prosperous age

The cabinet left Guo Pu, leaving four people, and Xu Jie completely controlled the cabinet's right to speak.

When Guo Pu was in the cabinet before, there were Li Chunfang, Guo Pu, and Chen Yiqin among the cabinet ministers who were not part of Xu Jie's party, but now the comparison is two to two, and Xu Jie still has the power of the first assistant, which is almost the same.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, it seems that it has little to do with Wei Guangde.

It was a cabinet fight, but it wasn't really a fight. Xu Jie seemed to have returned to his original state after eliminating dissidents, and he always liked to discuss things with Li Chunfang, Chen Yiqin and others.

It seems to be democratic, but in fact it is for everyone to share the merits and take the blame together.

Xu Jie is really the same person as Yan Song. He is still in good spirits after he is over 60, and he does not look old at all.

"He's still a talent."

At this time, Wei Guangde was looking through Li Chengliang's information in the duty room of the Ministry of Officials.

Wei Guangde didn't know much about the generals of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and Li Chengliang had some impressions in later generations.

Qi Jiguang has an impression, and this is also due to the fact that later generations praised him a lot. Whether it was in the Ming Dynasty or later in the Qing Dynasty, or after the Republic, Qi Jiguang's reputation has always been great, and he is called a national hero.

As an official, who doesn't like subordinates who can win battles and flatter, and the most important thing is to give gifts to curry favor.

As for Yu Dayou, there are actually very few introductions. Wei Guangde knew that he had read an essay in which Yu Dayou was described as the "No. Calling Yu Dayou the number one expert in the world naturally makes it difficult for Wei Guangde to forget.

Although Yu Dayou never recognized this title in front of him, but he beat Shaolin Temple with a club for real. From this, Wei Guangde also felt that there are not many people in the world who can single-handedly beat Yu Dayou.

As for knowing Li Chengliang, it was purely because the Qing Dynasty was able to rise up, and it was all thanks to this fierce general.

If Li Chengliang hadn't underestimated the ambition of the "slave", Li Rusong, the successor he trained, died unexpectedly, Jianzhou Jurchen might not have a chance to shake the world.

However, he also had the opportunity to be famous in later generations, otherwise Wei Guangde would have disappeared and would not have known that there was such a number one person in the Ming Dynasty.

And what he is looking at now is the information of Li Chengliang copied from the Ministry of War.

Li Chengliang's great-grandfather, Li Ying, was attached to North Korea in the early Ming Dynasty. He was awarded the command of Shi Tieling Guard with his military merits. This is also the root of the main line of the Li family. It is similar to Wei Guangde. It can be regarded as a military family, but the Li family is hereditary. The military rank is much higher than that of their Wei family.

However, based on the comparison of military positions, it is actually not very useful, because no matter how high the Li family official is, he is still in the border area, while the Wei family is rooted in a fertile land.

Li Chengliang's luck in the imperial examination was not very good. He was still a scholar in his 40s, and he had almost lost the way to become an official through the imperial examination. That's why he chose to inherit the family business. In other words, the official position has been taken by others, so in desperation, Li Chengliang had to change to another place, which is Danshan Fort.

Since the 16th year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, Tangzhan, Fenghuang and other forts have been successively built, and troops have been stationed to guard the border.

In the 25th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, six forts including Gushan and Danshan were built on remote arteries. Among them, Xianshan Fort is the first fort among the forts in Eastern Liaodong, and it has the function of a military base camp.

In the 43rd year of Jiajing, the royal censor Wang Zhizuo set up a general in the dangerous mountain, stationed in the town of Benbao, governed by thirteen castles, and stationed more than [-] officers and soldiers. This should be the situation in the east of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Chengliang's military career began as a general in Danshan Fort.

During this period, although the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty were greatly suppressed by the Mongols, in Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty still had an overwhelming advantage over the Jurchens.

Therefore, the newly built dangerous mountain fort is actually an action of the Ming Dynasty to expand the border, including the later Li Chengliang Li Chen built the Kuandian Six Forts to expand the Ming Dynasty's territory by a hundred miles, directly pushing the border forward to border North Korea.

In the early Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty demarcated its territory, it intentionally left a buffer zone with North Korea, which is why some people clamored for territorial disputes.

However, in the Jiajing Dynasty, most of these buffer zones were occupied by the Ming Dynasty, so they were directly included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Many people in later generations identified the places where the Ming army had visited as the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but whether it is ancient or modern, in fact, one of the most important signs of territory is "actual control."

No matter how many reasons there are, as long as there is no actual control, the so-called "territory" is just a joke.

Xianshan ginseng will be stationed in Xianshanbao, under the jurisdiction of Xin'an Fort, Caohe Fort, Nuanyang Fort, Samagee Fort, Ningdong Fort, Jiangyantai Fort, Tianshuizhan Fort, Qingguyu Fort, Zhenyi Fort, Zhenyi Fort, and Zhenyi Fort. There are 74 castles including Dongbao, Fenghuang Castle, and Tangzhanbao, [-] side piers, and more than [-] belly piers. There are more than [-] officers and soldiers in total, and the side walls are more than [-] kilometers long.

