In 1646, Ding Kuichu, the former governor of Liangguang, Qu Shiyun, the former governor of Guangxi, Li Yongmao, the former secretary of the military department, and a large number of civil and military generals gathered in Zhaoqing, and jointly supported the grandson of Emperor Wanli Shenzong, the son of Zhu Changying, the king of Gui, and Zhu Youlang, the king of Yongming who was exiled in Wuzhou, Guangxi, was enthroned as the emperor, and chose Zhaoqing Mansion as the "accompanying capital", and Dingli Qiaolou was the palace, and ascended the throne here, and the following year was the first year of Yongli, known as Nanming in history.

Lichen Building is located in Chengzhong Road, Zhaoqing City, was built in the first year of Song Chonghe (1118), the building is two floors high, built on the pedestal of more than 6 meters high, heavy eaves nine ridges, rest on the top of the mountain, arch door, the whole body is red, commonly known as "Red Mansion". The original Lichen Building was also called the Emperor.

In March 1648, Li Chengdong defected in Guangzhou and coerced Tong Yangjia, the governor of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, to join the Southern Ming Dynasty. In this way, the soldiers of the Yongli Dynasty recovered the entire territory of Guangdong without blood.

Until Li Chengdong died in battle, Yongli once better implemented the strategy of uniting the rebel army to resist the Qing Dynasty, and received very good results, the rebel army in various places responded to the wind, some Qing generals defected, and some Qing generals were anyway, and they were active in Fujian and Zhejiang at that time, and later repeatedly raised military rations in eastern Guangdong, and insisted on resisting the Qing Zheng Chenggong, who also sent envoys to the dynasty and respectfully served Yongli as Zhengshuo.

During this period, the military even the war was victorious, and the Yongli Dynasty effectively controlled the vast areas of Liangguang and Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shu and other seven provinces, and the situation was relatively stable, which can be called the heyday of the Yongli Dynasty, and it is really expected to realize the beautiful "Ming dream" of Zhongxing.

These are covered in some of the previous sections.

During this period, in order to consolidate the political power and show the rise and fall of the new dynasty, Yongli opened a branch in Zhaoqing, but it seems that there are many fewer references than before, less than one-tenth of the previous ones - they then strengthened the city wall, renovated the palace, built temples, cast cannons and "Yongli Tongbao" copper coins -

Yongli also set out to rectify the order of the imperial court, and personally visited Yuejiang Tower to inspect the anti-Qingshui division.

Yuejiang Tower is located on the north bank of the Xijiang River in the east of Lichen Tower, which is a courtyard-style garden building with Lingnan characteristics. The building is two floors high, composed of four buildings in the east, west, south and north, the north and south buildings are the top of the mountain, and the roof ridge is erected with fish treasure beads; The canopy on the east and west floors is majestic and majestic. There was a famous pavilion in the history of here, and in the sixth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1432), it was rebuilt as Yuejiang Tower.

Because the "great thing" of the Nanming regime was to resist the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, other institutions were jointly administered, but only the "Military Department" was located in Yuejiang Tower, and it was Ding Kuichu, the former governor of Liangguang, who played the role of "Military Department Shangshu" at this time.

Emperor Wanli personally met with envoys from all over the world in Piyun Tower.

Phiyun Tower is located in the northeast corner of the ancient city, built on the city wall, a stone's throw away from the Lichen Tower. This building was built in the third year of Song Zhenghe (1113), the building is three floors, 19.3 meters high, and the construction area is 3oo square meters. This shape is like the Yellow Crane Tower of Wuhan, the famous building of Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, because it is built on the city wall, it has the tendency of being condescending and straight into the clouds, so it is named. This was originally the Zhaoqing Mansion, and now it has become a place where civil and military officials discuss and govern.

Under the great shape shì, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty scattered all over the country came to pay allegiance, calling Zhaoqing "Xijing".

