In short, in fact, Wei Bao now has very little need for a tribal alliance like the Horqin Left.

On the contrary, the left-wing tribes of Horqin are extremely dependent on Wei Bao, and if they do not marry Ulan Tuyaqige to Wei Bao, they will be very uneasy to live in the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Bao saw that the emperor was still a little concerned, so he joked: "Your Majesty, in fact, I think it is quite suitable for you to marry Ulan Tuyaqiqige, you think, you have three thousand beauties in the inner palace, and you don't care about one more, in addition, how noble your status is, you married her personally, they have no excuse not to agree." ”

Zhu Youxiao was stunned by Wei Bao's words, looked at Wei Bao in a daze, and then suddenly burst out laughing.

This is Wei Bao, and others would never dare to joke with him with this kind of thing.

Zhu Di's mother seems to be a North Korean, but Xiao Zhu has never recognized this North Korean mother.

That's why Wei Bao dared to make such a joke.

There should be no explicit rule in the Ming Dynasty that it is not allowed to marry foreign women.

"Wei Aiqing, that is, you dare to make such a joke with me, you spare me, if I marry a Mongolian woman, the court will definitely be shaken! Besides, Mongolian women don't seem to take baths, right? Where can I stand it? Zhu Youxiao laughed, leaning back and forth in laughter, out of breath.

Wei Bao smiled: "Your Majesty, those are all hearsay, you let people take a bath, can people still take a bath, it's the same after a long time, how do you see that Ulan Tu Yaqiqi just now?" Weichen really doesn't want to marry her, it's all for the sake of Daming, Your Majesty has to understand Weichen's hard work. Daming didn't say anything about harmony, in fact, Weichen felt that harmony was indeed a good way, which was very effective in alleviating national contradictions. ”

"No, no, no, this time the royal blood is confused, don't you see that the concubine only chooses Han women between the ages of fourteen and sixteen in the range of the two capitals?" Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "Wei Aiqing, I know that I have wronged you in this matter, it is uncomfortable to find a Mongolian woman, just now I saw that the woman dared to talk back to me, I don't know if you marry her, you two have to fight every day, you don't come to see me with a blue nose and swollen face that was beaten one day, then you will laugh off your big teeth." Hahahaha. ”

Wei Bao was relieved to hear the emperor say this, knowing that the emperor didn't seem to take this matter to heart.

After a while, Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered something, "It's freezing this day, although that woman is a woman outside the gate, she is also afraid of the cold, right?" Did she follow us on horseback? ”

Wei Bao said: "I'm afraid yes, northern women are frost-resistant." They like to ride horses wherever they go. ”

"Wei Zhongxian, arrange a carriage for that Qiqige, don't let her feel that I am not human." Zhu You proofread the outside of the car.

Wei Zhongxian immediately agreed and went.

When Ulan Tuya Qiqige heard that the emperor had arranged a carriage for him, he thought that Wei Bao had requested the emperor, and he agreed warmly in his heart.

Wei Zhongxian found an opportunity to tell Feng Quan that His Majesty had made a statement that Jiliao would be designated as a special military zone, and that he would run a new school, change the law, and also give Wei Bao the title of secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the title of the secretary of the Criminal Department, and the title of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Feng Quan said: "Nine thousand years old, Wei Bao is too popular right now, Your Majesty has spoken, what can you do?" ”

"Our family has no way, we want to see if you have a way." Wei Zhongxian asked.

"Nine thousand years old, Xia Guan really can't think of a way, you see, which one of the people who fight with Wei Bao has a good end? Xia Guan persuaded the nine thousand years old to endure it for the time being, and now what Wei Bao says, His Majesty will agree to anything, the limelight is too tight, and he should avoid it. Feng Quan said.

Feng Quan is a person who is very good at slapping horses, and it is precisely by hugging Wei Zhongxian's thigh that he was able to enter the cabinet, otherwise he is only in his early thirties, and it will not be his turn Feng Quan to enter the cabinet.

Feng Quan made his debut as a talented man, and he wanted to join the Donglin Party but was rejected, and he was angry and transformed.

However, Feng Quan became a filial son again, and his father was impeached after being defeated and fled home.

He complained about his grievances in front of Wei Zhongxian, who was passing by in the incense, and successfully joined the eunuch party and became a think tank.

Yang Lian Zuo Guangdou united with his ministers to overthrow Wei and frighten Wei Zhongxian.

He offered a plan to "raise the prison and carry out the court staff", and after the great victory, he became a cabinet minister at the age of less than 30, known as the "black-headed minister".

