He only talks the talk but does not practice the tricks. He is pragmatic and does what he says. When he returned to Liaoyang, he began to review the files and sent people to investigate in detail some cases in horse markets in various places in recent years, especially economic dispute cases and cases caused by economic disputes.
All types of cases are the top priority for high pragmatic and thorough investigation.
In fact, the governor himself generally does not personally decide cases, which is very different from the performance in some film and television dramas. The case-solving officers in the Ming Dynasty are usually local officials, with the Si Xian Guan (the patrol commander leading the way, the Cha Si and the Bing Bei Dao)
As a supplement, there are very few "tricksters" who can bring a lawsuit directly to the governor.
However, as the de facto highest official in a local administration, the governor still has the power to participate in the resolution of cases and even retrials. Therefore, when a new high-pragmatic official takes office, reviewing files is a routine operation, which is not surprising and not very eye-catching.
However, there is no need to elaborate on some specific economic dispute cases for the time being. Gao Pragmatic discovered something very interesting from these files.
He discovered that the reason why the conflict between Ye He and Hada was irreconcilable was not only the issue of the imperial edict, but also the issue of trade routes, and this issue also foreshadowed that no matter who would win in the end, whether Hada or Ye He,
The victors will inevitably go to war with the Jianzhou Jurchens.
War is usually the product of irreconcilable political contradictions, and political contradictions mostly arise from economic contradictions.
Gao Pragmatic's conclusion is that this is a ginseng trade war - not a simple trade war, but a war caused by the ginseng trade.
Since there are "three passes and three cities" near Kaiyuanma City of Haixi Jurchens, while Jianzhou Jurchens only have one pass and one city in Fushun, the Hercynian Jurchens have long hindered the Jurchen trade in Jianzhou, among which the Hada tribe and the
The Yehe tribe is the most powerful. Among these trade obstacles, the issue of ginseng is particularly prominent.
The main production areas of ginseng in Liaodong are the Changbai Mountain and the Suzi River Basin. From the Tang Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the main production area of ginseng was still around Liaoyang, especially the area east of Liaoyang and outside Fushun Pass. A large number of ginseng was mined every year, with many types and varieties.
Serve as tribute to the imperial court.
Gao Pragmatic summarized from the files and found that the main producing areas of ginseng have expanded to Heilongjiang and central Jilin in later generations. Of course, overall, eastern Liaoning is still the main producing area in later generations.
However, the files show that although Jianzhou Jurchen occupies the main ginseng production area, the amount of ginseng sold in Fushun Ma City is very small. Instead, the Hada tribe in the northeast of Kaiyuan City and the Yehe tribe in the north monopolize the ginseng trade.
This is interesting. Could it be that Jianzhou Jurchens do not go to Fushun to sell ginseng, but prefer to walk hundreds of miles to Kaiyuan?
No, it’s not that the Jianzhou Jurchens were unwilling to go to Fushun to sell ginseng, but that the edicts in their hands were not enough. In the decades when Wang Tai ruled Hada, he followed Li Chengliang and the earlier Liaodong General Army on many expeditions.
Jianzhou, snatched a lot of imperial edicts from Jianzhou.
Of course, it was not all robbing. Many of them were obtained by Li Chengliang and then given to Hada.
The Jianzhou Jurchens have basically been under attack since Li Chengliang suppressed the Liao Dynasty, especially the previously strong right-back Wang Gao, Atai and his son, who were the focus of Li Chengliang's attack.
Relatively speaking, Jue Chang'an, the Jianzhou left guard of Tucker and his son, was relatively weak on the one hand and relatively honest on the other. Since Li Chengliang suppressed the Liao Dynasty, he had not suffered much blow, and was even rewarded with some rewards by Li Chengliang.
Edict.
The imperial edict represents the trade quota. As mentioned before, since the Hada tribe has mastered most of the edicts, other Jurchen tribes who want to sell what they have have to go to Hada to find a way.
Due to their weak strength, the Jianzhou Jurchens could only accept the exploitation of the Hada tribe. Due to their strong strength, the Yehe tribe was unwilling to accept the continued exploitation of the Hada tribe, so they chose to directly rob them through war.
This discovery suddenly made Gao Pingshi realize: It turns out that the core conflict between Jianzhou and Ye He in history was that Nurhaci controlled various Jurchen tribes in Changbai Mountain, cut off this trade route, and successfully obtained Ye He's control of ginseng trade rights (
Note: After Nurhaci conquered the tribes in the Changbai Mountains, he monopolized most of the ginseng producing areas, which is considered an upstream monopoly), so Ye He had to launch the "War of Nine Tribes" to fight Nurhaci for life and death.
In the original history, after Nurhaci inherited the Jianzhou Left Guard Commander in the Takshi Dynasty, he was not satisfied with the existing territory and planned to continue to expand his power. In order to develop his own strength and maintain his dominance, he continued to rob Liaodong.
