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The title of the title, with Qin and Jin Qi Chu as respect, the Qin and Jin kingdoms have been given to Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, Chen Wen's occupation area is similar to the ancient Chu country, but the Chu king of the old Zhu family has no heir, and now it is in Zheng Chenggong's army, only the Qi king has been removed as early as the Yongle period, plus Chen Wenzu has also served in the Qingzhou Left Guard, and it is just right to canonize it, it is better than Zhang Xianzhong washed the Shu palace and Liu Wenxiu, the righteous son, was awarded the throne of the king of Shu.

"Your Majesty is gracious, and the ministers are inscribed."

Saying that, Chen Wen saluted in the direction of Kunming, and Li Dingguo also accompanied Chen Wen to salute. In fact, in addition to commending Chen Wen's merits in the name of sealing the great powers, this canonization is also easing the relationship, and more importantly, Sun Kewang did not ask for instructions in advance for the title of King Yue, nor did he report afterwards, and the lack of legal theory, Yongli does not intend to pinch his nose and recognize it, especially now that Sun Kewang is just a dead tiger.

Just like Sun Kewang canonized Ma Jinzhong as the king of Jiading and Feng Shuangli as the king of Xing'an not long ago, and other internal crimes failed, and the army collectively defected, Yongli changed hands and named Ma Jinzhong as the king of Hanyang and Feng Shuangli as the king of Qingyang, and did not recognize Sun Kewang's canonization. Chen Wen's problem is more complicated, although Yongli does not want to admit it, but before the canonization of the King of Qi, they must also honor Chen Wen as the King of Yue.

Without him, strength.

However, after this ceremony, Li Dingguo's half of the stone barely landed, and the next greetings became a little easier.

"I think back then, I also went to Brother Li's army and invited Brother Li to cooperate in attacking Jiangxi and restoring Jiangnan. I didn't expect that I couldn't meet that time, but I had the opportunity to meet again but in Brother Li to protect the Son of Heaven, I led the troops to King Qin, and worked together to defeat Sun Kewang's rebellion, which is really embarrassing. ”

Li Dingguo also remembers the events of that year vividly. There is no way, Chen Wen's current momentum is here, but he is confined to this southwest corner, judging from the results, Chen Wen's plan back then was right. However, after that, it was not without opportunities, Chen Wen invaded Southern Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong changed greatly, at that time Li Dingguo was in Xinhui County, in the south of Guangzhou Prefecture, just a Shang Zhixin in the middle, but at that time Chen Wen was in a hurry to return to Jiangxi to sit in the town, and he missed the opportunity.

"That's true, back then, I was also worried about the safety of the Son of Heaven, lest the army advance eastward, and without constraints, Sun Kewang would directly rebel."

Li Dingguo's words are all this, but Chen Wen also understands that at that time he was just a small army leader who occupied two and a half prefectures, even if he killed Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian at that time, he was far from being able to compare with Zheng Chenggong, who had the strongest naval division in the China Sea and tens of thousands of troops, and Li Dingguo's choice was reasonable.

In fact, Chen Wen at that time lacked enough confidence in whether he could turn the situation of the entire southeast battlefield on his own, otherwise he would not have thought of the strategy of inviting Li Dingguo to Jiangxi. Fortunately, at that time, he did not pin all his hopes on others, just as he did not believe that the three games could succeed - only by constantly strengthening his own strength could he have the hope of success, and there was no other way.

"Thinking about those two years, Hong Chengchou also once forced me into danger. Especially the first time, I was almost strangled to death. If it weren't for the Qi family army under my command that the king of Jiangsu and Zhejiang taught the law back then, and created the miracle of the Battle of Huajie again, I am afraid that it would have been wiped out by Hong Chengchou. ”

"This is the fate, when Furen trained the troops with Qi Shuai on Dalan Mountain, he could have a complete victory in this battle."

