Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 67: Liu Xian's Injustice ([-])
The Duke of Qian's Mansion is also known as Mu Wang's Mansion by later generations. Their ancestor was Mu Ying, who was the adopted son and general of Zhu Yuanzhang.There are a large number of Panax notoginseng in the Qianguo government, which is good news.

But Gao Wushi still put away the bottle of sanqi powder very solemnly, and said seriously: "General Liu, this is not for the boy to use, but to dedicate it to his uncle... Ah, the boy's uncle is from Xinzheng High School. Duke Xuan, he was an official in the same dynasty as the general, do you know if the general knows?"

This is asking knowingly, and Gao Pragmatism obviously has other intentions.

Sure enough, Liu Xian's face turned serious, and he cupped his hands in the direction of the capital: "Xinzheng Gaogong is an important minister of the imperial court. He has long admired his name, but he is humble and ashamed of himself, so he dare not meet him."

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "General Liu is self-effacing. Uncle once commented on today's famous generals in front of the boy, and the general was among them. Uncle also valued the general's ability in his words."

Liu Xian's face was slightly happy, but he was still able to maintain due restraint, and said with a smile: "You who are contemptuous, dare to be praised by Duke Gao and a famous general in the world?"

"It's right, it's right." Gao Wushi said with a smile, then paused, patted the place on his chest where the porcelain vase was placed, and continued: "If this thing has miraculous effects, I should speak to my uncle so that he can use it more often." It is widely used in the military. There are a lot of wars in our court, and thousands of soldiers will benefit from the general in the future. How can the court not remember the merits of the general?"

Liu Xian smiled wryly and said: "A person who is dismissed and awaiting investigation, how dare he think of any credit."

Gao Wushi frowned slightly: "The boy Cai has heard brother Zishou mention this matter, but I don't know why the general came here?"

Liu Xian let out a long sigh, shook his head with a wry smile: "Speaking of which, it's just self-inflicted..."

He then introduced his experience over the years, including why he always had ups and downs, to Gao Yushi.

It turned out that Liu Xian's original surname was Gong, his first name was Xian, and his character was Weiming. His ancestor borrowed from Huguang, and his sixth ancestor was the capital of Jiangsu Jiangning in the Yuan Dynasty.In May of the 20th year of Yuan Dynasty Zhizheng, Chen Youliang captured Taiping, killed Xu Shouhui, proclaimed himself emperor, changed his name to Dahan, and changed Yuan Dayi.At this time, there were many heroes in the world, and wars continued frequently. In order to avoid wars, Liu Xian's grandfather moved his family to Gaotian Village, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province to start a business.

Due to his family's martial arts, Liu Xian has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he is proficient in martial arts, and he is born with supernatural powers, so he rarely meets opponents.However, because his family was poor when he was young, he didn't read too many books, but he was quite proficient in literature and ink, and knew the truth.But this is meaningless, because he is not a scholar, he was very frustrated when he was young, and wandered around.

Time flies, after several twists and turns, he wandered to Chengdu, Sichuan, where he lived in a temple, earning a living by doing part-time jobs and stealing offerings from the temple.He often hid the things he got in a big heavy bell. After a long time, his supernatural power to open the big bell was discovered by others, "people thought it was strange".But this kind of wandering life, for Liu Xian with great ambitions, is forced by the helplessness of life, not voluntary, let alone a long-term solution.

In order to find a better way out, after several inquiries, he learned that the Chengdu Infantry Battalion of the Ming Army recruited Boy Scouts, so he applied for the Boy Scouts.It was a coincidence that on the night when Liu Xian applied for the exam, when Liu Min, the envoy of the Sichuan Guard who was stationed in Chengdu at that time, was dreaming at night, he suddenly saw a big black tiger running towards his mansion in the military camp.

