Where is Li Rugui? Where is Uncle Ning Yuan now? Does Gao Bingxian really want to kill Li Rugui? Can Uncle Ning Yuan make it in time to save Li Rugui?
Kong Dongru spent the whole meeting thinking about these things. He didn't hear a few words about the meeting. He only vaguely heard about salt farms, fishing grounds, and "vassals" and "fish and rice". He was confused. I didn't understand it either.
Gao pragmatic took advantage of the time during the meeting to learn more about the three commanders of Gaizhou, Haizhou and Jinzhou through questions and answers.
As expected, the three commanders were all from Liaodong, but their situations were different.
The commander of the Gaizhou Guards, Jiang Enyuan, was originally a hereditary member of the Gaizhou Guards Hundreds. He had been with the army for more than ten years before Li Chengliang came to power. He had already been promoted to the rank of Thousand Households and had been added to the rank of Commanding Officer.
In the past two years, banditry broke out in southern Liaoning. He was transferred back by his predecessor, Yuan Masi Qing, for his merits in suppressing the bandits, so they recommended him to be the commander of the Gaizhou Guard. In other words, although this person is just a guard commander, he can probably still fight some battles.
Pu Yuanyi, the commander of the Haizhou Guard, was also a hereditary military attache, and his background was relatively good. He was from a hereditary family. Gao Pragmatic found out from his conversations that this man seemed to have some business acumen - he had invested in some important roads in Haizhou. Not to mention several inns, they even built two warehouses, which are not only used for their own business in Liaoyang and Shenyang, but also accept storage of goods from other merchants.
As for whether he had other businesses, Gao Jingshi didn't bother to ask. There must be some. For example, treating the guardsmen as serfs was common all over Liaodong. Gao Jingshi didn't believe that Pu Yuanyi could be an exception.
Of course, if the water is clear, there will be no fish, and Gao Pragmatic has no intention of correcting this problem now.
As for Cao Jian, the commander of the Jinzhou Guard, this person is even more unique. He is the younger brother of Cao Yu, the former deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong!
However, his identity used to be a good thing, but now it has become a bad thing, because last year, something happened to Cao Yun.
Cao Yu was originally a guard of 30,000 people in Kaiyuan. He served successively as Qinghe Fort garrison, guerrilla, and East Road military commander. In the fourth year of Wanli, he was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the Liaoyang garrison. The so-called deputy commander-in-chief of the garrison in Liaoyang was actually the deputy commander-in-chief of the Liaodong garrison. The term refers to the fact that the deputy commander-in-chief and the commander-in-chief are not stationed in the same area.
As mentioned before, the General Army Corps of Liaodong is stationed in Guangning, which belongs to the area west of the Liaohe River; the Deputy General Army Corps of Liaodong is stationed in Liaoyang, which belongs to the area east of the Liaohe River.
In most cases, or when the situation is controllable, the deputy commander stationed in Liaoyang is basically responsible for the defense of the area east of the Liaohe River. Unless there is a large-scale war in the area east of the Liaohe River and the deputy commander-in-chief cannot handle it, the commander-in-chief will come over to take unified command.
In other words, after four years of Wanli, Cao Yu's military power in Liaodong was second only to that of the chief military officer Li Chengliang.
But something big happened to Cao Yun in the ninth year of Wanli, and the cause of this incident happened earlier in the eighth year of Wanli. In April of the eighth year of Wanli, the Mongolian left-wing Black Carboniferous tribe invaded Liaoyang. Cao Yu led his army to resist tenaciously, and the Black army was defeated and retreated. Taking advantage of the victory, Cao Yu pursued the attack and was ambushed when he entered Chang'an Fort (today's west of Liaoyang, Liaoning Province). The Ming army was surrounded by enemies on all sides. After a hard battle, only some personnel were able to break through, resulting in heavy losses.
