The Ming Dynasty, which has just entered May, can be considered a mixed blessing.
First, good news came from Ningxia. The Ningxia rebels broke out in civil strife under Gao Pragmatic's plan to alienate them. Kuai Bai and his son first killed Liu Dongyang, Xu Chao and other generals. Then Kuai Chengen had a dispute with Kuai Bai over whether to surrender.
Cheng En attempted to kill his father, but was killed by Kuai Bai instead.
At the same time, the officers and soldiers, who had maintained a general grasp of the situation in the city, launched a fierce attack. People in Ningxia City were panicked and everyone had their own opinions. Some people opened the city gate in panic and surrendered, selling Kuaibai completely.
Of course, these people are not sold out to a certain extent, because they themselves are the remnants of Kuai Chengen. They think that they will die, so it is better to open the city and see if they can get "lenient treatment".
So Gao Pragmatic commanded the army to enter the city. The rebels had already fallen apart and did not organize any decent resistance at all. They were quickly killed and retreated into the inner city.
Although Ningxia is also called a fortified city, it is not as good as Datong. Although the outer city is tall and strong, the inner city is much inferior, especially because there is no moat, and the cannons can almost fire at close range. The artillery mobilized by Gao pragmatically can be bombarded.
It didn't take long before the city gate was breached.
Originally, although the city gate was broken at that time, the gap was a bit high, so it was not convenient to enter. They should have continued to bombard them. Unexpectedly, the rebellious army was already frightened at this time. When they saw that the city gate was broken, they unexpectedly
They dispersed in a hurry and continued to retreat to Kuaibai's mansion.
Now that we're in this situation, there's nothing nice to say, just give it a fight and that's it.
Ma Gui, who was in charge of commanding the artillery attack at that time, was a little behind. Dong Yikui, the commander-in-chief of Yansui, asked him to fight first. After getting Gao Pragmatic's approval, he immediately ordered his younger brother Dong Yiyuan to personally command his servants to attack the enemy.
Brothers Dong Yikui and Dong Yiyuan were rejoicing that they had won a military honor. Ma Gui's Ma family's soldiers took advantage of the opportunity to cover up and went straight to Kuaibai Mansion. The second Dong took a closer look and saw that it was Ma Chengzhao who was leading the troops. The two brothers fought against each other.
Just smile and don't step forward to take credit.
One thing to mention here is that the Ma Gui family was born in Datong Youwei, and they have a very close relationship with the Dong family, who was born in Xuanfu. From a family perspective, the two families are even related by marriage. Dong Yikui, Dong Yiyuan and Ma Gui are of the same generation.
, seeing that Ma Chengzhao is the younger generation, the two of them rely on their status, so naturally they cannot compete with the younger generation for credit.
In fact, the marriage relationship between the generals of the frontier commanders is very close, especially the generals in the same area (the same area here is generally limited to the governor-general area, but Jiliao is a bit unique, Liaodong can almost be listed separately), not only the Ma family
The same goes for the Dong family and the Ma family, another family of Xuan Dajiang under Gao Pingshi.
For example, according to the "Ming Gaofeng Madam Shi's Burial Epitaph": Mrs. Shi died on February 5, 1898. She was the wife of General Lanxi Ma Gongfang...According to the record, the wife's surname was Shi. When her father was promoted to an official, her handsome mother
Liu Shiyang and Wei Huaweiye... had three sons: Changdong, who served as the governor of the Chinese Army, married the daughter of Qi Qian, the counselor of the Qi family; Ci Chun, who died early, married the honorary daughter of Wang Guo, the commander-in-chief of the Wang family; Ci Lin,
The deputy commander-in-chief of the left guard of Datong, married the daughter of Sun Xiance, the chief minister of the Sun family.
Nine grandsons: Ying, married the daughter of Wen Dengkui, Tongjian of the Wen family; Bing, married the Hao family’s remaining daughter; Huan, married the daughter of Ni Shangzhong, the Ni family’s general; Guang, still young, and born together; Ye, married
The Wang family is the daughter of Wang Junmin, who is in the Yuan Dynasty; the name is Yi, the daughter of Jiao Chengxun, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Jiao family; the daughter of Jiong, the daughter of Wan Huafu, the counselor-general of the Wan family;
Ju Lin came out.