However, Feng Quan's transformation is not over yet, and he transformed again because of too much corruption, which caused the eunuch boss Cui Chengxiu to be jealous, and he resigned knowing that he was invincible.

Because the transformation was timely, it was basically fine when the eunuch party was finished.

If the trajectory of history has not been changed too much, Feng Quan will have a third transformation in the future, Dolgon entered the customs, and Feng Quan was the first to join the leading party.

Kangxi died and was given a nickname.

Four transformations, he was whipped by Kangxi's grandson, chased the nickname, and compiled into the biography of the second minister.

Loyal and filial sons, two ministers and thieves, perfect in one.

Wei Bao did not target corruption, but only to bring down political opponents.

If Wei Bao had targeted anti-corruption, Feng Quan would have been finished long ago.

Therefore, Feng Quan does not have an insoluble contradiction with Wei Bao at the moment, so he doesn't have to help Wei Zhongxian be a pawn.

Wei Zhongxian was very unhappy when he heard Feng Quan say this, snorted, and said nothing more.

Feng Quan knew that Wei Zhongxian was unhappy, but there was no way.

Wei Zhongxian had a cold face, and explained the things assigned by the emperor to Feng Quan, so he didn't plan to think about it anymore, knowing that he was no longer able to resist Wei Bao's favor, or rather, Wei Bao was already red and purple.

When he arrived in Qian'an, Wei Bao introduced the emperor to a reservoir here.

The reservoir of Tiandihui is one of the widely adopted engineering measures for flood control.

In the upstream of the flood control area, a comprehensive utilization reservoir capable of regulating and storing flood water should be built at appropriate locations, and the reservoir capacity should be used to hold back and store floodwater, reduce the peak flow of flood water entering the downstream river, and achieve the purpose of reducing and reducing flood disasters.

There are two different ways for reservoirs to regulate floods, one is for flood detention and the other is for flood storage.

Flood detention is the temporary retention of flood water in a reservoir.

When there is no gate control on the spillway of the reservoir, and the reservoir storage level is level with the elevation of the spillway weir crest, the reservoir can only play the role of temporary flood retention.

In the case that there is no sluice gate in the spillway, in the stage of reservoir management and operation, if the water level of the reservoir can be lowered to the limit water level of the reservoir before the flood season, and the restricted water level of the reservoir is lower than the elevation of the crest of the spillway weir, the storage capacity between the limited water level and the elevation of the crest of the spillway weir can play a role in flood storage. A portion of the flood water stored in the reservoir can be used in a planned way during the dry season.

When the spillway is equipped with a sluice gate, the reservoir can play a greater role in flood storage, and the reservoir can adjust the amount of discharge by changing the opening degree of the sluice gate.

Due to the gate control, the flood control limit water level of this kind of reservoir can be higher than the top of the spillway weir, and the opening degree of the gate can be adjusted at any time during the flood discharge process to control the discharge flow, which has the dual role of flood detention and flood storage.

The "Renyi Hutong" of Jianchangying West Street in Qian'an City comes from "Renyi".

This alley, known as "Renyi Hutong", is located in the south of Jianchangying Daximenli Road.

The alley is about 50 meters long and 1.1 meters wide, and is paved with two stones of different lengths, avoiding the mud of the aisle in rainy and snowy days.

Due to the narrowness of the alley, one person can usually carry the burden to pass, and if the two people are relatively close, they can only pass sideways.

Jianchangying is a strategic town that holds the Lengkou Pass.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was the passage for the Mongolian Wuliang Ha Sanwei to enter Beijing to pay tribute, and it was also an important place for transportation and military affairs.

Because this is the main point of north-south transportation, Jianchangying has become more and more prosperous as an important commercial town after Wei Bao actually took charge of Jiliao.

Jianchangying is another important transportation hub in the eastern Hebei region leading to the customs outside the customs in addition to Shanhaiguan, and the heyday of commercial and trade activities was from the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, and it was an important trade market for agricultural and sideline products in the surrounding areas.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Kaiping City, which fills the dissatisfaction, and pulls the undefeated Jianchang Battalion".

The original West Street of Jianchangying and the Jishi Street in the south were not connected, but after this Renyi Hutong, the two streets were connected.

Although this alley is narrow, it has a legendary story.

According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, there were two families adjacent to each other in Jianchangying, the east family surnamed Ren and the west family surnamed Liang.

The Liang family wants to build an east wing house and occupy the land as a base, and the Ren family will not tolerate it.

The two families insisted on their own opinions and did not give in to each other, and the Ren family sent a letter to their family members who were officials outside to discuss the law.

