Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Pingliao Strategy
What Chen Renxi and others did in the Karaqin Department, on the way from Tongzhou to Jingshi to meet the emperor, Sun Chengzong had already told Lu Shanji in detail, and also revealed that the emperor wanted to send him to Ningyuan to serve as the governor of Jiliao. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info So, as soon as the emperor mentioned this, Lu Shanji already knew that today's summons was at a critical moment.
As soon as Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, Lu Shanji got up and left his seat, knelt down in his robe, and said on the ground: "Minister Lu Shanji, I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty." Your Majesty has an order, and the minister goes to the soup to fight the fire, and then dies. ”
In the second year of the Apocalypse, the Liao affair was very bad, and Lu Shanji, who was in the Ministry of War, took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Liaodong to serve, and followed Sun Chengzong to give advice to him in the post of Fang Langzhong of the Ministry of War. Since then, Lu Shanji has regarded the pacification of Liaodong as a lifelong career, a lifelong pursuit, and the only thing he will never forget after returning home is to pacify Liaodong and achieve a lifelong career.
Later, Yuan Chonghuan successively achieved the great victory of Ningyuan and Ningjin on the basis laid by Sun Chengzong and others, and more and more revealed his outstanding ability to pacify Liaodong, and the court also thought that Yuan Chonghuan was the most suitable candidate for Pingliao, and Lu Shanji's heart slowly faded.
However, to the great surprise of many people, the newly ascended Emperor Chongzhen did not appoint Yuan Chonghuan to the position of Jiliao Governor, but to the position of the governor of the three sides.
Sun Chengzong's first candidate is of course Yuan Chonghuan, after all, Yuan Chonghuan has shown super ability, and when Yuan Chonghuan was not appointed to Ningyuan, in Sun Chengzong's heart, among the remaining suitable candidates, Lu Shanji must be counted as one, because Lu Shanji has followed him in Liaodong for many years, and he is clear about the ins and outs of Liao affairs, the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and me, and the most important thing is that he also found that many of Lu Shanji's ideas have many secret coincidences with the emperor's strategy in Liaodong.
So as soon as what happened in Karaqin came out, Sun Chengzong proposed that the emperor should seriously consider the candidate for the Jiliao Governor, and the emperor also had this intention, Sun Chengzong immediately suggested to the emperor to consider appointing Lu Shanji as the new Jiliao Governor. The Emperor nodded in approval.
For Emperor Chongzhen, Wang Zhichen and Bi Zisu may be able to become capable ministers who govern the world, but in Liaodong, where the relationship between friends and enemies is complicated, these two people who are too angry are obviously not suitable for Liaodong, and it is difficult to become the traitor of the troubled times that Emperor Chongzhen needs today.
In fact, the characters who are really suitable for Liaodong should be people like Li Chengliang, and now there are no such people in Liaodong, Mao Wenlong, who was Li Chengliang's personal soldier when he was young, is actually such a character, but now in the court of the Ming Dynasty, the situation of the noble and martial arts is even more serious than that of the Wanli period, and if you want to appoint a warrior who made a fortune by military exploits as the Jiliao Governor, it is something that you can't even think about.
Of course, in addition to Mao Wenlong, Lu Shanji, who has followed Sun Chengzong in Liaodong for many years, is also very good in terms of resourcefulness, especially the ruthlessness and decisiveness shown in the rectification of salt affairs this time, and he has a very good appetite for Emperor Chongzhen.
Jinshi was born, familiar with Liaodong, and did not have the stinky problem of civil officials, so Lu Shanji soon became the best candidate for Liaodong Governor in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen. There is no suspense in the future.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at Lu Shanji, who was kneeling on the ground and had finished expressing his attitude, nodded, and then said: "I want to order Aiqing to replace Wang Zhichen as the governor of Jiliao, the governor of Liaodong, Tianjin, Denglai, Dongjiang and other places, and take full charge of Pingliao affairs, Aiqing is willing?" Hearing the emperor's question, Lu Shanji took a deep breath and replied in a deep voice: "The minister is willing." ”
On the second day of Lu Shanji's return to Beijing, drafted by the Military Aircraft Department, co-signed by the cabinet, and the emperor's holy decree approving the use of seals was transmitted to the relevant ministries, and at the same time, Jinyiwei sent several teams of men and horses to gallop out of Beijing to the relevant places to Liaodong, Tianjin, Denglai and Dongjiang to deliver the decree: Qin ordered the military aircraft department to senate, the military department squire, the Qin mission to patrol the salt imperial history Lu Shanji, the military department of the military department, the military secretary of the military department, the governor of Liaodong, Tianjin, Denglai, Dongjiang and other places, and concurrently served as the governor of Liaodong.
