In Kunming, because the imperial palace in Wuhua Mountain has not been completed, Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang and Empress Wang temporarily lived in the mansion of the Duke of Qian.

Late at night, the drums were beaten outside several times, but Zhu Youlang still had not gone to bed, but was staring at the imperial desk in his study and staring at the memorials on the imperial desk.

In addition to the few memorials just sent by the cabinet, there is also a memorial sent by Grand Secretary Wen Anzhi from Sichuan.

The memorials sent by the cabinet have been drafted, and Zhu Youlang has also read them one by one. The cabinet ministers’ opinions are more appropriate, and the Lijian also approved the red. Zhu Youlang has no different opinions on this. The memorials will be handed over to the six ministries tomorrow.

What made Zhu Youlang dazed was the memorial of Grand Secretary Wen Anzhi, which was related to the situation in Sichuan.

After moving to Kunming, due to the support of King Li Dingguo of Jin, King Liu Wenxiu of Shu and others, the Yongli court basically stabilized the Yunnan region, but Guizhou and western Hunan were controlled by Sun Kewang. At this time, there were only two options to open up the situation. One was to go east to Guangxi and Guangdong; the other was to go north to Sichuan.

If you go east to Guangdong and Guangxi, you can get enough territory for the Yongli regime in the shortest time, and you can also contact the Ming forces on the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, so that the Yongli court can get more troops, money and food support. However, going east to Guangdong and Guangxi means that the King of Jin Li Dingguo must be personally led to the expedition. If there is no threat from Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo would be able to advance east again. But now Sun Kewang has already vowed to fight against Li Dingguo in Guiyang, which makes Li Dingguo unable to lead his troops east at this time and must stay in Kunming to deal with Sun Kewang's threat.

The King of Jin could not fight eastward, so he had to give up the strategy of going eastward to Guangdong and Guangxi. After repeated weighing, Zhu Youlang and Li Dingguo decided to send King Liu Wenxiu of Shu to run Sichuan.

Liu Wenxiu once led his troops to visit Sichuan and was very familiar with the situation in Sichuan. Therefore, he sent his general Weining Bo Gao Chengen to lead 5,000 troops from Yunnan to Yazhou, Sichuan. At the same time, another main force he dispatched was promoted from the left general Qi San to the prime minister. He joined forces with the support and suppression of the rear general Di San, Yang Wei, general Pinglu Battalion, He Tianyun, general Huaiyuan Battalion, and Zheng Shoubao, general supervisor of Chongqing military farming, and others led troops to Jiading Prefecture.

Liu Wenxiu personally led his troops to Jianchang, Lizhou and Yazhou to Hongya County, and established the Shu Palace in Qianqiuping, the county to command the Ming army.

Qi Sansheng, Di Sangen, and Yang Wu were all generals of the former Daxi Army. Each of them had more than 10,000 troops, and the three of them supported the Yongli court. In addition, the reputation of Shu King Liu Wenxiu among the former Daxi Army was second only to Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, so he was the one who commanded the war in Sichuan. Zhu Youlang and Li Dingguo were both optimistic and believed that Liu Wenxiu would be a great contribution to the sending troops to Sichuan this time.

However, Wen Anzhi, a great scholar who had been in Sichuan for several years, reported that the court should not have sent Shu King Liu Wenxiu to send troops to manage Sichuan at this time.

Wen Anzhi believed that the biggest enemy of the court now was Sun Kewang and his subordinates' army. If the King of Shu led a large army into Sichuan, the land would inevitably be stationed in Jiedao too far from Yunnan, so as not to prevent Sun Kewang from rebelling and not being able to rescue him in time.

Furthermore, the King of Shu led a large army into Sichuan and had to choose less social production and damage. Basically, it could solve the area where the Ming army's food and salary was solved on the spot, which destined that the King of Shu could not go deep into the middle of Sichuan too deep. Only by solving the source of food and salary, the King of Shu's army could gradually advance to Chengdu and Chongqing without any worries, so as to achieve the strategic idea of ​​attacking Baoning in the north, connecting the thirteen Kuidong families in the east, and joining the army to fight Hubei.

The current situation is that before the threat of Sun Kewang in the rear, the King of Shu led a large army into Sichuan. Once Sun Kewang's troops entered Yunnan, the court would definitely recall the King of Shu and his army to be on the safe side. In this way, the King of Shu's entry into Sichuan this time would be of little significance, and it would be in vain for money, food and manpower.

In his memorial, Wen Anzhi repeatedly emphasized that the court must consider entering Sichuan after relieving Sun Kewang's threat.

Wen Anzhi also comforted Emperor Yongli, saying that although Wu Sangui's troops stationed in Hanzhong, Shaanxi had arrived in Baoning to meet with Li Guoying, the Qing army could not seize Sichuan in a short time. In order to prove his judgment, Wen Anzhi sent a memorial to the left governor of Sichuan, Zhuang Yinghui, who had seized, to Kunming.

In this memorial sent to Beijing, Zhuang Yinghui mentioned that the food and salary of the Qing army in Sichuan was entirely relied on Shaanxi to transport transportation, and the total amount of money and grain collected by the Qing army in northern Sichuan was only more than 5,150 taels per year, and the salary of each civil servant was more than 8,000 taels per year, and the annual quota was less than 1,000 taels of salary of each official.

Wen Anzhi believed that it was precisely because of the difficulties in food and wages that Wu Sangui and Li Guohan's troops defeated the King of Shu Liu Wenxiu in the Battle of Baoning not only did not take advantage of the victory, but only left Sichuan Governor Li Guoying's troops to stay in Baoning, and the entire army returned to Shaanxi Hanzhong to obtain grain. Although Hao Yu, the inspector of the Sichuan province in Qing Dynasty, proposed to collect land and farmland in Chengdu and use Shu grain to raise Shu soldiers, in addition to sufficient troops to ensure local stability, land and farmland also needed to invest a large amount of grain, seeds, plowing oxen, and agricultural tools as the basis for military farming.

