Dashun Yongchang

In 1611, when the Samoans sent the king back, they forced him to sign the Fifteen Articles and executed the opponent Xie Mingqin Fang Lishan.The Satsuma clan stipulated that the Ryukyu Kingdom must pay 12 shi of rice to the Satsuma clan every year.

After the second year of Chongzhen, the Zaifan enforcement system was established, and retainers of the Satsuma clan were dispatched to the major affiliated islands of the Ryukyu Kingdom to directly take charge of the administration of each place.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Japan incorporated the Ryukyu Kingdom into the territory of Satsuma, and prohibited the Ryukyu King from using the title of King of Zhongshan, and renamed it Ryukyu Guosi.This is obviously an invasion of Ming Dynasty..."

Chapter 628 The Situation in the South

Xi Benzhen looked at

Weng Hanjin asked, "What are you going to do?"

Weng Hanjin thought for a while and said: "First arrange a few operas, and the people will start to care about the Ryukyu issue, and then find a Ryukyu person to come and cry to the Imperial Council, and then the Imperial Council will speak to the emperor, and discuss the Ryukyu issue with Japan. Negotiations with the other side. If the Japanese are ignorant, then we ask His Majesty to send troops to punish Japan. If this battle is won, the empire will at least be able to make a lot of money."

After thinking for a while, Xi Benzhen said: "You can operate this matter, I will prepare 100 million yuan for you to promote this matter, and we will talk about it after spending it all."

Weng Hanjin glanced at the others and found that no one objected, so he stood up and responded happily: "Leave it to me. Before the end of the year, a new play will definitely be staged. As for the envoy from Ryukyu, I will send someone to Ryukyu to ask for it." Come one..."

When Weng Hanjin was busy with the Ryukyu issue, good news came from Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guangxi.After the Manchus surrendered and the news that Emperor Dashun had regained Beijing spread to the local people, the local forces that were still somewhat resistant to Dashun suddenly died down.

First of all, Zhang Xianzhong's four adopted sons, whether it is Zhang Kewang who has selfish intentions, or Zhang Dingguo who wants to continue to be loyal to the Daxi Kingdom, and then realizes that Dashun's unification of the world is unstoppable, and Li Zicheng did not kill Zhang Xianzhong. After he became the speaker of the Military Council, the four of them gave up their insistence.

Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Nengqi first sent a letter to Yangzhou, expressing their willingness to be loyal to the Dashun regime, and changed their original names back to Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi.After all, Zhang Kewang failed to attack Li Dingguo, because Zhang Xianzhong was still alive, so he didn't have the reputation to forcibly annex other branches of the Western Army. For example, Li Dingguo refused to obey his orders, and Ainengqi was unwilling to join him anymore. And Zhang Wenxiu was also unwilling to bow his head.

Zhang Kewang wrote a letter to persuade Zhang Wenxiu to send Zhang Xianzhong to meet Emperor Dashun. After Zhang Wenxiu complied, Zhang Kewang immediately wrote to Zhang Wenxiu, asking him to bring his wealth from the Daxi Army to join him in Yunnan.After reading Zhang Kewang's letter, Zhang Wenxiu said dissatisfiedly to his confidants Xu Hu and Yang Shiguo, "I asked my adoptive father to meet His Majesty because my adoptive father was suspicious in Chengdu and made everyone feel insecure. In Chengdu, I think people’s hearts are about to scatter. But my elder brother is yelling at me, as if my adoptive father is gone, and he is the emperor of Daxi Kingdom, which is too deceptive.”

Zhang Wenxiu's confidants also responded to him, saying that Emperor Yongchang was polite to the general, and did not immediately ask the general to be dismissed from the military post, but Zhang Kewang couldn't wait to snatch the general's military power. Obviously, he couldn't go to Yunnan, the general. You should stay in Sichuan and live a happy life in Chengdu, isn't it good?

