Chapter 9: The birds are gone, the good bow and the cunning rabbit are dead, and the lackey is cooke
In the seventh year of Tianqi's reign, Tianqi fell into the water and died.
He was the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty to fall into the water and die!
The first Yellow Emperor to fall into the water and die was Zhu Houzhao, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty!
Emperor Zhengde was an extremely healthy emperor on horseback. He once personally commanded the army and defeated the invasion of the little Mongol prince. Later, while he was still alive, the little prince never invaded the Ming Dynasty again.
But such an emperor fell into the water and died!
In addition to the unusual death of both of them, Emperor Taichang, the father of Emperor Tianqi, died less than a month after he ascended the throne. The cause of death was drug abuse.
The same emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing, was murdered and almost strangled to death by a maid in the palace, decades after he ascended the throne.
As for why the little palace maid had such courage and successfully came to Emperor Jiajing, almost strangling him to death, there is no need to delve into it.
Don't ask, it's just a coincidence!
Anyway, according to the civil servants, this must be your fault, Emperor Jiajing!
As for why the emperors of the Ming Dynasty always get into trouble, it must be because there is something wrong with the feng shui of your old Zhu family, which has nothing to do with civil servants, businessmen, or anyone else.
Anyone who dares to guess is just talking nonsense!
What is nonsense if there is no evidence?
In short, after Wang Dou thought he had traveled through time, Emperor Tianqi had fallen into the water, and his illness was so serious that even many imperial doctors could not cure him.
It was so serious that he died of the illness not long after. Before his death, he passed the throne to his younger brother, who later became Emperor Chongzhen.
When this news spread from the capital to Shunxiang Fort in Baoan Prefecture, Xuanfu Town, it was already the twelfth lunar month of winter.
At this moment, Wang Dou had already obtained his first pot of gold. A month ago, he successfully used the terrain, long bow, and long knife to ambush a group of Mongolian Tatars who came to attack the grass valley.
These Mongolian Tatars are not the Eight Banners soldiers of Hou Jin, nor are they armored elites. To put it bluntly, they are just robbers who can ride horses. They are just stronger herdsmen, nothing more.
There was no discipline or organization, and Wang Dou was not afraid of them at all. He even set up an ambush in advance, so he achieved the feat of killing a group of Mongolian herdsmen in three days with one man, one bow and one gun!
The so-called team was actually an exaggeration. There were eleven people in total. The eleven people were separated at first. Before they could gather together, Wang Dou killed two of them with his own modified flintlock.
Using traps and long bows, four of them were killed.
Five other people were also killed by him one by one.
From Wang Dou's point of view, his victory was nothing more than a calculation without any intention!
But in the eyes of the people nearby, Wang Dou at this moment is a great hero, a great hero who saved their lives and property at a critical moment!
When Wang Dou handed over the heads of the eleven Tatars, he became a hundred households. Even due to the characteristics of Xuanfu Town, his hundred households were actually small warlords who managed dozens of square kilometers.
Xuanfu Town is a frontier place, with Mongolia on the opposite side of the grassland, so there are few people here. The place where Wang Dou is located is theoretically a military household.
In an area of tens of square kilometers, there are more than 300 households and more than 2,000 military households, or former military households, as well as some worn-out weapons, old armors, seven or eight blacksmiths, a dozen carpenters, and
There are many unattractive tailor widows.
Riding a captured Mongolian pony, Wang Dou wore cotton clothes, carried a long bow on his back, and had his own specially made flintlock gun on his waist, patrolling his territory.
The territory is not large, only a few dozen square kilometers!
The population is not large, only more than 2,000, many of whom are widows, and there are very few mature men.
There was very little wealth, there were no mines underground, and the soldiers at Baihu Station received only 50% of their salary. This was because Wang Dou was a hero who killed the Tartars, otherwise it would only be 30%.
However, none of these difficulties were noticed by Wang Dou. Today was New Year's Eve, and Wang Dou still braved the wind and snow to check on the lives of the people in each household.
On this day, Wang Dou saw the simple people's hearts in the eyes of the people!
On this day, Wang Dou's first ambition appeared in his heart - I want to protect these simple people!
Great things in the world must be done in detail!
Difficult things in the world must be made easy!
Wang Dou also started from small things. Of course cheating is essential. He used advanced knowledge to improve the living standards of the people and ensured that the one hundred soldiers under his command had enough food and drink. He also worked hard to practice his skills.
necessary.
The opportunity came soon, in the autumn of the first year of Chongzhen.
This year Wang Dou killed more than 300 Mongolian Tatars. Although the gold content of these Tatars was not as high as that of the Eight Banners soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty, it was still considered a considerable military achievement in today's Ming Dynasty.
This time Wang Dou took the initiative to let out more than a hundred heads. He was so sensible that he was quickly promoted. This time he became a thousand households.
Under his rule, the area expanded from dozens of square kilometers to hundreds of square kilometers, and the number of people also increased to more than 30,000. The entire Xuanfu Mansion knew that there was a Tatar-killing hero in Shunxiang Fort, and the entire northern frontier army all
Wang Dou's name began to spread.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, Wang Dou took the initiative to leave the fortress and went to the grassland to harvest grass and valleys!
