In April of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Dabianwai was announced.
The beacon fire soaring into the sky burned from east to west, and then burned back in Shanxi with great force.
The Ming army guarding the border was ordered by Fu Renxi to deliver the Tang newspaper one after another, and reported every disturbance on the border.
In fact, Fu Renxi recorded last year's meritorious service this year and has been promoted to Ji Zhen as the commander-in-chief. The deputy commander-in-chief of Xuanfu will be appointed by Kong Dengke, the former staff general of the Zhongquan Battalion. The reorganized Zhongquan Battalion will be appointed by the former deputy general Zhang.
Tao is in charge.
But before he could take office there, the war broke out.
Fu Renxi didn't take it seriously at first. He thought it was Tututaiji who was grabbing the territory outside Bianwai, and Hou Jin was so anxious that both parties wanted to start filming outside Bianwai.
Therefore, he just sent his servants out to explore as usual, and he was more concerned about the situation. After all, this matter was not his job at the moment.
What Fu Renxi is most concerned about right now is that the imperial court can approve the amount of his servant camp. He wants to get as many veterans as possible to accompany him when he takes office in Jizhou, so that it will be easier to start work when the time comes.
After all, your own family knows your own business.
Mr. Fu's achievements today are inseparable from the silent support of Jukou's box of gold.
This unique advantage is difficult to take advantage of in Ji Town.
After all, he couldn't lead the Ji Zhen soldiers to rob Beijing City with their faces covered.
Therefore, he was quite uneasy about taking up the post of Jizhen.
At this juncture, there was a commotion outside.
The servant who was sent out had his eyes darkened when he came out, so he got Liu Chengzong's autographed letter back first.
After reading the letter, Fu Renxi was so frightened that he almost smoked, and hurriedly handed the letter to Li Guoliang, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu.
Li Guoliang and Fu Renxi have not been together for a long time, but they rely on them very much.
There is no way, the Ming Dynasty is now more wary of generals born in Shaanxi, and the generals in Beizhili, Liaodong, and Xuanda in Shanxi are generally unwilling to have more contact with them.
As for Fu Renxi, the impression he left on his colleagues was, well... it can't even be said that he was just a very wild person.
He could speak to Yang Sichang, the governor of three towns in Shanxi, Yang Qi from Monan outside the border, and Zhang Zhen from Yanqing, Shaanxi.
The year before last, he had won a battle against the Donglu in Biennei, and Fu Renxi had become a popular high-ranking general. Last year, he got married to the daughter of Sun Chuanting, a squire from Daizhou.
The year before last, Fu Renxi had brilliantly resisted the Donglu and recaptured a population of 2,700. He did so in Daizhou. 2,700 people equaled 2,700 families. Therefore, his reputation in Daizhou was like that of a living Bodhisattva.
Everyone is grateful.
After the war, a squire asked him to send instructors to train local bravery and teach gunnery.
Some people secretly made clay statues of him at home and offered incense to him day and night.
Later, he got engaged to Sun Chuanting's daughter.
As a result, at the evening ceremony, Yang Sichang, the governor of the three towns, was not only present in person, but also sent several Dunjun troops outside the border to give him twenty-seven horses, twenty-seven cattle, and one hundred and thirty-five sheep.
The gift is not heavy, but there is a long list, from the governor of Monan, Yang Qi, He Huchen, Wang Chengen, and Tututaiji, to the important ministers of Monan, to Elinchen, Sa Nangtaiji, Shunyi Wang Ermubu, and twenty other officials.
Each of the 30,000 households has a name.
The servants sang the ceremony outside the mansion, the guests whispered in the courtyard, and Yang Sichang looked complicated in the mansion, but Fu Renxi's face was red from drinking.
Even Lao Taishan's ridicule didn't sound good. Sun Chuanting said: "I'm sorry I didn't give you a gift."
Fu Renxi held the wine glass and waved his hand: "Hey, my father-in-law doesn't know something. That's because my son-in-law didn't inform him."
These words made Sun Chuanting turn green. This son-in-law had a certain way of leading troops, but he was not humble after drinking and liked to brag.
