At the beginning of October of the 11th year of Yongli, in the face of the interception and killing of Yang Wu, the general soldier of Wugang, Sun Kewang once again expressed his willingness to surrender to the Qing court while trying his best, and made it clear that he was willing to sacrifice the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan to the Qing court.

In order to ensure that this trump card would not be lost, Hong Chengchou immediately sent Li Ruchun, the chief soldier of the middle Huguang Road, and Wang Ping, the chief soldier of the left road of Huguang, to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to attack Wugang and respond to Sun Kewang. And the two Green Battalion generals also completed their task well, welcoming Sun Kewang and his party into the control area of the Qing court. To be exact, it is from the Hwabashi area in the south of Boqing Province.

There, there is still a distance from Changsha, but it is not too far from Baoqing Fucheng. However, after the Qing army welcomed Sun Kewang into the country, he did not advance an inch, and left his party at the junction of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but did not let him continue to advance. As for the reason, it is only said that it is to wait for news from the Qing court, and that's it.

The reason why he escaped from Jingzhou was that Bai Wenxuan pursued him relentlessly. This is just a border, and the Ming army may kill him at any time, which really makes him extremely scared.

Waiting for the news from the Qing court, Hong Chengchou was not idle, and the news of the infighting of the Ming army in the southwest and the defeat of Sun Kewang was sent to the Forbidden City as soon as possible, and he wrote his personal opinion, bluntly saying that this is a golden opportunity.

"The great rebel Sun Kewang Tiger is in Yunnan and Guizhou, and Zhang Ouyu has been paying for his teachers for many years, and he has used Zhang to discuss. Today, he is poor and fierce, self-defeating, and beggarly converted, and he is blessed by the emperor in the southern frontier of the southern frontier. Reading this paragraph out of his mouth is also Sony's favorite: "Your Majesty, Zhang Changgeng's minion also supports Hong Jinglue's views." ”

"I'm not going to hear what they think about it, I'm going to hear you!

Not only Hong Chengchou, but also the feudal officials of Huguang wrote to each other and put forward their own opinions on this matter, but they all agreed that this was a great opportunity. Hong Chengchou sees it this way, and Huguang Governor Zhang Changgeng also sees it this way, but Sony, it is already a habit to slip without leaving his hands, and after reading this recital, he agrees with it in his heart, but he habitually emphasizes the attitude of the person who is on the fold for the first time. In this way, even if something goes wrong in the future, he can clean himself up.

Habits are not formed in a day, even many years earlier, when Dolgon was powerful and tried his best to suppress the two yellow flag magnates, Sony was not like Ao Bai and others in the straight line was tossed enough, nor like Guerga * Ganglin, Shu Mulu * Tan Tai and the like simply voted under the banner of Dolgon, left and right, after the death of Dolgon, the two white flags were defeated in the political dispute, and he became the core cronies of Shunzhi by virtue of the identity of the two yellow flag magnates and the merit of uniting the two yellow flag magnates to support the heirs of Huang Taiji after the death of Huang Taiji.

He is a polished round and smooth pebble, and he also has an unobtainable use in the court, which makes Shunzhi rely on him even more. However, this time Shunzhi was already in a hurry, and he really couldn't listen to such ambiguity, so he scolded him, Sony hurriedly confessed, and then he was categorical.

"The slave thought that he should follow the old example of King Sanshun and King Pingxi, and canonize Sun Kewang as a prince. Well, it is better to be a one-word king, which is not much different from when he was in the puppet dynasty, and his people must have enough strength to sweep away the puppet dynasty for the imperial court! ”

Sony not only agreed, but even further proposed to canonize Sun Kewang, a lost dog with only more than 400 men, women and children under his command, as the king. In this regard, before Shunzhi could react, several Manchurian relatives and nobles had already spoken out against it - they were not opposed to accepting Sun Kewang's surrender, and they didn't mind throwing him the title of duke or marquis, but the prince was too heavy, even if the status of the Han prince in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still limited by the Eight Banners system, and there was no way to compare with the Manchurian prince, and it was too much for a guy like Sun Kewang who had lost all his capital.

"Rewarding him with the title of a prince is to let him use his strength to recruit his old subordinates for the imperial court, otherwise when the imperial court invades Yungui, he will face no less than 200,000 thieves, even if the Eight Banners are invincible, the knife will collapse if it is cut too much."

Without waiting for Sony to refute, the quick-tempered Ao Bai took the lead in standing up. He is in favor of accepting Sun's surrender and can agree with Sony's views. During this time, the relatives and nobles had objections, and Ao Baixuan snorted coldly: "After killing all the thieves and completely destroying the puppet dynasty, the court has no fists and no courage, and the court still doesn't knead it as much as it wants?" ”

Ao Bai put an end to the dispute here, and soon the decree was sent to Changsha, and the two Qing army commanders who had rescued Sun Kewang escorted him to Baoqing Mansion City for a temporary stay, and arrived there on November 15.

