Last time, it was said that Zhu Youxiao was ordered by a carpenter to go to the Forbidden City to run errands, and when he passed by the underground of the "Ministry of Officials", he suddenly felt that there was a fluctuation of mana, so he observed.

"Lord Lu, congratulations on the reinstatement of the official!" The Minister's Shangshu Fang magnificently took the "Holy Decree" and the "Decree" and the "Decree" and the work handover certificate specially issued by the "Minister of the Imperial Mission" from Lu Zhongdian from the "Minister of Mission", so he bowed and said: "Lord Lu has been reinstated and is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, which is gratifying!" ”

"Haha, each other." Lu Zhongdian smiled heartily: "Lord Fang is polite, you and I are ministers in the same palace, and we need to be in the same boat and encourage each other!" ”

"Haha, it should be." Fang Zhuangli said with a smile: "I'm afraid that Xu Guangqi, the original secretary of the ministry, will be transferred to him, after all, this person likes to study Western arithmetic and even joined the 'Catholic Church'." However, since the defeat of the 'Battle of Sarhu', my Ming Dynasty's advantage in Liaodong is not there, and I have to train new soldiers. ”

"Training recruits? What's the situation? After hearing this, Lu Zhongdian was very curious: "Is it that my Ming army is not enough to fight against the Jianzhou Jurchen?" Who will train the recruits? ”

"Haha, this is originally a matter of the 'Ministry of War', and the 'military attachés' who train new recruits are also under the control of the 'Ministry of War'." Fang Zhuangli said embarrassedly: "But the strange thing is that since the 'Battle of Jinning', the border army has relied on firearms and guns, and these are the strengths of Westerners. As a result, Xu Guangqi wrote to the emperor many times to train his troops. ”

"I see! It seems that this 'Xu Shangshu', who is in charge of diplomatic etiquette, has reached out to the 'military department', so he has to train the troops himself? ”

"Haha, it must be so." Fang Zhuangli smiled and said: "It just so happens that Lord Lu sent a large sum of money to the emperor on the occasion of his return to the imperial court this time, plus the 5 million taels of silver donated by the 'old fox' of the 'Taifu' Fang Congzhen in your name before, it is estimated that training the new army is an ironclad matter." ”

"Haha, Lu is also very curious about this training! What kind of recruits does this 'Xu Shangshu' want to train? Artillery? The foreign guns? ”

"Haha, Master Lu laughed." Fang Zhuangli stroked his beard and said: "However, judging from the example of the Portuguese against the 'red-haired ghosts' and the Japanese in the beginning, it is not necessary to fully popularize the Francos and firearms in the army. It's just that these firearms still need to be improved in order to greatly increase the rate of fire and range! ”

"Haha, that's that. Otherwise, if Xu Guangqi didn't do it, why did he run to mix with those Western missionaries? ”

"Uh...... It seems that although Lord Lu has lived in Lingnan for a long time, he also knows everything about the affairs of the DPRK and China! Fang Zhuang said: "Then Western firearms are not simple!" ”

"Haha, that's great. I hope that the new army trained by Xu Dashangshu this time can reverse the decline of Liaodong in one fell swoop, otherwise there will be no eggs under the nest? ”

"Uh...... I hope so. Hey? These three young ladies, could it be Ling Qian's daughter? "———— "No, no, no! She is the daughter of the 'national teacher' and my virtuous nephew. ”

"Master National Teacher? Oops, awesome! Fang is polite. "———— "Three virtuous nephews, haven't you seen Master Fang soon?" ”

"The little woman urges my brother / urges your brother / urges her brother to see Master Fang! Greetings to adults! The three girls' voices did not fall, and they came up to Yingying and a blessing, showing their charm.

"Haha, no courtesy. The National Teacher's 'living immortals', presumably the three young ladies, oh no, the 'fairies' are also profound, and their magical powers are vast, right? ”

"Giggles, Master Fang laughed. Our family's ancestral "Book of Luban" is passed on to men but not to women, otherwise...... Cluck. As soon as the words fell, the atmosphere was relaxed.

In fact, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the "Later Jin Khanate" established by Nurhachi in the northeast was once facing collapse. However, because it launched several attacks on the Ming Dynasty, constantly attacking the city and grabbing things, and successively eliminating more than 100,000 Ming troops, it seemed to have eaten a heart booster and began to resurrect with full blood.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was already corrupt and degenerate, full of drawbacks, tight finances, and full of decay, and could only passively defend the rising Houjin regime.

It's just that in the face of a seemingly unsolvable situation, after Yuan Chonghuan was activated by the Ming court for the second time, he actually faced the emperor and put forward a plan of "five years to level Liao", saying that it would take five years to recover Liaodong and remove the threat of Houjin. What's going on? What happened on another plane can give the answer.

In 1627, although the Ming Dynasty's "Emperor of the Apocalypse" Zhu Youxiao died violently, his half-brother "King Xin" Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne as "Emperor Chongzhen".

Previously, the "Emperor of the Apocalypse" had to remove Yuan Chonghuan, who was in charge of the "Guanning Defense Line", from home due to the chaos of the "eunuch party" and the "milk lady". After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he wanted to make drastic reforms, especially in the face of the increasingly serious threat from Houjin, and he wanted to solve this problem. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen listened to the advice of the ministers of the court and reactivated Yuan Chonghuan. Yuan Chonghuan came to Beijing, and in the face of Chongzhen's inquiry about Liao, he put forward the strategy of "five years to level Liao".

