In mid-August, Li Rubai led the Ming army of Yaqueguan to arrive in Shenyang City, and was warmly welcomed by the people in the city.

In order to wait for Li Rubai's arrival, Li Hongyu, Xiong Tingbi and Wang Keshou and other Liaodong officials still stayed in Shenyang City, did not return to Liaoyang, and all went out of the city to welcome the arrival of the triumphant army.

Li Rubai's arrival made Xiong Tingbi secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and the soldiers of the Ming Army were in high spirits and high morale, which just made Xiong Tingbi, who lacked a major general, have a force in his hands that can fight with Houjin.

Two days later, Xiong Tingbi and Wang Keshou and other Liaodong officials set off to return to Liaoyang, after all, Liaodong is the place where they work, and Shenyang is too close to Houjin, in case Houjin sends troops to attack Shenyang, then the Ming Liaodong command center will be over, so they naturally have to stay in Liaoyang.

Li Rubai led the Chinese army of Yaque Pass to stay in Shenyang City, while the left army of Yaque Pass went to Liaoyang with Xiong Tingbi and others.

Since Li Rubai chose to stay in Shenyang, Li Ruzhen naturally had no need to stay in Shenyang anymore, and led the children of the Li family to Liaoyang, waiting for the edict of Emperor Wanli to summon him back to the capital.

The reason why Li Ruzhen came to Liaodong was because the officials of the imperial court hoped that he could hold Tieling, and now that Tieling has been lost, then Li Ruzhen, the general soldier of Liaodong, naturally has no need to stay in Liaodong, because it is enough for Liaodong to have Li Rubai, the general soldier of Liaodong, and the official positions of the two actually overlap.

In fact, Li Ruzhen was able to retreat from Liaodong this time thanks to Li Hongyu, if it were not for Li Hongyu personally sitting in Tieling and giving the order to withdraw the army, then Li Ruzhen should come to defend Tieling, so that the charge of the fall of Tieling will be borne by Li Ruzhen, and he will definitely be thrown into prison.

The day after Xiong Tingbi left Shenyang, Shenyang City welcomed the distinguished guests of the capital, and the Qincha sent by the Wanli Emperor to supervise the prisoner exchange rushed to Shenyang City.

Li Hongyu had long guessed that Emperor Wanli would agree to exchange prisoners, after all, the prisoners in the Battle of Sarhu were the elite of the Ming army, and if they could be exchanged, it would be of great benefit to enhance the strength of the Ming army.

Similarly, Li Hongyu also believed that Nurhachi would definitely agree to the exchange of prisoners, knowing that more than 7,000 people accounted for between one and two percent of the total Jurchen population, Nurhachi would never be able to ignore such a large number of people, and it would not be easy for him to replenish the 7,000 Eight Banner soldiers.

However, what Li Hongyu didn't expect was that the chief officer who led the team to Liaodong to exchange prisoners turned out to be Ran Xingrang, the concubine of Princess Shouning's mansion.

Of course, Ran Xingrang was different from other concubines, he had a wife who was favored by Emperor Wanli, so Emperor Wanli treated him differently, and was persuaded by Li Hongyu to let Ran Xing take charge of the Customs Department.

Emperor Wanli naturally sent Ran Xingrang to have a deep meaning, since Ran Xingrang will work with Li Hongyu in the Customs Department in the future, then let the two contact in the officialdom in advance.

At the same time, Emperor Wanli didn't want someone in the court to make a fuss about the prisoner exchange and drag Li Hongyu back, so he asked Ran Xing to give Li Hongyu a favor.

In addition to Ran Xingrang, there are two imperial messengers, one is the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the other is the person of the six departments, of which the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is a person from the Donglin Party, and the person of the Zhejiang Party is a person from the Zhejiang Party.

The Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party have the most officials in the court, the deepest foundation among the parties, and the most powerful power, so the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party want to send their people to Liaodong to inspect and exchange prisoners, and they secretly want to find Li Hongyu a little trouble, after all, Li Hongyu has not yet decided whether to join the Chu Party or the Donglin Party, so it is better to grab some Li Hongyu's pigtails in his hands.

