Chapter 481 The war is about to begin (second update)
Song Jia said this, and Xiao Mingqian had no evidence of the crime of punishing Fan Wencheng, so he had no choice but to sentence Fan Wencheng to two years of hard labor.
However, it was said that it was labor service. In fact, because Fan Wencheng was a scholar, due to the shortage of manpower in Taiwan, he was assigned to manage the Jurchen laborers and handle some paperwork and accounting transactions. Two years later, he was even rewarded. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' attention has entered Taiwan's political arena.
Afterwards, after reading the files of some doubtful prisoners one after another and dealing with the cases of some wronged people, Xiao Mingqian began to calm down.
However, what Xiao Mingqian didn¡¯t expect was that four days later, an envoy from the Horqin tribe came to ask for surrender, and also brought Hai Lanzhu.
Originally, Xiao Mingqian thought that Horqin's Beile Zhaisang wanted to marry his daughter to ask Taiwan to let the Horqin tribe go. But who would have known that the envoy from the Horqin tribe did not even mention a word of marriage, but only requested that Hai Lanzhu be admitted to work in Xiao Mingqian's attendant room.
Xiao Mingqian really felt extremely speechless, such a thing could happen! In the end, under the care of the family law, Song Jia finally admitted that this was her Bu Mu Butai's idea, giving Hai Lanzhu the opportunity to get into Xiao Mingqian's side. As for whether he can win Xiao Mingqian's favor, it depends on Hai Lanzhu's ability.
In fact, Song Jia had another consideration in sending Hai Lanzhu to Xiao Mingqian, which was that both she and Tian Xin might no longer be with Xiao Mingqian for a long time. Instead of giving Xiao Mingqian the opportunity to come into contact with other Han beauties, it was better to first Arrange a Mongolian beauty who is not a big threat to them.
It can be said that this is a superb husband-keeping technique, and it is also an idea given to Song Jia by everyone in the Song family.
However, since Hai Lanzhu came, Xiao Ming has indeed become much more happy at work. After all, men and women are matched, so working is not tiring!
In the blink of an eye, the spring of the third year of Chongzhen arrived. The Ming Dynasty also recovered from the initial fear of receiving Taiwan and occupying the entire Liaodong.
During this period, the Ming court frequently made moves, mobilizing troops from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and even Huguang and Sichuan areas to go northward. In more than two months, as many as 300,000 troops were gathered on the Ningjin front line.
At the same time, we actively contacted North Korea, the Mongolian Lindan tribe and Huang Taiji, hoping to eliminate Taiwan's more than 200,000 troops in Liaodong in one fell swoop, thereby completely changing the Ming Dynasty's extremely unfavorable strategic situation towards Taiwan.
During this period, Chongzhen vigorously promoted those officials who had always expressed hostility to Taiwan. Among them, Wu Rongtang was the most direct, and he was directly appointed as Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. He was promoted to the basic position and entered the center of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty sent Jinyiwei to collect all intelligence about Taiwan. It is precisely because of this that Taiwan has become the most dangerous enemy of the Ming Dynasty, which has become the consensus of the Ming court.
Although they still cannot know how strong Taiwan's military power is, the fact that Taiwan's territory is even more powerful than that of the Ming Dynasty frightened many ministers of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the set of laws of governance implemented in Taiwan also caused the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty to almost unanimously express hostility to Taiwan.
Under this situation, the Ming Dynasty at least reached an agreement on its attitude towards Taiwan. Taiwan's more than 200,000 troops must be eliminated in Liaodong, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will always be shrouded in the shadow of Taiwan.
Under this situation, the Ming court mobilized more than 300,000 troops in a piecemeal manner, and there were also 780,000 troops from Sichuan and Huguang on their way to Liaodong.
In order to mobilize such a large-scale force, Chongzhen had no choice but to continue to increase Liao pay, which once again increased the burden on the people at home.
??And since the second year of Wanli, the civil unrest in Shaanxi has never stopped, always containing hundreds of thousands of Ming troops. And because of the extra Liao pay this time, a large-scale civil unrest broke out in Huguang, where tens of thousands of troops had just been mobilized. And this time the bandit leader was a woman, and her surname was Xiao. Mingqiu.
As soon as he heard this person's name, Chongzhen was furious. Now he was wondering if everyone with the surname Xiao in the world could not get along with the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, Xiao Mingqian and Xiao Mingchou, the names of these two people are so connected. Many people, including Chongzhen, speculated whether the two were a family. This time Chongzhen guessed correctly. Xiao Mingchou and Xiao Mingqian were the same family, and she was Xiao Mingqian's cousin.
"Master Supervisor, I have always felt that our Ming Dynasty should not rashly turn against Taiwan!" During the discussion, Yang Guo stood up and said to Sun Chengzong in public.
Since sending Huang Taiji out of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chengzong has become the leader of Guan Ning. And began to actively prepare for the attack on Liaodong.
"Oh, why do you say that?"
Sun Chengzong squinted his eyes and asked coldly. At this time, he already had some bad feelings towards Yang Guo. The reason was that for some unknown reason, Chongzhen did not tell Sun Chengzong that he had sent people to spread Yang Guo's words.
So much so that when Sun Chengzong heard the widely circulated rumors about Yang Guo about Yuan Chonghuan's crimes, he was furious.
In his opinion, Yang Guo and he were the only two people present at that time. If he didn't spread the word, it was Yang Guo who spread the word.
Although he somewhat agreed with what Yang Guo said, he could not tolerate this kind of behavior that was suspected of avenging private revenge and deliberately attacking Yuan Chonghuan.
After this rumor spread, the direction of public opinion in the capital suddenly changed dramatically. Public opinion that Yuan Chonghuan should be cut into pieces became rampant. This made Sun Chengzong, who still had the idea of ????saving Yuan Chonghuan, begin to feel disgusted. Yang Guo. ,
"Sir, although Taiwan's 200,000-strong army took advantage of Huang Taiji's invasion of Ming Dynasty and sent troops to Liaodong. However, the 200,000-strong army can sweep across the entire Liaodong within a month, which is enough to show how strong Taiwan's strength is.
Moreover, after Huang Taiji was occupied in Liaodong, he did not immediately lead an army to retake Liaodong. Instead, he sent people to ask for his Jurchen tribesmen. It can be seen that he had enough understanding of the combat power of the Taiwanese army and must have no confidence in winning, so he did this. Policy. Therefore, I think it is unwise to attack Taiwan's army rashly. "
Although Yang Guo's words are well-founded in analysis, they do not contain any substantive content about Taiwan's military, and the tone implicitly criticizes Sun Chengzong for insisting on offending Liaodong.
Sun Chengzong was already unhappy with Yang Guo, but now Yang Guo actually spoke to Sun Chengzong in such a tone, which made Sun Chengzong's dislike of Yang Guo even stronger.