The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 8
Boss You Bai waved his hands and called several subordinates to carry Li Dagang back, said a few words of gratitude to Huang Sheng and left.

After a while, Baizong Ma Shihu, who was going to report the military situation, came running excitedly.

When he saw Huang Sheng, he smiled and said, "My lord, it's rare for you to have good luck today. Master Sun asked you to go and see him."

Sun Chengzong was a great man in the late Ming Dynasty, and Huang Sheng was like thunder.

This old gentleman is a first-class official, old and strong with blood. He once led his nephews and servants in his 70s to defend Gaoyang and fight Jiannu to the end. In the end, the city was broken and he died generously. His family was beheaded by Jiannu. More than 100 people .

He is now the highest official in Liaodong and Shanhaiguan, and he is also a civil servant, a teacher of the emperor, and an elder of the pavilion.

The Ming Dynasty ruled military affairs with civil affairs, and civil officials were the most important military officers. Even a first-rank general military officer had to obey the dispatch of a fifth-rank military equipment.

It is conceivable how awesome Sun Chengzong, a senior member of the first rank, was in Liaodong.

Huang Sheng was lucky, he was able to meet this frontier official as soon as he came to Daming, he didn't dare to neglect and quickly followed Ma Shihu to the official hall.

Huang Sheng is a scholar, he should bow down when he saw such a high-ranking official, but he ignored this, and respectfully greeted him with his hands clasped together as a student.

Scholars are allowed to meet officials without worshiping, but only to see the magistrate. Of course, they need to kneel down when they see court officials of the fourth rank or above. I saw a big official in the frontier like Sun Chengzong.

Officialdom, in fact, the bigger the official is, the less he cares about these vain etiquettes, and he appears to be open-minded and approachable.On the contrary, those little sesame officials were afraid of being underestimated by others, so they carried it on purpose.

When Sun Chengzong saw the young man dressed in Confucian uniforms, he liked it a little, and he didn't care about Huang Shengkou's claim that the students saw him as a teacher.

His old man was a little unbelievable that Huang Sheng, a gentleman who seemed to be a gentleman, was able to lead four servants to kill three slaves.

He was a little curious and asked: "Is there any proof that you are a guard of Guangning? How did you end up here?"

Huang Shengdao: "My lord, the student has the proof of the Ming Dynasty. The student's family left behind in Liaodong, hoping that the master would not come, and fled west with the whole family in the first month of this year. The journey has gone through untold hardships.

Jiannu chased and killed the Han people who refused to shave their hair to be slaves all the way. Twenty relatives of the student died on the way to escape. The student's father was also a famous scholar, and he was not spared. "

After speaking, Huang Sheng was full of tears, and tremblingly took out his father and his own confession from his arms and raised his hands above his head to present to Lord Sun Chengzong.

Although Huang Sheng has some elements of performance here, Huang Sheng has fully accepted the memories of the former owner. Those memories have become his nightmare. Every time he thinks of them, he trembles with grief and inexplicable anger.

General Mao Yuanyi took over the Zan painting (note ①) next to it, looked at it carefully, and nodded to Mr. Sun.

Lord Sun Chengzong looked at the emotional Huang Sheng and sighed, and comforted him: "You are a great Ming Zhongliang, and the crime of building slaves is heinous. This governor will definitely recover the lost land and avenge your family. But I don't know how you can kill the Jiannu vest Number of people?"

Huang Sheng wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said: "My lord, the student fled here with four servants. His family was ruined and his family was destroyed. He wanted to fight Jian Nu with his life. It's just that Jian Nu is skilled in archery and horses, and we can't kill them. Therefore, the students designed a mechanism to lure the slaves, and it really succeeded."

The civil servants and generals in the government hall all saw that Huang Sheng was just a frail scholar, and they didn't believe that his thin body could kill the Jiannu vest. Now they are all interested after hearing Huang Sheng's explanation.

Sun Chengzong felt even more unbelievable, and hurriedly asked: "Oh! How did you arrange the organs and how did you lure Jiannu? Tell me in detail!"

Huang Sheng was not exaggerating at all, he described the process of killing Jiannu vividly and vividly.

