Guide to Ducfu, Yongseong

Billowing smoke and dust rose on the official road, and an army was gradually moving away from Yongcheng to the east, and one of the leading standard-bearers was waving a large banner with the word "Yu" written on his face, and the soldier was full of sadness, and frequently looked back, because he was distracted, so the flag in his hand was also playing crookedly. But no one blamed him for this, and the whole army had a sad face, and the ranks were dead.

Looking at the army that had already fled for the most part, thinking of the baggage that had been discarded because of the hasty departure, an officer gritted his teeth, rode his horse to Yu Dong's side, and whispered: "Dashuai, why don't we go and borrow some silver from Yongcheng?" ”

Yu Dong, who was in a silent hurry, shook his head slowly.

The officer said in a hurry: "Dashuai, we just don't want it, and it's cheap Xu Thief!" ”

"Xu Ping is a native of Zhili, I am a native of Kaifeng, there are some things he can do in Henan, I can't do." Yu Dong kidnapped and deceived his fellow villagers to join the army, embezzled military salaries, deceived officials, betrayed friendly troops, and he almost never fell behind for the bad things that Lu Jun and Zhu Yuanhong and others did. But Yu Dong has a bottom line, that is, he does not wash the cities of Henan: "Besides, Xu Ping's reputation is still good, and most of his subordinates are from Henan, so he will not harm the people." ”

After walking for a while, the soldiers at the head of the platoon came to report that they had seen the stone monument standing on the border between Henan and Nanzhili, and beyond that was the territory of Nanjing.

Yu Dong stopped his horse, and there were only more than a thousand dead old brothers left around him, and many people were still looking back at the west, and a few of them still had tears in their eyes.

"In the past, I have always comforted myself that Guide is also Henan, and I am not far from my hometown." Yu Dong jumped off the horse, walked to the side of the road and bent down, took off his helmet and put it on the ground. Yu Dong vigorously dug up large balls of dirt from the roadside fields with both hands, stuffed them into his helmet, and then took out a square scarf from his waist and carefully wrapped the helmet. After doing all this, Yu Dong took the helmet full of land in his arms, walked back to the guards, jumped on the war horse, and led his subordinates to cross the stone monument and step into the boundary of Nanjing.

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After the occupation of Guide, Xu Ping ordered his troops to pursue the remnants of the Bianjun army who fled to Yongcheng, and at the same time announced to the people of the whole province that they would be exempted from grain taxation from now on.

Although the heavy injury of the Bianjun army in the first battle of Xixian was a major factor in the smooth progress of the invasion army, the miscalculation of the civil and military officials in Henan was an even more serious mistake, believing that the invasion army needed to rest for at least two months, and even if it launched an attack, it would have to wait until after the beginning of spring next year. The reason why Xu Ping was in a hurry to launch an attack on Guide was also because he felt that time was pressed and he could not waste a winter waiting for the officers and soldiers to recover. At the same time, he believed that although the Bianjun army was weak, the Bianjun army was even weaker. The hostility of the people of Henan to the government was also an important reason for the easy victory of the invasion army, and after the invasion army entered the Guide Mansion, the people did not report to the government at all, and spontaneously led the way for the invasion army.

Within a few days, good news came from Yongcheng, Yu Dong went to the south and Zhili, and the Yongcheng defenders surrendered. Before the pursuit, Xu Ping strictly ordered his subordinates not to enter the Nanzhili jurisdiction for a single step, and they strictly abided by this prohibition and stopped at the border.

The magistrates of Guide Province will either die or flee, and the fate of those officials who have escaped from the intrusion army is decided, and even if they can not be imprisoned for the crime of abandoning the land, they will definitely lose the black gauze hats on their heads. Because of the responsibility of defending the territory, the Henan political secretary has been urging his subordinate officials to enter and suppress the army, and the magistrates of the Guide Mansion are naturally no exception, constantly asking the imperial court for troops and salaries. After they lose their positions, the voice of the Henan political secretary will become weaker, and there will not be so many people who are worried about attacking Kaifeng every day.

As for Nanzhili, although they are very vigilant against the border invasion army, the recovery of Henan's lost land has nothing to do with them, let alone their credit. The reason why Xu Ping strictly forbade his subordinates to cross the border was to avoid irritating the Nanjing government. If the invading army enters their territory, even if there is only one county, the Nanjing government, which is responsible for defending the territory, will come to try to regain the lost territory. At present, Xu Ping's energy is focused on solving the Kaifeng problem, and he does not want to be dragged into a protracted Nanzhili war.

