The mansion of Pingxi King Wu Sangui stands high on Wuhua Mountain in Kunming City. This mansion was originally the palace of Emperor Yongli. Before that, it was the palace of Sun Kewang. It was a blessed land full of dragon towers and phoenix pavilions. After it fell into the hands of Wu Sangui, it underwent extensive repairs. After more than 20 years of operation, it is many times more luxurious and magnificent than when it was in the hands of Emperor Yongli.
Moreover, Wu Sangui also regarded the Wuhua Mountain area as his home base and built rows of warehouses at the foot of Wuhua Mountain, where gold, silver, copper coins were piled up, and there were countless soldiers, armor, and equipment. On both sides of the Yin'an Hall, where Wu Sangui's administrative office was, two rows of government offices were built, including the Military and Horse Department, the Fan Li Department, the Salt and Tea Department, the Shen Xing Department, the Foundry Hall and other institutions, all of which were imitated by the six departments of the imperial court. He came from the Yamen, but he just changed his name.
At the foot of Wuhua Mountain are the streets and alleys of Kunming City, which Wu Sangui has worked hard for many years. Although Kunming is not as prosperous as Guangzhou, it is the first-class prosperous place in the southwest today. Guiyang, the capital of the neighboring province of Guizhou, cannot compare, and Chengdu and Chongqing in Sichuan, the land of abundance to the north, cannot compare... ...The entire Sichuan province has an estimated capital of more than 10,000, which is only a fraction of that of Kunming. Even taking into account the problem of hidden households, the population of Sichuan Province is at most several hundred thousand.
That is a place in the city where tigers roam everywhere, comparable to a wildlife park. How can it be compared with Kunming? At least there are no tigers in the city of Kunming, and even outside the city there are no traces of tigers - even if there were some Yunnan tigers, they were all beaten to death by Wu Sangui's men.
At this moment, Wu Sangui was sitting in Liecuixuan on the west side of his Yin'an Hall. The skin under his butt was a piece of tiger skin taken from a tiger from Kunming... It was also a very precious white tiger. Skin. Sitting opposite him was Yang Qilong, who claimed to be the envoy of Zhu San Taisun.
Yang Qilong had actually arrived in Kunming a long time ago, but he did not come in the name of Zhu San's grandson's envoy, but came to Kunming with a note written by Wu Yingxiong to Wu Sangui.
Since he is Wu Yingxiong's friend, Wu Sangui will of course let people entertain him well - this is called Corporal Li Xian!
No way, Wu Sangui never expected that his son Wu Yingxiong, who seemed to be loyal but secretly cunning, would actually make a bad friend by mistake!
This Yang Qilong is a destructive friend who deceives people!
The day after Wu Sangui received an urgent report from Guangdong and learned that Mi Sihan had been defeated in Jieyang, Yang Qilong came to him with the order from Zhu San Taisun.
Before that, Wu Sangui had already received the news of the "Chongzhen Edict" from his cousin Zu Zeqing, and had been restless for several days. He finally got the good news, but in the blink of an eye, another little devil came to the door. .....And this kid is also a good friend of his son Wu Yingxiong.
How could Wu Sangui not be anxious, how could he not get angry, how could he not want to kill Yang Qilong with a knife?
And Yang Qilong looked at the majestic and arrogant old man Wu Sangui and Wu who looked nothing like the loyal Wu Yingxiong in front of him, but he had a treacherous smile on his face, which was particularly annoying. . Wu Sangui once suspected that Yang Qilong had forged the "Chongzhen Edict"!
But after thinking about it carefully, I think it is unlikely... Shang Zhixin found the "edict" from the thieves' nest in Danan Mountain. It is possible that Shang Zhixin supported the bandits in their self-respect, but he colluded with Prince Zhu San. It shouldn't be that bad. If he really colluded with Prince Zhu to that extent, Grandson Zhu would not be arrested, and Prince Zhu would not be trapped in the capital of Guiyu.
Moreover, this imperial edict was indeed in line with the situation at that time. If Zhu Cijiong really left Beijing that year, then Emperor Chongzhen would definitely have left behind one or more imperial edicts for the generals with heavy troops.
At that time, the ministers who still held heavy troops and were still loyal to the Ming Dynasty were Wu Sangui, Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Zheng Zhilong, Qin Liangyu and others. Among them, the one with the strongest military force and the one closest to Beijing is undoubtedly Wu Sangui!
Therefore, one of the several posthumous edicts left by Chongzhen must be for Wu Sangui!
