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However, as a traditional Confucian minister, Qiu Zhaolin, who has always adhered to the moral creeds of the monarch's worries and humiliation, and the king's humiliation and death, did not think much or ask too much, and after receiving the holy decree, he and Xu Dingchen, the general soldier of Henan and a native of Luoyang, agreed on the relevant matters of moving to Luoyang.

First sent the general Chen Yongfu with 2,000 soldiers and horses to Luoyang City to find a location and set up camp, and at the same time ordered the deputy general Wang Shaoyu to lead 3,000 troops to continue to stay in Kaifeng, Qiu Zhaolin and Xu Dingchen led the rest of the men and horses to set off on a certain day.

Luoyang and Kaifeng are both ancient capitals of Zhongzhou, and their strategic locations are very important, so it is difficult to say who should leave heavy troops for defense more than whom.

Historically, Li Zicheng has besieged Kaifeng several times, did not fight down, one of which besieged Kaifeng, but also Chen Yongfu commanded his subordinates to shoot blind in one eye with a hard bow and crossbow, so that Li Zicheng hated the soldiers and people defending the city of Kaifeng, and finally besieged Kaifeng City, not only dug the Yellow River embankment, attacked the city with water, and finally the day the city was broken, but also slaughtered the city for several days.

Why does Li Zicheng have to open the seal? The reason is that Kaifeng is located in the Central Plains, whether it is to the north, or to the south, whether it is the east, or the west, Kaifeng City is an existence that cannot be bypassed.

Even if Chongzhen took the entire Shaanxi in the sixteenth year, as well as the entire Henan except Kaifeng, and couldn't beat Kaifeng City, he didn't dare to go north with confidence.

Although Kaifeng City is so important, it is still slightly inferior to Luoyang.

Because of the fall of Kaifeng in history, the cause was that Luoyang was not held, as long as Luoyang was held, the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty wanted to enter Henan, and from then on the dragon returned to the seabird into the forest, which was basically impossible.

Because there is only one road from Tongguan to the east, which is the famous Cuihan Ancient Road in history, the situation is dangerous, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight.

This is also the only smooth way for Shaanxi to enter the Central Plains, because the north of Tongguan is the turbulent Yellow River, and the south of Tongguan is a continuous high mountain, and this piece of high mountain as the remaining vein of the Qinling Mountains has been stretching to the east and south to the north of Huguang at that time.

Therefore, as long as Tongguan is guarded and Luoyang is guarded, Kaifeng is as stable as Mount Tai.

And once Tongguan and Luoyang are lost, no matter how strong Kaifeng City is, it will fall sooner or later, and once Kaifeng falls, cross the river and go north to Jingshi, it is a smooth road, and there is no danger to be defended.

Emperor Chongzhen understood this truth, and of course Qiu Zhaolin, Xu Dingchen and others could also understand it, if they knew what kind of chaos would become in Shaanxi in the future.

Just when Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, and Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, were busy implementing the will given to them by Emperor Chongzhen, the Beijing division in July once again ushered in a gathering of heroes.

If the imperial examination in April is a triennial event in the martial arts, then this martial arts examination is a grand event that is only once in six years in the martial arts.

Of course, the ancient martial arts test was not as lively and mysterious as the martial arts conference written in the martial arts novels of later generations, and it was not even a martial arts conference where heroes from all walks of life competed in martial arts and swords.

In ancient times, the martial arts examination, like the imperial examination, was just a succession of examinations and selections, but the test was not the eight-strand essay and strategy, but the art of war and martial arts, and the art of war was also very simple, that is, a piece of silent writing and a few fill-in-the-blanks.

This time the art of war exam is simpler, and the scope is directly delineated, which is the famous art of war "Sun Tzu's Art of War" included in Mao Yuanyi's "Wubei Zhi" or something.

The focus of the martial arts exam is, of course, martial arts.

In addition to the art of war, the first test of martial arts is the martial arts of guns and sticks such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, etc., the second test of horses, bows and crossbows and riding and archery skills, and the third test of gold drum banners and camp formations. After three tests, one more test on the use of firearms.

In the Wanli period, the martial arts examination once tested the use of firearms, and at that time it was mainly to test the loading and firing of mines and fireworks, thunderbolts and other firearms, as well as the loading and firing of tiger squat guns, but because it was too dangerous, it was soon abandoned and did not persist.

This additional test is only used as a reference and is not included in the ranking of results, after all, most of these traditional martial arts people do not know much about firearms, and they are not qualified to understand the use of firearms.

This is also the reason why the content of firearms used in the Wanli period was short-lived in the martial arts examination.

The purpose of this additional test of the use of firearms is to establish a orientation that attaches importance to the use of firearms, so that these martial artists who come to participate in the martial arts examination can familiarize themselves with the use of firearms as soon as possible, after all, the future Ming army will move towards the general direction and goal of firearms.

In history, it was not until the fourth year of Chongzhen that Emperor Chongzhen, who felt that there was a lack of generals in the army, ordered a martial arts examination to be held to select military talents.

Now the Chongzhen Emperor, who has the soul of later generations, took advantage of the reason of Enke in the first year of Chongzhen, three years earlier than in history, and held the first martial arts examination of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

As it turned out, these worries of his were completely unnecessary. Not only did Wang Laipin, Xu Yanqi and others, who only appeared in Chongzhen four years in history, appear on the list of martial artists who entered Beijing to participate in the martial arts examination three years in advance, but also some historical figures who surprised him even more, such as Yan Yingyuan, a native of Tongzhou, Shuntian Prefecture, Chen Zuoting, a native of Hanoi, Huaiqing Prefecture, and others.

Wang Laipin, originally from Huaining, Anhui Province, since childhood with his father who did business, living in Beijing, because he does not like to read, but obsessed with martial arts, and born with divine power, his father then in the north of Guangyan famous teacher, teach him a variety of martial arts, and so on, when he is older, horse riding and shooting, swords, guns, swords and halberds and other eighteen kinds of weapons are proficient, which is especially good at making knives.

Historically, in Chongzhen's four-year martial arts examination, Wang Laipin was the first in that subject, and it was Emperor Chongzhen who personally named the first martial champion.

Speaking of Chongzhen's four-year martial arts examination, there is a real historical story about Wang Laipin.

Among the martial arts examinations in Chongzhen's four years of participation in the martial arts examination, there are only two people who can use a hundred-pound broadsword and move like flying, one is Wang Laipin, and the other is Xu Yanqi.

It is precisely because of the strong martial arts skills of these two people that after the martial arts examination, Wang Laipin and Xu Yanqi became famous in one fell swoop among the martial artists who came to Beijing to take the exam.

But after the list of Wu Jinshi was released, Wang Laipin was on the list, but Xu Yanqi was named Sun Shan. As a result, many martial artists complained about Xu Yanqi, thinking that there must be a hidden secret, and then the discussion rose.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard about this, he was very angry, and not only imprisoned all the examiners and invigilators of the martial arts, but also ordered them to retake the exam.

Emperor Chongzhen divided the 100 people selected after the re-examination into three lists, that is, the top three, according to the rules of the liberal arts examination, and personally reviewed the top 30 test papers and results, and designated the first three people, respectively, as Wu Zhuangyuan, Wu Bangyan, and Wu Tanhua.

And Wang Laipin is the first place in this subject, and Xu Yanqi naturally follows closely and is on the list.

Therefore, in the history of China, there is officially a martial champion, and Wang Laipin is the first.