Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 506 Persecution of Gui Fan
Wang Yan formulated a strategy of entering Shu through three routes to fight against the Qing army. The Gui family took on the task of aiding Shu on the west route. After the imperial edict was sent to Guilin, the Gui family did not take it seriously.

At the beginning of the discussion, the three families had already delineated the area. King Gui's task was to put down the chaos in Sardinia, so how could he take on the responsibility of going to Sichuan to fight against the Qing Dynasty?
What?Shading Prefecture is still in chaos!That can't be blamed on King Gui's regime. It's not that they don't want to fight, but they really can't fight.

At the end of last year, Mu Tianbo and Yang Weizhi, the dukes of the state of Qian who retreated to Chuxiong, collected a group of chieftains loyal to the Ming Dynasty after a period of recuperation, and managed to get together more than 1 people. Strength, thinking that Yunnan should not be left in such a mess all the time, so he wanted to restore it, so he invited King Gui's regime to attack Shading Prefecture from both sides, with the intention of putting down the rebellion.

At this time, the Longwu court in Guangjing is doing better and better. The Shibosi is making money every day, and Wang Yan is preparing for the Eastern Expedition. strength.

If you want to fall asleep, someone will send you a pillow. Mu Tianbo's suggestion fits into the arms of King Gui's regime. His ambitious decision will wipe out Shading Island in one fell swoop, and enhance the prestige of King Gui's supervision of the country, so as to compete with the Longwu court.

At the beginning of this year, King Gui's regime, as promised, dispatched 2 troops including Ding Kuichu, a scholar of the first auxiliary university, Chen Bangfu, the Marquis of Qing, and Ma Jixiang, the Marquis of Yong'an, to go to Yunnan in a mighty way.

Mu Tianbo, Duke of Qian, who was far away in Chuxiong, was overjoyed when he heard that King Gui sent troops. His whole family was killed by Shadingzhou. Mu Tianbo didn't know it at all, he advanced alone, was surrounded and beaten by Sha Dingzhou, and retreated back to Chuxiong with lost troops.

Ding Kuichu, who was planning to reap the benefits, was dumbfounded for a moment. Seeing that Sha Dingzhou took care of Mu Tianbo, he turned around and came straight to him. Ding Kuichu, Chen Bangfu, and Ma Jixiang saw that the momentum was wrong, and immediately turned around and ran, going back and forth from wherever they came, in a hurry Withdrawn to Guilin.

Mu Tianbo, who was defeated back to Chuxiong, was so angry that he cursed, and even the officials sent by King Gui drove back, expressing that he would no longer accept King Gui's leadership.

King Gui's regime took a look, come on, it seems that we are not good at fighting at all, we should do some sabotage secretly.

Although King Gui has not touched a hair in Sardinia so far, the agreement has been made, and the civil servants think that they cannot obey the orders of the Longwu court, otherwise the agreement will be broken, and secondly, once they obey the orders, they will be inferior to the Longwu court. up one end.

The military generals couldn't even make peace in Shading Prefecture. If they went to Sichuan to fight the Qing soldiers, wouldn't that be courting death?Of course they are all against it!
Wang Yan listened to Gu Yanwu's suggestion and wanted to come to a false way to destroy Guo, but the situation in Sichuan and Sichuan was very urgent, and the army could not be trapped in Guangxi for a long time, so he could only disintegrate the regime of King Gui at the fastest speed. The only way to get to this point is to control King Gui, and then in the name of King Gui, order the army of King Gui's regime to obey orders, so as not to trigger a large-scale rebellion.

To do this, it is impossible for King Gui to have too many troops around him, so King Gui's army must be transferred away, but King Gui's faction has no intention of responding to the court's three-way aid to Shu, whether civil or military.

Just when King Gui's regime was about to ignore the imperial edict, listening to music and drinking wine, a secret letter was sent to King Gui, scaring King Gui almost to flee to Nanning, preparing to escape into the hundred thousand mountains in southern Guangxi.

