When he returned to Liaoyang, he began to read the file and sent people to investigate in detail some cases in various parts of the horse market in recent years, especially the cases of economic disputes and all kinds of cases arising from economic disputes, which were the top priority of Gao Pragmatic and thorough investigation.

In fact, the governor himself is generally not very good at judging cases in person, which is very different from the performance in some film and television dramas. The magistrates of the Ming Dynasty are usually mainly magistrates, and the magistrates (according to the leader, supplemented by the judges and soldiers, etc.) as a supplement, and few "Diao Min" can directly fight the lawsuit in front of the governor.

However, the governor, as the de facto highest official of a local administration, still has the power to participate in the adjudication of cases and even retrials, so when a new official takes office, it is not surprising that it is a routine operation to access the files, nor is it very eye-catching.

However, there is no need to elaborate on some specific economic dispute cases for the time being, and Gao Shishi found a very interesting thing from these files.

He found that the reason why the contradictions between Yehe and Hada were irreconcilable was that the root of the problem was not only the issue of the edict, but also the issue of trade routes, and this question also foreshadowed that no matter who Hada and Yehe could win in the end, the victor would inevitably have a war with the Jianzhou Jurchens.

War is usually the product of irreconcilable political contradictions, which in turn are mostly caused by economic contradictions.

The pragmatic argument is that this is a ginseng trade war – not a simple trade war, but a war caused by the ginseng trade.

Due to the fact that there are "three passes and three cities" in Kaiyuan Mashi, which is close to the Haixi Jurchens, and there are only one pass and one city in Fushun on the Jianzhou Jurchen side, the Haixi Jurchens have long hindered the trade of the Jianzhou Jurchens, among which the Hada and Yehe tribes are the most powerful. Among the obstacles to trade, the ginseng problem is particularly prominent.

The main production areas of ginseng in eastern Liaodong are Changbai Mountain and Suzi River Basin. From the Tang Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the main production area of ginseng was still around Liaoyang, especially the area east of Liaoyang and outside Fushun Pass.

Gao Shishi summarized from the dossier and found that the main production areas of ginseng have been expanded to the central regions of Heilongjiang and Jilin in later generations, and of course, on the whole, the eastern part of Liaoning is still the main production area in later generations.

However, the dossier shows that although the Jianzhou Jurchens occupied the main production area of ginseng, the amount of ginseng sold in Fushun Ma City was very small, and the Hada tribe northeast of Kaiyuan City and the Yehe tribe in the north monopolized the ginseng trade.

This is interesting, could it be that the Jianzhou Jurchens themselves will not go to Fushun to sell ginseng, but prefer to walk hundreds of miles to Kaiyuan?

No, the Jianzhou Jurchens are not willing to go to Fushun to sell ginseng by themselves, but they do not have enough edicts in their hands - Wang Tai has followed Li Chengliang and the Liaodong general army a little earlier to conquer Jianzhou many times during the decades of ruling Hada, and snatched a lot of edicts from Jianzhou.

Of course, it was not all robbery, many of which were obtained by Li Chengliang and given to Hada.

The Jianzhou Jurchens have basically been attacked since Li Chengliang Zhenliao, especially the previously strong right guard Wang Gao and Atai father and son, which are the focus of Li Chengliang's attack.

Relatively speaking, the Jianzhou Left Guard of Jue Chang'an and Takshi father and son was relatively weak in strength and honest in performance, and since Li Chengliang Zhenliao, he has not suffered much blow, and he was even rewarded with some edicts by Li Chengliang.

The edict represents the trade quota, which has been said before, since the Hada Ministry has mastered most of the edicts, the other Jurchen tribes want to sell what they have, so they have to go to Hada to find a way.

Due to the lack of strength of the Jianzhou Jurchens, the so-called way can only be to accept the exploitation of the Hada Ministry. However, due to the great increase in the strength of the Yehebu, he refused to accept the continuous exploitation of the Hada Ministry, so he chose to directly use war to snatch it.

This discovery made Gao Shishi's heart suddenly clear: it turned out that the core contradiction between Jianzhou and Yehe in history was that Nurhachi controlled the various Jurchen tribes in Changbai Mountain, cut off this trade route, and victoriously obtained Yehe's right to control the trade of ginseng (Note: After Nurhachi conquered the Changbai Mountain tribes, it was equivalent to monopolizing the vast majority of the ginseng production area, which was regarded as an upstream monopoly), so Yehe had to launch the "Battle of the Nine Divisions" to fight Nurhachi to the death.

In the original history, after Nurhachi inherited the commander of the left guard of the state of Takshi, he was not satisfied with the existing territory, and planned to continue to expand his own power, in order to develop his own strength, and in order to maintain his position as the sole hegemon, it is natural that he will continue to seize the control of trade between Liaodong and the Jurchens.

