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Kunming, Yunnan.

Kunming City is square and slightly flattened, the east gate is famous and the gate, and the people usually call it the big east gate; The northeast gate is called Yongqing Gate, which is called the Little East Gate; The north gate is called Baoshun Gate, commonly known as the North Gate, and the North Gate Street in the north is therefore named, at the end of the North Gate Street, the northwest gate of Yuantong Mountain; The southwest gate is called Hongrun Gate, commonly known as Xiaoxi Gate; The name of the west gate is Guangyuan Gate, and it is called the Great West Gate; The south gate of the south side is called Li Zhengmen, commonly known as the recent building or the big south gate, however, the recent building is also the name of the past 20 years. According to the "Kunming County Chronicle", "each gate has a building, respectively, Yinchun, Biguang, Tuobian, Kangfu, Wangjing, and recently. ”

Kunming city wall in the Ming Dynasty, there is a river around the city, and boats are feasible. Outside the heavy customs, across the pass of Qu City, the street outside the city is more than one zhang wide, divided into three roads, walk its way, depending on the person, the official line left, the business family line right, the prince and noble line, the hierarchy is clear. The urban area of the brick city in the Ming Dynasty is about three square kilometers, and the government offices, official residences, temples, Qianning Palace, Patrol Procuratorate, Metropolitan Procuratorate, Municipal Division, and Punishment Prosecutor are concentrated on the edge of four or five adjacent streets.

Thirty years ago, the four generals of the peasant Western Army, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, entered Yunnan with the name of "Lianming to resist the Qing Dynasty". Sun Kewang "destroyed Kunyang, Chenggong two cities", built a large number of buildings and built palaces in Wuhua Mountain, luxurious for a while, and was called the palace of the king of Qin. Soon after, the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty Zhu Youlang was defeated, and Sun Kewang welcomed him to Guizhou, where he was instigated by the eunuchs and wanted to Zen Zhu Youlang. Zhu Youlang summoned Li Dingguo's people to escort him. From Guizhou to Kunming. "Take the Gongyuan as the official". Kunming became the last political center of the Southern Ming Dynasty and was previously known as the capital of Yunnan. Then Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and fought back, but was defeated by Li Dingguo, and Zhu Youlang moved to Wuhua Mountain, taking the Qin Palace as the imperial palace, "building the palace in Wuhua", called the Wanshou Palace.

These people are building a lot of work. In the end, the cheaper ones were all Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui's army swept these Southern Ming forces one by one, and finally began to divide Yunnan, by the prince of Pingxi, after Wu Sangui entered Yunnan, once again on the original basis to expand the palace, "Yiguang its site, with heavy walls, down to Jiege, extremely civil and civil", for a time "red pavilion and blue marsh." Twists and turns, Jiege Fengtang. The unevenness is due to Xiu, the crown is towering, the wall is carved with a wall, and it is dozens of miles wide. The wonder of Huimu is transported from Liangyue; The beauty of play. Purchased from Fujian; And the pipe silk brocade, as well as the genus of calligraphy and painting, must take the three Wu, and carry it endlessly, in order to be good from the garden. ”

Wu Sangui officially proclaimed himself emperor in Yueyang, Hunan, tentatively designated Kunming as the capital, and then agreed on the place of the national capital after the army went north to dominate the world. The country name is the Great Zhou, Jianyuan Zhaowu, and at the same time rewarding his subordinates. As for the puppet child emperor who was placed in Pingxi Wangfu by him in Yunnan, it is said that Zhu Cirui, the grandson of Zhu Changxuan, the former king of Daming Gui, was selectively forgotten by him, and finally Fang Guangchen mentioned it, so Wu Sangui named Zhu Cirui a king of peace and let him be a prince of peace and happiness.

Wu Sangui doesn't care about this puppet little emperor Zhu Cirui, it doesn't mean that others don't care. Geng Jingzhong had discussed this issue with Yao Qisheng and Li Guangdi very early, and when he heard that Wu Sangui was called emperor, he immediately sent people to Kunming and secretly brought this Zhu Cirui to his side. Originally, he would tear his face with Wu Sangui early if he did this, but now it doesn't matter. Wu Sangui has already been proclaimed emperor, and he is under the banner of recovering the Ming Dynasty, so he will definitely not follow in the footsteps of Wu Sangui, so secretly rescuing this Zhu Cirui is the best choice.

Kunming City is also heavily guarded, after all, Wu Sangui's grandson Wu Shifan sits here, but after all, this is the southernmost far away from the battlefield, and the heavily guarded city is relatively speaking, for the soldiers of the action team who were dispatched, this is far worse than their Fuzhou. Here in Kunming, a nail was planted a long time ago, and it started when Geng Jingzhong established the Intelligence Department. Since there are two enemies in total, the Qing court and Wu Sangui, how can he consider the side of the capital when arranging a secret son?

