Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

In the process of Emperor Chongzhen's large-scale elimination of the remnants of the Wei Party, Emperor Chongzhen gently let go of one person, and he was Mao Wenlong stationed in Dongjiang Town.Emperor Chongzhen was not stupid. He knew that Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang town was a great threat to the Houjin army.

The establishment of Dongjiang Town was almost all established under the leadership of Mao Wenlong, so in the hearts of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong's prestige was very high.Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen not only did not remove Mao Wenlong from his official position, but he did not even take back the Shangfang sword bestowed on Mao Wenlong by Emperor Tianqi.

You know, in order to support Yuan Chonghuan's unification of powers in Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen took back all the Shangfang swords in the hands of other generals except Yuan Chonghuan's Shangfang sword.

But Emperor Chongzhen let go of Mao Wenlong, a remnant of the Wei Party, and the Donglin Party members would not let him go.The rise and fall of a country is absolutely insignificant compared with the major events of partisan struggle.The great interests of the country should be subordinated to the small interests of our Donglin Party!

It can be seen from this that, don't look at the fact that the Donglin Party and the Wei Party are fighting to the death. In fact, they are all the same breed, completely as black as crows in the world.Relatively speaking, the behavior of Wei Dang, who was on the side of the emperor, was in the interests of the emperor.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan, who had the background of the Donglin Party, went to Liaodong and became a supervisor.What's more funny is that Yuan Chonghuan is related to both the Wei Party and the Donglin Party. Whichever party gains power, Yuan Chonghuan will change into a member of this party, and he will not suffer at all.

After Yuan Chonghuan arrived in Liaodong, in addition to quelling the affairs of the rebellion, he began to take the step of fully controlling the power of Liaodong.

In Liaodong at this time, apart from Mao Wenlong from Dongjiang Town, there were several military officers with the greatest influence and power: Zu Dashou, Zhao Shujiao, He Kegang and Man Gui.They are all left by Sun Chengzong, the old supervisor. Because Sun Chengzong is a member of the Donglin Party, these military officers should all belong to the same faction as the current Yuan Chonghuan, and they should also share a common language with Yuan Chonghuan.

But Man Gui is an exception. He is also a Mongolian, so Man Gui's temperament is relatively straight.As we have said before, the military attaches in Liaodong were somewhat disapproving of Yuan Chonghuan's previous achievements.

Although the other military officers thought so in their hearts, they didn't show it on the surface.And when Man Gui faced Yuan Chonghuan, he was basically chasing pigs in a small alley—straightforward.In this way, one can imagine the relationship between Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui.

However, Man Gui is not completely careless.When he knew that Yuan Chonghuan had come to Liaodong again as a supervisor, Man Gui immediately took the initiative to write to the court, asking for a transfer.The court officials who were familiar with the discord between Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui also met Man Gui's request.Man Gui was transferred to be the commander-in-chief of Datong.

In this way, Yuan Chonghuan achieved the goal of Anne without bloodshed. In the process of gaining power, he began to fight against the outside world.

Yuan Chonghuan first started to fight against Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army in terms of military pay and support.Of course, Mao Wenlong would not buy it. While arguing with Yuan Chonghuan, he threatened Yuan Chonghuan: If Yuan Chonghuan did not send enough military pay and supplies to Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong would take the army to the Denglai area in Shandong and go directly powerful.

Originally, Yuan Chonghuan was here to deal with Mao Wenlong. How could he be intimidated by Mao Wenlong's two threatening words?Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan continued not to provide Mao Wenlong's military salary and support for Dongjiang Army.

Then Mao Wenlong's banditry came up, and he actually led the army across the sea to the Denglai area to rob.This action suddenly made Yuan Chonghuan, who had always been self-centered, unable to suppress his anger.

And Mao Wenlong's robbery in Denglai this time also made the people of Denglai hate the Dongjiang Army.In the future, this attitude of the people of Denglai will cause a major event that will affect the political situation of the Ming Dynasty.I will not mention it here for the time being.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan felt: If he wants to fully control power in Liaodong, he must pull out Mao Wenlong's thorn in his side from under his nose.

Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan arrived at Phi Island by boat on May 29, the second year of Chongzhen, to meet Mao Wenlong.On the fourth day of June, Yuan Chonghuan paid 10 taels of salary to the military officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army.Then, Yuan Chonghuan ordered Mao Wenlong to prepare to recover Zhenjiang Lushun.

But how could Mao Wenlong agree to this unreasonable order?Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army is a guerrilla force behind enemy lines, not a regular army. It is possible to harass and contain the Houjin army, and directly confronting the Houjin army is an act of courting death.

Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan advised Mao Wenlong not to occupy the latrine and not to shit, but to resign early and return to his hometown to retire.This is also Yuan Chonghuan's last chance for Mao Wenlong.

