After talking about Yang Siwei and Li Rusong, Wu Dui and Liang Menglong talked about Cao Yun again.
Cao Yu is the one with the highest position among the local generals who are still in Liaodong. He is also the most powerful general in Liaodong after Li Chengliang. Since he was rescued from the cell by Gao Jingshi, he has become an important figure for Gao Jingshi to balance Li Chengliang's strength in Liaodong.
But according to Zhu Yijun's decision today, although Li Chengliang resigned as Liao Commander and returned to Beijing to be recuperated, the Li Jiajun itself was not directly weakened. On the contrary, it was strengthened by Li Rusong's return to town - Li Rusong had five men under his command that he had been taking with him. Thousands of cavalry, these troops returned to Liaodong, which actually allowed the Li family army to recover from the defeat of Hetuala, and still maintained a direct lineage of about 34,000 to 5,000 in the main town of Liaodong.
There are about 8,000 direct servants of the Cao family at the moment, but not all of the Cao family's troops are in the hands of Cao Yun himself. His younger brother Cao Jian also has 1,000. This time Cao Yu was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Ji Town. According to the custom of generals, he should not take away all the family members. It is expected that he will leave at least one thousand more for his younger brother Cao Jian for "housekeeping" purposes, and may even leave two thousand.
Based on this calculation, Cao Yu may have taken five to six thousand servants to Jizhen. In this case, the number of direct troops of the Shixue School in Liaodong will be significantly reduced. As one goes and the other goes, Li Jiajun's strength actually overwhelms the Real School.
Although Gao Jingshi, Wu Dui and Liang Menglong did not regard the Li Jiajun as an imaginary enemy, and Liaodong's Shixue direct troops were not deployed to intimidate the Li Jiajun, the objective reality is that whoever has the strength in his hands will have the confidence to speak.
The number of direct descendants of Shixue in Liaodong was only about 30,000. Once Cao Yu took away 5,000 or 6,000, it would be about 10,000 less than the Li Jiajun. This would definitely affect the right to speak. Although Jinghua has a large number of armed servants in Liaodong, they are not the imperial army and will not be put on the table.
Both Wu Dui and Liang Menglong believed that they should continue to add sand to Liaodong, and at least ensure that the number of Shixue's direct troops was equal or basically the same as that of the Li family army.
Gao pragmatic frowned and asked: "Who can be transferred to make up for the shortage of 10,000 troops? Whether it is Ma Jiajun or Ma Jiajun, how many can bring 10,000 troops and horses? Ma Dong is already in Liaodong. Ma Lin doesn't have 10,000 servants. As far as I know, he only has about 3,000 servants (the Ma family servants are pure cavalry and are relatively small in number. After all, there are only a few generals who can make money like Li Chengliang).
The Ma family does have one, but Ma Gui is the only one who can bring 10,000. But Ma Gui is already the commander-in-chief, so we can't let him be the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, right? "
Wu Dui said: "Actually, the Ma family is not the only one with 10,000 soldiers. The Liu family of the Southern Army can get them. I just don't know if Rixin, you have any other purpose for keeping Liu Wei in the southwest. Otherwise, Liu Now he can be the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and his servants can be transferred north as the Sichuan squadron."
When Liu Wei entered Myanmar to fight, he was a Tengchong guerrilla. After the war, he was promoted due to his merit. Now his position has been promoted to the post of General Chemeng of Yunnan Province. This position was newly created after the war. The defense area under his jurisdiction is quite large. Above are the military and civilian propaganda envoys in the car, as well as the Meng Ding Yuyi Mansion, Meng Gen Yuyi Mansion and Meng Lian Chief Sui, which basically account for most of northern Burma.
At the same time, Liu Wei's department also has the responsibility of monitoring Myanmar, including supervising the payment of compensation by the Taungoo dynasty of Myanmar.
