Chapter 034: Liu Xian's Grievances (II)
The Qianguo Mansion is also known as the Mu Wangfu in later generations, their ancestor is Mu Ying, is Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son and general, Taizu appointed his family "Yongzhen Yunnan", Yunnan Tusi to give them a gift. There are a large number of Sanqi in the Qianguo Mansion, which is good news.
But Gao Pragmatic still solemnly put away this bottle of Panax notoginseng powder, and said: "General Liu, this thing is not for the kid to use himself, but to give it to his uncle...... Ah, the boy's uncle is the Xuangong of Xinzheng High School, and he is an official in the same dynasty as the general, I don't know if the general can recognize it? โ
This is a knowingly asked, and Gao Pragmatism obviously has other intentions.
Sure enough, Liu Xian's face was solemn, and he arched his hand in the direction of Jingshi: "Xinzheng Gaogong is a heavy minister of the court, and he has admired his name for a long time, but he is despicable and ashamed, and he doesn't dare to ask for it." โ
Gao pragmatic smiled: "General Liu is humble, my uncle once evaluated today's famous generals in front of the boy, and the general is also among them, and the uncle's words also attach great importance to the general's ability." โ
Liu Xian's face was slightly happy, but he was still able to maintain the reserved attitude he should have, and said with a smile: "A contemptible person, dare to be a high-ranking prince and a world-famous general?" โ
"Deserved, deserved." Gao Shishi said with a smile, then paused, patted the position of the porcelain vase on his chest, and continued: "If this thing has a miraculous effect, the kid should advise his uncle to make it more popularized and used in the army." There have been a lot of wars in our court, and in the future, thousands of soldiers will benefit from the generals, so how can the imperial court not remember the generals' merits? โ
Liu Xian smiled bitterly: "Those who are dismissed and waiting for investigation dare to think about any merits. โ
Gao Pragmatic frowned slightly: "The boy has heard Brother Zishou mention this matter, but I don't know why the general is here?" โ
Liu Xian sighed, smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's also self-inflicted......"
He then gave some introduction to Gao Shishi about his experience over the years, including why he always had ups and downs.
It turns out that Liu Xian's original surname is Gong, his name is Xian, the word is only clear, his ancestor is Huguang, and his sixth ancestor is the Yuan Dynasty Jiangsu Jiangning Dusi. In May of the twentieth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang captured Taiping, killed Xu Shouhui, proclaimed himself emperor, and changed his name to the Great Han Dynasty. At this time, the world was full of heroes, wars were frequent, Liu Xian's grandfather moved his family to Gaotian Village, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province to start a business.
Due to the family tradition of martial arts, Liu Xian has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he is proficient in martial arts, and he is born with divine power, and he rarely meets opponents. However, because of his poor family when he was young, he didn't read too many books, but he was still quite coarse and knew things. But this is meaningless, because he is not a scholar, he was very unhappy when he was young, and he wandered around.
After several years, he wandered to Chengdu, Sichuan, and lived in a temple, living by working part-time and stealing temple offerings. He often hid the things he got in a very heavy bell, and after a long time, he uncovered the magic power of the bell and was discovered, "people thought it was strange". But this kind of wandering life is forced by the helplessness of life for Liu Xian, who has great ambitions, not reluctantly, let alone a long-term solution.
In order to seek a better way out, after several inquiries, he learned that the Chengdu Infantry Battalion of the Ming Army recruited Boy Scouts, so he applied for the Scout Examination. It is also a coincidence that on the night of Liu Xian's examination, Liu Min, the Sichuan guard envoy stationed in Chengdu at that time, was dreaming at night when he suddenly saw a big black tiger running towards his military camp's official residence.
The next morning, Liu Min asked someone to interpret the dream, and it turned out that there would be strange people who would defect to him. Sure enough, before the exam started after breakfast, Liu Xian came to take the scout exam. Liu Min saw that Liu Xian's appearance was wonderful, and he was brave and brave, and he was definitely not a thing in the pool, and he felt that he had a fate, because he was overjoyed in his heart, and thought that he had fulfilled his dream. As a result, Liu Min, who was the chief examiner, hit Liu Xian, accepted him as a boy scout, and practiced martial arts with the soldiers as a personal guard.
