Chapter 161 The Nancha Troubles (33) Evidence of Crime
Sweaty palms may not necessarily mean fear, or even nervousness, but sometimes excitement.
It's hard to tell whether Cao Yan was more excited or nervous at this time, but he was probably not afraid.
Three letters, two pieces of evidence of serious crimes. One involves Nurhachi, who is the person for whom his deputy commander in chief of Liaoyang is tacitly responsible; the other involves Li Chengliang, which is the biggest obstacle to his further advancement in Liaodong.
If these two pieces of evidence are handed over, if the court wanted to move Nurhachi, the first person responsible would probably be Cao Yan. In other words, he would most likely be the leader of the war, and he would certainly have the credit for the war.
If the imperial court wanted to move Li Chengliang, that would be even better. Due to the special environment of Liaodong, its general troops have always been mainly local generals, supplemented by transfers from other places, and the proportion of primary and secondary is very clear. General troops transferred from outside are still relatively rare.
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Among the local generals in Liaodong, if Li Chengliang is excluded, the remaining candidate who is most qualified to take over as the commander-in-chief in terms of qualifications, military exploits, military prestige, or any other aspect is none other than Cao Yun.
This is an advantage on the surface, and in addition to this, there are also hidden advantages. Li Chengliang is now a member of the Xin School. Once something happens to him, the Xin School will definitely be in trouble, while the Practical School will definitely gain the upper hand and will not spare others, and they will definitely take advantage of the opportunity.
Overthrow Li Chengliang and take the important position of Commander-in-Chief of Liaodong into his own hands.
Liaodong, especially the area west of the Liaohe River, is one of the two areas most convenient for launching an offensive against Chahar under the current Ming Dynasty's national policy of "Western Huaidong System", and it is equally divided with Ji Town.
The area west of the Liaohe River is under the direct jurisdiction of the Liaodong General Army (the east of the Liaohe River is usually under the charge of the deputy general, but Li Chengliang was too prestigious when he was in office, and he needed military exploits to generate income for his servants, so he often came to mobilize troops in person). The Xinxue Sect has recently
He has been wooing Li Chengliang in the hope of gaining some credit for the national policy of "Eastern System", so as to prevent the Pragmatic School from once again focusing on the imperial court.
Under such circumstances, Cao Yu felt that Gao Situ would not let go of this opportunity and would definitely take western Liaoning into his own hands, forming a situation where the entire "Eastern System" was under control. After all, in this way, both
Ensuring that all ministries are prohibited from fighting in the Chahar War increases the chance of victory, and allows the Practical School to take all the credit, thereby suppressing the Heart School at the court level.
Ever since he was rescued by Gao Pingshi, Cao Yan has always wanted to find an opportunity to repay his favor. In addition to "Little Cao, the lackey of Mu En's sect" who is loyal to Entang, he has also always wanted to prove his ability.
This time he sent troops to recapture Beiguan. Although the only real battle was the battle of Yehehe, from a strategic point of view, Cao Yu believed that the task was completed very well.
In Cao Yu's view, Nurhachi stopped at Nanguan and sent his younger brother to accompany the army, which showed that he was afraid of his own military power. Although Burihatu played a lot of tricks, he was eventually repulsed by the Yehe River and forced
The Mongols gave up the city of Yehexi they had already captured; they even found two major evidences of collaborating with the enemy after recapturing the city.
No matter how you look at it, Cao Yu fought this battle beautifully. As for the specific battlefield performance, according to the battlefield inventory results just sent by Zhang Wanbang, the casualties of the Ming army in this battle were even lower than those of the Mongolian cavalry. Considering that this battle
Tumen even invested 2,000 heavy cavalry, and the loss of the heavy cavalry was as high as 1,200. The loss of the Ming army, which totaled less than 1,000 men, was even more valuable.
When the infantry faced the heavy cavalry attack and fought like this, anyone who evaluated it would have to raise their thumbs and say it was a hero, right?
If more details are needed, then Zhang Wanbang's headquarters lost only more than 300 people, which made Cao Yu even more relieved - Zhang Wanbang's department did not see the term "Zhang Jiajun", but his department was Gao Situ.
He is a model of "controlling cavalry with foot". If his troops suffer heavy losses, Gao Situ may not be able to explain it easily. Now that Zhang Wanbang's losses are very small, Gao Situ must be satisfied when he hears the news.
Gao Situ's support is Cao Yu's biggest trump card and the source of his confidence. With this victory in Beiguan, and if something happens to Li Chengliang, if Gao Situ doesn't support him, who else can Cao Yu support as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong?
Cao Yan was excited for a while alone in the village room before gradually calming down. Then he thought of a question: Can these three letters be used as evidence of crime?
For Nurhaci, this letter should be enough, because Nurhachi is a "captive chief" and belongs to the group of people who "are not of my race but have different hearts."
To put it bluntly, when the imperial court wants to deal with these captive chiefs, sometimes it may not even require any conclusive evidence. As long as the imperial court or even just the governor of Liaodong, the town feels that you need to beat them up, then they may come to you the next day.
