Seeing that Su Hao still looked ignorant, Tu Wenhuan introduced this General Deng Wuqiao to him in detail, it turned out that this person was actually a well-known figure in Fengcheng, but Su Hao, as a country otaku, was just ignorant of this.

Deng Wuqiao, named Zilong, Wuqiao is his word, a native of Dengjia Village, Dushi Town, Fengcheng County, born in the tenth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1531 AD, he is 58 years old this year.

According to Tu Wenhuan, Deng Zilong offended the township Haokun because of his chivalrous deeds in his early years, and was forced to travel all over the world, and his life was very difficult. When he was 23 years old, he met an old man at Baiyun Nunnery at the east gate of Fengcheng, and he started to do it because of a verbal conflict, but the young and strong Deng Zilong was not the old man's opponent and was defeated by the opponent's fists and feet.

Deng Zilong inquired carefully, and it turned out that this old man was none other than Luo Hongxian, the champion of Jiajing's eighth year and a native of Jishui. In history, Luo Hongxian "is willing to be indifferent, practice cold and summer, leaping horses to save strength, study the map and view history, from astronomy, geography, etiquette, codes, canals, border plugs, battle formations to attack and defend, under the grasp of yin and yang, arithmetic, not sophisticated; To talents, officials, national economy, and people's feelings, Xijia consulted", in today's words, it is simply a super cow.

Luo Hong was removed from his post in the eighteenth year of Jiajing because he offended Jiajing in his letter, and since then he has traveled all over the world. When Deng Zilong met Luo Hongxian, Luo Hongxian was already in his 50s and lived in Fengcheng. Luo Hong first took a fancy to Deng Zilong's integrity and talent, so he accepted him as an apprentice and taught him the Book of Boxing, the Art of War, the Formation Diagram, and the Liujia Sutra. In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, Deng Zilong participated in the Wuju Township Examination, and with his outstanding performance, he successfully lifted people in Chinese style.

After the middle move, the Jiangxi Patrol and the Two Courts immediately gave Deng Zilong a chance to lead his troops to quell the thief rebellion in Zhangshu Town, and the first battle was won. Subsequently, due to the troubles of the Japanese in the coastal areas of Fujian, Deng Zilong was invited to lead the Jiangxi guest troops into Fujian to fight against the Japanese and stationed in Quanzhou, Fujian. In the following ten years, he successively moved to the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, and after hundreds of battles, he made great achievements.

In the second year of Wanli, Deng Zilong was transferred back to Jiangxi, and successively served as the general manager of Fuzhou and the garrison of Poyang. In the fifth year of Wanli, Deng Zilong pacified the Li Daluan uprising on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi, in order to strengthen the control of the local area, he led 3000 troops to garrison a place called Tonggushi, and later this place gradually prospered, and in the early years of the Republic of China, Tonggu County was established.

Later, Deng Zilong went to Zhejiang as a general to guard the coastal defense in Ningbo. In the ninth year of Wanli, Deng Zilong was ordered to enter Guizhou, appointed Wujing as a general, and quelled the "Wukai Mutiny" in one fell swoop.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, the Donghu Dynasty of Burma attacked the border of Yunnan, Deng Zilong led 3,000 Jiangxi soldiers to aid Yunnan, and successively won the victory of Yaoguan Yancaopo, Panzhihua, Wandian, Gengma Sanjianshan and other battles, and then together with the troops led by Liu Wei, a native of Nanchang, conquered the deputy capital of Burma, Ava, captured the traitor Yue Feng who colluded with the Burmese invaders, and pacified the Burmese rebellion in one fell swoop.

After the victory of the war, Deng Zilong and Liu Wei were both added to the rank of deputy commander-in-chief and stationed in Yunnan.

Of course, the most famous deeds of Deng Zilong happened after the era in which Su Hao lived. It was in the 26th year of Wanli, and the 70-year-old Deng Zilong was appointed as the deputy general of the Ming Dynasty's naval division and led the naval army to fight against the Japanese in Korea. In the crucial Battle of Luliang, Deng Zilong, together with Yi Sunsin, a general of the Korean naval division, inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese invaders, sinking more than 400 enemy ships and killing more than 10,000 enemies. It was in this battle that Deng Zilong died in the line of duty.

Although Su Hao is a traverser, because he is an engineering man, he doesn't know much about Deng Zilong, a hero who has gone down in history. On the contrary, for Luo Hongxian mentioned by Tu Wenhuan, Su Hao has admired his name for a long time. It turned out that after Luo Hongxian was dismissed, he traveled around and carefully drew a two-volume "Guangyu Map". This is the earliest provincial atlas in Chinese history, which uses 24 kinds of newly created legend symbols, which greatly enriches the ancient science of public opinion, and Luo Hongxian is known as the greatest cartographer in ancient China. As a geologist, Su Hao is relatively familiar with this allusion.

"It turns out that there is such a big hero in Fengcheng, and the students have never heard of it, which is really ashamed." After listening to Tu Wenhuan's introduction, Su Hao couldn't help but feel emotional.