Soon, the official replied to the letter and wrote four lines of poetry: Thousands of miles of letters are only for the wall, so why not let him be two feet. The Great Wall is still there today, and Qin Shi Huang is not seen.

When the family received this letter, they thought that they were indeed reasonable, they were both neighbors, and distant relatives were not as good as close neighbors, so they took the initiative to give up two feet.

When the Liang family heard this, they felt ashamed and let go of the base of the wall.

The two families have evolved from-for-tat and mutual disagreement to mutual humility.

Later, the two families reached an agreement to form this four-foot-wide passage to facilitate the passage of pedestrians.

This righteous act has won the praise of the neighbors, and the surrounding residents have benefited from this lesson, and have lived in harmony and mutual respect and concession for many years.

Since then, the righteous deeds of "Renyi Hutong" have become popular and widely spread.

Zhu Youxiao is familiar with this generation, because Zhu Youxiao once came to Qian'an to inspect once, but it was still when Zhu Youxiao was just becoming the emperor, and it has been five or six years since this time.

The guard of the Jianchang camp was Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao originally had only 500 soldiers and horses.

But because Cao Wenzhao was appreciated by Lord Wei, he increased his number of soldiers to 1,000.

You must know that there are only 20,000 defenders in Jizhou and 30,000 border troops in Liaodong.

In such a small number of troops, Cao Wenzhao, an unknown person, can have a thousand soldiers and horses, all relying on Lord Wei's weight.

Although Cao Wenzhao was a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, he has always been famous for "daring to fight", and was even called "the first good general in the late Ming Dynasty".

However, at this time, Cao Wenzhao was indeed just a little-known young general.

Wei Bao admired Cao Wenzhao as a person, but he was not ready to reuse Cao Wenzhao, just to help the Ming Dynasty cultivate a more powerful general.

So Wei Bao asked Cao Wenzhao to build a reservoir in the river near Jianchangying.

Underneath Cao Wenzhao's glamorous appearance, Cao Wenzhao was actually a murderous executioner.

As long as you carefully flip through the history books, you will immediately see through his true face.

Cao Wenzhao's criminal career of suppressing the peasant uprising began in the third year of Chongzhen, in 1630, in July of that year, the peasant uprising in Shaanxi was surging, which caused panic and hatred in the Ming court.

In view of Cao Wenzhao's glorious resume of following Xiong Tingbi, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan and others to fight everywhere, the Ming court promoted him to be the deputy commander-in-chief of Yansui East Road, hoping to use his so-called "good war" Guanning army to suppress the rebel army and save the Ming Dynasty's ruling crisis.

At the beginning, due to the serious deficiencies in the combat effectiveness and organization of the rebel army, Cao Wenzhao achieved a series of victories, successively defeating Wang Jiayin, Dian Dengzi, Li Laochai, Lone Ranger and other leaders of the rebel army, which made Cao Wenzhao's arrogance more and more arrogant.

Cao Wenzhao's methods of suppressing the peasant uprising were very brutal, and the history records, "All the generals are in battle, and those who are under duress flee by order, and Wenzhao will be killed, and no one will survive." The same is true of his nephew. ”

He has a thirst for killing, as long as he joins the peasant army, he will never let go, and he will not leave anyone a way to live, the so-called pacification of turmoil and maintenance of social order is just a pretext, this ferocious jackal is just crazy against the people, and he will want to kill anyone who has the slightest act of resistance, and will wholeheartedly maintain the rule of the Ming court, and do not treat the common people as human beings at all.

His brutal repression of the remnants of the Kamiichi Kui was simply outrageous.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, on September 18, 1631, Shen Yikui was killed by traitors and sacrificed his head to the official army, but the rest of his troops persisted in the struggle under the leadership of the Red Army Friends, Li Dusi, Du San, and Yang Laochai.

They stationed their troops in Zhenyuan and prepared to attack Pingliang, but the progress was not smooth, so they had to temporarily retreat to Qingyang.

At this moment, Cao Wenzhao came to join up with Yang Jiamo, the general of Gansu, and Wang Xingshan, the deputy general, and launched a rampant attack on the peasant army.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, in March 1632, Cao Wenzhao fought with the peasant army in Xihao, and beheaded thousands of people in this battle alone, and captured Du San and Yang Laochai.

In the face of this huge defeat, the remnants of the Kamiichi Kui were not intimidated, and they united with the other peasant armies to carry out a strategic shift and continue the struggle.

Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Jiamo and others pursued relentlessly, and the two sides fought in Zhangma Village, and the righteous army was unfortunately defeated again.

