New Book Collection: The Rise of Great Powers 1900

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Humiliated by this, Wu Fengsheng naturally didn't have anything good to say, and said a lot of bad things in front of Sun Kewang.

But Sun Kewang was greatly moved, and after listening to Wu Fengsheng's complaint patiently, he immediately asked him to ask Xu Sinan.

Sun Kewang feasted Xu Sinan, and the banquet was full of words, without the respect of a prince, which made Wu Fengsheng angry, and secretly hated that he didn't know anyone, this Sun Kewang was not a big deal at all.

But Sun Kewang can see clearly, what bullshit king, what bullshit three provinces, all of them are empty.

Only the knife in the hand is real.

Yang Chao promised to help him recall the old department, which really stabbed him in the heart of Sun Kewang, and he couldn't do it if he didn't fall into the trap.

Although he was defeated by Li Dingguo, and then fled, no one opened the city gate to let him in along the way, and it seemed that the people were devastated by the people, but Sun Kewang was still very confident, and there were still a number of his henchmen in the Daxi Army.

Zhang Sheng and Wang Ziqi, who guarded Yunnan, these two are all subordinates who have been following him in bloody battles, and they are completely trustworthy, otherwise they would not have let them guard Yunnan, and the rest of the people are probably on the sidelines, as long as Yang Chao helps, he can also win over a group, and it should be no problem to recruit 100,000 people.

As for Yang Chao saying that he would only give him one Guizhou, this is not a problem at all, Sun Kewang did not have only one Yunnan in the past, and when he followed his godfather Zhang Xianzhong to wander, there was no wool territory, not all of them were beaten down, as long as there were soldiers in hand, it was still his.

Therefore, Sun Kewang warmly entertained Xu Sinan, saying that he and Yang Chao have also been friends for a long time and admire Yunyun very much.

Just when Xu Sinan and Sun Kewang reached an agreement. In Yunnan, Yang Chao's envoys had also completed negotiations with the imperial court.

Li Dingguo caught Zhang Sheng, who was originally going to be beheaded, but Yang Chao's envoy asked the imperial court to pardon Zhang Sheng, and this envoy's face still had to be given, because this envoy was no one else. It was Zhu Cihuan's brother Zhu Cijiong.

Let Xu Sinan be the envoy by Sun Kewang's side because Xu Sinan is from a military background, and the envoy who goes to negotiate with the imperial court must have a certain identity, obviously Yang Chao's brother-in-law is very suitable.

However, Zhu Cijiong was not very happy to go, and his sister Yang Yue didn't want her husband to go to that kind of place, and it didn't work to cry with Yang Chao, but Yang Chao promised to send elite soldiers to protect them, which made the two of them a little more relieved.

Zhu Cijiong brought a letter from his brother Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cihong. humbly admitted in his heart that he lost the world because of his own lack of morality, and praised his younger brother Zhu Cihuan for his great contribution to the country, inheriting the legacy of his ancestors and ancestors in the midst of ruin, and guarding the country for his ancestors.

This letter made Zhu Cihuan extremely happy, which was equivalent to the fact that the emperor recognized the legitimacy of his throne, publicized it among the ministers, and swore that he and his brotherhood with his brother sighed.

Because of this letter. It was enough for Zhu Cijiong to gain Zhu Cihuan's support, and then Zhu Cijiong proposed to pardon Sun Kewang. To build the ancestral inheritance, to focus on the overall situation of the country, Sun Kewang's subordinates can't be killed, Zhu Cihuan completely agreed, Li Dingguo wants to be a loyal minister, so whatever the emperor says, is what he says.

Things are going well. Yang Chao successfully persuaded both sides that it was likely to keep the elite soldiers of the Great Western Army, especially the elite cavalry under Li Dingguo who could fight hard with the elite cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately things never went so smoothly.

Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu joined forces to defeat Sun Kewang. But there was a gap between the two.

After defeating Sun Kewang at that time, the Yunnan-Guizhou form was still dangerous, Zhang Sheng and Wang Ziqi were attacking Kunming, Li Dingguo immediately led his troops back to help, and Liu Wenxiu was responsible for pursuing Sun Kewang in Guizhou.

