"General Mao, no way! Although you and I can't be said to be brothers, we are also very good! I have always admired General Mao's talent, how could I do such a thing? Yuan Chonghuan shouted injustice.

Mao Wenlong snorted, ignored Mao Wenlong, and asked Wei Baodao: "Master Wei, can you tell me about me?" ”

"General Mao has nothing to say! General Mao has been at the peak of his life, and he can't rise again, and it is not easy to keep everything now. Wei Bao said.

Mao Wenlong nodded thoughtfully: "Then what can I do to resolve it without being killed?" ”

"I really don't know, be careful! What General Mao lacks most is help, from beginning to end, everything about General Mao is his own efforts, neither the help of the people above, nor the people next to him, let alone the help of the people below! Skate on thin ice! I am the first person to help General Mao, and I may be the only trustworthy person in General Mao's life! Wei Bao was ashamed to put gold on his face. He is indeed the first and most likely the only person to help Mao Wenlong, but Wei Bao himself is not sure whether he will save Mao Wenlong, or whether he will participate in the killing of Mao Wenlong!

Mao Wenlong looked at Wei Bao gratefully: "Master Wei, I, Mao Wenlong, am not a person with a weak heart, whoever has helped me, I Mao Wenlong will never be disappointed!" Is there really no way to resolve the fate? I now know who is going to be against me, and if I kill this man, can't I? ”

After Mao Wenlong finished speaking, he glared at Yuan Chonghuan, and immediately became murderous!

"General Mao, don't mess around, you won't take it seriously just because of a few jokes from Wei Gongzi on the wine table, right?" Yuan Chonghuan was immediately frightened, you must know that Mao Wenlong can bring hundreds of thousands of people outside the territory, he is a very murderous person, and he is a person who can control the situation very much, this kind of person, once he finds the slightest sign of unfavorable to himself, he will not hesitate to nip it in the bud.

Mao Wenlong doesn't have much military talent, but he is definitely a master of political work! Whether it is engaged in politics, intelligence, agent management, or internal affairs management, Mao Wenlong has done a very good job.

Wei Bao asked himself if he didn't have a golden finger and didn't have a Zhenyuan ship, just if he threw himself into Mao Wenlong as a crossing giant, he would never do much better than Mao Wenlong.

A little bit of pitiful logistical supply, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people following, it is very difficult to raise one or two hundred thousand people, North Korea is completely useless, Jiannu chases and fights non-stop, even the revolutionary base in later generations is not as difficult as Mao Wenlong at this time!

"Hehe, how could I be serious?" Mao Wenlong smiled coldly.

Wei Bao sighed and said: "General Mao, I advise you to think more about your own development, if someone wants to kill you in the future, it will only be because you are strong enough to let others beg you, so you don't have to worry about being killed." In other words, whoever is the governor of Jiliao, as long as he is the spokesperson of the combination of the interests of the officialdom of the capital and the local generals in western Liaodong and Liaodong, will be murderous against you, because your existence will greatly reduce the amount of money they earn! ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he nodded thoughtfully, "Yes, when anyone can use me, they can't wait for me to fight to the death with Jiannu immediately!" But when I don't need me, I can't wait for our Dongjiang army to be grass-eating yaks! Not a penny of silver, not a grain of grain and grass will be taken out! The way of the world! ”

"General Mao, as long as you can trust me, your logistics will no longer be a problem in the future! I, Wei Bao, can do it alone, but I Wei Bao has something, and I also hope that General Mao can help, at least don't do things that fall into the ground! Wei Bao took the opportunity to play the emotional card.

Mao Wenlong looked at Wei Bao with deep eyes: "Master Wei, I won't talk about the words of modification!" If you can trust me Mao Wenlong, I dare not say that I am a perfect person, a saint, I am also greedy, there is no one in the world who is not greedy, but I have never failed my friends! ”

"Thank you Mao Wenlong for treating me Wei Bao as a friend." Wei Bao said gratefully.

"If you can cooperate with me today, we will already be friends!" Mao Wenlong raised his glass and toasted Wei Bao.

Wei Bao also respectfully poured a glass of wine and drank with Mao Wenlong's crepe.