However, it was a double blessing for Sun Chuanting at that time. Not only did he find a good son-in-law for his daughter, he lived in the house for ten years, and his own career also made progress.
The court recounted his merits and reported Sun Chuanting's achievements in building the city wall while at home, rewarding his soldiers, and leading his troops to quell the chaos and protect his hometown. Others were afraid of being selected by the emperor as a side talent, but Sun Chuanting was not afraid, and he jumped over the rank and was worshiped as the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture.
How did Sun Chuanting know that Fu Renxi's greatest advantage was humility?
As long as he is willing to switch on and off, not to mention giving gifts, Liu Shizi can even come to the scene with gifts in person, host a dusk ceremony for him, entertain relatives and friends, and call him a brother.
After his evening ceremony, many people were impeached, but Yang Sichang blocked them all, and even more people impeached Yang Sichang.
This is also the reason why the imperial court wants to transfer Fu Renxi to Jizhen, so that this meritorious man can stay away from his old friends.
Yang Sichang went to the capital to offer advice to the emperor. Not long after, Yang Sichang's stepmother Ding passed away, and his father Yang He also fell ill, so Ding You went home to observe his filial piety and take care of his old father.
The current successor as governor of Xuanda in Shanxi is called Liang Tingdong, which matches the name of the general in charge of the Xuanfu, Li Guoliang. One is the pillar of the imperial court, and the other is the pillar of the country. Anyway, they are two big pillars in the house, which is great.
Liang Tingdong was also a very powerful person. In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, Liang Tingdong increased Liao's pay. When he was facing a shortage of military pay, he suggested that Chongzhen add three cents to the nine cents of silver.
At that time, the court officials were unwilling to increase wages, saying that the people were already very poor and would not be able to survive if they increased wages.
Liang Tingdong told Chongzhen that they farted.
I have totaled nine armies, but the number of soldiers is only 500,000, and the pay is only 15 million. How could the imperial court not be able to support even this small number of troops?
The fact that the people are poor has nothing to do with the lack of salary, it is because the officials are too greedy. As an official, how can I not know that?
Hajj, passing the examination, taking the pilgrimage, promotion, once a year it is said to cost at least five or six thousand taels, inspections, visits, gifts, thanks and recommendations, and the maximum can be as much as thirty thousand taels.
If you go around the world, you will find millions of taels.
If this kind of corruption is not eradicated, the people's lives will be very miserable even if no additional payments are made.
Therefore, the issue for the court now is not whether to increase Liao rates or not. If the money is not enough, it must be increased. The primary contradiction is to get rid of the middlemen so that the people pay less and the state collects more.
Chongzhen was very happy. This is a capable official. I can't just say something. The courtiers can't do this or that. When you are a minister, you have to think about what to do. Is it possible that the world will be ruined?
Liang Tingdong offended many people because of this suggestion.
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As soon as you said it, the Emperor felt that we were all greedy, so you, Liang Tingdong, distanced themselves from each other, you are a traitor, you are a bastard who benefits yourself at the expense of others.
In the end, things did not curb greed as Liang Tingdong imagined.
His original intention was to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, but he took it for granted.
Ultimately, it's just that because of his status, he no longer needs to take merit tests to improve, so he pulls out the ladder when he gets to the house.
This matter is not easy to handle, and it is impossible for the court not to test meritorious service. According to Liang Tingdong's intention, the court should not select officials for the time being. The selected officials will be a pile of waste anyway, so it is better to use the official expenses to support the army first.
The key point is that the money allocated by the local government is not in the court's account and does not go into the national treasury at all. Even if the local government stops this allocation, it will not be able to source it.
However, to curb the trend, it requires the court to recruit a group of more people, whether it is inspections or visits and arrests. Instead, it requires more expenditures from the treasury, which means opening up a new stream.
Therefore, this policy can only be regarded as half of the policy in the imperial court: you can just ask whether Liao's salary can be levied. Well, Liang Tingdong said that it should be levied and must be levied.
