The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

Zhongshan Marquis lost power.

The news swept the entire capital like a hurricane.

The Zhongshan Marquis Mansion, which was once crowded with people, was unusually deserted at this moment.

The world is fickle, but it is just like this.

Tang Hao also had a rare leisure time and had time to accompany his wife and children.

After playing with the child for a while, Zhang Jingshu smiled thoughtfully: "My husband has a lot more free time recently."

"That's right, all the troubles have been thrown away, and it's time to rest for a while." Tang Hao replied with a smile, stretching out his finger to provoke the little guy in the cradle.

Little Tang Tuo seemed to really come to Tang Hao to collect debts. As soon as he saw this father's face, he immediately pouted and pretended to cry.

Zhang Jingshu hurriedly reached out and slapped Tang Hao's fingers away, glaring at him unhappily.

"Speaking of which, grandpa's health is getting worse and worse. He has been seriously ill recently."

Tang Hao was silent for a while after hearing this.

This is like a veteran warrior who suddenly returns to the countryside and becomes idle. He loses his energy and can't find anything to do. The final result is that his body breaks out and he dies.

Zhang Fu is like this.

Previously, the military generals and nobles were declining day by day. He, the head of the military merit, had to hold on and find ways to protect the interests of the military merit. He even selected generals from the nine frontier military towns and supported them at all costs to succeed him as the leader of the military merit and ensure the profits of the military merit group.

Until Tang Hao came out of nowhere and led the rise of the military merit, Zhang Mao, the veteran of the five dynasties, gradually lost his status and finally chose to transfer all his power to Tang Hao.

Zhang Mao, the veteran of the five dynasties, has little time left!

"Let's go see my grandfather in the afternoon!"

Tang Hao sighed.

Zhang Mao is the only surviving veteran of the five dynasties.

If he dies, it means that a new era is about to begin.

This is the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty, an era that belongs to Tang Hao and Emperor Zhu Houzhao!

Just at this time, the doorman came to report.

"My Lord, Xianning Marquis wants to see you!"

"Please come to the study!"

Seeing the guest coming, Zhang Jingshu tactfully left with the child in her arms.

When Tang Hao arrived at the study, Qiu Yue immediately stood up and saluted, his face full of fear and anxiety.

"My Lord, I really don't have any intention of seizing power, please understand!"

Today, the court recommended the candidate for the governor of the Beijing Army. After all, Zhongshan Marquis was deprived of his military power, so the position of the governor of the Beijing Army was vacant, which was a great opportunity for some people.

So at the request of various forces, the court immediately recommended.

The person recommended by the civil officials and gentry was Xiong Xiu, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War.

This person is also an old acquaintance. He used to be a party member of Li Dongyang and Liu Daxia, but after Liu Daxia retired, he has been honest and obedient, and has not been liquidated by the emperor.

However, it was also because of this that Emperor Zhu Houzhao had a bad impression of Xiong Xiu and naturally would not let him command the Beijing Army.

This was actually just an attempt by civil officials and gentry.

After all, the military power of the Beijing Army is the foundation and lifeblood of military merits!

In the past, the Beijing Army camp was commanded by the Minister of War or the Vice Minister of War, which meant that the civil officials and gentry controlled the military power of the Beijing Army.

Later, Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao emerged and took away the military power of the Beijing Army from the civil officials and gentry. With the help of these brave and combative Beijing Army soldiers, Zhongshan Marquis also supported a large number of military merits and even directly rebuilt the Five Military Commandery.

It was not easy to wait until Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao lost power. How could the civil officials and gentry miss this great opportunity? Anyway, testing the attitude of His Majesty the Emperor would not affect anything.

However, the person recommended by the Minister of War Yang Yiqing was Xianning Marquis Qiu Yue.

This general, who was born in the Nine Frontier Military Town, was familiar with military affairs and was both wise and brave. He was undoubtedly the best choice to replace Tang Hao to lead the Beijing Army.

Yang Yiqing was a man who promoted talents without hesitation and was dedicated to the Ming Dynasty.

The person recommended by the military generals and nobles was Xu Tianci, the descendant of King Zhongshan Xu Da and the Earl of Jiangxia.

Previously, when the Marquis of Zhongshan left Beijing many times, Xu Tianci temporarily took over the Beijing Army. Moreover, this boy was mature and steady, and he was also a good candidate.

Unfortunately, during the turmoil in the capital that night, Xu Tianci was still impulsive and followed Tang Mu and others to rebel, so he lost the qualification to lead the Beijing Army. The same was true for Tang Mu, An Guo and others.

Therefore, two of the three candidates recommended by the three forces had been killed long ago, leaving only Xianning Marquis Qiu Yue.

He had the title, military merits, and military strategies, and no one could find any fault with him, so Qiu Yue was promoted by the court as the second commander of the Beijing Army.

As a result, when Qiu Yue heard the news, he was not happy at all, but felt endless panic. He immediately rushed over and asked to see Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao.

There was no way, Qiu Yue didn't want to offend Zhongshan Hou because of this.

On the one hand, Qiu Yue respected Tang Hao very much and believed that he could bring a better future to the Ming soldiers; on the other hand, Qiu Yue was not stupid, and he certainly understood that he could not mobilize the Beijing Army at all, and Tang Mu, An Guo and other Beijing Army generals would never obey him!

So this so-called second commander of the Beijing Army was actually just an empty shell. No one could shake Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao's position in the Beijing Army, including Qiu Yue himself.

Therefore, Qiu Yue quickly put himself in a good position and rushed to Zhongshan Hou Mansion as soon as possible.

Seeing his panic, Tang Hao couldn't help but laugh.

"Why are you so nervous?"

"This is the best outcome at the moment."

