Chapter 302: Guangxi Raised Troops

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Sun Yanling, the general of Fuman, held a banquet at home to hack to death more than 30 people, including Wang Yongnian and Meng Yimao, deputy commander, and officially surrendered to Wu Sangui, and Guangxi fell.

As soon as this news came out, Kangxi was immediately blindsided, Sun Yanling was one of his most trusted generals, and he had just entrusted him with a heavy task, with great expectations, hoping that he could contain Wu Sangui in Guangxi and buy time for the imperial court to deploy troops and generals calmly. However, Sun Yanling's actions disappointed Kangxi, and he was even a little angry, and he fell many times in a row. But it is useless to be angry, the situation is already like this, and we can only discuss how to deal with the enemy and quell the rebellion next.

The actions of the imperial court are not unpleasant, and as soon as they received the news, they once again issued an order to appease Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi, and promised a series of favorable conditions, hoping that they would send troops to quell the rebellion, in fact, as long as they did not move, it was already the greatest help to the imperial court. It is estimated that Geng Jingzhong should laugh at Kangxi again when he receives the edict, Wu Sangui has been raising troops for a month and a half, and he Geng Jingzhong is also gathering troops, but unfortunately these Kangxi don't know at all.

Speaking of Geng Jingzhong and Sun Yanling are also acquaintances, Sun Yanling is ten years older than Geng Jingzhong, when he was in the capital, although several feudal princes did not meet often, they still met a few times. Combined with Geng Jingzhong's historical knowledge of later generations, he still has some sympathy for Sun Yanling's situation.

Sun Yanling is a native of Northeast China, and his father Sun Longyuan and Kong Youde are good friends. As early as the time of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Longyuan descended to the Qing Dynasty with Kong Youde, and struggled with Kong Youde on the front line for many years. After pacifying Guangxi, Sun Longyuan was promoted to general. Kong Youde was happy. I thought that our brothers had been fighting side by side for so many years. Let's get married! So he married his daughter Kong Sizhen to Sun Yanling.

Later, Kong Youde died in Guilin, and Sun Longyuan did not run away, and sacrificed his life for the country, and the little couple became orphans. After the meritorious service, the Qing court gave grace, so Bi Zhun Sun Yanling inherited his father's second-class title and added a first-class official position. Kong Sizhen is the same as the king of the county every month, and enters the palace to be the righteous daughter of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. Princess Feng Gulun became the only Han princess in the Qing Dynasty.

Since they were still young, Xiaozhuang ordered that they would be married when they were older. Sun Yanling knew that he was helpless now, and now he only had the big tree of Kong Sizhen to rely on, and when he heard that his marriage was not yellow, he felt a lot more at ease, and he wanted to grow up quickly. The two have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and they are married with their fingers, and they generally do not change their minds in feudal society. But Kong Sizhen still changed her mind, and she fell in love with someone she shouldn't love - Emperor Shunzhi.

Since it has always been a military career. The men I saw were all big and coarse, and they didn't say anything about the smell of sweat all over their bodies. is still foul at every turn, what "your uncle's", "your mother's" and so on are relatively civilized, and the cultural cultivation is too inferior. And since entering the harem of the Forbidden City, Kong Sizhen saw a handsome, polite, and gentle man, and her love immediately bloomed. Bloom is blooming, but unfortunately most "men" are missing one thing, and there is only one real man in the harem, and that is the emperor. Shunzhi is a talent, handsome, polite, and can chant poetry and painting, it is difficult to like it. In this way, Kong Sizhen was completely attracted to Shunzhi.

Geng Jingzhong remembered that a certain TV series he watched in his previous life also carried out artistic processing on this, saying that he and Shunzhi had a leg, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang once wanted to make him the imperial concubine. If it weren't for Concubine Dong E's preconceived ideas, there would have been a Concubine Kong E in history.

Of course, now Geng Jingzhong knows that it is impossible for Kong Sizhen to marry Shunzhi, and aside from the famous flowers and masters, Xiaozhuang will not be able to pass the pass. In order to marry Mongolia, Xiaozhuang hopes that the prince will have more Mongolian blood, and he is bent on letting Shunzhi take the Mongols, and hates the Han woman to death, even if he still likes Kong Sizhen, it is impossible.