"Be honest and sincere, I am willing to attach the Qing Dynasty, dedicate the land of Yunnan, Guizhou and Shu, pay tribute to the year, pray for the old man to play His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, ask the soldiers to take revenge, in order to restore the clouds, capture the canal and get the ugliness, put down the rebellion, and return to the unification of the chapter."

On the day he arrived in Baoqing Prefecture, Sun Kewang immediately submitted a letter to Hong Chengchou, once again expressing his willingness to present the Manchu Qing Dynasty with a positive attitude towards the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. The letters were spread out in front of Hong Chengchou's case, and everything happened according to his expectations - this is due to the valuable experience he has accumulated in the political arena and battlefield of the Ming and Qing dynasties for decades, supplemented by his extraordinary talents, so that today's atmosphere has been achieved.

"Now it's time to meet His Royal Highness the King of Qin."

His Royal Highness the King of Qin said four words, and others could not hear the sarcasm from them. However, this ridicule was ridiculed, and Hong Chengchou immediately summoned a large number of high-ranking officials and marshals, including the marshal of the Eight Banners of Huguang and Manchuria, to rush to Xiangxiang County in Changsha Prefecture. Sun Kewang, on the other hand, rested in Baoqing Fucheng for ten days, and set out from there on November 25, and arrived in Xiangxiang three days later to meet with Hong Chengchou.

"Yungui is far away at the end of the day, the voice is not passed, more than ten years do not dare to resist the king, really want to wait for the time to return to fate, near the benefit of the noisy emperor Wen Suihuai, Teen to appease the hearts of the people of the people of the Fang deep admiration, and the Manchurian soldiers are strong, the prestige is great, since the Shunzhi ten years of the fork in the road to kill and wound a lot of Yunnan and Guizhou soldiers, 12 years out of Changde and more than 10,000 soldiers......"

Seeing Hong Chengchou, when Sun Kewang was humble, there was a world of difference between his arrogance and arrogance when he was in Yungui. touted Shunzhi's "benevolence", touted the combat effectiveness of the Manchurian soldiers, and did not forget to tout Hong Chengchou's unparalleled wisdom. Speaking of later, he even turned up the "beautiful" past between each other, such as his father-in-law Zhang Xianzhong, who was a defeated general under Hong Chengchou back then.

"Your Highness is too humble, the old man has been in Huguang for many years, and he knows His Highness's ability to govern the world. After the thieves are swept away, the imperial court will also have to rely on His Royal Highness's talents to restore the livelihood of the people at home and share the peace and prosperity. ”

Sun Kewang behaved very deferentially, and Hong Chengchou did not have a lofty posture at all, not only treating Sun Kewang with the courtesy of a prince, but also putting himself very low. After a period of communication between the two sides, Hong Chengchou asked for nineteen officials in Sun Kewang's attaché who were familiar with the internal affairs of Yungui, four of which were sent to the army of Luo Tuo, the general of Jingkou in Ningnan, to praise military affairs, and the rest were included in the Changsha shogunate.

In addition, Sun Kewang also actively cooperated with Hong Chengchou to draw a topographic map of the mountains and rivers of Yunnan and Guizhou, and made a sand table. Subsequently, he presented a map of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to the Qing court, and sent a guide who was familiar with the terrain.

On the third day of December, Sun Kewang arrived in Changsha with Hong Chengchou. This was the ruling center of the Qing court in Huguang, and even in the large areas of Huguang, Guangxi, Jiangxi, and Guangdong. At present, even if it was Nanjing in the past, Jiangning is much inferior to it now.

Arriving here, Sun Kewang was much more relieved. Immediately afterwards, the Qing court issued a decree to canonize Sun Kewang as the righteous king, and sent Ma Leji, a scholar of the Inner Hanlin Hongwen Academy, as the chief envoy, Hu Zhaolong, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of the Inner Hanlin Secretarial Academy, and Qi Chebai, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, as the deputy envoys to register and seal, and made a special trip to Hunan to carry out the canonization ceremony.

On February 20 of the following year, the ceremony of canonizing the prince was held in Changsha, and Sun Kewang officially became the Han vassal king of the Qing court, the fifth person after Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Wu Sangui, and the last Han vassal king of the Qing Dynasty. Compared with his predecessors, his titles are not Dingnan, Pingnan, Jingnan, Pingxi, nor the earlier Gongshun, Huaishun, and Zhishun, but only a single righteous word. According to the tradition of Chinese dynasties, the single word is the prince, and the double word is the king of the county, Sun Kewang first entered the Qing court, and he didn't know much about the title system of this barbarian country, but a single word of the prince fell on his head, and it seemed to be on par with him when he was on the side of the Ming court, and his heart was full of emotion.

