During the Xianping period of Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Chuanxia Road located in the area of the present-day Sichuan Basin was divided into Yizhou Road, Zizhou Road, Lizhou Road and Kuizhou Road, which were collectively called "Sichuan Gorge Four Roads", referred to as "Sichuan Road", from which Sichuan got its name.

From the end of the Song Dynasty to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the population of Sichuan was greatly reduced and the economy was adjusted under the unprecedented war. As a result, the imperial court carried out two large-scale immigration campaigns in the early Ming and early Qing dynasties, which were known as "Huguang filling Sichuan". The two migration movements enabled Sichuan, which was underpopulated, to gain a large number of laborers, and its social economy was rapidly restored.

In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to incorporate the Sichuan region into the territory of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong's peasant rebel army entered Sichuan, established the "Great West" regime in Sichuan, and took Chengdu as the western capital, and in the early Qing Dynasty, Sichuan has been in the midst of war and turmoil, and it was not until the 20th year of Kangxi that it entered a stable period. In the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi, Huguang filled Sichuan. The northern part of Sichuan is dominated by Shaanxi, the eastern part of Sichuan is dominated by Huguang, the western part of the Sichuan Basin is dominated by Cantonese people, and the southern part of Shaanxi is dominated by two lakes.

In June 1855, the Han army invaded Sichuan in three ways, the second route led by Zeng Guofan from northern Yunnan into Sichuan, and the soldiers pointed directly at Chongqing, and the second route led by Zhao Yali to Henan and Shandong militias from southern Shaanxi into Sichuan. The third route was led by Zeng Shuiyuan and Lin Qirong to the defenders of Jiangxi and Anhui from Guizhou to Sichuan, and the troops arrived in Chongqing in less than a month.

In recent years, Hong Xiuquan was extremely poor and extravagant, not only requisitioning the people to build a palace, but also selecting beautiful women once a year, prohibiting the people of Sichuan from marrying and having children, and the people were wiped out if they resisted a little, not only the people hated it. Even many soldiers dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and the country of abundance was actually enjoyed by Hong Xiuquan alone. Since the news of the Han army's dispatch spread, the people of Sichuan have been unprecedentedly active. Except for some large cities with heavy garrisons, people in other small towns and towns rose up to cooperate with the Han army to attack the city.

Chengdu, the city where Shi Dakai was once stationed, established many soldiers or Shi Dakai's old department, heard that Hong Xiuquan forced Shi Dakai away, all of them were filled with righteous indignation, so that the later guard Wei Jun could not command them at all, and they were usually safe. But when they heard that the Han army was coming, as soon as they lost the battle, everyone complained to each other, and then quarreled, and did not put Wei Jun, the chief general of the Chinese army, in his eyes.

The Han army was stationed twenty miles outside the city, and the first thing Lu Xianba did when he was stationed was to talk to Wei Jun in detail.

Lu Xianba asked anxiously, "What's going on?" Why do I hear people advocating surrender? You don't care about that. Who the hell is it? You name it, I'll take care of it. ”

Wei Jun is unofficial, and his elder brother Wei Changhui has not offended the king of Han back then, so he is more considerate of the surrender faction. As long as he doesn't do too much, he pretends not to know.

"Is there one? I don't know what to say, Prime Minister Lu Cheng is the chief general of the Left Army. All the soldiers and horses in the capital are thrifted, which one dares to be presumptuous in front of Prime Minister Lu. ”

Lu Xianba was disappointed by Wei Jun's ambiguous attitude. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom practiced a warlord system, and each prince and prime minister had his own private army. Although Wei Jun was dismissed, there were still tens of thousands of cronies in the city who obeyed him, and he, Lu Xianba, only brought 3,000 heavenly soldiers from Tianjing, without Wei Jun's support, what use could 3,000 men and horses be?

Lu Xian simply tore his face and said loudly: "I know that Lu Dao is that little ghost of Shi Zhenji!" He united several old departments of the Wing King to plot against him, Brother Wei, the North King was forced to death by the Wing King, and the whole family of the Wing King was killed by His Royal Highness the North King, the two families have already formed a blood feud, and now I heard that the Wing King surrendered to the King of Han, and the King of Han broke the city, can the two of us still be saved! ”

As soon as Wei Changhui was mentioned, Wei Jun remembered the past when everyone jointly opposed Yang Xiuqing, although that incident was indeed wrong, and the kingdom of heaven has been in ruins since then, but after all, they have formed a friendship of life and death.

"Prime Minister Lu, listen to my advice, let's descend, the king of heaven is really ...... I can't help it, I only know that I have fun in the palace, and the court officials don't meet him, let his two brothers mess around, that's all he says, Prime Minister Lu Cheng please, if you don't surrender, you can leave by yourself, I will guarantee that you have nothing to do, if you surrender, let's kill all the people and horses in the city who finally got the king, this is a request from the Han army outside the city, what do you think? ”

Lu Xianba was shocked and angry, after pondering for a while, only panic remained, surrender is not, war is not, if you want to surrender, he was a fierce sin against His Royal Highness the King of Han, not only in the Bauhinia Mountain to chase and kill the King of Han, during the Yong'an, Guilin advocated the attack and kill of the King of Han to merge his army, but also personally calculated the King of Han under the city of Changsha, almost took the life of the King of Han, if you want to fight, with this little man in the city, it will definitely not be able to beat.

"You're making me think."

Wei Junna will be fooled, this is how his brother let Shi Dakai go, and he was forced to death by Shi Dakai after the last time, patted his palms a few times, and dozens of guards broke out from outside the left and right screens, swords and swords, and looked at Lu Xianba fiercely.

