The clouds and the sun reflect each other, and the air and water are clear and fresh.

Tongli Lake in the afternoon, leisurely, lazy, light breeze, broken out of sparkling waves, occasionally there are boats floating by, slowly, I don't know when to come, I don't know when to leave, occasionally there are boatmen rising, a few fishing songs, startled out a few mandarin ducks, singing dissatisfied, low skimming over the side of the boat, and back into the swaying reeds.

On the trestle, a young man and a woman sat side by side, their shadows reflected on the water, dissolving into one, and a group of fish emerged from the shadows, burping.

Wanwan leaned on Zhao Mengqi, pillowed her head on his shoulder, and said glutinously, "If you marry me, I'm afraid there will be turmoil in the DPRK and China......"

"Really?" Zhao Mengqi propped his hands on the bridge deck behind him, leaning back slightly, immersed in love, his whole body was comfortable, and he didn't feel a little lazy, "Why do you say that?" ”

Wanwan was silent for a while before she said softly, "My ancestor, my mother, has committed ten heinous sins. ”

"Huh? Chen Sigong? ”

"Not himself, it's his grandfather......"

As Wanwan told the story, Zhao Mengqi knew that the Chen family actually had an extraordinary family background and was still a descendant of the royal family.

The first generation in the genealogy is the Eastern Han Dynasty famous minister Chen Yu, who was born in a slight cold, but is famous for his talent and virtue, and created the Yingchuan Chen family, becoming a famous family in China. br>

Among the descendants of the descendants, there are many celebrities, and the most conspicuous should be Chen Baxian, who established the Chen Dynasty, and the history is full of praise for him, "Those who have never won the country are as good as the righteous people of Emperor Chen Wu." Even the great man admired him very much.

By the way, he, like Zhao Da, was actually added to the yellow robe by his subordinates, but his reputation was much higher, but unfortunately his life was not long enough.

Later, after Nanchen was destroyed by Yang Guang, the descendants were scattered, and one of them settled in Shicheng, Jiangxi, and cultivated the heirloom, and in the Song Dynasty, there was a famous minister, Chen Shu.

Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty personally inscribed "True Salt and Iron Chen Shu" on the pillar of the temple, and Zhenzong mourned for the abolition of the dynasty, and the "History of the Song Dynasty" praised it as "the head of the capable officials".

Chen Shu's son, Chen Zhizhong, also became the prime minister in the Renzong Dynasty, and finally became Situ Zhishi, who was also a generation of famous ministers.

And the ten heinous sins happened to Chen Shiru, Chen Zhizhong's only son.

Chen Shiru's biological mother Zhang is Chen Zhizhong's concubine, after Chen Zhizhong's death, Renzong arranged for Zhang to become a monk in Taoism, Chen Shiru grew up, he took his mother home, but Chen Shiru's wife Li was at odds with this mother-in-law.

At that time, Chen Shiru was originally a doctor of the five grades, and it was likely that Shenzong planned to reuse him, so he first let the magistrate of Taihu County go through the experience.

At this time, it is said that the Li family, who was at home, said in front of a group of maidservants, "The doctor will be mourned for a day, and he should be a generous salary." ”

It means that if Chen Shiru's mother dies, then he can go back to Tokyo to mourn, and the maidservants can be rewarded.

So, in order to reward the maids, they went to murder Zhang, at first they were poisoned, but they may have bought counterfeit and shoddy products, and Zhang did not die, and when it was night, the maids hammered iron nails into Zhang's skull, and then killed.

The Chen Mansion mourned Zhang's illness and death, but soon a maid complained to the Kaifeng Mansion, and after the case, it immediately affected the hearts of thousands of people in the government and the opposition, and even the emperor personally inquired.

The first to preside over the case was Su Song, the boss of Kaifeng Mansion at the time, that is, Su Dongpo's unjust younger brother, and after the trial, he believed that Chen Shiru's wife Li and maid Gao murdered Zhang's facts, but Chen Shiru "didn't know", in that era, although the wife was responsible for the crime and the husband was responsible, "the law does not lead to death".

However, at that time, the old and new parties were inseparable, and the Chen family and the Li family belonged to the old party, so this case became a political case under the operation of people with good intentions.

Subsequently, the case changed several times, and it expanded rapidly, and a large number of old party members, including Su Song, were all implicated and sent to prison for interrogation.

It was only at this time that Shenzong realized that he had played too big and intended to stop, but in the end, the person who handled the case insisted that the final verdict of the case was, "Dr. Chen Shiru and his wife Li, Gao Gao, Zhang and other nineteen people, and beheaded, Gao Lingchi, his wife Li Te, and seven people including Wu Dan were loaned to death, and the cane spine was distributed to Hunan, Guangnan, and Jingxi Road." ”

In fact, this case is full of suspicions, involving party disputes, and it is strange that there is no cat, regardless of others, Chen Shiruben

It is very likely that people are really unaware, but they have become victims of the old and new party disputes, and the Chen family has collapsed because of this.

The murder of the biological mother belongs to the "evil rebellion" among the ten evil sins, in the Confucian society, the world is governed by filial piety, and if this crime is committed, everyone will spurn it, and even future generations will always live in this shadow.

Although the Chen family still has a shadow to receive, even the emperor and many ministers realize that Chen Shiru has been wronged, but they can no longer mix in the civil official group.

As a result, Chen Shiru's son was demoted to a concubine, so he had to marry a clan girl and obtain the rank of military attaché, and changed from civil capital to military capital to continue the political life of the Chen family.

Later, Chen Shiru's grandson Chen Sigong became a military general, and in the war with the Jin State, he experienced dozens of battles.

