Chapter Ninety Seven
The back hall of the Minister of War.
Shi Xingzheng and Zuodu Censor Wu Shi came to have tea and talk.
At this time, the Yuanwailang came in and reported that the slave chief had successfully taken it down, tied up and blocked the mouth, put it in the car and sent it to the Censorate.
Wu Shilai then breathed a sigh of relief, put down the teacup and bowed to Shi Xing and smiled, "Thank you, Taiwei. But the 100 Tartars in Huitongguan have to worry about the Taiwei who is watching them tightly. Don't make any trouble, it will be bad."
"It's just a matter of raising hands." Shi Xing smiled bitterly and said, "It's just that Lord Zongxian mobilized so many troops for a small slave chief, which is really incredible."
"To be honest, this guy is Li Chengliang's life gate..." Wu Shilai thought to himself who said no. But this was the order of Nephew Zhao Xian, which is much better than the imperial edict here.
Then he lowered his voice as he had planned in advance, "The former Fan Yuanfu wanted to move the place for the Liaodong king, but he didn't succeed. Do you think this is terrible?"
"So that's it!" Shi Xing suddenly realized and his face was barely dissatisfied.
Li Chengliang was strong and powerful, and had great talents. He defended Liaodong for decades and led the Liaodong cavalry to win every battle. Among them, he won more than ten times. The border commander had a great martial arts prowess, which was unprecedented in two hundred years. In the sixth year of Wanli, he was appointed as the Pacific Insurance Office and was named Ningyuan Bo. His official title was far above Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao.
But his position was even more prosperous and he was extremely extravagant. He took all the merchants and people of Liao to his name, and he regarded himself as the King of Liaodong.
Moreover, the military achievements he made were far away from the frontier, and it was easy to embellish the real results, and even concealed the defeat and turned into credit. When the enemy attacked the pass, he would collect his troops and hide, and wait until the enemy retreated, and then followed the enemy to attack the old and weak soldiers. Or took advantage of the situation to destroy the scattered Tatar tribes and lure and kill those who defected to the pass for their achievements. It is already common for him to do so.
In fact, all the censors inspecting Liaodong had impeached him.
But he climbed into the country's uncle's family and spent a lot of money to make friends with the powerful, so he could always get rid of danger and exclude the censor who impeached him. Moreover, Li Chengliang played the trick of raising the bandits to the point of perfection, and he would be in chaos in Liaodong. Even the Shougong Zhao wanted to move the place for him but failed. It can be said that he was already a warlord in Liaodong.
Qi Jiguang, the only one who could deal with the situation in Liaodong, was suspicious of the emperor and was thrown away idle...
So for Shi Xing, Li Chengliang is a time bomb that is destined to explode but helpless.
Now that I heard that the Censorate wanted to handle Li Chengliang, Shi Xing naturally couldn't help but worry, "There will be no trouble in Liaodong, right?"
"It's okay. Yuan Fu has already arranged the arrangements, and it's time for the resumption of Qi Shaobao." Wu Shilai said lightly.
"Since that's the case, our Ministry of War will cooperate with you!" Hearing that the prime minister had already made a perfect plan, Shi Xing was revived and focused on the key points.
There, He Heli and others waited for noon, but Nurhaci came back.
Just as she was so anxious that she was wandering around the house, a female warrior quickly stepped in and reported with a sinister face: "There are many more officials outside, and even the roof is full of soldiers holding bird guns."
"What?!" The two of them hurriedly pushed open the window and looked out. Sure enough, there were dense rows of musketeers crawling on the eaves in front of them.
"What happened to Baylor!" He Heli felt sad when he saw this.
"Damn it, fight with them!" E Yidu pulled out his sword, his eyes spitting out: "Get out and save Bell!"
"You're so impulsive!" He Heli hurriedly grabbed him and shouted: "If you want to rush, you won't rush now. You'll rush out in broad daylight and eat a gun!"
Well, I thought it was indeed safer to rush out when it was dark.
After a while, someone called out on the roof in Jurchen language, telling them that Nuerhaci was just taken to investigate the situation and told them not to do stupid things, otherwise they would only harm their master.
Uh, he and He Li listened to him, and they all thought that his Beile was implicated by Li Chengliang.
"Is it because Beile refused to betray Marshal Li?" E Yidu said in a muffled voice.
"Who knows..." He Helixin said how could it be possible? Our Master Beile is not such a moral person.
No matter what, their desire to break the tide suddenly faded. Thinking about it, just one hundred people were surrounded by a group of people, and they had become turtles in a jar. How many could they rush out?
Even if you rush out, where will you go to find Beile? Even if you find Beile, how can you escape from the heavily guarded capital? Cross Shanhaiguan and return to the outside of the pass?
As long as you calm down and think about it, there is no hope of escaping... So let's wait and see how it will develop in the future.
In that room, Nurhaci was taken back to the Censorate and locked up in a heavily guarded courtyard, where people were guarding them 24 hours a day.
In order to prevent him from escaping, the other party also puts shackles made of steel on him, so that he can only use a rabbit to jump around.
He spent the whole night in humiliation. The next day, when the Censorate officials interrogated, he finally knew why he was in vain...
It was Gong Zhengliu who betrayed him!
It turned out that after Gong Zhengliu left the Huitong Hall, he went directly to the Censorate and reported that in June of the 15th year of Wanli, he openly established the Feather-Natural Kingdom in Fei'a City, and established the Faather-Natural Kingdom as the capital and established a palace. He claimed that he was the lord of the Feather-Natural Kingdom, and even issued the State Government with serious controversy...
