Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 324 The Navy
Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng cupped his fists at Li Jing and said, "Commander, you just said that we should choose civil or military positions. After hearing the marshal's rhetoric, Lu admired him in his heart. I would like to lead an army and serve Da Ming didn’t dare to think about expanding the territory, but it’s not a problem to be a pioneer for the grand commander’s great cause.”

"Hahaha, Mr. Li heard people say that someone nicknamed Mr. Lu Dadao Lu. With Dadao Lu as the pioneer for me, Mr. Li has enough confidence." Li Jing laughed loudly.

"Hey, Mr. Li is polite, Lu knows that there are still people who call Lu Yan Wang." Lu Xiangsheng laughed.

Li Jing laughed loudly: "Hahaha! That's their yelling, how could Lord Yan look so fair?"

Hearing Li Jing teasing Lu Xiangsheng, everyone laughed lightly.

After laughing for a while, Li Jing smiled and said, "It's just that Master Lu's rank is too high, and it's a bit condescending to take this position. In this way, you are the Minister of the Ministry of War to lead the governor of the Western Mansion. I wonder if Master Lu is satisfied?"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "Xifu? Understood, this time let the melons taste the power of old Lu Dadao, hahahaha!"

Li Jing was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Old Lu, don't scare me. Sichuan is the territory of our Ming Dynasty. We can only deal with those disobedient chieftains. The chieftains of various ethnic groups who do not follow the order of Ming Dynasty from western Sichuan to southwestern Yunnan are honest. That's fine, your main goal is to bring Turpan (which was hostile to the Ming Dynasty at the time, formerly known as the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, also known as Yilibali) into our Ming territory."

After a pause, Li Jing said solemnly: "In addition, there are Wusizang (Tibet) and Duogan (Qinghai, eastern Tibet, and western Sichuan). Over the years, with the weakening of the Ming Dynasty's national power, it has gradually lost control, and often To make trouble with Daming, this time I decided to take all these places together, and then arrange for officials and troops of Ming Dynasty to station there.

If we don't accept it, we will fight, and when we fight honestly, we will count.Even barbarians like Mongolia can conquer these places. Are we not as dignified as the Mongols?Let me tell you, if our Daming doesn't even have this bit of courage, it will simply embarrass our ancestors. "

Seeing Li Jing's murderous look, everyone including Zhu Youjian felt awe-inspiring.

After a while, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly laughed loudly and said, "Hahaha! I don't think the commander-in-chief is so courageous, so I don't want to say anything, for the sake of Daming! I've done it!"

At this moment, Hong Chengchou suddenly said: "Wait a minute, Mr. Lu, you are called Lu Yan Wang, and Hong is also called Hong Yan Wang. To be honest, Hong killed only a lot more people than Mr. Lu. To conquer these Yi tribes, this It is more suitable for Hong to do the job than Lord Lu, Commander, let Hong be the governor of the West Mansion."

"Lord Hong, what do you mean by that? This errand was asked for by Mr. Lu first. You are robbing me now, and you are not very authentic." Lu Xiangsheng said urgently.

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel over the position of the governor of the Western Mansion, Li Jing smiled and said: "Don't worry, my lords. Da Ming is now in a state of waste, so he won't immediately use troops against these three places. It is also impossible to launch an attack on three places at the same time, at least the troops of two military regions must be used. Since Lord Hong also intends to open up the territory for Daming, then Master Hong will be the governor of the Southern Mansion. At that time, You two have a competition and see whether Lu Yan Wang is the most powerful or Hong Yan Wang is more fierce."

"Success, then Hong will compete with Mr. Lu." Hong Chengchou said happily.

Just after Li Jinggang properly resolved the dispute between Hong and Lu, Sun Chuanting said: "Then what about Sun?"

Seeing that Sun Chuanting also joined the battle group, Li Jing couldn't help scratching his head.

If Sun Chuanting had wanted to be the governor of the military region before, Li Jing would naturally not scratch his head. Just give it to one of the three military regions, but not now.

Because in order to completely pull Lu Xiangsheng into his camp, Li Jing revealed the future strategic layout. For a general who leads an army, there is nothing more tempting than opening up borders and cracking the soil. Li Jing was Use this trick to abduct Cao Wenzhao into his camp.

Sure enough, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't stand the temptation, and immediately agreed to be the governor of the Western Mansion.

Then Hong Chengchou couldn't stand the temptation, and wanted to compete with Lu Xiangsheng for the position.

Considering that it is not enough to rely on one military region to complete this task, Li Jing agreed to let the two of them complete this task together.

But now that Sun Chuanting wants to join, Li Jing will not use all three military regions to conquer Xinjiang, Tibet and Qinghai. After all, there are still bandits in the mainland of Ming Dynasty?

Li Jing has been hesitant about how to use Sun Chuanting.

After Sun Chuanting took the lead, Li Jing ordered Ma Wu to check Sun Chuanting's information. After checking, Li Jing was very surprised.

Sun Chuanting, courtesy name Boya, was born in Dai County, Shanxi Province, and was a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli.He served successively as the magistrate of Yongcheng and Shangqiu, and was later transferred to the head of the Ministry of Officials. In the early years of Tianqi, he was promoted to be a doctor of the Ministry of Officials (equivalent to the level of the main hall), when he was less than 30 years old.

According to the usual practice, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials is generally selected from among the doctors of the Ministry of Officials. Sun Chuanting became a doctor before he was 30 years old. It can be said that it is only a matter of time before he is promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Interestingly, Sun Chuanting suddenly quit after working for more than two years.