Although the Toungoo dynasty at this time was forcibly split up by Gao Pangshi, the Bago dynasty in the south had become independent and was controlled by Beijing, and the Bago Garrison was established. The Toungoo dynasty itself was actually under military control by Beijing, but in name the Toungoo dynasty was under military control by Beijing. The dynasty still exists, so Liu Wei's troops still exist as a deterrent force.
Of course, from the perspective of defense alone, the Toungoo dynasty now has no armed forces at all. Liu Wei's troops can be transferred at any time. Yunnan only needs to allocate the troops to guard northern Myanmar. However, Liu Wei's stay in the south was prepared by Gao Yingshi for possible rebellion by Yang Yinglong. It would not be safe to transfer him now.
"Liu Wei stayed in the southwest because I was worried that the Southwest Xiaoxiao would take the opportunity to cause chaos after the war against Chahar. The current situation in Liaodong did not force Liu Wei to go north. Moreover, Liu Wei and his troops had been in the southwest for a long time. Suddenly they were transferred north to the northeast and crossed over. Thousands of miles may not be suitable.”
Wu Dui thought for a while and said: "If it is inconvenient for Liu Wei to go north, then I have another candidate: Xiao Ruxun."
Before Gao Pragmatic could speak this time, Liang Menglong asked: "Xiao Ruxun is now the deputy commander-in-chief of Ningxia. It is natural for him to be transferred to the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, but he does not have ten thousand servants."
Of course, although Ningxia can trade with the Ordos Department, the local economic level is not high, and the economic level of the Ordos Department is also not as good as Tumote, so the generals in Ningxia are not rich. And Xiao Ruxun, the deputy commander-in-chief, was obtained by defending a city alone during the Northwest Rebellion. It didn't last long, so naturally there was no possibility of having 10,000 troops.
In fact, although he was named Deputy Chief Soldier, he had less than 2,000 servants under his command. This strength is actually not bad in Ningxia Town, but if it is put in Liaodong, it will obviously not work, and it will not be able to suppress the scene at all - the three generals of the Practical School, Ma Dong, Ma Chengxun, and Qi Jin, all have more servants than him.
At this point in his calculations, Gao Pragmatic suddenly wanted to understand an issue that he had ignored before: in the original history, from the time Li Chengliang left his post and returned to Beijing to the second time he went to control Liao, it was basically exactly ten years, and during these ten years, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong actually Eight were replaced.
Among them, only Yang Shaoxun, the first to take over Li Chengliang's position, and Ma Lin, the last, worked for two years. The rest basically only worked for about a year, or even less than a year.
Among them, Yang Shaoxun was able to do it for two years because he was Li Chengliang's trusted general, and Ma Lin was able to do it for two years because the Liao affairs had become very complicated at that time, and it can be said that the situation was quite special.
Among the remaining people, not to mention brothers Li Rusong and Li Rumei (written about in previous chapters), why didn’t You Jixian, Dong Yiyuan, and Wang Bao last long? Naturally, it was because the Li Jiajun did not cooperate, and if the Li Jiajun did not cooperate, they would not be able to continue. It was because the servants they brought with them could not suppress the Li Jiajun.
What should be noted here is the tenure of the three of them. Their three terms are counted together from November of the 21st year of Wanli to December of the 25th year of Wanli.
In other words, it was during the period when Li Rusong was fighting in Korea. In other words, it was a period of time when the Li Jiajun was still relatively strong.
After Wang Bao, Li Rusong took over. Li Rusong died in battle a few months later, and Li Rumei took over. Li Rumei was dismissed because of "fear of the enemy", and her successor was still Sun Shoulian, a close confidant of Li Jiajun.
But something strange happened. Sun Shoulian, the direct general of the Li family army who was born in the Tieling Guards, was actually unable to stabilize the situation in Liaodong. He only served for a little over half a year before he was dismissed and returned to the guard. Immediately afterwards, the imperial court appointed Ma Lin, a general of the Xuanda line.
