Chapter 53 6. Monk Peng and "Tian Wan"

Monk Peng was the most mysterious figure in that era.His personal disciples all use "Pu" as the character generation. The famous ones include Zou Pusheng, Xiang Pulue, Zhao Pusheng, Ding Pulang, Yang Puxiong, Ou Puxiang, Chen Puwen, Shi Puqing, Li Puchen, Wang Pujing and so on.These ordinary people played a pivotal role in the Tianwan regime, but Monk Peng himself, although he was respected as a leader, did not care about his personal status.When Yuanzhou rebelled, he gave up the throne to Zhou Ziwang, and this time in the Tianwan regime, he gave up the position of leader to Xu Shouhui.

In the twelfth year of Zhizheng, that is, in February after the Tianwan regime captured Wuchang, Monk Peng and his apprentice Xiang Pulue led a force to attack Jiangxi eastward, and the soldiers pointed directly at Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi), the important town. The governor of the province, Boluo Timur, fled watching the wind. Li Wei, the governor of Jiangzhou, resisted and was defeated and killed.In late February, the Red Turban Army marched south from Jiangzhou to attack Nanchang, driving horses and flying dust, and covering the sky with banners, claiming to have a million troops.Daotong Pingzhang of Jiangxi in the Yuan Dynasty was timid. Seeing the opponent's momentum, he was so frightened that he hid with his official seal.Thanks to Lang Zhong Puyan Buhua and Zuocheng Zhang Boyan organized troops to defend the city, relying on the height of the city and the depth of the pond, they defended it for more than 50 days.

The red scarf army then marched eastward, captured Raozhou in March, and killed Yuan general Wei Zhongli.Local farmers actively supported the Red Scarf Army, and made their own crimson shirts to participate in the war.Then they captured Leping, Yugan, Fuliang, Dexing, Anjiang, Xinzhou and other places.In late March, they invaded the territory of today's Anhui, attacked Huizhou, and broke Wuyuan. In April, they conquered Xiuning, Qianxian, Shexian and other places.In July, the Red Scarf Army crossed Yuling Pass again and attacked the city of Hangzhou.On the 10th, the Red Scarf Army invaded the city from the north gate of Hangzhou, and killed Fan Zhijing, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the Yuan Dynasty. Baoge, the governor of Hangzhou Road, hid in a boat in the West Lake for three days and then threw himself into the lake.Jiangnan is a land of wealth, and the Yuan Dynasty was unwilling to give it up easily, and immediately gathered forces to counterattack. The Red Turban Army was alone, and they were defeated and withdrew from Hangzhou.

However, in official history, Monk Peng disappeared. Here, there is another little tidbit. More than five hundred years later, in 1944, Wu Han, a great historian of the Ming Dynasty, wrote "Ming Taizu" "to solve economic difficulties and vent political resentment", and then revised it into "Zhu Yuanzhang Biography".In it, Wu Han wrote about the whereabouts of Monk Peng in a romantic and detached way, thinking that he failed to achieve success and "returned to the people" after the success of the revolution.In 1948, Wu Han came to Shijiazhuang, Mao Zedong personally met him, and read this "Zhu Yuanzhang Biography" carefully.Mao Zedong, who is also a great historian, put forward some incisive opinions on this book, and even wrote a letter to argue with Wu Han.In 1954, after Wu Han revised "The Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang", Mao Zedong once again provided comments on the manuscript.In the two comments he made, Mao Zedong was particularly disapproving of Peng Heshang's fate. He believed based on the experience and lessons of old revolutionaries: a strong leader like Peng Heshang should not evade behavior, either because he made a mistake himself, or There are problems with the historical materials, and the curtain call should not end with disappearance.

So Wu Han "re-studied angrily, and found historical materials that he hadn't paid attention to in the past. Peng Yingyu was killed by the Yuan army after fighting to the end."Here, the sophistication of the gun and the free and easy of the pen collide, and the gun has gained a leading position.After re-examination, Wu Han believed that Peng Monk and Xiang Pulue retreated to Jiangxi or Anhui after the defeat in Hangzhou, and "it is possible that Zhongfu was captured and killed." After Monk Peng disappeared, the Tianwan regime, which lost the highest power center, was in a mess.In 1357 A.D., the seventeenth year from Yuan to Zhengzheng, Xu Shouhui, unwilling to be a puppet, tried to kill Ni Wenjun, the prime minister who held real power.The two fought, and Ni Wenjun fled to Huangzhou, where he was killed by his general Chen Youliang—this Chen Youliang was the ambitious little civil servant in front of him.

With his great achievements in getting rid of Ni Wenjun, Chen Youliang gradually became the number one figure in the Tianwan regime. Although Xu Shouhui got rid of Ni Wenjun, he still couldn't get rid of the fate of being held hostage by Chen Youliang.Under the management of Chen Youliang, the Tianwan regime gradually entered its heyday.