Just like Yang Sichang proposed a series of differentiation and containment policies against the Eastern and Western bandits, conferring the title of King Yang Qi, negotiating peace to inherit the clan, and garrisoning troops in Korea.
When you get to Chongzhen, you can only ask Yang Qi to be crowned king, and he is very powerful, so he got it done immediately.
after all.
Chongzhen may not be able to lose face if he negotiates peace, but many courtiers cannot make Chongzhen lose face.
Chongzhen may not be able to spend money on garrisoning, but many courtiers cannot let Chongzhen spend this money.
Only the title of king requires only one copper seal and one envoy, and everyone can accept it.
He even accidentally consumed one of Houjin's gold seals and one of his envoys.
Not only does it allow you to spend less money, but it also allows you to spend more money as a backend. Isn’t this a win-win situation?
Although Liang Tingdong's suggestions were not properly implemented, he was bound to be appreciated by Emperor Chongzhen. He succeeded Wang Yuanya, the governor who committed suicide during the Jisi Rebellion, and now Yang Sichang, who returned home after Ding You, suddenly became the leader of the three towns in Xuanda Shanxi.
Governor.
Fu Renxi's information was reported to Liang Tingdong, and the new governor discovered that there was such a powerful person in Xuan Da.
He raised his hand and reported a letter to the imperial court, saying that this person should be temporarily retained in Xuanda University with the official position of Supervisor and Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
Liang Tingdong was a very shrewd person, and within Fu Renxi's circle of friends, he could see Fu Renxi's true identity at a glance.
The logic is very simple. What is the duty of the governor of Shanxi in Xuanda? It is to defend the three towns, and there is no cover. The duty of attacking Shaanxi is to defend the three towns.
Those in the east and south are our own, and those in the west and north are his friends.
Fu Renxi is here, he is an invincible person.
If you transfer such a thing to Ji Town and have him beaten to death in two days, isn't that a loss to the country?
Of course, Liang Tingdong was also on guard against him, so he took out the official position of Commander-in-Chief of the Biao Battalion and stayed by his side to watch carefully, not only to use his influence but also to prevent him from doing big things.
Fu Renxi was very happy with his new appointment. He transferred servants locally and recruited many squires he had trained from Daizhou to train, and gathered 2,000 people to supervise the bidding camp.
Originally, the newly formed Supervisory Battalion according to Liang Tingdong's wishes was to recruit troops extensively, but Fu Renxi felt that Hou Jin and the Marshal's Mansion had been pushed to the outside, and they might rush in at any time, and it would be too late to train troops.
It is better to mobilize troops first, count as many as there are, and prepare actively for war, as long as they can be used.
His intuition was right.
In fact, at the same time that he was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Supervision and Standards and mobilized troops to build camps, the Hou Jin Army had already cut through the border wall from the east of Yunzhou in Xuanfu Town and penetrated into the border.
Even though Liu Chengzong reported the military situation outside the border, he could not keep up with the marching speed of the Jin army.
The area around Longmen in Yunzhou is surrounded by the western mountainous areas of the Yanshan Mountains. Azige and other Houjin generals were very familiar with that area.
In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, they broke through there.
This year is no exception. Azige is still most confident in eastern Yunzhou.
Thick-backed machetes opened the way, hooks were used to climb mountains and walls, and steel drills were used to cut open the side walls. The soldiers attacked the garrison at the pass from the wall, then opened the door and let the troops enter the pass.
The whole process only took two hours, and several forts were captured. The army immediately drove forward from the breach. They did not plunder, but divided their troops into several groups and rushed straight towards Yanqing Prefecture.
Because the area around this area had been raided the year before last, for Azige, the castle was in ruins and there was nothing to rob, and it would be easy to alert others and get blocked, so he had to divide his forces and attack Yanqing Prefecture as quickly as possible.
Only by attacking the unprepared Juyong Pass can we successfully break through the border.
Of course, it's a good idea.
In fact, the troops of the Twenty-Two Banners who entered the border went wild as soon as they dispersed and looted everywhere.
No one understands the Later Jin Army better than Emperor Chongde Huang Taiji.
The discipline he kept in mind was the ideal state of the Eight Banners Army in his mind.
