Chen Wen summoned the surrendered troops, read Zhu Gaoxu's text aloud, and called on the officers and soldiers of the world and the people to resist the tyrant Zhu Di, the king of the Ming Dynasty, and said that many people participated in the battle of Jingyan, and many brothers were killed by Zhu Di, don't you want to take revenge?

After some agitation, the combination of grace and power extracted some of the strong and sent back to Yunnan some generals, and the army immediately expanded a lot, and the combined army became 15,000 people, and continued to be called 100,000 to the outside world.

Then the soldiers and horses of the Sichuan capital department resisted and retreated.

Dechang was ordered to support the Miyi Institute, went halfway, and received a military order to return to the defense, tossing back and forth tired and hungry, morale was completely lost, Chen Wen was the first to arrive, someone in the station opened the door, and surrendered without a fight.

In mid-May, Qu Neng organized a large number of soldiers and horses to block Chen Wen near Mahu Mansion.

This is the last pass of the Sichuan Water Post Road, which is very important.

That night, Qu Neng's whole army camped north of the Jinsha River, and at night, a general proposed to be careful of night attacks, Qu Neng agreed, but did not arrange to dig ditches and set up fences, and even there were few sentinels.

That night, Chen Wen suddenly led an army to attack at night, and Qu Neng's army of more than 30,000 was defeated, and he retreated to Chongqing with more than 10,000 people.

Qu Neng was defeated, Chen Wen pursued and killed along the road, Xuzhou and Luzhou were spread and surrendered, almost a month or so, most of Sichuan fell into the hands of Chen Wen, and many places were passed down.

In June, Qu Neng summoned the troops and horses of the Sichuan Metropolitan Division in Chongqing, and at the same time quickly asked the imperial court Huguang to support.

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When it rained lightly in Guangxi in June, Zhu Gaoxu stood on the city wall of Xunzhou and looked at Guilin in the north.

It suddenly rained in Guangxi, and Zhu Gaoxu also suspended the offensive, integrating his troops and horses in Guangxi while waiting for Han Guan to gather the officers and troops of the Guangxi Capital Division.

Instead of fighting one guard and one guard station, it is better to let Han Guan gather together and fight against it.

As long as Han Guan is defeated, Guangxi will be able to take it into the bag.

He launched attacks on several battlefields at the same time, and many points blossomed, but the most important one was Guangxi.

As long as Guangxi is captured, the entire southwest can almost be connected, and then go all out to deal with Huguang and Sichuan, and the western half of the Ming Dynasty will be in the hands of Zhu Gaoxu.

As long as Guangxi is taken, Guizhou will be surrounded by Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guangxi on three sides, and no matter how many officials and troops there are in Guizhou, it is useless, if you don't want to be dumplings, you can only withdraw from Guizhou.

It has been more than a month since the start of the army, and the news that Zhu Gaoxu has received has gone smoothly, but he often reminds himself that the beginning of Wu Sangui's army in history was also very smooth, and he must not follow in the footsteps of Wu Sangui.

He has no more soldiers and horses than Wu Sangui, and the real elite is less than half.

Fortunately, he can be the same as Zhu Di, fighting more and more, and surrendering everywhere.

From the news just counted, plus the Guangdong and Fujian capitals, as well as the surrender of troops from all over the country, he has more than 300,000 troops in his hands.

Compared with the situation at the beginning of Jing's difficulty, Zhu Gaoxu can be said to be dozens of times stronger.

"Newspaper, my lord." Just when Zhu Gaoxu was thinking, someone behind him came to report.

Wang Zhong, Zhou Hu, Li Xian and other generals, as well as the leaders of the Tusi all came.

"Let's go, let's go down to the meeting." Zhu Gaoxu turned around and took the captain of his own soldiers, Li Tai and others, down the city wall.

Xunzhou is one of the important water post roads in Guangxi, which can go all the way to Guilin in the north and enter Guangdong and Fujian in the east.

