In September of the eleventh year of Yongli, after half a year, Sun Kewang, who was once a powerful minister, was completely defeated by Chen Wen, and his people were also executed by the Yongli Imperial Court in Yunnan Pingyiwei after being tried by the three law divisions. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This dog traitor in history, the culprit who caused the failure of the middle and late Southern Ming Dynasty died under the knife of the Yongli Imperial Court, which he had nothing to say, which can be regarded as a good return of heaven.

Sun Kewang was executed, and Chen Wen's title of King of Qi was also implemented, and even not only Chen Wen, but also the five princes under Chen Wen also got the title of county king, and the generals under his command carried out a round of collective promotion in batches to encourage them for their great military exploits for the Ming Dynasty under Chen Wen.

At this stage of the agreement, Chen Wen's army began to retreat in batches in the direction of Huguang as promised, and even after being ignored by Chen Wen, the rebuke was quickly forgotten by the Yongli Imperial Court, and everyone regarded it as if it had never happened. And immediately after the will of the vassal king sent by the Yongli court to return to Huguang to serve the domain, Chen Wen also prepared a "generous gift" in the past, believing that the court could change its mind.

After more than three months, the mobilization force of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang was mobilized, and no less than 300,000 men and women from military households were relocated from Guizhou.

With so many military households, the military uniforms in the Guiyang treasury have long been insufficient, Chen Wen simply took out the cloth in the warehouse directly, and hired tailors and women in Guiyang to make clothes.

With the execution of Sun Kewang, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies withdrew from Guizhou as promised, but the Guizhou that is now left to the Yongli Imperial Court is no longer what they have seen before. After Chen Wen accepted the title of King of Qi, he returned to Huguang as quickly as possible, and did not stay to say goodbye to Li Dingguo. Don't mention anything else, anyway, he doesn't have this face to see this heroic hero with a bold personality again.

After returning to Chenzhou, Chen Wen took a boat all the way along the Yuanshui River into Dongting Lake, and then entered the Yangtze River waterway, heading straight for Wuchang, the capital of Huguang Province.

In early October, Chen Wen arrived in Wuhan, and on the way back, he received the news that Zhou Yueying had given birth to a baby boy. This is Chen Wen's eldest son and the son of the Qi Palace. And the birth of the son of the world is also a great encouragement for the entire Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army Group, because Chen Wen's career has an heir, and their wealth and prosperity will have the possibility of being realized.

Accepting the congratulations, Chen Wen soon ushered in Wen Anzhi, the governor of Sichuan and Hubei, and the generals of Kuidong, who were all invited by Chen Wen to come to discuss the Northern Expedition, but before the situation was completely stabilized, they had no intention of giving in. However, as Sun Kewang was "forced to die" by Chen Wen, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies began to withdraw from Guizhou as promised, and they had to go to Wuchang to discuss with Chen Wen the unpleasantness that the newly promoted Pujiang County Wanglou Jiye had recently had with them in Yunyang, Xiangyang and other places.

"Master Wen, gentlemen, is it okay to walk along the way?"

In the line of the former southwest shogunate in Wuchang, Chen Wen met Wen Anzhi, the governor of Sichuan and Hubei, and some of the generals of Kuidong came in person, and some sent representatives.

"Along the way, there is an army of His Royal Highness King Qi to escort me around, so naturally no one dares to touch me."

Wen Anzhi's face was displeased, and this tone was even more so in Chen Wen's ears. In this regard, he also said haha and passed, not caring about this expected attitude.

Wen'an's people, Huguang Yiling, the Shujishi of the Tianqi Dynasty, was impeached by the cabinet minister Xue Guoguan during the Chongzhen Dynasty, and returned to his hometown. In the last days of the Chongzhen Dynasty, as well as the Hongguangchao and Longwu Dynasties, they all recruited him as officials, but they all failed. As a result, in the fourth year of Yongli, that is, the year when Chen Wen came to this era, Wen Anzhi entered the Yongli Dynasty, and when the first assistant and the second assistant heard that Wen Anzhi entered the court, they all asked for a demote and asked Wen Anzhi to serve as the first assistant of the cabinet. In the fifth year of Yongli, the situation became more and more unfavorable, and the imperial court gradually declined under the dual pressure of Sun Kewang and the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Historically, the military operations of the Ming army in the following years, especially those joint operations, were all coordinated and planned by Wen'an, including Wu Sangui's diversion of Chongqing when he went south to Yunnan and Guizhou. This supervisor has a lot of prestige in the Kuidong Ming army, and the generals in Kuidong have contradictions with each other, but there is this person who can always cooperate with each other, until the Santan infighting, the defeat of the Battle of Chongqing, and the depression of Wen'an ended, and the Kuidong Ming army has completely become a plate of scattered sand, and can no longer exist as a strategic-level unit.

