Zhu Houzhao was gathering troops in Liaoyang and ordered the nearby guard posts to dispatch cavalry to join forces and go out for the expedition.
After Wang Yuan paid homage to the emperor, he immediately summoned Cai Tianyou, the sub-inspector.
There is no inspection department in Liaodong, so the sub-inspection roads act as inspection envoys and are responsible for inspecting the political, judicial and other situations in various parts of Liaodong.
Cai Tianyou is almost 50 years old, and he was born as a public official in Liu Ke. If the game is attribute-based, then his special skills should be "disaster relief" and "field building".
"Is Han Xi, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, really ill?" Wang Yuan asked.
Cai Tianyou said: "I'm really sick, and I guess I won't die soon."
Wang Yuan asked again: "What's going on in Gaizhou?"
Cai Tianyou said: "The guarding eunuch Yu Xi had a personal grudge against the commander of the Gaizhou Guards. Gaizhou experienced earthquakes, snowstorms, and droughts, and the sergeants all fled seriously. The eunuchs persecuted them, and the Gaizhou commander also fled without a trace for several days.
Previously, the imperial court had approved the removal of Yu Xi from his position as the eunuch guarding the city, and appointed Wang Zhao, the supervisor of Shangyi, as the eunuch guarding Liaodong."
"Prisoner Shangyi?" Wang Yuan immediately became alarmed and asked, "Which prisoner was Yu Xi who was dismissed from his post?"
Cai Tianyou said: "The Royal Horse Supervisor has been serving in Liaoyang for three years."
Wang Yuan instantly understood that Yu Xi, who had been dismissed due to a personal grudge, was mostly a member of Jiang Bin in the past, but now he was a member of Gu Dayong. Zhang Yong took the opportunity to launch an attack and replaced the eunuch guarding Liaodong with his confidant Wang Zhao. This was regarded as a struggle within the inner government.
It spread to the Liaodong region.
Cai Tianyou added: "The guard eunuchs were separated, and the gunnery eunuchs were also changed."
The guard eunuch lives in Liaoyang, and the sub-guard eunuch lives in Kaiyuan. These are the two most powerful eunuchs in Liaodong. There are also gun supervisors, who are in charge of the casting and use of firecrackers and artillery.
Now, the three great eunuchs in Liaodong have all become Zhang Yong's people.
Cai Tianyou said heartbrokenly: "Not only was there a major disaster in Gaizhou, but also in various parts of Liaodong. I want to organize refugees to go to Gaizhou, resume farming, and encircle fences to reclaim wasteland. Unfortunately, there are no private households in Liaodong. No matter how much wasteland is opened, they will be invaded by military attachés sooner or later.
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Cai Tianyou does not belong to any faction.
When he first served as a civil servant, he was a professional troll. Because he complained too harshly, he could not become a Beijing official, so he was sent to Fujian to serve as an inspector. When he was transferred to Shandong, the rebellion of Liu Liu and Liu Qi had been put down, and he
He made outstanding achievements in post-war reconstruction and was promoted to Liaodong Branch Patrol.
Historically, Cai Tianyou visited Liaodong for only a few years. He opened tens of thousands of polders along the coast of Liaodong and provided relief to countless victims of disasters in Liaodong.
Wang Yuan asked: "How is the horse administration in Liaodong?"
Cai Tianyou said: "It is in a state of decay and is almost in ruins. I know that Wang Shilang wants to reform the country and reform the horse administration in Liaodong, which should be the top priority!"
Liaodong has a vast territory and sparsely populated areas, making it very suitable for raising horses.
During the Yongle period, the number of horses in Liaodong alone exceeded 400,000!
One way is to raise the army in a free-range manner. Each regular soldier is assigned three military remnants as assistants, who are responsible for raising a war horse for the court.
One way is to concentrate breeding, and there are many official ranches in Liaodong.
But now, both methods of raising horses are obsolete.
First, let’s talk about the free-range maintenance of military households. If a horse dies unexpectedly, it needs to compensate the court for the loss. The commander will pay three taels of silver, the town governor will give two taels and five cents of silver, and the flag officer will give one tael and five cents of silver. The compensation can be paid in installments, six
At the expiration of one month, it is equivalent to dividing the loss of horse breeding equally among the military attachés at all levels, and the horse-raising military households do not need to pay a penny.
With the development up to now, officers naturally do not lose money, and all the money is paid to the soldiers (when encountering a kind-hearted general, a horse will be compensated two or three taels, and the rest will be taken care of by the military households). Such behavior makes it difficult for military households to raise horses.
