The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 57 A woman’s kindness
The Liaodong Rebellion actually began during the Jiajing period.

In the 36th year of the Jiajing reign, Wang Gao, the commander of the Right Guard of Jianzhou, launched a surprise attack on Fushun Pass and killed the defending general Peng Wenzhu. From then on, Liaodong Town began to fall into chaos.

At that time, Yan Song and his son were in power, the border was neglected, and Wang Gao's rebellion was almost uncontrollable.

During the more than ten years from the 36th year of Jiajing to the 5th year of Longqing, Wang Gao united with the Tatar tribes and the three guards of Doyan to invade continuously. The general of Liaodong Yin Shangzhi, the general of Liaodong Yang Zhao, the general of Liaodong Wang Zhidao, the deputy general of Liaodong Hei Chun, the commander of Liaodong Dusi Wang Guozhu and others were killed in battle one after another, and the Liaodong town was beaten into a sieve.

In the fifth year of Longqing's reign, Li Chengliang succeeded as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. In the sixth year of Longqing's reign and the first year of Wanli's reign, he successively repelled the invasions of Tumen Khan and the Ulus Khan of the Three Guards of Doyan. Only then did the situation in Liaodong gradually improve.

In the second year of the Wanli reign, Wang Gao colluded with the Tumed and Taining tribes of the Yuan Dynasty to invade Liaodong.

Li Chengliang led his army to suppress the Right Guard of Jianzhou, and Wang Gao was defeated and fled. On his way to escape to the Chahar tribe of the Mongols, Wang Gao was captured by Wang Tai, the leader of the Haixi Jurchens, and handed over to the Ming Dynasty to be executed. At this point, the Jianzhou Jurchens finally remained quiet for a while.

However, from the third year to the tenth year of the Wanli reign, the Tatar leader Tumen Khan continued to lead the Tatar leaders Chaohua, Heishitan, Huang Taiji, Buyan Taizhou, Yirdeng, Nuantu, Gongtu, Dulaer, Subahai, and Burhai to invade continuously, and Liaodong Town was still in constant war.

This also proves that the boasts of the three major families in Puzhou that there had been no war in the northern border for decades after the Longqing Conference were nonsense.

Li Chengliang was promoted to the general of Liaodong Town in the fifth year of Longqing, but he was promoted to the Earl of Ningyuan in the seventh year of Wanli due to his accumulated military merits. This shows how many major battles broke out in Liaodong Town during these eight or nine years.

Let’s put these aside for now. Now that Ata, the commander of Jianzhou Right Guard, has started rebelling again, it is natural that we must suppress it quickly.

Wanli issued an order without hesitation, ordering Li Chengliang to lead his army to encircle and suppress the rebellion.

Li Chengliang assembled his army without hesitation and fought his way to Gulezhai, the seat of Jianzhou Youwei, where he surrounded and destroyed it.

As a result, Nurhaci's grandfather Juchang'an and father Tashik were killed by the Ming army in this battle!
This is an unsolvable situation.

Because Ata's wife was Nurhaci's cousin, and Tashik's wife was Wang Gao's daughter Xitala.

Whether Nurhaci's grandfather Juechang'an was taking his son Tashik to rescue his granddaughter or doing something else, if the Ming army encountered him, they would definitely kill him.

At this time, historical records were again tampered with.

Why did Nurhaci's grandfather Juechang'an and his father Tashik appear in Gule Village surrounded by the Ming army?

No one knows this.

Wanli didn't know either.

He didn't even know whether Juchang'an and Tashik had been killed at this moment, nor did he know what Nurhaci was doing at this moment.

Li Chengliang's victory report was just that he had captured Gule Village and killed thousands of Jiannu soldiers. Ata was also killed and the rebellion of Jianzhou Youwei was put down.

He had no time to take care of these things at the moment, because the houses in Huairou County had been built, the civilians and garrison families in Miyun County had moved out, and the garrison guards of Shandong Dusi also came one after another to start training.

He is busy.

Early in the morning around noon, the sun was rising and the area around Miyun County was still shrouded in mist. In the hazy air, flowers, plants and trees appeared and disappeared, just like a fairyland.

On the gate tower of the South Gate, Wanli saw such a beautiful view and couldn't help but sigh: "This is really a summer resort."

It's April now and you can wear light clothes outside, but it's still chilly here and you have to wear two layers of clothes.

Even in summer, you won’t feel hot living here.

Upon hearing this, Yongnian Earl Wang Wei said cautiously, "Your Majesty, how about this humble servant order someone to rebuild the county government office?"

I'm not really seeking pleasure.

Wanli shook his head slightly and said, "We'll talk about this later. Right now we have to quickly build water wheels, construct workshops, and increase the production of muskets and cannons."

Isn't it foggy and hard to see?

Yongnianbo Wang Wei pondered, "Your Majesty, the Chaohe River and the Baihe River on both sides of Miyun County are about ten miles long. We can build at least seven or eight hundred water wheels and workshops. There will be no problem increasing the production of muskets and cannons.

