Pang Tianshou was very powerful in the palace, and it was not difficult to send someone to steal a royal property. However, the things were just handed over to Ma Jixiang, and before the person could leave the city, he was blocked by Bai Wenxuan who came.

It turned out that just two days after Ma Jixiang left Guiyang, the news of Li Dingguo advancing west had already been heard. Sun Kewang sent his generals Liu Zhenguo and Guan Youcai to lead his army to Tianzhou to strengthen the walls and clear the field to welcome Li Dingguo's army. Tianzhou is located in the western part of Guangxi and is stuck between Li Dingguo's army and Anlong Mansion. The second general is Sun Kewang's confidant, and he even practices firmly clear the field in Tianzhou. However, the Tianzhou defense line was only expelled, and the rest of the troops disintegrated after hearing the shout of "The Western Mansion is coming."

The door was open, and Sun Kewang had to send Bai Wenxuan to welcome the chariot, intending to move Yongli to Guiyang to prevent the emperor from taking it away by Li Dingguo.

After Bai Wenxuan arrived, Ma Jixiang could only stay behind to "cooperate with the relocation" work, but it was impossible to leave the city. Not only him, An Long Mansion also entered the complete military control with the arrival of Bai Wenxuan. If you want to leave the city, you must first pass the Bai Wenxuan level.

Bai Wenxuan was the former subordinate of Sun Kewang, and among the Qin generals, he was an absolute power-oriented faction. When Bai Wenxuan arrived at Anlong, he was responsible for the overall management of the affairs here. However, after Bai Wenxuan arrived, he first met Yongli. Although the transfer matters were arranged in an orderly manner after leaving the "Palace", the Yongli family did not set off for a long time.

More than a month passed, Yongli was still in Anlong, and Bai Wenxuan was still preparing step by step, but Li Dingguo's military front was getting closer and closer, and Sun Kewang was already so anxious that he was about to get into the room in Guiyang. So, Sun Kewang, who could no longer wait, sent his trusted family Ye Yingzhen to urge him.

Ye Yingzhen rushed to Anlong as quickly as possible, but in the Yongli Palace, from Empress Ma, Empress Wang, to the palace maids and eunuchs, all cried and refused to set off. Bai Wenxuan told Ye Yingzhen that Anlong had few poor people and was not easy to recruit civilians, and it was indeed impossible to set off for a while. During this two months, Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou, who had the opportunity to make great contributions, were completely marginalized and could only sit and watch the changes in the situation.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month of the tenth year of Yongli, the envoys who went to Zhejiang were still on the way, but Li Dingguo's army was the first to approach Anlong. At this moment, Anlong was still under the control of Qin Fan, from Bai Wenxuan to Liu Zhenguo who fled back from Tianzhou to Ye Yingzhen who came from Guiyang. Li Dingguo came not to conquer the city but to welcome the emperor, so he had to send Yang Xiang, the general of the propaganda to Anlong. As a result, Yang Xiang was captured by Liu Zhenguo's army in Bantun River, fifty miles away from Anlong, and was escorted to Bai Wenxuan to wait for trial.

"What's your intention for you to come here?"

Bai Wenxuan sat in the big tent. Since Yang Xiang was arrested, he claimed that he was coming to see Bai Wenxuan by Sun Kewang. When he saw Bai Wenxuan, Yang Xiang bowed his hand and replied: "The last one will be the general Yang Xiang, and the king of the country ordered the general to come to supervise the prefectures and counties to prepare food and grass to wait for the king of the country to arrive." After that, Yang Xiang immediately took out a dragon card from his armor.

"This is a certificate for the last general of the country to come to prepare food and grass."

The king of the country refers to Sun Kewang. Bai Wenxuan was a major general of the Qin vassal state and was very familiar with the military generals under the Qin royal palace. However, Bai Wenxuan did not make things difficult for Yang Xiang. Instead, he ordered his subordinates to prepare wine, food and entertainment, and allowed him to act freely in Anlong Mansion.

After using the wine and rice, Yang Xiang left Bai Wenxuan's headquarters, walked around the city for a few times before heading to the palace to visit Yongli.

With Bai Wenxuan's permission, the gate-guarding army had to let go. Seeing Yongli, Yang Xiang hinted that he would retreat, and after no one was around, he took out a seal from his heart from behind his armor.

