Crossing the Swordsman: Lin Pingzhi, the Swordsman of Evil

Chapter 572 The Reversal Caused by the Butterfly Effect
Although Lin Pingzhi always felt that Li Chengliang was wronged, these ancient people didn't know it.

Li Chengliang has close contacts with the rebel Nurhachi, and the eight major Shanxi merchants are traders who transported prohibited materials to Nurhachi.

If Nurhachi bought only grain from the eight major Shanxi merchants, he would not be so guilty.Although it is also forbidden to transport grain outside the pass, if you use a few words to serve the people and save the people, it can be more or less prevaricated.

But Nurhachi bought copper, iron, gunpowder, feather arrows and other materials.He served as the commander of the Jianzhou Guard of the Ming Dynasty, General Longhu.The military supplies needed by his command are deployed by the Ministry of War.He buys and sells these things privately, and he can think of whatever he wants to do, as long as he has a good mind.

As a general of the Ming Dynasty frontier army, if he privately bought and sold prohibited military supplies, this could be directly identified as treason.

But Da Mingzi also has a bit of a double standard.

Nurhachi bought these things with the intention of treason.But according to Gu Changfeng's report, Lin Pingzhi's Canglang Island still has artillery and muskets.And the Lin family also has a whole Spanish fleet.But Emperor Wanli pretended not to know anything about these matters.

And Li Chengliang has offended many people by being extravagant and dissipated these years.

Seeing the emperor punishing him this time, many of the newly appointed speech officials, in order to flatter the emperor, immediately started accusing Li Chengliang of various crimes.

But Emperor Wanli had his own plans.

In the end, Li Chengliang was sentenced to the crime of "supporting the bandits and respecting himself", which should have been "executed Ling Chi", but because of his eldest son Li Rusong's meritorious service against the Japanese and Li Chengliang's past achievements, the emperor "benevolent outside the law".

It was just a symbolic blow to Li Chengliang twenty boards as a punishment.Then his fame and official position were removed, and Li Chengliang was punished to go to Hangzhou Yuewang Temple to guard Yue Fei's spirit.

Although it was to keep Yue Fei's spirit in name, Li Chengliang was actually asked to go to Hangzhou to retire.Li Rusong, who was stationed in Korea, was quite satisfied with the court's punishment.

Li Rusong, a veteran of the officialdom, also understood the emperor's intention of "knocking the mountain to shake the tiger".

However, the Li family is safe and sound, and he has nothing to complain about. Who let his father "teach his son not strictly" to raise such a wolf-hearted person like Nurhachi?

Li Rusong knew that his father had been demoted, and Nurhachi was prone to jumping over the wall in a hurry, so he immediately began to deploy defenses against the Jurchen.

He wanted to win a big battle to repay the emperor's favor of not killing the Li family, so as to wash away his father Li Chengliang's charge of "collaborating with the enemy and treason" and take off the hat of "traitor".

During this period of time, Lin Pingzhi has been a spectator, watching the turmoil of the Ming Dynasty and changing the world.

The news of Li Chengliang's demotion quickly spread outside the customs. Although the Jurchen tribes have not yet been fully unified, because of Li Chengliang's demotion, the eight major Shanxi merchants were copied, and the matter has been exposed.

Although the imperial court has not acted yet, Nurhachi can't sit still.

After all, with a knife hanging over his head, no one could fall asleep.

Because of a series of butterfly effects, Nurhachi started his own rebellion 20 years in advance.

Nurhachi's routine is no different from that in history. He still makes up the illusory "seven major hatreds" and then justifies the reasons for anti-Ming.

In the end, he established himself as Khan, and the founding title was "Jin".Changing Yuan's "Mandate of Heaven" and uniting with the Mongolian tribes officially opened his path of rebellion.

Because Nurhachi suddenly took the lead, and with the help of the elixir given by Bai Yuheng, the Jurchen warriors under Nurhachi's command were unstoppable.

Everyone has the strength of one to ten, and within a month, Nurhachi united with the Mongolian tribes and captured a large area of ​​land outside Liaodong.And concluded the "Manchurian and Mongolian alliance".Discuss to carve up Daming together in the future.

In order to avoid the worries of Nanzheng, he joined forces with Toyotomi Hideyoshi to attack Goryeo again.

Although the action was very critical, there was no panic inside the Ming Dynasty.