Sun Chuanting didn't even say hello, just put down the pick and went home.

The reason is that he doesn't like Wei Zhongxian.

After Zhu Youjian took Wei Zhongxian down, Sun Chuanting should be very happy.But Sun Chuanting is really a weird person, he was completely indifferent to this matter, and still stayed at home to live his peaceful life.

But after a few years, Sun Chuanting suddenly took the initiative to go to Beijing to ask for reinstatement.

To say that the imperial court is really interesting, when Sun Chuanting ran home without even saying hello, just this unorganized and undisciplined person actually let him reinstate his post.

In the autumn of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the governor of Shaanxi was taken down due to the raging bandits in Shaanxi. Seeing that no one was willing to take up the post of governor in Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting took the initiative to invite Ying to go to Shaanxi to encircle and suppress the bandits.

Zhu Youjian was very happy that Sun Chuanting was so brave. Before Sun Chuanting set off, he gave him 6 taels of silver as military expenses.

At that time, 6 taels of silver was only enough to pay 1 people for half a year. Is there any use for this little silver?

It may not be useful to others, but it is useful to Sun Chuanting.Under the conditions of no soldiers and no generals, Sun Chuanting relied on the 6 taels of silver to start from scratch, and it took only four months to execute Gao Yingxiang.

How he did it, Li Jing has not figured it out until now.

Li Jing only knew that Gao Yingxiang was ambushed by Sun Chuanting in Ziwu Valley.

Ziwu Valley is the mountain road that Zhuge Liang and Wei Yan disputed over which few people know and is particularly difficult to walk.

Gao Yingxiang thought that Sun Chuanting did not expect him to take this path, but Sun Chuanting thought of it, so Gao Yingxiang was surrounded.

Even if he was surrounded, Gao Yingxiang still had an absolute advantage, because his subordinates were far more numerous than Sun Chuanting.At that time, Gao Yingxiang had more than 5 subordinates, while Sun Chuanting had less than 2 subordinates.

But it was useless. After four days of fierce fighting, Gao Yingxiang was captured by Sun Chuanting in the cave.

How this battle was fought, Li Jing thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

However, Li Jing knew very well that Sun Chuanting was definitely a talent.

Li Jing has always been unwilling to let go of the discovery of talents, but Li Jing has a lot of concerns about Sun Chuanting, because Sun Chuanting refuses to accept his control.

Li Jing is now in charge of the entire country, not the palm-sized place of Pingyang Mansion. The appointment of officials, especially senior officials, must be done carefully. It is impossible to decide who to use or not to use with a slap in the face. people.

Using people like that, not to mention Zhongxing Daming, might cause Daming to perish even faster.

Sun Chuanting saw that Wei Zhongxian was not pleasing to the eye, so he put down the pick. If he finds that others are not pleasing to the eye, will he still drop the pick?

Li Jing's thinking about problems now is no longer what he thought when he was young and vigorous. Li Jing knows that a qualified politician must be patient most of the time.

If Li Dongyang hadn't been able to bear it back then, how could he have kept a large number of famous ministers and generals?How can we bring down a generation of traitor Liu Jin?
If Xu Jie couldn't bear it, how could he overthrow Yan Song, who was in power for a while?

Forbearance is not cowardly sometimes, on the contrary, forbearance requires more courage than forbearance.

On the surface, Li Dongyang, Xu Jie and others are also fighting for power, but the biggest difference between them and their opponents is that they are fighting for power for this country.

Liu Jin was in power, and Yan Song was the chief assistant. Except for making money to attack political opponents and harm dissidents, nothing else was achieved. The entire Ming Dynasty was in a mess. However, after Xu Jie became the chief assistant, he was purges the government, worked hard, and tried his best to put Daming on the right track.

There is an essential difference between Xu Jie and Yan Song in how to use power after they have mastered it, so Xu Jie is a famous official and Yan Song is a traitor.

Because of this, later generations called Xu Jie a politician and Yan Song a political hooligan.

Sun Chuanting couldn't bear it, his brain was too hot. From this point of view, Sun Chuanting was obviously far inferior to Xu Jie, that is to say, Sun Chuanting was far from the level of a politician or a famous general.

Such a salary will be acceptable, but it is not enough to be handsome.

And from the bottom of his heart, Li Jing didn't want to appoint Sun Chuanting as the governor of the military region, because Sun Chuanting was not high enough.

Sun Chuanting was only the governor of Shaanxi at that time, while Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng were the governors of the five northwestern provinces and the other were the governors of the five southeastern provinces. In terms of rank, Sun Chuanting was far behind the above two.

If Sun Chuanting is now arranged to be on the same level as Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng or half a level behind, I am afraid that Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng will have other ideas.

Li Jing must carefully appoint these important ministers of Ming Dynasty.A proper appointment will set an example, and an improper appointment will cause waves.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing suddenly smiled and said, "Master Sun, what do you think of the Navy?"

"Navy army?" Sun Chuanting was puzzled and said, "Your subordinate doesn't know anything about the navy army."

Li Jing waved his hand and said: "Master Sun, I know you have never been in contact with a navy before, so I am not asking if you can command a navy, but whether you know the usefulness of a navy."

"What's the use of the water army? Apart from water transportation, what else can it be used for fighting pirates?" Sun Chuanting frowned.

Li Jing shook his head, knowing that people like Sun Chuanting couldn't see the role of the navy because of their narrow contacts.

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