Li Yan is worthy of being a rare wise strategist under Li Zicheng.

He has a much sharper grasp of the changes in the situation in the world than Niu Jinxing and other short-sighted people who only covet the work of the dragon for a while.

"Your Majesty, Jiannu is a foreign race outside the Guan, and now he is in collusion with some scum of my Han family, and he is embarrassed, called the thief to level the world, but in fact, he first fights the stronger I Dashun, and then destroys the weaker Southern Daming, intending to steal my Han family."

"Now, we should abandon the previous suspicions, we can send people to rebuild with the Ming Dynasty, even if we do not form an alliance, we can no longer meet each other, we can enter Bashu from Hanzhong next, Zhang Xianzhong has just gained a foothold in Sichuan, if we take the opportunity to seize it, we can easily rely on Sichuan to stand on its own! With the wealth of CD, recuperate, wait for him to go out of the Qinling Mountains one day, and plot the world, it is not impossible! ”

Li Yan's plan was a wise move, after all, Sichuan was easy to defend and difficult to attack, with thousands of mountains as a barrier, and the CD Mansion in the basin was an extremely rich country of abundance.

It is undoubtedly the most suitable place to stand on your own feet and recuperate.

Moreover, this can also transfer the pressure against Jiannu to the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, Li Zicheng can learn from the Shu Han of the Three Kingdoms.

It can not only jointly attack Jiannu with the Ming Dynasty, but also jointly attack the Ming Dynasty with Jiannu, and the left and right are the source, and the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit.

But Li Zicheng waved his hand and smiled contemptuously:

"With Zhu Youzhen's ability, he is also worthy of forming an alliance with me and calling him a brother?

What's more, I have destroyed his ancestral tomb and killed countless Ming officials, and he Zhu Youzhen and the rich men of the Ming Dynasty can accept us, so how can I not know if they will join forces to build slaves and conspire to kill me? ”

"In my opinion, it is better to take advantage of the fact that Jiannu is not going south, first go to Huguang, and then map Jiangnan, and with the strength of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, we may be able to occupy Nanjing in March, and then we will occupy Jiangnan alone, and Jiannu will divide the river and rule, which is stronger than going to Sichuan to be a mountain king, not to mention that Zhang Harrier's righteous sons are not easy to provoke, especially those named Li Dingguo!"

"Your Majesty, although Zhang Xianzhong should not be underestimated, but the Ming Dynasty in the south should not be underestimated, as far as Weichen knows, Zhu Youzhen has a good governance after resisting Nanjing, even if Zuo Liangyu has a million troops, as well as Huang Degong, Gao Jie and other departments, all have the power to fight, please think twice!"

Li Yan was in a hurry, and accidentally mentioned Gao Jie, who had made Li Zicheng wear a green hat.

Li Zicheng was angry on the spot: "Don't give me a boost!" This bastard, I can't wait to kill him! The army fetched food on the spot for three days, and then went to Huguang, I have made up my mind, and there is no need to persuade again! ”

Li Yan had no choice but to retreat, feeling quite frustrated in his heart.

In the middle of the night, when Li Yan and his wife Red Lady slept together, the Red Lady couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty has obviously agreed with what Prime Minister Niu Cheng said, why is your husband still fighting hard and making Your Majesty unhappy!" ”

"Alas, where do you know the heart of your husband, Your Majesty is now gone, if you go to Sichuan or have a glimmer of life, go to Huguang I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive this year!"

Hearing this, the red lady hurriedly covered Li Yan's mouth: "The husband can't say this again, be careful that the wall has ears, the concubine knows that the husband is a well-educated person, and has the ambition to assist Ming Jun to establish an immortal cause, but Your Majesty has the grace of knowing you and me, although the red lady is a woman, she also knows the word loyalty, and the husband still doesn't abandon His Majesty." ”

"I naturally know this, let's sleep", Li Yan said and closed his eyes.

……

Li Zicheng was unwilling to compete with Zhang Xianzhong for Sichuan, but he tried in vain to go south to Huguang and seize Jiangnan from Zhu Youzhen as the overlord of the south.

This, like Dolgon, has not yet regarded Zhu Youzhen, who retreated south, as a real enemy.

