Chapter 92 Self-proclaimed King
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The admiral was a little better than the general, especially when Wu Sangui asked him to control the Hubei Green Camp, which suddenly caused the troops controlled by Fang Xiaoyu to rise several times. At the same time, his status suddenly soared to the level of several generals under Wu Sangui's command.
Now Wu Sangui controls several provinces, and the admirals in each province are Wu Sangui's confidant. Yunnan is Wu Sangui's nest, with only a few generals, but there are no admirals. For example, provinces such as Shaanxi, Guizhou, and Sichuan that were taken over by Wu Sangui, the most powerful ones are naturally the admirals in each province.
Although the land of Hubei was not completely taken down, most of it was still in the hands of the Qing court. Even so, Fang Xiaoyu also reached the sky in one step and became one of the few powerful figures under Wu Sangui.
Fang Xiaoyu looked grateful and said tremblingly: "I thank you for your humble job. I can only fight to the death to repay the prince for his kindness."
After a violent cough, Wu Sangui could no longer suppress his injuries. Blood spurted out of his mouth and fainted in a flash.
The mansion was in chaos. Since then, Wu Sangui has been lingering and sickbed, and his energy is not as good as before. However, facing the counterattack of the Qing court, Wu Sangui has to hand over more rights to his subordinates.
As a result, the power held by Fang Xiaoyu and others naturally became greater and greater. At this time, Fang Xiaoyu began to gather the Green Camp troops in Hubei. As a place where both sides fought, Hubei gathered hundreds of thousands of troops from both sides. Fang Xiaoyu nominally promoted the troops in Hubei, but what he could really control was the army that was outside the old people such as Li Benshen.
However, Fang Xiaoyu did not dislike these green camps. He gathered them one by one, and his troops quickly soared to 50,000, which was only less than the troops controlled by several admirals.
Since Wu Yingxiong was castrated by Wei Xiaobao and Jianning, he was in a gloomy mood. In addition, he had been hollowed out before, and he died not long after. Fortunately, Wu Yingxiong had a child, so he did not let the Wu family's incense be cut off.
Now Wu Sangui is seriously injured. As Wu Sangui's grandson, Wu Shifan is naturally introduced to become a representative figure of the Wu army.
It’s a pity that Wu Shifan has no prestige in the army at all. Fortunately, with the support of Fang Xiaoyu, the general in the army, no one except Wu Sangui is convinced. Now Wu Sangui can’t afford to get sick, but how could Wu Shifan suppress these veterans?
Therefore, Wu Shifan became more and more dependent on Fang Xiaoyu.
A few months later, with the support of Fang Xiaoyu, Wu Shifan killed the veteran Wang *fuchen and took over the military power of Shaanxi.
However, it was precisely because of Wu Shifan's actions that Ma Bao and other veterans suddenly felt a sense of crisis. Fortunately, Ma Bao and his friends were able to support Wu Shifan because they had been following Wu Sangui and did not work in other provinces.
However, veterans like Li Benshen, who had the military and political power of a province, were not so resistant to it. They were wary of Wu Shifan, fearing that they would end up with Wang *'s assistant minister.
As the target of being elected to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, Wang *fuchen died unjustly, but this is the case with politics. Even Wu Sangui, who was preparing to ascend the throne to the emperor, did not stop Wu Shifan's actions. It was obviously acquiesced to Wu Shifan's actions to suppress his old ministers.
Once the emperor and the ministers were born, Wu Sangui knew that his life would not last long. Since this was the case, if the Wu family wanted to pass on the world, they had to keep Wu Shifan strong. Then it was reasonable to suppress old ministers such as Li Benshen.
As a new generation general, Fang Xiaoyu was naturally chosen by Wu Sangui as an important official. After three months of promotion, Fang Xiaoyu's power even surpassed those of the old ministers who had followed Wu Sangui for decades.
The most obvious thing is that the land of Shaanxi, which was originally occupied by the assistant minister of King *, fell completely into Fang Xiaoyu's hands. In addition, Fang Xiaoyu's soldiers jumped to 100,000. This is not the auxiliary soldiers, but the real warable soldiers.
At this point, Fang Xiaoyu controlled almost 30% of the Wu family's military and horses. As for the remaining ones scattered in the hands of more than ten generals, unless most of the dozen generals united together, they would definitely be unable to fight Fang Xiaoyu.
Wu Sangui, who rebelled all his life for the throne as emperor, finally chose to ascend the throne as emperor before his death. His country was named Dazhou, the capital was founded in Hengyang, and the year of Zhaowu.
However, Wu Sangui ascended the throne and reached the end of his life. Just a month later, Wu Sangui died of illness on his bed, and Wu Shifan ascended the throne with the support of Fang Xiaoyu.
Wu Shifan ascended the throne and relied on Fang Xiaoyu even more. The other party rewarded Fang Xiaoyu, especially the generals under Fang Xiaoyu were all promoted to the title, but instead suppressed those veterans.
If it weren't for the pressure from the strong Qing Dynasty, Wu Shifan's actions would definitely arouse the crazy counterattack of these veterans.
Fang Xiaoyu used his methods and controlled Wu Shifan in just one year and controlled the Great Zhou court.
At the same time, Wei Xiaobao, who learned that Fang Xiaoyu was in the Great Zhou Dynasty, was obviously greatly stimulated.
As the military supervisor, Wei Xiaobao represented Kangxi and was also Kangxi's confidant. Therefore, at Wei Xiaobao's request, the Qing army attacked the Great Zhou army frantically regardless of casualties.
In addition, Wei Xiaobao personally took the battle to assassinate the generals of the Great Zhou, Li Benshen died in the battlefield, and Hu Guozhu, Wu Yingqi and others were assassinated one by one by Wei Xiaobao. It can be said that Wei Xiaobao's madness caused the veterans of the Great Zhou to wither quickly.
Originally, if Fang Xiaoyu wanted, he could block Wei Xiaobao, whether it was Hu Yizhi, Long'er, or he himself.
But Fang Xiaoyu didn't do that. Instead, he used Wu Shifan to issue a series of decrees to send a veteran who refused to accept his favor to the battlefield and eliminated it one by one with Wei Xiaobao's hands.
Of course, Fang Xiaoyu also had miscalculations, that is, Feng Xifan. He thought that just because of Feng Xifan's character, he would definitely choose to submit to him, but Feng Xifan actually chose to assassinate Wu Shifan as a means of seeking resignation to the Qing army.
Wu Shifan was seriously injured and almost died. Fortunately, he was rescued in time and his life was stolen, otherwise he would have definitely ruined Fang Xiaoyu's plan.
At least Fang Xiaoyu needs the banner of Wu to integrate and control his subordinates. He will give him another half a year. Even if Fang Xiaoyu raises the flag and becomes independent, no one will object.
Feng Xifan's defection caused quite a lot of trouble to Fang Xiaoyu, especially Feng Xifan's evil mind and gathered with the scheming Wei Xiaobao. The two of them were in a terrible state. They fought fiercely for a while, and with their joint efforts, they brought bloody storms to the generals of the Great Zhou.
In the autumn of the second year of Zhaowu, Wu Shifan was seriously injured and died. He died on a sickbed. Because he had no descendants, the rest of the Wu clan members did not convince the public. Therefore, the emperor was vacant. Fang Xiaoyu proclaimed himself King of Yunnan, commanded the three provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, Shaanxi, subdued Ma Bao, and conquered Sichuan. His power reached its peak in one fell swoop, and almost received 70% of the Wu clan's power.
Chapter completed!