On the second day of March in the eleventh year of Wanli, the good news from Liaodong came to Beijing:
Previously, the two slaves of Qingyang of Yehe tribe in Liaodong were good at fighting and started a provocation. Together with the Mongolian chieftains Nuantu and Tongtai, they attacked the Hada tribe. A trap was planned to lure the two slaves to Kaiyuan, and they cooperated with each other inside and outside. They killed the two slaves, their sons Wusun Boluo, Ha'er Hama and the general Bai Huchi and other slaves in formation, and obtained 311 heads.
Cao Yu, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaoyang, and Meng Gebulu, the commander of Tashan Left Guard, set up ambushes and annihilated all the captive soldiers outside the city. They obtained 1,682 heads, horses, barbarian weapons, clothing, armor and other valuables. Calculate.
The Fu ministers in Liaodong were highly pragmatic, while the ministers in Shandong An Jiuyu were sparse.
When he joins the cabinet, the cabinet ministers will approve the proposal, and the votes will be drawn up and sent to the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
After reading the memorial, Zhu approved: meritorious officials should be favored, officers and soldiers who died in battle should be given generous compensation, and the two slaves left behind by the barbarians, as mentioned in the town council, were all under the control of Meng Gebulu. Again, according to the original number of horses in Liao, the number of horses If the price is insufficient, in addition to the original amount of 40,000 taels, an additional 10,000 taels will be added as an annual example, and another 20,000 taels will be issued to make up for the shortfall in the current conquest, all of which will be paid to Taipu Temple.
He was impressed by the success of Liaodong in consecutive battles, and then issued an edict: Liang Menglong added Prince Shaobao, and Yin had a son, Jin Yiwei, who was hereditary for thousands of households, and was rewarded with fifty taels of silver, and four pieces of silk silk.
Gao Jingshi was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of War and the right censor of the capital procuratorate. He was still the governor. Yin Yizi was hereditary for thousands of households. He was rewarded with forty taels of silver, four pieces of silk on the outside and inside, and he and Menglong each received their due royalties.
Li Chengliang was promoted to one level of salary, with an additional salary of 200 shi; Cao Yu was promoted to one level of salary, with an additional 100 shi of lumi; Cao Jian was promoted to Tieling guerrilla, and was rewarded with 20 taels of silver, and two pieces of silk.
Wang Yan (Kaiyuan Bingdao) was promoted to one level of salary, with two pieces of silk, and a reward of thirty taels of silver, plus fifty shi of rice; Yang Yuan (Kaiyuan General) was promoted to one level of salary, plus an additional salary. Thirty stones per meter.
Each of his subordinates will be promoted to one level of salary and rewarded with ten taels of silver, which will be used in case of shortage. The rest will be followed accordingly.
The sergeant worked hard in a bloody battle and was given a horse price of 20,000 taels of silver. He sent one of the ministers to reward him together with the press officer, and sent another officer to investigate.
For meritorious deeds of this soldier, Wu Dui was rewarded with fifty taels of silver and four taels of silk; the ministers on the left and right were each rewarded with twenty taels of silver and two taels of silk;
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This time, Gao Pragmatic's contribution was not only due to himself and the subordinates he commanded and mobilized at that time, but also to the top, not only Liang Menglong, the governor of Jiliao, who followed him, but also all the officials from the Ministry of War, including Shangshu, Shilang to Langzhong.
Li Chengliang, who was "at the same level", was the commander-in-chief of Liaodong and was the superior of Cao Yun who actually participated in the battle. He also received the same reward as Cao Yun.
Among the military generals, the most "lucky" this time was Cao Yun's younger brother Cao Jian. This guy didn't get much benefit from the last battle in southern Liaoning, but this time he was the first to "conquer", commanding from the guards. He was promoted to the position of real power, Tieling Guerrilla General.
However, I don't know what Zhu Yijun was thinking about setting him up as a guerrilla in Tieling. At first glance, it seemed like he was mocking Li Chengliang.
