Zhao Tianba walked into the study of King Jin with his head held high, knelt down on the ground, and said, "Your Majesty, I'll pay my respects."

"No need to be polite." Zhao Tianba's father Zhao Zhiquan followed Li Dingguo for many years. This child was grown up by Li Dingguo. It is said that he would not be unfamiliar if he hadn't seen him for a few years. But before he knew it, Li Dingguo felt like there was a gap.

Zhao Tianba turned a deaf ear and kowtowed respectfully three times before getting up: "Your Majesty, the Admiral of the Yangtze River, Deng Mingzheng, came to Kunming to ask for a visit, so he specially asked the humble official to come and report the news."

"I heard about the great name of the Yangtze River Admiral for a long time." Li Dingguo's first story. Deng Ming's reputation spread all over the world, and it was known to everyone after the Battle of Gaoyou Lake. Unfortunately, the Jin Palace had a bad impression of Deng Ming, mainly because the Xiying soldiers in Jianchang repeatedly insulted the envoys of King Jin, which made the King of Jin indignant, thinking that Deng Ming was instructed behind his back. Li Dingguo sent letters to Fengjie several times to ask about Deng Ming's life experience, and Wen Anzhi was also vague. Now the boundaries between Sichuan and Yunnan are clear, and it seems that Deng Ming played a very bad role in it: "I don't know when the Yangtze River Admiral will arrive, and how do I need to arrange a camp?"

"Your Majesty, Admiral Deng will arrive within five days. There are 200 guards accompanying him, hoping to live in the city." Zhao Tianba replied honestly. Deng Ming was reluctant to ride a horse along the way. The horse he brought was a gift for Jianchang and Kunming. Deng Ming was afraid of being exhausted. In order to collect the IOU, he brought not many gifts. If the horse died, he would not even be able to take out the meeting gift. Zhao Tianba was the same. He was also reluctant to ride the newly bought horse, but stayed in Chengdu and handed it to Li Xinghan for help.

"I am going to arrange a mansion here." Li Dingguo glanced at his son as he spoke. Seeing that Li Siye's expression remained unchanged, he obviously had known the news for a long time: "Zhao Qianhu has worked hard all the way, go and have a meal and rest."

"Thank you, the king." Zhao Tianba followed Li Dingguo's guards out for rest. Just now, Li Siye also asked how many people Deng Ming was with him, and even thought that Deng Ming would invite Li Dingguo to the border of Dongchuan Prefecture to meet. After hearing that Deng Ming only brought 200 guards, Li Siye's surprised expression could not be concealed.

After Zhao Tianba left, Li Siye hurriedly said to Li Dingguo: "Father, Deng Ming really trusts you."

"Young talented man is indeed well-deserved." Li Dingguo's face did not show anything when he heard that Deng Ming had only brought two hundred guards. In fact, he was surprised that his son was no less than his son: "Now the court is in danger. If Sichuan and Yunnan cannot unite sincerely, they will be defeated by the Tartars sooner or later. Alas, I treated your Uncle Liu badly, and his reputation was not good. I didn't expect Deng Ming to have such sincerity."

After sighing a few times, Li Dingguo ordered Li Siye to say: "Get the mansion well and select 300 elite soldiers to greet them, guard the Yangtze River Admiral, and do not give the little crazy people the opportunity to take advantage of. If the Yangtze River Admiral has any good fortune, all of them will be killed!"

"As for orders, father and son personally brought elite troops to welcome Admiral Deng." Li Siye was originally dissatisfied with Deng Ming. Every time he listened to the envoy recounted his experience in Jianchang, he was almost angry and even proposed to attack Jianchang. However, after Li Dingguo suffered a major change, he changed his previous hot temper and repeatedly taught his son and generals with his lips and teeth.

At that time, Li Siye was still full of resentment and complained to his father that it was useless to just compromise on his own. Kunming's step-by-step concessions would only make Jianchang people think that Li Dingguo is weak and can be bullied, and Chengdu behind Jianchang would also look down on Kunming even more. But now that Deng Ming has come to Kunming in person, Li Siye's dissatisfaction has been eliminated.

