Chapter 34 Liu Xian expresses his grievance (Part 2)
The Duke of Guizhou's Mansion is also known as Prince Mu's Mansion in later generations. Their ancestor was Mu Ying, the adopted son and general of Zhu Yuanzhang. Taizu designated his family to "forever rule Yunnan", so it was natural for the Yunnan chieftains to pay tribute to them. The Duke of Guizhou's Mansion has
A large number of Panax notoginseng, this is good news.
But Gao pragmatically still put away the bottle of Panax notoginseng powder very solemnly, and said seriously: "General Liu, this is not for my own use, but I intend to dedicate it to my uncle... Ah, my uncle is Xinzheng High School
Duke Xuan is an official in the same court as the general. I wonder if the general recognizes him?"
This was a question made knowingly, and Gao Pragmatic obviously had other intentions.
As expected, Liu Xian's face became solemn, and he raised his hand towards the capital: "Xinzheng Gaogong is the prime minister and assistant minister of the current dynasty. He has long admired his name. It's just that he is humble and humble, and he doesn't dare to see him."
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "General Liu is self-effacing. My uncle once commented on today's famous generals in front of the boy, and the general was among them. My uncle also valued the general's ability in his words."
Liu Xian's face was slightly happy, but he could still maintain his due reserve and said with a smile: "How dare you, a despicable person, be praised by a famous general in the world?"
"That's right, that's right." Gao pragmatically said with a smile, then paused, patted the place where the porcelain bottle was placed on his chest, and continued: "If this thing has miraculous effects, I should advise my uncle to make it more popular in the world."
It is promoted and used in the army. There have been many wars in our country. In the future, thousands of soldiers will benefit from the general. How can the imperial court not remember the general's merits?"
Liu Xian smiled bitterly and said: "How dare a person who has been dismissed from his position to wait for re-examination take any extravagant credit for his achievements?"
Gao Pingshi frowned slightly: "Young man, I heard Brother Zishou mention this matter just now, but I don't know why the general is here?"
Liu Xian sighed and shook his head with a wry smile: "It's his own fault..."
He then introduced his experiences over the years, including why he was always ups and downs, to Gao Pragmatic.
It turns out that Liu Xian's surname was Gong, his given name was Xian, and his courtesy name was Wei Ming. His ancestors came from Huguang, and his sixth ancestor was the Dusi of Jiangning, Jiangsu Province in the Yuan Dynasty. In May of the 20th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang captured Taiping, killed Xu Shouhui, and called himself emperor.
.At this time, the world was full of heroes and wars were frequent. In order to avoid the war, Liu Xian's grandfather moved his family to Gaotian Village, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province to start a business.
Due to the martial arts passed down in his family, Liu Xian has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and is proficient in martial arts. Moreover, he is born with supernatural powers and rarely encounters opponents. However, due to his poor family background, he did not read many books when he was young, but he is still fairly proficient in writing and knows the truth. But
This makes no sense, because he is not a scholar. He was very frustrated when he was young and wandered around.
Time flies, and after many twists and turns, he wanders to Chengdu, Sichuan, and lives in a temple. He makes a living by doing part-time jobs and stealing offerings from the temple. He often hides the things he gets in a heavy bell.
As time went by, his magical power to lift the bell was discovered by others, and "people thought it was strange." But for Liu Xian, who had great ambitions, this wandering life was forced by life's helplessness, not his will, and it was not a long-term solution.
In order to seek a better way out, after several inquiries, he learned that the Chengdu Infantry Battalion of the Ming Army was recruiting boy scouts, so he applied for the boy scouts. It was a coincidence that on the night when Liu Xian applied for the exam, Liu Min, the Sichuan guard envoy stationed in Chengdu at the time,
While dreaming at night, he suddenly saw a big black tiger running towards his official residence in the military camp.
The next morning, Liu Min asked someone to interpret his dream, and the result was that a strange person would defect to him. Sure enough, after breakfast and before the exam started, Liu Xian came to take the Boy Scout exam. Liu Min saw that Liu Xian had a majestic appearance and was extremely brave.
The thing in the pool felt that it was destined to him, so he was overjoyed and thought that it was the dream. As a result, Liu Min, as the examiner, chose Liu Xian and accepted him as a boy scout, and as a personal guard, he practiced martial arts with the soldiers.
