"Ahh

There was a tickling sensation in his nose, and then a sneeze came out, and he wiped his mouth and nose, and the sleepiness of sitting in the carriage disappeared from this premonition that he seemed to be being talked about by someone.

In February, after leaving Huizhou, the army returned to the eastern part of Guangzhou to stand by. In the fields on both sides of the road, there are already people working, facing the loess and facing the sky, giving birth to the hope of life. Chen Kai's sleepiness disappeared, and he opened the window lightly, and watched the cultivation in the distance through the bumps of the carriage through the gap. In my heart, a tranquility arises spontaneously.

Agriculture is the foundation of all industries, and this has never been missed, because if people want to survive, the first thing to solve is the problem of nutritional intake, and to put it bluntly, it is to eat. When you are full, you have the heart to do other things—sewing clothes, making utensils, building houses, assembling vehicles, and even literature, art, and so on. For this reason, the origin civilization has always been born in the place where there are fertile plains along the rivers, because more crops can be produced there.

Silently watched all the way, tirelessly. All the way to Panyu County, which is attached to the city of Guangzhou, everywhere I saw, there were many more soldiers with leather whips in their hands, and they swept towards other peasants who looked rather clumsy with cold eyes.

The carriage returned directly to the capital of Guangzhou, and after returning to the city, some staff members boarded the carriage and reported to Chen Kai about the recent Guangzhou city, as well as some developments in Li Dingguo's headquarters and the Ming army in western Guangdong.

Chen Kai swept through the eastern part of Guangzhou, and even during the period when he cooperated with Hao Shangjiu to seize Huizhou, Li Dingguo's army also swept the western part of Guangzhou and the northern part of Zhaoqing Prefecture. The progress, like him, was very smooth, and the two troops of Jin Tongwu and Wang Hui swept through the prefectures and counties, almost all of them went down without a fight. This momentum did not come to an end until the capital city of Wuzhou.

The feudal soldiers and green battalions who fled west from Guangdong all fled to Wuzhou Mansion, and Ma Xiong, the chief soldier of the left wing of the Dingnan Domain, led all the troops to sit in that key place connecting the two Guangzhous.

Ma Xiong put on a posture of strict defense, Jin Tongwu looked outside the city, did not choose to attack, and simply led the army to withdraw to Guangzhou. However, in the newly recovered prefectures and counties, troops were still stationed - hard bones are not gnawed, but there is no reason to spit out those who have already eaten them.

In Guangdong Province, more places were quickly dyed red by the Emperor, and the rest was nothing more than Shaozhou Mansion, Nanxiong Mansion and Guangzhou Mansion in northern Guangdong, and the three counties of Lianshan, Lianzhou, and Yangshan were still under the control of the Qing army. The others, at most, are the two counties of Heping and Changning in Huizhou Prefecture, and Hao Shangjiu, who has freed his hands, has also sent troops to recover, which is nothing more than a matter of time.

The situation is very good, and in Guangzhou Prefecture and other places in western Guangdong, tuntian and cultivation are also being carried out in an orderly manner. Among them, including the prefectures and counties controlled by Li Dingguo, as well as the prefectures and counties controlled by the Ming Army units in western Guangdong, the work of resuming production has become the first priority at present.

This is the proper meaning, after all, Guangdong has been in chaos for a year, and people always have to eat, so they really can't continue to be chaotic. However, there is no difference between this, and the difference is nothing more than that the military presides over the military tun, while the local government side is the people's tun and the original traditional model of landlords, yeoman farmers, tenants, etc.

"Recently, Inspector Guo and Governor Lian have recruited scholars in various prefectures and counties and assigned official positions, which is not small."

"Well, that's normal. Before last year, they had never had a piece of control area, and those limited corners were also controlled by the kings of various departments, and there was no reserve talent to supplement them. At this time, occupying such a large territory, the official position cannot be vacant, it must be filled, and the authority can be exercised in the hands. ”

"Fu Jun Gao Jian."

Gao Jian, Chen Kai doesn't think it's really that tall. In fact, he is already doing these things, and it can even be said that he has been doing them all the time. Compared with the civil official group in western Guangdong, the Zheng Group has its own talent reserve, whether it is Zheng Chenggong's Chucai Pavilion, Yuxuan Pavilion, or Chen Kai's Governor Yamen, the staff and praise painters with certain administrative experience can still top those vacant seats at any time.

