Dianjing, palace.

Zhu Youlang leaned on the brocade couch and took a nap for a while. The thin yellow satin quilt was covered with a thin yellow quilt. A little eunuch was slapped with a whisk. In spring, the weather in Yunnan Jing was getting warmer and there were already mosquitoes and flies. Next to the bed where the emperor slept were rows of books, some were placed on the table, some were plastered in the cabinet, and some were simply stacked on the blue brick floor, stacked high.

The breeze blew into the room. I don’t know if it was the wind or not stacked, but a stack of books on the ground fell and hit others again, making a huge noise. Zhu Youlang opened his eyes, muttered a few words, squatted on the ground and picked up one by one, and put them neatly, while the eunuchs beside him were helpless.

This is Zhu Youlang's only hobby now. The emperor who has become a mascot was imprisoned in Kunming City. He did nothing and was addicted to the harem and was scolded by others. Zhu Youlang simply organized the world to study and repair the Yongle ceremony. This was destined to be a task that a person could not complete, but Zhu Youlang seemed to not care. It was like an ostrich crawling into the old paper pile, immersing it in it, forgetting all his worries, and sometimes he would not even go to the harem.

After finally cleaning up, Zhu Youlang got up and moved his stiff body. Suddenly he heard the sound of messy footsteps outside. He listened carefully, and suddenly his face turned cold and said, "If the prince causes trouble, no one will beg for mercy."

As he said that, Zhu Youlang opened the door, but saw the chief assistant Ma Jixiang wearing armor and a long sword hanging on his waist. Dozens of elite soldiers from Jin vassals rushed in, pushing the palace maids and eunuchs aside, and then divided several waves of people to "capture" the empress, queen, prince and princes.

Bang, a book in Zhu Youlang's hand fell to the ground, splashing countless dust. He did not fall down when the door frame was supported. He saw Ma Jixiang clearly and asked, "Is it time for the throne to kill the lord?"

After saying that, Zhu Youlang stood with his head held high and faced Ma Jixiang, but Ma Jixiang did not look vicious. He walked over, knelt on the ground, and said, "Master, something is wrong, the traitor has come to the city."

"Who is going against the will of heaven? Li thief of Jin vassals or Liu Ni?" Zhu Youlang asked, but then he thought, Ma Jixiang had a close relationship with these two people. If these two people rebel, they would definitely have to help him. He couldn't help asking: "Can't it be that the Qing throne has come."

Ma Jixiang grabbed the emperor and said, "Emperor, it was Feng Shuangli, the traitor who rebelled and led his troops to invade Dianjing. Please move quickly."

As he said that, the soldiers had already brought him to ride a carriage. Zhu Youlang was pulled up by Ma Jixiang. The soldiers ran. Zhu Youlang looked at the palace left behind and shouted reluctantly: "My book, my book."

Walking around, there were palace maids and eunuchs running around, and the ground was messy. Zhu Youlang saw the palace maids and eunuchs fighting each other for a little silverware. He ignored the emperor's vanishing past, not only sighing that the Ming Dynasty was broken and the mountains and rivers were broken.

Outside the Dianjing, Feng Shuangli's army had already exploded the south gate. Feng Shuangli personally led people into the city. In addition to a small number of Jin vassal soldiers, Mu Tianbo's army was Mu Tianbo's army. A few Jin vassal soldiers went to the palace to protect the emperor, and the rest protected the King of Jin. The family of Shu king fled. Only Mu Tianbo was organizing resistance, but he had only two thousand soldiers, and was soon dispersed. Feng Shuangli rushed straight to the palace and his soldiers dispersed. Feng Shuangli had already sent an order that those who caught the emperor would receive three thousand silver, two thousand silver, two thousand silver, and one thousand taels of queen, queen and prince each rewarded one thousand taels.

Even if Ma Jixiang ordered people to change the emperor's dragon robe and disturb the arrest of the thief army, it was still useless. His troops were only 200, and he protected more than 30 people from the royal family. He rushed left and right, but he couldn't rush out until Feng Shuangli led more than a thousand personal soldiers and surrounded the emperor on the side of the rockery.

Zhu Youlang pulled out Ma Jixiang's sword and faced the thief directly, saying, "The destiny is not allowed, I can only fight with the thief."

Hundreds of soldiers surrounded Zhu Youlang and Feng Shuangli came to beat the horse. After dismounting, they beat the officers closest to the emperor and scolded: "You, the ones who are so pickled, dare to hold a knife to face the emperor. It's really damn, it's really damn!"

A group of soldiers knelt down, Feng Shuangli knelt on the ground and said, "Emperor, Feng Shuangli, come to serve the king!"

