Chapter 21 Chapter 21 Beacon
On the vast grassland, Nurhachi took the lead and galloped forward.
He is riding a maroon horse under his feet, wearing only ordinary hunting clothes, a pair of knives and a quiver on his waist, an eagle on his arm, and a longbow on his back. It was like a gust of wind; behind him were dozens of riding guards, forming a small team to follow him forward.
Not far away are several teams, led by his younger brothers and the five tiger generals, running towards the same goal from different directions...
This time, he personally led the team, and what he did was a hunting competition. He and nine other people agreed that each of them would choose a team of men and horses, and go out together into the mountains and forests from different directions. The competition was limited to one day. The harvest of each team, whoever hunts the most beasts, is the winner of this competition; he has also prepared the winner's prize, which is a brand new armor.
"Although a pair of armor is something that everyone has, it is a prize, a symbol of honor, and a priceless treasure."
However, taking the armor as a prize has another meaning—eleven years ago, he used thirteen armors to set up an army, and single-handedly established the foundation of Jianzhou, which in itself represented an extraordinary meaning; it was a battle, It is self-improvement—although this hunting competition is just a leisure activity, the design of such an activity implicitly implies another layer of his intentions.
"I want everyone to never forget the hardships of the thirteen armored soldiers at the beginning, and also never forget the hard work of the past eleven years, never forget the battle, never forget that there is still a longer way to go, more things to do—”
With these words, he was also looking forward to himself. The foundation of Jianzhou has been solid, but the future development still needs more effort. He must lead every citizen of Jianzhou to go all out.
As for the development in the past year, he is very satisfied - this year Jianzhou had a bumper harvest, the warehouse was full of grain, the ginseng and mink fur he picked were sold at a good price, and a lot of iron sand was exchanged for making Weapons; livestock were also bred very prosperously, especially since he established good relations with Mongolia, he paid a lot of money to invite Mongolian horse breeders, bought a lot of Mongolian stallions, and bred a batch of excellent war horses. Strict training will greatly help Jianzhou's combat effectiveness; as for the population, it is expanding rapidly. The situation is that houses are being built everywhere for the new people to live in - all of these represent the bright future of Jianzhou.
Of course, he is in a better mood, and he has made more complete plans for the future—he already has a blueprint in his heart. In the future, Jianzhou will be a big country, as big as the Ming Dynasty—of course, in this While the "future" was still coming, he did not neglect to send people to inquire about the situation of the Ming Dynasty, especially the news related to Liaodong.
Due to the change of cabinet scholars, some officials of the Ming Dynasty also had personnel changes; in Liaodong, both the governor and the chief soldier were changed, and the governor was replaced by Li Hualong, and the chief soldier was replaced by Dong Yiyuan.
We must pay special attention to this news - Dong Yiyuan is a famous general, compared with the previous two Liaodong generals Yang Shaoxun and You Jixian, his ability is much higher; he has collected some information about Dong Yiyuan, as early as the Wanli eleven Dong Yiyuan had already served as the commander-in-chief of Changping in 2009, and soon moved to Xuanfu and then to Jizhou; two years ago, he was the commander-in-chief of Yansui. A lot; Dong Yiyuan led the troops to pacify some, and made a lot of contributions, so he entered the Department of Department, Superintendent Tongzhi, and became a member of the Central Government.
"The Ming Dynasty transferred him to Liaodong, of course they hoped that he would do something—probably, the main reason was to deal with the Taining Ministry!"
He knew a lot about the situation in the Ministry of Taining. After he quickly killed Hai in the hands of Li Cheng, there was not a single day when his son, Tuer, did not want to avenge his father. With the help of Chaohua and his son-in-law Huada, his power has become stronger and stronger, and his relationship with Buyan Taizhou, the son of the barbarian, has also become better. Yang Shaoxun and You Jixian, the two generals of Liaodong, could not deal with it, so of course the court had to "change commanders".
And because the upper reaches of the Liaohe River ruled by Wuliangha Sanwei and Tuman are close to Liaodong and Jianzhou, no matter what changes in the situation will affect Jianzhou, he must of course pay close attention; I have spent a lot of time and energy paying attention to the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards Japan and North Korea, because this will also directly affect Jianzhou...
