Wang Chengen, the commander-in-chief of Lintao, did not aim at Xining City, nor did he intend to capture Guide Qianhu Residence.
Instead, he was going to Pingrong Mayi, forty miles east of Xining. Wangjiazhuang was nearby. He led his troops to cut in from Henan and rushed westward with thousands of Hezhou soldiers to create a thin city in order to send his servants back home.
Take out the mother’s tribe.
A dynasty has its own naming style.
The method of prolonging life and removing diseases in the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang’s single name, Xuanling, the Tao of Heavenly Masters in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the huge number of successors and the old brother named Yanmei Jinzhao in the Song Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, due to the unprecedented concentration of power by Emperor Taizu, loyalty to the emperor and service to the country became the absolute main theme.
Among these main theme names, the name Chengen is one of them, and is deeply loved by the majority of nobles.
Tenant Wang Laoqi's back was bent by taxes. At the age of forty-five, he finally got married and had a baby. He would not name the baby Wang Cheng'en. Instead, the tenant named the baby Wang Xiaoshun to continue his filial piety to the landlord.
The person who can name the baby Cheng'en is either a general or a chieftain, or even worse, he must be a landowner and a gentry, an official family who is expected to achieve worldly honors and wealth.
At this time, there were twenty or thirty famous Cheng'en in the court, and King Cheng'en alone had four. They were all high-ranking and powerful figures who were deeply favored by the Holy Spirit.
There was Wang Chengen, the eunuch beside Emperor Chongzhen, and Wang Chengen in the Jinyi Guards. In addition, there was Wang Chengen of Jingyuan Bo who went to Korea as a guerrilla general in the 23rd year of Wanli. That one was already too old to lift a sword.
The remaining one is Wang Chengen, the commander-in-chief of Lintao.
The chief military officer of Lintao is the person with the highest status and the most powerful authority among the four clones of Wang Chengen.
His ancestor was Qingyuan Marquis Wangyou who started his career in Jingnan. Later, he offended Emperor Chengzu in his later years and was deprived of his title. When Renzong succeeded to the throne, he was grateful for his contribution to Jingnan and granted his descendants hereditary command.
Since he was eighteen years old in the 33rd year of Wanli and inherited the post of commander of the Xining Guards, he has successively served as the counselor-general of Zhuanglang in Gansu, the counselor-general of Nanshan in Xuanfu, the deputy general of the Shenji Camp of the Beijing Army, and the commander-in-chief of Lintao.
Smooth sailing.
If you encounter no powerful enemy, there will naturally be no difficult battle.
It was not until the change of Jisi in the second year of Chongzhen that Wang Chengen finally ushered in his own moment of glory.
His highlight moment was when he marched to Beijing to aid the Liao Dynasty and led 1,500 Lintao troops to Beijing after traveling 1,500 miles. When everyone was running around with their heads covered, Wang Chengen performed normally.<
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His army did not mutiny, desert, or run out of food on the march; it did not disturb the people, plunder, or collapse in the garrison; it marched to Luanzhou without fleeing, disobeying orders, or being defeated.
At the foot of Luanzhou City, when Huang Long and Zu Dashou fired artillery to destroy the city battlements, Yang Yanchang led the crowd to fill the trenches, and Cao Wenzhao used spray cannons to burn the city towers, standing tall trees and spears to block arrows, killing five prisoners and receiving thousands of applause. Wang Chengen received the military order to defend the south.
He did it without asking a Donglu to leave the city.
For this, Wang Chengen was commended and received by Emperor Chongzhen, and was awarded the title of Crown Prince, Taibao, and Governor of the Left.
Qi Jiguang was already forty-seven years old when he was granted the title of Governor-General of the Left and Crown Prince Taibao, while Wang Chengen was only forty-two that year.
Wang Chengen always believed that his aid to the Liao Dynasty must be meritorious, but it was far from as great a meritorious service as the official position given to him by the emperor. Being awarded the title was a meritorious service. He wanted to find opportunities to prove that he was worthy of the emperor's personal treatment.
In order to repay the Holy Family, Wang Cheng'en led his troops to fight against bandits in all parts of Shaanxi Province for three years. Their life was harder than that of Liu Shishi's soldiers, but he achieved very little credit and all he had was hard work.
Encircling and suppressing the peasant army is not an easy task. This general military standard battalion in Lintao Town has not taken a bath for three months, and its face is covered with weather and dirt, and it looks very miserable.
Wang Cheng'en thought that he had already sent people home, and he could not let his old mother, who was over sixty years old, see that he was in distress and distressed, so he took advantage of the opportunity when the Hezhou Army was marching westward and the scouting horses were running eastward, and asked his brothers from the Biao Camp to go to Huangshui.
Take a bath inside.
It was a bit cold to take a shower in this weather, but it was comfortable. After washing, the sergeants were all in high spirits.
Wang Chengen also washed himself, and was sitting in the courtyard of Pingrong Station with his hair disheveled, wiping off the dust from his armor, when a servant came over to repay him with this big wooden sign.