Compared with this one, other crimes have become embellishments. This is a serious crime of treason!
Otherwise, the Censorate would not have made such a big move...
Moreover, Gong Zhengliu also brought a large amount of documents as physical evidence. Because he was in Jianzhou, he was in charge of documents and handled foreign affairs. All replies and official documents were written by him, so he had a large amount of direct evidence of the founding of the Nurhaci.
Among them was the document that Nurhaci claimed to be the "Niuzhi Kingdom Lord Shule Beile", which included more than a dozen copies. There was even an edict that he regarded himself as a descendant of the Jin people and claimed that he was ordered by God to rebuild the Great Jin Kingdom.
This is a death toll.
Nuerhaci tried his best to argue that this was just a lie made up because of his own origins and to avoid being despised by the powerful men of various tribes in Jianzhou. He had absolutely no intention of being unjust.
In fact, usurpation is a common problem with the vassal states. Except for model vassal states such as Korea and Ryukyu, most vassal states claim to be subordinates to the Celestial Empire, and call themselves lonely and widowed when closed, and become addicted to the emperor.
For example, in a small country on the Indochina Peninsula, there are seven or eight dynasties and emperors...
The Heavenly Dynasty is not unaware of this, but due to its decline in its own strength, it turns a blind eye to this kind of self-interest.
But the problem is that the Left Guard of Jianzhou is still the directly under the Ming Dynasty, an indivisible important part of the Liaodong Dusi. However, Nurhaci openly regarded himself as a woman, and even if it was internal, it was a serious act of separatism!
And this is what happens in the world. If you don’t have to weigh a few or two, you will be more important than a thousand pounds when you weigh it!
Since the "Nurhaci Founding Case" was brought to the forefront by the Censorate, and the evidence was sufficient and conclusive, the court could only treat it as a major case and entered the trial stage of the Three Courts.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Nuerhaci's own case is already an ironclad case. The key to the three trials now is whether it will involve Ning Yuan Li Chengliang!
This is entirely possible! Although Nurhaci insisted on not admitting that he was Li Chengliang's adopted son, it is an indisputable fact that he came from the Li family army and was later supported by Li Chengliang. The Ministry of War still preserves his memorial to sue for Nu Chengqi back then...
Moreover, the Minister of Justice, Hai Rui, who was the chief of the case, directly cut off the possibility of favoritism and abuse of power.
The news soon reached the Liaodong General Office of Guangning.
Li Chengliang was also shocked and hurriedly tried to defend himself while arranging people to organize the Tartar rebellion.
He originally planned to discuss countermeasures with Hao Jie, the governor of Liaodong who arranged for Nuerhaci to pay tribute. However, when he arrived in Liaoyang, he realized that the other party had already returned to Beijing first.
Li Chengliang felt something was wrong when he heard the news. He sat stiffly on the horse's back for a while. He murmured to the general Li Pinghu next to him: "This is strange. If Hao Jie doesn't have a good confession with me, he will go to the capital to force Hu to punish me?"
"Did you go to him for help in the background..." Li Pinghu guessed: "Old Xier is the most sloppy."
Hao Jie is from Weizhou, Shanxi, and has jealous bigwigs such as Liu Dongxing and Wang Jiaping as their backers in Beijing.
"It would be fine if I just ask for help." Li Ning, the counselor of Li Chengliang, said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid I'm guilty and ran away before the general reacts!"
"How do you say this?" Li Chengliang said with a deep expression: "Are they colluding with each other to use Nuerhaci to deal with me?"
"Master, do you think, who arranged for Nuerhaci to go to the capital to pay tribute? It was Hao Jie!" Li Ning said coldly: "And the one who is responsible for contacting Hao Jie is Gong Zhengliu!"
"Hiss..." The group of people all took a breath, and it was really possible!
"Why did Hao Jie plot against me? I have always given those old Xi'er face!" Li Chengliang's heart was beating. If this person was instructed by the Jin Party to mess with him, the fun would be great.
During the Longqing period, Hao Jie inspected Liaodong. Because the Jin Party had close ties with Li Chengliang, he was the only inspector who had never impeached Li Chengliang during his one-year term.
Two years ago, after Li Chengliang broke up the exchange with Qi Jiguang, he turned over the Chinese New Year, Hao Jie became the right assistant censor and governor of Liaodong. Li Chengliang was very happy with his appointment, believing that this was promoted by the Jin Party and that he could finally live a few years of peace. Therefore, he was not restrained in the past two years and did many scandals of killing good people and not saving his achievements.
Especially last winter, Haizhou was looted for thirteen days, and Deputy General Sun Shoulian did not go to fight and Li Chengliang did not help, resulting in tens of thousands of border residents killed and injured, and thousands of people were also plundered.
The inspector Censor Hu Kejian was very angry about this and rode his horse into the official position to impeach Li Chengliang. The Ministry of War and the Censorate summoned Hao Jie to Beijing for questioning, but in the end, he strangely put the matter on hold and left Hu Kejian in Beijing.
At that time, Li Chengliang believed that this was all Hao Zhongcheng and the Jin Party who were helping each other, so he thanked each other more and more, and then he became increasingly unprepared for Hao Jie.
If Hao Jie is determined to deal with him, he will be unable to save him...
Li Chengliang looked up at the sky in panic and saw three geese flying by, which happened to form a playful smiling face, which was very cunning.
Chapter completed!