Gong Yan, the Minister of the Dashunli Government, was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Chongzhen. He served as an official in Henan. In his tenure, he abolished the three salary regardless of the examination law promulgated by the court. After hundreds of thousands of people under his rule, he reduced taxes and exempted taxes to survive. At that time, Henan was in abolition of the land of thousands of miles and changed his sons to eat each other. However, there was no famine in the place where Gong Yan managed. In order not to let the people starve to death, Gong Yan refused to implement the tax policy of Emperor Chongzhen. It was obviously not a loyal minister and filial son, and was finally dismissed from office by the court. Before leaving, he donated all his savings to the poor. After Gong Yan resigned, the counties he once managed were also famine one after another, and finally resisted the government like other Henan areas and responded to the rebel army.

In Deng Ming's previous life, some descriptions of Gong Yan on the Internet were quite interesting, saying that Gong Yan did not accept Li Zicheng's appointment after returning to his hometown in Shaanxi. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Gong Yan happened to meet the pregnant concubine Chongzhen and tried his best to cover it up. How did Gong Yan, who did not accept Li Zicheng's appointment, arrive in Beijing? Did he follow the Dashun army?

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng adopted Niu Jinxing's strategy to capture the world based on Heluo. The situation in Henan frightened the Ming court. Local prefectures and counties jointly wrote a letter to Emperor Chongzhen, demanding that Gong Yan be appointed as the governor of Henan and save the crisis. However, after Emperor Chongzhen issued an order, Gong Yan refused to take office, saying that the emperor was rushing to collect intensive taxes and the court was in vain, which was already a dead end, and people and gods were angry. After Li Zicheng conquered Xi'an, he asked Gong Yan to come out to help, and Gong Yan happily served as the Minister of the Dashunli Government (Dashun changed the Six Ministry to Six Governments).

After meeting Li Zicheng, Gong Yong suggested in person that there were many inappropriate essays set by Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and suggested that Li Zicheng abolished the eight-legged essays in the imperial examinations of the New Dynasty to change them into prose to avoid squeezing the candidates. The article should pay attention to the content and should not be restricted by the form. Li Zicheng highly praised Gong Yong's proposal, and after entering Beijing, Gong Yong was asked to be responsible for the specific matters of abolishing the eight-legged essays. However, this reform to lift ideological castration, like the abolition of eunuchs, was aborted because of Li Zicheng's rapid failure. The system of using eight-legged essays to win scholars and castrate living people was restored by the Qing Dynasty, who entered the pass.

Gong Yong participated in the three persuasion activities of Li Zicheng's claim to be emperor, especially when he ran into the Ming Taimiao and burned the tablets of the gods of all dynasties in the Ming Dynasty, which was scolded by Shilin. When Li Zicheng retreated to Shaanxi, Gong Yong also retreated with the Shun Army. After Li Zicheng failed to Ajige and had to withdraw from Xi'an, Gong Yong and Li Zicheng broke up and stayed alone to fight guerrillas with the Qing army in Shaanxi. In the following fifteen years, Gong Yong studied by himself.

Chengcai became a guerrilla expert. In Deng Ming's previous life, he insisted on resisting until the 18th year of Shunzhi, which lasted for three more years than the Yongli regime and Li Dingguo. Finally, he was surrounded by the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp. At this time, Gong Yan, who was already 68 years old, was still able to ride horses and shoot arrows. Although he was not a direct lineman like Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, and Liu Tichun who broke into the camp, Gong Yan also refused to surrender and resisted resolutely. He was finally set on fire by the Qing army in the mountains.

In this time and space, due to Deng Ming's influence, the Shaanxi soldiers under Wu Sangui were unable to return to the northwest for a long time. Later, because of Deng Ming's continuous attacks, the Shaanxi Green Camp had to continue to send more troops to Sichuan without any spare energy to encircle Gong Yan. As a result, Gong Yan was not only not defeated but also allowed him to find an opportunity to leave the guerrilla area and run to Kuidong to find Ma Tengyun.

