Fang Yuan's next task was to go to Muwangfu in Yunnan. The military meeting of the crusade against Yunnan was held in the Huangji Palace.

The first topic on the agenda of this military meeting was how to resolve the Yunnan issue.

Yunnan Mu Wangfu from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty Mu Ying, has been passed down for more than ten generations, and now the Duke of Qianguo is Mu Tianbo.

Mu Tianbo, in history, was an important minister under the command of Emperor Yongli, and fled to Myanmar with Emperor Yongli. When Emperor Yongli and his entourage were attacked by the king of Burma, they were killed in battle.

For this loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, in the past two years, Fang Yuan has tried his best to recruit and adopt a gentle strategy. He even asked Emperor Chongzhen to personally send an edict to Yunnan, asking Mu Tianbo to surrender and stop resisting. As long as Mu Tianbo accepted the same as Guangxi and Guizhou, accepting the appointment of officials by the Ming Dynasty as the leader, and the other officials were served by locals, the two sides could avoid the scourge of war.

But Mu Tianbo put forward two requirements.

First, in the name of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Yuan was asked to step back as regent, return to Chongzhen, and restore the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty.

Second, Yunnan must maintain the previous autonomy of Muwangfu and not accept the imperial court's appointment of officials to Yunnan.

Fang Yuan looked at the two requests made by Mu Tianbo, one was for the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, and the other was for the secession of Yunnan.

It is not objective to say that Mu Tianbo is a loyal minister or a warlord who is divided.

If Mu Tianbo was a loyal minister, he should not have put forward the demand for autonomy in Yunnan. If Mu Tianbo wanted to divide the territory, he should not have asked Fang Yuan to remove him from the position of regent, and returned to Zheng Chongzhen, a request that Fang Yuan would never agree to, and cut off the retreat of negotiations.

In Fang Yuan's view, Mu Tianbo wanted to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and wanted to govern in Yunnan. In the face of Fang Yuan's imperial court, even the strategic purpose was not clear.

Maybe Mu Tianbo himself is in contradiction now, and he doesn't look at how many chips he has in his hand, he wants to have both.

Since Mu Tianbo has cut off the road of peace talks, there is a clear answer to the first issue, and the only way to solve the problem of Yunnan's ownership is to use force.

The second issue was whether Fang Yuan should personally lead the army to conquer Yunnan.

With Fang Yuan's idea, he still wanted to conquer Yunnan in person. The conquest of Yunnan, as long as the troops sent are sufficient, is not a problem militarily. Fang Yuan's real thought was that he had never been to Yunnan before, and he wanted to take the opportunity to relax and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Yunnan.

But as soon as his proposal came out, it was immediately vetoed by Wang Bingjian, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Jing Jie, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses.

Wang Bingjian opened his mouth and said, "Regent, you are at stake in the safety of the world, how can you ignore the military and politics and go to Yunnan thousands of miles away to go to Yunnan to personally conquer?" Once the regent leaves the capital and the capital suddenly changes, what should I do?! ”

Jing Jie also spoke, "Regent, now you are no longer the governor and governor of the past, but the regent who rules the world, you really shouldn't go to the wild land in person, just a Yunnan Muwang Mansion, and you can send a partial division to exterminate it." ”

The military and political officials all said yes, persuading Fang Yuan not to go to Yunnan to take risks because of a small loss.

Fang Yuan was also speechless, and what Jing Jie and the ministers said was also reasonable. He is the regent and the de facto master of the Great Tomorrow. He led the army to go on the expedition, which is no longer an ordinary expedition, but a veritable royal expedition, how can there be a saying that the emperor often drives the expedition? The identity is different, and it is true that it can no longer be the same as before, and it is still possible to cross the sea and go deep into the barren land of Taiwan to have the addiction of the battlefield.

Alas! This is the price of a high authority, and the height is unbearable!

Fang Yuan agreed to the suggestions of the ministers and decided not to take the imperial expedition in person, but to adopt a compromise method, he would go to Guangzhou City by sea, one was to supervise the battle of Yunnan nearby, and the other was to inspect the Bosi of Fujian and Guangzhou.