The news came out very accurately. Although the cabinet masters changed hands, Shi Xing was still the minister of the Ministry of War, and the attitude towards Japan and North Korea remained the same as before, that is, to continue to implement the decision to negotiate peace with Japan. The envoys will be finalized in a few days...
Regarding this news, his attitude is quite different from when he heard the word "Dong Yiyuan"-although his attitude towards the situation in these two places is "wait and see carefully", but in his selfish heart The matter of "negotiation of peace" is not taken seriously: "Send Li Rusong, and you have lost it; if you lose the main peace in another battle, you will really sweep away your prestige!"
However, he felt that the peace of the Ming Dynasty was beneficial to Liaodong and even the Jurchen ministries. After all, the last time the Japanese army crossed the border to the wild Jurchen land, it was a great threat to the entire Liaodong. Now, the two parties are negotiating peace. Liaodong has an extra security guarantee.
And this incident also brought him a new feeling: "It is necessary to make Jianzhou strong enough that no one can invade it, otherwise, even if the other two parties go to war, it will still threaten the safety of Jianzhou!"
Therefore, he has strengthened his belief in "self-reliance and self-improvement". Only when he is strong can he not be afraid of external forces, and only by expanding the strength of Jianzhou to super strength - he is working harder - even leisure activities are difficult. It is designed to exercise willpower, physique, and hone combat skills.
However, no matter how much he tried to inquire about the news and think about the situation in order to understand the situation of the Ming Dynasty, since the degree of civilization was still a distance away, some internal problems of the Ming Dynasty were far beyond his comprehension.
First, at the moment when he was disapproving of the Ming Dynasty's decision to negotiate peace with Japan, something he had never thought of had already happened in the Ming Dynasty, that is, increasing taxes on the people.
In just a few short years, the Ming Dynasty spent too much military expenditure in order to quell the rebellion of worship in Ningxia and to support the Korean war against Japan. The already difficult finances became even more difficult. Any way, so the burden on the people has increased by one point.
Secondly, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is so large that he can't know it specifically, and he can't imagine it out of thin air. The complexity of internal affairs and the clusters of problems are no different from those in Jianzhou—just when he inquired about it. At the same time that the Ming Dynasty sent to Liaodong to select candidates for the general army officer, an incident occurred in a place thousands of miles away from Liaodong, which he had never heard of, "Sichuan Bozhou", forcing the court to send another army. When an army of 100,000 men marched mightily to quell the chaos, the common people had to bear this huge military expenditure.
In fact, Bozhou in Sichuan has not been very peaceful for a long time-this place is thousands of miles wide, between Sichuan, Lake and precious bamboo, most of the residents are indigenous, and there is also a "toast" official, the title is "" Bozhou Xuanweisi"; during the Jiajing period, Yang Xianglong, the envoy of Xuanwei, loved his concubine Yang Xu, and wanted to drive away his wife and son Yang Lie, which angered the mother and son. After leaving, the guest died in Shuixi; Yang Lie went to Shuixi to ask for his father's body, and promised An Wanquan, the consolation envoy, to exchange a few pieces of land, but he refused to give the land when he wanted to return Xiang Yang's body for burial. There was a dispute in Shuixi, and later the chief officer Wang Fu was killed. The problem became even bigger, and the two sides killed each other, which lasted for nearly ten years.
In the fifth year of Longqing, Yang Lie died; in the first year of Wanli, his son Yang Yinglong received an imperial edict to attack him; They have gained a lot from the expedition, and selected the best wood to offer. Emperor Wanli was happy, and gave him a special red flying fish suit;
In the eighteenth year of Wanli, Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Guizhou, pointed out all kinds of vicious cases of Chen Yang Yinglong, and then inspected Chen Xiaoli's count of Yang Yinglong's twenty-four major crimes-a letter of memorials was reported to the court, and some said he caught Some places are decorated with patterns of dragon and phoenix, and serve as eunuchs without authorization; The seedlings outside the pass were plundered wantonly, and the five divisions and seven surnames under their jurisdiction all defected one after another—therefore, Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Guizhou, went to the sparsely requested army to suppress Yang Yinglong.
