Five hundred and fourteen years ago, the Fengbo Pavilion was staged with false information, Man Jianghong, the empty sorrow after looking up at the sky and whistling, and the eternal pain left to the Chinese nation in the sorrow.

But at that time, Hangzhou was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Now, only half of the capital of the Nanming Mountains was left, which was not the capital of Nanjing, which had been recovered by Chen Wen, nor the Zhaoqing Prefecture, the Emperor ascended the throne. Just because of the emperor's journey, he had already arrived at Kunming Prefecture, the provincial capital of Chengxuan of Yunnan Province. There had already penetrated into the southwest of China, and it was not far from the Burmese vassals.

As early as a year and a half ago, on the 26th day of the first lunar month of the tenth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo left Anlong and rushed to Yunnan. By February 11, he had arrived in Qujing, Yunnan.

At that time, Yunnan was the rear of the Daxi Army. King Liu Wenxiu of Xining, King Shangli of Guyuan, General Wang Ziqi and He Jiuyi commanded more than 20,000 troops stationed in Kunming, Chuxiong, Wuding and other places. Although Li Dingguo did not suffer a crushing defeat from Xinhui, he did not dare to be arrogant in the army, so he had to lead elite troops to Kunming to cook.

Among the four, Wang Shangli, Wang Ziqi and He Jiuyi were both Sun Kewang's generals. Liu Wenxiu opposed Sun Kewang's independence as much as Li Dingguo, but he was a person who failed the Battle of Changde and returned to Kunming to throw himself idle. The troops he could mobilize were very few.

However, Li Dingguo had a strong prestige in the Daxi Army, and Liu Wenxiu also expressed his attitude of welcomeing Yongli to Kunming. Sun Kewang was still confronting Chen Wen in Changsha, so there was nothing he could do about this two generals.

On March 26th, Emperor Yongli entered Kunming under the escort of Jin Tongwu and Zhang Jian of Li Dingguo. During the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan was regarded as a remote place. It was so-called high and the emperor was far away. At this time, the "True Dragon Emperor" arrived. The people of Kunming were very excited, "blocking the road to greet each other, and crying with hope." Seeing the people's hearts, Yongli was also very moved and asked his followers to issue an order: "I am here, do not divide the military, civilian, young, listen to them looking up and watching, and the inspectors are not allowed to fight randomly."

Yongli used this to reflect the existence of the Ming court in Kunming, but whether it was him, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, or only regarded the Yunnan Gongyuan, which Ainengqi, one of the four princes of the Great Western Region, as the palace of Yongli, as the palace of Yongli. It was even more luxurious and more suitable for the imperial palace. However, the Qin Palace in Kunming, which was more suitable for the imperial palace, still dared not interfere, let alone criticized Sun Kewang's previous actions.

In April, Yongli enthroned Li Dingguo as King of Jin, Liu Wenxiu as King of Shu, Bai Wen selected him as Duke Gong, Guyuan Marquis King Shangli as Duke Baoguo, General Wang Ziqi as Duke Kui, He Jiuyi as Duke Baokang, Qin King guard Zhang Hu as Bo Chunhua, and Navy Governor Li Bengao as Bo Chongxin Bo. There was also a great minister of Qian, Mu Tianbo, who was in charge of the imperial guards in Yunnan, and was deeply trusted by Yongli.

But it was also at this time that news of chaos in Guangdong and Guangxi followed one after another. First, the Ming army from Guangdong and Guangxi impeached the Prince of Nanhai Shang Kexi to the Yongli court to attack each other privately and imprison the civil servants of the army; next, the Prince of Nanhai Shang Kexi defended the court that it was the Ming army of Guangdong and Guangxi disturbing the people in the local area. Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi asked him to send troops to rectify the Ming army of Guangdong and Guangxi.

This is nonsense, but while the memorial of defense was sent, Shang Kexi also sent another news, that is, Chen Wen entered Fujian, conquered Quanzhou, and even continued to march towards Guangdong.

Chen Wen is now occupant in the southeast. Given that the Southeast is richest in the country, Chen Wen's strength has obviously surpassed Sun Kewang. This is a huge thing for the Yongli court. However, Yongli has just recovered some of his powers and he still has to listen to the opinions of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu on such a major event. Their opinions are very simple. He sent angels to mediate. Chen Wen captured Guangdong and divided Shaozhou and Chaozhou with Chen Wen. If Chen Wen failed to capture Guangdong, he would only give one Chaozhou Prefecture as compensation. However, in order to be safe, Li Dingguo still sent Baokang Marquis He Jiuyi to send troops to Nanning Prefecture and stand down the important town of Nanning first.

