On the third day of his arrival in Kunming, Wang Zhongxiao, who had traveled thousands of miles from Baoning Mansion in Sichuan Province, finally saw a fake Wu Sangui with a figure and appearance similar to Wu Sangui on the magnificent Yin'an Hall on Wuhua Mountain.

This impostor is obviously younger than Wu Sangui, at most in his forties, although he spent an old outfit, but his makeup level is limited this year, at most he dyes his hair and beard, and then dots a few old age spots on a face that still looks young. It's okay to look at it from a distance, but you can't look closely, otherwise it will be exposed. But what kind of eyes does Wang Zhongxiao have? Even if you stand at the gate of the Yin'an Temple, you can see that something is wrong.

However, even Li Tianyu and Lu Yifeng, who are not very good in their eyes, know that the one sitting on the throne is definitely not Wu Sangui, because there are too many doubts!

First of all, Wu Sangui is on top, and he is surrounded by Wu Yingqi, Fang Guangchen, Guo Zhuangtu, Hu Guozhu, Xia Guoxiang, and several of the core members of the Pingxi Wang Group. The others stood far away.

The second is that this Wu Sangui rarely speaks, often Li Tianyu, Wang Zhongxiao, and Lu Yifeng They say for a long time, he just says "I know", it doesn't hurt, and he doesn't have a letter.

Even if Wang Zhongxiao took out Kangxi's letter and read it, this Wu Sangui still sat still, his face was expressionless, and he still said "I know".

And the military generals of Pingxi Palace, who stood on the Yin'an Palace, seemed to have been surprised for a long time, and heard that Kangxi's edict included the content of inviting Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi to go north to retire and ensure safety, and no one made any suggestions to Wu Sangui, but set their eyes on Wu Yingqi.

And Wu Yingqi's reaction was "very responsive", he snorted and strode out of the shift, and did not bow to Wu Sangui and then put forward his opinions, but swaggered to Wang Zhongxiao, Li Tianyu, Lu Yifeng and the others, and glared at Wang Zhongxiao viciously, gritted his teeth and said: "Just a court mail, a sentence to ensure the wealth and safety of my father and son, I want to earn my father and son into Beijing?" Kangxi thought too simply, right? ”

The acting skills are good! Of course, Wang Zhongxiao is like a mirror in his heart, knowing that Wu Yingqi is performing. But the acting is really good, I don't know if I can fool Li Tianyu? Thinking of this, he looked back at the governor of Yunnan.

Li Tianyu was pleasantly surprised, although he didn't believe that Wu Yingqi really dared to go to Beijing to retire - where is the lesson from the past! But he also heard it, Wu Yingqi still wanted to deceive! And he also wants to use himself to deceive Kangxi. This is his Li Tianyu's way of life!

Thinking of this, he hurriedly said to Wu Yingqi: "Dutong, don't get me wrong, the emperor has no intention of deceiving and harming you and King Pingxi, the emperor is just acting according to the agreement between the first emperor and the prince." After all, the prince is a person who has had a stroke, although God blesses the prince to be healed, but this body bones. It's always time to retire. And the prince has been a prince for more than 20 years, and he is already old, so it's time for him to be a prince.

And the reason why the emperor used the court instead of Mingfa is mainly to make his position clear first, and then listen to what you mean. Over the years, you have guarded the border for the country and done your filial piety for the prince, which can be described as both loyalty and filial piety, and your contribution is great. If you can still have a high wind and bright festival, send the old prince to the north and hand over Yunnan to the prince. The emperor will definitely be rewarded, and a first-class duke can also be expected.

If you are still not at ease, then you can go north to ask the emperor for the title for you. When the light is sent down, the whole world will know about it, and they will always rest assured, right? ”

"A first-class duke can't do it!" Wu Yingqi said coldly, "Isn't Ao Bai a first-class duke?" ”

Li Tianyu was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know how to explain it, and the atmosphere at the scene was suddenly a little embarrassing.

And Wu Yingqi saw that Li Tianyu was dumb, so he had to set his eyes on Wang Zhongxiao.

Wang Zhongxiao thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Or. How about adding a Danshu iron scroll to avoid death, and then giving a hereditary replacement? ”

"It's not enough!" Wu Yingqi shook his head, his tone had softened a little, "I still have so many brothers under me, Yunnan is too small, I can't squeeze it out, so I have to settle it properly!" ”

"How about letting them go back to Liaodong?" Li Tianyu asked, "This can be regarded as a return to the roots." ”

"Hmph," Wu Yingqi said, "Liaodong is far from Yunnan with thousands of rivers and mountains, and the weather is cold and cold, and it is not rich, is this to make the brothers travel thousands of miles to endure hardships?" ”

It is certainly impossible to endure hardship. Most of them were ambushed along the way! Wang Zhongxiao, who has been going around in Sichuan, already knows what will happen if Wu Sangui does not rebel in history?