A large army is pressing down on the territory. As for the captive chief himself, you can either choose to send an envoy to ask for surrender and just lie down and let him be mocked; or you can choose to resist stubbornly and wait for the plow to clear the hole.
To be honest, lying down and letting him be mocked may be the best choice. For example, Ye He was killed by Gao Pragmatic without saying a word and killed two Baylors, but Ye He immediately lay down and let him be mocked, without daring to say a word at all. This is what happened in exchange for the result.
The next time the Ming army went out to rescue them, it was a matter of life and death.
It is not so good to choose to resist stubbornly. For example, Wang Gao did not listen to Li Chengliang's call and insisted on recognizing himself as a hero. As a result, Li Yincheng plowed the court and destroyed Gule Village twice - his father Wang Gao once,
His son Atai was completely wiped out once.
Speaking of which, if Wang Gao and his son had not insisted on dancing on the grave and committing suicide till death, nothing would have happened to Nurhachi later.
Therefore, Nurhachi’s evidence of guilt is definitely useful. It just depends on whether Gao Situ intends to use this evidence to cause trouble for Nurhaci. However, it is Gao Pragmatic’s decision whether to use it or not, but he, Cao Yan, took this letter
If you hand it in, it can be regarded as a meritorious service.
But whether the two letters from "Tong Weixun" were considered evidence of Li Chengliang's crime, Cao Yu felt a little unsure when he sobered up and thought about it.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The biggest hidden danger in these two letters is that the name of "Master" is not mentioned throughout the text, and the "Tong Weixun" signed by Cao Yun does not have any name at all.
Don't know who it is.
The surname Tong is a common surname in Liaodong. It is said that it originated from the surname Gui. It comes from the descendants of Taishi Zhonggu at the end of the Xia Dynasty. It is a surname that was changed from the name of the ancestor. According to the historical record "Lu Shi", at the end of the Xia Dynasty, King Tang actively prepared to conquer Xia
Jie, Taishi Zhonggu of the original Xia Dynasty was a virtuous man and was highly regarded by the world, so King Tang called him to join the Shang Dynasty. After Zhonggu returned to Shang Tang, his descendants took their ancestor's name as their surname and called the Zhonggu family. Later, the radical "Si" was removed from the word "Zhong".
It was changed to the single surname "Dong", and then the radical "人" was added and the name was changed to Tong. It has been passed down from generation to generation and is known as the authentic Tong family in history. It is one of the very ancient surnames.
At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty during the Northern Yan period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, a great scholar Tong Wan came out of Liaodong, and later a general Tong Shou came out. Therefore, the surname Tong was taken as the county commander in Liaodong, just like "Longxi Li", "Taiyuan"
"Wang" and other famous surnames are common among high-ranking families. Later, the Tong surname was based in Liaodong and slowly moved to the south. Probably in the Ming Dynasty, the population of the Tong surname was mainly concentrated in Hebei, but it was always a common surname in Liaodong.
However, it should be noted that the surname Tong at this time has both origins and differences from the later Manchu surname Tongjia during the Tatar Qing Dynasty.
The Manchu Tongjia surname, Donggiya Hala in Manchu, originated from the Han surname Tong. After entering the Manchu Banner, a "jia" character was added to the end of the surname to distinguish it from the Han surnames that were not included in the banner.
This Tong Jia surname was not originally a Manchu surname. It was originally a giant of the Han nationality in eastern Liaoning, and Tong Jia was originally a place name in Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the establishment of the Jin regime, there was Tong Yangxing in the local area. The Tong Yangzheng brothers lived in the land of Tongjia, so they took their family name. Tong Yangxing, the Tong Yangzheng brothers later moved to Fushun to trade and support the country. After the Jin army captured Fushun,
Tong Yangxing transferred money to Nurhachi, and Tong Yangzheng simply took his family members to Nurhachi's newly formed Zhenglan Banner Han Army.
Later, Tong Guogang, the grandson of Tong Yangzheng, said in the 27th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty: "I was ordered by Taizu to work out the genealogy of the tribe and clan with the ministers of Batu Li Meng Atu of the Tongjia family. Now please return to Manchuria."
As a result, the Tatar Ministry concluded: "Since the Tong Jia clan has many official positions, it should have been subordinated to the Han army; only Tong Guogang's own branch was suitable for entering Manchuria, so he became a member of the Zhengbai Banner of Manchuria." So the Tong Jia clan, who was originally from the Han nationality, came.
"The Manchu and Han Dynasties were divided into subordinate groups, and the clans were large and numerous. They were the most important among the eight major surnames in the country."
In addition, there are some tribes in Mongolia and Qing Dynasty who changed their surname to Tong after joining the banner. For example, the Mongolians have the Brut family, the Darut family, the Tongnigot family, the Tongniyot family, etc.; the Manchus have the Tong family name.
Tong Cang's family, Dong'a family, Hesheli family, Jiamu Hu family, Li Jia family, Sakda family, Tang Da family, Tong Qi family, Tong Eluo family, Tong Saiyi family, Tuseli family, etc.
