Five hundred and fourteen years ago, what was staged on the Storm Pavilion was unwarranted, it was full of red rivers, it was the empty sorrow after looking up at the sky and howling, and the eternal pain left to the Chinese nation in that sorrow. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But at that time, Hangzhou was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and now, the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which has only half of the country, is neither the capital Nanjing that has been recovered by Chen Wen, nor the Zhaoqing Mansion that the Yongli Emperor ascended the throne. There, it has already penetrated deep into the southwest of China, and it is not far from the Burmese vassals.

As early as a year and a half ago, on the twenty-sixth day of the first month of the tenth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo escorted away from Anlong and went to Yunnan. By the 11th of February, they had arrived in Qujing, Yunnan.

At that time, Yunnan was the rear of the Great Western Army, and Liu Wenxiu, the king of Xining, Wang Shangli, the marquis of Guyuan, Wang Ziqi and He Jiuyi, commanded a total of more than 20,000 troops and were stationed in Kunming, Chuxiong, Wuding and other places. Although Li Dingguo did not suffer the fiasco of Xinhui, the emperor was in the army, and he did not dare to support him, so he had to personally lead the elite soldiers to Kunming to cook.

Among the four, Wang Shangli, Wang Ziqi and He Jiuyi are all Sun Kewang's generals, Liu Wenxiu is as opposed to Sun Kewang's self-reliance as Li Dingguo, but he is a person who failed the Battle of Changde and returned to Kunming to join the idle, and the troops that can be mobilized can be described as very few.

However, Li Dingguo had great prestige in the Great Western Army, Liu Wenxiu also expressed the attitude of welcoming Yongli into Kunming, and Sun Kewang was still in Changsha to confront Chen Wen, and there was nothing the Hou and the two generals could do.

On March 26, the Emperor of Yongli entered Kunming under the escort of Li Dingguo's generals Jin Tongwu and Zhang Jian. In the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan was regarded as a remote place, and the so-called Tiangao Emperor was far away, at this time, the "True Dragon Son of Heaven" arrived, and the people of Kunming were excited. Seeing that the people's hearts were like this, Yongli was also very moved, and asked his entourage to pass on the order: "When I arrive, don't distinguish between the old and the young of the army and the people, listen to their heads and watch, and the officers and soldiers on patrol are not allowed to fight indiscriminately." ”

Yongli used this to reflect the existence of the Ming court in Kunming, but whether it was him, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, or only the Yunnan Gongyuan where Ai Nengqi, one of the four princes of Daxi, lived before his death, as the palace of Yongli, and the more luxurious, more suitable as a palace, Kunming Qin Wangfu still did not dare to touch, let alone criticize Sun Kewang's previous actions.

In April, Yongli canonized Li Dingguo as the king of Jin, Liu Wenxiu as the king of Shu, Bai Wenxuan as the prince of Gongguo, Wang Shangli, the marquis of Guyuan, as the prince of Baoguo, the general Wang Ziqi as the prince of Kuiguo, He Jiuyi as the marquis of Baokang, Zhang Hu as the guard of the king of Qin, as the king of Chunhuabo, and Li Bengao, the governor of the naval army, as the prince of Chongxin. In addition, Mu Tianbo, the lord of Qianguo, the lord of Shizhen Yunnan, was in charge of the Praetorian Guard, and won the trust of Yongli.

But it was also at this time that the news of the two great chaos came one after another. First of all, the Ming army of Liangguang and Guangxi impeached the king of Nanhai County, Shang Kexi, to attack and imprison the civilian officials of the prison army to the Yongli court; Next, Shang Kexi, the king of Nanhai County, defended to the imperial court that it was the Liangguang Ming army that disturbed the people in the local area, and Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi asked him to send troops to rectify the Liangguang Ming army.

This is nonsense, but at the same time that the justification was sent, Shang Kexi also sent another news, that is, Chen Wen entered Fujian, conquered Quanzhou, and even continued to march to Guangdong.

Chen Wen is now in the southeast, and in view of the wealth of the southeast in the country, Chen Wen's strength has obviously surpassed Sun Kewang. This is a big thing for the Yongli court, but Yongli has just recovered some rights, and it is inevitable to listen to the opinions of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu in such major matters, and their opinions are very simple, send angels to mediate, Chen Wen captured Guangdong, and divided Shaozhou and Chaozhou with Chen Wen, if Chen Wen failed to capture Guangdong, then only one Chaozhou Mansion as compensation. However, in order to be safe, Li Dingguo still sent Baokang Hou He Jiuyi to send troops to Nanning Mansion, and first put down the important town of Nanning.

