48. First Hearing of the Korean Turmoil

Comparing Jinyiwei's secret report, Mei Guozhen's twists and turns, and Ye Mengxiong's military report, Zhu Yijun found that the content of the three reports, the highest fit is that Xiao Ruxun is the well-deserved first hero of this battle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Coupled with the repeated raids of the cavalry, and the final blasting of the city wall with gunpowder, the rebellion was terminated, if there was no Xiao Ruxun, as Ye Mengxiong himself said, he would use the method of diversion and irrigation of the city to flood Ningxia City, and not only would Ningxia City be destroyed in one fell swoop, but also more murders.

The appearance of Xiao Ruxun not only made a bloody battle of tens of thousands of people only lose more than 10,000 households, but also only the loss of a section of the west city wall and the loss of one-third of the buildings in the city, plus the death of 6,000 Ming troops, such data is far lower than the expected loss of water diversion and irrigation, it can be said that Xiao Ruxun's existence helped the Ming Dynasty save two-thirds of the money for the conquest and reconstruction and pacification.

Moreover, it is reported that after the war, Xiao Ruxun also devoted himself to maintaining order in the city, beheading twenty-four criminal soldiers, restoring order as quickly as possible, and then starting to rebuild Ningxia.

Ye Mengxiong's evaluation of Xiao Ruxun is "both civil and military, a general's talent, and the ability of a herdsman".

Mei Guozhen's evaluation is "a handsome talent that is difficult to emerge in the land of nine sides in 50 years, and has the style of an ancient Confucian general".

Jin Yiwei's evaluation is "both the ability to govern the army immediately and the people under the horse, have a literary name, read more, govern the army rigorously, and the herdsmen have the way, so that they can lead the army to fight, and can obtain the maximum results with the least loss, and they are really good generals who are not born in the world."

In fact, if you don't look at Jinyiwei's evaluation, just look at the evaluation of this military general by the two civil ministers, you can know how much Xiao Ruxun has an appetite for them.

And Xiao Ruxun, as a child of the family of the Nine Border Generals, can first marry the daughter of the former military department Shangshu, which is enough to see Yang Zhao, a typical general, appreciate Xiao Ruxun, and now Ye Mengxiong and Mei Guozhen's comments reflect this even more.

In addition, according to the Jinyi Wei Line Report, Wei Xuezeng, who was brought back to the capital to be convicted, also appreciated Xiao Ruxun a lot, and was one of the first people to support Xiao Ruxun to use gunpowder to break the city.

As the saying goes, a thousand troops are easy to obtain, but a general is hard to find, in this era, the era of the noble and the lowly, how precious is the birth of a good general who is not born in the world, Zhu Yijun himself is also very clear, the literati command always has drawbacks, such as the literati are too strong, and the military generals group that could have fought against them has become a lackey.

A good example, at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, the strong generals such as Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang had to rely on his snort, and the emperor was severely suppressed by him, such a thing has made Zhu Yijun extremely dissatisfied with the Wenchen group, and he has already begun to support the eunuch group to fight against it, such as trying to send mining tax eunuchs to make money and disgust civil officials by the way.

But as soon as this battle was fought, an unborn handsome talent suddenly appeared, which made Zhu Yijun's mind begin to come alive.

Although supporting eunuchs is one of the necessary means for the emperor, but because this is a double-edged sword, hurting others and hurting oneself, it is extremely easy to be scolded by the historians mastered by the civil official group, leaving a bad reputation and being ridiculed by future generations.

Grandpa Jiajing's support for Yan Song has been seen through and studied thoroughly by these guys, and his own head is not as smart as Grandpa Jiajing.

You can't use civil officials to split, you can't grab the pen, you can't just use the eunuch, a big move that disgusts others and disgusts yourself, and the money bag is not so easy to grab, so the only thing left is to support the martial artist to snatch back the gun.

And at this time, there are special benefits to supporting martial artists, because the civil and military officials have been lowly for more than a hundred years, and the civil officials have been accustomed to being high, and suddenly a big military general appeared to share power with them, just like when Di Qing was the privy envoy, how disgusted those civil officials, Zhu Yijun, who is familiar with history books, remembers it very clearly.

However, what is even better is that the Song Dynasty was the ancestral system of the noble and military lowly, and the civil officials were the real military attachés who stood on the commanding heights and condescended, while the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty was just the opposite, the five of the six founding princes were military generals, and the only one Liu Ji was also awarded the title because of military merits, and the Ming generation attached great importance to military merits.

As for the status quo of the noble and the lowly, it is due to the evolution, not the ancestral system, and the "ancestral technique", which is one of the great moves of civil and official morality, cannot be used, and if it is used, it is to lift a stone and hit one's own feet, Zhu Yijun will use the ancestral system to talk to them well, disgusting and disgusting them.