Of course, as the emperor, Zhu Yijun had no need to ridicule his ministers. He had a basis for doing so - the previous time the Tieling Guards were breached by the Tumen, the ancestral graves of Li Chengliang's family were insulted by the Tumen. At that time, the Tieling guerrilla responsibility had not yet been As for the liquidation, it happens to be a one-stop thing now, so we can just take care of it together. As for what Li Chengliang thinks... Anyway, he has received a reward, so it's hard to say anything clearly.
Gao Pragmatic, on the other hand, continued to display his usual style of being a favored minister of the emperor. He still believed that meritorious deeds must be rewarded, and he was given the title of Right Minister of the Ministry of War.
It stands to reason that it is not unusual for a border minister to be promoted to the title of right minister of the Ministry of War after receiving important military honors, and it is even routine to a certain extent. However, the problem is that Gao Pragmatic's original job was to be the right minister of the Imperial Procuratorate.
Shi, now became the right minister of the Ministry of War.
The biggest difference in this is actually not that there has been a change of yamen, but that the right censor of the Imperial Palace is only a fourth-rank official, while the right minister of the Ministry of War is an upright official of the third rank!
To put it simply, this position is truly the so-called official of the imperial court.
Although the Ming Dynasty's system is rather strange, sometimes things like rank are not so reliable - just like the second-rank chief envoy who even calls himself "low official" in front of the seventh-rank patrol censor.
However, the right minister of the Ministry of War and the right censor of the capital are not ordinary positions. Both positions have their own particularities.
For example, after the reform of the Ministry of War's right minister to Gao Gong (the Ministry of War originally had one minister on the left and right, Gao Gong changed it to two ministers on the left and right, this is a historical fact), there are a total of two in Beijing, one of whom is a serious official in the Ministry of War.
Called Tang Shangguan, it is very likely that one of your orders will also serve as "Assistant Manager of the Imperial Army and Military Affairs".
These two right ministers of the Ministry of War are actually the official right ministers of the Ministry of War. Although other foreign governors and governors often have the title of right minister of the Ministry of War, they are all based on "rank" considerations and cannot actually participate in the war.
Affairs of the Ministry of War.
However, it is not uncommon for a governor to have the title of Minister of War. But it is rare to see a governor to have the title of Minister of War. The addition of a governor to the title of Minister of War means a more critical issue, which is the governor's say in the military affairs of the town.
There will be a big improvement.
Generally speaking, the governor focuses on military affairs, while the governor focuses on government affairs. Once the governor also adds a minister of war, it is likely to infringe on the military power of the governor. In some cases, it is easy to cause inconsistency in power, leading to some troubles that are inconvenient to express. Therefore, the court has
It is still prudent to give the title of Minister of War to the governors of various places.
But Zhu Yijun may have considered that the current governor of Jiliao, Liang Menglong, has a special relationship with Gao Pragmatic. Liang Menglong himself is also very shrewd. After Gao Pragmatic procured Liao, he almost never interfered with the military affairs of Liaodong, so Zhu Yijun simply gave a more obvious hint.
After a moment - in fact, for a person like Liang Menglong, this is almost a clear statement.
Express what?
It is clearly stated that you, Liang Zhijun, need not take care of the Liaodong military affairs and leave them to Gao Fujun.
It's hard to say how Liang Menglong himself will view this matter, but Zhu Yijun is not in a hurry. He has other arrangements. Besides, he thinks that handling the relationship with Liang Menglong should not be difficult for Gao Pragmatic.
Besides, Liang Menglong also has an important matter to deal with now, and he doesn't seem to be doing nothing just because he doesn't ask about Liaodong matters - he is currently responsible for rebuilding the Daning military town.
The importance of this matter can be understood by just thinking about the importance of Daning City before Yongle. If Chengzu had not obtained King Ning’s three guards of Wuliangha cavalry, it is hard to say whether he could have successfully conquered the country. Of course, this sentence did not exist.
People dare to declare it with their mouths.
Qi Jiguang in Daning City now has a very heavy task. First, he must defend this isolated city outside the Ming Dynasty, and second, he must start training a new army. Both of these tasks are directly related to Liang Menglong, the governor.
