Yulin was built in the early years of Ming Zhengtong. It was built again by Governor Yu Zijun in the ninth year of Chenghua (AD 1473), and the town was moved from Suide to Yulin. Therefore, Yansui Town was also called "Yulin Town" from then on.
After that, Yulin City underwent three large-scale expansions in the 22nd year of Chenghua (i.e. 1486 AD), the 5th year of Hongzhi (1492 AD), and the 10th year of Zhengde (1515 AD), namely the "Three Expansions of Yuyang" Then the city began to take shape.
The terrain of Yulin City is high in the east and low in the west, with the northeast corner protruding outward.
The wall is made of rammed loess and covered with green bricks on the outside. The city is three feet six feet high, five feet wide at the base and three feet wide at the top.
The city has five gates, the north is "Guangyu Gate", the east is "Zhenwu Gate", the big west gate is "Xuanwei Gate", the small west gate is "Zhandong Gate", and the south gate is "Zhenyuan Gate".
There is a two-story gate tower on the top of each city gate. However, except for the south gate, all other gates and all the gate towers have been destroyed in modern times.
Modern, the south, east and west brick arch gates and urn city still exist.
The south gate and Wengcheng are now occupied by Zhenyuan Hotel.
On the east hill of Yuzhen Bridge in the south of the city, there is a thirteen-story brick tower built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, named "Lingxiao Tower".
When Chen Jiawu brought his troops over, it was still the time of its grandeur.
At this time, the sun was setting in the west, and the group of people walked to Zhenyuan Gate and stopped.
There were soldiers guarding the city gate above and below, and they were all curious when they saw the nearly a thousand people and horses.
Outside Zhenyuan Gate, a large group of soldiers were standing silently.
When they saw Chen Jiawu and others, they all turned around and looked around, revealing the situation inside!
I saw a man being pinned to the ground, and someone was hitting him with a board.
The man was motionless, but his shouting was not heard.
Chen Jiawu was shocked!
Could it be that this person is also the person written in the Young Master's charter?
"Expand the guard of honor and ask General Wang Wei and General Chen Hongfan to come over and see me!"
After Chen Jiawu gave the order, he said to Liu Erniu: "Erniu, go over and ask if you want to be beaten!"
"yes!"
Erniu walked over with Li Hongji and other soldiers.
The imperial guard of honor has also been raised!
The annals of Yansui Town record: Wang Wei, the commander-in-chief of the army, was appointed to Yansui. He was brave enough to defeat others, and the prisoners did not dare to attack. He had the style of an ancient famous general!
Historical records record: General Chen Hongfan, who had been a minister of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and rebelled, causing trouble in the Southern Ming Dynasty. He returned to the south of the Yangtze River and acted as a traitor, spreading the news that the Qing army was invincible and urging people to surrender as soon as possible. He was called "Living Qin Hui".
Zhang Xianzhong, 19 years old, named Bingzhong, nicknamed Jingxuan, nicknamed Huang Hu, was from Dingbian County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province.
He was born into a poor family and was smart and stubborn since childhood. He started a small business with his father, selling red dates. He was a policeman at first, then entered Yansui Town and became a frontier soldier.
He was strong-willed by nature and loved to fight against injustice. For this reason, he violated military law. Seeing his extraordinary bravery, Chen Hongfan begged Wang Wei, the commander-in-chief, for a hundred military sticks and drove him out of the frontier army!
These are also stated in Huang Xiao's charter to Chen Jiawu. Of course, they will not be written in historical records and other words.
There are no details about the character's follow-up and other aspects.
Later, after Zhang Xianzhong's uprising, he was extremely grateful to Chen Hongfan who interceded for him at that time! A portrait of Chen Hongfan was specially carved in the army and called his parents.
Later, when Zhang was defeated repeatedly, Chen Hongfan came to appease him. Zhang was overjoyed, so he brought his gold, silver and jewelry to contact Chen Hongfan, and he helped set up a bridge to "appease" him in an attempt to make a comeback.
Zhang Xianzhong soon rebelled again, and Chen Hongfan was demoted and transferred to the post of Governor of the Left...
The most disgusting thing about Chen Hongfan was that after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he secretly surrendered to slavery and advocated peace. He and Ma Shaoyu served as deputy envoys. Zuo Maodi, a national hero in the late Ming Dynasty and known as Wen Tianxiang in the late Ming Dynasty, endured humiliation and shouldered the heavy responsibility as the chief envoy to Beijing. .
