Tang Feng sat on the armchair and looked at Wei Kangyong kneeling below with a strange smile on his face.
From the information sent by the East Chamber secret agent, Wei Kangyong was a member of the Donglin Party and had a high status in the Donglin Party.
In history, during the Tianqi era, the Donglin Party and Wei Zhongxian fought endlessly. The Donglin Party wanted to defeat Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian wanted to destroy the entire Donglin Party.
The conflict between the two sides made the already turbulent Great Ming Dynasty even worse, directly accelerating the destruction of the Great Ming Dynasty.
The couplet said that the sound of wind, rain, and reading could be heard, and he was concerned about everything in the world.
Perhaps the Donglin Party had good intentions in the beginning.
However, the Donglin Party attacked the court and stirred up trouble in order to gain power. Moreover, the Donglin Party only talked about others and did not reflect on themselves. Many of the Donglin Party members were even greedier than those corrupt officials.
From the moment he became Wei Zhongxian, Tang Feng knew about the tangled feud between him and the Donglin Party.
Disintegrating the Donglin Party had long been on his agenda, and now, it was his first step.
No matter how prideful Wei Kangyong was, he had to make a choice in order to protect his family.
Tang Feng's goal was very simple. He wanted to plant this chess piece in the Donglin Party and destroy the Donglin Party from within.
Ding dong.
"Evil people need to be tortured by evil people. The host has successfully subdued Wei Kangyong of the Donglin Party.”
Li Guangdi.
Tang Feng almost stood up when he saw Li Guangdi's name.
Li Guangdi was a famous official of the Qing Dynasty and a famous minister of Confucianism. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, he served successively as an editor of the Imperial Academy, a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and a grand secretary of the Wenyuan Pavilion. He had helped to pacify the rebellion of the three vassals and unify Taiwan.
Talent, this was a great talent. Li Guangdi's ability was much stronger than Pavilion Elder Liu Yijing's.
He had profited. He had profited greatly this time.
Currently, Tang Feng didn't have any civil officials that he could use. With Li Guangdi, the situation had changed.
The three guards of Tianjin were the key to his plan. Although Wei Kangyong had submitted to him, he still needed a reliable person on his side.
With Li Guangdi's personal ability, controlling a Tianjin guard was a piece of cake.
"System, where is Li Guangdi now?”
"Currently, Li Guangdi is in Tianjin Wei and is the deputy envoy of the fourth rank propaganda and consolation department.”A system notification appeared.
From a Rank-4 deputy envoy, and he was in Tianjin Guardian, this saved a lot of trouble.
What he needed to do next was to make Li Guangdi sit on the position of messenger.
In order not to attract attention, Wei Kangyong quietly left Jinghai County with his two incompetent sons and returned to Tianjin Wei.
On the morning of the second day, Tang Feng got up and went to Tianjin Wei under the crowd.
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin was established as a garrison. After two hundred years of development, this small garrison had developed into an important town in the north.
There were 20,000 soldiers stationed in the three guards of Tianjin and a population of more than 100,000.
When Tang Feng's carriage arrived at the Tianjin Guards, the eunuch was already waiting there.
In the Ming Dynasty, the civil system was used to control the military. At the same time, a eunuch would be stationed in an army to supervise the civil officials and generals.
Tang Feng was the Seal Eunuch of the Bureau of Rites. All the eunuchs in the world were his subordinates and were under his control.
The eunuch of the Tianjin Guards naturally had to leave the city to meet his superior.
It wasn't just the Chief Eunuch Yang Jin who had come. Wei Kangyong and the other officials of the Tianjin Guards had also come.
Looking at the officials kneeling on both sides of the road at the city gate, Tang Feng felt a little smug.
After all, he was a person from the later generations. He had only seen such a scene of being knelt and welcomed on television. Now that he was there, it was inevitable that he would feel a little smug.
"Get up."
Surrounded by a group of officials, Tang Feng entered the Tianjin Guards.
A banquet had already been prepared in the government office.
Everyone sat down. Tang Feng naturally sat on the main seat, with Yang Jin and Wei Kangyong on both sides.
At this banquet, Tang Feng finally met Li Guangdi.
As a rank 4 deputy envoy, Li Guangdi had the right to sit.
In order to pave the way for Li Guangdi, Tang Feng specially invited him to his table and let him sit next to him.
After the banquet, Tang Feng asked Li Guangdi to stay for a while.
"Greetings, Master." Li Guangdi bowed to Tang Feng.
Tang Feng personally helped him up.
"Guangdi, how are the three guards of Tianjin?”Without wasting any time, Tang Feng went straight to the point.
These people from the system were all absolutely loyal. Those high-sounding nonsense were naturally unnecessary.
"Replying to Master, although the current Tianjin Guards seem to have twenty thousand guards, in reality, there are only a few thousand soldiers who can really fight. The rest are either old, weak, sick, or are paid for nothing.”Li Guangdi replied.
Tang Feng was not surprised by what Li Guangdi said.
The Great Ming Dynasty was already sick. The officials and governors of various places were all filling their own pockets. It was common for them to eat empty salaries.
Just like Liaodong, it seemed that there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but in reality, there were only tens of thousands of people who could fight. Moreover, most of them were the private soldiers of the various governors and generals.
This was a sick dynasty. Generals needed to rely on their own personal soldiers to fight on the battlefield, just like Yuan Chonghuan, who had close to ten thousand private soldiers.
This wasn't because Yuan Chonghuan was ambitious, but because he had no other choice. The Ming Dynasty's army was already rotten. A capable and ambitious general like Yuan Chonghuan could only think of ways to raise money to train his private soldiers to resist foreign enemies.
It was precisely these loyal officials that allowed the Ming Dynasty to exist for decades.
"I want you to train a new army of firearms in Tianjin. Can you do that?”Tang Feng looked at Li Guangdi and asked.
"How long can Master give me?”Li Guangdi didn't say whether he could or couldn't, but asked Tang Feng for the time.
"Half a year, at most half a year." Tang Feng said.
"If Master can give me a hundred seasoned soldiers, I guarantee that within half a year, I will train a new army for Master.”Li Guangdi said.
"Sure."
The so-called veterans were naturally the elite musketeers and artillery soldiers recruited from the system.
"In addition, there's one more thing I need you to do.”
"Master, feel free to speak."
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