Obai imagined to attack Sichuan with three thousand flag soldiers and raid and eliminate tens of thousands of Ming troops, but his plan failed to come true.

After years of continuous expansion and development, the number of flag soldiers in the Manchu, Mongolian and Han banners has increased greatly, but the number of troops rushing to the battlefield ahead has continued to decline. In recent years, there has never been a case of dispatching thousands of people to the battlefield at once. Oboi planned this trip to the Eight Banners as the main force, and he still felt that the combat power of the Manchu soldiers was the best in the world. When he went to a strange place thousands of miles away, although the enemy's combat power was not strong, the geography and climate were enough to make this task very difficult. Oboi believed that only the Manchu soldiers could be competent.

To his surprise, all the Manchu generals and Manchu soldiers in the capital did not agree with this plan. The attack on the Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty was still Han people, and the Han army was the main force. The Eight Banners only sent a small number of people as military supervisors. Now they were just fighting a few scattered soldiers and brave soldiers. Why should they send a large number of Manchu soldiers to die? Because there was not enough money and food to drive the Han army to fight to the death? Although everyone is the emperor's slaves, the servants also have to eat. If they don't have money to drive the Han people, they have to go there. Why?

Oboi thought the matter was urgent, so he quickly cleaned up all the Han resistance forces, and then everyone could live a good life together. But the Eight Banners generals didn't think so. First of all, they were already living a good life now; secondly, seeing that the Han resistance forces basically disappeared, everyone could immediately enjoy peace and age comfortably. Who would go to that corner of Sichuan to fight to the death on the eve of victory? Most people don't think that there is still a wave in Sichuan. Back then, King Fu and King Tang, the Emperors of Southern Ming, were so powerful that they melted away completely?

Even Shunzhi thought it would be okay to pacify Sichuan slowly, and planned to send a small team of soldiers to Sichuan to serve as the supervisor of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Camp. However, the current tax revenue of Sichuan Baoning Prefecture is not as large as that of officials. No one is willing to suffer in such a ghost place where people live in decline. The expenses of this flag soldier need to be fully borne by the court, and it will also cause resentment... It is not good for both public and private. In the end, the Qing court decided to send a team of 100 flag soldiers at a time, and a commander led the army to Sichuan.

After the news came out, Sony and other Shunzhi's confidant servants were suddenly crowded with visitors day and night. Before entering the pass, whenever there was news of sending troops, many people would visit the slaves who could speak to Huang Taiji. These people came to ask for troops to go out to win fame and fortune. After crossing Shanhaiguan and entering Beijing, the phenomenon of guests being crowded before going out was less and less, and finally disappeared completely.

The atmosphere has changed again in recent years. Once there is a chance to garrison in Suzhou and Hangzhou, countless people have broken through the threshold to grab quotas; like this, a job that goes to remote areas to serve as a military supervisor, the visitor will start to beg not to throw this job on his head after a relationship is held. Even if some Zuling, who has a far-reaching relationship and has no relationship in the past, will beg in front of Sony and others, either beat their chests and stamp their feet, or cry bitterly, because the reason is that the old mother is in the hall, the beautiful wife is young, and the young son is young.

While the Qing court was still hesitating for the candidates for military commanders, Shunzhi's imperial edict had been rushed to Guiyang through 800 miles.

When the envoy arrived, Wu Sangui and Zhao Liangdong came out to greet him tremblely. Although Wu Sangui felt that the Qing court would not punish him too much, he was still uneasy when the matter was about to come. Zhao Liangdong was also very worried. After all, Zhao Liangdong did not have as much credit as Wu Sangui, and there was no army of people in his hands.

The envoy first read out the imperial edict for Shunzhi to hold people accountable, explaining how the emperor was so heartbroken about the Kunming fire, and then the decree about the execution of the Hong Chengchou clan. This imperial edict made the two responsible persons happy and worried. What was happy was that the court recognized their statement of shirking responsibility. However, among these three people, Hong Chengchou was a meritorious and innocent, and ended up like this, which inevitably made people feel sad.

Soon the envoy realized that Zhao Liangdong was fined fifty taels of silver. After hearing this punishment, not only Zhao Liangdong was relieved, but Wu Sangui also felt a big stone in his heart. He asked himself that his responsibility was probably several times that of Zhao Liangdong, but even if he fined a few hundred taels of silver, Wu Sangui would not take it too seriously. The military pay burned in the Kunming warehouse alone would cost millions of taels of silver.

