Chapter 289: Li Chengdong is anyway
Not half a month later, in late February, Gong Wanjing rushed to Guilin, and on behalf of Yang Xuan, the Volunteer Army defeated the 100,000 troops of Duoduo, Wu Sangui, and Nikan, and killed the barbarian Qing Beizi Nikan and others.
Originally, he was preparing for the Northern Expedition to recover his homeland.
But that Zhu Rongfan served as the supervisor of the country in Kuidong, the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and when he was fighting with the Tartars, he sent the general Li Zhanchun to attack his own back.
Li Gande, Yuan Tao, Wu Dading and others conspired to kill Yang Zhan and led their troops to attack Jiading Mansion.
Zhu Rongfan, Li Gande, and Li Zhanchun were unforgivable, and they had no choice but to return to Shichuanzhong to recruit the rebel generals.
Hearing this news, everyone was in an uproar, especially Ma Jixiang straightened up and said: "Look, this Yang Xuan, this volunteer army has defeated the Tartars many times in a row, and he is really a loyal and brave dead man.
Zhu Rongfan, Li Gande, Li Zhanchun and others are unforgivable, and in this case, the emperor should not chill the hearts of loyal people.
Yan Qiheng shook his head again and again and said: "This Yang Xuan is obviously a rebellious maniac, where is a loyal person."
Look at what he did, change my Ming ancestral system. The area under its jurisdiction levied merchant taxes on merchants and income tax on the wealthy, which obviously poisoned the squires.
Emperor, ministers, the squire is the foundation of my Ming Dynasty, Yang Xuan's behavior is shaking the foundation of my Ming Dynasty.
Yang Xuan won the hearts of the people and created a parliamentary system, in which each township elected a representative to form a county council, saying that he should supervise the county. Each prefecture elects two deputies to form a prefectural assembly, which supervises the prefect.
What kind of sharing system did Yang Xuan come up with in the local area, the taxes collected were retained in the county into 2 percent, the government was retained in 2 percent, and he himself withheld 7 percent, which clearly changed the ancestral system.
In addition, Yang Xuan changed the jurisdiction of various prefectures and counties without authorization, and set up Guangyuan Mansion, Tongchuan Mansion, and Long'an Mansion.
He set up a newspaper, pinpointed the evils of the times, and sometimes even the emperor dared to publicly ridicule it.
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Emperor, this Yang Xuan is extremely loyal on the surface, but he is actually a big traitor. ”
Hearing this, everyone sighed, and Ma Jixiang smiled: "Emperor, the troubled times use heavy classics, a famous saying since ancient times.
For example, today the 10 Tartars have already occupied eight points, as long as they can guarantee victory, it is not impossible.
Emperor, there are countless ministers around you who have been crowned dukes, even Jin Shenghuan can be named a duke for a battlefield uprising, Wang Deren and Wang Guangxing can be named a marquis, Yang Xuan has made outstanding achievements, and the emperor can't say nothing. ”
Yushi Li Yueru shook his head and said: "Ma Jixiang, you traitorous minister, how do you want the emperor to express it?" Did he encourage Yang Xuan to openly lead his troops to attack Li Zhanchun, Wang Xiang, and Li Gande, or what?
If Yang Xuan is encouraged to do this, he will definitely make Yang Xuan fearless. ”
Gong Wanjing was disappointed to see that the court was inconclusive, and prepared to leave after offering treasures worth a thousand taels of silver.
Gong Wanjing was about to go back, and Emperor Yongli laughed and said: "I already know that Governor Yang and Li Gande have a dispute, and in order to be impartial, I have decided to send Li Yueru, the imperial historian, into Sichuan with Aiqing to mediate the dispute between the two sides. ”
Gong Wanjing shook his head and said: "Emperor, Penghou was born in a person, and he is a guest of honor in the Shu Palace, and he is also a relative of the emperor."
Penghou and Tatar fought fiercely in Hanzhong, six battles and six victories, and the entire situation in the northwest was reversed, but because of the rebellion of Li Gande, Li Zhanchun and others, they had to return to Shichuanzhong, so the previous achievements were wasted.
Penghou has contributed to the country to His Majesty, and the emperor of the imperial court did not support it twice in a row, the emperor can get close to the villain, and the general is the big seal anyway, but doesn't the emperor's behavior make the world's people of insight chill? ”
Yan Qiheng defended: "No one denies that Yang Xuan has made great contributions, but Yang Xuan's perverse behavior is also well known."