At this time, Wang Xingshan and Gansu deputy general Li Hongsi, and general Mo Hejing arrived, and the strength was gathered for a while, and the two sides fought again.

The officers and soldiers won more than 520 heads in this battle, and then the Ming army took advantage of the victory to pursue and won successive battles.

At this time, there were only a few thousand remnants of this rebel army, but the continuous failure of the struggle did not shake the fighting faith of the rebel army, especially the rebel army separated from Qingshui was stronger and defeated the official army.

Cao Wenzhao, the murderous executioner, showed his insidious and cunning side, he used counter-tactics to fool other leaders, let them kill the Red Army friends, and took advantage of the civil strife of the peasant army, he and his nephew Cao Bianjiao launched a continuous attack on the rebel army, and finally annihilated the peasant army.

It is undeniable that Cao Wenzhao is indeed fierce and abnormal, capable of fighting habitually, and is worthy of being the mortal enemy of the peasant army.

Man Tianfei, Hao Lin'an, Liu Daojiang, Lone Wolf, and Li Dusi, the leaders of the rebel army, jointly set up an ambush, hid their elite troops, and only let more than a thousand cavalry come out to meet the battle, luring the Ming army to Nanyuan, when the ambush army rose up, and at the same time shouted "General Cao is dead" in an attempt to disturb the morale of the Ming army.

Unexpectedly, Cao Wenzhao actually carried a spear back and forth, single-handedly showing off his might among more than 10,000 peasant troops, which was really a complete outlaw style.

Seeing this, the morale of the Ming army was restored, so that the peasant army's plan could not be realized, and the peasant army was ambushed all over the field in this battle, and its vitality was greatly damaged.

The remnants of the peasant army were unable to organize an effective counterattack and were defeated by many wolf-like officers and soldiers.

After that, the famous counter-revolutionary leader Hong Chengchou killed Man Tianfei in Pingliang, lured his general Bai Guangen, and the rest of the peasant army retreated by different routes.

Cao Wenzhao rushed to Longzhou, Pingliang, and Fengxiang to pursue them, and in October 1632, he defeated the peasant army in three battles.

Then they forced the peasant army on Yaozhou's Awl Mountain, which was pessimistic and disappointed in the future of the revolution at this time, and surrendered after killing the lone wolf and Hao Lin'an.

But Hong Chengchou, the ruthless executioner, did not let them go, and after accepting the surrender, he despicably slaughtered more than 400 of them.

The peasant uprising in Guanzhong was thus drowned in a pool of blood.

In the piece handed to the imperial court, the governor of the imperial court, Fan Fucui, claimed that he had won more than 36,600 first ranks in all battles, with Cao Wenzhao being the first, Zhang Jiamo second, and Wang Chengen and Yang Qi second.

When Cao Wenzhao was in Shaanxi, he was willing to be an eagle dog of the imperial court, struggling to suppress the peasant uprising, fighting dozens of battles of all sizes, and making the most meritorious contributions, but Hong Chengchou did not give him credit.

It's ridiculous that this executioner worked so hard, but he couldn't get the reward of the Ming court.

Under these circumstances, the peasant army saw that the imperial army in Shaanxi was strong, and in order to avoid the enemy's edge, most of them flowed into Shanxi.

It is said that Zijin Liang, King Chaoshi, Ji Guansuo, Eight Kings, Cao Cao, Chuang Collapse Tian, and Xinga Hari commanded seven major battalions respectively, with 10,000 people in each department and 5,000 people in the few.

At this time, the Ming court remembered that their loyal hound Cao Wenzhao came, and the imperial historian Zhang Chenji wrote to the Ming court to praise Cao Wenzhao's martial arts in suppressing the righteous army, and also touted that the gentry and the common people made up songs and ballads to praise him, which is the so-called "There is a Cao in the army, and the western thief is afraid to hear it".

But in fact, how could the people sing any praise to this brave and murderous jackal?

In the inscription of the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the military department said: "Cao Bianjiao's first brigade is a great harm to the people. A few days ago, the ministers and officials received several rumors along the way: 'Rather be robbed by thieves than teach Cao Bing to block.' The thieves robbed limitedly, and the Cao soldiers did endless harm. Thieves robbed the people's property, and Cao soldiers killed the people's lives'. ”

It can be seen that this is the true evaluation of Cao Wenzhao by the common people, Cao Wenzhao and his army have extremely poor military discipline, burning, killing and looting all kinds of evil, which has aroused the hatred of the people.

Such an army was nothing more than a bait to satisfy the beastly desires of the soldiers, so as to drive them to suppress the revolt of the jackal army.

