Chapter 285: Chip Swap
An out-and-out threat is also a threat of empty white teeth.
Because Yang Ho didn't say anything about it.
In fact, the imperial court completely listened to what Li Chengliang said about the abandonment of the six forts, thinking that the six forts were indeed of no value, and they abandoned them. The emperor did not have any reply on this matter. Except for the Liaodong Governor Xiong Tingbi's letter to oppose it, almost no one in the Manchu Dynasty raised doubts about it.
Most of the local officials in eastern Liaodong who had opinions on this were either demoted or transferred, and a small number were even directly dismissed. In order to eliminate the adverse effects of this incident, Li Chengliang can be said to have threatened or bribed, achieving the effect of sealing up and down and applauding everyone.
If it weren't for the Xiong barbarian from Hubei who personally visited the circle, and then wrote with righteous indignation, the history of blood and tears of the residents of Liubao would not be known at all.
Wei Liangchen didn't know about it at first, but fortunately, he was able to understand what happened by mistake at the Jingshi Huguang Guild Hall.
Now that he knows that this matter is not conducive to the establishment of a state in legal theory, Xiao Chitose naturally wants to take this matter out and talk about it. He came to Jianzhou this time, not to make amends in exchange for the anger of the governor of Jianzhou and the stability of the borderlands, as Li Chengliang hoped, but to come and take a look, take a walk, and talk.
If you want to talk, you have to have bargaining chips.
The death of Lord Hong and Gao Huai's arrears are Nurhachi's bargaining chips at the moment, but Kuandian Liubao and the Han fugitives, as well as Shuerhachi's complaint, can be bargaining chips for good ministers.
Although the official position of the priest is small, the deputy envoy who co-organizes the arrears of money and grain is a big responsibility. The so-called lowly and powerful is the truth.
Liaodong can treat him as a miscellaneous person the same thing, but no one dares to slack off, because this Weishe person has the power to go directly to the heavens. This power is in Liaodong, and only four people have it. The first is Li Chengliang, the commander of Liaodong, the second is Li Bing, the governor of Liaodong, the third is Yang Hao, the envoy of Qinchazheng, and the fourth is Xiong Tingbi, the governor of Liaodong.
Xiong Mingyu does not have this power, and his direct responsibility is Li Hualong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Li Hualong is responsible to the cabinet.
With this difference, Wei Liangchen dared to speak with white teeth, and threatened Jianzhou. But this is not important, whether it is the important state building party, or Xiong Mingyu, it is impossible for them to verify the truth of this matter.
Yang Ho used to be the military strategy for aiding Korea, and now Dongshan has risen again as the envoy of the Qincha, and the thing he looks forward to most is to be able to re-patrol Liaodong and gain real power. At this juncture, it was impossible for him to have a dispute with Li Chengliang and most of the officials of the imperial court over the abandonment of the Six Forts, which would easily offend the officials who had always had views on his comeback.
After all, in the Battle of Ulsan back then, the mistakes he made by Yang Ho were enough to kill his head. This black history is also the thing he is most reluctant to be turned over, with the current situation of party struggle in the imperial court, not to mention that he Yang Hao was able to make a comeback by taking the path of the noble concubine, even if it is not, it is just an honest and low-key person, and if he really jumps up and makes trouble, he will be drowned by countless bullets. At that time, even if the emperor protects him, he will not be able to be an official with a thick skin.
In this era, trends can not only cut off a person's way forward, but also kill people.
Turning out the Six Castles is undoubtedly the right strategy. After this question was raised, the banquet could be said to have broken up unhappily.
After Liangchen returned to the residence arranged by Jianzhou, he repeatedly considered the gains and losses of Liubao.
Judging from the current situation, the reason why Li Chengliang gave up the six forts of Kuandian in the first book was because the six forts were lonely and easy to attack and difficult to defend, so instead of spending a lot of money every year to build the six forts, it was better to abandon the forts and move the residents to the border for resettlement. In this way, a lot of money can be saved, and secondly, it can also avoid the capture of the Han people.
However, it was Li Chengliang who proposed to set up six forts in Kuandian, but the reason why he proposed six forts was to forge ahead, alleging that the establishment of six forts could effectively contain and monitor Jianzhou, and strengthen the local garrison through immigration.