Yuan Chonghuan saw that Mao Wenlong no longer seemed to be as murderous as he was just now, so he hurriedly diverted the topic: "Master Wei, you must not go outside to say those words just now?" If you say this, it will really kill people! ”

Wei Bao smiled: "What did I just say? I didn't say anything, Lord Yuan doesn't have to be too nervous, but with your intelligence, your courage, and your temperament, you can make great achievements in officialdom, and it is indeed just around the corner. ”

"No, no, no! I'm not that kind of person. Yuan Chonghuan breathed a sigh of relief, smiled at Wei Bao, and toasted to Mao Wenlong with a smile: "General Mao, don't take what Wei Gongzi said just now?" ”

"What did Wei Gongzi say just now? I didn't hear anything! Mao Wenlong sneered: "If I believe Wei Gongzi's words, I may only have four or five years to live, and I will die of bad heart every day in the future?" Lord Yuan, your current power, don't say kill me, drink with me, and I must be willing, and when you really have the ability to kill me one day, I will be on guard! You don't have to be so nervous now! ”

"Yes, yes, but there won't be that day." Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly laughed, wiped his cold sweat, and deliberately diverted the topic and asked Wei Bao: "What does Wei Gongzi think of the words proposed by Lord Wang Zaijin to retreat to the pass on all fronts?" This is contrary to the strategy of restricting Jiannu outside the decisive battle of our Lord Sun Inspector and the battle of Jiannu in one city and one place. ”

"Yes, that's a pretty good topic!" Mao Wenlong agreed: "In the past few years, every time there is a war with Jiannu, this topic will be brought up. Even if people don't say it on the table, they will say it in private. ”

Wei Bao nodded, and he also knew a little about Wang Zaijin.

Wang Zaijin, Wanli 20 years (1592) Jinshi, the first to be awarded the middle scholar, after the official Jiangxi political envoy, Shandong governor, into the governor of the river, Taichang (1620) moved the army to the left waiter.

After Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen lost Guangning (now Beizhen, Liaoning), the imperial court was shocked and Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen were killed. On March 18, the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), the king was in the Jin Dynasty Tingbi as the military department of Shangshu and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, passing through Liaodong, Jizhen, Tianjin, Deng, Lai, the emperor gave python jade, clothes and monks Fang sword.

Wang Zaijin analyzed the situation outside the customs at that time: "The eastern affairs are separated from the Phi, one is worse than Qing and Fu, then worse than Kai and Tie, three is bad for Liao and Shen, and four is bad for Guangning. The initial bad is a crisis, then the bad is a defeat, the third bad is the endgame, and as for the four bad - donating the whole Liao, there is no game to be deployed! Gradually retreat to the mountains and seas, and there is no step back after that. ”

Zhang Heming, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said when he was reinstated to Liaodong: "Since the Liao disaster, it has been difficult to be imprisoned for the death of the Jingluo, and it is difficult for the bandits to be prepared for the strategy of the day before yesterday. Wang is in Jin with iron bones and red hearts, eloquent and far-sighted, seeing such as watching the fire with candles, and his shoulders are as heavy as the silk of the blade, but he is upright, he is drunk and sober, and he is alone in the ears of the two people in Jin, and it is not a pity to be in Jin. Regardless of suspicion and vendetta, this minister vomited his liver and gall before the emperor for the sake of the country's plan. "I have great respect for the king.

Wang Xiangqian, the governor of Jiliao, suggested that Wang Zaijin: "If you have Guangning, you can't keep it, and you will be punished." It is better to set up risks in the heavy pass, defend the mountains and seas, and defend the Beijing division". Therefore, in the Jin Dynasty, he used the strategy of "soothing the captives and blocking the passes" to guard the mountain customs, and he said in the "Closing the Door Situation is Sparse": "Draw the land and build the wall, build the platform and build the village, build the barracks, set up the mansion, divide the troops and set up the fire, and watch and help each other." ”

He believes, "Gaoling has the potential to take advantage of the city, and Doucheng is like the shape of the bottom of a pot." The help of the soldiers of the terrain of the former Wuhou Yun, and those who seek victory without knowing the battlefield are also not. The slave has a battlefield, and I have no land. The mountains and seas are not the way to pass through the Yi Gongyi, and the defense of Yan Yuanshu is guaranteed by two rivers, so why worry about the capture of Yi. Now I think that rushing to the border is blocked, how can this be a tangible moat, and it will become an indestructible golden soup. The ministers and their colleagues conspired with them, and those who wanted to build enemy towers and live in high mountains and high mountains first. If it is taken by the thief, it will help it to hit with Gao Bo, and I lose its control. There are those who start from Zhima Bay or pave from Bali in order to rebuild the border city, about 30 miles long, around the mountain in the north, to the sea in the south, a piece of stone is all overall, and the corner mountain and the joy ridge are all included. Such a close door can be a cover. ”

"Kechen Zhou Xi ordered the negotiation fee of four or five million gold to consolidate the gold soup, and Kechen Shen Yingshi also urgently discussed building a border city to shield the mountains and seas, and the minister's nuclear road and town estimator billing, which is said to be one million silver, and the cost of building and building a government house, building a platform, and building a barracks is all estimated." "The minister said that there must be the power to restore the whole Liao, and then Guangning can be restored, and there must be the power to destroy the slaves, and then the whole Liao can be restored. Otherwise, there will be no dispute, and the situation will not be left behind, and it will be difficult to continue to confess, and we must not worry about it. He found that there were major hidden dangers in the Shanhaiguan Guancheng itself, and suggested that the heavy city should be repaired, and after the heavy city was repaired, the Shanhaiguan Guancheng could really become a natural danger of Xiongguan, and it was very strategic.

