Chapter 123: The Situation in Liaodong

Last time, I talked about Zhu Youxiao lurking under the "Ministry of Officials" after entering the palace, and heard the conversation between the "Ministry of Officials" and Lu Zhongdian and the junior sisters, as well as the situation in Liaodong.

"Uh...... Three 'little fairies', your names are so interesting. After listening to the names of the three sisters and their remaining ten sisters, the two "Lord Shangshu" were suddenly startled, thinking that this couple gave birth to 13 daughters in a row, which is really amazing!

"Giggles, Master Fang has won the prize. Our sisters once heard my father say that anyone who cultivates the "Book of Luban" will have only one result in the end, either becoming widowed, widowed, lonely, lonely, or disabled, or having a son without an ass eye. The three daughters giggled and added to each other: "There are exceptions to everything, like our old urging family's 'nine generations of single transmission', it is said that it is also called 'golden thread hanging gourd', which is the accumulation of virtue by the ancestors, otherwise they will not be empowered by the ancestors." ”

"Oh? Really? Daigo empowerment? Is there really such a strange thing in this world? "————" giggles, strange things happen every year, and there are a lot of them this year! ”

"Uh...... This? Okay, let's not talk about this for now, let's continue to talk about the training of the new army and the war in Liaodong. I wonder what Lord Lu thinks about this? ”

"This ...... Hehe, Lu has lived in Lingnan for a long time, how dare he say the word 'opinion', let's listen to the high opinion of 'Lord Fang' first, and start with 'Jurchen'. ”

"Haha, Lord Lu, Lord Lu, you are really an 'old fox'!" Master Fang smiled: "Since this is the case, then my Fang Mou will be clumsy." ”

"Haha, Lord Fang is humble. Lu is here, and he wants to inquire about the news from Master Fang, hehe. Lu Zhongdian hurriedly put on a top hat for the other party.

"Haha, it's all in plain sight." Master Fang suddenly changed his words and said: "I heard that this battle hurt Houjin, so I must be robbing others again, right?" ”

"Yes, I don't know that this has a criminal record, after all, Nurhachi, the son of Huang Taiji, used the identity of the 'Dragon and Tiger General' to rebel!"

"Oh? What do you mean by that? Could it be that Lord Fang can still trace some clues from the 'Imperial Court Yearbook' that Nurhachi wants to rebel? ”

"Haha, yes. Let's sip the tea while talking about it. Master Fang asked the maids to continue to bring refreshments and take care of the three sisters.

In fact, for some reason, the border generals in eastern Liaodong just looked at Ye Hebu unpleasantly, perhaps because of the suspicion of "Yixia Great Defense", or because they felt that Ye Hebu refused to offer beautiful women. So in the twenty-first year of Wanli (1593), when Ye He and other nine departments jointly attacked Jianzhou but returned defeated, the Ming Dynasty border generals actually thought that Nurhachi was meritorious, and with the consent of the governor Zhang Guoyan, he gave the court a letter hoping to promote Nurhachi.

Therefore, in the twenty-third year of Wanli (1595), with the consent of the imperial court, Nurhachi was promoted to "Dragon and Tiger General" with his meritorious service to protect the border, and was given a seal letter and a sword. And what is the concept of "Dragon and Tiger General"? In the 23rd year of Wanli, Nurhachi was awarded the title of "Governor of Zuodu", and later awarded the title of "General of Dragon and Tiger".

As everyone knows, "Zuo Du Dudu" is the first of the eight ranks of the local "Tusi Liuguan", and it is the highest official position among the ethnic minority officials, while the "Dragon and Tiger General" is the "military attache Zheng Erpin" among the officials in the imperial court, although it is only a "false title" that is, an "honorary title", but it was also canonized by the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty himself!

Originally, according to the rules for the promotion of military attachés, if you want to achieve the "second rank of military attaché", you must start with the "Hussar General", and then be promoted to "General Jinwu", and then awarded the "Dragon and Tiger General", but Nurhachi crossed two levels by defeating the "Nine Coalition Army" and directly served as the "Dragon and Tiger General", which is completely a reward of the Ming Dynasty.

