November 22, the forty-fifth year of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty.
Just when Zhu Heji defeated the Qing and Ningnan Jing invaders General Tuhai in Zhaoqing and was about to sweep Guangdong, a swearing-in ceremony to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty was underway on the campus outside Kunming City, Yunnan Prefecture. .
Wu Sangui is finally rolling up his sleeves and doing something big!
In fact, he had already started carrying out rebellion activities before he officially raised the banner of rebellion on November 11 and accepted the "Chongzhen Edict". His confidants Gao Dejie and Han Daren have been ordered to lead 3,000 elite troops into Guizhou to join forces with Wu Sangui's confidant Li Benshen, who serves as the governor of Guizhou, and then together they will control the passes in Guizhou.
In addition, Wu Sangui also sent a secret envoy to carry his handwriting, ordering Governor Cao Shenji of Guizhou, Admiral Li Benshen, Governor Luo Sen of Sichuan, Admiral Zheng Jiaolin, Commander-in-Chief Wu Zhimao and Tan Hong, Commander-in-Chief Guo Yi of Zuojiang, Guangxi, and other officials who held important positions outside Yunnan. Close friends and old troops acted together, summoning troops, blocking roads, and controlling government offices and treasuries in various places...
By November 22, not only Yunnan was completely under Wu Sangui's control, but also Guizhou was basically controlled by Wu Sangui. Gan Wenkun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, heard about the coup in Guiyang and even wanted to run away, but he was loyal to Wu Sangui. Jiang Yi, his deputy general, was caught and had no choice but to commit suicide and become a loyal slave. As for Sichuan and Guangxi, some or even most of the areas were under Wu Sangui's control.
So Wu Sangui's rebellion... is really bigger than Prince Zhu's rebellion! No one else has left Yunnan, and Emperor Kangxi has already lost territory in almost three provinces!
While instructing the party members in Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi to take action, Wu Sangui, who was in Yunnan, also took care of two other major events. One was to mobilize troops, supplies, and civilians to prepare for war out of the province. Considering the transportation and transportation problems in Yunnan and Guizhou, It is not easy at all to mobilize manpower, material resources, and financial resources to mobilize tens of thousands of troops out of the province and march to Sichuan and Huguang!
The second is to discuss with his subordinates the right to rebel... There is no problem in raising troops in accordance with Chongzhen's imperial edict. But you have to think carefully about what signs you will use after raising the army.
The current Third Prince Zhu is not a sign that anyone can use, but has been added to the body of Dananshan Heavenly King Zhu through layers of certification...Emperor Kangxi, King Zheng Jing of Yanping, Governor of Dongchang Eunuch Gong Pang and Ping Xibo Wu Sangui have all been "certified", so this identity can no longer be true!
Moreover, King Zhu Tianwang and his son Zhu Heji are particularly good at fighting! Before Wu Sangui raised his troops, they had already captured the Guangfu base area. Although there is only one prefecture in Guangzhou, Guangzhou has rivers and seas, open plains, rich products, and a large population... One prefecture is stronger than the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan!
Therefore, Wu Sangui cannot use Zhu San and his son as a memorial tablet. He must arrange a suitable title for himself...otherwise, he may really become a loyal minister who rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty.
If this is really the case, what is he trying to do?
Before the rebellion, he was the King of Pingxi, and after the rebellion, he was still the King of Pingxi?
This is not acceptable!
Now that Wu Sangui has reached the point of raising troops to rebel, of course he wants to fight for the emperor.
But he couldn't be too impatient. It wouldn't work if he became the emperor directly in Kunming or proclaimed himself the King of Zhou... So after catching Zhu Guozhi and others, he and Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingqi, Xia Guoxiang, Guo Zhuangtu, Hu Guozhu, the group, and several senior advisers discussed it carefully.
Finally, I came up with a pretty big name, called President... His full name is President, Marshal of the World's Armed Forces!
Although the president, the marshal of all the troops in the world, is still not as big as the emperor, Prince Zhu San has not proclaimed himself emperor now! He is just a king and supervisor of the country.
Who is greater between the supervisory state and the president? It seems hard to say, right?
In addition, the president and the supervisor are obviously two systems. Because the position of supervising the country itself includes the power to command the world's troops. If we want to make another Grand Marshal of the World, it can only be done by Zhu Heji, the crown prince of Prince Ding. How can it be done by Wu Sangui?
