In the seventeenth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty granted Nurhachi the post of governor of the left guard of Jianzhou, Nurhachi had the edict of the Ming Dynasty, justifiably, very proud, in Yehe, Hada, Huifa, Ula in front of the Jurchen leaders to show off, and then the Ming army resisted the Japanese and aided the DPRK, there were military officials who suggested that Nurhachi's soldiers be recruited to fight in North Korea, Nurhachi also intended to serve, but for some reason did not make the trip, at that time Nurhachi was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, of course, but he was still in awe, and came to Yanjing City many times to pay tribute in person- In the thirty-sixth year of Wanli, Nurhachi controlled tens of thousands, the power was strong, busy annexing Hada, Huifa Jurchen, has been not paying tribute for three consecutive years, the then Jiliao Governor Jian Da noticed Nurhachi's ambitions, and shouted "Jian Chieftain is becoming arrogant, and the East is worried", asking the imperial court to prepare for war as soon as possible, but Wanli Emperor is afraid of trouble, because if you want to use soldiers to fight, then you need soldiers to pay, Wanli Emperor is afraid of using his royal treasury silver, and the minister does not dare to take responsibility, after all, the slave chieftain did not rebel, so only by the military department, The Ministry of Rites and the Department of Pedestrian Affairs sent a letter urging Nurhachi to pay tribute as soon as possible, Nurhachi took advantage of the Ming court and officials to have a good face and was afraid of trouble, and invited the deputy general of Liaoyang Wu and the king of Fushun to garrison in Jinshitai in June of the 36th year of Wanli, and the two sides swore to engrave the monument, stipulating that the personnel on both sides should not cross the boundary with each other, and the boundary monument should be a major event between countries, where does a deputy general and garrison have such rights, with the strength of Nurhachi at that time, he did not have the courage to establish a country, he played a trick, which can be seen from the inscription, the inscription is roughly as follows:

"——Everyone who guards the emperor's border and dares to cross the border privately, regardless of Manchurian or Han Chinese, will not be forgiven if they see it, and if they see it, they will not kill them, and they will not kill them. If the Ming Dynasty loses this alliance, the governor of Guangning, the general army, Liaoyang Dao, the deputy general, the Kaiyuan Dao, the general and other six yamen officials will suffer from it, and if Manchuria loses this alliance, they will also suffer from it. ”

Judging from the six words of "guarding the emperor's border", Nurhachi regarded Jianzhou as a local regime of the Ming Dynasty, and Liaoyang Road and Kaiyuan Road guarded the border with the Ming Emperor respectively, which was acceptable to the Wu deputy general and Wang Shoubei who participated in the Jinshitai Covenant, but as soon as they crossed the border, they would kill people, where is there such a law in the Ming Dynasty, and the inscription called the Ming Dynasty and Manchu opposites, which is clearly the meaning of the division of the court and the division of land, but it was a fact that Nurhachi divided the Haixi at that time, And Nurhachi decisively bribed Wu Deputy General and Wang Garrison, and Wu and Wang were urged by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites to let Nurhachi resume paying tribute, so he agreed to set up a boundary monument, which assigned all the eight hundred miles of Kuandian and six forts opened up by Li Chengliang in the early years of Wanli to Nurhachi - Nurhachi's purpose was achieved, and he entered Beijing with his brother Surhachi in that year, and the Ming Dynasty was to slap the swollen face and fill the fat man, Nurhachi paid tribute to some Haixi native products such as ginseng, mink, Dongzhu and the like, Got more and more practical rewards, such as cotton cloth and farm tools, which are in urgent need of the Jurchens, the Ming Dynasty accepted the slave chieftain tribute on the surface seems to be beautiful, but secretly it is a big loss, and Nurhachi took the opportunity to pay tribute, along the way to explore the reality of the Ming Dynasty, after some investigation, he believes that although the Ming Dynasty is huge, but the official system [***], the armament is lax, and not afraid, since then the Ming Dynasty has a contempt for the Ming Dynasty, and finally in this year, that is, the first day of the first month of the forty-fourth year of Wanli, the country is called Dajin, Claiming to overlay the wise Khan of the nations, with the forty-fourth year of Wanli as the first year of the Golden Mandate of Heaven, from then on called the Ming Dynasty as the Southern Dynasty, he Nurhachi seems to be the lord of a country - the first few months of the founding of the country Nurhachi was still a little uneasy, afraid that the Ming army would crusade against Jianzhou, at this time Nurhachi was not enough to be confident, although he was invincible in the Jurchen tribes of Liaodong, but he had not fought with the Ming army, he was still afraid, but he waited for a few months, and waited for an edict signed by the Ming Emperor condemning him, it is said that Nurhachi laughed, So there was the tragedy of killing more than 50 so-called Han people who crossed the border in early June, and said that they were executed in accordance with the oath of the boundary monument, and asked the Ming Dynasty to severely punish the Qinghe guerrilla Feng Yougong - the above causes and consequences were all learned by Zhang Yuan through the Di Bao of the past years, in this latest Di Bao, the governor of Liaodong, Li Weihan, heard that he had detained the two envoys sent by Nurhachi, Ganguri and Fangjina, and asked Nurhachi to arrest the murderer of the Han people, Huer Khan, and at the same time, Li Weihan asked the imperial court to prepare for the use of soldiers to make up for the salaries of the Liao soldiers. If Nurhachi does not hand over the murderer, the Ming Dynasty must take action, Nurhachi's arrogance can only be suppressed by using troops - Zhang Yuan saw Li Weihan's note in the newspaper copy room of the Hanlin Academy, and was extremely angry, those Han people in Qinghe just crossed the border to cut down some trees, and were killed by Nurhachi's people, and the cruelty of the slave chief can be seen!