In addition, Wu Sangui sent people to search for the three sons of Emperor Chongzhen after the Battle of Yishi, but they only found the prince Zhu Cixiang, but not the Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong and the Yong Wang Zhu Cizhao. Moreover, Wu Sangui asked Zhu Cixiang about the whereabouts of the two kings Ding and Yong, and the answer he received was "he left the palace first". When he asked again, he had no idea.
At that time, Wu Sangui didn't care, and just gave Zhu Cixiang a sum of money to run as far as he wanted. Now that he thinks about it, he finally understands - "Leave the palace first" actually means "Escape early"!
After thinking about it for a long time, Wu Sangui snorted heavily: "Since you are the third prince of Zhu, why didn't you explain your intention earlier and delayed giving me this document until today? Isn't it too late?"
"It's not too late, it's not too late..." Yang Qilong smiled, "If Yang had taken out this edict a few days earlier, he might have died!"
"Hmph!" Wu Sangui snorted, "Now the lonely king can't kill you?"
Yang Qilong smiled and shook his head, "Your Majesty will not kill Yang now, because today's King Ding is just like Nurhaci in the past! Why should Your Majesty abandon good friends and turn into enemies, so that we can't meet each other in the future?"
"That's a shameless statement!" Wu Sangui chuckled, "How virtuous and capable is the Third Prince Zhu, how dare he be compared to Emperor Taizu of the Qing Dynasty?"
Yang Qilong smiled and said: "Let's see... Guangdong Green Camp has been defeated. Whose turn will it be next? Pingnan Palace or the Green Camp soldiers of the North Central Plains? If they lose again, it will be the Eight Banners Soldiers. Right? Can three to five thousand eight-banner soldiers capture Jieyang? If not... Your Majesty’s opportunity will come!”
"My chance?" Wu Sangui looked at Yang Qilong, "What chance?"
Yang Qilong smiled and said: "If there were only Jiannu who started in the cold and miserable land outside the Pass without breaking into the Central Plains, and Xian's two masters roamed the Central Plains, Jiannu would have been like Xixia at best. Now Jiannu has conquered the whole world, even if King Ding has the power to reach heaven, If we don't have the power of the king to raise troops in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Shaanxi, the situation will be separatist rule between Guangdong and Guangxi at best. And using Guangxi and Guangxi to fight against the world will probably not last long!"
Wu Sangui's face darkened: "Hmph, do you want me to be Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong?"
"Your Majesty," Yang Qilong said, "Li Zicheng was almost able to win the world...Besides, if there is no King Ding making trouble in Guangdong, Your Majesty, you will be a thorn in the side of the Tatar court and the first important person of Kangxi." The enemy you have eradicated! If you want to have a good death, my king, and if you want your heir to take over your throne safely, you must have a Prince Zhu who cannot be chewed or swallowed by the Tatar Emperor Kangxi! Prince Zhu is an enemy. It’s my friend, don’t you understand, Your Majesty?”
Wu Sangui's face was livid, "But once Shang Zhixin made the testament public, there were countless treacherous ministers in the court who wanted to use this as an excuse to frame me!"
Yang Qilong chuckled: "So what? As long as the third prince does not fall, Kangxi will not dare to touch the king and the crown prince... He is not stupid enough to do so! And the more fierce the third prince makes, the more he will We have to stabilize the king. When the time comes, the king just needs to pretend to be sick, and maybe he can let the crown prince return to Yunnan."
Wu Sangui fell silent again, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter, as if he was thinking hard. After a long while, he didn't say anything, he just picked up the tea bowl... and served tea as a farewell to the guests!
Yang Qilong stood up and said goodbye knowingly. When he saw him leaving Li Cuixuan, Wu Sangui coughed. Behind him, a thin old man in his sixties and wearing a blue cloth robe came out from behind a huge screen.
The old man looked at Yang Qilong's retreating back, smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you let me follow Monk Yang on a trip to Guangdong!"
"Xuanchu," Wu Sangui looked back at the old man, "then you'll have a hard time..."
This old man turned out to be Wu Sangui's mastermind Liu Xuanchu. Liu Xuanchu twirled his beard, thought for a while, and then said to Wu Sangui: "Your Majesty, you should be sick now."
Wu Sangui smiled: "Xuanchu reminds me that I have been unwell recently and it is difficult to take charge of the overall situation. If Ying Xiong cannot come back, the Lord of Yunnan will be taken over by Ying Qi, a daredevil!"
