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Chapter 2 A good man is a slave to murder

Because he was worried that Li Chengliang would really attack the surrendered Japanese and the Flying Tiger Army in Jinzhou, Wei Liangchen did not dare to stay in the capital, so he sent someone to report the news to the father-in-law's office, saying that he had an urgent need to go back to Jiangnan in advance and his uncle could go south by himself. As for whether Master Zheng was dissatisfied with this, it was his Zheng family's business and had nothing to do with Eunuch Wei. Whether his Zheng family's father and son really wanted to seize military power and command the imperial army to be the right and stable depends entirely on the ability of his father and son. Zheng Guotai really wanted to underestimate himself, Wei Liangchen would definitely not draw his sword to face him, but instead looked up to the "brother-in-law".

There is no problem with the cooperation between the four departments and eight bureaus of the inner court, and there is no problem with the Imperial Horse Supervision and the Inner Official Supervision. Wei Liangchen of the other major units really has no time to visit, so he asked Chen Mo to first deal with the matters of the four departments and eight bureaus, and the other units will contact each other after the end of the year or next year.

This also has an advantage. After June, the south side will cooperate with Zhejiang to fight the Eastern Conference. There will be gains at that time. The Fourth Department and the Eighth Bureau will taste some sweetness. The other units will be envious. Maybe Wei Liangchen will not have to send someone to the door, so they will come and submit the post.

It can also be called wealth first to drive wealth later.

No matter what age it is, if you make money or make money, it doesn’t matter if you want to get it. Besides, it’s related. The more prosperous the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Army is in the south, the more the inner court will want to deal with Wei Liangchen. It can be foreseeable that in the near future, the host and guest will definitely change positions. Whether to cooperate or not is not that Wei Liangchen begging others, but that they will see his winks.

Even if the other prisons refused to cooperate with them, Wei Liangchen didn't care whether the forced melon was sweet.

As for saying goodbye to Wanli, Wei Liangchen wanted to leave before leaving, and the emperor was crying and crying with the emperor. But Wanli was afraid that he didn't want to do this, so Wei Liangchen wisely stopped this idea. If he really wanted to say goodbye, the imperial concubine was more worth visiting by herself than his husband, but he really didn't have time.

There is not much time left, so the love between children can only be put aside first.

In the end, Wei Liangchen did not choose to go to the palace to say goodbye. He just wrote letters to Ke Yinyue and Shouning respectively. There was someone from the East Palace who sent a message to his second uncle, but did not send a message to Xili directly. He believed that Xili would get news from his second uncle.

He didn't go to find Dong Ge anymore, and his heart was undoubtedly complicated. He didn't want Dong Ge to marry Mongolia and die there, but what he could do now was really worse than Li Chengliang.

At least, Li Chengliang's help to Ye He tribe was real, and even if he promised too much, he was just bragging to the point of Dong Ge and the Ye He tribe.

What's more, Li Chengliang's influence in Liaodong is definitely not comparable to that of him, a close servant of the emperor. At least, now Li Chengliang says something, Nurhaci must take care of it. And when his Eunuch Wei says something, Nurhaci probably has to consider whether it is okay first, and the result is probably not.

This difference is very obvious.

Therefore, without absolute strength to interfere or even decide the situation in Liaodong, Wei Liangchen could not persuade Brother Dong not to marry far away from Mongolia, and Brother Dong would not listen to him at all.

This undoubtedly made him very uncomfortable, but what could he do? He couldn't take the thousands of people from Tianjin to Hei Tuala and challenge the 40,000 elite cavalry of the black-faced old man.

His mind was not broken, so he could only suppress his regrets towards Dong Ge in his heart.

………

Wei Liangchen only told two people about leaving Beijing, one was Li Yongzhen and the other was Tian Ergeng.

One is the East Factory and the other is the Jinyiwei.