The imperial court issued 200,000 taels of gold. His proposal was opposed by Yuan Chonghuan, the commander of Ningqian's military garrison, Shen Di, and Sun Yuanhua, who praised paintings, and Yuan Chonghuan asked to build Ningyuan, which was 200 miles away, but Wang Zaijin did not listen. Yuan Chonghuan directly reported his opinions to Shoufu Ye Xianggao twice, but Ye Xianggao didn't know the situation on the front line and couldn't make up his mind. At this time, Sun Chengzong, the secretary of the University Non-commissioned Officers Department, invited himself to go to Shanhaiguan in person. The emperor was overjoyed, and the prince Taibao of Sun Chengzong was given python jade and silver coins to show his grand gifts. After Sun Chengzong returned to Beijing, the face of the king in Jin was not enough, "the pen and tongue are more swift, but Shen Xiong is broad and broad", and he was reappointed as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department. Balipu Chongcheng stopped work, and in order to "improve the spirit of the Taoist generals" (improve the spiritual outlook), so it was necessary to go to Ningyuan, 200 miles away, to build a side wall, but unfortunately Tianqi and Chongzhen could not survive the foundation of this wall to hang, vigorously expand the armament war (the army increased from more than 50,000 to 140,000 at one time), a large number of ordnance, armor, and adopt the Zuo Tongzheng Yuan Keli "exceptional employment, in order to be practical, to restore the hussars' merits" The proposal was widely promoted cadres and increased government offices.

Sun Chengzong's Guanjin defense line is very powerful, but the later Guanning Iron Cavalry does not seem to have much record of shooting, the Battle of Dalinghe, the Battle of Songjin or something, the Ming army was defeated, and there are some generals in the Guanning Iron Cavalry who do not listen to the command, and some generals are not firm-willed, and surrender if they can't hold on. Is Wang Zaijin's proposition more appropriate?

"It mainly depends on Daming's financial situation." Wei Bao said lightly: "Wang Zaijin's strategy is more realistic, taking into account financial problems and the low combat effectiveness of the army. Master Sun's strategy was politically correct, and the court would be happy to hear it. Considering the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty, this is not easy to say. Abandoning Liao and guarding the pass, Wang Bingbu is only afraid that he will be regarded as a traitor by patriotic people! Sun Gebu also wasted all his efforts, poked at the king's affairs, and relied on He to go from side to side. It may be that although Inspector Sun's proposal may not be in the interests of the Ming Dynasty as a whole, it is likely to be in the interests of those who can contact the people who have access to the levy and distribution of Liao's salary, and it also allows Guan Ningjun to receive more transfer payments from the imperial court. Wang Bingbu should be glad that his idea was not adopted, otherwise his fate would not be good. Every once in a while, someone would attack him. Don't always think about scheming, but also look at the geopolitical environment. Listening to Wang Zaijin's words of shrinking into Shanhaiguan, what should I do if there are still people in the land and cities of Liaodong? Jianzhou Jurchen, they are a fishing, hunting, farming people, leaving so much land and people, Nurhachi Emperor Taiji can wake up with a smile in their dreams, right? So we should move people in, but how big is this? If the Ming court had the financial resources to move millions of Liao people into the arrangement, and destroy all the military strongholds in Liaodong by the way, if there were these things, the Houjin would have been destroyed hundreds of years earlier. Why bother? ”

When Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong heard this, they invariably glanced at each other, originally thinking that Wei Bao was powerful, but it was only the level of normal people, but now they are really not convinced, so they will help Wei Bao.

Wei Bao can actually pretend to be two people and talk to himself? Anyway, Wei Bao has said all the truths and backwords.

"Then Wei Gongzi, how is the financial situation of our imperial court now? Is it appropriate to attack in an all-out way, stick to all places, and trap Jiannu, or is it appropriate for Wang Zaijin to fully retreat and wait for work at Shanhaiguan? Yuan Chonghuan asked.