Zuo Maodi fully anticipated the dangers of traveling north to negotiate peace.
He said in a letter: "Maodi's trip is the day when Maodi will die."
Determined to "imitate the example of Wen Tian of the Song Dynasty and leave righteousness throughout the ages."
He was impassioned and argued hard. After his arrest, Dorgon, Hong Chengchou, and his cousin Zuo Maotai took turns to persuade him to surrender. Zuo Maotai sternly reprimanded him, and was tortured and thrown into a water prison for seven days. His body was rotten to the bone, but he still refused. Willing to surrender! Later he was brutally murdered!
Zuo Maodi was praised by future generations for his unyielding national integrity, his unyielding wealth, his unyielding national integrity, and his unyielding loyalty to the country and people.
Chen Hongfan lurked back to Nanming again and continued to be the biggest traitor in Ming Dynasty!
Chen Hongfan returned to Nanjing, spreading a "peaceful" atmosphere and paralyzing Hongguang's monarch and ministers;
A secret report "Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo are both secretly connected with the Tartars" was intended to arouse the court's suspicion of Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo, so that he could take advantage of the opportunity and win over Huang and Liu to rebel and surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
After he returned to the south of the Yangtze River, he wrote an article called "The Chronicle of the Northern Envoy" in which he shamelessly promoted his loyalty to the Ming court. Behind his back, he spread the word that the Qing army was invincible and urged people to surrender as soon as possible. He was called " Live Qin Hui".
In the first year of Hongguang (1645), the Qing army went south and Nanjing fell. Huang Degong was defeated and committed suicide, and Emperor Hongguang was captured.
On the eighth day of June, King Zhu Changzi of Lu was supported and imprisoned in Hangzhou.
After Zhu Changzi took office as the supervisor of the country, he sent "peace envoy" Chen Hongfan to make peace with the Qing army.
"Living Qin Hui" Chen Hongfan once again took a ship flying the flag of "Envoy to the Qing Dynasty" to secretly discuss treason with the Qing Dynasty.
He colluded with the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, Bolo, and returned to Hangzhou to persuade Zhu Changzi to surrender with Zhang Bingzhen, the Minister of War.
Zhu Changzi was greedy for life and feared death, so he decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing army occupied Hangzhou without any effort, and the number one traitor Chen Hongfan completed his mission and officially surrendered to the Qing.
Of course, Huang Xiao would not write these into the charter, but would make it clear that Chen Hongfan was the person who must be killed!
Soon, Liu Erniu asked clearly about the situation.
Report back to Chen Jiawu!
The person who was tortured was indeed Zhang Xianzhong named by Huang Xiao!
Because he disobeyed his superiors and deducted military pay, he took the lead in arguing about pay, so he should be executed according to the law!
But he was saved by Chen Hongfan!
History is really amazing. The biggest traitor in the Ming Dynasty rescued the top rebels in the Ming Dynasty!
If Chen Hongfan had not rescued Zhang Xianzhong at this moment, would the situation in the late Ming Dynasty have changed?
Now that Chen Jiawu has come with Huang Xiao's instructions, what changes will happen?
There are really countless possibilities for the future. When Huang Xiao wrote this at the time, he was also moved by it.
After hearing the news, General Wang Wei, General Chen Hongfan, and other generals came to pay their respects.
The entourage read out the imperial edict.
Chen Jiawu said loudly: "General Chen Jiawu, under the orders of the empress, came to take over Yansui Town and took office as the governor of Yansui Town, taking charge of all military and civilian affairs! Wang Wei, the former chief soldier of Yansui Town, was demoted to deputy chief soldier and worked with me. ! General Yu will temporarily remove his armor and wait until I find out the affairs of Yansui Town before making a decision!"
The officers and soldiers of Yansui Town were shocked!
Governor Chen is so young!
This imperial edict is so powerful!
Only the commander-in-chief Wang Wei was left!
Liu Erniu and others obeyed the order and quickly surrounded Chen Hongfan and other generals! Detention on the spot!
"Deputy General Wang! Call for money and gather troops immediately. I want to give you a lecture!"
Wang Wei obeyed the order.
The total military strength of Yansui Town was more than 25,000 in the Yongle year, about 50,000 in the Tianqi year, and about 45,000 in the Chongzhen period of the late Ming Dynasty!
In addition to the soldiers and horses in the various forts in the branch town, there are still 20,000 soldiers and horses in Yulin City.
In less than half an hour, the 20,000 soldiers and horses were reluctantly assembled.
