Chapter 32 Chapter Eleven

The man is back, but how should he explain it to the court? Huang Shen is a shrewd person, he almost inquired about things that he hadn't figured out along the way.He was unceremonious, and reported the situation of the mission to the North Korean high-level officials in every detail.Although he was demoted and punished because of his failed mission, the report was kept and sent to Beijing. As for the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, only Yang Fangheng returned to Beijing first, while the deputy envoy Shen Weijing stayed in Seoul for the time being on the pretext that the peace talks with Japan were not over.

Shen Weijing knew that Yang Fangheng was a gentleman, more than calm but not shrewd, to put it bluntly, a gentleman could be bullied.He bullied Yang Fangheng for not knowing Japanese, and told him that Hideyoshi had changed his mind and accepted the canonization. You can tell the emperor with confidence that we have successfully canonized the Japanese king in Osaka Castle on September 2, so the imperial court need not worry. Yang Fangheng was anxious when he heard this, this is a crime of deceiving the emperor!Besides, according to the rules, after the canonization, Hideyoshi should have a thank you form for Wanli, where can I get the thank you form?

Shen Weijing patted his chest: "I'm here waiting for them to send it over, you just go back first." Yang Fangheng may not understand that Shen Weijing is telling lies, but he also understands in his heart that if he returns to Beijing this time and tells the truth, he will inevitably be punished.People always tend to believe what they want to believe, so Yang Fangheng agreed to Shen Weijing's plan. Yang Fangheng first wrote a letter to Beijing, saying that the gold seal, mianfu, etc. had been accepted by the Japanese side, and attached the thank you form later, and then left Shen Weijing alone in Gyeongju, and returned to China first.

Yang Fangheng didn't know that Shen Weijing didn't tell the truth from beginning to end; he didn't even know that Shen Weijing once forged "Guan Baijiang Biao" to deceive the court. Even dare to forge the "Guan Baijiang Biao", and then forge a "Japanese King's Thank You Biao", what is it? Shen Weijing quickly made a thank you form and sent someone to send it back to Beijing.But I still refused to go back to China, instead commuting between Busan and Yining every day.The banner he played was to communicate with the Japanese, but he was actually ready to go into exile.If this matter is muddied, it's fine; if he can't be muddied, he will join the Japanese and become a genuine traitor.

Emperor Wanli first saw Yang Fangheng's report in Beijing, but he didn't see the thank you form, and he was already suspicious. After receiving Huang Shen's report from North Korea, he became even more suspicious. It happened at this time that Shen Weijing's forged thank-you form was delivered, and as soon as the ministers circulated it, Xu Chengchu, a small military officer, saw the flaw.Xu Chengchu pointed out that there is no date, month and date in this thank you form, and there is no endorsement of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's painting, so it is crude and suspicious.Seeing the official letter, Wanli called Shi Xing and Yang Fangheng to question them. The two of them didn't know what to do, so they had to argue that the things written in Japan were so vulgar and uncivilized that they didn't conform to the Chinese style.

A few days later, Wanli suspended the investigation. Because a shocking news came from the Liaodong Military Region.On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month on the twenty-fifth day of Wanli, Kato Kiyomasa landed in Jizhang aggressively with two hundred ships, and launched an attack on the Liangshan line controlled by the Korean army. War broke out again! The Japanese have all called, so there is no need to study the authenticity of this thank you form. Hundreds of elite bureaucrats in the mighty Ming Empire were actually deceived by a few youngsters for more than four years!Those voluminous "tribute" discussions are just meaningless farce; the act of canonizing envoys has become a joke.Since the beginning of Tumubao, the Ming Empire has never been so humiliated.

It is tolerable, what is unbearable! Wanli and many officials were furious, and impeachment memorials from all walks of life rushed towards Shi Xing, Yang Fangheng and Shen Weijing like huge waves.Among them, the most representative scolding was Yue Yuansheng, the doctor of the water department of the Ministry of Industry. He pointed the finger at Shi Xing and summed up Shi Xing's three humiliations, four shame, five difficulties and seven things: Which three insults?Zu Chengxun's entire army was annihilated in Pyongyang; Li Rusong's bichiguan retreated after losing his troops; Song Yingchang conspired to accept peace.

Which four shame?Naito Ruan went to Beijing to cross the gate and did not dismount; Shi Xing gave a generous gift; Shen Weijing went to the appointment; Li Zongcheng fled at night. Which five difficulties?Shi Xing secretly sent someone to buy a set of python clothes gold coins for Xiuji; Shen Weijing took three hundred horses across the sea to please the Japanese pirates; Yang Fangheng fabricated military information; However, the murderer Wang Bao continued to be a high-ranking official. Which seven things?Needless to say, it is Hideyoshi's Hideshichijo. Some of these crimes are Shi Xing's responsibility, some are not, but no one cares about these details: You are the Minister of the Ministry of War, and you have made such a big mess, who is not to blame?

Facing the raging wave of impeachment, Shi Xing wanted to die, so he asked himself to go to Japan to stop the war—this kind of words can be said, which shows that Shi Xing is already in chaos—Emperor Wanli dismissed it as a matter of course. I made this request, because there will be a big event soon, and he, as the protagonist, cannot attend. In March of the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, the Emperor Wanli ordered Xiao Daheng, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, to gather all the officials of the Jiuqing, Ke and Dao, and hold a general trial to thoroughly investigate what was going on. This joint trial is probably the most serious and careful trial since Ariake.The Ministry of Criminal Justice rummaged through all the documents and documents from these years, confronting each other one by one, digging out details one by one, and interrogating people one by one.President Xiaoxi and Shen Weijing's plan was full of loopholes and could not withstand serious scrutiny. After such a thorough investigation, the truth of their deceitful deeds was finally revealed.