Li Chengliang has the final say on whether to set up or abandon it, he is the old minister of Zhenliao, the Optimus Prime of Liaodong, no matter what he says, he is right. At least, that's what officials in the DPRK and China think.
Liangchen pondered, this matter is, to put it bluntly, a matter of age. Young and motivated, brave and enterprising, good to be the shadow of the official. When you are older, you have everything, and naturally you have no motivation to go up. The old man, seeking stability, seeking peace, and seeking nothing has happened since ancient times.
Not to mention whether Li Chengliang's abandonment of Liubao is suspected of being a prisoner, judging from this incident alone, Liangchen thinks that Li Chengliang has an unspeakable reason, that is, he, the Optimus Prime of Liaodong, is actually afraid of Nurhachi, and this former manu of his family has become so strong that Li Chengliang himself is afraid of it.
For Nurhachi, the benefactor Li Chengliang has also changed from a backer to a stumbling block, as far as Gao Huai's bullying of Jianzhou is concerned, if it were not for Li Chengliang's concerns, how could Nurhachi tolerate Gao Huai's tax supervisors and tax soldiers to run rampant in his Jianzhou and beat so many white slips.
Just because he is afraid of loss, he would rather pay a greater sacrifice in exchange for the other party's refusal, this logical minister can't figure it out.
If Li Chengliang believes that Nurhachi will one day no longer be controlled by him, then what he should do is to preemptively strike as he did when he was young. Taking advantage of the premise that the elite of the Ming army in Liaodong is still alive and is still capable of fighting, pull out this root, instead of retreating and conniving, and completely cultivate this into a vicious wolf and a tiger.
It is impossible for Jianzhou to give up the six forts and the tens of thousands of Han people in his hands. No matter how powerful Wei Liangchen's fox is and how powerful he is, no matter how fierce he is pretending to be a ghost, he doesn't have a knife to talk about letting people spit out the fat that they eat in their stomachs, even he himself doesn't believe it.
All he needed was that one of Nurhachi's chips.
Before leaving, he proposed to Eyidu the release of Altona's son, Altona. This matter is really Yang Ho's confession, because Altona himself is now in the hands of Li Chengliang, so Yang Ho wants to retreat and get his son into his hands.
Yang Hao's idea was actually the same as Li Rumei's persuasion of his father, that is, to support Altuna and weaken Nurhachi.
This is Yang Hao's chess for himself to be the governor of Liaodong, once he gets his wish, then the matter of Jianzhou will inevitably become the top priority of his Liaofu. Judging from the current situation in Liaodong alone, the Haixi tribes and the Mongols are not enough to deal with, and the independent establishment of a state is the target to be focused on.
With Altona, whether Altona dies or lives, in the future, Yang Hao will be able to raise Altona, just like Li Chengliang raised Nuerhachi.
The terrain of Jianzhou is complex, and the relationship is also intricately and complicated, and it is impossible to completely uproot its power by simply attacking and suppressing it with a large army. Then the old trick of reinforcing the weak and subduing the strong will inevitably be taken out again.
Liangchen didn't care about that Altuna, in his opinion, it was a good trick to raze and raze, but raze and still raze. Solving the current problem will eventually leave another big problem for children and grandchildren. Therefore, it is the most effective means to increase the population of the Han people in Liaodong, strengthen the sinicization of the Yi people, and develop the local people's livelihood. "Changing the land and returning to the stream" has achieved practical results in Huguang, and this good system should be promoted on a large scale to Liaodong, to the northwest, and to the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty.
However, since Yang Hao wants Altona, then Liangchen must not be able to lose the face of this cheap teacher, so he brought it up casually.
When Yi Yidu and He Heli heard this request, they didn't react, Zhen Ying just tilted his head and looked at Wei Liangchen, and only raised his feet in a dull manner and left.
After Xiong Mingyu waited for the people of Jianzhou to leave, he wanted to ask Wei Liangchen whether the matter of the six forts was the meaning of Lord Yang Hao or the meaning of the Son of Heaven.
But the good minister ignored him, got up and left.
Xiong Mingyu was quite embarrassed.