Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Fanwaisan

Chunwei in the 47th year of Wanli was the last subject of the 48th year of Shenzong's reign.After he took 345 disciples of the emperor, he let go of them the next year.

Usually the last subject Jinshi will be a very miserable subject, because the new emperor will naturally choose his own students.Don't underestimate the difference between one and two years, because the examiner of Chunwei is someone who is appointed by the new emperor, who is in line with the new emperor's wishes, and who can write questions according to the new emperor's ideas.In addition, the imperial examination was written by the emperor, and the emperor had to read the first twenty articles. It goes without saying that the Jinshi is more in line with who's heart, which is the truth.

Therefore, the prospect of Jinshi's official career in the first year of the emperor's ascension to the throne is the best.

The new emperor's ascension to the throne has little effect on the veteran Jinshi from 30, [-], or even [-] years ago.These veteran Jinshi over the years either occupied important positions, or they were selected in the same year who occupied important positions.

The death of Emperor Wanli, the enthronement and death of Emperor Taichang, and the enthronement of Emperor Tianqi all happened within one month.For the fast-paced changes of the emperor, for the jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli, they were only qualified to mourn, and they had no chance to participate or even be promoted in such changes.Moreover, they will follow the enthronement of the new emperor, and they will be overshadowed by the light of the new Jinshi, and then they will be lost in the vast number of grassroots officials who are not remembered by the officials and the emperor.

It wasn't until the year of the big plan that it was possible to be remembered by the officials.

Sun Chuanting is one of the 345 unlucky troops.

He was born in the 21st year of Wanli (1593), and he was one of the 275 Citong Jinshi in the third class, ranking 41st.He was initially awarded the magistrate of Yongcheng County, Henan Province.

It's hard to say whether it is a middle-level county, of course, if you don't consider the annual rampage of the Yellow River and Huaihe River, and the follow-up of the Tuohe River, this place is still good.

Yongcheng is located at the junction of the four provinces of Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shandong. Specifically, it is located in Shangqiu in the northwest, Haozhou in the west, Xuzhou in the northeast, Huaibei in the east, and Suzhou in the southeast.It can be said that it is a transportation hub connecting four provinces.

Yongcheng is famous because Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, left here the Mangdang Mountain Snake Rebellion and is known as the "Land of Han Xing".Yongcheng has a long history, and there was a record in the Shang Dynasty: "Emperor Xin led an army of more than 1065 people to recruit people in September of the tenth year ([-] BC). In the eternal territory of the land, there are the eternal land of the You land, the land of Fengyi, and the land of Mang."

The official name of Yongcheng came from Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.

In March of the sixth year of Daye, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty traveled south along the Bian River (Tongji Canal) by boat. When he passed most of the cities that were submerged by the Huai River and the Bian River in the previous two years, he saw that only Mafu City was safe and sound.Emperor Yangdi chanted: "Floods destroyed many cities in five years, but Mafu is the eternal city."Afterwards, the two counties of Pengcheng and Suiyang were cut off and placed in Yongcheng County, and Ma Fu, the governor, was still there.

In November of the first year of Hongwu, Yongcheng was transferred from Kaifeng Mansion to Guide Mansion.

Such a change has little to do with Sun Chuanting, the new county magistrate who took office.The first thing he did after he took office in the 47th year of Wanli was to measure the Tuohe River and Huihe River flowing through Yongcheng County with his feet, and then lead the people out of corvee during the [-]-day freezing period every year.With the county magistrate on the front line of river control for three consecutive years, and of course for three consecutive years, this place, which could have been preserved when the Huaihe and Bianhe rivers flooded, escaped from the ravages of the Yellow River after it seized the Huaihe River. Out.

Yongcheng County has not been troubled by floods for three consecutive years.

Such achievements, even if there is no one above, the county magistrate's outstanding achievements will be reflected in the list of counties that have not been affected by the disaster in Guide Mansion.So Sun Chuanting was transferred to the capital in this way.

Then he seemed to be overwhelmed by luck.

When the young emperor led the army to expedition to Liaodong, he remembered that he was a seventh-rank official who went to Beijing because of his grades and went to the official department to be the head of the seal inspection, and brought him into the army as a clerk and a tester.Sun Chuanting, who heard the news, almost jumped for joy under the ignorance.

Sun Chuanting moved with the emperor's central army tent, but when he was approaching Liaoyang, he was sent by the emperor to the vanguard army to accompany the British prince who was leading the vanguard.

In the first battle against Jiannu in the south of Liaoyang City, he witnessed the Royal Prince of England selecting the cavalrymen of the Imperial Army to lure the enemy, and encouraged them how to lure the Jiannu who were besieged under the city of Liaoyang; More than a hundred Jiannu soldiers who came were bombarded. I witnessed the Duke of England ordering half a hundred of the cannons to be fired only once. Report back to the Jiannu army.