The burden is that once a dead horse or stolen horse is encountered, the only outcome will be the destruction of the family and the death of the family.
As for concentrated breeding, that's even more powerful. The military general has taken over the official pasture, and he still raises it?
Xingtaipu Temple, Yuanma Temple and their affiliated prisons in Liaodong are responsible for the management of the official pastures in Liaodong. This thing was already unbearable to look at during the Xuande period. The Yongle Dynasty officially raised 40,000 horses in Liaodong, but by the time of Xuanzong, only breeding was done.
There were more than 900 horses, and the emperor was so angry that he wanted to streamline the relevant establishment.
The record in "Quan Liao Zhi Ma Zheng Zhi" is very interesting: "Liaodong Xingtaipu Temple...I don't know what year and month it was, but the seal of the horse's gate was branded, and the things that happened were irrelevant."
What does it mean?
The horse breeding institution set up by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong was responsible for branding horses, and the breeding matters had long been ignored. Moreover, it is not known when this phenomenon began.
Wang Yuan thought carefully and decided to deal with the Liaodong horse affairs first.
If you want to rectify the situation in Liaodong, you must first recover the land of Duoyan and Sanwei, so you must have enough cavalry. Liaodong is a vast area with few people, so as long as the horse administration is done well, there will naturally be no shortage of war horses. Not to mention restoring the 400,000 horses during the Yongle period
, can raise 100,000 horses, and can always choose thousands of war horses and 10,000 to 20,000 pack horses.
Thinking of this, Wang Yuan immediately went to see the emperor: "Your Majesty, do you want to restore the land of Duoyan?"
"Of course I do," Zhu Houzhao asked in surprise, "What plan did Erlang come up with?"
Wang Yuan said: "If your Majesty leaves the horse administration in Liaodong to the full responsibility of the ministers, thousands of war horses will be donated within three to five years. Thousands of fine cavalry will be added, so why worry about the loss of the three guards of Duoyan?"
Zhu Houzhao slapped his thigh fiercely: "Then it's agreed, I'll let you take charge of Liaodong's horse affairs, and you can get me thousands of war horses!"
"You might as well give a high five as an oath." Wang Yuan raised his hand and said.
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "One word is settled."
Snapped!
The monarch and his ministers high-fived each other and made a covenant.
Zhu Houzhao asked: "What are you going to do?"
Wang Yuan said: "First win a battle to establish your authority. Which Jurchen does your Majesty want to send troops to?"
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "Of course it's Xijianzhou."
Jianzhou in the west is the right guard of Jianzhou.
At its peak, there were eight Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou and three tribes in Changbai Mountain. However, the three Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou were mainly recognized by the Ming Dynasty, namely Jianzhou Wei, Jianzhou Left Guard, Jianzhou Right Guard, and the leaders of the three guards were all
In the Ming Dynasty, he was granted the title of Governor.
During the Chenghua period, the Jurchens in Jianzhou were in serious trouble, so the imperial court sent a large army to capture the Jianzhou guards and the Jianzhou left guards, which was known as "Chenghua Liting" in history. The commander of the Jianzhou right guards led his troops to hide in the mountains.
, narrowly escaped death, and spent the next decades seeking revenge.
Up to now, both Jianzhou Guard and Jianzhou Left Guard have become insignificant. Only Jianzhou Right Guard is still dancing in various ways - Nurhachi belongs to Jianzhou Left Guard. His grandfather and father both served as leaders of Jianzhou Right Guard.
Wang Gao's horse boy.
The current leader of the Jianzhou Right Guards is Wang Gao's father Dole, who should be Nurhachi's great-great-uncle in terms of seniority.
This guy didn't dare to send out troops on a large scale, and he didn't have the ability to send out troops on a large scale, but every year he sent a small group of troops to plunder, and I don't know how many Han people were enslaved as slaves.
Of course, the Liaodong generals also wanted revenge. They often led their troops to massacre Jurchen people and cut off their heads and sent them to the court for rewards.
It is not clear who is right and who is wrong.
Because the Han people in Liaodong "all the people are soldiers" and the Jurchens in Jianzhou "all the people are soldiers", they cannot be said to have killed innocent people indiscriminately. Anyway, the hatred between the two sides is growing and must be repaid with blood.
In the autumn of the 16th year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao went on an expedition in person, accompanied by Wang Yuan, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Han Xi, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Province, sent his son to accompany the army. They led a total of 5,000 cavalry directly to the right guard station in Jianzhou.