(Author's note: Let me give you a few personal opinions. Li Yan is a fictional person. I have a feeling that Gong Yan is very similar to Li Yan's prototype. He is both talented and civil and military. He is highly valued by Li Zicheng. He is also from the literati class but broke with the Ming court. Even the suspicion of Li Yan after Li Zicheng's defeat can find a shadow in Li Zicheng and Gong Yan: When Li Zicheng returned to Shaanxi, Gong Yan, as the Minister of the Li Government, made a dragon robe and was responsible for preparing Li Zicheng's ancestor worship etiquette. After putting on the robe made by Gong Yan, Li Zicheng suddenly felt cold all over his body, and his hands and feet were stiff for a while, and it took him a long time to recover.

Come here. Afterwards, Li Zicheng checked the dragon robe that Gong Yan gave him. Seeing that there were mountain patterns on it, he angrily accused Gong Yan of using witchcraft. He wanted to move two mountains to press his shoulders to curse himself. He almost killed Gong Yan on the spot. After Liu Tichun and others persuaded him, he could explain it. At that time, Li Zicheng was defeated repeatedly, and Yuan Zongdi's strategic reserve team was transferred back to the north from Huguang, but still could not resist Ajige. He was in a very bad mood. The author also noted: Hui Shiyang, the veterans of the four dynasties and the fathers of the Three Kingdoms, should be almost a hundred years old at this time. The author let the Donglin Party stick show his face and not bury his style, and he would soon give him a box lunch.)

"After the Emperor (King of Rebellion) left Shaanxi, I have been contacting heroes and hoped that the Emperor would fight back to Shaanxi as soon as possible." Thinking of Li Zicheng's sudden death, Gong Yan couldn't help but sigh again.

"What is a college? It is a place related to the granting of fame and fortune. How can such a place not be fought for?" Gong Yong then taught Yuan Zongdi a lesson: "Now there is no imperial examination in western Sichuan, so who can be an official? Of course, students of the academy can be an official. In Sichuan Academy, Deng Ming did not specify textbooks and allowed the sacrificial wine to decide by himself. Since ancient times, no academy's sacrificial wine has had such great power. In the future, officials in western Sichuan will inevitably be disciples of the academy's sacrificial wine. How can such a vital place be not held in his hands?"

Yuan Zongdi was stunned when he heard this, turned to look at Liu Tichun, who nodded and said, "As soon as the Shangshu arrived in my camp, he asked Duke Bao for three days and three nights, and he also scolded me, Lao Ma and Xiao Lao Hu for this matter."

"Just call Deng Ming, anyway, that's not his real name." Gong Yong cut off Liu Tichun's narrative and said impatiently: "In my opinion, whoever controls Sichuan Academy will control the administration of western Sichuan in the future. This is a place that military strategists must fight for. You will ignore this. Wouldn't you die in the future without a burial place? It will also implicate Deng Ming."

At this time, Yuan Zongdi finally figured something was wrong. Gong Yan led his people to the Ming Taimiao and burned the throne of the emperor and gods of all the Ming dynasties. He had done all this. As the third prince, Deng Ming, even if Liu Tichun, who was involved in forcing his father to death, might not have pardoned Gong Yan. How dare this person come to join Deng Ming?

"Of course, the old master should sit in the sacrificial wine of this academy." Gong Yong continued to talk to Yuan Zongdi about his ideas: "If Youpingzhang wants to sit in this position, who dares to say "No, and who can say "No"?"

"I am old..." Although I had already discussed it with Gong Yong, Hui Shiyang still planned to be humble in front of everyone.

"The old master is still strong and can still ride a horse." Gong Yong said nothing and blocked Hui Shiyang back in one sentence: "Besides, the old master doesn't have to do it himself. Of course, I and Chen Jijiu do the daily trivial matters. The old master did not want to steal Chen Jijiu's position, but just added another high-level master to the academy."