He Jiuyi is Sun Kewang's subordinate, and there are also 5,000 troops in Yunnan, Sun Kewang is under the banner of the Ming court, coupled with the status of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, he has to submit to this, once Sun Kewang commits an internal crime, his person is likely to become a time bomb.

With this in mind, He Jiuyi was sent by Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu to recover Nanning. This point is to use distance to eliminate a hidden danger from a military point of view, which can be called a clever trick, but then Chen Wen did not accept the holy decree and directly swallowed Guangdong Province.

The angel returned, scolded Chen Wen, and asked the imperial court to ask Li Dingguo to send troops to Liangguang to expel the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangzhou. It's just that the angel's brain is not good and he can't see the current situation clearly, which doesn't mean that Yongli is also a fool.

Li Dingguo did not suffer a crushing defeat in Xinhui, the army still had 30,000 or 40,000 people, all of them elite, and in the process of returning from Guangxi to Yunnan, he also reined in some of the troops of the Qin domain, and on the whole it was restored to the old view when he returned to Guangxi from Huguang at the end of the sixth year of Yongli.

Li Dingguo benefited from the great changes in Fujian and Guangdong set off by Chen Wen, but Sun Kewang also benefited from Chen Wen's huge threat to the Qing army in Huguang to be able to gain the southern part of Huguang without a fight, and his strength did not fall but rose, and Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu still had an overwhelming advantage.

Chen Wen resisted the decree, Yongli was dissatisfied, but Chen Wen was right, if he gave up Guangdong, Sun Kewang would take advantage of the situation, and then form a multi-sided attack on Yunnan, which was more threatening for the Yongli court in Yunnan.

Time passed day by day, and after Chen Wen took over the three eastern prefectures of Guangdong and Guangxi, he announced his withdrawal from the army, and he had no intention of committing an internal crime. According to intelligence, Sun Kewang sent a large number of troops from southern Huguang back to Guizhou during this period.

From the day Yongli was placed under house arrest, Sun Kewang has become the blade of Damocles hanging over the head of the Yongli court, and now Yongli has escaped Sun Kewang's control with Li Dingguo's power, but Sun Kewang's army of more than 100,000 still exists and has been assembled in Guizhou.

"If it weren't for the existence of King Yue, I'm afraid that the Qin clan would have already raised an army to commit crimes."

As the emperor, the dignified and upright son of the emperor, was under house arrest to be rescued by other lords, and now he is temporarily hiding in Yunnan, and he wants another stronger lord to threaten, the chaotic ministers and thieves who have placed him under house arrest do not dare to raise troops to commit crimes, and even Yongli himself feels a little ashamed when he speaks.

Of course, it's not just Yongli who feels ashamed, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, also blushed when he heard this, he and Liu Wenxiu supported Yongli, but Sun Kewang's army was assembled in Guizhou, but they still didn't dare to send troops to suppress it.

This is something that can't be helped, both sides are under the command of the Southwest Ming Army, and there is no difference in the types of troops and tactics. In this way, there is an army of 100,000 on one side, and only a fraction of people on the other side, Li Dingguo is a famous general in the world, but the gap in hard power is too large, and it is not a joke.

What's more, Sun Kewang, as the lord of the Qin Kingdom, has been in charge of the government for many years, and many people from top to bottom have been appointed by Sun Kewang and have received Sun Kewang's favor. In other words, once Sun Kewang's army invaded, God knows whether Yongli's rule over Yunnan would collapse in an instant.

This is not groundless, Sun Kewang has controlled the government for many years, and the time he has occupied Yunnan has been even deeper. Not to mention, in April, Yongli issued an edict appointing a group of civil officials to enrich the imperial court, but as a result, Gong Yi, the left servant of the household department, was appointed to say that he was "expected to receive ten years of great favor in Yunnan", and was unwilling to accept the official position appointed by the imperial court, which shows his great influence in Yunnan and Guizhou.

Time has passed to this day, the tenth year of Yongli is coming to an end, and the next is the eleventh year of Yongli, but Yunnan still has not received the news that Sun Kewang sent troops.

