Chapter 53: The Vassal King and the Feudal Official

In stark contrast to Yang Xuan's gradual implementation of the new policy, which won the full support of the local gentry and the people, the situation is becoming more and more severe, and now the weather has turned into dog days, which still makes people feel a chill to the bone. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

First, it was rumored that Li Zicheng led his troops to attack the city of Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide in the coal mountain, and the Ming Dynasty, which had ruled China for 278 years, lost its dominance in the north.

The murder of Emperor Chongzhen happened to occur at the time of the change of governor of Sichuan, and the former governor Chen Shiqi was about to return to his hometown with his family and staff, when he suddenly heard that Emperor Chongzhen was killed, and wept and lost his voice.

At that time, Zhang Xianzhong had already led the Liukou into Sichuan and confronted the official army in Wanzhou, Chen Shiqi believed that he had served as a garrison in Chongqing, and volunteered to sit in Chongqing, waiting for the situation to stabilize before returning to his hometown.

The new Sichuan Long Wenguang led the main force of the Sichuan army to garrison northern Sichuan in case the local rioters counterattacked and lacked skills, and the entire Sichuan situation can be said to be dangerous.

But the overall situation was irretrievable, Zhang Xianzhong led an army of 200,000 up the river, defeated Zeng Ying's army, Liankeliangshan, Zhongzhou and Fuzhou, and approached Chongqing in mid-June of this year.

In order to prevent the Liukou from attacking Chongqing, Chen Shiqi led the army into the Tongluo Gorge to block the Liukou army and hinder the Liukou's westward advance, and the two sides fought fiercely for three days and three nights, and Zhang Xianzhong could not win.

The elders breathed a sigh of relief, and some even celebrated with their crowns, believing that they had finally blocked the Great Western Army and kept the peace of Sichuan Province, but the situation on the battlefield changed several times every day.

Zhang Xianzhong led 3,000 elite horsemen over hundreds of miles of lofty mountains, suddenly appeared in Jiangjin, a hundred miles away, upstream, captured hundreds of ships, and then led hundreds of ships down the Yangtze River, approaching Fotu Pass east of Chongqing.

The heroine Qin Liangyu led his troops to fight, but was defeated by the rogue, taking advantage of Qin Liangyu's 3,000 white soldiers to flee, Zhang Xianzhong's son Zhang Kewang led his troops to occupy Fotu Pass, and the army approached Chongqing.

The Ming army was defeated and retreated back to Chongqing, and the Liukou took advantage of the situation to encircle Chongqing.

Zhang Xianzhong asked his soldiers to dig up the surrounding graves, abandon the corpses in the graves, and rush to the city wall one by one with heavy coffin boards, and desperately pecked at the city wall under the cover of birds.

Zhang Xianzhong asked dozens of loads of gunpowder to be transported to the excavation hole, and that morning, hundreds of rocketeers suddenly stood under the city wall, and the ignited arrows quickly ignited the gunpowder, and after several explosions that shook the mountains in a row, the Chongqing city wall collapsed more than ten zhang wide.

Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Nengqi led the army to suddenly climb over the collapsed rubble, kill on the city wall, the defenders have never seen such a powerful explosion, everyone did not expect the Liukou to attack the city so early, although they tried their best to resist, but they were still invincible to the Liukou like a tiger and a wolf, on June 20, the city of Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan, was declared to have fallen.

On June 20, 1644, Zhang Xianzhong occupied Chongqing, an important town in northern Sichuan, and killed Zhu Changhao, the fifth son of Zhu Yijun of Mingshenzong, Chen Shiqi, the former governor of Sichuan, Chen Qi, the deputy envoy of the Guannan Army, Wang Xingjian, the prefect, Wang Xi, the magistrate of Ba County, and other Ming officials.

After occupying Chongqing, Zhang Xianzhong left the governor Liu Tingju to guard Chongqing, and began to attack the whole Sichuan in three ways on the fourth day of the seventh month.

With the left army Yu Du Governor **** Li, and the general Liu Jinzhong attacked Hezhou to attack Shunqing, an important town in northern Sichuan.

Zhang Hualong, the governor of the right army, led his troops to attack Luzhou in southern Sichuan, and personally led a large army to approach Chengdu, which had the potential to sweep Sichuan.

Chongqing is an important military town in the east of Sichuan, the news of the fall of Chongqing came, the whole Sichuan was shaken, and the new governor of Sichuan was shocked.

Because of his outstanding performance in the last battle with the local rioters, Yang Xuan was also ordered to go on the expedition.

In history, Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Sichuan, which is conclusive, so it seems that Chengdu cannot be defended, and Sichuan will inevitably fall into chaos.

How to survive in this troubled world, you must have a base of your own.

Yang Xuan first tried to delay the entry time on the grounds of marriage, since he had a skin-to-skin relationship with Huang Daiyun at the beginning of the year, it has now blossomed and borne fruit, and now the other party is rising day by day, and he can't hide it if he wants to.

But the military order is like a mountain, Long Wenguang sent envoys one after another to urge, Yang Xuan had no choice, so he had to leave the assistant Fan Mingshan and Yao Zhijiao to lead the 1st and 4th brigades to garrison Yilong County, and personally led 5 infantry brigades and 1 cavalry brigade to accompany the army.

