The famous Wuhua Mountain is actually a small hill in Kunming City, close to Cuihu Lake and Yuantong Mountain. It occupies a small area, about 2560 acres, and is a good place in Kunming City.
Wu Sangui, an old traitor whose hands were stained with the blood of the people, now built a glorious and magnificent palace here according to the mountains, and lived a good life to take care of himself.
As for getting a promotion, moving to a higher level in his career, etc., this old traitor should probably... maybe, maybe, maybe he really doesn't have such thoughts at the moment.
Well, no one can guarantee that Wu Sangui will not be motivated. After all, this old guy has a very strange hobby - collecting rebels!
In fact, Wu Sangui himself was a rebel, and a double rebel. He first rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and joined the Dashun, and then rebelled against the Dashun and joined the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the direct lineage of Guan Ning who followed him were at least "two rebels and three ministers" - they were all loyal ministers who opposed the second dynasty and served as officials for the three masters. They were so loyal!
But "revolt against the second dynasty and serve as three masters" is just the starting point for Wu Sangui's "anti-thief group", and his experience in rebellion is not the most abundant. In the process of helping the Qing Dynasty to defeat Li Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Nanming, Wu Sangui also recruited a group of "Three Antis and Four Ministers" or "Four Antis and Five Ministers" with more exciting resumes. Many of them turned against each other one after another. In the Ming Dynasty, Dashun (Daxi Dynasty), Nanming Dynasty and other dynasties, some people even went back and forth between various forces, both rebelling and serving as "returning ministers" without any shame. All of them are leaders with extremely rich experience in rebellion, and they are all considered experts in rebellion.
But Wu Sangui, an old thief, does not discriminate against those who come and go. As long as they have the ability and are willing to hang out with him, he will like them all and give them benefits. For example, his right commander Ma Bao, the commander-in-chief of the Zhongying camp, followed Li Zicheng and defected to the Southern Ming Dynasty. He also followed Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo in the Southern Ming camp. Finally, he shaved his head and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and surrendered to Wu Sangui.
And Wang Fuchen, who was sent by Shunzhi to mix with Wu Sangui, had a more exciting resume than Ma Bao! That was Dashun, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Nanming... and Qing Dynasty. Not to mention the "four rebels and five ministers", he also rebelled against Ming Dynasty (Nanming) three times and became a minister of Qing Dynasty twice!
This nickname of Lu Bu is really not random.
Wu Sangui has gathered so many rebellion experts under his command, it is really difficult to convince the little Emperor Kangxi in Beijing that he is a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty! What can you people do together every day? Are they exchanging rebellion experiences and improving rebellion techniques?
Today, when Wang Fuchen and Wang Jizhen, father and son, went to Wuhua Mountain, Wu Sangui was studying how to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty with a group of rebel professionals in the Yin'an Hall on Wuhua Mountain!
This is really not easy! Wu Sangui and the gang under him are very experienced in rebellion. This person can't be a loyal minister... he can't!
In addition, Wu Sangui, who had never known how to be a loyal minister, killed Lord Yongli, and the Qing court became increasingly dissatisfied with Wu Sangui and his gang. You, Wu Sangui, don't even know how to respect yourself when raising bandits. How can you be a loyal minister?
See how Pingnan King Shang Kexi became a loyal minister? People are rare to see the great Chaozhou rebel Qiu Hui. This pirate even advertised himself as "Chaozhou Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty". Shang Kexi was not willing to send troops to annihilate him. Instead, he allowed him to separate the Haojiang estuary and monopolize the Guangdong province. Illegal salt even made Dahao Port, controlled by Qiu Da's rebels, one of the three legal smuggling ports along the Qing Dynasty's coast, on par with Macau and Xiamen.
As for Fujian's Geng Jimao, he is even more loyal. Xiamen Island, which fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty due to Zheng Ming's internal strife in the early years, was successfully lost after the sea ban was implemented, and Zheng Ming took it back. Now Xiamen has become Zheng Ming and the base for legal smuggling trade in the coastal areas of the Qing Dynasty - I am afraid that Zheng Jing will starve to death and die of poverty!
Let’s look at Wu Sangui’s side... There is no resurrection after death. Even if traitor Wu thinks about it day and night, Emperor Yongli will never come back! So he could only organize some Miaoman rebellion to support the bandits' self-respect. But the question is, how can these Miaoman chieftains compare with Yongli? This group of people are just a bunch of local emperors if they are pushed to death, and it is impossible to seize the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty raised Wu Sangui to control the Miao barbarians, so it was better to let the chieftains separate themselves, as if the threat was less.
Therefore, the more Wu Sangui respected himself by raising bandits in Yunnan and Guizhou, the more the court in Beijing felt that he was going to rebel! The more the court in Beijing felt that he was going to rebel, the more they tried to weaken him. The more the imperial court weakened Wu Sangui, the more unsafe Wu Sangui felt.