"Exactly, the righteousness of heaven and earth is cultivated, and the law is perfect in ancient and modern times. It's a pity that Qi Shuai's plan to train the nine-sided garrison in Jizhen in rotation failed to come true, otherwise Jiannu would have the same weather as it is today? ”

Li Dingguo affirmed Chen Wen's previous achievements, while Chen Wen smiled and nodded, returning to a famous quote he had read before. However, at this moment, Li Dingguo was completely attracted by the first half of the sentence, and Chen Wen failed to listen to the second half of the sentence at all.

"Cultivate the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the law of ancient and modern perfection. Cultivate the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the perfect person of ancient and modern law. ”

Talking about both sides of his mouth, Li Dingguo slapped his hands and praised: "Furen's sentence is very wonderful, as a minister, I should raise the righteousness of heaven and earth, the law is perfect in ancient and modern times, Qi Shuai is like this, King Yue is like this, Guan Gong is also like this, Furen's achievements over the years are proof of this." ”

Li Dingguo was born in a poor peasant family, and when he was ten years old, he was a homeless person, and he was valued by Zhang Xianzhong and accepted as his adopted son. Poverty in the early years, and turmoil after that, he didn't have the opportunity to learn culture until after Fuming resisted the Qing Dynasty, but his literary level is actually the same thing, after all, not all generals can do good poetry like Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang.

At this moment, Li Dingguo was very excited, stood up, and walked back and forth, as if it was not enough to diffuse his excitement. Chen Wen's sentence just now is not so much that Chen Wen said it well, but that every word of these words, even every horizontal and vertical skimming, has entered the heart of this hero who prides himself on being loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

Seeing Li Dingguo like this, especially the words "Furen's achievements over the years are proof of this" entered his ears, the excitement in Chen Wen's heart to see this national hero who would rather die than surrender began to cool quietly, and the whole person quickly returned to the cold and hard he was as usual day.

"It seems that the trajectory of your life cannot be completely reversed, so all I can do is make your ending better. In that case, let me start by saying sorry. ”

Li Dingguo's agitated mood eased slightly, and Chen Wen also smiled and continued to greet him. After a while, the greetings were almost over, and Chen Wen began to discuss those serious matters with Li Dingguo.

"Brother Li should know that Sun Kewang is now in prison in Guiyang, and I have a letter to ask Brother Li to hand it over to His Majesty on his behalf. We must always solve this problem completely, so that we can have peace of mind in the next few days. ”

Hearing this, Li Dingguo also knew that Chen Wen was going to start bargaining with him, so he couldn't help but sit up: "Doesn't Furen plan to send Sun Kewang to Kunming?" ”

Li Dingguo heard the meaning of Chen Wen's words, Chen Wenzi had no intention of concealing it, just smiled slightly, and then said to Li Dingguo: "Brother Li, Ming people don't say dark words, I am here to King Qin this time." However, Sun Kewang's forces in the southwestern provinces were intertwined, and there were more commanders in charge of Bai Wenxuan, Feng Shuangli, Ma Jinzhong, Wang Shangli, Wang Ziqi, and He Jiuyi as cronies. At this moment, it is only my army on the side, they will be attached to the imperial court, if Sun Kewang does not die, in the future, I will dispatch tens of thousands of troops, not far and wide to come, whether it is King Qin's rebellion, or internal provocation of the vassals, I am afraid that it will not be clear on the side of the court. ”

Chen Wen wanted to confirm Sun Kewang's crime of rebellion and death, and even made it clear that he wanted to watch Sun Kewang be executed. If you want to say that Sun Kewang is a person, he still has talents in internal affairs, and he can even be said to be stronger than those civil officials in Nanming, and he is not at the same level at all. But this person, his very existence at this moment is a great threat.

The Yongli court did not dare to use it, lest it become big again. I am afraid that it will be used by the Manchus, after all, this traitor in history is a guy with no bottom line. Chen Wen, on the other hand, was not interested in using it, and his Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming military groups relied on the system to win since they revised the military law regulations on Dalan Mountain.

Gu Shouli, Qi Xiufeng, and Zhou Jingting, who were born in the staff, Wang Jiang, Sun Yu, Xu Yi, and Guo Zhigang of the Dalanshan family, Li Yu, Chen Chen, Lu Liuliang, and Gu Yanwu, who came to vote one after another, even middle and low-level officials like Rong Qian, Xu Meiwen, and Pingyuan can shine with greater brilliance under such a system.

