After resting for the night in Mufeng Town, after Wang Hai sorted out the goods, everyone continued on the road.

This time, the destination was Ningbo. The route is like this, starting from Mufeng Town, taking a boat along the Yao River, arriving at Shangyu County, and then boarding a boat along the Tongming River, passing through Yin County, and arriving at Ningbo Mansion at the end, this time the person Zhengliang wants to see is in Ningbo Mansion. In fact, only from the geographical point of view, it is the fastest to land directly on the Zhoushan Islands in Jiaomen Mountain and Daxie Mountain and then rush to Ningbo Prefecture, but there are not only dense sailors on the sea, but also there are many guards along the coast, for the sake of safety, Wang Hai chose to land directly in Hangzhou Bay, and then turn back to Ningbo, which is more appropriate. But Zhengliang thought about it privately, and estimated that Wang Hai was not afraid of being seized by the sailors on that side, but probably more worried that there were too many places to be dotted along the way, and it was estimated that there would be no benefits along the way, so he chose such a somewhat tortuous route.

Along the river, it only takes less than half an hour to get from Mufeng Town to Shangyu County. Sitting on the boat all the way forward, Masahiro really felt the scenery of the water town. Small bridges, flowing water, people's ...... The water town is like a hazy ink painting, simple and quiet. The stone arch bridge is inclined on the clear water, or elegant and chic, or exquisitely elegant, and the worn carved railings are printed with the traces of time, which is integrated with the charm of the ancient town. Sitting on the boat, let the cool river water flow from your fingers, cool into your heart. Yingying clear water, wooden boats. The house is built on the waterfront, and the water is connected. Strolling in the ancient town, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, let the sun flow quietly on the skin, and let the poetry dance lightly in the heart. Feeling everything in front of him, Masato couldn't help but think of a poem describing the scenery of the water town:

The mountains are the same color at the end of the year, and the lake is flat and foggy.

The cold clouds are low and the snow is low, and the festival is quiet.

Zhubai Forest stands strictly, and Puhe Suo Moxiu.

Thin and knowledgeable, political and clean.

At noon, the fleet docked at a pier. Not far from the shore is Shangyu County, and if you go down along the river, you will turn into the Tongming River. Got there. Soon it will be time to turn into the mountain trail for walking. Due to the presence of Wang Hai's sales point in Shangyu County, the fleet stopped at the wharf for repairs.

Zhengliang stood on the boat and looked at the city gate of Shangyu County, not far away. I can't help but think of its origins, or rather the humiliating account about it. According to historical records, in 1555 A.D. (the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, that is, fifteen years later). In southern China, there was a rare incident in the history of warfare that was enough to make the Ming Dynasty embarrassed: a group of only 53 Japanese robbers sacked Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, and plundered more than 20 prefectures and counties such as Hangzhou, Yan, Hui, Ning, and Taiping, and approached the city of Nanjing, the capital of Liu. This group of pirates traveled thousands of miles. It took more than 80 days to kill and wound four or five thousand officers and soldiers before they were surrounded and annihilated by the Ming army, which had an absolute superior number.

It turned out that this group of Japanese pirates landed on June 7 in the 34th year of Jiajing (1555) from Shangyu County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, which is the Shangyu County that Zhengliang sees now. After they went ashore, they went all the way, attacking small county towns and fighting officers and soldiers. Raiders will be in Huiji County. Raid Hangzhou. She County, Tuhui Prefecture, to Jixi, Jingde, slaughtered Jing County, approached Nanling, to Wuhu. Burn the south bank and go to Taipingfu. Commit Jiangning Town, go straight to Nanjing. Thereinto. In the battle of Nanling, the father and son of Cheng Chen in Wuhu County led the "Wuhu Xiaojian". Fight alone, all of them die. In the battle of Jiangning Town, the Ming army commanded Zhu Xiang and Jiang Sheng to lead the crowd to resist, but the result was also unable to resist, and Zhu Xiang was killed in battle, Jiang Sheng was injured, and more than 300 officers and soldiers died.