"It can not only dispel the emperor's suspicion of us, but also prevent those civil officials from continuing to clamor."

Tang Hao chuckled and said, "The training of the Beijing Army is a self-contained system. You don't have to worry about it. They will do it on time."

"As for Tang Mu, An Guo and others, they will gradually leave the Beijing Army and go out on their own, either guarding the nine border military towns or going out to sea to guard Japan!"

Qiu Yue fell into deep thought, and then looked at Tang Hao.

"My Lord, when will we... send troops to the Northern Tartar?"

Tang Hao's eyes moved when he heard this, and then shook his head.

"It's not the right time yet!"

"If you want to send troops to the Northern Tartar, the prerequisite is Liaodong!"

"Liaodong?" Qiu Yue frowned, "The situation in Liaodong is not peaceful, and the barbarians are getting more and more serious in looting and harassment."

"That's right, it's Liaodong!"

Tang Hao took out a geomancy map and circled Liaodong.

"If we want to send troops to the Northern Tartars, the premise is to ensure that the rear is safe, otherwise there will be the risk of being attacked from both sides."

"So Liaodong is a problem that must be solved. After the Japanese iron ore is digested, the firearms produced will be equipped to the Liaodong soldiers first."

"After completing the armament reform and improving the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, it will not be a problem to deal with these Liaodong barbarians!"

Liaodong!

Qiu Yue nodded and kept this in mind.

Then the two of them exchanged some ideas and roughly finalized the matter of the Beijing Army. Qiu Yue left with peace of mind.

As long as Tang Hou supported Qiu Yue as the admiral of the Beijing Army, Qiu Yue would have confidence in his heart and would not be completely sidelined.

Qiu Yue left with peace of mind, but Tang Hao looked at the map and fell into deep thought, his eyes fixed on Liaodong.

When mentioning Liaodong, we have to mention Emperor Chenghua's martial arts, Chenghua Liting!

"Li Ting" is to describe the brutality of the battle, just like the whole land was plowed thoroughly, the so-called "li ting shua di" is nothing more than that.

Since the early years of Zhengtong, Jianzhou Jurchens have lived in the upper reaches of Hunhe River and Suzi River Basin, and their relationship with the Ming Dynasty has been getting closer and closer. However, after the "Tumu Incident" in the 14th year of Zhengtong, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty was frustrated, and the border affairs were very bad. The barbarians of all ethnic groups saw the weakness of this powerful dynasty. Jianzhou Jurchen leaders such as Li Manzhu and Dong Shan began to "take advantage of the opportunity to plunder the border, and Liaodong was in trouble."

Liaodong was bitterly cold and had no output. The people of the three guards of Jianzhou lived in poverty. Even if they opened a trade market, they were still very poor.

In order to survive the tribe, what else can they do?

They can only rob, but where can they rob?

To the north is the mortal enemy, the wild Jurchens, who are poorer than the Jianzhou Jurchens!

To the west is the Mongols who are more ruthless than the Jurchens and better at fighting than the Jianzhou Jurchens!

Then there was only the Ming Dynasty in the south, which was both rich and easier to rob than the Mongols, just like what Nurhaci did hundreds of years later.

So the Jianzhou Jurchens gathered other tribes and invaded the border every year, killing and looting tens of thousands of border residents and robbing countless properties. Even the Ming commander Shi Dengzuo was ambushed and killed in the battle.

This time, the Ming Dynasty really couldn't stand it.

In the third year of Chenghua, Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen ordered an attack on the Jianzhou Jurchens. The order issued was: "Destroy their nests and exterminate their species." The court appointed General Zhao Fu to lead an army of 50,000 and divided the troops into three routes to attack the Jianzhou Jurchens. At the same time, Zhu Jianshen ordered the then vassal state of Korea to send troops to fully cooperate with the Ming army in the attack.

After a month of encirclement and suppression, the Ming army beheaded more than 630 people and captured more than 240 people. Li Manzhu and his son were beheaded by the Korean army. Another leader, Dongshan (the leader of Jianzhou Right Guard, the fifth ancestor of Nurhaci), was also captured by the Ming army. During the escort, Dongshan tried to escape and was killed.

"The strong were killed, the old and the young were captured, like the collapse of the earth and the extinguishing of the fire, like the disintegration of the ice and the melting of the ice, emptying their storage and pigs' houses, blocking their holes and emptying their nests. Within ten days, the enemy's territory was desolate."

The Jianzhou Jurchens were seriously injured and dared not invade for ten years.

As a result, ten years later, the Jianzhou Jurchens, who had gradually recovered their strength, became restless again. They joined forces with the Haixi Jurchens and continued to invade Liaodong. The Liaodong Governor Chen Yue fought back and won a small victory.

Then the Ming court came to a conclusion: we didn't fight enough last time, we must suppress them, and suppress them severely.

In October of the fifteenth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen issued another order, with Wang Zhi supervising military affairs, Funing Hou Zhu Yong as the general, and Governor Chen Yue as the military counselor, commanding the army to conquer Jianzhou.

"The bandits were defeated, 695 were captured and killed, 486 were captured, more than 450 camps were destroyed, more than a thousand cattle and horses were captured, and countless armor and weapons were captured."

From then on, until the rise of Nurhaci, for nearly a hundred years, the various tribes of the Liaodong Jurchens dared not to provoke the Ming court again. This was the "Chenghua Liting".

The wild boar skin of Jianzhou met the hawkish Emperor Chenghua, and the result was that it was almost killed and exterminated.

It's a pity that the Ming army did not do its best, otherwise there would be no Qing court in the future.

Tang Hao nodded thoughtfully, and then found Yang Tinghe.

"What do you want the memorial from Liaodong for?"