Chapter 5 Chapter V Discussion
After listening to the detailed report on North Korea's war situation, Nurhachi was lost in thought for a long time, and then his eyes suddenly changed, turning into two extremely sharp and frightening lightning lights, which made everyone around him look involuntarily. shock.
However, he didn't care about other people's reactions at all, and issued some orders on his own: "Master Gong, please come!"
In this way, apart from being taken aback by his eyes, the people in the audience became more suspicious - they couldn't figure out that when he was listening to the report of the war from the neighboring country, he would ask the person in charge of teaching Chinese to read. What did Gong Zhenglu come to do? However, no one dared to ask, and a guard who had always been in charge of delivering the orders agreed loudly with "yes" without even thinking about it, and then quickly ran out to perform the task.
Gong Zhenglu was invited here very quickly. Because he was in a hurry, his slightly obese body ran a little hard, and he was still panting when he entered the door.
However, Nurhachi couldn't wait for him to breathe evenly—on seeing him coming, Nurhachi immediately confessed: "Master Gong, please write a letter to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty for me, saying that Japan invaded Korea and we Jianzhou Zuowei is willing to send 3,000 soldiers and horses to North Korea to help in the war - write immediately, the sooner the better!"
He spoke as fast as a cannonball, he said three sentences at a time, and he finished all the words in one breath, but he said every word clearly, so clearly that everyone present could hear him very clearly—— Because of this, everyone including Gong Zhenglu was dumbfounded by his words.
They looked at each other in blank dismay, unable to make a sound, and could only express their feelings from their eyes; after several people exchanged glances, they confirmed that everyone had the same opinion on this matter; thus, they exchanged again The look in the eyes, the public has followed Nurhachi for the longest time, and E, who has always been the most accepted opinion, also speaks on behalf of everyone.
The matter was so important that he couldn't refuse, and his forehead was also rounded enough to bite the bullet; so he coughed dryly, then cleared his throat, stepped forward and said to Nurhachi: "You should think about it again." ——Currently, the strength of Jianzhou Zuowei is not the strongest among the Jurchen tribes; facing the threat of Nalinbulu who is about to move, even if he fights with all his strength, it is still impossible to predict the outcome; How about going to support North Korea? What's more, since Nalin Bulu already has the heart to be the Jurchen co-lord, how can he not pay close attention to the movements of our Jianzhou Zuowei? If he knows that we divide our troops to support North Korea, he will Why don't you take advantage of the fact that we have lost some of our troops to attack Jianzhou Zuowei?"
After hearing this, Nurhachi first kept silent, his eyes carefully glanced over everyone's face, every look was solemn, then, he let out a long breath, and faced each other with seriousness. Everyone said: "I also thought that you would oppose this matter - your concerns are all right. Jianzhou Zuowei is currently threatened by Nalin Bulu and has no friendship with North Korea. From the current point of view, In fact, we should try our best to protect ourselves first, instead of dividing our troops to support North Korea—but, have you ever thought about it? After Japan occupies the whole of North Korea, will it let Liaodong go?”
After such a question, Eyi was speechless, and even the four Shuerhaqi brothers, An Fei Yanggu, Fei Yingdong, He Heli, and Hu Erhan who had publicly recommended him to speak, all bowed their heads. No more glances were exchanged.
However, Nurhachi did not end the topic because they were speechless. Instead, he asked aggressively all the way: "Do you think it will be? If any of you is Toyotomi Hideyoshi, you will be satisfied after defeating North Korea." Yet?"
His tone of voice was not harsh, but his eyes were extremely sharp, sweeping across everyone's body and piercing directly into their hearts.
Everyone kept their heads down and didn't speak - this was an unanswerable question - and Nurhachi's original intention was not to seek an answer. After seeing everyone's reaction, his attitude changed again and became gentle. Explanation: "I send troops to support North Korea for two reasons. One is not to want North Korea to be defeated by Japan, and the other is to understand the Japanese army—we don't know anything about Japan. If they defeat North Korea, How can we stop them from attacking Liaodong? Why not send some people there first to find out the details of the Japanese army—"
In this way, all objections disappeared because they understood his intentions, and instead urged Gong Zhenglu to write letters together.
However, Lu Zhenglu himself has a key problem - he said truthfully: "I am just an ordinary citizen, and I have never even passed an exam; , I can’t write anything!”
At this moment, everyone was dumbfounded—I am afraid that there is no one in the left guard in Jianzhou who understands how to write the memorial to the emperor!