It would be a scourge for these people to stay after all, and Chen Wen could not ensure that this guy would not be in the process of cooperating with the Yongli Imperial Court in order to take revenge on him. Since this is the case, the only way to get the Yongli Imperial Court to execute him with his own hands in front of him is to go.

Chen Wen looked at Li Dingguo with a smile after saying that, waiting for his answer, but Li Dingguo was really surprised after hearing this.

It's not a deep brotherhood, from the martial arts incident, to the instigation of Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong in the Hengyang victory, and then to the several times since then, the brotherhood when he was Zhang Xianzhong's son has long since disappeared. What's more, this also involves loyalty, the rise of the Ming Dynasty and the fight against the Manchus, so there is nothing to say.

However, Chen Wen didn't plan to sacrifice Kunming, but he still made it clear that he wanted the imperial court to execute Sun Kewang here, which was a little unsatisfactory.

"Furen, Sun Kewang's rebellion is already a well-known thing, and you should believe that the imperial court will make a fair disposition. If Furen wants to see Sun Kewang subjugating the Fa with his own eyes, why not go to Kunming in person, just meet the saint in person, and avoid the trouble of conveying it in the lower house. ”

Sun Kewang is a conspiracy to rebel, a heinous crime, and the trial of the Yongli Imperial Court is unavoidable. Since Chen Wen did not directly execute Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao, and even Hong Chengchou like he did with him, Li Dingguo always had to fight for one or two based on reason, which could be regarded as maintaining the authority of the imperial court.

Perhaps, Li Dingguo still has a Yongli in his heart that allows Chen Wen to personally meet with the "emperor's majesty", so that he can have more loyal thoughts. However, when he heard this, Chen Wen burst out laughing.

"Brother Li, do you want me to go to Kunming in person?"

After asking this, Chen Wen shook his head to himself, and then began to ask and answer himself that Li Dingguo could not forget for the rest of his life.

"I have been able to rise in Jiangsu and Zhejiang over the years, relying on my desire to do things, and I will not hesitate to overcome all difficulties for this. Brother Li, no matter what era it is, if you want to do something, it is inevitable to offend people, but now that the Tartar has not been eliminated, I still cherish my life, and I don't want to end up as a king of Yue. ”

"But to put it mildly, there are guys in this world who want my Chen Wen's life. Not to mention anything else, is there no year or in-law of the southeastern gentry in the DPRK? Kunming is not Huguang and Jiangxi, is it a vassal king in other places? Even those henchmen of Sun Kewang are afraid that they are also planning how to kill me behind their backs, so as to reproduce the glory of the Qin Domain. ”

"It's impossible to go to Kunming alone, but if I go south with these tens of thousands of troops, even if your brother Li can trust me, His Royal Highness the King of Shu in Kunming City can also believe me? To put it irreverently, I just got out of Sun Kewang's cage today, and I'm afraid I'm afraid I'll be worried about whether I'm going south to learn from Sun Kewang, right? ”

Chen Wen made his words clear, and what he said was the truth, but this performance really made Li Dingguo's face pale. However, he had nothing to refute this, even if he came to prevent Chen Wen from going south to Yunnan by defeating Sun Kewang, he was speechless.

After a while, Li Dingguo, who was panting, could think of something, and shouted to Chen Wen: "Furen, you have to remember that you are a courtier of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Of course I remember who I am, otherwise I wouldn't have traveled all the way to King Qin. To put it mildly, Sun Kewang that dog thief completely disrupted my plan, otherwise I would have to start a northern expedition at the end of the year, how could I delay it indefinitely. ”

Chen Wen's complaint said, Li Dingguo's face was also slightly relieved, but he didn't know that the identity in his mouth and the identity in Chen Wen's mouth were not the same thing at all, and Chen Wen only remembered the mission as a traverser over the years, nothing more.

However, Li Dingguo didn't think about it, let alone know what Chen Wen thought, what he was concerned about at this moment was the things implied in Chen Wen's complaints.