In addition, the three chief officials of Liaodong are all from the Huguang clan, while Wang Keshou and Xiong Tingbi are members of the Chu Party, and Li Hongyu is very close to the Chu Party.

This has already caused uneasiness among the parties in the court, and from the perspective of interests, no party is willing to sit idly by and watch the rise of the Chu party, so it will definitely find trouble to suppress Li Hongyu to a greater or lesser extent.

However, to the disappointment of those who wanted to move Li Hongyu, Emperor Wanli was very protective of Li Hongyu, not only letting Ran Xingrang, who was the chief official of the imperial mission, protect Li Hongyu, but also affirmed that Li Hongyu gave up Tieling in the name of the holy decree It was a wise choice, so that the matter of Tieling could not hurt Li Hongyu.

After Ran Xingrang arrived in Shenyang City, he read out the holy decree of the Wanli Emperor to Li Hongyu, in which the Wanli Emperor agreed to exchange prisoners with Houjin, agreed with Li Hongyu to withdraw his troops from Tieling, and gave Li Hongyu an official and a knight to make him the right Shaoqing of Honglu Temple.

Moreover, what Li Hongyu didn't expect was that Emperor Wanli also mentioned Naren Tuoya in the holy decree, agreed with Li Hongyu to take Naren Tuoya as a concubine, and canonized Naren Tuoya as the "Caixia County Lord", enjoying the same treatment as the royal county lord, in order to show his favor to the Inner Khalkha Department who helped the Ming Dynasty fight the Battle of Tieling.

Seeing that Emperor Wanli agreed to his marriage to Naren Toya, Li Hongyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, what he was most worried about was that someone would make a fuss about Naren Toya in the future and frame him, and with this holy decree of Emperor Wanli, he would be free from worries.

Because there were too many prisoners of war of the Houjin army captured this time, Li Hongyu imprisoned them in Shenyang and Liaoyang respectively, and Ran Xingrang and others had already checked the prisoners of the Houjin army held in Liaoyang City, all of whom were young and middle-aged Jurchens, and did not find the phenomenon of indiscriminate filling.

"Governor Li, you have made a great contribution in this battle of Tieling, if the emperor knows that there are so many prisoners, he will definitely be happy." After inspecting the prisoners of the Houjin army held in Shenyang City, Ran Xingrang said with a smile to Li Hongyu that these prisoners could prove that Li Hongyu had won a big victory in Tieling.

"This is the result of the brave fighting of the soldiers and has nothing to do with this officer." Li Hongyu smiled disapprovingly, and said to Ran Xingrang, "Besides, it is our duty to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, how dare we take credit." ”

"Governor Li, I hope that the matter of exchanging prisoners will be completed as soon as possible, the emperor said, after this matter is over, you will return to Beijing to report on your work." Ran Xing let naturally know that Li Hongyu was polite, so he looked at Li Hongyu with a smile, "Not only the emperor, but also the imperial grandson misses Governor Li very much. ”

"Don't worry, this official will complete the prisoner exchange as soon as possible."

A subtle wry smile flashed at the corner of Li Hongyu's mouth when he heard this, it seemed that he left Liaodong earlier than expected, and then replied quietly.

He originally wanted to spend more time in Liaodong to arrange more affairs, but now it seems that it is impossible, so he can only take one step at a time, do his best, and obey the destiny of heaven.

After Ran Xingrang finished inspecting the prisoners of war in Shenyang City, Li Hongyu wrote a letter to Nurhachi, proposing that the two sides exchange prisoners, and more than 7,000 Houjin Eight Banner soldiers for more than 16,000 Ming troops captured in the Battle of Sarhu.

The reason why Li Hongyu knew how many Ming troops were captured in the Battle of Houjin Salhu was because of the Battle of Tieling, and the captured generals of the Later Jin Army knew the number of prisoners of war of the Ming army.

It is worth mentioning that the prisoners of war of the Ming army have been scattered by Nurhachi and incorporated into the Eight Banners, becoming slaves of the Jurchens of the Eight Banners, living a difficult life like pigs and dogs.

