While at home, the civil servants who were sent abroad and the military attachés who were sent abroad to fill vacancies accepted Wu Shigong's summons in batches. Wu Shigong also said some high-sounding words to encourage these people as usual. In fact, this kind of official position was not a formal official position in the Ming Dynasty at all.
It was just an official position established within the Runing Army, but the officials still shed tears of gratitude, as if they had found a treasure.
Also, the people who can hold these official positions now are very few even scholars. They are basically children, and some are only literate. In the original official system of the Ming Dynasty, they had no possibility of holding any official positions, so for
They also attach great importance to this kind of official position that no one can afford, and they attach great importance to it. This official 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 academic qualifications of the officials are too low. Deng Qifan, as the only judge, stands out from the crowd. It is not that there are no other judges in the territory controlled by Wu Shigong, but that they all look down on Runing.
He was born in a wild camp in the army and did not want to serve in the Runing Army.
Even Zhang Xuebin wrote a letter to his clan, asking the clan to send more children to serve as staff in the Runing Army. The final result of this letter was to die. The strength of the Runing Army is still too small, and it is not attractive to these literati.
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And during the summons, a tidbit also came out. This time, among Gonzalez and other officers, a group of officers who were better at learning Mandarin were sent out to serve as actual military attaches leading troops. Of course, most of them were high-ranking military officers.
The position is low. For example: Gonzalez is treated as a regimental commander, but he is actually the deputy commander of an infantry regiment. Wu Shigong will not trust them to lead the army alone for the time being.
It should be said that the appointment of Gonzalez and others violated the official promotion system of the Runing Army. However, because Gonzales and the others did have something in their stomachs, and they were the instructors of the Liaodong Army under Sun Yuanhua, so
There was no objection to the appointment of these people.
However, regarding this appointment, Wu Shigong always had some thoughts about foreign monks who could chant sutras. And the people in the Runing army had no resistance to these Portuguese becoming their military attachés. This made Wu Shigong a little strange.
Only after understanding it did I understand that the people of the Ming Dynasty actually had a very unique view of ethnicity, which is difficult for modern people to understand. They all believed that although they were not from my own ethnic group, their thoughts must be different. But the ethnic groups here are not
It’s not about ethnicity in the strict sense. It’s about whether we believe in Confucianism as the dividing line. Those who believe in Confucianism are the civilized people of our heavenly country, and those who don’t believe in it are barbarians.
In addition, people in the Ming Dynasty also believed that all the people in the world are the king's land, and those on the shore of the land are the king's ministers. In other words, they believed that everyone in the world was Chinese. It was nothing more than the difference between civilized people and barbarians.
That's all. As for people like Gonzalez, they are just weird-looking Chinese. Since the Chinese are leading the troops, of course there is no resistance.
On the contrary, officers like Gonzalez felt that they were aliens. Therefore, in order to integrate into the Runing Army as soon as possible, they worked harder to train and followed the rules of the Runing Army meticulously. This also allowed them to
Runing Junzhong received good reviews.
However, when Wu Shigong met Gonzalez and the others, they did not expect Gonzalez to make a sincere request to Wu Shigong. It turned out that Gonzales and the others knew that the Foundation would formulate benefits for them as officers. I hope
Wu Shigong personally signed written contracts with all 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 quite straightforward! Wu Shigong had no intention of breaking his promise. Besides, he also understood that foreigners pay more attention to the spirit of contract, so he readily agreed.
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But from then on, the Runing Army also developed such a rule. When issuing orders and purchasing the materials needed by the Runing Army, they no longer just said it verbally, but also signed contracts with detailed terms. And this habit
Later, it gradually spread to the people, which also promoted the development of Runing's military commerce and industry.
During this period of time, Wu Shigong also read a large number of newspapers and various local intelligence collected by the Shanchuan Department. Wu Shigong had been on the expedition to Denglai for more than a year, and the news was quite limited. So he took advantage of this opportunity.
In your free time, you should make up for this lesson.
However, what is surprising is that Wu Shigong's newly appointed official to extract and summarize intelligence, Zheng Ling, has an amazing performance.
After Zheng Ling became familiar with the work, he used his free time to look through a large amount of previous information and provided Wu Shigong with two analysis reports he had written.
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 troops did not become depressed.
However, Hong Chengchou stepped up the campaign and succeeded repeatedly. In September of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Shen Yikui occupied Ningsai County. Civil strife broke out soon after, and Shen Yikui was killed by his general Huang Youcai and others. In November, Tan Xiong's rebel army invaded twice
In Ansai County, Hong Chengchou sent Deputy Commander-in-Chief Cao Wenzhao to besiege Huang Youcai's troops in Ningsai, and he took Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Bei and Commander-in-Chief Wang Chengen to attack Ansai.
At this time, a city, a cloud, Xue Hongqi and others led a rebel army of more than 3,000 people, starting from Yuhechuan (in Yulin County), and suddenly arrived at the foot of Anding City. The poor people in the city responded internally, and the rebel army conquered Anding. Ming Dynasty
After the commander-in-chief Wang Chengen (not the eunuch beside Chongzhen, he just had the same name) arrived in Ansai, he trapped and killed Tan Xiong and five others. Then he moved his troops to attack Anding, and the rebel army was forced to withdraw.