As a result, the excitement that had just been raised immediately withered away like a deflated ball. Facing this problem, everyone scratched their heads and scratched their ears, and sighed; finally, Nurhachi came up with a solution: "Give We don’t know how to write the emperor’s letter, so let’s write it to the governor of Liaodong, tell him what we mean, and ask him to tell the emperor, won’t it be enough?”
He has dealt with the Liaodong Governor's Yamen and has experience.Therefore, he thought it was feasible and not difficult; the others also found it reasonable and agreed unanimously.So he ordered Gong Zhenglu to write a letter to Hao Jie, the governor of Liaodong, expressing his willingness to send 3,000 troops to North Korea to help the war.
After the letter was sent out, it got a response very quickly; Hao Jie replied, first thanking Jianzhou Zuowei politely for his willingness to help neighboring countries, and then notifying that Jianzhou Zuowei's The intention was forwarded to the imperial court, and once the imperial court gave the order, it was immediately conveyed.
Received such a reply, Nurhachi was very satisfied, and also filled with the satisfaction of "being valued"; so, before the imperial court's order came down, he had ordered 3,000 troops in advance, and sent E Yidu and Fei Yingdong is the head coach and has prepared everything, just waiting for an order to start.
On the other hand, he did not neglect the precautions against Nalin Bulu because of his support for North Korea—except for the troops preparing to support North Korea, all the military forces are conducting strict training as usual Basically, he defended Jianzhou Zuowei first; the staff sent to Yehe, Hada and other ministries to collect intelligence were even more demanding of their results and efficiency—in short, he took both aspects into consideration.
However, although he was able to express to Emperor Wanli his eagerness to send troops to aid the court through the referral of the governor of Liaodong; learn……
After Shen Shixing and Xu Guo resigned one after another, Zhao Zhigao and Zhang Wei entered the cabinet as bachelors, and because Wang Xijue, who had returned to the province, was called back to Beijing but had not yet arrived, Zhao Zhigao temporarily served as the chief assistant.
Zhao Zhigao was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing. He is already in his seventies. He has been an official for half his life and has not made any political achievements. His ability is poor, his personality is soft and timid, and he is too old. Half-deaf, he can't even hear mandarin correctly, let alone deal with state affairs; however, the conditions for him to sit on the throne of the chief assistant are based on these shortcomings-his old age, deafness, cowardice, and incompetence. "Characteristics" are just in line with Emperor Wanli's wishes - Emperor Wanli was feared by the shrewd and capable Zhang Juzheng since he was a child, and the powerful chief assistant will inevitably usurp the monarchy, making the emperor unable to grasp all the power in the world However, after a few years as the chief assistant of Shen Shixing, he has satisfied the emperor very much; therefore, when Emperor Wanli selected a new chief assistant, he had already established a standard in his heart. That is the "Shishixing type".
Obedient, incompetent, useless - such a person is the most suitable candidate to be a slave, and Zhao Zhigao has met all the conditions.
However, in this way, although Emperor Wanli was "happy with the dragon's heart", the fate of the country would be even worse.
Zhao Zhigao was incapable of governing affairs at all, and all the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty opposed him, and even scolded him face to face, but it was useless, and he couldn't be driven away—his ears were already deaf, even if they pointed at his nose and called him "old man" "Thief", he can also use "deafness" to deceive others, pretend not to hear, and occupy the seat of the chief assistant without hesitation; Don't feel ashamed.
And Emperor Wanli didn't care about it, and even though his courtiers and Zhao Zhigao quarreled endlessly, he still took the medicinal effect brought by "Fushou Gao" as an elixir for forgetting worries, and focused on enjoying the feeling of happiness in his life.
Therefore, when Ningxia’s Ningxia Chaobai Chaoqi and North Korea’s request for help were rushed to him, he didn’t take it seriously at all, let alone deal with it. He just ordered the eunuch to approve it and hand it over. Let the Ministry of War handle it.
The current Shangshu of the Ministry of War is Shi Xing, who was a Jinshi during the Jiajing period. After another twenty years of ups and downs in the officialdom, he climbed to the position of Minister of the Ministry of War.
He was not a very capable and responsible person, and he had suffered serious setbacks in his official career. Therefore, in the past twenty years since his recovery, he has learned how to behave well and become very cautious. , Adhering to the principle of "doing more and making more mistakes, doing less and making more mistakes, and doing nothing is good" as an official. Therefore, although he is mediocre, since he became Minister of the Ministry of War, since there has been no war in the country, he has not made any mistakes. The officer did fairly well.
However, with the war in Ningxia and North Korea, the situation changed immediately.