Chen Sigong's military talent is not excellent, and the most glorious moment should be his performance in the Ming Shouzhi Change, and in the second year, when the Jin soldiers passed through Wujiang County, he was defeated by Taihu Lake with his boat division and almost captured Zong Bi, the general of the Jin State.

Perhaps because of the "Mother Murder Case", Chen Sigong was low-key, and he was unwilling to publicize it after making great achievements in saving the driver, and pushed away the heavy reward given by Gaozong, so Zhao Jiumei, who was not careful, used the command of the world's military to pay for his merits, which was not conspicuous and practical.

Most of the Xiang army did not need to fight, they were miscellaneous troops, equivalent to long-term workers hired by the imperial court for life, doing labor services such as governing rivers and roads, building cities in tuntian, escorting money and grain, guarding prison cities, etc., that is, the people needed to be requisitioned and sent to do in previous dynasties.

Therefore, compared with other dynasties, the Song Dynasty used less civilian labor, which had the advantage that the people could concentrate more on their own livelihood and generate more surplus value for the "society", which made the commodity economy of the Song Dynasty more developed.

In the early days, the Xiang army still had a lot of military functions, such as garrisoning places, cooperating with the forbidden army to fight, or something, but after arriving in Nandu, it was basically gone.

Of course, if there is a relatively good source of soldiers, the Xiang army will be promoted to the forbidden army, and the soldiers in the forbidden army who are unqualified or old and sick will be demoted to the Xiang army, and this practice is conducive to social order to a certain extent.

Many people have been in the army for a long time, and they have lost the skills to make a living, and if they enter the society, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not become bandits with the administrative ability of ancient times.

The treatment of the Xiang army, on the surface, is half of the forbidden army, but in fact, often one-third of it is not obtained, and when the imperial court's finances are tight, it is even more in arrears, and even ends up hungry.

But for many people, at least they can eat together, which can be regarded as a kind of guarantee for soldiers.

In addition to the retreat of the forbidden army, the main source of the Xiang army is the young and strong people who recruit the victims, the bandits who recruit An, and the criminals.

In the punishment of the Song Dynasty, young and strong criminals were often assigned to the army, which was called "thieves with the army", and Di Qing, the god of war of the Great Song Dynasty, enlisted in the army in this way.

For some relatively serious crimes, the practice at that time was to tattoo the prisoner's face, which was called "black face", which roughly means to keep a criminal record, so there are such tattoos on the face of the army.

In later generations, some people mistakenly thought that the Great Song Dynasty would be tattooed when he was a soldier, but it was actually a misunderstanding, the Great Song Dynasty had never established a military face system, and there would be no tattoos on the face when a soldier was normal, and the Song people actually liked tattoos, even Yue Fei also tattooed "Jing Zhong to serve the country" on his back, and there were many flower arms in the market, in this way to show his martial arts, about the custom that the Wa Kingdom learned from this.

In some periods, in order to prevent soldiers from fleeing, some generals will also tattoo numbers on the faces or arms of soldiers under their command to facilitate capture, which is still different from the stabbing of the army.

This should be counted as a personal practice of a general, and after the southern crossing, this habit gradually disappeared.

Chen Sigong still had a normal official position at that time, with regular troops, and when he had this Fenghua army commander, he retreated his old subordinates who couldn't fight to the Xiang Army for retirement, and even put the families of the soldiers under his command into the Xiang Army.

After four or five generations, this Fenghua army has become the old camp of the Chen family, and all the sergeants share weal and woe with the Chen family.

Because the Fenghua Army is regarded as the heritage of the Chen family, coupled with the Chen family's family training, unlike the military leaders of other Xiang Army, the Chen family not only does not eat empty quotas or drink the blood of soldiers, but in order to take care of these people who have followed his family for generations, they have used up the number of soldiers to the fullest, a full 20,000 registered soldiers.

In addition, the people of the Chen family are not good at business, or

They said that they did not intend to squeeze the labor force of these soldiers, but that in order to maintain their livelihood, they had to divert money and food from other places.

Because of this, the Fenghua army was loyal to the Chen family, and the military training of the younger generation did not fall behind, providing a high-quality source of soldiers for several generations of Chen family owners.

The last head of the Chen family, that is, Chen Tong, the grandfather of Wanwan, in the first year of Duanping, that is, twenty-one years ago, led ten commanders of 5,000 men and horses, followed Zhao Kui to recover Kaifeng, and then continued to march to Luoyang, but unfortunately not only did the logistics not keep up, but also fell into the ambush set up by the Mongols long ago, as a result, the whole army was annihilated, and Chen Tong died in battle.

The Chen family had a thin heir, so after it was extinct, the commander of the Fenghua army was appointed by his son-in-law, that is, Jiang Huaiquan, Wanwan's father, and he also served as the commander of the garrison army.

Five years ago, Yu Jue's northern expedition to Hanzhong, Jiang Huai led the army to fight, at first it was very smooth, but then attacked Hanzhong for a long time, the Mongols repaired the burned plank road, sent reinforcements, the Song army had to retreat, but after Jiang Huai's army was broken, it was inexplicably outflanked by the Mongols, and most of the two thousand soldiers and horses were lost.

At that time, Jiang Huai's son Jiang Yi, who belonged to the Imperial City Division, took the initiative to participate in the war and was responsible for reconnoitring the enemy, but he was also martyred at the age of seventeen.

It is worth mentioning that Liu Weizhen's father, Liu Xiuli, was Jiang Huai's deputy general at that time, leading another army and horses and retreating smoothly.

After the war, in order to boost morale, the imperial court regarded the battle as a victory and rewarded the participants, so Liu Xiuli was promoted and moved to the command of the Anji Prefecture Control Department.

175. Chen Jiang's past