"I think the key is not which is suitable or not, but that there is no choice at all!" Wei Bao replied: "Don't be afraid to say something taboo, how can there be Liaodong in the current Ming Dynasty, after the loss of Guangning, the north of Jinzhou was already under the control of the Later Jin, and the area that the Ming army could barely control was the narrow Liaoxi Corridor, and the Liaoxi Corridor was a dead place militarily, whether it was for the Ming or the Jin, it was not suitable for long-term garrisons, so the military operations of the Later Jin against Liaoxi were to grab things instead of occupying them every time." Don't shrink and wait for the gold to be harvested every once in a while. Now there is no way back! Even if Daming lacks silver, what is lacking is by no means such a little silver, the problem outside the customs seems to be outside the customs, but in fact, they are all inside the customs! The economic situation of the imperial court improved a little, and Jiannu immediately had to flee to the deep mountains and old forests to hide! ”

Mao Wenlong was overjoyed when he heard this: "I finally have someone who understands." I couldn't help but applaud Wei Bao in agreement: "I really like to listen to Wei Gongzi, only Wei Gongzi's words can go to the old man's heart, exactly the same as the old man thinks!" ”

Wei Bao smiled, this is a very simple understanding, right? I didn't expect Mao Wenlong to be so excited.

In fact, in the world for 5,000 years, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, there is only one book that believes that Wang Zaijin's strategy of rebuilding the city at Shanhaiguan is not wrong, that is, Wang Zaijin himself wrote "Three Dynasties Liao Facts".

Moreover, Wang Zaijin himself did not know who was right and who was wrong at that time, but raised the bar in hindsight, and used Sun Chengzong's recital to make people mistakenly think that Sun Chengzong could not answer him. It's all a play on words.

Throughout the book, it feels like Sun Chengzong should be wrong.

After the trend of Internet black Yuan Chonghuan prevailed, Yuan Hei was still unsatisfied, so he brought out this matter.

Because Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong had the same direction, Yuan Chonghuan fiercely opposed Wang Zaijin at the beginning!

This problem was originally caused by Yuan Chonghuan, who had the same views as Sun Chengzong, and finally became the advocate, supporter and main implementer of abandoning the construction of Balipu and changing to Ningyuan.

As long as someone says that Yuan Chonghuan is right, some people on the Internet stand up against it, make up conjectures, and write books such as "Ming Injustice" and "Late Ming on the Fold".

Shengsheng created the idea that Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan were wrong, and made it popular.

The source of its historical materials is this "Records of the Three Dynasties and Liao".

In the Ming Dynasty, "the next to the top, the title, the play, the table, the sermon, the pleading, the book, the unveiling, the system, the dew, the translation, all of them are reviewed and revised, and the fairness is the practice." ”

"History of the Ming Dynasty: The Official System I" has never been said to be "folding" and "excerpts", which is the habit of the Qing Dynasty, and the title of the book is purely the product of watching too many Qing court dramas.

Readers of this kind of book, some of them keep cutting their braids in their hearts, but they often scold others for being full of relics and tartars.

In fact, "The Facts of the Three Dynasties and Liao" is not a book, it is a self-proclaimed thing fermented when remarks are rampant.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was no restriction on speech, and any publication could be put on the market as long as you were willing to pay for it.

The book is based on the Liao affairs of the Wan, Tai, and Tian dynasties, and talks about how he has no talents, how his strategy is correct, how Sun Chengzong is suspected of corruption, and how the Liao people advocated by Sun and Yuan to defend the Liao land. And all that. It's mostly personal bias, plus a play of words.

Regarding the controversy between the construction of Balipu Chongcheng and Sun Chengzong in Shanhaiguan, this matter is one of the most scandalous events in Wang Zaijin's life, of course, it cannot be left unmentioned. It's nothing more than playing with words, reversing black and white, and confusing right and wrong.

If Wang Zaijin really made sense, why was he driven to the Nanjing Military Department in the end. And Sun Chengzong's first assistant Ye Xiang was high out of the town and supervised Liaodong?

This matter was preceded by a court meeting and then explained in detail, and it was a series of national decisions.

At that time, even if some courtiers were confused, could it be that the ministers led by Ye Xianggao were children who were easy to deceive? It is clear that Wang Zaijin is wrong.

Sun Gong died on November 10 in the 11th year of Chongzhen. Qing Taizong's soldiers broke Gaoyang, the public was at home, closed the door and died, and the sons and grandsons of their sons and brothers fought and scolded the thieves, and did not give in to the dead to eighteen people. Didn't it shake the world at that time?

Whoever has a heart, who does not know the respect of sorrow? In Jin for this book, its preface is between Wu Yin and Ji Mao. Shen Yongmao a preface, Ji Wuyin autumn, in Jin self-order, Ji Wuyin winter; His son will be a monk, and he will be on the top; The cover was published after the Gaoyang tragedy was broadcast. In terms of human feelings, even if he has personal regrets for Gao Yang, how can he bear to slander the book on the day when the patriarch Fu went through the tribulation? Fortunately, in Jin villain, he only knows grievances and grievances, and does not know righteousness. On the one hand, he slandered, and on the other hand, he directly confessed the reason for his grievances, and he was righteous and ugly, and his lungs and liver were like this. ——Meng Sen, "Commentary on the Facts of the Three Dynasties and Liao"

The great historian Xie Guozhen searched for thousands of historical books in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, extracted their catalogue indexes, and wrote the book "Examination of Historical Books of the Late Ming Dynasty". contains a lot of historical books that even record obvious errors, as long as there is a little historical value, they are all listed, but there is no such "Three Dynasties Liao Facts". It is nothing more than the belief that what this book says and writes is actually too nonsense and worthless.