"Commander, my family is gone!"
Wang Chengen was stunned for a moment, and stopped wiping his nail polish: "What do you mean?"
"My family's big house has become like this."
The servant placed a nearly tall nanmu plaque in front of him, with the four gilded characters "Loyalty from Generation to Generation" written clearly on it. Wang Chengen said angrily: "The thieves demolished the two-hundred-year-old house, so they left a plaque for me?" "It's not the commander-in-chief. The old house is here and the plaque is ruined."
As he spoke, the servant turned the plaque upside down, and saw that the back of the nanmu wood had been smeared with white ash, and the four characters "Pingrong Township Protection" were written in ink. The servant said with a sad face: "Someone from the Xining Prefecture Yamen has expropriated the house, and they treat this as a commoner."
The old lady was taken to Xining from the Rongxiang Security Office."
When Wang Chengen heard this, he no longer thought about the old house. He stood up and said angrily: "Where are you, just watching my mother get someone to arrest her?"
He even wanted to go to Xining and surrender, but the idea only stayed in his mind for a moment.
He couldn't surrender, not to mention that the emperor treated him with great kindness, but the homes of these sergeants were all in Lintao, so it was useless for him to surrender.
"Commander, Wang Jinzhong's Dada is still at the village. He said that at that time, the Liu bandits sent 30,000 soldiers out of the river valley and no one dared to move. So he sent three men to the village and everything they wanted to do was done.
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"What do they want to do, seize land and houses and seize property?"
Wang Chengen sneered, and did not wipe off half of his armor. He stood up, clapped his hands and said to the soldiers beside him: "Send the order to assemble. In half an hour, we will march eastward and complete the encirclement."
Wang Jinzhong is Wang Chengen's servant. He is honest and honest without much ability, and he is also a member of the same clan.
Dada was a notoriously lazy man on the farm and loved to drink. A few years ago, his son’s military salary sent him home and he asked me to buy wine. When he ran out of money, he went to work as part-time workers. The villagers were all from the same race, and they were hungry.
He may not die of hunger, but his greatest hope in life can only be that his son will perform meritorious service on the battlefield.
However, Wang Jinzhong had never made any meritorious service before, but he had made meritorious service in northern Shaanxi the year before last. However, money was tight at that time, and Hong Chengchou and Liangwen were all focused on Wu Di's 100,000 taels of disaster relief silver. In the end, Hong Chengchou had to leave more than 2,000 taels for famine relief.
Army; to practice state affairs, we need to spend 5,900 taels to relieve tired troops.
They got seven hundred taels in Lintao, and it was only in the summer of the fifth year of Chongzhen that they got it.
When Wang Chengen took the money, the first thing he considered must be to pay the three-day salary arrears for the three days of New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, and Shangyuan Festival in the fourth year of Chongzhen to his brothers in the fifth year of Chongzhen.
One penny and six cents per person is only enough for three days, so I can happily eat dumplings.
This little money is just enough to make me happy. The soldiers in Lintao are not poor, and they can always have enough to eat. Although the profit from sending troops to suppress bandits is not much, it can at least maintain the army's normal operations.
But this is not a good life for soldiers.
The servant holding the plaque was stunned when he heard it. He stretched out his hand to loosen the plaque and quickly grabbed it, asking: "Commander, if you go eastward, why don't you go to Xining to save the old lady?"
Wang Chengen took a deep breath, stood at the gate of the post city, took a deep look to the west, and said firmly: "Old mother will be fine."
He knew very well that his mother was taken to Xining by the rebels. She might not have the food and accommodation as comfortable as at home, but her life safety could definitely be guaranteed. Even if the old lady sought death, she would not have a chance.
If he dares to attack Xining City at this time, the old mother's life will most likely be in danger.
So Wang Chengen planned to go to the east first to catch the ancestors and so on, so that he could come back to Xining City to replace his old mother.
The army is still gathering. Wang Chengen has just learned that all the clan members have been taken away by the township officials of the Marshal's Mansion. Now there are only six old people left in the village. The young and strong people in the village are either in the army with him, or they have been dispersed with their families.
In my hometown, the most annoying thing is that his family’s name has been changed.
It was not the old residence of the Wang family that was converted into the Pingrong Township Security Office, but Wangjiazhuang, which was converted into two local security guards.
Their names were Tubao, one was Upper Tubao and the other was Lower Tubao. Wang Chengen was so angry that his teeth itched: "They are going to chop off my head. I'm back. Where are those little chickens?"
"They have all run away a long time ago. Only a few old people from the former village are left here. Yesterday there were a few who were bought by the rebels and were greedy for the land. They were greedy for the land and refused to leave. When they heard that the marshal was back, they packed up their things and ran away overnight." This sounds funny, but Wang Chengen can't laugh at all.
