Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

While at home, the civil servants sent outside and the military officers sent to fill in the vacancies were summoned by Wu Shigong in batches.Wu Shigong also said some high-sounding words to encourage these people as usual.In fact, this kind of official position is not an official official position of the Ming Dynasty at all, but an official position established within the Runing Army, but those officials are still grateful, as if they were all treasures.

That's right, there are very few people who can take up these official positions, even scholars, basically they are all children, and some of them are only literate.In the official system of the Ming Dynasty, they had no possibility of holding any official positions at all, so they also attached great importance to this kind of miscellaneous official positions that could no longer be miscellaneous.This official standard system is indeed deeply ingrained in the minds of the Chinese people.

The only shortcoming of the Runing Army that can be said now is that the education background of the officials is too low.As the only Juren, Deng Qifan stands out from the crowd.It's not that there are no other Juren in the territory controlled by Wu Shigong, but that they all look down on Runing Army's wild background and don't want to come to Runing Army to serve here.

Even Zhang Xuebin wrote a letter to his clan, asking the clan to send some children to the Runing Army as staff, but the final result of this letter was nothing.The strength of the Runing Army is still too small to attract these literati!

And when they were summoned, there was also a tidbit.This time, among the military officers like Gonzalez, a group of people who are better at learning Mandarin have also been sent out to become real-time military attaches leading troops.Of course, most of them are high-ranking and low-ranking.For example: Gonzales is treated as the head of the regiment, but he is the deputy head of an infantry regiment.For the time being, Wu Shigong will not let them lead the army alone.

It should be said that Gonzalez's appointment somewhat violated the official promotion system of the Runing Army.However, because Gonzalez and the others did have goods in their stomachs, and they were the instructors of the Liaodong Army at the time of Sun Yuanhua, there was no objection to the appointment of these people.

But for this appointment, Wu Shigong always had the idea that foreign monks would chant scriptures.The top and bottom of the Runing Army did not have any resistance to these Portuguese becoming their military attachés.This made Wu Shigong a little strange.

Only after understanding.People in the Ming Dynasty had a very unique view of nationality, which is difficult for modern people to understand.They all believe that although they are not of our race, their hearts must be different.But the clan here does not refer to the nation in the strict sense.Rather, it is based on whether or not one believes in Confucianism as the dividing line.Those who believe in it are the civilized people of our heavenly kingdom, and those who don't believe in it are barbarians.

In addition, people in the Ming Dynasty also believed that: in the whole world, is it the land of the king, and the shore of the land is the subject of the king.In other words, they think that everyone in the world is Chinese.It is nothing more than the difference between civilized people and barbarians.As for people like Gonzalez.That is to say, it looks strange to some Chinese people.Since the Chinese lead the troops, of course there is no resistance.

On the contrary, the officers like Gonzales felt that they considered themselves aliens.Therefore, in order to integrate into the Runing Army as soon as possible, they redoubled their efforts in training and followed the rules of the Runing Army meticulously.This also allowed them to get a good evaluation in the Runing Army.

But when Wu Shigong met Gonzalez and the others, unexpectedly Gonzalez made a sincere request to Wu Shigong.It turned out that Gonzalez and the others knew when the Fund would formulate benefits for them officers.It is hoped that Wu Shigong will personally sign a written contract with all the officers.To protect the future interests of those officers.

After hearing this request, Wu Shigong felt a little funny in his heart.These foreigners are straightforward enough!Wu Shigong didn't want to break his promise, besides, he also understood that foreigners pay more attention to the spirit of contract, so he readily agreed.

But since then, the Runing Army has also developed such a rule.When issuing orders and purchasing the materials needed by the Runing Army, it is no longer just a word of mouth, but also a contract with detailed terms.And this habit gradually spread to the people, which also promoted the great development of Runing Army's commerce and industry from the side.

And during this time.Wu Shigong also read a large number of Dibao and various information collected by the Shanchuan Department.It has been more than a year since Wu Shigong went to Denglai, but the news is quite closed.So take advantage of the free time this time, to make up for such a lesson.

However, what is surprising is that Wu Shigong's newly appointed officer who extracts and summarizes information——Zheng Ling, has an amazing performance.

After Zheng Ling got acquainted with the work, he used his spare time to look through a large amount of previous materials, and provided Wu Shigong with two analysis reports written by him.

One is an analysis of Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides.When the main force of the Shaanxi peasant rebellion entered Shanxi, the remaining peasant rebel forces did not sink.

However, Hong Chengchou stepped up his efforts to destroy them, and succeeded repeatedly.In September of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Shen Yikui occupied Ningsai County.Civil strife broke out soon, and Shen Yikui was killed by his subordinate Huang Youcai.In November, Tan Xiong's rebel army invaded Ansai County twice. Hong Chengchou sent deputy commander Cao Wenzhao to besiege Huang Youcai's department in Ningsai.

At this time, Yicheng, Yiduoyun, Xue Hongqi and others led a rebel army of more than 3000 people, starting from Yuhechuan (in Yulin County) and suddenly arriving at the city of Anding.The poor people in the city acted as the internal response, and the rebel army then conquered stability.Wang Chengen (not the eunuch next to Chongzhen, but just the same name and surname) arrived in Ansai, the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and trapped and killed Tan Xiong and other five people.Then they moved troops to attack Anding, and the rebel army was forced to withdraw.

