Chapter eight hundred and ninety-eight scholars must have a righteousness
After Chen Lifu received the appointment from his superiors to inspect the North Anhui Province, he didn't have many thoughts. He just felt that he might break his legs again in the next few months. The North Anhui Province was a big place, and it was not that easy to rectify the taxation.
Easy thing.
It was Li Xuan's talent that impressed him a lot. He guessed that when he was rectifying the internal tax system, he rectified the tax system that was full of scum, which greatly improved the atmosphere of the tax system and made His Majesty
I said this because I felt satisfied.
This also made him feel that His Majesty also hated the atmosphere within the tax system as much as he did. He supported him in reforming the tax system, and immediately made him give birth to a scholar who would die for his confidant. He also felt that His Majesty was also a benevolent monarch, who was by His Majesty's side.
There is a group of ministers who obstructed the Holy Lord and deceived the Holy King, which is why the current state of chaos and tyranny is happening!
He must work harder so that he can rise to a higher position, and then truly get in touch with His Majesty, and make suggestions for His Majesty, help the Holy Lord revolutionize the Tang Dynasty, end many chaos and tyranny, and restore a bright future to the people of the world!
Well, Chen Lifu will never know. The reason why Li Xuan said this is that he just thinks that Chen Lifu is very good at collecting taxes. He made more than 40 million taels of silver in one go. If this is not talent, what is talent?
Although Chen Lifu has not yet been upgraded, his responsibilities are becoming more and more important. He controls two tax inspections and tax inspections. His actual power can be said to be quite large. What's more important is that now anyone with a little bit of officialdom awareness can
It can be seen that Chen Lifu will be promoted again and again in the future. Maybe in a few years, he may become an important minister of the imperial court.
As a result, many people who hated Chen Lifu in the past quietly changed their attitudes. The teacher who announced the severance of teacher-student relations in front of him now stopped criticizing him in front of outsiders. Outsiders asked by chance, who was Chen Lifu?
Even when he was not his student, he no longer denied it!
Of course, as a scholar, he still has some backbone. Even if his student is about to become famous now, he is too lazy to join in. At most, he will no longer deny that Chen Lifu is his student!
As a scholar, you must have such integrity!
As for the many relatives and friends who used to criticize Chen Lifu, they have now changed their attitudes!
Last year, when Chen Lifu turned into a thief, no... bah bah!
Last year, when Mr. Chen was caring about the common people and the court was eager for talents and decided to become an official, most of them maintained a contemptuous attitude, especially when they learned that Chen Lifu had become a tax inspector.
Even more so.
Chen Lifu fought from Chizhou to Dezhou, Ningguo Mansion, then to Songjiang Mansion, and now to Jiangbei. He killed many people along the way, or to be more precise, he killed many gentry along the way.
Therefore, the Jiangnan gentry, including Chen Lifu's relatives and friends, were all ashamed of Chen Lifu. Many people thought that when the Ming army returned to Jiangnan, they would cut Chen Lifu into pieces!
However, this is what I thought in the past. When the Tang Dynasty King's Division defeated the Puppet Ming's last main force in the north outside Anping Town, Shandong, everyone knew that the Puppet Ming was already helpless. In this world
, has completely fallen into the hands of Datang.
As a result, almost overnight, many gentry in the areas ruled by the Tang Dynasty, especially in the southern Zhili area, had consciously erased terms such as Puppet Tang, Li Thief, and Thief Army.
Then if you open your mouth, you will be the court, if you shut up, you will be the king. This is not a public occasion, but a private occasion.
It is impossible for someone to openly say this in a public place. If you are not careful, the patrol police will come to your door and take you away for investigation. It may be a charge of insulting the Holy Lord. This charge can be big or small. If it is small, it will be dealt with.
If the fine is serious, beheading or confiscation of the home is not a problem.
Living under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, he dared to scold Li Xuan, the eternal sage. He was like a longevity minister who had hanged himself. He was so impatient!
There was a lot of discussion among outsiders about Chen Lifu being reused in the Emperor's heart, especially among relatives and friends. Not long ago, a classmate and friend who had terminated their children's engagement with Chen Lifu shamelessly wrote another handwritten letter stating his previous intention to break off the engagement.
I have been too reckless. I have been restless in recent months, and now I am brazenly renewing my engagement.
After reading it, Chen Lifu shook his head and sighed. He didn't hate his teacher, his classmates and other relatives and friends. On the contrary, he understood their thoughts, even if his teacher spit in his face three times.
He had never been angry at that time. On the contrary, he was still full of guilt at that time and hoped that they could understand him one day.
But now, for the first time, he felt bored!
How could they do this?
How could they do this?
They can't do this!
They are scholars who read the books of sages and clarify things. They have to care about the common people and the dawn. Chen Lifu endures the humiliation in order to help the world and end the many chaos and tyranny of the court. But now, these teachers, classmates, relatives and friends are just
When he saw that he had the opportunity to become an important minister of the imperial court, he simply gave up his belief and turned to shamelessly pleasing himself.
They have changed so much that Chen Lifu no longer recognizes them!
Could it be that among the many teachers, students, relatives and friends, no one saw how much he endured the humiliation?
