Chapter 126: An Unexpected Surprise
Historically, among the Wujinshi who were selected by Chongzhen four years later, there were many figures who later played a role in the anti-Qing struggle in the Southern Ming Dynasty, such as Zhu Kezhen from Shunde, Guangdong, Weng Zhiqi from Qiantang, Zhejiang, Pan Yunteng, from Hanzhong, Shaanxi, Lu Yuanding, from Dehua, Jiangxi, and so on. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Among them, after Weng Zhiqi Zhongwu Jinshi, he was appointed as the garrison of Zhoushan, and later commanded the Zhejiang Navy Division, exterminated the pirates along the coast of Zhejiang, and was the chief soldier in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and once led the Yangtze River Water Division, and Huang Degong joined forces to fight against Zuo Liangyu.
Later, the Qing soldiers went south, Huang Degong died in battle, Emperor Hongguang was captured and surrendered, Weng Zhiqi was desperate, and finally chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water, which was the death festival of the Ming Dynasty.
These Wujin warriors who appeared in Chongzhen's four years and later also appeared on the stage of history in advance because of the early holding of the Chongzhen martial arts examination. Including this Weng Zhiqi, Chongzhen did not pass the examination for four years in history, but was the second martial champion after Wang Laihi.
Of course, now it is definitely going to be admitted to the martial arts in advance.
In addition to these characters who have been in Wujinshi in history, especially the characters who made Emperor Chongzhen ecstatic, that is, Yan Yingyuan and Chen Zuoting, who have not been in Wujinshi in history.
Yan Yingyuan is now the most admired hero of the Chongzhen Emperor in later generations, and his glorious deeds of sticking to Jiangyin and resisting the Manchu army are widely known in later generations.
In history, in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Yan Yingyuan was transferred from the post of the head catcher of Tongzhou County to the history of Jiangyin County.
The classic history of the Ming Dynasty is similar to the county public security bureau chief in later generations, and he is naturally a small official in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty, he is just an official who does not enter the stream.
After serving as the canonical history of Jiangyin County for two years, Yan Yingyuan was promoted from the canonical history to the county magistrate of Yingde County, Guangdong because of his outstanding political achievements in the canonical history of exterminating the sea and salt thieves and quelling the bandits and civil rebellion. Unfortunately, the north-south traffic was blocked at that time, and his old mother was seriously ill, so Yan Yingyuan was unable to go to the post and settled outside Jiangyin City to serve his old mother.
Another year later, the Jingshi fell, Emperor Chongzhen died, and the world was in chaos, and the Manchu army marched all the way to the south and hit the vicinity of Jiangyin City.
The county order of Jiangyin at that time had surrendered, but in the face of the Manchu court's shaving order to keep their heads without hair and hair without their heads, the people of Jiangyin were excited and would rather die than surrender.
Yan Yingyuan, who was already in his forties at that time, was soon embraced by the people of Jiangyin as the leader of the anti-Qing Dynasty because of his prestige in the canonical history, and because of his outstanding wisdom and courage and outstanding military organizational talents, and then began the 81-day, arduous, singing and weeping battle of Jiangyin to resist the Qing Dynasty and defend the city.
In this way, Yan Yingyuan took 100,000 Jiangyin people to fight against the 240,000 Manchu army, and actually defended the city for 81 days, making the Manchu army pay the price of more than 70,000 casualties.
Although most of the Manchu troops at this time were the green battalions of the Han army that surrendered to the past, there were also many real Manchurian Tatars among them, and this was one of the reasons why the Manchu army slaughtered the city after the city of Jiangyin was broken.
Now when Emperor Chongzhen is in later generations, whenever he reads the couplet written in blood on the city wall on the day of the city break in Yan Yingyuan's history, he is moved.
Yan Yingyuan's couplet reads: "Eighty days with allegiance, the seventeenth dynasty of Taizu; 100,000 people died with one heart and left 300 miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty. ”
Such a loyal, courageous, martial arts and super capable character now appears in the list of martial arts reported by Shuntianfu, how can Emperor Chongzhen, who knows these historical stories, not be ecstatic?!
Of course, what this Emperor Chongzhen didn't know was that Yan Yingyuan and Wang Laipin, who are now twenty-six or seventeen years old, not only know each other, but also have a good relationship, and have always been called brothers, after all, both of them are heroic figures in the Jingshi realm.
Jingshi said that it was big and big, but it was small and small, although there were many people who practiced martial arts with guns and sticks, but there were only a handful of people who really practiced their skills, and the things that made friends with martial arts with each other were naturally not less than the Shilin Xiucai association at that time to compose poems.
