Chapter 743: Complicated Affairs
Originally, Emperor Xuande wanted to let Jiangwutang have jurisdiction over the reorganized Liaodong Capital Division and Shanxi Xingdu Division, hoping that Li Yuntian could train a group of brave warriors like Xiaowu Army for the Ming Dynasty.
However, to Emperor Xuande's surprise, Li Yuntian declined this opportunity to hold heavy troops, and proposed that the military cabinet should directly govern the Liaodong Metropolitan Division and the Shanxi Xingdu Division, and gradually abolish the major governors' offices between the military cabinet and the local troops, so as to strengthen the military cabinet's control over the local troops.
Although the major metropolitan governors will be abolished, this does not mean that the nobles of the capital will have nothing to do, according to Li Yuntian's plan, the nobles of the major metropolitan governors will go to the various capital divisions to take up their posts and strengthen the functions of the capital divisions.
In other words, the power of the governor's office was divided between the military cabinet and the local governors, which not only strengthened the military cabinet's control over the military power, but also improved the efficiency of the local troops, and many things could be solved in the local prefectures.
Since the reorganized prefectures will implement a military system that combines the compulsory military system and the professional military system in the same way as the military service halls, in order to prevent the phenomenon of private soldiers, the honorable and senior generals of the major metropolitan divisions will be rotated.
To be precise, the nobles will move between the major divisions, and the senior generals will move between the troops within the divisions.
In Emperor Xuande's view, Li Yuntian's mention was perfect, which not only successfully broke the stubborn problem of military attachés at all levels of the Ming army treating their soldiers as private soldiers, but also appeased those nobles in the capital and gave them corresponding positions in various prefectures.
It is worth mentioning that after the reorganization, the generals of the major prefectures implemented new military ranks like the Xiaowu Army, in which the promotion power of generals was in the hands of Emperor Xuande, and only after receiving the edict of Emperor Xuande could they be promoted to generals, and the appointment of officers at the rank of colonel and lieutenant was delegated to military attaches at all levels of the local troops, and officers were promoted in accordance with the relevant regulations, so as to ensure the combat effectiveness and cohesion of the local troops to the greatest extent.
When Li Yuntian was dealing with the affairs of the Guanxi Qiwei in Beizhili, Emperor Xuande found the nobles of the Governor's Mansion to which the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, the Shanxi Xingdu Division, the Wanquan Imperial Division and the Daning Imperial Division belonged, and deliberately revealed the tone to see the reactions of the nobles and the outside world, and only then did Zhou Yuting hear the rumors in the capital.
As for why Li Yuntian politely refused to take charge of the reorganized Liaodong Metropolitan Division and Shanxi Xingdu Division, it was because he had self-knowledge and knew that the high places were unbearable:
Holding heavy troops is enviable, but at the same time, it also means becoming the target of the public, which will also make Emperor Xuande suspicious and defensive against him, so he doesn't want to cause such trouble, so he pushes out the military power in his hand.
In Li Yuntian's view, Emperor Xuande needs to be able to check and balance each other, and any one side will bring a threat to the rule of the imperial power, and he must take precautions to deal with this matter, otherwise others will have an opportunity to take advantage of it in the future, and then fall into passivity.
Perhaps, this is the most fundamental reason why Li Yuntian was able to gain the favor and trust of Emperor Xuande, no emperor wanted to see his courtiers have the power to challenge the monarchy, and Li Yuntian handled this very well, so that Emperor Xuande has always trusted him.
According to common sense, Li Yuntian has been running around since he followed Emperor Xuande last year, and he has worked hard to defeat the Tatars and Warat, and now that the war is over, he should take a big vacation to recuperate.
However, he has too many affairs at hand, and many affairs need to be handled by him personally, so taking a vacation has become an unattainable luxury for Li Yuntian.
In addition to the complicated official affairs to deal with, Li Yuntian is also busy walking around with the magnates in the capital, although it is usually Zhou Yuting and Zhu Yuxin who manage the relationship between the family and the families of the important civil and military ministers in the capital, but after all, the two are not the heads of the family of the Zhenguo Mansion, and Li Yuntian's role is irreplaceable.
Besides, Li Yuntian's visit to the capital's magnates after he was crowned the Duke of the Kingdom is also a kind of humble expression, and without the promotion of official positions and titles, he has no one in his eyes.
Time flickered, and half a year passed in a hurry in Li Yuntian's busy life, which made Li Yuntian feel a little emotionally that time had flown by.
