On a certain day in May of the second year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1523), Ningbo Port, Zhejiang.
It is also the Japanese daimyo mission who came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and at this moment, the envoys of the Hosokawa clan, Luaoka Ruizo and Song Suqing, are beaming proudly, talking and laughing, while the envoys of the Ouchi clan, Zong Shiqiandao, are quite indignant.
It turned out that the Ouchi clan was the first to arrive at Ningbo Port, and according to the convention, "the ship arrived, and the city ship company read the goods, and in order." "But because the Ningbo City Governor and Eunuch Lai En accepted bribes from the Hosokawa clan in advance, he actually let the Hosokawa clan cut the queue to the front. Looking at the ugly faces of Luangang Ruizuo, Song Suqing, and the eunuch Ryan, Zong Shiqian Dao was furious.
However, what made Zong Shiqian even more annoyed was still to come. At the reception dinner of the city boss, he was inferior again, and his seat was ranked behind Luangang Ruizuo and Song Suqing, and he was verbally humiliated by the two during the period.
Little Japanese bushido spirit can not stand this. So, the pirate-born Zong Shi Qiandao went crazy on the spot, picked up the katana and cut down Ruizo, and then took more than 100 samurai and ronin mixed in the mission to chase and kill Song Suqing all the way to Shaoxing. Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through Shaoxing, Zong Shiqian Dao immediately returned to Ningbo, not only ransacking the treasury of the city, but also looting the city of Ningbo to vent his anger.
Seeing this, the local ** of the Ming Dynasty immediately sent troops to kill them, but the Ming army, which had been peaceful for a long time, was defeated by this small group of Japanese armed forces, and commanded Liu Jin to die in battle.
In the end, Zong Shiqian ran away after loading x, he led his troops to rob three civilian ships in Ningbo Port, escaped into the sea with a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and took away Yuan Jin, the commander of Ningbo Wei in the Ming Dynasty.
As soon as this incident came out, the whole country was in an uproar, and the Jiajing Dynasty was getting worse and worse, and the conservatives represented by Xia Yan in the matter immediately asked for the removal of the city. At the beginning of his reign, Jiajing was bent on fighting with his ministers, and only wanted to give his parents a name, so in line with the principle that more things are better than less, he abolished the city departments in Fujian and Zhejiang in the eighth year of Jiajing.
Since then, China and Japan have been cut off, and the Chinese and Japanese businessmen who had relied on ** to make a living have taken risks and started smuggling. The disorderly underground smuggling is often mixed with all kinds of deceit, bloody **, and the contradictions continue to intensify. ”
Part of the Raids of the Woko (now in the collection of the University of Tokyo, Japan).
After the soldiers, the scorched earth is all over the village. The road is full of jackal traces, whose chickens and dogs are saved? The cold wind blows the day, and the ghost fire is chaotic at dusk. This is the tragic situation after the ravages of the Japanese invaders.
In the following ten years, the Japanese invaded all parts of the southeast coast repeatedly, burning, killing and looting, and did all kinds of evil. The Ming army was defeated repeatedly, "conscription for half the world, thieves and thieves became more and more hot".
The armament of the Ming army was slackened to an astonishing extent.
In April of the 32nd year of Jiajing, a small group of less than 50 Japanese invaders fled to Zhapu, Zhejiang, and then plundered all the way along Pinghu, Haiyan, and Ninghai. After more than ten days of ravaging the counties, the Japanese invaders swaggered and retreated.
In the 34th year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Shandong and other places in an organized and large-scale manner, and thousands of miles of coastline were in an emergency at the same time.
Map of the situation of the Japanese rebellion in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
Just when the plague was at its most serious, Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, received a letter from his son Zhao Wenhua, in which Zhao Wenhua, who supervised the military affairs of the southeast as the right deputy capital imperial history, recommended a talent to Yan Song - Hu Zongxian, the imperial governor of Zhejiang.
The reason why Hu Zongxian was able to get into Zhao Wenhua's eyes is inseparable from his outstanding political achievements.
Hu Zongxian was a Jinshi in the seventeenth year of Jiajing, and Yan Song happened to be one of the chief examiners that year, so the two had a teacher-student relationship, but Hu Zongxian, who was only a third-class Jinshi at that time, could not attract Yan Song's attention.
In the following years, Hu Zongxian was successively exiled to Yidu and Yuyao to serve as the magistrate. In the local administrative arena, Hu Zongxian gave full play to his diligent and practical style, and his political achievements were remarkable, and the people of Yuyao even privately built a shrine for him because of their love for Hu Zongxian. Hu Zongxian was promoted to Xuanda Inspector in the 27th year of Jiajing and began to contact military affairs.
During his tenure at Xuanda, Hu Zongxian suffered two Xuanda mutinies. After learning that the sergeant mutinied because he was dissatisfied with the transfer and transfer, as a civilian official, he "rode to the army alone, pawned Rabai, and cried for the reason", and successfully resolved the crisis with his own courage.
A generation of famous ministers Hu Zongxian.