Meng Sen's evaluation of this book is even more harsh, when Sun Chengzong was alive, you didn't dare to hack him, and when he died, you slandered him all kindly, Wang Zaijin was simply shameless.

On the Internet in later generations, in order to show that their views are correct, some people do not hesitate to dig deep into these baseless claims, make up speculations in their brains, and fabricate various plots. Treating this book as a classic of historical materials, and taking this kind of "historical material" that everyone doesn't read or even know about, this is also high enough.

Mr. Xie Guozhen included the "Three Dynasties and Liao Facts" in the "Historical Materials of the Founding of the Qing Dynasty" and had special comments. (Wang Zaijin) in the early Ming Dynasty through Liaodong, and the Ji Governor Wang Xiangqian monopolized Mongolia, guarding the gate and abandoning the gate. If you want to build a heavy city in the eight miles outside the gate and stick to the palace, its plan is quite left. Only the book starts from the 46th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty to the 12th month of the Apocalypse, and the narrative traces back to the details. The first general strategy, the sub-chronicle and the recital, more than ten years of things, the record is detailed, and it is a huge volume, which is a book that must be referred to by those who govern Liao.

From this point of view, it is obviously wrong to say that Xie Lao thinks that this book has no historical value. However, the value of historical materials that Xie Lao believes should be said that at the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it may be the period in Chinese history when the historical facts are recorded in the least true. Anyone can write history, and everyone thinks that what they see with their own eyes is true, and the point of view they write is right.

As a result, many historical materials have been copied from each other, and several books still cannot be trusted for the same record.

Therefore, for the historical materials of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, we must look at them with discernment. The value that Xie Lao said is because from the Liao affair in the forty-sixth year of Wanli (Salhu) to the period of December of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the entire Liao affair has been recorded.

Because in the historical materials of the late Ming Dynasty, it is often a matter that is brought over in just a few sentences, and it is rare to narrate it in such an orderly manner, and its value lies in the fact that "the events of more than ten years are recorded in great detail". However, just because there is a record does it mean that it must be true.

In the style of Wang Zaijin, he often plays a lot of word games in order to exaggerate his own merits and belittle his opponents (mainly Sun Chengzong).

To give an example, the recital of the matter of repairing Balipu: Wang Zaijin inscribed: "The minister is strict because the wall is low and the soil is thin, the old border is three zhang and two or three feet, and now it is increased to four zhang, and the earth is eight or nine feet, and now it is filled to two zhang and two or three feet. The wall is brick and ash and solid, and the soil is rammed and pestle, although there are still 1,800 zhang in the north and south parts have not been repaired, and the cultivator is looking at each other. Chisel outside the city, excavate the word ditch outside the Hao, secretly sign in the ditch, put an empty camp outside the ditch, all the work is done, steal the plan can be completed, and pave the new side in Bali, has finished the earthen wall more than 200 zhang, the minister goes back and forth from time to time, the body is the first to dispatch, the diligent person is rewarded, the lazy is punished, conscientious all day long, such as the great enemy. ———— "Three Dynasties Liao Facts".

According to Wang Zaijin's statement: one zhang is three meters, one mile is 495 meters, and one mile is almost 165 zhang. (The weights and measures of the Ming Dynasty were even so) 1,800 zhang was not repaired, that is, more than 10 miles were not repaired, and the old city was only 20 miles in total, that is, 3,300 zhang, and he repaired 1,500 zhang, less than half. The earthen wall has been completed more than 200 zhang, 37 miles of new city, but more than one mile has been completed.

Moreover, the above are all earthen walls, and repairing the city must not just use a mound of earth, at least there must be bricks. I asked for 930,000 taels of silver, and I jumped for a long time to get this project out. Moreover, this is still the amount of completion that Wang Zaijin himself said, I'm afraid I have to squeeze some water out.

However, he dared to say that the city wall "has been repaired and Cui Wei looks at each other", and he himself "goes back and forth from time to time, the first to dispatch, the diligent reward the hardworking, the lazy to punish them, and be conscientious all day long, as if facing a great enemy." Such untrue statements appear very many times in the "Three Dynasties Liao Facts", almost everywhere.

After the defeat of the Ming Dynasty in Sarhu, the Guanwai was in danger, and the imperial court promoted Xiong Tingbi to the Liaodong Economic Strategy.