He just felt angry. His sixty-year-old mother had been robbed, his family's old house that was more than 200 years old had been expropriated, he had just inquired about his family's money and it was all taken away, and the land at home was taken away by Xining thieves. They
I don’t feel bad for betraying my father’s land, I’ll give it all away.
When Wang Chengen heard the report from his servant about the rural land protection policy, he thought about it and felt uncomfortable.
Isn’t this just a tenant?
It's not as good as his tenants. At least his tenants have the land and they can plant whatever they like, as long as they can afford the rent. Liu Chengzong is better off, he grabs other people's fields into his own hands, and he is the only one in Hehuang.
A landowner.
It is said that we are spending money to buy food and not collecting rent, but in fact we still have to pay food?
Exchange some money and those useless cloth tickets. The nearest market is in Xining City, and the price for buying other things is not what he wants to adjust.
The rent for the land is clearly stated in the lease deed, and it is as much as it is. If Liu Thief does what he does, how much will the people really have to pay in a year, can you tell clearly?
Wang Chengen was puzzled, how could the people be so grateful?
"They breed cattle." Seeing Wang Chengen puzzled, a servant named Wang Jinzhong in the crowd whispered: "With cattle, day laborers like me in Dada can take care of their own land.
Hope."
The servants were all gathered in the post city. Wang Jinzhong's words attracted some people to look at him with surprise, and some people nodded in agreement.
Wang Jinzhong never imagined that his simple words would make Wang Chengen feel scared from the bottom of his heart.
This fear is unreasonable, but it makes General Wang extremely vigilant. His soldiers have never mutinied, and they are not mutinous yet, but it is obvious that many members of the clan agree with Xining Mansion's approach.
If even the poor children in the tribe agree, then the poor people in the local area whom he has never seen will agree even more.
This suddenly brought Wang Chengen back to his senses and he understood.
It was as if when I heard that my old mother had been captured, the first thing I thought of was surrender, and the second thing I thought was that I couldn't surrender because the soldiers' families were in Lintao.
The same goes for the people who stay here. The endurance of the poor people is actually not strong, not at all.
They just have no choice. Liu Chengzong calls, so what can they do?
Liu Chengzong promulgated a policy, so what?
It is even said that Liu Chengzong started killing people, so what can he do?
For nearly half a century of his life, he has always known that tenants are not actually poor, they are tenants if they have cattle; no wealthy family would give land to someone who digs food in the ground with two hands.
It's just that people who are poorer than the tenants are always ignored by his consciousness.
The poorest and poorest people he can come into contact with are tenant farmers. Wang Chengen cannot see the rest of them in their normal condition. Once he sees them, it means that they have embarked on another career and are thieves.
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Liu Chengzong's policies are bad governance for him, and they are not a good thing for the people who can support their families, but what about the more people who live on the line of life and death?
When Wang Chengen put himself on the people who could only be thieves but had not yet become thieves, he himself felt that Liu Chengzong's policy was a good one.
To the west are the rebels, to the east is smallpox, and to the east is Lanzhou, which is driving people west. The world is dangerous, and the people who sit still are the best choice for themselves, no matter what the harvest is, no matter whether it is forced to grow grain, no matter the autumn
How much grain will Liu Chengzong collect?
At least...there is hope.
"Jin Zhong, I give you a job to do. Lao Wang's family can't suffer such a miserable loss. You take a few people and go to the surrounding mountains to call back all the people."
Wang Chengen chuckled. He wanted to unite these clansmen again and not let them be bewitched by Liu Chengzong.
He waved his hand and said: "Tell those people that they are farming the Wang family's land. Now that it is in their hands and the world is difficult, I will not take it back. The land is still mine, but it will be permanently tenanted... let them all come back to farm the land."
, ran into the mountains, don’t you want the harvest this year?”
Having said that, before the servants could show their surprised expressions, Wang Chengen changed the topic: "In the past, you had to have cattle to share the land; now that his old Liu family is generous with our old Wang family's land, then our old Wang family will use his old Liu family's land."
Our cattle are generous!”
"This time the officers and soldiers are going to suppress the Liu thieves and tell them to go home in peace. The cattle are theirs. Don't give them back to the Liu thieves! It's a daydream to turn Wangjiazhuang into a local protector!"
When Wang Chengen said these words, the few servants who had been depressed immediately cheered up. Their families were all divided up and given cattle.
Just now, it was inevitable to worry a little about gains and losses, but now everyone is full of life again.
At this moment, local soldiers from Hezhou on the front line hurriedly came to report that two groups of troops came out from Xining, followed sparsely by several groups of thieves, totaling about seven to eight thousand people.
They sent someone to name him, saying that the leader was Liu Chengyun, and asked Wang Chengen if he wanted to fight with him.
"Who is Liu Chengyun...?"
Wang Chengen didn't have the slightest impression of this name. He did know Wang Chengyun, a Gansu general, but it sounded very much like Liu Chengzong's clan. He immediately waved his hand and said: "Send the order to He Yongji and order him to retreat slowly and not to fight. Wait for me to mark the camp."