The letter was written by Yuan Pengnian, and the general meaning is that if King Gui does not obey the order of the court, Wang Yan is ready to serve the emperor and ask for disobedience. He will destroy King Gui first, and then go to aid Sichuan. .

If these words were spoken by the imperial court, the civil and military ministers of King Gui who supervised the country would think about whether the imperial court intends to intimidate them, but when Yuan Pengnian heard it, they believed it.

After some panic, King Gui Wenwu finally discussed that it was better to obey the imperial edict, otherwise they would not be able to defeat Wang Yan, so King Gui's faction began to mobilize troops.

After the imperial court appropriated 20 taels of silver, the [-] army plus the [-] wolf soldiers hastily recruited began to set off. The marching speed was comparable to the previous expedition to Yunnan, and the march was extremely slow.

To Wang Yan, this is not important, as long as the soldiers and horses leave Guilin, then his goal will be achieved.

The Central Route Army departed from Guangjing and arrived at the city of Guilin on May 21. King Gui’s party did not discover Wang Yan’s intentions, but tens of thousands of people were stationed outside the city, and the academician Qu Shixu still raised his vigilance. Attending generals Tang Wenyao and Wang Youchen closed the city gates and strengthened inspections to prevent Wang Yan from harming King Gui.

In order to test Wang Yan's attitude, Qu Shixu held a banquet in the name of King Gui and invited Wang Yan to the city to attend the banquet. He wished the army a great success, and Wang Yan went happily.

The next day, Wang Yan invited King Gui out of the city for a banquet in the name of thanking him and saying goodbye. He thought that with the persuasion of Yuan Pengnian, who he released back, he should be able to trick King Gui out. excuses to evade refusal.

Now Wang Yan had no choice but to surround Guilin with an army of [-]. On the one hand, he announced that King Gui framed the ministers, disobeyed the court's crimes, and forced King Gui to abdicate and return to the vassal. Guidi.

The siege of Guilin City by Wang Yan's army has entered the third day. Although the army did not attack the city, it still put tremendous pressure on Guilin. Can't stop.

A strict curfew has already been implemented in Guilin City, and martial law is also enforced during the day. People are only allowed to leave their homes at noon and dusk each day to buy rice and eat food. The streets are full of patrolling soldiers.

Qu Shixu issued a strict order that anyone who violated the prohibition, no matter who they were, would be arrested. His prohibition was aimed at the merchant families in Guilin City. Qu Shisu was worried that they would secretly inform Wang Yan, and almost every family's mansion was closely monitored. .

Why is Qu Shixu worried about the merchants in the city? Isn't King Gui the direct blood of Shenzong?He deserves to be supported by the world, so how can he need to be on guard?

The descendants of Shenzong can indeed summon some ministers, but for his own benefit, didn't Donglin also choose King Fu, who is also the descendant of Shenzong, to support King Lu of Pangzhi?

In the past two years, Guangdong's commercial development has benefited not only from Guangnan, but also from Guangxi. Especially after the completion of the Lingqu Canal, Guangxi, which was originally located in a remote area, suddenly became important and became an important traffic route between the south and the north. Guangxi businessmen and big families naturally benefited from this.

For them, if King Gui, whom they support, can become the Son of Heaven, they, as supporters, will naturally be able to make a fortune, and even snatch the interests of the sea trade from the hands of the Guangnan maritime merchants, which is simply a huge profit, but now Wang Yan has killed him outside the city Now, King Gui is obviously not an opponent, so in order to protect their existing interests, they are very likely to fall to Wang Yan.

Merchants are highly profitable and speculative, so they are indeed worth guarding against, but they are also relatively weak, so Wang Yan did not choose them.

At noon, just as the martial law in the city was relaxed, a carriage drove out of the Yuan Mansion in the east city, and the person sitting in it was Yuan Pengnian, the censor of Zuodu who was released by Wang Yan.

After he was caught by Wang Yan, as a speculative literati, he actually had no other choice but to seek refuge with Wang Yan.

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