Chapter 29 [Great Liang Empire]

The army had just arrived to the west of Qixian County, and before they had time to set up camp, Shi Jianjiao and Li Siqiu each led 300 cavalry, waving the banner of the Liang army, putting on the clothes of the Liang army, taking advantage of the darkness of the dusk, they killed the camp gate, killed the guards, rushed in and set fire everywhere, fired bows and arrows indiscriminately, and made a fuss for a while.

Before he left, Liang Ying was chaotic and chaotic, and he hadn't figured out what was going on. Those with broken arms ran back and said, "The army of the King of Jin is here!" Zhu Wen was so frightened that he burned the camp overnight and fled, but he got lost again on the way, stumbling and walking for a hundred and fifty miles before fleeing back to Jizhou.

Along the road to abandon the baggage equipment, countless, the wall fell down and everyone pushed, the local peasants hated the Liang army for plundering, seeing them retreat, they all picked up hoes, chased and killed the stragglers, the Liang army thought it was a chasing soldier, and was even more afraid,

ran faster, and finally Zhu Wen got the information, saying that Li Cunqiao's army had not yet arrived, and it was only Shi Xianxian's guerrilla troops who came. When Zhu Wen heard this, he was ashamed and angry, and since then his illness has become even worse, and he can't even sit in a sedan chair.

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In 904, when Zhu Wen's campaign to destroy Tang Jianliang was in full swing, news came from the family that Mrs. Zhang was seriously ill and was afraid that she would die soon.

Before dying, Mrs. Zhang said to Zhu Wen: "Since you have the ambition to establish a hegemony, I will not stop you." But it's easy to get on the stage and hard to get down, so you should still think twice. If you can really ascend to the throne and realize your great ambition, I have one last word, please write it down. Zhu Wen hurriedly said: "If there is anything to say, I will definitely obey." ”

Madame said slowly: "You are heroic and outstanding, and I am at ease about other things, but sometimes I unjustly kill my subordinates and are greedy for wine, which makes people often worried. Therefore, you must remember the four words of 'quit killing far away'! If you can say yes. Then I can go with peace of mind. "After that, the fragrance is gone.

Although with Zhu Wen's power in full swing, there are always all kinds of women around him, one thing is for sure that Mrs. Zhang is the woman Zhu Wen loves the most in his life.

Mrs. Zhang's real name is Zhang Hui, and according to legend, Zhu Wen did not like to plow the fields since he was a child. He likes to hunt and often takes a bow and arrow to the mountains to hunt for game.

One day, Zhu Wen and his second brother Zhu Zheng were hunting in the suburbs of Songzhou and met Zhang Hui, the daughter of a wealthy family who was making incense in Longyuan Temple at that time.

Zhang Hui was the daughter of Zhang Rui, the then assassin of Songzhou, who was gentle and beautiful. Zhu Wen fell in love with Zhang Hui at first sight, and was shocked, and said to his second brother: "In the past, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty once said: 'Shi Eun should be regarded as the ruling Jinwu, and marrying a wife should be like Yin Lihua. ’

Yin Lihua that day was probably just like that. And I can't become Emperor Guangwu of Han! One day, I will have to marry Zhang Nu as my wife. Zhu Cun ridiculed him for not being able to do anything, the shrimp and toad wanted to eat swan meat, and he didn't take Zhu Wen's words too seriously.

In the second year of Emperor Qianfu (875), the Huangchao Rebellion broke out, and the peasant army passed through Songzhou, and Zhu Wen and Zhu Cun joined the peasant rebel army, when Zhu Wen was twenty-six years old. Soon after. Zhu Wen relied on his strong body and courage to charge. Everyone doesn't want to die, they have to be made up as the captain.

At this time, Zhu Wen was not like other peasant army generals, who arbitrarily used the captured women of good families as his wife's room, but he never forgot the Zhang family, and even wanted to see the lover of his dreams again. He also instigated Huangchao to send troops to attack Songzhou. Unexpectedly, Zhang Rui, the assassin of Songzhou, had already left his post, and the later assassin Shi held on to the city, coupled with the continuous arrival of imperial court reinforcements, the peasant army finally returned in vain.