For these civil officials, Zhu Yijun is disgusted to the extreme, disgusted to the extreme.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun will never blindly trust civil officials like Song Renzong, indulge civil officials and force Di Qing to death, Zhu Yijun, who has seen through these guys, will try his best to support and protect his spokesperson and compete with civil officials in the court.

After the civil officials rose up and attacked, the military attachés could only rely on the emperor tightly, relying on the emperor's prestige and power to fight with the civil officials, the civil officials will fight back, the military generals finally see the hope of rising, and will inevitably resist to the death, once the two groups are opposed, who is the final winner?

Myself.

Coupled with the partial means of the Jinyi Weidong Factory, you can play a good outpost battle for the rise of the generals at the beginning, and the generals and the Jinyi Weidong Factory join forces to beat the arrogance of the civil official group hard, and in the end, it is still themselves who get the greatest benefits.

As an emperor, if the courtiers under him are ironclad, it is equivalent to the emperor being hollowed out of power, although Sun Quan, a stubborn and divided courtier, has a bad reputation in history, but he at least guarantees his power, and Zhu Yijun's thoughts are the same.

You tossed the black smoke miasma of the Ming Dynasty, but you asked me to carry the black pot and was scolded by the world, how can there be such a reason?

This is the so-called emperor's mind, and the biggest limitation of a country with one family name is also this, and at this time, it is the only hope to break the situation.

As the saying goes, there are no tricks, only tricks in the wrong place, even if it is a reversal of history, but at some times, it can play a great positive role.

And the current situation, Zhu Yijun will never accept it! A series of schemes began to take shape in his mind.

When Zhu Yijun was planning his overall situation for eternity, a report from the Liaodong Capital Division was delivered to the Ministry of War, which was seen by Shi Xing, the new secretary of the Ministry of War, and attracted Shi Xing's attention.

Shi Xingnai is an old minister of the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli dynasties, and he is upright by nature, so his career experience is quite bumpy, first he wrote to persuade the Longqing Emperor, but because he offended the eunuch Tengxiang, he was almost killed.

After Wanli ascended the throne, Shi Xing finally turned over and was rehabilitated, but he fell out with Zhang Juzheng again, and Zhang Juzheng broke his wrist, Zhang Juzheng was in the middle of the day at that time, and the power was tilted into six departments, Shi Xing had to abandon the official and go home, until Zhang Juzheng died, he returned to the center of the court.

Shi Xing is very clear that as the most important vassal state of the Ming Dynasty in the East, there are several sets of intelligence systems belonging to the Ming Dynasty in Korea, first of all, everyone knows that the exclusive emperor's Jinyi Wei must have it, and then the Liaodong local, the Ming military department, etc.

Even some businessmen and other private systems doing business in North Korea have their own intelligence stations, and from time to time they will provide information to the imperial court for their own interests, and North Korea thinks that the Ming Dynasty does not know about itself, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty does not know the root of the DPRK, but also knows the heart.

So this report from Liaodong town guard chief officer Yang Shaoxun made Shi Xing's heart begin to drum, this report was issued at the end of April, when the capital of North Korea was in an emergency, Shi Xing received it in mid-May, in order to make up for the time difference, Yang Shaoxun specially added a sentence that the situation in North Korea is erosive, I am afraid that it can no longer be cleaned up, and I also asked the court to prepare early.

Shi Xing doubted in his heart, this North Korea is barely a big country, sitting on 3,000 miles of natural danger, with hundreds of thousands of armor, how could it be beaten to the capital in ten days? According to the intelligence description, on April 13, the Japanese army began to attack, and in just a few days, Wangjing and Hancheng were in an emergency—are the Korean soldiers all scarecrows? If you resist a little, you won't be defeated so quickly, right?

At this moment, Shi Xing suddenly remembered that last year, in the second half of the nineteenth year of Wanli, a very loud rumor spread in Beijing, saying that North Korea united with Japan to plot against the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, this rumor was successfully defended by the cabinet elder Xu Guo, which proved to be false, but is it possible that this is really a deliberate show of weakness by the Koreans, in fact, it is deliberately to make way for the Japanese? Otherwise, why has the DPRK never received a letter for help so far?

When Shi Xing thought of this, he suddenly shuddered a little, but remembering that the battle of Ningxia had been pacified, and the Ming Dynasty had already freed his hands, he had a little confidence in his heart, and he instructed Ni Shangzhong, the chief soldier of Baoding, to move to Tianjin to strengthen the war preparations in Jizhou and Shandong coasts, and at the same time moved the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, so that they could quickly send personnel to North Korea to conduct a detailed investigation.

When Yang Shaoxun received Shi Xing's instructions, it was also early June, and while he arranged two investigators, Cui Shichen and Lin Shilu, to prepare for the entry into Korea, he sent Tong Yangzheng, the deputy chief soldier of Kuandianbao, to Yishun Hall in North Korea to establish an emergency communication channel in wartime, and installed several scouts and messengers of the Ming military.

Da Ming has already paid attention to that restless Gentiles.