"Brother Yongqing... In this troubled world, there is still a day when you and I can meet again."
After Xu Du issued the call in Peixian County, there was a turmoil in Xuhuai territory. Not only green forest heroes, but also slaves and poor peasants gathered in Peixian County to support the Dashun Army.
In addition, many Ming Dynasty gentry, bureaucrats and literati with high status in the areas controlled by the Dashun Army also went to Pei County and invested in Xu Du's account.
Among these people, Yan Ermei is especially an exemplary figure.
Yan Ermei, also known as Yongqing, was a native of Peixian County and a Jinshi in the third year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. More importantly, Yan Ermei was also a giant of Fushe, a famous poet and writer, and a Fang who was born in the same family as Fushe.
Yi Zhi, Chen Zilong, Xu Du and others were originally very close old friends.
Yan Ermei, like Fang Yizhi, Chen Zilong, and Xu Du, had all served as aides under Shi Kefa. However, Fang Yizhi, Chen Zilong, and Xu all returned to the Dashun Army in Xuzhou, while Yan Ermei was recruited by Gao Qian under Shi Kefa.
After being coerced to Jiangbei, he joined Shi Kefa's staff, thus missing the opportunity to surrender.
Of course, according to Yan Ermei's own position, it is very likely that he will not simply defect to Li Laiheng like Fang Yizhi and the other three did.
Yan Ermei regards the ethics of the country as the basis for establishing a person. In later history, instead of providing advice to the Qing court, he once again dug water from the Yellow River to attack Hou Fangyu, an anti-Qing armed Yuyuan Army in Shandong. Yan Ermei was just the opposite. In the fourth year of Shunzhi,
At that time, Yan Ermei had already disguised himself as a monk and joined the Yuyuan Army, actively organizing anti-Qing activities. Although he failed repeatedly, his perseverance alone was not comparable to that of scum like Hou Fangyu.
The relationship between Fushe and the Donglin Party is very deep. There are indeed many people in the Donglin Party who do not live up to their names. Fushe always failed to play a good role in the short history of Nanming because rhetoric was greater than reality.
But compared with the number of traitors who betrayed the nation, there were indeed scum like Hou Fangyu in Fushe, but there were also admirable righteous men like Xia Yunyi and Yan Ermei.
Qian Qianyi can be said to be the leader of the poetry world during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and a great scholar. However, he seemed to be a complete failure in front of ordinary poets and poets like Yan Ermei.
In the first year of Kangxi, Yan Ermei met Qian Muzhai who had been living in seclusion in his hometown for a long time. Although Qian Muzhai had red sleeves to add fragrance and a peerless beauty inspired his poetry, Yan Ermei missed it on the big day and was very sad to mention it in his spare time.
Under the accusation, Qian Muzhai was only embarrassed: "I have been good at cursing people in ancient times, but I have no praise in the world." It was precisely because of the magnanimity in Yan Ermei's heart that he dared to speak directly about the great poet at that time.
Yan Ermei's words, "I will die as a fierce ghost, but live as a recalcitrant citizen", whether it is for the Dashun Army or for the Ming Army and Ming ministers who are willing to resist the Qing Dynasty, it is a sentence that can and should be engraved in the soul and heart.
Words in the bone marrow.
In a reactionary empire that regarded the Han people as slaves, compliance was betrayal and loyalty was betrayal. Those who died had to die to shake the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and those who lived must at least be "recalcitrant", even if they did not resist.
The power of the country must also be stubborn and not contribute to the rule of the reactionary empire.
After Shi Kefa was kidnapped by Gao Qian and sent to Jiangbei, he became a political prisoner of the warlords. His life in the Hongguang court was also very difficult. Almost all of the political reputation he had accumulated over the years was ruined in Gao Qian's hands.
Shi Kefa's life was so difficult, so it was natural that Yan Ermei, who was Shi Kefa's staff, had such a difficult time.
The Hongguang court was mud that could not be plastered over the wall, but Yan Ermei prided herself on loyalty and did not deviate from the smoky Jiangnan court because of this.
What dealt Yan Ermei a fatal blow was the Northern Expedition promoted by the warlords of the three towns in Jiangbei.