Qiabai in Ningxia was originally a Mongol. During the Jiajing period, his family offended the chief, and his father and brother were killed. Qiabai hid in the water plants and hid for several days before escaping. So he came to Ningxia to guard Zheng Yin; Zheng Yin took him in. Let him serve under his command; he was brave and good at fighting, made a lot of military achievements, and was promoted to the commander of the capital.
In the seventeenth year of Wanli, when he was old enough to retire, the imperial court specially granted him the title of deputy commander in chief, and his remaining son inherited the post.In the nineteenth year of Wanli, some incidents occurred in Taohe, and the imperial court sent ministers to deal with them, and Qiaobai also volunteered to ask Chengen to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to help in the war; ", so they crowded out everywhere and tried to suppress it, which made the father and son feel very unhappy, and had a grudge against the Ming Dynasty ever since.
Not long after, Dang Xin caught another braid of Xiaobai's father and son; first, he determined that Ma Yi, a man under Xiaobai's tent, had received military rations, and he had to be strictly inspected; , sentenced to twenty lashes; in this way, it would be like adding fuel to the flames, angering the father and son who were already unhappy in their hearts, and they simply led the army to rebel.
Because the father and son are brave and good at fighting, they have fought in the army for many years. There are quite a lot of private generals and private soldiers. They are already a powerful team. In addition, he is originally from Mongolia. , So he simply went to unite several Mongolian tribes to "jointly participate in the grand event", the power was even greater, and it didn't take long for several cities to be laid down like a prairie fire.
As soon as the news was reported to the imperial court, Shi Xing, who was the minister of the Ministry of War, was of course the first to deal with this matter.
Fortunately, Mongolia has always been an "old enemy", and the officials of the Ministry of War have more or less basic knowledge and understanding of Mongolia; because he has served the Ming Dynasty for many years, he knows more; he and the ministers and cabinet ministers one by one After deliberating for a while, the countermeasures were quickly drawn up, and the censor Mei Guozhen came forward and recommended Li Chengliang's three sons—Li Rusong, Li Rumei, and Li Ruzhang—to lead the army to fight against the thieves.
This countermeasure was accepted, so Li Rusong was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi rebellion army. The reinforcements went on a mighty crusade.
However, regarding the issue of Japan's invasion of North Korea, Shi Xing did not handle it so smoothly—not only was it not smooth, but it was simply "big as a bucket"!
The first key is that after searching all the civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty, I can't find anyone who knows a little about Japan!
Moreover, after mobilizing a lot of manpower and searching all the files, the records about Japan that can be found are only a few words; either it is the history of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as the "King of Japan" during the Chengzu era, or it is the history of Jiajing It ran rampant during the years, and was later killed by the "Qi Family Army" to find a "Japanese pirate" - looking for information about Japan's national conditions and regular army, I searched the entire imperial court file, but there was no word.
The second key point is North Korea—although North Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, there are tribute exchanges every year; However, among the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, there is still no one who has a deep understanding of North Korea!
The problems caused by "not understanding" are already serious enough, and the ministers still refuse to admit that they do not understand because "North Korea is a vassal state", so they force their ignorance one after another, and uphold the principles of the ministers of this dynasty. The habit of discussing, expressing opinions incessantly, made his position even more chaotic.
Some people say that the war between Japan and North Korea is just a smoke screen. The two countries have already negotiated in private that they will jointly attack North Korea. The task of North Korea is to guide Japan. Therefore, the Japanese army did not encounter any resistance in North Korea. The road is like entering no one's land, and it will soon be fought from North Korea to Liaodong; some people even say that the king of North Korea abandoned Wangjing and fled to Yizhou, which sounds very unreal. Maybe this king is a fake, sent by the Japanese Pretending to be, he asked to enter Liaodong for asylum. In fact, he used this excuse to go to Liaodong, and then served as an internal response for the Japanese army.
However, those who disagreed had other arguments; a few people with high political ideals brought up the ancient sages' theories of "succession, abolition, and Huaiyuan" to emphasize the sacred mission of aiding the DPRK; Then they cite North Korea's annual tribute, border connections, etc. to explain the need for aid to North Korea-there are so many different opinions, and they quarrel every day.However, Emperor Wanli didn't even know how long it would take to hold an imperial meeting; the first assistant Zhao Zhigao was half-deaf and dumb, and he was uncertain about his doctrine; Flying like snowflakes—all official documents piled up in front of Shi Xing, almost burying him alive.
Distraught and restless—it was only a few days, and his hair, which was originally only two temples, had turned white; and at this moment, Nurhachi's official document of voluntary aid to the DPRK arrived, which was easy to handle. Without even thinking about it, he approved "No" - after many days, he finally had one "official matter" that was handled smoothly.
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