The results of the interrogation were: Yang Fangheng was dismissed and would never be employed; Liaodong Jinglue Sun Mine recommended by Shi Xing was dismissed and returned to his post for inspection. As for Shi Xing, his rank was too high, and Daheng Xiao didn't dare to make up his own mind, so he approved a decree of dismissal and asked the emperor to make a decision.However, Xiao Daheng wanted to say something good for his colleagues, and in the performance he thought that Shi Xing was just underestimating and misleading the country.But when he arrived at the chief assistant Zhao Zhigao, the taste changed.

Shi Xing's peace talks were all carried out with the support of Zhao Zhigao. If he wanted to be held accountable, Zhao Zhigao would not be able to get away with it.Many officials have long been displeased with this old thing, and they did not forget to scold Zhao Zhigao incidentally when they were impeached. In order to protect himself, Zhao Zhigao said that I didn't know about these things, and that Shi Xing did it all by himself secretly.Shi Xingming knew that Zhao Zhigao had fallen into trouble, but he didn't dare to bite casually.This is an unspoken rule in the officialdom. If you shoulder the responsibility yourself, your wife and family can still be covered; The ministers had turbulent opinions on Shi Xing, and the chief assistant fell into trouble, but the emperor's attitude became more determined. Emperor Wanli was extremely dissatisfied with Shi Xing.Ineffectiveness in doing things is a problem of ability; lying and flirting is a problem of character.The emperor didn't hate incompetence, he didn't hate corruption, but what he hated most was infidelity.Originally, at the beginning of the war, Shi Xing and Wanli cooperated very tacitly, and they did their best when they first aided the DPRK. How come you, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, betrayed the revolution? Just at this time, the news of Nanyuan's defeat reached the capital, shaking the government and the public.So Wanli hated and hated Shi Xing, saying that he "flattered the thief to cause trouble, deceived the king and wronged the country." He was directly sent to prison for death, and his family was dispatched to the Liuzhou Guard in Guangxi.At that time, Guangxi was still a barren place full of chieftains, and moving there was a narrow escape for orphans and widows. Shi Xingku was sitting in the prison in the capital, and his more than forty years of official career ended like this.Back then when he found Shen Weijing in a corner of Beijing, he never expected that this old thing would cause such a big trouble.Shi Xing is a scholar, and he doesn't want to be taken out and have his head chopped off in full view.Deciding to end his life with dignity, he began a hunger strike—and this time he succeeded. A few years ago, the Minister of the Ministry of War, who was still in glory a few years ago, starved to death in the prison. Many people were surprised by Shi Xing's completely different performance before and after the war. Why did a famous anti-Japanese official who resisted all opinions and resolutely go to war become a peacemaker who blindly flattered Japan? They both overestimated Shi Xing and underestimated Shi Xing.Shi Xing's war against Japan was not out of lofty national consciousness, nor was the peace talk with Japan out of a natural traitor and low-spirited bone. All his actions seem to be contradictory, but in fact they all have one consistent motive—a good official I do it myself. Shi Xing was famous for his outspokenness when he was young. After being honed by the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli dynasties, his edges and corners have been worn away, and he has become one of the many bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty.The most notable feature of these bureaucrats is that they do not seek meritorious service, but seek no faults. It is best not to take any risks until they retire and beg to return to their hometowns. Among the six major ministries and commissions, it is the most difficult to be the Minister of the Ministry of War.The Ministry of War is responsible for fighting, and as long as there is a war, there will be risks.When Shi Xing was appointed as Minister of the Ministry of War, he was unwilling to do it from the bottom of his heart, and his resignation was not approved several times.How to avoid risks has become the main topic of Shi Xing's tenure. In the early days, Shi Xing advocated the war against Japan, not out of his own judgment, but because the Wanli Emperor insisted on the war-of course it is the safest to follow the emperor's decision.At that time, Shi Xing actually didn't regard Japan as a big problem, otherwise he wouldn't have casually found Shen Weijing, a street rogue, to be in charge of the peace talks.In his imagination, this is just a medium-scale military operation, as long as the Ming army enters the court and wins a few battles and records a few meritorious deeds, it is enough. But the tenacity of the Japanese army far exceeded Shi Xing's expectations.Song Yingchang and Li Rusong performed well in the Korean battlefield, but every battle was full of crises.As the top decision-maker of the Ministry of War, Shi Xing is well aware of the danger. He doesn't want to risk the collapse to continue the fight. It's good to win, but if he loses, he can't absolve himself of the blame. The risk is too great. Due to this conservative mentality, peace talks became his inevitable and necessary choice.So all his contradictory behaviors—the changes in his attitude towards Song Yingchang, the changes in his attitude towards the Southern Army, the changes in his attitude towards Shen Weijing, etc.