But repeated assertions of discipline just show that there is a huge gap between ideals and reality.
This is just like a sign in a cafeteria saying "No beating of customers". It seems outrageous, but as long as it is posted, someone must have beaten it.
When the troops were dispatched, Huang Taiji told Azig a bunch of military discipline. Listening to it in reverse, it was the true state of the Later Jin army when Huang Taiji ignored military discipline and did not threaten the nobles of the Later Jin Dynasty with punishment.
Marching in a noisy manner, leaving the team without permission, stripping off clothes and killing passers-by, running away when anyone resists, obedient captives being killed, separated couples being violated, letting captives guard the horses and then the horses ran away, taking food without permission and then being killed, eating Han people's cooked food
, drank the wine of the Han people, and was eventually poisoned to death by the Han people.
It has all happened before, so Huang Taiji has such experience.
When Xuan Yunming's army received the governor's order to guard and defend to the death, beacons were already spreading everywhere from Yunzhou to Yanqing Prefecture.
At the same time, the troops guarding the border wall also reported that tens of thousands of horsemen from Monan poured out of Jining and spread eastward along the border.
So much so that Li Guoliang of Xuanfu and Wang Puru of Datong were on alert in the face of the enemy.
Although Liu Chengzong was outside the border, he had already written a handwritten letter and asked the Huben camp to copy hundreds of copies. He sent Tang soldiers to deliver it along the border and informed the generals of the three towns that he had no ill intentions towards the Ming border and was sending troops to Monan Yang Qi.
Supportive.
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But Liang Tingdong and Wang Pu couldn’t believe it.
After all, when the Later Jin Dynasty attacked Juyongguan and entered Beizhili, the three parties in the Central and Eastern Jin Dynasty would definitely follow the imperial edict and the King Qin would follow. When the time came to fight in Beizhili and fight, at least the responsibility would not lie with Wang Pu of Datong.
But when Liu Chengzong enters the border, he will definitely attack Shanxi and Datong.
What's more, Hou Jin was a wolf who robbed and ran away, while you, Liu Chengzong, were the tiger who rushed into the house to make a den.
However, Liu Chengzong really had no intention of entering the border at this time. His army was busy chasing away the blue flag.
This northern expedition has come to an end.
After capturing Ningxia, Yulin was unable to hold on alone. Now that large areas had surrendered, Ren Quan'er and Zhang Zhen led their troops to enter the siege stage against Yulin City.
Reports from the frontline generals indicated that Yulin City was very resolute in resisting, and suggested that the problem should be solved by encircling rather than attacking, forcing the Ming army to leave the city and fight in the field to determine the outcome.
Liu Chengzong can understand this.
Yang Jiamo, a man of great rank and honor in Gansu Province, dared to fight him to the point of death.
In Yulin City, there are countless honorable and old generals, and generations of people lived on Ming Dynasty salaries from birth to death.
Growing up with a salary is different from growing up with a soldier's salary. The Ming Dynasty cut off the soldier's salary, but the salary has never been cut off. Each of these people is considered disloyal if they don't shed the last drop of their blood for the Ming Dynasty.
So at this moment, Liu Shizi felt fine and relaxed.
He led his troops to the east just to curb the development of the Hou Jin Dynasty. It didn't matter if they entered the border in large numbers, as long as they didn't run out, the Ming army would be enough to deal with them.
He, Liu Shizi, caught the supporting troops outside the border wall and beat them.
Whoever stays behind will be beaten, and whoever responds will be beaten.
In fact, Liu Chengzong was busy sending messages to Yulin, Ningxia and other places, asking the military craftsmen who had just surrendered to forge steel arrow clusters and spearheads and transport them to Guihua City.
If there was a chance, he planned to take advantage of this chaos to send one of his divisions to penetrate the Greater Khingan Mountains and fight with Horqin to create a passage.
Send the tiger from the Heizhen tribe next to him back to his hometown, and let Heizhen, armed with steel arrow clusters and steel spearheads, and the Sauron people follow suit in the rear.
We can't let them grow that rough pattern in vain.