Although he was forced to join the army, knowing that the fall of Quanchuan was inevitable, Yang Xuan was slow to move on the grounds that the various teams were scattered to pursue the local tyrants, and he stopped and stopped on the road, which made people stunned.

At first, Yang Xuan was quite worried about Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, but now the situation in Sichuan is decadent, and there have been many infighting in Chengdu, and Long Wenguang has no energy to take care of Yang Xuan at all.

It turned out that after hearing that the Great Western Army occupied Chongqing, and that Zhu Changhao, the king of Rui, and Chen Shiqi, the former governor of Sichuan, were executed by Zhang Xianzhong one after another, the Chengdu officials were quite panicked, and ran to the palace of the king of Shu one by one to ask Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, to sell goods, recruit dead soldiers, and kill thieves to the east.

Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, also started a small ninety-nine, the palace was guarded by the governor's yamen and the yamen like a prisoner, and the emperor who was thousands of miles away needed to approve the palace once, isn't this a joke?

Frightened all day long, afraid that he would be caught by the local yamen and sued to the capital for braids and punished, he used to live a careful life.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen has died, there is no owner in the world, the country of abundance in Sichuan, there has always been a saying that Yang Yi Yi Yi is two (that is, the richest place in ancient China is Yangzhou, followed by Yizhou), the place is rich, and the people are solid.

Compared with other vassal kings in other places, the reputation of the king of Shu has always been good, not only befriending scribes from all over the world, but also being called Shu Xiucai by the emperor many times, and there is not much dirt with the place in these decades.

Now hearing that Zhang Xianzhong broke through the city of Chongqing, the troops rushed to Chengdu in three ways, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, and Zhu Zhilu, the king of Neijiang, discussed, in early July, convened officials at all levels of the Yuandao Mansion and the gentlemen of the city, and everyone went to the Shu Wangfu Carrying Hall to discuss matters.

As a high-ranking prisoner under house arrest, in addition to the queen (the king died), it will never be possible to get out of the Shu palace half a step, Shu King Zhu Zhishu this time is determined to win, claiming that Emperor Chongzhen's hanging of the coal mountain is a miscommunication, Emperor Luan has arrived in Tongzhou, Beizhili, and now issued a secret decree to the vassal kings everywhere, asking everyone to lead the soldiers and horses to the king.

Everyone is worried about the loss of Chongqing, Zhang Xianzhong's three-way army is now rushing to Chengdu, and the second is worried that the emperor has died in Sheji, the Ming Dynasty has no owner, the mountains and rivers are broken, and suddenly heard that the emperor is not dead, and asked to send soldiers and horses to the king, one by one full of joy, many officials and gentry claimed that they would go to various places to recruit teachers and kings.

Now the political situation in Sichuan is in the middle of the replacement of the old and the new, the former governor Chen Shiqi guarded Chongqing and has now died in battle, the new Sichuan governor Long Wenguang is in Shunqing Mansion, an important town in northern Sichuan for hundreds of miles, and now Chengdu has the highest official position and the greatest power is the governor Liu Zhibo was the first to hear that the emperor was not dead and was quite happy, but after a little careful thought, he felt that the situation was not right.

The Ming Emperor was very strict with the vassal kings in various places, even if there was a will, the governor of the yamen and the patrol envoy should also receive the news, and it was impossible for the Shu Wangfu to receive the news first.

Besides, the King of Shu was just a high-ranking prisoner in the past, and now looking at his confidence, does he want to take advantage of the chaos to grasp the military and political power in Sichuan, if so, I am afraid that there will be a greater crisis.

Liu Zhibo couldn't bear it, and immediately stood up and asked to see the secret decree issued by the emperor.

After reading the secret decree forged by the Shu Palace, Liu Zhibo claimed that it was a false edict and refused to obey the edict of King Qin.

Zhu Zhilu, the king of Neijiang, and Liu Zhibo argued endlessly in the carrying hall, and the gentry in the city had two polar opinions.

Some officials thought that the king of Shu was a false edict, and his court officials could not obey his orders.

But although more officials and squires knew about the conspiracy of the King of Shu, they wanted to take advantage of the situation and make great achievements.

The tide rises and the boat rises, the country of Sichuan Tianfu, since ancient times, there is a saying that Yang Yi Yi two, coupled with Sichuan is surrounded by high mountains and mountains, the king of Shu is one of the four rich feudal clans in the world, if you take out the wealth accumulated for more than 200 years, when the time comes, there will be soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong, the local tyrant is not difficult to pacify.

Seeing that the two factions were at loggerheads, Liu Zhibo went out of the Duanli Gate from the left gate of the carrier, jumped into the Jinshui River, and shouted again and again: "The king of Shu is rebelling, I want to see the two ancestors under Jiuquan, and accuse them of the rebellion of the king of Shu." ”

It's July now, the weather is hot, and there are people everywhere, how could Liu Zhibo drown in the patrol, everyone scooped it up and sent it to the yamen.

But because of such a trouble, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, took advantage of the chaos to seize power, and there was no one in charge in the whole Chengdu.

Can not supervise the country, Shu King Zhu Zhishu knew that the big thing was not good, decided to move south to Yunnan, in the Ming Dynasty Yunnan by the Qianguo Gong Mu family guarded, did not divide the prince to guard, now Sichuan is full of wolf smoke, Shu King Zhu Zhishu decided to move to Yunnan south.