Perhaps in their eyes, Da Ming is just a dying person, and there is nothing to worry about.

In fact, in Sichuan, which Li Zicheng doesn't care about, Zhang Xianzhong is playing well here.

Maybe the original history is wrong, or maybe it is the deliberate tampering of the history of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, or maybe Zhang Xianzhong in this life has changed his temperament.

In short, Zhang Xianzhong did not carry out a large-scale massacre after conquering Kuizhou in the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign and conquering CD on the ninth day of August.

On the contrary, Zhang Xianzhong, who intended to stay in Sichuan for a long time, also specially summoned the local squire, and also issued a notice to calm the people, and even changed his former image of a rogue, and explicitly ordered all armies to prohibit the plundering of the people of Shu.

The one who was disposed of by him was just the king of Shu.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty mostly harmed the local people, because they could not do good deeds, and if they did good deeds, they would be impeached by civil officials to win the hearts of the people.

The matter is not mentioned.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Xianzhong also ascended the throne as emperor on the first day of November, and the founding name was Daxi.

Zhang Xianzhong, who ascended the throne in the palace of the king of Shu, enjoyed the feeling of being self-reliant in Sichuan.

His four righteous sons Kewang, Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, and Liu Wenxiu were also knighted.

Zhang Xianzhong is not Li Zicheng, he has always been cunning, and he also knows that the situation in the world has not yet been decided.

Therefore, as soon as he ascended the throne and became emperor, he let his four righteous sons go to various prefectures and counties in Sichuan to recruit troops, and he also began to prepare to open a branch to take scholars, which has the intention of establishing a small dynasty in Sichuan.

"At present, the battle between Dashun and the Manchu Qing is in full swing, and the Ming Dynasty in the south is still breathing, how do the children think we should deal with the current situation?"

Zhang Xianzhong is well-known for being good at cultivating his son.

His four righteous sons are all rare generals in the world today, even Li Zicheng is deeply envious, so Zhang Xianzhong often asks for advice from his four righteous sons.

The eldest grandson can hope to stand up first, and said: "Qi Father, Li Zicheng's army defeated Shanxi, and the Ming Dynasty in the south is just dying, according to the son's view, the one who will win the world at the moment should be the Manchu Qing, we may be able to serve the Manchu Qing Dynasty as the main and establish Sichuan on their own, so that we can protect everything, and it is not too late for him to have enough food and food to try the world." ”

At this time, Sun Kewang didn't know that Jiannu did not let go of Li Zicheng after defeating him, so he had always known how to take advantage of the situation, and he thought of the idea of relying on the strong.

The second Li Dingguo was silent for a while, and then said: "Father, from the perspective of the sons, no matter who sits in the world, they will not sit back and watch us divide Sichuan and stand on our own. ”

The third Liu Wenxiu is good at managing civil affairs, and when he saw Zhang Xianzhong asking for advice, he also said: "The most important thing at the moment is to raise himself in Tuntian and accumulate strength, so his sons think that they might as well get married, but they will not be attached, so that they can not be offended." ”

Although the fourth Ai Nengqi was the most brave in battle, his strategy was a little wooden, so he just smirked: "The son listens to his father, and the father wants the son to do what the son wants, and the son will do it." ”

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this: "They are all my good sons, much stronger than Li Zicheng's bull Venus, I really don't know what he is doing with a group of sour literati, which one of them is my four children, but, in my opinion, the second child is right, you can't let the outside live in peace, it's better to help the strong than to help the weak." ”

Sun Kewang listened to his father's emperor and finally adopted Li Dingguo's suggestion, plus Li Dingguo has always been much higher than him Sun Kewang in military merits, so Sun Kewang couldn't help but be jealous in his heart.

Only Ai Nengqi stupidly echoed Zhang Xianzhong: "Erchen also thinks that the second brother is right, the second brother has always been smarter than us." ”

Ainengqi's unintentional words made Sun Kewang even more unhappy when he heard it.

He is the eldest of Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous sons, so in his opinion, the throne after Daxi is for him to inherit, but now this Li Dingguo is pressing himself everywhere, and even the fourth brother is of the same mind as him, so the more Sun Kewang thinks about it, the more unhappy he becomes.