Shipu, where he guards, is located at the southern end of the Xiangshan Peninsula in Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. It spans Sanmen Bay to the west and Damoyang to the east. It is known as an important town on Zheyang Middle Road.
"The general has summoned his slaves to come and sing an opera. I don't know which one to order?"
A young woman came in, but she was an actor whom Zhang Mingzhen rescued when he was wandering around the capital. Later, she promised to follow him as his concubine.
"Sing the flag of loyalty!"
"What would you like to hear, General?"
Zhang Mingzhen poured himself another glass of wine, "Twenty-fifth discount, Yuehou will die in prison!"
The concubine then played the pipa and began to sing.
"In the end, I am not free. I hate the traitor who is so cruel. I am sorry for my loyalty. I have to give up everything. By the way, I am in prison. Just now, I was ordered by Chang Guan to say that there is a secret edict in the handwriting of Prime Minister Qin, and I want to sue Mr. Yue.
I am so angry that I will report back at the third watch tonight. Alas, Mr. Yue is a loyal minister, how can he teach me to do such an unreasonable thing? But the matter has come to this, and there is nothing we can do."
The concubine was raised in a theater troupe in Beijing, but she was an authentic girl from the Jiangnan water town, with a soft appearance and a beautiful voice. After following him these years, she usually only read scripts, sang and played the piano, and her skills have improved further.
Zhang Mingzhen listened while drinking.
"Jingzhong Banner" is Zhang Mingzhen's favorite play. It is a script compiled and revised by Feng Menglong, the former magistrate of Shouning County, Fujian Province, based on the manuscript drafted by his predecessors.
It tells a tragedy. The national hero Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty was murdered by the traitor Qin Hui. After Yue Fei's death, Yue Ke was loyal and patriotic, and determined to avenge his ancestor's case. Later, he obtained evidence to overturn Yue Fei's case. However, in order to save the face of the late emperor, he finally
The evidence was destroyed with blood. This moved the emperor and decreed to restore the reputation of the Yue family. Yue Ke followed his ancestor's wishes and showed his filial piety, leaving his name in history.
During the Ming Dynasty, dramas with Yue Fei as the theme were extremely popular. Especially during the Wanli period, Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict saying that Yue Fei was loyal to the sun and filial to heaven. He was specially canonized as the Great Jingmo Emperor of the Three Realms and promoted him to the altar.
Zhang Mingzhen tapped the table gently in time and sighed, "The treacherous minister favors Mr. Thief, and the weak master forgets his family and the country is divided!"
When the Ming Dynasty was in danger, Zhang Mingzhen felt extremely depressed.
Zhang Mingzhen likes Yue Fei's plays very much. In addition to Jingzhongqi, such as Dongchuang Incident in the Yuan Dynasty, there are also Yuefei's three arrows to scare the gold camp, Yuefei's big break in the Taihang Mountains, Yuefei's story of Mu Jingzhong, Yuefei's story of the Dongchuang incident, Yuefei's three arrows to scare the gold camp.
Zhang Mingzhen has read almost all of these dramas such as Assassination, The Legend of Jing Zhong, The Gold Medal Story, Saving Jing Zhong, The Confession of Guan Yue, The Gift of the Yuhuan, Roar of the Dragon and Tiger, The Collection of the Corpse by Madam Yue, etc. Zhang Mingzhen has read almost all of them and has collected the scripts.
After singing the Jingzhong Flag, Zhang Mingzhen became even more drunk.
Watching the sword while drunk!
"Why is the general so depressed because of the invasion from the north to the south?" the concubine asked.
Lao Zhang danced drunkenly with his long sword, and slashed open the screen with his sword in anger.
"What I'm angry about is not the invasion from the north or the invasion of the Tatars. We, the warriors, raise their swords and fight. Why should we return to the battlefield wrapped in horse leather when our men die on the border? The battlefield is the fate of our soldiers. We can only hate that our country is in danger.
, but none of the kings could take responsibility. Chongzhen hanged himself on Meishan Mountain and died without caring about the lives of the people. Hongguang even abandoned the army and people of Nanjing and fled. The Lu Jianguo in Hangzhou became even more cowardly. Not only did he surrender to the enemy within five days of taking the throne, he even
Reward the enemy who attacked the city with wine and meat at the top of the city!"
