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Chapter 116: The Three Kings' Infighting

"This is the rhythm of pulling me into the water."

Duke of Kui, Duke of Kui, Duke of Bao, Shangli, and Duke of Guang, He Jiuyi, were originally all confidant generals sent by Sun Kewang to stay in Kunming and take charge of Yunnan.

In the first stage of the internal strife of the three kings, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu first sent He Jiuyi to Guangxi to guard Nanning Prefecture. On the one hand, they were to guard against Chen Wen's encroachment on Guangxi, and on the other hand, they were to guard against Sun Kewang's internal offenses, and on the other hand, they would become internal supporters. By the same token, although the other two were not easy to expel during this period, they were also shocked by Liu Wenxiu in Kunming. As a result, when Chen Wen defeated Sun Kewang and forced the Yongli court to execute him, the two kings led their troops to escape from Kunming. In the past two years, they had been seizing the central and southern Guangxi with the suspicious He Jiuyi.

The three claimed to be in exchange for Chen Wen to attack Yunnan, but in fact, the prefectures they controlled were only Nanning and Liuzhou. In contrast, the Yongli court always controlled the western part of Guangxi, and Chen Wen also occupied Guilin in the north and Wuzhou, Xunzhou in the east, and their territory was the smallest.

However, with these local snakes leading the way, the situation where Guangxi divided the world three times will inevitably no longer exist. Moreover, these elite Qin vassals are more likely to be able to siege Yunnan. From the perspective of interests, it is a good thing no matter how you look at it.

"They thought of me, Chen Wen, too simple."

With a sneer, Chen Wen sent someone to find Zhang Jun. Although Zhang Jun is not of high rank, he is the most appropriate person as Chen Wen's first personal captain.

"I have one big thing that you need to do, but you need to risk your life."

"I wish to die for the general!"

Zhang Jun's answer was very straightforward and Chen Wen did not say much, so he directly led him back to the inner house of the royal palace.

The inner courtyard of the King of Qi's Mansion is much larger than that of the King of Yue's Mansion. The number of Chen's family is increasing, and the servants respond to the increase. The original area of ​​the land was not enough. Therefore, when the Liangjiang Governor's Office was converted into the King of Qi's Mansion, the responsible officials also specially expanded the area, which was even larger than what Chen Wen planned.

Chen Wen took Zhang Jun into the inner courtyard and headed straight to the hiding, where Chen Wen collected books. At the same time, Zhang Jun also knew that there was a secret room in the hiding, where Chen Wen placed confidential objects.

When they arrived at Tibetan, the two of them walked into the secret room. Not long after Chen Wen entered the secret room, he walked out with a brocade box and handed it to Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun had seen this brocade box, and he even handed it to Chen Wen with his own hands. Although it was difficult to open it here to see if it was still the original thing, since Chen Wen took out this thing, it means that the table was about to be overturned by Chen Wen.

"Bring this thing to Kunming and hand it over to Jin Shang."

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Chen Wen received the news at the fastest speed, but the distance was too far, and it took a lot of time on the road. In contrast, the forces near Yunnan had already learned that the first reaction was that Wang Ziqi and the other two in Guangxi were Sun Kewang's confidants, but they were the most incompatible with Li Dingguo. They had previously plundered the Kunming warehouse and began to intercept local taxes. Now even Liu Wenxiu is dead, they are even more anxious all day long, so they naturally surrendered to Chen Wen at the fastest speed.

This is true in Guangxi. Li Dingguo left Guizhou for only more than a month. Feng Shuangli, the king of Qingyang, who was in the eastern part of Guizhou, and Bai Wenxuan, the king of Gongchang, who was in the western part of Guizhou, also secretly met a stronghold in central Guizhou.

"His Highness of the King of Shu has been forced to death by King Jin. He even dares to force the King of Shu to death. We are afraid that it will be a matter of time sooner or later."

"This is not what is rumored. His Highness the King of Shu died of illness and was able to attend court before he died of illness, which was not because he was under house arrest by His Highness the King of Jin."

"Duke Yu, even if he had not died in house arrest, the emperor had already affirmed the suggestion of His Highness King Shu and was about to take over Sichuan. He had not forced him to do it in a hurry. If not, why would His Highness King Shu be seriously ill and difficult to cure?"