Could it be that they just saw the high-ranking officials and their wealth and wealth?
Chen Lifu can no longer understand such a person, and even cannot bear it. As the saying goes, people who have different paths cannot work together!
Sighing deeply, Chen Lifu read the letter from his classmate again, and then wrote back, saying that his eldest son had already entered into a marriage contract with the daughter of a colleague in the tax department. There was no need to mention the renewal of the marriage contract!
After writing the letter, Chen Lifu stood up, then looked out the window at the drizzle beating on Basho, and sighed softly: "Being an official is difficult, but being a human being is even harder!"
Li Xuan's words brought huge changes to Chen Lifu's life, but Li Xuan himself didn't know it, and if he knew it, he wouldn't care!
Now he has started to continue north along the canal!
News came from the Third Army some time ago. The Third Army has conquered Tianjin Guards and its forwards have arrived at Youzhou City. Hao Bainian is not in a hurry to attack the city, but first sends troops to continue westward to seize Shanhaiguan Pass.
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But regardless of the specific strategic deployment of the Third Army, Youzhou City should be able to be captured in a short time, so Li Xuan once again led the Guards to set off northward, preparing to go to Tianjin Guards along the canal, and then go to
Youzhou City.
At the same time, in Youzhou City, Emperor Shaowu and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were still in chaos. The soldiers of the Third Army had actually appeared outside Youzhou City a long time ago, but only a few
They were just a few reconnaissance cavalry, and the real infantry arrived in Youzhou City only two days ago!
There were not many troops coming, there was only one infantry regiment and one cavalry regiment, and the infantry regiment inside was not full, with only more than 2,000 people.
Because this was only a forward force and did not carry heavy weapons such as field artillery, the under-strength forward infantry regiment plus a cavalry regiment of 500 cavalry arrived outside Youzhou City and only monitored the main entrance and exit channels of Youzhou City, especially
There are two directions of escape: west and north.
As for siege, that is not their mission!
Their mission is to prevent the Ming army from other places from coming to rescue Youzhou, and to intercept the Ming army in the city, especially Emperor Shaowu, from escaping!
After the west and north are blocked, in other directions, the south is the main force of the Third Army. The Ming army is seeking death by fleeing south. As for the east, the Third Army has also sent troops eastward to prepare to seize Shanhaiguan. Let’s not talk about it for now.
Whether it is possible to seize Shanhaiguan, but it will definitely be able to block the eastward escape route of the Ming army in Youzhou City, Emperor Shaowu and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
Today's Youzhou City is actually surrounded by strategies on all sides. Their city gates can still be opened and they can leave the city, but every direction after leaving the city is basically blocked by strategies, and they cannot escape at all!
What's more, the Ming army, Emperor Shaowu and others in the city didn't have the guts to run out of the city!
If you stay in Youzhou City and have the city wall to rely on, you can barely hold on for a while, but if you run out of the city, it is basically a dead end. Everyone knows that the frontal field combat capabilities of the puppet Tang rebel army are too strong.
Moreover, I heard that many of the frontier cavalry who went south to Shandong chose to surrender after the Battle of Anping, which greatly increased the strength of the cavalry in the puppet Tang rebel army. In this way, the Tang army would have an even greater advantage when fighting in the wild.
The Ming army cavalry who surrendered were the former frontier army cavalry and some of the Xinjing camp cavalry. Zhengde originally gathered about 10,000 cavalry in Shandong, and sent 7,000 cavalry south to harass and fight, leaving 3,000 cavalry in Anping Town.
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In the Battle of Anping, the three thousand cavalry left behind suffered heavy losses, and the remaining two thousand cavalry finally escaped from the battlefield. Moreover, I heard that the cavalry general was a member of King Hui, and he took these two thousand cavalry through Youzhou without entering.
He left Shanhaiguan directly and went to Liaodong to join King Hui.
The seven thousand cavalry who went south to attack the Tang Army's logistics line suffered basically no losses. However, after the failure of the Anping Battle, they also broke through, but were later persuaded to surrender.
Li Xuan behaved very generously towards this cavalry!
Compared with other surrendered Ming troops, conditions were given that were much more favorable, in order to make them surrender and use them for their own purposes, so as to prevent them from going to Liaodong or other places like the more than 2,000 Ming army cavalry in front.
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The senior cavalry generals of the Ming Army who surrendered were awarded the military ranks of Army Major General, Army Colonel, etc., and they were promised to continue to lead troops, instead of having empty military ranks and no actual duties like many Ming Army surrendered generals.
However, while these Ming Army cavalry generals continued to lead troops, the Tang Army would also send a large number of officers to serve as their deputies and staff officers.
Middle and lower-level officers will still be awarded corresponding military ranks, but they will receive professional training according to the situation to learn the various tactics of the Tang Dynasty cavalry.
Not to mention the ordinary cavalry, they were all retained and then trained as cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Xuan even repaid them three months of military pay at once. There was no way, Emperor Zhengde was too stingy, and the military pay of these cavalrymen had been in arrears for several months.
In order to recruit this cavalry unit, Li Xuan spent a lot of effort. To be honest, he had never been so generous in treating the Ming army's surrender!