Liaodong Jiangmen Group is the late Ming Dynasty tail of the product, its formation began in the Wanli period of Li Chengliang, the most Wanli Emperor most trusted general, Li Chengliang in Liaodong for more than 30 years, but also officially in these 30 years Liaodong gradually formed the Li family as the representative of the Liaodong military group.
The Yi Chengliang family was originally Korean, and in the era of Li Chengliang's ancestor Li Ying, the family attached itself to the Ming Dynasty and settled in Tieling. The Ming Dynasty also reciprocated the Li family's development of the Tieling area, and granted the hereditary position of commander of the Tieling Guard, and the Li family officially entered the Ming Dynasty guard system.
Time entered the late Jiajing period, the Mongol tribes began to harass the border areas of the Ming Dynasty after the rise of Altan Khan, and the Mongol tribes in the most prominent area of Liaodong were more serious, and Li Chengliang also gradually got ahead in the Mongol tribes' raids.
Li Chengliang, who was born in Wei, inherited his father's position, and repeatedly made military exploits in the war with the Mongolian tribes, and was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief in the first year of Longqing, and then to the first year of Wanli for more than ten years, Li Chengliang's three words became a lingering shadow of the Mongolian tribes.
In the first year of Wanli, Li Chengliang had been promoted to the general army of Liaodong, and it was at this time that the command of the Jianzhou Jurchen Department made Wang Gao kill the Ming Dynasty Pei Chengzu, and the Ming Dynasty began to suppress the Jianzhou Jurchen Department after learning about it, and also in this battle, Nurhachi's grandfather and father were taken by Li Chengliang and killed (although Nurhachi's grandfather and father belonged to the Ming Dynasty and obeyed the mobilization of the Ming army, but the Tak family of the Jurchen tribe behind him also began to gradually develop stronger, and there were already Wang Gao's deeds, Li Chengliang simply pinched off the sprouts first). Although he killed Nurhachi's grandfather and father, Li Chengliang supported the young Nurhachi to become the leader of this Jurchen tribe out of balance in the Jurchen tribe.
To the nineteenth year of Wanli, Li Chengliang in Liaodong can be said to cover the sky with one hand, although the Ming court in Liaodong still has the imperial historian to supervise it, but because Li Chengliang was attached to the then first assistant Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue and others in the court, ** were easily resolved (this is still Zhang Juzheng's bad head, he accepted Qi Jiguang as his subordinate, as the first assistant Shen Shixing after Zhang Juzheng, of course, saw the benefits of the border general). Li Chengliang has also inserted his generals into various guards in Liaodong over the years, and the ancestors of the leading families of Liaodong generals are among them.
In the nineteenth year of Wanli, due to Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue and others, Li Chengliang's support in the court was gone, and the imperial history ** finally let the Wanli Emperor recall to Beijing for resettlement, although he was afraid of Li Chengliang, but this was completely out of the emperor's instinct, but Wanli's grace to the Li family still did not decline, Ningxia Bibai rebelled, Li Chengliang's eldest son Li Rusong was appointed as the chief soldier by the Wanli Emperor, and Li Chengliang's other descendants were later divided into general soldiers by the Ming court.
In the nineteenth year of Wanli, Li Chengliang was transferred out of Liaodong, although the Li family was still undiminished, but because Li Chengliang was different from Qi Jiguang's reliance on the system, Li Chengliang completely led the army with his personal prestige and charisma, and Li Chengliang's departure made Liaodong suddenly lack of people who could lead these fierce generals (as the ** person trusted by the Wanli Emperor, Li Rusong died suddenly in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli), and it was at this stage that the Mongol tribes that had been harassing the borders of the Ming Dynasty gradually reduced the frequency of harassment due to internal power struggles, and the Jurchen tribes also fell into internal strifeLiaodong calmed down suddenly, and because the Ming court changed frequently in the next ten years, it was impossible to effectively rectify the armament of Liaodong, and the defense of Liaodong gradually declined.
In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, the Gaohuai Rebellion broke out in Liaodong. The people of Liaodong were in turmoil, and Li Chengliang was reinstated again. At the age of 76, Li Chengliang once again ruled Liaodong, and at this time, the Mongols in Liaodong could no longer pose a threat to the Ming court, and the Jurchen tribes gradually replaced the Mongol tribes as the biggest destabilizing factor for the Ming court in Liaodong.
The elderly Li Chengliang no longer had the patience of his youth, and instead of adopting a divide-and-rule strategy against the unstable Jurchen tribes, he blindly used force to conquer them, which made the Ming court and the Jurchen tribes more and more lacking mutual trust. The Jurchen tribes suffered a lot of losses under the blows of the Ming army, and Nurhachi, who was supported by Li Chengliang, took the opportunity to expand his power and began to annex these wounded Jurchen tribes, laying the foundation for the later unification of the Jurchen tribes.
The strategy of moving the six forts of Kuandian made Li Chengliang in the court again by the wanton **, as the strategy proposed by Li Chengliang himself in the early years of Wanli was also implemented very well in the decades, the population of the six forts in Kuandian reached 46,000 households, and the territory was seven or eight hundred miles, but in the late Wanli period, the armament of Liaodong was abolished in the early years of Wanli, and the Ming army of the six forts in Liaozuo was more and more unable to maintain, in order to avoid being plundered by the Jurchen tribes, they could only make a migration, but the homeland was difficult to leave, and the process of migration was difficult to unfold. In the end, the army had to be mobilized, which inevitably led to bloodshed. Li Chengliang has also become the focus of ** again.
In the thirty-sixth year of Wanli, Li Chengliang was once again deposed. In the face of the official, Emperor Wanli put on an attitude that was inclined to Li Chengliang, which calmed down. In the forty-third year of Wanli, Li Chengliang died in Beijing. In the forty-sixth year of Wanli that followed, Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, as the second son of Li Chengliang, Li Rubai, who inherited the position of Li Chengliang, participated in the subsequent outbreak of the Battle of Sarhu, and finally fled back to Beijing in defeat.
Li Chengliang archway built by the Ming court.
The third son, Li Ruzhen, was quickly promoted to the Liaodong General Army in the forty-seventh year of Wanli to guard Shenyang to guard against the Jurchens, but when Nurhachi led his troops to attack Tieling, and Tieling, as the clan of the Li family, has developed into the most important cities in Liaodong in the past few decades, but Li Ruzhen watched the fall of Tieling and refused to send troops, and the evil consequences of the rapid promotion, as the son of Li Chengliang, the third son of Li Ruzhen did not have the talent of his father and brother at all, and the fall of Tieling showed that the prestige of the Ming court in Liaodong for decades was of course nowhere to go, The Liaodong Jiangmen system, which was formulated by the Li family in Liaodong for decades, collapsed.
As the inheritor of the Liaodong Jiangmen system, the influence of the ancestral family began to replace the Li family, and reached its peak in the subsequent Chongzhen Dynasty.