Chapter 11 The eleventh chapter is the official method
Another year was coming to an end, and of course Emperor Wanli gave himself an early annual leave, leaving all political affairs behind, and concentrated on spending beautiful days with Concubine Zheng De, savoring the sweet taste of love.
On this day, he announced that the girl music from Concubine Zheng De's mother's family would enter the palace to sing the legend. In the silk and bamboo orchestra and graceful singing and dancing, he lightly embraced Concubine Zheng De's slender waist with one hand, and held a golden goblet with the other. up.
In order to please him, the female musicians specially rehearsed the new "The Story of Huansha" to perform; "The Story of Huansha" was written by the scholar Liang Chenyu. Xi Shiben is the most famous beauty in ancient times, and the actress specially trained a young girl with both color and art to act as the actress; When "Plucking Lotuses" was folded, Fu Chai, played by Jing Jiao, accompanied her and listened to her singing like a yellow warbler...
There are many lotus seeds on the bank of the autumn river, the daughter of the lotus picking boat sings, the lotus in the flower house is full of lotus, and the green waves are vying for the front, I hate the lotus root when the stem is long, the broken silk will hurt my hand, when will I find a companion and return Don't look back.
Fu Chai clapped his hands and praised with a smile: "Excellent! Bring the wine, I'll drink a big cup!"
Emperor Wanli heard it hazily and happily, and raised his wine glass and shouted: "How much is one big cup? I'll drink three big cups!"
As he said that, he drank three glasses of wine in a "gudong" and "gudong" manner, which made his eyes even more blurred.Xi Shi and Fu Chai, who were acting, managed to hold back their laughter, and continued to sing according to the script; Xi Shi sang along with the accompanying music...
Picking lotus picking lotus and hibiscus clothes, the autumn wind blows waves and geese fly, osmanthus orchids go down to Jipu, skirts and jade wrists lightly shake the scull, leaf islands and flower pools look flat, Wu songs blow more and more lovesickness is bitter, lovesickness is bitter, unattainable, It's late to pick lotus in the south of the Yangtze River, and the sea husband has not yet returned!
Fu Chai read according to the script: "It's even better! It's even better! I'll drink another big cup!"
Emperor Wanli yelled again: "How can a big cup be enough..."
While screaming, he came up with a few whites, just like that, just after singing "Cailian", he passed out drunk in the arms of Concubine Zheng De, and fell asleep soundly.
However, despite such a beautiful spring in the palace, there is a solemn and heavy atmosphere in the mansion of the first assistant Shen Shixing; A son came and taught them how to be an official.
Shen Shixing has two sons, the first named Yongmao and the second named Yongjia. They are not young anymore. He always thinks that their young minds are not sophisticated enough in the world, and they don't have a thorough understanding of the bureaucratic system of the dynasty, and they are even more insufficient in how to gain a foothold in the officialdom and how to uphold the emperor's heart; therefore, he took advantage of In this free time, I personally educate my sons.
He first described some attitudes and basic methods that an official in this dynasty should have, and then cited several examples in the two hundred years since the founding of the dynasty as proof, such as "Jing Nan" in the Chengzu dynasty, who were loyal to Emperor Jianwen , Ministers who thought they were upright had a tragic end; Yingzong's "Nangong Restoration", Yu Qianqi, who had made great contributions to the country; All the examples prove that the system of this dynasty is "the supremacy of the emperor", and everything is centered on the emperor. As a minister, it doesn't matter if he makes other mistakes, only the emperor's will is irreversible !
He was afraid that his two sons would read too many sage books, that their heads would be filled with the political ideals of Confucius and Mencius and other ancient sages, and ignore the reality of living in this dynasty, so he had to remind them again and again; He explained the true meaning of the so-called "sophistication of the world" to his two sons, and gave practical examples: "Since the prime minister was dismissed in this dynasty and the cabinet was established, the open and secret struggles among cabinet ministers have never stopped. Everyone wants to be the prime minister. Therefore, he did not hesitate to use all means—the struggle between Xia Yan and Yan Song in the Sejong Dynasty was a good example. Yan Song has an upright personality, unsmiling, quick-tempered, and insults others if he is slightly rude; Yan Song is vicious and vicious, but on the surface he is soft and docile, smiling and welcoming, and he is even more sincere and fearful in front of Emperor Sejong, which is exactly the same as Xia Yan's haughtiness. Inversely."
