The Duke of Guizhou's Mansion is also known as Prince Mu's Mansion in later generations. Their ancestor was Mu Ying, the adopted son and general of Zhu Yuanzhang. Taizu designated his family as "the permanent ruler of Yunnan", so it was natural for the chieftain of Yunnan to donate to them. There are a large number of Panax notoginseng in the Duke of Guizhou's mansion, which is good news.
But Gao pragmatically still put away the bottle of Panax notoginseng powder very solemnly, and said seriously: "General Liu, I don't want to use this thing myself, but I plan to dedicate it to my uncle... Ah, my uncle is Xinzheng High School Duke Xuan is an official in the same court as the general. I wonder if the general recognizes him?"
This was a question made knowingly, and Gao Pragmatic obviously had other intentions.
Sure enough, Liu Xian's face became solemn, and he raised his hand in the direction of the capital: "Xinzheng Gaogong is the prime minister and assistant minister of the dynasty. He has long admired his name. It's just that he is humble and ashamed, so he doesn't dare to see him."
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "General Liu is humbled. My uncle once commented on today's famous generals in front of the boy, and the general was among them. My uncle also valued the general's ability in his words."
Liu Xian's face was slightly happy, but he could still maintain his due reserve and smiled: "How dare you, a despicable person, be praised by the great general in the world?"
"That's right, that's right." Gao pragmatically said with a smile, then paused, patted the place where the porcelain bottle was placed on his chest, and continued: "If this thing has miraculous effects, I should advise my uncle so that it can be used more often." Promote its use in the army. There have been many wars in our country, and thousands of soldiers will benefit from the general in the future. How can the court not remember the general's merits?"
Liu Xian smiled bitterly and said, "How dare a person who has been dismissed from his position to wait for re-examination take any extravagant credit for his achievements."
Gao Pingshi frowned slightly: "Young man, I heard Brother Zishou mention this matter just now, but I don't know why the general is here?"
Liu Xian sighed and shook his head with a wry smile: "It's his own fault..."
He then introduced his experiences over the years, including why he was always ups and downs, to Gao Pangshi.
It turns out that Liu Xian's surname was Gong, his given name was Xian, and his courtesy name was Weiming. His ancestor was from Huguang, and his sixth generation ancestor was the Dusi of Jiangning, Jiangsu Province in the Yuan Dynasty. In May of the 20th year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang captured Taiping, killed Xu Shouhui, proclaimed himself emperor, and named his country Dahan, changing the name of the Yuan Dynasty to Dayi. At this time, the world was full of heroes and wars were frequent. In order to avoid the war, Liu Xian's grandfather moved his family to Gaotian Village, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province to start a business.
Due to the martial arts passed down in his family, Liu Xian has practiced martial arts since he was a child and is proficient in martial arts. Moreover, he is born with supernatural power and rarely encounters opponents. However, due to his poor family background, he did not read many books when he was young, but he was still proficient in writing 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, and after many twists and turns, he wanders to Chengdu, Sichuan, and lives in a temple. He makes a living by working part-time and stealing temple offerings. He often hid the things he got in a heavy bell. As time went by, his power to uncover the bell was discovered, and "people thought it was strange." But for the ambitious Liu Xian, this kind of wandering life was forced by life's helplessness, not his will, and it was not a long-term solution.
In order to seek a better way out, after several inquiries, he learned that the Chengdu Infantry Battalion of the Ming Army was recruiting boy scouts, so he applied for the boy scouts. It is a coincidence that on the night when Liu Xian applied for the exam, Liu Min, the Sichuan guard stationed in Chengdu at that time, was dreaming at night when he suddenly saw a big black tiger running towards his official residence in the military camp.
