Not long after Feng Yunshan returned to Guangzhou City, he received an urgent military intelligence report from Yunan. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the end of last year, Li Kaifang led more than 10,000 soldiers of the Second Division to occupy Guangnan Mansion, Kaihua Prefecture, Lin'an Mansion, and Yunnan Mansion in southern Yunnan, and besieged Kunming City.

Luo Qiongshu led 16,000 men of the 6th Division and the 17th Brigade of the B, successively occupied Guangxi Prefecture, Qujing Prefecture, Dongchuan Prefecture, Wuding Prefecture and Chuxiong Prefecture, and besieged Kunming City with Li Kaifang.

Hengchun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Wu Zhenqi, the governor of Yunnan, led more than 15,000 troops, plus nearly 10,000 brave and strong regiments, a total of 25,000 people, and held the city of Kunming. At the same time, on the one hand, they reported to Jingshi for help, and on the other hand, they asked for help from Wen Xiang, the new governor of Yunan, who was hundreds of miles away from Dali City.

Yunan Admiral Wen Xiang led the Benti pacesetters and the Chuxiong Association, together with the general army of Heli Town, led more than 8,000 Qing soldiers, just marched from Dali to Chuxiong Mansion, captured the city of Chuxiong Mansion that was captured by the captive army, and suddenly there was a Hui riot in Dali.

A Hui named Du Wenxiu, in the south of Dali not far from Menghua led a group of Hui people to launch an uprising, captured Menghua City, within one day, Dali Mansion in many places Hui people in response, Du Wenxiu led nearly 1,000 Hui Yong to Dali, taking advantage of the emptiness of the Qing soldiers in Dali City, together with the Hui people of all walks of life, occupied Dali City in one fell swoop.

When Feng Yunshan saw this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly!

He actually knows this history. It's just that the Hui uprising led by Du Wenxiu seems to have been advanced. And, because of him!

Feng Yunshan thought about it carefully, and he really ordered the capture army to capture Yunnan and seize the copper mine.

At the beginning of this year, as the captive army captured the state capitals in the east of Yunnan all the way, the Qing troops in the state capitals of eastern Yunnan fled to Kunming City, Yunnan Prefecture, and Dali Mansion in western Yunnan, causing trouble for the Qing soldiers and displaced people in Dali Prefecture and other areas in western Yunnan, and the contradiction between the local Hui people and the Qing soldiers became bigger and bigger.

This provided ample soil for the Hui people to start a rebellion.

According to the information from Li Kaifang and others, coupled with the historical situation he knew, Feng Yunshan already knew Du Wenxiu very well.

He was diligent and studious since he was a child, and at the age of 13 he was proficient in Confucian classics, and at the age of 14, he was admitted to Xiucai, and at the age of 16, he was a member of the Diet. But when he was 22 years old, a famous "Baoshan tragedy" occurred in Baoshan County, Yongchang Prefecture, his hometown!

At that time, in a village on the outskirts of Baoshan County, there was a time when two teenagers from the Han Dynasty sang and answered each other, frolicking, and a lyric of the Han teenager hurt the feelings of the Hui people, and the two had a quarrel, and then a fight.

This was originally a trivial dispute, but this small dispute was exploited by the Han landlord gang force "Xiangjiang Society", which took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, intensify the conflict, and provoke a large-scale armed struggle between the Hui and Han ethnic groups. Then the fighting escalated, the two sides suffered casualties, and Shen Jucheng, the leader of the "Incense Shog Society", became more and more cruel in his methods, organized men and horses to order the destruction of the mosque of the Muslims, set fire to the houses of the Muslims, and took the opportunity to burn, kill, and plunder, killing and plundering the Muslims, killing and plundering nearly 1,000 Muslims.

Immediately afterwards, the Baoshan government colluded with the "Xiangjiang Society" to massacre the Hui people in Baoshan City, and more than 4,000 Hui people were almost slaughtered.

Du Wenxiu escaped in Menghua, but almost all of his family of 15 were killed in the massacre, and his fiancée was also robbed by the son of the county order.

Du Wenxiu went to Beijing to complain, although the court sent Lin Zexu to deal with it, but he gently let it go and did it perfunctorily. On the contrary, Du Wenxiu was hated by the Yunan government because of the complaint, and he was framed and imprisoned. After being released from prison, the Taiping Rebellion broke out, and then, Feng Yunshan, the king of the South, occupied Liangguang, and the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty was in turmoil. Du Wenxiu was secretly preparing to oppose the Qing Dynasty in Menghua.

At the beginning of this year, because most of the state capitals in eastern Yunnan were occupied by the captive army, the Han officials and businessmen who had been mining copper mines in eastern Yunnan were forced to relocate and flee to western Yunnan and other places. The Han officials and gentry all controlled the local regimental training arms, and they were one with the official government, so the Han regiments in various places burned and looted the Hui villages, and Hengchun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, also secretly ordered all parts of the country to "gather and kill back".

As soon as Du Wenxiu saw that the time for the uprising was coming, coupled with the emptiness of the Qing army in Dali, he quickly launched an uprising.

