Yunnan, Kunming, Wuhua Mountain.
Wu Sangui, the last minister of the Qing Dynasty, who supported his troops and refused to enter the court due to his self-respect, and who was still capable of stealing Kang Mazi's three-thirds of the world at any time, was sitting in his Yin'an Palace in an upset manner when the New Year of the ninth year of Kangxi was approaching. A few "good neighbors" came to visit secretly.
These "good neighbors" include Guizhou Admiral Li Benshen, Sichuan Admiral Zheng Jiaolin, Sichuan Baoning Commander-in-Chief Wu Zhimao, Sichuan Kuizhou Commander-in-Chief Tan Hong, Guangxi Zuojiang Commander-in-Chief Guo Yi, Guangxi Admiral Ma Xiong's son Ma Chengyin, etc.
Among them, except for Ma Chengyin, the son of Ma Xiong, the admiral of Guangxi, the others were either admirals or commander-in-chief. Logically speaking, they should not leave the flooded areas without authorization. In previous years during the New Year, they did not go all the way to Kunming to pay New Year greetings to Pingxi King Wu Sangui. But this year is different. This year marks the eighth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in which "Obai fled to Yunnan." Master Aobai and Ao all came to Yunnan. Can they, the "little brothers" who live next door to Wu Sangui, still come?
Even if he couldn't run away, he still had to send his confidants to ask Wu Sangui if Master Ao was okay? Let me ask you, how prepared are you for the rebellion? Is it about to be done? The big guys haven't rebelled for many years, and their hands are itchy. They all want to do something big again in their lifetime and make money for future generations of princes.
"Your Majesty, you and I have always followed your orders! In the past two years, Your Majesty, you have been training troops in Yunnan and preparing to do big things. We all know it. Without your orders, Your Majesty, we are all preparing. Now! The actual number of Guizhou Admiral's soldiers and horses has reached 5,000, and half of the Guizhou Governor's troops are also under his control! As long as the prince and Ao Taishi raise their flags, our Guizhou Green Camp will be willing to serve. King’s pioneer!”
The person who said this was Li Benshen, the governor of Guizhou. He was the nephew of Gaojie, Xingpingbo, one of the four towns in Jiangbei of the Southern Ming Dynasty. After Gao Jie was killed, he was elected as the commander-in-chief of Gao Jie's army. Later, he surrendered to Duduo and became a traitor. Later, he led a part of the troops passed down by Gao Jie to follow Wu Sangui until he became the admiral of Guizhou. Logically speaking, an admiral is not too young, but he and his group of soldiers who were loyal to King Chuang, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty still felt that they were at a loss when they followed Nan Ming and occupied wealthy places like Xuzhou and Sizhou. The people who live in this land are now left to suffer in Guizhou, where "people don't have three cents of silver, and the land doesn't have three feet of flat land." This traitor has suffered a loss and must find an opportunity to rebel!
"Your Majesty, our Sichuan Green Battalion is also ready. The final supervisors and the town commanders of Commander Wu and Commander Tan are all over-staffed! In addition, there are many powerful men who dominate one side throughout Sichuan, most of them are Former Ming Dynasty Minister, as long as you give an order, we can take over Sichuan province for you!"
Zheng Jiaolin, the admiral of Sichuan, also started shouting. He was originally the Songshan Dusi, and he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Hong Chengchou during the Songjin War. Although he became a traitor, he always felt that he had no choice but to rebel. Back then, he and his brothers held on for half a year in Songshan City without being defeated by the Qing army. Finally, they had no choice but to surrender when they ran out of food.
I’m not convinced at all! If there is enough food in Songshan Fort for two years, he can persist until Huang Taiji dies of illness and must fight again if he has the chance!
"Your Majesty, Ada has been staying with Sun Yanling in Guilin these days, lobbying the Guangxi general for you. Although Sun Yanling is the Guangxi general, Kong Sizhen is still the leader in Dingfan, and he doesn't recognize Sun Yanling very much, so he wants to be Dingfan King of the South. As long as the prince makes him the King of Dingnan, and he and E'ada join forces, Guangxi will definitely be captured by you! E'ada has sworn to the true God to protect you and conquer the world!"
The person speaking this time was Ma Chengyin, the son of Ma Xiong, the admiral of Guangxi. Ma Xiong had relatively little experience in rebellion. He was born in Tuanlian, Guyuan, Shaanxi, and was at most a second minister. One loyalty was to the Ming Dynasty and the other to the Qing Dynasty. However, Ma Xiong still wants to progress to become a third minister!