After Liu Xian joined the Boy Scouts, in order to repay the kindness of the guard envoy Liu Min, he worshiped General Liu Min as his father-in-law, and hid his surname and changed his surname to Liu, Liu Min was very happy. Of course, this is also a custom in the Ming Dynasty, and later famous generals such as Li Chengliang and Mao Wenlong had many righteous sons.
In the eighteenth year of Jiajing, Liu Xian, who was only twenty-four years old, changed his Jiangxi nationality to Sichuan nationality through the help of the guard envoy Liu Min to apply for the martial arts examination. After passing the martial arts examination, he was admitted as a martial arts student, which is a threshold for entering the officialdom of military generals. From then on, Liu Xian began his military career and fought with Liu Min.
Not long after, the imperial court established the Zhenwu camp in Nanjing, and Liu Xian was called to the Zhenwu camp as an instructor because of his strong martial arts and skilled tactics. Due to Liu Xian's special contribution to the training of infantry saber tactics and surprise attack skills created in the Zhenwu Battalion, he was soon promoted to acting commander of the capital and concurrently served as the capital secretary of Zhejiang. Because of his meritorious service in preparing Zhejiang troops, he was promoted to a staff general, and was in charge of the military defense of Jiangsu and Wusongkou.
At this time, the Japanese crown often invaded and invaded the north of Jianghuai, and forced Sixian, Tianchang, Xuyi, Mingguang, and Sihong in Sizhou, and the imperial court ordered Liu Xian to strictly guard against Pukou. After that, Liu Xianlian made military exploits, and within a few years, due to his outstanding military achievements, he was moved to the deputy commander-in-chief to assist the commander-in-chief in defending Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
In the 38th year of Jiajing, Liu Xian, the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhejiang, was ordered by the governor Hu Zongxian to take 2,000 elite soldiers to the north to aid the Jiangbei Imperial War. Liu Xian and the general Cao Kexin led the soldiers of the headquarters to attack the thieves' nest, and Lu Bo also led reinforcements to come, and the people of the four townships ate pot pulp, shouted and cheered, and the fierce battle began in the morning until dusk, and finally all defeated Liu Zhuang, the base camp of the Japanese bandits.
The thieves were at the end of their rope and fled in despair. Liu Xiansuo led the soldiers and local villagers to pursue the victory, bravely pursued and killed, and pursued the remnants of the defeated Japanese soldiers to Xinghua Baiju Field, and then pursued from Baiju Field to Maohuadun. After several fierce battles, blood flowed and corpses were everywhere, Liu Xianbu won a complete victory, and all the escaped Japanese were annihilated, and no one survived.
However, Li Sui, who was the governor of Fengyang at the time and the governor of Jiangbei military affairs, wrote a letter to impeach Liu Xian and Lu Bo for indulging in the negligence of the Sansha Wakos, which caused the serious consequences of the looting of Baijuchang, Maohuadun and other places. After Emperor Jiajing saw Li Sui's performance, out of the habitual mentality of being a noble and a lowly man, he took away Liu Xian's salary, handed it over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for verification, and was dismissed for the first time on the charge of Liu Xian's dereliction of duty.
In May of the 41st year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaders in the coastal areas of Guangdong swarmed again. At this time, Jiajing was thinking of good generals, and urgently ordered Liu Xian to be the chief military officer to guard the military defense of the sea areas around Guangdong and Fujian.
At the same time, another invasion and infestation broke out along the coast of Fujian, and the local government and garrison troops felt very troubled by this sudden attack and could not deal with it. Liu Cheng sent an order to the army, and led the army to rush to reinforcements. And at that time, Qi Jiguang, the secretary of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Department and the general of the staff, fought together, defeated the Japanese in succession, and directly pulled out the base camp of the Japanese invaders, but none of the Japanese who entered the coastal territory of Fujian survived, and all were wiped out.