When he took office, it was also the time when important towns such as Fushun, Qinghe, and Tieling outside the Guanxi fell. But he didn't work long before he was dismissed again, and Yuan Yingtai was replaced. Yuan Yingtai felt that there were still a lot of troops in Liaodong, and he could fight with Nurhachi. Therefore, the deep ditches and high ravines, the vertical walls are clear, and as a result, they dry down, and continue to lose Liaoyang and Shenyang.

Looking at it, Ming Ting felt that Xiong Tingbi could still fight, and he became the Liaodong Governor again, and at the same time sent a Liaodong governor Wang Huazhen.

Xiong Tingbi thought that he could not start a war with Nurhachi immediately, and that he should defend and then fight, and then start a war after gaining a firm foothold. Moreover, to fight, it is also required that Mongolia, North Korea and the Ming Dynasty's own tripartite forces be launched together, that is, the "tripartite arrangement" strategy.

What about Wang Huazhen? His tutor was Shoufu Ye Xianggao, who, like Yuan Yingtai and most of the officials of the Ming Dynasty in front of him, was confused with self-confidence, claiming that he could "wipe it out in one fell swoop" against Houjin.

The position of governor, from the middle and late Ming Dynasty, gradually evolved into the military, government, and civil affairs. Neng Tingbi's strategy is just that everything can be managed, and the Ming Dynasty's economic power in Liaodong seriously overlapped.

Wang Huazhen is on the front line in Guangning, and the main and heavy troops outside the border are in his hands, he doesn't approve of any tripartite arrangement, and he doesn't listen to you. Xiong Tingbi had no choice but to let Wang Huazhen go to the level, and the final result of the leveling was, of course, Wang Huazhen's defeat was ugly, and the entire Guangning town was lost, and he fled back with the remnants of the army. Xiong Tingbi led 5,000 soldiers from his relatives to respond and returned to Shanhaiguan.

The next question is the candidate for Liaodong Economic Strategy, which was originally the Interpretation of the Scriptures, but the Interpretation of the Scriptures did not dare to go, and was dismissed and cut down.

Then it was Wang Zaijin's turn, Wang Zaijin didn't dare to go, and he resigned hard, then you choose one of the dismissals and the strategy, there is no way, and in the end you can only bite the bullet.

At this time, Wang Zaijin made another 180-degree turn with the Manchu ministers, and became confused and unconfident, thinking that the outside of the pass must not be defended.

So where are you going to keep it? Shanhaiguan, of course.

Wang Zaijin proposed to build a pass in Balipu, which is to build another pass in a place outside Shanhaiguan and away from Bali. It becomes a double level, two layers of turtle shells, which seems to be safer.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan, who was ordered to go to Beijing from Shaowu County, Fujian Province to report on his work and relocate the head of the Ministry of Labor, went to Shanhaiguan to inspect it once, threatening to "stay here alone with my soldiers and horses in Qiangu." His courage was commendable, and Wang Zaijin promoted him to Yongping to prepare for the road and assist him in repairing the city.

Not long after he started cultivating, Yuan Chonghuan felt that something was wrong, and Nurhachi outside the gate simply had no ability to occupy a large area of territory at once and continue to advance. The refugees of the Thirteen Mountains are still resisting near Jinzhou, and the imperial court can completely push the battle line forward and directly defend the distant city, and the battle situation will be more active. So he raised an objection, and even bypassed his boss Wang Zaijin and wrote this opinion directly to Shoufu Ye Xianggao.

Ye Xianggao also attached great importance to this, so Sun Chengzong was ordered to read the pass for Ye Xianggao.

The so-called controversy was actually when Sun Chengzong came to the gate and asked Wang Zaijin a few questions. Sun Chengzong: You said that a new pass will be built outside the pass, so will the new pass be garrisoned by Shanhaiguan or will it be another conscription? Wang Zaijin: Another 40,000 troops were recruited and stationed in Xinguan.

Sun Chengzong: That is, there are 80,000 soldiers within a distance of less than eight miles from the old city of the new city, and there is also a piece of stone northwest that also needs to be set up in the northwest.

What about the empty space between the two cities? Wang Zaijin: Lay mines to prevent the collapse of the former city.

Sun Chengzong: There are mines planted between the old and new cities, is that to block the enemy or for the soldiers in the new city?

If the new city can be defended, then why use the old city? If the new city can't be defended, then these guards retreat to the old city, do you switch them into the old city, or do you close the city and abandon these soldiers? Wang Zaijin: I have built three more cottages in the new city, which can help the soldiers in the new city retreat.

Sun Chengzong: Before the war was fought, you built three cottages and prepared to let them withdraw, so didn't you let them withdraw? If they withdraw, can the defeated troops enter, but the enemy soldiers cannot enter? I don't want to restore the territory, but to divide the land and defend it, according to your way of playing, is there still Ningri in Shanhaiguan? Wang Zaijin: ............ At the end of this questioning (argument), Wang Zaijin did not have any words to organize an answer.