Huang Sheng's eloquence is absolutely superb, and he knows how to tell a story, when to pause, when to be sensational, and when to be impassioned.

Originally, it was a scene of frightening every step of the way, which was even more ups and downs depicted by him.

After Huang Sheng finished telling the story, the boss let out a long sigh of relief, and praised: "It turns out that although you set up the mechanism skillfully, it was a fluke. If you have courage, I will report it to the imperial court for a generous reward."

Huang Sheng saw that Mr. Sun wanted to support him, so he hit the snake with the stick, thinking of seizing this rare opportunity to meet the leader of Liaodong to ask for some practical benefits.

Huang Sheng respectfully saluted Sun Chengzong again: "Your Excellency, the student wants to continue to take his servants to ambush the slaves nearby to avenge the country and the family. It's just that the student is white, and it's not convenient for the servants to carry weapons and armor. Please be careful."

Scholars of the Ming Dynasty can travel around the world with their swords and do not need guides (Note ②), which means that scholars are free people in the Ming Dynasty, but they are not good at carrying servants with top helmets, let alone having powerful servants. Bow hard crossbow.

Lord Sun Chengzong certainly knows these rules well.

He smiled and said: "Since you have the determination to kill the enemy for the country, my supervisor will certainly help you. You are a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, so naturally you refuse to join the army. This supervisor will give you the post of chief secretary of the army in Ningyuan. How about the servants handing out badges, armor, and weapons?"

Nowadays, the ethos in the Ming court is that literati and bureaucrats despise vulgar warriors. It is impossible for any literati to serve as a soldier in the barracks even if he is a low-level officer.

After all, Mr. Sun Chengzong has been in the officialdom for three to forty years, so he came up with this good way to get the best of both worlds.

When Huang Sheng heard that he was the chief secretary of the army, he immediately thought of Yang Xiu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his mind.

Huang Sheng wanted this result, so of course he was overjoyed and thanked him with sincerity and fear.

Mr. Sun Chengzong smiled and waved his hands. It is very rare for him to be able to spare so much time to meet a scholar who has no rank.

General Mao Yuanyi who admired paintings also got up and followed Huang Sheng, and Ma Shihu withdrew from the temporary government hall.

Mao Yuanyi is a scientist who has made great achievements in the research of weapons. He wrote a book in the first year of Tianqi.His work "Wu Bei Zhi" has a far-reaching influence on later generations.

Today Mao Yuanyi heard that Huang Sheng, a scholar, used tricks to take advantage of a powerful enemy, and his favor for him increased greatly.

He immediately arranged for special affairs, and arranged for Huang Sheng's official seals to be handled, and he immediately used the seals when he returned to Shanhaiguan, that is, they were stamped to take effect.

He also specially ordered Baizong Ma Shihu to equip Huang Sheng's servants with equipment and weapons, and to pay the reward for beheading Jiannu in full in advance.

Mao Yuanyi is a very pragmatic person. He guessed that Huang Sheng might be short of money after fleeing all the way, so he first asked for some money to help Huang Sheng.

Huang Sheng was an unknown scholar, and it was rare for senior Ming officials like Sun Chengzong and Mao Yuanyi to make such arrangements.

Ma Shihu is a straightforward man, he arranged immediately when he got the order, and soon Huang Sheng got 180 taels of silver.

Of course Huang Sheng knew the rules, he was only willing to keep 100 taels, and gave 80 taels to Ma Shihu.

Ma Shihu didn't expect that the chief secretary of the new official was a generous and willing master, so he immediately warmed up with Huang Sheng.

Huang Sheng gave a bribe of 80 taels of silver, but he didn't suffer at all.

Immediately, strike while the iron is hot and take Huang Mingli and the others to follow Ma Shihu to receive the equipment that Governor Sun promised to distribute.

Guan Ku is a long-standing official, and he is trying to prevaricate Huang Sheng with some old things.

Ma Shihu, who had benefited from Huang Sheng, quit. He immediately became furious and scolded the manager.

Pointing to his nose, he told him that Lord Supervisor will give them the best weapons and equipment by name.

Although this scholar is very young, he and his family have just beheaded the three Jiannu vests. They are heroes, and they are planning to use these equipment to make new contributions.