The next morning, Liu Min asked someone to interpret his dream, and the result was that a strange person would defect to him. Sure enough, after breakfast and before the exam started, Liu Xian came to take the Boy Scout exam. When Liu Min saw that Liu Xian had a majestic appearance and a mighty spirit, he was definitely not something that could be found in a pond. He felt that he was destined to be with him, so he was overjoyed and thought that he had fulfilled his dream. Therefore, Liu Min, as 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 the kindness of Liu Min, the guard envoy, he worshiped General Liu Min as his adoptive father and changed his 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's reign, Liu Xian, who was only 24 years old, changed his Jiangxi native place to Sichuan native place and applied for martial arts examination with the help of the Wei envoy Liu Min. After passing the martial arts examination and being admitted as a martial arts student, this is a threshold for entering the officialdom of military commanders. From then on, Liu Xian began his military career and fought with Liu Min.
Not long after, the imperial court established Zhenwu Camp in Nanjing. Recommended by Zhang Hao, Minister of War, Liu Xian was called to Zhenwu Camp as an instructor because of his strong martial arts and proficient tactics. Due to Liu Xian's special contribution to the training of infantry saber tactics and surprise attack skills established in Zhenwu Camp, he was quickly promoted to acting capital commander and concurrently served as Zhejiang capital commander. Because of his meritorious service in preparing the Zhejiang army, he was promoted to a staff general and was responsible for the military defense of Jiangsu and Wusongkou.
At this time, the Japanese invaders often invaded and invaded areas north of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and invaded the Si County, Tianchang, Xuyi, Mingguang, and Sihong areas of Sizhou. The imperial court ordered Liu Xian to guard Pukou. After that, Liu Xianlian made military exploits. Within a few years, due to his outstanding military achievements, he was moved to the position of deputy commander-in-chief, assisting the commander-in-chief in the defense of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
In the thirty-eighth year of the Jiajing reign, Liu Xian, deputy general of the Zhejiang Province, was ordered by Governor Hu Zongxian to go north with two thousand elite troops to assist Jiangbei in fending off the Japanese. In order to unify the morale of the army, Li Sui, the governor of Fengyang and the censor of Youdu, ordered all the troops in Jiangbei to return. Liu Xian directs. Liu Xiankai and his general Cao Kexin led their own soldiers to attack the thieves' nest. The commander-in-chief Lu Bo also came with reinforcements. The people from the four villages ate pots of pulp and cheered. The fierce battle started in the morning and lasted until dusk. Finally, they were all defeated. Liuzhuang, the base camp of the Japanese pirates.
The thieves were at the end of their rope and were beaten into despair and fled. Liu Xian led his soldiers and local villagers to pursue the victory and pursued them bravely. They chased the defeated Japanese pirates to Baijuchang, Xinghua, and then from Baijuchang to Maohuadun. After several fierce battles, with blood flowing everywhere and corpses everywhere, Liu Xian's tribe won a complete victory. All the Japanese pirates who escaped were wiped out, and no one survived.
However, Li Sui, who was the governor of Fengyang and in charge of military affairs in Jiangbei at the time, wrote a letter to impeach Liu Xian and Lu Bo for indulging the Japanese pirates in Sansha because of their competition for military glory. This resulted in the serious consequences of the looting of Baijuchang, Maohuadun and other places. After Emperor Jiajing read Li Sui's memorial, he deprived Liu Xian of his salary out of the habitual mentality of a noble man and a lowly military man. He handed it over to the Procuratorate for verification, and found Liu Xian guilty of dereliction of duty, and he was dismissed for the first time.
In May of the 41st year of Jiajing, Japanese pirates swarmed again along the coast of Guangdong. At this time, the Jiajing State was thinking about good generals, and urgently appointed Liu Xian as the chief military officer to guard the military defense in the sea areas of Guangdong and Fujian.
At the same time, another Japanese pirate invasion broke out along the coast of Fujian. The local government and garrison troops found it very difficult to deal with the sudden Japanese pirates. Liu Xian received an order from the military newspaper and quickly led the army to reinforce. He also collaborated with Qi Jiguang, the then Zhejiang Capital Secretary and General, to defeat the Japanese pirates one after another, and directly removed the Japanese pirates' base camp. No Japanese pirates who entered the coastal areas of Fujian survived, and all were wiped out.
