Yongli abandoned the country and fled to Burma, and the news is undoubted, because the news was brought by Guo Zhiqi, a bachelor who fled from Yunnan to Guangxi. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, decided to abandon Kunming in order to avoid the Qing army, Guo Zhiqi felt that the situation in Yunnan was becoming more and more difficult, and in order to reduce the pressure on the king of Jin, he asked Yongli to go to Yuanjiang to say that the prefect Na Song and others raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, thinking that the king of Jin should help. After successfully persuading Na Song's father and son to oppose the Qing Dynasty, Guo Zhiqi presided over the anti-Qing affairs in Yuanjiang as an envoy of the Yongli Imperial Court. However, after fleeing west from the Yongli court to Yongchang, Guo Zhiqi had actually lost contact with the imperial court, and he still learned the news about the abandonment of the Son of Heaven from refugees.

After Wu Sangui broke through the Yuanjiang River and the martyrdom of Na Song's father and son, Guo Zhiqi escaped from the city under the protection of Shen Guoxuan and others under the command of the general soldier Lai Shixun, because the roads to the west were blocked by the Qing army, Guo Zhiqi decided to flee to Weimo Prefecture in southeast Yunnan first, and then turned to the southern border, and later went to western Yunnan from the border to find the holy car and the imperial court. If he can't find the location of the holy car, Guo Zhiqi's plan is to find the King of Jin. In his opinion, as long as the King of Jin is there, the hearts of the people will be there, and the situation can still be recovered.

After crossing the mountains and mountains to reach Vimo Prefecture, because Guo Zhiqi was a scholar of the Yongli Imperial Court and had a noble status, many local officials were also interested in the Ming Dynasty, so they welcomed the arrival of Guo Zhiqi and his entourage, and were willing to provide protection. But only a few days later, refugees poured into Vimo, and they brought the shocking news that the emperor had abandoned the country and fled to Burma, and the fate of Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, in western Yunnan was unknown.

This news made the attitude of the local officials in Vimo Prefecture change greatly, and some local officials advocated sending Guo Zhiqi and others to the Qing army, and then all the local officials expressed their intention to submit to the Qing army. This opinion was opposed by another group of local officials who still had feelings for the Ming Dynasty, who believed that the Ming Emperor had only fled from Burma, not captured by the Qing army, and that the emperor might return from Burma at any time, so there was no need to betray the Ming Dynasty and join the Qing Dynasty now. In case the Qing Dynasty could not gain a foothold in Yunnan and the Ming Dynasty reoccupied Yunnan, then they would not be liquidated by the Ming army.

In addition, many local officials said that many of their children in the village have participated in the Ming army, and there are not a few local officials who follow His Royal Highness the King of Jin.

The worries of these local officials were justified, since the Great Western Army entered Yunnan, Sun Kewang recruited a large number of ethnic minorities in Yunnan to join the army, and there were dozens of ethnic minority generals in the elite army under his command, and there were as many as 30,000 soldiers. Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, also had many local soldiers in Yunnan, and all the elephant soldiers in charge of them were native soldiers. These Yunnan ethnic minority generals and soldiers shed blood and died together with Han soldiers and civilians to resist the Qing army, and many of them have been buried in foreign lands for a long time. Although many of the people who have survived now have been demoted to the Qing Dynasty, there are also many people who are still persisting in resisting the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, in the case of not knowing whether their children surrendered to the Qing Dynasty or resisted the Qing Dynasty, it was inconvenient for the local officials to decide whether to surrender to the Qing army.

Moreover, these local officials were also worried that their children had joined the Ming army, and the Qing army might retaliate against them because of this, so until the situation was completely clear, these local officials would rather wait and see than decide whether to surrender to the Qing army. After all, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, these local officials who have been hereditary in Yunnan since the Mengyuan Dynasty must be appeased, rather than sending a large army to attack, which will outweigh the losses. In order to stabilize the situation in Yunnan as soon as possible, the Qing court must appease these local officials, otherwise the Qing army will not be able to bear it if there is another Yuanjiang change. To appease is to be practical. The local officials who were not in a hurry to express their stance on surrendering to the Qing Dynasty actually wanted to see how much real benefits the Qing court could give them.

When the local officials were arguing over whether to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, some Han people under the local officials quietly revealed the news to Guo Zhiqi and others. Knowing that the Son of Heaven had abandoned the country and fled to Myanmar, Guo Zhiqi felt cold hands and feet, his head spinning, and he was about to faint on the spot.

