Let's go back and talk about Wang Pu.

After leaving Suzhou, I walked for three days and three nights by waterway and finally arrived in Nanjing.

Nanjing, also known as Jinling, is a tiger standing on the dragon plate, and stands majestically in the south of the Yangtze River.

Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Southern Dynasties Song, Qi, Liang, Chen Zeng successively set their capitals here, this is the origin of the six dynasties in the "Six Dynasties Gold Powder", if you add the later Southern Tang Dynasty, Southern Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China, that is the real ancient capital of the Ten Dynasties, which can be described as having a long history.

When it comes to Jinling, you can't mention the Qinhuai River, and you can't mention the Qinhuai River without mentioning the Qinhuai Bayan.

The so-called Qin Huai Bayan refers to Liu Rushi, Li Xiangjun, Dong Xiaowan, Li Shiniang, Chen Yuanyuan, Gu Mei, Kou Baimen, and Bian Yujing, eight Nanqu celebrities who lived in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were two kinds of women in Jiangnan, one was a prostitute who specialized in the skin and meat business, that is, today's popular sense of the girl, called Beiqu, and the other is the art of selling art without selling her body, called Nanqu, also called the old song, which is almost a female star in today's entertainment industry, but it is definitely more versatile than the current female star.

Liu Ruyi and other eight Yanji are such art records, they can poetry, painting, singing and dancing, which can be described as a double masterpiece of color and art.

In the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan Shilin has always taken the record of ** as a graceful thing, and when friends gather, they often invite a few Nanqu celebrities to accompany them, and Nanqu celebrities are also happy to make friends with Shilin people, because Shilin people can use their poems, paintings, articles and their own fame to advertise and publicize Nanqu celebrities.

This is actually a transaction, Nanqu celebrities use their laughter and talents to entertain the Shilin people, in exchange for the Shilin people's praise of them, unfortunately, many Nanqu celebrities do not know this, and often invest too much in the Shilin people in the process of making friends, but the final result is often unsatisfactory.

Most of the scholars at the end of the Ming Dynasty talked about misleading the country, and did not dare to take responsibility, but they liked to fight and dump each other, which was not an isolated phenomenon, but a common phenomenon of that era, under the dual stimulation of the distorted Cheng Zhu Lixue and the imperial examination system, the values and outlook on life of those Confucian scholars in the late Ming Dynasty have also been completely distorted.

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The officials of the Sixth Ministry, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Guozijian, and Yingtianfu, as well as the large and small relatives in Nanjing, have gathered outside the Chaoyang Gate and are lining up to welcome Wang Pu's victorious return, and Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to solemnly welcome Wang Pu with the gift of Qincha, and the officials of Nanjing certainly did not dare to slack off.

What is Chincha?

Even if it is just a little groom, as long as he wears the title of "Qincha" on his head, he will immediately become the representative of the emperor, which is equivalent to the emperor's royal drive, who dares not to greet him?

The Nanjing gentry and the people who learned the news also flocked to Chaoyangmen, wanting to see the demeanor of Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, of course, they wanted to see if the Jiannunu chief Taiji was really as rumored to be, three feet tall, eyes as big as bells, and cracked tigers and leopards.

In the folk, storytellers all describe Nurhachi and Huang Taiji father and son in this way.

When it was almost noon, a large group of people finally appeared on the official road in the distance, and hundreds of thousands of Nanjing people who were crowded and waiting outside the Chaoyang Gate suddenly thundered with joy, shaking the mountains and wilderness.

Wang Pu took the lead in walking at the front of the team, and when he saw the grand scene of this crowd of people outside Nanjing, he couldn't help but be taken aback.

In fact, Wang Pu didn't know that since the Battle of Salhu, the Ming army has been defeated repeatedly, and the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Empire have reached the point of being frightened by the name of Jiannu.

This is also the whole reason why Wang Pu was so warmly welcomed on the way from Songshan Mansion to Nanjing, and even Zhang San, a barefoot water coward who was rampant in Taihu Lake, sincerely thought that Wang Pu was a big hero!

Chang Yanling and Li Zushu deliberately took a few steps behind, giving up a conspicuous position to Wang Pu and the others, Zhen Youcai, Scarface and Xiao Qi, who were riding behind Wang Pu, were already trembling with excitement, and Scarface even had red eyes, and said to Wang Pu with a whimper: "General, if they are all there with big beards, how good would it be?" ”

Wang Pu nodded, and said in a deep voice: "We will always remember the beard, and all the brothers who failed to return to Daming alive, today's honor should belong to them, they exchanged their lives!" ”

At this time, He Xiongxiang, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites [the six departments of the Ming Dynasty were headed by the Ministry of Rites, followed by the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of War was at the end], and Zhao Zhilong, the governor of Nanjing and the Bo of Xincheng, had already greeted him with officials and relatives, and Wang Pu hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and met with the main officials headed by him.