Ninth granddaughter: Chang Shi, Commander-in-Chief Ma Guizi, inherited the clan, and the second Xu Jinyiwei commander Zhou Xikou's eldest son, Yu Shangyou, was born in Judong;
The second son of the commander-in-chief Huang Mingchen, Yu Shangyou, came out of Julin.
According to the inscription, it can be seen that Mrs. Shi was the wife of Ma Fang, a native of Yanghe Wei, Shanxi. She was born in the fourth year of Jiajing and died in the twenty-seventh year of Wanli at the age of seventy-four. The inscription calls Shi's mother "Hua Zhou of Yanghe Wei"
"Ye", Huazhou means born in a noble family. Ma Fang was appointed to Yanghe Wei in his early days. At that time, he performed bravely and had an obvious upward trend, so it was reasonable to marry the daughter of a prominent family in Wei. The inscription also mentions
And the marriage relationship of Ma Fang’s third son, ninth grandson and ninth granddaughter.
Among them, Ma Dong married Qi Qian's daughter. According to Guangxu's "Yizhou Chronicles", Qi Qian was a guard of Weizhou. He was a member of the Jiajing Yimaoke Military Examination (1555) and later served as a guerrilla general.
Ma Chun married the daughter of Wang Guoxun (the former chief soldier of the Xuanfu who was recently retired by Gao Pragmatic and replaced by Ma Chengen due to old age). According to Qianlong's "Xuanhua Prefecture Chronicles", Wang Guoxun was a member of the Kaiping Guards in the eighth year of Wanli.
He was first appointed as the Chief Military Officer of Shanxi, and in the twelfth year of Wanli, he was appointed as the Chief Military Officer of Xuanzhen.
Ma Lin married Sun Xiance's daughter. According to Jiajing's "Xuanfu Town Chronicles", Sun Xiance was from Guangchang. In the 35th year of Jiajing's reign, he served as the commander and garrison officer.
The eldest grandson Ma Ying married Wen Dengkui's daughter. According to Wanli's "Su Zhen Huayi Zhi", Wen Dengkui was from Guangling, Shanxi Province. He was originally a supervisor and later served as the general magistrate of Suzhou.
Sun Ma Bing married the daughter of Hao Jie, who was born in Yuzhou. He was a Jinshi in the 35th year of Jiajing period (1556). He successively served as the Right Minister of the Ministry of War, the Governor of Ji, Liao, and Baoding Military Affairs, and the Censor of Youdu, and finally served as the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing.
Sun Mahuan married Ni Shangzhong's daughter. According to Wanli's "Baoding Prefecture Chronicles", Ni Shangzhong was a guard at Longmen of Xuanfu. In the 19th year of Wanli, he was appointed as the governor of Zuofu and later served as the commander-in-chief of Baoding Prefecture.
Sun Maye married Wang Junmin's daughter, but her identity is unknown.
Sun Ma Yi hired Jiao Chengxun's daughter. According to Shunzhi's "Yunzhong County Chronicles", Jiao Chengxun was a member of the Datong Guards. He served as the chief soldier of Datong during the Wanli period, and his father Jiao Ze served as the chief soldier of Datong during the Jiajing period.
Sun Majiong hired Wanhuafu's daughter. According to Tongzhi's "Hequ County Chronicle", Wanhuafu was a native of Pianguan County. During the Wanli period, she served as the general of Datong Middle Road, the general of Shanxi Hequ, the general of Shenmu, and the general of Dezhou Camp. She was later promoted to Zun
Chief military officer.
Sun Maxuan married Qi Guang's ancestral daughter. According to Qianlong's "Xuanhua Mansion Annals", Qi Guang was from Yuzhou and served as the deputy chief soldier of Laoyingbao.
Ma Dong, the daughter of Ma Lin, was betrothed to Ma Gui's two sons, Ma Chengzong and Ma Chengxuan respectively. Her son-in-law, Xie Jisheng, was the commander-in-chief of the army and had a son.