"Back then, I held the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, and there were no less than 200,000 people under my command, asking for the title of King of Qin, and the Ming court made it difficult in every way. In the end, if it weren't for the imperial court attacking Liangguang and driving them to my territory, I am afraid that I will not be able to ask for this title for the rest of my life. And now, there are only more than 400 men and women left, but the court does not hesitate to take the title of prince. The gap between the two is so big, no wonder the imperial court can sweep the world with tens of thousands of iron armor. ”

Thinking like this in his heart, Sun Kewang also said this to his cronies. easily got the throne, and Sun Kewang was naturally overjoyed. Subsequently, the edict envoy said that he wanted Sun Kewang, the newly promoted prince, to enter Beijing to meet him, and Sun Kewang agreed without hesitation - not only agreed, but only a few days, not even this month, he set off from Changsha.

This was already February 28 of the 15th year of Shunzhi, and after a long journey of more than two months, on the second day of the fifth month, Sun Kewang arrived in Beijing accompanied by Ma Leji and others. The Qing court specially asked the two princes of Heshuo to personally lead a large number of high-ranking officials and dignitaries such as Gong, Hou, Bo, Melle Zhangjing, and Shilang out of the city to greet them, and the scene was quite grand.

"The South China Sea descended to the north court, and passers-by rushed to see its shape. The sable white horse is pale-faced, and he has stirred up the Central Plains to be a killing star. ”

Among the crowd of onlookers, Fang Daxuan, the son of Fang Daxuan, the head of the household department of the Wanli Dynasty, and Fang Wen, the son of the Tongcheng clan of Nanzhili, was among them. Seeing that Sun Kewang was so favored by the Qing court, he then wrote this poem.

It's just that as a remnant, Fang Wen only traveled to the capital and happened to see this scene. He didn't know that the next day, Shunzhi personally met Sun Kewang in the Taihe Palace. Within ten days, as many as three banquets were given, and two silver were given for a total of 12,000 taels, in addition to the mansion, python robes, court clothes, satin, etc., Sun Kewang jumped from the lost dog to the smash hit big man in the Qing court!

At the same time as Sun Kewang was rewarded, to be precise, earlier, the Qing court had already begun to make the best use of things. On the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the fourteenth year of Shunzhi, that is, at the same time as the decree was issued to canonize Sun Kewang as the righteous king, the Qing court officially issued an edict to attack Yungui in three ways.

According to the edict that had been negotiated between Shunzhi and the nobles of the Eight Banners, the Qing court would appoint Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, as the general of Pingxi, and lead his troops from Hanzhong in Shaanxi to Sichuan and attack Guizhou with Li Guohan, the guard of Gushan Ezhen Morgen. This is the first road, and the second and second roads are to appoint Zhao Butai, who was originally scheduled to garrison Jiangning, as the general of the expedition to the south, and lead the troops south to Hunan, and allocate some Han soldiers by Jingluhong Chengchou, and take the national security department of the Admiral Line under the Dingding Domain in Guangxi to attack Guizhou in the north. As for the third route, the Qing court appointed Gushan Ezhen Zongmu Luotuo as the general of Jingkou in Ningnan, and went to Hunan with Gushan Ezhenji Xiha and other commanders, and joined the Han soldiers controlled by Hong Chengchou to attack Guizhou from Hunan.

These three armies formed a joint encirclement of Guizhou from Sichuan, Guangxi and Hunan, and after taking Guizhou, they concentrated the main force to attack Yunnan and tried to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army. Faced with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the Qing court could be said to have made great efforts. However, Hong Chengchou, who had been waiting for this day for many years and had been thinking about it for many years, finally saw the arrival of this day, but he objected to it.

"Hyung-9 ......"

The Qing court had already issued an edict, apparently after careful consideration. There are not only military considerations, but also political trade-offs. The edict was sent to the Yamen in the southwest as soon as possible, and the Changsha shogunate was all cheering when they heard it, because the great enemy they had feared for so many years was about to be destroyed, and after the Qing court occupied Yungui, the newly occupied areas of the two provinces, how many official positions were waiting for them, and everyone saw the day when they held local authority.

But in Hong Chengchou's study, he received an edict, and after a little time of thinking, Hong Chengchou immediately began to write a recital of opposition. Logically speaking, such a disposition of the Qing court should be what Hong Chengchou wants to see, but now Hong Chengchou does not agree, and such a reaction is incomprehensible even to a person close to Huang Zhixuan.

Faced with the doubts of his in-laws, Hong Chengchou stopped his pen and raised his head, his face reflected by the candle flame was so serious that Huang Zhixuan couldn't help but be stunned after just looking at it. At this time, Hong Chengchou was even more serious and revealed his thoughts.

Such an arrangement of the imperial court may have their considerations, but from a fundamental point of view, it did not highlight the dominance of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. In addition, Chen Kai is a big trouble, according to this son's temperament, when the three-way army attacks Yungui, he will definitely jump out. Therefore, the imperial court needs a Manchurian nobleman as the commander, and the old man must stay in Huguang, otherwise once that guy is launched, the imperial court is likely to lose all the games! ”

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