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After Liu Xian joined the Boy Scouts, in order to repay the kindness of Liu Min, the guard envoy, he worshiped General Liu Min as his adoptive father and changed his surname to Liu. Liu Min was very happy. Of course, this was also a phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty.
This custom led to famous generals such as Li Chengliang and Mao Wenlong having many adopted sons.
In the 18th year of Jiajing, Liu Xian, who was only 24 years old, changed his Jiangxi origin to Sichuan origin and applied for the martial arts examination with the help of the Wei envoy Liu Min. After passing the martial arts examination and passing the martial arts examination, he was admitted as a martial arts student.
It was a threshold for entering the officialdom of military officers. From then on, Liu Xian began his military career, accompanying Liu Min in battles.
Not long after, the imperial court established Zhenwu Camp in Nanjing. Recommended by Zhang Hao, Minister of War, Liu Xian was called to Zhenwu Camp as an instructor because of his strong martial arts skills and proficient tactics. Because of the infantry saber tactics created by Liu Xian in Zhenwu Camp
For his special contribution to the training of surprise attack skills, he was quickly promoted to the acting capital commander and concurrently served as the Zhejiang capital commander. Because of his contribution to the preparation of the Zhejiang army, he was promoted to a staff general and was in charge of the military defense of Jiangsu and Wusongkou.
At this time, the Japanese invaders often invaded and invaded Si County, Tianchang, Xuyi, Mingguang, and Sihong areas north of the Jianghuai River. The imperial court ordered Liu Xian to guard Pukou. After that, Liu Xian made consecutive military exploits. Within a few years, due to his outstanding military exploits,
Moved to the position of deputy commander-in-chief, assisting the commander-in-chief in defending the Jiang and Zhejiang areas.
In the thirty-eighth year of the Jiajing reign, Liu Xian, deputy general of the Zhejiang Province, was ordered by Governor Hu Zongxian to go north with two thousand elite troops to assist Jiangbei in fending off the Japanese. The governor of Fengyang and the censor of Youdu, Li Sui, in order to unify the morale of the army, ordered all the troops in Jiangbei to return.
Liu Xian commanded. Liu Xian and his staff general Cao Kexin led their troops to attack the thieves' nest. Commander Lu Bor also led reinforcements and came later. People from all over the countryside ate pots of pulp and cheered. The fierce battle started in the morning and lasted until dusk.
Finally, they all defeated Liuzhuang, the base camp of the Japanese pirates.
The bandits were at the end of their rope and were beaten and fled. Liu Xian led his soldiers and local villagers to pursue the victory and pursued them bravely. They chased the defeated Japanese pirates to Baijuchang, Xinghua, and then from Baijuchang to Maohuadun. After several
After a fierce battle, with blood flowing everywhere and corpses strewn across the fields, Liu Xian's troops won a complete victory, and all the Japanese pirates who escaped were wiped out without any survivors.
However, Li Sui, who was the governor of Fengyang and in charge of military affairs in the north of the Yangtze River, wrote a letter to impeach Liu Xian because of his competition for military honors. Lu Borang was guilty of indulging the Japanese pirates in Sansha, which resulted in the serious consequences of the looting of Baijuchang, Maohuadun and other places. Emperor Jiajing
After reading Li Sui's memorial, out of the habitual mentality of a noble man and a lowly military man, Liu Xian was deprived of his salary and submitted to the Procuratorate for verification. Liu Xian was charged with dereliction of duty and was dismissed for the first time.
In May of the 41st year of Jiajing's reign, Japanese pirates swarmed in the coastal areas of Guangdong. At this time, the Jiajing State was thinking of good generals and urgently appointed Liu Xian as the chief military officer to guard Guangdong and the maritime areas of Fujian.
At the same time, another invasion of Japanese pirates broke out along the coast of Fujian. The local government and garrison troops were very troubled by the unexpected Japanese pirates and were unable to deal with them. Liu Xian received an order from the military newspaper and quickly led the army to rush for reinforcements. He also contacted Qian Shi, the then Zhejiang Capital Secretary.
, participating general Qi Jiguang worked together to defeat the Japanese pirates one after another, and directly removed the Japanese pirates' base camp. No Japanese pirates who entered the coastal areas of Fujian survived and were all wiped out.