As early as last year, Xuanfu Town had become a forbidden land in the eyes of grassland herdsmen, so Wang Dou had very little harvest last year and he was very dissatisfied, although other officials were already very satisfied.
This year, Wang Dou fought on the grassland and defeated six medium-sized tribes in three battles. When he returned, he had 200,000 cattle and sheep alone.
This year, he personally brought a thousand Mongolian ponies and 3,000 Tatars as prisoners to Beijing!
This year, Chongzhen ignored the etiquette and personally summoned him on the platform. The two met so late that they met for three days and three nights. Then Chongzhen promised the princess to be his wife, calling him Qi Shaobao of the Ming Dynasty.
This year, Wang Dou, who was twenty-two years old, became the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty!
The chief military officer, also known as the chief soldier, is theoretically the highest level of military commanders. There are higher official titles, but most of them are just empty positions.
Twenty-two-year-old commander-in-chief!
Emperor Chongzhen’s favorite general, Qi Shaobao of the Ming Dynasty in his mouth!
The future son-in-law of Emperor Chongzhen!
There are eight thousand servants under his command, all of whom are brave warriors!
This year, Wang Dou is expected to be the most popular in the world!
The military generals believed that Wang Dou was a god of war that was rare to see in a century, and the civil servants believed that Wang Dou was a key figure in the revival of the empire and the defeat of the Later Jin Dynasty.
Even the Emei Sect, Qingcheng Sect and other Qi-refining and immortal cultivators believed that this Wang Dou might be the key figure in changing the destiny.
Even many high-level monks from the evil sect are paying attention to Wang Dou. Why should they pay attention to Wang Dou?
Because the great resurgence of the righteous path is the same as the rise of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, both of which are divine!
If Wang Dou can change the number of days when the Ming Dynasty is destroyed and the Qing Dynasty is revived, does it mean that the number of days when the Righteous Way is prosperous can also be changed?
Therefore, with the high-level monks of the good and evil cultivators maintaining a tacit understanding, the cultivation world did not cause the slightest interference to Wang Dou.
Let the mortals return to mortals, and the monks return to monks!
In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou led 8,000 servants and 30,000 elite soldiers of the Xuanfu who had been personally trained. They met the two blue banners of Houjin and won the battle.
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It has completely become a joke that the Hou Jin is less than 10,000 yuan and is invincible with 10,000 yuan.
In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou led nine thousand servants to fight against him and won!
In the eighth year of Chongzhen...
Until the 10th year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou led 15,000 servants and 50,000 Xuanfu elite soldiers to engage in a decisive battle near the Great Wall with the main force of the Eight Banners led by Huang Taiji.
The decisive battle lasted for three months. In the end, the arrogant Eight Banners soldiers were crippled and 20,000 died. As for the Han Eight Banners and the Meng Eight Banners, they returned to before liberation.
But Wang Dou's losses were unfilial. Only nine thousand of the fifteen thousand servants were left, and thirty thousand of Xuanfu's fifty thousand elite soldiers were left. Innumerable prisoners were taken, and the number of cattle and sheep exceeded one million.
In the camp, Wang Dou received a reward from Emperor Chongzhen, and was promoted from Bo to Marquis, to Marquis of Xia, hereditary, and married the princess as his wife. The marriage was completed immediately after returning to the capital.
In the large tent of the Chinese army, Wang Dou sat above him expressionlessly, while the generals and civil servants in the tent began to quarrel.
"Commander, you can't go back. Once you go back, the best outcome for the commander is to be stripped of his military power and put under house arrest in the capital for the rest of his life!"
"Commander, you can't go back! The Mongolian Tatars have been crippled by the commander a long time ago, and Houjin has been crippled now. To put it bluntly, the court no longer needs the commander!"
"Yes, even if Hou Jin survives this battle, he will not have the energy to continue the war with the imperial court within twenty years. And twenty years later, how can Hou Jin maintain his current fighting spirit? Without the threat, who knows what the imperial court will do
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"The good birds are hidden in the bows, and the cunning rabbits are cooked by the lackeys. Commander, look at what happened to Han Xin, who conquered the world for Liu Bang! Are you looking at how Li Jing lived in his later years? He didn't even open the door when he slept.
Dare to shut him down, this is because Li Shimin wants a good reputation, otherwise..."
"That's enough. You roughnecks, how can you speculate on the imperial court and slander His Majesty like this? Since your Majesty came to the throne, you have issued several edicts to dismiss palace officials and imprison, and you have also continued to issue internal funds. Now the internal funds are empty. All this time.
, Your Majesty, have you ever been sorry to the commander-in-chief?"
"If the commander-in-chief does not return today, how will the people of the world view the commander-in-chief? People all over the world have always believed that the commander-in-chief is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the commander-in-chief has always regarded himself as a loyal minister. Do you want to rebel now?"
Hearing the word "rebellion", even the general who had a violent temper calmed down at the moment.