Looking at this sixty-eight-year-old old man who came out of the mountain and is still fighting on the front line of the anti-Qing Dynasty at the age of seventy-six, I remember that when he had just recovered Jiangxi, he sent people to Fengjie to greet Wen Anzhi, but now they have met. Chen Wen knew that because of the Yongli Imperial Court, Wen Anzhi came to make trouble for him this time, but in the face of such an old man, he couldn't have any plans to embarrass him.

"This king remembers that Inspector Wen is a native of Yiling, Huguang, and now that Huguang has recovered for the king, can you think of returning to your hometown to worship your ancestors and rest in Yiling for a while?"

"His Royal Highness King Laoqi has bothered, but the world is not quiet, how dare the old man be slack?"

"At the age of ancient times, Inspector Wen is still worried about the world of the Han family, and he is really ashamed of how many unscrupulous people who are committed to his work. If the world is like this, how can the Tartars gain a firm foothold in China for so many years. ”

"The old man has not been able to recover an inch of land for several years, and he really deserves the praise of a young hero like His Royal Highness King Qi."

Chen Wen and Wen An asked and answered, and the generals of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Kuidong Ming armies present sat upright, listening to the open guns and hidden arrows between the strongest vassal king in the Southern Ming Dynasty and the old superintendent who had been the first assistant of the cabinet and the head of the civil ministers.

After a long time, the greetings also came to an end, and as the host, Chen Wen explained the intention of this invitation to Wen Anzhi and Kui Dongzhong.

"As we all know, my Jiangsu-Zhejiang Wang Division defeated the Eight Banners twice the year before last, and killed Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao in Guangzhou last year, and this year it is successively captured by Fan Wencheng and the traitor Sun Kewang in the southwest to restore the north and south of Huguang, and now it is in its heyday, and it is waiting to raise troops to the Northern Expedition to restore the Han family. Today, I invite you here to discuss the division of defense in the northern part of Huguang and the coordination of the Northern Expedition. ”

Chen Wenyang said a long time, all the generals of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies were all proud, this is the glory they have paid for their blood and sweat, and they are extremely complacent in front of outsiders. However, the Kuidong generals present were squeezing their eyebrows for a while, and Chen Wen knew that they were making eye contact without looking at them, so as to prevent them from appearing too weak in front of the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi, the king of Jiangsu and Zhejiang has repeatedly broken the Tartars, and this year he is the king of thousands of miles, and the loyal and righteous people in the world are all praised. It's just that the old man doesn't know that Shang Geng's second domain has already accepted the title of the imperial court before, so how can he say it. ”

Wen Anzhi asked, and his intention to remind Kui Dong's generals was self-evident. Chen Wen also smiled slightly, and then said to Wen Anzhi and Kui Dong's generals: "It's a shame to say that the two thieves of Shang and Geng were single-handedly promoted by this king when he recovered Southern Jiangxi. At the beginning, the king didn't pay much attention to these two people, and only knew that he would work with the Yanping Domain to recover Nanjing. Unexpectedly, Nanjing was recovered, Geng Jimao secretly colluded with the remnants of Fujian Liu Qingtai to learn about the king, and later Shang Kexi was even more in the Jin Dynasty when the king rescued Anlong, imprisoned the governor and the governor, and privately attacked the generals of Liangguang, and the king had to lead the army south to remove these remnants of the Tartars. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Wen saw that Wen Anzhi was about to speak again, and took the lead in saying before the old gentleman: "In terms of evidence, this king has already been sent to the imperial court together with the music at that time, and he has captured Guiyang before, and turned to the music in the palace of the king of Qin, only to know that the misunderstanding at that time was caused by Sun Kewang's isolation from the inside and outside, and this king has clarified to the court. At the end of today's meeting, the king asked people to copy a few copies and send them to the post house, asking the Inspector and the princes to see what the two thieves had done. ”

Chen Wen said it satisfactorily, Wen Anzhi also had to keep silent, Song Shu was sent by Chen Wen to Guiyang, Guiyang was captured by Chen Wen, and now Sun Kewang is dead, this public case has long been dead without proof, according to what Chen Wen said, no matter how much he defended, it was useless, and he himself did not believe that those two traitors would sincerely serve the court, just what Shang Kexi did was a good example.

After explaining this problem, Chen Wen continued the topic he had just discussed, and said to Wen Anzhi and the generals of Kuidong: "The recovery of Huguang is a good thing, but this king heard that there is some trouble in Yunyang and Xiangyang, and this time he also invited the princes to come to reward him in order to solve this matter." ”

The Kuidong Generals, also known as the Thirteen Families of Kuidong, are the collective name of the anti-Qing forces stationed in eastern Sichuan and western Hubei that were controlled by the Southern Ming Dynasty.

