[231] The Great Western Army entered Yunnan

Let's say that when Song Youliang's army was like a bamboo all the way, a major event happened in distant Yunnan.

Throughout the reign of the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan's administrative system was very different from that of the inland provinces. In addition to the establishment of the Metropolitan Command Envoy Division, the Political Envoy Division, and the Judge Division, and later the establishment of the governor, due to the large number of Tusi in this area, since the Hongwu period, Mu Ying (the Marquis of Xiping, the second son of Jin Jue for the Duke of Qianguo) has guarded the place for generations. The Mu family not only has a lot of military power, but also has a pivotal position in politics and economy. In other words, Yunnan was under the dual jurisdiction of hereditary lords and local officials during the Ming Dynasty, and the two were both coordinated and often entangled. From 1644 to 1645, the land of China changed dramatically, especially after Zhang Xianzhong's troops entered Sichuan to establish the Daxi regime, Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, together with the governor Wu Zhaoyuan and the governor Wu Wenying, discussed the recruitment and transfer of Han and Tusi troops to prevent the Daxi army from entering Yunnan, and prepared to accept the dispatch of the Southern Ming court. In September 1645, Wuding Tusi Wu Bikui took the opportunity to launch a rebellion, declaring: "There is no Emperor Zhu, how can there be Mu Guogong." "The rebels successively captured Da Yao, Dingyuan, and Yao'an, and the whole of Yunnan was shaken. Mu Tianbo and others hurriedly ordered the mobilization of Shiping Tusi Long Zaitian, Wei'e Tusi Wang Yangzu, Mengzi Tusi Sha Dingzhou, Ningzhou Tusi Lu Yongming, Jingdong Tusi Diao Xun and other troops to defeat the rebels in one fell swoop in September, and Wu Bikui and his henchmen were captured alive.

Sha Dingzhou was originally the son of Sha Yuan, Wang Lane Tusi, and after the death of the reputation of Tusipu in Amizhou, Wan Caiyun actually became the female Tusi of Lin'an, dominating one side. Wan Caiyun secretly ordered the family to rob men from other places, imprisoned them in secret rooms, and served as their own faces at night. There are always thirty or forty spare ones in the secret room, and sometimes it takes two or three a night to get over it. But if he refuses to answer, he will surely die. There is a man who is very great, and Wan Caiyun cherishes it very much, and most of the time he sleeps with that man. My son Pufu is far away, I don't know who instigated me? said that his father was killed by Wan Caiyun, Wan Caiyun was just his adoptive mother, and his biological mother also died because of Wan Caiyun, this fifteen-year-old boy always wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge. Once Wan Caiyun tossed with Mianshou all night, Wan went out to relieve himself, and when he came back, he was killed in bed, and even the male device was cut off and thrown to feed the dog. Wan Caiyun couldn't help but cry and was sad. knew that this matter was done by Pu Fuyuan, but there was nothing he could do.

Since then, Wancaiyun has been sullen for a long time. There is a saying that a woman is thirty like a wolf and forty like a tiger, and Wan Caiyun is more greedy than a wolf and a tiger, so she has to find another great man. God opened his eyes and sent Wang Rongguan's second son Sha Dingzhou to her arms, so that Wan Caiyun finally found his true love. Sha Dingzhou raped his father and concubine, was driven out and fell to the ground hungry, and was rescued by Wan Caiyun. The two men are greedy for women, each has their own needs, and it is difficult to separate almost a day. Sha Dingzhou must have such a beautiful woman by his side when he intersects, so that he can be happy. Wan Caiyun is obedient to Sha Dingzhou, anyway, his golden gun will not fall, and he will not lose anything to himself if he catches a servant. In this way, Sha Dingzhou gradually became the real master of Lin'an Tusi, and Wan Caiyun was a favorite lady.

