Chapter 159: Women Heroes

The maid led Dr. Chen and Hu Kehao through a corridor, in which ancient heroines were posted, including Hua Mulan, Yang Men female general, Fan Lihua, Mu Guiying, Red Line Girl, Nie Yinniang and others, and even Qiu Jin, the Jianhu heroine in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. Hu Kehao guessed that the mistress of this mansion should also be a heroine.

They came to a hall, which was very delicately furnished, and the hostess was already waiting there, dressed neatly. Hu Kehao quietly looked at his master and saw that he was wearing a military uniform, like the costume of the Ming Dynasty. Judging by her appearance and the style of her clothes, she is indeed a heroic female general.

The hostess instructed the maid to serve fragrant tea and said, "Dr. Chen has worked hard! I'm sorry to invite you here in the middle of the night for treatment. If you accumulate yin virtue, you will surely get good fortune. ”

"What the hell is going on with these wounded?" Dr. Chan asked.

"They are all heroic warriors, although they are not human, but for the peace of the Yin and Yang worlds, they never give in to the evil enemy, persist in fighting, and make great sacrifices!" The hostess said.

Based on what she had learned, the maid said to the hostess, "Although these ghosts are very brave in battle, they have no advantage in their weapons in the face of strong enemies, and they have suffered heavy casualties, so they should improve their weapons. ”

"It's mountainous everywhere, and the use of white-poleed spears as weapons should be promoted." The hostess said.

The so-called white pole spear, is to make a long pole with strong white wood, with a hook with a blade, with a hard iron ring below, when fighting, the hook can be cut and pulled, the ring can be used as a hammer weapon, if necessary, dozens of spear hooks and rings are connected, it can be used as a tool to climb the wall over the mountain, the cliff can be climbed instantly, it is very suitable for mountain combat.

"The host was such a vision! You led the white pole soldiers in heroic battles and won countless victories, but I didn't expect that after hundreds of years, these weapons could still come in handy! The maid said. It turned out that the weapon of the white-pole spear was created by Qin Liangyu, the loyal marquis and the general soldier of Sichuan in the late Ming Dynasty, according to the local terrain characteristics.

The owner of this mansion is the female general Qin Liangyu, who is manifesting here.

Qin Liangyu is not simple, but people are not very familiar with her deeds, which is a big pity. The heroines we are familiar with include Hua Mulan, Mu Guiying, Yang Men female generals, etc., but they have never been recorded in the official history, and it is very likely that they are just artistic images created by folk literature, all of which are made up by the ancients, all of them are fake and non-existent. Qin Liangyu is different from them, Qin Liangyu is the first and only female general in the "Twenty-four History" to be recorded in the official history. In other words, Qin Liangyu's identity is officially compiled by the state and recognized by the imperial court, so the official history can be passed on to her. Not only does Mulan not enjoy such a high-standard treatment, but it is very likely that Mulan does not exist and is a fiction of people.

In the second year of Mingshenzong Wanli, that is, in 1574 AD, Qin Liangyu was born in the Miao family in Lotian Town, Chengxi, Zhongzhou, Sichuan (now Zhongxian County, Chongqing). When she was born, her father, Qin Kui, saw a monkey appear outside the window and jumped into his wife's room. Qin Kui thought that the monkey was going to violate his wife, so he carried a sword and wanted to kill the monkey. Who knew that the monkey disappeared when he went in, and then Mrs. gave birth to Qin Liangyu. The homonym of the monkey character "Hou", one of the titles of king, duke, marquis, uncle, son, and man. For example, in "The Legend of Deer and Ding", Wei Xiaobao was named the Duke of Lu Ding, and Liu Bowen, the hero of the Ming Dynasty, was only named Sincerity Bo. The superstitious Qin Kui thought that the Qin family was finally going to be a "Hou", and he was very happy, and he liked Qin Liangyu very much from then on, and cultivated him carefully.

The Qin family is a family heirloom with poetry and books, but they are the Miao family. The characteristics of the Miao people are strong and martial arts, and men love to dance with guns and sticks, and shoot arrows on horseback. Qin Liangyu likes what Qin Liangyu likes, Qin Kui will teach her, whether it is piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, needlework, knives, guns and sticks, horseback riding and archery, all of them are taught. Although Qin Liangyu is a daughter, she has learned a good martial arts, has great courage, and is good at riding and shooting. Her father praised her very much, but sighed: "It's a pity that you are not a man, and you can't go to the battlefield to defend your family and country." Qin Liangyu said: "I will definitely gallop on the battlefield in the future." ”

After Qin Liangyu grew up, because of his excellent martial arts and high vision, most men couldn't look down on him, so he never found Ruyi Langjun. Later, through a contest to recruit relatives, she married Ma Qiancheng, a descendant of the Han Fubo general Ma Yuan, the hereditary stone pillar Xuanzhi (commonly known as Tusi), and became Mrs. Tusi. After Qin Liangyu became the wife of Shizhu Tusi, she made very important contributions to Shizhu's military, farming, and the people's living and working in peace and contentment.

Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County of Chongqing City, where Tujia people are mainly inhabited. History: In the second year of Tang Wude, that is, in 619 A.D., a county was established here. Because there is a pair of huge stones on Wanshou Mountain in the east of the county, which resembles a pair of men and women, it is named Shizhu County. In the Ming Dynasty, Shizhu County was called a poor mountain and bad water, and there was a saying that it was a "barbaric" place. Even in the 21st century, Shizhu County is still very poor, as evidenced by Xi's April 2019 visit to Huaxi Village, Zhongyi Township, Shizhu County, Chongqing.

Since ancient times, the people here have been fierce, and if the imperial court policy is not in place, they may have to riot or rebel. The main responsibility of the Tusi is to train soldiers and horses and maintain the stability and security of the place. Ma Qiancheng did this thing, which happened to be right for Qin Liangyu's appetite, so he assisted her husband in training. Ma Qiancheng was very opposed to this, because for more than 1,000 years, all dynasties and dynasties have implemented a closed Tusi system of "barbarians do not leave the hole, and Han does not enter the country". It was not until later that Emperor Yongzheng implemented the reform of "changing the land and returning to the stream", and the territory ruled by Tusi was completely kingized. Even in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Shizhu Tujia people still lived a primitive life of slash-and-burn farming, very poor, and the common people could not eat enough, how could they have the energy to form an army to defend the country? Ma Qiancheng thought that Qin Liangyu's idea of training troops was unrealistic.

Qin Liangyu didn't believe in this, and it didn't take long for him to train a "white-pole horse soldier", which was famous far and wide. That year, Qin Liangyu led the people to plant corn in the mountains, and she judged that there was a drought that year, and the corn was drought tolerant, which could come in handy at that time. There are a lot of bandits there, and if there is a drought, what will the bandits do if they don't have anything to eat? They will definitely come to shoot. How can you protect your food from being robbed? There is only military training. Qin Liangyu quickly formed the Tujia people, trained them to fight, and arranged for these people to patrol and protect the crops with white-pole spears, so a stone-pillar white-pole soldier who was a soldier in peacetime and a soldier in wartime was born. In order to safeguard their own interests and protect their property, the common people have taken the initiative to train the troops, and the results have been very remarkable. It happened that there was a drought that year, and only corn had a bumper harvest, so the common people were very convinced and worshiped Qin Liangyu, and regarded her as a god, and more people joined her white pole soldiers.

After Qin Liangyu formed the white pole soldiers, because of this family background, he quickly stepped onto the historical stage of the battlefield. In the 27th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Yang Yinglong rebelled in Zunyi, Guizhou, and Qin Liangyu assisted her husband Ma Qiancheng to quell the rebellion. In the 41st year of Wanli, Ma Qiancheng was falsely accused by the eunuch Qiu Chengyun and died of illness in Yunyang's prison, and Qin Liangyu replaced Ma Qiancheng's position. Since then, Qin Liangyu led his brothers Qin Bangping and Qin Minping to participate in the battle against the Qing army's entry into the customs, the pacification of the extravagant Chongming Rebellion, Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion and other battles, and his achievements were outstanding. History: In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Zhang Xianzhong led the army to invade Kuizhou, Qin Liangyu led the army to the rescue, but was outnumbered and defeated. After Zhang Xianzhong captured Chengdu, Qin Liangyu said to his subordinates: "Both of my brothers died on the battlefield, and I am a woman who has been favored by the country for 20 years. At this point, I dare to stand up to the thief! So Qin Liangyu divided his troops to guard the stone pillar. Although Zhang Xianzhong killed innocents indiscriminately, he did not dare to come to the stone pillar, so the people on the stone pillar side were saved.

In the first year of tomorrow's Qi, Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao crowned Qin Liangyu as the second-grade lady. Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen once composed four poems to praise Qin Liangyu. In the second year of Longwu (the third year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, 1646), Zhu Yujian, the Emperor of Longwu who was far away in Fujian, sent envoys to Shizhu to seal Qin Liangyu Taibao and the title of Prince Taibao, and to be named the Marquis of Zhongzhen. At the same time, Zhu Youlang, the Yongli Emperor who was close to the southwest, was crowned the prince of Qin Liangyu and the prince of Qin, and was appointed as the envoy of Sichuan, and still used the general of Zhendong to supervise the troops to pacify the thieves in Sichuan. In the second year of Yongli, Zhu Rongfan, the clan of the Ming Dynasty, said that he was in charge of Zhongzhou, and sent an envoy to collect grain from Qin Liangyu, but Qin Liangyu should not, Zhu Rongfan sent troops to attack it, Qin Liangyu asked for help from Li Zhanchun, and Zhu Rongfan retreated. He died on May 20 (the fifth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, July 10, 1648) at the age of 75. After Qin Liangyu's death, later generations of literati praised Qin Liangyu for many poems, modern Bingxin and Guo Moruo also praised Qin Liangyu, and the patriotic general Feng Yuxiang also said: "To commemorate Mulan, we must learn from Qin Liangyu." ”