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Chapter 180 Wu Sangui, when did you rebel?

Yunnan, Kunming, Wuhua Mountain.

When Guangdong and Fujian were almost in chaos, Yunnan under Wu Sangui still looked like a land of peace.

Although the old traitor became a thorn in the eyes of the Qing court because of a Chongzhen decree that he had never seen before, and he himself was "bed ill in bed" and had not shown up for many days.

However, this Yunnan province is still under the firm grasp of the King of Pingxi Wu Sangui, who is hidden behind the scenes!

Unlike Guangdong and Fujian's vassal kings whose power was controlled from the beginning, Wu Sangui, the King of Pingxi in Yunnan, had full power in the first few years when he established a prefecture to guard Yunnan. He had the final say in military use, personnel and money. The court simply didn't care about it and just paid the money for the military expenses.

Wu Sangui also dared to use people and power, and almost all officials from Yunnan Province were replaced by "Singapore Western Selection". He also took advantage of the opportunity of managing Guizhou and appointed many confidants to serve as local officials in Guizhou.

In addition, before taking over Yunnan, Wu Sangui fought in Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong's remaining troops and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty for several years. Many local officials and garrison generals in Sichuan were also his members.

People promoted and reused by Wu Sangui have one common characteristic, that is, the "slave generation" is very low. Wu Sangui himself is a junior slave. When he led Qing soldiers into the pass, the Ming Dynasty was gone. How low are his slaves? And he, a junior slave, of course, cannot use the elders of slaves to do things for him, otherwise he will not be able to command!

Because these slaves and juniors have a serious mismatch between slaves and their official positions, it is difficult for them to leave Wu Sangui's protection and want to surrender to the court, and the court cannot arrange them well!

Under Wu Sangui's command, he can be a general. If he wants to surrender to the court, he may not even be ineffective. Who will betray him?

Over time, Wu Sangui's group became very cohesive and very united. Wu Sangui's control of this group became more and more comfortable. Even if he pretended to be sick and did not show up, Yunnan Province was still firmly under its control. The Yunnan Governor Zhu Guozhi sent by the court was just a decoration that he could not control anything.

However, Wu Sangui pretended to be sick for many days and did not show up. "Big News" from Guangdong continued to spread. The hearts of the people in Kunming City were inevitably a little fluctuating. What does this prince mean? Are he secretly preparing to rebel? Or is he really getting sick and getting too ill?

So when the time came in mid-to-late May of the 11th year of the Kangxi reign, Wuhua Mountain became a little lively. Every day, civil and military officials under Wu Sangui were inquiring about the news in the name of visiting the disease. If they wanted to rebel, everyone had to prepare food, grass, military supplies, and the generals had to strengthen their training. In addition, there were many officials sent by the imperial court to mix sand in Yunnan. There were also arrangements for whether to catch or kill them, right?

Of course, Wu Sangui couldn't see them, so he had to pretend to be sick and get his eldest son Wu Yingxiong back!

So in Yunnan, the only people who can see Wu Sangui now are his second son Wu Yingqi, grandson Wu Shicong, son-in-law Xia Guoqiao, Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, adopted son Wu Guogui, general Ma Bao, counselor Fang Guangchen, Wang Shirong and other few confidants.

Most of the visiting officials were sent by Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong. Both of them looked very much like Wu Sangui, one looked like middle-aged Wu Sangui, and the other looked like young Wu Sangui. Of course, they were both strong men and very capable. Wu Yingqi has been leading troops to compete with the restless chieftain in Yunnan for many years. His son Wu Shicong even joined the army with his hair and beat people up.

So they were able to stay at Yin'an Hall in the royal palace.

However, these two tough guys are also famous for being impulsive and rude, who are the ones who cut first and then talk about it, and are good at fighting, but they are not as calm and cautious in their work as Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong.

If Wu Yingxiong really can't come back, it would be a decisive reaction to let them take over Wu Sangui's team, and it's hard to say what would happen!