The next morning, Liu Min asked someone to interpret his dream, but he said that a strange person would join him.Sure enough, before the exam started after breakfast, Liu Xian came to take the boy scout exam.Liu Min saw Liu Xian's majestic appearance, his mighty looks, he was definitely not something in a pool, and he felt that he was destined for him, so he was overjoyed, thinking that the dream had come true.Therefore, Liu Min, who was the chief examiner, chose Liu Xian and accepted him as a boy scout, and as a personal guard, he practiced martial arts with the soldiers.

After Liu Xian joined the Boy Scouts, in order to repay Liu Min, the envoy of the guard, for his kindness, he worshiped General Liu Min as his adoptive father and changed his real surname to Liu. Liu Min was very happy.Of course, this was also a custom in the Ming Dynasty. Later, famous generals such as Li Chengliang and Mao Wenlong had many adopted sons.

In the 18th year of Jiajing, Liu Xian, who was only 24 years old, changed his Jiangxi nationality to Sichuan nationality with the help of Liu Min, the envoy of the Wei Dynasty, to apply for a martial arts student.After passing the martial arts examination, he was admitted as a martial arts student, which is a threshold for entering the officialdom of military generals.From then on, Liu Xian started his military career, fighting with Liu Min.

Not long after, the imperial court established the Zhenwu Camp in Nanjing. Liu Xian was called to the Zhenwu Camp as an instructor because of his high martial arts skills and proficient tactics on the recommendation of Zhang Jia, Minister of the Ministry of War.Due to Liu Xian's special contribution to the infantry saber tactics and surprise attack skills training established in the Zhenwu Camp, he was quickly promoted to be the acting capital commander and concurrently served as the Zhejiang capital.Because of his meritorious service in preparing the Zhejiang army, he was promoted to a general, in charge of defending the military defense of Jiangsu and Wusongkou.

At this time, the Japanese crown often invaded and harassed the north of the Jianghuai River and invaded the Sixian, Tianchang, Xuyi, Mingguang, and Sihong areas of Sizhou. The imperial court ordered Liu Xian to strictly guard against Pukou.Since then, Liu Xianlian has made military exploits, and within a few years, because of his outstanding military exploits, he was moved to be the deputy commander-in-chief to assist the commander-in-chief in defending Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In the 38th year of Jiajing, Liu Xian, the deputy commander in chief of the Zhejiang Province, was ordered by Governor Hu Zongxian to lead two thousand elite soldiers northward to assist the Jiangbei Imperial Japanese Army. command.Liu Xian and General Cao Kexin led the soldiers from the headquarters to attack the bandit's nest, and they all commanded Lu Tongye to lead the reinforcements to come later. The people in the four townships ate pots of pulp and shouted to cheer. The fierce battle lasted from morning to dusk, and finally they were all defeated. Liuzhuang, the base camp of Japanese pirates and bandits.

The thieves were at the end of their way and were beaten and fled.Liu Xian led the soldiers and the local villagers to pursue the victory and pursue them bravely. They chased the remnants of the Japanese pirates to Baijuchang, Xinghua, and from Baijuchang to Maohuadun.After several fierce battles, with blood flowing and corpses strewn all over the field, Liu Xian's troops won a complete victory, and all the fleeing Japanese pirates were wiped out, and no one survived.

However, Li Sui, the governor of Fengyang and the supervisor of Jiangbei military affairs at that time, wrote to impeach Liu Xian and Lu Tong for his fault of indulging the Japanese pirates in Sansha because of fighting for military merits, which caused serious consequences of looting in Baijuchang, Maohuadun and other places.After reading Li Sui's memorial, Emperor Jiajing deprived Liu Xian of his salary out of his habitual mentality of being noble and humble, and handed it over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for verification. He was charged with dereliction of duty and was dismissed for the first time.

In May of the 41st year of Jiajing, Japanese pirates swarmed up again along the coast of Guangdong.At this time, the Jiajing Kingdom was thinking about good generals in disorder, and urgently ordered Liu Xian to be appointed as the commander-in-chief to guard the military defense of the sea areas of Guangdong and Fujian.