"At that time, Emperor Sejong worshiped Taoism and was keen to hold various Taoist ceremonies. Because Xia Yan was a square scholar and disdained the tricks of Taoist priests, he often violated the emperor's heart, which made Emperor Sejong feel more and more against him. Not happy; Yan Song was just the opposite. When Emperor Sejong wanted to present the "Qing Ci" to the Jade Emperor, he tried his best to write beautiful and eloquent words, which won the emperor's heart. Xia Yan refused to wear the crown bestowed by the emperor, Yan Song not only wore it, but also wrapped it in a light gauze to show reverence; in this way, needless to say, the importance of the two in the emperor's mind has been reversed."
"As for the interpersonal relationship with the courtiers, Yan Song was even more successful. Xia Yan had high requirements for the efficiency of his subordinates, so he was unavoidably strict. Among the ministers, many people were punished, and more people harbored resentment; Yan Song is not the case, he always greets people with a smile, treats things leniently, respects the corporals, and even tries his best to rescue those who are punished by Xia Yan; as a result, the hearts of the officials in the court are mostly turned towards Yan Song."
"In the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, Yan Song's opportunity came; Ji Nang, who was active in Hetao, entered the bandits, and some ministers who were close to Yan Song began to spread rumors that it was carried out by Xia Yan and Zeng Mian, who was in charge of Shaanxi's trilateral military affairs. As a result of the "recovery" action, officials also wrote letters of impeachment, accusing Xia Yan of colluding with border ministers, colluding with each other, and conspiring for profit, causing foreign enemies to invade, and deceiving the emperor. These attacks made Xia Yan suffer. To the fate of being dismissed from office, imprisoned, and finally kidnapped and sent to the execution ground..."
After the story was finished, Shen Shixing's slightly old, hoarse voice and sluggish tone disappeared completely after a while, and the surroundings immediately fell into an unusual silence, which made the wind and snow outside The sound became louder.
Brothers Shen Yongmao and Shen Yongjia's reaction was that their faces alternately rose and fell with red and white, but their heads were lowered, and they didn't say a word; The example of Zhang Juzheng, who passed away not long ago, is even more vivid in front of his eyes; it's just that the two brothers reacted silently after hearing this, so even the father didn't know what was going on in their hearts at the moment. something.
On the contrary, Li Chengliang, who was far away outside the pass, seemed like a bosom friend of Shen Shixing. There was no generation gap between the two of them; A long letter, the letter reveals that there will be another war in Liaodong, and he will do his best on the battlefield. He only hopes that after he has made great achievements in the battle, he still asks the "old grandfather" to speak well in front of the Long Live God.
After reading the letter, Shen Shixing also had a preliminary understanding of the upcoming war in Liaodong; it turned out that Li Chengliang had received information that the minister of Taining, who died in his hands more than two years ago, quickly sent the son of Hai to report to his father. Qiu gathered some troops such as Tuman and planned to invade Shenyang. He had already obtained definite information and made a careful deployment.
Tuman is the descendant of Mongolian Dayan Khan——When Dayan Khan died, the actual leadership fell to the fourth son Baersu Borod because of the early death of the eldest son; wait until the eldest son Bodi Accra becomes an adult The position of Khan can only control the 30,000 households on the left wing, and the rest are still under the orders of Balsu Borod, and Alda, the son of Baersu Borod, is a very outstanding talent and cannot compete with him at all. ; Therefore, after Bodi Accra's son Kudeng Khan came to the throne, he moved eastward from the original Xuanfu Great Wall to the upper reaches of the Liaohe River, to the vicinity of Wuliangha Sanwei, and received three The Fuyu Zabu in the Ministry borders on Taining and Duoyan in the other two departments.
After the death of Kudeng Khan, his son Tumen Khan came to the throne, and this dynasty was called "Native Barbarian" because of the false pronunciation; Become a border trouble in Liaodong.
He combined Tainingwei's ministers Subahai, Chaohua, and Duoyanwei's ministers Dong Huli and Chang'ang. The combination of several departments made them even stronger. He often invaded Liaodong and robbed people and animals, causing headaches for the court. .
