Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2010 Inside the palace and outside the palace (卌三)
In this Tangyin ambush, the two hundred horse bandits in Dongping Shuizhai were defeated by the Jinghua Security Team's cavalry who had less than forty cavalry.When the news came out, it can be said that it shocked many surrounding Xiaoxiao.

Dongping Water Village has a big name. It is not a bandit gang in Henan Province, but a group of bandits originally entrenched in the border of Dongping Prefecture, Shandong Province.Dongpingzhou, this place name may be unfamiliar to ordinary people, but if this place is Liangshanbo in Song Dynasty, then everyone will probably have to open their eyes and say "I have admired it for a long time".

That's right, Liangshan Po is the most famous place in Dongping Prefecture, but the area of ​​Liangshan Po has decreased sharply at this time, and it is no longer as vast as it was in the Song Dynasty.

Regarding the area of ​​Liangshan Park, later generations had many doubts, thinking that there is no "eight hundred miles of water park" in Shandong, which is pure nonsense.In particular, Teng Yongzhen, the magistrate of Shouzhang County in the Qing Dynasty, said such a hugely influential sentence after the textual research:
"Liangshan belongs to Shouzhangzhi, and the surrounding area of ​​the mountain can be ten miles. The Water Margin novels are about eight hundred miles around, that is, Song Jiangzhai, a small wall on the hill, and those who talk about Zhang Huang's words so that the fools of the world will not come to this place, believe it. I think it is true. It’s not a big deal when it’s long and treacherous. It’s because it’s published to sue the gentlemen and let the people in the world know it. The same is true for the unreliability of the novel.”

According to Teng Yongzhen, Liangshan belongs to Shou Zhang. The mountain is not big, only about ten miles away. How can such a small mountain accommodate so many soldiers and horses of Liangshan?Moreover, Songjiang Village is just a small wall on a hill, so it can be seen that the magnificent Liangshan in the novel is all fake, and it is all compiled by novelists.

Teng Yongzhen's words have influenced generations of people, so that many people in later generations believe that the eight hundred miles of Liangshan Po does not exist. This is just a fiction in the novel, but is it really the case?

In modern times, due to the development of science and technology, it has become more and more convenient for people to access knowledge. The claim that Liang Shanbo is fake has also been questioned more and more.Moreover, through various literature reviews, many doubts have also been found.

According to research, there was actually a description of Liangshanbo in the Song Dynasty.According to "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", during the period from the Five Dynasties period to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River had three major breaches, and the river water came to the foot of Liangshan Mountain, forming an endless water pool, which was called an eight-hundred-mile water pool by later generations. .

Han Qi, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, also wrote a poem titled "Crossing Liangshan Pond". One of the lines is "The giant lake is boundless, and the boats are full for the day"-the huge water park can't see the edge at a glance, which shows that it was indeed There is Liangshan Park.

However, due to the diversion of the Yellow River, the water volume of Liangshanpo has been changing. According to the "Golden History" records, by that time, there was not much water in Liangshanbo.However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River changed its course again, so Liangshanbo flooded again.

Until the reign of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, there were still eighty miles of Liangshan Park, which shows that there was still a lot of water in Liangshan Park at that time.Later, during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court reformed the river channel, which finally made the water in Liangshan Park less and less, so later generations will never see the eight hundred li water park again.

But there is one thing to say here, even if the imperial court reformed the river course, Liangshan Po at this time has not completely dried up to a flat land, and it still has a certain range.What is the proof?Do you still remember that the bandit leaders in Dongping Shuizhai mentioned that "Anshanshuiyi" paid them protection fees?Na'an Shanshui Station is one of the proofs.

The system of horse post and water post established by the Ming court was specifically mentioned in the previous article of this book, so I won’t repeat it here.To put it simply, since there is a water station in the local area, it means that the waterway is very smooth, at least so smooth that it is possible to travel long distances.

how long?It runs through the whole province of Shandong from north to south.Just the waterway connecting Anshan Water Station, there are the following water stations from south to north: Jiagou Water Station, Heqiao Water Station, Nancheng Water Station, Kaihe Water Station, Anshan Water Station, Jingmen Water Station, Chong Wushui Station, Qingyang Water Station, Qingyuan Water Station, Dukou Water Station, Jiamaying Water Station, Liangjiazhuang Water Station, and Ande Water Station.

It is precisely because at this time, although the area of ​​Shuibo Liangshan has been greatly reduced, it is still a thin camel after all, so there have been water bandits until a few years ago.

