Portrait of Hu Zongxian
This is my work permit. I am the biggest official in the Ming dynasty, that is, the minister of war, the official of the central government, awesome! But what I am most proud of is not this, but Pingwo in the southeast. At the beginning, the imperial court appointed me as the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the left consultant of Douchayuan. In addition, I am the military governor of Zhejiang, Nanzhili and Fujian. Let's just say that I can dispatch all the Ming armies in Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Zhejiang and Fujian, and the power is greater than that of the general governor, so I am also called "Governor Hu".
Daming map
The world only knows that Qi Jiguang is an anti-Japanese hero, but it doesn't know that Hu Zongxian is also an anti-Japanese hero? Of course, those Ming troops who fought against Japan were also heroes who fought against Japan.
The following is my resume:
Hu Zongxian, whose real name is Ruzhen, is from Jixi. In the seventeenth year of Jiajing, he was a scholar. Yili Yidu and Yuyao County. The suggestion and patrol announcement, big. A letter was sent to Datong, and the left-back moved to Yanghe and Dushi. Soldiers gathered together and broke it. Zongxian rode alone to comfort Yu, and promised not to move, but he had decided.
Thirty-three years, according to Zhejiang. At that time, Wang Zhi instigated the Japanese invaders according to the Five Islands, while Xu Hai, Ma Ye and others nested in Zhelin, Zhapu and Chuanshawa, harassing counties and cities. The emperor appointed the governor, Li Fu Zhejiang, and ordered assistant minister Zhao Wenhua to supervise the military. Wenhua relies on Yan Song's domestic help and is very arrogant. Classics and nature are not attached, only the constitution is attached.
I'm sorry, I didn't know you didn't know much about classical Chinese. Then I'll say it in vernacular Chinese.
My name is Hu Zongxian, Ruzhen and Merlin. I live in Jixi, Anhui. Of course, I have moved to Beijing now. At the age of 22, I am already in the middle; 26 years old, a scholar; At the age of 28, he was appointed as the magistrate of Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province. As soon as he took office, he put out the plague of locusts and collected thousands of robbers. At the age of 39, he was valued by the court, and he was governor of Huguang to quell the Miao uprising; In the thirty-third year of Jiajing, when I was middle-aged, I was appointed as the censor of Zhejiang Patrol and started my War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
Hu Zongxian stills
Since the founding of Mao in the Ming Dynasty, there have been pirates along the southeast coast. During the Jiajing period of our dynasty, there was a strike and the sea was strictly forbidden. Due to the blockade of normal trade channels, some desperate people began to take risks, and they began to collude with the lower Japanese samurai to burn, kill and plunder, making people in the southeast coastal areas live in dire straits.
At this moment, I, Hu, as a member of the imperial court, was ordered by your majesty to inspect and supervise the empire in Zhejiang. Before I left, I made a vow: "I will go to Zhejiang, not capture Wang Zhi and Xu Hai alive, settle down in the southeast, and never return to Beijing."
If you say something brave, you can't take it back. Before I left, I thought I must do something earth-shattering, but the reality slapped me hard: Just before I left, Zhao Wenhua, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, was recommended by Yan Song, the cabinet record, and was sent to Jiangnan to supervise coastal military affairs in the name of Poseidon. This Zhao Wenhua was none other than Yan Song's adopted son. It is obvious to come to Zhejiang to be the "emperor's father"! But Zhao Wenhua this person can't afford to offend, we have sinned against him, we have sinned against Yan Song. Besides, this Zhao Wenhua is a treacherous man, and he will compliment him back. Just arrived in Zhejiang, its Zhejiang Governor Zhang Daren and Zhejiang Governor Li Daren were killed because of their framing. I'm the only one who stayed to spy on the empire.
Yan Song stills
In order not to delay the appeasement, I must be careful with Zhao Wenhua, so I often flatter him and gradually gain his appreciation. Later, under his strong recommendation, I was quickly promoted to the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the left consultant of Douchayuan, and also added military affairs such as Zhejiang Governor, Zhejiang Governor, Nanzhili and Fujian. After all, no, but before he could conquer, he died in my anti-Japanese incident.