In the defense of Daning City, with Qi Jiguang there, as long as the supplies are constant, the problem is not a big one, and the material problem has basically been solved after Qataiji stationed herding in the south of Daning City. Liang Menglong's main task is to do a good job for Qi Jiguang and Tuotuo
The connection between them is to avoid conflicts between the two top warriors of Ming and Meng.
The difficulty lies in organizing and training the new army.
Qi Jiguang was originally the "Minister of Military Training". After taking office in Jizhen, he had been responsible for the training of the nine-border frontier army for a long time. After the Battle of Monan, he began to guard Daning (his position remained unchanged and he was still the commander-in-chief of Jizhen).
After that, his rotational training of frontier troops was temporarily put aside, and he began to train new Jizhen cavalry and continued to strengthen the car camp.
This incident shows that the imperial court is still very confused about whether to "control cavalry with foot" or "control cavalry with cavalry".
The performance of Qi Jiguang's chariot camp in the Battle of Monan illustrates two issues: first, when the forces are basically equal, the chariot camp that incorporates the hollow square formation tactical thinking can completely defeat the Mongolian cavalry; second, if the Mongolian cavalry chooses
If you avoid the battle, the chariot camp will still have no choice but to follow behind, and the initiative in the war will still be in the hands of the more mobile cavalry.
As a result, the central government was still stuck in the vicious circle of the public saying the public was right and the mother-in-law saying the mother-in-law was right.
While saying that developing car camps is useless, because what the car camps can do, Gao Pingshi also did it with infantry in the Battle of Monan - the famous battles of Zhang Bingzhong, Zhang Wanbang and his son are proof, and Zhang Bingzhong, Zhang Wanbang and his son's famous battles are proof, and in the Battle of Liaonan, Zhang
Wanbang even repeated it once more, resisting Chaohua's breakout attack with infantry, and made a great contribution to capturing Chaohua alive.
But the Chaoying faction also said: Although the hollow square formation tactics are powerful, Zhang Wanbang cannot achieve zero casualties after all. However, Qi Jiguang Chaoying’s performance in the last match was almost zero casualties, so Chaoying is still a simple
An enhanced version of the infantry hollow phalanx. In theory, it should even be able to defeat the incoming Mongolian cavalry with inferior strength.
At the same time, although the carriage camp may sound expensive, it is not necessarily so, because the Ming Dynasty did not lack carpenters. Although the sidecars and other chariots in the carriage camp also consume some iron materials, the iron parts generally do not wear out much.
Most of them can be recycled. The only relatively large expense item is the "spring" on the new tank that only Jinghua can produce. However, Jinghua has also made it clear that after accumulating sufficient experience in long-term and mass production, the spring
Costs are expected to be reduced.
Although the Ming Dynasty has always been known for having "more soldiers", in fact, the Ming army did not have a high tolerance for casualties. Historically, one of the main reasons why the Ming army easily collapsed in the later period was that it had poor tolerance for injuries, and even the ability to withstand casualties reached 10%.
Leading to the collapse of the entire army. Of course, this refers to the general army, not counting the servant troops, especially Qi Jiguang's "legacy". The three thousand Zhejiang army was directly wiped out in the final battle.
Of course, the central government of the imperial court was aware of this situation, so the main advantages of the chariot camp were emphasized: it could defeat the Mongolian cavalry and its own battle losses were extremely low, and the cost was not particularly large, at least it was much cheaper than the cavalry.
But the cavalry faction also had their own argument: the real decisive factor in the Monan War was the cavalry duel. The embarrassment that Ming Dynasty used to brag about was that the actual main force in this battle was Mongolian cavalry versus Mongolian cavalry.
The victory of the Ming Dynasty was mainly attributed to Gao Pragmatic's control of Bahannaji, Zhongjin Hatun and Qataiji, which enabled the Ming Dynasty to complete a perfect "use of barbarians to control barbarians".
In other words, although the victory was won, the main battle was not fought by oneself. When there is no one around, ask yourself, everyone will inevitably have some doubts about whether this battle is the victory of the Ming Dynasty or the victory of Tumut.