However, the unyielding Japanese pirates continued to flock to Yingtian in large numbers and quickly captured Xinghua City. At that time, Liu Xian's troops were greatly reduced due to continuous shifts in fighting. There was a huge gap between the main force of the Japanese pirates who occupied Xinghua, so they had no choice but to besiege rather than attack, and did not dare to start a war.
As a result, Liu Xian was immediately impeached again, saying that he was ineffective in suppressing Japanese pirates. After being impeached, Jiajing considered that the country was in troubled times and it was the time to employ people, so he could not cut off his wings, so he issued an edict ordering Liu Xian to perform meritorious service.
At this time, the Japanese pirates continued to capture important coastal strongholds, and formed a tug-of-war with the Ming army near Pinghaiwei. Another group of Japanese pirates who robbed Fuqing, Fujian, also planned to join forces with the Japanese pirates from Pinghaiwei. Fortunately, the Japanese pirates' plot was discovered by Liu Xian, who then joined forces with Yu Dayou, the chief military officer of Fujian, on the Zhelang Peninsula to eliminate all the Japanese pirates entrenched in Zhelang. After hearing the news, the Japanese pirates of Pinghaiwei planned to escape, but 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. Together with Liu Xian and Yu Dayou, the main force to fight the Japanese, they worked together to annihilate all the Japanese pirates in the Xinghua area and regain the fallen Xinghua City.
Because of Liu Xian's outstanding achievements in the battle to annihilate Japanese pirates in Guangdong and Fujian, the imperial court rewarded him for his merits and promoted him two levels from his original rank of the third-rank commander of Qianshi to the second-rank commander of Qianshi. At this time, the Japanese pirates in Yangzhou, Huai'an, Taizhou, Nantong and other places in the north of the Yangtze River had not yet been completely annihilated and pacified. The imperial court decided to set up a general military officer in Langshan to control the north and south of the Yangtze River. Liu Xian was changed to the general military officer stationed in Langshan.
After taking office, Liu Xian, the commander-in-chief, requested the emperor to issue an edict to him to control local officials below the prefecture level in order to fulfill the responsibilities of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in evaluating local officials. Because Wang Ru, the co-president of Tongzhou, was jealous of Liu Xian - Liu Xian's troops were stationed near Tongzhou, and Wang Ru was a civil servant and refused to be controlled by Liu Xian - so he wrote a letter to impeach Liu Xian, accusing Liu Xian's request of being disrespectful to the emperor. There is no distinction between right and wrong... so Liu Xian was demoted and punished.
Not long after Emperor Jiajing died, Emperor Longqing ascended the throne. At this time, Liu Xian had suffered enough from the civil servants and did not dare to go against the civil servants anymore. However, he did not expect that as a general near Nanjing, not only could he not fight with the civil servants, he would also have to listen to the greetings of Nanjing's garrison ministers (Wufeng's note: Nanjing is actually the official capital of the Ming Dynasty. There are also left-behind institutions such as the Six Ministries, but most of them are fictitious. The three real power giants in Nanjing are: Nanjing Minister of War, Nanjing garrison eunuch, and Nanjing garrison minister. This is also the history of Nanjing after Chongzhen committed suicide. The main reason why the imperial court was temporarily led by Shi Kefa, then Minister of War in Nanjing.) Liu Xian was suppressed by the Nanjing garrison officials because he was a military general but did not know how to contribute. Not to mention that the number of soldiers under his subordinates was very different from the number of registered soldiers. As a result, Liu Xian was once again "dismissed pending review."
When Liu Xian said this, his face was full of anger: "Master Gao, if you want to say that the number of soldiers in the guard station does not match the number of registered people, we have hundreds of towns in the Ming Dynasty. Which town can match it? There is a huge difference between the number of soldiers and registered people in Nanjing towns , the difference is much greater than that of Liu’s subordinates, why don’t these people ask for punishment themselves and come to me instead?”