Yongli took over the secret, and the seven words "The vassal minister Li Dingguo reported carefully" immediately appeared in front of him, and he was suddenly shocked. When he opened the secret, Li Dingguo's strong brushstrokes appeared on the paper.

"I am now leading the army to welcome the hukou. I will arrive at the capital soon. I will send you a report to the peace. Don't listen to the traitors and rebels lightly and move them."

It was just twenty-five words, but it was covered with the seal "Pinghan's Minister" given by Yongli when he sent someone to introduce Li Dingguo to the guards as a letter. He immediately felt relieved.

The secret was sent to Yongli, and Yang Xiang changed his clothes and left the city to return to the Li Dingguo army. At this time, the Li Dingguo army had already set up camp and was also waiting for Yang Xiang's news to arrive.

The generals under his command were still in various departments. In the tent, only Li Dingguo and his confidant civil servant Jin Gongzhi talked in the tent.

"If General Yang could bring his robbery back and his king approached the city, the defenders in the city would not be able to fight."

In recent years, Jin Gongzhi has been responsible for logistics and food and money by Li Dingguo, and is very capable. If he is idle on weekdays, he often explains stories such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to Li Dingguo. In it, he can't help but instill the thoughts of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness through praise of Liu Guanzhang's loyalty and righteousness and contempt for Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao's usurpation of the Han Dynasty.

Perhaps because of his natural loyalty and righteousness, Li Dingguo absorbed this knowledge very well. In addition to his loyalty and righteousness, he still remembered the stories and the edicts in it.

"No need for a robbery, as long as General Yang can enter the city, find out the truth, and hand over the secrets to the emperor."

With the "war" in Tianzhou, Li Dingguo had a deeper understanding of the people's hearts and greater confidence in regaining Anlong Yingjia.

In fact, Li Dingguo came here, in addition to understanding the dangers of Yongli, he was actually seeking his own development direction.

The year before yesterday, Chen Wen killed Hong Chengchou and took Jiangxi with great strides. The miracle of the Ganzhou city in one day caused a huge shock in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

King Geng Jimao of Jingnan, General Hao Shangjiu of Chaozhou, Prince Shangzhixin of Pingnan, and General Ma Xiong of Dingnan vassals, and King Shang of Pingnan was happy to retreat to Huizhou.

It seemed as if in just a moment, the Qing army, which originally occupied most of the territory in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, suddenly became ashes. In the chaos of the king's flag changing on the top of the city, Li Dingguo was delighted and suddenly discovered that he, who occupied eastern Guangxi and eastern Guangxi, had been wrapped up by the letter from Monk Sun Kewang, leaving only the way out for Beijing and Huguang.

Huguang is the direction of Sun Kewang's army's attack, and Jiangxi east of Huguang has been recovered by Chen Wen. Chen Wen's strategy of inviting him to attack Jiangxi was denied by him, and it was not his wish to compete with Sun Kewang in Huguang. However, before he could he hesitate, the news that Fan Wencheng gave up Huguang came. Sun Kewang got the moon first, but it also completely blocked his only remaining development direction.

To the west, to the north is Sun Kewang, to the east is Shang Zhixin, to the south is the sea, and to the heart of Wuzhou, there is even a Ma Xiong. While Shang Zhixin blocked Li Dingguo's cross-border attack, he expressed his advice to his father to return to the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. In this area of ​​thousands of miles, there was no shadow of the Qing army.

Li Dingguo is now quite territorial, and together they are as big as a province, and there are also places like Xinhui as rich. However, there is only such a rich place.

The eastern part of Guangxi and eastern parts of Guangxi have never stopped wars since the Yongli and Shaowu's battle. Li Chengdong, Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao, Kong Youde, and especially Li Chengdong, first attacked the Ming army with the Qing army westward. After his death, his generals fought against the Qing army westward. The Ming and Qing sides fought here, and the people's livelihood was ruined to an unprecedented level. Even when Li Dingguo attacked Xinhui, Shang Kexi had another round of solid walls and clearing the world. There were not many people left in areas such as Zhaoqing Prefecture and Luo Dingzhou.

The war was continuous, without a stable social environment, the destruction of the place and the loss of population were inevitable. This is the area occupied by Li Dingguo now, but after the direction of his advancement was completely blocked by friendly forces, he had to do so indulge in these places.

When Li Dingguo retreated from Huguang to Guangxi, his army had a total of 40,000 to 50,000, all of which were elite. Zhaoqing suffered thousands of losses. After that, he fought with Ma Xiong, Xing Guoan and even Feng Shuangli in Guangxi several times, but the losses of the troops were not large.

