Chongzhen was short of people, but Yang Fan thought of someone.
It's a pity to say that this man is a rare talent.
"Your Majesty, I know that there is a person. This person is very capable, proficient in diplomacy, and familiar with battle formations. He is a versatile person in both civil and military affairs.
"This man's name is Liu Xingzuo. He also has a Manchu name, Aita. Aita means sea in Chinese. People in Xian also call him Liu Hai."
Chongzhen became interested immediately. This was the first time Yang Fan recommended talents to him.
Yang Fan gave him the same feeling as the toothpaste in that city. If you don't do it, he can't do anything.
"Yang Qing, it's really rare for you to recommend someone. This is the first time I've heard you recommend someone."
Yang Fan smiled sheepishly and said, "Officials are the backbone of national administration and must be chosen very carefully. I dare not recommend them casually."
Chongzhen laughed and said, "Then this person must be very special and can attract your attention. Tell me what kind of thing he is."
"The man recommended by me is the grandson-in-law of Nurhaci, the leader of the slave-building thieves." Yang Fan said calmly.
Chongzhen opened his mouth in surprise, he didn't expect Yang Fan to raise such a person.
But then, he put down the tureen, sat upright, and his face became serious.
Based on his understanding of Yang Fan, if Yang Fan actually recommended it to the emperor for a person with this background, there must be something unusual about this matter.
"Liu Xingzuo is from Kaiyuan, Liaodong. His birth date is not the same."
"But he came from a good background. His family was originally a wealthy family. He received a good education since he was a child. If what happened later had not happened, he would most likely have taken the imperial examination and become one of the rare Jinshi scholars in Liaodong."
However, something happened that changed everything.
"In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli (1596), Gao Huai, the supervisor of Zongren Shangshan, went to Liaodong to mine and collect taxes."
"In the twenty-eighth year of Wanli (1600), Liao Guotai, the commissioned official, "abused the people and violently rebelled. Gao Huai falsely accused dozens of people of being the leaders of the civil uprising and imprisoned them."
"The three big families of Zhang, Liu, and Tian had been in Liaodong for hundreds of years. They were uprooted by Gaohuai and their property was confiscated. Therefore, it was difficult for Xingzuo to survive in Liaodong. In the third year of Wanli (1605), he fled to Jianzhou and took refuge with Nurhachi.
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Hearing this, Chongzhen nodded, indicating that he knew about it.
He studied in his youth and hated the history of Wanli in his later years.
Gao Huai is the biggest culprit in the current situation in Liaodong.
Liaodong is a very remote, desolate and bitter cold land. Needless to say, there are not many businessmen. The society is not developed, and the economic environment is extremely fragile. Because of the cold weather, only one season of food can be grown a year, and the output of food is low.
If it is serious enough, it all depends on transportation within the customs. There is no need for additional searches.
However, Gao Huai ignored this and relied on the support of the emperor and Li Chengliang to exploit the people of Liaodong.
He actually said this: "There is no need for mines to mine, and there is no need to negotiate taxes. Folks in hills and mountains are all mines, and officials, farmers, and workers are all tax payers."
Of course, Li Chengliang knew the consequences of Gaohuai's actions, and he had a clear understanding of the situation in Liaodong.
Without his support, Gao Huai would be nothing in this world. With the power of the Li family in Liaodong, killing him would be like killing a dog's ear.
But Li Chengliang understood that Gao was here to get private money for Wanli. He represented the emperor.
Li Chengliang is so cunning, how could she lose her mind and offend the emperor for the benefit of the army and the people. Therefore, no matter who Gao wants to kill, he supports him.
The officials and gentry who resisted Gaohuai in Liaodong were defeated one after another in their fights with Gaohuai. Some were beheaded, some had their homes confiscated, and some were exiled.
Gao Huai knew very well that if he wanted to succeed in Liaodong, he must rely on Li Chengliang.
So he called Li Chengliang his master and regarded himself as his grandson. He only gave Emperor Wanli 2 taels of the money he got, including hundreds of thousands of taels, and Li Zongzong.
Every time Chongzhen mentioned this matter, he gritted his teeth angrily. If Gao Huai hadn't been an eunuch and had descendants, he would have wanted to kill his nine tribes)
Gao Huai is from the capital and a rogue (this chapter is not finished yet!)
