The Baigou River has become a river of blood, with broken flags everywhere for hundreds of miles, hundreds of thousands of corpses lying on both sides of the river, pitch-black crows hovering in flocks in the sky, and a wild dog gnawing on the corpses in the ditch.

Bang! Zhang Fu shot and killed the wild dog, and his handsome face showed sadness, and said: "Mobilize the people to come and bury all the war dead in the Xiangyang Mountain Pass on the north bank, and build a cemetery for future generations to pay their respects." ”

Xu Song, who was pale not far away, couldn't help but squat on the ground again and vomited, and it took a long time to staggering to stand up and search everywhere, for fear that his eldest brother Xu Wen would die in battle.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion silently dispersed and carefully moved the corpse, and when they found someone they knew, they remembered their voice and smile before their death, such as today, people are separated forever, and there are still wives and sons and daughters waiting at home, and many people can't help but shed tears.

Zhang Fu closed his eyes slightly and greeted the fresh air sent by the spring breeze, which somewhat dispelled the pungent smell of blood, and said with a wry smile: "I really envy my brother-in-law who is far away in Beiping, I really want to go home and reunite with my wife, I think I used to be full of yearning for the battlefield, what Xu Hao said is true, the war is too cruel." ”

10,000 of the enemy were wounded and 8,000 were self-inflicted, the Yan army killed nearly 40,000 elites in the battle of Baihegou, the officers and soldiers were killed as high as 100,000, and 100,000 were captured.

Li Jinglong's rout again shook the world like a hurricane, and Zhu Yunwen, who was in the Forbidden City, couldn't calm down for a long time, thinking that the million-strong army of the imperial court had repeatedly lost to a corner of the Yan Domain? How can it not make the Son of Heaven and the government and the people frightened.

The iron cavalry of King Yan drove south to the governor of Dezhou, and the forward light cavalry had already reached the outskirts of Jiyang County, which was not far from Jinan.

Shandong is close to the capital and is the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the folk customs are somewhat different from those in the north, but the fierceness of the Shandong people is also famous all over the world. Compared with Henan, Hebei, and the northwest that resisted foreign invasions, due to the virtue and politics of Emperor Jianwen, the vast majority of Shandong Shilin supported Zhu Yunwen, who was benevolent, righteous and tolerant.

Together with the defeated officers and soldiers, there were many rumors that could be sung and wept, and there were nearly 30,000 Shandong people who died bravely, and many Shandong generals would rather die generously than surrender in humiliation.

There was a priest named Wang Province who was inadvertently caught by the Yan army scouts and questioned the truth of the officials and soldiers. After learning that it was a lifter, he let it go.

Unexpectedly, Wang Shengyin was a great shame in his life, and returned to the county seat to gather the students in the Minglun Hall, and after talking about the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, he said sadly and indignantly: "King Yan is rebellious and unpredictable, and the way of heaven has fallen!" A scholar who hates himself can't go into battle to kill the enemy, since he can't spill blood on the battlefield, then he will die today. ”

After saying that, Wang Xing cried, and the students also cried bitterly, and finally Wang Xing hit his head on the pillar and died.

There are many similar columns, in short, under the influence of Shilin students. The soldiers and civilians of Shandong failed to surrender wherever they went, as Zhu Di thought, and even if they were forced to open the city gates, most of the gentry and scholars closed their doors and refused to serve the Yan army.

Among the scattered soldiers, Xu Wen was listless in the crowd, walking forward step by step in a daze, the soldiers in front of him and behind him were all injured, supporting each other and walking in despair, but he was lucky that the whole person was unscathed. Because of the death of the war horse, Li Jinglong was separated.

Looking at the sturdy and tall Jinan city wall from afar, Xu Wen, who was thirsty, found a spring on the side of the road, ran over and squeezed into the escape from each other, and drank the sweet spring with both hands.

Xu Wen, who was tired to death, sat on the side of the road and smiled bitterly. Who knew that Li Jinglong was defeated again? Still defeated so badly, what a waste in vain! The burdened self is like a lost dog.

He didn't dare to surrender to his uncle Yan Wang, who had clear rewards and punishments, for fear that he would not be beheaded with a knife, but he threw all the old ladies and daughters-in-law who lived in Texas to Yan Jun. Anyway, there is a third child, and no one dares to be rude.

It stands to reason that Li Jinglong, who was the general of the defeated army, died and buried the lives of two or three hundred thousand soldiers in the imperial court in a row. If the first emperor had to be raided and destroyed when he was alive, Ling Chi would have to be stripped alive, but Xu Wen, who knew the emperor's temperament very well, guessed that Li Jinglong might not be able to die nine times out of ten, not only could he survive but even retain his title and official position, who let that be the most benevolent and righteous Emperor Jianwen?

Xu Wen, who had nowhere to go, simply decided to continue to follow Li Jinglong, and returned to the capital to take care of the family business. If you want to serve Li Jinglong all the way before and after the saddle, why do you have to arrange a hundred households, right? In case his uncle killed Jingshi, Xu Wen's eyes suddenly lit up.

Suddenly, seeing his cousin Xu Huizu on a horse, scolding the soldiers to assemble, Xu Wen's eyes showed murderous intent, so he quietly lowered his head and walked into the hastily assembled crowd.

Qinhuangdao.

In the face of friends who have come from thousands of miles away, they are inextricably linked with the military, obviously everyone will push Xu Hao to go upstream towards power in the future, and a pattern of prosperity and loss is formed, and the Xu family is surrounded by many families that are getting closer and closer, and this qiē will silently force Xu Hao to not let go, and it may be difficult to even stop if he wants to.

