The divine right of kings is the best footnote to the legitimacy of the emperor.
That's why Liu Laosan ignored his reputation as the Emperor of the Han Dynasty and forcefully said that his mother had an affair, so the eldest and second eldest son were Liu Taigong's sons, and he was the son of the god Jiaolong.
If Lao San traveled to later generations, his imagination would definitely not be so poor. How could a dragon look like the Emperor of Heaven? He would have to create an Emperor Haotian no matter what. This shows that the ancients were still very simple.
Chong Bage was able to uphold the integrity of the country, and in all dynasties, there was no emperor who could stand shoulder to shoulder with him. Therefore, he was not as shameless as Liu Laosan, a fellow from Xuepei County. Even when his ministers tried to persuade him to recognize Zhu Xi as his ancestor, Chong Bage decisively refused.
I am a monk, I am a beggar, I am an emperor! Chong Bage is domineering and arrogant, neither giving face to the civil servants nor bothering to give himself face.
Although he doesn’t recognize his noble ancestors, it doesn’t mean that Brother Chongba doesn’t recognize God as his godfather. The Son of Heaven is God’s son. Brother Chongba still honestly became a godson for once. To be honest, he can rise from a beggar monk to a godfather.
As for the emperor, if you say there is no providence, I will not believe it even if you are beaten to death.
Since the emperor can have a relationship with God, then ambitious guys naturally want to be relatives with God.
Lan Tingrui is such a different kind of careerist.
One year, he committed a crime and ran into the mountains, where he became a gold-touching captain. He picked up an ancient seal, so he claimed that he was favored by God and deceived the ignorant villagers.
The villagers believed it, but the officials were not so stupid. Do you dare to rob tombs and not pay filial piety? Hunt them down!
So Comrade Xiaolan fled decisively and continued to work in the deep mountains and old forests. Not long after, he got another sword. It can be seen that Comrade Xiaolan is still very professional and can dig accurately.
According to the routine of tomb robbing novels, Comrade Xiao Lan should carry out his adventure career between blowing out the lamp and not blowing out the lamp.
However, he is not a traditional tomb robber. Comrade Xiao Lan feels that tomb robbing is too futile, and it is better to be a magician.
So he made a seal with his left hand, a sword in his right hand, God's will on his waist, and a divine aim on his chest. He killed people when he stood in his way, and killed Buddha when he stood in his way. He said to the villagers: I am the legendary one who has seven-color clouds under his feet and is wearing golden armor and holy clothes.
The saint who comes to rescue you!
At first, the villagers didn't believe it: Do you really think we are fools? You deceived us some time ago, and as soon as we believed you, you were chased by the government like a desperate dog. Now you are deceiving us again, go to hell, you
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The villagers don't believe it, but that doesn't mean other careerists don't believe it.
So Yan Benshu, a fellow from Baoning, believed it. He said that he had dug up a three-legged Buddha and claimed to be the representative of the three-legged Buddha. Liao Hui also believed it and said that his mother was actually the Holy Mother of Yaochi and had an affair with Erlang Shen.
He wanted to kill himself, so he changed his nickname to Xiaoerlangshen.
The three of them worked together and deceived people everywhere. It happened that the refugees from Huguang fled to the Daba Mountains. They were hungry and cold, so they believed their lies.
Liu Lie, another fellow from Baoning, was a little jealous when he saw that they had manpower. This man was a mountain king and a professional rebel. Unlike the previous three careerists who became monks halfway, he had men, territory and money.
The four of them hit it off immediately and went wild in the areas of Tongjiang, Nanjiang, Bazhou (i.e. Bazhong), Baoning (i.e. Langzhong), Yilong, and Taiping (i.e. Wanyuan).
Tens of thousands of hungry people, led by four careerists, often caused trouble. According to official history, the Zhengde Civil Rebellion, which plagued Sichuan for six years, was in danger of breaking out.
