"Great Elder, I heard people say that Emperor Chongzhen of the Zhu family is a tyrannical king who is good at conquering and fighting. Since he ascended to the throne, he has conquered Mongolia in the north and built a state in the east without any defeat... This time Chongzhen personally conquers the west of the river. It may not be easy. Deal with it?"
The speaker was the leader of Shuixi'an clan, who was promoted to the throne of King Luodian by An Bangyan. An Wei's mother She Shehui is She Chongming's sister. When his father An Yaochen died, An was still young, so the power of the Xuanwei Division was held by his mother She Shehui and his uncle An Bangyan. In the fifth year after An's accession to the throne, that is, the first year of Tianqi, An's uncle She Chongming took advantage of the opportunity to send troops to Liaodong and suddenly raised the anti-Ming banner in Chongqing (the army passed through Chongqing), opening up the conflict between She and An. The beginning of chaos.
An Wei was still young at the time, and he was not in charge of the government, and he was even less able to prevent his mother She Shehui and his clan brother An Bangyan from raising armies to respond to She Chongming.
But at that time, he was already a little sensible, and he also knew that his mother and his clan uncle had raised the army for Chen (Chenzhou) and Chang (Changde), to go to Jingzhou and reach the Central Plains to create a splendid country for the Luodian An family. At that time, An Wei was full of confidence, waiting to become a ready-made lord of the world.
But who knew that his uncle An Bangyan was not good at fighting. Although he united with the Shuidong An clan to raise troops, they quickly surrounded Guiyang. But this circle lasts for more than three hundred days! They besieged Guiyang until the food supplies were exhausted, and the soldiers and civilians were eating each other. Three to four hundred thousand people were besieged and killed, but Guiyang was not captured.
Guiyang has not been captured, so there is no need to think about Chenzhou, Changde, Jingzhou...
When the An and Song coalition forces surrounded Guiyang, She Chongming, who was besieging Chengdu, also failed. Not only Chengdu was captured, but Zunyi, Suiyang, Meitan, Tongzi, Wujiang and other places were also recovered by Qin Liangyu and others. In the end, She Chongming was defeated miserably by the Ming army who came to relieve the siege under the walls of Chengdu. Soon he also lost Chongqing and his hometown Yongning, so he had to flee to Shuixi to attach himself to the An family.
Fortunately, the Shuixi An clan had a large territory and many soldiers, and the territory they occupied was high in mountains and densely forested. The An clan had deep roots and had been rooted in Shuixi for more than 1,300 years. It was not so easy to be wiped out by the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, although the An family failed to capture Guiyang, the She family was defeated miserably in Sichuan, and most of the Song family's Shuidong territory was occupied by the Ming army. But An's rule in Shuixi is still unshakable!
In the third year of Tianqi, An Bangyan also took advantage of the complex terrain in Shuixi to implement a strategy of luring the enemy in-depth, luring Wang Sanshan, the then governor of Guizhou, with a 60,000-strong army near Dafang City, and then cut off its food routes. And in the first month of the fourth year of Tianqi, he set up an ambush when Wang Sanshan ran out of food and retreated, severely damaging the king's troops and even killing Wang Sanshan himself.
After this battle, the Shuixi'an clan regained its prestige and once again attacked the city of Guiyang. The Ming Dynasty used the capable minister Fu Zonglong to patrol Guizhou and preside over military affairs. Thanks to Fu Zonglong's efforts, Shuixi'an's attack was repelled again, and the two sides finally faced each other on both sides of the Wujiang River until today.
One Fu Zonglong left the Shuixi'an clan with nothing to do, and now there is another Ming emperor... Is the thousand-year separatist rule of the Shuixi'an clan coming to an end?
Seeing that An Wei was worried, An Bangyan was still as confident as ever, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, my lord, the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty was only good at riding horses and rushing into battle, and had never fought in the mountains and forests. And this little emperor did not He doesn't have much resourcefulness, he just acts recklessly, and he doesn't govern the country well. He always travels around, and he is a fool! If he stays in the north, we, the An family, can't do anything about him for a while, but now he has come to our door by himself. Here we go... Hehe, we can deal with him the same way we dealt with Wang Sanshan. If the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty dies in Shuixi, our An family will become more powerful and we will definitely be able to take advantage of the victory to seize the Kingdom of Tianfu in Xichuan. By then It’s one of three things in the world!”
"But...but maybe Zhu Youjian is not a fool?" An Wei still couldn't get excited.