At the same time, the Huntian Monkey Tribe captured Ganquan County, seized 18,000 taels of salary, and executed the county magistrate Guo Yongtu. Zhang Yunden of the Hexi Bingbei Road was also killed. Then, the rebel army captured Jiazhou, and Guo Jingsong of the Bingbei Road was killed.
Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, hurriedly called on Cao Wenzhao, and Zhang Quanchang's troops joined forces to suppress it. In the first month of the fifth year, Huntianhou sent his troops to pretend to be rice merchants and entered Yijun County. They seized the county seat at night and cooperated with foreign forces to seize the county seat. Then they occupied the security guards and Heshui Er.
county.
At this time, Hao Lin'an, Liu Liu (Liu Daojiang), Ke Tianfei and other troops who were originally subordinate to Shen Yikui also rebelled again in the Huanxian area of Qingyang, Gansu, attacking from all sides, and they 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 troops besieged Huanxian County. Zhao Yinglan, the county seal official of the Ming Dynasty, was panicked and hanged himself to death. Hong Chengchou transferred Gansu's commander-in-chief Yang Jiamo, and Ningxia's commander-in-chief He Huchen came.
To rescue Huang Youcai, he was killed by gunfire from the army, but Tianfei and Hao Lin'an led their troops to retreat to the high mountains and deep gorges of Dongchuan and Xichuan in the north of Huanxian County, Gansu Province.
In February of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Ke Tianfei and Hao Lin'an besieged Qingyang Fucheng again. Hong Chengchou sent Lintao general Cao Wenzhao to lead troops to rescue. On March 13, Cao Wenzhao and Gansu general Yang Jiamo fought against the peasant rebel army in
In Xihao, the rebel army was defeated and more than a thousand people died.
In April, Zhang Cunmeng, who was not a stickler, set up 17 outposts and 64 villages in Xichuan, and led troops to attack Mizhi and Jiazhou. Zhang Fuzhen, the governor of Yansui in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Chengen, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Province, and others led the horses and 3,000 infantrymen to join Hong Chengchou and march towards the uprising.
The army launched a fierce attack. Bu Zhanni was defeated, and he and Liu Minyue were captured and killed in Suide. In July, Hun Tianhou was also killed by the Ming Army's Ma Ke Department in Yanshui Pass.
Relying on their superior strength, the official army repeatedly defeated the rebels who stayed in Shaanxi. Governor Hong Chengchou, Shaanxi governor Lian State Affairs, patrol censor Jinlan and others seized the opportunity to deploy and attack the rebel base in Tiejiao City (today's Huanxian County, Gansu Province).
North) to carry out encirclement and suppression. Tiejiao City has high mountains and deep ravines, and the situation is dangerous. It has always been a place where government rule is weak.
Hao Lin'an, Ke Tianfei and other ministers had been dividing land for farming and grazing here for a long time, and were well prepared for a protracted war. In August of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou mobilized a large army to suppress the army, and at the same time sent spies to various bandit camps "under the pretext of appeasement"
, was given a secret plan, given a heavy reward, sneaked around, and ordered to kill thieves with thieves."
The peasant rebel army was unstoppable, and some wavering elements surrendered one after another. Among them, Bai Guangen, who led his troops to surrender, immediately acted as the executioner of the Ming government to suppress the peasant uprising. He led the army directly to the rebel leader Ke Tianfei (He Chongwei)
In the camp of Hejia Laozhai, Ke Tianfei was killed in battle.
Bai Guangen used the blood of the peasant rebel army in exchange for his promotion, and later he was promoted to the general soldier. In October, the new governor of Yansui Chen Qiyu sent the general soldier Wang Chengen to annihilate a city. Xue Hongqi's rebel army. A city was destroyed
He was killed by the traitor Qiao Liulang, and Xue Hongqi and Yiziwang (Tuo Xianling) were also killed by Dai Junen, who was preparing the road for the Mingjing border troops in Gudu Temple. In November, Cao Wenzhao and other officers and soldiers pursued Hao Lin'an, and the lone wolf
Based in Zhuizi Mountain in Yaozhou, Shaanxi Province, the peasant rebel army was defeated and retreated to Fenghuang Mountain.
The supervisor, Dao Fan, saw that the mountain was dangerous and difficult to attack, so he sent spies into the rebel army, luring the unstable elements to kill Hao Lin'an, and then surrendered to the official army with their heads.
However, because the peasant rebel army surrendered and rebelled repeatedly, Governor Hong Chengchou thought that the situation was settled, so he broke his promise and pulled out 400 backbones of the rebel army from the surrendered people and killed and captured them to avoid future troubles.
At this point, the various peasant rebel armies that persisted in fighting in Shaanxi were basically suppressed by the Ming Dynasty government. According to the report of the Ming Dynasty censor Fan Fucui in the sixth year of Chongzhen, 36,000 Shaanxi rebels were killed in the battle.
More than 600 people. As for the ordinary people who were killed and ravaged by the officers and soldiers, there were even countless more.
However, these were clearly recorded in the Di newspaper, but Zheng Ling carefully analyzed and made two bold speculations: one is that Hong Chengchou's military ability is outstanding.
Regarding this point, Wu Shigong also felt very sad. Who was Hong Chengchou? Wu Shigong did not know before. But since Hong Chengchou could drive the Shaanxi peasant rebel army out of their hometown and basically completely pacify Shaanxi, then his ability must be
It is quite outstanding. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