In the original history, during the Battle of Xinhui, Li Dingguo lost his troops and generals. When he went to Anlong to welcome the throne, it would have been so easy for the Qin army to either surrender or flee. But now, in the Battle of Xinhui, the general attack was stopped by Chen Wen before it even started. It was a good thing that the army under his command did not lose too much. Such a large army could be maintained in this province, but the huge number of rebels in Guangdong immediately became a huge burden on food and wages.

The rebel army originally had no problem of food and salary. Their respective leaders were in charge, and it was enough to have food to eat. However, as soon as Li Dingguo settled here, the food and salary fell on Guo Zhiqi, the chief of the army, who was originally in charge of Li Dingguo's troops, Lianchengbi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Zhang Xiao, the governor of the four prefectures, the local civil servants of Guangdong and Guangxi.

The number of rebels is too huge, and it is unrealistic to bear all of them. However, if they do not bear food and wages, their local military discipline will be difficult to control, and the purpose of protecting the country and safeguarding the people will not be able to recover people's livelihood. On the one hand, the local area is in ruins, and on the other hand, the number of rebels is too large, and the huge economic pressure will soon make these civil servants breathless.

But if you want to solve the problem, it is nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. At least they don’t know where else to make money besides taxes. To reduce expenditure, you have to reduce the number of troops and convert retired soldiers into military households or self-cultivated farmers, and use the method of disarmament. This not only reduces expenses, but also increases taxes, killing two birds with one stone.

This is the easiest method and the most commonly used method by civil servants of all dynasties. Guo Zhiqi and others naturally flocked to it. However, no one of these rebel leaders wanted to be reduced. Even the old and the weak would affect their future status. Li Dingguo's army was even more elite, and there was no reason to reduce it, which completely turned into a dead end.

In this way, after operating the eastern and western regions for a year, not only did people's livelihood not recovered, but even Xinhui and other places began to lose due to the increasingly complex taxes.

Economics, politics, military, and other things seem to be very different, but in fact there is a thread that leads them together. With huge economic pressure and conflicts between the rebels, Li Dingguo suddenly found that he was not only trapped in this cage, but also was about to be suffocated to death by his friendly forces in this sealed space.

At this moment, news of Mr. Eighteen's prison came, and Jin Gongzhi once again suggested that Sun Kewang's unofficial intention was obvious and he went to Anlong Mansion to meet the emperor to relieve the troubles of the emperor.

Li Dingguo understood this truth. Yu Gong and Yongli are now the co-lord of various Ming armies and the banner of the Ming Dynasty. If Yongli dies, the various vassal states will definitely support more emperors in order to support great achievements. The situation of improving day by day will inevitably begin to deteriorate rapidly with the outbreak of civil war, and only the Qing Dynasty can gain advantage. Yu privately, although he and Sun Kewang are almost like cutting off their robes, they are both from the Daxi Army. If Yongli dies at Sun Kewang's hands, civil war will inevitably break out between the Daxi Army system and other Ming armies. His selfishness in recent years, he hopes to wash away the name of the thief by helping the Ming Dynasty revival will be completely out of nowhere.

While blurting out Sun Kewang's wolf ambitions in his heart, under economic pressure, he confirmed that Shang Kexi had been advised by his son Shang Zhixin for a long time and announced that he had returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, Li Dingguo had to lead his army westward to welcome the Yongli Emperor.

The two of them chatted in the big tent without saying a word, which hurt Yongli. Now all they could do was wait for Yang Xiang's news. Hard work pays off. After a few hours, Yang Xiang, who rushed back with a quick horse, brought back the best news that could have been expected to be before Li Dingguo, so that they all counted it to the four big words "Divine Will" by God.

However, that night, Ye Yingzhen heard that Li Dingguo's army was not far from Anlong, so he brought the soldiers who were accompanying the robbery into the palace with military uniforms and asked the Yongli family to set off immediately, at least to Guiyang.

For a moment, "crying sounds in the palace resounded inside and outside." Bai Wenxuan hurried over after hearing the news and saw Ye Yingzhen instructing his soldiers to force Yongli's family to leave the palace.

"Are you crazy?!"

The voice arrived first, followed closely. Bai Wenxuan shouted and Ye Yingzhen and his subordinates were stunned on the spot. Then, Bai Wenxuan pulled Ye Yingzhen to the side and said to him in a low voice.