It didn't take long before the news spread to the senior officers in Kunming. When Ma Bao arrived at the Jin Palace, he saw that Bai Wenxuan was already there.

"Your Majesty, what's the point of Deng Ming?" Ma Bao may be the most dissatisfied with Deng Ming among the generals of Kunming. After the Kunming fire, the Qin and Shu factions in Xiying not only did not return to King Jin with Ma Bao, but instead went to Jianchang to join Feng Shuangli, and took away all the people along the way. Originally, Yunnan was not a large population, but Wu Sangui robbed a group of people when he withdrew his troops. Qin and Shu took away people from northern Yunnan when they went north. In addition, many people fled into the mountains. Now, there are only 500,000 people left under the rule of Li Dingguo. In order to support the 50,000 troops, they had to dry up the pond and fish.

"Of course we must work together." Bai Wenxuan, who came first, replied for Li Dingguo. Yunnan was in decline and the strong enemy was on the side. Bai Wenxuan heard that the Ming army in Chengdu had harvested a lot of things in Jiangnan. It would be better if Deng Ming was willing to divide some of them, even if Deng Ming persuaded Jianchang to return some of the people, or returned some of the food and fodder that Liu Wenxiuyun went to Jianchang.

"I think it's very difficult." Ma Bao did not hide his dissatisfaction with Jianchang: "Can Deng Ming convince Feng Shuangli? They are willing to share what they have taken from Jiangnan? Even if he is willing, can Feng Shuangli pluck his hair?"

Bai Wenxuan also thought Ma Bao was right. Even if Deng Ming wanted to ease the relationship between Sichuan and Yunnan, there was no reason to weaken his allies to help Li Dingguo. However, Bai Wenxuan still said: "Even if he can't give us things, even if he helps us to talk to Jianchang, it's good. We can free up more troops to deal with Guizhou."

"Even if the whole army unites against Guizhou, it is probably because the enemy is strong and we are weak." Ma Bao said.

Last year, after hearing that Deng Ming went to Jiangnan again, Ma Bao and some other hardliners strongly advocated taking the opportunity to attack Feng Shuangli - Wu Sangui was unable to make a big move due to food and grass problems, and Deng Ming, the backstage of Jianchang, was not there. The hardliners felt that it was a good opportunity to attack Jianchang. In addition to venting revenge, they were also thinking about Jianchang's population and supplies. The strong men who Liu Wenxiu stayed in Jianchang were halfway by Deng Ming, and there were 20,000 young and strong men left. In addition to the original people around him and the Xiying, there are now about 100,000 males. Li Dingguo can control only 250,000 to 300,000 males. Ma Bao felt that if he could annex Jianchang, he could greatly enhance Kunming's strength.

However, Li Dingguo refused. He pointed out that Feng Shuangli was not so easy to bully. When Li Dingguo was in a slump in his name, Feng Shuangli participated and played a great role.

At that time, Ma Bao argued that Feng Shuangli had considered surrendering, which was obviously because he had lost his spirit and was no longer as brave as he was. However, Bai Wenxuan disagreed that although Feng Shuangli's status in the Western Camp is not as high as the four princes, he was Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, and it is not easy for those who can ascend to this position. Although a group of generals in Jianchang once surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they may not have no fighting spirit for Li Dingguo, who was deeply suspicious of them. Bai Wenxuan also used Ma Bao as an example. Ma Bao also surrendered to the Qing army because of despair, but Ma Bao was also unambiguous about the generals of Jianchang who he regarded as a traitor. If he sacrificed thousands of elite soldiers of Jin kings to join Jianchang for the sake of Jianchang, it would definitely be more than worth the loss. Bai Wenxuan's hint made Ma Bao suddenly deflated and no longer instigated Li Dingguo to sneak attack Jianchang.