Incredibly, after this detachment of only 53 people arrived in Nanjing, it began a jaw-dropping siege battle. Nanjing was suddenly attacked, and the city was naturally in a state of flux. Zhang Shiche, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, hurriedly ordered the city gate to be closed, and ordered the citizens to prepare their own food and equipment to defend the city. Regarding the details of this battle, He Liangjun, a literati who was the Confucius of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy at the time, recorded in his notes: "The thief was only seventy-two ears. The Nanjing soldiers were opposite to each other in two formations, killing two commanders-in-chief, and the sergeants died eight or nine hundred, and these seventy-two people did not break one person. The thirteen gates of Nanjing are closed, and the people of the city are all on the city, and the elders and subordinates of the hall guard each door, although the thieves retreat and do not dare to lift the strictness. The garrison of the capital city can not be said to be secret, and the nobles and nobles ride from the hug to gallop in the road on weekdays, and the soldiers ask for 80,000 grains per month, which is today. Today, with seventy-two mobs blocking the door, that is, Emperor Zhang is like this, rather than being humiliated by the court? "The Japanese invaded from Andemen, and the defenders attacked them with fire from the city, and seeing that they could not conquer Nanjing, these Japanese invaders went to the Qiling Pass. …,

Every time he thinks about this, Masahiro feels incredible. Just imagine, Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the city is thick, the city is more than 10,000 soldiers, and the surrounding guards and Ming troops are ignored. It is really shocking and funny that this only fifty-three Japanese army dared to attack the city with impunity. What is shocking is that they do have no one in their eyes, and they regard the dignified Ming Dynasty as a "paper tiger", which is vulnerable; Funnily enough, they are indeed daring to the extreme.

This arrogant Japanese coward was finally wiped out. On August 13, under the pursuit of officers and soldiers, this group of Japanese robbers crossed the border of Wujin County and arrived at Wuxi Huishan Temple, and ran more than 180 miles in a day and night. "In Hushu Pass, Su Song's governor Cao Bangfu and deputy envoy Wang Chonggu led thousands of officers and soldiers to lay a net on land and by Taihu Lake. As a result, 27 people were captured and beheaded by the officers and soldiers at Wulin Temple, and the remaining widows fled across the Qianma Bridge in Hengjing and hid in a private house. The official army used fire to attack, and the Japanese could not resist desperately fighting their way out of a bloody road, and after running out of a large road, they were scattered and hidden in the fields. When the leader of the officers and soldiers saw the "slight movement of the grass and dew" in the field, he asked his subordinates to shout in unison: "The thief is hiding in the field!" "The Japanese who were all soldiers were frightened and ran out, and they were all captured and killed, and not a single one escaped. Although the end was that the Japanese were completely annihilated, the record of this group of Japanese invaders was: they ran rampant in three provinces for more than 80 days, killing and wounding 4,000 or 5,000 officers and soldiers, including the first imperial history of the Ming Dynasty, one county Cheng, two commanders, and two generals.

Why are they so rampant? Zhengliang looked at the prosperous Shangyu County in the distance and pondered. The incompetence of the Ming Dynasty army was not only due to the army, but also other influences, and the loss of popular support.

First of all, the concept of army building is incorrect. The military service system implemented in the Ming Dynasty was a hereditary system of military households created by Zhu Yuanzhang. During the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the total number of soldiers was as high as 1.8 million, and it was impossible for such a huge army to be supported by the common people if it was not self-sufficient. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the method of hereditary military household system to ensure the army's peacetime and wartime amphibious. Supposedly, this approach did play a positive role at the time. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang once proudly declared: "I raise millions of soldiers." It doesn't cost the people a grain of rice. "But the result was nothing more than feeding a million peasants on collective farms. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Weisu army was no different from ordinary peasants, and had no combat effectiveness. It is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the army will definitely be due to the work in the tuntian. However, if the training time is reduced and the professional intensity is weakened, once a war breaks out, even the Ming army, which is well-equipped and has distinctive armor, will not be able to defeat the outdated equipment and "bare-assed" Japanese invaders. Qiu Ying, a famous painter of the Ming Dynasty, painted a realistic work "The Picture Scroll of the Wako". Because Qiu Ying experienced the troubles of the Japanese pirates, the image of the Japanese is vividly described: his hair is shaved into a half-moon shape, his upper body is dressed in single clothes, his lower body is naked and only wearing a crotch cloth, he is barefoot, and he is armed with a spear, a bow and a Japanese sword. In strong visual contrast with the bare-bottomed Japanese soldiers, all the Ming soldiers on the picture scroll have distinct armor and a strict lineup. It's a pity. Many facts from the middle and late Ming Dynasty. All proved that the seemingly powerful Ming army was not an opponent of the Japanese at all. For example, during the Jiajing period (1552-), a group of Japanese invaders landed near Zhoushan and Xiangshan, invaded Wenzhou and Taizhou, defeated the official army, and captured Huangyan County; A group of Japanese pirates surrounded Taicang County. plundered Pinghu, Haiyan, and Haining, killing hundreds of officers and soldiers; A group of 300 people. defeated Tang Kekuan, the deputy general of the Ming army, on Chongming Island, and harassed Shanghai and Jiaxing; A group of Japanese invaders attacked Jiaxing. Defeated the general Lu Bo, the Ming army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and instead plundered Haining, Yangzhou, and Taizhou, killing countless officers and soldiers......