Although Bai Wenxuan was once a confidant of Sun Kewang, he had a good relationship with Li Dingguo. Before, when Li Dingguo divided the "Qin soldiers" and "Jin soldiers", although he was not spared, he did not suffer much difficulty in military supplies. However, Feng Shuangli was not only Sun Kewang's iron core, but Li and Liu were also more harmonious with the latter. In addition, he had a straitor with Li Dingguo over the years and even had military encounters. Now he was excluded. He was already dissatisfied with His Highness King of Jin.

However, Bai Wenxuan also knew that Feng Shuangli was right. Although Liu Wenxiu's death was not done by Li Dingguo himself, there was no cure for heart disease. The root cause of this heart disease was planted by Li Dingguo, so Li Dingguo must bear a responsibility.

"The four princes who were both under the command of the eldest king were now the princes of the Emperor Ming. What is the less noble of the King of Shu than the King of Jin. That guy has no tolerance. It would be fine if he acts against others on weekdays. Now he even dares to do this. I am afraid that it will be a matter of time before you and me are like this. It's hard to say that when he recovers, he will deal with Wang Ziqi, Wang Shangli and others, it will be our turn!"

"this……"

Feng Shuangli said this and stared at Bai Wenxuan with his eyes. The latter was not worried about his situation under Li Dingguo, but when Feng Shuangli said this, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

The four princes of the West, Ainengqi, died early, and Sun Kewang was forced to death by Chen Wen. Now Liu Wenxiu has died in depression. The remaining Li Dingguo has no support from the generals of the Xiying. Instead, everyone is afraid of the ending of Liu Wenxiu and even Sun Kewang. After all, Li Dingguo is good at military affairs, neglecting politics, and acting is often unfavorable to unity, and it is inevitable that this is true now.

The room was silent for a long time, and all you could hear was the heavy breathing of the two princes. Since Feng Shuangli had made an appointment with Bai Wenxuan to come, he wanted to get a result. At this moment, Bai Wenxuan was still hesitant. Gradually, Feng Shuangli, who had already made up his mind, also began to become impatient, and Bai Wenxuan could also feel this anxiety and worry.

"What are you going to do?"

After asking, Bai Wenxuan quickly added: "Don't worry, even if I can't agree, I will never say it out. If I violate this oath, heaven will be punished by the earth!"

"No need to do this, Duke Yu, I invite you here to trust you. How can I treat my brothers Feng Shuangli? You should know that this is humiliating me."

After this statement was made, Bai Wenxuan looked ashamed. However, Feng Shuangli did not leave because of displeasure, but said to Bai Wenxuan directly: "This court is counting on the King of Jin to act like this. It will be a matter of sooner or later that the country will be destroyed. I, Feng Shuangli, don't want to sit and wait for death."

"Do you still plan to raise an army and commit crimes?"

"I'm not crazy yet!"

Faced with Bai Wenxuan's doubts, Feng Shuangli shouted at the bottom of the head, and then suppressed his anger and said, "I know that when it comes to military use, I am not worthy of carrying shoes to Li Dingguo, and I have never thought of replacing it. I don't have the ability or ambition. However, if this continues, Li Dingguo will attack us sooner or later, and I will never let him succeed."

Hearing this, Bai Wenxuan immediately understood Feng Shuangli's plan. He was startled and immediately shouted: "Do you want to vote for the King of Qi? Don't forget that His Highness, the King of Qin, was forced to death by him. Can he let you, the iron-core of the King of Qin?"

"Duke Yu, you are wrong. The King of Qi forced the court to execute the King of Qin, but do you think if His Highness of Qin was defeated by King of Jin, the King of Jin would not kill him? In that defeat back then, he defeated us with a dignified victory, and there was nothing unwilling to accept it. What's more, King of Qi was kind, at least he had never heard of King of Qi forcing his brothers to death. At most, I would have attacked those dog gentry. I sincerely defected to him. If he couldn't even let me go, he would not have the current situation. Compared with King of Jin, I would rather be optimistic about His Highness of Qi."

Feng Shuangli was like this, and Bai Wenxuan fell into silence again. In the room, Bai Wenxuan's battle between heaven and man, but Feng Shuangli seemed to have poured out all his thoughts, but instead felt much more relaxed. He just sat there and continued to wait for Bai Wenxuan's answer.

"Your Highness King Jin treats me well. If you hurt your life, don't expect me to agree."

"I just want to invite His Highness the King of Qi to Yunnan and take charge of the overall situation, not to want the life of King Jin. As long as he is willing to hand over the military power, he will not threaten us."

Bai Wenxuan also smiled bitterly after hearing this answer. He could never resist the combat effectiveness of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army. Now that he has the inner demon Feng Shuangli, he will not think about it.

"Okay, I will try my best to persuade His Highness King Jin."

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The southwest land, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and the southwest Ming army basically came from the Xiying faction. Now there are many factions in Xiying and are about to fall apart. Everyone is looking for a place to survive. On the contrary, in Sichuan, the Kuidong generals who were originally collectively excluded by Xiying are now sitting firmly on Diaoyutai and watching the internal strife in Xiying.

The generals in Kuidong were mainly divided into two parts in terms of their feet and factions, one was the Former Rebellion Army, and the other was the Former Rebellion Army. Now in Sichuan Province, it is obvious that Santan, Liu and Yang in western Sichuan were the only ones who survived the Ming army in Sichuan. The vassal states in eastern Sichuan were basically the remaining part of the Rebellion Army. They have always been regarded as bandits by the Ming court. They have to use and guard against them, which is very embarrassing.

In western Sichuan, since the news of Liu Wenxiu's death came, the Ming army in Sichuan ran to the Ming army's warehouse in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to buy firecrackers. Those who cannot afford firecrackers must try their best to get some firecrackers, as if they were celebrating the death of the "Western thief leader" during the Chinese New Year.

The last one who received such treatment was Dorgon, and even Sun Kewang did not reach this point. After all, the entry of Xiying into Sichuan led to chaos in Sichuan, and the locals in Sichuan hated them. As the commander in charge of Sichuan's conquest since the rise of Xiying, Liu Wenxiu also massacred and annexed the local Ming army in Sichuan. Many Sichuan Ming army, who were still actively fighting against the Qing Dynasty, would rather surrender to the Qing Dynasty than cooperate with Liu Wenxiu, which shows this.

The deep blood hatred between Xiying and Sichuan people cannot be clearly explained in one sentence or two sentences. In Sichuan, the Sichuan army can live in harmony with the rebels, which is due to the Xiying bandits. Even if the rebels from eastern Sichuan arrived on the ground in western Sichuan, they did not feel any strange when they saw this scene. Maybe they would celebrate with them.

This is like this in western Sichuan. In Chongqing Prefecture in eastern Sichuan, Liu Tichun's Duke's Mansion now gathers the former vassal states in eastern Sichuan. The gathering here was nothing more than that Yuan Zongdi, the eastern part of the east, and Li Laiheng, the western part of the west, were quite moderate, not because he was afraid that the Mao Dengshou and the Mao Supervisor knew about it.

The two kings of Xiying were in conflict, and the generals of Kuidong received news, and they were also celebrating each other. Not to mention the conflicts between Dashun and Daxi in those years, just say that the exclusion and hostility they have been subjected to since the rise of Xiying would make these people happy. As for Liu Wenxiu's death, if Wen'anzhi was still there, they might have pinched their noses and tried it with Xiying. Now that Wen'anzhi has been dismissed and returned to their hometown, they naturally treat it as a joke.

"I invited you all today for just one thing. Now that the chaos in Xiying is coming, we should have a strategy."

"What else can I do? Let's watch the fun."

"That's right, I'm learning from the Sichuan Army and watching the Western thieves kill each other and kill one less. What else should I do? Could it be that we will still meddling in other people's business and mediate in the past?"

At this moment, in the 13th year of Yongli, the Qing army was no longer under the pressure. Li Dingguo faced the Xiying troops surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Yongli even abandoned the country and hunted south and chose to set up an ambush on Mopan Mountain and fight to the death with the Qing army.

The huge shadow of the Qing Dynasty has now been dispersed by Chen Wen, at least in the south. Especially after Wu Sangui, there was no more powerful enemy around Sichuan, and there was no huge pressure to destroy the country and the seeds. The main contradiction was gone, and the secondary contradiction between the Chuangjun and the Xiying had risen to the main contradiction, which was understandable.

"Who has the time to mediate? But I heard from Ma Jinzhong that the Xiying divisions are now connecting all over the place, preparing to lead the army of the King of Qi into Yunnan. We are probably about to take the team."