"The King," Ma Bao's eyes flashed, and now his mind became active again: "If it is really like what Gong Chang (Bai Wenxuan) said, and Deng Ming cannot control Jianchang, he will finally feel that he might be able to convince Deng Ming to make a good relationship with Kunming, and then the two families will join forces to attack Jianchang, and then the male members of Jianchang equally will be divided. Or Jianchang belongs to him and the soldiers belong to us. I think Deng Ming would not mind expanding his strength, right? From then on, our two families will be bordered and can better cooperate to resist the Tartars."

"This matter..." Bai Wenxuan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and nodded after thinking for a while: "Maybe it is feasible."

Although Bai Wenxuan opposed the risky attack on Jianchang, he also felt that it was a waste to Feng Shuangli's control over the Qing Dynasty, and it also harmed Yunnan's great cause of anti-Qing, which dragged Li Dingguo back. Besides, this was also a war of unity within the Xiying, which eliminated the separatist leader Feng Shuangli, which undoubtedly helped consolidate Li Dingguo's authority and avoided the fact that there were still people in the Xiying who were randomly thinking.

"Are you all confused?" Li Dingguo said dissatisfiedly: "I forgot how we lost Guiyang, have we forgotten that we were driven out of Kunming by the Tartars?"

"The last general thinks that the king is going to eliminate evil and Sun Kewang's remnants are in secret." Ma Bao whispered. Feng Shuangli from Jianchang existed for a day, and Xiying has not yet completed the unification.

At this time, another general arrived, and the person who came was He Jiuyi. After seeing the person, Ma Bao stopped mentioning Feng Shuangli, because He Jiuyi was Sun Kewang's confidant general. Although the three kings supported Yongli and Li Dingguo after the internal strife, it was obviously not appropriate to mention the old Qin and Jin accounts in front of him.

After the three kings' internal conflict, He Jiuyi was ordered to go to Guilin to guard. After Wu Sangui invaded Guizhou, He Jiuyi led 10,000 Guangxi troops to return to Yunnan. When Kunming was on the way, he lost his subordinates and began to collapse. He himself led his confidant troops to chase Li Dingguo and retreated to Myanmar. In Deng Ming's previous life, Li Dingguo was trapped in the Sino-Myanmar border area, and people's hearts became increasingly dispersed. The Qing army used Sun Kewang's handwritten letters and He Jiuyi's family to surrender. He Jiuyi hesitated and was sentenced to Li Dingguo.

After discovering the incident, his subordinates died of a blow. They left Li Dingguo and returned to Yunnan to surrender to Wu Sangui. At this time, the Ming army in Guangxi could not resist Geng Jimao's attack after He Jiuyi evacuated and retreated into Vietnam. Before Yongli abandoned the country, Vietnam had been providing supplies to the Ming army in Guangxi. As a vassal, it was also a vassal to support the Ming army in fighting with the Qing army. There were also some Vietnamese in the Ming army. It was precisely because of these Vietnamese that the retreating Ming army was able to retreat into Vietnam.

As the situation deteriorated, He Jiuyi was killed, Bai Wenxuan surrendered, Myanmar launched an attack to kill all the imperial guards and accompanying officials in Yongli. Vietnam also believed that the Ming Dynasty was completely defeated, and the Vietnamese king no longer provided convenience for communication between Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, and ordered the raid of the remaining Ming troops retreating into Vietnam, eliminating more than 10,000 Ming troops, including Vietnamese soldiers, begging the Qing Dynasty to be a vassal.

However, in the world in front of Deng Ming, He Jiuyi's incident had not yet broken out, and Wu Sangui withdrew from Yunnan. Myanmar's attitude towards Yongli was acceptable, and Vietnam was still undecided.

After He Jiuyi arrived, everyone began to discuss the specifications of receiving Deng Ming. Because Deng Ming did not have a title, there were some etiquette troubles.

The next day, Zhao Tianba was also called to participate in the discussion.

"Your Majesty, Admiral Changjiang hopes that he will not kowtow to you, but only marching. I don't know if it's okay." Zhao Tianba said hesitantly. Deng Ming's request was a little unaware of how to speak, so he didn't say it yesterday, trying to find a better opportunity. As a result, before he could find a chance, the generals of Kunming asked about this matter, and Zhao Tianba had to tell him the request.
Chapter completed!