"Qinqin King?" Zhu Youlang was very puzzled.

Feng Shuangli coughed lightly and said a long-prepared remark: "Reporting to the emperor, Jin vassals and Shu vassals, they are very disrespectful, holding the emperor hostage and isolating the country from both countries, they are stealing traitors from the country. I am in southern Yunnan and I have long been unable to bear it. Now the two vassals are directly attacking Guizhou. I will lead troops to defend the king and relieve the difficulties of the emperor."

Zhu Youlang's blood just now stopped. He put down his sword and looked at Ma Jixiang. Ma Jixiang was also hesitant. Seeing the emperor looking at him like this, he gritted his teeth and said, "Today's general trend is not controlled by the emperor. King Jin and King Shu, inside and outside, with the help of allies, can our Ming Dynasty be in the southwest. Although the Duke of the State is loyal, can he be able to take charge of the universe?"

The emperor and Ma Jixiang both mean the same thing. Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were indeed wielding the emperor to command the princes. What others wanted to change was just to be the hostage. For the emperor, it didn't matter who was in charge of the overall situation. But the key point was that Feng Shuangli was too weak to take charge of Yunnan at all. Even if he was in charge of the emperor, he could not command the vassals.

How could Feng Shuangli not know? He immediately said: "Your Majesty, the ministers dare not hide it. The one who is the king is either the next person, and the other is the Sichuan Wu Sangui. He had the intention to go to the national crisis with his ministers."

Ma Jixiang and Zhu Youlang understood this. It turned out that Wu Sangui was striking the trick behind his back. Zhu Youlang sighed. The left was just turning from one cage to another. He could not get rid of the fate of being at the mercy of others. He looked at the ministers and descendants who followed behind him. Before he asked, Feng Shuangli said, "I swear to my ancestors that if I have the intention of harming the royal family, I will go to the eighteen levels of hell."

After he swore, he said, "Ship Wu has already informed his ministers. In the Yunnan Capital, no matter civil and military officials, or relatives of the royal family, whoever wishes to go to Sichuan should be treated well."

Ma Jixiang's heart was also lost. As long as he did not die, he could still fight for a way out when he saw Wu Sangui. No matter whether he was serving the king or taking credit from the Qing Dynasty, he ordered the soldiers to put down his weapons. Feng Shuangli asked his personal soldiers to find sedan chairs and sent the emperor's family and several ministers into sedan chairs. After taking them away, he waved his hand and the soldiers rushed forward and killed the Jin vassal soldiers.

Feng Shuangli, while asking the emperor to leave the capital, occupied the palace, and made the illusion that the emperor was still in Dianjing. He held a meeting and asked the deputy general to lead 20,000 people and the chieftain soldiers who were about to arrive to suppress Dianjing. He personally led tens of thousands of elite troops out of the city to fight the Shufan army that was returning to the rescue. In fact, Feng Shuangli directly took the royal family and a few ministers out of the city and went west, then turned north and went straight into Sichuan.

However, Feng Shuangli's subordinates in the Dianjing did not know that at the beginning, there were Jinfans who were very good at cleaning up the city's resistance, Shufan and Mu Tianbo's troops. When the chieftain soldiers entered the city, the situation changed drastically, and the chieftain soldiers plundered on a large scale. Then, Feng Shuangli's subordinates were the same. In addition to the palace, they burned, killed and looted, so Mu Tianbo concentrated his troops and broke out of the city without stopping them. The plunder lasted for four days. Only after Li Dingguo led his army back from Guizhou, did he know that Feng Shuangli had already left with the emperor.

Feng Shuangli didn't know that this journey was on the dead end. He successfully entered Sichuan and met Wu Sangui and his party in Wumeng Prefecture City. Wu Sangui rewarded the troops and was commensurate with Feng Shuangli's brothers. He said bluntly that whether he was in the Ming Dynasty or surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he would be allowed to be king and be on an equal footing with him. But that night, Wu Sangui's knife stabbed Feng Shuangli's chest. The officers under Feng Shuangli were killed at the Hongmen Banquet, and his troops were also annexed. Wu Sangui welcomed Zhu Youlang and his party into Chengdu Prefecture.

March of the fifteenth year of Yongli, Taipei.

A month later, the chaos caused by this has subsided. The Ming and Qing dynasties were still fighting in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, but the territory did not change much. A month later, Liu Wenxiu and Huang Fei had arrived in Taipei to discuss the matter with Li Mingxun.

"Simply put, after Wu Sangui got the emperor, he did nothing, did not kill the emperor and sought credit from the Qing Dynasty, nor did he mention anything anyway?" Li Mingxun sat in the office and asked Liu Wenxiu.