He Jiuyi is Sun Kewang's subordinate, and there are also a large army of 5,000 in Yunnan. Sun Kewang is under the banner of the Ming court, and the status of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, so he has to surrender to this. Once Sun Kewang invades inside, he is likely to become a time bomb.

For this consideration, He Jiuyi was sent by Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu to regain Nanning. This was a military use of distance to eliminate a hidden danger, which was a clever trick, but Chen Wen did not accept the imperial edict and directly swallowed up the Guangdong province.

The angel returned and said he was very arrogant to Chen Wen, and wrote a memorial to the court to ask Li Dingguo to send troops to Guangdong and Guangxi to expel the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, the angel's brain was not good and could not see the current situation clearly, which did not mean that Yongli was also a fool.

Li Dingguo did not suffer a crushing defeat in the Xinhui. The army still had 30,000 to 40,000, all of which were elite. In addition, some Qin vassal troops were restrained during the process of returning to Yunnan from Guangxi. Overall, it was restored to the old view when he returned to Guangxi from Huguang at the end of the sixth year of Yongli.

Li Dingguo benefited from the great changes in Fujian and Guangdong caused by Chen Wen, but Sun Kewang also benefited from Chen Wen's huge threat to the Qing army in Huguang to gain southern Huguang without fighting. His strength did not decline but increased. For Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu still had an overwhelming advantage.

Yongli was dissatisfied with Chen Wen's resistance to the order, but Chen Wen said that if he gave up on Guangdong, Sun Kewang would probably take advantage of the situation and attack Yunnan several times. This would be even more threatening to the Yongli court in Yunnan.

As time passed day by day, Chen Wen admitted the three eastern prefectures in Guangdong and Guangxi and announced his withdrawal, without any intention of being a culprit. According to information, Sun Kewang dispatched a large number of troops from southern Huguang to Guizhou during this period.

Since the day Yongli was under house arrest, Sun Kewang has become the Blade of Damocles hanging above the head of the Yongli court. Now Yongli has used the power of Li Dingguo to get rid of Sun Kewang's control, but Sun Kewang's army of more than 100,000 still exists and has gathered in Guizhou.

"If it weren't for the existence of King Yue, I'm afraid Qin Fan had already raised an army and invaded the country."

As the emperor, the upright Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was under house arrest and asked for rescue by other ministers. Now he is temporarily avoiding Yunnan, and he also needs another stronger minister to threaten the rioter who has been house arrested. The traitor who dared not raise an army to commit crimes. Even Yongli himself felt a little embarrassed.

Of course, it was not only Yongli who felt embarrassed. King Li Dingguo of Jin also turned red when he heard this. He and Liu Wenxiu supported Yongli, but Sun Kewang's army gathered in Guizhou, but they still did not dare to send troops to fight.

There is no way to do this. Both sides are under their command of the Ming army in the Southwest, the troops, and the tactics. In this way, there is a 100,000 army on one side, and there is only a fraction of them on the other side. It is true that Li Dingguo is a famous general of the world, but the gap in hard power is too large, so it is not a joke.

What's more, as the lord of the Qin Kingdom, Sun Kewang has been in charge of the government for many years. Many people from top to bottom were appointed by Sun Kewang and have received the favors of Sun Kewang. In other words, once Sun Kewang's army invaded, God knows whether Yongli's rule over Yunnan will collapse in an instant.

This is not groundless. Sun Kewang has controlled the government for many years and occupied Yunnan for a long time. Not to mention anything else, in April, Yongli issued an edict to appoint a group of civil servants to enrich the court. As a result, Gong Yi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was appointed to report that he had "received Kewang's kindness for ten years in Yunnan" and was unwilling to accept the official positions appointed by the court, which shows his great influence in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

Time has moved to the present day, and the tenth year of Yongli is about to end, and the eleventh year of Yongli is coming, but Yunnan still has not received any news of Sun Kewang sending troops.

