Han’s Son is Not a Slave

From Shanhaiguan to Beizhili, and from Beizhili to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan; they fought Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, and Li Dingguo. ...

From the first year of Shunzhi to the present, Wu Sangui has been working for the Qing Dynasty for 16 years. It can even be said that half of the Qing Dynasty was conquered by Wu Sangui. Therefore, some people say that without the King of Pingxi, there would be no Qing Dynasty; If there is no King of Pingxi, Li Chuang is sitting in Beijing, Zhang Xianzhong is in the southwest, Zhu Ming is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Manchus are in the outside of the customs. How can the Qing Dynasty come! There are still people in the capital who slander Wu Sangui, saying that if the world is three points, there must be his Wu family.

Fortunately, the Qing court did not believe in these rumors and malicious slander. Although Wu Sangui was always on guard, it was still useful in the end, otherwise Yungui would not be pacified. After Zhu Youlang abandoned the country and absconded, the Qing court rewarded him for his merits. Jin Wu Sangui became the Prince of Pingxi, which made Wu Sangui the first and only Jin prince among the Han vassal kings. Ye Wangye.

Wu Sangui became the Prince of Pingxi, and his subordinates were naturally greatly encouraged, but Doni, the real commander of the Qing Army in the southwest, was not happy, and was afraid of Wu Sangui, because the Han prince's soldiers and horses were more than his, the Manchu county king. many. According to reliable sources, Wu Sangui took in and incorporated the Ming Dynasty army of up to 100,000 in a few months. Together with his headquarters, there were more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but Duny could control only less than 80,000 soldiers and horses. Among them, there were 14,000 Manchurians, 20,000 Mongol soldiers, and the rest were Han troops and green battalions. The rest of the tens of thousands of Yungui Ming Army, adapted from the surrendered army, became somewhat unstable because of the defeat of Roto and Zhao Butai in Guangxi. Duny didn't trust them.

In terms of military strength, the commander-in-chief of Duny is a bit out of character, so he wondered why the emperor still promoted Wu Sangui as the prince. Even if he wanted to promote the prince, he should be promoted to Duny first, and then Wu Sangui. Otherwise, what would Duny use to suppress Wu Sangui.

The King of Ping County, Luo Keduo, came to complain again, saying that he had no food to eat in Guizhou, he could neither enter nor retreat, and he had to endure the harassment of the unruly natives in Guizhou, which was really miserable. Now, apart from Guiyang and other major cities and towns, Luo Ke Duo can no longer control the rest of Guizhou. As a result, half of the information channels and grain channels are blocked, and it is even more difficult to get food after collecting food. Shrink and go directly back to Guiyang.

Rocco Duo's suffering, Duny knew, because he was suffering too. After the news of Luoto and Zhao Butai's defeat in Guangxi came back, some Ming troops who had surrendered to the Qing army immediately revolted, and many of those surrendered chieftains also responded to the rebellion, resulting in the resurgence of beacon in Yunnan. The original pacification policy of Hong Chengchou's deployment was a complete failure. After Zhu Youlang abandoned the country, the favorable situation for the Qing army was completely lost. The Qing army, who was already exhausted and looking forward to the class division returning to Beijing, had to put on armor again to pacify the place.

Fortunately, the Taiping army in Guangdong and Guangxi did not advance from Guangxi after annihilating Luotuo and Zhao Butai. Those rebelling Ming troops and chieftains could not get the support of the Taiping army, and they lacked communication with each other and did not have a unified command. was suppressed by the Qing army. Even so, the Qing army also paid thousands of casualties. Casualties are secondary. The key point is that the chaos that lasted for nearly two months has made Yunnan, which was already withering, worse, and directly led to a significant drop in the food, grass, and manpower that the Qing army could collect.

What annoyed Duny the most was that Jianchang's Ming general Di Sanpin had made an agreement with the Qing army to kidnap the Ming Dynasty's Qingyang King Feng Shuangli to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. After defeating the Qing army in Guangxi and beheading Jingnan generals Luo Tuo and Xian Guoan, he immediately regretted not surrendering to the Qing.