In fact, Geng Jingzhong guessed that a girl like Kong Sizhen, who was born in the military camp since childhood, grew up in the military camp, grew up to be good at riding and shooting, and several men are not opponents, Shunzhi must not like it, if he liked it, he would have been the queen of Mongolia a long time ago, or he would not have given up the throne because of a concubine Dong E.

But one thing Geng Jingzhong can be sure of is that Kong Sizhen should indeed like Shunzhi. It stands to reason that he can marry Sun Yanling at the age of fifteen, but Kong Sizhen said that he wanted to learn knowledge and take on the heavy responsibility of managing the soldiers in Guangxi, that is, he would not get married. Study hard in the palace, of course, it is clear who to tutor with homework at a glance. The marriage has been dragged on like this, and Xiaozhuang was busy with the "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law war" at that time, and he didn't have time to pay attention to her. But Sun Yanling, who was outside the palace, was afraid that the cooked duck would fly.

In those years, the imperial court was quite busy, first Concubine Dong E died, and she couldn't leave the Forbidden City when Shunzhi was most painful. Later, Shunzhi also hung up, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang cried a lot, and Kong Sizhen, as a righteous daughter, could not leave the cabinet at this time. When Kangxi Shun ascended the throne, Shunzhi's funeral was all completed. Kong Sizhen, who was already twenty years old, finally walked out of the palace and married Sun Yanling, and the stone in Sun Yanling's heart finally landed. Xiaozhuang ordered the construction of a mansion for the newlyweds outside the Xihua Gate, and Sun Yanling was given the title of "Heshuo Edon", given a hereditary marquis, and became a member of the Council of Ministers of the Council of Parliamentary Princes. Sun Yanling has become an important member of the country, and all officials in the country know about these things, and they are all to be passed on in the newspapers of the imperial court.

As a man, Sun Yanling also has his own charm, he is burly, dignified, good at fencing, proficient in music and rhythm, and because he grew up in the military camp with Kong Sizhen, he is a veritable childhood sweetheart. It's a pity that Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling were separated for eight years, and the eight years changed both Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanting. Sun Yanling had a knighthood at a young age, and he was also the future master of the horse after the hero. Everyone coaxed him, relied on him for everything, and rarely blamed, let alone beaten. Sun Yanling can do whatever he wants in the capital, he is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he is not afraid of his father, and he has become a standard gentleman, selfish, willful, and self-centered is quite strict, which is better than Geng Jingzhong's two younger brothers.

At the beginning, Sun Yanling was still self-aware, and he knew that if he didn't marry Kong Sizhen, he would be useless. Before I caught it, I kept pretending to be my grandson until the candle in the cave room. After the two parties got married, Sun Yanling's mentality changed. Before I caught it, it was my grandson. Docile and obedient. Halfway through the chase is the son. Learn to talk back. I want to be Lao Tzu after chasing it. Call the shots. In view of this kind of thinking, Sun Yanling wants to get rid of the title of "husband and wife are expensive" and release a hundred kinds of resentment in his heart.

Who made him different from Geng Jingzhong, and he was not as good as Geng Jingzhong, marrying a gentle princess. If he were gentle. It's just a matter of overcoming rigidity with softness, and the two won't fall out. Kong Sizhen didn't eat Sun Yanling's set, and directly ordered that according to Manchurian customs, "horses are not allowed to enter unless they are called", and confidently blasted the annoying Sun Elu out of the door, and poor Sun Yanling endured it all night in the living room.

After such a fuss, Sun Yanling not only did not gain prestige, but even lost his original prestige. There were many people talking behind him, pointing and poking, scolding him for being "afraid of his wife". Sun Yanling had nowhere to vent his anger. This matter was not only known to everyone in the capital, but also to all officials in the country. Sun Yanling thinks that Kong Sizhen is a shrew. Unreasonable. Kong Sizhen thinks that Sun Yanling has no ink on his chest, and he is a beast. The contradictions between the two sides are getting bigger and bigger. But husband and wife still have to share weal and woe, the previous imperial court was still the period of the four auxiliary governments, when Kong Youde was crowned king, they were angry, and a hundred were not happy.