In the 33rd year of Jiajing, the southeast was eroded, and the imperial court sent Hu Zongxian, a cadre, to patrol Zhejiang to assist Zhao Wenhua in rectifying military affairs. At this time, the infighting between Zhao Wenhua and the governor Zhang Jing and the governor of Zhejiang, Li Tianzhong, was at a fever pitch, and Hu Zongxian inevitably faced a side choice.
Hu Zongxian, who has passed the age of not being confused, must have experienced a struggle in his heart. Maybe it is to take advantage of the shortcut of the strict party to make steady progress, or it is to save the people of the southeast from fire and water, or it is eager to make contributions and go down in history, we do not know what the reason is. But in the end, Hu Zongxian braved the world's condemnation and sided with Zhao Wenhua.
Wenhua relied on Yan Song's internal aid, and he was very wanton. The scriptures and heavenly favors are not attached, and the constitution of the sole sect is attached".
Later it turned out that Hu Zongxian's choice was right, and if he wanted to make achievements in the southeast, he must rely on the Yan Party. Soon, Yan Dang easily cut off Zhang Jing and Li Tianzhong. Zhao Wenhua also knew how many catties and taels he had, and he was anxious to find a candidate for governor of Zhejiang to help him stabilize the situation in the southeast.
The first thing that came to his mind was Hu Zongxian.
To tell the truth, since the beginning of the Jiajing Rebellion, the governor of Zhejiang has not been a beautiful difference, and there are few good deaths among the successive chief officials. In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing, the first governor of Zhejiang, Zhu Kun, was deposed and committed suicide by taking poison; In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, the governor Zhang Jing and the governor of Zhejiang, Li Tianzhong, were beheaded. Proper high-risk occupations.
But the bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish, to become a capable minister to govern the world, supervising Zhejiang is an excellent opportunity in front of Hu Zongxian. So, he gladly accepted Zhao Wenhua's proposal.
Subsequently, Zhao Wenhua and Yan Song successively promoted Hu Zongxian, and Jiajing promoted Hu Zongxian to the governor of Zhejiang. A year later, Zhao Wenhua threw the burden of governor to him, and Hu Zongxian was promoted to governor, overseeing the military affairs of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian.
At this point, Hu Zongxian sealed the southeast of Xinjiang and began to show his ambitions.
Hu Zongxian once went to Shu Jiajing: "If the thief is not eliminated for a day, the minister will not dare to leave the barracks for a day; If the sea is not quiet for a day, the minister will not dare to leave the sea for a day. ”
With the determination to eliminate the plague of the Japanese people, Hu Zongxian led the struggle against the Japanese in the southeast for more than six years, during which he rectified military discipline, reduced or exempted taxes, strengthened coastal defense, and actively made all preparations for the protracted war against the Japanese people. At the same time, he had a discerning eye and promoted a large number of generals, including Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Tan Lun, Liu Xian, Tang Shunzhi, Lu Bo and other famous generals.
Hu Zongxian himself is not ambiguous, he is not a governor who hides thousands of miles away and commands remotely, and during his tenure, he personally participated in more than 100 battles. From April 40 to November 41 of Jiajing alone, Hu Zongxian personally led his troops and horses to fight in many places in Zhejiang, fought six naval battles with the Japanese invaders, fought twelve land battles, and beheaded nearly 1,500 people.
Every time he fought, Hu Zongxian would "come to the battlefield by himself, and supervise the battle between the arrows and the stones". During the fierce battle in Hangzhou, Hu Zongxian "personally went to the city to monitor, leaned over the wall, and the three divisions were all trembling, fearing that they would be added by the arrows, and Zongxian looked at it calmly." "The coach is like this, the morale is greatly boosted, and the soldiers are all dying.
The Japanese Picture Scroll is a partial battle at sea.
The Japanese invaders came and went without a trace, and it was impossible to fortify the coastline for thousands of miles, so Hu Zongxian decided to take the initiative to attack. Under the planning of Xu Wei, Shen Mingchen, Mao Kun and other elite staff, Hu Zongxian successfully divided the four major Japanese leaders, first capturing Chen Dong and Ma Ye, then eliminating Xu Hai, and finally trapping Wang Zhi.
Several major bandits were executed, the Japanese army was disheartened, and the balance of victory began to tilt in favor of the Ming army.
However, Hu Zongxian was able to easily cut off the heads of the Japanese invaders, but he couldn't stop the leisurely mouths of the imperial historians.
Since Hu Zongxian supervised the southeast, the Qingliu people have never stopped treating him, and in the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth years of Jiajing, the most critical anti-Japanese war, the imperial historians and officials have even more. The bullet on Hu Zongxian's "bribing and grabbing power and raising the remnants of the people" flew into the Forbidden City like snowflakes.