Li Yongzhen is an internal store in the East Factory appointed by Wanli, so even if he has no backstage, the internal store is still stable, and he has Jin Zhong behind him. Not to mention Tian Ergeng, the second generation of official official, rich people are handsome, and can do things. The key is that they are sure to be brave and famous outlaws. Such people don’t have to worry about Wei Liangchen at all. He told the other party that he left Beijing, and it was purely a friend who told him to be a friend to tell him apart.

Li Yongzhen and Tian Ergeng made a farewell wine to Wei Liangchen in a tavern outside Bei'anmen Square. Wei Liangchen didn't say much to Li Yongzhen, but only said a few things about the Black Flag Arrow Team.

"I have already told Cui Yingyuan, and I have also greeted Eunuch Jin. Don't worry about Team Arrow." Li Yongzhen picked up the wine glass toasted Wei Liangchen, who picked it up and drank it all.

Tian Ergeng picked up two chopsticks of vegetables and suddenly asked, "I heard that you went to Ningyuan Bo Mansion?"

Wei Liangchen nodded: "The old tutor wants to see us, how can we not go?" Then he smiled, "But there is nothing good, so I'll say a lot without any speculation."

"You have to be careful." Tian Ergeng put down his chopsticks, "Li Chengliang's third son, Li Ruzhen, is my Shangguan."

"Li Ruzhen is in charge of the North Town?"

Wei Liangchen was stunned. He didn't know before that the commander of the Beizhenfu was Li Ruzhen.

"Sheren is the emperor's close attendant, the Heidedynian, the eunuch. Although the Li family is dissatisfied with you, they dare not commit murder on you." Li Yongzhen followed Wei Liangchen out of the way. He knew the grudges between the Li family and the former Siren. He said with some disdain:

"It's true that Li Ruzhen is in charge of the North Town, but although this man is in charge of his family, he has not been in the formation and does not know the military. He also uses his father and brother's power to be close ministers in the brocade and refuses to stay at the bottom of the people, so he has a very inconsistent relationship with his colleagues." He looks at Tian Ergeng with his side, "It's a very terrible fight with you Governor Luo."

Tian Ergeng smiled. Although he didn't speak, he obviously agreed to this matter.

"It's him that Li Ruzhen is in charge of the North Town, so our family is afraid of him?"

Wei Liangchen really looked down on Li Ruzhen, a relative of Beizhenfu Jinyi. Because this person was as timid as a mouse, the deterioration of the war in Liaodong was inseparable from his second brother Li Rubai, but Li Ruzhen also "worked hard".

After Kaiyuan fell, Tieling became an isolated city in northern Liaoning. However, it was still too late to make up for the problem. After Kaiyuan fell, the Ming army in Liaodong should immediately dispatch troops to defend Tieling. Tieling is there, and there will be a talk about recovery in the future. Tieling will be lost again and Liaoning will be lost, and the Ming army's power in northern Liaoning will be gone.

Therefore, some officials of the court at that time thought that Li Chengliang had long been in Liaodong, and his prestige was extremely high in the hearts of the Liao people. The Jurchens were frightened when they heard about their reputation. Although Li Chengliang is no longer here, his descendants are still there. If his descendants are used to guard Tieling, things may turn around.

Furthermore, Li Chengliang's tomb is in Tieling, and Li Chengliang's family is in Tieling, so the best choice is to guard Tieling by the Li family. So Yang Hao and Liaodong Governor Zhou Yongchun wrote a letter to the court and transferred Li Chengliang's third son Li Ruzhen to Liaodong.

However, Li Ruzhen is a typical tantrum. He relied on his father's military merits to become the envoy of the North Fushi Office of the Jinyiwei. He has been living in the capital and has no experience in leading troops to fight. The ending of giving such an important town in Tieling to such a young master is self-evident.

Perhaps Yang Hao saw this, and Li Ruzhen transferred him back to Shenyang shortly after he took office. Chenyang Tieling was only 120 miles away. In this way, Li Ruzhen guarded Chenyang and could support Tieling at any time.