After Liu Tichun said this, everyone present was stunned and then entered silence. Like the Lianming and Anti-Qing in Xiying, the troops of the camp also chose to join forces with the Ming Dynasty of the same clan to fight against the alien races of the Qing Dynasty after the death of the leader. However, it was not as good as the Xiying. When they started to serve for the Nanming, the Southern Ming was still very powerful. Although they were more capable of fighting, they were never excluded. Now, their minds are much more complicated.

Seeing the scene quiet, Liu Tichun, as the host, had to speak: "The King of Qi should have thought, we should have seen it when we were in Wuchang. Our Dashun emperor is no longer there. We should follow the Zhu family or the Chen family in the future, and we should make a decision as soon as possible."

Liu Tichun made the words clear. Hao Yongzhong, who was usually a naughty man, stood up and shouted loudly: "Is this a matter of saying? In the eyes of the Zhu family, our camp is a bandit that disrupts the world. The old man Chongzhen hanged himself, which is also counted on us. Isn't it enough to be excluded by them over the years? Is it still necessary to wait until the Zhu family ruled the world and then he will regret it when he pulled us under the crooked tree and cut us into pieces?"

When the camp broke into the camp and fought against the Qing Dynasty, Hao Yongzhong was used by He Tengjiao to exclude all the generals. Hao Yongzhong felt that He Tengjiao was not bad at him at that time, so he obeyed everything and even did the work of sending troops to attack Chen Youlong, who was rebelling against the Qing Dynasty. However, in the end, the Yongli court took the blame on him. If it weren't for these old brothers who ignored the past and allowed him to live in Kuidong, he would have been killed by those civil officials long ago.

Speaking of distrust of the Ming court, Hao Yongzhong was the first to react. Everyone was watching this and thinking about it, but they felt that this was the most reasonable sentence that this gangster said in their lifetime, and the echoes rang out one after another.

"Uncles, we followed the King of Chuang to seek survival back then, but we were forced by corrupt officials. We are Han people, and I, Li Laiheng, have nothing to say, but if I were asked to choose one from the Zhu family and the Chen family, I would never choose the Zhu family!"

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In Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Qinfan, Shufan, Sichuan army, and rebel army all started to move. The Yongli court located in Kunming was not ignorant of this.

The Ming army in the southwest occupied the territory of four provinces, and the Ming army in each system combined together, even if they only counted the war soldiers, there would be nearly 200,000 troops. Compared with the Qing Dynasty and the Ming army in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, it seemed like they were just a small person, but if they could really work together, they would be a very strong force, especially when they had famous generals like Li Dingguo.

However, now that all parts have collapsed, Yongli listened to the news sent by Li Dingguo, court officials and even Jinyiwei in the palace every day, and his heart became increasingly cold, and even the morning court became increasingly unconscious.

"Your Majesty, is there really no way?"

"There is nothing to do, it's just a matter of one day earlier or one day later."

The Ming army in the southwest had been trying to change the party. Yongli could not carry Li Dingguo out to satisfy them, nor could it allow Li Dingguo to rush his army to attack these potential traitors. The destruction of the Southern Ming court was a foregone conclusion, and no matter how strong the famous general was, he could not change it, because his enemy was no longer the Qing Dynasty that could be countered by the defense of the barbarians and Xia, but Chen Wen, who was also a Han Chinese and led a large counterattack against the Qing Dynasty!

"I have an idea, I don't know whether to talk or not."

"Queen, please speak out."

"I'm sure, Xuan'er is not young anymore. His Highness's eldest daughter is now four or five years old. If the two families marry, they might be able to protect the royal family."

The queen's plan was to enthrone Chen Xinruo, the daughter of Chen Wen, as the crown princess. In this way, the Zhu family and the Chen family were in-laws. Even if they could not prevent Chen Wen from changing the dynasty, at least the Zhu family could still be safeguarded, especially since Chen Wen was very fond of his daughter, he would never push his daughter into the fire pit.

Thinking of this, he was also reasonable. However, after hearing this, Yongli shook his head and then said to the queen: "I heard that the King of Qi is afraid of Nei, just like Emperor Wen of Sui. I am afraid that even if my daughter is widowed for the rest of her life, he will not let our family go."

The queen has not heard of such an allusion, but she really thought of it. She thought there was a glimmer of hope for a future, but it faded again.

The couple looked at each other speechlessly, and tears were inevitable. However, it was not long before this time that the eunuch in charge interrupted the hug and cried between the most noble men and women in the world.
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