And their leader Cao Wenzhao, this vicious counter-revolutionary executioner, naturally will not be a protector of the peace of one party, but a plague god that everyone talks about, wherever he comes, disasters will come, the so-called "love the people like sons" of the Ming Dynasty, is relying on this kind of army to protect the people under its rule "from thieves", it is simply a big joke in the world.

Even some members of the ruling class had to bow their heads to Cao Wenzhao's brutal acts, believing that he had killed too much and harmed the people, which would not be conducive to the rule of the Ming court in the long run.

But a group of tyrants led by Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou and others admired his ruthlessness and regarded him as a treasure.

Those landlords and gentry who had no heart and only thought about their own glory and wealth also regarded him as a talisman for themselves, so they made up the slogan "There is a Cao in the army, and the thief is afraid to hear it" This kind of slogan cheers him up and himself, but in fact it is just picking up the wisdom of the Song people.

Based on the above reasons, the Ming court ordered the generals of Shanxi and Shaanxi to be under the command of Cao Wenzhao, hoping that he could make new contributions.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, in the first month of 1633, Cao Wenzhao was rewarded by his master and made meritorious contributions, and launched a brutal suppression of the peasant army, causing great losses to the righteous army, but the Ming government was rotten to the extreme from top to bottom at this time, and Chongzhen sent eunuchs to his army, which made him constrained everywhere and won respite for the peasant army.

At the same time, Cao Wenzhao was arrogant, had a conflict with Liu Lingyu, and was framed by the other party.

The military department thought that Cao Wenzhao was proud after winning a few battles, so he transferred him to Datong.

It can be seen from this that the Ming court at that time had become corrupt and dark to what extent, but Cao Wenzhao was still obsessed and bent on maintaining the crumbling rule of this government.

However, even if he wants to do it anyway at this time, the people will not let him go, he is burdened with a lot of blood feuds, and he knows that he has cut himself off from the people, so even if he is repeatedly excluded in the court, he can only swallow his anger and clamp his tail to be a man.

This is the inevitable fate of all lackeys who have been enemies of the people throughout the ages.

His experience also caused many literati to sigh and regret in later generations, feeling that if it were not for the traitorous ministers in power at that time, Cao Wenzhao would definitely be able to suppress the uprising and rebuild the society, but in fact, if a feudal regime was operating normally, it would never allow a butcher like Cao Wenzhao to kill the people.

The birth of Cao Wenzhao itself shows that this regime is terminally ill, and it can only push people like Cao Wenzhao to the fore with incomparable fear and hatred for the people.

Cao Wenzhao's ferocity and the corruption of the Ming court are two in one, and the so-called traitorous ministers are completely an excuse to deceive the world.

History has eloquently proved that the entire Ming Dynasty government, and the thousands of landlords and Confucian scholars who supported it, were doomed, and anyone who did not repent would be aiding and abetting the abuse, and would surely be burned up by the boundless anger of the peasant army.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, in July 1634, the Qing army entered the Guanxi to conquer the Han Dynasty, and when they returned to the division, they entered the territory of Datong by the way, captured the victory fort, and then besieged Huairen County, Jingping Fort, Yingzhou and other places.

Cao Wenzhao and the governor Zhang Zongheng were stationed in Huairen to defend.

In the battle with the Qing army, Cao Wenzhao completely lost the prestige of the previous battle with the peasant army, he once challenged the Qing army, but failed and returned.

Later, most of the castles of Lingqiu and other garrisons fell, and the Qing army returned victoriously.

In November, the Ming court assessed the guilt of the generals, and Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Zongheng, and the governor Hu Zhan'en were convicted and sent to the border guards.

But Cao Wenzhao was a trump card relied on by the Ming court after all, so someone immediately asked him to continue to participate in the criminal activities of suppressing the rebels and make meritorious atonements.

At this time, the situation of the peasant uprising in Henan was very good, and the history recorded: "In the winter of the seventh year, the thieves rode more than 1,000 westwards and immediately went to the wheat fields in Xiguo. The big flag is fluttering, looking at the cliff mouth and south, the flag covers the sky, the light is shining brightly, the south is the south mountain, the north is the river meander, and the waves are surging to the clouds. But I heard the sound of neighing horses, from morning to night, and camped for dozens of miles. …… The thieves trampled on people and animals, and the road was five or six miles wide, and I don't know the geometry of the crowd. ”

The huge formation of the peasant army frightened the local officials in Henan and asked the Ming court for help, and the Ming court ordered Cao Wenzhao to lead his troops to Henan to suppress the rebel army.