In May of the ninth year of Xuande, Zhou Zheng led the troops pursuing Tuhuan to triumph, and he led the army to chase Tuhuan to the depths of Mobei, and then moved south to the Hala and Lin and Hetao areas with a large number of captured Warat people.
Emperor Xuande rewarded Zhou Zheng and other soldiers, Zhou Zheng was promoted to Taifu, ranked as the third duke, and the rest of the generals also had their own rewards, and the generals of the Xiaowu Army were the biggest winners, and many people won the seal again.
Among the troops under Zhou Zheng, the main force was the sergeants of the Datong Qinglong Battalion of the Xiaowu Army left by Li Yuntian's side of Emperor Xuande, and the sergeants of the Datong Qinglong Battalion not only risked their lives to escort Emperor Xuande and the important ministers of the imperial court back to Beijing, but also made a lot of contributions in the battles between the Shanxi Xingdu Division and the Wanquan Dusi and the Mongol army, which can be described as a high achievement.
Among them, Xiaoyong Marquis Wang Jian was awarded the fourth-class Fengtian Yiwei Tui Cheng Xiao Guogong, Wu Ping Bo Liang Shaojie was awarded the third class Fengtian Yiyun Tui Cheng Wu Pinghou, Ping Wubo Qin Kun was awarded the fourth class Fengtian Yiwei Tui Cheng Pingwu Marquis, Datong Qinglong Battalion Commander Wang Bin was awarded the third class Fengtian Yiyun Tui Cheng Shang Wubo, and Lu Minen was awarded the third class Fengtian Yiyun Tui Cheng Yi Wu Bo.
At this point, the generals in the Xiaowu army who followed Li Yuntian to settle the Jiaozhi were all able to enter the knighthood after experiencing the ups and downs of the war with the Northern Yuan, and officially became a new and important force among the nobles of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to the generals of the Xiaowu Army, there was also a general of the Ming Army who had a close relationship with Li Yuntian who was able to enter the knighthood, and he was Li Manshan, the deputy envoy of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town.
After the defeat in the first battle of Yinmahe, Li Manshan commanded the scattered Ming troops around Emperor Xuande in the name of the deputy envoy of Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division, and cooperated with Wang Jian and other Xiaowu troops to protect Emperor Xuande and return to Datong City safely after fighting to the death, and made great achievements.
Therefore, Li Manshan was awarded the title of third-class Fengtian Yiyun by Emperor Xuande, and was promoted to the envoy of Jinyi Weibei Town.
Don't look at the Beizhen Fusi is nominally a yamen under the jurisdiction of Jinyiwei, with the increasing importance of the role of the Beizhen Fusi, by the Xuande period, the Jinyiwei commander can no longer command the Beizhen Fusi, because the Beizhen Fusi has gradually become a department directly under the Xuande Emperor, only the Nanzhen Fusi is still under the jurisdiction of the Jinyiwei commander.
In other words, the really powerful person in the Jinyi Guard is the Beizhen Fusi, who has the power to inspect and arrest, that is, the "Jinyi Guard" who is feared like a tiger and arrests people everywhere.
In addition to the people of the North Town Fu Division, including the South Town Fu Division, the other personnel of Jinyi Wei were mainly responsible for the security of Emperor Xuande and the honor guard, and did not have the authority to inspect and arrest.
This means that although the envoy of Beizhen Fusi is a subordinate of the commander of Jinyiwei, the commander of Jinyiwei cannot treat him as a lower-level official.
Due to the notoriety of the Beizhen Fusi, coupled with the fact that the Jinyi guards are all dressed in the same clothes, and the people of the Jinyi Guards outside the Beizhen Fusi are usually fake and mighty on weekdays, the outside world usually thinks that the Jinyi guards have the power to inspect and arrest.
Historically, it was the people who assisted Dongchang in arresting people in Jinyi Weibei Town, and not all Jinyi Wei had the right to arrest people in the Imperial Prison.
Emperor Xuande used an earl to serve as the envoy of the Beizhen Fusi, which can be said to have created a precedent for the Ming Dynasty, so that the level of the Jinyi Wei Beizhen Fusi Zhenfu Division is equivalent to the level of the Jinyi Wei commander, and they are all served by the Ming Dynasty.
Li Manshan was able to enter the Jue and be able to take charge of the Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi, although there was an element of his heroic fighting, but without Li Yuntian's support, he would not have been able to get to this point.
Therefore, Li Yuntian can be said to have won a great victory in this battle with the Northern Yuan, and he is the one who has benefited the most.
