Just yesterday, the messenger sent to Annam by Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, had returned to Guilin.

He brought back a pretty good piece of news.

The Mo family in Annam was willing to accept Zhu Youlang and let him enter the territory of Annam for asylum.

However, the Annan people also put forward a condition, that is, Zhu Youlang could only be escorted into Annan by a maximum of 5,000 soldiers.

Zhu Youlang couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he asked Qu Shiyun to discuss.

"Mr. Qu, according to your opinion, should the king agree to this condition of the Annan people?"

Qu Shiyun pondered for a moment and said, "Your Highness, it is normal for the people of Annan to be wary and worried. It would be strange if they didn't put conditions on His Highness. Now the most important thing is that His Highness can save his life. Wechen felt that there was no problem in agreeing to the demands of the Annanes. ”

Qu Shiyun is still very realistic.

At that time, the forces of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian provinces could not defeat the imperial court. Now that there is only one Guangxi left, how can it be possible to win?

As the saying goes, the arms can't reach the thighs.

Continuing to stay in Guangxi is just waiting for death.

Seeking refuge in Annam was the only choice for Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui.

Zhu Youlang nodded and sighed: "Since Mr. said so, this king will agree to their request." Please pick some elite soldiers, and we will leave for Annam tomorrow. ”

After successive defeats, Zhu Youlang was already a frightened bird, for fear that one day he would wake up and the imperial court would enter Guilin.

The remnants of the army in Guangxi still have tens of thousands. Of course, it is impossible for all of these tens of thousands of people to be brought to Annam, and it is imperative to make a selection.

"Your Highness, please rest assured, the old minister will go to select people and enter Annan from His Highness. Retire! ”

"Well, Mr. Qu has worked hard."

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Dongchang Fanzi has arrived in Qingzhou.

According to Liu Chuanzong's previous instructions, they were doing things in secret, and they would not reveal their identities unless they had to, or they were completely sure.

When they arrived at Qingzhou Mansion, they did not go directly to the mansion, but found a place to live and settle down.

Once everything was settled, they naturally went to inquire about the victims.

The fact that the Qingzhou prefect set up a town outside the capital city was well known, and he went to them after a little inquiry.

When they arrived in the town, they were all stunned by what they saw.

A rough estimate of the number of victims in this town is in the tens of thousands, more than the average county seat.

The Qingzhou prefect allowed the victims to build sheds and tiled houses here, which made the scene very chaotic, and this crime of dereliction of duty must not be able to escape.

However, they are not ready to attack immediately, and they will not do so until they have gathered all the evidence.

There is no doubt that the victims of this town have a northern accent, and most of them even have a northern Naoli accent.

Beizhili was the core area of Tartar rule, and Dongchang Fanzi decided to start with the victims from these places.

In order not to attract attention, they share their hearts and only meet regularly to share information.

It's not easy to find the clues, and they're well prepared.

The prospect of the Kanto plant in this act must not be missed.

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Since entering Henan, Wu Sangui's life has been very moist.

The local officials did not dare to offend him, and they served good food and drink.

This is still like a minister who has just lost a battle and lost his soldiers, and he is clearly a meritorious man who has made great contributions.

Wu Sangui is more and more glad of the decision he made at the beginning.

If he chooses to return to Shaanxi, not to mention being squeezed by Azig, he may still be deprived of military rights, where is there such a happy life now.

Henan is now a Manchu power vacuum, and compared to Shaanxi and Northern Zhili, the Manchu rule here is very weak, and Wu Sangui is able to live like a fish in water.

He even wants to keep it that way. The Ming and Qing dynasties were opposed, and he was caught in the middle to fish in troubled waters.

Of course, in order to take precautions, Wu Sangui still made some moves.

The first thing he did was to replenish the troops.

Several battles in Huguang inflicted heavy losses on Wu Sangui, among which the Green Battalion Army was the main one.

In order to replenish this part of the army, Wu Sangui chose two methods. One was the Green Battalion Army, which directly annexed Henan. The second is to grasp the strong men and train the new army.

The first method is simple, crude and straightforward, and the results are fast.

But the shortcomings are also very obvious, that is, the combat effectiveness is not strong.

In Wu Sangui's opinion, the strength of the Henan Green Battalion was not much stronger than that of the Liukou. That's why he will catch strong men and train the new army in addition to this.

Raising new recruits can be time-consuming, but you can build your army on your own terms. Recruits are like a blank piece of paper that can be written with ink at will, which is the most efficient in Wu Sangui's opinion.

And those veterans of the green battalion have become soldiers one by one, and they know how to avoid risks, and it is difficult to transform them.

Wu Sangui did not have any big requirements for the new army to be trained, as long as it could reach the level of the Shaanxi Green Battalion Army.

Originally, Wu Sangui was also worried that Dolgon would take the opportunity to deprive him of his military power and do something to him. But who knew that Haug would suddenly attack and fight Dolgon to the death.

Dolgon had already done everything he could to deal with Hauge, so naturally he didn't have the energy to engage Wu Sangui again.

Wu Sangui can be said to have picked up a big bargain.

By the time Dolgon killed Hauge and everything had settled, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was already suffering from a lot of vitality.

Therefore, although Dolgon hated Wu Sangui so much that his teeth were itching, he had no good way to do it, so he could only let Wu Sangui be stationed in Henan first and let him go.

Wu Sangui saw that Dolgon didn't dare to move, and his courage became more and more bold. At first, he only recruited strong men to train a new army, and gradually he began to coerce the local government officials to support his army.

Henan is thousands of miles of red land, full of hunger, even the grain in the government is very limited.

Helplessly, Wu Sangui had a knife in his hand, and these local officials could only break their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs, and they were very unwilling to take out the food to feed Wu Sangui's army.

It's just that in this way, the counties of Henan Province will not have any stocks of grain, and there is no possibility of remedying them in the event of a military disaster or natural disaster.

Wu Sangui didn't regard Henan as a place to settle down at all, but just desperately sucked blood, and his appearance was very ugly. No matter how you look at Wu Sangui, he looks like a hungry wolf, wiping his mouth when he is full and leaving.

Many people in Henan saw that they could not survive anymore, so they fled to Guide Mansion through Kaifeng.

Now Guide is under the control of the Ming army. Many people fled to Shandong through here.

Although Henan and Shandong are only separated by the Yellow River, they are worlds apart.

The people of Henan are hungry and cold, but the people of Shandong are able to eat their stomachs.

More and more people in Henan have heard that a crop called potatoes is grown in Shandong, which is so large that even the poorest people can afford to eat it.

In order to survive, they are willing to leave their homeland and gamble once.

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