As vassal kings, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao were already independent of the local military and political system in Guangdong, and they were only responsible to the Qing court, not to the local government in Guangdong. Nominally, the governor of Guangdong was the highest military and political official in Guangdong Province, but in fact, Li Shutai, the governor of Guangdong, needed to obey the command of the vassal king, at least militarily, he did not have independent command. In fact, the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan were already semi-independent, and when the Yongli regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty was completely finished, the two feudal domains would be able to obtain their land of Yongzhen, and the military, political and financial power of a province would be exhausted and become the real vassal king, and the Qing court would only be effective for them.

The vassal king who listens to the tone and does not listen to the announcement has always been a taboo of the central government, and this court is still a Hu court, and it must be extremely precautionary against the emergence of the Han vassal king. As the imperial prince of the Qing Dynasty and the authentic Han army bannerman, Li Shutai, the governor of Guangdong, who had long regarded himself as a Manchurian, could not help but think about the future.

As early as the fifth year of Shunzhi, when the Qing regent Dolgon transferred Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong to the south, he gave them great authority, promising that the three kings could all obtain a province in the south in the future as a place for generations of feudal lords. To this day, Dolgon has been dead for seven years, but the Qing court does not deny his original promise to the Three Kings. It's just that Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, died in Guilin, and Geng Jingzhong committed suicide because of the fugitive.

Dolgon's promise to the three kings was partly because the Manchurian soldiers and horses suffered too many casualties after entering the customs, and it was impossible to defeat the Southern Ming Dynasty by relying on tens of thousands of Manchurian Eight Banners and the same number of Mengba Banners, and it was no longer possible to effectively occupy the Guannai, so Dolgon adopted the policy of using Han to control Han. Kong Youde, who ordered the three people to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in the early years, led the old troops to the south, and in order to encourage them to work for the Qing court, they canonized the three as kings. At the same time, it was promised that in the future, the three kings could choose a province in the south, Yongzhen.

Today, the background of Dolgon's original kingship has changed. Today's Nanming regime is only a few provinces in the southwest, and the Qing court has owned most of China, although the Nanming regime has the support of the Great Western Army, and is now confronting the Qing army in Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong and other places, and the Southern Ming general Li Dingguo defeated the Qing army before and after, beheaded the prince Nikan, and burned the king of Dingnan, Kong Youde, but the whole Ming and Qing Dynasty confrontation situation is still Qing dominant. After all, the southwestern provinces are too dilapidated, and neither manpower nor material resources are enough to compare with the Qing court, which occupies most of China, so in the eyes of the people of the world, the Qing court will be able to destroy the Southern Ming sooner or later.

Since the Qing court will definitely be able to seize the world, the Yongzhen that Dolgon promised to the three kings has become a headache for the Qing court, on the one hand, the Southern Ming is still resisting, on the other hand, the main soldiers and horses used by the Qing court to deal with the Southern Ming are all Han Chinese, if the policy of Dolgon is denied at this time, it will inevitably make the Han officials who serve the orders for the Qing court will have "cunning rabbit death." The idea of "lackey cooking" will also make Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao centrifuge from the Qing court, in case the situation changes. The gains for the Qing court must outweigh the losses.

Now it is not a good thing that three kings have become two kings, if the Qing court really fulfills the original promise of Dolgon to their domain, then in the future it will take one less to save it, which is obviously a very affordable thing. Although Emperor Shunzhi didn't think so, he couldn't stand the pressure of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, so he could only pinch his nose and admit it. But he didn't do nothing, after Geng Jingzhong died because of the fugitive, Shunzhi has been dragging on not letting Geng Jimao attack his father's prince, and he just wants to save one less money. This thought is quite stingy. It was her mother's repeated persuasion that allowed Geng Jimao to take the throne, otherwise the current King of Jingnan would still have an insignificant title like a first-class Jingfan Hatch.

Figuring out the intention is the inevitable decision of being an official. What's more, the governor of Guangdong, who is "worried about the country and the people," has had a lot of resistance to Pingnan and Jingnan since Li Shutai took office. The big aspects dare not move, but the small actions are constant. In the past few months since taking office, in addition to the standard battalion he brought from the north, the Guangdong Green Battalion has finally been infiltrated by him with some water, and now he can more or less control thousands of battalions.

In addition, Li Shutai has always made suggestions to the Qing court, hoping that the imperial court can also set up a city in Guangzhou and set up a garrison general, so that with Manchurian soldiers in charge, Guangzhou will not be in danger of being lost, whether it is now or in the future, and as long as Guangzhou is not lost, the situation in Guangdong will not be completely eroded. It's a pity that Guangdong is located in the south, the climate is too hot, and the Manchu soldiers in the north really can't bear this kind of weather, so the Qing court has not agreed to Li Shuitai's request for a long time. When Li Dingguo's army came to attack last year, Hahamu and others from Beijing couldn't wait for Li Dingguo's army to retreat and couldn't wait to lead their troops north to return to the north to escape the summer.

After learning that Shang Kexi had transferred troops to strengthen Xinhui, Li Shutai had nothing to say, and the military dominance of the two feudatories was not something he could interfere with, but for Shang Zhixin, who led the army to reinforce Xinhui, Li Shutai was quite disdainful. In his opinion, the prince of Pingnan, Shang Zhixin, who just turned 20 years old this year, is a living second ancestor, and he is also an arrogant, arrogant and irritable second ancestor.

Shang Kexi did not send a general to help, but sent his arrogant son to lead the army, which made Li Shutai worry a lot about the gains and losses of Xinhui City. And Shang Zhixin, who led the troops to help Xinhui, was also angry after leaving the city, and he didn't understand why his father agreed to Geng Jimao's kid's request and let him lead the army.

Although they both belong to the Han army flag, they are also vassal kings canonized by the Qing court, but Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao are one of the Han army's yellow flag, and the other is the Han army's blue flag. As the prince of Pingnan, Shang Zhixi is also a hundred unpleasant to Geng Jimao, in terms of age, Geng Jimao is still one year younger than him, so he watched Geng Jimao, who was younger than himself, take the throne and become a prince, but he is a prince, although the Qing court also named him a duke, but in front of Geng Jimao's kid is a bow, which makes him very depressed.

In the eyes of outsiders, Pingnan and Jingnan were originally one, when Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong were collectively called "the three miners of Liaodong", and they crossed the sea together to descend to the Qing Dynasty, and then led their troops to the south together, and now they are working together for the Qing court in the south, so in terms of closeness and relationship, Pingnan and Jingnan are inseparable in public and private, and there should be no contradiction, but in fact, there is a deep contradiction between the two feudatories, the reason is that the two feudatories want Guangdong to become their own Yongzhen place, and the Qing court is a simulation of this, What's even worse is that the Qing court not only did not have a clear answer to which vassal king belonged to Guangdong, but also stuffed these two vassal kings in Guangdong!

A blood sample is taken today, and I should be able to be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. (To be continued)