Senator Zhang, Yang Xuan is still like this in Sichuan, if he leads heavy troops in the future, it may not be the blessing of the imperial court.
I am not waiting for the impeachment of Hou Ye to be selfish, I am really worried that Hou Ye will do something rebellious in the future. ”
Gong Wanjing had no choice but to return to Sichuan with Yushi Li Yueru to learn the truth
Gong Wanjing and Li Yueru had just walked for a few days, and news came from Guangzhou that the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who had killed the first emperor and captured the first emperor, had changed Li Chengdong to reform and return to the Ming Dynasty.
Chu and Han fought, and those soldiers who killed Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, had many rewards, and it stands to reason that Li Chengdong, who shot and captured the first emperor, should dominate one side and become an important minister of the imperial court.
Li Chengdong did not shoot the first emperor (Emperor Longwu), captured the first emperor (Emperor Shaowu), led his ministers to drive straight in, attacked along the line of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi, and occupied a large area in the southeast.
Especially in the Liangguang area, almost all of them were beaten down by Li Chengdong alone.
Li Chengdong worked hard for his master, and it stands to reason that the governor of Liangguang is none other than Li Chengdong, but the Manchu court was suspicious of Han Chen, and the policy of reusing the Liao people was very obvious, and appointed Tong Yangjia, a Liao man with mediocre military achievements, as the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, while Li Chengdong was only appointed as the governor of Liangguang, not only did he have no right to intervene in political and local affairs, but also had to be controlled by Tong Yangjia militarily.
While the military was winning and the Manchu suspicion was growing, the general Li Chengdong's dissatisfaction with the Manchu court was gradually accumulating.
Sitting in Guangzhou, Li Chengdong felt more and more the fragility of the Manchu court, due to the difference in land, the climate of the north and the south is very different, if it is difficult for the Han people to go deep into the north of the desert to fight for a long time, then the Tatars can not stand the hot climate in the south, and it is difficult to fight in the south at all.
In the past two years of warfare, the main force of the Tartars was no more southerner than the line of Nanchang and Fuzhou, and it could cope with it in winter further south, but it could not cope at all in summer.
As he won successive battles, Li Chengdong became more and more contemptuous of the Manchu court, and the contradictions between the two sides gradually evolved, and in the end they were almost irreconcilable.
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty gentry did not forget to rebel against him, especially after the news of Jin Shenghuan came out anyway, the Ming Dynasty scholars He Wuyu and Yuan Pengnian and others did not forget to know that when they noticed that Li Chengdong and Tong Yangjia (actually with the Qing court) had a contradiction, they immediately seized the opportunity to secretly instigate Li Chengdong anyway.
Among them, the most surprising and regrettable thing is that Li Chengdong loves his concubine Zhao, and he actually staged the scene of the corpse alive.
When Li Chengdong's concubine Zhao arrived in Guangzhou, Li Chengdong was plotting to oppose the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty.
If that is the case, Li Chengdong can become a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, and after his death, he can also see his ancestors under Jiuquan.
Li Chengdong was afraid of leaking the news, and sharply reprimanded Zhao's nonsense.
Zhao then performed this tragic scene of the corpse, the so-called corpse admonition is to persuade the superior through suicide, which is the most heroic kind of Chinese exhortation to the superior.
It is common to induce advice according to the likes and dislikes of the superiors, just like Hai Rui's advice at the risk of death, and the most intense is the corpse advice, that is, leaving a corpse advice after committing suicide.
Ten days later, Li Chengdong specially asked He Wuyu to write a biography for the Zhao family, and ordered Kuang Lu, a disciple, to compose a song.
How insignificant the fate of a woman is in the torrent of history, but Zhao has left a heavy mark in a unique way.
Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang, who was packing his bags and preparing to escape, heard that Li Chengdong led his troops to rebel, and he was quite unbelieving at first, probably no one would believe this kind of thing.
Hardcore traitor, the hardcore traitor Li Chengdong, who forced the two emperors to death, actually rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, and rebelled against the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Guangdong to support himself.
But historical facts are historical facts, although the bureaucrats of the Yongli court did not believe it, but they still stopped to watch, after a few days of listening, especially the governor of Guangxi, Cao Ye, Gao Lei, who had already descended to the Qing Dynasty, and Hong Tiansheng, the governor of Gao Lei, came to the court in person.
Only then did the Yongli monarch and ministers relieve their doubts, and the entire small court was jubilant, and everyone immediately packed up their fleeing bags and prepared to reorganize the rivers and mountains.