During this period, they made a lot of efforts. While Yongli rewarded Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, they did not discriminate against Sun Kewang's subordinates in Yunnan. They also sent Bai Wenxuan and Zhang Hu back to Guiyang to make peace. Later, they sent the minister Deng Shilian and others to announce the edict, "so that they can work together to relieve their anger and save the national crisis." Last August, Li Dingguo reported to the brigade general Sun Kewang's wife and concubine in Yunnan and his son to Guiyang, and ordered Wang Lin, the general under the Qin King's vassal to escort him. Before leaving, they personally held a banquet on the outskirts of Kunming. Even a few days ago, at Sun Kewang's request, some troops left in Yunnan were sent back to Guizhou.

After all the efforts, Sun Kewang's reply was, "I must thank Anxi for his kindness", which clearly showed that it was the old trick of the sixth year of Yongli, asking Li Dingguo to go to Guiyang to fall into the trap, and Sun Kewang sent troops to attack the troops of Qi Sansheng, the general of Li Dingguo who marched into Yunnan.

Sun Kewang stationed troops in Guizhou, obviously to get rid of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, unify the Western Army, and re-introduce Yongli. Next, a drama of abdication that had not been staged for thousands of years, or to continue to put him under house arrest and use the banner of the Yongli court to narrow the emperor to command the princes. However, for Yongli, these two possibilities were something he did not want to see.

"This is indeed a misfortune for the country."

Feng Su said in the early Qing Dynasty: "I went to Yunnan with Xinchou. People in central Yunnan said: "I hope to govern the country well, and to use troops to establish the country." Let them work together, and the achievements in the southwest may not be as good as I am, but they attacked each other and ended up defeating."

In the first half of the year, when he just returned to Yunnan, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu led all the Dukes, Housing, Bo, and generals to memorial: "The rituals and music conquests came from the emperor, and the ministers of Qin, the ministers of the king and the ministers who were waiting for the courtesy of the ministers. I have gathered discussions: I hope to leave Chu, the ministers of Dingguo, the ministers of Wenxiu leave Shu, and the generals were engaged in the army and brigades. All the great masters that control the world were returned to their masters, and I would like to risk my life to hear it." Obviously, I also expressed hope for Sun Kewang's sudden remorse.

In response to this, Yongli kept the memorials and refused to post them. The matter has developed to this point. Yongli’s original approach was correct. Sun Kewang could not give up his great authority, and he had reached the point where he could not turn back. The civil war was about to break out. Being able to calm to this day was just because Yongli had a small military general, and Sun Kewang was afraid of Chen Wen.

"I am incompetent."

Li Dingguo fell to the ground, and his weathered face was filled with shame. Seeing this, Yongli quickly stood up and helped the loyal minister up.

"Since I ascended the throne, the current situation has been so difficult. It is already a matter of relying on my beloved loyalty. Qin Fan seemed to be unable to persuade him, but it would be better if he could not start a war or not. They were all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and the damage from that side was also the damage from the Ming Dynasty."

"Your Majesty is a blessing for the world. I still said that if Sun Kewang can repent and abide by his integrity, the two of Shufans will still recognize him as his brother; if Sun Kewang wants to commit rebellion, I will never give up. It's just that the war is fierce and the war is dangerous, and I will die when I die. Your Majesty is a body of gold. Once I fail to repel him, your Majesty should have a complete plan."

They thought about the retreat route. They had already arrived in Yunnan and went south to the Myanmar vassal state. In addition, to the north was Sichuan, and Liu Wenxiu had already led his troops to collect the entire Sichuan. However, Sichuan's destruction was almost the worst in the country, with no man's land everywhere, and it was almost unimaginable to develop it.

Xiangdong is Guangxi, which is now mostly the territory of the Yongli court, with Guangxi generals and chieftains guarding the local area. But if even Li Dingguo was defeated, Guangxi would definitely not be able to defend it. After all, it would be inevitable that Chen Wen's territory, and Chen Wen was a person after all, and his ambitions were so great that he was always in a fog for them.

On this issue, the monarch and minister were once again speechless, and could only wait for the changes in the current situation before dealing with it.

Li Dingguo returned to the mansion, and Ma Jixiang, the Marquis of Wen'an, had been waiting for a long time. Yongli followed Li Dingguo to Yunnan. Due to the prison of Mr. Eighteen and his previous betrayal, he deeply hated Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou. Li Dingguo sent his confidant Jin Tongwu to detain him. Pang Tianshou committed suicide by taking poison for fear of crime. Ma Jixiang transformed himself and begged for mercy and flattering Li Dingguo's confidant Jin Tongwu, as well as his closest aides Jin Weixin and Gong Ming, and praised the King of Jin. Finally, he gained the trust of Li Dingguo and returned to the cabinet to do business. Yongli did not dare to make any objection to this.