The commander of Xunzhou Wei has made the yamen temporarily recruited by Zhu Gaoxu as the headquarters, and when the generals arrived, a huge sand table had already been made on the spot.

The entire northwestern half of Guangxi is relatively clear, and the southern half is relatively simple because it has been occupied by Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu never engaged in a sand table during the Jingjing, just to prevent being learned by the officials and soldiers.

Now after everyone raised the army, they followed Zhu Gaoxu to look at the sand table a few times, and they were already quite familiar, and they felt very intuitive, much clearer than looking at the map.

"The King." The generals were very excited when they saw Zhu Gaoxu, and all parts of the country were winning victories one after another, and the situation was very good.

Everyone follows the King of Han, don't they just want to make meritorious contributions and worship the prime minister.

Zhu Gaoxu is very happy here, but someone in Jingshi is not happy.

As early as mid-May, the Jingshi Imperial Palace was decorated with lights, and it was still festive.

The emperor's birthday is the second day of the fifth month of the fifth month, and the palace celebrates for three days from the second day to the fifth day of the first month, and then the lanterns that are hung have not been taken down, so it seems that there is a lot of joy everywhere.

The head of the household, Xia Yuanji, had a great opinion, and spent tens of thousands of taels in order to celebrate the emperor's birthday.

Zhu Di didn't want to make such a big fuss, but this will still have some money.

Because after the success of Jingnan, he confiscated a large number of Jianwen officials and generals.

In addition, the imperial court also saved some money, which will only be about 20 million stone in the early Ming Dynasty, according to the price of grain at that time, about more than 10 million taels of silver, but Lao Zhu is a little buckled, and the officials are not high, so they have saved a lot of money in recent years.

I don't know how much money there is now, but during the Hongwu period, the imperial court rewarded the Nanyang pirate Chen Zuyi with 500,000 taels of silver, and after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he increased it to 7.5 million taels last year, which shows that the Ming court still has a little money now.

On Zhu Di's birthday this year, the crown prince Zhu Gaochi proposed to celebrate well, and at the same time celebrate the Ming Dynasty's expansion of territory and the inclusion of Annan in the bag.

Zhu Gaochi's sycophancy is just right, and not every emperor has the credit for opening up the territory.

At that time, Zhu Di listened to the beauty, and felt that he wanted to celebrate, not for Zhu Di, but for the expansion of the territory.

Xia Yuanji objected, saying that he had no money.

Fortunately, in April, a recital came from Annan, saying that King Han and Zhang Fu were very popular with the people in Annan, and the common people supported them one after another, took the initiative to help investigate the profiteers and corrupt officials, and got a fortune worth 40 million taels of silver, and were preparing to send them to Beijing by sea.

At that time, Zhu Di was beautiful, and he woke up from his dreams almost every day.

This is the financial income of the Ming court for several years.

But if a civilian official is impeached, is it that King Han and Zhang Fu are robbing? Isn't this the style of our Heavenly Empire? What corrupt officials can you check for so much money?

Zhu Di naturally didn't hear it, anyway, as long as he has money, it is easy to do things with money, and he praised Gao Xu in his heart.

However, he didn't know that Zhang Fu had disappeared in Annan a long time ago, and there was no mention of it in the recital.

Zhu Gaoxu just wanted to disgust him, I got 40 million in Annan, and I will use this money to beat you in the future, are you angry?

Today, the prince's family is eating in the Qianqing Palace.

It was rare for Zhu Di to call them over, just because the prince's sycophant was better this year, and he missed the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji a little, so he called the prince's whole family over.

Zhu Zhanji is seven years old, and because of his intelligence, he is very loved by Zhu Di.

The original history took a few years to canonize the imperial grandson, but this time it was canonized in advance last year.

In this way, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew that Zhu Gaoxu was completely out of play, and even the imperial grandson was established, if something happened to the prince, he would also be the imperial grandson, and he had nothing to do with the King of Han.

Today, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren are in the same house, Zhu Zhanji is well-behaved and obedient, and Zhu Di is in a good mood and has praised him many times.