In the past seven years, not to mention that there are shadows everywhere in Kunming City, but all the key passes and key departments have indeed been arranged. In Pingxi Palace, no, it should be said that it is in the Zhou Palace, it is the largest, the number of people has reached twenty, and everything is done, and the highest one has become a steward of the procurement office, and it is very convenient to enter and exit the palace. There weren't many people on Zhu Cirui's side, and no one in the Zhou Mansion took Zhu Cirui seriously, he just delivered food and food on time every day, which was actually no different from being in prison. Zhu Ciruidi's situation is actually not as good as Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so that people can still sit on the court decently, but he can't even touch the edge.

If you want to say whether this Zhu Cirui is really the son of Prince Gui? This is true, Wu Sangui originally killed Zhu Youlang or still felt a little guilty, and he did not completely kill some other Ming emperors, this Zhu Cirui, as a side branch of King Gui, has been living in Yunnan, and he is also one under his nose. It is said that when Wu Sangui killed Zhu Youlang, this Zhu Cirui was not yet born. Zhu Cirui is only 11 years old this year, but his father died of illness five years ago.

The shadows in Kunming City took Zhu Cirui very smoothly in cooperation with the action team, and at the same time, half of the shadows in Kunming City were also removed, and the others went deeper and quieter, waiting for the call from above again. And after the action team left Kunming with Zhu Cirui, it took two days for an anomaly to be discovered in the Zhou Wangfu - Zhu Cirui was gone. This matter is not trivial, the scary people in the palace immediately reported the matter to Wu Shifan, and Wu Shifan also immediately ordered the city gate to be blocked, but at this time, there was still time there, Zhu Cirui and the soldiers of the action team had already gone away. Under Wu Shifan's order, Wu soldiers plowed the city like a lot, but they didn't even look at a shadow, so they had to go back to their lives in disgrace, and Wu Shifan dropped seven or eight precious vases in a row. There was no way, while he continued to order to exaggerate the scope of the search, he had to truthfully report the matter to Wu Sangui

This Zhu Cirui was still on his way to Jinling City, but instead of going straight to Jinling, he first went to Guangdong, the territory of the nearest Mawei Army. Then take a boat to Jinling via the port of Guangzhou. After escaping from the city of Kunming. They also had to cross the territory of Guangxi. This is still Wu Sangui's sphere of influence, and only when they enter Guangdong can they completely relax their minds.

Geng Jingzhong didn't know this, but at this time, he was honestly lying in a folding wheelchair and being pushed by his personal guards to enjoy the cool under the gazebo.

"How is it, the army should be out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, right?" Geng Jingzhong ate a grape and asked casually.

"Governor Dadu, Commander Wang set off with the fleet yesterday afternoon, according to the itinerary, it must have entered the sea at this time." Lee Kwang-di also sat on a stone bench on the side. Spit out a grape skin and reply. Ten days had passed since Geng Jingzhong was assassinated, and in these ten days, Geng Jingzhong ordered several fleets on the Yangtze River to assemble, and at the same time informed the Fujian side to transfer the Fourth Fleet and some warships of the Seventh Fleet to prepare for an early march into Bohai Bay and Tianjin, and return to the Qing court.

Li Guangdi, Yao Qisheng and other important ministers of the Mawei Army who stayed in Fujian heard that Geng Jingzhong had been assassinated, and their lives hung by a thread, and they were all frightened. Everyone wanted to go to Jinling to visit, but there were a lot of things in Fujian, and in the end, Li Guangdi took the lead. With a few people arrived at Jinling with the fleet.

"Damn, the Qing court is playing yin with me. Let's let him know and know how good we are. Originally, it was expected that the Qing court would take a series of actions after losing Jiangnan, but it really did not expect that it would directly come up and take three indiscriminate measures. Geng Jingzhong said hatefully.

"Le Erjin and Zhou Peigong are finished, the Qing court has lost the important tax town in Jiangnan, and Caoyun has been cut off, which hurts their lifeblood, it is strange if they are not in a hurry, you are the governor of the capital, and the heavy responsibility of the world is placed on you, how can you go out at will, and you have not done complete protection? Are you guards too, many of them are the most elite troops of the Mawei Army? How did you hear that when it came to a sudden situation, everyone was numb? It seems that your training is still not enough, for this kind of small-scale emergencies or lack of adaptability, without the command of the leading Uncle Gu, I don't know what to do, starting from tomorrow, the guards on this side of the palace have been strengthened several times, and you also have time to train more, next time there is such a thing, it will be dealt with severely! The more Li Guangdi spoke, the more angry he became, and he was originally facing Geng Jingzhong, but he turned his head and began to start a fire against several guards.

