Ning Yuanbo, Li Chengliang, the chief military officer guarding Liaodong, has been in a bad mood recently.
Originally the main force on the right side of the Battle of Monan, although it was said to be only a secondary theater of the entire war, because he and his eldest son Li Rusong both obtained the record of killing the leader of the Mongolian army, in fact, in terms of merit, the ranking
It has to be quite forward.
In addition to Gao Jingshi and several governors, he was the most meritorious military official in the Ming Dynasty, even higher than Qi Jiguang and Ma Gui. As for his eldest son Li Rusong, his meritorious service was also higher than that of Ma Chengxun, a descendant of the Ma family.
Hum, East Li and West Ma, after all, it is me, Dong Li, who is suppressing West Ma!
But the good news almost ends there, because what follows is a series of troubles.
First of all, the Ministry of War was picking and choosing about the merits reported to him in Liaodong - well, it is said that it was not the Ministry of War that was causing trouble for him, but the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The Ministry of War had no good solution for this. Sima Wu even condescended to him and wrote him a letter to explain the situation and asked him to understand the difficulties of the Ministry of War. The Minister of the Ministry of Hubu had already said so. If the Ministry of War dared to
If the lion opens his mouth, then the household department will have to directly give up the pick, or simply not give a penny at all. Whoever can play the role in the household department will come, and the main department will invite him to serve.
Of course Da Sima had to give him face, and Li Chengliang also had a headache after hearing the news. After careful consideration, he had to erase part of the falsely reported credit, and it was rare to repay the credit honestly.
Who knew that this was not over yet? The Ministry of War was very cooperative and forwarded the report directly without changing a word. However, the Ministry of Revenue still refused to give money happily, saying that during this war, the main force of Tumen was attracted to Tumote.
In the end, it was Xuanda who fought with the main force of Tumen, so in terms of rewards, Xuanda must be higher than Jiliao - anyway, the rewards in Liaodong were cut across the board, directly reduced by 30%.
This made Li Chengliang so angry that he almost scolded his mother in public. Rewards were the key to stabilizing his military morale. Although the Li family was now a big business, he would take almost half of the rewards every time. Even if the rewards this time really dropped.
At 30%, he wouldn't have no money to distribute it.
However, 30% is not a small amount. The rewards and weapons, gunpowder and other supplies reported by the Liaodong Army add up to 170,000. This does not include the grain, grass, soldiers' armor, cloth, silk and other items mainly handled by the civil servants and governors.
And since the Liaodong Army suffered few casualties in this battle, in fact, the 110,000 taels were pure rewards. If he was 30% less, that would be a loss of more than 30,000 taels of silver. What was missing was that he, Li Chengliang, could have let go
The money that goes into your own pocket!
There is a saying that Li Chengliang was greedy, but he did not covet the rewards that should have been given to his servants, because these 40,000 cavalry were almost all the capital of his career!
Therefore, if the Ministry of Accounts did not pay the money, Li Chengliang was equivalent to losing money - although in fact he only received less reward.
The money problem was still worrying, and the Tumen didn't stop. They first went to rob Qi Jiguang's grain road. Of course, this had nothing to do with Li Chengliang, and he was too lazy to bother. But then the Tumen went to Tieling to cause a big fuss.
Not only did they break through the Zhenxi Fort and defeat the Tieling Guards, they even went to urinate on Li Chengliang’s ancestral grave!
This moment made Li Chengliang almost angry to death. When he heard the news, he became so angry that he suddenly lost his breath. He finally woke up and without saying a word, he shouted that he wanted to beat Chahanhot again.
Tumen Khan's head was made into a chamber pot and used to apologize to his ancestors.
However, this failed to happen, because the rewards from the previous wave had not yet been received, and the servants were really not interested in beating Chahanhot again. To make them move again, other than being hit on the head by the Tumen, there was nothing temporary.
Except for possible situations, we can only wait for the reward to come out first.
Li Chengliang could not take the thoughts of the guards seriously, but he could not help taking the thoughts of his servants seriously, so the matter was shelved with great thunder and small rain.
If these two things are simply bad things that make Li Chengliang very unhappy, then the third thing is more complicated. It makes Li Chengliang at a loss, his mind is in a mess, and he can't figure it out. He doesn't know what is going on.