The problem is, we don't have enough manpower. Seven or eight hundred workshops require at least eight or nine thousand skilled blacksmiths, and I'm afraid we can't even find eight or nine hundred of them right now."

This wasn't a big problem. Wanli pondered, "Zhang Guozhang has already begun recruiting blacksmiths from across the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. They only need people who can smelt pig iron and forge wrought iron, not experienced blacksmiths. You can easily mobilize all the experienced blacksmiths he has recruited."

This one.

Yongnian Earl Wang Wei said cautiously, "Your Majesty, the wages there are high, especially for those smelting pig iron. As long as they are diligent, they can easily earn four or five taels of silver a month. But here we still only get one tael of silver a month. I'm afraid they won't want to come. Even if they do come, they will definitely feel uncomfortable."

The wages of these old craftsmen should indeed be increased. Their skills are better than those of the young craftsmen, and they do the most important work. However, they get paid less than the young craftsmen, which is definitely not acceptable.

Wanli said decisively: "Raise the wages of the old craftsmen to five taels of silver a month."

what?
Upon hearing this, Yongnian Earl Wang Wei was shocked and said, "Your Majesty, the old craftsmen working here already make over ten thousand. If we recruit another eight or nine thousand, that would be nearly twenty thousand. If we pay each of them five taels of silver a month, that would be nearly one hundred thousand taels a month."

There's no way around it, the money has to be paid.

Wanli sighed slightly and said, "We can't let the old craftsmen suffer losses. One hundred thousand taels a month is not a problem. After the waterwheel and workshop in Luanzhou are built this year, we can earn more than one hundred thousand taels a month. We can still afford to pay the old craftsmen's wages."

As they were discussing, another horse suddenly came galloping towards them from the south.

Is this Nurhaci's rebellion?

Unexpectedly, the Jinyiwei who delivered the message hurriedly arrived at the city wall, knelt on one knee, clasped his hands, and said quickly: "Report, Your Majesty, urgent news from Liaodong, the three guards of Doyan have invaded Guangning, the Tuman have invaded the Liaohe River, and the Khalkha have invaded Kaiyuan."

what?
When Wanli heard this, he was stunned.

Li Chengliang had just pacified Jianzhou Youwei in the east, and the Mongol Yuan tribes invaded from the west?
They have agreed to attack from both sides!
Fortunately, Li Chengliang took the initiative to attack, and his speed was quite fast. Before the Mongol tribes could attack, Jianzhou Right Guard was pacified.

Can Li Chengliang hold on this time?
Should he dispatch troops to provide support?

At this time, the only ones he could send to support were the 20,000 elite border troops on leave from Jizhou Town, because the Beijing Camp was currently undergoing training and expansion, with a mixture of old and new soldiers, and could not be sent to the battlefield at all.

He thought about it and decided to wait and see. If Tumen Khan made a feint to the east and attacked in the west, sent people to Liaodong to bluff his troops, and then took advantage of the Jizhou Town's troops rushing to support him and immediately invaded Jizhou Town, it would be troublesome.

Tumen Khan had 60,000 cavalrymen, and the infantrymen of Jizhou Town could not outrun them at all.

Unexpectedly, before he received any news from Liaodong, he received news from the palace.

Master Miaofeng suddenly came to the capital again. Empress Dowager Li had no idea what he said, but she suddenly issued an imperial decree.

He ordered Yu Youding to investigate for several days before he found out that the decree issued by Empress Dowager Li was to appease Nurhaci, granting him thirty imperial edicts, thirty horses, the title of Dragon and Tiger General, and an imperial edict to the Left Commander of Jianzhou Guard!

After receiving the imperial edict, Zhang Siwei actually wrote directly to the Left Army Commandery, asking the commander-in-chief of the Left Army Commandery, Marquis Wuding Guo Dacheng, to act according to the imperial edict of Empress Dowager Li.

Marquis Wuding Guo Dacheng actually didn't even submit a memorial, but just acted according to Empress Dowager Li's decree!

It is obvious that Master Miaofeng was recruited by Zhang Siwei.

Empress Dowager Li was too soft-hearted and was easily fooled.

This time, history repeated itself.

Even if he wanted to encircle and suppress Nurhaci, it was too late.

Because Nurhaci led the Jianzhou Left Guard, its territory was on the side where the Tumen River flowed into the sea, one or two thousand miles away from Fushun Pass, and there were mountains in between.

Moreover, in history, after Nurhaci received the imperial edict, he organized troops to conquer the Haixi Jurchens.

The Haixi Jurchens were even farther away from Fushun Pass. Looking at the map, it was at least three or four thousand miles away.

Nurgandusi was really too big. The Jianzhou Jurchens only occupied a small corner in the southeast of Nurgandusi. The entire Nurgandusi was almost as big as the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty!

It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack for him to go there with the few men he has now.

(End of this chapter)