Therefore, in the view of the cavalry faction, Ma Fang's insistence on using cavalry to control cavalry was something that the Ming Dynasty really needed to put effort into implementing.
Especially after Daning was recovered, the Ming army had a land to raise horses to some extent, and the cavalry faction strongly suggested setting up a new Yuanma Temple in Daning to raise horses and supply cavalry.
Of course, this matter cannot be accomplished overnight. Not to mention that Daning City has just been acquired, how to use the surrounding horse breeding land is also a big problem - that land has almost become a no-man's land after Chang Ang gave it away.
If you want to raise horses, you have to move the population there first. This kind of thing may not be effective for three to five years.
However, just because it is done slowly does not mean that it should not be done. The cavalry faction still strives for what should be fought for. As for where to find people to raise horses, isn't this the job of the cabinet, the Sixth Ministry and the governor of Jiliao?
In the end, the imperial court was deadlocked on this matter, and Zhu Yijun couldn't make a decision, so he decided to adopt a two-pronged approach and do it first, and then make a decision based on the actual results.
At this time, we can see the wisdom of the policy of opening up the sea. If the tariffs at those ports hadn't been rising year by year, how could Zhu Yijun be so generous with money? The Ming Dynasty is not Spain. If you want to spend money, you have to be talented, emperor.
Loans did not exist in the Ming Dynasty. Gao Pragmatic offered to lend money to Zhu Yijun before, but Zhu Yijun refused directly.
Therefore, Liang Menglong does not have to worry about having nothing to do now. He can put aside matters in Liaodong and do his errands in Daning with peace of mind. This is Zhu Yijun's expectation. Zhu Yijun thinks that Liang Menglong should also be able to understand it.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When the imperial edict was sent to Liaodong, Gao pragmatic had already gone south from Kaiyuan, but had not yet arrived in Liaoyang. Instead, he took a break in Shenyang and inspected various guards in Shenyang.
Armaments and other matters.
To be more specific, he went to Fushun Pass, which was managed by Fushun Qianhu under the jurisdiction of Shenyang Zhongwei.
The reason why the dignified governor actually went to check a pass in person was mainly because he wanted to see with his own eyes Fushun Pass, the important pass closest to Sarhu.
You must know that in the original history, Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty in the forty-sixth year of Wanli. The first shot was fired at Fushun Pass. The traitor Li Yongfang was the guard general of Fushun City at that time (Fushun City Preparation).
After being defeated, the Jurchen soldiers surrounded Fushun City and surrendered directly. As a result, the Jurchen soldiers took over this important town in Liaodong without any effort.
At that time, Nurhachi rested his troops in Fushun City for three days and left, plundering more than 300,000 people and livestock. Before leaving, he set fire to Fushun City. From then on, until the 21st year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Fushun City was still in ruins, with only scattered residents.
There are more than a dozen families.
Gao Pragmatic just wanted to come and see if Fushun City and Fushun Pass were incapable of defense, or if Li Yongfang was just a traitor.
However, he had just arrived in Fushun, and the holy decree to promote him as the right minister of the Ministry of War came. Gao pragmatically accepted the decree calmly, secretly pondering Zhu Yijun's intention.
On the surface, this was just "increasing officials as a matter of routine". After all, a previous imperial edict had already stated the principles. The first one was that "officials with meritorious service should be given priority." However, Gao Pragmatic knew that Zhu Yijun was reminding him.
The fundamental purpose of your going to Liaodong is not just to fight, but to help me sort out the military affairs of Liaodong. How is Li Chengliang's matter being handled? Is it because there is one thing in the east and one in the west, and Li Chengliang is Ning Yuanbo, so you don't have enough power to control it?
?Okay, I will give you the title of Right Minister of the Ministry of War. Do your best.
Helping the ministers who were selected to serve in their posts eliminate interference and strengthen their authority. This is what the Wanli Emperor often did in the original history. It is not surprising that the Wanli Emperor in history was highly pragmatic. However, after the Wanli Emperor in history gave his ministers the full power to serve, he also required "
"achieving results", so Gao Pragmatic had to turn his attention back to other things and consider Li Chengliang's problem first.
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