However, Mao Wenlong directly rejected Yuan Chonghuan's advice.In Mao Wenlong's mind, Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help him with such a powerful force as the Dongjiang Army.However, Mao Wenlong never thought that Yuan Chonghuan was such a bold and reckless person.

On the fifth day of June the next day, Yuan Chonghuan summoned Mao Wenlong and the main military attache of the Dongjiang Army to his tent.He took out Shang Fang's sword, and after announcing Mao Wenlong's crimes, he immediately beheaded Mao Wenlong for public display.

Mao Wenlong had no psychological preparation at all, so he was killed by Yuan Chonghuan in such a daze.The military officers of the Dongjiang Army, seeing the Shangfang sword Yuan Chonghuan took out, thought that Emperor Chongzhen had entrusted Yuan Chonghuan to kill Mao Wenlong, so they watched their coach being killed by Yuan Chonghuan.

Next, Yuan Chonghuan also made some military payments, designated the Dongjiang Army as the successor commander, and even staged Zhuge Liang crying Zhou Yuling to appease the Dongjiang Army.On the surface, the Dongjiang army has also stabilized for the time being.

However, in the hearts of the military attaches of the Dongjiang Army, they had deep fear and guard against Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong.The outstanding Mao Wenlong can be easily killed by Yuan Chonghuan, so the future life of these small military officers will definitely be difficult.

In the days to come, a large number of military officers and soldiers in the Dongjiang Army rebelled and defected to Houjin, Emperor Taiji.However, although their actions are also excusable, as long as they are traitors, they are the most despised.It doesn't matter how great the reasons are for these squiggles.

Mao Wenlong has all the bad habits of military officers in the Ming Dynasty, and he even got worse.If you put it in the legal system of morality, killing him ten times would not be regarded as wronging him.

However, Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army contained a quarter of Houjin, that is, the strength of the two banners.Coupled with the geographical environment of Dongjiang Town, it is the main route for the escape of Han people captured by Houjin in Liaodong.

We already know that the mature women in power in the late Jin Dynasty really mainly cultivated food.In the past, they basically used the captured Han people as slaves to cultivate grain for them.

After a large number of Han people fled, some mature women had to cultivate food by themselves, which also weakened the strength of the Houjin army in disguise.Therefore, Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army actually contained even more Houjin troops.Based on this alone, Mao Wenlong can cover all his ugliness with one handsome face.

Besides, Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army was developed from [-] soldiers led by him to tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Mao Wenlong is indeed a very capable general.And he was also loyal to the Ming court, and actively fought against the Houjin army.

For such a general, Yuan Chonghuan would kill as soon as he said he wanted to. Wouldn't that completely destroy the Great Wall?In addition, Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong was also an extremely serious illegal act.

Yuan Chonghuan had the Shangfang sword in his hand, and Mao Wenlong also had the Shangfang sword bestowed by Emperor Tianqi, so Yuan Chonghuan had no right to kill Mao Wenlong at all.The reason why he was successfully killed in the end was that Yuan Chonghuan lied that it was an order from Emperor Chongzhen.Isn't this a down-to-earth false edict?

And when Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong spread to the capital, Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and pale.In the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, he was very aware of Mao Wenlong's role in Liaodong.Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen didn't even want to eliminate Mao Wenlong at all, and he didn't even take back the Shangfang sword in Mao Wenlong's hand.

However, Emperor Chongzhen thought of Yuan Chonghuan's oath of Ping Liao in five years, and under the persuasion of the ministers of the Donglin Party around him, based on the principle of not using suspicious people and not suspicious people, Emperor Chongzhen still chose to support Yuan Chonghuan.

Emperor Chongzhen affirmed Yuan Chonghuan's act of killing Mao Wenlong in Yuan Chonghuan's reply to the memorial of the reasons for killing Mao Wenlong.And ordered Yousi to arrest Mao Wenlong's remnants.In order to maintain Yuan Chonghuan's authority.

Even when Yuan Chonghuan asked the court to increase the military salary to stabilize the morale of the Dongjiang army, Emperor Chongzhen recognized it with his nose.Yuan Chonghuan's request was also met.However, Yuan Chonghuan's behavior had already planted a thorn in Emperor Chongzhen's heart.

And when Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong was heard by Huang Taiji in Shengjing, Huang Taiji looked up to the sky and laughed.It never occurred to Huang Taiji that the two thorns on Hou Jin's waist would be resolved so easily.Among them, Mao Wenlong's thorn was pulled out by the Ming Dynasty officials themselves.

The current post-golden army, because there is no threat from the east and the west, has completely let go of its hands and feet.In Huang Taiji's mind, he could finally carry out the grand strategy of fighting the Ming Dynasty.