A "ghost talent" who plays the art of war and psychology to the extreme
During the Ming Dynasty, the border area between Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Hunan provinces was a great headache for the imperial court, because it was constantly harassed by bandits for decades.
The bandit plague made the people miserable, and the imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress them many times, but all of them ended in failure, and many inspectors were scared away during the period.
However, at this moment, a god-man descended from heaven, and it took only one year and three months to sweep away hundreds of thousands of bandits with only 2,000 soldiers and horses at hand.
These bandits were not only very involved, but also stationed for more than ten years, and what was even more unbelievable was that this god man with great military achievements was not a military general, but only a literati.
He is the first ghost talent of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shouren, a man who takes the art of war and psychology to the extreme.
Wang Shouren, that is, Wang Yangming, who appears in our history books, said a famous saying when he was 12 years old.
At that time, the master was in the classroom students: "What is the first thing in life", the other students are nothing more than answering the examination, being a champion, and no matter how bad it is, they must also say that they are filial to their parents.
Only Wang Yangming replied, "Life is a sage." ”
Since then, Wang Yangming has been committed to his "dream of sages", when he was 15 years old, he wrote a letter asking his father to hand it to the emperor, and his father opened the letter and looked at it, only to see that it read:
"Just give me 50,000 horses and I can sweep the prairie."
Because of this letter, Wang Yangming was thrown a big mouth by his father's backhand, and in the end he failed to realize his ambitions.
When Wang Yangming grew up, he ran all the way on the road to obtaining the yuan, but he did not try again and again, and his father comforted him: "Don't be depressed, this exam can't pass the next effort." ”
Who knows Wang Yangming said contemptuously: "Others are ashamed of not ascending the first, but I am ashamed of not ascending to the throne but being depressed about it." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he was thrown a big mouth by his father's backhand.
Although Wang Yangming did not pass the examination in one fell swoop like his father, and the lintel was shining, this could not destroy his talent. In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, the 28-year-old Wang Yangming was admitted to the Jinshi and served as the chief of the Punishment Department in the dprk.
From this time on, Wang Yangming began to embark on the road of becoming an official, after which he experienced being demoted to an official, and was hunted down and killed by the enemy many times, until the official was reinstated, which was a period of turmoil.
In 1516, Wang Qiong, the Shangshu of the Bingbu Dynasty, recommended Wang Yangming and promoted him to the rank of Imperial Historian, and from then on, Wang Yangming began his life in the middle of the dynasty.
The four regions that Wang Yangming patrolled were Nan'an, Ganzhou, Zhangzhou, and Tingzhou, and these four places were the junction of the four provinces, and there was no shortage of anything, that is, there was no shortage of bandits.
Local thieves have risen to the point of claiming their own kings, and these bandits are in a faction of their own, not only robbing the people, but even the government is often robbed.
The imperial court sent heavy ministers to solve the problem of banditry many times, but the treatment was ineffective for decades, and the former inspector insisted here for several months, and finally went home directly.
After Wang Yangming came here to take up his post, this task of suppressing bandits naturally fell on his head, but until he really understood the situation of the bandits here, he didn't know that things were far more serious than he thought.
However, Wang Yangming exerted his amazing talent in martial arts.
Selection of "Special Forces"
For the treatment of bandits, the first thing Wang Yangming needs to do is to first control the development of bandits.
He invented a "ten-family card law" household registration system, which is colloquially a system of consecutive sitting, in which he requires every ten households to be a group, and each group supervises each other.
If it is found that any of these ten households has a bandit, or who has shielded the bandits, then these ten households are all guilty of the same crime as the bandits, and the number of people in those families is suddenly less, but they are not reported on time, and they are all treated as the crime of harboring the bandits.
Although the system of this "Ten Houses Of Cards" is indeed too brutal, to be fair, the method used to counter violence with violence has indeed had a miraculous effect.
Secondly, Wang Yangming found that in addition to the homes of the people, even the homes of many officials had long been infiltrated by bandits, and they arranged many eyes and ears in order to control the movements of the imperial court.
Wang Yangming first interrogated many old servants with thunderous means and asked about the dark line of many bandits, and he found this dark line and told them that as long as they reported the information of the bandits to him on time, they could be exonerated.
Because of this trick, Wang Yangming mastered a lot of information about the bandit leaders and made sufficient preparations for eradicating the tumor in the future.
These preparations alone are not enough, and the next step is how to really cut the bandits down.
Originally, the bandits here were all Guangxi wolf soldiers, and the wolf soldiers were local armed soldiers formed by the local toastmasters, which were originally an important part of the Ming Dynasty army.
The wolf soldiers are very brave, and the wokou who were once overseas are afraid of it, and the wolf soldiers are originally the main resistance to the bandits and the wokou, and their heroism can be imagined.
However, the wolf soldiers are very powerful, and one of the fatal flaws is that because of the lack of effective management methods, the military discipline of the wolf soldiers is chaotic, and in addition to being able to suppress bandits, they often do some burning and robbery things against the people.