The fleet that departed from Chaozhou to Hong Kong consisted of a large number of would-be magistrates who were about to be assigned to the eastern part of Canton and the western part of Huizhou. In addition, the three counties of Hao Shangjiu's original are now under Zhang Jin's responsibility for military affairs, and the administrative officials are also the officials sent by the governor's yamen to enrich the adjutants, and the adjutants of the original counties are appointed as Zhengyin.

"Don't worry about them, those chicks, some Guo Zhiqi and Lianchengbi are busy."

The carriage slowly drove towards Li Dingguo's line in the city. The two palaces of Pingnan and Jingnan are the most in line with Li Dingguo's identity, but whether it is Li Dingguo himself, Guo Zhiqi and Chen Kai, they all know the usefulness of these two palaces. For now, it's nothing more than empty.

When they came to Xingyuan, Li Dingguo, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi were all there, and they seemed to be exchanging some opinions. Seeing Chen Kai returning, he hurriedly greeted him and talked about the problems in the eastern part of Guangzhou Mansion and Huizhou Mansion, and was relieved to learn that it had been basically recovered.

"Jingcheng came at the right time, this king, Guo Inspector, and Lian Zhijun are talking about the affairs of the imperial court, and I really want to hear Jingcheng's high opinion."

"The Imperial Court?" Chen Kai's face was suspicious, but he was shocked in his heart: "An Longxing is having a problem?" ”

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, Chen Kai's voice fell, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi immediately changed their faces: "Chen Fujun already knows?" ”

"Know what?"

With a puzzled face, Chen Kai successfully relieved the two. But the words naturally have to be made clear, the two glanced at each other, and Lian Chengbi took out an edict, handed it to Chen Kai's hand, and signaled him to read it for himself.

The edict was issued in the name of Emperor Yongli. Chen Kai took it with both hands, but he saw that Lian Chengbi was handed to him with one hand, which was disrespectful, but a thought flashed through his heart. When I took it and looked at it carefully, the thought immediately became one with the facts in front of me.

"The edict said: I bow down with contempt, I am in danger, I inherit my ancestors, I am in the ministers, and I have read this for eight years. Prepare for dangers, work hard day and night, and have no help. From Wu, Heng, Zhao, Wu to Yongxin, the broadcast is uncertain. Zi Dong Se turbulent, rushed to the west, Miao intercepted in front, captured in the back, Lai Qin King Yan soldiers to meet the enemy, to get out of danger. settled on Anlong, and got Ning Yu. In a few months, Jieyin overlapped, Xishu Sanxiang and Bagui, and returned to the territory. Reminiscing about the past, there are many worshippers, and they are all at ease, and there is no one to do anything. However, the king of Qin is safe and adjacent. In the past two years, there has been a gradual success, and I have relied on it. ”

"It is the guilty ministers Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Yi, Zhang Fulu, Quan Weiguo, Xu Ji, Zheng Yunyuan, Cai Su, Zhao Gengyu, Zhou Yunji, Yi Shijia, Yang Zhong, Ren Doushu, Zhu Dongdan, Li Ji, Jiang Qianchang, Zhu Yichang, Li Yuankai, Hu Shiduan, harboring evil intentions, internal and external connections, stealing treasures, rewarding without permission, and sealing the territory with misfortune."

"Relying on the spirit of the ancestors, the treacherous plot was discovered, and the court was ordered to interrogate him. In addition to the death of Wu Zhenyu, his assistant minister, Zhang Yi, Zhang Fulu and other accomplices were lawless, deceived the court, and had no subordinates, so it was advisable to be ambushed. I have been suffering for many years, and there are few of them, so the law under my control is lenient and generous, so that I use it back for my own use, steal out of the court, I don't know my virtue, and I am deeply responsible. After that, all ministers, big and small, should be washed, and the law should be kept together, so as to be leveled. ”

The content of the edict was to kill Wu Zhenyu, the first and auxiliary minister of the cabinet, Zhang Yi, the military department, Jiang Qichang, Li Kaiyuan, and Xu Ji, the secretary of the Hanlin Academy, Yang Zhong, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Zhao Gengyu, the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, Cai Su, the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, Zheng Yunyuan, the Marquis of Wu'an, Zhou Yunji, the imperial history of Jiangxi Province, Li Ji, Zhu Yifei, Hu Shirui, the imperial history of Fujian Province, Zhu Dongdan, Zhu Dongdan, Ren Douxu, Yi Shijia, Zhang Fulu, the eunuch of the ceremony, and Quan Weiguo.

killed eighteen courtiers in one go, as well as the great eunuchs, including the first and auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, this is undoubtedly a shocking case that can shake the world. However, this edict was just taken out, and Chen Kai didn't know if they had known it a long time ago, but they didn't show it to him, or if they had just learned about it just like him. This, in fact, is no longer important, the important thing is that the person is dead.