Zhaoqing was bustling for a while, showing a scene of prosperity.

On December 22, 1649, the day of the winter solstice, the winter is melting, the sky is clear, the people inside and outside the ancient city are crowded, the streets and alleys are covered with flags and the sun, the red lights are hung high, the Lichen Tower, the Phiyun Building, the Yuejiang Building are lined up on both sides of the way, mighty and festive.

The crimson building of the palace is painted newly, the four golden characters of "Guduan Famous County" above the arched heavy door are dazzling, and the two sides of the gate are "Xingyan Langyao light mountains and seas, inkstone Zhu breeze sowing ancient and modern" couplets compete with the sun.

Looking up, the ancient building is majestic and breathtaking, and the eight salutes on the pedestal of more than two zhang high are majestic and magnificent.

At noon, the drums at the gate are ringing in unison, the lion dances on the road in the middle of the city, and the officials and guests who participate in the winter solstice celebration enter the palace and go upstairs.

They are all from the original Liangguang, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces, prefectures, prefectures and more than three grades.

After the ministers and guests arrived, the ministers gathered Yongli and walked out of the palace, and walked along the middle road of the city into the Haoju Road, and walked towards the Phiyun Tower, where the ministers handled government affairs.

After going upstairs to inspect the building, I walked along another street and alley to Yuejiang Building.

At this time, more than 10,000 soldiers have lined up in front of the building, please ask the emperor to review, 24 red-clothed artillery lined up by the river, waiting for the emperor to fire a cannon to worship the sky.

At this time, I saw the military department Shangshu Ding Kuichu kneeling to present the torch, the emperor took it, calmly unveiled the red clothes of the first cannon, lit the fire twist, "boom" sounded, the remaining 23 artillery pieces roared the first time, 24 cannonballs roared across the Xijiang River, fell on the south bank and resounded, "Long live" The cry resounded across both sides, and the celebration atmosphere reached **.

In fact, the Winter Solstice Celebration was not used so formally, and there was an important reason for Yongli to make this decision.

Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, came, accompanied by a group of civil and military ministers.

When Zhoushan was laid, Zheng Lian, Marquis of Dingyuan, according to the requirements of the Hantang Group, took King Lu and his entourage to Zhaoqing, Guangdong.

Zheng Lian, the Marquis of Dingyuan, was afraid of hearing the endless noise of their gang, so he specially gathered them all together on another big boat--they were supplied with good food and drink, but he didn't meet them, not even the king of Lu.

His subordinates felt that at this time, the Marquis of Dingyuan, Zheng Lian, seemed to be a different person, in the past, he liked to be close to high-ranking officials, liked to be close to literati - but now he stayed away from them, and often stood on the bow of the boat - what kind of delicious pork knuckle could he say?! The next time I have the opportunity, I will definitely taste it, and I heard that the proprietress is extremely gorgeous - maybe Yuanhou can be so obsessed?!

The road was calm, and there were no unsightly pirates -- within a few days, their fleet arrived safely at the mouth of the Xijiang River in Guangdong, which is the cliff gate of Xinhui City.

The Xijiang River flows from west to east through the entire territory of Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and finally flows into the South China Sea from here.

The waters of the Xijiang River are green. It is rich in fatty river fresh and is famous far and wide. In spring, you can taste the fresh and sweet Xijiang river shrimp; In summer, you can eat sweet three-plough fish; In autumn, you can taste plump koi; In winter, you can eat sea carp. Of course, if it's in a peaceful environment, it's a beautiful place.

At the mouth of the Xijiang River, Zheng Lian, Marquis of Dingyuan, ordered his subordinates to change flat-bottomed boats and go directly to Zhaoqing along the Xijiang River.

Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian silently watched the group from afar and waited for a few small boats-among them, there were still people there pointing and scolding, shouting and scolding, I couldn't hear it clearly, the sound had already been blown away by the sea breeze-

In the sea breeze at the mouth of the river, Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian didn't know why he had some sour feelings, and he didn't know that something was broken in his heart, and he panicked. How much he cared about these people in the past-

When it was ascertained that they were all safely sailing into the Xijiang River, Zheng Lian, Marquis of Dingyuan, left a large ship to be picked up and waited to pick up the sailors who had sent the king of Lu to Zhaoqing—they were ordered to return as soon as they were sent ashore, and they did not need to go to the wharf of Zhaoqing City, but to the vicinity.

The rest of the Dafu boats, in the shouts of Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian, all set sail and returned to the north, and the battle with Tong'an Quanzhou was about to be born, so that Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian had great interest, and life was more rushed.

Zhaoqing is located in the central and western part of Guangdong, at the western end of the Pearl River Delta.

It is bordered by Wuzhou and Hezhou in Guangxi in the west, Yunfu, Yangjiang and Jiangmen in the south, Foshan in the east, and Qingyuan in the back.

Among them, the Xijiang River, the main stream of the Pearl River, passes through the border, and the Tropic of Cancer traverses it.

Zhaoqing, with the back pillow Beiling, faces the Xijiang River, controls Cangwu on the top, and controls the South China Sea on the bottom, which is the throat of western Guangdong.

When several flat-bottomed clippers were about to reach the boundary of Zhaoqing, those sailors put a group of people ashore and put weapons on them - this is not Xiamen, there may be bandits, don't send them off thousands of miles when they are safe, and there will be chaos on the dozens of miles ashore, this is not the original intention of Dingyuan Hou.

After King Lu and Zhu Yihai and his entourage went ashore, they looked around, and they were extremely at a loss - where did everyone go? In fact, the most dazed is King Lu's prison country.

After Yongli became emperor, he was still very supportive of the regime that appeared at the same time on the southeast coast, which was a matter of common sense, so as to disperse the pressure of the Manchus on his own regime.

This means that you see, there is also the Ming regime on the southeast coast, don't stare at me.

At the level of survival, the issues of unification and righteousness have been automatically put on hold by everyone.

But that was in the southeast coastal zone - if this Lu Wangjian really appeared by Yongli's side, would Yongli still be able to support it as before?

Except for the extremely loyal people, the ministers under the supervision of King Lu did not worry about the rest of the people, and it was better to go to Zhaoqing than to run around in the Fujian and Zhejiang regions, and to wait for death in Zhoushan. I heard that Yongli has tens of thousands of elite soldiers and thousands of warships in his hands.

The group had a serious conversation on the shore for a while—this time there was no more quarrelling, and they didn't talk any more about their feelings, when was it, and it was time to decide whether to go forward or backward.

Sure enough, everyone quickly unified their thinking - it was impossible to go back, they could only move forward, and defecting to the Yongli regime was the only way out.

Along the way, although there were old and female people in the group, the military generals were also armed with sharp weapons--the small bandits really didn't dare to do anything to them-

When it was easy to get to Zhaoqing, they first encountered the patrol team, they were immediately surrounded, this team had 2oo people with armor, Lu Wang Linguo and his subordinates were not opponents in numbers, of course, they would not resist.

Zhang Mingzhen took the initiative to negotiate with the team.

At that time, after he was directly taken down by Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian, except for being tied up and eating a mouthful of sand, he did not suffer any harm.

After King Lu and his party were protected, he was naturally let in. He once wanted to find Zheng Lian, the Marquis of Dingyuan, and show affection and courtesy to him - he observed that this Marquis of Dingyuan still had a righteous heart that had not yet been extinguished, but who knew that the Marquis of Dingyuan would not receive him, and he used to visit him often.

Dingyuan Hou just replied that he Dingyuan Hou Zheng Lian knew that he couldn't talk about him, so why bother to say it - if he looked for it again, no one would pay attention to it, and no one would pay attention to the loud scolding, and he would be so tired that he was dead.

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