The west camp of Yansui County is where all the bandits who were surrendered are stationed.
During this period, these so-called officers and soldiers who had just been recruited were causing misfortune to the people of Yansui. Although these people now wear the red shirts of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, they go their own way, exactly the same as when they were thieves.
After all, they have no training and don't know what officers and soldiers are like.
The people in Yansui County were so frightened that they did not dare to go through the west gate to collect firewood, and the eldest daughter and the younger daughter-in-law were even so frightened that they did not even dare to leave their homes. The county magistrate ordered the west gate and north gate to be closed, leaving only the south gate and the east gate.
Common people and merchants came and went.
Yansui, also known as Yulin Town, is one of the important towns on the nine sides. There is a governor of Yansui here. He is controlled by the governors of the three sides who are stationed in Guyuan.
The terrain of Yulin City is backed by mountains on three sides and faces water on one side. The terrain is high in the east and low in the west, with desert to the east.
Outside the North City, there are five castles, which support each other from a high position.
Although the west side is close to water, it has already frozen in winter. However, the west side is open and it is difficult to hide.
In fact, Yang He was worried about these shameless bastards, so he specially placed the military camp in the west so that Governor Yansui could watch and monitor them from the city gate.
Yulinwei is affiliated to Yansui Town, which was an important town in the Ming Dynasty. "History of the Ming Dynasty" records: "Yulinwei is the most powerful town in the world, with the most elite soldiers and the most generals, but its land is the most barren and its pay is the most scarce.
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The frontier soldiers in Yulin Town had no food and pay, and turned to the peasant army in large numbers in order to eat. This was the fundamental reason for the reversal of the situation on the battlefield inside the pass.
Guo Moruo wrote in "The Three Centenary Ceremony of Jiashen": "In the early days, the bandits could not defeat the soldiers, but the bandits were fully trained by the soldiers in the long-term tug-of-war. In addition, a large number of soldiers were invested in the bandits, and the soldiers gradually became weak.
I can’t defeat the bandits.”
Hong Chengchou was promoted to governor of Yansui in June this year. At that time, Hong Chengchou made meritorious service because he was temporarily arrested by Yang He.
Hong Chengchou was originally a scholar, but he was knowledgeable in military matters.
What the court did not expect was that a large number of talents with military knowledge emerged among the Jinshi in the late Ming Dynasty.
From Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Chonghuan, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang,... to Hong Chengchou.
There are more generals with real abilities, such as Ma Dengyun, Hei Yunlong, Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Zhou Yuji, Qin Liangyu, Zhang Fengyi, Sun Chuanting, Zheng Chenggong...
There was really no shortage of talents at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Yuan Yingtai, an expert in water management, Zhang Wudian, an expert in mathematics and statistics, Song Yingxing, an industrial scholar, Sun Yuanhua, an artillery expert, Xu Tianqi, Bi Zisu, an expert in financial management, etc.
Talents from all walks of life are as bright as stars.
It's a pity that the emperor had a lot of talents in his hands, but he didn't make good use of any of them. He played a good hand badly, causing everyone to lose. In the end, the emperor did not feel sorry for himself, but shied the responsibility to his ministers.
He obviously accepted the bet and refused to admit defeat, and he was a tough talker.
But in this world, hard words are useless, only hard hearts are useful.
Chongzhen was a hard-tongued person, but Hong Chengchou was a hard-hearted person.
Hong Chengchou, courtesy name Hengjiu, was born in Quanzhou County, Fujian Province. He was a Jinshi in Wanli Bingchen.
In the 21st year of Wanli (1593), Hong Chengchou was born in Yingdu, Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian.
History is very interesting. When the Qing Dynasty won the world, there was a Fujianese who protected Shunzhi and entered the customs. This man was Hong Chengchou. When the Qing Dynasty lost the world, there was a Fujianese who protected Puyi and came out of the customs. This man's name is Zheng Xiaoxu. He is from Minhou, Fujian.
Hong Chengchou went to Xiyikuan to study in his childhood. Due to his poor family, he dropped out of school at the age of eleven. He helped his mother make dried tofu at home and went to Yingweipu every morning to sell dried tofu in the streets.
Hong Mu is a person who understands justice well.
In his later years, he refused to be supported by the traitor Hong Chengchou, lived on a boat with his young son, and ignored the land of the Qing Dynasty, and eventually died on the boat.
He once brought his mother to the imperial capital, intending to fulfill his filial piety before her bedside.
Hong Chengchou's mother had always been famous in the countryside for her staunchness. After Hong Chengchou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, not only the people in the village looked down on him, but even the scholars in the world regarded him as a shame.
Now that he wanted to take his mother to Beijing, the villagers thought that Hong's mother would not agree. Unexpectedly, after receiving the news, Hong's mother immediately packed up and prepared to go to Beijing to see her son.
When Hong Chengchou heard that his mother had agreed to come to Beijing, he was so happy that he asked people to prepare the room while looking forward to his mother's arrival in the capital.
When Hong's mother arrived in the capital, she saw her son already waiting at the city gate to greet him. However, as soon as Hong's mother got out of the car and saw her traitorous son, she picked up her cane and beat him severely.
At that time, while beating Hong Chengchou, she cursed: "My mother is already over seventy years old, and she has only a few days to live, but she has to be humiliated because of you, an unfaithful and unfilial beast. I am already this old, why did you pick me up here?"
What are you doing, entering the palace and becoming a mother? If I don’t beat you to death today, I will be sorry to everyone in the world."
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a system for high-ranking ladies to enter the palace to serve the Queen Mother.
In fact, it was just a formality, having a meal with the Queen Mother, etc. It was a form of honor and favor.
Hong's mother agreed to come to Beijing not because she agreed with her son's traitorous behavior. The old lady came to Beijing this time specifically to beat and scold him, a traitor and unfilial son. The old lady beat Hong Chengchou and scolded him bloody.
Then he took his young son and returned to Fujian.
At that time, Hong Qiyin, a talented man from the Xixuan eldest house of the Hong family, ran a village school in Shuigouguan.
When Hong Chengchou was not selling dried tofu, he often hid outside the school and secretly listened to classes.
Hong Chengchou was a very talented person. He had a quick mind and an excellent memory. Other students could not master what they had learned several times, but he understood and remembered it as soon as he heard it.
Therefore, I occasionally help students make pairs that they cannot figure out.
This world is inherently unequal.
Although we are born unequal, we must pursue acquired equality.
Let people with superior abilities and those with inferior abilities pay and receive exactly the same. This kind of equality is neither practical nor possible. This is also a strange idea.
Reincarnation is a technical life. Life is like trees and flowers that grow together and fall with the wind. The curtains fall on the mats, and the fences fall into the dung.
Innate inequality is not just a matter of where one is reincarnated.
In terms of personal qualifications, some people are born smart, and some are even so smart that they don’t need to study.
Life knows this.
Because reading spoiled him, it actually had a bad influence.
Some people are stupid all their lives and are born unable to get into college. No matter how hard they work, it will be useless. The more you push them, the more painful they will be, so it is better to let them go.
Sometimes, you really can't compare goods with others.
It is said that the common people create history, but after reading the Twenty-Four Histories, it is clear that at the turning point of history, it is always individuals who change the direction of history.
It is said that when the teacher was young, he had a photographic memory of what he read.
No matter which book, after he has read it once, you can ask him whatever you want. Ask him directly, ask him backwards, and pick out a paragraph at random. He will answer it fluently. It is shocking.