After Gao Pragmatic returned to Beijing, he read the archives of the Hanlin Academy. The records are as follows:
Hei Shitan, led by his son Deng, Xiao Daiqing and others gathered a crowd to penetrate deep into Chang'an Fort. Liaoyang Deputy Commander-in-Chief Cao Yu led his troops to the east of the fort, where they were trapped in an ambush. They killed Qian Commander Chen Peng and General Commander Cao Ruji, and killed three hundred officers and soldiers. Seventeen members were named, 464 horses were shot to death, 298 men and women were captured, and hundreds of livestock and grain rice were taken away.
The imperial censor heard in Yingchang that he had been impeached because of his lack of plans. Zhang Qi, the commander of the capital, should wait and see, and the equipment such as Cui Ji's preparation was not strict, so he begged to separate the important positions. Fuzhen officials have meritorious service and are therefore exempt from prosecution.
The order was given: Cao Yun, Zhang Qigong, and Cui Ji were dismissed. They were ordered to ask questions according to the imperial censor, but Zhou Yong and others were exempted.
Therefore, the result of this incident was that Cao Yu and Liaodong Governor Zhang Qigong were dismissed from their posts, and they, together with Cui Ji and others, were imprisoned by the censor. Zhou Yong, the governor of Liaodong who was supposed to bear "leadership responsibilities", was convicted because of " If you have meritorious service, you will be exempted from prosecution."
Cao Jian's identity as a commander came from fighting with his brother. He was originally asked to be the commander mainly to mix up his seniority. When there is a need to fight in the future, he can be recruited to fight, and then he will be the commander. If you succeed in assisting in battle, you can almost hope to become a general or at least a guerrilla.
Who knew that before Cao Yun's plan came to fruition, he himself was dismissed from his post for questioning, leaving his younger brother Cao Jian to struggle to support himself in Jinzhou.
After all, he is a commander, so why is he "struggling to support"? Because Cao Yu had already served as deputy commander-in-chief before, and his status in Liaodong was second only to Li Chengliang, so according to the "tradition" of Liaodong, he certainly had a group of "accompanying servants" who were good at fighting.
After the head coach was imprisoned, these "Cao Family Army" were raised by the entire Cao family according to the rules at that time. However, apart from Cao Yun, the head of the Cao family, the only person in the Cao family who was on the stage was his younger brother Cao Jian, so... …If he doesn’t support him, who will?
As for dismissing the tribe, to be honest, no general would do this, because the servants who can conquer the war are the foundation of the general. If the tribe is dismissed, the Cao family will really be finished, and even Cao Yu will no longer be there. The hope of "coming out".
As long as these servants are still there, if something happens in Liaodong and the court needs people, as long as the Cao family has access to a certain civil servant and reports to the court recommending that Cao Yu be reinstated, Cao Yu will have a great chance of being able to make meritorious deeds. Come out again.
As a result, a team of servants that could only be supported by the deputy commander-in-chief now rested entirely on the shoulders of Cao Jian, a mere district guard commander. What was he not "struggling to support"?
Gao Jingshi didn't know much about the relationship between Li Chengliang and Cao Jian, but he must have known that unless they had such a good relationship that they were as close as brothers, Li Chengliang would definitely not have helped Cao Jian at this moment.
The truth is obvious. If Cao Jian cannot support these servants, these people will disperse, but where can they disperse in Liaodong? Who else can compete with him, Li Chengliang, to steal people?
Therefore, if Li Chengliang did not add insult to injury, he would still have some conscience.
Jiang Enyuan, who is reasonably capable of fighting, Pu Yuanyi, who has some business acumen, and Cao Jian, who is extremely poor but has a group of powerful servants - these are the only three generals that Gao Pragmatic will have on hand for the next period of time.
As for Fuzhou Guard Commander Li Rugui, will he start?
It's not a big deal to kill him. After all, he just missed the meeting and it's not war time. We can't really use wartime military orders to pressure people. However, death penalty can be avoided, but living crime cannot be avoided. It's your first time to summon me as a new official. If you don't dare to come, if you don't want to undermine your prestige, do you really think that Li Chengliang can cover the sky with one hand in Liaodong?
Hey!
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