Therefore, Wu Sangui has not gone to Beijing to pay a pilgrimage to the Qing Emperor for many years, and he still clings to the military power in his hands... Since you can't support the bandits to respect themselves, then support the soldiers to respect themselves!
And a vassal king who is hiding in Yunnan and refuses to enter the court, still has tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, and a large group of rebel professionals under his command, how can he not want to rebel?
This is really the conscience of heaven and earth! Although Wu Sangui didn't look like a loyal minister, he really didn't want to rebel. He just wanted to maintain the strength to rebel at any time, and then be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty with peace of mind.
Therefore, although he refused to enter the court, he would still send his ministers to Beijing year after year to ask for money from the court to raise troops. This year, it fell to Wu Guogui to go to Beijing to ask for money.
Of course, when the money comes, Ping Xifan will not be the only one to eat it. All the Qing Dynasty pillars in the court will have to share it, otherwise Wu Sangui's people will not get the money.
But even so, this job that requires money is still getting more and more difficult. The court refused to give it happily, and the hearts of the courtiers became darker and darker!
At this moment, when he saw Wang Fuchen coming up the mountain to pay homage, Wu Sangui, a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty who was thinking about how to make money, talked about asking for money with this "reverse loyal minister" who got along well with him.
"Brother Fuchen, you are here just in time. Let me check the details. Ao Taishi wrote to me a few days ago and complained about my poverty. He wants to reduce the salary of my officers and soldiers, to reduce the number of soldiers, and to generalize the vassal. Ding Yu dismissed the farmers... Is it possible that the military expenses for the eight years of Kangxi's reign would reach three million taels?"
"Your Majesty, isn't it just to reduce the salaries of our officers and soldiers that Grand Master Ao writes to you?" Wang Fuchen sighed and said, "This Grand Master Ao is not easy to talk to. I see how much you deserve, Your Majesty." Reduce military expenses a bit."
"It can't be reduced!" A middle-aged man in his mid-thirties who looked a bit like Wu Sangui and Wu Shicong jumped up and shouted when he heard that the money was going to be reduced, "Now that the population of the feudal lord is increasing, the officers and soldiers of the Green Camp Most of them have families, and their expenses are getting bigger and bigger! Although we have also allocated land in Yunnan and Guizhou to the feudal lords and the Green Camp officers and soldiers, the land in Yunnan and Guizhou is still too thin, so we can only subsidize it a little, if it is salary. I've lost a lot, I'm afraid I won't have enough to eat and drink. These are men who have been fighting for their lives. It's okay to have good food and drink, otherwise..."
"Ying Qi, stop talking!" Wu Sangui suddenly spoke, interrupting the middle-aged man who was speaking freely.
This strong man is Wu Yingqi, the second son of Wu Sangui, and Wu Shicong, the eagle-eyed wolf, is his son. Although Wu Sangui's son is a bit loud-mouthed, people with big mouths usually tell the truth. The population of Wu Sangui's subordinates and the family members of the Green Camp soldiers are indeed growing rapidly... They all have to get married and have children. Many of them want more than one wife. How many children can they have?
In addition, although Yun and Gui are very poor today, the cost of living is also low, it is cheap to raise children, and there is enough land to distribute to those children, so Wu Sangui's subordinates and the Green Camp soldiers can work hard to make a living.
Except for a small number of these vassal servants and officers and soldiers of the Green Camp, they were from Wu Sangui's old Guan Ning tribe, and the rest had all been in Chuangying and Xiying. These people were not only full of rebellious spirit, but also not convinced by the Qing Dynasty - many of them could follow Li Dingguo to fight against the Qing Dynasty. In their view, the so-called Eight Banners heavenly soldiers were not invincible.
If the Qing court wanted to reduce their money and make them live a hard life, they might really rebel!
However, it is not appropriate to say this in front of Wang Fuchen. Although Wang Fuchen is also a professional rebel, his staff is in the Ministry of Internal Affairs after all...
When Wu Sangui was about to ask Wang Fuchen if there was any way around the palace that he could take a look at, and if he could ask the old queen mother to speak to him, his eldest grandson Wu Shicong had already rushed in out of breath, and was behind Wu Sangui in a flash. , and even whispered into Wu Sangui’s ear.
As soon as Wu Shicong finished speaking, Wu Sangui himself looked at Wang Fuchen with curiosity, "Fuchen, your son Zhongxiao is going to compete with my grandson Shijue again."
Wang Fuchen laughed and said: "Young man, a fight is nothing... By the way, who won?"
Wu Sangui shook his head and asked with a smile: "We haven't competed yet, we will compete tomorrow. And your son also said that this time he will use your unique skills to deal with the Manchu white armored soldiers in Datong against Shi Jue! Assistant Minister, What is this unique skill of yours? Can you tell me about it?"