The control of trade with the Jurchens is naturally reasonable.
Only by constantly suppressing the trade monopoly of Kaiyuan and Nanbeiguan could Nurhaci control the horse trade in Liaodong and gain wealth.
In the first month of the 19th year of Wanli, Nurhachi sent troops to occupy the Jurchen tribes in the Changbai Mountains, which immediately aroused Ye He's strong dissatisfaction - the supply of goods was controlled by Nurhachi, how could Ye He maintain his ginseng monopoly? So Ye He and
The conflict over Jianzhou was about to break out.
Under this situation, as long as something happens, the powder keg will explode.
So, did something happen? Something happened, because in the 19th year of Wanli, Li Chengliang went to the countryside for the first time - a big mountain that had been weighing on the Jurchens for a long time actually collapsed on its own.
However, since Li Rusong and other brothers were still there and not busy, Ye He did not dare to fight immediately at that time, so he first tried to "use force to suppress others" to see if he could force Nurhaci to spit out Changbai Mountain and other tribes.
As a result, in the 20th year of Wanli, the Battle of Ningxia and the first aid to Korea against the Japanese broke out successively. The main force of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Liaodong Army, was transferred, and the pressure on Ye He's tribe suddenly eased.
At the same time, Nurhaci also rejected the "unreasonable demands" of Ye He's tribe, and the nine-ministry coalition's attack on Jianzhou could no longer be avoided. So in the 21st year of Wanli, the war finally broke out.
Gao pragmatically figured out this "underlying contradiction" and thought of Li Chengliang's handling of the Jurchen tribes when he suppressed the Liao Dynasty. It seems that Li Chengliang did not make any big strategic mistakes during this period.
After all, judging from the historical results, Ye He, who owned Kaiyuan, three passes and three cities, actually lost to Nurhachi, who only owned one pass and one city in Fushun. It can be seen that Li Chengliang's idea of strengthening the Haixi Jurchens and suppressing the Jianzhou Jurchens seems to be correct
of.
But after Gao pragmatic thought about it for a while, he discovered that this conclusion may not actually be true, because Li Chengliang's support for the Haixi Jurchens was mainly for the Hada tribe, and he had always maintained a suppressive attitude towards the Ye He tribe.
It's just that Meng Gebulu in history was later defeated by Ye He and actually took refuge in Ye He, a big enemy. I'm afraid Li Chengliang didn't expect this.
In addition, Li Chengliang also misjudged Jianzhou's strength, because after Nurhaci came to power, Li Chengliang suppressed him very little and even allowed him to unify Jianzhou.
This move was not very understandable to Gao Pangjian at first, but now he suddenly understood it: after the decline of the Hada tribe, the Ming Dynasty lacked an obedient and relatively strong Jurchen tribe as an agent to represent the Ming Dynasty in "using barbarians to control barbarians."
At this time, Ye He was obviously not Li Chengliang's first consideration, because Ye He originally came up on Hada, and his image in Li Chengliang's mind was obviously not very good. However, Nurhaci was extremely deferential during this period, and was naturally regarded as
Li Chengliang took a fancy to him and began to "train" him.
Nurhaci made good use of this training, and he also found a way to break the alliance between Ye He and Hada (Menggebulu had already defected to Ye He at this time), that is, first unify Jianzhou, and then take over the Changbai Mountains.
The Ministry of Agriculture completely controlled most of the ginseng producing areas and controlled the output from the upstream. Then Ye He and Hadak had the imperial edict but did not have enough goods to trade with the Ming Dynasty, so they took over the initiative.
Now, Li Chengliang's historical approach has a more reasonable explanation: he still adheres to the idea of "supporting the second strongest and attacking the strongest", but he made a serious misjudgment in actual operation-Nurhaci this time
Qiang actually defeated Ye He's "nine-unit coalition" with ease.
As luck would have it, the Ming Dynasty's internal troubles (Ningxia) and foreign troubles (Japan) happened to break out at the same time, so there was no time to quickly launch a "preventive war" to remedy the situation and bring Nurhachi back to his original shape.
So...it was a waste.
Nurhaci completely replaced Hada and Ye He, firmly controlled the monopoly of the ginseng trade, and took advantage of the Ming Dynasty's powerlessness in Liaodong for at least eight years to grow rapidly - in fact, it was more than eight years, because of the three major conquests (actually more
The Ming-Burma War) emptied the already poor treasury and internal funds. After the war, there was no spare energy to fight Nurhachi again. He had to spend time to recuperate. At this time, Nurhachi was no longer greatly weakened. The Li family army could easily
The small flames were extinguished.
Gao pragmatic looked at the pile of files in front of him and thought: The root of Nurhaci's rise has been found, but it is not difficult because he is different from Li Chengliang. Li Chengliang did not know that the Ming Dynasty in the 20th year of Wanli would have major events one after another, so he had no idea.
