Hong Qiyin discovered that Hong Chengchou was extremely talented and had extraordinary ambitions. He took Hong Chengchou as a disciple for free and allowed him to return to school. Hong Chengchou studied very hard and read a lot of books in his youth.
Hong Qiyin's "Historical Records", "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", "Three Kingdoms", "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and other books were borrowed by him to study carefully. From an early age, he expressed his desire to govern the country and bring peace to the world, which was highly appreciated by Hong Qiyin.
In his life, he had no guarantee for the rest of his life, which was due to his own greed for life and fear of death. But Chongzhen also tricked him a lot, forcing him into a desperate situation, and finally he became discouraged.
If the boss doesn't care about human race, go to hell, I'll quit my job.
However, he was indeed a man of great ability and means. He was a momentary star in the Chongzhen Dynasty. His level was far higher than that of Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others.
Hong Qiyin once commented in an article by Hong Chengchou that "a family's horse is thousands of miles away, and a country's stone is thousands of stones".
After Hong Chengchou studied at Shuigouguan for five years, he went to Quanzhou Chengbei Academy to study. After that, he went to high school through the imperial examination and rose through the ranks.
At the age of twenty-three, he was the inspector of schools in Zhejiang. Such a young scholar was the envy of the world for a while. Then he was promoted again and promoted to participate in politics in Shaanxi.
As soon as he became a political participant, he caught up with Wang Zuogai and Miao Mei led his troops to attack Hancheng. Yang He had no generals, so in desperation, he ordered Hong Chengchou, who was still a political participant at the time, to lead his troops to fight.
Hong Chengchou killed 300 peasant soldiers in one battle and relieved the siege of Hancheng. He immediately became famous. In this way, he became famous all over the world overnight, and even the emperor paid attention to him.
There were quite a few general-level figures in Yulin at that time, such as You Shiwei (who was guarding Changping at this time), Wang Shiqin, Wang Shiguo, Hou Shilu, Hou Gongji, Wang Xueshu, Li Changling and others who were all world-famous generals.
These people were dismissed from their posts for all kinds of bullshit and went home to live idle.
They have a proper name in the late Ming Dynasty, which is called Yulin Wasted General.
The land in Yulin is barren, but the people are strong and live by fighting.
As long as there is a war, men, women, old and young will pick up the weapons and attack them. The main force of the Qin soldiers under Sun Chuanting were Yulin people, so they became the last elite soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, later generations said that when Chuanting died, the Ming Dynasty died.
Li Zicheng was also a native of Yulin Town. He was a descendant of the Dangxiang people after Li Jiqian, the founding monarch of Xixia.
Yansui Town, referred to as "Yanzhen". The general army was first stationed in Suidezhou (now Suide County, Shaanxi Province). After Chenghua, it was moved to Yulinwei (now Yulin City, Shaanxi Province), with the seal of the general in the west of the town.
The jurisdiction is a long strip, similar to a cucumber.
It starts from Huangfuchuan (now Fugu, Shaanxi) in the east and ends at Huangmachi (now Yanchi County, Ningxia) in the west, with a total length of about 885 kilometers. The number of officers and soldiers in the town is 80,196 (during the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty).
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The first chief military officer was Zhangwu Bo Yang Xin (established in 1458 AD in the second year of Tianshun), and the last chief military officer was Wang Ding (he fled to Mongolia in 1643 AD before the Dashun army broke through the city in the 16th year of Chongzhen).
At this time, Hong Chengchou was reading under the lamp the secret message sent urgently from Liubaili. This was an urgent secret message sent by Yang He from Guihua City. It was an order from Yang He, the governor of the three sides, to Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui.
Yang He took five hundred cavalry to Guihua City to fight against the autumn wind. Hong Chengchou knew about this.
Now the people in northern Shaanxi are so poor that they are eating soil and tree bark. There are even rumors in many places that cannibalism has begun.
They really couldn't find any profit or water.
However, without food and salary, the situation is about to collapse.
Yang He could only regard Yang Fan as the last straw. Hong Chengchou was also very concerned about this matter, because whether he, the governor, could do well and for a long time depended on how much Yang He could get back.