To say that Wang Pu is just a small general soldier, he is not qualified to rank with these six departments, the high-ranking officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the honorable relatives, let alone let them wait outside the Chaoyang Gate to greet them, but three days ago, Emperor Chongzhen issued a holy decree and added the title of "Qincha" to Wang Pu, which is not trivial.

With the support of the two small officials, He Xiongxiang, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, walked up to Wang Pu tremblingly with a pot of wine, and said respectfully: "General Wang is like a god with soldiers, and he directly smashes Huang Longsheng to capture the slave chieftain, and the military morale of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is great, and the lower officials respectfully leave millions of people in the capital to pay tribute to Wang Zongbing. ”

A small official had already taken a wine glass, and waited for He Xiongxiang to pour it and send it to Wang Pu.

Wang Pu took the wine glass, turned to face the northeast, looked at the direction of Liaodong, and said with a solemn expression: "The last general wants to borrow this cup of wine from Lord He to pay tribute to all the Ming soldiers who died on the Songshan front, if it were not for the desperate fight and bloody battlefield of these thousands of Ming soldiers, all the troops of Jiannu were attracted to the Songshan front, and it would be impossible for my Wang Pu to break through Shengjing, let alone capture the slave chieftain Taiji!" ”

With that, Wang Pu turned the wine glass and solemnly spilled the wine on the ground.

He Xiongxiang poured a full glass of wine for Wang Pu again, and Wang raised his glass and said solemnly: "This second cup of wine, the end will be to pay tribute to hundreds of millions of Ming people, including millions of people in Liudu, if it weren't for your frugality, from your mouth, from between your teeth, for my border army soldiers to pay for food, the border army soldiers will never have today!" ”

"Well, well said!" He Xiongxiang was so excited that his old face trembled slightly, and he gasped, "General Wang is meritorious but not arrogant, noble but not arrogant, which is commendable!" The old man has been an official for 50 years, although he has made no achievements but has never done anything wrong, this innocent body is confident that he can also represent millions of people in Liudu, this glass of wine, the old man will do it for the people of Liudu and the people in the world! ”

After that, He Xiongxiang took the wine glass and drank it all.

The Ming Dynasty is the most cruel dynasty in which the ministers were persecuted by the emperor, but because the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty ruled by the Han people, it was also the dynasty in which the ministers dared to speak out, and it was also a dynasty in which a large number of ministers and loyal ministers emerged at the same time, in short, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most complex and incomprehensible dynasty in China's thousands of years of feudal history!

Wang Pu first respected the soldiers of the border army who died in battle, and then respected the people of the world, but deliberately disrespected Emperor Chongzhen in Yanjing City, which catered to the temper of the imperial historians in Nanjing like He Xiongxiang, who had always advocated that "the people of the world are important, and the monarch is light", and naturally won their favor.

"Okay, Master He's sleeves are breezy enough to represent all the people in the world."

Wang Pu took the lead in applauding, and they all applauded, Wang Pu turned around and waved his hand, and the two columns of family members behind him suddenly gave way, and the four teams of Jinyi guards had already escorted four prisoner cars forward, and the escorts in the prisoner carts were naturally Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, Hai Lanzhu and Bumu Butai.

The people of Nanjing, who were crowded around the Chaoyang Gate, suddenly cheered like a frying pan.

In the overwhelming shouts and cheers, He Xiongxiang said to Wang Pu: "General soldier Wang, please!" ”

Wang Pu hurriedly replied with a solemn salute: "Lord He, please, my lords, please." ”

He Xiongxiang and Zhao Zhilong accompanied Wang Pu on the left and right, and the rest of the officials followed behind, walking on the red felt in turn, followed by four prisoner cars.

The people of Nanjing, crowded on both sides of the official road, were like crazy, frantically smashing things on the prisoner car, eggs, tomatoes, and whatever they could get in their hands.

In the afternoon of the same day, He Xiongxiang and other officials held a banquet at the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Wang Pu.

Then it was a three-day parade on the street, Wang Pu wore the "general's dress" given by Emperor Chongzhen, and took his family to escort Huang Taiji and Dai Shan to swagger through the city, according to the cheers of the Ming people who came to Nanjing from four miles and eight towns, Wang Pu and his more than 200 family members were really too much of a hero's addiction.

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