Who knew that his son was so bold that when the three of them were elated, he rushed in with a knife, scolding the adulterer ** and other words and slashing indiscriminately. Sha Dingzhou snatched the knife and killed Pu Fuyuan with a knife, and at the same time killed the maid and buried it in a no-man's land, threatening to convince the maid to abduct and escape from the mountain. There is no law in the toast, who will ask about these idle things? In this way, Sha Dingzhou became the official ruler of Lin'an. His wife Wan remarried Sha Dingzhou, and the two Tusi became one, and their power increased greatly, with Tang Guest, a member of Lin'an Mansion (Wan's brother-in-law), as the mastermind, secretly planning to take advantage of the contradictions between Mufu and the governor of Yunnan and the three officials, and the different backs of the Tusi, to launch a coup d'état to seize power in Yunnan.

As a result, the Tusi army under the command of Sha Dingzhou and his wife remained in Kunming, the provincial capital, after the Wubikui rebellion had been quelled. Mu Tianbo's father Sha Yuan has always shown loyalty in Dingzhou, and he does not doubt him, and he has held banquets and entertained many times in the Qianguo Mansion. The wealth accumulated by Mufu for more than 200 years made Dingzhou salivate, and the weak garrison of Kunming and the friction within the Han ruling group made him feel that he had an opportunity to take advantage of it. On the first day of December 1645, Sha Dingzhou's deployment had been decided, and in the name of resignation, he personally led his soldiers to attack the Qianguo Mansion, and at the same time assigned his troops to occupy the gates of the provincial capital. Due to the accident, Mu Tianbo did not have time to organize effective resistance, and fled to Xining with official seals, hereditary iron coupons and other items under the protection of several henchmen. Mu Tianbo's mother, Chen, and wife, Jiao, failed to accompany them, and fled into a nunnery to commit suicide.

After Sha Dingzhou occupied Kunming, he called himself "General Mansion", and "General Mansion" was the general title of the Duke of Ming and Qianguo, which showed that he had tried to replace Mu Tianbo's position. His wife, Wan, is called the main mother. "And the public in and out, all over the gentleman. There are many people who are plotting for the right of Yunnan's Hao." Sha Dingzhou sent troops to chase Mu Tianbo, but was defeated by the army assembled by Yang Weizhi in Chuxiong. After the defeat of his westward advance, he sent troops to collect all parts of Yunnan, and in a short period of time, except for the area west of Chuxiong under the control of Yang Weizhi and Mu Tianbo, they all belonged to the Sha clan. Sha Dingzhou easily grabbed the wealth accumulated by Mu Mansion over the years. Although Sha Dingzhou made a large windfall, he was not satisfied with this, and his main purpose was to replace the legal status of Yunnan, the town of the Gongshi of Qianguo. Therefore, Sha Dingzhou tried his best to win over the Yunnan officials appointed by the Ming court and the registered Han gentry, and he not only ordered all Han officials in various prefectures and counties who were willing to accept his command to remain in office, but also coerced or forged Wu Zhaoyuan, the governor of Yunnan, and Wang Xigon, a scholar of Lufeng, who was registered in the university, to give a message to the Longwu court, saying: "The sky is against the tide, and Dingzhou is seeking peace, and it is appropriate to replace Yunnan." ”

Due to the turbulent political situation at that time and the remoteness of the road, Hongguang in Nanjing was not clear about the events that had taken place in Yunnan, and only relied on the recital of the Lingyin signed by Wu Zhaoyuan and others and some rumors, he issued an edict to "sweep away Mu Tianbo."

After the Shadingzhou rebellion, Wu Zhaoyuan and the inspector Luo Guoxian and the three officials no longer had real power. Sha Dingzhou was gradually consolidating his position, and was committed to sweeping away the other Tusi forces recruited by Yang Weizhi and Mu Tianbo, who continued to resist west of Chuxiong. If his plot succeeds, he will inevitably become the king of Yunnan, and the Han gentry who are temporarily used will be gradually squeezed out, and the centrifugal tendency between Yunnan and the central court will become more and more obvious, and even Yunnan will be completely separated

Where is Mu Tianbo willing to stop there? Finding Shiping Tusi Long Zaitian to discuss countermeasures, Long Zaitian came up with a way to borrow a knife to kill people - to invite the Great Western Army into Yunnan