But after reading this, the envoy closed the imperial edict, and there was no punishment for Wu Sangui.

While everyone present was suspicious, the envoy took out another imperial edict, started to recite it, and announced Shunzhi's decree to enfeoff Guizhou to Wu Sangui.

I don’t know if the order in which the envoys read the imperial edict was intentionally arranged by the Qing court, but it did achieve a good effect. The audience was shocked. No one expected that the Kunming fire would have such a result. Until the envoy smiled and brought the imperial edict to Wu Sangui, the latter still knelt on the ground and lowered his head to ponder, and he didn’t know what he was thinking about.

"Pingxi King, please accept the order." The messenger smiled and reminded him softly.

"The emperor's kindness is so great that I can't repay you if I can't repay you." Wu Sangui finally woke up and bowed his head on the ground.

After receiving the imperial edict, Wu Sangui entertained the angels, and then held a banquet, inviting Guiyang generals to come and have fun.

At the banquet, Wu Sangui enjoyed everyone's compliments and congratulations, and then announced that he would seize the time to train his soldiers and wait for the food and grass supported by Jiangnan to take Kunming as soon as the food and grass supported by Jiangnan arrived. Of course, Wu Sangui would not place all hope on the food and grass in Jiangnan. He ordered the officials in Guizhou to carefully count the household registration and land, and prepare for another attack on Yunnan. Wu Sangui emphasized to the officials that they must carefully verify the actual situation of the land and must not be reported by the unlucky people to poor land. Before pacifying Yunnan, no matter how much the officials below should take, the King of Pingxi would see half of the production of Guizhou and send it to the vassal treasury. If someone dared to conceal the property and resist taxes, he would confiscate his family's wealth and be included in the slave family, and would never be spared.

Just as Wu Sangui was preparing for his troops and staring at Kunming, Li Dingguo tried his best to resume production and supplement the needs of the troops, while continuing to argue with the emperor and his favorite minister Ma Jixiang and others.

The battle for defense in Yunnan was a mess because of the Yongli court's orders. Now the situation in Li Dingguo has not improved at all: if you decide to go to Sichuan, you should start to transfer the population, accumulate marching supplies, take back the emperor as quickly as possible, and then quickly transfer the troops; if you decide to defend Yunnan, you should make every effort to resume production, gather population in central Yunnan, and repair Kunming City, which was burned by the fire.

Even when he was rich in hands, Li Dingguo could not do two tasks at the same time. Now, after the great disaster, the King of Jin was extremely poor. With the shortage of funds, Li Dingguo did not even have the resources to do any of them, let alone take the two routes together. However, if the Emperor Yongli did not come back, Li Dingguo would have to stay in Yunnan and not walk. If he could not walk, he had to try to renovate the Kunming city walls, build strongholds and beacon towers along the road, and beacon troops and Yima... Although he returned to central Yunnan, Li Dingguo's economic situation did not improve significantly. While his income increased, he also carried a lot of burden.

However, Li Dingguo quickly understood that if he wanted to go to Sichuan, he had to let the emperor return to Yunnan with confidence; if he wanted to let the emperor feel at ease, he had to try to keep Kunming as solid as a solid. At least he had to have this meaning in order to get rid of the emperor. However, with the Yunnan province and the Qing Dynasty fighting for consumption, Li Dingguo had no confidence, and if the emperor really thought Kunming was solid, he would probably not be willing to go to Sichuan to take risks in the Central Plains.

This cannot continue, and the Tartars cannot stabilize the place. The Ming army needs to continue to attack. When Li Dingguo discussed military information with the generals in Kunming, everyone looked worried. It is estimated that the Ming army had not yet restored production in Yunnan, and the Qing court would transport grain from several southeastern provinces to Wu Sangui in a steady stream. Even if the journey was long, it would be like a hundred pounds for the already broken southwest. Besides, the production in the two lakes and Guangdong occupied by the Qing court will sooner or later be crushed by the Qing court.

Li Dingguo felt that although the current situation was crisis, it was not worse than Li Zicheng hiding in Shangluo and Zhang Xianzhong was dormant in Gucheng. Now he broke into the camp, and the two armies of Xiying still had strength and supported Ming Tianzi. No matter where the Ming army arrived, as long as it could occupy a piece of place, it could replenish its troops. As long as the main force of the Qing Dynasty did not come, it could establish rule. Although the world was in eight or nine out of ten, Li Dingguo was still not desperate and was still full of confidence.