—are all for the same purpose in the final analysis: risk avoidance.Therefore, even though Shen Weijing's lies are full of loopholes, Shi Xing is unwilling or afraid to think too much about it, so he has to follow Shen Weijing to the dark... Shi Xing is not a bad person, not even an incompetent person, he performed very well as Xiao Gui Cao Sui's conservative minister.If he was born in a prosperous age, Shi Xing might be able to finish his job as Minister of the Ministry of War safely, and even go further into the cabinet.He ended up in such a way, apart from being attributable to a weakness in character, it can probably only be said that he was born at the wrong time. Now that Shi Xing is dead, Yang Fangheng, Li Zongcheng and others have been punished, and Sun Kuang, Xie Yongzi, Xu Yiguan and other related personnel have also been dealt with separately.And what about Shen Weijing, the instigator of this farce of "paying tribute"? Now that Shi Xing is dead, Yang Fangheng, Li Zongcheng and others have been punished, and Sun Kuang, Xie Yongzi, Xu Yiguan and other related personnel have also been dealt with separately.And what about Shen Weijing, the instigator of this farce of "paying tribute"? As early as when Wanli dismissed Shi Xing, he re-adjusted the personnel layout. Xiao Daheng temporarily acted as the agent of the Ministry of War affairs. The left servant of the Ministry of War, Ji Yu, took over the position of economic strategy from Sun Kuang. Ma Gui, a famous general of the Hui nationality who was named after Li Rusong, served as the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Army. He mobilized troops from all over the country to prepare for the second aid to the DPRK. And Xing Jie's first job when he took office was to arrest Shen Weijing. This is not an easy job.Shen Weijing has been staying near Busan, and if there is any trouble, he can immediately escape into the Japanese camp.Once he is allowed to take refuge in the Japanese, the last bit of face of the imperial court will be lost.At that time, the Ming army did not have many troops in Korea, only Liaodong Army Yang Yuan stationed in Namwon and South Army Wu Weizhong stationed in Zhongzhou, among them Yang Yuan and Shen Weijing were closer to you.In order not to overwhelm the snake, Xie told Yang Yuan to arrest him secretly. Yang Yuan accepted the task, on the surface as if nothing had happened, secretly began to follow Shen Weijing's movements.He found that Shen Weijing led a small battalion of more than 300 people, and only moved around Yining and Qingzhou. Yang Yuan decided to disarm him first, and secretly replaced all the people around him under the pretext of moving the camp and changing defenses in the name of the general of the garrison.In fact, Shen Weijing has no foundation in the army, Yang Yuan did this just in case.Apprehending Shen Weijing is the top priority, and there must be no negligence. At this time, the Japanese army had landed on the peninsula and began to fight.Although Shen Weijing didn't know about Yang Yuan's arrival, he more or less heard about the great changes in Beijing.The liar's naturally sensitive sense of smell made him uneasy, and he began to think about joining President Xiaoxi. President Xiaoxi is definitely a loyal buddy. When he heard that Shen Weijing could no longer survive in Daming, he immediately sent Liu Chuan Tiaoxin and five hundred soldiers to meet him in nine boats.Shen Weijing was overjoyed when he saw that the Japanese army had responded, packed up his luggage, quietly left the Yining station, and fled towards Busan. This movement was immediately detected by Yang Yuan's eyeliner.Without further ado, Yang Yuan led six Liaodong cavalry in pursuit at full speed.The Liaodong Army can't do anything else. If you compare speed, there is no opponent in East Asia.They galloped from Nanyuan Starry Night, and chased all the way through the territory of Danxi on Shili Road in Yining, when they saw Shen Weijing driving a carriage with a bag and walking slowly. Shen Weijing has earned a lot in the past few years, and he has loaded a whole carriage, which seriously affects the speed of escape.Yang Yuan was overjoyed when he saw it, and chased after him. He was still in the mood to play a game of cat and mouse, and pretended to ask him how the Japanese pirates were doing.Shen Weijing replied with a touch of luck: "It's impossible." Yang Yuan said that since it was impossible, why didn't he return it to me? Shen Weijing still wanted to lie at this time, saying that Kato Kiyomasa sent someone to Gyeongju to negotiate, and I had to rush to work, and I would have to stay for a month and a half anyway.Yang Yuan had had enough fun, his complexion changed, and six Liaodong cavalrymen rushed up like wolves and tigers. Shen Weijing, an old man in his dying years, couldn't resist, so he was caught directly. After Shen Weijing fell into the hands of the Ming army, Yang Yuan didn't dare to stay any longer. He immediately built a prison cart and sent heavy soldiers to protect him and