Ma Lin is the second son of the famous general Ma Fang. He was the kind of person who had his own halo at the time. Moreover, because Ma Dong was not well-known in the original history, Ma Lin was regarded as Ma Fang's actual heir. Almost all direct descendants of the Ma family were in the army. In his hands, he persisted in Liaodong for two years before being replaced by Li Chengliang, who controlled Liao for the second time because the situation still did not improve.
Gao pragmatic found that among the eight general soldiers, Li Rusong was a dividing point.
Before Li Rusong became commander-in-chief of Liao, the Li family army was so powerful that they did not pay attention to the general soldiers from other places and refused to cooperate with the work. As a result, the general soldiers from other places did not last long.
The situation changed after Li Rusong. The strength of the Li family army declined greatly. Although the imperial court successively appointed generals directly from the Li family army as Liao commanders, the situation in Liaodong was unable to be stabilized at this moment. As a result, after using Ma Lin from the Xuan University Department, the situation was somewhat stabilized and the team persisted for two years.
But Ma Lin could only do this one step, and could not go further to reverse the situation. Therefore, the court still felt that it was insufficient, and finally had to let Li Chengliang go back.
Unfortunately, at this time, Li Chengliang was greatly weakened by the strength of the Li family army, and he himself felt that the court was seriously suspicious of him. Therefore, after returning to office, he did not replenish the power of his direct lineage, and also adopted a conniving attitude towards the Jurchens. He only wanted to save face without causing chaos. task. The overall situation in Liaodong then irrevocably slipped into a situation more favorable to Nurhaci.
Gao Pragmatic suddenly had an idea at this time: If the general troops transferred to Liaodong from other places in the early stage had enough power to suppress the Li family army, would the situation in Liaodong still deteriorate to this point?
But this idea is not easy to realize even now: the Li family army has not experienced the losses of the Korean War, and its strength is still too strong. Now as long as Li Rusong returns to town, he still has about 35,000 servants. There is no need to reiterate the combat effectiveness of the servants. Simply put, this army can still defeat any powerful Jurchen chieftain.
And if Gao Pragmatic wants to realize the idea just now, the Practical School must be at least as strong as the Li Jiajun. However, no general among the Practical School generals can gather so many servants - not even the Ma Jiajun, the whole family He has no more than 20,000 servants, and the actual head of the family, Ma Gui, only has 10,000 people, and it is impossible for Ma Gui to be the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong.
In this case, the only way is "if the core is not enough, use multiple parts to make up". Although the Real School cannot find a general who can match the Li family of Tieling, they can choose to send a few more generals to Liaodong. Each general brought several thousand servants to his post, and the total military strength also increased.
Gao pragmatic proposed to send more generals to Liaodong. Wu Dui and Liang Menglong thought for a moment and both agreed in principle. However, we still have to discuss which people will be dispatched.
This negotiation took quite a while, and the final result was that the Shi School selected Xiao Ruxun, the current deputy commander-in-chief of Ningxia, Ren Ziqiang, the staff general of the Yanhe Battalion in Jizhou, Gao Ce, the commander of the Central Army in Datong Town (with the same guerrilla title), and Datong Guards Guerrilla Shen Dong, Xuanfu East Road guerrilla Jie Sheng (Mongolian), Datong Ninglu Fort garrison Baosai (Mongolian), Ningxia Yuquan Camp garrison Junjun, Yansui Shuangshan Fort garrison You Shigong, Datong Shoukou Fort garrison Yang When he climbed the mountain to take up a post in Liaodong, all generals and officers were allowed to have their servants accompany them.
There are many generals selected in this batch, and they have different levels, covering four levels: deputy general, staff general, guerrilla, and garrison. The amount of servants the Ministry of War plans to give to Yu is quite generous - since servants can receive high military pay, the Ministry of War will set quotas.
Among them, Ningxia Deputy General Xiao Ruxun proposed to give an additional 5,000 yuan to any servant, Jizhou Yanhe Camp Staff General Ren Ziqiang proposed to give 2,000 yuan to any servant, and the Chinese army in Datong Town was in charge of Gao Ce, and Datong guerrilla Shen Dong and Xuanfu East Road Guerrilla Jie Sheng each planned to receive 1,500 yuan each. Datong Ninglu Fort guarded Bai Sai, Ningxia Yuquanying guarded Junjun, Yansui Shuangshan Fort guarded You Shigong, and Datong Shoukou Fort guarded Yang Dengden It is planned to give each one a thousand quota.