Recently, Li Dingguo heard that the Yongli court, who was staying in Myanmar, planned to issue an imperial edict to the King of Lu in eastern Zhejiang to restore the position of the king of Lu as the governor of the country. It is said that this plan was also supported by the chief minister Ma Jixiang and the Duke of Qian Mu Tianbo. He believed that this plan was indescribable and could greatly reduce the pressure on the Yongli court in exile in Myanmar.

Li Dingguo was suffering from his current absence from the emperor and could only express his objection through memorials. He knew that Yongli and Ma Jixiang had only two things to think about. The first was to lure the disaster eastward, and publicly showed a stance of leaving the enemy to concentrate the Qing court on the King of Lu; the second was to stimulate King Lu and Zhang Huangyan, so that the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang felt that things seemed to have great potential. A vigorous fight in the southeast region also played a role in attracting the attention of the Qing court.

Li Dingguo felt that this trick was useless. First, Yongli, you would not let you go, and the Qing court would not let you go. Besides, you just threw out a bait for the state-controlled country and had not given up the throne, right? Second, Yongli's move would stimulate Zhang Huangyan. Zhang Shangshu was loyal to King Lu and would definitely want to do a big fight to create conditions for King Lu to win the throne in the future. However, there is Zheng Chenggong in the southeast. Many places he has similar ideas to Li Dingguo. Zheng Chenggong would never agree to King Lu, who had a great revenge, ascend to the position of the state-controlled country again. It is estimated that after Yongli's imperial edict, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan would turn against each other and cause internal strife.

Although the King of Jin never gave up, the internal and external difficulties still made him very worried. Recently, his hair has become much whiter and his appetite has been much worse. He often tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep at night. But no matter what the Emperor Yongli was, since he supported him, he could only advise the people and fight to the death. He hoped that the timid emperor would one day have a great enlightenment and become wise and powerful. Now Li Dingguo in Yunnan is like Zheng Chenggong in Fujian. Even if he wants to change his family, he will have no chance and can only be regarded as a traitor.

...

Myanmar.

After the emperor and the prime minister fled here, Myanmar's attitude was still respectful at first, but as the Ming army in Yunnan was defeated, Myanmar's attitude continued to change. Whether it was Emperor Yongli or Prime Minister Ma Jixiang, they all believed that the defeat of the army was not something they had the ability to reverse. They had no choice but to give up. The chief minister Ma Jixiang took the lead. The court ministers and personal generals gathered to gamble day and night, and even wanted to bring officials sent from Myanmar to play together.

When the Imperial Army general entered Myanmar, he had handed over all his weapons. Now he was empty-handed and could he stand on the post? He also followed the gambling day and night. Ma Jixiang's son-in-law Yang Zai is the Grand Secretary of Yongli. In his spare time with a group of people, he went to the river to tease the Burmese women who were washing clothes and washing vegetables.

The absurd behavior of the civil and military officials under Yongli, who were drunk and dreaming, shook their heads and discussed privately: "I heard for a long time that the Chinese emperor is a god from heaven, and all the important officials in the front of the imperial court are highly respected, but these men are so absurd, and they still want to promote the king and the Tuba?"

However, as King Jin returned to Kunming, the court's life was much better. In addition to gambling, sometimes the chief assistant Ma Jixiang also needed to consider national affairs. Grand Secretary Yang brought the King Jin's memorial to his father-in-law's tent and invited the chief assistant who was shouting out from the smoky and chaotic room full of gambling.

"The King of Jin still didn't give up." After roughly reading Li Dingguo's memorial, Ma Jixiang sneered. He thought he could clearly see Li Dingguo's intentions: "This is not to persuade the emperor to return to Yunnan, it is obvious that he still wants to go to Sichuan."

Before, when Li Dingguo first decided to abandon Yunnan and went to Sichuan, Ma Jixiang strongly opposed it. Of course, he did not oppose escaping from dangerous places, but opposed going to Sichuan. In the end, he succeeded. Not only did he abandon Yunnan, but he did not go to Sichuan.

"Lord Taishan is very clear." Yang Zai also thought the same.

Although Ma Jixiang and Yang Zaizai refused to go to the battlefield and believed that fighting was the responsibility of the military and had nothing to do with them civil servants, unlike the emperor who was determined to escape, the key factor in their firm opposition to going to Sichuan was because of Wen Anzhi.