After that, Nurhachi personally went to Beijing five times to pay tribute. Prior to this, Nurhachi's first tribute was in the 18th year of Wanli (1590), in order to thank the emperor of the Ming Dynasty for giving him the title of "Governor of the Governor"; The second tribute was in the twenty-first year of Wanli, begging the emperor to promote himself.

Of course, this time the tribute is purposeful, after all, the Ming Dynasty pursued a tributary trade of "thick and thin" in the "tributary system". As a result, Nurhachi used his fiefdoms and tributes to obtain a large amount of capital, including not only huge economic benefits, but also strong political capital.

Politically, Nurhachi was a "Zuodu Governor" and "Dragon and Tiger General" of the Ming Dynasty, and this "military rank" was higher than that of the general natives in the Northeast, and even the official title of the Governor of Liaodong at that time was only "Zheng Erpin". Therefore, the governor's chamberlain Zhang Guoyan and Nurhachi met to reciprocate.

Therefore, with the title of "Dragon and Tiger General", Nurhachi is famous for fighting whoever he destroys, and with the name of righteousness, it is logical to go on another expedition.

Economically, Nurhachi's many tributes were not exchanged for a large amount of money, and constituted part of his military spending, so as to continue to grow himself, and then used the Ming Dynasty's "Dragon and Tiger General Sword" as a "token" and "Seven Hatreds" as an excuse, and finally established the "Houjin" in the 44th year of Wanli (1616), established the Yuan "Mandate of Heaven", and rebelled, with the Ming Dynasty Emperor gave himself the highest honorary title "Dragon and Tiger General Sword" to command the Eight Banners Army to divide Liaodong.

As for some tribes in the northern Jurchens, including the "Savage Jurchens", they were also the enemies of the Jianzhou Jurchens, because Nurhachi wanted to seize the population and military resources, so he often waged wars against the surrounding tribes, especially after the annexation of the Haixi Jurchens, he focused on attacking the Savage Jurchens. It can be said that Nurhachi single-handedly established a siege network against Houjin on all sides. If the Ming Dynasty can vigorously co-opt these forces as allies, then the Later Jin will suffer from the enemy.

It can be seen from this that the prestige and cohesion of the Houjin are based on the victory of foreign wars one after another, and it is a typical military regime. In fact, its interior is full of mountains and rains. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also imposed an economic blockade on the Later Jin, cutting off many sources of goods for the Later Jin, which made the Later Jin's life even more difficult, and they had to solve the problem by frequently plundering various surrounding forces, and even invaded Korea many times.

If this situation is not changed, it is only a matter of time before the internal collapse of the post-Kim regime, after all, it is difficult to maintain itself without production but only by robbery.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty was defeated but did not die, and even once had the image of "Zhongxing". Although later generations like to complain that "Emperor Wanli is greedy for money", "Emperor Taichang is short-lived" and "Emperor Tianqi is obsessed with carpentry and indulges in the dictatorship of eunuchs", these three emperors have at least the "ability" above the level of normal people.

After Wanli experienced the defeat of Sarhu, he promptly appointed Xiong Tingbi, who was familiar with the border affairs of Liaodong, to serve as the economic strategy of Liaodong, and constantly looked for ways to recover Liaodong. Emperor Taichang, who had been on the throne for only one month, dismissed the Tianxia Mining Supervisor during his reign, stopped losses in time in this regard, and allocated military funds to Liaodong.

Tianqi was very young and inexperienced when he ascended the throne, and he trusted the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian, which made the corruption of the government reach a new level, and he mistakenly killed Xiong Tingbi. However, in the later period, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan were appointed to defend Liao, and the victory of the "Battle of Ningyuan" played a crucial role in containing the offensive of the Later Jin.