However, Li Chengliang's fame seems to have been cultivated by the local barbarians-except for the killing of Wang Gao, Atai and his son, and Qing Jiani and Yang Jipi of the Yehe tribe, the reasons for Li Chengliang's victory in the battle and his promotion to the ranks are all They are all "broken earth barbarians"; from the first year of Mu Zonglongqing, Li Chengliang's chance to become the deputy commander-in-chief was because the native barbarians invaded Yongping and made great contributions to aid; in the next ten years, the native barbarians would raise troops every once in a while Invading the border once brought Li Chengliang many opportunities to fight and do meritorious deeds, and his career went smoothly...
In December of the sixth year of Wanli, Li Chengliang won the title of "Uncle Ning Yuan" in the battle of attacking Huanshan in December of the sixth year of Wanli, and his prestige surpassed that of any general in the dynasty.
On the battlefield, he killed Su Bahai, Minister of Taining, who had been in trouble for Liao Zuo for 20 years, and he was awarded the honor of being the first capital of Jiadi and the commander of Shiyin Jinyi; it was in March of the tenth year of Wanli, Quickly lead his brother Chaohua and his son Bu Yantu to invade Yizhou; Li Chengliang set up an ambush in Zhenyi Fort, and the army assembled and stood ready; The arrow hit Subahai's armpit, and Subahai fell off his horse, and was beheaded by Li Youming, the head of Cangtou. As a result, his men broke up and fled, and Chaohua and others wept away.
Now, in order to avenge his father, Subahai's son has reunited with Ma Koubian, and Li Chengliang, who has received the news in advance, will of course make proper arrangements. Although a tough battle is inevitable, the odds of winning are very high...
Thinking of this, Shen Shixing's wrinkled face unconsciously revealed a smug smile; Li Chengliang was his man, and after winning the battle, even he had face in front of the emperor, which was extremely helpful for consolidating his status. It's a beautiful thing.
"You fight, everyone benefits..."
Shen Shixing nodded happily, then called the master, dictated the content of the letter to Li Chengliang, and told him to do it; then, he began to think in his heart, how to arrange Li Chengliang's victory after the spring, so that Emperor Wanli On the first day when I went to court, I played it to celebrate the beginning of spring...
When Nurhachi received the information that he had gathered the rabbits to find Li Chengliang to avenge his father, his reaction was secretly joyful.
The reason is, of course, that Li Chengliang had to focus on the Wuliangha Three Guards, and most of the military force had to be used against the Wuliangha Three Guards, which naturally reduced his attention to the Jurchen Strength - this is an opportunity, he thinks that he should seize this rare opportunity, take advantage of the conflict between Li Chengliang and Wuliangha Sanwei and have no time to take care of himself, and increase his strength.
After careful consideration, he locked his target on Jiefanzhai—he had already received information that the owners of Maldunzhai, Nashen and Wan Jihan, had fled to Jiefanzhai. The teacher is famous.
Therefore, he actively prepared and planned to send troops in February after the Chinese New Year.Since Jiefanzhai's troops were not strong, he planned to conduct a sneak attack secretly. Therefore, this time, he only led twenty-five heavily armored warriors and fifty soldiers.
These twenty-five heavy-armored warriors were selected by him from hundreds of people, and he personally trained them for a long period of time. All of them were extraordinary in martial arts, brave, and they were even more loyal to him. He swore to serve his life; he had great confidence in them, and he planned to take advantage of this dispatch of troops to hone their ability to defeat the crowd with a few.
The weather in February was full of wind and snow, and it was bitterly cold; however, since this team is composed of warriors who are not afraid of death, of course they are even more fearless of the cold.
Jiefanzhai was quickly breached as expected, but the result was disappointing—the people in Jiefanzhai got the news in advance, took precautions, and dealt with them with the method of "strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness" , all human, animal and belongings have been removed, so there is no capture at all.
Disappointed, Nurhachi had to order to return; thus, the group had to return empty-handed.
Unexpectedly, the plan drawn up by Nashen and Bamuni, the owner of Jiefan Village, is just about to start. It turns out that the two of them have already gathered together the four chiefs of Jiefan, Saerhu, Dongjia, and Balda. With a force of more than 400 people, they first set up an "empty city plan" to let Nurhachi return without finding anything, and then pursued them halfway.
