Gu Heng asked Shi Lang and others to be instructors to teach the newly arrived navy, and in the navy list that Shi Lang and others handed over to Gu Heng, they found a man named Li Changxiang.

Tao Ren, a native of Dazhou, Sichuan, was born into a family of officials and gentry.

Gu Heng always felt that this person was very familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember what influence or characteristics this person had in history, so he sent someone to inquire about it.

He discovered that Li Changxiang liked to practice martial arts and talk about the use of troops. When he was young, he gathered young people to train village brave men to help defend the city.

Then Gu Heng suddenly remembered that this person was recorded in historical data. It is said that he promoted people in the 16th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. Then in the 16th year of Chongzhen, he promoted Jinshi, selected common people, and then entered the imperial court as an official.

However, his fellow countryman Xue Guoguanfang was the chief assistant at that time and wanted to use it for personal use, but Li Changxiang firmly refused.

On the eve of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Civil Affairs recommended the choice of Supervisor Bei. Some people said to Li Changxiang: "If the emperor re-appoints you, what plan will you make?"

Li Changxiang sighed and said: "Don't you remember the past of Sun Chuanting? Now I can only ask for easy things. Even if I have a gold medal, I will not stop. After defeating the thief, I am willing to be imprisoned and receive an ax and a hammer!"

People were stunned when they heard this answer. As the bandits were approaching day by day, Li Changxiang once asked the Minister to urgently order the ministers to assist the prince out of Zhenjin Gate in order to mobilize the troops of King Qin, but there was no result.

Later, the capital was defeated soon after and was plundered by thieves. Li Changxiang took the opportunity to run south. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Li Changxiang, Zheng Chenggong, and Zhang Huangyan tried many times to recover, but failed many times. They rose up again and again, resisting the Qing Dynasty unyieldingly.

After King Fu was established as the emperor, he appointed Li Changxiang as the censor to supervise the Zhejiang salt industry. In the fourth year of King Lu's supervision, Li Changxiang was appointed as the censor of Qiandu.

Defeated.

After the Qing army fell into Zhoushan in 1651, King Lu went to Fujian to join Zheng Chenggong, while Li Changxiang and his remaining troops formed a stronghold on Yuzhi Dongshan.

At that time, there were many villages in Zhejiang, and they went out to collect food and wages. The people living nearby were troubled by this matter.

Only Li Changxiang, Zhang Huangyan, and Wang Yi's three battalions were stationed and plowed without disturbing Jingyi. The supervisor of the Yin people in China was responsible for liaison and arrangements. Please lead the troops from Zhoushan to connect the Dalan villages to Dingyin and Ciwu counties.

, because he went down to Yaojiang River, he joined forces with Cao E, and joined all the villages in Heshan Mountain to go down to Xiling.

Qian proposed to appoint Li Changxiang as the leader of the alliance and to gather at a scheduled date. However, this matter was reported by Xie Sanbin, a gentry who had been surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Qing troops were attracted to attack.

As a result, the former army Zhang Yougong was captured by the Qing army and died. The Chinese army and twelve centurions planned to tie up Li Changxiang and present it to the Qing army as a surrender gift the next day.

But when they got up early the next morning, the twelve men suddenly said to themselves: "Why are we forced to kill loyal ministers?" So the twelve men broke their arrows, clinched their swords, and fled together.

Li Changxiang escaped the disaster inexplicably, and he really responded to the word "Changxiang" in his name.

Then Li Changxiang disguised himself as a beggar and hid in a boat and came to Shaoxing City.

After Li Changxiang lived in Shaoxing for a few days, the situation became more and more urgent, so Li Changxiang fled to Fenghua and relied on Ping Xibo.

Chaoxian was also from Shu, so Li Changxiang got his help and united a group of people in Xia Gaishan, so Li Changxiang was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of War.

Li Changxiang asked the people of the imperial court to contact the coastal areas and serve as Zhoushan guards. This matter was feared by Zhang Mingzhen, a minister who supported the king of Lu and had an army in Zhoushan. Zhang Mingzhen attacked and killed the imperial emperor, and Li Changxiang barely survived.

After Zhoushan was defeated, Li Changxiang fled to Jiang and Huaihe. The Qing governor Chen Jin captured him and resettled him in Jiangning.

At this time, Yao Shu, a talented girl from Jinling (the daughter of a scholar from Zhongshan), admired Li Changxiang's name and went to the place where Li Changxiang was being guarded to discuss poetry and art with Li Changxiang. As a result, they fell in love at first sight and became inseparable.

While he was under guard, the destined Zheng Taohua came to find Li Changxiang. Even love was so auspicious!

The guards also said that Li Changxiang was attached to him and would definitely be slack in the fight against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, so he secretly let Li Changxiang go.

Li Changxiang and his wife fled Nanjing in the first year of Kangxi (1662), crossed Qinyou from Wumen, walked to Hebei, traveled to Datong, Xuanfu, and then went south to Guangdong.

After the world was settled, Li Changxiang and his family moved to Piling (today's Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province). From then on, Li Changxiang built a reading platform, wrote essays and poems to express his feelings, high-spirited and vigorous, and wrote "Tianwen Pavilion Collected Works"

》It was also passed down from generation to generation.

Some people commented that Li Changxiang was "a scholar of literature and ink, and he was in the army for more than dozens of years, traveling thousands of miles, and he was an extraordinary person" ("Tianwen Pavilion Collection and Postscript").

Fu Zengxiang also believes that Li Changxiang's "wisdom lingers around the soul, and his talents lead him vertically and horizontally. He is also a great figure in the late Ming Dynasty" (Yitian Wenge Collected Works and Postscript).

When Gu Heng recalled this person, he felt that in addition to his talent and upright officialdom, the most important thing about this person was his amazing luck! He had truly achieved the title of "Chang Xiang"!

Sometimes besides strength, luck is also important. So Gu Heng decided to meet Li Changxiang to see if he was really talented and worried about the world as recorded in historical records.

Gu Heng summoned this man, met with him, and talked for a while. He found that this man was brave and brave, and he was indeed quite strategic in military affairs. He was also worried about the world as recorded in the history books. Gu Heng encouraged Li Changxiang and felt in his heart

I know where to put him when the time comes.

When the navy was almost fully trained, Gu Heng planned to send the first batch of trained navy to the Qiongzhou Prefecture area of ​​Hainan, where there was a naval base that Gu Yanwu had prepared for himself a long time ago, and many sea-going ships were built there.

It was just that Gu Heng thought that the first batch of navy had more than 3,000 people and could form a brigade, and Shi Lang could serve as the brigade commander. But in the long run, a division of navy could be formed in Qiongzhou Prefecture, so who should be the division commander?

This division commander must have a good strategic vision and be able to unite the entire navy. In addition, he must be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and not want to form his own warlord group.

Then such a person, as Emperor Chongzhen said to himself before, must choose scholars who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty!

Gu Heng carefully recalled the history of the late Ming Dynasty that he was familiar with to see if there were any suitable outstanding people among the people still alive. Suddenly a person's name appeared in his mind!

Du Yinxi! The man who is called the only strategic master of the Southern Ming Dynasty by many historians!

Du Yinxi, also written as Yunxi, also known as Xijun, his original name was Lingshuo, with the courtesy name Zhongjian, the first character Muzi, and the nickname Muyou. He was a minister in the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in the 29th year of Wanli of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty in Qiting Town, Yixing City today.

A native of Qianting Village.

When Du Yinxi was 11 years old, both of his parents died. When he was 12 years old, he was attached to his father-in-law's family, the Chen family. Although his father-in-law was poor, he was kind-hearted and hired a private school to teach him poetry.

When Gu Heng recalled this, he couldn't help but sigh to himself. In ancient times, it was not entirely a bad thing to arrange a baby's marriage. Parents who arranged a baby's marriage for their children well could also save their children from the suffering of being orphans without anyone to care for them.

There are still books to read, as evidenced by Du Yinxi.

Of course, everything has pros and cons. It's hard to tell clearly. It all depends on personal luck.

In October of the forty-eighth year of Wanli, Du Yinxi went to Wuxi to take the county examination and was admitted. In November, he took the government examination and was admitted. In December, he took the college examination and was dismissed.

However, at this time, Wuxi's Matai Shi appreciated Du Yinxi's talent and learning, so Du Yinxi accepted his apprenticeship as a disciple, studied for several years, and made great progress in his studies.

In July of the first year of Tianqi, Du Yinxi wrote a letter of ten thousand words and submitted it to the prefect He Yingrui. The prefect was very talented and gave him enthusiastic encouragement. In May of the second year of Tianqi, Yinxi made up for the disciples of the mansion. In the sixth year of Tianqi, he

Participated in the college examination and ranked first.
Chapter completed!