"This is, Qin Fan, well, is it Sun Kewang's edict?"

"Chen Fujun didn't guess wrong, this is Sun Kewang's traitor who killed Zhongliang in the name of the Son of Heaven!"

Even Chengbi seems to be full of righteous indignation, Guo Zhiqi is not much worse, but Li Dingguo, but there is always a sense of loss and pain hidden in anger, which is almost self-evident.

"Mr. Eighteen's Prison."

At the same time that these six big words flashed in Chen Kai's mind, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi also began to complain to Chen Kai about the murderer with this edict.

In February of the fifth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang sent He Jiuyi and Zhang Mingzhi to Nanning, killing Yang Dinghe, the military secretary who obstructed Emperor Yongli from canonizing him as the king of Qin, and Liu Yaozhen, Wu Lin, Zhang Zaishu, etc., and forced Yan Qiheng, the first auxiliary minister of the cabinet, to death.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Yongli appointed the deputy envoy of Yunnan who was in contact with Sun Kewang before the Yongli Imperial Court in the matter of Qin Feng, and Yang Weizhi, who was the sub-inspector of Jincang Road, was a scholar of Dongge University, intending to show favor to Sun Kewang. As a result, because Yang Weizhi accepted the appointment of the minister, Sun Kewang saw him as a betrayal, so he sent someone to capture him and kill him in Guiyang.

Sun Kewang set up his own cabinet, six ministries, and Kedao officials in Guiyang, and the local civil and military generals were also appointed by themselves, and the official seal was changed from the nine-fold seal script of the Ming Dynasty to the eight-fold seal. Overhead the Yongli Imperial Court, "Shi Ke can hope to order Chinese and foreign countries in the name of the Son of Heaven, and transfer troops to urge salary, but they are not heard." Life and death and seizure, arbitrary. The emperor is in Anlong, and he doesn't hear about it. ”

In May of the sixth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang said in a note: "People or ministers want to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but they don't know that the Son of Heaven still has princes at that time, and the princes still know that there is a Son of Heaven." Today, the Son can no longer order himself, and the minister is coercing the order of the Son of Heaven, where is the order? Who? ”

In the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo broke through Guilin and captured the rebellious Qingguo Duke Chen Bangfu and his son, and Sun Kewang killed him. Because of the impeachment of the imperial history Li Ruyue for not completing the Yongli Emperor and killing without permission, Sun Kewang peeled the skin and pulled the grass.

There is a very big tree in the Ziyang River of Baoqing Mansion in Hunan, when the seventh year of Yongli, Sun Kewang was crowned as the "King of Trees" after watching, and the trunk was engraved with "the lord of the Qin Dynasty", not the number of the Yongli year.

In August of the eighth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang held a township test in Kunming, Yunnan, "The father and the elders passed down the words of this "Title List" engraved with the words of Qin Jiawuke", rather than the words of Jiawuke in the eighth year of Yongli.

In May and June of the eighth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang made a special trip back to Kunming, Yunnan, intending to officially ascend the throne and become emperor. It is said that it was due to the heavy rain on the selected auspicious day that the enthronement ceremony could not be held, and in fact it was likely that it encountered internal resistance, such as the strong opposition of Liu Wenxiu, who had a heavy army, and the power of Li Dingguo, who was outside the country.

……

Sun Kewang was arrogant, and regarded the Yongli court as nothing, and his subordinate generals and ministers also skillfully catered to him:

The so-called Anlong Xingzai is just a thousand-household city in the Ming Dynasty, the place is small, and the residents are only 100. Although the yamen of the thousand households where Emperor Yongli lived is called the palace, its simplicity can be imagined. And Wang Yinglong in Kunming for Sun Kewang "to build a palace, with yellow tiles, dismantling the masonry of Chenggong County as a wall, the foot width of six feet." Outside the gate, set up the general political department, set up the horse card, make the Son of Heaven honor guard, the hall hangs five dragons, set up the Majesty, and select the person with the voice to praise the Honglu Temple. Apparently there is a pretense in the form of the Son of Heaven"

The imperial court and the Son of Heaven lived in Xing, and Sun Kewang appointed his confidant Fan Yingxu as the prefect of Anlong Mansion and Zhang Yingke as the prime minister of Titang. Every year, 8,000 taels of silver and 600 stones of rice are given for the use of the Yongli monarchs and retinues. "The emperor said that it was not enough to answer." Fan Yingxu and Zhang Yingke "made a book, opened a member of the emperor and a queen, and a few pieces of silver and rice per month". They were also ordered to closely monitor the movements of the Yongli Imperial Court, and they could be expected to report at any time. Emperor Yongli was effectively under house arrest.