After the banquet, Zhu Di wanted to test Zhu Zhanji's knowledge, but he didn't ask much about it, and after asking a few words casually, he asked Zhanji what he was good at.

The little Zhu Zhanji said, Zhanji is now mainly learning, and he doesn't dare to say that he is good at it.

Zhu Di laughed, quite modest.

Crown Princess Zhang said, why don't you paint a picture of the emperor's grandfather in Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji was originally good at calligraphy and drawing, and was extremely exquisite, and the history said: "Sketching with ink, and then competing with Xuanhe (Song Huizong)." ”

This evaluation is still very high, Song Weizong's calligraphy and painting attainments are famous in history, and the words Zhu Zhanji can compete with Song Weizong prove that Zhu Zhanji is indeed a little level.

Xiao Zhu Zhanji was not stage frightened, and started painting on the spot.

When the painting was finished, Zhu Di took it in his hand and looked at it, he was full of praise, and his eyes were red.

Zhu Zhanji drew a map of the Ming Dynasty, including the newly obtained Annan, and wrote a few lines of poetry, anyway, it is to praise Zhu Di for opening up the country, which is difficult to compare with the Qin Emperor and Han Dynasty.

Zhu Di was extremely excited, and rarely hugged Zhu Zhanji and laughed: "My Zhanji is really smart and cute." ”

"It's the emperor's grandfather, who is wise and martial." Zhu Zhanji flattered.

Zhu Di was even happier, he lifted Zhu Zhanji high, and was about to kiss his white and tender little face.

"Your Majesty-——" At this moment, someone outside crawled inside and ran in: "The king of Han is reversed, the king of Han is reversed-"

The hall suddenly fell silent, and a few seconds later, Zhu Zhanji fell fiercely from a height.

The sound of plopping almost fainted when his mother Zhang heard it.

After a while: "Wow" Zhu Zhanji cried in pain.

Zhang just wanted to get up and go over.

"Crying for what?" Zhu Di burst into tears.

Zhu Zhanji's crying stopped, his little face was flushed, his frightened eyes, his glaring boss, he didn't dare to snort when he looked at Zhu Di.

Zhu Di's face was blue and white for a while, and he looked at the eunuch Hou Xian who was kneeling on the ground and trembling with an incredulous expression.

At this time, his mind was also in chaos, because no matter what, Zhu Di did not expect that Zhu Gaoxu would dare to rebel.

In just a few seconds, Zhu Di's mind changed dramatically, from shock, to disbelief, then anger, and finally shame.

Zhu Di, who was annoyed and angry, was furious: "What are you talking about, dog minion, if you talk nonsense again, how can I be opposed?" ”

"Your Majesty, the King of Han rebelled, the troops from Yunnan entered Guangxi, Tan Qing fell, and Han Guan retreated to Guilin-——"

Hou Xian cried, holding up the eight-hundred-mile urgent letter that the General Secretary had just sent in a hurry.

There was silence in the hall, a deathly silence.

Zhu Di's breathing also became heavy, Queen Xu's eyes were full of tears, and the crown prince Zhu Gaochi was shocked at first, then a little happy, and then a little scared.

Everyone didn't dare to speak out, only Zhu Di stood in place, and he still couldn't believe it, how could Gao Xu rebel?

I'm sorry, aren't you good enough? Why do you want to rebel against me, Zhu Di stayed up all night that night, and he didn't want to believe it.

By midnight.

The Qianqing Palace was brightly lit, the palace maids and eunuchs came and went, shuttling non-stop, and everyone walked very carefully, for fear of arousing Zhu Di's anger.

Knowing that Zhu Gaoxu had rebelled, Empress Xu cried into tears, but the emperor locked herself in the hall alone.

At this time, it was already late at night, and Zhu Di had not slept yet.

He stood at the window of the main hall, looking outside, recalling the bits and pieces of Jingjing and all the words that Zhu Gaoxu had said.

Happy New Year to everyone. I wish you all the best in the new year.

(End of chapter)