Chapter 106: The First Commander of Bamboo Stream (Part 2)
It seems that Li Laiheng has a lot of slander and dissatisfaction with Fang Yiren. I wonder if Secretary Fang, who is busy with political affairs in Xiangyang, sneezed twice during this meeting?
"Gu Junen... he is smart, but he is too narrow-minded and clever. I saw that he slandered Li Polu indiscriminately in his letter, and he clearly guessed that I am a person who distinguishes between public and private affairs, and who is fair in rewards and punishments, so
He came to my door voluntarily and wanted to be punished."
Zhang Pizhen became even more puzzled: "Is there a hole in Gu Sima's head? Why did he rush up here to be punished? Could it be that he suffered from some kind of epilepsy?"
Li Laiheng laughed twice and explained:
"His attack on Li Polu is not a big deal or a small thing. It is a small problem that you really want to punish, but you can't punish it with much force. But in my opinion, Gu Junen is not that kind of self-indulgent person.
He is a person who avoids trouble. He always disagrees with Li Polu on the issue of military training. I’m afraid he doesn’t like to do such detailed work!”
Li Laiheng rapped the table twice with his knuckles and said with a smile: "Gu Junen is so proud of his talent. Does he really think that he is the best in the world? Even if he is Pang Tong, he can only be a county magistrate and impress Uncle Liu Huang."
But he has an out-of-touch personality, so he probably can’t be content with writing books!”
Gu Junen has a very complicated character. It is not unclear to Li Laiheng that some of his deliberate and deceitful behaviors were part of it. However, the upper-level organization of the Huguang Army really needs a marching Sima like Gu Junen who can counselor military aircraft.
Everyone is like this, maybe it depends on how to use it!
Li Laiheng thought about it and wrote a letter asking Gu Junen not to continue to be responsible for the recruitment and training of new recruits in the future. All these matters should be handed over to the Recruitment and Training Department. He also reprimanded Gu Junen in the letter and directly scolded him for being arrogant because of his talent.
He was wild and dissolute, warning Gu Junen that things are different now, and if he does this crazy behavior again in the future, he will definitely be severely punished.
However, Li Laiheng only wrote these words in a private letter to Gu Junen and did not make them public. Gu Junen was so smart that he could naturally understand Li Laiheng's protection for him.
However, depending on Gu Junen's style of dealing with things, perhaps Li Laiheng's angry rebuke was the ending he planned!
Thinking of this, Li Laiheng could only shake his head with a wry smile. At least in the process of getting along with people like Gu Junen, Li Laiheng could understand the truth of "the heart does not matter when it comes to deeds".
The whole thing is filled with water, and the same thing can only be lamented: "It's so sad to see thousands of horses quivering together."
At that time, Chongzhen's cabinet minister Liu Hongxun privately said that Emperor Chongzhen was "Chongzhu", which means a young king. Liu Hongxun meant nothing more than that Chongzhen acted impulsively. It was both a benign suggestion and a private comment, but Chongzhen held a grudge against him for it.
His subordinates finally exiled him to Daizhou, causing Liu Hongxun to die in the garrison.
This approach is the most failed approach for those in power. Li Laiheng will also care about other people's criticism and suggestions, and will even have a bad feeling towards the admonishers because of some unpalatable suggestions. But at least he will not be like Chongzhen, so
He then became enemies with his subordinates, even to the point of fighting to the death.
Emperor Chongzhen is one of those people who is obviously in a superior position, but has no way of thinking or doing things in the way of superiors. As the emperor is above the ninth level, he should be in a high position and grasp the situation from the overall situation, instead of playing with his subordinates in a pretentious manner.
Game of Thrones.
The superior is both the referee and the player. Even if he wins the fight, he will only be replaced by another person of the same nature.
Emperor Jiajing's power-fighting skills were many times better than those of Chongzhen, but so what? In the end, we still had to wait for King Yu to clean up the mess!
After Li Laiheng wrote all the replies to Fang Yiren and Gu Junen, he asked Zhang Pizhu to send someone to Xiangyang. Zhang Pizhu asked curiously: "Don't you need to reply to Marshal Gao again?"
"Well, no need."
Li Laiheng smiled slightly and ordered people to put away the written and ink letters. Fang Yiren and Gu Junen were both his ministers. Although Gao Yigong had been under him for a long time, he and Gao Yigong were essentially Li Zicheng's "ministers".
In essence, the two of them are "waiting for the barbarians".
Therefore, it was certainly impossible for Li Laiheng to treat Gao Yigong the same way he treated Fang Yiren and Gu Junen, but he believed in Gao Yigong's character and believed that his uncle was by no means a "villain" obsessed with power.
The best way to treat "gentlemen" and "honest people" is to show them sincerity.
after all……
"After all, I've always been able to show off my abilities."
Li Laiheng's judgment and positioning of himself really made people wonder whether it was accurate or not. He opened the doors and windows with a smile. The summer rain in Yunxi had become much lighter. The high mountains and deep forests of Zhuxi were all covered with vegetation.
It reveals the wild charm inherent in the Qinba Mountains.
"I wonder how the war in Yunyang is going now?"
He stood in the middle of the Xingyuan courtyard in Zhuxi County. The rain had just passed, and the grass and trees were clearly green. This Xingyuan was renovated from a separate courtyard of the county government. It had already existed three years ago when Li Laiheng was still working as a farmer in Zhuxi County.