Although it seems that Houjin has suffered a loss in this prisoner exchange, Li Hongyu knows that Nurhachi has no choice, and the 7,000 Houjin Eight Banner soldiers will definitely be more useful to Nurhachi than the 16,000 prisoners of war of the Ming army, and once he misses it, Nurhachi will regret it.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to wait for Nurhachi's reply, Li Hongyu vigorously rectified the discipline of the Shenyang City government and army, which is also his last contribution to Liaodong, Shenyang City is now a bridgehead to resist the Houjin, and there is no room for failure, otherwise Liaoyang will be under the threat of the Houjin army, and the entire Liaodong will be in danger.

Kaiyuan, the General Military Palace, the Council Hall.

Nurhachi summoned the high-ranking officials and magnates of Houjin and handed them the prisoner exchange letters written by Li Hongyu and asked them to circulate them one by one.

Soon, the people on the scene were divided into two factions, Dai Shan and Huang Taiji, Er Yidu, He Heli, Hu Erhan and other generals with positive white flags and red flags and red flags naturally supported the exchange of prisoners, after all, the captured Eight Banners soldiers belonged to the positive white flag and the positive red flag, and of course they hoped that those prisoners could come back.

The generals of the other five banners openly and secretly opposed the exchange of prisoners, believing that this would increase the strength of the Ming army and be detrimental to the Houjin, but in fact this was just an excuse, because those prisoners of war had been incorporated into the Eight Banners, so no one wanted to lose more than 2,000 young and strong laborers in their banners.

In their opinion, the people who were captured were the people with the positive white flag and the positive red flag, and if they wanted to exchange prisoners, they would let the positive red flag, the positive white flag and the inlaid red flag under Dai Shan and Huang Taiji be exchanged, why should they let other flags spit out those prisoners of war?

Nurhachi naturally knew the thoughts of the other generals of the Five Banners, and after distributing those prisoners of war to the Banners, it would be equivalent to the property of the Banners, so they naturally did not want to hand over those people.

However, Nurhachi knows that now is not the time to care about these petty profits, and now the Houjin army needs to increase its troops to deal with the future military operations of the Ming army, and it has to be said that Li Hongyu's previous series of actions gave him a lot of psychological pressure.

On the surface, Li Hongyu exchanged 7,000 Houjin prisoners for 16,000 prisoners of the Ming army, and Houjin seems to have suffered a big loss, but if you look at the difficulty of replenishing troops on both sides, Houjin actually took advantage of it, and it is obvious that it is easier for the Ming army to replenish 16,000 soldiers than Houjin to replenish 7,000 soldiers.

Therefore, Nurhachi quickly stopped the two generals who were arguing over the exchange of prisoners, ordered to prepare for the exchange of prisoners with the Ming army, and asked each banner to hand over the prisoners of war of the Ming army who had been assigned after the Battle of Sarhu, and promised that in the future, the plundered population would be given priority to the five flags except for the Zhenghongqi, Zhengbaiqi, and Zhenghongqi, which ended the quarrel among everyone.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble in the matter of exchanging prisoners, Nurhachi specially told the generals of the Eight Banners to truthfully send back the prisoners of war of the Ming army, and not to abuse them during this period, otherwise they would be subject to military law.

Li Hongyu had already made it very clear in the letter that he would send someone to check on the situation of the Ming prisoners of war before the prisoner exchange, and if the Ming prisoners of war were abused or even killed after Nurhachi received his letter, then he would terminate the prisoner exchange ceremony.

If it was changed, Nurhachi would not take this threat to heart at all, it was obvious that the prisoner exchange was approved by Emperor Wanli, how could it be easily terminated?

But Li Hongyu is different, not only is he a celebrity in front of Emperor Wanli, but he is also very assertive and courageous, maybe he will really end the prisoner exchange.

At the same time, Li Hongyu also welcomed Nurhachi to send people to check on the situation of the Houjin prisoners of war to see if they had been mistreated and killed, and the two sides were undoubtedly equal in the exchange of prisoners.

Nurhachi was most worried about the impulsive Mang Gurtai, so after the discussion, he deliberately left him to tell him not to spoil the prisoner exchange, otherwise he would be punished.

It can be seen that Nurhachi attaches great importance to this prisoner exchange, and the more than 7,000 Houjin prisoners of war are a military force that cannot be ignored on the battlefield.

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