However, before entering Henan, Cao Wenzhao still sold the favor of the governor who promoted him and helped him exterminate the rebel army in Shanxi.

Before the rebels entered Henan, they excavated the tomb of the Fengyang Emperor.

After the rebel army entered Henan in large numbers at the end of the seventh year of Chongzhen, it actively developed into northern Anhui.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, in the first month of 1635, the rebel army entered Anhui. At this time, the poor people of Fengyang heard that the rebel army had arrived in Anhui, and in order to get rid of the exploitation of the Ming court, they took the initiative to send people to invite the rebel army to march into Fengyang, and provided a lot of valuable information, which laid a solid foundation for the feat of the rebel army that shook the world later.

Just when the rebel army was besieging Yingzhou, "the poor people of Fengzhi were invited hundreds of miles away, and they were given a thief: a certain family is rich, and there are no soldiers somewhere." As a result, the thieves surrounded the crowd and burned and looted, shaking the ancestral tomb. ”

In the early morning of the fifteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the rebel army of the sweeping king, the Taiping king and other troops attacked Fengyang.

In order to protect the so-called feng shui of Fengyang, the capital of China, Fengyang has no city walls, so the rebel soldiers descend from the sky like divine soldiers and drive straight in.

In the face of the attack of the rebel soldiers, Fengyang stayed behind Zhu Guoxiang to use his mantis arm as a car, and was beaten by the rebel soldiers to lose his armor and ambush him on the spot.

The surviving Ming troops knelt on the ground and "shouted Chitose", begging for mercy.

Fengyang prefect Yan Rongxuan saw that the situation was not good, and actually put on a prison uniform and hid in the prison in a vain attempt to escape, which is really swept away, the so-called court officials are such cowardly rats.

But he forgot that the Rebels wanted to liberate the innocent civilians who were imprisoned, so his disguise was immediately revealed when the Rebels released the prisoners.

In the face of this water dog, of course, the leader of the rebel army will not let him go, and the leaders of the history are "Huang Gai advocates sitting in the hall and killing Rong Xuan with a rod".

The beating of the water dogs is certainly a bad breath for the oppressed people, but this alone is obviously far from enough, the rebels have already understood that the thieves surnamed Zhu sitting on the dragon chair are the culprit, and they have long bid farewell to the naïve stage of "anti-corrupt officials and not anti-emperor".

With their fearless spirit, they set fire to the Imperial Mausoleum Xiangdian and Longxing Temple, and dug Zhu Youzhen's ancestral grave with their own hands, expressing the people's boundless hatred for the criminal Ming Court.

This beautiful handwriting proves that the Zhu dynasty has lost the hearts of the people, and the people have no fear of the so-called emperor and nobles.

They could see at a glance that the Zhu clan was just a one-man thief, not worthy of fear at all, and there would be no retribution from heaven.

Hearing the news of the fall of Fengyang and the excavation of the ancestral grave, Zhu Youzhen was so angry that he went crazy, but he knew that the responsibility was too heavy and he could only bear it himself, so he had to issue an edict of guilt, and at the same time punish some directly responsible petty officials to vent his anger.

Of course, he naturally issued a big edict and dispatched troops in a vain attempt to completely wipe out the peasant army in order to avenge his hatred.

It was against this background that he transferred Hong Chengchou's Shaanxi troops out of the pass, coordinated with the officers and troops of the Central Plains provinces, and assembled about 70,000 armed men under a patchwork of arms.

He did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to scrape together more than 1 million taels of military salaries, and clamored that the peasant army would be wiped out within six months.

In this situation, the rebel army "returned to Qin from Tongguan, Neixiang, and Xichuan." ”

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, in March 1635, Cao Wenzhao entered Henan from Shanxi with a bloody body, in Xinyang, Henan, Cao Wenzhao saw Hong Chengchou, the two executioners smelled like each other, and they were in causity, Hong Chengchou appreciated Cao Wenzhao's ruthlessness, and sent him to Suizhou, Hubei to suppress the peasant army.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, in April 1635, Hong Chengchou got the news that the rebel army had entered Shaanxi in a big way, and while he rushed back to Shaanxi, he transferred Cao Wenzhao from Hubei to Shaanxi, hoping that he could continue to exert his ability to suppress the rebels and assist him in completing the tasks assigned by Zhu Youzhen, but he didn't know that this would become Cao Wenzhao's curtain call.

With Cao Wenzhao, a fierce general, Hong Chengchou is even more courageous, as if the task of "exterminating thieves in June" can really be completed.