During this period, they made a lot of efforts, Yongli rewarded Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu while not discriminating against Sun Kewang's subordinates in Yunnan, and sent Bai Wenxuan and Zhang Hu back to Guiyang to make peace on their behalf, and later sent the squire Deng Shilian and other proclamations, "Let us work together to relieve anger and help the country." In August of last year, Brigadier Li Dingguo sent Sun Kewang's wife and concubine and son in Yunnan to Guiyang, and ordered Wang Lin, the chief soldier of the Qin Dynasty, to escort him, and before leaving, he personally held a banquet on the outskirts of Kunming to see him off. Even a few days ago, at Sun Kewang's request, some of the troops left in Yunnan by the Qin clan were repatriated to Guizhou.

After all the efforts, Sun Kewang's reply was, "Xu Anxi is close to Xie Naike", which made it clear that it was the old trick of reserving the six years of Yongli, asking Li Dingguo to go to Guiyang to throw himself into the net, and Sun Kewang sent troops to attack Li Dingguo's general Qi Sansheng who marched into Yunnan.

Sun Kewang stationed troops in Guizhou, obviously to get rid of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, unify the Great Western Army, and bring Yongli back into his hands. It is still unknown whether to stage a great drama of Zen Rang that has not been staged for thousands of years, or to continue to put him under house arrest and go to the Son of Heaven to order the princes under the banner of the Yongli Imperial Court. But for Yongli, both of these possibilities are what he does not want to see.

"Qin Fan is like this, it is really the misfortune of the country."

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Feng Su said: "Give Xin Chou to Yunnan." The people of Yunnan said: 'It is hoped that the country will be governed well, and the country will be able to use troops.' 'Let them work together, and the work of the southwest may not be Ai, but they will attack each other, and they will be destroyed. ”

In the first half of the year, when they had just returned to Yunnan, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu also led the princes, marquis, uncles, and generals to say: "The Lile expedition came from the Son of Heaven, and the princes and ministers of Qin can expect to treat the lost courtesy." Ministers and other members of the assembly: Fengsun can look out of Chu, the ministers set the country out of Guangdong, the ministers Wenxiu out of Shu, and the generals are engaged in the feudal territory. Whoever controls the world will return it to his master, and he will risk death to hear it. Obviously, there is still hope for Sun Kewang's repentance.

In this regard, Yongli will not be sparsely sparse. Things have developed to this point, Yongli's original approach is correct, Sun Kewang is impossible to give up the great authority in his hands, and it has reached the point where there is no turning back, and the civil war is about to break out. can be calm to this day, but Yongli has few soldiers, and Sun Kewang is afraid of Chen Wen.

"The minister is incompetent."

Li Dingguo fell to the ground, and his weather-beaten face was full of shame. Seeing this, Yongli hurriedly got up and helped this loyal courtier up.

"Since I ascended the throne, how difficult the current situation has been, and it has relied on Aiqing's loyalty to be able to have today's situation. Qin Fan seems to be unable to persuade him, but it is better not to start a war or not to start a war, they are all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and the damage on that side is also the damage of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Your Majesty's mercy is a blessing to the world. The minister is still the same sentence, if Sun Kewang can repent and abide by the minister's festival, the minister and the Shu clan still recognize him as a brother; If Sun Kewang is expected to commit rebellion, the ministers and the others will never stop with him. It's just that the soldiers are in danger, and the ministers are dead, Your Majesty is the body of ten thousand gold, once the ministers fail to repel it, Your Majesty should have a complete strategy. ”

The way out, they didn't think about it, they had already arrived in Yunnan, and further south was the Burmese vassal state. In addition, to the north is Sichuan, and Liu Wenxiu has already led his troops to set off, intending to collect the whole of Sichuan. But the devastation of Sichuan is almost the worst in the country, and it is full of no-man's land, and it is almost unimaginable to develop it.

To the east is Guangxi, where most of the territory is now the territory of the Yongli Imperial Court, and the generals and Tusi of Guangxi are stationed there. But if even Li Dingguo is defeated, then Guangxi will definitely not be able to hold it. In the final analysis, it is inevitable to go to Chen Wen's territory, and what kind of person Chen Wen is after all, and what ambitions he has, but for them he is always in the fog.

On this issue, the two monarchs and ministers were once again speechless, and they could only wait for the situation to change before dealing with it.

Li Dingguo returned to the mansion, and Wen'an Hou Ma Jixiang had been waiting for a long time. Yongli went to Yunnan with Li Dingguo, and because of the imprisonment of Mr. Eighteen and his previous betrayal, he hated Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou deeply, so Li Dingguo sent his confidant Jin Tongwu to detain them. Pang Tianshou committed suicide by taking poison in fear of crime, Ma Jixiang turned into a person, begging for Jin Tongwu, a close general of Li Dingguo, and Jin Weixin and Gong Ming, who were close to Li Dingguo, and sang praises for King Jin, and finally won Li Dingguo's trust and re-entered the cabinet to do things. In this regard, Yongli did not dare to raise any objections.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin is right, the lower officials have been in the court for many years, and there has never been His Royal Highness the King of Jin who has been able to talk to His Majesty in front of the Emperor for so long, which shows His Majesty's trust in His Royal Highness the King of Jin."

