The Red Tiger Chen, who was lost in the cave, and Zhu Minru, who was singled out in front of the battle, respectively made the first achievements of the Guangxi Army in the north and south, but they were all severely criticized by their respective superiors.

Chihuchen was demoted by one level and given Qin Gongming as his deputy, and the deputy general Qin Gongming was promoted to the chief general of the vine armor soldiers.

Zhu Minru only informed the whole army of criticism, and division commander Liu Xinyu once again reiterated that he must not imitate the single-mindedness in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

In October, the Northern Route Army occupied the entire territory of Si'en Province, and the Southern Route Army occupied the entire territory of Nanning Province (half of which had been accounted for last year).

In the face of the enemy army in western Guizhou who fled into the mountains, although through the policy of dividing households and fields, the enemy's living space could be compressed step by step, and even the enemy who had no food to eat was forced to surrender voluntarily. However, it will take time to grind slowly, and it will be impossible to recover the entire territory of Guangxi this year.

The remaining enemy troops in western Guizhou sent envoys to Yunnan to ask for help from the puppet Ming regime.

Kunming.

Zhu Qifeng, Emperor Zhenwu of the Ming Dynasty (next to Jin), was drinking and having fun, enjoying a wonderful song and dance performance.

The ministers of civil and military affairs came to ask for instructions, but Zhu Qifeng said: "Leave the civil affairs to Wang Qing, and the military affairs to Mu Qing, you can handle them yourself, and you don't need to report everything to me." ”

Several Yunnan important ministers looked at each other, and they couldn't help but sigh secretly, bowed down and retreated.

Now in Yunnan, under Emperor Zhenwu, there are three powerful figures:

First, Mu Tianbo, the king of Qian.

Second, the first assistant Wang Shide.

Third, the eunuch Gao Lin.

Mu Tianbo does not need to be repeated, after supporting the emperor in Yunnan, he was named the Prince of Qian.

Wang Shide is not the Jinyiwei who wrote "Chongzhen's Testament", but the former governor of Yunnan. This goods were originally from Yongkang, Zhejiang, and he was a governor in Yunnan, and suddenly heard that Chongzhen was gone, and there happened to be a prince who fled, so he discussed with Mu Tianbo to support the new monarch.

As for Gao Lin, he was originally a eunuch in Yunnan, and now he has become a eunuch in the master of ceremonies.

"Lord Wang, the defenders of Guixi are asking for help, should they be saved?" Wang Shide asked.

Mu Tianbo sighed and asked rhetorically, "What to save?" ”

Wang Shide said: "The prince requisitioned all kinds of armies, or he could exterminate the rebels in the mountains of western Guangxi. ”

Mu Tianbo shook his head and explained: "Wang Ge doesn't understand, the army that this king can command is only one or two thousand. The rest of the Tusi soldiers were okay to fight in Yunnan, and if they were taken to fight in Guangxi, I am afraid that they would not be willing to enlist. ”

Wang Shide said: "You can know the righteousness. Where the Zhao thieves rebelled, the toasts were all divided into fields and released slaves. If the Zhao thief is killed in Yunnan, can Yunnan Tusi be spared? Helping Guixi Toast fight, it is also Yunnan Toast fighting for himself. Such a simple truth, Yunnan Toast must be able to understand. ”

Mu Tianbo smiled bitterly: "The truth is indeed simple, and Yunnan Tusi must understand it, but if Zhao Thief does not come to Yunnan for a day, Yunnan Tusi will not be truly obedient." After all, the imperial court lacks military rations, and the toast has to bring its own grain and grass when sending troops, so who is willing to use their own grain to fight for the imperial court? ”

Wang Shide was silent.

Mu Tianbo suddenly said: "In the current situation, the enemy is inside and not outside, and the dead eunuch must be removed!" ”

Wang Shide said: "Except for this person, you have to lead troops to force the palace." ”

Mu Tianbo suppressed the anger in his heart: "Even if you force the palace, you have to do it, so you have to do it." ”

Before the eunuch Gao Lin hanged himself, he had already made Kunming jump. After supporting the new monarch, he became a eunuch with a pen, and he was even more nepotistic, constantly cultivating party henchmen, and suppressing any ministers who dared to oppose him.

Mu Tianbo can endure these things.

However, after Gao Lin took control of the court, he actually stretched out his hand to the army, installed eunuchs everywhere as supervisors, and gradually controlled military rations, military salaries, and ordnance.

Even the several Yunnan horse farms controlled by the Mu family were mostly touched by Gao Lin.

This dead eunuch searched for beautiful women everywhere and presented them to Emperor Zhenwu, and also handed over a part of the looted silver to the emperor. Zhu Qifeng, the emperor of Zhenwu, had already obeyed Gao Linyan's words and allowed the eunuchs to mess around in Yunnan.

Last fall, Gao Lin even forced the anti-military generals and toast!