To be honest, the generals did not let Wang Dou go back, mainly to protect themselves. They were afraid of being liquidated. Speaking of which, this also had something to do with Wang Dou!
Wang Dou has always emphasized that military generals must be literate, and all households with more than a hundred households must be literate. When military generals started to become literate and started to read, everything changed!
When they saw Han Xin's fate, when they saw Yue Fei's unwarranted actions, when they saw Yu Jie being tortured to death by the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers, when they looked at the civil servants of this dynasty, it was impossible not to think of them!
"Commander, of course we don't dare to rebel. We are also loyal to the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty, but who can guarantee that the commander-in-chief will not be liquidated after he returns?"
"Look at Qi Shaobao? Back then, the entire south was attacked by Japanese pirates, and there was even the ridiculous incident of dozens of five people attacking the city of Nanjing!"
"Yes, at that time, the entire south was slack in military armaments. Fortunately, Qi Shaobao came out of nowhere, otherwise it would be hard to say what happened to the south. After defeating the Japanese pirates, Qi Shaobao went to Ji Town and defeated the Mongolians who heard his name and stopped participating in the invasion.
.But the result? When Qi Shaobao died, he was not awarded a title, not even a count!"
"Yes, I heard someone say that when Qi Shaobao wrote to Wang Taiyue before his death, he always called himself a lackey, and even warriors like him were just lackeys! But even so, he was still tortured to death by civil servants
Already?"
"Before he died, he was tortured by the civil servants, and even lost his official position. After his death, the court pretended to posthumously gifted him several official positions. Everyone is dead, so what's the use?"
"Yes, except Qi Shaobao, will Li Chengliang have a good end? Didn't he make enough contributions to the court? But even he was treated differently by the court in his later years!"
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, we don't want to rebel, nor do we dare to rebel, but Commander-in-Chief should also think about our generals. Once Commander-in-Chief leaves, perhaps the Emperor will feel the Commander-in-Chief's sincerity or guarantee his safety.
, but what about us? Who will ensure our safety?"
"Shut up! Are you trying to bring the commander into injustice?"
The civil servants spoke again.
The generals continued to quarrel and even started to fight.
bump!
Wang Dou slapped the table hard, and the civil servants and generals below immediately shut up!
In the huge tent, dozens of strong men were crowded together, but not even a sound was made at this moment. Even the big men held their breaths and raised their ears, waiting for Wang Dou's choice.
"That's enough. Your Majesty, treat me with sincerity. Don't think too much. The army will rest for seven days and then break camp and return to Beijing!"
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In the capital, in a certain civil servant's mansion, a group of shady guys are also plotting.
"I can't bear it any longer. Your Majesty actually wants to restore the old system of the previous dynasty, and let Wang Dou become a cabinet minister after he is relieved of military power, and continue his good story of becoming a general and a prime minister!"
"Hehe, as a general and as a prime minister, I think your majesty has forgotten how the warriors of the fifth generation toyed with the imperial court and ignored the emperor!"
“Where does this leave us civil servants?”
"Absurd! The Anshi Rebellion is enough once. Do you want a second time?"
"Such important news? How did you learn about it?"
"This news comes from a letter, and I happen to have a friend in the palace."
"Feng Xiahou has already done it for the sake of his great achievements. If you want to become a general or prime minister, and become a cabinet minister, don't even think about it!"
"Yes, I have been studying the books of sages since I was a child. I became a scholar at the age of twelve, passed the imperial examination at the age of sixteen, and won the imperial examination at the age of twenty-eight. I am already considered young. After studying the books of the sages for so many years, I am just a scholar.
I studied in the Imperial Academy for a full ten years before I was released as a governor. Now I am already fifty-seven, but I am still just a minister. How can he, a martial artist, be admitted to the cabinet? Why?"
The minister's words aroused the approval of the civil servants present.
Why?
If you are a martial artist by yourself, don't you just do your martial arts well?
We are all in harmony with each other, but you actually want to go out and enter the general phase. This is intolerable!
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Inside the camp, Wang Dou was thinking, he was thinking about the future, and in his hand was Chongzhen's autographed letter. The content inside was the arrangements for the next year, which would gradually lead to him being promoted to the position of chief minister of the cabinet.
At that time, the monarch, minister and son-in-law joined forces to reform the Ming Dynasty and revive the Ming Dynasty again.
The letter is Chongzhen's own handwriting, and the content inside is also full of sincerity.
At this critical moment that determined the future, Wang Dou thought a lot, but in the end he decided to believe in Chongzhen.
This is also related to the current situation. Today's Ming Dynasty has not yet reached the point where it was in the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign in history. Later Jin Dynasty was crippled, and the peasant army was suppressed and could not get up at all, and it stopped at the level of rogue bandits.
People in the world have peace of mind and a clear mind.
There are no basic conditions for rebellion, and Wang Dou himself is a kind-hearted person. Although the Mongolian herders and the Houjin Eight Banners will be dismissive when they hear this, Wang Dou has always felt that he is quite kind.
"I'm just a little person who's a little lucky and a little persistent. Now I can personally change the Ming Dynasty and transform it into what I want, so why should I insist on it?"