Local officials reported these situations to the court, but "before the world is in chaos, there will be chaos in Shu; the world has been settled, but there is still uncertainty in Shu." It is not that Sichuan people like war, but Sichuan fellow Li Bai summed it up well: Shu Road
It is more difficult than climbing to the sky!….
As mentioned earlier, when fighting a war, logistics is the key. Transportation restricts logistics, and logistics restricts war.
The Central Plains Dynasty wanted to suppress the rebellion in Sichuan, but poor transportation conditions were the biggest obstacle.
If in other places, marching thirty miles a day is considered a normal marching speed, then in Daba Mountain, if you march ten miles a day, you have to call your army: Army of God!
Of course, some of the straw-shoe divine armies that can travel a hundred and twenty miles a day and can immediately go into battle are historical myths. Under the leadership of librarians, they are heaven-defying existences and realistic YY text templates. They are not here.
The scope of the article’s discussion.
In short, the Ming Dynasty court was too lazy to take care of these thieves before the Baoning thief Liu Lie got dizzy, crossed Daba Mountain, and rushed into Hanzhong Mansion in Shaanxi Province.
Let them become kings and hegemons in the deep mountains and old forests. Anyway, there is no government there and the army cannot be sent in.
However, happiness comes too suddenly, which always makes people arrogant. Like many rebels in history, Liu Lie, a professional rebel, quickly convinced the other three stickmen and became the king and hegemon in several counties.
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Yan Benshu and others were not convinced, and said privately: We are the authentic magic sticks, how can we let the mountain king ride on our head?
Lan Tingrui, the first magician, smiled mysteriously and said: "Let him be crazy as he pleases."
It must be said that Lan Shengun was quite far-sighted. Liu Lie's life as a rebel was so smooth that the gentry in several counties praised him as "King Liu".
So Liu Lie prepared to attack Hanzhong, because Hanzhong is the gateway to Guanzhong. His dog-headed military advisor said: Those who have achieved success since ancient times have occupied Guanzhong and become kings and emperors! For example, Liu Laosan!
Yes, Liu Laosan's surname is Liu, and I, Liu Lie, am also surnamed Liu. Why can he establish the Han Dynasty and I have to hide in the valley and become the king?
Again, Zhu Shou, a little butterfly, disrupted the entire historical process of the Ming Dynasty and made Liu Lie's Hanzhong strategy advance by several months.
I, Liu Lie, the tiger of Bashan, am now starting my strategy for Hanzhong. In front of my eyes is a desolate guard station and cowardly and incompetent civil servants. My ambition is the dazzling city of Xi'an!
Stupid guy! A Ming Dynasty civil servant jumped out. He was Zhai Peng, editor of the Hanlin Academy.
How could the newly released second-place candidate be related to Liu Lie and the others?
Things have to go back to the Daming Martial Arts Academy in early April.
The selection of the second batch of students of the Ming Dynasty Martial Arts Academy has begun. Among the first batch of students, there are 1,500 young men, dozens of young people from martial arts, and more than a hundred athletes of all ethnic groups who have stood out from the Ming Dynasty Games.
Elite.
The three-place selection, martial arts examinations and the Ming Dynasty Games have since become the three important sources of students for the Ming Dynasty Martial Arts Academy.
Old Man Xu is not good at politics, and Farmer Cao is even more of an amateur at politics, but their military talents are first-class.
Under the training of Xu Jin and Cao Xiong, nearly 1,700 students from the martial arts academy became better and better as they practiced. Not only were they able to fight, but all of them had the ability to command troops.
In the Ming Dynasty, pirates along the coast, horse thieves from Gansu and Shaanxi, and rogue thieves from Henan were known as the three major bandits, and were also the best sources of soldiers. Most of the students came from these three places. Even if they were from good families, they had blood in their blood.
He also has a strong spirit.
Coupled with a wise master and training, one can imagine how ferocious the army will be. Therefore, Zhu Shou's crooked attack turned out to be a good one.
This student army of 1,700 people is now facing its first test: pacifying the rebels in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province!