In the face of the impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan by the "Eunuch Party", Emperor Tianqi was still able to insist on trusting Yuan Chonghuan in the early stage, and even in the later stage, he only dismissed him and went home without adding crimes and persecution, which was undoubtedly an opportunity to use. Emperor Tianqi was very concerned about the border affairs in Liaodong, and continued to allocate royal money to support the front line.

It has to be said that the victory of the "Battle of Ningyuan" was of great significance to the Ming Dynasty, breaking the myth of the invincibility of the Later Jin army, and also strengthening the strategic determination of the imperial court to hold the Guanningjin defense line. Under the control of Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan, the Guanningjin defense line was almost impregnable, and the morale was also revived.

At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan borrowed the "Guanning Iron Cavalry" reorganized by Zu Dashou to barely face the Jin army in a field battle after the war. And Yuan Chonghuan also saw the importance of diplomatic isolation of the Later Jin, so he took many measures to win over the Mongol tribes north of Guanning and Jizhen, so that they could guard against the Later Jin for the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan also secretly sent people to the "savage woman" to plan a counterattack, and these actions undoubtedly temporarily stabilized the northeastern front of the Ming Dynasty.

As for Emperor Chongzhen, no matter how he did his best later, he was still a bit of a "Ming Jun atmosphere" at the beginning of his accession, at least he took thunderous means to sweep away Wei Zhongxian's "eunuch party" and Emperor Tianqi's "nurse", which made the government temporarily look new, and made the "Donglin party" cheer for it.

Since he also wanted to make a difference, he reactivated Yuan Chonghuan and strongly supported his policy of defending Liao. If Chongzhen can support Yuan Chonghuan like this as always, then the border affairs in eastern Liaodong may not develop to an irretrievable situation later. Of course, this was proven on another plane.

When the "Five-Year Pingliao" plan was proposed, Chongzhen was still a "Ming Jun" image in Yuan Chonghuan's heart, and he believed that the emperor would firmly support him. Therefore, it makes sense that Yuan Chonghuan can release such bold words. However, this gave great psychological pressure to Huang Taiji, who had just ascended to the position of "Great Khan".

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he personally conquered Ningyuan and Jinzhou, but was beaten to the same level as his father, which made the morale of the Ming Dynasty even higher.

Huang Taiji and other high-level officials finally realized that the Ming Dynasty was like a stout tree, even if it was rotten and even hollow inside, it was not something that could be cut down by itself for a while, and other methods had to be taken. At this time, the cleverness of Huang Taiji's strategy was revealed.

Therefore, in 1629, Huang Taiji took a classic "military adventure" action, that is, he led the main army from the Mongol tribes to raid directly under the city of Beijing. And the Ming court, who was so frightened, made one after another stupid moves, and the hidden dangers inside were exposed to the enemy one by one.

So, through this operation, the ghost Huang Taiji found the ultimate plan to bring down the Ming Dynasty, that is, to force the Ming Dynasty emperor to order the kings of Qin everywhere.

As a result, the garrisons from all over the country have traveled thousands of miles or even thousands of miles to enter Jingqinwang in a short period of time, resulting in the concentrated outbreak of various social contradictions, especially the "soldier mutiny" and the "peasant uprising", which is equivalent to burying the "termite nest" under a huge rotten tree, allowing termites to multiply in large numbers and quickly devour their rhizomes.

When the "termites" devoured the rhizomes and trunks of the decaying tree of the Ming Dynasty almost to the fullest, the "Houjin regime" of Huang Taiji only needed to repeatedly shake its foundation and hit its manpower, material resources, and the hearts of the people and the army, and it could easily make the decaying tree of the Ming Dynasty collapse from the inside and collapse with a bang.

Facts have proved that if it were not for the successful accession of Huang Taiji, who was good at scheming, but the accession of several other brothers who did not have such awareness and overall vision, then all the descendants of Nurhachi, including the "Later Jin Khanate" he created, would probably not wait for Yuan Chonghuan to lead the army to counterattack, and they would kill each other and collapse.

Now such a thing has mutated in another time and space, that is, there are "cultivators" secretly intervening, and the consequences are self-evident and can be imagined.

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