If you don't know the price of firewood and rice, how can you tell the clear stream of the country with your mouth, but how can you know the huge cost of fighting against the Japanese and the hardship of making decisions. Hu Zongxian couldn't help but pour bitter water on Jiajing: "The minister is for the country to eliminate the evil, use the intermittent as bait, there is no tip, and you can't make a big plan." ”
It is far from enough to rely on one's own defense, and the lessons of Zhu Kun, Zhang Jing and others are still fresh in their memories. Hu Zongxian is not a nerd, in order to save the life of his whole family, and even more in order to protect the great cause of peace, Hu Zongxian had to take extraordinary measures.
On the one hand, Hu Zongxian changed his way to offer auspicious rui to Jiajing to win the emperor's favor, on the other hand, Hu Zongxian knew that he had to hold Yan Song's thigh, only Yan Song could cover himself, and at this time, Yan Dang also needed to make his own immortal achievements in the southeast.
Zongxian has many powers, likes fame, because Wenhua married Yan Song's father and son, and the children of the golden silk are rare and obscene. "Bribery to tie up Yan Song and Yan Shifan's father and son naturally became the biggest stain on Hu Zongxian's life.
Regarding Hu Zongxian's spending money, his top aide Xu Wei once recorded: "After that, the public became more and more frugal, waited for cloth clothes, stayed for two periods, and gave hundreds of gifts. ”
Hu Zongxian has been in a high position for many years, and he can't help but have selfish desires, but he hopes to solve practical problems through money. It is precisely because of the generous treatment that he has attracted a large number of talents that he can set up various conspiracies and conspiracies, and finally turn things around.
Staff member Mao Kun also commented on Hu Zongxian: "I don't care about the disaster of my family inside, and I don't care about the slander of the mouth." Zhang Ding, a descendant, said more bluntly: "If you don't bribe, you will be in danger and will not succeed, and if you bribe, you will be lucky to succeed and be notorious to death." The ministers of the field are unspeakable, and they have been doing evil for thousands of years! ”
With Yan Song as a backer in the center, Hu Zongxian is in power, "The southeast is hidden, and everything is transferred; The world is brave and requisitioned cheaply", and then revitalized the big game of chess in the southeast to resist the Japanese.
Under the command of Hu Zongxian, the anti-Japanese war ushered in the dawn of victory.
Between the 40th and 41st years of Jiajing, the Ming army successively won decisive victories in Taizhou, Zhejiang, Hengyu, Fujian, Niutian and other places.
The Qi family army resisted the Japanese.
The southeast has been free from Japanese troubles for hundreds of years, and it is also its reinvention power, and the public can be described as a social minister. ”
However, just when the fruits of victory were within reach, the center of the court underwent great changes, and Hu Zongxian's dream of being a capable minister was also shattered.
In May of the 41st year of Jiajing, Yan Song fell, and then the Yan Party was liquidated.
In November of the same year, the central center ** affected Hu Zongxian. Nanjing Huke gave Lu Fengyi ** Hu Zongxian in the matter, and Hu Zongxian was dismissed and imprisoned.
The imperial historians have been unpleasant to Hu Zongxian for many years, and this time they naturally plan to die, but the scheming Jiajing doesn't think so.
At this time, the Japanese in Zhejiang had been put down, but the Japanese rebellion in Fujian and Guangdong provinces was still very serious. Since he came to power, only Hu Zongxian has been the most effective in governing the Japanese, so Jiajing decided to keep Hu Zongxian.
Jiajing Zhu criticized the characterization: "Zongxian is not the Song Party, I have been pulling out for ** years, and people are speechless." Self-tired and auspicious, for the evil of the disease. And the first discussion was directly given a fifth-class seal, and if the crime is added now, who will be the one who will be my servant later. Its release order is idle. So the officials shut up.
Since then, Hu Zongxian has been at home and lives a life of fear every day.
On the other hand, Jiajing continued to reuse Hu Zongxian's anti-Japanese veteran team, and Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and others also lived up to expectations and continued to exterminate the Japanese in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.
In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou purged the last remnants of the Japanese army entrenched in Guangdong.
At this point, the Ming Dynasty was completely pacified.
However, in the same year, the imperial historian Wang Ruzheng seized the evidence of Hu Zongxian's intention to bribe Yan Shifan, so as to confirm Hu Zongxian's identity as a strict party. Jiajing saw that the rebellion was pacified, Hu Zongxian was useless, the cunning rabbit died, the lackeys cooked, and Hu Zongxian was imprisoned again.
In November of the 44th year of Jiajing, Hu Zongxian, a generation of famous ministers, died in prison.
The vicissitudes of the sea, the world changes.
In 1955, Pinghu, Zhejiang accidentally unearthed a "Pinghai Kou Monument".
This stele was erected for the 35th year of Jiajing, engraved with a total of 895 words, and described in detail the heroic deeds of Hu Zongxian in Pinghu to exterminate the giant Kou Xu Hai, obtain the great victory of Shenzhuang and behead more than 2,000 levels of Japanese Kou.
However, most of the heroes in the inscription, including Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian, were later deposed and convicted, and failed to die well, and even the inscription writer Sun Zhi was also **, and the ending was embarrassing.
A few years after Hu Zongxian's death, Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, fully learned the lessons of his predecessors, and that is another story.
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