One month after the Battle of Kaiyuan, Nurhaci led an army of 50,000 to Tieling. The guards of the Tieling Guard had discovered Nurhaci's actions, and they called out to Li Ruzhen for fear. If Li Ruzhen could send troops to rescue him in time, he would form an internal and external attack on Nurhaci. Even if he could not win, the city would not soon fall, and at least he could consume the enemy's vitality.

But Li Ruzhen was afraid of the enemy and was as slow as a tiger, and he missed the opportunity to fight. The Battle of Tieling started, and the defending army became famous under the guerrillas. Under the leadership of Li Ketai, he resisted bravely. The Eight Banners Army attacked fiercely with chariots and ladders, and the battle was extremely fierce.

The spies arranged by Nurhaci in the city played a role again. When the battle was in full swing, the spies opened the city gate. At around 2000, the Eight Banners Army poured into the city from the north gate, and Tieling fell. More than 4,000 soldiers in the city died, and all the people were captured and looted.

At this time, Li Ruzhen had arrived at Tieling, but he did not dare to compete with Nurhaci, so he set up camps and waited and watched the city fifteen miles away. The brave general He Shixian repeatedly asked for battle, but he still stopped moving. When Nurhaci learned that the Ming army was coming to help, he led his troops to meet the enemy. Li Ruzhen was so scared that he hurriedly withdrew his troops. Before withdrawing, he cut off more than 170 heads of the dead outside the city, serving as enemy soldiers killed on the battlefield, and went back to take the rewards.

The son of the general's family acts so miserable that it is regrettable.

What Li Yongzhen said is not false at all. There is nothing to be afraid of like this kind of person.

"Li Chengliang's sons are the most courageous, and have the style of father-like style. Secondly, they should be the five sons, but they are restless and not talented. The rest of them are all rats. Li Chengliang really wants to be enemies with me, so I clean up the door for him, so he can't let his heroic name be lost for his lifetime." Wei Liangchen said half-jokingly.

After hearing this, Li Yongzhen and Tian Ergeng looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

"You only dare to say this." Li Yongzhen stood up slowly, "All the world will be separated for a banquet. Yongzhen is grateful to the servants to support their great kindness. It will only be useful in the future. If you are driven by the servants, you will never complain."

Tian Ergeng also picked up the wine glass and said lightly: "If I can do my best, I can do my best, but if I can't do my best, I can't do anything."

"Brother Li and I are both eunuchs. We are not afraid of anything else. We are afraid that in the future, people will say that you, Tian Ergeng, are eunuchs."

Wei Liangchen laughed and raised his glass and drank it all. Then he clasped his fists at the two of them, turned around and left the tavern, and turned over and turned the horse and whipped it away.

…………

Jinzhou City is not big. It used to be the Liaoyang Road, which was originally a pseudo-Yuan Yuan. In the eighth year of Hongwu, Jinzhou Guard was rebuilt here. The capital was located in Jin County. Its jurisdiction was under its jurisdiction, including Jinzhou Zhongzuo and Jinzhou Zhongyou, both of which were thousands of household offices.

The surrendered Japanese troops and the remaining troops of the Flying Tiger Army were placed in Zhongzuo, Jinzhou, waiting for shipping. The reason for the place was that the guerrilla Shang Xueli of Zhongzuo, Jinzhou, was Yang Hao's former subordinate.

Wei Liangchen knew that Shang Xueli was a general under Mao Wenlong's future. Tong Yangzhen, the cousin of Tong Jia, the wife of Nurhaci, was captured and killed by Shang Xueli.

Shang Xueli later fought hard in battle with the Later Jin army. His eldest son Shang Kejin was killed for the country, just like his father. Both father and son were famous generals in Liaodong against Jin, and they died heroically.