Lu Xianba stammered and asked, "Brother Wei, what do you mean by this?" ”

Wei Jun chuckled and said, "The lesson of the previous car and the division of the rear car, you Lu Xian didn't want to lead the troops to attack and kill me, right?" If you don't descend, I will personally send you out of the city, and everyone should not know each other in the future, after all, each is his master. ”

Lu Xianba weighed it again and again, and decided to surrender, first save his life, he didn't believe that Wei Junzhen would send him out of the city, and eighty percent would cut him into corpses, compared to the current danger, offending the King of Han has a great chance of life.

Thinking of this, Lu Xianba no longer hesitated, and said fiercely: "Descend!" It's down! ”

"Haha......" Wei Jun didn't stop doing anything, stepped forward and said fiercely: "I have a list here, Prime Minister Lu Cheng summoned them to the palace according to the names of the people above, and I sent troops to ambush outside." ”

After speaking, Wei Jun waved his hand fiercely, and the word 'kill' popped out of his mouth!

Looking at the list on the paper, Lu Xianba swallowed his saliva and whispered: "Zhongzhenhou, Fu Tianyi, Cheng Tianyi and others are all old brothers in Guangxi, isn't it too unkind to do this." ”

"Unkind? Brother Lu laughed. Wei Jun smiled coldly, if others said that he was not close to people, he would feel ashamed, but who was Lu Xianba, who was in Tianjing City back then, he specialized in hunting and killing old brothers in Guangxi, and I don't know how many relatives and friends died at his hands.

Lu Xianba nodded helplessly, and the two discussed for a while, and each acted according to the plan.

After seeing Lu Xianba leave, Zhao Yali came out from behind the screen and smiled at Wei Jun: "This Lu Xianba is really like what the emperor said, greedy for life and afraid of death, and forgetful of righteousness for profit." ”

Wei Jun said with a smile: "The general doesn't know, this Lu Xianba also has a relationship with His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Hearing Li Yunzhong's anecdote, Zhao Yali became interested, and she also wanted to figure out what made an otaku transform into a career-oriented man.

"Tell me carefully!"

Wei Jun continued: "At the beginning, before the uprising, Mr. Feng, the king of the south, was captured by the Qing army, and everyone had no choice, or His Royal Highness the King of Han advocated redeeming Mr. Feng with silver. ”

Zhao Yali smiled slightly, Li Yunzhong had a foresight, it shouldn't be difficult to think of this, he didn't know that this was improvised by Wei Jun to deliberately curry favor with Li Yunzhong.

Wei Jun said with a smile: "At that time, Lu Xianba was walking with the emperor, and I heard that the two had a deep friendship, and later Lu Xianba obeyed Yang Xiuqing's instructions and harmed the emperor several times, and the emperor had a large number of adults, and he didn't care about him." ”

Zhao Yali sneered: "It's really smart but it was mistaken by cleverness, if this surnamed Lu is so shrewd, if he has been loyal to the emperor, maybe he has already entered the cabinet by now." ”

Wei Jun sighed, who said no, everyone bet on the wrong treasure, when the King of Han used soldiers like a god, everyone should have a foresight, but he believed that Hong Xiuquan God went down to earth, and missed the great opportunity in vain.

"What the general said is that although the surname Lu can't fight, he is a good hand at handling internal affairs, and even Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, appreciates him very much and entrusts him with important tasks."

Looking at the young man in front of him, Wei Jun was very convinced, there are many people in the kingdom of heaven who are in high positions at a young age, especially the young people who have been favored by the king of heaven recently, and most of the generals promoted are about double ten, and it is true that they can fight, but they are filled with arrogance, and the young man in front of him is different, not to mention entering Chengdu alone, he is thoughtful, and he will persuade most of the generals in the city in a few days, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

Zhao Yali was still thinking about Li Yunzhong's situation at the beginning, most of the generals in Chengdu were from Guangxi, and she had inquired about a lot of things recently, and some of the generals also witnessed the past when Li Yunzhong was hunted down and killed.

Wei Jun saw that Zhao Yali was fascinated and reminded: "General, Chengdu will change banners tomorrow, I don't know what the general's plans are?" ”

Zhao Yali asked, "What does General Wei think?" ”

Wei Jun couldn't wait to say: "Capturing Chengdu is not enough to make the general famous, if the general takes Chongqing again, the emperor will be happy, and the marquis is just around the corner." ”

Zhao Yali looked at him certainly, and asked again: "The general thinks I should send troops to Chongqing?" But in this case, what should Chengdu do? ”

Wei Jun replied seriously: "The general doesn't have to worry, choose the generals in the city to accompany him, and the Chengdu general can send his cronies to stay behind, and Chengdu will definitely be safe, and the general can also take a share of the great achievement of capturing Chongqing." ”

Zhao Yali nodded slowly, recently she can deeply understand the extent to which the Han Dynasty attaches great importance to military merits, as a minister, if there is no military merit, it is bound to be unable to integrate into the circle of military attachés, and military attaches in the DPRK and China occupy most of the positions.

In the evening, several generals loyal to Hong Xiuquan rushed to the palace according to the appointment, and they were greeted not by Lu Xianba, but by a group of ambush soldiers, who did not even say a word, and killed them cleanly, and the next day, Chengdu opened its doors to welcome the Han army outside the city into the city, so Chengdu was quietly occupied by the Han army.

Compared with the smooth recovery of Chengdu, Chongqing is much more stubborn, and the envoys sent to the city to persuade surrender are all killed, and their heads are hung on the city gate. (To be continued......)

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