Chapter 64: Wind and rain talk in the new army
Emperor Chongzhen nodded, so it is so, the Qi family's army is good at selecting generals, soldiers, and weapons, and it is natural to win a big victory. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Touching his chin, Emperor Chongzhen saw that Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin still looked like they wanted to speak and stopped, and couldn't help but say: "Two Aiqing, if you have anything to say, it doesn't hurt to say it, I will listen to the truth today." ”
Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin glanced at each other, and at the same time saw the prudence and determination in each other's eyes.
Although the two have had a dispute, a political disagreement, and even fought over it, the two have the same thoughts and thoughts on this matter.
Xu Guangqi on the side also silently put down his chopsticks, picked up the wine glass and drank a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the two of them are not easy to speak, let's let the ministers talk!" The minister didn't plan to return to the court, and if he said something excessive, no one would target the minister. ”
Emperor Chongzhen frowned, a little dissatisfied with Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin's caution, could it be that what was said here could still be passed on? Can you still sell the two of them?
Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen seemed to be a little dissatisfied, Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin were both a little embarrassed and a little ashamed at the same time.
The way to be an official lies in being loyal, but we must also learn to protect ourselves, which is the first lesson for many officials to enter the officialdom. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that a companion is like a tiger, and the same is true for civil officials, there is a Wei Zheng in history, and there is also a Li Shimin.
Even if he is as wise as Li Shimin, he still liquidated Wei Zheng after Wei Zheng's death, and the longer he was an official, the heavier his mind became.
Xu Guangqi fully understood the thoughts of the two people, so he spoke: "Your Majesty, during the Jiajing period, the first assistant Yan Song dictatorship for 20 years, swallowed up military salaries, corrupted officials, abolished border affairs, and frequently invaded the southeast coastal areas, causing great damage.
To the north of the Great Wall, Altan Khan, the leader of the Mongol Tatar tribes, continued to invade the border, and in the 29th year, he even plundered the city of BJ. During the Jiajing period, the southern and northern captives were a great disaster for the Ming Dynasty. ”
"The Qi family army was established at this time, and when the country was ruined, foreign affairs had become a problem that had to be solved. The Tatar soldiers besieged the capital, the court was united, no one dared to interfere in the affairs of the Qi army, the court asked for money, gritted its teeth to support the Qi army, and this was the credit of the Qi army. ”
"In today's court, the party is the same and different, many officials think that the wild boar skin is just a small thing, but fortunately, the matter of Liaodong is regarded as a place to fight for power and profit, attack each other, use each other, often change the order of the day, change people frequently, restrain each other, and can even make a contradiction of discord. Jingfu is already at odds, what should the people below do? It must be at a loss, and it is not as easy as the army to have combat power! ”
Emperor Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and he clicked his lips, thinking that what Xu Guangqi said made sense! Although some places are not exact, there are reasons for this.
Listening to Xu Guangqi's words, Sun Chengzong sighed helplessly, Sun Chengzong has the most say in this regard. At the beginning, he had already prepared grain and grass, and wrote to the court to ask for 200,000 taels of silver, and then levied wild boar skins.
Who would have thought that the people in the court, especially Wei Zhongxian, would suppress this matter for their own selfish interests.
Sun Chengzong resigned in anger and returned to his hometown, if Sun Chengzong had a good impression of Wei Zhongxian, it would be strange. In Sun Chengzong's eyes, Wei Zhongxian was a eunuch who brought disaster to the country and a criminal minister of the country, and killing a hundred times was not enough to calm the anger in his heart.
As for Wang Zaijin, following Wei Zhongxian's party, how could Sun Chengzong look down on him? He advocated sending troops to conquer Liao, he stood on Wei Zhongxian's side, and said that in the eyes of Sun Chengzong, Wang Zaijin was the one who helped the evil.
If it weren't for Emperor Chongzhen turning around in the middle and repeatedly telling the two people that state affairs are important, otherwise how could these two people be like this.
"I know this, is there anything else Xu Aiqing wants to say?" Xu Guangqi nodded and continued: "Later, the Qi family's army was able to achieve such good results in Biansai, which was inseparable from the large number of firearms that the imperial court equipped him. ”
"At that time, the court was rich!" Xu Guangqi said with a smile: "Even the three major expeditions of North Korea can afford to support it, let alone raise a Qi family army?" ”
The Three Great Expeditions of Wanli refer to the three large-scale military wars in the Wanli period, and the three large-scale military operations launched in the northwest and southwest frontiers of the Ming Dynasty and Korea; They were the battle of Li Rusong (Li Chengliang's eldest son) to quell the Mongol rebellion; Li Rusong, Magui's Korean campaign against the invasion of the RB Toyotomi Hideyoshi regime; and the Battle of Banzhou, where Li Hualong pacified the rebellion of Yang Yinglong, the Tusi of Miao Territory.
Among them, the Korean War was fought with RB, from the time of the Ming Dynasty, RB has been towards the invasion, and has been working hard for it, until World War II launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, but at any time this country is not short of people who dare to die, RB's conspiracy did not succeed after all.
At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who held great power in the country, ordered Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukinaga to lead an army from Tsushima to capture Busan, Korea, and then crossed the Imjin River to attack Wangjing (present-day Seoul).
The Joseon king, Yi Hao, was addicted to alcohol, military and political corruption, and his army was defeated, and he fled to Pyongyang and then to Uiju (northeast of present-day Sinuiju). After the Japanese army occupied Wangjing, they destroyed the tombs, robbed the prince and courtiers, and plundered the treasury. It also invaded Kaesong and Pyongyang, and Korea fell to seven of the eight provinces.
In this situation, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to aid Korea at the request of North Korea. However, due to the lack of strength and the lack of geography of the reinforcements, the guerrilla Shi Ru was killed in battle, and the deputy chief soldier Zu Chengxun was only spared. After the news of the defeat of the Ming court, Song Yingchang was the strategy and Li Rusong was the commander of the Eastern Expedition, and 40,000 soldiers and horses were gathered to go to the court. In the first month of the following year, he attacked Pyongyang and defeated Konishi Yukinaga's army, winning a great victory in Pyongyang, and then reopening the city to turn the tide of the war.
Later, he advanced to Wang Jing, but in the Bihu Pavilion thirty miles away from Wang Jing, he suffered heavy losses due to the ambush of the light enemy, and Li Rusong was almost killed. In March, Liu Ling and Chen Ling led their troops to Korea. The Ming army choked Linjin, Baoshan and other places, and cut off the Japanese army's grain route.
The Japanese army was short of food, so they had to abandon Wang Jing, retreat to Pusan and other places, and began to negotiate with the Ming army. In order to gain time, Shi Xing, the secretary of the Ming Army, advocated peace. However, the negotiations broke down due to RB's unreasonable demands such as taking the Datong River as the boundary.
Twenty-five years of the Japanese army launched another attack, Mingshenzong Zhu Yijun under the stone star equal to prison, with Xing Yu as the governor of Jiliao, because Li Rusong had been killed in the war with the Mongols, so appointed Ma Gui as the general of the preparation of the Japanese, transferred Jiliao, Xuanfu, Datong, SXSX soldiers and FJ Wusong sailors to aid the DPRK, and recruited Sichuan, Han soldiers and other reinforcements. In February of the following year, the Ming army divided into four routes, Dong Yiyuan in the middle, Magui in the east, Liu Ling in the west, and Chen Ling in the water, and advanced to Pusan.