However, Li Hualong, the inspector in Sichuan, held the opposite opinion. This was because Sichuan was adjacent to Bozhou on three sides. Once a war broke out, it would inevitably affect the lives of the people, and Yang Yinglong's crimes were not serious enough to be wiped out by force.
And the final decision made by the imperial court was "Hui Kan"—Yang Yinglong was required to undergo investigation and interrogation before making a decision.
The year before last, in the 20th year of Wanli, Yang Yinglong went to Chongqing for interrogation. He was convicted of the crime in court and should be executed according to law. Resisting the Japanese and conscripting soldiers from all over the world; Yang Yinglong was quick-witted, and immediately reported that he was willing to lead 5,000 soldiers to North Korea to conquer the Japanese and redeem himself with military merit; He ran back to Bozhou to summon troops and prepared to go on an expedition. He also created a mighty situation, sacrificed the flag, and told the sky, and set off in a splendid manner.
Unexpectedly, his trick was just a sham, and the five thousand people immediately walked on the road for two days and stopped, and continued to return to their hometown to be his local emperor.
In this way, of course the imperial court had to suppress him. It just so happened that the governor of Sichuan Province was replaced by Wang Jiguang. .
Last year, when Wang Jiguang went to Chongqing, he and Liu Chengsi, the commander-in-chief, entered Loushan Pass in three groups and stationed at Baishikou. Unexpectedly, Yang Yinglong used a trick to feign surrender and led Miao soldiers to attack the pass. Liu Chengsi was killed. After a big defeat, they returned, half of them were killed or injured, and all their supplies were abandoned; the troops assisted in the suppression by Guizhou did not take advantage of it, so they had to retreat.
And after this news was reported to the court, the Ministry of War realized that the situation was serious, and Yang Yinglong was really not a fuel-efficient lamp; so he changed to a prudent and serious attitude to study this issue.
What happened next was the habitual ills of the ministers of this dynasty when discussing matters-arguments; one faction advocated suppression, and the other faction advocated advocacy, and each other argued against each other for the sake of opposition, and such a matter had to be debated. It took a long time for the case to be finalized; and Emperor Wanli let them quarrel, anyway, he himself did not go to court at all, and no matter how much he quarreled, it would not reach his ears, anyway, the matter would be over one day.
In this way, it was already this year when the debate between appeasement and suppression came to a conclusion; The towns mobilized tens of thousands of troops and horses, and traveled thousands of miles from the capital to Sichuan to teach the vicious Yang Yinglong a lesson.
A new war is about to start. In order to prepare for this war, the Ministry of War has been busy again with officials big and small; the relevant departments, the Ministry of Industry in charge of preparing weapons and vehicles, and the Ministry of Households in charge of preparing money and food have also followed suit. We were busy making arrangements together; however, in order to prepare for this war, it was not the Ministry of War that was in charge of national defense and war, but the Ministry of Households that was in charge of preparing money and food, and it was because the Ministry of Households had no money or food left. It can support the expenses of this war.
"Aside from raising taxes on the people, there is no other way to meet the expenses this time—"
The cost of pacifying Ningxia's worship and supporting North Korea's anti-corruption has exceeded six million taels of silver. This figure is the total tax revenue of the country for a year, but the battle has to go on...
Yang Junmin, who was the Minister of the Household Department, was so worried that he couldn't open his brows and knots; he was originally the son of Yang Bo, a famous official of the dynasty and the former Minister of the Ministry of Officials. Having worked in the household department for many years, he is already a rare capable minister; however, facing the national financial deficit and the dilemma of "a clever woman can't cook without rice", no matter how good his family background and personal ability are, he will be spared. Also helpless.
In desperation, he couldn't help but muttered to the sky and prayed: "God, you may bless this battle to be over early; don't fight any more in the future, otherwise, teach me where to raise money." This is a lot of military expenses!"
Of course, this is what he can say, to express his emotions by asking for help from heaven when he is helpless—there is another item that causes the fiscal deficit that is more serious than war, but it is something he dare not mutter or complain about. The reason, that is the personal expenses of Emperor Wanli.
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