"Even though I want to be loyal to you, my passion has nowhere to go! Why not be sad and angry?"
"Just like Yue Wumu served his country loyally, but what he got in exchange was a series of gold medal edicts from Zhao Gou and Qin Hui, and then he died unjustly in Fengbo Pavilion!"
My concubine has followed Zhang Mingzhen for many years and has great admiration for this man. He is her hero and has never changed at all over the years.
I think back then, when she was famous as an opera singer in Beijing, Zhang Mingzhen was just a young man entering the capital for the first time.
Zhang Mingzhen was originally from Shanxi. His ancestors were registered as Jinyiwei in Nanjing and lived in Jiangning County, Yingtian Prefecture, so he grew up in Jiangning. He practiced martial arts since he was a child, and was good at riding, shooting, and stabbing. He had a bold personality and wanted to be a hero when he was young.
Later, he traveled around the world and settled in Baoguo Temple in the north of Guangningmen Street. It was there that they met.
At that time, Wei Zhongxian was in power, and the eunuchs were popular in the practice of riding and shooting. Eunuchs often set up gambling games with arrow targets in the capital camp, and were fined one hundred for every missed arrow. The children of the capital all went to the gambling games, and often returned with all their money.
The monks of Baoguo Temple knew that Zhang Mingzhen was good at shooting, so they raised 5,000 yuan to encourage him to go to the gym.
Zhang Mingzhen was young and energetic, and his archery skills were even more impressive. He won thousands of dollars, and after giving generous gifts to the monks, he used the money he won to make friends and do business, and became extremely rich.
Later, he met an old scholar named Ma from Wanping County in the business field. He was good at facial expressions and said that he was dignified and dignified.
After establishing a career in the capital and starting a family, Zhang Mingzhen spent money like water and made friends with the government and the public. In the sixth year of Tianqi, he abandoned business and joined the army, and was awarded the title of Capital Camp Fire Attack Division.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, Kong Youde rebelled in Denglai, and the imperial court was unable to attack it for a long time. Zhang Mingzhen was a partial general at the time, and he used the method of bombing the city through holes. He succeeded with one blow and achieved great success.
After the victory, he was supposed to be promoted to an official position, but because he was a drunk hero saving a beauty, he accidentally killed an eunuch. In the end, he spent all his connections and a lot of money to save his life, and was eventually demoted from the capital.
By the end of Chongzhen's reign, Zhang Mingzhen was promoted to Shipu guerrilla general, responsible for training the navy and supervising the construction of warships.
Zhang Mingzhen had just built a batch of warships and trained a battalion of 3,000 sailors. As a result, the Qing army had massacred Yangzhou, crossed the Yangtze River, and destroyed the Hongguang court.
King Lu supervised the country in Hangzhou. Zhang Mingzhen immediately prepared to lead the navy to escort the newly built ships to King Qin in Hangzhou. Unexpectedly, before they set off, news of King Lu's surrender came again.
For a chivalrous guerrilla general, all this made him depressed.
Zhang Mingzhen was not a person who didn't know how to adapt. He was able to get along well in the capital at that time, and he had a good relationship with the eunuchs. He also had many contacts with the family of the princes and nobles of the capital, and even had good relations with merchants and scholars. He was full of friends in the capital.
But he is also a person with bottom-line principles, otherwise he would not have beaten the arrogant eunuch to death in anger over an actor he had liked for many years.
Zhang Mingzhen, the Shipu guerrilla, was a powerful official in Nanjing's Hongguang Dynasty and spent a lot of money to get his official position. However, he did not fancy the official position of this guerrilla general, but wanted to help him when the building was about to collapse.
The Ming Dynasty did something for the people of the world.
He hoped to be able to take charge of a battalion, train a new army with his own hands, build a fleet, and fulfill the responsibilities of a warrior.
But now that the new army has begun to take shape, the Ming Dynasty is about to disappear.
For Zhang Mingzhen, who is full of ambitions, nothing could be more depressing than this.
"I heard that General Wang has surrendered, what are the general's plans?" The concubine looked at this man with great distress, "No matter what the general plans, I will follow him."
Zhang Mingzhen sighed, "The villain enters hell, and the gentleman ascends to heaven. Recently, it has been topsy-turvy, and heaven and earth are unclear."