On the other hand, the Sichuan side had good news. First, they defeated Kuidong troops twice in Chongqing to seize the city. Then Gao Minzhan, the governor of Sichuan, according to the instructions of Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, sent troops from Baoning, and successively collected Guanxian, Mianzhu, Shifang, and Hanzhou. , Jianzhou and other places, troops entered Chengdu. The Ming Dynasty generals Liu Yao, Yang Youcai, Cao Changzuo, Chen Anguo, Zhao Youyan and other miscellaneous troops who were guarding Chengdu retreated automatically. Li Guoying and Gao Minzhan successively recruited and surrendered Ming Anwu general Yang Guoming and chief military officer Wu Guoyong.

It is a pity that the good news of Sichuan did not affect the situation of Yunnan and Guizhou. As long as the Taiping Army continued to block the borders between Hunan and Guizhou and Guizhou and Guizhou, the hundreds of thousands of Qing countries in Yunnan and Guizhou were like birds trapped in a cage, and it was difficult for them to spread their wings.

At the beginning of July, Duny received a message that the Taiping Army in Guangdong and the loyal camp in Huguang had jointly established Zhu Yu'e, the younger brother of the pseudo-Ming Longwu, to supervise the country in Guangzhou. Before digesting this shocking news, another news came from Wu Sangui's army. It is said that some people in the Wu army are talking about how the birds are exhausted, and the good bows are hidden; the cunning rabbits die, and the lackeys cook them.

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The Qing court made himself a prince. In the past, Wu Sangui would definitely be ecstatic, but now, he is calm. However, in front of outsiders, Prince Pingxi was still grateful for Qing's grace, and he only shed tears.

After Su Yunxiang returned from Burma, he brought Wu Sangui the exact news that his blockade of the Burma border was still successful. At least in Burma, the monarchs of Yongli and the remnants of Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan did not know about the war in Guangdong and Guangxi and the state affairs of Tang Wangjian. .

A few days ago, Dhoni sent Aixing Ah, the minister of internal guards, to Wu Sangui's army. Ai Xing Alai has two purposes, one is to let Wu Sangui allocate some military rations to Guizhou, and the other is to let Wu Sangui immediately kill the remnants of Li Dingguo who are active at the border.

Aixing A didn't mention that Wu Sangui was sent to Burma to capture Yongli. I wonder if Beijing knew that King Tang of the Ming Dynasty was supervising the country in Guangzhou. Yongli, a fake child of tomorrow, was meaningless, so I didn't want to pay attention to it, or it was because of Beijing's attention. It is completely concentrated in the direction of Guangdong.

For whatever reason, it was a good thing for Wu Sangui that the Qing court did not explicitly allow him to bring troops into Burma, because he did not want to kill Yongli.

He knew very well that although the Qing court promoted himself to be a prince, he was a Han Chinese after all. He was a half-way driver and had a heavy army. The Qing court couldn't really trust him, or he would not have been sent to monitor Li Guohan for so many years. guard against him. I am afraid that the biggest reason for giving himself the Prince Jin is not that Yongli was driven out of the country by him, pointing him to enter Burma, but because of the great changes in Guangdong and Guangxi. Roto and Zhao Butai were wiped out in Guangxi, and not only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were killed, but the only hope for the Qing army in the southwest to break out of the encirclement. The Qing court knew this, Doni knew it, and Wu Sangui knew even more. Counting on Ping Keduo, a guy who is not as good as Doni, to get through the border between Hunan and Guizhou is no different from counting on a sow to climb a tree.

Wu Sangui did not refuse Aixing A's request to adjust food. He got a lot of food and grass when he pacified Na Song and his son. In addition, he recruited the frontier chieftains and the armed forces of the Ming army, unlike the Qing army in other places. On the contrary, he attached great importance to the restoration of local areas, and appointed many Ming Dynasty officials to govern and manage, which made his reputation as King Pingxi even louder and more popular than that of the Qing Dynasty. But Wu Sangui can only control the western and southern Yunnan areas. This area is relatively barren, and the army cannot be stationed for a long time. Therefore, Wu Sangui needs a larger territory to support troops. Ergon's promise made him pacify the West King Yongzhen of Yungui.