Zhang Wenxiu also thought so in his heart. Although Ai Nengqi took away his own troops, since Li Zicheng had no intention of mobilizing him, he was still stationed in Chengdu, which meant that he didn't need to think about fighting at all, because Shunjun will not come to attack him.Therefore, in addition to sending people to send Zhang Kewang's clan to Yunnan, he restored his real name Liu Wenxiu and stationed in Chengdu safely.

So Zhang Kewang realized that although he had brought his adoptive father Zhang Xianzhong out of the Daxi Kingdom, the Daxi Army had also been divided into five. Except for their four adopted sons each leading an army, there was also Wang Zhaolin, Zhang Xianzhong's son-in-law leading a group of veterans. An army was formed.Except for his own headquarters, no one else recognized that he had any right to inherit Daxi Kingdom.

While Zhang Kewang was annoyed, he had nothing to do, because Dashun did not support him in launching war against the other Daxi armies, and only gave him the position of governor of Yunnan. However, Li Dingguo was appointed as the governor of Yunnan because he quelled the chaos in Shadingzhou. That is to say, it has the power to command troops in Yunnan in name.

If he raises troops to attack Li Dingguo at this time, then he will be regarded as a rebel by Dashun, and the Shun army may support Li Dingguo to quell the chaos.Zhang Kewang knew that his own strength would definitely not be able to deal with Li Dingguo who had the Shun Army behind him, so he could only bear with it, and stopped thinking about annexing the forces of other Daxi Army. He also changed his name back to Sun Kewang.

In Guangxi, after Li Dingguo quelled the Tusi Rebellion in Yunnan, King Gui Zhu Youlang immediately announced that he accepted the central government's conditions, and then went to Guangzhou to prepare to go to Beijing to meet Emperor Yongchang.Because he was really afraid of the Great Western Army, and the Shun Army was just rumored to be cruel, but at least the prince and King Fu lived well, and the Great Western Army led by Zhang Xianzhong was merciless when they killed Chu Fan in Hunan.

Qu Shixu, governor of Guangxi, heard that King Gui was planning to go north, and once came out to persuade King Gui, hoping that he would not surrender to the intruders who overthrew the Ming Dynasty, so as to defend the dignity of the Zhu family.King Gui was only Weiwei in front of Qu Shixu, but after Qu Shixu left, he sneaked away with his cronies.

Qu Shixu had nothing to do about it, he could only defend Wuzhou.Although all parts of Guangxi respected him as the governor, they all changed the title of Dashun and no longer recognized the existence of Ming Dynasty.Qu Shixu couldn't even prevent the people of Wuzhou from enshrining the god of Emperor Dashun. He could only control his own governor's yamen, and everything kept the old Ming system.

But it was obvious that Ma Shiying had no patience. After learning that King Gui was going north, he immediately asked Qu Shixu to go to Guangzhou to accompany King Gui to Yangzhou.

When this series of personnel appointments ended, the south had almost fallen under the rule of Dashun.Ma Shiying began to promote the two things of sharing the land into the mu and the gentry paying the grain to these newly merged provinces. The authority of Dashun began to be further established at the local level, and the local order began to restore tranquility. Closed the door to be the head of the Tu Emperor's army, and now he has lost the confidence to fight against the central government.

The military leaders in Sichuan, Guizhou, and Jiangxi used to think about what kind of country Dashun's gangsters could govern, but in the end it was just the localities looking after themselves, as long as they gave them the name of obeying the central government.This kind of thinking is based on the fact that Dashun does not have so many scholars to support it, and it is impossible for local gentry to betray the interests of their hometown for the sake of trespassing.

However, the new school education promoted by Dashun has begun to see initial results in the fifth year of Yongchang. At this time, the local gentry realized that if they continued to fight against Dashun, they might not have a place in Dashun's system. where it is.Because Dashun did not use Confucianism as the foundation of the dynasty's rule, no matter how much they gentry studied at home, it was impossible for them to gain Li Zicheng's appreciation.