In the second year of Kangxi, Shunzhi's order to erect a monument to the "Dingnan Wuzhuang Ancestral Hall" was canceled, and the auxiliary minister ignored the emperor's order, and finally it was the intervention of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang that withdrew the instructions of the auxiliary minister. This is a very dangerous political signal. More dangerous signals followed, the four auxiliary ministers dared to rectify, cured Xiaozhuang, was called the father-in-law by Shunzhi, and the great benefactor of the royal family, John Tang, was imprisoned, and they also thought that if they stayed in Beijing, they would probably be rectified.

Seven years ago, the veteran general who happened to command the subordinates of King Dingnan returned to his hometown, and Sun Yanling was named the general of Guangxi and went to command the rest of Kong Youde's troops and garrisoned Guangxi. Kong Sizhen is also a woman who does not let her eyebrows, she thinks that she is Kong Youde's daughter, and she should take over the old department of King Dingnan when she arrives in Guangxi. Who knew that Sun Yanling had made a stumbling block behind his back.

At the same time that Sun Yanling was named the general of Guangxi, he was named "Mrs. Yipin," and became "a wife and a husband", and he had to listen to Sun Yanling in everything. Of course, Kong Sizhen was 10,000 unhappy, but he didn't make trouble with Sun Yanling in name, so he arrived in Guangxi so quietly.

Sun Yanling originally naively believed that as soon as he arrived in Guangxi, he could take over the old ministry of King Dingnan and completely get rid of his wife's aura by virtue of Kong Youde's son-in-law's status as a "half-son". But when I arrived, I found that the gap between the ideal and the reality was too far. Dai Liangchen, Yan Chaogang, and Wang Yongnian, the three generals of Guangxi, didn't buy it at all, a little white face who valued his wife and never even killed anyone, why should he manage them?

With Sun Yanling's ability, qualifications, and prestige, he couldn't control these battle-hardened subordinates at all. What's even stricter is that Sun Yanling still lacks self-knowledge, and wants to learn from Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong to become a veritable young owner, and reprimands these generals every day, but the result is that the generals are not convinced at all, and the two sides have deep grievances.

During this period, Dutong Dai Liangchen saw that Sun Yanling and his husband were not in harmony, and in order to deepen the conflict between their husband and wife, he instigated it. Basically, the meaning expressed is that Guangxi is the foundation left by Kong Youde, and his grandson Yanling has no right to inherit, only the princess is qualified, and these generals hope that the princess will personally lead them, as for that Sun Yanling, let him go aside and rest. At that time, Kong Sizhen also had this kind of plan, so the two sides hit it off. After Kong Sizhen quarreled with Sun Yanling again, Kong Sizhen, who had the royal backing behind him, took back all the military and political power in Guangxi. So Sun Yanling completely became a puppet and didn't dare to issue an order.

Kong Sizhen took back all the military and political power in Guangxi, and at the beginning he was firmly in his hands. But she didn't have the ambition and strength of Empress Lu and Wu Zetian, and she didn't know how to govern Guangxi at all, so she had to decentralize power and give Dai Liangchen, Yan Chaogang, and Wang Yongnian a lot of power. Since then, the power of the vassal king has been shifted, and the first army in Guangxi "only knows that there is a capital commander, but does not know that there is a general, and he does not know that there is a qualification." ”

The couple later came to their senses and immediately wrote to the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court would help them regain power. The fold was sent to the palace during the Spring Festival of the second year of Kangxi's pro-government, Geng Jingzhong can imagine that when Kangxi received the fold, he would definitely be crying and laughing, and his power could be taken away, which was also the best. Since Kangxi saw that the current situation in Guangxi was quite good, he did not immediately solve Sun Yanling and Kong Sizhen's request. The matter dragged on, and as a result, the contradictions in Guangxi intensified.

Just a few months ago, Sun Yanling and Dutong Wang Yongnian had a big conflict. The reason for the incident was that there was a stele girl in his house who was going to marry, and the stele girl's father was a thousand-commander who happened to be Wang Yongnian's subordinate. Sun Yanling had great opinions about Wang Yongnian, but he didn't dare to go directly to trouble. Think I can't beat Guan Zhang, and I can't beat Liu Bei? So he brought this commander of the thousand commanders, and according to the relationship between the master and servant of Manchuria, on the grounds that he did not tell him to marry his daughter, he beat the commander with 30 military sticks.