Originally, Yan Ermei himself was the one who initiated the Northern Expedition to the south of the Yangtze River. He once advised Shi Kefa to use the Zhejiang brave organized by Huang Mingjun and Zhu Dadian to "cross the river and restore Shandong". He also advised the monarchs and ministers of the south of the Yangtze River to build up their troops as a basis for negotiations with the Dashun Army. He also once hoped that
Emperor Hongguang sent an important minister to lead an envoy to organize peace talks with Xuzhou or Kaifeng and Shunjun.
But these things were completely put aside by Hongguang Junchen.
On the contrary, under the instigation of Gang Lin, a great scholar of the Qing Dynasty, Hongguang's monarchs and ministers had completely tilted their strategy to the side of "uniting the captives and suppressing the invaders".
This is the biggest blow to Yan Ermei, whose hometown is in Peixian County.
Because according to the style that the Qing army has always shown, if the Nanming army really joins forces with the Qing army to attack the Dashun army, once the Shun army loses on the Xuzhou battlefield, then Yan Ermei's hometown Peixian will inevitably suffer an unprecedented disaster.
When the Hongguang monarch and his ministers were in chaos, neither Shi Kefa nor Qian Qianyi, who Yan Ermei thought could lead the Jiangnan scholars, could make a strong objection.
Although Li Jiantai, Su Guansheng and other ministers from the north were willing to oppose the plan of the three towns in Jiangbei to attack the compliant army from behind, they lacked sufficient strength, and the result was that they were powerless.
Huang Mingjun and Zhu Dadian also controlled a certain amount of troops, and the Fujian Zheng family was even more powerful. However, except for Zheng Sen who once spoke out against it, none of these people raised any sharp objections.
Seeing that the Nanming army cooperated with the Qing army's plan to attack Xuzhou, it was imminent. For Yan Ermei's hometown Peixian, a massacre seemed to be inevitable.
He was finally completely disappointed with the Nanming court. At this time, Xu Du met with the elders and squires from various counties in Xuzhou in Peixian County to "propaganda" the policies of the Dashun Army, and soon spread this propaganda to the Nanming Army.
within the control area.
At that time, Yan Ermei had already left Nanjing because she was completely disappointed with the government, and was preparing to return to her hometown in Peixian County to live in seclusion. Even if she died, she would die with her father and fellow villagers.
When he arrived near Xuzhou, he suddenly heard the name of Shandong's envoy Xu Du - this name was not unfamiliar to Yan Ermei.
When Yan Ermei was 21 years old, she traveled to the south of the Yangtze River to study and made friends with many Fushe literati. In the process, she naturally got to know Fang Yizhi, Chen Zilong, Xu Du and others.
In particular, Xu Du's reputation was great in the southeast. Yan Ermei had always admired Xu Du's heroic deeds. He heard near Xuzhou that Xu Du was actually the Shandong recruiter of the Dashun Army. His spiritual world was undoubtedly greatly affected.
impact.
What happened in the meantime?
With such doubts, Yan Ermei carefully understood the Dashun military policies that Xu Du sent soldiers to promote. He finally suddenly discovered that perhaps the demise of the Ming Dynasty had come to an end, and a new dynasty was slowly rising in the Central Plains, and this
The new dynasty will also inevitably assume the task of defending China and expelling the Tartars.
"Xu Sheng, who would have thought that you would become a Liu...become an envoy from Shandong to the Dashun Army? Who would believe the Zhejiang villagers who told this to you?"
Yan Ermei quickly rushed back to his hometown in Peixian County, just in time for the Qing army to storm Feiyun Bridge. However, Xu Du and Yan Ermei were old friends for many years, and Xu Zhaoping immediately put down all the work of organizing civilians.
He came first to meet Yan Ermei.
"Brother Qing entered the court in white clothes, but he was unable to succeed in the Jiangnan court. The corruption and incompetence of Hongguang's monarchs and ministers can also be seen from this." Xu Du said bluntly, "Now Rui Chief Dorgon has raised hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Xuzhou, and Dashun
The life and death of the dynasty depends on this city. Brother Yongqing, Prince Jin of Dashun is a born god and often employs people in the grass and fields. I will not persuade you to surrender to Dashun immediately, but I hope you will take a closer look.
Think more and understand what the Dashun Army looks like now."