Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Countermeasures
For more than half a year, Nurhachi devoted himself to dealing with the Mongolian issue—he had already felt Lin Danhan's ambition and ambition, and of course he wanted to seize the opportunity step by step to deal with Lin Danhan.
On the other hand, Beylebak from the Khalkhajarut Department of Mongolia came to Liaoyang to meet in the first month of the eighth year of the Mandate of Heaven, and the relationship between the two parties has further developed.
As early as many years ago, the Bayuete tribe of Khalkha had already belonged to Houjin. Darhanbeile’s son Engedel married his niece Bayuetegege and became his "forehead son-in-law" and became Houjin the other three: Bahrain, Onjirat, and Uqiyan also worked together with Bayut, and formed an alliance with Houjin, or simply joined them, and became the people of Houjin. The Root Department, often capriciously made some unpleasant situations for him.
Originally, the Jalut tribe was the most powerful of the five tribes of Khalkha, and Beile Jiesai was also an extraordinary hero. Under the leadership of the Bayue Special Department, when he sent envoys to respect Nurhachi as "Kundulun Khan", he did not have any obvious objections, and he did not even express any opinions, and sent people to attend the meeting together; For the first time, he acted in the dark and dragged his feet.
The most serious one was in July of the fourth year of Destiny, when the Hou Jin army captured Tieling; However, the result of the confrontation was a big defeat. Jie Sai, his second son, third son-in-law, second younger brother and more than 200 generals were all captured.
At that time, Nurhachi did not execute Jie Sai after some consideration, but only imprisoned him; two years later, the Jalut Ministry sent envoys to negotiate terms, willing to redeem Jie Sai with 10,000 heads of livestock, and two sons and one daughter. Quality, to ensure that the Jalut Department will form an alliance with Houjin in the future as a friend and never an enemy.
This is of course the best change in the relationship between the two parties - Nurhaci immediately agreed, so he made an oath with Jiesai, and ordered Zhubeile to send Jiesai back, and married Daishan as his wife with the pledged daughter.
Enemies became in-laws, and then he sent people to form an alliance with the five ministries, and the performance of the Jalut ministries was also very good—now, Bakerbelor came to see him personally, and of course the relationship between the two parties was brought closer.
Naturally, he would regard this meeting as a major event.
Regarding the Horqin Department, it is another way of handling it.
Huang Taiji's "asking for a date" was successfully completed, and the two parties agreed to hold a wedding two years later; however, he also received definite news: "Lin Danhan was very dissatisfied with Jin Da after the Horqin Department made a good relationship, and has sent the Horqin Department Listed as the first target to be attacked—and even threatened to attack Horqin before the ice freezes and the grass dries up!"
The news did not surprise him—in fact, it was in his expectation—he had already started preparing for the war that would happen sooner or later.
Compared with the situation about the Ming Dynasty, he did not take specific actions, but he did not let go of any reliable news.
The Ming Dynasty successively appointed two commander-in-chiefs, both of whom were bestowed with Shangfang swords—in the first month, Ma Shilong, who was recommended by Sun Chengzong, served as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and in February, Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of Pingliao, was given the Shangfang sword.
This of course shows that the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the issue of Liaodong—and he also had a well-thought-out plan to deal with it: "Sun Chengzong is certainly a capable man, but how long can he stay in Liaodong?" ——Avoid direct confrontation, and wait for the Ming Dynasty to get rid of these capable men before sending troops—this is the best strategy without spending a single soldier, and, having already obtained successful experience, he has set his own goals. The countermeasures are very sure.
In fact, Sun Chengzong had already started to offend the ministers in the court as early as the beginning of his tenure as Minister of the Ministry of War and Dongge University.
The first reason is that he is a knowledgeable person who can clearly see the core of the problem. As soon as he took office, he pointed out that the current national defense problem basically lies in "too many soldiers without training, and too much salary without paying attention." Therefore, The combat capability of the army is poor; moreover, there are deficiencies in the system that need to be improved urgently: "Use generals to use soldiers, but use civilian officials to recruit and train them. Curtain. Use the frontier to serve as the scriptures and caress, while the day asks the war and guards the court. This is extremely harmful."
Although these words hit the nail on the head, they affected the interests of many people.
"Soldiers don't train, pay too much" because soldiers are lazy and officials are corrupt; soldiers are used to being lazy, and officials are used to greed. Once they are asked to be "diligent" and "clean", don't they all hate him? up?