Wen Anzhi was nearly eighty years old, bare hands and barely, and with only a letter of appointment from the Yongli court, he rushed to Kuidong to take office. Wen Anzhi did not avoid danger many times and went to the front line in person with his old subordinates. Therefore, although Wen Anzhi had no soldiers, he could get the trust of the generals of the East, and gave Wen Anzhi face and was willing to listen to his mobilization and restraint. For Wen Anzhi, Sun Kewang, who wanted to usurp the throne, was very afraid of him, while Li Dingguo, who supported the emperor, respected him. Sun Kewang personally planned to capture and arrest Wen Anzhi before usurping the throne. After Li Dingguo took office, he often wrote letters to Fengjie, with eager words.

Not to mention restraining the generals of the Xiying camp, Ma Jixiang could not even command a soldier from the Xiying camp. When Sun Kewang attempted to usurp the throne, he did not act against Ma Jixiang, but directly called Ma Jixiang and asked him to write a letter of persuasion to Sun Kewang - Ma Shoufu wrote it without saying a word. Afterwards, neither Yongli nor Li Dingguo had pursued him for this, probably because he looked down on him and thought he was irrelevant? To be honest, when Ma Jixiang didn't gamble, he looked down on himself a little.

Now Wen Anzhi is just a supervisor, but if the court really moved to Sichuan, Ma Jixiang could not see any reason for the court not to value Wen Anzhi and dismiss himself at the same time. Whether it is prestige, morality, ability, or the purpose of winning over the camps of the generals, the emperor and the King of Jin would definitely abandon Ma Jixiang, an optional person. This is the reason why Ma Jixiang and Yang Zai always disagree to go to Sichuan. Wen Anzhi is still here, so he still can't go.

"The King of Jin also sent a generous gift." Yang Zai reported to Ma Jixiang with a sarcastic look on his face that the envoy sent by Li Dingguo to deliver the memorials also brought a lot of gold and silver gifts to their father-in-law and son-in-law and other cabinet members.

"My position is to be passed on to the son-in-law. If the position is gone, who is willing to give us a gift?" Ma Jixiang returned Li Dingguo's memorial to Yang Zai, and snorted again: "Wen Anzhi is already seventy-eight years old, and he is busy all day long. How many days can he live? When he is gone, I will immediately persuade the emperor to enter Sichuan."

"Son-in-law understand." Yang Zai nodded quickly. He knew very well. When he went to submit the memorial, he would of course try his best to exaggerate the scene of Wu Sangui in Guiyang being strong and horses, and the Kunming Dynasty was in danger. The emperor finally escaped into Myanmar and left the Qing court's pursuers far behind. He heard that Kunming was so dangerous and how could he be willing to go back? Did he work hard to go back just to escape again?

Yang Zai also understood that the Emperor Yongli was the amulet of their cabinet ministers and their personal military officers. As long as they were happy, the Emperor was happy, even if the King of Jin and Wen'anzhi and the civil and military ministers of Wen'anzhi were disliked, they could not shake their status. Instead, they would flatter them and try every means to let them speak in the emperor's ears. As long as they serve the Emperor, even if they hold heavy troops like Li Dingguo, they would not be able to shorten their supply. Even the Burmese vassals, as long as they escort the emperor's carriage, wouldn't they provide them with food for free?

...

Fengjie.

After running all the way, Deng Mingma rushed back to Kuizhou Prefecture without stopping.

After entering the city, Deng Ming handed over his mount to the guards and immediately rushed to pay homage to Wen Anzhi. Deng Ming had been either fighting or marching for several months, and he had almost no rest. He felt that his body was much stronger than before crossing the road. He didn't feel very hard after this long journey.

"Meet the Governor."

Deng Ming had no official status. He treated Wen An very casually, just holding his fists and bowing, but the latter was not at all accustomed to him.

"Sit down, it's been a hard time for this trip." Wen Anzhi asked Deng Ming to sit down and asked the servant to serve tea. His tone was neither anxious nor slow, and he looked calm.

But the servants who worshipped the tea knew that after the news of the Kunming fire was sent back to Fengjie, Wen Anzhi was very excited in private. After learning that Hong Chengchou died and Wu Sangui retreated, the supervisor was even more excited in the study and raised his arms and shouted: "The prince has the wind of light and martial arts, and the sky will not perish the Ming Dynasty!"

{Piaotian Literature www.piaotian.net Thank you for your support, your support is our greatest motivation}
Chapter completed!