Unfortunately, the Shang family not only produced loyal and righteous people, but also produced traitors throughout the ages.

Shang Xueli was later awarded the title of "Pingnan Prince" by his enemy Puppet Qing, which was thanks to his second son Shang Kexi, a traitor who recognized the thief as his father and had his hands covered with blood from his compatriots.

Wei Liangchen read a book called "Han's Not a Slave" in his previous life. In this book, the Shang family ended up very satisfying. Unfortunately, that was just a family statement.

In reality, it is that loyal ministers have no descendants, and good men do not kill slaves.

The land in southern Liaoning was very fertile, with a large number of Han people reaching one million, which can be said to be a large granary in Liaodong. The area where Jinzhou is located is roughly the later Lushun and Dalian. This place was a military center more than two hundred years later and the military must seize the land. However, it was not valued at this time and there were not many troops stationed.

After the Jin army captured Chenyang after the first year of Tianqi, they sent troops south to capture Anshan, Haizhou, Yaozhou, Gaizhou, Yongning, Jinzhou and other places. However, because the main force of the Jin army was placed in the direction of Shanhaiguan at that time and did not pay attention to the areas south of Liaoyang, there were not many troops left behind, which gave a Ming general with a sense of maritime power to take advantage of the opportunity and eventually rose into a military force that seriously threatened the abdomen of the Later Jin Dynasty. At its peak, it had 100,000 troops under its command.

This person is Mao Wenlong, the general of Mingdongjiang Town, where his capital is located, North Korea.

From the first year of Tianqi to the second year of Chongzhen, the Jinzhou and Lushun areas were basically controlled by Mao Wenlong, and they used Jin and Lu as bases to guerrillas to Yaozhou, Gaizhou and other places. They cooperated with the Ming army in Yizhou, Xuanzhou and other places north and south on the Yalu River, greatly restraining the Jin army and reducing the pressure on the Ming army in Shanhaiguan direction (Ningyuan, Jinzhou) to a certain extent.

Before Mao Wenlong died, the Later Jin Dynasty could only launch a certain offensive against the Ming army in the direction of Shanhaiguan, but both the scale and the harvest were not worth the loss, and the capture was limited. After Mao Wenlong's death, the Manzhou army, which had been renamed the Qing army, dared to go around the pass and invade the mainland of the Ming Dynasty on a large scale. Five times, they captured as many as one million people, and countless other materials, greatly enhancing the strength of the Qing Dynasty.

It can be seen from this that the existence of Dongjiang Town has a significant impact on the strategic situation of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

After Mao Wenlong's death, the 100,000 Ming troops in Dongjiang were in internal strife and were in a state of no leader. The generals were busy fighting for the title of General Pi Island and attacking each other. They were no longer interested in attacking the Jin army on ashore, and even took the initiative to give up the Jin, brigade and other places on the land, which made Mao Wenlong's strategy of establishing himself on Pi Island and restraining the Later Jin Dynasty completely bankrupt.

The Ming army in Dongjiang did not dare to go ashore, so the Jin army naturally wanted it. Without a navy, they would naturally not go to sea to attack the Ming army. Just like this, you don’t care about me, and I don’t care about you, and you’re still “happy”.

This situation was not until the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Liangchen decided to come to Jinzhou to pick up people in person, so he wanted to inspect the islands in southern Liaoning to see if Dongjiang Town can be established in advance, or military bases can be established on several large islands to reserve grain and weapons, and thought that the future war will develop into a fixed waterway at the same time, and will undertake the future maritime trade in Liaodong and North Korea.

He had considered to enter Pi Island now, but because Pi Island is actually controlled by North Korea and is 400 miles away from the south of Jinzhou Liaozhou, if a naval base is set up on Pi Island, it will cause international disputes (North Korea), and on the other hand, food, soldiers, and weapons are inconvenient to transport, so the Dongjiang Town he prefers is located on the coastal island of Jinzhou.
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