send the big liar back to Liaodong.At this time, it was already July in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, and the Korean peninsula would soon usher in the first climax of Dingyou's rebellion. What is admirable is that Shen Weijing has still shown excellent psychological quality until this time.He didn't lose his soul like Shi Xing, he was devastated, but he was still actively trying to survive—he didn't know what kind of connection he had taken, and he got on the line of Xiao Yinggong, the procuratorate of Shandong Province, and bribed him with a lot of money, hoping that he could say something good to him. Xiao Yinggong and Shen Weijing are big townspeople, they are greedy for money, and they didn't ask how serious the matter was. After accepting Shen Weijing's benefits, they sent an aide called Ding Yingtai - this person was later in Dingyou's chaos. It also caused an uproar, this is a later story, let's not show it for the time being-go to Xing Jie to intercede.Xing Jie was stunned when he saw it. He had seen a stupid official, but he had never seen such a stupid one.Shen Weijing is a prisoner designated by the court to be arrested. He dares to say good things about this kind of high-tension line. Does it mean his life is too long? Xing Jie was not polite, and handed over the pleading letter directly to the court.Soon the censors used their saliva to pour down Xiao Yinggong, who wanted money but not life, cut off his title, and went home. After Shen Weijing was escorted back to Beijing, he was sent directly to Jinyiwei's prison.Everyone thought that the liar was dead.However, Shen Weijing still showed a tenacious will to survive in the prison. Unlike Shi Xing who would rather starve to death for the sake of fame, he ate and drank what he wanted, and struggled to survive as long as he survived for a day. Strangely, Wanli never issued an order to execute him, so Shen Weijing stayed in the imperial prison for two years. This peaceful life lasted until April of the twenty-seventh year of Wanli.The Ming army, which had won a comprehensive victory, returned to the court. In addition to paying homage to the suburban temple and rewarding the meritorious officials, the Wanli Emperor also carried out a public execution. Shen Weijing was impressively listed at the top of the list of Japanese traitors and was sentenced to abandon the city.The great liar finally ended his wonderful life. The irony is that Yang Yuan, who personally captured Shen Weijing, was the one who was killed at the same time as Shen Weijing.And one of the key factors of his unlucky luck was precisely because of Shen Weijing. It turned out that after Shen Weijing was arrested, he hated Yang Yuan very much. He secretly sent Lou Guoan to infiltrate the Japanese camp, and told Chief Xiaoxi that Yang Yuan was stationed in Nanyuan City. , can be a drum down.This indirectly contributed to the fact that when Ding You was in chaos again, the Japanese army first pointed their finger at Nanyuan. Yang Yuan couldn't resist and was forced to withdraw his troops. As a result, he was accused of "abandoning the teacher" and was sentenced to the public at the same time as Shen Weijing. revenge. If Shen Weijing's previous experience is still excusable, then this time's secret report to Nanyuan has completely nailed him to the pillar of shame in history, which is an out-and-out traitorous act. Shen Weijing is the most legendary figure in the entire War to Resist Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea. As a humble commoner, he wandered between the wars, relying on his three-inch tongue to fool the three countries. To Xingchang Xiaoxi, Shi Xing, Song Yingchang, Liu Chenglong, the top figures in the world have been dug a big hole by this little old man to fool them. It is worthy of the Ming Dynasty—no, the biggest lie in East Asia, the sixteenth century East Asia. A miracle in the history of diplomacy. To be fair, at the beginning, Shen Weijing himself did not expect to come to this point in the end.When he was dug out of Beijing by Shi Xing, he really did his best and devoted himself to his work. Compared with the unrestrained performance of other Ming Dynasty diplomats, he was already very dedicated.Among other things, the feat of breaking into the city of Pyongyang by riding alone is something that no one can do.His efforts bought precious time for Li Rusong's advance, and this achievement cannot be denied. The root of the real tragedy lies in his identity.Branded as a rascal in the market, he is doomed to be just a disposable pawn. People above the temple look down on this lowly guy at all. Shen Weijing can only survive by proving his usefulness; and because of his identity as a liar, Let Shen Weijing choose to use deception again and again to prove his worth.The interaction of these two forces finally led him to a dead end of traitors and traitors. When Shen Weijing knelt down to Hideyoshina in Osaka Castle, his image in history was frozen.Poor, sad, and hateful. Before Qin Prime Minister Li Si was cut in half, he said to his son that he suddenly missed the good life of running a yellow dog in Dongmen in Shangcai, his hometown.I don't know if Shen Weijing would miss the days when he was making alchemy with others in the capital before he died? Maybe Shen Weijing didn't regret it at all.When he died, he was over seventy years old, having