It is said that the Marquis of Guyuan, Wang Shangli, cast a large copper incense burner in the Jinding Temple of Jizu Mountain in Yunnan, although the inscription engraved on the furnace used the Ming Dynasty Zhengshuo of the eight years of Yongli, but did not mention the Yongli Emperor at all, and blindly touted Sun Kewang: "Wang Shangli, a disciple of the Marquis of Guyuan, led the male Guanglu, originally from the Zhang Castle of Guyuan Wei Qunmen, Xiliang Prefecture, Shaanxi. Since the age of Ding Hai, he bowed to the lord of the country in Yunnan, admired the Three Treasures, and built the mountain monasteries. …… Relying on the light of the Buddha, pray for the holy life of the lord of the country, and consolidate the emperor's picture. ……”

In the ninth year of Yongli, Ming Hui asked the left general Bai to give Sun Kewang four copies of Qi were captured by the Qing army, in which Bai claimed to be a minister, and used words such as "Qi Guo Lord in front of the emperor" and "Seal into the imperial view to comfort the saint".

As early as when Zhu Youlang was welcomed to Anlong, Sun Kewang was once ready to go to Anlong to see His Majesty. Ren Yan said: "If the lord of the country wants to enter Anlong, how can the two dragons meet?" As a result, Sun Kewang did not even hold this minimum etiquette.

Ren Yan, the secretary of the military department, proposed that "the Ming fortune has ended, and nothing can be done", advocating that the Yongli Emperor should give Sun Kewang the throne......

Sun Kewang was powerful, and Jinyiwei commanded Wen'an Hou Ma Jixiang to attach to Pang Tianshou, the eunuch of the Admiral's Warrior Battalion, and worshipped brothers with Zhang Yingke, the Titang official sent by Sun Kewang to Anlong, and proclaimed: "King Qin's merits are prosperous, and the world admires." Today's mandate of heaven is in Qin, and the mandate of heaven cannot be disobeyed. My generation intends to persuade the lord of Guangdong to take the throne of Qin, and annoy the two dukes to reach this intention for me first. ”

Subsequently, Ma Jixiang sent someone to call Lang Zhonggu of the Yongli Imperial Court to draw a "Yao Shun Chan Receiving Picture" to prepare for Sun Kewang. Gu Qipin was loyal to Emperor Yongli and refused to paint. Ma Jixiang held a grudge and reported Sun Kewang privately. Sun Kewang actually ordered someone to lock Gu Qipin out of Guiyang and kill him under the rod.

The editor Yu Xuanwei is expected to "set the book of the son of heaven and set the court." Emperor Yan Xing is clear in the well, and he is persuaded to advance". It is said that Sun Kewang participated in the planning of Fang Yuxuan and others, "set the ritual system, set up the Taimiao, and enjoy the three masters of the temple: Emperor Taizu Gao is in the middle, Zhang Xianzhong is in the left, and the right is in the grandfather." It is planned to change the name of the country to be called Houming, and seek Zen day and night".

……

This pile, one by one, some of them were told to him by Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi, some were vaguely remembered by Chen Kai, and even in addition, there were many things that they didn't know or didn't remember. Sun Kewang's heart is not subordinate, just like Sima Zhaozhi to the Wei State, which can be said to be obvious, and there is no evasion at all.

"Sun Kewang is dominant, therefore, Kuidong's Wen Inspector proposed that the first assistant of the cabinet, led by Wu University, plan to lead His Royal Highness the King of Xining into the guard. At the very least, it is also to make Sun Kewang restrain his ambitions, so that he can work together and restore the world of the Han family. However, there was no secret, and it was discovered by the Sun thief, and as a result, in order to protect the emperor, the monarchs took the so-called responsibility for the so-called crimes, which was actually a generous feat of loyal ministers and righteous men to protect the lord! ”

At this time, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi were already in tears. Chen Kai looked at them silently, thinking never stopped for a moment, until the two of them poured out everything they had to say, and cast their eyes on him like Li Dingguo, as if waiting for his response, Chen Kai reacted.

"This matter is known to the lower officials from the state surname. It's just that the lower officials have a lot of words, and dare to ask His Highness what he thinks he should do? ”