It is said to be water bandits, but this place is in Shandong after all, so once these water bandits become larger and stronger, they will have entanglements with various horse bandits in Shandong.The result of this kind of entanglement is either a merger or a union. In short, in the past two decades, Dongping Water Village has formed a big bandit village that eats all water and land.

But it is a coincidence that the past two decades happened to be a period of extremely rapid development of Jinghua, so the two sides quickly started working together.

To put it bluntly, Jinghua is actually a monopoly group spanning industry and commerce. What does such an organization hate the most?Of course, I hate the person who makes it impossible to do business properly.Then there is no doubt that Dongping Shuizhai, a land-and-water combined gang, is a nail that Jinghua must pull out in Shandong.

However, in fact, the process of Jinghua pulling out this nail was not very smooth.Naturally there are reasons for this. First of all, Jinghua was mainly engaged in foreign trade at that time. Tumed, Ordos, and Jurchen ministries by land, and Dongyang and Nanyang who went to sea. These were the main directions of Jinghua’s initial efforts. Power is very limited.

It was not until Gao Wu opened a shipyard in Laizhou, Shandong that Jinghua began to produce inland watercraft. At the same time, it gradually built up an inland river fleet and began to fight against floods.

But this still has a process. In the early days, Jinghua’s fleet mainly operated two lines in the Central Plains: the Yellow River line and the Canal line.

About ten years ago, Jinghua's inland river transportation gradually began to spread in various tributaries, so it directly conflicted with Dongping Water Village.At this time, Jinghua's strong ships and sharp guns mobilized more than [-] inland river gun boats to jointly attack, and easily wiped out the Dongping Water Village in one fell swoop. Became a de facto horse bandit.

But then something went wrong. This group of people learned a lot after being beaten by high-tech, and they never fought head-on with Jinghua again.Since then, they have broken down into pieces and created a system that is close to the Nian army in the late Qing Dynasty. They usually look like ordinary people, but at night, as long as they get orders from the leader, they immediately revert to horse bandits.

Regarding the method of the horse bandits, Jinghua, a commercial organization alone, can't handle it-it's not that they can't win, it's that they don't know who to fight.Therefore, after Gao Wushi heard the news, he interrogated the Ministry of Punishment as a cabinet minister, and asked the Ministry of Punishment and the prefectures and counties in Shandong to strictly examine and distinguish between loyal and evil, good and evil, so as to facilitate the complete extermination of the gangsters.

However, here comes the problem. The Ministry of Punishment is not within the sphere of influence of the Real School. It has been controlled by the School of Mind for many years. After Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue stepped down, they led the Ministry of Punishment...or more precisely, the assistant minister who led the work of the Three Law Departments was who?That's right, it was Shen Yiguan.

At this point in the story, everything is connected, and the follow-up things are self-evident.Since Gao Wushi criticized Shandong's ineffective suppression of bandits by name, and the Ministry of Punishment should also bear part of the responsibility for this, Shen Yiguan, regardless of whether he was happy or not, had to do superficial work, so he personally arranged it.

After going back and forth, it didn't take long for Shen Yiguan to discover a bright spot: the bandits from all walks of life in Shandong hated Jinghua and Gao Yushi very much.They all think that high pragmatism not only cut off their money, but even cut off their way of life. They really want to eat the meat of high pragmatism and sleep on the skin of high pragmatism.

The enemy of the enemy is an ally. Although Shen Yiguan naturally does not regard "mere bandits" as allies, this is like Mi Di also calling Japan and South Korea allies-it doesn't matter what they are called, as long as they can be used to wipe them at any time. Ass, that's a good toilet paper.

After Shen Yiguan discovered this, he didn't think about how to use them specifically at the beginning. He just thought of some ways to get in touch with them, and then used them to interfere with Jinghua's trade network in the west of Shandong and the east and north of Henan. Just find something to add trouble to Jinghua.

Not long ago, Gao Wushi received the emperor's order to return to Beijing to report on his duties, and Shen Yiguan learned that the empress was about to give birth. In order to prevent the worst from happening, Shen Yiguan finally decided after testing Zhao Zhigao's mind: must let's move.

Thus, there was this Tangyin ambush.It's just that Shen Yiguan did all his calculations and never expected that even after controlling all the variables to a very small error, such an aggressive and strange thing would happen that the gangsters with [-] years of experience were completely defeated by the Jinghua security team with less than [-] years of riding.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this is Shen Yiguan's own lack of knowledge, or a big problem that the entire Mind School currently has: they are too amateurish about soldiers.