Ma Shihu was tough, but Huang Sheng was of course soft, and quietly handed five liang of silver to the treasury.Then they were led to the small warehouse inside and picked randomly.

Huang Sheng got four pairs of fine armor, four hard bows, four Qi knives, four iron spears and some feathered arrows.

Before leaving the house, Huang Sheng found a firearm from the Ming Dynasty, an authentic Lumi blunderbuss. Huang Sheng also carefully selected two of them, paired them with four copper powder pots and some lead bullets, and packed a few packets of gunpowder.

Guan Ku refused to agree this time. Such good firearms are rare in the army, and they cannot be obtained casually.

He said: "My lord, you must not make things difficult for the villain. There is a fixed number of these firecrackers. Without Mr. Mao's warrant, the villain would never dare to give it to you."

Huang Shengdao: "I'm a scholar, dedicated to serving the country, but I have no strength to restrain a chicken. Only with firearms can I have a chance to kill Jiannu. Please give me a hand, sir."

Ma Shihu said carelessly: "My lord, don't talk to him, he really doesn't have the courage, doesn't he just want Lord Mao Yuanyi's warrant? It doesn't matter, just come here."

After he finished speaking, he hurried away.Huang Sheng knew that he should go to Mao Yuanyi to get the warrant, so he was not in a hurry to study the Lumi gun in his hand carefully.

Guan Ku knew a lot about firearms, so he explained them to Huang Sheng.

He said: "Hold the blunderbuss with your right hand, pour the medicine into the blunderbuss, take out the stick, make the medicine firm, then take the lead bullets and put them in, take the matchlock with your right hand, blow out the ashes first, and put it in the dragon head. Focus on the star, shut your breath, aim at the enemy, and then pinch the machine."

Huang Sheng laughed secretly in his heart, it was too complicated, no wonder the Ming army with such firearms still couldn't defeat Jiannu.

Moreover, due to the increasing corruption of Ming Dynasty and the prevalence of corruption at all levels, the quality of firearms has been deteriorating. In the later period, the Ming army did not dare to use these firearms.

Because it is unknown whether he can hit the enemy, but it is known that the firecracker may explode and destroy his eyes.

To be blind in battle is worse than death.The soldiers of the Ming army did not dare to load the gunpowder according to the regulations. They only added a small amount of gunpowder.

Not long after, Ma Shihu came back, and he laughed loudly as soon as he entered the door:

"Young master, Lord Mao loves you very much. Not only did he agree to give you firearms, but he also told you that it is easy to learn how to use firearms, but it is not easy to shoot them accurately. You need to practice more. When you run out of gunpowder and bullets, just use them. Come to Curry to get it."

This scientist is really good. He knows that Huang Sheng's force value is too low, and firearms can completely make up for this shortcoming.

Seeing that this young man was favored by his immediate superior, Guan Ku, who would come to the matter, had a more correct attitude, and hurried up to flatter him.

He personally selected four Lumi guns and gave them to Huang Sheng, and said mysteriously:
"Young master, the villain has been in charge of the warehouse for many years, and he knows whether things are good or bad. The four guns picked by the villain are guaranteed not to explode. These were made by the Qi family army in the last year of Wanli. The craftsmen dare not cut corners. If it is found that the quality is not good, the craftsmen will even sit down."

Originally, Huang Sheng wanted to get two to use, but Mao Yuanyi approved four.

I also learned experience. When the manager selected Lumi guns, he not only looked at the appearance and wall thickness, but also looked at the year number on it. The four guns given to him may be the products of the last Qi family army. They were wiped out in the Hunhe River the year before last. bloody battle.

How many heroes have fallen into the sand, and how many men have gone on to succeed, but it is a pity that the splendid civilization of the Han Dynasty is still annihilated in the turbulent noise.

In Huang Sheng's mind, the braiding drama of later generations appeared again. The Han people are not ashamed to call them slaves, and they are still singing the praises of that ignorant colonial dynasty.

Note ① (A civil servant in the army is equivalent to a staff officer) Note ② (a document equivalent to an official ID card in the Ming Dynasty)

(End of this chapter)