Due to Zhu Wen's bravery and good fighting on the battlefield and his repeated military exploits, he was in the first month of the second year of Zhonghe (882). Huang Chao appointed Zhu Wen as the defense history of Tongzhou and asked him to lead troops to recapture Tongzhou from the Tang army.

The Tang Dynasty's Tongzhou Assassin Shi Micheng abandoned the city and fled to the river, and Zhu Wen successfully occupied Tongzhou. Just when Zhu Wen was in the history of the defense of Tongzhou, he unexpectedly met Zhang Hui again. At that time, Zhang Hui was unable to survive in the troubled times due to the death of her parents, and she had already become a refugee, living in Tongzhou, and was plundered by Zhu Wen's subordinates.

Zhu Wen recognized Zhang Hui and was ecstatic. But Zhang Hui didn't know Zhu Wen at all, and when she learned that Zhu Wen was her fellow countryman, and she had been obsessed with her a few years ago, and had never forgotten it, so that she had not married yet, she couldn't help but be very moved.

Zhu Wen took the opportunity to ask for warmth and offered to marry her. Zhang Hui was in a situation where his family was ruined and displaced, and when he saw that Zhu Wen was indeed in true love, he agreed. In order to show the grandeur, Zhu Wen also went to great lengths to find Zhang Hui's uncle, and according to the ancient rites, three media and six hires, and chose auspicious marriage.

A few days later, Zhu Wen married Zhang with great fanfare, Zhu Wen wore official clothes, Zhang Huizhu surrounded the greenery, and worshiped Ruyi in the hall with red candles and high fever, which was rumored to be a strange talk for a while.

It is said that in a person's life, the father determines what kind of beginning he has, and he determines the process, while the wife determines his end.

The reason why Zhu Wen was able to achieve hegemony was largely due to his wife Zhang Hui. Zhang Hui has both a gentle side and a heroic side, and while taking care of Zhu Wen, he often has a plan that Zhu Wen admires. In front of this wife who is both rigid and soft, virtuous and witty, Zhu Wen's cunning seems shallow, and the irritable Zhu Wen has also restrained a lot. Not only is he in charge of internal affairs, but also foreign affairs often convince Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wenfan often consulted Zhang Hui when he couldn't make a decision on major events, and Zhang Hui's analysis and prediction often hit the nail on the head, which made Zhu Wenmao pause. Therefore, Zhu Wen became more and more in awe and admiration for Zhang Hui. Sometimes Zhu Wen had already led his troops to the battle, but he was caught up by a messenger sent by Zhang Hui on the way, saying that the battle situation was unfavorable, and on the order of Mrs. Zhang, he asked him to return to the camp quickly, and Zhu Wen immediately ordered the troops to return.

Zhu Wen's nature is cunning and suspicious, coupled with the harsh war environment, the life-and-death competition between the princes, even more suspicious of Zhu Wen's subordinates, and execute soldiers at every turn, which will inevitably affect internal unity and combat effectiveness, Zhang Hui is also very clear about this, so he tried his best to restrain Zhu Wen's behavior, so that Zhu Wen group can reduce internal friction as much as possible and be consistent with the outside world.

Zhu Wen's eldest son Zhu Youyu was ordered to attack Zhu Jin, but did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, Zhu Wen was very angry, suspected that he had fornicated with Zhu Jin, intended to rebel, and frightened Zhu Youyu to flee into the mountains and hide. In order to reconcile their father and son, Zhang Hui privately sent someone to take him back and ask Zhu Wen for his guilt. Zhu Wen was furious and ordered someone to tie Zhu Youyu out and behead him.

At this time, Zhang Hui hurriedly ran out of the inner room with bare feet, grabbed Zhu Youyu's arm and cried to Zhu Wen: "He came back to ask you for his guilt, doesn't this show that he did not rebel?" Why kill him? Juwen looked at his wife and son. His heart softened, and he finally pardoned Zhu Youyu.