"Your Highness the King of Jin replied to you. Your Highness has been in the court for many years, and you have never been able to talk to Your Majesty in front of the emperor for so long. This shows that Your Majesty has a strong trust in Your Highness the King of Jin."

Li Dingguo was very satisfied with the emperor's trust. Ma Jixiang looked at Li Dingguo's expression and felt more confident in his heart. He hurriedly said, "The emperor's trust is actually a clear proof of His Highness King Jin's loyalty. It is also the loyalty of His Highness King Jin. The subordinates saw it and hated that he was frightened by Sun Ni's power and failed to kill himself to serve the country. He really regretted that he had never been there."

Speaking of this, tears of regret immediately emerged from Ma Jixiang's eyes. Seeing this, Li Dingguo also expressed relief: "It is no better to know that mistakes can be corrected. All the things have passed before, and there is no need to mention them. Now, it is enough to do your best to do things for the emperor and the court. I think that I was a bandit back then. As long as I change my evil and return to the right, I will always have a prodigal son who will turn back."

Hearing this, Ma Jixiang burst into tears and burst into tears, thanking him for his gratitude. However, after comforting Ma Jixiang, Li Dingguo was still a little frowning. It seemed that Ma Jixiang's performance just now did not make him much happier.

The complementary between the king and the ministers is the best environment for loyal ministers, and it is the time to achieve great success. However, Li Dingguo couldn't help but sigh when he thinks about what he talked about with Yongli this time.

"Your Highness, King of Jin?"

Li Dingguo was like this, and Ma Jixiang asked tentatively. Given that Ma Jixiang could talk about his heart every time, Li Dingguo had long been no longer prepared for him, and he told him everything about the content of this report to him.

The current situation is like this, and it is normal to have such a discussion. Ma Jixiang was prepared for a long time, and then replied to Li Dingguo: "The emperor thought that with the bravery of His Highness of Jin, Sun Ni, it is not enough to hold on, and he should be able to fight. However, Your Majesty is a body of gold. Unlike our ministers, His Highness of Jin is a matter of perfection. It is also a matter of his duty to seek everything."

When Ma Jixiang said this, Li Dingguo nodded. Sun Kewang's current military strength is dominant, but in terms of military use, Li Dingguo is still a little confident. However, when it comes to war, Sun Kewang's strong strength is so huge, so he is not afraid, but if the Emperor Yongli is injured, it is something that he really doesn't want to see and cannot accept at all.

"Your Highness the King of Jin is meticulous in thinking about things, and the officials admire him very much. But if you are surprised, where will you go? You have some crude ideas. If you don't get it properly, I hope Your Highness the King of Jin will give you some guidance."

"This is a time when I am worried. I have thoughts, so I will tell you about it."

Li Dingguo's performances are all expected by Ma Jixiang. His Highness, the King of Jin, was the first-class figure in this era, but after all, he was still a vulgar and uncivilized martial artist, and the twists and turns in his mind were pitifully few.

Seeing this, Ma Jixiang bowed and replied quickly: "Today, the emperor lives in Kunming, Sichuan to the north, Guangxi to the east, and to the south, it is a vassal place. The officials thought that Sichuan was destroyed and not enough to promote the king's affairs; Guangxi was on the verge of Guangdong, and Yue's vassals were not like ministers, so they should be more careful. If there was no success, they should retreat to the vassals. They encircled and suppressed Jiannu, and the Korean vassal state helped the war. Now Sun invaded the superiors, and they could also borrow troops to vassal states."

After Ma Jixiang said this, Li Dingguo immediately fell into thinking. From a military, political and economic perspective, as Ma Jixiang said, but the emperor's departure from the country was of great importance, but he had to think about it again and again.

However, Li Dingguo did not have time to think about it, let alone figure out the twists and turns of Ma Jixiang. As soon as Ma Jixiang finished speaking, Li Dingguo was still reviewing it in his mind. His son Li Sixing hurriedly ran in and said a few words to Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo immediately changed his color.

There was no time to think, Li Dingguo quickly got up and prepared to enter the palace to meet him. Ma Jixiang thought something was wrong and asked for it, but the answer he got was exactly what he had just expected.
Chapter completed!