Such demonstration teaching left a deep impression on Sun Chuanting's mind.This is a completely different method of warfare from the military books he has read before.

When the emperor's performance in the vanguard army, Sun Chuanting admired him even more.The young emperor actually commanded the battle against the tens of thousands of slave cavalry without fear and without changing his face.Afterwards, he continued to march towards Shenyang and stationed troops between Liaoshen and Shenyang. He was puzzled by all kinds of puzzles, but he just kept his doubts in his heart.

Shouldn't we speed up our march to the city of Shenyang and act together with the defenders of Shenyang to defeat the slave-building army besieging the city in one fell swoop?

But after the slavery attack camp that appeared in the second half of the night, Sun Chuanting lay on the floor with felt mats, and only then did he realize what the roar of Ming's new artillery meant.The continuous roar of artillery made him unable to lie on the ground.But as a military officer, he knows what military law means.Afterwards, he stared until dawn.

Then he followed Duke Ding to clean the battlefield.The shattered human body and horse corpses were mixed together, and he barely managed not to vomit again in front of the soldiers.In fact, there was nothing in his stomach to spit out.

Yesterday at Liaoyang city, he already vomited bitter bile, and then only drank clear soup for dinner.No matter how much he likes the Ministry of War, how much he likes the book of war, and he is happy that he can go out with the emperor, but seeing so many fragmented corpses for the first time, he is too shocked to eat.

But he still went to count the corpses of the soldiers and horses around the barracks one by one, which was his duty.He watched the soldiers make up for the fatal blows to those Jiannu who were still bleeding and groaning. From the initial feeling of unbearable and sideways avoidance, to the later insensitivity, the transition was completed in one morning.

After breakfast, he realized that it was the emperor who found out that the slaves had attacked the camp.It was when the emperor was patrolling the camp at night, he smelled the fishy smell mixed with the northwest wind, so he turned off the cannon.The flames from the shell explosion illuminated the Jiannu horse army who came to attack the camp.

Thirty thousand cavalry.

Sun Chuanting felt white sweat all over his body, even his obscene clothes were wet.It's terrible, the emperor is still in camp.If the Son of Heaven hadn't discovered the enemy attack in time, he, as the first group of Kao Gonglang to inspect the night battlefield after dawn, would not have dared to imagine what a tragic scene it would be if the soldiers of the same night found out later.

Many Jiannu cavalry fell on the ambush line of the square steel cone.But there were also Jiannu cavalry who crossed the ambush line.As long as the artillery did not fire in time, the square steel cone could not completely block the Jiannu attacking at night.

Should he be thankful that His Majesty has a sensitive nose?Should he be thankful that His Majesty can fire?He should be very lucky.

——It turns out that in the military, the nose is still used for this purpose.Sun Chuanting solemnly wrote this sentence in his letter to his friends.

In the subsequent leading battles, Sun Chuanting paid extra attention to the soldiers who possessed the ability to be thieves.Only those who know that the emperor discovered the night attack by smell and smell will understand him.

After following the emperor in Liaodong for half a year, another world opened up in front of Sun Chuanting's eyes.He did not return to Beijing with the emperor, but continued to stay in the imperial army, and followed the prince of England to chase down Jiannu who was fleeing everywhere.

It took them three to four years to completely complete the rule that no tribes with more than 20 people would be determined not to stay.

In the later battles against the Tatars on the Western Front, Sun Chuanting was used by the emperor as a general.When he set off from Hao'er, the emperor sent Lu Xiangsheng to be a kaogonglang in his army.

Invincible all the way.

Watching Lu Xiangsheng go through the same growth journey as he did a few years ago, Sun Chuanting is glad that he has finally come here.When he led the army to fight Bars and Tan, the emperor called him and Lu Xiangsheng back to the court.

Let the two of them be the prince's teachers—even though both of them are fourth-rank doctors of the Ministry of War.

The Son of Heaven has already made a promise in the court.After Gongnai became an official, Ye Xianggao persuaded the emperor a little bit, but Ye Xianggao also retired in the next year.The emperor suddenly promoted Wen Zhenmeng to be the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Yu Huang to be the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, which immediately shifted the attention of the court to Sun Chengzong and Lu Xiangsheng.

Sun Chengzong sometimes wondered, if he was one or two subjects late in Chunwei, would he be able to be admitted to the number one scholar?what will happenWill he also be the servant of the third rank?

Whenever he has such thoughts, he will laugh at himself, the top three and Jinshi expect to become the number one scholar?However, the emperor attached great importance to the number one scholar, which still prompted the students to work harder.

Especially those who are capable in technical subjects are getting more and more attention from the emperor and the Ministry of Industry.

Time passed slowly, when Sun Chuanting thought that he would die of old age in the position of military doctor.The emperor sent him and Lu Xiangsheng to take the prince to Luzon.