Fortunately, there is another option on the road to the minister, that is, the greatest merit in the past and present, supporting the emperor's merits, Xu Hao can conclude that he will be crowned king after death, just like Chang Yuchun Xu Da and other founding heroes, the spiritual position will be enshrined in the Taimiao to enjoy the fireworks and worship. With this prince who is side by side with the Zhu family, no matter how many unscrupulous descendants there are, there will eventually be a descendant that will last until the day when the Ming Dynasty falls.

If you don't participate in the Battle of Jingjing, unless you make a world-class meritorious service, it is almost impossible to be awarded the glorious title of hereditary replacement, and the title of the highest status of the Wenchen Road is reduced to a commoner for at most three generations, even if it is to support the succession of the prince, the cabinet can only be the only goal, and the military attache is only a hereditary commander.

When King Yan became the emperor and was rewarded as a marquis, because of his prominent status, as long as he did not participate in the rebellion in the future, he was enough to take care of all the people who shared weal and woe, such as relatives and friends, protégés, and old friends, of course, provided that they did not do their own evil.

At present, as his status rises higher and higher, Xu Hao has a trembling feeling of being overwhelmed by the heights, and he has more or less regretted it, mainly because his age is too young, and the light is terrible.

For this reason, Xu Hao is not good to participate in the next battle in person, and even Zhu Di doesn't want Xu Hao to be too conspicuous, so Xu Hao will not be able to make enough achievements in the future, and Xu Hao's ranking will be lowered to a suitable position when he is rewarded for his merits in the future, which is a tacit understanding between Xu Hao and Zhu Di.

The battle of Jingjing has not yet been completed. Xu Hao, who has begun to retreat bravely, can only hope that Zhu Di, who is eloquent and strategic, can tolerate the heroes like history, and achieve a beginning and an end to the Jingnan Heroes Group, in fact, he sincerely hopes that the Yongle Emperor can stand up to him in the future, so that there is an excuse to be lazy and enjoy life carefree and enjoyed.

As soon as their daughters came to Beidaihe, they were attracted by the beautiful natural scenery, and they traveled together all day long.

Xu Hao bought a large mansion by the sea, and wrote something in his study in his spare time. It is the suggestion of a Wuju person in the period of Emperor Chongzhen, saying that the imperial court has three major root causes and the crux of the world's erosion.

The first major root cause is the long-standing imperial examination system, which can be called the solid cornerstone of the feudal dynasty, and the imperial examination system is not bad, but the eight shares created by the first emperor are more disadvantageous than the imperial examinations of previous dynasties.

And for thousands of years, parents and teachers have repeatedly instilled a concept that it takes ten years to study. In order to get ahead, in order to be an official, if you are an official, you can glorify the lintel and protect the whole family. If you become an official, you can be rich and rich. Therefore, the purpose of studying has become determined to soar, and how many people are really for the people of Li and the whole country?

Who really studied for the sake of Confucius and Mencius? Then the Four Books and Five Classics represented by Confucius and Mencius were used as teaching materials and teachings, and the imperial examination was used to organize and build a bureaucracy. There are batches of empty talkers who write brilliantly, all of them are self-boasting moral celebrities, but in fact, there are a few people who have got rid of the shackles of fame and fortune. Don't be obsessed with beauty, don't work hard for money, fame, and official positions?

The cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty is the hundreds of millions of peasants who read people, and it seems that it is fair to give the vast majority of civilians a chance to get ahead, but in fact, the class has a tendency to gradually solidify when the first emperor was alive.

There is an old saying in China that heroes don't ask about their origins, and the current officialdom can verify that anyone who is an official in any way can become a scholar. However, the imperial examination system and bureaucratic habits will gradually change, and any chronic disease of the literati who can cling to each other, such as fellow villagers and classmates in the same year, will make the officials of the jinshi become colluded and jointly block those who are officials through other means.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were no officials, no greed, no officials, no dirty, and people who were honest and self-loving would be regarded as aliens and would be attacked by the masses.

Writing here, Xu Haoxin said that isn't this the case in the future before the crossing? Even in the Western world, political donations are as popular? The political family and the big chaebol manipulate the country and the world behind the scenes, in short, the world is as black as a crow, the difference is that the modern people can at least live a nourishing life, which is the blossoming fruit of modern civilization, even if the powerful are in power everywhere, there are various supervision methods and legal constraints.

The third root of the disease Xu Hao forgot what jì is, anyway, it is also the disadvantage of the imperial examination, the so-called official protection of officials, and the secret of being an official is not afraid to seek flattery.

When Xu Hao and Xue Wen and other friends interacted, he heard the most emotion, that is, when he was studying, he was terrified that his life was precarious, because every family was a farmer who depended on the sky for food, and his parents and brothers had to go to the land to farm, pay taxes, and have to work hard, not to mention the hard work, he was most afraid of encountering a disaster year or getting into a lawsuit, and he would be reduced to extreme poverty overnight, even if he was sick, let alone war.

But once the talent is in the examination, the situation will be completely reversed, and the family will become a scholarly family, and after the first-class examination is lifted, the whole family will be promoted to a famous squire, and they will no longer be afraid of poverty.

In the long run, therefore, the vast bureaucratic literati enjoyed many exemptions from taxes and forced labor, and were able to shelter many who had illegally acquired wealth, such as salt merchants, smugglers, and pirates.

The rich are getting richer and richer, the poor are getting poorer and poorer, and the land is highly annexed.

Xu Hao stopped writing, these three major drawbacks are not only him, I am afraid that many Wenchen are very clear, the question is what can he do if he is in it? To change it is to move one's own vital interests.

In short, there is no solution! (To be continued......)