After Zhu Jin was defeated and fled, his wife was captured by Zhu Wen, Zhang Hui saw that Zhu Wen had evil thoughts, so he asked Zhu Jin's wife to come, and Zhu Jin's wife hurriedly bowed to Zhang Hui. After Zhang Hui returned the salute, yes

She said from the bottom of her heart: "We have the same surname, and we should live in harmony." Their brothers fought each other over a trivial matter, causing my sister to fall to such a point, if Bianzhou is lost one day, then I will be the same as you are today. ”

After saying that, tears flowed. Zhu Wen was also deeply touched on the side, thinking that he was ashamed of Zhu Jin, if there was no reinforcement from Zhu Jin at the beginning. He will not defeat Qin Zongquan and gain a firm foothold in Henan. In the end, Zhu Wen sent Zhu Jin's wife to the temple to be a nun, but Zhang Hui never forgot this unfortunate woman, and often asked people to send clothes and food to make up for Zhu Wen's mistakes.

After Zhang Hui's death, not only Zhu Wen was sad and wept, but even many soldiers were sad. Because Juwen is suspicious. often indiscriminately kills subordinates, and no one dares to come out to intercede when they kill. Only Zhang Hui often came out to rescue after learning about it,

A few gentle words calmed Zhu Wen's anger, so many of the rescued soldiers were grateful to Zhang Hui, and other soldiers were also full of admiration for Zhang Hui's love for the soldiers. Zhang Hui is kind, and the same is true for Zhu Wen's two concubines,

Without the slightest jealousy. Zhu Wen because of Zhang Hui's virtuousness. did not like the new and dislike the old like others, and there were groups of wives and concubines. However, after Zhang Hui's death, Zhu Wen indulged in his voice and forgot his wife's advice when she was dying.

The defeat of Baixiang was not long after. Zhu Wen went to the home of Zhang Quanyi, who was then Yin in Henan, to escape the summer. Seeing that the woman in Zhang's mansion was quite attractive, Zhu Wen became interested in it, although my friend's wife should not be bullied, but I am a villain, who am I afraid of,

What's more, he didn't say that his subordinates' daughters couldn't be bullied, so he ignored everything that this loyal hero who raised food for him in the southern and northern wars and made great contributions to him had done for him, from Zhang Quanyi's wife to his daughter-in-law and daughter,

almost ruined the women of the Zhang family, Zhang Quanyi could only turn a blind eye for the life of the family, and seek compromise.

His son Zhang Jizuo couldn't bear it anymore and was about to kill Zhu Wen, but Zhang Quanyi stopped him and said: "Back then, when our family was in Heyang, we were besieged by Li Hanzhi and could only barely survive by eating sawdust. After being so stubbornly pulled by his father and persuaded by his mother-in-law, Zhang Jizuo stopped angrily.

In fact, Zhang Quanyi couldn't swallow this breath, it's just that people are swordsmen, and I am fish and meat, taking care of the overall situation.

It's okay to spoil other people's women, Zhu Wen stretched out his claws to his daughter-in-law at this time. After Empress Zhang passed away, he often summoned his daughters-in-law into the palace to serve him.

The wife of the righteous son Zhu Youwen, Zhang, is very beautiful, and Zhu Wen loves her very much, so her husband is expensive to his wife, and Zhu Wen also likes Zhu Youwen very much.

Zhu Youwen, whose name is Deming, whose real name is Kang Qin, was very handsome when he was young, very studious, good at talking, and wrote poems very well, so he was adopted by Zhu Wen as his adopted son. When Zhu Wen was also the envoy of the Four Towns, Zhu Youwen was appointed as the envoy of the salt and iron system.

Zhu Wen used troops in all directions, and Zhu Youwen levied and gathered for military needs. After Zhu Wen ascended the throne, he levied the original four towns of Xuanwu, Xuanyi, Tianping, and Huguo, placed the head of Jianchang Palace, and appointed Zhu Youwen as an envoy and the king of Bo. In the first month of the third year of Kaiping of the Later Liang Dynasty (909), the Later Liang moved the capital to Luoyang from the Great Liang, and Zhu Wen stayed behind in Kaifeng, the eastern capital, with Zhu Youwen.