With the biggest bosses of the Ming Dynasty here, it will not be easy for the Shuixi'an clan to survive this calamity... It's still three parts of the world, is it too much to think about?
An Bangyan knew that it would be difficult for him to convince the head of the An family, so he had no choice but to wink at She Shehui, the "Queen Mother of Shuixi".
She Shehui is in his forties this year and has helped his son govern for more than ten years. For ten of those years, he was still fighting, and he was a little exhausted mentally and physically, and his hair turned gray.
But no matter how haggard she is, she has to support An Bangyan to continue fighting!
Because the war between Shuixi and Ming Dynasty started because of her. If she didn't support her brother She Chongming, where would the current situation be?
Moreover, Shuixi and the Ming Dynasty had already developed a deep hatred. The little emperor of the Ming Dynasty has firmly refused to recruit Shuixi since he came to the throne.
If the fight is not continued, Shuixi will perish.
"Whether the little emperor is a coward or not, we will know if we send someone to investigate." She Shehui said, "Didn't there be news yesterday that the little emperor was going to take office in Zunyi Mansion? Why don't we send people to investigate and see what's going on in Zunyi? Will Bian be revitalized under the auspices of the little emperor?"
"Who can go to Zunyi Mansion to investigate?" An Wei asked.
"You can ask Shuixi Confucian scholar Yang Guodong to come!" An Bangyan suggested. "Yang Guodong is the nephew (nephew) of Yang Yinglong in Bozhou. After Yang Yinglong's defeat, he fled to Shuixi, where he started a school and taught apprentices. He is quite popular. ...If we ask him to act as a messenger, the little emperor will definitely not cause harm."
An Wei nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, Mr. Yang is a great scholar, Zhu Youjian will definitely not harm him, just let him go."
This Yang Guodong was of the same generation as Yang Yinglong's sons Yang Chaodong and Yang Kedong, but he was not a member of the Bozhou rebels. Because his blood relationship with Yang Yinglong is relatively distant (the Yang family in Bozhou has many branches for more than 700 years), and he also devoted himself to Confucianism and regarded the imperial examination as a lifelong career.
After the Yang family's regime in Bozhou fell, Yang Guodong fled to Shuixi with his family to avoid being implicated, and relied on the Shuixi An family. However, he did not engage in politics in Anxi. Instead, he ran a school and taught apprentices, becoming a teacher. Because there were not many Confucian scholars in Shuixi, Yang Guodong gradually became famous. An Wei studied Confucian classics with Mr. Yang when he was a child.
But An Bangyan was talking nonsense when he praised him as a great scholar, and it was even more unkind to send him to Zunyi... Yang Guodong was Yang Yinglong's nephew, and he was attached to the Shuixi'an family. The young emperor of the Ming Dynasty was a tyrant, so he might have killed him. .
Yang Guodong is somewhat famous among the chieftains in the southwest. If he died... what would the chieftains in the southwest think? It has been so many years since the Yang family in Bozhou was destroyed, but the imperial court has not let go of the descendants of the Yang family. This shows that the imperial court has long had the intention of wiping out all the chieftain families!
...
Just when Yang Guodong embarked on the road to Zunyi Mansion with another peace letter from the Shuixi'an family. Zhu Youjian was busy with weddings in Zunyi Mansion... many people's weddings! Including his own, of course.
Qin Liangyu has arrived in Zunyi with one of her granddaughters and a grandniece. Among them, Qin Liangyu's granddaughter is named Ma Ruyu, and Qin Liangyu's grandniece is named Qin Kezhen. They are both slim and graceful girls in their twenties and eighties.
These are two girls with long legs. They are not as tall as Qin Liangyu, but they are both tall. They are both around 5 feet 56 (one foot is about 31 centimeters). Considering their age, they may be a little taller. .
Moreover, these two tall girls are neither fat nor slender, but they are definitely not fat, but rather well-proportioned and graceful. However, the appearance of the two of them is not particularly outstanding, and they are not as good as Zhou Hou, Tian Guifei, Yuan Guifei and others. Among them, Ma Ruyu looks a bit dark, a piece of "black jade", but her facial features are quite delicate and very attractive.
Qin Kezhen, on the other hand, is a girl with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Her facial features are all one size larger, and she looks a bit rough. But her skin is very white, covering up all her ugliness, and she can be considered a beauty.
"Okay, these two beauties are really graceful and graceful. They are my favorite..." They circled around the two long-legged girls with flushed faces and drooping heads, looking like fools. Zhu Youjian finally nodded with satisfaction.
This Aunt Qin is indeed a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and a pillar of the Southwest!
