Chengdu, Qing Sichuan Governor Gao Minzhan was very worried about the current situation. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the failure of the Thirteen Kui Families to attack Chongqing twice, Gao Minzhan moved the governor Yamen from Chongqing to Chengdu, the former Yongning General Yan Ziming moved to the Chengdu General Army, and the former Chongkui General Cheng Tingjun was the Chongqing General Army. The residence of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi was still in Boryeong, and he did not move into Sichuan. The relocation of the governor's residence to Chengdu was Gao Minzhan's intention to express to the Qing court that he wanted to pacify Sichuanzhong, but he never thought that the situation would be so earth-shaking.

Earlier, after Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, entered Yunnan, the Ming governor of Jiading Prefecture, Zhu Yangen, the general of the army, Long Haiyang, the deputy general, Wu Zongxiu, and others had asked the Qing army to surrender, but after learning that the Kui Dong soldiers broke out of the Qing blockade with the response of the Huguang Taiping army, and were now besieging Wuchang, these Ming generals immediately rebelled again, seriously threatening the connection between Chongqing and Yunnan and Guizhou.

In Jianchang, southern Sichuan, Feng Shuangli, King of Qingyang in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Wang of Wugong Bohui, Ai Chengye, the eldest son of King Ainengqi of Yan'an in the Ming Dynasty, and Yu Sanpin, the chief soldier, also continued to attack the Qing soldiers, making it difficult for the Qing army in Sichuan to take care of it. In addition, there are still Ming Governor Wen'an's troops in eastern Sichuan who are active, and the remnants of the thieves who rushed to Huguang did not give up their base in Kuidong, but fed back the money and food obtained in Huguang to Kuidong, so that Kuidong was stuck in the throat of the Qing army in Sichuan like a fish, and it was impossible to pull it out or ignore it, which was really tricky.

If it was just the resistance of the remnants of these Ming armies, Gao Minzhan would not feel much worried, because no matter how fierce these Ming troops were, they were not as powerful as the thirteen coalition troops who attacked Chongqing that day. The remnants of the Ming army in Jianchang and Jiading Prefecture said that there was a king and a prince in the country, but in fact they were just a group of lost dogs who had been driven out of Yunnan and Guizhou, with a shortage of money, food, and weapons, and the land occupied was barren, and it was difficult to maintain it for a long time. At present, all these Ming troops can do is to make a small fight, and they can't do it to attack the city and seize the land, I heard that the old man Wen who presided over the military administration in Sichuan sent by Zhu Youlang in the Ming Dynasty is very sick and is about to die. If Wen Anzhi died, the Ming army in Sichuan would be leaderless, like a plate of scattered sand, so Gao Minzhan was not afraid that these Ming troops would threaten Chongqing and Chengdu.

Gao Mingzhan was worried that the king of Pingjun in Guizhou had repeatedly urged him to transport grain to Guiyang, and after more than ten years of war, Sichuan was sparsely populated, and the governor's residence in Chengdu Prefecture was all looted, and there were only more than 30,000 people. Chongqing is slightly better, but there are only more than 50,000 people. Other places are even more sparsely populated, and often there is not a single village or town in sight, and there is not a single living person in sight.

Why is Sichuan so barren?

Gao Mingzhan who entered Sichuan with Prince Su Haoge knew that it was not after Zhang Xianzhong's death, the remnants of the Great Western Army under his command and the original Ming army in Sichuan did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but fought to the death with the Qing army, resulting in heavy casualties of the Qing army.

"The people and thieves are mixed, and the jade is inseparable, and the quasi-tribes either slaughter the whole city, or slaughter the men and keep the women."

Tu Chuan ordered that the villages, towns and fortresses occupied by the Ming Dynasty squires and landlords who fought against Zhang Xianzhong in northern Sichuan bore the brunt, because the Qing army needed food in their hands. Gao Minzhan remembers clearly that he accompanied the Manchurian soldiers to search for food day and night, hanged and burned people, killed those who had food, and burned them to death if they had no food. Once, he led his troops to attack a stockade guarded by the Ming army, killing more than 100 rebels, but more than 1,000 people jumped off the cliff and died.

In the fourth year of Shunzhi, when the Qing army gathered and retreated to Baoning, they killed all the way, whether it was good or not, they were all slaughtered, and hundreds of thousands of people died. Later, Liu Wenxiu of the Ming army led his troops to recover Chengdu, and the defeated Qing army sent only a few thousand people in Chengdu to Mianzhou, and when there was a shortage of food on the road, they fed the people. To Mianzhou, there is no one left.

Now, Gao Minzhan doesn't remember how many Sichuan people the Qing soldiers killed back then, but he knows that after Prince Su returned to Beijing, Sichuan has withered to this day, and if many places are not filled by immigrants, I am afraid that they will not be restored for a hundred or two hundred years. After Gao Minzhan planned to wait for Sichuan to be completely pacified, he made a compromise to the imperial court and asked him to fill Sichuan with people from Huguang.

Three years ago, Gao Minzhan received an official letter from Beijing, ordering that what the Haoge army did in Sichuan should not be mentioned in the future, and the reason for the sharp decline in the number of people in Sichuan was attributed to Zhang Xianzhong, who died in battle in the third year of Shunzhi. In this regard, Gao Minzhan took it for granted, the Qing soldiers were the army of the king, how could they commit that atrocity. The so-called winner is king, and the loser is the villain. If the Qing Dynasty gains the world, Gao Minzhan believes that the truth about Sichuan will never be known. A lie repeated a thousand times is the truth, it is the truth, and it has been clear for thousands of years.