Among them, Wang Lai hired martial arts since childhood, naturally hoping that one day he would be with the emperor's family and embark on a career in office, not only glorifying his ancestors, but also serving the country. Therefore, in the martial arts examination in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Wang Laipin had already won the martial arts.
Yan Yingyuan was born in a family of officials, so his father died and his son succeeded, and at the age of eighteen or nineteen, he became the head of the fast catching team in the Yali of Tongzhou County, so although he was proficient in the art of war, strong martial arts, and outstanding talents, he lost the opportunity to participate in the martial arts examination to change his future and destiny in the original history.
Although all dynasties and dynasties were officials and called the first of the six departments of the imperial court was also called the Ministry of Officials and not the Ministry of Officials, but there was a huge gap between officials and officials in the Ming Dynasty, and it was almost impossible to cross the gap, and more than 99 percent of the officials could not cross this gap in their lifetime.
Moreover, once a person becomes an official official, it will be like selling himself into slavery and becoming a slave or a lowly person, and he will lose the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination.
Therefore, although Yan Yingyuan is strong in martial arts and outstanding talent in history, and belongs to the kind of talent who is excellent in both military and political affairs, he has not had the opportunity to pass the martial arts examination and become an official, so he has been working hard in the rank of officials.
It wasn't until he was over forty years old that Yan Yingyuan, who had outstanding political achievements, had the opportunity to serve as a historian in Jiangyin County.
And now in the first year of Chongzhen, Enke, not only increased the martial arts examination, but also opened the ban, regardless of background, only by ability, whether you are a small official, or even a small official is not as good as a border soldier, or even three teachings and nine streams, as long as you have the ability, you can participate in the examination of Wu Xiucai, Wuju people and even Wu Jinshi.
In this way, Yan Yingyuan, who originally had no chance, naturally took the test as a quasi-child, and entered the list of martial arts examinations unusually smoothly with the first place in the martial arts of Shuntianfu, and finally entered the field of vision of Emperor Chongzhen.
Yan Yingyuan's deeds need not be said more. Now that he has entered the field of vision of Emperor Chongzhen, it is a sure thing to be admitted to Wujinshi.
Another character who surprised Zhu Daming was that Chen Zuoting.
Who Chen Zuoting is, even in later generations, not many people know, but coincidentally, now this Chongzhen Emperor is very interested in the historical figure Li Yan in later generations, and it is also for this reason that he already knows where this Chen Zuoting is in later generations.
Chen Zuoting's mother is Li Xin's aunt, so Chen and Li are a pair of aunts and cousins.
Historically, the reason why Li Xin finally defected to Li Zicheng also has a lot to do with this Chen Songting.
Li Xin and Li Yu, as well as Chen Zuoting, both loved martial arts since childhood, and once worshipped a monk in the Qianzai Temple in Hanoi County, Huaiqing Province as a teacher to learn gun and stick martial arts and internal kung fu.
The three of them are cousins and brothers, and their relationship is naturally extraordinary.
In the four years of Chongzhen in history, the Ming Dynasty opened a martial arts campaign, and the twenty-eight-year-old Chen Zuoting went to Kaifeng to participate in the martial arts township test, and Li Xin and Li Yu brothers naturally accompanied him.
Chen Zuoting is proficient in swords, guns, swords, halberds, bows, horses, and martial arts, and originally thought that he would definitely be lifted, but he played too well in the school field riding and archery, and shot a "phoenix to seize the nest", but the target reporter misreported, saying that his two arrows missed the target, and the examiner sentenced him to be unsuccessful.
The brothers Li Xin and Li Yu were all furious, and finally made a big fuss in the examination room and flattened the examiner, and Chen Zuoting even killed the target official in the school field in anger.
As a result, Chen Zuoting not only failed to be admitted to the martial arts examination, but also could only remain incognito and did not dare to show his face. It was also because of this incident that the Li Xin and Li Yu brothers also ruined their good future.
Later, after Li Zicheng entered Henan, Li Xin, who was unwilling to be buried, finally chose to defect to Li Zicheng under the strong encouragement of his younger brother Li Yu and his cousin Chen Zhuoting.
Later, due to Li Xin's status as a lifter, coupled with his strong martial arts and deep strategy, Li Zicheng was overjoyed and immediately reused. Li Xin then changed his name to Li Yan and began his brilliant but doomed career as a tragic general.
Li Yu was finally killed by Li Zicheng along with Li Xin, who changed his name to Li Yan, while Chen Zuoting escaped with his outstanding martial arts skills after Li Xin and Li Yan's brothers were killed, and returned to his hometown of Chenjiagou in Hanoi, and since then he has lived incognito and seclusion.
And this Chen Zuoting, there is another name that is widely known in later generations, this name is Chen Wangting, which is the founder of Chen's Taijiquan in history.