Du Wenxiu and other Hui armed forces who occupied Dali City were huge. He called himself "Generalissimo of the President's Soldiers and Horses", ordered the abolition of the Qing Dynasty era name, the Jiazi year, the Ming Dynasty clothes, the banner was all white, and the Generalissimo Dali was established.

In just two months, Du Wenxiu's Hui rebels captured Dali Mansion, Lijiang Mansion, Yongbei Hall, Tengyue Hall, Yongchang Mansion, Menghua Hall, Shunning Mansion, Jingdong Hall and other state capitals, and the Hui Volunteers reached more than 300,000. And it's counting.

Yunan Admiral Wen Xiang did not have time to rescue Kunming City, and led his troops back to Dali Mansion to prepare to recover Dali. Unexpectedly, they were surrounded by the powerful Hui Righteous Legion, and they were defeated miserably, and the general soldiers of Heli Town were also killed, leaving only Wen Xiang, the governor of Yunan, to lead more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers to flee back to Chuxiongfu City.

At this time, Li Kaifang and Luo Qiongshu happened to lead nearly 20,000 soldiers of the Second Division and the Sixth Division of the Capture Army to besiege Kunming City.

Hengchun, the governor of Yungui in the city, originally wanted to hold on to the city, and looked forward to Wen Xiang, the governor of Yunan, leading troops to help. At this time, he found that Wenxiang was defeated by the Hui Righteous Army again, and the imperial court had completely lost control of the entire Yunan, and he knew that it was difficult to deal with him. Even if he sticks to Kunming, as the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, almost all of Yunnan is occupied, and he is still a capital crime. So, just like in history, Hengchun, the governor of Yungui who had a weak psychological quality, hanged himself with his wife in grief and despair.

At this time, the largest remaining official became Wu Zhenqi, the governor of Yunan.

Luo Qiongshu said in the letter, this Wu Zhenqi is a sixty-four-year-old man, a native of Qiantang, Zhejiang, who has served as the governor of Yunan for two years, prohibiting the local people from planting opium, persuading the people to plant mulberry and sowing grain, and building bridges, which is quite political, but because he is from the Han people, he has been suppressed by Hengchun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and his ambitions cannot be displayed.

Maybe it's because the official addiction is too big, or he is really afraid of death, or maybe no one will suppress him once Hengchun dies, this Wu Zhenqi actually secretly sent someone to contact Luo Qiongshu, saying that he could open the city gate and surrender. Of course, he is conditional.

Luo Qiongshu mentioned that Wu Zhenqi asked for two conditions to be met, and he surrendered to the Holy Kingdom. The first is to take all his family members out of his hometown in Qiantang before he surrenders, so as to prevent his family from being killed by the Qing army after he returns to the Holy Kingdom, and also to demand that his family's land and property be returned to him after the Holy Kingdom occupies Qiantang in the future. The second is to ask to meet the Holy King Feng Yunshan, and he wants to hear with his own ears that after the Holy King promised him to return to the Holy Kingdom, let him continue to serve as the governor of a province and work for the people.

After Luo Qiongshu and Li Kaifang discussed, they didn't dare to make the decision, thinking that Wu Zhenqi's request was a bit excessive, so he reported the news of the Dali Hui uprising to Feng Yunshan, and at the same time let Feng Yunshan make up his mind about Wu Zhenqi, the governor of Yunnan.

"This timid old fox, let me promise him personally, it's just an excuse, in fact, it is estimated that one is to delay time, and the other is to see the sincerity of this king by the way!" After reading the letter, Feng Yunshan chuckled lightly and handed the letter in his hand to Zuo Zongtang and Wang Minyun beside him.

The two of them looked at it quickly one after another, and they were both shocked.

Zuo Zongtang spoke first: "Holy King, according to his subordinates, what Wu Zhenqi said should be credible!" I don't know if the Holy King noticed it, but this person said to take his family away, and return the original land to him after the Holy Kingdom occupies his hometown. If he can think about it so carefully, he really wants to take refuge in the Holy Kingdom, but he is worried, so he wants the Holy Kingdom to give him a promise in person. ”

"Moreover, from the perspective of marching and fighting, Yunan Mountain is high and deep, and it is difficult to fight. The General Staff Headquarters received several military reports from Li Kaifang, saying that it was difficult to march there, that they were all narrow and steep cecal mountain roads, and artillery could not be transported, and that the small cities of the state capital were still good, and that fortified cities such as Dali and Kunming might be difficult to capture with a hard attack. From the aspect, the Holy King, this Kunming City, it is better to try, you personally go to persuade it to return to the Holy Kingdom. ”

Wang Minyun also echoed: "What Deputy Chief of General Staff Left said is very true! Saint King, his subordinates also feel that this Wu Zhenqi is very likely to really want to return to my holy kingdom! It's better to try your best. First, it can reduce the number of soldiers killed in the attack on the fortified city of Kunming; Second, this Wu Zhenqi can be used as a horse bone, and the daughter can be exchanged for a horse bone, giving the Manchu officials a demonstration, so that in the future, more Manchu officials will submit to the Holy State and enhance the strength of the Holy State. Moreover, this person is familiar with Yunan, and it can play a very good role in pacifying the other state capitals in Yunan and stabilizing people's hearts. ”

Hearing this, Feng Yunshan already had an idea in his heart.