Kill the people, fake military merit, so that you can get the reward.
Over time, many people changed from initial fear to anger, and how many people who became bandits began at this time, not only that, but the imperial court also loved and hated the wolf soldiers, and tried to suppress them several times.
In such an extreme environment, bandits also began to appear inside the wolf soldiers, and it can only be said that it is inseparable from the environment at that time that as long as they could not survive, the first way out that people thought of was to become bandits.
If you find this root cause, then things will be solved.
Since the wolf soldiers were so difficult to manage, there was no need for them, and without the wolf soldiers, Wang Yangming could only form an army by himself.
He selected elites from the armies of these four provinces and cities, and set very harsh conditions, as long as the height, body shape, IQ, and even looks all met the standards to be selected.
The selected soldiers will form a special "bandit brigade", as long as the selected elites have high salaries, if they have made meritorious achievements, they can be immediately promoted.
This is comparable to the probability of making a contribution in hundreds of thousands of troops, for a while, the soldiers in the army rushed to participate in the selection, after layers of strict screening, and finally Wang Yangming selected 2,000 elite "special soldiers".
The team was formed, and it was not yet possible to go up blindly with both eyes and black, and in order to prevent the footsteps of the infantry wolf soldiers, he set up a strict management system in the army.
The gods in the hearts of the people
He divided the 2,000 elites into a group of 25 people, and each group set up a squad leader called Xiao Jia.
Every 2 teams are a team, the manager is called General A, every 4 squads are called a sentry, the leader is called the sentry commander, every two sentries are a battalion, and the leader is called the battalion commander.
Each battalion had two leaders, two staff officers, three battalions as a formation, two formations to form an army, the army had a deputy general, and Wang Yangming himself was the commander-in-chief.
The reason why the team is divided into such a fine way is that it is managed layer by layer, uploaded and issued, and the efficiency of such management is greatly enhanced, and this is also similar to the "Ten Cards Method" he implements.
At the beginning of the battle, Wang Yangming proposed a method of breaking them one by one, he first selected the weakest one, and after defeating it with a single blow, the morale of the army soared.
Wang Yangming's use of troops has always been unexpected and unpredictable, and he has formulated corresponding strategies against the enemy according to the bandits at each camp.
In 1517, Wang Yangming personally led the troops stationed in Shanghang, he first pretended to withdraw the troops, the enemy thought that Wang Yangming was afraid, after confirming that he did retreat, he relaxed his vigilance and opened the gate.
Wang Yangming took advantage of this time to suddenly launch an attack, breaking more than forty villages of bandits, and the number of bandits captured alone was as many as 7,000, and after having the merit of being able to take it, Wang Yangming gave the imperial court a twist.
In the compromise, he said that his power was too small to establish his prestige in the army, so the imperial court directly gave Wang Shouren a banner so that he could have absolute command.
With the banner, Wang Yangming completely let go of his hands and feet to govern, and in less than half a year, he successively attacked Zuo Xi, Hengshui, and Broken Nest, and captured more than 6,000 bandits.
His way of governing bandits is also more "barbaric", some cottages are more cunning, and they cannot deceive them by pretending to retreat, so Wang Yangming adopts the method of fire attack.
No need to rush in, just set fire, they themselves will run outside, as long as they run out, Wang Yangming will be in the initiative, and then it will be easy to deal with the bandits who are fleeing for their lives in a panic.
After Wang Yangming cleaned up these bandits, large and small, he then went to Ganzhou to fight the final highlight, the leader of the thieves.
After the battle, more than 2,000 bandits were slaughtered, and the entire bandit cottage was leveled, and the bandits who had been rampant in the local area for decades were uprooted.
Of course, in fact, after the removal of the bandits, it is only a symptom but not a cure, and if the reasons for the formation of their bandits are investigated, it is still inseparable from the fact that the people cannot live a good life.
Wang Yangming first found a prefecture and county, let the local Yamen settle the displaced people, to ensure that the displaced people can survive safely, and then he clearly told the people that if anyone dares to become a bandit again, he will be severely punished.
But if the people who want to live a good life, as long as they do not cause trouble, I will certainly ensure that you live and work in peace and contentment, and if there is a situation of oppression, even if you go to the yamen to file a complaint, if the yamen dares to favoritism, it will not be spared.
Subsequently, Wang Yangming publicly summoned the few remaining small bandits, bluntly saying that you are all bandits who are because you can't survive, and if you are from Liang now, I will let you live a stable life.
These bandits wept bitterly, and the people clapped their hands and applauded, and this method of "slapping a slap and then giving a date" was used by Wang Yangming to the fullest.
After that, as long as those who resisted death and did not want to surrender were all wiped out, and those who were willing to surrender were all realized the stable life in Wang Yangming's mouth.
Wang Yangming only took 1 year and 3 months to eliminate all the bandits, and the local people also regarded him as a god and praised him.