Then, the imperial court discussed where to defend it, Yan Mingtai advocated Shoujue Island, Yuan Chonghuan advocated guarding Ningyuan, and Wang Zaijin and others advocated guarding Guangning Zhongqian (Ningqian).

In the end, Sun Chengzong adopted Yuan Chonghuan's proposition. This process is very simple, Wang Zaijin has no plan for the possible battle situation, and is speechless when Sun Chengzong asks a few words.

Look at what Wang Zaijin himself said: Only eight miles is two cities, and the empty camp of the old city should be three miles away, and the guards of the new city should be 40,000, then the 40,000 will regress and follow, and if you don't quit, you will set up all the preparations under the city for me. And the north mountains and south waters, there is nothing to do for the side, and the thieves have 40,000 under the old city, the switch can not be extended, the retreat can not be thanked, and the preparation of the city is set up for my people, and the city is shocked without asking.

The minister said: Build three villages in the mountains, thinking that they are retreating, and the three passes can be entered." Gai Fayun was born in the place of death, and the minister said that the good side soldiers also walked, that is, the killing could not be stopped, and the situation was scattered, who would be the killer again? Therefore, the two cities put their hearts and put their deaths in order to encourage their death. The minister was unable to respond. - "Three Dynasties Liao Facts".

If there is no comparison, Wang Zaijin completely omitted Sun Chengzong's final question of denying that he set up three passes, and Sun Chengzong did not respond to his plan. Gai Fayun was born in the place of death.

Jing Chen said: The good of the border soldiers is also killed, that is, it cannot be stopped, the situation is scattered, who is the killer again, so it is two cities, in order to consolidate its heart, and the death of the real place, in order to force its death. The minister could not respond. - "Sun Chengzong's Collection: Guarding and Cultivating the War".

Sun Chengzong's meaning obviously had nothing to say to Wang Zaijin. However, Wang Zaijin mentioned the words "ministers are unable to respond" to the front, and Sun Chengzong could not answer. This is certainly not true.

Obviously, Sun Chengzong's words to Wang Zaijin, and finally about the rout of the army, Wang Zaijin will not write it into his book.

On the contrary, books such as "History of the Ming Dynasty" do not record the original text of "no response", but "there is no difficulty in Jin", but it reflects the historical facts more. There are too many distorted methods in the whole book, and Meng Sen commented: "It is not to detail the changes in the events at that time, but to cover up the crime by himself." "It can be described as sophisticated, and he shows no mercy to the ancients.

Which plan is right, Shoubalipu or Shouningyuan?

It can be analyzed from three aspects, territorial sovereignty, military strategy, and the cost of building cities. 1. Territorial sovereigntyFirst of all, the Ming Dynasty did not have such an urgent demand for territorial sovereignty compared to today, but this does not mean that territorial sovereignty is not important. Is the war subordinated to territorial claims, or is territorial sovereignty subordinate to the outcome of the war? Guanwai was encroached upon step by step by Houjin, which made Nurhachi continue to grow. Ning is far away from Shanhaiguan, no matter how you say there are still two hundred miles of rivers and mountains, from later Yuan Chonghuan can calmly build the city, and then Zhao led the teaching in Jinzhou Tuntian, Nurhachi was not able to attack to the west of the Liao River at that time. What kind of military strategy is it to abandon the territory and hide yourself behind the double pass without fighting? 2. The controversy over the military strategy of building Balipu is not at all a question of whether to attack or defend, but the situation of the Ming Dynasty at this time must be defended, and it is a question of whether to defend Ningyuan or Shanhaiguan. I advise cyber militarists to look at the map, look at the map, look at the map. The Guanningjin defense line is a corridor in western Liaoning, with a large area of mountains in the north and no way to march at all, and the sea in the south. How to advance Houjin to Shanhaiguan, the supply of 400 miles along the line became a problem. On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty can be a good solution. Because the Ming Dynasty had a water division, the Denglai water division could transport the supplies of Shandong and Tianjin by sea to Juehua Island, to the Liao River, and then to the strongholds along the Daling River in Jinzhou. The reason why Ningyuan was chosen is because of the existence of Juehua Island, which can be used as horns for each other, retreat and defend, and advance and attack.

Construction costsJudging from the actual cost of building the city, Wang Zaijin's strategy is also to waste money and people.

Compare the cost of Chongguan and Ningyuan: Does Wang Zaijin's Bali Pu Chongguan really save money?