The government affairs of the capital are presided over by Chongzhen and the cabinet; Military affairs are handed over to Jing Jie and the princess to jointly decide.

The third agenda item was to discuss the specific military plan for the expedition to Yunnan.

Since ancient times, there have only been three routes to attack Yunnan.

One is to take Chongqing south to Yongning, this road is the best to go, when Mu Ying pacified Yunnan, it was also this route. But because Chongqing is still in the hands of Liu Zongmin, this road is impassable.

One is Chenzhou, which goes through Huguang, and enters Yunnan through Yuanzhou and Puding in Guizhou.

There is also one from Guangzhou, through Guangxi, into Yunnan.

After discussion with the generals, Fang Yuan decided to take the route through Chenzhou, Huguang, from Guizhou to Yunnan; From Guangzhou to Yunnan via Guangxi.

Among them, the Huguang-Guizhou-Yunnan front is the main direction of attack, with Gao Yuanjue's 40,000 Gaojia troops as the vanguard and main force, and the 40,000 troops of the Central Military Region as the Chinese army, with a total of 80,000 troops. The coach of the expedition is Gan Hui, and the deputy coach is Xu Cheng. Gan Hui is in charge of military affairs, and Xu Cheng is the general of the younger generation trained by Fang Yuan, this is the first time to go to the battlefield to gild, and he will be entrusted with a big task in the future.

There is also a line that the Guangzhou-Guangxi-Yunnan front is the direction of the auxiliary attack. 40,000 reinforcements from the capital arrived in Guangzhou by sea. Combined with the 40,000 troops assembled by the Southern Military Region, it was also a combined army of 80,000.

This route Fang was originally the nominal commander-in-chief, Zhang Ying was the marching commander, and Wu Sangui was the deputy commander. This expedition to Yunnan was also the last chance for Fang Yuan to give Wu Sangui, the general of the expedition to the south. If Wu Sangui is not satisfied with Fang Yuan's suppression of him, and wants to be titled and real power, he must use his performance on the battlefield to earn it, instead of relying on him being the nephew of the Ming rebel general Zu Dashou and eating the old capital of the Guanning warlord group.

The fourth topic is to solve the problem of foreign aid in Yunnan.

With the Mu Wangfu alone, as well as the small number of troops in Yunnan Tusi, how could they resist the imperial court's two-way attack, 160,000 troops? Mu Tianbo will inevitably ask for help from the surrounding forces.

Among them, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, because they relied on Huguang and Guangzhou, gave the local Tusi a boldness, and they did not dare to rescue Mu Wangfu, because they would be hit by the imperial court before Mu Tianbo. But it is difficult to predict whether Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Zongmin, and even the king of Burma will send troops to support Mu Tianbo and Fang Yuan's death.

Fang Yuan immediately sent people to send an edict to the Tusi of Guangxi and Guizhou, ordering the Tusi of the two places to send 20,000 troops each to conquer Yunnan with the imperial army. If the imperial decree is not carried out, the imperial court will attack the Tusi who refuse to carry out along the way.

As for the direction of Sichuan and Burma, it is indeed outside Fang Yuan's control, and it is impossible for Fang Yuan to command these two places. Only two envoys could be sent to Sichuan and Burma to deliver orders.

On the way into Sichuan, a letter was sent to Zhang Xianzhong, strictly ordering him not to interfere in the battle of Yunnan. Otherwise, all business contacts between Shuzhong and the outside world will be cut off, and Zhang Xianzhong will be the first to crusade next.

The way to Burma was a diplomatic note sent by the Governor's Office of Fujian and Guangzhou, announcing the rebellion of Muwangfu and the Ming Dynasty was sending troops to quell the rebellion. The king of Burma can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, but it is strictly forbidden to send troops to aid the rebels of Muwangfu. Otherwise, when the imperial court sets foot in Yunnan, it will inevitably send troops to Burma to arrest the Burmese king and go to the capital to subjugate the law.

Fang Yuan made all military and diplomatic preparations, and half a month later, 40,000 Ming troops rushed south from Tianjin Wei to Guangzhou by sea to participate in this battle against Yunnan.

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