The so-called "president" of Wu Sangui can only be self-proclaimed, and it is impossible for King Zhu Tian to appoint him. In this way, Wu Sangui can gain the status of being equal to King Zhu Tian!
With this title, Wu Sangui's system will not be infiltrated by the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu. In the future, if the rebellion situation is good, he can go one step further and create a great power and add Jiuxi...
After settling the issue of status, Wu Sangui asked his subordinates to write an appeal for clarification. This appeal to the Qing Dynasty is also Wu Sangui's "inaugural speech" when he takes office as president and the marshal of the world's military forces!
At this moment, Wu Sangui was carrying a message, neatly dressed, wearing a collar of Ming Dynasty-style armor, riding a tall horse, surrounded by a group of civil and military officials who also put on Ming Dynasty official uniforms and Ming-style armor, inspecting himself army.
Wu Sangui's military formation was even more orderly and majestic than the elite Qing army led by Tu Hai. It stood in the wilderness with spears like a forest, swords like a sea, and shotguns painted black or red lined up in rows, which were equally strict and solemn. When the sun shines on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in winter, it blocks out the sky like a steel forest. The streets of Kunming City were also deserted today. Almost all the people in the city had left the city and were standing outside the university grounds to watch Wu Sangui's army. Most of the people in Kunming City are the family members of the Banner Army who followed Wu Sangui into Yunnan, the family members of the Green Camp, or the civil servants and their descendants. There are also some old veterans, and many of them were recruited by Wu Sangui from the camps of Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang. The families of soldiers and generals.
The interests of these people have long been deeply tied to Wu Sangui, and of course they hope that their lord can take one step forward... It would be great if he could become the emperor.
However, like Wu Sangui, they all suffer from severe "Eight Banners phobia", and they are even more afraid of the Eight Banners heavenly soldiers than Wu Sangui.
So even though they saw a first-class strong army, everyone still frowned, with fear filling their faces!
Everyone is waiting quietly, not for Wu Sangui to deliver his "inaugural speech", but for Wu Sangui's divine thunder soldiers to demonstrate a kind of divine thunder that is said to be able to restrain the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers - sugar grenades!
Although Wu Sangui's ambitions were a bit inflated, Zhu Heji didn't care. As long as he was willing to rise up and fight against the Qing Dynasty, he would provide the grenade samples and the sugar and medicine formula!
Therefore, after Chen Gongyin witnessed Wu Sangui receiving the order and arresting Zhu Guozhi and others, he handed over the formula and samples. The craftsmen under Wu Sangui had already imitated the sugar-medicated grenade according to the recipe, and even tested it in front of Wu Sangui.
Today, Wu Sangui will test the sugar-medicine divine thunder in front of tens of thousands of soldiers and the people of Kunming who are watching the excitement - as long as everyone knows the power of the divine thunder, of course they will not be afraid of the Eight Banners soldiers.
So Wu Sangui specially asked people to build a two-foot-high earthen platform with rammed earth in the center of the school ground. On the platform were placed 200 models of Eight Banners soldiers...the same size as real people, all wearing cloth-covered armor. Wearing lightning rod helmets, they were lined up densely. In the middle of them, there stood a pillar. Two living men, Zhu Guozhi and Li Xingyuan, were also neatly dressed, gagged, and tied to the pillar. In addition, there is also a large sugar medicine divine thunder tied to this pillar.
Wu Sangui looked at the waiting people around him and loudly ordered: "Light the fire!"
"Got the order!"
The person in charge of lighting the fire was his grandson Wu Shizong. After shouting the order, he flew to the bottom of the high platform. Then he got off his horse, found a long match rope, took out the fire rope and lit it, then got on his horse and galloped back. But before he could return to Wu Sangui, the match rope had burned out and the flames had been sent into the divine thunder. I only saw a flash of red light, and then everyone felt the ground beneath their feet tremble, followed by a loud noise, smoke rising, air waves rolling, and all the Eight Banners models on the high platform were overturned by the air waves. land. Zhu Guozhi and Li Xingyuan were killed by the explosion before they even had time to scream.
There was a sudden silence in the school grounds. After a while, thunderous cheers erupted: "President and Marshal... mighty! Fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty... we will win!"