Because the withdrawal of the Pingxi Domain to Liaodong for resettlement is a scam at all! Sichuan, next door to Yunnan, was abandoned there, so why did you send hundreds of thousands of people back to Liaodong? Isn't it okay to divide the territory in Sichuan nearby? How tiring is it to run so far? Even if they were really worried that King Pingxi's people would rebel in Sichuan in the future, wouldn't it be more dangerous for them to rebel in Liaodong?

"So where do you want?" Li Tianyu asked again.

Wu Yingqi said: "Give Xuzhou Mansion, Ningyuan Mansion and Luzhou to my subordinates!" ”

Li Tianyu looked embarrassed: "This. Although there are a lot of wastelands in Xuzhou Mansion, Ningyuan Mansion and Luzhou, the emperor still has to nod his head to this matter, and the lower officials can't promise it! ”

Wu Yingqi sneered: "The emperor will nod. I will keep my father going north to Xuzhou Mansion, and I will live in Yibin County, waiting for the emperor's Mingfa! Li Futai, please take a trip to Beijing with Wang Shikai and Lu Sanhao! ”

Is this to occupy the territory of Sichuan's two provinces and one state under the pretext of sending my father north? Li Tianyu breathed a sigh of relief and said to Wu Yingqi: "Dutong, or you can write a piece of music and write everything you want clearly. How about the lower officials, the king's guards, and the Lu Governor's Mansion sending the excerpts to the emperor for you? ”

"Good!" Wu Yingqi said "Okay", and suddenly realized that something was wrong, and quickly turned to the pseudo Wu Sangui who was sitting on the throne and said, "Father, do you think this is okay?" ”

That "Wu Sangui" was obviously a little distracted, and when he heard Wu Yingqi ask, he blurted out: "Medium!" ”

It turns out that this is still a Henan Wu Sangui!

Shunqing Mansion, Nanchong County, Prince An, the Minister of the President.

During the period when Wang Zhongxiao and Lu Sanhao went south to Kunming, the New Army of the Three Towns commanded by Yue Le, the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion, and the local Qing Army in Sichuan also spread out in Sichuan Province in accordance with Kangxi's edict.

Shuncheng County Wang Leerjin took a town and eight banners of the new army to Chongqing Mansion, Sun Sike, who was originally stationed in Chengdu, left Chengdu with the main force of the green camp new army and pressed down the south of the Zhongjiang River to Zizhou, and Mo Luo, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, led the Ganshan Green Battalion to occupy Baoning and Tongchuan. Yue Le himself led the Chinese army of the Eight Banners New Army to Shunqing Mansion, which was next to Chongqing.

As for the armies of Zheng Jiaolin, the governor of Sichuan, Wu Zhimao, the general of Baoning, and Chen Fu, the deputy general of Chongqing, they pressed southward, Zheng Jiaolin garrisoned Jiading Mansion, Wu Zhimao advanced to Luzhou, and Chen Fu went south to Zunyi in Guizhou.

A Sichuan green battalion is at the forefront, the new army of the green battalion is at the front, the new army of the Eight Banners is entrenched in the middle of the road, and the layout of the Shaanxi-Gansu green battalion controlling the back road is basically formed.

However, Wu Yingqi's road to the north into Sichuan was not completely blocked, and there was a gap in the southwest corner of the Sichuan Basin for Wu Yingqi to stop, and this gap was Xuzhou Mansion, where the artesian well salt mine was located.

Because Wu Shicong and Wu Shijue have reached into Xuzhou since two or three years ago, they first occupied the artesian well, and then began to build Tunzhuang around Yibin, the capital county of Xuzhou, and after two or three years, nearly 1,000 households of "Yunnan immigrants" have been installed in Xuzhou, these are not ordinary Yunnan people, but Yunnan people who speak with a Shaanxi accent, "elegant and easy-going, and friendly".

And "nearly a thousand" is the number of households, each of them has three or five big men, but also according to the battalion formation group settlement, first in the county outside the enclosure dock, entrenched to rush, and then because there are black and white bears and tigers outside the city, they have to carry the bird guns, spears, knives and cards used to fight black and white bears and tigers, drag the "hunting cannon" (special artillery for fighting tigers and pandas), and drive into Yibin County.

And the prefect of Yibin and Xuzhou also let this behavior of "going into the city to hunt tigers and hunting pandas". Although these two people are not the officials of the Western Election, the county officials, the chief bookkeeper, the master, the scribe, and the team leader below them are all from Yunnan.