The gangsters in Dongping Water Village are indeed the gangsters left behind by the big waves washing the sand. Each of them can be regarded as a "rival master" if they are individually twisted. One counts as one and the other has to fail miserably.

However, battle formations are not martial arts contests, and battle formation martial arts and Jianghu martial arts are fundamentally two different systems.

"Martial arts in the battle array" is divided into horses and horses, and knives and spears are mostly used.In fact, riding and shooting battle formations were mentioned in the martial arts treatises of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Yu Long Qihu had discussed them in many ways.

It is characterized by simplicity, directness, and ease of maneuvering. Compared with individual martial arts, actual combat often pays more attention to the coordination of troops.And the battle martial arts are all armed, and there are very few bare-handed battle martial arts training-except for wrestling, which is a compulsory course.

"Jianghu martial arts" originally originated from the fights in the rivers and lakes.When it comes to fighting, they usually have mutual hatred, and when two hatreds meet, there will be casualties.Compared with the lethality of weapons, there is no need to say much, so you must bring guys.

Under such circumstances, it is natural to copy the long guys and not the short ones. If there are no short-faced ones, then use hidden weapons.

However, in this way, people often fall into a certain kind of tricky thinking, always wanting to catch the enemy by surprise, always thinking about defeating the enemy, and ignoring the fact that the power of the individual under the battle is simply insignificant.You seem to have cleverly avoided a face-to-face knife by turning sideways, but maybe you just stretched your neck to catch another enemy's blade.

When the results of Tang Yin's ambush were reported back to the capital, Shen Yiguan was nervous for a while. Even though it was already the second day of the Lunar New Year, he was still ready to fight back like a storm.

However, unexpectedly, until the first big dynasty in the new year, when Gao Yushi met him, he was still the same as usual. Tang Yin didn't know the situation behind the ambush.

This situation made Shen Yiguan doubtful, wondering if he really overestimated highly pragmatic political methods.Maybe... Maybe the reason why Gao Yushi has been so smooth all these years is really because of his unparalleled holy family and achievements, not because of how clever he is?

The reason why Shen Yiguan fell into doubt was of course not only because of his highly pragmatic reaction—the highly pragmatic reaction was no response at all.

In fact, Shen has always had such doubts because he himself has indeed made a lot of preparations for the incident.

For example, although the people in Dongping Shuizhai may already know that Shen Yiguan is the one who supports them behind the scenes and who can give them orders, but there has never been any correspondence between the two parties, and there is absolutely no evidence in black and white.

For another example, in order to arrange for the bandits who were originally active in the Dongping water village in western Shandong to appear in northern Henan "reasonably", Shen Yiguan deliberately launched a campaign in western Shandong on the grounds of discovering the Dongping gang's lair some time before that.

He ordered several local governments in Shandong to send troops with the private letter of Ge Lao (as mentioned earlier, this is a common practice for the ministers to cooperate with the local officials) and the official document of the Ministry of Punishment, and brought about a sweep there. Committing a crime" planted a reasonable foreshadowing in advance.Even if Gao Wushi wants to investigate, he can still have an excuse-didn't you say that the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and the Shandong Province did not do their job well before, why is it wrong to suppress the bandits now?

It is precisely because of this that Gao Wushi has no reaction at all now, which makes Shen Yiguan feel that maybe Gao Wushi really didn't see the way, and it is only because the Dongping gang found an opportunity to seek revenge from Jinghua.

Of course, there may be some details here. For example, Gao Wushi is not the person involved after all, he must have been rewarded by Gao Wuruo, so it may be that Gao Wuruo did not find out the reason and reported wrong information to Gao Wushi.

In short, there was no response from Gao Yushi, and there was no change in Nanning Hou Mansion, Shen Yiguan was finally relieved.

Now that he was relieved, Shen Yiguan became happy again, because although his goal of arranging the Tangyin ambush at that time seemed to have not been achieved, in fact more than half of it was achieved. It is reported that although this ambush ended in victory for Jinghua Qiding, Gao Wuruo himself was injured, so he had to be temporarily transferred to Weihui, where he recuperated... It is said that His Royal Highness King Lu sent people to visit him.

This is success!After all, in the final analysis, Shen Yitong was trying to delay Gao Wuruo's speed of going south to Xinzheng. As for killing him, it was just incidental.Now that Gao Wuruo was injured and stranded in Wei Hui, the assassination of Gao Cho and his wife would naturally be much easier.

It's just that Shen Yiguan didn't expect that just three days before he felt relieved, Gao Wuruo had already disguised himself as an ordinary security team cavalry, and Shi Shiran entered Longwen Yayuan.
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(End of this chapter)