Only by constantly suppressing the trade monopoly of Kaiyuan and Nanbeiguan could Nurhachi control the horse market trade in eastern Liaodong and obtain wealth.

And when in the first month of the nineteenth year of Wanli, Nurhachi sent troops to occupy the Jurchens of Changbai Mountain, which immediately aroused Ye He's strong dissatisfaction - the supply of goods was all controlled by Nurhachi, how could Ye He's ginseng monopoly be maintained? Therefore, the contradiction between Yehe and Jianzhou is on the verge of breaking out.

In this situation, if something happens, this powder keg will explode.

So, is something wrong? out, because in the nineteenth year of Wanli, Li Chengliang went into the wilderness for the first time - a mountain that had been pressing on the heads of the Jurchens for a long time actually collapsed on its own.

However, because Li Rusong and the other brothers were still there, and they were not busy, Ye He didn't dare to fight immediately at that time, so he first tried to "suppress people with power" to see if he could force Nurhachi to spit out Changbai Mountain and other departments.

As a result, in the twentieth year of Wanli, the Battle of Ningxia and the first aid to Korea to resist the Japanese broke out successively, and the main force of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Liaodong Army, was withdrawn, and the pressure on Yehebu was suddenly reduced.

At the same time, Nurhachi also rejected Yehebu's "unreasonable demand", and the matter of the Nine Divisions Coalition Army attacking Jianzhou could no longer be avoided. So in the twenty-first year of Wanli, this war finally broke out.

Gao pragmatic figured out this "underlying contradiction", and from this he thought of Li Chengliang's handling of the Jurchen tribes when he was in Liao, and it seems that Li Chengliang did not make any big mistakes strategically during this period.

After all, from the historical results, Ye He, who owns the three passes and three cities of Kaiyuan, actually lost to Nurhachi, who only owns one pass and one city in Fushun, which shows that Li Chengliang's idea of strengthening the Haixi Jurchens and suppressing the Jianzhou Jurchens seems to be right. doll

But after thinking about it for a while, Gao Pragmatic found that this conclusion may not be true, because Li Chengliang's support for Haixi Nuzhen was mainly aimed at the Hada Ministry, and he had always held a suppressive attitude towards the Yehe Ministry.

It's just that Meng Gebulu in history was later subdued by Ye He, and he actually took refuge in Ye He, the great enemy, which I am afraid Li Chengliang did not expect.

In addition, Li Chengliang's estimation of Jianzhou's strength also miscalculated, because after Nurhachi took power, Li Chengliang suppressed him very little, and even connived at him to unify Jianzhou.

This move was not very understandable at first, but now it is understood at once: after the decline of the Hada Department, the Ming Dynasty lacked an obedient and relatively strong Jurchen tribe as an agent to represent the Ming Dynasty to "control the Yi with raze".

At this time, Ye He was obviously not Li Chengliang's first consideration, because Ye He originally stepped on Hada, and his image in Li Chengliang's mind was obviously not too good, and Nurhachi was extremely deferential during this period, so he was naturally taken by Li Chengliang and began to "cultivate".

Nurhachi made good use of this kind of cultivation, and he also found a way to break the alliance between Yehe and Hada (Menggebulu had already turned against Yehe at this time), that is, first unify the state, and then take the Changbai Mountain tribes, completely control most of the ginseng production areas, and master the output from the upstream, and then make Yehe and Hada have empty edicts, but there are not enough goods to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and seize the initiative.

At this moment, Li Chengliang's historical practices have a more reasonable explanation: he still adheres to the idea of "supporting the second strong and striking the strongest", but there was a serious miscalculation in actual operation - Nurhachi, the second strongest, easily defeated Ye He's "Nine Coalition Army".

And coincidentally, at this time, it happened that the internal worries of the Ming Dynasty (Ningxia) and the external troubles (Japan) broke out together, but there was no time to hurry up for a "preventive war" to make up for the dead sheep and beat Nurhachi back to its original shape.

Thereupon...... It's just a cup.

Nurhachi completely replaced Hada and Yehe, firmly controlled the monopoly of ginseng trade, and took advantage of the Ming Dynasty's weakness period of at least eight years before and after Liaodong to grow rapidly - in fact, it was more than eight years, because the three major campaigns (in fact, plus the Ming-Burma War) emptied the treasury and internal treasury that were not rich in the first place, and after the battle, there was no spare strength to fight Nurhachi again, and he had to spend time to recuperate first - Nurhachi at this time was no longer a small flame that could be easily extinguished by the Li Jiajun, whose strength was greatly damaged.