However, the unyielding Japanese pirates continued to flood into Yingtian territory in large numbers and quickly captured Xinghua City. Liu Xian's troops were greatly reduced in strength due to continuous shifts to fighting, and there was a huge gap between the main force of the Japanese pirates who occupied Xinghua.
So we had to besiege but not attack, not daring to start a war.
As a result, Liu Xian was immediately impeached again, saying that he was ineffective in suppressing the Japanese pirates. After being impeached, Jiajing considered that the country was in troubled times and it was the time to employ people, so he could not cut off his wings, so he issued an edict ordering Liu Xian to perform meritorious service for his crimes.
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At this time, the Japanese pirates continued to capture important coastal strongholds, and formed a tug-of-war with the Ming army near Pinghaiwei. Another group of Japanese pirates who robbed Fuqing, Fujian, also planned to join forces with the Japanese pirates from Pinghaiwei. Fortunately, the Japanese pirates' plan
Liu Xian discovered this, so Liu Xian joined forces with Yu Dayou, the commander-in-chief of Fujian Province, on the Zhelang Peninsula to wipe out all the Japanese pirates entrenched in Zhelang. After hearing the news, the Japanese pirates of Pinghaiwei planned to escape, but they were intercepted and defeated by Commander-in-Chief Xu Chaoguang.
All the Japanese pirate ships were burned down.
At this time, Qi Jiguang also led his troops to come for reinforcements. Together with Liu Xian and Yu Dayou, the three main forces to fight against the Japanese invaders, they worked together to annihilate all the Japanese pirates in the Xinghua area and recover the fallen Xinghua City.
Because Liu Xian made outstanding achievements in the battle to annihilate the Japanese pirates in Guangdong and Fujian, the imperial court rewarded him for his merits. He was promoted two levels from his original rank of the third-rank commander of Qianshi to the rank of second-rank commander of Qianshi.
.At this time, the Japanese pirates in Yangzhou, Huai'an, Taizhou, Nantong and other places in the north of the Yangtze River had not yet been completely annihilated and pacified. The imperial court decided to set up a general military officer in Langshan to control the north and south of the Yangtze River. Liu Xian was changed to be a general military officer and stationed in Langshan.
After taking office, Liu Xian, the commander-in-chief, asked the emperor to issue an edict to him in order to fulfill his duty of evaluating local officials, so as to control local officials below the prefecture. Because Wang Ru, a fellow magistrate of Tongzhou, was jealous of Liu Xian - Liu Xian's department
He was stationed near Tongzhou, but Wang Ru was a civil servant and refused to be controlled by Liu Xian - so he wrote a letter to impeach Liu Xian, accusing Liu Xian's request of being disrespectful to the emperor and asking for right and wrong... so Liu Xian was demoted and punished.
Not long after Emperor Jiajing died, Emperor Longqing ascended the throne. At this time, Liu Xian had suffered enough from the civil servants and did not dare to go against the civil servants anymore. However, he did not expect that as a general near Nanjing, not only could he not be able to argue with the civil servants, but he would also
Listen to the greetings of the Nanjing garrison ministers (Wufeng Note: Nanjing is actually the official capital of the Ming Dynasty. There are also six ministries and other left-behind institutions, but most of them are fictitious. The three real power giants in Nanjing are: Nanjing Minister of War, Nanjing garrison eunuchs, and Nanjing garrison eunuchs.
This is also the main reason why in history, after Chongzhen committed suicide, the Nanming court was headed by Shi Kefa, then Minister of War in Nanjing.) Liu Xian was suppressed by the Nanjing garrison officials because he was a military general but did not know how to contribute.
There was a big difference between the number of soldiers under his command and the number of registered soldiers. As a result, Liu Xian was once again "dismissed pending reconnaissance."
When Liu Xian said this, his face was filled with anger: "Master Gao, if you want to say that the number of soldiers in the guard station does not match the number of registered people, we have hundreds of towns in the Ming Dynasty. Which town can match it? There is a huge difference between the number of soldiers and registered people in Nanjing towns
, the difference is much greater than that of Liu’s subordinates, why don’t these people ask for punishment themselves and come to me instead?”