The Tusi of Maitreya Prefecture and the Eighteen Villages and Thousand Households, because they could not afford to be exploited, joined forces to launch a rebellion. Subsequently, the Tusi of Vimo Prefecture followed the rebellion, and the three parties joined forces to capture the entire Guangxi Province. (Guangxi Prefecture and Guangnan Prefecture are both prefecture-level administrative units in Yunnan.) ）

Mu Tianbo requisitioned tens of thousands of troops, fought fiercely for May, and finally put down the rebellion.

Since then, Mu Tianbo couldn't bear it at all, and made up his mind to "clear the king's side".

Wang Shide, the first assistant of the cabinet, is, of course, the target of wooing. Because the cabinet and the ministers of the six ministries, many of them are also colluding with the eunuchs, frantically taking money from their own pockets. Only by getting rid of Wang Shide can Mu Tianbo dare to force the palace, otherwise the small court in Yunnan will be in chaos.

Wang Shide couldn't bear Gao Lin anymore, and soon said: "Since the prince has made up his mind, the old man will give up his life to accompany the gentleman!" ”

The next day, at night.

Zhenwu Emperor Zhu Qifeng is still drinking and having fun, he knows that he can't be at peace for a long time, and he can enjoy one day at a time.

Suddenly, shouts of killing rang out.

The maiko singer fled in panic, and Zhu Qifeng also rolled and crawled, asking the eunuch as he ran: "But Zhao thief...... Emperor Zhao is here with his troops? Hurry up and follow me...... Dedicate the city with me, please surrender! ”

The accompanying eunuchs didn't understand, and followed the emperor all the way.

He didn't run far before he saw Gao Lin coming in a panic, and the eunuch cried and said, "Your Majesty, the King of Qian has rebelled, the King of Qian has rebelled!" ”

Zhu Qifeng is like falling into an ice cave, he can ask for surrender when the Datong army comes, and Mu Tianbo's rebellion will be fatal.

"Quick...... Escort me out! Zhu Qifeng was scared even more fiercely.

An emperor, a few eunuchs, panicked and scurried.

No matter where they ran, they were frightened back by the shouts of killing, and the palace seemed to be surrounded.

Just when Zhu Qifeng was looking for a place to hide, Mu Tianbo and Wang Shide led troops in.

Zhu Qifeng trembled, knelt down on his forehead on the spot, and begged: "King Qian's life, King Qian's life." I...... I won't be the emperor anymore, give up the throne to King Qian, please spare my life! ”

Shoufu Wang Shide's face was ugly, how could there be such an emperor?

It's not like a human king!

"Take it!" Mu Tianbo shouted.

Hearing this, Zhu Qifeng collapsed to the ground, so shocked that he had lost his ability to think.

But he saw that the soldiers had caught the eunuchs and did not attack the emperor.

Mu Tianbo also personally helped the emperor up: "Your Majesty, how can you kneel on the ground?" The celebrant and supervisor of the ceremonial department embezzled military rations, deducted military salaries, framed weight, excluded dissidents, forcibly abducted people's women, occupied people's land, and bullied the king...... It's hard to write. The ministers came with troops, only for the side of the Qing monarch. Your Majesty, please behead Gao Lin and his henchmen! ”

Didn't you come to kill me?

Zhu Qifeng was suddenly ecstatic, pointed at Gao Lin and said, "Kill, kill this guy!" He also said to Mu Tianbo, "King Qian's merit in eliminating treachery and confusing him is ...... Seal ......"

It's no longer sealable.

Zhu Qifeng had an idea: "Seal the pillar country!" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, there were only left and right pillar countries, and although Li Shanchang and Xu Da were sealed as Shangzhu countries, they were all changed to left pillar countries in the end.

Chang Yuchun and Yao Guangxiao's Shangzhu Kingdom were posthumously gifted.

Xia Yan was sealed to the Pillar Kingdom, and it was really over after the seal.

Zhang Juzheng was also posthumously presented to Shangzhu State, and he was not at peace after his death.

Is this a bounty or a curse?

Mu Tianbo knelt down and kowtowed and said, "The minister does not ask for a reward, but voluntarily sets things right for His Majesty." ”

"That'...... Then raid the house, copy the house of the thief Gao Lin, and reward the money to the King of Qian," Zhu Qifeng said to Wang Shide again, "The old man of the Wang Pavilion also has a duke, and he will be crowned as a prince of the left pillar country, and he will be crowned a prince!" ”

"Ministers don't ask for rewards." Wang Shide was completely dead to the Yunnan court.

His hometown is in Zhejiang, although the family was divided into fields, and the clan was divided into several groups of immigrants, but after all, there were no dead people, and he kept his floating wealth and shops.

Wang Shide now just wants to go home to retire, and he doesn't want to continue tossing in Yunnan.