The thirteen families are not actual figures, mainly from the remnants of the Dashun Army, Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo, Liu Tichun, the Duke of Wanguo, Yuan Zongdi, the Duke of Yasukuni, Hao Yongzhong, the Marquis of Xingping, the Marquis of Tongcheng, Ma Tengyun and the Houta Tianbao of Yidu, as well as the Fuhou Tan Wen, the Marquis of Renshou, Tan Yi, and the Marquis Tan Hong of Xinjin of the Old Ming Army, as well as the Qihou He Zhen who once surrendered to the Ming army and the Qing Dynasty, and finally raised troops in Shaanxi to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and the Nanzhang Bo Wang Guangxing and others.

The origin of the thirteen families in Kuidong is complicated, not to mention the contradiction between the former Ming army and the former Chuang army, and there are many contradictions among the departments of the most powerful Dashun army, Wen Anzhi can control the army, and its ability and prestige are also the choice of a moment, but it is a pity that the Kuidong Ming army has never had a base sufficient to achieve strength climbing, and the generals do not trust each other, so they can only be limited to the mountainous areas of eastern Sichuan and western Hubei.

The generals were stationed in various places, such as Wang Guangxing in Shizhouwei, Hao Yongzhong in Yangjiaozhai in Fangxian County in the south of Yunyang Prefecture, Li Laiheng in Qilianping in Xingshan County in the northwest of Jingzhou Prefecture, Dang Shousu in Badong County in the northwest of Jingzhou Prefecture, and Ta Tianbao in Pingyangba in Badong County.

The garrison locations and actual control areas of these armed forces are all in the northern part of Huguang, involving the boundaries of the two prefectures and one guard, and even Xiangyang Prefecture is also under their troops.

Previously, Chen Wen went south to King Qin, and they also wanted to take advantage of Chen Wen's destruction of the Manchu rule in the north of Huguang to occupy more territory, but the green camps in various places quickly changed their courts, and followed the soldiers brought by Lou Jiye from Wuchang and Huangzhou to block them in place and not advance an inch.

In this regard, the generals can not be said to be full of resentment, the army is stationed in Sichuan, after all, it is not bordering, and there is no such opportunity, but these few in Huguang are different, they are not cheap, not to mention, some have lost some personnel and materials, this time they also have to hold the group to bargain with Chen Wen.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi said well, it is a good thing that Huguang is restored, but we are all kings, why don't we expand our strength, His Royal Highness the King of Qi has several provinces in the southeast, and he still refuses to give away the territory of our several counties, it's too stingy."

Compared with others, Hao Yongzhong's resentment was not concealed at all, and it can even be said that this person has no habit of concealing it at all.

This Yiguo Gong, formerly known as Hao Shaoqi, was just a general of Yuan Zongdi, the general of the right battalion system, in the heyday of the Dashun army, and the general system was the second rank second only to General Quan in the Dashun military system, and Yuan Zongdi himself was the marshal in charge of the Huguang area, and he was not much higher than Hao Yongzhong, who was born as the standard-bearer.

Later, as the Dashun army collapsed in Yiyi Shi and Shaanxi, Li Zicheng died in Jiugong Mountain, and the leaderless generals turned to He Tengjiao and accepted the Ming court's recruitment to continue to fight against the Qing army.

However, after Yuan Zongdi's defeat, the army suffered too many losses, but middle-level generals such as Liu Tichun, Hao Yongzhong, and Wang Jincai not only did not suffer losses, but the army was even better than it was back then. Among them, Hao Yongzhong and Wang Jincai were even favored by He Tengjiao to squeeze out the rest of the other Dashun army.

Hao Yongzhong is a straight man, and his mind is not like other senior generals of the Dashun Army, he can say whatever he thinks, and do whatever he thinks.

Chen Wen knew that Hao Yongzhong sent troops from Zhushan County to attack Yunyang Fucheng this time, and the defenders there changed the banner of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang.

Seeing the resentment on Hao Yongzhong's face, Chen Wen replied with a smile: "Yiguo Gong's words are wrong, charity is a word for beggars, all the monarchs are generals who have led the army for many years, to say that the years of serving in the army are only a lot more than my Chen Wen, and it will take several years to accept the title of Huangming." When the princes conferred the title of marquis, I Chen Wen was still white, why should I be so self-conscious. ”

Chen Wen blocked Hao Yongzhong back in a few words, and then with a wave of his hand, his soldiers brought a map of Sichuan and spread it on the ground of the hall.

"What this king wants to talk about today is the material support of my Jiangsu and Zhejiang kings to Zhujun, grain, farm tools, ploughing cattle, seeds, silver, everything, and my Jiangsu and Zhejiang kings will build warehouses in Zhujun's station to make profits together. However, the land that was given to the princes was not in Huguang, but in Sichuan. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Wen stretched out his arms in the direction of the Sichuan map on the ground, as if embracing: "Sichuan is a province, the country of abundance, fertile fields for thousands of miles, and now it is a borderless land, even if you occupy the territory of a prefecture by yourself, it is enough to distribute, why bother to confine yourself to these mountainous areas in eastern Sichuan and western Hubei, are these mountainous areas really better developed and richer than the plains?" ”