outlived most of his contemporaries.Moreover, the experience of the last seven years of his life was far more exciting and tortuous than the life of the previous decades and most people's lives combined. If the truce in March of the twenty-first year of Wanli is considered as the end of the Renchen War, then the rebellion of Dingyou in February of the twenty-fifth year of Wanli happens to be a four-year period of peace. During the four-year intermission between the wars, Ming and Japan were busy negotiating peace, so what exactly did the Koreans do? They are not qualified to participate in the negotiations, so they have to stay in the country and do something serious-training troops to prepare for the Japanese. The performance of the North Korean officers and soldiers in the entire Imjin War was really bad, and they were defeated by thousands of miles at every turn, so bad that even they themselves couldn't see it.Therefore, as early as February 2, the 21st year of Wanli, before the war was over, Liu Chenglong had clearly put forward the slogan to the military to train troops to prepare for Japanese. His proposal was quickly implemented without any major resistance.The reason is very simple. The North Korean army was almost exhausted during the Imjin War, and almost all died from the grassroots to the top... A blank sheet of paper is the only way to make a fuss.Liu Chenglong reorganized the rebels from all over the country and brought them into the scope of the official army.After the baptism of the one-year war, these rebels have much higher morale and combat effectiveness than the original North Korean army.Before Dingyou started the war, the total strength of the Korean army had reached about 70,000 to 80,000, half of which were concentrated on the front line near Busan to guard against Japanese pirates. Military training is divided into two levels: one is the spiritual level, and the other is the material level.Both spiritual civilization and material civilization must be hard. The spiritual level refers to the tactics and tactics of the army.An army must have its own set of core combat theories and matching tactics, such as the iron cannon tactics of the Japanese army, and the iron cavalry tactics of the Liaodong Army. However, the North Korean Army is extremely lacking in such theoretical support. It is still in the initial stage of "seeing the enemy wielding a big knife and swarming up".In the Imjin War, the Korean army collapsed at every turn because of lack of organization. In this regard, the Koreans had a ready teacher: the Ming Army—or, more accurately, the Southern Army. The southern army came from the Qi family army, and the Qi family army was the most organized and tactical army in the sixteenth century and even in the entire military history of China, especially in the battle against Japanese pirates.It is really appropriate to invite them to be teachers. The North Koreans worship the South Army deeply, and it is almost like a god.When Li Rusong withdrew, Wu Weizhong's southern soldiers were left to guard Seoul, which made the Koreans ecstatic. The generals of the southern army entered the court, which was not very important in the Imjin War.However, in the history of exchanges between China and North Korea, the entry of the Southern Army, whose generals were mostly martial arts masters, was a major event, because it entangled in a century-long lawsuit in the history of exchanges between China and North Korea.Naturally, for the North Koreans, this is a major event that must be "defended". Wu Weizhong was born in the southern army, and the two great gods of the southern army-Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, the famous anti-Japanese generals, are known to everyone.These two famous generals are serious martial arts masters. Everyone knows that Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao New Book" and "Military Training Documentary" and Yu Dayou's "Sword Classic" cannot be written by any general. However, although Qi Jiguang included many kinds of long and short martial arts in China in his "New Book of Ji Xiao", he only confiscated sword techniques. Widowed", so it is not accepted, and it will be added by future generations who discover it.The "Xinyou sword technique" he passed down in the army was born out of the Japanese sword technique he obtained. Therefore, in his revised second edition of "Ji Xiao's New Book", the "Xinyou sword technique" that he thought was not useful in the army was deleted. Some major content, such as boxing, has added content such as Japanese swordsmanship. At the same time, many civil servants, military generals and military theorists in the Ming Dynasty, such as He Liangchen, Song Maocheng, Mao Yuanyi, etc., all said in their respective narratives and works that the actual combat swords used by the ancient Chinese army in the Tang and Song dynasties The law has declined by the Ming Dynasty, and basically no one knows it, or it can be said that it has been lost. Undoubtedly, Wu Weizhong from the Qi Family Army must be proficient in the "Xinyou Sword Technique" that was born out of the Japanese sword technique. It is also very interesting that they met Japanese samurai.Judging from the performance on the Korean battlefield, it seems that the authentic Japanese swordsmanship did not take advantage. In hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army