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Although the above reasons for changing the surname to Tong are various, many of them may be because the surname Tong was originally a common surname in Liaodong during the Ming Dynasty. They may think this surname is more noble, so they changed it to themselves for convenience.
He prides himself on being superior to others.
Since the surname Tong is a common surname in Liaodong, it will be very troublesome to find out who the unknown person named Tong is and where he is. In other words, it is necessary to prove that the "master" mentioned in Tong Weixun's letter is Li Chengliang
, this is very difficult.
First of all, you have to find this Tong Weixun, which does not need to be explained; secondly, because the bigger the surname, the easier it is to have the same name, so you have to prove that this Tong Weixun is the other Tong Weixun; finally, you have to prove that the master Tong Weixun talks about is Li Chengliang, not someone else he secretly has.
His identity is actually to serve others, and he is only in Li Chengliang's house to hide his identity.
Take a look at the difficulty: first I have to find a needle in a haystack, then I have to prove that the needle I am looking for is the needle, and finally I have to prove that the owner of the needle is really his owner.
The dungeon is too difficult, and players are applying for nerfs... Sorry, only Gao Pragmatic would come up with this idea, and Cao Yu can only find a way on his own.
Thinking of a way, it’s not like I don’t have any ideas.
Although Li Chengliang had many followers, since Tong Weixun was responsible for dealing with the Mongols and wrote letters himself, he must understand "Fan language". Even if these two letters were written in Chinese, it would not change this fact.
Writing in Chinese only shows that Tong Weixun has a psychological advantage over the Mongolians. He knows that even if he writes in Chinese, the other party cannot say nonsense like you are not polite.
What's more, these two letters were written to Buri Hatu, and it is well known that Buri Hatu was a learned scholar among the Mongolians. His Chinese proficiency was comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty, and he might have been able to pass the examination to become a scholar or something. Tong Weixun wrote in Chinese.
It won't cause him any trouble at all.
Therefore, Tong Weixun's identity only needs to be secretly investigated among Li Chengliang's retainers, especially those who understand the foreign language, and most of them will gain something.
The next problem is to prove that "this Tong Weixun is that Tong Weixun". This cannot be said to be difficult at all. As long as we find the handwriting of "Li Chengliang's guest Tong Weixun" and compare it with the two letters, we can judge.
Confirming handwriting will basically require professionals in later generations. It is quite difficult for ordinary people to do it, especially if the other party deliberately conceals it. However, this matter does not need to be so "professional" now.
The big shots in the imperial court these days are all academic masters, and their calligraphy skills are higher than the others. Otherwise, they will probably fail in the imperial examination. If you can get on the gold list, at least you must have good skills in Taige style, the special font for the imperial examination.
It is deep, and after writing Taige style, it is basically not difficult to write other fonts, because the foundation is hard enough.
Therefore, as long as he can get the handwriting, even if Cao Yun doesn't judge it, hand it over to the court bosses for a look, and judging the handwriting is simply child's play. Not to mention the court bosses, even the current emperor can judge the handwriting with a good handwriting.
It is known that it is not difficult to distinguish the handwriting of the two.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There are authentic works and photos of Wanli calligraphy, and the level can probably make some calligraphers ashamed today. Historically, his calligraphy was very good when he was a teenager. Zhang Juzheng boasted at the beginning,
As a result, Wanli was inspired and worked harder to practice calligraphy. Who knew that Zhang Juzheng stopped boasting later, until one time, Zhang Juzheng finally spoke, but he advised the little emperor not to focus all his energy on writing, but to read more
A useful book for the future governance of the country.
Zhang Juzheng wrote in his essays to the young emperor at that time: "The emperor has been paying close attention to calligraphy for several years. Yesterday he admired the big calligraphy given to his ministers. The writing is powerful and the body is majestic. Although the previous generations were good at calligraphy, no one can surpass it. But the emperor
The study of music must be very important. From Yao and Shun to the sages of the Tang and Song dynasties, they all focused on cultivating moral administration, governing the world, and bringing peace to the people. There was no skill in skills. Only Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty knew the music and was able to play Xiaodu music. In the Six Dynasties, Emperors Liang Yuan, Chen
The later masters, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and Ning Zong, were all able to write well, but they were unable to save themselves from chaos and destruction. It can be seen that the great virtue of a monarch does not lie in his skills. Now that the emperor has a bright future, he should pay attention to governance in a timely manner.
The Holy Emperor and the King are the Dharma. If you write a letter, it is just a pretense to calm your mind. Even if you go straight to the bell, the King, what good will it do?"
Zhang Juzheng's words are actually correct, but they may have caused a big psychological blow to Xiao Zhu Yijun. However, in this generation Gao Gong replaced Zhang Juzheng, and he was not responsible for Wanli's love for calligraphy. Gao Pragmatic also said to him, "The emperor always loves to write."
"It's better than being a fool", so Wanli's calligraphy level in this life is better than that in history.
The person can be found and the words can be correct, but there is only one difficulty that is difficult to solve, that is, even if the person is found, the other person is under the protection of Li Chengliang. How can Cao Yu make him admit that the "master" mentioned in the letter is Li Chengliang?
What about me?
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