the White Banner, and all the rest of the Banners disbanded their military organizations and became civilians.
The 1st Mixed Brigade was on standby in Shenyang, ready to enter the Mongolian steppe with Jiya at any time.
Cao Wenzhao and He Renlong's north-south annihilation war against Liu Zongmin was started near Chengcheng in Shaanxi, because they were all righteous troops, the battle was not fierce, Liu Zongmin's subordinates were not blind and deaf, they were all fought after years of bloody battles, so they could see the situation clearly, whether Li Zicheng or Gao Junshan, they were all Gao Yingxiang's men and horses, a family, whoever was the emperor was the victory of the righteous army, and now they want them to fight with their own families, they can't lift their spirits, only a few people around Liu Zongmin are talking to Cao Wenzhao, He Renlong worked hard, and the soldiers of the righteous army had to send them back to their hometown with Liu Zongmin and Song Xiance, so that they could die.
After quelling the rebellion of Liu Zongmin and Song Xiance, Gao Junshan transferred Renlong back to Xi'an to control Shaanxi and Shanxi, and transferred Cao Wenzhao to Wuchang to control Huguang and Henan.
He did not forget to avenge Zhuang Youfu, and in the face of the begging surrender of Xu Dingguo, the general soldier of Shanxi, he ordered He Renlong to ignore it and completely eliminate it.
The war on all sides was over, and he began to seal his official position to the generals.
On 18 June, he issued an order to the whole army to appoint the ten founding generals.
First place: Jiang Guorong;
second place: Cao Wenzhao;
third place: He Renlong;
Fourth place: Liu Da;
fifth place: Red Army friends;
Sixth place: Hui Dengxiang;
Seventh place: Bai Wenxuan;
eighth place: Ma Yuanli;
Ninth place: Ma Shouying;
Tenth place: Tami-hide.
Jiang Guorong and Liu Da are the leaders in the military circles of Chongwen's disciples, and it is natural for them to be selected as the top ten generals; Cao Wenzhao and He Renlong are well-known fierce generals, and they are also the natural candidates for the top ten generals; The Red Army friends greeted Gao Jun Mountain by the Yellow River and stood firmly on the side of Gao Jun Mountain, although the battle achievements were not great, just by virtue of this, the top ten generals must have his place; Hui Dengxiang was also the first general to join the Gaojunshan camp, and he played a major role in the growth of the Gaojunshan rebel army; Bai Wenxuan is a favorite general cultivated by Gao Junshan; Ma Yuanli, Ma Shouying, and Tian Jianxiu played an important role in their respective camps, and Gao Junshan promoted them to the top ten generals, which was a recognition of the soldiers of other camps.
Cai Zhishan and Zhou Shichen are among the top ten auxiliary ministers and do not need to participate in the ranking of the top ten generals. Ma Jinzhong and Li Busi have left the army and are not participating in the ranking of the top ten generals.
If you compare Ma Jinzhong with Hui Deng (they both defected to Gao Junshan at the same time), the merits and achievements of the two are comparable, and now putting Ma Jinzhong in the position of the deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is also Gao Junshan's attention to him; Li Busi and the Red Army friends can not be compared, both military exploits and strategies are inferior to the Red Army friends, so he was transferred out of the army, given a book of the Ministry of Agriculture for him to do, manage the country's agriculture, which also shows that Gao Junshan did not forget his comrades-in-arms who worked hard with him in the early years, his son Li Hu was very favored by Gao Junshan, and was selected into the mixed brigade as the commander of the musket regiment.
Gao Junshan did not forget his navy, before the official accession to the throne, Gao Junshan reorganized the navy into the Chinese navy, and established the navy in the capital, the navy was subordinate to the military and political yuan, Zhou Wenjiang was appointed as the secretary of the navy, Chongwen disciples "navigation three Li": Li Jiuhua, Li Yuanli, Li Shiqi is the left attendant of the Admiralty, Sun Dahai, Pan Shiyu is the right attendant of the Admiralty.