However, the only thing that made Li Yuntian feel sorry was that Wen Yongbo Guchen's whereabouts were unknown after the end of the Beizhili War, although the government conducted a careful search in the towns and villages of Beizhili, but there was still no news of him, after all, he was not a Mongol, and it was easy to escape if he mixed with the people.
Li Yuntian can be sure that Gu Chen must have taken advantage of the chaos, it is not difficult to leave Beizhili with Gu Chen's ability, which makes him feel a little disappointed, Gu Chen and that mysterious A Qiu are two tricky characters, if you can't catch the two, I'm afraid there will be endless troubles, and maybe there will be some trouble in the future.
However, Li Yuntian didn't have the energy to ponder where Gu Chen and Ah Qiu had gone, and the heavy official duties at hand had already made him busy, where did he still have the heart to think about Gu Chen and Ah Qiu.
Under the auspices of Li Yuntian, the Liaodong Prefecture, Shanxi Xingdu Division, Daning Division, Wanquan Division, Mongolian Division, and Nuergandu Division have completed the reorganization program.
According to Li Yuntian's plan, the Liaodong Prefecture, the Daning Division, and the Nuer Gandu Division will be merged into the Liaodong Military Region, and the Shanxi Xingdu Division, the Mongolian Division, and the Wanquan Capital Division will be merged into the Northern Military Region.
Among them, the strength of the Liaodong Military Region and the Northern Military Region is 100,000 each, the Liaodong Military Region is in Liaoyang City, and the Northern Military Region is in Datong City, and their military attachés at all levels are selected from among those who have made meritorious contributions to the war with the Northern Yuan Dynasty; middle and low-level military attachés are sent to the military academies set up in the two military regions in batches for rotational training, and senior military attaches are trained in the Jiangwu Hall in the capital.
As a matter of fact, since the beginning of the year, senior military attachés of the Liaodong Military Region and the Northern Military Region have been trained in the lecture hall for one year.
In the Liaodong Military Region and the Northern Military Region, the strength of the Liaodong Zhuque Battalion of the Xiaowu Army and the Datong Qinglong Battalion of the Xiaowu Army were both set at 50,000, which was half of the strength of the two military regions.
In Li Yuntian's view, the number of troops is expensive but not too expensive, and in addition, the compulsory military system is actually hiding troops from the people, and he believes that the 150,000 troops of each of the two military regions are enough to deal with future wars.
It is worth mentioning that the 50,000 Korean soldiers trained by Li Daniu were not counted in the Liaodong Military Region and the Liaodong Suzaku Battalion of the Xiaowu Army, but remained in Liaodong as an independent formation, stationed in Phoenix City and Kaiyuan City respectively.
If you pay close attention, you will find that Li Yuntian put these 50,000 Korean soldiers into two fists outside the border of the Korean Kingdom, with far-reaching intentions, forming an invisible deterrent to the Korean King who has always wanted to seek the territory of the Yalu River Valley.
The king of Joseon once wanted to return the 50,000 Korean soldiers, and there is no doubt that these 50,000 Korean soldiers have been reborn after the battles in Liaodong and Beizhili, and they are stronger than the six towns in the northeast and the four counties in the northwest of Korea.
Of course, Li Yuntian would not let the king of Joseon get 50,000 well-trained soldiers for nothing, and these 50,000 troops were in the name of Jiangwutang and had nothing to do with the kingdom of Joseon, so he rejected the king of Joseon in one bite.
What made the Joseon king particularly depressed was that since the victory of the Ming Dynasty in the wars with the Tatars and Warats, the Jurchens of the Liaodong Dusi and their daughter Gandusi gathered together under the leadership of the fierce brother Timur, and put on a posture to recapture the Tielingwei and Jianzhouwei areas that were occupied by the Joseon Kingdom.
This made the king of Joseon deeply disturbed, and when the Ming army showed its strong military strength, the three major Jurchen tribes were attached to the Ming dynasty, which allowed the fierce brother Timur to gather the forces of the three major tribes to deal with the Korean kingdom.
The king of Joseon was helpless about the current status quo, after all, Tielingwei and Jianzhouwei and other places were taken by the Joseon Kingdom from the Jurchen tribes and Liaodong Dusi, and were not recognized by the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty would definitely not stop the military operations of the Jurchen Tripart.
As a last resort, the Joseon king had no choice but to reorganize his arms at home, which put the weak Korean kingdom's economy under great pressure.