Tu Wenhuan said: "Nowadays, the world is like this, the government and the opposition both attach importance to literature and light on martial arts, and the Su brothers have never heard of General Wuqiao's deeds, and it is not surprising. ”

"Emphasizing literature over martial arts is really the way to die." Su Hao commented, "Daming is surrounded by strong enemies, but we are abandoning our martial arts here. When the butcher's knife of the alien race is slashed at our heads one day, will we be able to save ourselves with the writings of the sages? ”

Tu Wenhuan said: "Brother Su's words are a bit shocking. In the 29th year of Jiajing, Altan Khan once came to the city of Beijing, which was known as the Gengxu Change. In the fourth year of Longqing, I agreed to negotiate peace with my Ming Dynasty. In five years, I was named the king of Shunyi, and I paid tribute to each other, and the two sides never saw each other again. In recent years, although Zasaktu Khan of Liaodong and Dong Fox of the Duoyan Department occasionally harassed the border passes, they were not a major problem after all. Brother Su said that Daming was surrounded by strong enemies, where did this start? ”

Su Hao said: "As the saying goes, people have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries. Over the years, my Daming seems to be calm, and there are no major wars around. But as everyone knows, when we put our swords and guns into the warehouse and the horses put in Nanshan, countless opponents are fighting hard and preparing to eat away at the rivers and mountains that swallow us. According to my analysis, there are at least three strong enemies, and we must guard against them. ”

"Three-way strong enemy?" Tu Wenhuan's face became serious, "I want to hear about it." ”

Su Hao said: "The first road comes from the north. In the past 200 years, the threat from the north has never stopped. Although I have signed a peace treaty with the Ming Dynasty, this kind of peace treaty can be torn up at any time. ”

"That's true." Tu Wenhuan nodded in agreement.

"Even if the Ministry of Answers and the Ming Dynasty can get along, the other departments on the grassland may also pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty. Even if it is an inconspicuous Jurchen tribe now, it may not become a big problem for Da Ming in the future. Su Hao said generally. As a traverser, he knew that it was the Jianzhou Jurchens who had just risen to the end of the Ming Dynasty, but to say this directly now was too advanced, and I was afraid that Deng Wenhuan would not believe it when he heard it, so he could only elaborate on it.

Tu Wenhuan has been in the military department, and he has been a staff member with Deng Zilong for many years, so he has some understanding of military affairs, so he agrees with Su Hao's analysis. He nodded and said, "Well, the threat from the north is indeed everywhere. So, where is the second way that Brother Su said? ”

"The second way is the Japanese in the east." Su Hao said, "The trouble of the Japanese is definitely not just harassing my Daming coastal area and looting some property. Once their strength is sufficient, they will definitely concentrate their army and invade our Ming Dynasty. Tu Lao thought about it, at present, the Japanese are only attacking in a small and sporadic way, which has already exhausted our coastal soldiers and civilians, once the Japanese invade with tens of thousands of people, how should we deal with it? ”

"This ......" Tu Wenhuan hesitated a little, "Brother Su thinks that it is really possible for the Japanese to gather tens of thousands of people and invade my Daming?" ”

"Totally." Su Hao said with certainty, from the First Sino-Japanese War to the July Seven Incident, didn't the Japanese just have to invade China step by step? In the Ming Dynasty, Japan's strength was indeed not enough to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China, but its ambition to occupy China had already been born early. In Su Hao's impression, Japan once launched a war of aggression against Korea during the Wanli period, and the invasion of Korea was the prelude to the invasion of China.

"Well, the Japanese can also be regarded as a strong enemy all the way." Tu Wenhuan nodded again, although he didn't fully believe what Su Hao said, he still understood the truth of being prepared for danger in times of peace. He felt that with a country talent like Su Hao, it was already very difficult to think of the threat of the Japanese Invaders.

"This third way is what we usually call the Francophone man. They are actually many countries, including England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, etc., collectively known as Europe. More than 100 years ago, Europeans began the Age of Discovery, conquering and plundering along the way. At present, their strength is still relatively weak, and the road from Europe to Daming is long, it is difficult for them to organize a large-scale force to invade our Daming. But I expect that with the completion of the technological revolution in Europe, the Europeans will be more powerful than ever before, and they will be our greatest threat at that time. Su Hao said.

Su Hao was alarmist there, Tu Wenhuan didn't feel anything, but the pro-soldiers next to him couldn't listen to it. Deng Kui put the wine glass on the table and said with a bit of wine:

"Su Xiucai, in the matter of well exploration, I, Deng Kui, can be regarded as convincing you, but when it comes to fighting, you Xiucai are just the ability to talk on paper. You said that this is also a threat, and that is also a big trouble, where did you put me and other Ming soldiers?

I haven't seen this Franc man, but I've heard my General Deng and Mr. Tu talk about it. They just had blue eyes and a higher nose, and nothing else was noticed. I heard that this place is very poor, and the people of Franc come to my Ming Dynasty, and they all praise me for being rich in Daming. What threat can a place like this, which is poor and thousands of miles away from my Ming Dynasty, pose a threat to my Ming Dynasty? ”