At the same time, the Huntian Monkey Division conquered Ganquan County, won 8000 taels of silver, and executed Guo Yongtu, the county magistrate.Zhang Yundeng, the Hexi Bingbei Road, was also shot dead.Then, the rebel army conquered Jiazhou again, and Guo Jingsong, the soldier in charge, was killed.Hong Chengchou, governor of Shaanxi, hurriedly mobilized Cao Wenzhao and Zhang Quanchang to jointly suppress.In the first month of the fifth year, Huntian Hou sent troops to pretend to be rice merchants to enter Yijun County, and seized the county seat by night.Then they occupied Baoan and Heshui counties.

At this time, Hao Lin'an, Liu Liu (Liu Daojiang), and Ke Tianfei, who were originally under Shen Yikui's subordinates, also rebelled in the Qingyang and Huanxian areas of Gansu Province, attacking everywhere, and were very active for a while.

In December of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Youcai, Liu Wu, Hao Lin'an, Ke Tianfei and other ministries besieged Huan County. Zhao Yinglan, the county official of the Ming Dynasty, was panicked and hanged himself to death.Hong Chengchou dispatched Yang Jiamo, the commander in chief of Gansu, and He Huchen, the commander in chief of Ningxia, to rescue them.Huang Youcai was shot to death by the officer's gunfire, but Ke Tianfei and Hao Lin'an led the troops to evacuate to the north of Huanxian County, Gansu Province, in the high mountains and deep streams named Dongchuan and Xichuan.

In February of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Ke Tianfei and Hao Lin'an besieged Qingyang Fucheng again.Hong Chengchou sent Cao Wenzhao, the commander-in-chief of Lintao, to rescue them.On March 1000th, Cao Wenzhao and Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Gansu, fought against the peasant rebel army in Xihao. The rebel army was defeated and more than [-] people died.

In April, Buzhanni Zhang Cunmeng set up 64 outposts and [-] villages in Xichuan, leading troops to attack Mizhi and Jiazhou.Zhang Fuzhen, the governor of Yansui in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Chengen, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, and other horsemen and three thousand infantry joined Hong Chengchou to launch a fierce attack on the rebel army.He was defeated in the battle without sticking to the mud, and was captured and beheaded in Suide together with Liu Minyue.In July, Huntian Monkey was also killed by the Ming Army's Ma Ke Department at Yanshui Pass.

Relying on their superior strength, the official army repeatedly defeated the insurgents staying in Shaanxi.Governor Hong Chengchou, Shaanxi governor Lian Guoshi, and inspector Yushi Jinlan seized the opportunity to encircle and suppress the base of the rebel army in Tienjiaocheng (now north of Huanxian County, Gansu Province).Tiejiao City has high mountains and deep valleys, and the situation is dangerous. It has always been a place where the government's rule is weak.

Hao Lin'an, Ke Tianfei and other ministries have divided the land here for farming and animal husbandry for a long time, and are ready for a protracted war.In August of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou mobilized a large army to attack, and at the same time sent spies "to go to the bandit camps in the name of recruiting, to give secret tricks, and to reward them heavily, sneaking in and making them kill bandits with bandits."

The peasant rebel army was invincible, and some wavering elements surrendered one after another.Among them, after Bai Guangen led his troops to surrender, he immediately acted as the executioner of the Ming government to suppress the peasant uprising.He led the army straight to He's old village, the camp of Ke Tianfei (He Chongwei), the leader of the rebel army, but Ke Tianfei was killed in battle.

Bai Guangen used the blood of the peasants to rebel against the army in exchange for his own promotion, and later he was promoted to the general army.In October, Chen Qiyu, the newly appointed governor of Yansui, sent Wang Chengen, the commander-in-chief, to suppress the uprising army of Yicheng and Xue Hongqi.A city was killed by the traitor Qiao Liulang, and Xue Hongqi and Yizi Wang (Tuo Xianling) were also killed in Gudu Temple for the Mingjing border guard Dai Junen.In November, Cao Wenzhao and other officers and troops pursued and suppressed Hao Lin'an and Lone Wolf in Zhuizi Mountain, Yaozhou, Shaanxi. The peasant rebel army was defeated and retreated into Fenghuang Mountain.

Seeing that the mountain was dangerous and difficult to attack, Fan Yiheng, the supervisor of the army, sent spies into the rebel army to lure the unstable elements to kill Hao Linan and Lone Wolf, and surrendered their heads to the army.

However, because of the repeated surrender and rebellion of the peasant rebel army, Governor Hong Chengchou thought that the general situation was settled, so he broke his promise and pulled [-] backbones of the rebel army from the surrenders to kill the prisoners to avoid future troubles.

So far, the various peasant rebel armies that persisted in fighting in Shaanxi were basically suppressed bloody by the Ming government.According to the six-year report of Fan Fucui, the censor of the Ming Dynasty, the Shaanxi uprising army killed more than 600 people in the battle.As for ordinary people, there are countless people who were killed and ravaged by the officers and soldiers.

But these are all clearly recorded in the mansion newspaper, but Zheng Ling carefully analyzed two bold conjectures: one is that Hong Chengchou's military talent is outstanding.

Regarding this point, Wu Shigong also felt sorry for him.Who is Hong Chengchou?Wu Shigong really didn't know it before.But since Hong Chengchou was able to drive the Shaanxi peasant rebel army out of their hometown and basically completely pacify Shaanxi, his ability must be quite outstanding. (To be continued..)