However, the thieves who were immortal in their hearts continued to flood into Yingtian's territory in large numbers, and quickly captured Xinghua City. At that time, Liu Xian's troops were greatly reduced due to continuous battles, and there was a huge disparity between the main force of the Japanese who occupied Xinghua, so they had to besiege but not attack, and did not dare to take the liberty of going to war.
As a result, Liu Xian was immediately impeached again, saying that he was ineffective in recruiting and suppressing the Japanese invaders. After participating in the impeachment, Jiajing considered that the country was in an eventful season, and it was the time to employ people, so he could not cut his own wings, so he issued an edict ordering Liu Xiandai to make meritorious contributions.
At this time, the Japanese continued to attack important coastal strongholds, and formed a tug-of-war with the Ming army near Pinghaiwei. And the other group of Japanese who robbed Fuqing in Fujian also planned to join forces with the Japanese in Pinghaiwei. Fortunately, Liu Xian's plot was seen through by Liu Xian, and Liu Xian and Yu Dayou, the chief military officer of Fujian, joined forces on the Shalang Peninsula to wipe out all the Japanese who were entrenched in Shalang. When Pinghaiwei's pirates heard the news, they tried to escape, but they were intercepted and defeated by Xu Chaoguang, the commander, and burned all the pirates to the boats.
At this time, Qi Jiguang also led his subordinates to come to reinforcements, and fought together with Liu Xian and Yu Dayou, the three main divisions of the Ping Wa Army, to annihilate all the Japanese in the Xinghua area and recover the lost Xinghua City.
Because Liu Xian made remarkable contributions in this battle to annihilate the Japanese in Guangdong and Fujian, the imperial court rewarded him for his meritorious deeds, and he was promoted to two levels above the level of the original commander of the three ranks, and was the governor of the second rank. At this time, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Taizhou, Nantong and other places in Jiangbei have not yet been completely annihilated and pacified, and the imperial court decided to set up a chief military officer in Wolf Mountain to control the north and south of the river, and Liu Xian was reappointed as the chief military officer to garrison Wolf Mountain.
After his arrival, Liu Xian, the commander-in-chief, asked the emperor to issue an edict to him in order to control these local officials below the prefect. Because Wang Ru, a Tongzhou acquaintance, was jealous of Liu XianโLiu Xian's troops were stationed near Tongzhou, and Wang Ru was a civil official and refused to be restrained by Liu Xianโhe wrote a letter to impeach Liu Xian, accusing Liu Xian's request of being disrespectful to the emperor and a demand for right and wrong...... So Liu Xian was demoted.
Not long after, Emperor Jiajing died, and Emperor Longqing ascended the throne. At this time, Liu Xian had had enough of the hardships of civil officials and did not dare to oppose civil officials again, but he did not expect to be a general near Nanjing, not only could not compete with civil officials, but also listened to the greetings of Nanjing garrison lords (no wind note: Nanjing is actually the official capital of the Ming Dynasty, and there are also six departments and other left-behind institutions, but most of them are fictitious, and the real three real power giants in Nanjing are: Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, Nanjing Town Guard Eunuch, Nanjing Garrison Lord. This is also the main reason why after Chongzhen's suicide in history, the Southern Ming Dynasty was headed by Shi Kefa, the then secretary of the Nanjing Military Department. Liu Xian was suppressed by the Nanjing garrison because he was a military general but did not know how to contribute, not to mention that the number of soldiers under him was very different from the number of people registered, and as a result, Liu Xian was once again "dismissed from his post and awaiting investigation".
When Liu Xian said this, his face was full of anger: "Gao Gongzi, if you want to say that the number of soldiers in the guard does not match the number of registered soldiers, I have hundreds of towns in the Ming Dynasty, which town can match?" The difference between the soldiers and the number of registered soldiers in Nanjing Zhuzhen is much bigger than that of my Liu, why don't these people ask for punishment and talk about me? โ