It's just that Prince Su's massacre in Sichuan back then brewed a bitter fruit for the Qing army. On that day, Wu Sangui entered Sichuan from Baoning, relying on the grain brought from Shaanxi by the Qing army under his command, otherwise he would not be able to move an inch. Even now, most of the grain and grass supply of the Qing army in Sichuan depends on the transportation of Baoning, and if the grain and grass in Baoning are cut off, Gao Minzhan will not be able to stay in Chengdu for a day. It's all so difficult, where can he get the food to deliver to King Pingjun?

Gao Minzhan had a headache and panicked, because he never thought that the southwest army would one day be trapped in Yungui and could not get out, and Sichuan, which was originally relatively easy, has now become the only channel for the southwest to communicate with the outside world. The king of Xin in Yunnan pointed to Sichuan, and the king of Pingjun in Guizhou also pointed to Sichuan, but there was no food in Sichuan, so who could he count on.

Gao Minzhan pondered for a long time in the city of Chengdu, and finally decided to kick the ball to the governor Li Guoying, who sent a letter to invite the Ming generals who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in central Sichuan to Chengdu for a while. After receiving the letter from the governor, Tan Yi, the Marquis of Muyi, Tan Hong, the chief soldier Du Zixiang, Ma Wenyuan, Guo Xiaoqing, Feng Guoming, and An Chongsheng, the prefect of the Tu Prefecture, and other Ming Dynasty generals and officials who had recently been awarded the title of Marquis of Hua, came to Chengdu.

The generals gathered together, Gao Minzhan ordered a good supply of wine and meat, and after a few compliments to each other, Gao Minzhan picked up the wine glass and said his purpose.

"Ben Fu heard that Feng Shuangli, Ma Bao, Ma Weixing and others had been used by Sun Kewang in the past, but they all betrayed Sun Kewang in the end, causing him to surrender to my Qing Dynasty. Now it seems that this person's heart is really unpredictable. ”

Listening to Gao Minzhan inexplicably talk about this, all the generals looked at each other. Muyihou Tan Hong seemed to think of something, and said: "Lord Governor, all of you here are rough people, and there are not so many crooked intestines in your stomach, your lord has something to say, but please say it directly." ”

The chief soldier Du Zixiang looked sneered: "Lord Futai, don't you doubt that we will learn from Feng Shuangli and them?" ”

Tan Yi sat there, holding a wine glass and silent.

Gao Minzhan smiled slightly and said, "Don't think about it, Benfu also suddenly felt it." However, Benfu invited you to come over this time, but he hoped that everyone could place their families in Chengdu Mansion, so that when fighting the Ming army, everyone would not have any worries. Hehe, you can rest assured, there is this government in Chengdu, and the generals are indispensable to drink. ”

"This..."

The generals didn't expect that the governor invited them to come to ask them to send their families to Chengdu, and they were all stunned there.

Tan Hong snorted secretly, what Gao Minzhan said sounded good, but this was simply holding their family hostage. In vain, he betrayed his eldest brother Tan Wen and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing court still can't believe them! He held back his anger and said lightly: "Lord Futai, do you trust us? ”

Gao Minzhan shook his head and said: "It's not that Benfu doesn't trust you, it's really a pressing situation, and I have to make this decision, I hope you Haihan!" Benfu has already been arranged here, and all the children can be properly accommodated as soon as they come. ”

Tan Hong smiled bitterly, if there was no good banquet, but he had no reason to oppose this matter, and he didn't want to be killed by Gao Minzhan to make an example. It's a pity that if he made a wrong step that day, it would be difficult to turn back, if he wasn't moved by Tan Yi's words, he would probably go to Huguang with Yuan Zongdi and He Zhen.

Tan Yi never said a word from beginning to end, and the rest of the generals saw that Er Tan did not object, and they had no reason to oppose it with this strength. Gao Minzhan was also overjoyed to see that no one objected, so there was no need to make that tough move. The feast continued, but the people ate not as happily as before, the meat was chewed dry in their mouths, and the wine was as light as water.

Coming out of the governor's yamen, Tan Hong still ignored Tan Yi, but he didn't want Tan Yi to catch up from behind, pulled him, and whispered to him: "You really want to send your family to Chengdu?" ”

Tan Hong said in a sullen voice: "Gao Minzhan said so, this matter is not up to us, I don't care what you do, anyway, I accept my fate." After speaking, he stepped forward and took his own horse from the hands of his own soldiers, and walked away.

Seeing Tan Hong go away, Tan Yi was also very uncomfortable, he knew that the third brother hated him very much. Looking back at the governor's yamen, a sneer appeared at the corner of Tan Yi's mouth: Gao Mingzhan is afraid!

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Ningguo Mansion Jingde, another soldier.

This time, it was not the green battalion soldiers who flew the green flag, nor the Manchurian and Mongolian soldiers who were inlaid with red and white, but the Ming army with the red red flag. I heard that this Ming army came from Jiangxi, also called the Taiping Army, and its leader was the "thief Xiucai" of the Xinhui who beheaded the prince of the Qing Dynasty last year and the king of the Pingnan Domain, Jidu.

The Taiping army appeared on the official road leading from Jingde to Xuancheng the evening before yesterday, and the first to find them was Li Zheng in Hule Town, under the Purple Mountain, and then Li Zheng took an ox cart into the city to report the news. Jia Zhen, the magistrate of the county, was frightened after hearing the news, and scolded the officials of Huizhou Mansion for being bastards, and the Ming army came to the territory and didn't know to spread the news.

The county was quite calm, and he was busy asking people to report to Fucheng and the surrounding Taiping and Ningguo counties, but none of the people sent out could come back.

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"Shangpin Qingxiang", recommended words: The soul of a modern person returns to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in this era of celebrities and gentlemen, and interprets another kind of romance with ideas that are out of touch with society. (To be continued.) )