After listening to Zhang Daojun's words, Yang Fan was silent for a long time, put down the tea cup and stood up.
I walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows and looked at the Dahei River and grasslands in the distance.
It was already afternoon at this time, and the latitude here was high. The sun set early, and the sunlight cast a golden light on the Daqing Mountains and the glorious Guihua City in the distance.
"A generation of imperial masters, alas! Let me tell you what is good about him." Yang Fan was in a very bad mood.
Zhang Daojun understood Yang Fan, walked up behind Yang Fan, patted his shoulder and said: "People in this world are nothing more than fame and fortune. But fame comes first. If a person is greedy for fame, it is often more terrifying than greedy for money."
"Brother Yang, although you and I have no friendship, you and my Zhang family are old friends. Therefore, I specially accepted this errand to come to you once and tell you the truth. In case you lose the Marquis and don't know who he is.
Who made the stumbling block?"
Yang Fan was in a bad mood, not because the emperor didn't mention the matter of becoming a marquis. It was because he was completely disappointed with the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty always refreshed the lower limit of his knowledge again and again.
Originally, no matter how bad the Ming Dynasty was, there were still a few people who caught my eye. But I didn't expect that that brave man was also this kind of guy.
"The Duke of Zhou is afraid of the day of rumors, and Wang Mang is humble and corporal." Yang Fan could only sigh with emotion. He could not say anything except the disappointment of the Ming Dynasty's last conscience.
Zhang Daojun sneered and said: "The warlords call you a thief, whoever defends Cao Liu is right and wrong. Who is a moral gentleman in this world? It just depends on who is better at acting, who is better at playing, and who is more beautiful. I really want to tear off the scholars."
That mask, the ugliness and filth behind it, is very disgusting."
"Otherwise, every person who slaughters dogs for justice is a scholar who has a negative heart."
There is no need for a heavy hammer to sound the drum. Some things can be revealed at a glance. A wise man does not need to speak clearly.
Zhang Daojun was much older than Yang Fan, and he became an official earlier. In 1621, the first year of Tianqi, when his father Zhang Quan died in Liaoyang, he was promoted to Jinyiwei Yamen. Throughout the Tianqi Dynasty, he was a bystander in the central struggle.
That long-standing imperial master enjoyed almost all the fame in the late Ming Dynasty. Even when the Qing Dynasty compiled the history of the Ming Dynasty, it was the only one to write a biography for him. He was highly regarded and almost became a perfect man.
Yang Fan understood everything Zhang Daojun said just now.
Why did Xiong Tingbi die? How did the situation in Liaodong collapse to this point? Why did they secretly plot against themselves?
There are people in history who, when they were alive, held power, but also gained infamy. Such people were like Qin Hui. They paid for their fame in order to gain benefits.
Some people have been acting all their lives, and when they get old, they are exposed. That is called being unprotected in the late festival. Such a person is Qian Qianyi. I am old and have no shame anymore. You can scold me all you want.
Some people can still deceive the world and steal fame and gain both fame and fortune when they are alive, but after their death, the world reacts and is deceived by this old thief. Such a person is Li Chengliang, who has been famous for a lifetime, but will be infamous for all generations.
Some people not only achieve great success while alive, but also serve as role models for ministers for hundreds of years after their death. Such people are the imperial masters.
In fact, if you calm down and think about it carefully, he has done three things in his life.
The first thing is that in order to solve the financial difficulties, he proposed the Liao tax. This was the originator of the gold tax in Chinese history. The war tax was distributed on the acres, allowing the bottom peasants to bear the heavy military tax burden. This kind of The damn tax burden was collected from the Apocalypse to 1931.
Liao's salary is recognized as one of the reasons that ultimately led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, and border troubles alternated, and the apportionment of tens of millions of taels of silver completely crushed the backbone of the farmers.
The second thing is to kill Xiong Tingbi. Xiong Tingbi represents another way to solve the Liaodong issue. Xiong Tingbi is the only minister who advocates using military means to solve the Liaodong issue. At the same time, he also has the ability to use military means to solve the Nurhaci group. At least it can Keep the situation from falling apart.
When he took charge of Liaodong for the first time, the military deployment he adopted was a complete defense system. It was based on solid stronghold cities such as Shenyang, Liaoyang, Kaiyuan, and Tieling, and also had a mobile cavalry system for dynamic defense. Large-scale defense in depth, based on battle To defend, to switch between battle and defense. Nurhachi was left helpless and could only lie dormant.
It's not that the Ming Dynasty army couldn't fight, but that the subsequent military strategies were completely random. Otherwise, under the same conditions, why would Xiong Tingbi play so well and Wang Huazhen would have messed up everything.
Xiong Tingbi was taken down because the nobles, eunuchs, and civil servants in the court were all trying to support the invaders out of the need of party struggle. Xiong Tingbi's line was the same method as the wars against the northern peoples in previous dynasties. Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi, Sui Dynasty Emperor Wen and Li Shimin all fought like this.
But the strange thing is that after Xiong Tingbi was defeated, Ming Dynasty started to play a strange style of play. This style of play was unprecedented and unprecedented. And this style of play was the third thing the imperial master did, building Guan Ning. Jin Defense Line and the formation of the Guanning Army.
The third thing is to build the wall. Is there any example in history of defeating an enemy country by building a wall bit by bit? How ridiculous must this be?
They changed Xiong Tingbi's attack-for-defense strategy to a defense-for-defense strategy. Basically, they no longer attacked. They just focused on building the castle and pushing toward the north little by little.
However, Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue was only 4 million taels a year. The Guanningjin defense line he built with his own hands cost a total of 3 million taels in construction costs. In addition, it cost 800,000 taels to maintain the castle every year. It also cost 5 million taels a year. The two armies spent money to support Guan Ning's army.
It is impossible to have a long-lasting military force and benefit the country.
Although fighting a war costs a lot of money, a large-scale war lasts only a short time. Spend ten million taels to resolve the matter, and that's it. What Xiong Tingbi did was normal.
And Donglin built this 30-kilometer-wide and 185-kilometer-long defense line. Every year they spent money that bankrupted the finances. From the Tianqi Dynasty to the fall of Chongzhen, it took a full twenty years to drain the blood of the Ming Dynasty.
Throughout the ages, there has never been such a thing.
Most of the money spent on wars will be spent on the battlefield. Who knows where the money spent on projects will go. Whether you make more money from wars or from projects. You gentlemen in Donglin naturally understand this account. of.
These three things are actually one thing, which is to build the wall and turn the war into engineering. Only in this way can the benefits be maximized.
According to Xiong Tingbi's approach, if the slaves were gone, where would they go to make a fortune?
So he must be stopped!
How good it is now. Guan Ning sucked up all the blood of the Ming Dynasty. On the other side, he smuggled the Jian slaves through Mao Wenlong and massacred the Han people in Liaodong, and earned 70 to 80 million taels of silver. It is most beneficial to maintain this status quo.
It turned out that the entire Liaodong rout was caused by Wang Huazhen, and Wang Huazhen was immediately imprisoned. He had to be killed. Xiong Tingbi opened a vacancy and returned home, telling him to get out.
After all, he is a rare military talent. Maybe one day something goes wrong and he will have to be used.
The Chinese art of power operation requires you to play a role before you can play a role. It does not require you to play a role, and you cannot play a role.
Originally, he stayed in his hometown and gradually faded out of the court's sight, which would be fine.
But Xiong Tingbi couldn't let go of Liaodong, so he came back again.
Finally, some big shots couldn't tolerate it anymore.
This chapter has been completed!