Actually, it's just wishful thinking.

Hong Chengchou arranged for Cao Wenzhao to take the mountain road from Ruxiang to Shangzhou and Luonan, and directly attack the base camp of the peasant army, and then rush to Hanzhong from Shanyang, Zhen'an, Xunyang and other places to prevent them from escaping.

In order to envelop Cao Wenzhao, Hong Chengchou said to Cao Wenzhao: "This trip is also, the road is far back, the general is very hard, and I gather the soldiers in the pass to wait for the general." "Throw it in his back."

Cao Wenzhao was really flattered by the courtesy of the governor of the three sides, and he immediately threw himself into the military activities to suppress the rebels.

On May 5, Cao Wenzhao arrived in Shangzhou, where he defeated the peasant army with his nephew general Cao Bianjiao and the rebel Du Si Bai Guangen, and then defeated the peasant army again at Jinlingchuan.

Zhang Dai recorded that Cao Wenzhao once led his troops through Pingliang, Gansu, and encountered tens of thousands of peasant troops and their families stationed in the nearby valley. ”

It can be seen that they have always killed the rebels in battle, even the old and weak, women and children, they are really full of murderers.

As a result, some of the rebels were scared when they heard their names.

However, the peasant rebel army could not kill inexhaustibly, and they raised troops to resist the Ming Dynasty, responding to the will of heaven and obeying the will of the people, and trying to rely on butcher's knives to bring people to their submissions was nothing but wishful thinking.

Under the tempering of the war, a group of men and horses who can recruit and fight well have emerged in the peasant army, and Cao Wenzhao can no longer be as beastly as he did at the beginning, and unilaterally slaughter the peasant army.

Soon after, King Chuang, the Eight Kings and others led various righteous armies to attack Fengxiang, and Cao Wenzhao hurriedly arrived from Guanzhong.

When the peasant army saw that this old enemy was coming, they flocked to Jingning, Tai'an, Qingshui, and Qinzhou, gathering a total of about 200,000 horses.

At that time, Hong Chengchou only had about 6,000 troops on hand, and he felt very troubled, so he had to write to the Ming court, but the Ming court still had the extra strength to give him.

Hong Chengchou's distress signal was like a mud cow entering the sea, and it was gone.

In June, the Ming army and the peasant army launched a big battle in the Ranmachuan, this battle played a majestic and courageous role, captured alive the forward Chinese army Liu Honglie, killed the deputy general Ai Wannian, Liu Guozhen, the Ming army collapsed, under the leadership of Liu Chenggong and Wang Ximing, fled in a hurry.

After the battle report of Ai Wannian and Liu Guozhen's defeat and death came, Cao Wenzhao, the sworn enemy of the peasant army, was furious, scolded with a daze, and asked Hong Chengchou to let him go out and fight to the death against the rebel army.

And the cunning Hong Chengchou was also confused by his previous great military exploits, coupled with his contempt for the peasant army, so he took it.

Shi Zai: "Cheng Chou said: It is not enough for a non-general to do this." Gu Wu's soldiers have been divided, and there is no one to deal with. The general line, I will be from Jingyang to purification, thinking that the general has stamina. ”

Cao Wenzhao then swaggered with 3,000 soldiers to Gansu, and met the rebel army in the town of Hutou in Zhenning.

The rebel army saw the characteristics of this outlaw who underestimated the enemy and was not afraid of his so-called "daring to fight" name, and adopted the tactic of luring the enemy into depth, "ambushing tens of thousands of horsemen to surround and arrows to gather." ”

Cao Wenzhao was besieged, and knowing that he could not get out, he drew his sword and killed himself.

After Cao Wenzhao's death, in order to beautify his suicide, the landlord literati also made up various stories, the most famous one claimed: "The thief doesn't know that Wen Zhao is also, and there are pawns who are in a hurry, shouting: "The general save me!" The traitor among the thieves knew it, and the thief said: "This Cao Zongbing is also." "The thief is happy, and the siege is urgent. Wen Zhao jumped left and right, killing dozens of people with his hands, and turning for several miles. Unable to do anything, he drew his sword and killed himself.

This story shows more profoundly that the landlord class is weak, and only dares to attribute failure to such accidental events, and then pities himself and says something like "one misstep becomes a thousand hatreds" to comfort himself, as if his failure was only due to bad luck, and he did not dare to face his doomed fate.

In fact, at that time, Cao Wenzhao's lone army fell into the iron wall of the peasant army, it can be said that it was difficult to fly, he knew that he could not escape, and he was afraid of falling into the hands of the peasant army to be tortured, and he was not willing to become a prisoner of his "generation of famous generals", and chose to commit suicide in despair.

