Of course the bad thing was done by Song Xiance, who was good at pinching and calculating!
Didn't Song Xiance volunteer to support Zhu Cihuan to become the leader of the warlord alliance against Zhu Cixang last time? It's a pity that this matter came to an end just as it started... Li Zicheng was already pretending to be alive, so why bother?
However, Song Xiance was more thoughtful. He did not let Zhu Cihuan, Gao Yushun and Yuan Guifei go just because Li Zicheng pretended to be alive. Instead, he immediately sent people down to Huya Mountain to Tongbai Mountain at the junction of Hubei and Henan, and recruited his son Song Qingtian. Song Qingtian also asked Song Qingtian to bring back Zhu Cihuan, Gao Yushun, Yuan Guifei and others.
But this matter is just an end, not the end. Since the "Prince Begging Incident" and the "Ming Dynasty's Second Northern Expedition" gave the Dashun Dynasty a chance to breathe, the Dashun Dynasty was able to successfully enter Sichuan under the leadership of Li Guo, the prince of the Fu army, and also occupied Kuizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, and Shunqing, Baoning, Tongchuan, Luzhou, Long'an, as well as Hanzhong Prefecture and most of Gongchang Prefecture in Shaanxi Province, and Yunyang Prefecture in Hubei Province, etc. are a large area of land, and they also allocate land through land enclosures and land transfers. The two basic national policies gradually established stable rule.
However, everyone in the Dashun Army knew that their good days in Sichuan were only temporary. They can't even destroy the Ming Dynasty's local army in Sichuan now. Once the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties is decided, how can they end well?
So as soon as Li Guo entered Chongqing, he ordered Song Xiance to play Zhu Cihuan's trump card again... Even if he couldn't make any big waves, it would be good if he could create some obstacles for Zhu Cihuan.
After Song Xiance analyzed the internal situation of the Ming Dynasty, he came up with a strategy of "writing a letter to alienate the emperor". In fact, it was not a big deal. It was to force Gao Yushun to write a personal letter to incite the warlords on Zhu Cihong's side to raise troops to serve the king. At the same time, It also created rifts between Emperor Zhu and his subordinates.
As for the effect, I cannot say it is good, but it is not impossible - some military leaders, such as Gao Jie, immediately sent someone to deliver it to Zhu Cihong after receiving Gao Yushun's letter; some warlords did not recognize Gao Yushun's handwriting at all and did not respond. Some of them secretly hid Gao Yushun's letter...because Zhu Cixi didn't have a son at that time. If he died young, Chongzhen would be the one to inherit the throne. He has other sons, so there is nothing wrong with leaving a way out.
After Zhang Xianzhong died, the four co-ruling kings of Daxi entered Sichuan, Wu Sangui defected, and the acting king Zhu Cijiong entered Shaanxi, etc., a series of dazzling events occurred. Song Xiance and Song Qingtian, father and son, worked harder to use Zhu Cihuan and Gao Yushun to create a divorce.
Now the focus of their strategy is to focus on Wu Sangui and Zhu Cijiong, the Gansu and Shaanxi heroes of the Ming Dynasty. There is no need for the two families to fight each other. As long as they are suspicious of each other and hostile to each other, there will be no room left to move south from Shaanxi to Sichuan.
However, no matter how well the alienation tactic is used, it is not the decisive factor in determining whether the two peasant uprising regimes of Dashun and Daxi can be sustained.
What determines the survival of Dashun and Daxi is the upcoming Jianmen Pass Conference.
Now the armies of the four kings of Daxi are stationed in Zhaohua County and Guangyuanchong, north of Jianmen Pass. There are more than 200,000 soldiers and family members!
They were not lost dogs or soldiers of a defeated army, but a victorious army that nearly annihilated Wu Sangui's army at Monk Plains. Moreover, the supplies are sufficient, the armor and armor are excellent, and the arrangements are well organized. No matter how you look at it, it looks more like what it was like when Zhang Xianzhong was alive!
Therefore, Li Guo did not dare to take it lightly, so he had to personally lead his troops to leave Chongqing and go north to Jianmen Pass in Baoning Prefecture, first blocking the way to Sichuan for the four kings of Daxi.
After blocking Jianmen Pass, Li Guo sent envoys to Guangyuanchong to discuss with the four kings who co-ruled Daxi about the merger of Xishun.
Nowadays, there are almost two big grasshoppers on one side of the peasant army. No, it should be nine big grasshoppers!
