Chapter 189 Change of Attitude towards Wang Hongyu
The final battle report of Liaoyang reached the court.
Xue Guoyong, the governor of Liaodong, and Wang Huazhen, the right counselor, reported the actual details of the battle.
The first half is basically consistent with the content of the memorial by patrol commander Zhang Quan, while the second half describes the destruction of Liaoyang, the rescue of the Southern Army, the retreat of Yuan Yingtai, an arrow in the back, and the disappearance of Yuan Yingtai during the chaos.
Wang Huazhen reported the truth to the Confederate Army and saved 50,000 people like putting out fires everywhere. These people praised Wang Hongyu and others and have now settled west of the Liaohe River.
Since he was a front-line official in Guangning and a member of the Donglin Party himself, this memorial brought an end to the dispute between Zhao Nanxing and Zou Yuanbiao.
Yuan Yingtai's reputation was completely ruined.
If he died for the country, no matter how well he commanded, he would at least be packaged and beautified as a "hero" by the civil servants.
But now he was hit by an arrow in the back during the retreat, suffered fatal injuries, and finally disappeared.
This was what Yuan Yingtai's guards saw with their own eyes, or it was reported to Wang Huazhen, a disciple of Ye Xianggao.
There is no room for whitewashing...
At Zou Yuanbiao's suggestion, Emperor Tianqi comforted and granted titles to a group of civil and military officials who had sacrificed their lives, such as Zhang Quan, Chen Ce, Tong Zhongkui, Qi Jin, and Liang Zhongshan. He also criticized those who made serious mistakes such as Yuan Yingtai and He Shixian. He also criticized those who fled before the battle.
Approval of civil and military arrests and severe punishment.
This seemed to be the biggest event at this time, but a series of things happened next, causing the court to be turbulent.
The chief assistant, Fang Congzhe, officially retired and returned home, and the new chief assistant, Ye Xianggao, arrived.
As soon as he arrived, he began to persuade the Donglin Party.
Criticizing Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong spoke rashly without doing a thorough investigation.
I slightly approve of Zou Yuanbiao's insistence on being right, but I also advise him not to be too rigid, especially not to openly debate with his own people.
This is equivalent to hitting each other fifty times. If it were others, it would offend both sides. But this was Ye Xianggao, the top official in officialdom at this time, and his words and methods were both strong and soft.
Although they criticized Zhao Nanxing and others, they did not impose any punishment and secretly promised them promotions.
He gave Zou Yuanbiao enough face, but secretly guarded against his group of close friends and students, asking those who were close to him to advise them to give more lectures and not to devote themselves too much to the court.
Ye Xianggao secretly praised Yang Lian and Wang Wenyan and prepared to promote them. On the one hand, he also recognized and encouraged them to continue to plan for more power and status for Donglin.
Yang Lian, in particular, was able to maintain his composure and not join the battle at the critical moment of the dispute, which indeed saved some reputation for the Donglin Party.
"The situation at that time, I thought that Yuan Yingtai was irreversible and should get out of the controversy in time. Thinking about how to arrange his successor was the key."
His idea was to stop losses in time, not to invest too much in Yuan Yingtai, and to make early arrangements to convince the public and still help people from the Donglin Party take over.
This choice is of course more calm. In fact, Yang Lian has always been very fierce in his methods and means, but his mind is quite calm, which is why he has won several close calls.
Ye Xianggao is also good at this and has been thinking about candidates after hearing the news.
He and Yang Lian looked at each other and said in unison: "Xiong Tingbi."
Of course Lao Xiong was not a friend of the Donglin Party before. Instead, he was a friend of the Chu Party and the Zhejiang Party, Donglin’s political enemies.
But through the operations of Yang Lian and Wang Wenyan, they not only suppressed and defeated the Chu and Zhejiang groups, but also vaguely pulled Xiong Tingbi over.
Before Xiong Tingbi was dismissed, the Donglin Party built momentum but did not come forward. Afterwards, Yang Lian found support for Xiong Tingbi, spoke a lot for him, and vaguely attracted Xiong Tingbi.
This is how the Donglin Party grows. It does not have many people, and its talents are not outstanding, but it has a plan and purpose to win over people like Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong into the Donglin Party, and its power will naturally become stronger.
But Yuan Yingtai was not "one of his own" after all. Even if he could stabilize the situation in Liaodong, it would be of limited help to Donglin in expanding his military power and raising his reputation.
We also need someone from Donglin.
Yang Lian proposed his candidate - Wang Huazhen.
In the end, the imperial court quickly appointed Xiong Tingbi as the manager of Liaodong and promoted Wang Huazhen to the governor of Liaodong. Wang Huazhen was ordered to appease the refugees and recruit troops.
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Guangning, Liaodong.
Wang Huazhen was very courageous and quickly settled down the 50,000 people who had been rescued by the Confederate army, and organized and trained his troops according to the farming method.
In the following period, tens of thousands of people in the villages of eastern Liaoning gradually escaped from the raids of slaves by Jiannu and Kormi and fled to Guangning and the western Liaoning Corridor.
They brought some terrible news about Hou Jin's rule.
After the two major cities in Liaodong, Liaoyang and Shenyang, were occupied by Jiannu, they did not allocate land to the local Han people and reduce taxes. Instead, they took away a lot of land and gave it to the Eight Banners descendants.
Much of the land and food was occupied, and farmers were reduced to being slaves.
Later Jin Dynasty still promoted on a large scale that although Liaodong is the Liaodong of the Liao people, it added one thing, that is, only Liaodong under the leadership of the Manchus can be the Liaodong of the Liaodong people. People of other ethnic groups will collude with Ming dog officials and grassland bandits. So it has to be full of people.
The term Manchu is unfamiliar to most people, because it is a nation that does not exist. It is a new ethnic group formed by taking the Jurchens in Jianzhou, especially the Eight Banners, as the core and absorbing other Jurchens and the Han people who followed them earlier.
Under the rule of Hou Jin, if you wanted to become an official, you had to learn the language invented by Nurhachi 10 years ago.
Hair accessories also need to be changed. Although the money rat tail is not strongly recommended, if you want to avoid being wrapped and a slave who dies from overwork, you must shave your head.
These things were not done by the Manchus themselves, but by traitors such as Fan Wencheng and others. The hatred of ordinary people would be directed at them first, not the "uninformed" masters in the propaganda.
Of course, what Fan Wencheng did was to comply with the wishes of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji. They would do the dirty work, allowing the Manchu adults to maintain a "good reputation."
In the end, those who can carry the flag and become officials are not the people's consumables, but these servants running up and down.
Under the violent intimidation and suppression of the Eight Banners, Liaodong quickly completed a major blood change, and the new leader was firmly established.
Wang Huazhen was of course furious after hearing this.
He believed that Donglin's benevolence and righteousness would definitely defeat Jiannu's cruelty and evil.
The people in Liaodong who were coerced and the generals who were forced to surrender would definitely be shocked and respond to the Ming army's large-scale attack.
And he focused on studying the reasons for Yuan Yingtai's defeat.
Decide to resolutely learn lessons and strictly put an end to "fuel tactics"!
Little does he know, Yi Bo Sending is his future...
However, we must admit that Wang Huazhen’s military ability is still stronger than that of Yuan Yingtai!
But the soldiers and horses under his command no longer have those powerful field armies...
Wang Hongyu received a hero's welcome.
Wang Huazhen had Ye Xianggao as his teacher, and his ability to grasp the situation was not bad at all. He knew that in order to organize the refugees well and surpass Yuan Yingtai, he needed to unite the young general well.