According to Xu Ping's intelligence, after hearing the news of the loss of Guide, the central capital Fengyang has been placed under martial law, and the army sent by Nanjing is stationed in Maozhou, Mengcheng, Suzhou, Fengxian and other places, forming an arc-shaped defensive circle against the intruding army. At the same time, the Nanjing government put on a posture of being ready for battle, and also urgently allocated huge sums of money to various towns in Jiangbei, paid arrears, and moved weapons from the Nanjing arsenal to the front line with unprecedented efficiency.

"In the past, when the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left of the Rebel Army attacked the capital, the Fengyang Left Division certainly fought with all its might, and Nan Zhili also went crazy to recruit Ding Zhuang and supply grain and grass to the front line." Xu Ping analyzed the strategic situation for his generals and explained his ban: "Nanjing poured out of the nest in order to force the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left out of the realm of Nanzhili and bombard other provinces, and when the rebel army left, the towns in Jiangbei did not cross the border a step. ”

Xu Ping judged that Nanjing would not only not take the initiative to attack, but would also strictly restrain his subordinates to avoid provoking the invading army, so he planned to move the main force back to Kaifeng, leaving only a few hundred soldiers to guard the city of Guide. In this regard, Xu Ping's generals were still a little worried, and they asked: "What about the Bianjun who fled into Nanzhili?" ”

"I think they will be grateful to us, such as that Yu Dong, maybe he will erect a monument to our eternal life." Xu Ping had no scruples about the remnants of the Bianjun, he laughed and said: "There are some to eat and some to play in Nanzhili, why should he come to us to find it." In the past, there was also the Henan political secretary who urged him to send troops all day long, and now the mountain above their heads has also been moved away by us. ”

"However, Nanjing definitely does not want to have guest troops in its own territory."

"That's natural, but Nanjing can't control the head of the Bianjun, no matter how the Bianjun harms the place, it's a matter between Nanjing and the Bianjun, and it has nothing to do with us. When did I hear that the imperial court had appointed a superintendent to control the Bianjun, I would send troops to return to Germany. ”

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On the day Xu Ping left Guide, Sun Kewang summoned Tang Shouzhong to study the issue of raising military salaries, and due to the close cooperation of Tang Shouzhong, the head snake, Sun Kewang's various policies were implemented smoothly: "Today, Tang Daxia will accompany me to meet the generals who broke into the camp, and I will resolve your past grievances and save you from having a pimple in your heart." ”

"It's all up to General Sun." Tang Shouzhong said respectfully.

"That's good." Sun Kewang smiled and said: "Tang Daxia might as well say it directly, those grievances are what you want to resolve, and those are what you don't want to resolve?" ”

Tang Shouzhong's face changed slightly, the solution that Xu Ping talked about with him before was completely different from what Sun Kewang hinted at now.

Seeing this, Sun Kewang smiled again: "The general has already returned to Kaifeng Mansion, and now I have the final say in Defu." ”

……

Zhang Xianbao and other leaders of the rebel army who started to resist grain were called by Sun Kewang to eat, and after they entered the table, Tang Shouzhong also came out to sit with him, after seeing this person who had insulted him in every way in the city, everyone's face was not very good-looking, Zhang Xianbao snorted heavily, stood up and said angrily: "The surname Tang, if the general wants me not to worry about you, I won't care about you, but how can you have the face to sit with us?" ”

Sun Kewang coughed, stretched out his hand and motioned for Zhang Xianbao to sit down, and after the puffed Zhang Xianbao and others sat down again, Sun Kewang picked up a glass of wine and congratulated Zhang Xianbao and others: "Brothers, return to Germany to fight, Sun Mou has offended, and I hope that your brothers Haihan ......"

Then Sun Kewang explained to these generals that Tang Shouzhong had been working for Xu Ping and him for a long time, and had secretly protected them many times before. And those who have a common enmity with Tang Shouzhong, although they are also under the banner of the righteous army, but in fact, their hands are full of blood debts of passing tourists and businessmen, and they have not done less to collude with the government and harm the people in the past, but they were blocked by Tang Shouzhong The way to collude with the government is not less, but they were blocked by Tang Shouzhong The way to collude with the government.