Good or bad.
The third thing was that Li Chengliang's "Beijing Office" reported quickly that Gao Pragmatic was coming to Liaodong to serve as Minister of Yuanmasi!
Li Chengliang was shocked by the news. He still couldn't figure out why he refused to live in Beijing honestly with his high and pragmatic identity and status.
It was nothing more than the Battle of Monan. The incident itself seemed to be mainly a "diplomatic incident" at first, but later it aroused a sudden change and led to a big war. Li Chengliang had this impression, but in fact the news he received was not the same.
It was completely caused by it. In fact, his judgment was obviously inaccurate.
After defeating Monan, it’s time for you Gao pragmatism to stop. As a heir to the mantle of Gao Wenzhenggong, the only six recognized No. 1 scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and a classmate and friend of His Majesty the Emperor, you will definitely be able to stay in the Hanlin Academy for at least ten years.
Add a minister, and then just work around for three years and you will be an iron-clad pavilion boss!
He just wanted to run up to Gao Pangshi and question him: Do you think there is something wrong with your brain? You don't want the future of Ge Lao in his early thirties before you, but you want to join in the fun of me in Liaodong. What the hell are you doing?
what?!
However, the overall situation of Gao Pragmatic coming from the east has been decided, and the question that Li Chengliang needs to consider has become "What will happen if he comes?"
In fact, Li Chengliang was not worried at this time that Gao Pingshi might want to touch him. In his opinion, this should not be done at all - he, Li, helped the Ming Dynasty to guard Liaodong, not to mention unparalleled achievements, at least he had continuous achievements.
Without him, Li Chengliang, how could Liaodong have the current stable situation?
Therefore, he does not feel that Gao Jingshi is here to target him, but he has to worry about another problem, a problem that is actually directly linked to his foundation, that is, once Gao Jingshi comes to Liaodong in person, Jinghua may have a negative impact on Liaodong.
This is no longer the attitude.
There is no doubt about the power of Jinghua. Before coming to Beijing, Gao Pingshi tried his best in Yanjing City and won over the Liang family with a net worth of hundreds of thousands as easily as drinking cold water. This is already a good illustration of the problem.
Previously, even though Jinghua's largest base was in Kaiping City, west of Shanhaiguan, it did not pay much attention to Liaodong, and its power basically stopped at Shanhaiguan.
Jinghua's only presence in Liaodong was to build a port near the mouth of the Liaohe River in Gaizhou's jurisdiction, calling it "Yingkou" and using it as a port to transfer supplies to Liaodong.
Li Chengliang didn't care much about this. After all, Jinghua was famous for its love of building ports. Although it built Yingkou Port, it showed no signs of developing further into Liaodong. It seemed that it was just to make money from those maritime merchants.
For Li Chengliang, the advantages of bringing maritime merchants to Liaodong obviously outweigh the disadvantages. In this way, he and his generals who also control a large amount of Liaodong real estate can directly establish trade links with Jiangnan and other places, and many Liaodong specialties can be resold directly.
These maritime merchants also exchanged for the Jiangnan products brought by the maritime merchants. Both parties got what they needed and made a fortune together.
But... what happens when Gao Pangshi personally comes to Liaonan to take charge? Will the situation still be like this? If Jinghua's forces enter Liaodong in a large scale, you know with your feet that it will inevitably erode the interests of him and the generals of Liaodong. What will happen then?
?
Fight with Gao Pragmatism?
Li Chengliang shuddered directly, he couldn't even imagine this.
so what should I do now?
A tall young man who was not yet thirty years old hurried over and shouted to Li Chengliang: "Father, Gao Longwen has passed Caozhuang Mayi and will arrive at Ningyuan in an hour at most. Do you think...?"
Li Chengliang stood up suddenly, grabbed his helmet with one hand, and immediately walked out, saying coldly: "What are you looking at? Can I not greet you?"
The young man glanced at his father, who was wearing a helmet and armor, and said hesitantly: "Father, you don't look like you are going to greet..."
"What do you know?" Li Chengliang snorted and pointed at him: "Same for you, ask your younger brothers to change into military uniforms and accompany me to see this senior observer."
Observation is the honorific title given to the inspectors and various Taoists.