"The king is afraid that Anxi will return to Qing Dynasty, so he welcomes the driver, and is afraid that he will fall into an unexpected situation. Things must be relaxed. If it is forced to come to this point, the court's jade leaves and golden branches will not be my life. If it happens to happen, if it is an accident, if it is a matter of responsibility? Now I will go to explore. If Anxi will come to Qing soldiers, it will be not too late to move. If Anxi returns the soldiers, they will be a family. How can we blame ourselves for persecution!"

Ye Yingzhen was only a hundred households. Even if he had Sun Kewang's close relatives and believed him, he was far inferior to Bai Wenxuan among the Qin vassals. What's more, Bai Wenxuan himself was Sun Kewang's confidant general, and he knew more inside information than him. Seeing this, he had to follow Bai Wenxuan and withdrew from the palace with his subordinates.

In the early morning of the 22nd day of the first lunar month, heavy fog was filled with turmoil, and the undercurrents inside Anlong Mansion were surging. It was only because Bai Wenxuan suppressed him that he could not cause a farce that forced the emperor to run away.

However, in the heavy fog, dozens of cavalry suddenly came straight to the city and shouted around the city: "The army of the Western Palace has arrived!" The city immediately became a mess, and some people who had been waiting for Li Dingguo to return to the army for a long time were clamoring in the city. Ye Yingzhen knew that he was not a match for Li Dingguo. He offended the sage a few days ago and hurriedly fled to Guiyang with his troops.

Soon, Li Dingguo's army arrived in Anlong, and the army set up camp under the leadership of the generals, while Li Dingguo himself entered the city to meet him in person.

"I have known you for a long time that I am loyal and righteous, and I hate to meet you late."

Yongli had reason to be excited. Originally, he was still hesitating about whether to use Ma Jixiang and others. Then Bai Wenxuan and Ye Yingzhen came one after another. Even if they wanted to send someone to lead Li Dingguo into the guard, it was too late, and they couldn't leave the city at all. Now, Li Dingguo led his army to come. Thinking of the idea that he was still worried that fate would no longer favor the Zhu family, he suddenly felt that it was his own random thoughts. Fortunately, excitement was inevitable.

This is true for Yongli, and Li Dingguo is also true for him. The loyalty and righteousness was recognized by the emperor. Li Dingguo was immediately so excited that he burst into tears, and then replied to Yongli: "I am thankful for your Majesty that you are meeting. I want to take the two Guangdongs to welcome the carriage. Not only does it not obey the wishes of your Majesty, but it also makes your Majesty worry more. I cannot redeem myself until I die."

The king and his ministers were moved by each other. However, the real problems still existed. Li Dingguo only had these 30,000 to 40,000 troops under his command, while Sun Kewang had more than 100,000 troops in Guizhou, Yunnan and southern Huguang.

This is the fundamental reason why Sun Kewang can stand out in the mighty world. The Qing army did not dare to attack the Qin vassal easily. Even last year, Sun Kewang and Chen Wen's general Wu Dengke confronted Yuanzhou, but Chen Wen did not dare to use troops on both sides, so he had to set up a defensive position in Jiangxi. Originally, Sun Kewang ordered the princes, but now the emperor fell into the hands of Li Dingguo, and Sun Kewang would definitely take it back. Even if the army returned, Li Dingguo had thousands of means. Besides, now the emperor is here, and he is not responsible for the danger alone.

"Your Majesty, An Long should not stay for a long time, so you should move to another place quickly."

"What I said is very much, but where should I go now?"

Li Dingguo didn't want to stay in Anlong Mansion and wait for Sun Kewang, so why is Yongli the same? With this tacit understanding between the king and his subjects, the rest of the matter will be much easier to handle.

"Tongguang can't support so many troops now, so it's better to go back to Yunnan."

Today, when Guangdong and Guangxi have become cages, Yunnan is an excellent place to go. It is not only the fundamental place for the Daxi Military Alliance to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but also from there, you can go north to Sichuan. Whether it is war or harmony with Sun Kewang, there will always be a way out, which is better than being strangled by friendly troops in Guangdong and Guangxi.

With this discussion, the army set off for Yunnan the next day, and Kunming would be their destination. However, when Li Dingguo's army rushed west to Yunnan, he once regarded as a cage in Guangdong and Guangxi. It had just been announced that Shang Kexi, who had not been a few months ago, was the first to break the balance here.
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