The most terrible thing is the appearance of oracle bone inscriptions. A large number of oracle bones make the rule of three generations no longer an imaginary world that exists in the minds of saints, but such an era really exists. The only problem now is to translate the words.Under such circumstances, scholars who cannot touch oracle bones are tantamount to abandoning the foundation of Confucianism.

Realizing that Dashun not only possesses military advantages, but also has cultural advantages, these two advantages immediately turned into political advantages.In order to preserve their own knowledge, the local gentry had to cooperate with Dashun.This kind of cooperation allowed Dashun to acquire a large number of officials with local management experience, and Dashun allowed them to play their roles, which was to establish Dashun's rule at the local level.Without local support, it is very difficult for the army to survive, because the army cannot drink the northwest wind.

Faced with this kind of all-round superiority crushing, almost no one will continue to fight against the Dashun court that unified the world, except for those reckless local emperors.For the Dashun government, the surrender of the Manchus cannot be regarded as the real elimination of hidden dangers. If these self-contained military and political groups cannot be dismantled, then this group is likely to rebel again according to changes in the situation, such as Wu Sangui and The two local military groups of Jiang Yu are examples of repeated jumps.

Now with the addition of the Manchus, there are three local military groups with close internal ties. The Daxi Army is not bad, because it disintegrated because of its own internal power struggle.And Li Zicheng's Huairou offensive against the Daxi Army since the first year of Yongchang finally took effect at this moment.

Except for Zhang Xianzhong's four adopted sons and their direct descendants, other Daxi Army generals who followed Zhang Xianzhong almost immediately accepted the statement that the Shun Army and the Daxi Army were brothers and rebels who resisted the Ming Dynasty together, so they had little resistance to accepting the adaptation of the Shun Army mood.

When the situation developed to this point, Zhang Xianzhong's four adopted sons couldn't come up with the idea of ​​why they should continue to fight against the Shun Army, so naturally they had to truly accept the changes of the Shun Army.Although the generals of the Daxi Army are still in their positions, the generals below have already recognized the fact that Li Zicheng is the Emperor of Dashun. They think that Zhang Xianzhong has failed, so there is no need for everyone to leave Li Zicheng behind. The king was not killed.

If the Daxi Army had resentment against the Shun Army before, one reason was that Li Zicheng annexed the Fifth Gezuo Battalion, which was too disrespectful; the other was that when the Daxi Army occupied Wuchang, the Shun Army forced them to give up Wuchang.These two incidents made the Daxi Army think that the Shun Army wanted to destroy them, so they naturally refused to surrender to the Shun Army.

So now, everyone has understood the contradiction between the Daxi Army and the Shun Army as a dispute between Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong on how to build a new country. Zhang Xianzhong lost, and Li Zicheng won. They all surrendered, so must Li Zicheng have won?The hatred between the two armies was replaced by the ideological competition between the leaders, so the Daxi army did not have the determination to fight to the death with the Shun army.

Although Zhang Xianzhong's four adopted sons have military skills, and Sun Kewang also has some ideas about governing the region, he can't explain why he wants to fight for the world, but he just wants to be emperor.But with Sun Kewang's strength and reputation, he is obviously far from being the emperor. He doesn't even have the capital to become a king on his own.

Li Dingguo stared at him more seriously than those Dashun officials stared at him. It seemed that as long as he made any changes, Li Dingguo would kill Kunming to avenge his adoptive father.So Sun Kewang could only guard Kunming, the area south of Yunnan that he managed with peace of mind.

Good news also came from the grasslands in the north and the Liaodong area. Inner Mongolia 49 Banner finally compromised with Dashun, and decided to send representatives to Zhangjiakou to form an alliance with Li Zicheng in May of the next year, electing Li Zi to become the Great Khan of Mongolia.Because Dashun did not destroy the power of the Manchus, but conquered the Manchus. Seeing the mighty Eight Banners of Manchuria bowing to the Emperor Dashun, this made the Inner Mongolian banners lose their desire to challenge Dashun.