The granddaughter married the second son of Commander-in-Chief Huang Mingchen. According to Qianlong's "Xuanhua Prefecture Annals", Huang Mingchen, whose ancestral home was Pengze, occupied Xuanfu in the early Ming Dynasty and was promoted from Qianhu to Commander-in-Chief of Shanxi. The eldest son of Jinyiwei commander Zhou Ximou (the identity of this person is unknown)
, no information found).
All in all, the characteristics of this kind of marriage relationship are obvious: firstly, the scope, which is generally limited to the same governor-general; secondly, the identity, mainly from families who are also generals, and very few can also marry civil servants, but the number is small;
Finally, there is the network. The network here refers to the formation of an intricate "in-law network" by getting married to each other.
It can also be seen from this that in the original history, after entering the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty, some generals were able to respond to one call and represent the entire local generals as a family. There is one reason why - the in-law relationship formed over the years.
After all, generals are not nobles. It is normal for a certain family's generals to appear weak in a certain generation. This is the case in your family and the same is true in my family. But this situation is also likely because there is a person who can fight in the next generation.
, just flip it upside down. Therefore, the generals will probably look after each other, so that no one will look at each other when the family declines in the future, and there will be no chance of recovery - I have to say, this is quite a bit like the entertainment industry of later generations.
In the same way, after Gao Jingshi selected Xuanda General as his direct descendant in the early years, for a long time only Liu Xian and Liu Wei and his son were the exceptions. There were no other additions until he was appointed to Liaodong last time.
How many generals are there, and why?
The reason why the direct lineage is the direct lineage is that their treatment is different from that of ordinary people. As a superior, high pragmatism needs to ensure that you can afford to give them what they need, so that you can truly conquer them.
In the early years, the focus of Gao Gong and Gao Pingxi's work in the Jiubian area was to implement the "West Huai East System", and it has just advanced to the "West Huai" stage. At this stage, the most critical border town is the third town of Xuanda,
Therefore, conquering the representative generals of the three towns of Xuanda is the proper meaning of the title. Whether it is the Ma family or the Ma family, including the Zhang family, Dong family, etc., they were all selected by Gao's uncle and nephew because of this strategy, and soon
Take him under your wing quickly.
After the Monan War, the imperial court's focus began to shift eastward, and "Eastern System" was gradually put on the agenda. Even Gao Pragmatic himself requested an order to go to Liaodong.
At this time, of course, he would start to consider recruiting a new group of direct descendants. However, at that time, Liaodong was dominated by the Li family in Tieling. Due to various reasons, Gao Pragmatic was unable to control Li Chengliang as he requested, so he had to find another way to imprison Cao Yun.
At the same time, he selected a few from the tribesmen in southern Liaoning and reluctantly formed a new faction under his command-perhaps it can be called Gaodang Liaodong General Gate, to distinguish it from Gaodang Xuanda General Gate.
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However, at this time, Gao Dang's Liaodong generals clearly lacked strength in front of Li Chengliang - mainly due to insufficient status - so Gao Pragmatic chose to keep Ma Dong, Ma Cheng'en, Ma Chengxun and others in Liaodong to cooperate with Cao Yu to maintain the situation.
After Qi Jin was transferred to Liaodong, Gao Jingshi transferred Ma Chengen back to Xuanfu.
There was no fooling around in all of this, they were all very prudent choices based on the objective conditions at the time.
Gao Jingshi regained Ningxia in less than a month, which was of course a great thing for the imperial court. You must know that the new governor of the three sides, Wei Xuezeng, had not even arrived yet. He came from Nanjing, and it had just passed.
After arriving at Tongguan, we haven’t even reached Xi’an yet.
Moreover, the imperial court also received a memorial from Gao Jingshi a few days ago, knowing that Gao Jingshi was against Huo Luochi, and there were sufficient arrangements for the Jilitu brothers. At this time, Zhuang Langwei not only had Liu Chengsi, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province, personally in charge, but also Li Rusong
The reinforcements have also arrived. In addition, Gao Pragmatic even sent them 50,000 Mongolian cavalry - the opponent had at most this number. It was equivalent to the extra parts of the Ming army that exceeded the Huo Luochi brothers.
Although the battle report over there has not yet been sent, at least on paper, there is no reason for Zhuang Langwei to lose the battle.