was often no match for the Ming army. Compared with Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, another military god of the Southern Army, is much more legendary. When Yu Dayou went south to Pingwo, he passed by Shaolin Temple and had cordial talks with Shaolin monks, and later taught Shaolin monks a lot of martial arts—because he believed that many Shaolin martial arts at that time had been lost, and it was necessary to absorb new blood . Besides, his martial arts book "Sword Classic", if you only look at the name, people will think that it is about swordsmanship, but unfortunately it is not.This book mainly talks about the stick method, or it talks about everything, but it doesn't talk about the sword method. I wrote a book called "Jian Jing", which does not talk about sword skills but stick skills, which is really unreasonable. Yu Dayou is not an uneducated person, he is very well educated, his foundation in Yi learning is better than that of ordinary literati, and he has written a lot. Obviously, he has his own reasons for this matter. So, what's the point, and why would he do it? no one knows. This is a mystery left by Yu Dayou. The most annoying thing is that he has not left a standard answer, so until now there is no authoritative answer that everyone can agree on. However, there are still clues, and there are still many, so this matter is not completely unsolvable. The information we know so far is that Yu Dayou himself is proficient in swordsmanship, and it is an ancient two-handed swordsmanship-Jingchu long sword.This is not the specific name of swordsmanship, but refers to a kind of swordsmanship that has been spread in a certain area.His swordsmanship master once said that he would be invincible in the world after he had mastered his swordsmanship—of course, this was not easy to take seriously.However, from his relationship with Shaolin Temple, it can be seen that he was indeed a master of martial arts, a rare master at that time. When Yu Dayou went south and passed Shaolin Temple, one person entered, but three people came out.He took away two elite monks, Zong Qing and Pu Cong, selected by the monks from Shaolin Temple, and followed him south to learn swordsmanship.As for the specific situation in Shaolin Temple, according to him, more than a thousand young monks performed Shaolin martial arts for him. The monk asked the young Shaolin monks to elect two elite young monks to learn martial arts from Yu Dayou. This is very wrong, there must be something wrong with it. After Yu Dayou watched the performance of the thousand-odd monks, he opened his mouth and said that Shaolin Kung Fu is not real kung fu, but a show. Can the thousand-odd Shaolin monks be convinced?He, Yu Dayou, was not a Buddha, he could calm down more than a thousand tough Shaolin monks with a few words.So I guess he deliberately omitted the intermediate process. As for the specific process, we have no way of knowing if he doesn't say it.If you follow the routine of martial arts novels, it must be General Yu who beat Shaolin Invincible all the way, and this ending can finally happen. The record of this is an article written by Yu Dayou at the request of Shaolin Temple monks about the construction of Shifang Temple in Shaolin Temple.After this article was written, it was taken back by Shaolin monks and carved into a stone tablet and erected in Shaolin Temple.So if there is a plot that Yu Dayou deliberately omitted, it is easy to understand... You can't slap people in the face like this, can you? It is said that two monks, Zongqing and Pucong, have studied with Yu Dayou for more than three years. They feel that their skills have been completed. Before going back to Shaolin Temple, they asked Yu Dayou for instructions: We have learned your swordsmanship, and now we are going back to Shaolin to choose suitable monks. In order to pass on this swordsmanship, don't you think it's okay?Yu Dayou readily agreed. Thirteen years later, suddenly Men Ding came to report, and there was a monk outside the door begging to see him.Yu Dayou please come in and have a look, but it is Monk Zong Qing.After the two sighed, Zong Qing told Yu Dayou that the monk Napu had passed away, but the swordsmanship taught by Yu Dayou has been mastered by more than a hundred monks in Shaolin Temple, so you can rest assured that it will not be lost. Here we can find a problem, that is, before returning to Shaolin, the two monks specifically asked Yu Dayou whether to allow them to pass on their swordsmanship to other monks in Shaolin Temple. There are many rules for the inheritance of Chinese martial arts. It is normal for the two monks to do so.And Yu Dayou's master swordsman, Li Liangqin, had a particularly long lifespan and didn't die until he was in his nineties.After Yu Dayou succeeded in defeating the Japanese, he specially wrote a letter to ask for his merits and demerits. Of course, Master Li, with the traditional attitude of a martial arts master, didn't ask for it. Having said that, I can roughly understand why Yu Dayou called the book "Sword Classic", but he talked about the stick method. The monk wants to pass it on to other monks in Shaolin, and even if he has to ask Yu Dayou for his approval, if Yu Dayou directly prints this sword art into a book and sells it to the world, wouldn't he be a traitor to his master?If it follows the routine of