Gao Pragmatic looked at the pile of dossiers in front of him and fell into thought: the root of Nurhachi's rise has been found, but it is not tricky, because he is different from Li Chengliang, and Li Chengliang does not know that the Ming Dynasty in the twentieth year of Wanli will have one after another major events, so he is defenseless, and he knows these "accidents", so he has enough preparation, if Nurhachi still wants to take advantage of the weakness of the Ming Dynasty to the point where the Ming army in Liaodong cannot be suppressed as in the original history, it is a dream.

But now how can I use this situation to beat Li Chengliang?

Simply pick out those cases of Li Chengliang's eccentricity to talk about Hada in these files? This is not only meaningless, but also fails to achieve the purpose of beating, because in principle, this is just a difference in means, or the difference in his and Li Chengliang's ideas on how to control the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong.

Sometimes there is no right or wrong in political disputes, only taking sides.

But because Gao Pragmatic wants to control the intensity of the beating, it is not good to hit too hard directly at first, and it is not bad to choose a lighter method.

Kaiyuan itself has its particularity, for example, in terms of traffic location, Kaiyuan is not only the center of the post road in the northern part of the Liaodong region in the early Ming Dynasty, but also the transportation landmark of Eastern Mongolia and the Jurchen region. The Jurchen tributary customs inspection had to pass through Kaiyuan, which was the only official channel to communicate between Liaodong and the Jurchen region.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty Liaoyang Province was divided into three, and the northwest Daning Division, the Liaodong Division and the northeast Nuer Gandu Division were set up, which were controlled by Liaodong, and its intersection was Kaiyuan. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the dispatch of personnel, the transfer of grain and salary, and the appeasement of foreign Yi were all based on Kaiyuan as a transit station and distribution center. Because of this, Kaiyuan became the advance base of the Ming Dynasty to manage the Jurchen region, and it was also an important military town in Liaodong to defend against the Mongol invasion.

"The national dynasty set up Shenyang, Liaoyang, 30,000, and Tieling four guards, all in Kaiyuan, in order to curb the rush of Beidi."

After the relocation of the Daning Metropolitan Division and the abolition of the Nuer Gandu Division, the guards outside the border were assigned liaison and management duties by the guards and generals of Kaiyuan. Until the Chenghua period, the officials of the Nuer Gandu Division were still concurrently served by the guards and generals of Kaiyuan, and they directly controlled the guards outside the border.

This made Kaiyuan take charge of the responsibilities of the Eastern Mongolian and Jurchen tribes, such as tribute, mutual markets, internal resettlement, and appeasement and relief. Through Kaiyuan, the Ming Dynasty was able to effectively control the various ethnic groups in the Northeast and the border guards, cutting off the alliance between the Mongols and the Jurchens. Therefore, "Quanliao Zhi" and "Kaiyuan Illustrated" position Kaiyuan as "controlling the belt and waiyi".

The particularity of Kaiyuan is also reflected in the diversity of the sources and composition of the garrison and the people of Kaiyuan. As an important military town in eastern Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty set up a large number of garrisons and tunmin in Kaiyuan.

Kaiyuan has jurisdiction over Tieling, 30,000 and Liaohai Sanwei, Wucheng and 20 border forts, with more than 15,500 military houses and Yu Ding. If you count the family members of the soldiers, the residents, civilians and the guests, the population should be no less than 100,000. Among them, ethnic minorities make up a significant proportion and belong to different ethnic groups.

"Not long (referring to the beginning of Hongwu), Xigen County thought it was a military guard. Seventeen Chinese, Goryeo, native, bereaved women, and thirteen savages. On the one hand, in history, the Kaiyuan area was a multi-ethnic mixed area, on the other hand, in the early Ming Dynasty, a large number of Mongols and Jurchens were attached to Liaodong, and most of them were included in the military guard system, and were awarded the position of military attaché, constituting a special group in the military guard of the Ming Dynasty, called Daguan.

There was a large group of dignitaries in the Kaiyuan military guard. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Kaiyuan set up two prefectures of Anle and Zizai, 30,000 and Liaohai two guards, and placed a large number of Mongolians and Jurchens who were attached.

Until the 11th year of Wanli, this ethnic proportion has not changed. This complex ethnic relationship has brought about different impacts: on the one hand, it makes people worry, such as "Kaiyuan is half of the high-ranking officials and Miao descendants, and the strong captives who harbor evil intentions, and take measures for them, there are things that start to chill later." On the other hand, it was with the help of the dignitaries of the two states and the second guard that Kaiyuan fulfilled the important responsibility of liaising with and managing Eastern Mongolia and the Jurchens, so as to realize the Ming court's jurisdiction over the tribes outside the border and the guards and guards.

So if he wants to beat Li Chengliang now, Gao Pragmatic doesn't plan to be ruthless all at once, he must control the strength, for example, first take Li Chengliang's ass crooked.

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