"Alas, well, I've already punished them. Besides, it's still my fault, but then again, it's really dangerous this time, and if that guy goes straight to my head, I'm really going to see Hades. The power of that crossbow is really great, and the alloy plate on my chest is half an inch thick, and it can be penetrated. Although it penetrated a little bit, it still penetrated after all, and it almost didn't shock me to death. ”

"This time, Commander Wang led the naval fleet north, and he would definitely lead the Qing court to regret it. So far, except for the last time when the Metropolitan Governor personally led his army to conquer the Wa Kingdom, there has never been such a large-scale dispatch of naval forces! Four detachments plus more than 50 Haicang ships and more than 200 warships blockaded the Bohai Bay and blocked the Haihe River, and the last bit of grain for the Qing court would be cut off. With 30,000 naval officers and 20,000 army troops, Tianjin must be one down, and as for the capital, heavy troops are gathered, so let's wait. Li Guangdi was not worried about the defeat of the 50,000-strong Mawei army going north. Wang Zhenbang received an order to blockade the Bohai Bay and the Haihe River, and at the same time attack the city of Tianjin and hold Tianjin. This is like a dagger, which was fiercely inserted into the throat of the Qing court, hehe, it will look good when the time comes.

In the second year of Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty (that is, in 1400), Zhu Di, the king of Yan, crossed the Grand Canal and went south to compete for the throne. After Zhu Di became the emperor, in order to commemorate the "Battle of Jingyan", on November 21, the second year of Yongle, this place was renamed Tianjin, that is, the meaning of the ferry through which the Son of Heaven passed, which is also the origin of Tianjin. As a military important place, in the small Zhigu area southwest of the Sancha River estuary, Tianjin began to build a city and set up a guard, called Tianjin Wei, which opened a new page in Tianjin's urban development. Later, Tianjin Left Guard and Tianjin Right Guard were added one after another. In the ninth year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court merged Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Zuowei and Tianjin Right Wei Sanwei into Tianjin Wei, and established civil affairs, salt transportation, taxation, and military construction.

The ancient Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in our country were all built in the current Beijing, and the grain and grass consumed in the capital were in short supply by the north alone, and it was necessary to "transfer grain from the south to the north", and the most economical and convenient mode of transportation of grain and grass was only by waterway at that time. Especially after the Yongle era of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, the "sea ban" order was lifted, and on the other hand, the north-south Grand Canal was vigorously opened. However, whether it is sea or river transportation, millions of quintals of grain must pass through the Sancha estuary in the upper reaches of the Haihe River every year, and then enter the North Canal to reach the capital, so that the Sancha estuary in the upper reaches of the Haihe River has gradually become Tianjin's shipping port, and has also laid the foundation for Tianjin to become the largest search business center in the north. At the same time, it also brought the characteristic culture of the south to the north, especially the lasting influence of the Mazu culture on the urban and local culture of Tianjin, which is unique among the northern coastal cities.

Tianjin is so important, of course, there are also a lot of Qing soldiers stationed, especially after Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong raised troops one after another, the Qing court also expected that the Mawei army might invade Tianjin and then invade the capital from here, so it reinforced the fort again at the mouth of Dagu, Tianjin.

Dagukou is a coastal defense fortress of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. It is located at the mouth of the Haihe River 50 kilometers southeast of Tianjin, only 350 miles away from Beijing City in the northwest, bordering the Bohai Sea in the east, Haihe Plain in the west, and facing Tanggu across the river. "When the land is nine rivers and Tianjin, the road leads to seven provinces of boats and cars", it is known as the gateway of Beijing and Tianjin, and the throat of sea and land. In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, after Chengzu Zhu Di built the capital of Beijing, he built a city and a garrison in Tianjin, and built a pier and a cannon in Dagu Haikou. Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty set up the camp of Dagu Xiezhen, and Kangxi began to build more forts and gun emplacements in the north and south of Dagu last year, placing more than 50 cannons and defending 2,000 soldiers. Geng Jingzhong took Jinling City before, so Kangxi once again sent heavy troops to garrison Jingu, supervise the defense, fortify Dagu, build ten forts again, and plant piles under the water to resist enemy ships.

Dagukou is a coastal defense fortress of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. It is located at the mouth of the Haihe River 50 kilometers southeast of Tianjin, only 350 miles away from Beijing City in the northwest, bordering the Bohai Sea in the east, Haihe Plain in the west, and facing Tanggu across the river. "When the land is nine rivers and Tianjin, the road leads to seven provinces of boats and cars", it is known as the gateway of Beijing and Tianjin, and the throat of sea and land. In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, after Chengzu Zhu Di built the capital of Beijing, he built a city and a garrison in Tianjin, and built a pier and a cannon in Dagu Haikou. Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty set up the camp of Dagu Xiezhen, and Kangxi began to build more forts and gun emplacements in the north and south of Dagu last year, placing more than 50 cannons and defending 2,000 soldiers. Geng Jingzhong took Jinling City before, so Kangxi once again sent heavy troops to garrison Jingu, supervise the defense, fortify Dagu, build ten forts again, and plant piles under the water to resist enemy ships. (To be continued......)