The reuse of his adopted son Zhu Youwen caused great displeasure to his biological son Zhu Youwen. Zhu Youqi is the third son of Zhu Wen, and his mother is a prostitute in Bozhou, that is, a comfort woman in the army.

Regarding the camp prostitutes, the earliest camp appeared in the Yue Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the inventor was the Yue King Goujian, who "tasted courage on a lying salary". "Wu Yue Chunqiu" records: Yue Wang Goujian lost the widow on the mountain, and the envoy's worries traveled to entertain him. However, it was not until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the establishment of camps was established as a system.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was an emperor with great talent and great achievements, and he used a lot of troops to recruit foreign countries for many years, so how to stabilize the morale of the army and improve morale became a very important issue, and setting up a battalion was one of the measures in this regard.

There are also many records about the battalion in later history, such as the Three Kingdoms era, when the Wei general Xiahou Chun had a meritorious service in conquering Sun Quan, Cao Cao gave him "prostitution and famous prostitution" to enjoy in the army.

Another example is the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when Zhang Zhaoda of the Southern Liang Dynasty was ordered to go on the expedition, "every time he eats and drinks, he will have female tricks and miscellaneous music, prepare the voice of Qiang Hu, the rhythm and posture, and the wonder of the moment, although he is in the face of the enemy and the Buddha is wasted".

This means that there are many organizations in the army such as the Twelve Women's Bands, and playing musical instruments, playing and singing is also one of the duties of the camp prostitutes. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the emperor was abolished, "every time he came and went, he called himself Liu Tong, or called himself General Li."

Adulteration with the women of the camp next to the right guard, every time he travels from there, he holds thousands of dollars for wine and food. "The right guard in this camp is actually a camp prostitute. In the Tang and Song dynasties, local government offices or military towns often set up "camp offices" or "music camps" to gather officials.

Among them, the women who serve exclusively in the army are called battalions. The food and clothing of this battalion were supplied by the government, and their bodies belonged to the officers and soldiers, and they could be summoned at will, of course, the best of them could be monopolized by some generals for a certain period of time.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the battalion began to die out and no longer appeared in the history books, the reason may be that the wind of science is flourishing, and the military women are no longer so upright and bright. After Ming Chengzu seized the throne of Emperor Jianwen, because many civil ministers and military generals opposed him in the "Battle of Jingyan", he put the wives and daughters of these people into the workshop.

Many people became soldiers because of this and were humiliated by the sergeants in every way, such as Emperor Yongle wrote nakedly in his edict: In December of the second year of Yongle, the title of the teaching workshop: Zhuo Jingnu, Yang Nuniu, and Jing Liu were unlicensed, and according to the example of Xie Sheng's wife Han, they were sent to Hong Guogong to transfer to the camp and stay in the camp (please see clearly, it is a transfer camp).

It is recorded in the "Fengtian Punishment Reward Record": On the eleventh day of the first month of the eleventh year of Yongle, the right Shao dance Deng Cheng of this division (Jiaofang Division) is equal to the right shun door, there are the treacherous Qi Tai's sister and two nieces and daughters-in-law, and Huang Zicheng's sister, four women, twenty men guard every day and night. The youngest were pregnant, and on New Year's Eve, they gave birth to a little turtle and a three-year-old daughter.

Fengqin: It's up to him. When the small one grows to the big one, it is a money clay tree. Again, Huang Zicheng's wife gave birth to a small girl, and she is now ten years old.

Also, the Shi family has a little girl from Tie Xuan's family. Fengqin: It's up to him. These innocent women were tattooed on their faces and trampled on at will.

Because it was the eleventh year of Yongle (1413), the child born to Huang Zicheng's wife was ten years old, apparently born after the Jiaofang Division was ruined.

After the Qing Dynasty, there was a kind of "maritime Guangdong" in modern China, called "saltwater girl", which was also a kind of disguised camp. And Zhu Youqi's mother is such a hard-working battalion. (To be continued......)