The construction of these military facilities allowed the territory actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty to expand outwards, and the Ming army's pressing step by step naturally made the Jurchens feel like a thorn in their throats, so military friction continued.

Li Chengliang grew up in Liaodong, and his family was originally a military family. At that time, various tribes in Liaodong continued to conquer and conflict frequently. Therefore, although Li Chengliang focused on the imperial examination, he also continued to increase his knowledge and ability from it.

Liaodong is a place where Han people, Mongols, and Jurchens live together. The situation is very complicated. His enemies include both Jurchens and Mongols.

And Li Chengliang has been doing well since he took the post of General of Danshan Ginseng, accumulating enough capital for his promotion.

In the 45th year of Jiajing, nearly 100 troops from the Khanju and Kewa tribes of Mongolia plundered Dongpowei together, and all the nearby villages were breached. In a critical moment, Li Chengliang led [-] cavalry to attack the Kewa tribe of Mongolia. Prince Lun of the Kewa tribe Tuhan returned to the army immediately after learning about it, but was ambushed by Li Chengliang, and more than [-] people and ten thousand catties of food were taken back.

After the war, Li Chengliang was promoted due to his meritorious service, but he was transferred from Danshan a few days ago because of the obstruction of the state funeral. Now he is the deputy commander-in-chief, leading an army of [-] to defend the important town of Liaoyang.

After reading the information, Wei Guangde also understood the reason why Li Chengliang rose so fast.

In Liaodong, as long as you fight a few battles a year and report the victories, it is really not difficult to accumulate military merits and get promoted.

But in war, of course, the head is pinned to the waistband, which is risky.

In a few years, Li Chengliang was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of Xie Town because of his meritorious service. Even if he had military merits, he could still be the deputy commander-in-chief of the town.

If you want to catch Li Chengliang and train him, at least you can't let him put his slave back and do Nurhachi, so that the Ming Dynasty will lose a strong enemy in Liaodong.

But he is under the control of the Ministry of War. Although he is a big official, it is difficult for him to stretch out his hand.

"Forget it, let's wait, anyway, it's still early, let him develop himself, and wait until he has become the king of Liaodong."

Wei Guangde thought to himself, "However, we can also let the businessmen from Liaodong get in touch with him first."

Wei Guangde did not forget that there is also a group of merchants dealing in Liaodong mountain products under his command. They travel around Liaodong all year round, collecting ginseng, deer antler and other mountain products, and transporting them to the mainland for sale. Most of them hold his posts in their hands.

As for businessmen, their status is really low in this era. Although they are rich, they are useless, and they have to rely on their connections in the officialdom to be active.

The post of Minister of the Ministry of Officials is very useful no matter where it is, and the local civil and military officials have to give face.

Of course, the rewards for posting these posts are all kinds of news and a lot of money.

This is the source of money for Beijing officials to live in Beijing city. Living on the salary issued by the court, Wei Guangde raised a large family and could only eat dirt.

The current court finally calmed down after Guo Pu left, and with the completion of the new river channel, the entire court seemed to feel that the world was at peace again, and the water transportation would soon resume as before, and those grains squeezed in the south would soon be transported into the country. Beijing, that is, the imperial court has always been short of money, and other things are really no big deal.

Against this background, Wei Guangde continued to act in private. Among the people who jumped out to impeach Guo Pu this time, he repeatedly sorted out and found many officials who were suspected of being members of the Xu Party.

For some of them with more bad deeds, Wei Guangde plans to clean them out in the next year's Beijing inspection, because there are not so many official positions for them in the local area.

The vacant official positions are filled successively by new Jinshi and old Jinshi.

With the big framework in place, Wei Guangde's life in the Ministry of Officials became easier, and he also had time to get together with his colleagues and fellow villagers to live a comfortable life after they were free.

"That Sun Zhi of your Criminal Division recently heard that he offended someone from the Hu Division in the yamen."

On the wine table, Wei Guangde looked at Ouyang Yijing and asked with a smile.

"He's not from the military department, but he doesn't care about me."

Ouyang Yijing replied, "However, because of the matter of the capital's nine taxation divisions, it has indeed offended many people."

The Chaoguan in the Ming Dynasty were not necessarily all on the main roads, such as Jiujiang, such as the Chaoguan on the Grand Canal, and there are also Beijing City, which is the Jingshi Jiumen.

Officials are responsible for taxing all goods entering and leaving the city. The original practice has long been in vain.

In fact, most ministers in the DPRK and China are well aware of these issues.

However, the imperial court was short of money, so it was naturally profitable for the merchants to transport the goods into the capital for sale, so naturally no one talked about it.