Li Dingguo successfully defeated Zhang Sheng and kept the emperor's safety, but Liu Wenxiu let Sun Kewang escape.

Li Dingguo was a little dissatisfied with this.

After Liu Wenxiu sat in Guizhou, he quickly surrendered to Sun Kewang's old department who remained in Guizhou, and at this time Guizhou stabilized, Liu Wenxiu wrote to Emperor Longwu to move to Guiyang.

The reason why Sun Kewang has been in Guiyang is because Guizhou communicates Yunnan and Hunan, and he can attack Jingxiang in the north, and he can attack Sichuan and Shu in the west.

However, Li Dingguo was cautious, feeling that Liu Wenxiu seemed to want to blackmail the Son of Heaven to respect himself, and immediately threatened to resign.

The emperor naturally had to be appeased politely, and finally gave up the plan to go to Guiyang, Li Dingguo was satisfied, obviously between Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, the emperor trusted Li Dingguo, and he chose Li Dingguo.

This made Liu Wenxiu very dissatisfied, he didn't want to coerce the Son of Heaven, but he really considered the overall situation, he was named the king of Shu, Li Dingguo was named the king of Jin, he planned to invite the Son of Heaven to sit in Guizhou, and then he entered Shu, Li Dingguo entered Hubei, and the Northern Expedition was divided into two routes, but the result was misunderstood, so he also made a fuss, went back to Yunnan directly, handed over all the power to Li Dingguo, and did not plan to ask about the world.

These messages were sent back to Yang Chao in a steady stream.

Yang Chao had returned to Nanjing at this time, and the offensive of the Qing army in the north finally stopped.

Obviously, the Qing army gained nothing, more than 200,000 Eight Banner soldiers attacked Shandong, 200,000 attacked Henan, all of which were repelled by the Yang Army, especially in the direction of Henan, and even once attacked by Wang Pu to Kaifeng's mansion, but Wang Pu was exhausted at this time and was unable to attack Kaifeng, and in the direction of Shandong, although Zhao Kang and Li Wuliu did not do much, they could already compete with the Qing Army's Eight Banners in the desert (Mo Nan, Mo Bei), obviously these two people have figured out the habits of the Mongols in the desert, and the soldiers are trained enough to be elite.

"The Qing court is already poor. There is news that the Qing court's distrust of Hong Chengchou has reached its limit, and even Dolgon is not very worried about Hong Chengchou. ”

Yang Chao received news from the north, and the Qing court was very dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, the most direct reason was that Hong Chengchou gave up Wuchang.

"Hehe, Hong Chengchou, this old horseman, has made a money-losing deal."

Huang Fengfu also smiled.

At that time, Sun Kewang was attacking Wuchang, and at the same time made a posture to fight with Yang Chaohuo, Hong Chengchou risked giving up Wuchang in order to let Sun Kewang and Yang Chao fight, hoping to let Sun Kewang attack Yang Chao with peace of mind.

As a result, he underestimated Sun Kewang and was played hard by Sun Kewang, and after Sun Kewang occupied Wuchang, he immediately went south to fight with Li Dingguo.

At this time, it was impossible for Hong Chengchou to take back Wuchang, he sent thousands of small boats from the Han River to the south, which was beaten into planks by Yang Chao's fleet, and with Yang Chao's powerful naval army, he would never be able to get close to Wuchang.

What the Qing court saw was that after the loss of Wuchang, when Sun Kewang and Li Ding's domestic struggle, they had no way to take action at all, and lost a great opportunity to recover Hunan.

"Uncle, uncle, the princess is going to give birth!"

At this time, a family member rushed to the study to report.

Yang Chao has been staying at home for the past few days, and all military and government affairs are presided over in the study, just because the due dates of the two wives have arrived.

Yang Chao hurriedly told Huang Fengfu: "Fengfu, you work hard." We must maintain the Great Western Army and persuade Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang to join us in the Northern Expedition, so that next year we will have the ability to drive the Qing army out of the Great Wall in one fell swoop! ”

After speaking, Yang Chao hurriedly ran to Zhu Yujiao's place, but was blocked in the delivery room. (To be continued......)