Liu Wenxiu said: "It can be said that according to our news, the emperor lived well in Chengdu and was not persecuted. But Xiao Wang didn't know what Wu Sangui meant after all."

Lee Mingxun smiled: "What else can I mean? The strange goods are so habitable, just wait for the situation to be clear."

"What does it mean?" Huang Fei was puzzled.

Li Mingxun said: "Simply put, when we decide the winner and lose with the Qing Dynasty, if we win, he will change the party. If we lose, we will give the emperor to the Qing Dynasty. The left is just waiting for the Southeast Battle to come to an outcome."

"What should we do?" Liu Wenxiu asked, the emperor was held hostage and the Ming Dynasty was in a state of unruly state. The people of Qiong, Jin and Shu were in panic, and there were constant internal differences. Some advocated the establishment of a new king, some advocated the establishment of an emperor, and some advocated joining the United States, but Lin Shizhang, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were both the same, but Li Mingxun's orders were followed.

Lee Mingxun said: "Come with me."

A group of only seven or eight people left Li Mingxun's villa and rode towards the city. When they arrived at the city center, Liu Wenxiu saw a wide road about one mile long. The houses here were completely made of steel and cement stones, but were decorated with Chinese objects such as glazed tiles. The steps in front of the door were very high, solid wood doors and expensive glass windows. People entering and leaving were either rich or noble. On the top of the high building, there were several rows of billboards, all with banks as the suffix. This street was Wall Street in the United States, the financial center of the United States and the entire East.

After reporting their identity, the group walked into Guoli Bank, hovered down the steps, and walked to the gloomy basement ten meters underground. Opened a three-foot-thick giant door cast in fine steel. The whale oil lamp dispelled the darkness inside. Liu Wenxiu saw rows of neatly arranged boxes. Li Mingxun waved his hand and the bank official stepped forward to open a few boxes here, revealing boxes of silver and gold coins. Looking at the shelves of fine iron casting around, the layers of gold bars and silver blocks were placed.

Li Mingxun took a gold ingot and said, "This is a precious metal of gold and silver. The gold coins are 1.4 million yuan and the silver coins are 20 million yuan. The gold and silver ingots here can also cast at least 30 million yuan silver circles."

"That's it's seventy million." Liu Wenxiu felt that he was almost speechless, so he looked up and asked, "This is the money."

Li Mingxun said: "I am a businessman. I have always known that if I want to make money, I have to invest in capital first. For these 70 million, I am going to take a place in the Central Plains and Jiangnan into my pocket. It's that simple."

The huge impact made Liu Wenxiu's head buzzing, and he could hardly speak. With the powerful army of the United States, even if he took down the Central Plains and Jiangnan, Liu Wenxiu felt that he was holding it in his hand.

"Let's go, there are still many things to see." Li Mingxun ignored Liu Wenxiu's shock and took him out of the bank to the outside of the city. In fact, Li Mingxun told a lot of lies. There was no gold and silver worth 70 million taels in the treasury just now, but the United States does have energy of 70 million taels. In Fuzhou, Hong Kong still has some deposits. Ah Hai received more than 10 million in Japan and has not been delivered yet. He can still allow state-owned enterprises to pay profits, issue treasury bonds, war loans, and raise funds from banks. Without causing problems in the United States' economy, he can raise 70 million. If the domestic stability is reduced, 100 million can be done.

The group rode south and arrived in Taichung in three days. This is the heavy industrial area of ​​the United States. Here, there is the blasting blast furnace that the United States has just broken through. The cylinder with a diameter of 32 inches can allow the heavy cast iron robotic arms to reciprocate. Cold water such as the cylinder condensation, allowing the piston to send abundant air into the blast furnace. The twelve-meter blast furnace is the world's number one, almost twice the height of the European iron smelting furnace, and the iron quality produced is far beyond the standards of the East and West.

The ironworks are connected to the weapon factory, with cast guns and bored guns in parallel, and bored flintlock guns also began to appear. When Li Mingxun told Liu Wenxiu and others that the arsenal had not reached its peak in production, but could produce 8,000 muskets in a month, both of them held their chins.

From the office until the last item was visited, Li Mingxun did not mention the Ming Emperor again. Before leaving, Liu Wenxiu asked: "Your Excellency, how should we deal with the emperor's affairs?"

Huang Fei patted Liu Wenxiu on the shoulder and said, "Brother, there is no need to ask. Everything you need to follow the command of the head of state is. What you and I have to do is to tell the senior officials of each vassal without exaggeration what you see and hear in the base camp. Don't have two intentions, don't have any changes, wait, just wait."
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