So now the situation in Sichuan is very clear, that is, the imperial army occupies most of the territory of the Sichuan Basin, but it has not sealed the mouth of the southwest, and the army of the Pingxi Royal Mansion may rush into the Sichuan Basin from that mouth at any time to grab territory.

Of course, the situation is still favorable to the Qing Dynasty!

In addition to the unreliable local military leaders in Sichuan, the unreliable hearts of the people in Sichuan, the country of abundance has been plagued too much, and the logistics supply is not very reliable, the other advantages are on Yue Le's side!

"Is that Wu Sangui you saw really a stand-in?"

In the line in Nanchong County, Yue Le, who was a little worried because of too much "unreliable", finally waited for Wang Zhongxiao, Lu Sanhao and Li Tianyu, who "escaped death", and got four very key information from them.

First, a general mobilization of rebellion has already been carried out in Kunming! also shouted the slogan "Qingtian is dead, Zhou Tian should stand, divide the land equally, and the world is safe"!

The second is that there are indeed many contradictions between Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui, but Wang Zhongxiao and Lu Sanhao were stared at by Wu Yingqi's people, and they couldn't go to Qujing to see Wu Guogui at all. Although Wang Zhongxiao has found an opportunity to give Wu Shicong Wu Yingxiong's handwritten letter of "letting Yunnan and Wu Guogui" and Kangxi's edict, only God knows whether this kind of divisive plan can be achieved.

The third is that Wu Sangui is likely to have passed away. At least there's no way to show up in public!

Fourth, Wu Yingqi is about to enter the territory of Xuzhou Mansion in the north!

Among these four key pieces of information, what interests Yue Le the most is Wu Sangui's situation.

"That's right, that Wu Sangui is indeed a stand-in!" Li Tianyu gave a very positive answer.

Wang Zhongxiao also said: "The eyes of the lowly are good, although they are far away, but the lowly position can still see at a glance that the person is not Wu Sangui at all. ”

Lu Sanhao also said: "If it is really King Pingxi sitting in the Yin'an Palace, where can Wu Yingqi say so much?" ”

Yue Le nodded, and picked up the fold drafted in the name of Wu Sangui that he had just read - this is a secret fold, according to reason, Yue Le can't read it, but now Yue Le has the right to act cheaply, and he still has to see it!

Yue Le opened the folds again, and the words with steel needles were all soft, and he also commanded the imperial court on the issue of withdrawing the feudal domain and returning to Liao, this Prince An thought about it and asked: "If the emperor agrees to reward the land of Xuzhou and Ningyuan to the soldiers of the Pingxi Wang's domain, will Wu Yingqi rebel?" ”

"Yes!"

"Definitely!"

"Lord Wang, Wu Yingqi is now ready to fly, and he has to send it!"

Li Tianyu, Wang Zhongxiao, and Lu Sanhao all gave very positive answers!

In fact, Yue Le didn't believe that Wu Yingqi could turn back, and Yue Le didn't believe that Kangxi could let go of Wu Sangui, Wu Yingqi, Wu Yingxiong, and Wu Guogui, no matter what, they all had to be eliminated!

As for the millions of people under the Pingxi Wang's domain, not to mention slaughtering them, they had to slaughter most of them, and the remaining little bit would have to be taken away from the privileges and become ordinary people or ordinary green battalion soldiers.

These are almost all open cards, and the people under Wu Sangui don't understand it, they are fools.

When Yue Le was about to let Li Tianyu, Wang Zhongxiao, and Lu Sanhao leave, the voice of one of his palace guards suddenly sounded outside the door: "Lord Wang, Luzhou military intelligence is flying!" ”

Luzhou?

Wu Yingqi has arrived in Xuzhou Mansion? Fast enough!

Yue Le was taken aback, and said loudly: "Show it to this king!" ”

"Huh!"

"Luzhou, Zizhou, Jiading, Tuojiang, Minjiang, Shujiang (Sichuan section of the Yangtze River)"

Emperor Xiao Mazi got up early in the morning, and after greeting the old Empress Dowager Bumu Butai and the Empress Dowager (Bumu Butai's niece), he immediately went into his "Great Qing Dynasty Suppression Chief" - the south study of the Qianqing Palace, and looked at the map in the south study.

Of course, there is no high-precision map of southwest Sichuan to show him, so he still looks at the inaccurate map of the eight provinces of "Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chuxiang, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian".

On the map, there have been some villains and small flags made by carpenters from the Ministry of Internal Affairs' office in the southwest corner of Sichuan, and these villains and small flags represent the Qing soldiers and "Wu soldiers", and they have laid out a very clear front on the map.