Shen Guoxuan and others were also shocked by this news, the Ming court and the emperor are their backbone, and they are also the source and belief that they have always adhered to, but now this backbone is to abandon the country and flee despite the millions of soldiers and civilians in Yunnan, and they will be shattered in one fell swoop.

Some soldiers wept loudly, bluntly saying that since the Son of Heaven has abandoned us and left, what do we insist on, why don't we disperse!

Another soldier said angrily: "We are desperate to follow the Son of Heaven, but the Son of Heaven does not want us to wait, and the local official wants to sell us to the Qing army, and it is meaningless to live now, it is better to cut ourselves off, so as not to humiliate the local people and suffer from the poisonous hands of the Qing dog!" ”

Seeing that a soldier was about to be killed on the spot, Guo Zhiqi suddenly woke up and shouted angrily: "The Son of Heaven is just temporarily avoiding Burma, why do you ignore the words of our army and people!" ”

"Yes, yes, don't listen to the rumors spread by the local officials, the court and the Son of Heaven just wanted to avoid the pursuit of the Qing army, and had to temporarily retreat to Burma to avoid the pursuers, the Son of Heaven is by no means really going to abandon my Yunnan army and people! Don't panic! ”

Shen Guoxuan also hurriedly appeased the soldiers, so as to stabilize the sergeants who were in turmoil, so as not to splash blood on the spot. But no matter how he and Guo Zhiqi appeased, the emperor's escape to Burma was an ironclad fact, and it was only a matter of time before the local officials wanted to hand them over to the Qing army, and the immediate priority was to leave Vimo Prefecture immediately, but where to go after leaving Vimo Prefecture, Shen Guoxuan didn't know, he only knew that it was definitely impossible to find the holy driver.

"Go to Guangxi!"

Guo Zhiqi gritted his teeth and said.

"To Guangxi?"

Shen Guoxuan was stunned, Guangxi was occupied by the Qing army, Scholar Guo was confused, did he want to throw himself into the net?

Guo Zhiqi was not confused, but he was not much sure that Zhou Shixiang had led the Taiping army west to Guangxi, he only knew that staying in Weimo Prefecture would definitely not end well, and those local officials did not decide to hand him over to the Qing army at the moment, but it did not mean that they would not tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Myanmar, he can't go, Vimo can't stay, and now he can only gamble to go to Guangxi.

The distance from Vimo to Guangxi to Myanmar is not closer, but it is also a difficult road. Guo Zhiqi made up his mind, Shen Guoxuan had heard the name of the Taiping Army again, and he had no opinion at the moment, and after the two of them made a decision, they immediately sneaked out with the soldiers at night, and rushed to the northern mountains without looking back.

Along the way, Guo Zhiqi first fled from Weimo Prefecture to Wenshan in the territory of the Third Department of Education, and then went east to the direction of Fuzhou, groping in the mountains for 12 days before he was able to enter the territory of Guishun Prefecture in Guangxi. With the help of local natives, Guo Zhiqi and his entourage finally arrived in Sitongzhou in southern Guangxi in late April, two months after his escape from Vimo.

The soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the C Brigade of the 10th Town of the Taiping Army, who were ordered to suppress bandits in the vicinity of Sitong Prefecture, discovered the university scholar Guo Zhiqi and his party. When it was discovered, this team of more than 100 people were all ragged, yellow and hungry, including Guo Daxue, none of them were completely clothed, and suddenly saw it, thinking that the wild people in the mountains had come out of the mountain.

The news of the Son of Heaven's abandonment of the country was transmitted back to Nanning from Sitongzhou, and then to Liuzhou, Guilin, Tongtong, Jingzhou, and finally to the military marshal's mansion in Yuanzhou, Hunan. Subsequently, fast horses drove out of Yuanzhou and galloped to the Ming army garrisons in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, and Hubei provinces.

With the gallop of these fast horses, the news of the Son of Heaven's abandonment of the country spread everywhere in the land of South China like wings, and at the same time, the senior generals of the Taiping Army from all over the country also rushed to Yuanzhou.

The Son of Heaven abandons the country, where is the world going?

The Taiping Military Marshal's Mansion in Yuanzhou, Hunan Province, became the focus of South China at this moment.

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The Son of Heaven abandoned the country, and the Tang Dynasty was more difficult to write.

(To be continued.) )