The use of civil officials to control military generals was originally a system established at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to prevent military generals from arbitrarily exercising power. How could it be thought that civil servants do not understand military affairs and command randomly, which would be a bad thing?
He not only wants to change the old system that has been in place for more than two hundred years, but also deprives the authority of the civil officials who could control the generals; the civil officials who have been deprived of power are of course full of anger.
But he only noticed that he said what he should say, and didn't notice that these words had brought him hatred; next, he began to investigate the responsibility for the loss of land in Liaodong, and impeached several important people. There is more hatred.
Later, he supported Yuan Chonghuan's plan to guard Ningyuan and replaced Wang Zaijin, who was incompetent. Therefore, those who had good friends with Wang Zaijin - including Liaodong Governor Wang Xiangqian - also secretly hated him.
As soon as he left the capital and went to Liaodong to supervise the division, there were voices attacking him in the court, you and I talked endlessly, and the memorials flew into the palace like snowflakes.
Of course, Emperor Tianqi, who was immersed in the music of making wooden utensils, did not care about it at all-the memorials all fell into the hands of Wei Zhongxian.
The little eunuch read these memorials to Wei Zhongxian word by word, but Wei Zhongxian fell silent after hearing this, unable to make up his mind for a while.
First of all, the memorials submitted by the ministers were written too "literally", and he couldn't fathom the meaning of some esoteric sentences without reading the book; Reason; third, he does not understand the affairs of Liaodong, and cannot execute these numerous and complicated opinions.
After thinking hard for a long time, he suddenly realized that it wasn't that the problem was solved, but that he thought of a way to deal with it.
He decided to select a few capable confidant eunuchs, take a batch of weapons as supplies, gold and silver as rewards, and go to Liaodong in the name of sending supplies and labor to inspect the situation on the spot; Thinking about it: "Scholar Sun used to be very respected when he lectured at the Sutra Banquet; if I can make friends with him, I can always add to his prestige - now, he is attacked by others, and it is up to me to resolve it for him." Woolen cloth!"
This was an opportunity—so he specifically told Liu Yingkun, his confidant whom he had sent to Liaodong: "Send my respects to Grand Master Sun for me, and talk more when it's convenient for you!"
The personal rewards given to Sun Chengzong were python sitting, kneeling, and gold coins. Of course, they were awarded in the name of Emperor Tianqi, but he did not forget to ask Liu Yingkun to hint to Sun Chengzong that these awards were actually his intentions—now, all The "Shangyu" and "imperial decree" were all issued by him.
And in this way, Sun Chengzong even offended Wei Zhongxian.
What Liu Yingkun reported back to Wei Zhongxian was: "Scholar Sun is silent, and there is no reply!"
In fact, such a reaction, for Sun Chengzong, is already a matter of extreme patience-he has always regarded himself as a "scholar", so how can he be willing to make friends with Quan Yi?
A few months later, Yan Mingtai, whom he recommended as the governor of Liaodong, became a victim of this wave of personnel disputes and took the lead in resigning. On the surface, of course, Yan Mingtai asked to go on his own initiative, but in essence it was because he couldn't stand the court officials. their impeachment.
In fact, after he recommended Yan Mingtai, he had already discovered Yan Mingtai's insubstantial, most of the military did not discuss with him, but it still led to such a development. In desperation, he also realized that his situation had begun to deteriorate. It will be very difficult to push forward, and the wish to revive Liaodong will be even more difficult to realize.
Even, a thought of "it's better to go back" rose from the bottom of my heart: "It's impossible to do anything, it's better to dismiss from office and return home, follow Tao Yuanming's example, live the days of 'leaning on the south window to show pride, and the ease of judging the knees', do Be a contented 'Mr. Wuliu'!"
Famous in troubled times, Zhu Shangsnail, facing a group of gangsters, even if he has great ambitions and abilities, he can't use them all!
That night, he was so overthinking that he couldn't fall asleep all night, so he simply got up with his clothes on, turned on the lamp, and drew up a beggar's letter under the lamp, begging to resign and return home.
After writing the last word in a single stroke, he let out a sigh of relief, and his heart was greatly relieved; there is nothing good about this Ming Dynasty's officialdom where the emperor is stupid, the eunuchs are in power, and the group of young people are in charge. Those who are nostalgic, let's say goodbye!
In an instant, he felt as if he had thrown away a large bag of mental garbage. He felt extremely relaxed, and he no longer had burdens and worries, let alone responsibilities and pressures.
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