Wanting Beijing to give him Yungui, Wu Sangui naturally couldn't show any disloyalty to the Qing court. He agreed to Aixing's request and transported 800 stones of grain and grass to Guizhou, which greatly satisfied Aixing. Shangshu said a lot of good things for him, King Pingxi. On Dhoni's side, there was no response.

But I don't know when it started, and who was spreading it in the army, saying that the court is likely to kill the king of Pingxi, and the news of Guangdong and Guangxi came one after another. Unstable, even his direct general Guan Ning was confused and uneasy about the situation.

Wu Sangui couldn't stop the rumors from spreading, and he was also a little guilty and scared. Guilt is not because he sent Su Yunxiang to Burma to show goodwill to the Yongli court, but he is also worried about whether the Qing court is worried that Wu Sangui will be like a grass in the sky when Guangdong and Guangxi support the Tang Dynasty to supervise the country, and the Qing army of Yungui and Qing forces fail one after another. .

The eldest son-in-law, Xia Guoxiang, heard rumors from somewhere, saying that the emperor of Beijing was preparing to go south in person, and he intended to let Wu Sangui lead the army to return from Sichuan and Shaanxi to join the Huguang battlefield.

The feasibility of this rumor is very low, because Beijing really wants Wu Sangui to join the Huguang battlefield, and it can directly let him go north from Guizhou, why go around from Sichuan and Shaanxi. Guizhou Luo Ke Duo can't rush out, it doesn't mean that he can't rush out Wu Sangui either.

Wu Sangui smiled contemptuously, and said in front of his subordinates that the rumor was ridiculous and should be ignored. But the subordinates didn't see it that way. Guo Yunlong said that the lord now holds a heavy army, and of course he has the final say in Yunnan, but if the Qing court really asks the lord to return to the north, will the lord still have the final say?

Wu Sangui was silent. The military system of the Qing Dynasty was like that of the Ming Dynasty. .

But Wu Sangui has never been a person who is willing to be happy, and he has no soldiers and horses in his hands. Who can guarantee that the Qing court will not really come to a cunning rabbit to die and a running dog to cook?

The so-called monarchy is impermanent, Dorgon has made such great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, and he will not be dug up and whipped after his death. The young emperor's mind is impermanent, and it is difficult for Wu Sangui to guarantee that he will not kill himself.

After all, he Wu Sangui is a Han Chinese!

What to do now, a group of advisers and generals under King Pingxi have different opinions. For safety, Wu Sangui summoned them one by one. The reason why he summoned him alone was because Wu Sangui knew that there must be people who had been placed by the Qing court around him. In addition, Duny's army was still eyeing him in Kunming. He couldn't guarantee that all his subordinates would be loyal to him. As for a few confidants, such as advisors Fang Xianting, Hu Shouliang, son-in-law Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Guo Yunlong, Wu Sangui naturally did not have to be so careful. If you are also careful with these people, then there is really no one around King Pingxi who can be trusted.

Hu Guozhu asked Wu Sangui the real intention of sending Su Yunxiang to Myanmar to see Yongli. Wu Sangui smiled and said to him that he was just thinking of the old master's feelings, and had no desire to restore the enlightenment.

Hu Guozhu did not speak after hearing this, but Xia Guoxiang was thoughtful.

However, Hu Shouliang knew the true intention of the benefactor. He said to Wu Sangui: "My lord, the restoration of the Ming Dynasty is not yet possible. One is that there are few soldiers, the other is that there is no basis, and the third is that the money, grain and equipment are not enough to start. Therefore, we must first plan. Once you have a foothold and you have enough savings, you can follow Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty and Zhu Wu of the Ming Dynasty, and then make plans."

Su Yunxiang nodded and said, "Your Highness is planning to guard the southwest at the moment, and don't go back to Beijing. It's better to learn from the Ming Dynasty Mu Ying and guard Yunnan for generations, and take a foothold and plan later."

