Because Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, was stationed in Guangning, so after the battle of Gulezhai, he led the army back to Liaoxi, and the deputy chief soldier of Liaoyang (this is the official title, in fact, it is the deputy general soldier of Liaodong) Qin Deyi was impeached again, and now he has been escorted to Shandong pending trial (to be interrogated by the patrol first, and Liaodong has no patrol press, it is the Shandong patrol press concurrently), so that Liaoyang has no big man in charge of the army.

But even so, when Gao pragmatic arrived in Liaoyang, he was still warmly welcomed.

The welcoming ceremony was organized by Han Guang, the local eunuch who guarded Liaodong in Qincha Town, not only with civil and military officials at all levels in Liaoyang City, but also mobilized some garrisons in Liaoyang City.

This Han Guanghan Zhenshou is Chen Ju's person, and of course he must come out to express a "warm welcome" stance on Gao Shiji's arrival, just as after the outbreak of the previous battle in southern Liaoning, he was also the most active in asking Qin Deyi to immediately lead his troops south to rescue.

Although Qin Deyi began to rely on the principle of "the general is outside, the king's order is not affected" after leading the troops out of the city, but after all, it is not something that Han Guang can control, and he has tried his best in terms of what he can help.

It's just that Han Guang made such a big battle for his appointment as the new governor, and Gao Pragmatic still didn't approve of it, so after arriving at the Fuyuan, he frowned and asked Han Guang what was going on.

Han Guang smiled: "Futai thought that our family forced them to go to the street to greet your old man, right?" ”

Gao Pragmatic didn't speak, just looked at Han Guang, who knew that Han Guang immediately shook his head and said: "It's really not, the people of Liaoyang moved spontaneously, and after our family knew about it, they even increased some soldiers and horses to maintain order." ”

"Oh?" Gao Pragmatic was a little surprised, and said in his heart: My reputation in Beijing and Henan should be good, but there should be no such "mass foundation" in Liaoyang, right?

Han Guang said with a smile: "Futai may not know something, because the chief military officer of Liaodong is stationed in Liaoxi, and he is more effective in dealing with the border police in Liaoxi, but correspondingly, for the border police in Liaodong, the response is inevitably half a beat slow, so that most of the Liaodi have been in the army in recent years, and the losses are all in Liaodong." In particular, Cao Yan was imprisoned after the defeat in the Battle of Chang'an Fort, and his entourage could no longer be used, so that the strength of Liaoyang has not been effectively restored. ”

He paused for a moment, and then said: "When Cao Yan's power was at its peak, it was said that there were 6,000 families, which was the strongest in Liaodong Town except for Li Chengliang...... Well, forget it, the key is that Li Chengliang first recommended a Yao Dajie, and then Yao Dajie had an accident and was replaced by Qin Deyi, but whether it is Yao Dajie or Qin Deyi, there are not many elites under his command, and they can only rely on Li Chengliang to lend them troops. ”

Gao pragmatic nodded, the mystery is not difficult to guess, Yao Dajie and Qin Deyi, the position of deputy chief soldier was recommended by Li Chengliang, after leaving the town of Liaoyang, the elite under his hand was also lent to them by Li Chengliang, so do they dare not listen to Li Chengliang's greeting?

Li Chengliang is the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and then ensures that the deputy commander-in-chief is obedient to him, in this case, even if it is the governor of Jiliao and the governor of Liaodong, he will inevitably have to give Li Chengliang some face in matters related to military affairs, because if this is not the case, even if Li Chengliang does not dare to directly deal with the governor, he has countless means to disobey the yin and yang, and even deliberately lose the battle that can be won, so as to frame the governor for his poor command - as long as he himself has clearly opposed such a use of troops before.

Gao Pragmatic now understands the reason why Zhou Yong made it clear at the beginning when he was in Gaizhou that he hoped that Gao Pragmatic and Li Chengliang could work together.

For ordinary governors, if they don't cooperate with Li Chengliang's ideas, they may be in trouble in the event of a war.

However, Han Guang talked about this situation, just to explain why the people of Liaoyang spontaneously went to meet Gao Pragmatic, so he continued: "Futai is in southern Liaoning, Tumen and fried flowers and two thieves joined forces to invade each other, at this time Li Chengliang was still in Gule Village and refused to return to help, the people of Liaodong thought that Liaonan was going to be bad this time, and as soon as Liaonan collapsed, Tumen and fried flowers would definitely refuse to let go of Liaoyang, which was close at hand, wouldn't Liaoyang be dangerous at that time?"

However, Futai only used the power of a corner of southern Liaoning to destroy the Tumen and the Fried Flower Alliance, and even captured the Tartar chieftain who had been in turmoil in Liao for more than ten years! Futai, think about it, in this way, in the minds of the people of Liaoyang, aren't you a big hero? ”

Oh...... So that's what happened.

Since it was not Han Guang who forced the people of Liaoyang to engage in "sandwich welcome", Gao Pragmatic didn't bother to care, but turned the topic back to the problem of Liaodong's lack of strength that Han Guang accidentally mentioned just now.

"After Qin De Yige is left to be investigated, isn't Liaoyang's strength even more insufficient?"

Faced with this question, Han Guang hesitated slightly before replying: "It depends on who is the successor to the deputy commander-in-chief, if it is Zu Chengxun recommended by Li Chengliang, this guy has a way of collecting money, and it is said that there are more than 2,000 Ding under his hands, if he is willing to bring Liaoyang, it is not bad, plus he is Li Chengliang's person, Li Chengliang may be so Yao Dajie and Qin De rely on the old things again, and lend him a number of family members." ”

Gao pragmatic frowned and said: "If there is no family, the soldiers and horses in Liaodong will not be able to fight?" ”

Han Guang smiled bitterly: "Our family doesn't know much about soldiers, but Futai is a famous commander who moves the world, I wonder if you have seen the guards in southern Liaoning?" Well, the guards in Liaodong and Liaobei are compared to Liaonan, and they are probably the same as the eldest brother and the second brother. It is okay to defend the city and fortress in peacetime, but to send them out of the city to fight, it is to urge them to die...... Those who can fight in the field are almost only Jiading, or the army with Jiading as the Chinese army. ”

The implication of this last sentence is that either the pure Jiading troops are dispatched, or although the large army is mobilized, there must be a strong Jiading army to sit in the middle army to suppress the formation.

There are also powerful family troops, but even if he is now a border minister, it is not easy to mobilize too much because of the habits of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the general situation, most of the governors of the border towns maintain one or two thousand Fu bids, even if Gao Pragmatic is notoriously rich, he does not need the "allowance" of the imperial court by sticking money alone, and maintaining three thousand Fu bids is basically at the top.

It's not that you can't do more, as long as you don't take the money from the court, you will generally not be impeached, but you always have to worry about what the emperor thinks, right? Although Zhu Yijun now has a lot of trust in Gao Pragmatic, if you suddenly come up with tens of thousands of armed men who don't need to be paid by the imperial court, then the situation will be difficult to say.

Although Li Chengliang has a large number of family members, the court pays a salary, and if the court does not pay him, he will not be able to maintain this number. Of course, he didn't just rely on the court to pay his salary, and some other means were also available, which will be discussed in the future.

Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but sigh, no wonder the status of Jiangmen in the late Ming Dynasty was getting higher and higher, leaving Jiangmen, there would be no elite soldiers, isn't this a dead end?

It seems that this candidate for deputy chief soldier has to think about it.

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