Not only does he want to make progress himself, but he also wants to lead Guangxi general Sun Yanling to make progress together!
Hearing that the admirals of Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi were preparing to rebel with Wu Sangui, the other generals in the Yin'an Palace became energetic.
"Your Majesty, give me the decree. We all listen to you!"
"Your Majesty, you now have one hundred thousand elite soldiers. Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi can be sent to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi. And you also have Ao Taishi to assist you. The world is at your fingertips!"
"Your Highness, please rebel. Let Taishi Ao lead us into the capital and help you seize the throne of the Hunjun!"
Okay, I’m going to do the opposite as I say! And each one of them was confident, as if they were led by Taishi Ao. It would be easy for them to rush into Beijing, kill Kangxi, and put Wu Sangui on the throne.
But Wu Sangui, who was sitting on the throne of Yin'an Palace, was feeling bitter at the moment. If Ao Bai was really hiding on Wuhua Mountain at this moment, Wu Sangui would not feel bitter at all.
With the help of Obai and the thousands of well-trained wolf cavalry, Wu Sangui really wasn't afraid of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers anymore.
But the problem is that there really is no Obai in his family!
But there happened to be a rumor made by some bastard. It was said that Obai, who had run out of Beijing, had slipped away to Yunnan to live in Prince Pingxi's palace. What was even more despicable was that everyone actually believed this ridiculous rumor!
Not only the hawks and dogs sent by the imperial court to Yunnan and Guizhou believed it, but even Wu Sangui's group of "rebellious ministers" also believed it. These people were all very happy, and they were all gearing up to follow Wu Sangui and Ao Bai in rebellion. Every now and then, someone would ask Wu Sangui: Is Grand Master Ao okay?
When Wu Sangui met these people, he would make a solemn statement: There is no Obai in his family!
But the problem is, when he says no, his subordinates don’t believe him!
Not only did they not believe it, but the rebel experts also came up with a bunch of more outrageous rumors on their own, saying that a "white-bearded King Kong man" suspected to be Obai was seen in Mount Wuhua or at the camp in the north of Kunming.
It seems that Obai is helping King Pingxi train his troops. After the soldiers are trained, they will rebel!
Wu Sangui was worried that the court would listen to the rumors and attack him as the final minister, so he had to step up the training of the army and reserve grain and military supplies. Since the rumors of Ao Bai's coming were also circulated in the army, the army in the northern camp of Kunming was particularly trained these days. Work hard. Everyone was in high spirits - with Obai leading everyone to fight the Eight Banners soldiers, how could everyone lose their motivation? If you fight back well once, you will conquer the world in the future, and your descendants will have a good life!
The enthusiasm of the soldiers under King Pingxi in turn proves that Ao Bai is at Wu Sangui's house. Look, these soldiers have almost caught up with the old Eight Banners in training. It is obvious that Ao Bai is helping to train! How could King Pingxi have that ability? If you had the ability, you would have become the emperor.
So this time, with Obai's help, King Pingxi's appointment as emperor was secure!
So no matter how Wu Sangui refutes the rumors, people still firmly believe that Obai is at Wu Sangui's house. This is something that even jumping into the Dianchi Lake would not be able to clean up.
What made Wu Sangui even more worried was that the military leaders in Guizhou, Guangxi, and Sichuan around Yunnan also believed that Ao Bai had defected to Wu Sangui, so they took advantage of the Chinese New Year and came to Kunming to inquire about the "rebellion."
After visiting the training situation at the north camp of Kunming City, these guys all believed that Obai was in Kunming! When I returned to Wuhua Mountain, I couldn't hold back my "rebellious heart" anymore. I just tore off the disguise and started to persuade the rebels!
The generals and advisers under King Pingxi who accompanied Wu Sangui to entertain these "rebellious thieves" were also excited and loudly agreed. A few of them are already looking around for yellow textiles. Everyone knows the drama of wearing yellow robes.
Seeing that Wu Sangui was about to be forced to rebel by a group of rebellious professionals, his second son Wu Yingqi hurried in from outside the main hall, ignoring the generals who wanted to curry favor with him, and whispered directly into Wu Sangui's ear. Then he saw Wu Sangui's face changed drastically, he stood up suddenly, and then he clasped his fists at everyone in the hall and said, "There is something going on at home, so don't pay me! Ying Qi, say hello to me."