Li Dongyang bitterly remonstrated: "Your Majesty, you must not do it. The rebels are powerful. Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers are working in vain. They have changed their commanders three times. We still need to send a capable commander to patrol the area and unify the troops of the three provinces and nine prefectures. We must gather 100,000 soldiers."
Only with the crowd can we defeat it in one fell swoop.”
Prime Minister Li is a wily and scheming official who governs the country, and the ideas he proposes are naturally sure-fire strategies for governing the country...
With one hundred thousand elite soldiers and strong generals, they defeated tens of thousands of thieves. According to official history, Governor Lin Jun used this method to kill Liu Lie, the most ferocious tiger in Bashan, from his horse within three months.
However, Zhu Shou obviously did not want to take such an ordinary path, because when he was inspecting the martial arts academy, Zhai Peng said something that touched his mind.
When Zhu Shou had nothing to do, he would go to Baoding to inspect the martial arts academy and go sightseeing. As an emperor, he couldn't stay in the palace all the time, and the eunuchs also had to go out to the palace to make purchases.
Looking at the energetic young students, Zhu Shou felt very excited and felt that his unreachable goal seemed to be one step closer.
Unexpectedly, Zhai Peng, who was accompanying him, poured cold water on the emperor's head: "This is a weak army."
Young Master Yang Shen, who was also accompanying him, wanted to add insult to injury: "According to Editor Zhai's opinion, what is a strong army?"
Yang Shen, Zhai Peng and Han Bangqi were the ones Zhu Shou wanted to train as prime ministers to replace Yang Tinghe and others, so they were always with him.
Yang Shen is arrogant, Han Bangqi is practical, and Zhai Peng is weird. These three people have different styles, and they also have some fights with each other. Yang and Han are family friends, and Zhai Peng has to find another way if he wants to get ahead.
Yang Shen's words were meant to dig a trap, trying to make Zhai Peng jump: If you dare to say that the emperor's personal army is a weak army, there will be no discussion about trapping you.
But before Zhu Shou could get angry, Zhai Peng sneered: "Send all of them into battle formation, and those who survive will be a strong army!"
Zhai Qingtian looked at Young Master Yang with a sense of disdain. I am indeed not as talented as you in terms of knowledge, but when it comes to military strategy, you are far behind.
Zhu Shou also had no military talent, but Zhu Houzhao was a war madman.
After hearing these words, the war factor hidden deep in Zhu Shou's memory was resurrected, and he looked at Zhai Peng with admiration.
Young Master Yang was angry: "This is a waste of human life!"
Standing on the balance of morality, Young Master Yang wanted to dig a hole again. However, Zhu Shou and Zhai Peng obviously had no womanly kindness, and neither of them knew how to jump into this kind of hole.
Therefore, when Liu Lie led a group of rebels and broke into Hanzhong Prefecture, Zhu Shou promoted Zhai Peng to be the Supervisory Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Magistrate of Chenggu County of Hanzhong Prefecture, unified the 1,700 martial arts student army, and went south to quell the rebellion.
Editor of the Hanlin Academy, Supervisor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and County Magistrate are all seventh-grade official positions, so Zhai Peng is not considered a promotion. However, he holds three positions. One is extremely noble, one can be directly promoted to the emperor, and the other is
Having the real power to manage the place is enough to make Young Master Yang and others covetous.
I hope this kid will die in Daba Mountain, Young Master Yang said secretly.
Although Zhai Peng only led the student army, there was also a second-rank official who followed him southward, Prince Shaobao, and Xu Jin, Zuo Cheng of the Martial Arts Academy. His current position is that of the governor of three provinces and nine prefectures, and he is in charge of the ten counties mentioned by Li Dongyang.
Ten thousand troops.
With 1,700 student troops and 100,000 guard troops, Zhu Shou's plan was not too bad.
I, Zhai Peng, the unparalleled general in the world, am now starting my strategy for Hanzhong. In front of me are the hungry people who have no food to eat and no warmth to wear. My ambition is Liu Lie’s ugly head!
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