martial arts novels, what follows is probably Shimen chasing and killing the leaker and other twists and turns. Mr. Ma Mingda, a famous contemporary martial arts expert and the successor of the Ma family's sword method, believes that the stick method and other martial arts theories in "Sword Classic" actually imply a lot of two-handed sword methods, so it is very likely that Yu Dayou replaced the sword with a stick and His sword technique was hidden in the "Sword Manual". I think this is the most reasonable answer so far.If you have time, you may wish to do more textual research and search for the "Sword Classic". This is a real martial arts secret book, and you may be able to train an unworldly master—this is not a joke... In addition to teaching this sword technique to Shaolin monks, Yu Dayou also selected more than a thousand strong young men who could lift more than 200 catties to teach this sword technique to fight the Japanese.Among the troops of the Southern Army entering the DPRK, there was a branch of Fujian soldiers, led by Yu Dayou's fellow countryman and guerrilla general Xu Guowei. Wu Weizhong, Xu Guowei, and Luo Shangzhi, these martial arts masters, couldn't stand the North Korean army anymore after entering the court, so they began to help train the North Korean army, and poured out the martial arts and tactics they learned from Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou. Teach each other. This touched the Koreans badly. North Korea attached great importance to the art of war and martial arts taught by the generals. Later, the official organization compiled the various martial arts and military arts passed down by the generals into a book for future research, study, and strengthening of the country. strong soldiers. This matter is over here, there is nothing to make trouble about. But in the new year of tomorrow, Mao Yuanyi's famous masterpiece "Wu Bei Zhi" was published.In this book, Mao Yuanyi, like Qi Jiguang and others, believed that the ancient Chinese swordsmanship used in military formations had been lost, and then said that he got a book of Chinese two-handed swords used in actual combat from North Korea from a good person. Therefore, it is named "North Korea Shifa", with a total of twenty-four postures.This was nothing at all, but the terrible thing is that he didn't say clearly who the troublemaker was, and he didn't say why this "North Korean martial arts" was the Chinese swordsmanship in North Korea. This is a big trouble. The North Koreans stopped doing it after they found out, and they have to defend themselves again. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the North Korean official compiled a book "Wu Yi Tong Pu", which was specially made clear in the preface, and seriously defended the matter: Mao Yuanyi said in the book that ancient Chinese swordsmanship in actual combat had been lost, and that he was from North Korea. I found an ancient Chinese swordsmanship secret book, this is wrong, we don't have such a thing in North Korea.This sword manual was actually written by him, and the pictures were drawn by himself. This is a marketing tool for him to make this book a bestseller. It is a blatant hype to deliberately create mystery. Not to mention, the North Korean players' defences are pretty good, this is very possible.Besides, Mao Yuanyi said that it was obtained from North Korea. Now the North Koreans say that they don’t have this thing at all, and they have produced official compilations as evidence. Could it be wrong? Really wrong.The problem lies in North Korea's "Wuyi Tongpu". In this book, there is indeed no two-handed swordsmanship like "Chosun Shifa", but there is a sword book called "Sharp Sword Book", which is a two-handed swordsmanship, with a total of 28 moves.If you look carefully, you will find that there are 24 stances of swordsmanship in "Sharp Knife Book", which are the same as the 24 stances of "Korean stances" in Mao Yuanyi's "Wu Bei Zhi", except that one is a two-handed sword and the other is a Two-handed sword, just four more moves. If this set of sword techniques is not recorded in "Wuyi Tongpu", this defense will have no flaws. I guess it was because the North Korean contestant was reluctant to part with this set of swordsmanship, so he had to change the sword into a knife, added a few more moves, and called it "Sharp Knife Book" to mix it up and pull it down.Isn't this superfluous?Your book is so many years later than Mr. Mao's, and you will lose the copyright lawsuit.If you want to say that Mr. Mao copied this sword technique, changed it to sword technique when he came back, and plagiarized the copyright, then please say it straight up, just say that you actually changed our North Korean sword technique into sword technique, and used it to fool your compatriots , and then showed the original knife technique to the public, Mao Yuanyi must be smelly on the street. It's a pity that the North Korean players not only did not show the original sword skills and sword skills, but insisted that North Korea did not have such sword skills at all.Because he himself knew that North Korea would not be able to produce the so-called original North Korean two-handed sword technique, otherwise it would have come out long ago, and there is no need to say that Mao Yuanyi spread rumors and denied that North Korea did not have such a thing, but on the other hand