This attack on Guide, Tang Shouzhong was ordered by Sun Kewang to ensure that these people could not enter the city, Sun Kewang asked Zhang Xianbao: "If these thieves are allowed to enter Guide, they will inevitably loot the people, and then Brother Zhang should be good?" ”

Zhang Xianbao scratched his head, only then did he realize the complexity and seriousness of the problem, Sun Kewang continued to defend Tang Shouzhong: "Tang Daxia is worried about the people in the city, and also worried about the reputation of our camp, so I would rather offend your brothers for the time being, and also desperately prevent those chickens and dogs from entering the city, this matter should be counted on my head, obviously it is my ......."

"Third Master Sun doesn't need to say any more," Zhang Xianbao stood up with a sigh of relief, bowed to Sun Kewang and said, "It's me who was confused, and I almost missed the matter of King Chuang, the general, and the third master." ”

Zhang Xianbao turned his head to Tang Shouzhong again: "The Central Plains is benevolent and righteous, it is really worthy of the name, Tang Daxia, you don't care about the villain, I will make amends to you." ”

Several other straight-headed leaders of the Guide camp also got up to ask Tang Shouzhong for their guilt, and Sun Kewang laughed and said: "They are all their own brothers, what else can not be offended?" ”

Those heroes who were robbed of their family property by Tang Shouzhong in collusion with the government were also recruited by Sun Kewang, and many of them entered the city with them. Before Xu Ping left, he said kind words to appease them, promising those thieves that as long as they changed their ways, they would be broken into the army, and those heroes Xu Ping also promised to return his wife and daughter's property to them.

As soon as these happy talents entered the city, they were all arrested by Sun Kewang, and their subordinates who remained outside the city were also raided by Zhang Xianbao and others. Before they were still dizzy and didn't figure out what was going on, Sun Kewang listed the whole city to list their past crimes, and claimed to have discovered their plot to fornicate with the government and betray the camp, and dragged them all to the street early the next morning to kill them.

Along the way, these people still shouted that they were wronged, until they saw Zhongyuan Renyi who was smiling and looking at them at the execution ground, and then they suddenly realized, and a loud scolding suddenly sounded on the execution ground:

"Tang dog thief, you martial arts scum, you can't die well!"

"Tang dog thief, if you don't talk about morality, I will come to you to ask for my life!"

"Incompetent rats." The satisfied Zhongyuan Renyi smiled, and suddenly, he suddenly remembered Sun Kewang's smiling and kind face, and suddenly Zhongyuan Renyi was like falling into an ice cave, and he couldn't help but shudder.

……

Nanjing, on the banks of the Qinhuai River

Three people were sitting around the table, two elders and a young man, discussing the news of Henan.

Xu Ping's unprecedented victory in Henan shook the government and the public, but what shocked the Ming court even more was the declaration issued by Sun Kewang in Guide that the camp had changed the previous mobile combat and began to defend the territory without losing it, which had made the people of insight in the court worried, but the line between officers and soldiers and thieves was still clear. However, this declaration of return to Germany is a naked attack on the legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty's rule, openly stating that it will compete with the Ming court for the ownership of the Mandate of Heaven, and the threat is still on the self-established king. Now the contradiction between the Ming court and Kaifeng and Guide to break into the camp can no longer be used to deceive people with corrupt officials and thieves, and the words of Chongzhen's son of heaven "thieves and bare children" cannot continue to last, and Zhao'an is no longer one of the methods that can be used to solve problems. In addition to the center of the imperial court, the imperial histories of the provinces also played one after another, asking the Son of Heaven to quickly send elite troops to attack Henan and extinguish Xu Ping and Sun Kewang's group.

"I used to think that General Sun was just a thief who only looked at him, and I always called him Sun a thief, but I didn't expect him to be a famous teacher, I really lost my eyes." An older man said and asked the young man, "Xiao Yin, how much have you written in the third volume?" ”

"For the time being, General Sun is useless." Xia Wanchun replied that he had already expounded the entire theory in the previous two volumes in conjunction with the people's suffering, and the concept of governing the country had been completed, but in the last volume, he planned to write more intently, discussing the problems that might occur in operation, the causes and solutions, which could not be completed by simple theoretical derivation.

"Xiao Yin didn't get into any trouble, did he?" Another older man asked.

"No, although everyone knows that I wrote it, but this is not me rebelling, and General Sun has not played my banner, if the government asks me to blame, isn't it afraid of angering Shilin?"