Coincidentally, Japanese pirates broke out again along the coast of Fujian. The local government and the garrison felt very troublesome and unable to deal with the sudden Japanese pirates.Liu Xian sent an order to the military newspaper and led the army to rush for reinforcements at high speed.He also cooperated with Qi Jiguang, then the governor of Zhejiang Province and general Qi Jiguang, to continuously defeat the Japanese pirates and directly pull out the base camp of the Japanese pirates. However, none of the Japanese pirates who entered the coastal area of ​​Fujian survived, and all of them were wiped out.

However, Japanese pirates who are not dead-hearted continue to rush to Yingtian territory in large numbers, and quickly captured Xinghua City.At that time, Liu Xian's troops were greatly reduced due to successive battles, which was very different from the main force of the Japanese pirates occupying Xinghua.

As a result, Liu Xian was immediately impeached again, saying that he did not do enough to suppress the Japanese pirates.After participating in impeachment, Jiajing considered that the country was in troubled times, and it was time for employing people, so he could not cut his own wings, so he issued an edict ordering Liu Xian to perform crimes and make meritorious deeds.

At this time, the Japanese pirates continued to attack important coastal strongholds, and formed a tug-of-war with the Ming army near Pinghaiwei.And another band of pirates who robbed Fuqing, Fujian also planned to join hands with pirates from Pinghaiwei.Fortunately, Liu Xian saw through the conspiracy of the Japanese pirates, so Liu Xian and Yu Dayou, the commander-in-chief of Fujian Province, joined forces on the Zhelang Peninsula to wipe out all the Japanese pirates entrenched in Zhelang.The Japanese pirates in Pinghaiwei heard the news and planned to escape, but they were intercepted and defeated by General Xu Chaoguang, who burned all the Japanese pirate ships.

At this time, Qi Jiguang also led his troops to come for reinforcements. He joined forces with Liu Xian and Yu Dayou, the main masters of the Japanese war against the Japanese, to wipe out all the Japanese pirates in the Xinghua area and recover the lost Xinghua city.

Due to Liu Xian's outstanding achievements in the battle of annihilating the Japanese pirates in Guangdong and Fujian, the imperial court rewarded him for his meritorious service, and promoted him to two ranks from his original rank of commander of the third rank, and became the governor of the second rank.At this time, the Japanese pirates in Yangzhou, Huai'an, Taizhou, Nantong and other places in the north of the Yangtze River had not been completely wiped out, and the imperial court decided to set up a general officer in Langshan to control the north and south of the river.

After arriving in office, Liu Xian, the general soldier, in order to perform the duties of the Ministry of Examination of local officials, asked the emperor to issue an edict to him so as to control these local officials below the magistrate.Because Tongzhou Tongzhi Wang Ru was jealous of Liu Xian-Liu Xian's troops were stationed near Tongzhou, and Wang Ru was a civil servant and refused to be restrained by Liu Xian-so he wrote a letter to impeach Liu Xian, accusing Liu Xian of disrespect to the emperor. Right from wrong... So Liu Xian was demoted.

Not long after, Emperor Jiajing died and Emperor Longqing ascended the throne.At this time, Liu Xian had suffered enough from the civil servants, and he did not dare to fight against them, but he did not expect to be a general near Nanjing. Nanjing is actually the official capital of the Ming Dynasty, and there are six left-behind institutions, but most of them are fake. The real three giants in Nanjing are: Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, Eunuch in charge of Nanjing, and Xunchen in Nanjing. This is also the case in history. The main reason why the imperial court was headed by Shi Kefa, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing at that time.), Liu Xian was suppressed by Nanjing's garrison officials because he was a general but did not know how to contribute. Liu Xian was once again "dismissed and awaiting investigation".

When Liu Xian said this, his face was full of anger: "Master Gao, if you say that the number of soldiers in the guard station does not match the number of registered people, I have hundreds of towns in Ming Dynasty, which town can match? The difference between the number of soldiers in the towns of Nanjing and the number of registered people is huge , the difference is much greater than my Liu's subordinates, why don't these people ask for punishment and come to me instead?"

(End of this chapter)