Yuan Chonghuan believed that if the Later Jin wanted to invade Liaoxi, they would inevitably take Jinzhou and Ningyuancheng. The combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty army was not as good as that of the Later Jin army, and the field battles were basically given away. However, the Houjin is far away from the home attack, the advantage is to fight quickly, then the Ming army can defend the city pass, so that the Houjin army can not gnaw on the strong city defense, after a long time, the opponent's logistics will be in trouble, and you will have the opportunity to find the opponent's flaws and defeat the opponent. This is the general tactical arrangement.

On the one hand, it is "to defend the Liao land with Liao people", because in the past, when troops were used in Liaodong, an army of 200,000 or 300,000 people was often organized to send to the front line, which often consumed a lot of money and food from the imperial court, and the logistics were difficult to support. If the imperial court used this strategy, it would only need 60,000 Liao soldiers to deal with it head-on. Moreover, as long as you seize the time to build the city, you can push the defense line forward little by little, thus greatly saving the expenses of the court and the burden of the people.

The basis is that the nature and national strength of the Later Jin regime determined that its military operations mainly relied on plunder, so the Ming Dynasty army could take advantage of the gap between the Later Jin army to recover its homeland little by little, and give full play to the "fortress tactics" to the extreme, that is, step by step, encroaching on the land and killing the other party.

On the other hand, it is self-sufficiency in tuntian to reduce the cost of money, grain and materials for sea transportation. At the same time, to appease the Mongol tribes in the northwest, so that these Mongols "are not enough to fight, but more than to rule; There is more than enough to defend, and there is no shortage in battle. There is no need to talk about recovery, and there is no need to recover; There is no need to rush to pacify the enemy, but the enemy is not unequal."

After expounding this strategy, Yuan Chonghuan proposed a time to recover Liaodong and eliminate the Houjin - five years. This time doesn't seem very reliable, after all, during the Wanli period, the financial and military situation of the Ming Dynasty was not in such a predicament and failed to suppress Nurhachi, how can it be done now? In fact, according to the analysis of the situation of the Later Jin Dynasty and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the strategy proposed this time was still quite reasonable at that time.

In comparison, even if the Ming Dynasty has declined, because "the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse", it can still lose many times at this time without falling down immediately. Therefore, if it is consumed by fighting, several Later Jin regimes may not be able to fight the Ming Dynasty. But it's a pity that the years of war during the Nurhachi period have almost hollowed out the family foundation of the Houjin country, after all, the Houjin has only a little territory and manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and it would be good to survive.

Second, the cruel policies of the Later Jin Dynasty intensified the national contradictions and led to continuous uprisings. At the beginning, Nurhachi implemented an erroneous ethnic policy in the Later Jin Dynasty, forcing the Han Chinese and the Jurchens to live together, that is, to assimilate each other. This raises the question of who is the "master" and who is the "slave" and creates contradictions out of thin air.

In addition, due to food shortages, the so-called "people without food" policy was introduced, and the physical elimination of Han people without food, that is, the policy of massacre. Because Nurhachi did not attach importance to agricultural production and recuperation, every time he sent troops, he would inevitably burn, kill and loot, causing a large number of Han people to flee and fear money like tigers.

In his later years, Nurhachi also faced a group of Han officials who defected to the Ming Dynasty and a peasant uprising in Liaodong, but he resorted to brutal suppression and even slaughter to solve the problem, which further intensified the contradiction between the Han and the Jurchens, causing more and more Han people to either flee to the Ming Dynasty or fight with the Later Jin to the end.

In this way, the Later Jin regime gradually fell into a sea of peasant uprisings, and it was also associated with the suspicion of Han officials in the Later Jin court.

Third, the internal political situation in Houjin is unstable, and the struggle between various forces is fierce. At the beginning, the "Eight Banners Discussion of Politics" created by Nurhachi was a bit similar to the "Clan and Tribal Alliance Conference", which made it difficult for him, the "alliance leader" and the number one, to achieve centralized rule. As the lord of the generation, his sons are not fuel-efficient lamps.

Although the second son Daishan was removed from the position of prince, he held the two flags of Zhenghong and Red, and his power in the Later Jin country was the strongest. The fifth son, Mang Gurtai, made great achievements in war, and mastered the soldiers and horses of the blue banner. The Eighth Emperor Taiji seized the position of the Great Khan by means of power, but he only had the white flag in his hands.

plus Amin, the son of Nurhachi's younger brother Shulhaqi, who mastered the blue flag, so, the "four major beylers of the co-ruling court" of the Houjin sat together in the position of the Great Khan of the Houjin, intriguing with each other, each with their own ghosts. Nurhachi's younger sons, namely the fourteenth son Dolgon, the fifteenth son Dordor, and the fifteenth son Dordor, also gradually grew up and began to have their own forces and ideas, not to mention that Nurhachi has a total of 16 sons, and the relationship can be harmonious?

Huang Taiji, as the most outstanding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, has not yet experienced Dacheng at this time and his ability has not been recognized at this time, and he is still suppressed by several other Baylors and important ministers, and it is difficult to achieve something.

Fourth, Houjin's diplomatic situation is very isolated. Despite his military talents, Nurhachi was relatively short-sighted at the diplomatic level, accustomed to solving problems by military means. For example, in the war with the Ming Dynasty, Joseon, the most loyal vassal of the Ming Dynasty, maintained a negative impression of the Later Jin.

And Nurhachi was dying, and he also fought a battle with the Chahar Department of Eastern Mongolia, which made the "Mongolian Khanate" unwilling to stand on the side of Houjin. Prior to this, Nurhachi personally led his troops to attack the Haixi Jurchens, and directly wiped out the three largest tribes, the Yehebu, Huifa, and Wula.

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