"Furen is in such a hurry for the Northern Expedition?"

"Brother Li, with the current situation, if Jiannu is allowed to escape from the customs, I am afraid that even Le Shi Yanran, Feng Wolf Juxu, and Drinking Horse Tangnu Wulianghai may not be able to arrest them back and deal with them again."

Chen Wen's words are conclusive, but Li Dingguo's face is full of confusion, with the strength of the Han family, if it can be as Chen Wen said, let alone Jiannu, even the chiefs of the Mongolian tribes have to go to the Forbidden City to see the gate. However, Chen Wen also saw that Li Dingguo really didn't understand, so he began to instill some knowledge about the world in him.

"You mean, the world is a ball?"

"Brother Li, haven't you intersected with those Taixi missionaries on weekdays, even if you don't talk about those foreign monks, as far as I know, the queen mother, the queen and the crown prince have all been baptized, didn't the big eunuch named Pang Tianshou tell you these new things?"

Chen Wen took it for granted, because he didn't know that Pang Tianshou was actually dead, after all, he was a eunuch, a slave of the heavenly family, and even the Military Intelligence Department was more concerned about civil and military officials, rather than such a useless guy who was easy to be disadvantaged by others.

"Pang Tianshou has committed suicide."

"Oh."

Chen Wen nodded, then skipped the topic, and talked to Li Dingguo about the reason for his thoughts: "There is a country in Taixi, called Tsarist Russia, and the lord of its country is a vassal of Kievan Rus, a powerful country in the east of Taixi. ”

"It is not inconceivable that if Jiannu were driven out of China, it would not be inconceivable that he would cooperate with him, or with his help to become an enemy of China, or even unite the Mongol tribes. You must know that there is a saying in Tsarist Russia, that if you tear off the skin of a Russian, you will find a Tatar, and this Tatar is the name of Tessy for Mongolia, and they are all related by blood. ”

Chen Wen's knowledge frightened Li Dingguo, with his previous understanding of the world, it was nothing more than China being surrounded by countries in the tributary system, and the north was to fight against the Jurchens and Mongols, while the Taixi countries were guys who came from nowhere, and the specific geographical location was very unclear.

In fact, in this era, it is fashionable to study Western studies among scholars, but Li Dingguo's background makes him really not have much to do with these things, and now listening to Chen Wen's words, it is as if a new window has been opened.

In this era, the erosion of Siberia and even the Heilongjiang River basin by Tsarist Russia actually only existed on a small scale, and the later Battle of Yaksa was fought vigorously, and the Manchu Qing sent tens of thousands of war auxiliaries and tribal armies, and the fight was actually only a few hundred old Maozi explorers, not to mention its national strength, and it was impossible to give much support to the Manchu Qing without the Trans-Siberian Railway. Rather than worrying about the Manchus and Maozi joining forces, it is better to worry that the Manchus and the sea coachmen or the Dzungars will join forces.

Chen Wen deliberately exaggerated the strength of Tsarist Russia, but it also attracted Li Dingguo's attention, and the two chatted freely in the small pavilion, and even let people prepare a banquet and simply chat while eating. Chen Wen's knowledge impressed Li Dingguo, and Li Dingguo's boldness also won Chen Wen's favor. However, no matter where they talked, their purpose was to bargain with wine and food, because they were not alone, but each represented the existence of one side of the force.

"King, let's just withdraw from Guizhou, and we won't occupy the territory of a single prefecture?"

After Li Dingguo left, Chen Wen returned to Guiyang, and middle and high-ranking generals such as Wu Dengke and Ma Xin had already known about Chen Wen's plan, and had even carried it out in various occupied areas in Guizhou. However, for this order, An Youfu, a subordinate who has never held a position in the field, does not understand it very well.

"Of course, we don't occupy any of them, let's stay in Guizhou, even if we only stick in one toe, their spirit will all be on our body, how can we fight." Besides, what about returning this province to them, when they get it in their hands, they will soon find out that all they have taken back from our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wang Shi is a bunch of troubles, and nothing else, Ben Shuai is still waiting to see this good show. ”