The imminent settlement of the northwest is obviously good news. However, what the court did not expect at all was the move of the Mongolian left-wing Chahar tribe. Tumen Khan neither conquered Tumote from the west nor took the opportunity to "recover" Daning. Instead,
Inexplicably launched an offensive against the Jurchens in Liaodong.
First, Yang Siwei, the commander-in-chief of Ji Town who was guarding Daning, sent a military report saying that the Tumen had set off from Chahanhot and that the entire army had taken away about 40,000 or 60,000 cavalry. Although they were heading east, they
Yang Siwei still judged that this was Burihatu's "old suspicion formation", and said that he would strengthen the defense, and also asked the court to strengthen defense on the front line of the Great Wall.
The imperial court basically recognized his judgment, and not only ordered the strengthening of defenses along the Great Wall, but also made the Imperial Guards ready to fight at any time.
However, when there were less than three people, new news came. The Tumen army did not kill any carbine, but went straight to northern Liaoning, bypassed the northernmost Kaiyuan section of the Liaodong Great Wall, and broke into Yehe territory.
This news came from Liaodong. From the governor Li Song, the commander-in-chief Li Chengliang to the deputy commander-in-chief Cao Yu, and the Kaiyuan general Ma Chengxun, they all wrote memorials and analyzed the Tumen's move from their respective standpoints.
After a while, they all said that they had strengthened their defenses and would not let the old Tumen thieves' "surround attack" plan succeed - Liaodong still believed that Tumen's move was aimed at the Ming Dynasty.
Well, perhaps in the eyes of both the political and military parties in Liaodong, since the Ming Dynasty's goal is only Mongolia, and Mongolia's goal should of course be only the Ming Dynasty, what kind of thing are the Jurchens, and they deserve to come in and get involved? How can two tigers compete with each other?
Dog thing!
However, Zhu Yijun had a different view from the cabinet. He felt that the tiger in the Chahar tribe of Mongolia had lost weight and his teeth were not in good condition. Could he go to the Jurchens to plunder and replenish himself? Or even...
…Occupy the Jurchens’ territory?
The reason why Zhu Yijun had this idea that even the ministers would not think about was because when he was a child, he heard Gao Pingshi mention that Liaodong is not only "crowded land" within the Great Wall. In fact, there are other lands outside Liaodong.
There are many good lands, especially a place called "Songnen Plain" by Gao Jingshi. Gao also called it "the best land" given by God. He said that the land there is extremely fertile. If it can be developed and utilized,
"No less than Huguang".
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is nothing wrong with Gao Jingshi’s words. The grain output of the three northeastern provinces in later generations is obvious to all. However, Gao Jingshi had an ulterior motive when he said this. He was deliberately guiding the little emperor to treat
The idea came from the Northeast, but he deliberately did not mention the issues such as the extreme cold in the Northeast during the Little Ice Age. As for the cultivation of cold-resistant rice suitable for planting in the cold areas of the Northeast, he would not even talk about it.
Zhu Yijun didn't know this, so an idea suddenly came to his mind: I heard that Burihatu was also learning from Tumote and advised them to use the Han people they had robbed in the early years to start reclamation. Could it be that he also took a fancy to this "Songnen"
"Plain", you want to occupy it, then farm and collect grain, and stubbornly resist the Ming Dynasty?
Zhu Yijun's biggest ideal now is to defeat Mongolia, the life and death enemy of the Ming Dynasty for 200 years, completely destroy Can Yuan, and achieve the great cause that neither Taizu nor Chengzu achieved. When he thought that Can Yuan actually "figured it out", he even planned to seize the title of Gao Jingshi.
I started growing food on the "God-given land" and suddenly I broke out in a sweat.
However, when he summoned his chief assistant Shen Shixing in the Wenhua Hall to ask questions, Shen Shixing disagreed, thinking that "it is already bitterly cold in Liaodong, how can we grow food in northern Liaoning?" At the same time, he cited the reason that the treasury was empty and urged the emperor to now
Don't think so much, solve the current problem first and then talk about it.
Moreover, Shen Shixing also vaguely criticized the Ministry of Revenue, believing that the Ministry of Revenue was "stuck in the same old ways" under the current situation and could not come up with any mitigation strategies, which really failed to meet high expectations.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun was speechless for a long time, but ended the call with disappointment.
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