But this time, Sun Zhi went crazy during the incident of the left hand of the criminal department, but he shook it off.

The memorials were in the hands of Emperor Longqing, and naturally they were written in large batches. Since then, they have been supervised by a member of the army and horses of each committee of the censors of the five cities. Affirm the original rules and regulations, and post a list of articles.

Well, a group of supervising officials lost their jobs because of this. At the same time, the household department also lost a sum of income, and the relevant officials also lost a layer of gray income.

It can be said that Zhang Zhi's memorial offended a large number of people in the court, and they were scolded miserably these days.

However, the memorials made by others are reasonable, and they have been restored to normal practice, so this scolding cannot be done face-to-face, it can only be scolded behind the scenes, because scolding face-to-face cannot be justified.

"Did someone ask your official department to punish him?"

Ouyang Yijing leaned over to Wei Guangde's side at this time, and asked in a low voice.

Wei Guangde nodded, the meaning is self-evident.

"How to deal with it?"

Ouyang Yijing asked curiously.

"Leave it outside, what else can I do, I don't want to stay in the capital to enjoy the blessings, so let him go elsewhere, so as not to restore any old routine."

Wei Guangde said with a smile, for these requests, Wei Guangde felt that he was actually helping these people by agreeing to them.

They don't know how to adapt, so they stay in the capital and get into trouble sooner or later.

Rather than offending everyone and being framed to death, it is better to be a good person and transfer them away early, and go to the local area, which can also benefit the people of one side.

Of course, the premise is that he is such a person.

By the way, I also received the gratitude of a group of officials, so why not do it.

Wei Guangde sometimes feels that he has become dirty, but he was born in the Ming Dynasty, and it seems that it is very difficult to get out of the mud and not to be stained!

I just hope that Sun Zhi can see through his good intentions when he sees the suggestions sent by the Ministry of Officials, and won't anger the Ministry of Officials.

"I heard that it was your idea to transfer Qi Jiguang to Beijing camp?"

Ouyang Yijing suddenly asked.

"Huh? Where did you get the news?"

Wei Guangde was startled, the ones who knew about this matter were normally Chen Yiqin and Emperor Longqing, and the one who pushed this matter was Chen Yiqin, how could he be involved.

"Guess."

Ouyang Yijing replied.

"How did you guess?"

Wei Guangde asked curiously, but when he said this, there was actually no silver 300 taels in this place.

"People of Yuyu, there is no one else who knows this except you."

Ouyang Yijing replied, "What's more, after Qi Jiguang was transferred away, the Jiangnan officials and army suppressed Japanese pirates and bandits all depended on Yu Dayou. Those officials used to treat Yu Dayou with a different nose and eyes than eyes.

With your move to divert the tiger away from the mountain, they will have to rely more on Yu Dayou in the future, so naturally it is not easy to play tricks behind their backs.

But I also know that Yu Dayou really doesn't know how to be a man down here. He often offends Shangguan without mentioning it, and he doesn't know how to be filial. You'd better send him a letter later, and don't make the relationship so rigid. "

Ouyang Yijing knew quite a lot in the military department, and Yu Dayou was clear about the relationship between Yu Dayou and local officials in the south, but Wei Guangde didn't know much about it.

It is often when troubles are caused, and Yu Dayou writes to him when he can't bear it.

"I came up with the idea, but it's not to protect Yu Dayou."

Wei Guangde explained lightly, but he couldn't admit it.

At the very least, if Emperor Longqing knew about it, he might have objections to him.

The person you want to protect you actually didn't tell me the truth, and told me that Qi Jiguang can train soldiers, but others can't.

"Your Majesty was annoyed by the matter of Shizhou, and planned to reorganize the military equipment in the north. He asked me to recommend Qi Jiguang."

Wei Guangde told him what happened before in a low voice.

"So that's the case. The Ministry of War is also considering transferring Tan Lun to Ji Liao, governor of Ji Town, but I object."

Ouyang Yijing whispered, "As far as I know, Yu Dayou is the only person who treats him a little better in Guangdong and Guangxi. If he is really transferred to Ji Town, Yu Dayou's life in Guangdong and Guangxi will be difficult."

Wei Guangde was a little worried when he got the news from Ouyang Yijing that night.

When I wrote a letter to Tan Lun before, I also asked him to help take care of Yu Dayou.
If I knew it earlier, I would have asked Yu Dayou to follow Tan Lun to Ji Town.

Wei Guangde thought of it belatedly at this time.

But obviously, Yang Bo and Huo Yi should be promoting this matter.

After the situation in Shanxi stabilized, Guo Gan, Minister of the Ministry of War, was dismissed from his post, and Huo Yi was appointed Minister of the Ministry of War.

In the first year of Longqing, both the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households changed their chief officials. This shows that in the first year of Emperor Longqing's coming to power, the court battle was fierce. (end of this chapter)