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He was born in Chongwen and made a living by collecting debts for others. It is similar to modern society where loan sharks come to your door to press for debts or collect protection fees from local governments.
This kind of person is ruthless and malicious, and has many tricks to defraud people out of money. It is not a big deal to force people to death.
When he heard that the imperial court planned to send eunuchs to local areas to supervise taxes, he actually committed suicide for the sake of profit and advancement!
It's hard to describe the extent of the disaster that Gao Huaidang brought to Liaodong. The two hundred years of Ming Dynasty's painstaking efforts in Liaodong were destroyed by him and Li Chengliang in twelve years.
The fall of Liaodong led to the great fall. Therefore, some historians said that the Ming Dynasty fell in Wanli, which is not wrong at all.
Li Hualong, the governor of Liaodong at that time, once said that there were originally 47 large households in Liao with thousands of assets, but "the search for Huai has been exhausted" and all of them were ruined.
The common people can imagine that the big households cannot withstand it. At that time, the people of Liaodong thought that "Liao people have no brains, so they all cut it out in the Huai River; Liao people have no marrow, so they all drain it in the Huai River."
Huai held power in Liaodong for twelve years, causing disastrous consequences.
A large number of people fled Liaodong and went to Jianzhou Jurchen in Nurchi.
History records that "young and brave men in Liaodong fled to Jianzhou on the 14th and 5th", and there were even "thousands of men and women traveling north together" in an attempt to escape to Jianzhou Jurchen.
Gao Huai also intervened in military command. He didn't understand military affairs at all and was just a master of command. The military was in a complete mess. Military households were exploited by civilian officials and officers at all levels, and they lived on the edge of life and death.
Being exploited by Gao Huai once, the Liaodong border defense force originally numbered 130,000 people, but later "forty to five out of ten fled the enemy."
"Several half of the entire town's army has been lost. Although there are more than 80,000 troops in the army, only ten of them have horses. The winning army has only 15 weak horses. It is strange that only 20,000 of the disabled men and horses are strong."
As an important border defense town, Liaodong was destroyed by him in the end, with only 20,000 fighting soldiers left, and the entire Liaodong was in ruins)
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! These technical talents and young men who escaped from Liaodong Town were recruited by Nurhaci, which greatly enhanced the strength of the Jianzhou Jurchens.
Thinking of these things, Chongzhen closed his eyes in pain and clenched his hands.
This dog slave, my Ming Dynasty was ruined in the hands of him and Li Cheng.
If there were no legacy of Li Cheng and Liang Hu, and no Gaohuai chaos in the Liao Dynasty, how could the Liao Dynasty be in such a situation today?
Yang Fan just started and briefly said that Liu Xingzuo fled because of Gaohuai's rebellion in Liao Dynasty and his family was ruined. Why did Your Majesty react like this?
His Majesty gritted his teeth and clenched his hands so hard that his fingernails turned white.
When Yang Fan was considering whether to continue speaking, Chongzhen spoke.
"Yang, keep talking. The whole world is ruined by these powerful eunuchs."
Only then did Yang Fan understand. No wonder he was so cruel to Governor Wei. He didn't leave any way to survive. It turned out that he hated the eunuch so much.
At that time, Gao Huai received the behind-the-scenes support of Li Chengliang, causing Liaodong to completely collapse.
Liu Xingzuo arrived in the Zhen area of Jianzhou in the 33rd year of Wanli (1605).
In Jianzhou, he was highly valued and appreciated by Nurhachi for his outstanding talents and "smart and considerate", and was assigned to the Zhenghong Banner of Dabeile Daishan.
He participated in the Jurchen unification war for thirteen years. After Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, he also participated in the Hou Jin's attack on the Ming Dynasty and advanced into Liaoshen.
He was awarded the title of "Deputy General" (deputy general) for his skills in attacking the enemy, chasing and escaping, etc. In the days that followed, he quickly rose through the ranks.
Liu Xingzuo was appointed to take charge of Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Haizhou, Gaizhou, and the Southern Four Guards, that is, the Liaodong Peninsula except Lushunkou (Lushun was in the hands of the Ming Dynasty). He became a prominent Han official in the Later Jin Dynasty.
However, Hou Jin's brutal national oppression and enslavement deeply shocked his lingering conscience and aroused a strong sense of national justice, which ultimately led to a complete break between him and the Jian ruling group.
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