Wang Zaijin's proposal, Balipu Chongguan is: "There is a way to build a border city again, starting from Zhimawan, or from Balipu, about 30 miles long, north around the south of the mountain, to the sea, a piece of stone is all overall." ”

Compare with the Ningyuan City that was later repaired with the remaining money from the king in Jin Xiu Bali, its "city walls are made of green bricks on the outside and stone blocks on the inside." It is 826 meters long from north to south, 804 meters wide from east to west, 5 meters wide at the top, 6.5 meters wide at the bottom, 10 meters high, and 3,260 meters in circumference. ”

Later, Yuan Chonghuan rebuilt: "In September of the third year, Chonghuan to, it is a regulation: three feet high, six feet high, three feet wide, two feet and four feet. So that Dashou and the general Gao Jian, He Qian divided the governor. The project will be completed next year, and it will become an important town outside the border. ”

Build a heavy pass that is about five times longer than Ningyuan City, and ask where the money will be saved?

As for the guards, is it more economical than the original, and it is not.

Sun Chengzong asked about this question at that time, and Wang Zaijin said that he would recruit another 40,000 soldiers, that is, the original salary of the soldiers had not been reduced, and the cost of these 40,000 soldiers would be increased.

Not to mention whether these 40,000 recruits are combatable, and ask where they come from to save money?

In addition, if 40,000 soldiers are added, the original soldiers or the original soldiers have not increased or decreased, can we save money?

Because of the construction of Ningyuan City, the Guanningjin defense line was later formed.

Because the Guanningjin defense line cost money, the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of financial and material resources.

Because the Ming Dynasty was dragged down by Guan Ningjin, it was unable to suppress the bandits, and finally led to its demise.

Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan and others have really done a lot of wasteful and incompetent things. Probably these people's ideas, as soon as they saw the construction of the city, they immediately contracted the project, and the idea of the tofu scum project jumped up, thinking that it would cost a lot of money to build an infrastructure like the current one.

In fact, the construction of the city at that time mainly relied on labor, and the labor mainly came from the squad army.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after the defeat of the Beijing army, the Gongwei Beijing Division was transferred from Shandong, Henan and other places, divided into two classes in spring and autumn, which was for the squad army. When the squad army arrived in the capital, there was nothing to do, so a large number of them were transferred to repair the mausoleum and repair the city defense.

Since the Liao incident, a large number of fortifications have been transferred.

Even when Gao Di took office, someone in the imperial court suggested that 40,000 classes of troops be transferred into the customs to repair the tomb, but Gao Di disagreed, insisting that 80,000 classes of troops were deployed outside the customs to continue construction.

Because it was a local army, the food and salary were supplied by the local government, and the imperial court was only responsible for distributing salt, vegetables and silver (a kind of subsidy), which was usually three yuan per month (about the same as the salary of a craftsman), and at most nine yuan. In a word, it's to save money.

The reason why it costs money is because the Guanningjin defense line can not only defend, but also attack.

The Ming Dynasty was bent on recovering the lost territory in Liaodong, and if it wanted to recover Liao, it had to recruit troops, conscription of strong troops from all over the country, and even from remote areas such as Guangxi and Fujian.

So the cost of conscription is increasing, and the military cost remains high.

In addition to conscription, they also have to buy horses, and they are also making equipment and firearms. On this basis, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan left more than 150,000 Guanning troops to the Ming Dynasty. Then it costs money to conscript and restore Liao, does this money have a source? Yes. In the Ming Dynasty, soon after Salhu, the original amount of Liaoyu was raised to 5.2 million taels at once, that is, there was a budget of 5.2 million taels for Liaodong every year.

How much does it cost for Wang to build a Bali Pass in Jin? 930,000 taels.

If you don't do serious things, what are you going to do with the money you save? With the temperament of the Ming Dynasty, this money must not know which hole to fill, and in the end it was lost.

The reason why the Guanningjin defense line spends money is because the military expenses for conscription and recovering Liao need to be increased in food and salary, not because it is more economical to attack or defend, and it is not a question of where it is more economical to defend.

The reason why Yuan Chonghuan asked Wei Bao this question was to find out Wei Bao's 'political position'!

Of course, Wei Bao knew Yuan Chonghuan's purpose, so he was ambiguous, and what he said was not leaky, and the effect was very good.

There is nothing else, just because Wei Bao looks at this history from the height of history, and future generations can see it very clearly, at least, from a macro standpoint.

Mao Wenlong slapped his face again, "What Wei Gongzi said is good, I have the same opinion as Wei Gongzi, that is, with the current strategy of Master Sun Inspector, to trap Jiannu!" ”

Yuan Chonghuan also nodded, satisfied with the disgust for Wang Zaijin shown in Wei Bao's words, and felt that Wei Bao was at least on his side in terms of political position! "Wei Gongzi is indeed very good, no matter what, we should insist on following Master Sun's strategy!"

Wei Bao smiled, looked at Mao Wenlong, who was still murderous just now, and then looked at Yuan Chonghuan, who was relaxed and happy, and secretly thought, it is actually easy to find common ground between people and find things that make each other happy.