"If you don't go out of the house and don't study, although you are a lamb and a virtuous person of the original constitution, it will not help the world." The man from before suddenly said: "From General Sun's declaration of return, I can see his benevolent heart." ”

The other two people's faces changed drastically when they heard this, and the other older person's name was Gui Zhuang, who had been a friend of the previous speaker for many years, and he was shocked: "Ning Ren, what are you thinking about?" ”

"This year is the 2,200 years since the sage came into the world, and since the beginning of the millennium, our Confucian disciples have been searching for the way to save the world and open up the way of peace for all generations, but China is still in a cycle of chaos, and there will be a catastrophe in less than 300 years, and every time there will be a catastrophe. It would be fine if this General Sun was a vicious tiger, but since we know that he does have a benevolent heart, even if it is only the slightest bit, someone should be kind to enlighten him, and not let him go astray, so that countless lives can be saved in the catastrophe. ”

"Ning Ren," Zhuang Gui's face was full of anxiety: "Don't do it, one thought is ruined, this is rebellion." ”

"I am a protégé of a saint, not a believer in Legalism, and I don't have a family name in the world. Moreover, I am a Chinese person first, and then a Ming person; The affairs of the Ming Dynasty have their own kings and ministers, and the meat eaters seek them, but the affairs of the Chinese world are the responsibility of the husband; Helping the world and saving the people is also the duty of the saint's protégé. ”

Xia Wanchun, who had been listening silently, asked, "Uncle Gu thinks that Da Ming can't be prosperous?" ”

"It's hard to return," Gu Yanwu shook his head and said: "In fact, the cycle of chaos is not limited to the rise and fall of the dynasty, just like Donglin Academy, when Gu Gong did it, the academy was full of comrades, and the couplet at the door of 'family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, and everything worries about people' was written, and the sages were worried about the country and the people. Now we Donglin is all over the government and the opposition, and the government is out of its own, but there are few people who worry about national affairs anymore, the princes of the temple and the temple, thinking about how to keep the power, what they usually do is to cut off dissidents, where is there time to recall the ambition of Donglin? What is the difference between it and the mediocre and stupid guys who occupied high positions in the country that Gu Gong criticized back then? Today, General Sun, who is returning to Germany, is struggling to survive, and only when there is a danger that he will not be able to unite and tolerate people, if General Sun succeeds in the future, I am afraid that he will be busy keeping his position and cutting off today's comrades as dissidents. I will help General Sun while he can still keep the benevolence in his heart, while he is still thirsty for talent, and when he can still listen to people's words. If the true Son of Heaven is really there, the world can avoid many disasters, even if he doesn't have this qi, I can also make the people of Henan suffer less and suffer less. ”

Zhuang Gui asked, "What if General Sun abandons this kind of love?" ”

"If General Sun is a vicious tiger, I am also ready to sacrifice my life to feed the tiger." After speaking, Gu Yanwu said to Xia Wanchun again: "I also have some experience with your set of doctrines, and I think I can help General Sun a little." ”

Xia Wanchun said excitedly: "The little nephew is also willing to go with Uncle Gu." ”

"That's very good." Gu Yanwu seemed to have expected it, and there was no surprise at all: "The study of mind has been proven to be a big error today, otherwise the science of science is also flawed, you know that I have great expectations for this new set of learning, and I think this may be what we saints and disciples have been looking for, if we can really end the cycle of chaos and save China from catastrophes again and again, we will not be in vain." ”

"The protégé of a saint is to help the world and save the people, how can he stay out of the way when he is in a great calamity? If it doesn't work, at least it can leave a lesson for future generations, and it is still in vain. Xia Wanchun was full of pride: "The little nephew went home to repair the book, saying that he was going to study in order to write the third volume." ”

"I heard that most of the bandits over there are bandits, so we'd better get one too, otherwise the anti-thief book will definitely be banned by the imperial court." Gu Yanwu looked at the Qinhuai River outside the window: "I'll call it Langli Baitiao, so that if you die, your family won't be affected." ”

"The little nephew will call the six-eared macaque." Xia Wanchun laughed.

"Brother Ningren ......"

Zhuang Guizheng was about to speak, but Gu Yanwu interrupted him: "Brother Hengxuan, we have died in this trip, as Xiao Yin said, most of what we can leave behind is a lesson from the past, and someone needs to record it." ”

Seeing that Gu Yanwu had made up his mind, Zhuang Gui raised his glass: "Famous for the saint." ”

Gu Yanwu also raised his glass to each other: "For the common people of the world." ”

Finally, Xia Wanchun: "For the new policy of returning to Germany." ”

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