"The Tatars have sent envoys several times to persuade them to surrender, and the pressure is getting tighter. I want to lead my troops to fight against the Tatars, but I don't know who to give orders to!"
"Since the general doesn't want to surrender, then he won't surrender." The concubine hugged Zhang Mingzhen.
Zhang Mingzhen's eyes were red and he tore his robe to reveal his muscular body.
"Jing Niang, please get a needle and tattoo four words on my back."
"What words should be tattooed?"
"Serve the country with all your heart!"
Zhang Mingzhen's favorite character in his life is Grandpa Yue. He misses his good ministers in times of national calamity. He wants to imitate Yue Fei and have blood tattooed on his back to strengthen his determination to resist the Qing Dynasty.
My concubine, Jingniang, went to get the needle.
"bring it on!"
Zhang Mingzhen poured himself another glass of wine, and sat there as his concubine stabbed the four characters "Serve the Country with Heart with Heart" on his back one by one. Blood flowed down his back, but he didn't say a word.
After tattooing the four characters, Zhang Mingzhen looked in the mirror and was very satisfied.
"Tattoo four words on the soles of my feet."
"Stab what?"
"Reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
The left foot rebels against the Qing Dynasty, the right foot regains sight, and on the back, I serve the country with my heart, vowing to revive the great cause and drive out the Tartars!
The characters are all tattooed.
Zhang Mingzhen summoned the servant with a bit of drunkenness and a glowing face.
"Please invite the Northern Envoy to meet us in the camp. Also, summon all the brothers in the camp. I have something important to announce!"
In Shipu guerrilla camp.
Zhang Mingzhen hung up his sword and entered the camp. He recruited and trained the three thousand soldiers and horses of the camp, and after hearing the news, they all formed a team and were on standby.
The envoy of Bolo, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army in Hangzhou, was invited into the camp and was very proud of himself all the way.
"General Zhang is finally willing to see me as the pacifier, but has he already decided that he is willing to surrender?"
"Please envoy come forward!" Zhang Mingzhen said.
The Northern Ambassador laughed knowingly, "If I had known this, why would I have hesitated for a long time? But it is not too late to surrender now. Only those who understand the current affairs are heroes. I know that General Zhang is a smart man!"
Zhang Mingzhen stood as tall as a pine tree. When the Northern Ambassador walked up to the stage with surprise, Zhang Mingzhen suddenly drew his sword.
The sword's light flashed past like snow.
A huge human head flew into the sky.
Zhang Mingzhen took off his clothes and exposed his back, showing the four newly tattooed Chinese characters "Serve the Country with a Heart".
"I, Zhang Mingzhen, second Yue Fei, serve the country with my heart, how can I surrender the captives?"
There was some commotion among the three thousand sergeants in the audience, but they soon became quiet again under the scoldings of Zhang Minzhen's trusted officers.
"Serve the country with all your heart, fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, drive out the Tartars, and revive the great cause!"
The soldiers followed and echoed, and the sound shook the sky.
Martial law was imposed in Shipu Town, the port was blocked, and the entire army was mobilized for combat.
As soon as Lao Zhu's boat entered Sanmen Bay, it was intercepted by a patrol boat from the Shipu guerrilla camp.
"Who is coming?"
Wu Kai personally drove the boat forward, "I am Haimen Wu Kai!"
"Why is General Wu Shen here?"
The leader of Wu Kai's family shouted unceremoniously, "What are you talking about, General Wu? Now my general is the chief military officer guarding Haimen, and he has been sealed as general Kaiyuan, and he has been appointed as the governor of the left."
A soldier on the patrol boat opposite shouted disdainfully, "Has General Wu surrendered to the Tartars and become the Tartars' chief military officer in Haimen?"
"Bah, what the hell are you doing? My general's rank of chief soldier and general's seal were conferred by His Highness Lu Jianguo of the Ming Dynasty. Who cares about the bullshit official positions of the Tatars?"
"Lu Jianguo?" The people on the patrol boat were stunned.
"Hurry up and inform your family Zhang Youyi that Lu Jianguo is coming in person and ask him to come and pick him up as soon as possible!"
The Shipu sailors on the patrol boat were all confused. They had only heard of Lu Jianguo, so why was there another Lu Jianguo?