Fortunately, Wu Sangui's old arms and legs are quite strong at the moment, and he can control the two of them, so they dare not speak nonsense when they sent out the officials.

On May 18th, it seemed as usual. The two of them continued to go to Yin'an Palace Town and said an ambiguous word to the officials who came to visit the King of Pingxi.

But unexpectedly, an uninvited guest broke into Yin'an Palace.

This uninvited guest was not an outsider, but Zu Lianggeng, the eldest son of Wu Sangui's cousin Zu Zeqing, who was also a naughty young man. He was sent to Yunnan by his son Zu Zeqing and Wu Sangui's military advisor Liu Xuanchu. He rushed to Yunnan along the way, and several horses ran away. After arriving in Kunming, he took the token sent by Wu Sangui to Zu Zeqing and quietly went to Wuhua Mountain. Seeing that many people were heading to Yin'an Hall, he followed him to the outside of Yin'an Hall. However, the guards guarding outside Yin'an Hall looked at him and were exhausted, so he did not let him in.

So the young man found out that it was Wu Yingqi who was in charge of the Yin'an Hall's political discussion and shouted outside the hall: "Cousin Weizhou (Wu Yingqi's font), I am Zu Lianggeng! The big thing is wrong. Your father and your brother colluded with the third prince of Zhu, and the third prince of Zhu, when will my cousin rebel?"

It doesn’t matter if he yells, there are still a lot of Western elected officials who are kept in the dark!

Everyone turned their attention to Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong, and the two of them were confused.

What's going on? Who? Why are you talking nonsense?

"Who is yelling?" Wu Yingqi said, "Where is the guard? Take me the person!"

When the guards outside the door heard this, they immediately arrested Zu Lianggeng and several servants of the Zu family who came with Zu Lianggeng, and then took them to the main hall.

Although Zu Lianggeng was caught, he didn't keep his mouth shut and was still yelling!

"Cousin Weizhou, you don't know me anymore? I am Zu Lianggeng, the son of General Gao Lei's Fourth Master Zu! It was my father and your Junshi Liu from the family who sent me to report the news!

There was a big incident in Guangdong and Shang Kexi had already fallen into trouble. He was captured alive by Zhu San Grandson. Guangzhou also called Zhu San Grandson defeated him. The world is going to be in chaos!

Shang Zhixin, the coward, even wrote a memorial to the court, saying that the 'Chongzhen's will' and the 'Jade Crown Prince Zhu' were all the ones your elder brother asked Yang Qilong to hand over to him, and said that your family had been secretly supporting the 3rd Crown Prince Zhu!"

Now everyone in Yin'an Palace was stunned, and Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong were also shocked.

So after Zu Liang's quarrels, there was silence in Yin'an Palace!

"Dad, dad, something is not going well!"

"Grandpa, grandpa and my uncle are going to die!"

When Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong rushed into Songtao Pavilion where Wu Sangui was "rehaving" in his illness, Wu Sangui was having dinner with Chen Yuanyuan.

What I ate was a vegetarian dish prepared by Chen Yuanyuan himself.

After Chen Yuanyuan arrived in Yunnan, she began to be superstitious about Buddhism, ate vegetarian food all day long, worshiped Buddha and chanted scriptures, and looked like she was indifferent to the world. Now she is old and has become a kind-hearted aunt.

However, Wu Sangui still likes her very much. During these days, he hid on Wuhua Mountain and "pretending to be sick", he spent almost all day with Chen Yuanyuan, and listened to her chanting scriptures. Sometimes he also recited a few sentences with Buddhist scriptures. His life was very free.

When he was having a good time today, his young man and young man's grandson broke in.

"Shicong, what did you say? Who is going to die?" Wu Sangui became nervous when he heard Wu Shicong's words.

"Uncle, uncle is going to die!" Wu Shicong didn't care about saluting Wu Sangui, and replied loudly, "Just just now, Zu Zeqing's son Zu Lianggen came to Wuhua Mountain and brought a handwritten letter from Zu Zeqing and Liu Junshi. The sky in Guangdong has changed!
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