Gong Yan himself did not intend to ask for a position, as long as he could enter the academy, he could enter the academy. Gong Yan could be both civil and military, governed government affairs, selected students, and fought for more than ten years of guerrilla warfare. He asked himself that even if he didn't have a title that could suppress others, he could still suppress the scene and win over the hearts of the people in the academy. This would also avoid leaving people with the impression of fighting for power and profit, which led to the students taught by Chen Zuo to have preconceived prejudice against themselves.

Hui Shiyang had a slight head and stopped talking. If it weren't for this high-ranking priest and the status of the old master, why would he have to accompany Gong Yan to the south at the age of a hundred years? Hui Shiyang is a person who is old and never grows old. As Gong Yan said just now, the power of Sichuan Academy is unheard of. In the past, the emperor would definitely have to firmly control such disciples in his palms. But since it has flowed out of Deng Ming's fingers, who would pick it up? When there was no imperial examination, the academy was the only place where he could get a background. As long as he could be a high-ranking priest, even if only one day, Hui Shiyang could still be in peace, and he would not have to worry about the five filial piety during the festival in the future.

Gong Yong was still talking about how to select talents for Deng Ming, and how to subtly make all the students of the academy, that is, the future officials of the court, tend to be Dashun. The more Yuan Zongdi heard, the more panicked he felt. A terrible guess emerged from his heart. Finally, he couldn't help asking: "Shangshu thinks that the Duke of Baoguo is not a member of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Deng Ming cannot be a member of the Ming royal family. If he were, how could he trust and use you so much?" Gong Yan seemed to have heard the most funny thing in the world, and waved impatiently: "Zhu Ming's royal family has neither this measure nor this courage. I think Deng Ming must be the descendant of the emperor."

"Ah!" Although he had expected this answer, Yuan Zongdi still screamed in surprise.

"Too..." Yuan Zongdi originally wanted to use "absurd" or "ridiculous" to describe Gong Yong's speculation, but in the end he held back. He looked around Li Laiheng, Liu Tichun, Dang Shousu and Ma Tengyun and found that their expressions remained unchanged. Obviously, Gong Yong had already been angry with them, and he had actually received their recognition.

"If it was the King of Rebellion, why didn't he tell us clearly?" Yuan Zongdi had many questions and said the biggest confusion as soon as he opened his mouth. However, Yuan Zongdi knew that Liu Tichun and the others must have raised the same question. Judging from the faces of the other four generals of the camp, they had been persuaded by Gong Yan.

"Have you ever heard of General Zheng that the Tartars said that Deng Ming was very familiar with the Forbidden City, and seemed to have a few Manchu words." Gong Yan smiled slightly and asked confidently.

"Nonsense." Yuan Zongdi said disdainfully. Yuan Zongdi always smiled at similar rumors and never took it to heart. Deng Ming even killed the Tartar Emperor. How stupid is he to believe that he was from a high-ranking official of the Qing Dynasty.

"I don't think so," Gong Yong smiled: "If there were no such rumors, I wouldn't dare to confirm that Deng Ming was the descendant of the emperor."

"How do you say this?" Yuan Zongdi's face was full of suspicion.

"Da Nei, who is familiar with the Tartars, knows the movements of the Tartars in advance, has acquaintances and sources of intelligence within the Tartars. I heard that I could say a few words about Tartars, and I had rare things, and I had a good understanding of the Tartars' thoughts. I didn't feel awkward when shaving my head..." Gong Yan counted the rumors about Deng Ming one by one, some of which were provided by Yuan Zongdi and Li Laiheng: "... I took great care of the camp, didn't want to reveal my identity, scolded Chongzhen without slandering, and repeatedly claimed that I was a great success and punished the people and acted on behalf of the heavens..."

After listing almost all the puzzled points of Deng Ming, Gong Yan suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "General, do you still remember Master Deng?"

"Master Deng?" Yuan Zongdi's face was left with confusion. He really couldn't remember which scholar named Deng Li Zicheng had particularly valued.

"Master Deng?" Yuan Zongdi muttered softly again. Suddenly, his eyes suddenly widened. I don't know how many times he exclaimed today, but this time it was indeed the loudest, and he jumped up from his seat: "Ah, is it Master Deng!"