Because Li Rusong and the famous Korean general Li Sunchen made an early deployment, the front of Nurhachi and Toyotomi Hideyoshi was frustrated.

Li Sunchen led the Goryeo Navy to destroy Toyotomi Hideyoshi's warship in Mingliang. Toyotomi Hideyoshi saw that the situation was wrong, and immediately reported to Daming, saying that everything was a "misunderstanding".

Although his reason was far-fetched, in order to avoid this foreign enemy, Daming agreed to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's truce proposal.

Due to the lack of support from the Japanese pirates in Japan and Li Rusong's early deployment, Nurhachi's attack on Koryo also failed.

Although Nurhachi has Bai Yuheng's Xisui Pill to help, their strength has skyrocketed tenfold, but no matter how brave they fight, they are just ordinary people who have strengthened their strength and don't know pain and death. Matchlock guns, they are also flesh and blood, after being unable to attack for a long time, Nurhachi had to retreat.

Although a lot of territory was lost on the Liaodong battlefield, the current Daming frontier army is gathering.While the Ming army defended the city, the attacking momentum of the Jinmeng Allied Forces was no longer the same as before.We are now at a stage of strategic stalemate.

And blood flowed profusely on the battlefield outside the pass, and the same was true in the capital.

Because of Nurhachi's early rebellion, many businessmen and officials who had been in contact with Nurhachi before were designated as rebels.In less than a month, tens of thousands of people were killed.

In the mass graves in the suburbs of Beijing, there are even mountains of corpses, and they are thrown there without a chance to bury them.

At this time, a woman in white and a veiled hat was riding on a horse, silently looking at the corpses of the "rebels" who had been abandoned on the mass graves.Silently watching this appalling scene.Then she turned the horse's head and quickly headed towards the capital.

Compared with the bloody storm in the capital and outside the customs, Lin Pingzhi's mood is not generally good.

This is all thanks to two things.

The first is naturally that his plans are becoming reality step by step.

Nurhachi rebelled ahead of time, and before Wanli confiscated the wealth of the eight major Shanxi merchants, the treasury is now full, and there is no need for powerful and cronial parties to restrain him. Even if there is no way to calm the harm caused by Nurhachi for a while, the fledgling Nurhachi will not be able to make a big deal up.

And during this period of time, he followed the emperor and gave him a lot of advice.This includes the popularization of sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other crops among the people as emergency food reserves.

Although Lin Pingzhi also proposed to Emperor Wanli the "Yongzheng New Deal" for later generations, after repeated consideration by Wanli, although Lin Pingzhi proposed a new deal that the gentry should be paid into the mu, the fire consumption should be returned to the public, and the gentry should pay the errands and pay the grain. Good policy for the people.

Even because there were too many clans in the Ming Dynasty, the country was unable to make ends meet, Lin Pingzhi also suggested that Emperor Wanli follow the example of the ancients who "lost the princes of gold" and abolished the bloated clans.

However, considering the current turmoil, Wanli believes that it is not a good time to implement it.

Therefore, Emperor Wanli only chose not to touch officials and gentry so much, as well as the "returning fire consumption to the public" of the clan Nilin, and then supplemented by Wang Anshi's method of equalizing land.To a certain extent, the taxation of the imperial court was reduced, and the living pressure of the common people was reduced.

Although it was not perfect, it was enough in Lin Pingzhi's heart. This trip was not in vain.It really saved the people from the fire and water.

Because the cronies were overthrown, and now Emperor Wanli has monopolized power, he no longer appointed the short-lived eldest son Zhu Changluo as the prince like in history.Instead, he took another line and appointed the third son Zhu Changxun as the prince.Although the queen mother objected, without the support of the former courtiers, the old queen mother would not be able to make any waves.

Zhu Changluo, who was supposed to be the prince, was changed to King Fu, and immediately became a feudal vassal, and was "kicked out" of the capital by Emperor Wanli, his biological father.It's time to go to other places.

Without crony constraints and country-based disputes, Emperor Wanli became interested in government again.He is no longer the "bad" emperor who has not been in court for decades.Although the current Emperor Wanli is not a pro-government, he is quite satisfactory.

This is the blessing of the country and the people of the world.Lin Pingzhi felt gratified that he had changed that chaotic and dark future.

(End of this chapter)