As the saying goes, "it's up to the owner to beat a dog". Wang Yongnian became angry when he heard it, this is called nothing to do, Lao Tzu is still waiting to drink his wine, Sun Yanling, you are too much. took someone to settle accounts with Sun Yanling with a knife, Sun Yanling got the news one step earlier, and ran faster than a rabbit. After Wang Yongnian arrived at the palace, he didn't catch anyone, so he scolded him, and then left angrily. Things came to this, Wang Yongnian led troops to surround the princess's mansion without authorization, Sun Yanling and his wife were so frightened that they trembled all over, and immediately wrote to Kangxi for help.

At this time, a few days later, Kangxi issued an edict: "Sun Yanling punished his subordinates for not guilty according to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty palace, and Wang Yongnian scolded with a knife, lawless, and must be severely punished." Wang Yongnian was then arrested and imprisoned. This is a coincidence, Wang Yongnian was imprisoned for less than a month, and Wu Sangui officially rebelled. Kangxi did not hesitate to use Sun Yanling, awarded him the title of Fuman General, fully commanded the soldiers and horses of Guangxi, first held on to Guangxi, and waited for the next order of the Qing Dynasty.

What Kangxi himself didn't expect was that in order to help Sun Yanling stick to Guangxi, he also used Wang Yongnian at the same time to release him from prison, and as a result, he did bad things with good intentions. Just half a month ago, when Wu Sangui attacked Hunan, Kangxi ordered the Qing army to attack from Jingzhou to support Changsha, and also ordered Sun Yanling to send troops from Guangxi to attack Wu Sangui in Hunan, forming a double-sided attack with the Qing army and eliminating Wu Sangui in Hunan.

Sun Yanling did not attack at this time, he was not afraid of Wu Sangui, but he was like Geng Jingzhong, and received the "holy decree" given to him by Wu Sangui. The conditions given by Wu Sangui are quite attractive, and Sun Yanling is also a relative of Wu Sangui. The first to marry Kong Youde was Wu Sangui, Kong Sizhen was ready to marry Wu Sangui's second son, but Wu Sangui's second son died young, and the marriage failed, so Wu Sangui recognized Kong Sizhen as a "righteous daughter". So Sun Yanling naturally became Wu Sangui's "son-in-law." ”

Of course, the relationship cannot be decided, it also depends on the strength. Wu Sangui's holy decree not only gave him an official, but also told Sun Yanling that his army was on the way to western Guangdong, so you can do it yourself.

Sun Yanling himself has been living in the capital, a gentleman, where can he fight, he is scared to death when he sees a war. Although he is inherently timid and lacks scheming, he is extremely vindictive.

In order to consolidate the situation in Guangxi, Kangxi released Wang Yongnian from prison and ordered him to do things as usual, but he didn't say a word about treating crimes and making meritorious contributions. Sun Yanling was afraid that Wang Yongnian would impeach him again, and he was not convinced, why should his enemies treat him the same? When he saw Wu Sangui's letter, Sun Yanling's first thought was that the opportunity for revenge had come, killing Wang Yongnian and others to vent his hatred! By the way, vent your dissatisfaction with the imperial court.

Ten days ago, Sun Yanling deceived the generals into his home on the pretext of discussing the military situation, and ambushed the elite soldiers in advance. After the meeting, a banquet was set up and the generals were invited to start the dinner. Of course, he had to drink at the banquet, so Sun Yanling used the name of smashing the cup to let the ambush soldiers rush out immediately. The first to be killed was Wang Yongnian, followed by Dai Liangchen, Yan Chaogang, etc., and more than 30 senior generals in Guangxi were all killed. Immediately afterwards, Sun Yanling sent troops to surround the home of Ma Xiongzhen, the governor of Guangxi. Only a few family members fled from Maxiong Town, and the rest were taken prisoner. At this moment, Ma Zhenxiong was imprisoned in a prison in Guilin City, but he would rather die than surrender.

Sun Yanling took Guangxi without much effort, proclaimed himself "appeased the general", and officially raised troops against the Qing Dynasty. (To be continued......)