Getting the letter of the Son of Heaven is very satisfying for Li Dingguo, Ma Jixiang looked at Li Dingguo's expression, and his heart was more confident, and he hurriedly said: "The letter of the Son of Heaven is actually a proof of the loyalty of His Royal Highness the King of Jin." It is also the loyalty of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and the lower officials see it in their eyes, and they hate themselves for being frightened by Sun Rebellion's power at the beginning, and they failed to kill to serve the country, which is really regretful. ”

Speaking of this, tears of remorse immediately welled up from Ma Jixiang's eyes. Seeing this, Li Dingguo also expressed relief: "Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and good is great." All this has passed before, and there is no need to mention it again, now it is enough to do things for the Son of Heaven and for the court. I think that this king was also a thief back then, as long as he changes his evil and returns to the right, he will always be lenient and benevolent, and there will always be a way for the prodigal son to turn back. ”

Hearing this, Ma Jixiang burst into tears and laughed, and thanked him for the four words of gratitude. It's just that Ma Jixiang was relieved, but Li Dingguo was still a little worried, and it seemed that Ma Jixiang's performance just now didn't make him much happier.

Monarchs and ministers complement each other, this is the best environment for loyal ministers, and it is the time when great achievements should be made. However, the current situation, especially thinking of what he talked about with Yongli today, Li Dingguo couldn't help but sigh.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin?"

Li Dingguo is like this, Ma Jixiang asked tentatively. In view of the fact that Ma Jixiang can talk about his heart every time, Li Dingguo has long been defenseless against it, and he will tell the content of this concert with others.

In such a situation, it is only natural for this discussion to take place. Ma Jixiang had already prepared, and then replied to Li Dingguo: "The lower officials think that with the martial arts of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, Sun Wei can hope that he will not be able to hold it, and he should be able to draw it in one battle. However, His Majesty is the body of ten thousand gold, unlike our courtiers, His Royal Highness the King of Jin is also due to seek perfection. ”

Ma Jixiang said this, Li Dingguo also nodded, Sun Kewang is now the best in strength, but when it comes to the use of troops, Li Dingguo is still a little confident. But in the war, Sun Kewang's hard power is so huge, he is not afraid, but if there is a damage to the Son of Yongli, that is, he really doesn't want to see it, and he can't accept it at all.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin considers things carefully, and the officials admire him very much. It's just that if there is an accident, where to go, the lower officials have some crude opinions, and where they can't say it properly, they still hope that His Royal Highness the King of Jin will guide the lower officials. ”

"This king is worried about this matter, and if he has ideas, tell him about it and listen to it."

Li Dingguo's current performance is what Ma Jixiang expected, this His Royal Highness the King of Jin's martial arts and courage are all first-class figures in this era, but in the final analysis, he is still a vulgar and unliterate martial artist, and the twists and turns in his mind are really pitiful.

Seeing this, Ma Jixiang saluted and hurriedly replied: "Today, the Son of Heaven lives in Kunming, Sichuan to the north, Guangxi to the east, and vassal land to the south and west. The lower officials thought that Sichuan was dilapidated and not enough to prosper the king; Guangxi is close to Guangdong, and the Yue vassal is not like a minister, so it should be more vigilant; If it fails, it should also retreat from the vassals, encircled and suppressed the Jiannu in the past, and the Korean vassal state helped the war. ”

Ma Jixiang said a word, and Li Dingguo fell into thought. From a military, political and economic point of view, as Ma Jixiang said, but the Son of Heaven going to the country is a matter of great importance, but he has to think twice.

However, Li Dingguo didn't have time to think, let alone figure out the twists and turns of Ma Jixiang. Ma Jixiang had just finished speaking, Li Dingguo was still reviewing in his mind, and his son Li Sixing hurriedly ran in, and said a few words to Li Dingguo, and Li Dingguo immediately changed color.

There was no time to think, Li Dingguo hurriedly got up and prepared to enter the palace to meet him, Ma Jixiang said that his heart was not good, and he asked for advice, but the answer he got was exactly what he had just expected.

"Sun Kewang swears in Guiyang, and the army is already on the way to invade Yunnan!"