Among them, the Qing soldiers put on an arc for a month and a half, starting from Jiading Mansion in the west, Zizhou in the middle, and Luzhou in the east. If you want to divide the battle line with rivers and mountains, it is from the Minjiang River in the west, the Tuojiang River in the middle, and the Shujiang River in the east.

The Wu soldiers were stationed in Yibin, Nanxi, Pingshan, Qingfu, and Gaoxian in Xuzhou Prefecture to confront the Qing army. In addition, there was also a "blank space" between the two armies, mainly Fushun County and Longchang County in Xuzhou Prefecture, and Weiyuan County and Rong County in Jiading Prefecture.

"Looking at this posture, is Wu Yingqi going to fight a protracted war with me? With the financial and material resources of his Yunnan province, can he last with me? Kangxi turned his head and looked at the few scholars kneeling beside him, the bachelor of Hanlin and the person who was called to the south study to discuss the matter.

"Your Majesty, the court and Wu Yingqi haven't started a war yet!" Bohol Temple University scholar Suo Etu reminded: "Wu Yingqi's request. It's still something to consider. ”

"Consider?" Kangxi sneered, "Just him? What qualifications does he have to negotiate with me? ”

"Your Majesty, the minion means that we can make a plan, pretend to agree, and then trick him out of Yibin, set up an ambush in the middle of the road, and annihilate him in one fell swoop!"

"Isn't it going to last?" Kangxi asked, "Now that Wu Sangui is mostly gone, Wu Guogui and Wu Yingqi are not of the same mind, it seems to be more detrimental to Wu Yingqi if it drags it on, right?" ”

"Not necessarily." Suo Etu said, "Now the imperial army has penetrated deep into Sichuan, and the supply depends on Shaanxi and Gansu. Shaanxi and Gansu are not rich in the first place, and now they have to transport grain into Sichuan, and they are afraid after a long time."

"Isn't Sichuan the land of abundance?" Kangxi asked, "Why can't you even supply tens of thousands of troops?" ”

"Your Majesty," replied Mi Sihan, the head of the household, "Sichuan was originally a country of abundance, but it was later slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong, and the population suffered heavy losses, and there was not a single one in a hundred."

"Nonsense!" Kangxi's face sank, "Zhang Xianzhong has not occupied the whole of Sichuan, and his army has not been stable in many places for long, how can he slaughter everyone?" ”

"This, this" Mi Sihan couldn't answer, this question had to be answered by Shunzhi!

Kangxi probably thought of the answer, and didn't ask again, but changed the topic: "We have difficulty supply, so he Wu Yingqi will not be difficult?" ”

"Your Majesty," Mingzhu, the bachelor in charge of the Ministry of War, replied, "According to the investigation of the Ministry of War, Wu Shicong, the son of Wu Yingqi, and Wu Shijue, the son of Wu Guogui, have built Tunzhuang in the enclosure of Xuzhou Mansion since the seventh year of Kangxi, and dozens of Zhuangzi have been circled before and after, and there are 100,000 mu of fertile land. Those are all good paddy fields, although they have been abandoned for ten or eight years, but the water conservancy ditches have not been abandoned, as long as it takes some effort, it can still be restored. ”

Mi Sihan also said: "The paddy fields in Xuzhou are harvested twice a year, and the wind and rain in that area are smooth, there is no flood and drought, 100,000 mu of land can get 350,000 stone rice in a year, and Wu Yingqi even if he garrisons 30,000 troops, it is enough to support two years of military service." And the imperial court sent as many as 60,000 or 70,000 troops into Sichuan this time, and a large number of cattle also had to be eaten. I am afraid that it will not work to rely on Shaanxi and Gansu for transshipment. ”

Kangxi was speechless, he had always thought that he was "Qian Duoduo" and "Mi Duoduo", and he was not afraid of lasting at all! As a result, I didn't know that it was me who "had nothing to eat"!

In addition, Wu Shicong and Wu Shijue were able to support 30,000 troops in Xuzhou Mansion and the imperial court for several years in the corner of Sichuan. What did so many officials sent to Sichuan by the Qing Dynasty eat? Why don't you know that you have accumulated grain?

Now we have to transport grain from Shaanxi and Gansu to Sichuan, is this afraid that Li Zicheng will not be the second?

"Your Majesty," the scholar Mingzhu said, "for today's plan, it is better to start Tuntian, and at the same time use the trick of luring the enemy to coax Wu Yingqi out." ”

"How?"

"The emperor can give Wu Yingqi Danshu an iron scroll, and then make him a first-class duke, and then agree to hand over the three state capitals of Luzhou, Xuzhou, and Ningyuan to the people of Pingxi Wangfu."

(End of chapter)