Secondly, there is corruption. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the accession of some incompetent and immoral kings, the officialdom became increasingly corrupt and degenerate, coupled with the influence of the social atmosphere of valuing literature over military force, undesirable phenomena appeared within the army without exception. If the army is a huge machine, it is already riddled with holes and does not work well. For example, it is not uncommon for generals to withhold military salaries (such as the day before yesterday, when Masayo met Lao Zhang, the chief flag of the guard post who was responsible for guarding the isolated island), and overwhelmed soldiers abounded, making it commonplace for military households to flee in large numbers. By the time of the Jiajing period, the flight rate of military households had been frighteningly high, and a large number of guards were in vain, and some guards had only a few people left. Even the Liaodong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong garrisons on the coastal front have only 30 percent of the soldiers left, and what is even worse is that because they have been in peace for a long time, the quality of the generals and soldiers is amazingly poor, and some hereditary generals can't even ride horses, and they can't even figure out the flags. Zhang Huan, a front-line official, once went to the emperor and described the front-line officers and soldiers as "like child's play, there will be no orders, the soldiers are undisciplined, and often the matter is finished after firing and firing arrows from afar from the enemy, and there are countless people who escape from the battle and kill the people to repay their merits." "Isn't the root of such a situation in investors? …,

In the end, the maritime ban policy caused the people to lose their support. Originally, the Ming Dynasty formulated a strict maritime ban policy, hoping to play a decisive role in the consolidation of coastal defense. However, because the direct target of the implementation of the maritime ban policy is the broad masses of subjects rather than the anti-Ming forces at sea, it not only cannot become an effective means of coastal defense, but even intensifies some contradictions in the coastal areas. When the people in the coastal areas live and live on the sea, or engage in fishery production or maritime trade, and become their main source of livelihood, the promulgation and implementation of the maritime ban policy of "not allowing an inch to go to the sea" is obviously contrary to public opinion. This practice is not only a practice of closing off the country and being arrogant, but also blocking the normal way for the people in the coastal areas to make a living.

Therefore, when those who came from the sea or even the land appeared, they actually took advantage of the right time and place, like a fish in water. On the contrary, the officers and soldiers who represent the division of justice are not popular and are struggling. What is the reason why the people turn a blind eye to the Japanese and even support the Japanese in part? After a little analysis, it is not difficult to see that on the surface, it seems that the people's consciousness and vigilance are not high, and the people's national consciousness is not strong, but in essence, the root cause is in the Ming Dynasty itself.

Those who lose the hearts of the people lose the world is a truth that has been proven countless times by history throughout the ages. But even if you know the root of the Dao, what can you do? The Ming Dynasty gradually entered the situation of corrupt Confucianism in power, which was not at all something that could be reversed by a small shrimp of his own. Even raising your arms and shouting is just adding to the joke.

Holding the side of the boat with both hands, looking ahead, I saw that everything around me seemed peaceful and prosperous, and who would have thought that in a few years, this place would be in dire straits?

"Whew", Masahiro took a deep breath, with his own ability, it is true that he cannot change the pattern of the Ming Dynasty, but, at the very least, he has a chance to stop the flood of Japanese pirates, and everything must start from Japan. Come to think of it, without the assistance of the real widows in the future, these "fake widows" along the coast will not be so arrogant, right? Quite a few words (to be continued......) ……，