This is just the inevitable fate of a stubborn murderer, and it can be changed by a pawn.

They vigorously preached this so-called tragic hero, but it was only to satisfy their own aesthetic needs based on Confucianism, so to speak, Cao Wenzhao was a tool for them to suppress the uprising and maintain their reactionary rule before his death, and after his death, he became a toy for them to demagogue, anesthetize the people, and satisfy their own tastes.

But he is to blame for all this, in fact, if he really knew about the praise of those landlords and literati after his death, he might still be proud and proud.

Hong Chengchou beat his chest and cried bitterly after hearing the news of Cao Wenzhao's suicide, he knew that he had lost a trump card against the peasant army, Zhu Youzhen was also very sad, posthumously presented him as the crown prince and the governor of Zuodu, and gave him a funeral ceremony, so that his descendants had the official position of hereditary commander of the affairs, and ordered the relevant departments to build a temple for him, and pay tribute in spring and autumn every year.

He wants to rely on these superficial work to win the hearts of the world, let the military generals learn from Cao Wenzhao, and die for him, how can this kind of carving insect skill succeed.

At this time, the Ming court was completely corrupted from the inside out, and the officials, big and small, had their own plans, and everyone only wanted their own selfish interests, ignoring the people and the world.

These tricks are just self-comforting.

After the death of Cao Wenzhao in history, "the thieves are celebrated." "When the officials and soldiers of Yuchu outside the Guanxi heard it, they were all angry. It can be seen that this battle greatly increased the morale of the peasant army and destroyed the prestige of the ruling class.

Wei Bao is very aware of Cao Wenzhao's 'great military exploits' in history, so he has always been very conflicted about using Cao Wenzhao.

With the power in Wei Bao's hands, whether it is Cao Wenzhao, or Wu Sangui, or Zu Dashou, or even Mao Wenlong's subordinates, Wei Bao can be easily killed by a group of fierce generals who later defected to Houjin in the original history.

But Webo won't change history.

For the use of Cao Wenzhao, Wei Bao is also unique.

Let Cao Wenzhao guard the Jianchang camp at the same time, and divide most of the people to build the Qian'an Reservoir.

The famous warrior became the first engineering unit in the Ming army.

If future generations knew that Cao Wenzhao was used by Wei Bao as the commander of the engineering corps, I am afraid that they would die of laughter.

Although Wei Bao is well-informed, he is not well-informed about everything.

Wei Bao knew that there was a reservoir here, and he originally wanted to lead the emperor to see the prototype, but he didn't expect that it was already there.

Wei Bao knew that this was all the credit of Cao Wenzhao, "Your Majesty, you see, this is the Qian'an Reservoir, a small reservoir, here, Weichen has planned more than 20 reservoirs, as long as these reservoirs are completed, the drought and floods in this area will be greatly alleviated, not to mention the fertile fields, at least it can ensure that this area will not be short of food!" Weichen This is his own money, before doing these things, Weichen didn't think that His Majesty could let the household give Weichen a white slip. ”

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he was deeply moved, and at the same time he was shocked by the huge reservoir project, and nodded again and again: "Wei Aiqing, this is the reservoir?" How to store water? How to release water? ”

Wei Bao smiled and explained the purpose of the reservoir to the emperor one by one.

The emperor was very interested, and regardless of the wind and cold, he walked around and looked around.

Cao Wenzhao got the report and hurriedly brought people to pay homage to the emperor and Grandpa Wei.

Because they were garrisons, they had not received the news that the emperor was passing by, and they needed to pay homage and need them to defend, so they did not go to the side of the road in advance to wait to greet the holy car.

"The last general does not know that the holy car is coming, and the sin deserves death." Cao Wenzhao was only wearing thin shoulders, revealing two strong arms, and he was really a fierce general with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, with two bare knees underneath, and his pants were rolled up, and he was not afraid of the cold.

In fact, Cao Wenzhao is not particularly big, and he is not the same figure as a boxer, but he is very strong, and his muscles are all piece by piece, giving people a very powerful feeling.

Zhu Youxiao was very moved to see the soldiers and generals working so hard in the cold and freezing.

"You have worked hard, why are you rushing to work in the cold?" Zhu Youxiao asked gently.

"Back to Your Majesty, it was the last general's mentor, Lord Wei, who asked the last general to repair the reservoir." Cao Wenzhao replied: "The last general wants to take advantage of the drought in winter to hurry up and rush to work, and when the spring flood season comes, he will not be in a hurry." ”