I don't want to be surnamed Hou. Hope that Hai Boping? This well-known poem was written by Qi Jiguang when he was only 19 years old. When reading the Art of War, Qi Jiguang also wrote it intentionally or unintentionally, but this casual writing reflects Qi Jiguang? Not casually? Ideal. In the face of foreign enemies harassing China's southeast Asian coast, Qi Jiguang's heart is always attached to his home country. This sense of responsibility is not limited to the ideal of glorifying ancestors, but a grand ambition to rise to the national level.
During the Jiajing period, Qi Jiguang was promoted as the director of the provincial capital at that time. When the experts were guarding against the Japanese pirates in Shandong, he got a chance to defend his country. In the next ten years, he fought against the Japanese invaders in Shandong, Zhejiang and Fujian. However, compared with the hidden dangers of frequent pirates in Zhejiang and Fujian, the Japanese invasion in Shandong is relatively easy. Qi Jiguang can only rectify military discipline and strengthen the level of combat readiness. It was on the battlefield of Zhejiang and Fujian that his military talents were fully demonstrated.
In the autumn of the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang moved to Zhejiang as a local treasurer to manage some things related to military reclamation. At that time, pirates along the coast of Zhejiang were unscrupulous. The year before last, that is, in the thirty-second year of Jiajing, a group of Japanese pirates with more than forty people went ashore for robbery because of the loss of ships, went to Pinghu, Haiyan and other places in Zhejiang, killed a large number of loyalists, and then went to sea. In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, another enemy entered from Zhejiang and plundered near Hangzhou. They have done all kinds of bad things in many places. Although it was eventually annihilated, there were as many as 4,000 victims. There are only about120,000 troops stationed in Nanjing, and a handful of Japanese pirates are allowed to run amok. It is not difficult to find that the Ming army at that time was extremely corrupt militarily, and it can be said that it did not even have basic combat effectiveness.