Hong Chengchou read the secret letter carefully. The more he read, the more frightened he became.
The letter did not mention a word about how many soldiers, horses, equipment, and food the Marquis of Dingyuan could give him.
Instead, he directly ordered Hong Chengchou to immediately notify the army in the wasteland outside the west gate to break up camp and cross the desert to the Yushu Fort, 350 miles away to the north of Yulin Town. They would arrive in ten days.
Let him Xiaoyu and other thieves immediately distribute food, salary and equipment as soon as they arrive at the place.
Each person can receive a mandarin duck war coat, chain mail, riding boots, waist knife, a riding bow, a spear, three pots of arrows, a cotton coat, a cloth coat, and a marching salute.
Reissue the arrears of food and salary, and promise to pay the food and salary on time in the future.
If a recruit passes the three-month training and voluntarily accepts reorganization and reorganization, each person will be given three pieces of brick tea, half a catty of salt, one load of grain, and three silver dollars. For each rank of officer, one silver dollar will be added.
Yushu Fort is close to Ordos, and ten miles to the north is the territory of Yang Fan, the general who conquered the west.
What was Yang Fan going to do? Hong Chengchou immediately became alert.
He smelled danger from between the lines.
Because it is very simple. In order to prevent these people from causing trouble, the best way is to distribute less food.
Hanging on to their lives. Let them neither have enough to eat nor starve to death.
I want to rebel again, but I can't bear to part with the porridge I have now. Besides, I don't have enough to eat and I don't have the strength, so I can only hang around half-dead for now.
If you don't give food at all, that's the opposite.
If you feed them all at once and give them weapons and equipment, it will be even worse.
Is Yang Fan a fool? Obviously not.
He has always been ruthless and ruthless, turning Monan into a no-man's land. His thoroughness in solving problems makes people shudder. So far, in the Ming Dynasty, there is no person or problem that he cannot deal with.
Going to the battlefield with him is also extremely risky, because many people die every time. But going to battle with him is also an opportunity to change the destiny of your life.
If you survive and make meritorious deeds, you can immediately achieve a class leap.
Hong Chengchou took advantage of the fact that Yang Fan couldn't think clearly about something that he already knew. Then why would he do this?
The key is that he not only gave them money, food and equipment, but also put forward conditions. He made it clear that he hoped they would accept recruit training and be reorganized after being broken up.
These are obviously conditions that these thieves are determined to accept and are unwilling to accept.
However, it also makes it easier for thieves to gain trust.
After all, there is no free lunch in the world. It is normal for the imperial court to be wary of them. It is also appropriate to hope to digest and absorb these recruited officers and soldiers.
If they were simply given benefits, they would feel uneasy.
Hong Chengchou calculated in his mind that these people all knew about Yang He's trip to Suiyuan. They all understood that Governor Yang was going to beg for food. As for how much benefit he could get, it would depend on whether the Marquis of Dingyuan would give the emperor face.
There are now more than 18,000 people in the camp five miles west of the city, with more than 40 leaders from each group. They now lean against the base of the earthen wall in the military camp every day, take off their clothes, catch lice, and sneeze in the sun.
I eat two meals a day of porridge made with wild vegetables, rice bran, and various beans.
There was nothing else. I drank wild vegetables, rice bran, and multigrain bean porridge. If I was lucky, I was given a pickle every few days. If I was not full, I could only drink cold water and continue to produce gas.
As soon as it gets dark, these bastards cover their faces and go out to do business. Otherwise, they would have starved to death.
Except for the three taels of silver and two buckets of rice given to each person when they were just recruited, no materials or food were given out. Even the porridge that is barely maintained now is still the meal that Yang He begged his grandfather and grandma for intermittently.
Woolen cloth.
They look forward to it every day when Mr. Yang He comes back and shouts, "It's time for dinner again, family."
Hong Chengchou had already made a guess in his mind, but that was fine. If Marquis Dingyuan intervened, the problem in northern Shaanxi would be completely solved.
He shouted: "Chen Zhubo, go check and see how much food is left in the treasury. Is it enough for 18,000 people to walk to Yushu Fort?"