I'm afraid no one would have thought that just three years later, this place would become the place where Jianghuai economic envoys and former camp generals settled.
Li Laiheng was worried about the war in Yunyang, so Zhang Pili sent the news that Li Maochun had cut off the enemy and fled, and then Wang Guangen and Hui Deng in Yunyang City got into trouble and fled one after another.
"Hua Guansuo and Hun Tianxing have not changed their nature. They are still our old acquaintances and old friends. It's just a pity that Gao Doushu was taken away by them. I'm afraid they won't be able to fulfill his wish to kill himself. It's a pity, it's a pity."
Li Laiheng took the battle report from Zhang Pizhu. After reading it carefully twice, he shook his head. After Li Maochun escaped, Prime Minister Hui Deng also escaped. Wang Guangen had no choice but to take Gao Doushu away by force. This was a bit
What about conscience!
Miao Lichen's mine soldiers moved very quickly, taking advantage of the opportunity for the officers and soldiers to escape to accelerate the blasting of the caves, basically blowing up the two gate towers of Yunyang at the same time. The invading soldiers then poured into the city like a sea wave.
, although Hua Guansuo and Hun Tianxing ran fast enough, their men still allowed the intruders to capture many people alive. Judging from the battle report sent by Miao Lichen, at least two to three thousand people were captured.
Although Gao Doushu, Wang Guangen, and Hui Deng were let go, Li Laiheng was quite satisfied with the current results. Zhang Xianzhong had already evacuated Wuchang Prefecture and moved towards Hunan. Now the invading army has captured Yunyang Prefecture and Xiangyang in the north of Huguang.
De'an, Chengtian, Huangzhou, Yunyang, Jingzhou, Hanyang, and Wuchang have all become Li Laiheng's control areas.
In terms of administrative divisions in later generations, Li Laiheng controlled the entire jurisdiction that was later called "Hubei".
In addition, there is Yuezhou. This important town that controls Dongting Lake has been surrounded by the invading army. Although Yuezhou is still in Zhang Xianzhong's hands, according to Li Laiheng's estimation, the Great Western Army has no navy and cannot defend it at all.
Living in Yuezhou, this strategic location will eventually be owned by the Chuang Army.
"Well... I have all the eight prefectures in Hubei. Over in Yuezhou, the ships Zhang Xianzhong is using now are still the 300 ships we collected for him. He doesn't have a few real warships at all. How can he control Dongting Lake? Tell Gao Yi
Gong, let him talk to Zhang Xianzhong, we must have Yuezhou. If Zhang Xianzhong knows the situation, and does not leave troops to defend like he did in Wuchang, and continues southward, it is easy to say. If Zhang Xianzhong does not know the situation, he insists on Yuezhou
We are willing to give in to our efforts and transfer Liu Xiyao and Lin Chengyang to let the navy of the Chuang Army accumulate combat experience."
Zhang Xianzhong was originally a rebel commander who was as famous as Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai. Most of the time, his reputation was even higher than that of Li Zicheng. But now Li Laiheng is quite disdainful of Zhang Xianzhong. He waves his big hands and is high-spirited.
Such a powerful force that even the Eight Great Kings, the most powerful heroes, did not pay attention to him.
However, Li Laiheng's "arrogance" did have a solid material basis. After the rebel army captured all eight prefectures in Hubei, it was surrounded by the Qinba Mountains in the west and the danger of the Yangtze River in the east. The external environment became more stable, and all dissident forces within the jurisdiction were wiped out.
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After that, as long as the grassroots political system of field envoys, recruiting and training envoys, bandit arresting envoys, and inspectors can be extended to the entire eight prefectures, Li Laiheng's material power will be unimaginable.
There are about 400,000 hectares of cultivated land in the eight prefectures of Huguang. As long as production conditions above the basic line can be restored, these 400,000 hectares of cultivated land can bring in more than 20 million dan of grain income every year.
Li Laiheng's camp system can almost completely control 30% to 40% of the 20 million dan of grain. Even if it is less, Li Laiheng can still control a huge farm of more than 5 million dan.
This income does not include the extravagant income from the invading army who confiscated the property of the feudal princes and gentry!
Based on the current rations and subsidy standards for the Huguang Army, one hundred thousand off-duty personnel, including field troops, local guards, logistics and administrative personnel, plus their families, require approximately one million dan for rations and three million taels of silver for allowances (according to
In the late Ming Dynasty, the market price of grain was 3 million shi).
In other words, the current Huguang Army's 60,000 troops plus corresponding logistics, administrative officials, and even a large number of veteran camp personnel, the total food and salary consumption is only four million dan.
Compared with the huge income of the eight governments in Huguang, which is at least 5 million shi of grain, this is really very generous.
What's more, Li Laiheng's actual income must be much higher than 5 million shi. According to the calculations of Zhang Yuheng, the deputy envoy of Zhidu, and Xiao Weisong, the chief storekeeper of Kendeji, it is very likely that Chuang Jun's total income will be after he completely controls the Eight Prefectures of Hubei Province.
If Li Laiheng's public-private partnership policy goes very smoothly, plus the confiscated assets of the feudal lord and gentry, it will not be particularly difficult to earn more than 10 million dan in grain per year.