Sure enough, as soon as Nurhachi set foot on the return journey, the team chased and killed him from behind.
Nurhachi, who was leading the team ahead, heard the shouts coming from behind the team, and immediately understood in his heart, but because of his elbow and armpit, he had no choice but to respond decisively, so he immediately gave the order to fight and walk, and let the team move as close as possible, horizontally. Walk side by side, so as not to let the enemy cut off from the middle and break them one by one; in this way, retreat all the way back.
Who knew that when they withdrew all the way to Talangang, the enemy's troops increased again—Nashin and Bamuni personally led a team to join the ranks of chasing and killing them, leaving aside others , Chasing all the way to Nurhachi, the two rode forward side by side, while the team behind them prepared to encircle.
As soon as Nurhachi saw the two men appearing, he immediately turned his horse's head to fight; he held a long knife and waved it vigorously; Nashen's weapon was also a long knife, and Bamuni used a spear. , took up his weapon and slashed at Nurhachi's body.
Nurhachi used one against two, so he even used the horsewhip as a weapon. Nashen didn't expect him to be so quick-witted. There were bloodstains; this time, Nashen felt very annoyed, and swung a long knife directly at the horsewhip.
After all, the horsewhip is not a formal weapon, and its material is not strong. Under Nashen's stalking attack, it wrapped around Nashen's blade in a few rounds. With a little force from Nashen, the horsewhip broke in two immediately; However, Nurhachi took advantage of the moment when Nashen's attention was focused on cutting off the whip, and took his life with a knife.
Seeing Nashen's death and falling straight from the horse, Bamuni was terrified, and planned to escape from behind Nurhachi by taking advantage of his unpreparedness; He lost his chance, but fortunately he was excellent in horsemanship, and he didn't hold the horse, so he immediately turned around and drew his bow, and shot an arrow, which hit Bamuni's vital point, and he fell off the horse instantly.
Now, all of Nurhachi's subordinates cheered loudly: "Nurhachi Baylor is brave..."
On the contrary, the enemy's troops were all intimidated. Seeing that Nurhachi killed their two leaders in one fell swoop, they were all stunned on the spot; Not being afraid, he decided to ignore them and retreat on his own, so he ordered the whole army to set off.
However, as soon as his troops moved, the enemy's troops followed behind as if they were unwilling, which annoyed him, and he wanted to order to go up and charge for a while to drive them away, but the team leader reported to him: "The horses are all gone." I'm exhausted and can't ride anymore, what should I do?"
Hearing this kind of report, Nurhachi sighed involuntarily; but he had to make a decision, so he told the team leader: "Don't let the enemy know about the exhaustion of the horses, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. You must not be arrogant." Send an order by voice, and order everyone to hear the message one by one—you want everyone to dismount and walk, sweep the snow with bows and bows, pretend to be picking up arrows, slowly lead the horses across the ridge, feed them some salt water, and some food. Fried noodles, rest for a while; I will take a few people to stay here after the break!"
The squad leader got the order and went according to the plan. Nurhachi stayed where he was with seven warriors, and simply pulled the corpses of Nashen and Bamuni together and examined them carefully; Shouted in shock: "You killed our leader and you still don't leave! What are you doing looking at their corpses? Isn't it enough for you to kill them, and you want to eat their flesh? Go away, we will take their Return the remains to the funeral!"
Nurhachi deliberately widened his eyes and said: "Nashin is in trouble with me. I have already killed him. Even if he eats his meat, it is only natural!"
As he spoke, he got up slowly and retreated with the seven warriors; when they reached the woods in front, he and the seven warriors took off their armor and hung them on the tree together with their weapons, and then shook the branches one by one, so that they could be seen from a distance. Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a large group of troops ambushed in the woods. In this way, the enemy troops chasing him thought that there was an ambush in the woods, and the leader was dead. They all went to catch up, and they all retreated to Jiefanzhai.
After they all retreated, Nurhachi calmly led his troops back to Jianzhou Zuowei—the team he brought out retreated safely without even a single horse.
Notes:
Notes: