【Silver Gun Bully Xu Zhixun】
Xu Zhixun was Xu Wen's eldest son. He was regarded as his successor by Xu Wen. He had high hopes and was entrusted with important responsibilities. Especially when Xu Wen left Runzhou and Shengzhou, he had already handed over the real power of the "central government" to Xu Zhixun, allowing him to accumulate His experience and reputation prepared him for a smooth succession in the future. In terms of military affairs, Xu Wen even hired Zhu Jin, a top military strategist in Huainan, for his precious son.
There are many first-class generals in Huainan, such as Liu Wei, Tao Ya, Li Jian, Liu Xin, etc. Why did Xu Wen choose Zhu Jin, who was demoted to a general? There are two main reasons:
First of all, from the perspective of loyalty, Zhu Jin, a "three-no product" with no foundation, no background, and no aspirations, will not pose a threat to the Xu family's dictatorship. On the contrary, Xu Wen must reuse him to balance the Yang family's veterans, so Zhu Jin Jin is Xu Wen’s natural lackey and a trustworthy ruler;
Secondly, based on the actual situation, Liu Wei and other veterans have been sent to other places, while Xu Zhixun is at the Yangzhou headquarters. The effect of "correspondence teaching" is not as good as face-to-face teaching, so teachers should not be "remote teaching". Honorary professors are meaningless.
Xu Wen asked Zhu Jin to be his son's tutor, and Zhu Jin was flattered. Who doesn’t know that Huainan now belongs to the Xu family? Xu Wen was the top leader in Huainan, and Xu Zhixun was truly the "Prince" of Huainan. Zhu Jin taught carefully and devoted all he had learned in his life without reservation.
With unique educational resources, what is the academic level of "Prince" Xu Zhixun?
In February of the second year of Zhengming (916), two young generals of the "Forbidden Army" - Ma Qian and Li Qiu - kidnapped Yang Wei, smashed open the armory, snatched weapons and armor, gathered rebels, and claimed to kill Xu Zhixun.
The time has come to test Xu Zhixun's academic performance. It's just a small test.
Faced with this sudden mutiny, Xu Zhixun reacted quickly and acted decisively - run!
Xu Wen not only left the general Zhu Jin in Yangzhou, but also left his confidant Yan Keqiu for his son, who assisted Xu Zhixun in both literature and military affairs.
At the critical moment, Yan Keqiu stopped Xu Zhixun and said, "Stop! There is a change in the headquarters. The young master abandons everyone and flees. Where can the generals rely on?"
"Don't run away? Are you responsible for your death?"
Yan Keqiu smiled slightly and said, "The thief is just snapping his fingers." After saying that, Yan Keqiu walked straight into the bedroom, fell asleep and snored loudly on purpose. in foreign government).
When the soldiers heard such unbridled snoring, they calmed down immediately, stopped panicking, and began to organize the counter-insurgency work in an orderly manner.
The next day, Ma Qian and Li Qiu set up an array outside the palace gate to show off their power.
It happened that Zhu Jin led his troops back from Runzhou on the other side. Zhu Jin was experienced in military affairs all his life, and he didn't panic when things happened. He just glanced at it and burst into laughter.
Ma Qian and Li Qiu, to put it bluntly, are the security captains in the palace. They have gathered a bunch of ragtag people. How can they set up any array? In Zhu Jin's eyes, they are just a bunch of bronze scum.
Zhu Jin calmly commanded, but Ma Qian and Li Qiu collapsed at the first touch. How could a makeshift team of security guards be the opponent of the elite field army? Zhu Jin effortlessly captured Ma Qian, Li Qiu and others alive and beheaded them in public.
In the opinion of teacher Zhu Jin, this was a vivid practical lesson; but student Xu Zhixun regarded it as a shame. Every time Zhu Jin analyzed a wrong question, Xu Zhixun became more disgusted with Zhu Jin.
More than half a year later, Hedong Li Cunxu completely controlled the Hebei area, and the plan of Hou Liang general Wang Tan to attack Taiyuan was also shattered. Therefore, Li Cunxu planned to strike while the iron was hot and pursue the victory, and sent envoys to Huainan to propose a plan for a north-south attack.
Xu Wen readily agreed, so he appointed his son Xu Zhixun as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Zhu Jin as the deputy commander-in-chief. He crossed the Huaihe River and headed north to respond to Li Cunxu in Hedong.
Obviously, this "commander-in-chief" is a soy sauce man, and the person actually responsible for command and dispatch is deputy commander Zhu Jin. Just like Li Cunxu asked his son Li Jiji to lead the expedition against Shu, with Guo Chongtao as his deputy. If we can destroy the Back Liang in one fell swoop this time and divide the Back Liang with Hedong Li Cunxu, then this unparalleled achievement will become a huge political capital for his son Xu Zhixun to take over.
This is just Xu Wen's wishful thinking.
The Northern Expedition army moved to Huaibei Prefecture County, surrounded Yingzhou, and planned to sweep across Songzhou, Bozhou and other places. Later Liang sent Yuan Xiang to resist.
This is the very strange war mentioned above. The menacing Huainan army actually retreated to Huainan without a fight after Yuan Xiang arrived at Yingzhou first. The war is over. Yuan Xiangxian was left with a confused look on his face, "That's it?"
Escape is the only skill Xu Zhixun learned from Zhu Jin.
Except for the cowardly retreat of the commander Xu Zhixun, the Huainan Army's Northern Expedition was unknown, and it was unjust because it was a naked armed invasion of the Huaibei region. It also took advantage of people's danger, was unkind, unjust, and neither powerful nor brave. The soldiers They don't want to sacrifice their lives. Of course, these are all high-sounding rhetoric. The reason why the officers and soldiers were unwilling to sacrifice their lives was actually because they were unwilling to sacrifice their lives for Xu Zhixun.
As the actual controller of the Huainan Group, Young Master Laozi, Xu Zhixun is no less than the "second generation kings" such as Wang Zongyan, Yang Wo, Ma Xisheng, and Wang Yanhan - in terms of debauchery, cruelty and tyranny.
Xu Wen left the town of Runzhou and left Xu Zhixun in Yangzhou to assist Yang Wei, euphemistically calling him "Mr. Changhua". By leaving his son with "Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty", firstly, he could closely monitor every move of the "Central Government", and secondly, Xu Zhixun could train his own team and prepare for succession. In other words, this is the internship period for Xu Zhixun to take over Huainan.
However, Xu Zhixun failed to understand his father's good intentions. After Xu Wen left, no one could restrain Xu Zhixun. Xu Zhixun completely let himself go. "My parents and Wen's power were mostly illegal."
Perhaps Xu Wen also gave some advice to his son and told him to use this opportunity to "supervise the country as regent" to enhance his reputation.
This sentence was too tactful, and it was tactful enough for Xu Zhixun to misunderstand.
There are many ways to improve your reputation, such as working hard and making achievements that impress others; or making clear rewards and punishments and extending favors widely.
This "clear rewards and punishments" is worth discussing, but it cannot be taken literally. Many team leaders take these four words literally and interpret these four words as "formulate a clear and detailed system in advance, and then follow the script and copy it mechanically."
Take Gao Jichang as an example. He inspected the progress of the city defense project and found that there was sabotage. So in accordance with the rules and regulations, he publicly beat the person in charge of the project - Ni Kefu, the most respected veteran in the team. Ni Kefu is not only one of the most important veterans in Gao Jichang's team, but also Gao Jichang's confidant, and he is also Gao Jichang's father-in-law. Gao Jichang's character of being selfless and strict in enforcing the law was established. But the next step is the key point: he asked his daughter, Ni Kefu's daughter-in-law, to tell Ni Kefu privately that she was just doing it out of necessity for human needs, and did not really want to humiliate him, and then rewarded him with a hundred gold ingots. Ask him not to hold grudges.