On the Dashun side there are the "five grasshoppers" Li Guo, Liu Minzong, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, and Liu Fangliang, while on the Daxi side there are four brothers Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dinggao, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Nengqi.
There are almost 200,000 brothers who can fight under these nine mountains, and they also occupy nearly ten state capitals. It seems to be pretty good. But in fact the situation is extremely critical!
Because the current general trend of the world no longer allows them to be rogues, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong lost their lives to their opponents, which already illustrates the problem - with the current military strength of Dashun and Daxi, if they leave Sichuan, they will not be able to rejuvenate the Southern Ming Dynasty. And the opponent of the Tiger Wolf Qing Dynasty who entered the pass.
The former occupied the water town of the Southern Dynasties. Not only was the land division powerful, but the navy was even more invincible. Now the Jingjiang River and Hanshui River are generally firmly controlled by Nanming. Dashun's navy was too far behind, and there was no possibility of moving eastward.
And the tactics of the latter's cavalry and artillery teams are so awesome! If rogue bandits encountered them on the plains, they would not be able to defeat them or escape.
Therefore, whether it is the Big Five of Dashun or the Four Kings of Daxi, they are not considering wandering out of Sichuan now.
Besides, their brothers have been wandering around for many years, and now they all want to find a home. Sichuan is so nice and comfortable! Everyone is fighting for their lives, don’t they just want a piece of land like this to retire on? Who is still willing to go out of Sichuan?
Since everyone does not want to leave Sichuan and cannot leave Sichuan, then we should think carefully. If there is a battle between the five giants of Dashun and the four kings of Daxi, will they still have the strength to take over Sichuan?
Let alone lose-lose, even if it lasts a long time, it won’t work!
Now the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty have signed a five-year peace treaty, and there will be no more war within five years.
How Zhu Cixiang plans to use these five years, the heads of Dashun and Daxi still can't figure it out? The first thing must be to exterminate these "heinous" bandits!
If they still want to live to old age and die, and still want to have children and grandchildren to die with, then there is only one way out now, and they must unite quickly...must be quick! Before Zhu Cixi transferred the Northern Expedition troops to Sichuan, he defeated the Ming army in central Sichuan in one fell swoop.
Otherwise, they will soon be surrounded by enemies on all sides, fighting internally and externally, and then they will be dead!
Standing with the sword gate closed, looking at the cliffs on both sides that turned golden in the afterglow of the setting sun, Li Guo couldn't help but sigh.
The mountains are so beautiful, can you still enjoy them at home?
"Ada, why are you sighing?"
The voice of Li Laiheng, the first filial son of Dashun, sounded in Li Guo's ears.
"Laiheng, you're back... can you see Zhang Kewang and the others?"
Li Guo looked at the "first filial son of Dashun" and asked eagerly.
It turns out that Li Laiheng was sent out by him to discuss cooperation with the four kings of Daxi, and now he has just returned.
"I met you!" Li Laiheng said, "Not only did I meet Zhang Kewang, I also met his three sworn brothers."
"What did they say? Are you willing to join us?"
Li Laiheng shook his head.
Li Guo became nervous for a moment, "Do they want to fight?"
"No," Li Laiheng said, "They want to create eight kings and one master to rule Sichuan..."
"Eight kings rule together? What do you mean?"
"The four of them, plus Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, and Liu Fangliang, will all be granted the title of political king, and they will govern Sichuan together with Ada."
"This, isn't this the same as Donglu?" Li Guo frowned.
"We are much better than the little emperor of Donglu..." Li Laiheng smiled, "The great kings of Donglu are all the fathers of the little emperor of Shunzhi!"
After all, he is not the eighth father who discusses politics...so he can still accept it reluctantly.
Li Guo's face still looked ugly, "Besides the Eight Kings discussing politics, what else do they want?"
"Of course we have to divide the territory and the military government..." Li Laiheng said, "That Zhang Kewang said that after the two companies formed a partnership, they would follow the method of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Each of the eight kings would lead the military government, and you, Ada, would also control part of it. The military mansion will be divided into various states in central Sichuan. In this way, both generations of our father and son will not have to worry!"
Li Guo looked at his son and said, "Lai Heng, can you agree to the eight kings' political affairs?"
Li Laiheng smiled and said: "Ada, if we don't agree to them, we and I will be dead. If we agree, our family will have at least three generations of emperors and will be rich for decades!"