Gong Yan pursed his lips, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, revealing a hint of complacency to see all things, and nodded heavily to Yuan Zongdi.

"No, not bad." Yuan Zongdi felt that his bones seemed to have fallen apart, and all his strength was pulled away from his body, forcing him to slowly sit back on the chair with the table. In this way, all the rumors that seemed absurd were all reasonable at once. That's right, Deng Ming should of course know Beijing very well, and of course he would be familiar with the upper class of the Qing Dynasty. As for being able to speak a few Manchu words, it would be normal. Yuan Zongdi suddenly discovered that these rumors that he originally thought were the most ridiculous are now natural. It would be really incredible if Deng Ming had no such relationship.

"It's age..." Yuan Zongdi whispered again.

"The emperor accepted the imperial concubine in Xi'an. When the general met him, he was sixteen years old and mature. It was not impossible for him to look like he was twenty years old." Gong Yong made an assertion again, and his eyes turned to Li Laiheng: "Then he is the young master's uncle. This is nothing. Didn't our Dashun have the old example of Dingwu? It's just that he didn't know Deng Ming, for fear that once he revealed the truth, his brother would turn against him and become enemies."

The Han lord Dingwu, including the Qing court, believed that this was just a strategy used by Wen Anzhi to inspire people. Only a very small number of core Kuidong personnel knew what this meant.

"I have no objection," Li Laiheng immediately stated: "If it is really my uncle, I am willing to abide by the old rules of Dingwu. If there is any strange intention, it will be struck by lightning."

"Okay, let's see if he is the emperor next. This dispute over the academy can help us understand a little. If Deng Ming was not the emperor later, he would definitely not support us in the academy and sing a stage show against those who support the Ming court, right?"

...

Gong Yong led a camp in Wanxian plot to conceal Wen Anzhi from Fengjie, who had no idea that they had arrived in Sichuan.

Deng Ming, who was in the center of the vortex, knew nothing about this. At this time, he was on Mount Emei with Li Xinghan, Ren Tang and others who had just returned to Sichuan, discussing the process of the expedition to the southeast, while admiring the handsomeness of Emei.

"Emei is famous all over the world, and it's really worth it. Unfortunately, I have too little time. Let's come again next time, and I must choose a time when spring is blooming next time." Deng Ming didn't know that Chengdu was already undercurrents, and the generals and scholars from Jiangnan were ready to go: "I have to rush back to the capital immediately. At this Imperial Parliament, I guess everyone will ask us to send troops to the Southeast again to assist Shandong and Guangdong's rebels."

Sichuan is developing faster and faster. In order to ensure the employment of newly immigrated population, ensure the balance of income and expenditure of the government and the interests of all classes, Sichuan must continue to launch foreign wars, protect and win commercial profits, and obtain resources and funds from the Qing army controlled areas through military compensation and other means.

This pressure even gave high-ranking officials like Deng Ming, Zhao Tianba, Ren Tang, and Mu Tan a feeling that it was difficult to get rid of a tiger. Liu Jinge, Yuan Xiang, Xiong Lan and others also told Deng Ming that they could not imagine the consequences of serious setbacks. However, these people also viewed this issue with the optimism of young people. Zhao Tianba claimed at an internal meeting of senior officials in Sichuan: Since it is already difficult to get rid of the tiger, don’t want to jump off the tiger’s back and take it slowly, and walk steadily, just ride on the tiger’s back until you win the world or fall to pieces. This resonance aroused general resonance, and everyone in the military shouted OK.

"There is no doubt about this." Ren Tang said without thinking: "The capital and Xuzhou have tasted the sweetness. How can I stop eating the marrow and Zhiwei? But this time they will probably discuss in advance how to distribute the results."

"I can't think of a more reasonable distribution model than this," Deng Ming even felt that the attitude of the West Sichuan Group towards war was like an addict's dependence on drugs, and the intervals of attacks were getting shorter and shorter, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to satisfy.
Chapter completed!