After saying this, Wu Sangui picked up his robe and trotted out of Yin'an Hall.
When so many people below saw this scene, they all understood - it must be the invitation from Obai, probably to discuss the rebellion!
Otherwise, in today's Yunnan, who else would let King Pingxi run all the way to meet him? Everyone felt relieved when they thought that Obai was definitely at Wu Sangui's house.
After Wu Sangui came out of Yin'an Palace, he was not in the mood to sit in a small sedan chair. He directly asked his men to bring the horses. Then, surrounded by a group of palace guards, he trotted down Wuhua Mountain and rushed to the west of Wuhua Mountain. In the Anbu Garden of Wangfu Villa.
Anbu Garden is said to be the place where Wu Sangui cultivated his moral character, and it was also the place where Chen Yuanyuan lived.
There are lakes, islands and rockeries in the garden, as well as a five-story library called the "Wanjuan Building", which boasts a collection of thousands of books. When Wu Sangui has free time in the past two years, he likes to read and listen to books in Wanjuan Building with Chen Yuanyuan - Chen Yuanyuan is responsible for reading, and he is responsible for listening, and sometimes he will rest his head on Chen Yuanyuan's lap to listen.
But today Wu Sangui came to Anbu Garden not to listen to Chen Yuanyuan's story, but because of a rumor that ruined his daughter's reputation - there was a rumor that Wu Sangui had married his precious daughter Ake, who was born to Chen Yuanyuan, to Prince Zhu San. !
This rumor is getting more and more outrageous. It was already outrageous enough to say that Obai came all the way to join Wu Sangui!
He and Obai didn't have any life-long friendship, so why did Obai come all the way to join him? Even if Ao Bai came to offer, Wu Sangui would not accept it! Wu Sangui didn't want to rebel. He just wanted to be a loyal minister with a heavy army who could rebel at any time and steal half of Kangxi's kingdom!
But now, before the rumor that Ao Bai came to vote has been cleared up, there is another rumor that Wu Sangui married his daughter to Prince Zhu San. Can’t his Wu Sangui’s daughter get married? Why marry Prince Zhu San? What's good? Is it possible that Wu Sangui still wants to collude with Obai to support the third prince Zhu to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?
This thing seems to have a pretty good chance of success!
But the problem is, Wu Sangui doesn't have Obai in his hand, and he doesn't know where Prince Zhu is?
The whole thing is a victim framed by rumors!
When people describe being wronged again in the future, don't say "more wronged than Dou E". How could Dou E be as wronged as Wu Sangui? Whoever is wronged again in the future, just say "more wronged than Wu Sangui"!
What's even worse is that Wu Sangui found that his grievances could not be redressed. Now the little emperor Kangxi suspected that he had taken in Ao Bai, that he had colluded with Prince Zhu San, and that he wanted to rebel and seize the Qing Dynasty. And this is not only what Kangxi, the little fatuous emperor, and his treacherous ministers think so. Even the civil and military officials in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi, as well as the warriors under King Pingxi, now also think that King Wu Sangui of Pingxi is going to rebel!
How to redress this injustice? Where can I explain this?
Is it possible that they really raised an army to avenge themselves? Heading into Beijing to talk to Emperor Kangxi to reason with him?
When the idea of raising an army to redress grievances emerged in Wu Sangui's mind, he had already arrived outside the courtyard where Wanjuan Tower was located. Before he could get off his horse, he heard a few people arguing there.
"Auntie, daddy, brother Shicong, please don't lie to me. My surname is Wu too! Now everyone in Beijing knows that Aobai came to our house, and they also know that my grandfather married my aunt Ake to Prince Zhu San!"
"Nonsense! What a load of nonsense!"
"Who married Ake to Prince Zhu? Your Aunt Ake is still staying at home!"
"That's right, we don't have Obai either!"
"What? No Obai? Then my Aunt Ake didn't marry Prince Zhu San?"
"No, it's nothing!
"It's all rumors. Who said this?"
"Oh, it seems that Wang Fuchen's son Wang Jizhen brought Obai to Beijing. In addition, Li Tianyu, the governor of Yunnan, also took the bait and reported that Obai came to our house and married my aunt. There is something about Wang Yongkang’s beggar. He also said that the beggar is the Third Prince Zhu! Is this the case?”
When Wu Shijue asked about the marriage of Wang Yongkang and Wu Sangui's daughter, several people in the yard were speechless.