With the support of Zhao Wenhua, I have the opportunity to make great achievements! On the one hand, I recruited and reused all kinds of outstanding talents, such as Yu and Qi Jiguang, and also recruited famous scholars to serve in our shogunate. It can be said that my governor's office is full of talents. On the other hand, I know that the Ming army has long been eroded, so I gave my generals great power to recruit soldiers themselves. The famous "Qi Jiajun" and "Yu Jiajun" were founded at that time. With so many soldiers with strong fighting capacity, it took me ten years to completely pacify the southeast Japanese invasion that the court thought could not be pacified in a short time.
Japanese invasion
With such a great achievement, he was appointed by the court as the minister of war and the suggestion of Youdu. But it didn't last long. In the same year that I pacified the Japanese aggression, the Cabinet recorded that Yan Song was dismissed and his son Yan Shifan was arrested. As Yan Song's adopted son, Zhao Wenhua was not spared. But because of Zhao Wenhua's recommendation, I was recognized as a strict party by those ministers. Soon, at the behest of Xu Jie, the new cabinet record, Liu Fengyi was impeached by Nanjing on ten major charges, including corruption, excessive tax collection, and the party sheltering Yan Song.
Party struggle in the imperial court, it stands to reason that I Hu Mou people don't want to be involved. But I can't help it. As early as when Zhao Wenhua strongly recommended me, I was already in this whirlpool, and I couldn't put aside my relationship with Yan Dang.
As for those allegations, they are half true and half false: I did take bribes, but I spent them on military expenses; As for taking refuge in the Yan party, there is no way out. At that time, the Yan Party was in full swing. Without its support, it would be like a castle in the air.
Poor god. Your Majesty, seeing that I have the power to resist Japan, changed his mind and issued an imperial edict: "Zong Xian is not Yan Song's party. Since I took office, I have promoted him to suggestion. It's been 89 years. At first, I rewarded Wang Zhi for catching him. Now, if I am guilty, who will work for me in the future? Let him go back to his hometown and be idle. " Although it gave me a chance to live, it also meant that my career was over.
After returning to my hometown in Anhui, I don't ask politics, and I plan to enjoy my old age. But those political opponents of the imperial court still didn't leave me alone. They caught my relationship with Yan Party. Take Luo Longwen (this Luo Longwen is my anti-Japanese colleague) as an example. It is suggested that during my impeachment, I wrote a letter to Luo Longwen, bribing Yan Shifan as a servant, with a self-made imperial edict attached to it. It is a great sin to imitate the imperial edict. I know someone set me up, but your majesty didn't know that he was furious and wanted to take me to Beijing for punishment. In prison, I wrote a 1000-word "Debate the Fake" to defend myself. However, after the submission of the debate on falsehood and sparseness, there was no result. Only then did I know that my time had come!
But I also have backbone. It's better for me to hang myself to show my innocence than to be accused of painting. One night, I looked at the bright moon outside the window and bit my finger. On the wall of my cell, I wrote the words "swords bury unjust prisons, loyal souls surround white clouds" with my blood. Then I took off my belt, wrapped it around the roof beam, made a fast knot and slowly wrapped it around my neck. ...
On the third day of November in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Hu Zongxian committed suicide in prison at the age of 54.
"Birds are exhausted, good bows hide, cunning rabbits die, and running dogs cook." Emperor Jiajing didn't kill him, probably because Hu Zongxian had just made great contributions. If you kill him rashly, it will make everyone feel chilling.
I want to say that under the circumstances at that time, when the party was in full swing, it was very difficult to do something for the country and the people without being attached to the party. If you want to pacify the enemy, it is impossible not to be attached to the strict administration of the party and not to pay a large amount of bribes. Hu Zongxian, however, he knew that when Yan Dang collapsed, Hu Zongxian was killed. It's just that he never thought this day would come so soon.