Although most of the backbone of the Great Western Army were from Shaanxi, although they had been fighting in the north and south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and they still had some experience in running Sichuan, Yunnan was regarded as a remote and smoky place at that time, and it was impossible to rashly march without a basic understanding of this place. As early as the eleventh and twelfth years of Chongzhen's reign (1638-1639), when Zhang Xianzhong was appeased in Gucheng, Hubei, he and his main generals established a very close relationship with the officers and troops transferred from Yunnan. At that time, the general army dispatched to Huguang by the Fengming court was Yunnan Shiping Tusi Long Zaitian. Zhang Xianzhong, out of strategic considerations, once worshiped Long Zaitian as his father-in-law, and received horses, weapons and food from him. Zhang Xianzhong's army had a close relationship with the Tusi soldiers and generals in Yunnan, and even caused uneasiness among people in Jingzhou, Hubei, and "it was rumored that the Yunnan soldiers were thieves." These materials show that the high-ranking generals of the Great Western Army, including Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, were old acquaintances with Yunnan Tusilong Zaitian and others, and although they might not have thought of using Yunnan as a base later when they were in Huguang, they were bound to have a better understanding of the situation in Yunnan in all aspects of their usual conversations and laughter. When they led their troops to the relatively barren Guizhou, they learned that Yunnan was occupied by the Shadingzhou rebels, and immediately decided to march into Yunnan, which was not accidental.

When Sun Kewang and others led their troops into Yunnan, in order to reduce the resistance to the advance, they sent spies to Yunnan in advance, taking advantage of the dissatisfaction of the Han gentry and some Tusi with Shadingzhou and the long-term prestige enjoyed by the Duke of Qianguo in Yunnan, to spread false information that the Great Western Army that was about to enter Yunnan was armed by the Jiao family, Mu Tianbo's wife, and came to Yunnan to avenge the Mu family. This strategy has really achieved obvious results, "The people of Yungui are convinced that it has spread like this all the way, so the thieves and soldiers will open the door and surrender." Long drive, no obstruction.

The Great Western Army occupied Pingyi (present-day Fuyuan County) and entered Yunnan Province. conquer Jiaoshui; The next day, the troops were moved to Qujing, 500 defenders set up by Shadingzhou were annihilated, and the Ming Yunnan patrol was captured by the imperial Shi Luo Guoxian. In order to confuse Shadingzhou, after Sun Kewang and others occupied Qujing, they did not attack the provincial capital Kunming to the west, but went south to Amizhou (now Kaiyuan), and defeated 1,000 reinforcements from Shadingzhou at Shehuakou. Seeing that his troops were outnumbered, and that he mistakenly believed that the Great Western Army was indeed a reinforcement called by the Jiao family, so he could familiarize himself with geography and attack his hometown first, so he took the initiative to abandon Kunming on 18 April and fled back to his hometown of Mengzi. Before leaving, he ordered Du Qifei to kill Wang Xigon, a scholar of Ming University who was under house arrest in Gongyuan. Wu Zhaoyuan, the governor of the Ming Dynasty who remained in the city of Kunming, and others finally figured out that it was not the Jiaojia rescue soldiers who entered Yunnan, but the Great Western Army, but they had no troops at hand, so they could only surrender to the gentry. In late April, the Great Western Army smoothly entered Kunming via Yiliang. "On the 24th, Sun and Li Zhu's armies entered the city, and Qiu did not commit any crimes"

After the Great Western Army entered Kunming, it faced many complicated situations in running Yunnan, and it was necessary to strengthen the core leadership. In May, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi "promoted Sun Kewang as the commander with different powers". Sun Kewang, as the "leader of the alliance", lost no time in deploying troops to quell the rebel (i.e., the forces attached to Shadingzhou) and the recalcitrant (referring to the forces loyal to Mu Tianbo and Yang Weizhi, the princes of the Ming and Guizhou Kingdoms) groups in Yunnan.

Li Dingguo led a group of elite troops to Lin'an Mansion, which was heavily defended on Shadingzhou, on 19 May

Liu Wenxiu led his troops from Kunming to the north, collected Wudingzhou, Hequ, Luquan and other places through Fumin, and then advanced westward, occupied Heqing, Lijiang, and Jianchuan, and pacified the northwest region of Yunnan

In August, Sun Kewang personally led his troops through Lufeng to attack Chuxiong, Dali and other western Yunnan regions guarded by Yang Weizhi and Mu Tianbo.