This is true, and it was Wu Sangui’s fault.
Although the one she married was not Wu Ake, Wu Sangui's biological daughter, Wu Sangui did not miss the maid who was urgently adopted by Wu Sangui at all when it came to adoption procedures. The one registered in the family tree of Pingxi Palace was Princess Princess!
Moreover, when Wu Sangui married off this cheap daughter, he also paid a sufficient dowry. The standards were exactly the same as when marrying off his own daughter.
Wu Sangui also wrote an inscription to the imperial court in Beijing, recommending Wang Yongkang, a beggar, to be the third-rank counselor (the counselor of the Prince of Pingxi Palace). Although he was short-term, he had both an official position and a salary.
Finally, Wu Sangui wrote a letter to Ma Hu, the governor of Jiangsu, asking him to help find a good house for his daughter and son-in-law in Suzhou, and then buy land for the couple to collect rent.
Although Wu Sangui did a good job, he didn't feel happy in his heart - the old man was clearly being killed by others, so it's strange that he felt happy in his heart.
Therefore, Wu Sangui never saw his good son-in-law from the beginning to the end, nor did he let him stay in Yunnan, but sent him far back to Suzhou.
Of course, finding someone to kill Wang Yongkang is not Wu Sangui's style. If the news spreads, it will also damage his image as an old man who has "little details but no great righteousness" - he has completely thrown away all righteousness. If he doesn't care about the small details, who will still hang out with him?
But this loss that he had to endure in order to keep his position turned out to be evidence for the treacherous villain Wu Sangui to frame him!
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui almost exploded with anger. After turning over and dismounting, he rushed into a moon gate as if charging and appeared outside an octagonal pavilion next to Wanjuan Tower.
Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue were standing next to a plainly dressed woman in a pavilion. This woman is already in her late teens, a mature woman, but her charm is still there. This woman is, of course, the "beautiful girl" Chen Yuanyuan who made Wu Sangui so angry that she became a beauty!
Seeing Wu Sangui rushing in, Chen Yuanyuan quickly stood up, smiled at Wu Sangui, and then smiled at Wu Sangui, already full of charm. It seemed that Wu Sangui's old bones were a little crispy, and most of his anger was extinguished.
Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue also walked out of the pavilion and bowed to Wu Sangui.
Wu Sangui waved his hand, then quickly walked into the pavilion and sat down next to Chen Yuanyuan. Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue stood respectfully outside the pavilion.
"Shijue, what's going on?" Wu Sangui asked, looking at his adopted grandson Wu Shijue, who was tired of life.
Wu Shijue did not answer Wu Sangui's question. Instead, he asked the old traitor two questions: "Grandpa, is it true that Ao Bai is not in our house? Is it true that Prince Zhu San has not become your son-in-law?"
"Where is this?" Wu Sangui was almost speechless, "Where did this rumor come from? It's total nonsense! Oboi is not in Yunnan at all! I didn't marry my daughter to Prince Zhu San either."
Wu Shijue was still a little unbelievable, and asked again: "Where is Obai hiding? Guizhou or Sichuan? Is it true that the third prince Zhu has no contact with his grandfather? The man named Wang Yongkang."
Wu Sangui snorted angrily, interrupted Wu Shijue's question, and then said: "Obai is not here with me. As for whether he is hiding somewhere in Sichuan or Guizhou, I don't know. Besides, Prince Zhu San and I There was no contact at all! Well, Wang Yongkang was the son of an old friend who was down and out. At that time, my husband and his father were both generals in the Guan Ning Army. They were quite speculative and got married to their children. Who knew that the Wang family would later fall into ruin? I also lost contact with them. I found out that a few months ago, Wang Yongkang came to our door with the marriage contract between me and his father.
The old man couldn't bear to see him in desolation, so he took a maid as his adopted daughter, gave him a dowry to marry him, and gave him a job as an official, and sent him to Suzhou. "
"What a disaster!" Wu Shijue suddenly became anxious.
"What's wrong?" Wu Sangui asked with a frown, "Is it possible that I violated heavenly laws by marrying an adopted daughter?"
Wu Shijue nodded: "Grandpa, the emperor has appointed Prince Kang as the imperial envoy. He will take Wang Zhongxiao and others to the south of the Yangtze River to capture your son-in-law Wang Yongkang in the name of escorting Geng Jingzhong back to the vassal, and he will be treated as the third prince Zhu. Caught!"
(End of chapter)