When he got this appointment, Lu Shanji actually had a little accident, and this little accident was that he was also the governor of Liaodong. Although during his tenure in Liaodong, he also had opinions on the mutual restraint of power in the same city and the governor, but this was the original intention of the imperial court to set up a supervisor and a governor.
Now the emperor has let himself shoulder the Ji Liao Governor and the Liaodong Governor, although it shows that the emperor fully trusts him, but he will also find suspicion and even attack from the Chinese courtiers. If the emperor asked for his opinion, he would definitely not concurrently serve as the governor of Liaodong, but since the edict has been issued, even if it is a certainty at this time, there is nothing to say.
At the same time as Lu Shanji's appointment, there was also the appointment of Wang Zhichen and Bi Zisu, Wang Zhichen was transferred from the Jiliao Governor to the newly established Governor of Liangguang in the imperial court, who was specially responsible for rectifying the coastal defense and armament affairs of Liangguang, and assisted Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, in quelling the food and salary affairs of the Lu'an Rebellion. As for Bi Zisu, of course, he also gave a good errand, that is, the big fat shortage of the two Huai salt transport envoys.
There was no objection from top to bottom of the court to such an arrangement, and after the decree arrived, Wang Zhichen and Bi Zisu did not say anything, but they were extremely satisfied. It's not that these two people are incapable, but they just lack edge talent.
In history, Wang Zhichen was also a capable minister, but he was appointed by the Emperor of the Apocalypse before his death, and Chongzhen wanted to make a difference in Liao affairs after he ascended the throne, but in fact, it was difficult to make a difference in the situation in Liaodong at that time, so Wang Zhichen was not quite right from Chongzhen in history.
Later, after listening to Yuan Chonghuan's five-year Pingliao theory, Emperor Chongzhen immediately appointed Yuan Chonghuan as the Jiliao Governor, and at that time, it coincided with the mutiny of Ningyuan's soldiers. In this life, these two followers who were rare in the history of the late Ming Dynasty were as clean as water, and under the butterfly effect of Emperor Chongzhen now, their fates of course ushered in completely different changes.
After accepting the new appointment, Lu Shanji rested for a few days, took the opportunity to settle his family in Beijing, and then took Sun Qian and others to embark on the journey to Liaodong again. Before leaving, accompanied by Sun Chengzong and Zhang Weixian, the emperor summoned him again and explained to him in detail the basic strategy of the imperial court on the Pingliao issue in the future, that is, to attack in the east and defend in the west, to use both land and water, to organize the army and wait for the opportunity, and told him that Dalinghe City could be used as an outpost, and that it could be guarded and not abandoned, and that he would make every effort to shrink his strength to defend the Ningjin defense line.
At the same time, the use of cement and concrete to rebuild the city of Guangning, to prevent the construction of the capture to the west, to prevent the construction of the capture to the south, to control the overall situation of Liaodong with Ningyuan, as for the forts dotted around the rear of Guangning and Jinzhou, such as Xingshan, Songshan and Tashan, it is necessary to further strengthen and expand into a city. This is the strategy of the Liaoning West Corridor, which is mainly defensive, waiting for an opportunity to attack.
Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town, on the other hand, mainly attacked and harassed the rear of the Jianguo, and carried out guerrilla warfare on the Liaodong Peninsula and in the area west of the Yalu River, so as to contain the Jianguo and exhaust the Jianguo.
Emperor Chongzhen especially specially warned Lu Shanji that he must have a good relationship with Mao Wenlong and cooperate closely, and when Jianguo attacked Korea or Dongjiang Town, Liaodong Town must send troops to contain Jianguo.
The emperor's earnest teachings, Lu Shanji naturally put it in his heart, and at the same time he has been in Liaodong for many years, and he also agrees with the emperor's strategy, although he is the same as Yuan Chonghuan, with the ambition of pacifying Liaodong, but he knows that this emperor is not easy to deceive, so he never thought of saying five years of Pingliao in order to obtain the emperor's full support.