put a book with "North Korea's power method" "The same "Sharp Knife Book" went in without making a fuss.Therefore, I judged the North Korean player to fail in his defence. In my opinion, this "Sharp Knife Manual" was either originally taught by China, and the North Korean players secretly changed it into a knife technique in order to defend against falsehoods, so as to prove that Mao Yuanyi was lying; or they copied it from Mao Yuanyi's book and changed it. Put it in a book—it's a possibility, but it's not very likely.In short, no matter how it goes back and forth, this thing is definitely not from North Korea. No matter which one you choose, you can only judge that what Mao Yuanyi said is the truth, and this "Korean law" must have been passed down from China. If nothing else, this should be Yu Dayou's two-handed swordsmanship left in North Korea by the generals of the Southern Army - the Jingchu Long Sword, or a part of it.This conclusion is somewhat uncertain, but we think this possibility is relatively large, or very large. In addition to the software level, the North Korean army has also focused on improving the hardware level.At the hardware level, of course it is the weapon system. At the beginning of the war, the equipment of the Korean army was extremely backward, and it was still in the cold weapon era of spears and swords. The use of firearms was very limited, and it could not be compared with Japan and Ming Dynasty.The war lasted for more than a year, and the use of firearms by Ming and Japan on the Korean battlefield opened the eyes of the Koreans, so they also became interested in making firearms. 学习火器有两个老师，一个是日本，一个是大明。 最初朝鲜是想学大明的火炮，因为李如松平壤一战给他们留下的深刻印象，“如果我们也装备这么多火炮，日本人一定会吓得再也不敢来吧”，一个朝鲜将领如此感叹道。 大明是朝鲜的宗主国，这点小要求是满口答应，一点不藏私，不搞技术封锁。朝鲜人一提出要求，时任副参谋长的刘黄裳很慷慨地应承下来，答应替朝鲜人培训几千名炮兵。 可惜朝鲜当时把所有的劳力都用来运输粮草了，根本拨不出人手，只得下令从义州附近的镇堡调集了四五百名士兵，前往大明学习操炮技术。不过从后来的情况来看，这些人的学习成绩恐怕很糟糕，因为明军在撤退的时候，便留下了许多火炮给朝鲜军队，可是却没人会操弄这玩意儿，只能弃置在库房里。 大型火炮一是要求冶炼技术；二是要求火药技术；三是要求操炮理论。朝鲜如果要发展自己的火器部队，不能依赖进口，必须具备独立的铸造能力。朝鲜底子太弱，这方面是一点办法都没有。 朝鲜国王李昖曾经有一次问李元翼：“大明的火炮铸造方式跟咱们大将军炮的造法是一样么？”李元翼无可奈何地回答道：“那个做法太复杂了，不可容易学得。”朝鲜在技术方面的窘境，可见一斑。 最后朝鲜从大明引进的大型火炮，只有一种山寨版佛郎机，而且是只适用于水军，陆军装备很少。 引进大型火炮的计划夭折以后，朝鲜只得退而求其次，寻求制造大明鸟铳之法。朝廷委派了一名叫李自海的官员，纠集工匠，在开城监造鸟铳。 这期间还发生了一件有趣的事。 李昖有一天心血来潮，叫大臣把鸟铳工匠叫过来，想检验一下研制成果。于是工匠们拿着新制成的鸟铳，噼里啪啦地乱放了一通，朝鲜君臣都是外行，听到声音震天，就纷纷拍手鼓掌叫好。李昖看完以后，忽然发现远处有一个人面露不屑神色，心中有些不爽，便派内官过去询问。 很快内官回报，原来那个人是大明的人，姓周，名字不详。周先生这天偶尔路过试射场，拿眼睛这么随便一扫，便发现朝鲜军的这些火铳大有问题。李昖一听，眼睛立刻圆睁，这是一位行家啊！他求贤若渴，赶紧派了几位高官盛情邀请周先生来当指导。 经过一番交谈，李昖发现自己挖到宝了。这位周先生对于火铳的设计、冶炼、装配、使用等环节无一不精，甚至连火药的制造与配比也十分熟稔，说得头头是道，绝对是一位专家级的人才。周先生告诉李昖，其实鸟铳的技术门槛不高，只要有像我这样的人监制，很容易就能造出来。 李昖乐得连滚带爬，马上召集全国手艺好的铁匠与火药工匠，送到周先生那里去学习，并约定如果他们学得好，以后朝廷的订单会滚滚而来。 这位周先生的来历颇为神秘，他自称是百姓，可李昖不傻，哪个百姓会对火器这么了解，绝对是有军方背景。他既然肯留在朝鲜监造火器，又不愿意表明身份，估计可能是在军中犯事逃出来的。 想到这里，李昖赶紧传令下去，对周先生的事全面封锁，绝不能让大明知道。 除了向大明学习，朝鲜还瞄准了日本的铁炮技术。日本的铁炮在十六世纪独步世界，比大明鸟铳的性能要强，如果能学会便是妙用无穷。 但日本官方是绝对不会把这等机密泄露给朝鲜人，于是朝鲜只有一个办法：偷学。 战争期间很多朝鲜人被日本人俘获，或被迫或自愿地为他们服务。李昖曾经发布过训令，如果有这些曾经被日本人抓走又逃回来的人，一定要仔细询问他们铁炮与火药的制造方法。 朝鲜对得到铁炮技术非常急切，甚至因此而赦免一些朝奸和日本俘虏。 比如有一个叫金德浍的朝奸，很早就投靠了日本人，主动为日军当向导，是个标准的朝奸。可他对日军底细了解甚多，所以当李昖听说他被抓起来以后，特意叮嘱推官要仔细询问“烟硝鸟铳造作之法”，并答应赦免他的通敌之罪。 还有一个最富传奇色彩的日军降人，是隶属于加藤清正麾下一名叫做沙也可的日军将领。 “沙也可”被认为是假名，他的真实姓名历来众说纷纭，有冈本越后守、阿苏宫越后守、原田信种等数种说法，出身源流则可能是纪州根来、杂贺众、阿苏家臣等——当然，这两种源流之间并不矛盾，一种可能的解释是：沙也可本属杂贺众，而杂贺众的铁炮技术在战国时期非常先进，他在这期间学到了铁炮、火药的生产工艺。 天正十三年，继承了信长势力的秀吉开始对杂贺众进行讨伐，首领杂贺孙市被迫投降，很快莫名其妙地去世。沙也可与其他杂贺余党在本州已无藏身之地，只得前往尚未臣服秀吉的九州地区。沙也可选择了肥后的阿苏家作为主君，继续反抗秀吉。 可惜的是时势不由人，秀吉统一日本的步伐没有这种小人物阻挠片刻。很快，整个九州都沦为秀吉的领土，阿苏家更被划归新兴家族加藤麾下。加藤清正为了准备侵略朝鲜，大肆征发臣从势力，沙也可大概就是在这时候被调入第二军团。 沙也可在朝鲜战场上表现的还不错，可好景不长。在壬辰年六月十五日，九州爆发了梅北国兼之乱，把岛津家、阿苏家都卷了进去，阿苏家主惟光甚至因此被杀。消息传到朝鲜，加藤清正势必对有阿苏家背景的沙也可及其麾下另眼相看。在这种猜疑重重的背景之下，沙也可别无选择，只好选择了投降朝鲜军。 沙也可投降以后，总算迎来了自己事业的春天。朝鲜军对这位级别不低的日军降人格外看重，把他调拨到金应瑞麾下。此后沙也可表现得异常活跃，与明军、朝鲜军并肩作战，在很多史料里都留下过痕迹，还曾跟随麻贵在密阳击溃过日本小队，参加过蔚山之战，作为联军代表跟加藤清正交涉过。在朝鲜国仿制日本铁炮的过程中，他也是贡献良多。 因为这诸多功绩，沙也可破例被朝鲜国王赐名，叫做金忠善。在朝鲜战争结束以后，金忠善被调拨往北方，继续抗击后金，在甲子适变、丁卯胡乱等一系列战事中表现卓越，最后以七十多岁高龄得以善终，也算是抗倭战争中的一朵奇葩。 西人党哪里肯放过这个时机，在尹斗寿的指挥下，开始疯狂地弹劾李舜臣，大有不把他斩首誓不罢休的势力。而东人党自柳成龙以下，都噤若寒蝉，不敢施以援手，因为“放过加藤清正”这个罪名实在太严重了，没人敢在这个关节上出言抗辩。 而在攻击李舜臣的同时，西人党也不失时机地推出了继任者——元均。这时候就能看出尹斗寿的深谋远虑了，当初他把元均放到全罗道，正是为了今日做伏笔。同道平调，顺理成章，而且元均又有做水军使的经验，实在是再好不过的人选了。 结果对李舜臣的判决是，念在之前的功劳上，免去死罪，但剥夺一切职务，以白身随权慄军中作战。这已经是柳成龙能够做到的极限了。朝鲜军人听到这个消息，从都元帅权慄以下无不叹息。 李舜臣的母亲在牙山听说自己儿子出了事，惊吓过度病逝，连儿子最后一眼都没有看到。李舜臣在前往权慄军中途中本来就很抑郁，忽然那又听说这个消息，顿觉天旋地转，悲痛欲绝，不禁嚎啕大哭起来，几次哭晕过去。若不是权慄从中劝解，这位朝鲜第一名将恐怕要以自杀来收场。 元均“不孚众望”地坐到了三道水军统制使的宝座，他第一个命令，就是废除李舜臣的一切规矩，把三道水军搞了一个大换血。在汉城的西人党也弹冠相庆，庆祝赢得了一场关键性的胜利。他们给李昖上书，说之前李舜臣总是窃取元均的功劳，现在无人掣肘，元大统帅必能带领无敌水师纵横洋上，令敌人心惊胆寒。 一个无比荒谬也无比讽刺的壬辰战争第一大笑话，就此诞生。 关于小西行长这封密信到底是真是假，历来争议很多——笔者认为这是小西行长一个彻头彻尾的谎言。 小西行长写密信的时候是在万历二十五年一月。在那时，小西行长与沈惟敬的惊天谎言已经败露，小西虽然借着与淀君的关系得以活命，但政治地位一落千丈，秀吉对他已不复从前信任；而加藤清正在伏见城勇救秀吉，大得宠爱，地位已经回升。两人一升一降，小西处于极端的劣势。 在这种敏感时期，小西与加藤的矛盾已经退居次要地位，他最重要的工作是如何恢复秀吉的信任。在这时陷害加藤，即便成功了，对他仍是一点好处也没有；失败了，却可能是万劫不复的局面。小西是商人性格，这种损人不利己还有无限风险的事情，他不会干。 更何况，在小西送出密信的同时，加藤清正已经完成了渡海动作，屯兵在西生浦。在这个紧要关头，加藤清正一个陆军将领，能有什么要紧事需要绕个大圈子，远远地去闲山岛海域的小岛一住就是七天呢？道理上说不通。 但他确实去了，这一点已经被朝鲜人所证实。 那么只有一个可能，整起事件根本就是小西、加藤两个人合谋。面对李舜臣这个日本克星，小西和加藤这两个仇敌联手，不是什么不可能的事。 可这时候问题来了。 这次阴谋如同一枚智能炸弹，定向极准，无比精确地将目标李舜臣炸得粉身碎骨。 可无论小西还是加藤，收拾朝鲜人没问题，但他们都不了解朝鲜，尤其是不了解朝鲜政局。如果不对朝鲜政局与运作规律有深刻认识的话，绝不可能设计出如此精确打击的布局。能够设计出这个局面的，惟有深谙党争之妙的朝鲜人自己。 从西人党在李舜臣事发前后搞的一连串小动作，我们能感觉得到，这些都不是独立的偶然事情，而是一个完整计划的一部分。它们绵密精致，陈陈相因，一步步改变李舜臣在李昖心目中的地位，让这位复国大英雄慢慢变成一个桀骜不驯的节度使。小西密信只是一个引信，真正让李舜臣失势的，是李昖本身的猜忌。 因此，我们有充足的理由相信，很可能是西人党中的某个人主动与小西行长暗通款曲，指点他按照方略行事。日本人需要李舜臣死，西人党也需要李舜臣死，于是两边一拍即合，炮制出这么一个截击加藤的阴谋来。 日本人要李舜臣死，这完全可以理解；而西人党在日军大军压境的时候，仍旧乐此不疲地自毁长城，不能不让人感慨，这朝鲜政局已经糜烂到了何等的地步。