Suddenly, Wang Shide had the idea that it would be better to write to the Datong Army and ask the Datong Army to send troops to Yunnan as soon as possible, because Yunnan can't be stopped by scattered sand. When the time comes, if he instigates the emperor to surrender, won't he be able to make meritorious contributions in the new dynasty?

It's not all for himself, Wang Shide feels in his heart that the early collapse of the Yunnan court can be regarded as saving the people from accumulating yin virtue.

Although Wang Shide served as the first assistant of the cabinet, he had no real power at all, otherwise he would have been eliminated by the eunuchs a long time ago!

Mu Tianbo's Qingjun side has succeeded, but the chaos in Kunming has not subsided, and there are soldiers or gangsters everywhere who take advantage of the chaos to loot. Mu Tianbo's army arrested Gao Lin Yu Dang everywhere, and many innocent people were also blackmailed as Yu Dang.

The soldiers are scattered, and they can't be collected for a while, and it is normal for the generals to take the lead in looting.

During the edict, a group of ministers who had been ostracized by the eunuchs were released.

Seventy-three-year-old Wu Zhaoyuan, the political envoy of Yunnan Zuobu in the Ming Dynasty and the deputy assistant of the cabinet of the Yunnan puppet dynasty, finally dragged his old body out of prison.

After he figured out the reason, he immediately asked Zhishi to go back to his hometown to recuperate.

No matter how Mu Tianbo and Wang Shide stayed, Wu Zhaoyuan had already made up his mind. In desperation, Mu Tianbo gave him two pieces of silver, and sent his own soldiers to escort Wu Zhaoyuan away.

Wu Zhaoyuan returned to his hometown with his family, and did not dare to go back to Fujian in the war zone, so he went to Sichuan via Guizhou, and soon found that his appearance was very different.

The people of Guizhou have already counted the noodles and vegetables, and many of them are so hungry that they can't walk. Due to the melee of the Tusi warlords, there are often barren fields along the way, and it is all a post-apocalyptic scene where the people are struggling to make a living.

But in Sichuan, although the people's lives are also very difficult, they are still in good spirits. Not only can they not see the barren land, but there are also grassroots officials who organize the people to build water conservancy facilities. It is not the way of the Ming Dynasty to levy and send servants, but it is built in sections according to villages and towns, and the people are also very motivated to bring their own dry food.

When Wu Zhaoyuan crossed the river, he asked the boatman: "How long has this place been governed by Qing officials and honest officials?" ”

The boatman replied with a smile: "It's been a year, and the Datong court is very good, and now there are Qingtian lords everywhere." ”

In the eyes of the people of Sichuan, if you don't toss around, you are a good official, and if you do practical things, you can be called the master of the sky.

Wu Zhaoyuan was surprised: "Only one year? ”

The boatman said with longing: "As soon as the Lord Qingtian comes, there will be a bumper harvest this year." If it's a few more years, what will it look like to be rich? I'm afraid I can eat meat every three or five days! ”

Wu Zhaoyuan continued northward and then eastward along the Yangtze River.

The further east, the better the situation, because the eastern Sichuan region has been governed by Datong officials for more than two years.

The old gentleman was not in a hurry to leave, sent Mu Tianbo's personal soldiers, and took his family to the countryside along the river to visit farmers.

After a few counties, I took a boat into Huguang.

When he came to the villages and towns of Hunan, he only stayed for two years, and then he said to his son with a dance: "The world is under great rule, the world is under great rule, and I can be blind to death!" ”

Wu Yingxi said: "My father will live a long life. ”

At the beginning of Emperor Chongzhen's succession, he personally met with the four honest officials.

And Wu Zhaoyuan is the head of the four incorruptible officials!

When he was the county magistrate, he reformed the system, cleaned up the service, treated the people well, retried the unjust cases, and when he left office, the people sent dozens of miles to each other, grabbing the carriage and begging him to stay and continue to be an official.

is not only good at governing the people, but also good at managing the army, and the military salary from him is exactly the same.

Then, he was imprisoned.

Although it was revived in the Chongzhen Dynasty, it was always in the local circle, and was finally thrown to Yunnan as a political envoy.

Wu Zhaoyuan visited the village primary and secondary schools in Hunan again, asked about the education of the new dynasty, and went home that night and said to his son: "After returning to Fujian, you should go to the new dynasty to be an official, and your grandchildren need to study well." Practical learning is excellent, and physics and mathematics should also be cultivated. ”

Wu Yingxi said: "Remember, children. ”

Wu Zhaoyuan suddenly laughed: "I thought it was the end of the dynasty, but I didn't expect that the world would be ruled greatly." My heart is very happy, my heart is very happy, hahahaha......"

Laughing and laughing, the laughter suddenly stopped.

Wu Yingxi felt that something was wrong, reached out to probe his nose, and suddenly shouted in grief: "Father! ”

The old gentleman died laughing as he sat in his chair.