The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 137

Gao Youmou stood up and saluted and said, "Master Huang, Wansheng also wants to serve the country. I invited the county venerable to come here today to be a witness. Wansheng volunteered to follow the 'Red Banner Army' with eight servants who are outstanding in martial arts. Wansheng doesn't want these nine people. Official position, no military salary, just willing to do my best for the court."

Gao Youmou was nearly forty years old, and it was a bit funny to talk about one late student in front of Huang Han, who was less than 20 years old. He also proposed to volunteer to join the war without any reward and didn't care about official positions. It was obvious that he must have expert advice behind him.

Indeed, Gao Youmou completed the business of buying and selling military exploits in Fengrun and immediately rushed back to Jinan Fucheng to report to his father. military discipline.

Of course Gao Youmou confessed everything he saw and heard. After thinking about it, Gao Di said to his son earnestly, "Youmou! You have passed the imperial examination seven times, right?"

Gao Youmou blushed instantly, and he said with shame: "Father, the child is incompetent, and he has not been selected so far. He has no place to be ashamed!"

Gaodi sighed and said, "It's not your fault that you don't work hard. It's hard to get two or three people out of a hundred in the Beizhili Township Examination. Isn't the third son of Zheng Guochang's family also failing in many tests? He is now the head of the 'Red Banner Army' right?"

"Father, don't you mean to let your son follow the example of the third son of the Zheng family?"

"Our Gao family doesn't have that kind of friendship with the Huang family. Besides, since my father has retired and returned to his hometown, although he has connections in the court, it's already a thing of the past. You can go to the 'Red Banner Army' to experience this..."

Old Gao Di was far-sighted, knowing that if the Gao family stopped producing scholar-bureaucrats, it would sooner or later decline, so he suggested to his son to find another way to try to get into the ranks of scholar-bureaucrats through military merits.

Gao Di was a Jinshi in the 17th year of Wanli. He has been an official in the court for nearly 40 years.He has been mixed until he is the second-rank official in frontiers, and he is the Minister of the Ministry of war to manage Jiliao.

The 40-year old fritters in the officialdom are not given for nothing. How many old officials are there?Once Gao Youmou gained solid military merits, it would be easy for him to rise to the top.

Gao Youmou didn't want to waste his life, he gritted his teeth and decided to go to the army to suffer for a few years to see how his luck would be, so he carefully selected eight members of the Gao family who were most capable of fighting with him.

The Gao family is very rich, nine of them have a full set of mountain armor equipment, eighteen Arabian war horses, bows, arrows, weapons, etc. are all high-quality goods.

Gao Youmou learned from his father's former official that Zheng Guochang was stationed in Fengrun County, and that Huang Han was listed in the list of generals, so he rushed here. He had already lived in the county for seven or eight days, and he had already discussed with the county magistrate to meet Huang Han. rhetoric of the time.

Huang Han didn't know that no one in the court should be an official. When he came to Daming, he had to adapt to the trend. First of all, he couldn't walk on the opposite side of the civil official group.

In fact, in the last days of the Ming Dynasty, the Houjin regime and many bandits took turns to scourge and lead to the subjugation of the country.

Huang Han, who came from later generations, believed that the united front was especially important. As long as they refused to surrender and become slaves, those who refused to break into or donate thieves were the targets of the united front.
Besides, Lao Gaodi is not from the Donglin Party, he should belong to one of the few people without party affiliation in Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen hated party disputes the most, and liked lonely ministers who did not form a party the most. His son would rise to power after the Donglin Party was abandoned by Chongzhen in the future, and he might be able to be reused.

Huang Han said to Gao Youmou: "The 'Red Banner Army' is strictly disciplined. Officers and soldiers eat, live and work together. I'm afraid you won't be able to bear this hardship."

Gao Youmou was mentally prepared to take a firm stand, he said: "Wan Sheng is stronger than Mr. Zheng, he can endure the hardships in the army, and Wan Sheng can definitely do it too. Don't worry, General Huang, Wan Sheng and his family have violated military regulations. You will be punished severely."

Huang Han looked at Gao Youmou, and found that he looked really strong and strong. From this, it can be seen that most of the scholars with unsatisfactory academic performance, their physique is better than the granshan students who study hard on the sage books and hope to be promoted.

Zheng Xiaowen's physique is good, and he has never seen him get sick in the army. He can also march long distances with the team without falling behind.

Anyway, there are already scholars in the army, and a few more people will not hurt. Besides, if it becomes common practice for scholars to join the army, Daming will have great hope.

"One inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand youths and one hundred thousand troops." The strength of Little Japan is countless times stronger than that of Jiannu at the end of Ming Dynasty.

The government of the Republic of China took the strength of the last Ming Dynasty to be much weaker, but the government set off a movement of educated youth to join the army, mobilized students to join the youth army, launched a counterattack in northern Myanmar, opened up the Sino-Indian Highway, and played a positive role in the war of resistance. The surrender of Little Japan.

If the children and scholars of the Ming Dynasty can also have the pride of "one inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood" and the feat of throwing a pen into the army, it will not be far away to establish slaves and destroy the country and species!

Huang Han agreed to Gao Youmou's request, and said: "In this case, I will also report to the Ministry of War as a trainee master secretary, what does Mr. Gao think?"

Gao Youmou bowed to the ground overjoyed, and said: "I thank you General for your success, don't worry, I must do more and speak less in the army."

The next day, Huang Han, Guo Bichang, and Gao Youmou sought to see Zheng Guochang. Old Gaodi was actually Zheng Guochang's senior. Although the two were not close personal friends, they were acquainted. What's the big deal for Huang Han to keep Gao Youmou as a trainee master?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the scholar-officials, Juren, and Scholars who were willing to serve in the army were basically satisfied, and they would give priority to promotion. The most convincing example is Yuan Dudu's family history.

Yuan Chonghuan was born as a top-ranked Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli, and his ranking was relatively low. With his background, if he started to become an official from the county magistrate of the seventh rank, it would probably take a year or 20 to get to the magistrate. Good luck is required.

But this kid can fool around, claiming to know the soldiers and publicizing them widely, and then because he voluntarily asked to serve in the Liaodong Army, he was promoted to more than ten ranks in a few years, and finally got mixed up with Ji Liao, the second-rank military minister and supervisor, and played himself to death.

Gao Youmou, a scholar from a family, volunteered to join the army. This is a great thing with positive energy, and Zheng Guochang will naturally be beautiful as an adult.

He arranged for his staff to assist Gao Youmou in handling the relevant documents, and immediately sent someone to send the official documents to the Ministry of War for printing.

It is known that the main force of the slave building has retreated, and the "Red Banner Army" has grown several times now, and it is absolutely impossible to waste time in vain.

Fighting on the border of Yongping Prefecture's hometown, even if the mobile forces of the Hou Jin Army who stayed in the pass and garrisoned the four cities were all able to deal with the "Red Banner Army", Huang Han believed that he should be able to deal with it independently.

At least it's no problem to jump out of the encirclement with your subordinates, or you can simply play cavalry hedge to break out of the encirclement.

(End of this chapter)