When receiving the decree, he knelt down in front of the emperor's case and refused to get up, and took the prince with him. If the land was fine, but at sea, if there was a big storm, how could he protect the prince's safety.

"I asked you and Lu Qing to take the crown prince to Lu Song to meet the territory of Ming Dynasty, where it is as dangerous as you said. If you are afraid, I will replace you."

Together with Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting finally took the prince to Luzon Province.Via Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Fujian, Xinyuan, Qiongzhou to Luzon.Then he accompanied the prince to Annan, Siam, from Yunnan to Sichuan, Ningxia, and Shaanxi before returning to Beijing.

After visiting these places in Ming Dynasty in three years, he only rested in the capital for two months, added the second prince, and then went to Liaodong and North Korea.

When he returned to the capital, the prince performed the crowning ceremony and began to formally deal with the government affairs.Xing Taiji, who accompanied the prince the most, also entered the cabinet as the right servant of the household department and the scholar of the Wenhua Palace, and became the support of the prince among the civil servants.

And himself and Lu Xiangsheng joined the cabinet as Dongge University Bachelor and Military Minister (temporary post), and became the prince's right-hand men.Even the courtiers thought that they and Lu Xiangsheng were not civil servants anymore.

Sun Chuanting no longer envied Wen Zhenmeng, nor did he envy Yu Huang.Wen Zhenmeng was also the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.When Wen Zhenmeng got to the point where Zuo Guangdou, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, retired, he would have already retired. Wen Zhenmeng was one year older than Zuo Guangdou.It's still early when Lin Yuji, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, gets to be a minister.

What's more, I am five or six years younger than Yu Huang.

Sure enough, he was going to be a Jinshi early.

Alas, Lu Xiangsheng is one subject later than himself but eight years younger.

The afterlife is terrifying!

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孙传庭(1593年-1643年)，万历47年(1619年)进士。崇祯15年(1642年)任兵部侍郎，总督陕西。

In the following year, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War (renamed Supervisor).He led troops to suppress Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's uprisings.Due to the epidemic, insufficient food and grass, and lack of ammunition for soldiers, the court urged the battle, but he had no choice but to fight hastily. Later, he was defeated and died in Tongguan, Shaanxi, shrouded in horse leather. He was about 51 years old. "History of Ming Dynasty" stated that "Chuan Ting died, and Ming Dynasty died."

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Wen Zhenmeng, an official of the Ming Dynasty in 1574, was a calligrapher.Wen Zhengming's great-grandson. In 1622, the court challenged Da Kui to the world and became the No.80 No. 63 champion in the Ming Dynasty.At the beginning of Chongzhen, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Worship, and a bachelor of Dongge University.Wen Zhenmeng hates evil like hatred, dares to impeach, and speaks outspokenly.However, he also offended Wei Zhongxian, Wang Yongguang, Wen Tiren, etc. because of this, and was forced to retire twice and dismissed once.The year of death is [-].

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Yu Huang was the number one scholar in the fifth year of Tianqi (1588) in 1625.In the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644), after Sizong hanged Meishan, King Lu appointed Yu Huang as Minister of War.In June of the second year of Longwu (1646), Qing soldiers approached Shaoxing, and King Lu fled across the sea.Seeing that the general situation was over, Yu Huang ordered decisively to open the gates of the city and let the soldiers and civilians leave the city to take refuge.After the city was empty, he wrote a poem of Jue Ming, went out to the east gate alone to go to the water, and died in martyrdom.

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Lu Xiangsheng (1600~1639).An outstanding general in the late Ming Dynasty.He was a Jinshi in 1622, the second year of Tianqi.Since the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), he participated in the suppression of Li Zicheng and other peasant troops. Minister, Governor of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi Military Affairs.In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army was defeated.In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), he defeated the peasant army of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng.In the 11th year of Chongzhen (1638), he served as Minister of the Ministry of War. He advocated fighting against the Qing Dynasty and guarding the capital.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), he led his troops to be surrounded by the Qing army in Jiazhuang, Julu.

Xing Taiji ranked first in the provincial examination in the 1599th year of Ming Wanli (46) in 1618, and was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi (1622).

He served as a member of the household department, Uiro, and managed the rice warehouse.He cleared up the evils and strengthened management. After rectification, there was a surplus of 17000 shi in grain, and he did not touch a single grain of rice.The department recommends it sparsely, praises it as "clear as still water, cautious as holding profit", and its performance is excellent.During the reign of Chongzhen, the capital was in a state of emergency, and all the towns needed food and salaries to send reinforcements to Beijing.Taiji worked day and night, became sick from overwork, and died in an official at the age of 32.

He is knowledgeable, good at poetry and prose, and has exquisite pen and ink.Hand-compiled the books "Customs of the Borderlands of the Four Barbarians" and kept them at home.

注:弱冠领解，20岁(19周岁)，可知其生于1599年。卒于1630年，32岁(31周岁)。