Unprepared, and he knew these "accidents", so he was well prepared. If Nurhachi still wanted to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty's powerlessness period to suddenly grow to the point where the Liaodong Ming Army could not suppress it, as in the original history, that would be a dream.
But how can I use this situation to defeat Li Chengliang now?
Simply single out those cases in these files in which Li Chengliang favored Hada? This is not only meaningless, but also fails to achieve the purpose of beating, because in principle, it is just a difference in means, or in other words, he and Li Chengliang have different views on how to use Hada.
Liaodong had different ideas for controlling the Jurchen tribes. Using these things to argue was nothing more than a political dispute in the eyes of the central court.
Sometimes in political disputes, there is no right or wrong, only sides.
However, Gao is pragmatic because he needs to control the intensity of the beating. It is not advisable to hit him too hard at the beginning. It is also good to choose a lighter method.
Kaiyuan itself has its own special characteristics. For example, in terms of transportation location, Kaiyuan was not only the post road center in the northern part of Liaodong region in the early Ming Dynasty, but also a transportation landmark in Eastern Mongolia and the Jurchen region. The Jurchens must pass through Kaiyuan to pay tribute and check customs.
It is the only official channel connecting Liaodong and the Jurchen region.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the Liaoyang Province of the Yuan Dynasty was divided into three parts, with the Daning Dusi in the northwest, the Liaodong Dusi and the Nuergan Dusi in the northeast being set up. Liaodong was under the overall control, and their intersection was Kaiyuan. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Nuergan Dusi was established.
Kaiyuan was used as a transit station and distribution center for dispatching personnel, transferring food and wages, and recruiting foreign barbarians. Because of this, Kaiyuan became the forward base for the Ming Dynasty to operate the Jurchen region, and it was also an important military town in Liaodong to defend against the Mongolian invasion.
"The imperial dynasty established Shenyang, Liaoyang, 30,000 troops, and Tieling four guards to unite Kaiyuan to contain the attack of Beidi."
After the Daning Dusi moved inward and the Nuergandu Division was abolished, Kaiyuan guards and generals performed liaison and management duties at the Jisi Guard Station outside the border. Until Chenghua, some of the Nuergandu Division guard officials were still assigned to Kaiyuan.
The original garrison generals also served and directly controlled the border guards.
This allowed Kaiyuan to control the responsibilities of tribute, mutual trade, internal relocation, recruitment and relief of the Eastern Mongolian and Jurchen ministries. Through Kaiyuan, the Ming Dynasty was able to effectively control the various ethnic groups in the Northeast and the prison guards outside the border, cutting off the alliance between Mongolia and Jurchen
.Therefore, "Quan Liao Zhi" and "Kaiyuan Pictures" positioned Kaiyuan as "controlling foreign barbarians".
The particularity of Kaiyuan is also reflected in the diversity of sources and composition of the garrison and residents at Kaiyuan Guard Station. As an important military town in Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty set up a large number of garrisons and residents in Kaiyuan.
Kaiyuan has jurisdiction over Tieling, 30,000 people, and 3 guards in Liaohai, five cities, and 20 side forts. It has military buildings and more than 15,500 remaining residents. If the family members of the soldiers, villagers, civilians, and guests are taken into account, the population is
There are no less than 100,000 people. Among them, ethnic minorities account for a considerable proportion and they belong to different ethnic groups.
"Not long after (referring to the beginning of Hongwu), Xigeng County was designated as a military guard. There were seventeen Chinese, Koreans, indigenous people, 13 women, and 13 barbarians." On the one hand, historically, the Kaiyuan area was a mixed area of multiple ethnic groups;
On the one hand, in the early Ming Dynasty, a large number of Mongols and Jurchens came to Liaodong, and most of them were included in the military guard system and granted the position of military attache, forming a special group of military guards in the Ming Dynasty, called high officials.
There were a large number of high-ranking officials in the Kaiyuan military guards. In the early Ming Dynasty, Kaiyuan established the Anle, Zizai and Sanwan and Liaohai guards, which housed a large number of Mongolians and Jurchens who had surrendered.
Until the current eleventh year of Wanli, this ethnic ratio has not changed. This complex ethnic relationship has brought different impacts: on the one hand, it makes people worry, for example, "Half of Kaiyuan are descendants of high-ranking officials and Miao descendants, while some powerful captives harbor evil intentions.
On the other hand, with the help of the high-ranking officials of Erzhou and Erwei, Kaiyuan performed the important duties of liaison and management of Eastern Mongolia and the Jurchens, in order to realize the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court has jurisdiction over the tribes outside the border and the Jisu Guard Station.
So if he wants to hit Li Chengliang now, Gao Qingshi doesn't intend to hit him hard all at once. He must control the intensity. For example, he first uses Li Chengliang's butt to sit crookedly as an excuse.
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