My life skills in Daming Liver

Li Chengliang was riding on his horse, looking at the capital city wall in the distance.

The first time he came to the capital was to inherit his father's hereditary military position. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had strict laws, and military attachés like him could only go through the side door.

At that time, the officials of the Ministry of War also bullied him for losing his father and delayed him in every possible way to inherit his father's military position. At that time, Li Chengliang had been active in the capital for three months and spent countless family wealth before he got his father's position.

After that, Li Chengliang was running in Liaodong. At that time, he was just an ordinary Qianhu. He relied on his bravery in fighting against the Jurchens, but he still made no progress over the years.

In the Ming Dynasty at that time, the ceiling for military officers was surprisingly low, and most of Li Chengliang's military achievements served as steps for promotion to civil servants.

At that time, Li Chengliang did not have any ambitions. He just hoped to pass on his military position for generations.

After working hard in the ice and snow for so many years, Li Chengliang was still wandering around the frontiers of the empire. He was demoted due to a military defeat, and then was held accountable by his superiors, and was almost escorted to the capital for questioning.

After this, Li Chengliang suddenly understood.

No matter how great the military achievements are, in the Ming Dynasty system, they are not valued as much as their superiors.

He began to learn how to have a relationship with these civil servants and how to please them. When meeting these high officials, he took off his smelly armor and replaced it with more powerful and useless armor.

He also learned to withhold military pay and smuggle it across the border to give gifts to his superiors.

Li Chengliang's official position is getting bigger and bigger, and he has more and more servants.

By the time he came to Beijing for the second time, he had already become the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

Next time he went to Beijing again, he went south to put down the rebellion.

The capital is a familiar yet unfamiliar place for Li Chengliang.

The capital in his memory was the towering city walls, the palaces that were like nine-layered heavenly palaces, and the lofty temples. This left a deep impression on young Li Chengliang. The capital was the most sacred and majestic place in his heart. place.

But now, the main entrance of the towering city wall is wide open, and the Queen Mother Tingzheng in the nine-story palace leads the young emperor to personally stand on the outskirts to greet him.

Those who once lived in temples, crushing themselves to death is like crushing ants to death.

But now these civil servants were standing respectfully on the roadside, fearfully greeting themselves and the army behind them.

At this moment, the memory of the capital in his youth collapsed, and when he looked at the city, there was no longer any halo.

The capital is just an ordinary city, and the so-called temples are just a bunch of rats.

When this halo faded, Li Chengliang saw that everything was different.

He rode his horse until he came to the Queen Mother.

The ministers held their breath.

If it were in the past, there would definitely be a censor who would stand up and impeach Li Chengliang for his misconduct before the emperor.

But now, looking at the army behind Li Chengliang, these officials who fought hard when impeaching Li Chunfang to step down have all shut their mouths.

Li Chunfang is a civil servant, and the most he has is the yamen servants of Shuntian Prefecture. Now that Dongchang has been disbanded, there is nothing he can do with these officials like himself.

But Li Chengliang was different. He led troops to Beijing. Behind him was the first new army established in the entire Ming Dynasty. It was the new army with the most investment and the best equipment by the Ming court.

Moreover, on his way from Shandong to the capital, the guards of the capital along the way did not sound the alarm. Only when Li Chengliang's army arrived in front of the capital did they get the news.

This shows that all the troops on the road from Shandong to the capital have taken refuge with Li Chengliang, which naturally includes the troops near the capital.

In this case, almost no public commentator was willing to stand up and reprimand Li Chengliang for being rude.

The Yanguan officials in the Ming court used to be very effective in fighting. When Xu Jie was still the second assistant in the cabinet, these Qingliu were the main force against Yan Song, the first assistant.

But at that time, Jiajing needed to check and balance Yan Song, so he let Yan Guan go.

Later, when Xu Jie came on stage, Yan Guan was at his strongest.

But after Gao Gong came to power and cleaned up the ranks of public officials, and after Zhang Juzheng and Li Chunfang were purged, now the only ones left in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Section are pure speculators.

Fortunately, what made the officials of the Ming court breathe a sigh of relief was that Li Chengliang was not so domineering as to trample on the imperial power. He stopped his horse a few meters away from Queen Mother Li and the young emperor. He got off the horse and gave Queen Mother Li a fist. military salute:

"With the armor on you, the Queen Mother is safe! Long live Your Majesty!"

With these words, all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief.

Queen Mother Li was so angry that her whole body was shaking. This was already a great disrespect for the imperial power. Is this the person her father and brother colluded with?

After taking a look at Aunt Qingyuan and her son who were hiding in the queue to greet the courtiers, Queen Mother Li still put on a calm look and said:

"Thieves are plundering in the southeast and the country is in dire straits. We will have to rely on the general in the future."

Li Chengliang was not polite and said directly without making any concessions:

"I am determined to live up to the great trust of the Queen Mother, and I am determined to rectify the affairs of the court and make the Ming Dynasty glorious again!"

As soon as Li Chengliang spoke, the soldiers behind him waved their weapons in response, and now the courtiers also knelt down.

Everyone knows that Ming Dynasty will enter a new era from now on.

After Li Chengliang entered the city, he did not go to Zhongshu Province, but stayed directly at the Ministry of War.

His new armies in the two towns took over the defense of the imperial palace and the defense of the capital respectively. Then Li Chengliang announced that the imperial court would confer him the title of general and the capital would be under military control.

The Ministry of War was renamed the General's Office, and the officers under Li Chengliang began to take over the major armaments workshops in the capital under the orders of the General's Office.

Immediately afterwards, Li Chengliang began to send people to the major yamen in the capital.

A middle-aged scholar with a round face, holding a token of Li Chengliang, followed by a team of musketeers, quickly arrived at the Imperial College.

"I am Shanhao Xian, the counselor of the General's Mansion! Open the gate of the Imperial College quickly!"

The doctors of the Imperial College opened the door cautiously, and many students came to the door excitedly. Shanhao continued to publish radical remarks in "Shandong Xinbao", which attracted the support of many students of the Imperial College, and some people called him the Mountain Saint.

But Shan Hao was not here to appease the prison guards. He took out a handwritten note from his sleeve and said:

"The General ordered that the dissolution of the Imperial College begin today!"

"What?"

Many supervisors looked at Shan Hao Xian in disbelief, only to hear Shan Hao Xian say:

"The Imperial College has been changed to the New Army Military Preparation School. If you are willing to join the army, you can continue to study here. If you are not willing to join the army, please leave immediately!"

These prison students were all crazy. They thought they would take the lead in driving away Li Chunfang in order to gain Li Chengliang's recognition and reuse, but they didn't expect that they would disband the Imperial College?

In the crowd, Zou Yuanbiao and Zhao Nanxing looked at each other.