The two Di Bao copyists looked at each other, Zhang Xiushu has always spoken and amid, but at this time he was angry at a Di Bao, which is really rare, but Zhang Yuan knew that this was the beginning of Nurhachi's massacre of the Han people, Nurhachi was extremely hostile to the Han people, and the suffering of the Liao people came, but now he was powerless to rescue and prevent all this from happening, the Ming regime was huge and rotten, and the work efficiency was low, this was not something he could change for a while, he needed time - this Zhang Yuan did not drink tea and read books in the Hanlin Academy, and the crisis was coming. He went to the Yamen of the Ministry of War to visit Qi Chengjiao and his own test master Zhang Heming, these two are the Ministry of War, Zhang Yuan said to the two of them that Liaodong is at stakes, and it is necessary to garrison Kaiyuan with heavy troops, Qingyun Fort, Jing'an Fort, Chaihe Fort and other areas should increase troops, and then connect with the Beiguan Yehe Department to fight against the slave chieftain, Fushun and Qinghe will be the first place for the slave chieftain to use troops, and should send elite soldiers to guard the town, which is the suggestion in the "On the Establishment of the Old Slave General in Jianzhou" written by him at the end of last year, when Qi Chengjiao presented it on his behalf, and then Nuerhachi really established the country, This caused quite a stir among the officials of the Ministry of War at that time, thinking that Zhang Yuan could expect things to be thousands of miles away, but that's all, Emperor Wanli did not make a reply, and after the officials of the Ministry of War discussed, they still sent the guerrilla Zhou Daqi and Ma Shinan to lead a thousand gunners to help Yehe defend the city, lest Yehe be annexed by Nurhachi, but Fushun and Qinghe still did not have heavy troops.

Zhang Heming led Zhang Yuan to visit Wei Yangmeng, the right attendant of the military department, and the military department did not have a book, and the right attendant Wei Yangmeng was appointed by the military department, Zhang Yuan said to Wei Shilang that it was not enough to send only 1,000 gunners to Yehe, at least 3,000, and to be equipped with the latest flintlock pistols and tiger squat cannons to help defend the city, Fushun must be heavily fortified as soon as possible, and it is difficult for Fushun guerrilla Li Yongfang to take on the heavy task...... Wei Yangmeng was indifferent to Zhang Yuan's generous discussion, and only deduced that the emperor was unwilling to act rashly, and that the Liaodong military salary had been lacking for three out of ten since this spring, and the military department had nowhere to raise it, and could not do anything without money.

Zhang Yuan was helpless, and went to visit the teacher Yang Lian and Sun Chengzong and his brother Xu Guangqi of the James Mansion, Yang Lian is in the household department, and he doesn't know much about the affairs of the military department.

The next time, Zhang Yuan went to visit Qi Shijiao again, and asked Xiong Mingyu to have a close relationship with Qi Shijiao, and was immediately recommended by Qi Shijiao to visit Xiong Mingyu, and asked Xiong Mingyu to advise him on "Liaodong Danger and Sparseness", Xiong Mingyu said that he would help Zhang Yuan at the meeting.

On the morning of the sixth day of the eighth month, Zhang Yuan, Xiong Mingyu, Xu Guangqi, and Sun Chengzong's four remarks were sent to the cabinet. ”

Wu Daonan said: "It has been handed in." ”

Fang Congzhe said: "Governor Li of the Qinghe Han people who crossed the border and was killed has already submitted the latest recital, and the matter is generally resolved, but Zhang Yuan and the four of them used Governor Li's recital last time to talk about Liao affairs, which is quite alarmist. When he immediately wrote down the handling opinions and handed them to Wu Daonan for signing, Wu Daonan said: "Sun Chengzong is familiar with border affairs, Xiong Mingyu is in the military department, not Zhang Yuan's young scholars can compare, Sun and Xiong are also worried about Liao affairs, and Brother Zhonghan is better to be cautious." ”

Fang Congzhe said: "At present, Liaodong is safe and sound, don't act rashly, the matter of the Han people crossing the border and being killed by Governor Li has been properly resolved, saving my face of the Ming Dynasty, if you provoke again, it will be difficult to clean up the trouble." ”

Wu Daonan saw Fang Congzhe say this, so he had to give up.

On the eighth day of the eighth month of August, Xiong Mingyu received the emperor's reply in the Huangji Gate, in addition to his and Zhang Yuan, Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi's note, there is also Liaodong Governor Li Weihan's note, Zhang Yuan's four people asked to strengthen Liaodong's armament, the emperor did not answer, Xiong Mingyu looked at Li Weihan's note, but it turned out that Nurhachi had relented, and brought the murderer of Han people to Fushun City to be killed on the spot, Li Weihan thought that he had raised the national prestige, in order to appease Nurhachi, Li Weihan suggested that Feng Yougong should be dismissed from the guerrilla army, because Feng Yougong built a barracks for the sergeants and indulged the soldiers and civilians to cross the border to collect wood, Feng Yougong also had the matter of greedy military salaries, and this time he started a light provocation, and he should be punished for two crimes - Zhang Yuan looked up to the sky and sighed after knowing the result of this matter, and said in his heart: "Where is the murderer who was killed under Fushun City, the murderer Huerhan is the righteous son of Nurhachi, where is Nurhachi willing to kill, the so-called murderer should be the prisoner captured by Nurhachi and other Jurchen tribes, and he made a show for the Ming court, Nurhachi probably thought that the time had not yet come to face the Ming army head-on, so he temporarily expressed his submission. ”

(To be continued)