If calculated based on the rated number of personnel, the Ministry of War mobilized them to Liaodong this time and gave them a full 15,500 servants. Even if Cao Yu takes 5,000 servants to take office in Jizhen, the number of troops controlled by the generals of the Liaodong Practical Studies Department will reach 40,000, exceeding the number of direct troops of the Li family army.
However, posts belong to posts, and it is difficult to say whether Xiao Ruxun and the others can gather such a number. At least in Gao Pragmatic's view, Xiao Ruxun himself is almost dreaming of gathering five thousand servants, unless he takes all the Xiao family's servants to Liaodong and gives none to his three brothers (Xiao Rulan, Xiao Ruhui, Xiao Ruzhi) Keep.
But this is definitely impossible. Among his three brothers, there are two generals and one guerrilla. How could it be possible for the fourth brother to take away all the servants? Judging from Gao Pragmatic's understanding of the difficulties of training servants, Xiao Ruxun doesn't know if he has 2,000 people on hand now. If he is successfully transferred to the deputy commander of Liaodong this time, it will be great if he can gather 3,000.
As for the other generals, most of them don't have the numbers given by the Ministry of War. According to Gao's pragmatic estimates, although these 15,000 personnel are placed here, it would be a blessing if they could bring 10,000.
Of course, it is not useless to provide more posts to the Ministry of War. They do not have so many on hand now. Recruitment in Liaodong is also allowed by the court system.
If it had been the original, it would have been easy to just pull in some people to make up the number, but this loophole was later blocked by Gao Jingshi and Liang Menglong - when Gao Jingshi was the left minister of the Ministry of War, he gave Liang Menglong an idea, and the Ministry of War Now, the servants of the generals in the Jiubian towns will be reviewed and tested. If they fail to meet the standards, they will be refused to provide positions and salaries by the Ministry of War.
Of course, the Ministry of War itself did not have that many people to conduct the assessment, so the assessment task was handed over to two people: one was the patrol censor of the town, and the other was the local military preparation road. However, considering that civil servants may not have an effective assessment method, Gao Pragmatic simply came up with the criteria for joining the guard team of his own servants, slightly lowered the requirements, and handed it over to the Ministry of War for implementation.
Don't be surprised, the standards of the Gao family's Ding escorts are absolutely high and strict, because that standard was set by Qi Jiguang, and now it has to be promulgated by the Ministry of War for use throughout the nine sides. Of course, the standards need to be lowered.
For example, the servants of the Gao family even have height requirements, which is not suitable for the frontier army. Although some people in the frontier army are not tall (mostly due to poor background and malnutrition in their early years), they are actually very fierce in fighting.
The group of generals selected by Gao Jingshi and the other two people may not seem like many high-ranking generals, but in fact, none of them are simple. For example, the Yuquan camp guarding Jun was the later Du Heizi and "Master Du", while You Shigong was born as a general in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, and was of the same clan as You Jixian, who was supposed to be the commander-in-chief of Liaodong later.
As for the rest of them, they have one thing in common: they are all generals who in the original history announced that the border army would enter Korea to aid Korea, and all of them have a bunch of military merit plaques hanging on them.
It can be said that this transfer was a real transfer of elites from the direct lineage of the Xuanda (including Yansui and Ningxia) schools of the Practical School to penetrate Liaodong on a large scale. Once the transfer is completed, the Xuanda Department can at least compete with the Li Jiajun in Liaodong.
However, Gao's pragmatic attitude has always been to do nothing or to do it safely. Therefore, on the basis of mobilizing the elites of Xuanda University, he also proposed to promote local non-Tieling generals in Liaodong to consolidate the basic foundation of the Shi school in the Liaodong army. plate.
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