Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() Sun Chengzong was looking forward to the early arrival of the Ming army in the pass, but there was a main Ming army in the pass, but for some inexplicable reason, it stopped moving.

Denglai governor Sun Yuanhua received the imperial court's order to deploy troops and received a private letter from his chief assistant Zhou Yanru. As Zhou Yanru's main confidant, he immediately dispatched the most effective troops under his command.And this support army was led by Kong Youde and Li Jiuzheng.But what Sun Yuanhua never imagined was that when the support army just left Shandong and arrived in Beizhili, they immediately had an accident.Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng have been submerged in Wuqiao for more than a month.

Sun Yuanhua, courtesy name Chuyang, was born in Gaoqiao Town, Chuansha County, Shanghai.As an official, he only showed a small face when Kong Youde rebelled, and he had no chance to perform on the stage of history.

But when it comes to the history of Chinese science and technology, Sun Yuanhua is famous.He is an expert in Western artillery and learned Western firearms from Xu Guangqi.Therefore, in the eyes of modern people, Sun Yuanhua, as a person with such advanced western scientific and technological thinking ability, can easily arouse the favor of modern people.Therefore, in many historical books and literary works, Sun Yuanhua is boasted as a good man.

But although the author and Sun Yuanhua are also fellow villagers, they are unwilling to talk nonsense.Among the officials of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Yuanhua was neither good nor bad, just mediocre.

However, Sun Yuanhua's firearms skills are indeed well-known, so he was recommended by Sun Chengzong as the Secretary of the Ministry of War to build a platform outside the Liaodong Pass to make guns.Sun Yuanhua is of course very good at this kind of technical work, so his promotion went very smoothly, and then he entered the Ministry of War as a staff officer, and Chongzhen was a staff doctor at the beginning.

Next, the brightest moment of Sun Yuanhua's life came.When Jin entered the pass two years after Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan, the supervisor at the time, brought the main force of the Liaodong Ming army into King Qin of the pass.

As the highest civil official staying in Liaodong, Sun Yuanhua mainly relied on the Ming army in Dongjiang Town when the main force of the Ming army was transferred. State. At that time, people in the Ming Dynasty generally called them Frangji) mercenaries, who helped train a very effective artillery team. After combat, they counterattacked and regained some lost ground of the Ming army in Liaodong.

Although there were reasons for this victory such as: the main force of the Hou Jin army had arrived in the pass; Very eye-catching.

But the good times didn't last long. After Yuan Chonghuan was arrested, Sun Chengzong took office again as the governor of Liaodong. The main force of the Liaodong Army headed by Zu Dashou returned to the outside of the pass, and the conflict between them and the Dongjiang Zhenming Army was irreconcilable. .Therefore, the final result, of course, is that Sun Yuanhua and the Ming army in Dongjiang Town were transferred away from Liaodong.

But Sun Yuanhua's transfer, as the supervisor, Sun Chengzong did not play tricks behind the scenes, and Sun Yuanhua was the confidant of the chief assistant Zhou Yanru.According to the merits made by Sun Yuanhua, he was of course promoted to the censor of Youqian capital and the governor of Denglai.

And the Ming army in Dongjiang Town, after Mao Wenlong was killed, immediately became a mess.Some of the generals in Dongjiang Town were disheartened, and some were fighting for power. Coupled with the continuous temptation and division of external Yuan Chonghuan and Hou Jin Huang Taiji, the alliances, mergers, assassinations, rebellions, Surrender... these plots could make for a gripping feature-length TV series.

There is almost no food and salary supply, and they are constantly being treated coldly.Over time, the generals and soldiers of Dongjiang Town, not to mention their morale, have fallen into a deep inferiority complex even in their daily emotions.

So when Sun Yuanhua presided over the Liaodong military affairs for a short time, Dongjiang Town did get a lot of food and pay, and they were reused by Sun Yuanhua. The most gratifying thing is that following Sun Yuanhua, the Ming army in Dongjiang Town won a long-lost victory. These have greatly enhanced the self-confidence of Dongjiang Zhenming Army.Therefore, the generals of Dongjiang Town are also very grateful to Sun Yuanhua.

Of course, even with these favors from Sun Yuanhua, the generals of Dongjiang Town will never have any feelings towards Sun Yuanhua that a soldier would die for his confidant.Everyone is a mature man, and this kind of emotion that only appears in literary works is saved.

However, Sun Yuanhua still took good care of the Ming army in Dongjiang town.When Sun Yuanhua was promoted to governor of Denglai, he immediately brought the main force of the Dongjiang Zhenming army to Denglai as the main combat force of his governor's standard battalion.

The Dongjiang Zhenming army was also very happy when they left Liaodong. They thought they were finally out of the sea of ​​suffering, and they would never look at other people's faces like they were in Liaodong.

But the Ming army in Dongjiang Town also thought too beautifully.When they arrived in Denglai, they immediately found that the local gentry and people in Denglai treated them with supercilious looks.

Now let’s talk about the composition of the Liaodong Han people.In the Ming Dynasty, except for a small number of Han people in Liaodong who were exiled outside the customs, most of them fled from Shandong to Liaodong.

There are two routes from Shandong to the Guandong, one is by land and the other is by sea.Anyway, everyone can imagine the hardships along the way, and anyway, less than half of the people were able to settle in Liaodong safely.

Knowing this, we may have such a question: Most of the Han people in Liaodong are from Shandong, and the gentry and people in Denglai are also from Shandong, but why do Denglai people look down on Liaodong people?

In fact, the reason is very simple. At the time of the Ming Dynasty, people in the mainland believed that only the Han people who could not survive would flee outside the customs and overseas.Therefore, they always have an indescribable sense of superiority towards the Han people outside the customs and overseas.Facing the Han people outside the customs and overseas, the inland people always discriminated against them intentionally or unintentionally.

Indeed, just like the Han Chinese who later went to Nanyang to plant rubber trees and the Han Chinese who went to North America to build railways and dig gold mines, they were indeed a group of people who could not survive in China at that time.Of course, this does not prevent the beauties in the mainland from flirting with the descendants of these overseas Han people.

In addition, because Yuan Chonghuan was stuck with the food and pay of the Ming army in Dongjiang Town at that time, Mao Wenlong at that time led the Ming army in Dongjiang Town to take a boat to the coast of Shandong and plunder like pirates.How did this kind of behavior make the gentry and people in Denglai have a good impression of the Ming army in Dongjiang Town?

Therefore, the Dongjiang Zhenming army, surrounded by hostile gentry and people, even if they had any prejudices against each other before, those generals put aside their disputes and united closely together.

But Sun Yuanhua is still very good to the Ming army in Dongjiang Town.Therefore, when Sun Yuanhua asked Kong Youde to lead 1000 or [-] Ming troops from Dongjiang Town to the outside of the customs, Kong Youde agreed without hesitation.

And Sun Yuanhua gave more than 1 taels of silver to another general of Dongjiang Town, Li Jiucheng, and asked him to set off with Kong Youde to find a way to use the money to buy some horses along the way.

But what everyone didn't expect was that during the march of the Ming army in Dongjiang town, a so-called small incident led to a major event that would affect the history of later generations.