Fang Xianting nodded slightly. As early as when the Manchu Qing was in a fierce battle with Sun Kewang's Daxi Army in the Hunan area of ​​Guizhou, Fang Xianting persuaded Wu Sangui not to completely wipe out Nanming. Enter. Wu Sangui really hesitated in his heart at the beginning, but he finally thought that it was too hasty, the troops were insufficient, and the timing was not sufficient. If he did this, Nanming and the Qing Dynasty might attack him from the north and south, so he did not take his opinion.

"Leave the sly rabbit, the lackey survives!"

The one who spoke was General Guo Yunlong, who was Wu Sangui's direct descendant of Guan Ning. He was born and died with Wu Sangui, and his weight in Wu Sangui's heart was comparable to that of his two sons-in-law.

The eight characters that Guo Yunlong said are actually what Wu Sangui is doing now. The reason why he did not continue to pursue the Yongli Emperor who entered Myanmar is because of this thought. As for other Ming army forces in Yunnan, such as the remnants of Li Dingguo, Wu Sangui also ordered not to pursue them, and even secretly ordered the front-line generals not to push Li Bu too hastily and give them some space to move. The front line reported that Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were training the army, and they might be waiting for the opportunity to counter this information. Wu Sangui did not order corresponding measures, but strictly ordered the border to be blocked, and Li Dingguo and the others were not allowed to contact the country.

Wu Sangui didn't mind Guo Yunlong's use of the word "running dog", but he felt that these two words were the most appropriate to describe him.

"This king also wants to stay in Yungui, but if the court really wants this king to return north, I'm afraid it will be difficult."

Hu Shouliang said, "My lord is afraid to ask Hong Jinglue for help in this matter."

Wu Sangui thought about it and wrote a letter to Hong Chengchou in Kunming. A few days later, Hong Chengchou found an excuse to come to Wu Sangui's army. Wu Sangui hurriedly ordered people to prepare a banquet, and there were not many people attending the banquet, all of whom were close friends of Wu Sangui. However, Hong Chengchou did not bring any of his entourage, and went to the banquet alone. Obviously, Hong Laojing was much more cautious.

There was a table of dishes for the banquet~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It was neither too extravagant nor too simple. It not only wanted to show the respect of Wu Sangui, a student, to the teacher, but also to show the characteristics of the banquet.

Hong Chengchou glanced at the wine and dishes on the table, smiled and said to Wu Sangui: "Changbai, this old man is not a gluttonous person. It is too rich to eat me like this!"

Wu Sangui hurriedly said: "Teacher is busy with politics and it is difficult to get me here. This is still a little bit of the student's heart. Please taste it a little bit."

In terms of official relations, Hong Chengchou was the ambassador of Jinglue, and although he was also a feudal lord, he was not as high as Wu Sangui's Prince Pingxi. But in terms of personal friendship, Wu Sangui was a student of Hong Chengchou, and Fang Xianting, Hu Shouliang and others who were present at the **** table were even juniors. Not much to say at the moment, everyone toasted to Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou also refused to come, and looked like a spring breeze.

Before he knew it, he had already drank three cups of tea, and it was the third watch, and Hong Chengchou was about to leave. Wu Sangui suddenly backed away to obey, leaving only the two of them at the banquet. Seeing this, Hong Chengchou didn't understand how, but he remained calm on the surface.

"Is something wrong with Changbai?" Hong Chengchou asked lightly.

"Sangui wants a place to stand, and I heard that Beijing wants to transfer Sangui to the north, so I hope the teacher will give me some advice." Wu Sangui suddenly got up and knelt in front of Hong Shouchou with tears in his eyes.

"Tell me, have you ever had contact with Myanmar?"

"This..."

Wu Sangui was stunned and dared not to conceal the truth, so he told Hong Chengchou about sending Su Yunxiang to Burma. He also mentioned that the Burmese side should not return Yongli to Li Dingguo.

After Hong Chengchou heard this, he said nothing. Wu Sangui didn't speak, and waited silently. After a while, Hong Chengchou said, "You have to send someone to Li Dingguo's place."

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The most recent ones are big chapters of four or five thousand words. (To be continued.)