Although Hao Yu's proposal was feasible, the military and financial resources that the Qing court had to invest for this were a bottomless pit and could not be realized at all. Although Wu Sangui once again entered Baoning, the problem of food and salary difficulties was still not solved, so the Qing army could not invade Sichuan at this time.

The problems faced by the Qing army were also the problems faced by the Ming army. Since both sides were trapped by money and food, Wen'an naturally tended to be inclined to enter Sichuan. After all, the Qing army in Baoning had no worries, while the Yongli court had Sun Kewang's eye. Wen'an asked the court to immediately issue an order to invite King Liu Wenxiu of Shu to join forces.

After reading Wen Anzhi's memorial repeatedly, Zhu Youlang hesitated.

Sending King Liu Wangxiu to Sichuan was a major policy set by him and King Li Dingguo of Jin, and it also received support from the court. Now Wen Anzhi said that King Liu Wang had no meaning to enter the King of Sichuan, which made him very confused and did not know whether Wen Anzhi's opinion was right or wrong.

If Wen Anzhi's view was correct, then the Shu King's army would really not be worth the loss when entering Sichuan. The King of Jin has always guaranteed in front of him that he could deal with Sun Kewang's army, but if the King of Jin could not stop Sun Kewang's army, would he really have to summon the King of Shu to rescue him?

If King Jin is defeated, can King Shu stop it? Can Kunming really defend it?

If Kunming cannot be kept, wouldn’t I still want to move west again? But where can I move this way?

The painful memories of the hasty escape from Zhaoqing that year deeply hurt the young emperor and made his heart hurt.

On countless nights, when Zhu Youlang was lying on the bed and his eyes closed, his mind always showed the situation of his hastily escaped from Zhaoqing. He thought of his two biological flesh and blood who had just been born - Zhu Ciyu, Prince Huaimin, and Zhu Ciyu, Prince Momo?

When Yongli's monarch and ministers were still a hundred miles away, they began to flee. As a result, because they were too panic, Zhu Youlang forgot his two biological flesh when he ran away. When he remembered that his two sons had not yet run out, he could find someone!

Zhu Youlang's cowardice escape gave the Qing army an opportunity to take advantage of it. After Li Chengdong occupied Wuzhou, he sent a small group of Qing troops to follow the monarch and ministers of Yongli to Pingyuefu, and then advanced to Guilin. Although the pursuers were only more than a thousand, Zhu Youlang was still extremely afraid and did not listen to the firm opposition of the Grand Secretary Qu Shixi's firm opposition to fleeing Guilin, and was preparing to enter Hunan to surrender to the warlord Liu Chengyin, who had a large number of troops.

For this reason, Qu Shili was heartbroken and said desperately: "There are many people who have moved now. Every time they move, people's hearts will be distorted. Can people's hearts still be distorted?"

However, Zhu Youlang, who was determined to escape, could not listen to such honest advice. He fled to Quanzhou at the instigation of the eunuch of the Silijian Wang Kun and the Jinyiwei Ma Jixiang. Qu Shili had to ask himself to stay in Guilin, and Zhu Youlang reluctantly agreed. For the sake of stabilizing the people's hearts, Qu Shili asked Zhu Youlang not to leave Guangxi anyway, even if he temporarily stayed in Quanzhou near Hunan. Unexpectedly, Zhu Youlang was afraid of the Qing Dynasty and fled to Wugang in April, and never returned to Guangxi again.

Looking back on his timid behavior back then, Zhu Youlang blamed himself. He was in pain, but he had no choice because he was too afraid of the Qing army. He was afraid that he would die at the hands of the Qing army like Hongguang, Longwu and Shaowu.

Why has I lived so hard every day since I ascended the throne?

Why does God want to make me so many disasters?

Why does God torture me like this!

I am unwilling to give up, I want to be the leader of the revival!

I don’t want to run away anymore, and I can’t run away anymore. King Jin, I rely on you! I will not transfer back to the King of Shu’s army, I believe that King Jin will not let me down!

If King Jin fails, I will definitely not run away again. I will just hang myself in Kunming like the late emperor!

I'm not afraid of death... I'm not afraid of death... I'm really not afraid of death...

With a "boom", Zhu Youlang suddenly accidentally knocked over the night snack that had already been cold. The crisp sound of the bowl crack alarmed the guards and the internal prison outside. They came in in panic, thinking that what had happened to the emperor.

"You all go out, I'm fine."

Zhu Youlang exhaled, signaled the internal supervisor to pick up the broken bowl, and raised his hand to put Wen Anzhi's memorial on the left side of the imperial case, where there were memorials that were left to the middle school and were not sent.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhu Youlang shook his head, got up and walked out.

The inner supervisor asked in a low voice: "Is the emperor going to bed?"

Zhu Youlang originally wanted to go to bed, but when he spoke, he turned into: "Have the prince ever gone to bed?"

The inner supervisor said carefully: "Your Highness is on the Queen's side, so I'm afraid I'm going to sleep."

"oh."

Thinking of the lost eldest and second sons of the people, Zhu Youlang felt pain again and ordered the inner supervisor to say, "I'll go and see the queen and the prince."

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Author's note: Tomorrow, my own sister, who is one year older than me, will get married. Alas, she is 34 years old, and she can finally get married. Ji Tou finally becomes her brother-in-law... Cough cough, Ji Tou's son is seven years old, and his aunt is married...
Chapter completed!