Han’s Son is Not a Slave

There is no doubt that Yongli abandoned his country and fled to Myanmar, because the news was brought by Guo Zhiqi, a scholar who fled from Yunnan to Guangxi.

In order to avoid the Qing army, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, decided to abandon Kunming. Guo Zhiqi felt that the situation in Yunnan was getting more and more difficult. , thought that the King of Jin would support him. After successfully persuading Na Song and his son to oppose the Qing Dynasty, Guo Zhiqi presided over the anti-Qing affairs in Yuanjiang as the envoy of the Yongli court. But after fleeing to Yongchang from the west of the Yongli court, Guo Zhiqi has actually lost contact with the court, and he learned the news about the emperor's abandonment of the country from the refugees.

Wu Sangui broke the Yuanjiang River, and after Na Song and his son died, Guo Zhiqi escaped from the city under the protection of General Shen Guoxuan and others under the commander Lai Shixun's subordinate. The state of Vymore, and then turned to the southern border, and later from the border went to western Yunnan to find the holy car and the court. If he can't find where the holy car is, Guo Zhiqi's plan is to find the King of Jin. In his opinion, as long as the King of Jin is there, the people's hearts are there, and the situation can be restored.

After crossing the mountains and ridges to reach the Weimore state, because Guo Zhiqi is a senior scholar of the Yongli court, with a noble status, many local officials also have a heart for the Ming Dynasty, so they welcome the arrival of Guo Zhiqi and his party, and are willing to provide protection. But only a few days later, refugees came to Vimalakirti, and they brought a surprising news, that is, the son of the day has abandoned the country and fled to Burma, and the life and death of King Li Dingguo in western Yunnan is unknown.

This news greatly changed the attitude of the native officials in Weimore Prefecture. Some native officials advocated sending Guo Zhiqi and others to the Qing army, and then all the native officials expressed their intention of surrendering to the Qing army by accepting the soil. This opinion was opposed by another group of native officials who still had feelings for the Ming Dynasty. They believed that the Ming emperor was only fleeing from Burma, not being captured and killed by the Qing army. The emperor may return from Burma at any time, so there is no need to betray now. The Ming Dynasty surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. If the Qing Dynasty could not stand in Yunnan and the Ming Dynasty re-occupied Yunnan, wouldn't they be liquidated by the Ming army?

In addition, many native officials said that many of their children in the village had joined the Ming army, and there were not a few native officials who followed His Royal Highness King Jin. If they surrendered, what would happen to the children of the Ming army?

The concerns of these native officials are justified. Since the Daxi Army entered Yunnan, Sun Kewang has recruited a large number of ethnic minorities in Yunnan to join the army. There are dozens of minority generals and 30,000 soldiers under his command. many. King Li Dingguo of Jin also had many local native soldiers in Yunnan, and all the soldiers in charge of elephant soldiers were native soldiers. These Yunnan minority generals, soldiers, and Han soldiers and civilians shed blood to resist the Qing army, and many of them have been buried in foreign land. Although many people who survived have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, there are still many people who still insist on fighting the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, it was inconvenient for the native officials to decide whether to join the Qing army or not without knowing whether their children were surrendering or resisting the Qing.

Furthermore, these native officials were also worried that their children had joined the Ming army, and the Qing army might retaliate against them for this. Therefore, until the situation was completely clear, these native officials would rather wait and see, rather than make a rash decision. Downgrade. In other words, these native officials are fighting for the idea of ​​selling at a price. After all, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, they must be appeased, rather than sending an army to attack them, those native officials who have inherited Yunnan since the Yuan Dynasty. That's not worth it. In order to stabilize the situation in Yunnan as soon as possible, the Qing court must appease these native officials, otherwise the Qing army will not be able to bear another Yuanjiang change. To appease is to be practical. The native officials who were not in a hurry to express their stance and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty actually wanted to see how much real benefits the Qing court could give them.

When the native officials were arguing about whether to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, some Han people under the native officials quietly disclosed the news to Guo Zhiqi and others. Knowing that the emperor had abandoned the country and fled to Myanmar, Guo Zhiqi felt cold in his hands and feet, his head was spinning, and he was about to faint on the spot.

Shen Guoxuan and others were also shocked by the news. The Ming court and the emperor were their backbones, and they were also the source and belief of their perseverance. Now this backbone is regardless of the millions of soldiers and civilians in Yunnan who abandoned the country and fled, and insisted on them at once. Faith shattered.

Some soldiers burst into tears and bluntly said that since the Son of Heaven had abandoned us and left, what should I insist on waiting for, why don't we just leave!

Another soldier said angrily: "We desperately want to follow the emperor, but the emperor doesn't want me to wait, and the native official wants to sell me to the Qing army. It's meaningless to live now, it's better to kill yourself, and avoid calling the natives. Humiliated, by the poisonous hands of that dog!"

Seeing that a soldier was about to be killed on the spot, Guo Zhiqi woke up and shouted angrily, "The Son of Heaven is only temporarily fleeing from Burma, why would he ignore what our army and people say!"

"Yes, yes, don't listen to that native official's rumors, the imperial court and the emperor just wanted to avoid the pursuit of the Qing army and had to temporarily retreat from Burma to avoid the pursuit. "

Shen Guoxuan also hurried to appease the soldiers, so as to stabilize the sergeant who was in chaos, so that blood would not be splattered on the spot. But no matter how he and Guo Zhiqi were appeased, it was an iron-clad fact that the emperor fled to Burma, and it was only a matter of time before the native officials wanted to hand them over to the Qing army. Shen Guoxuan didn't know where to go after Mozhou, he only knew that it would be impossible to find a holy car.

"Go to Guangxi!"

Guo Zhiqi gritted his teeth and said.

"Go to Guangxi?"

Shen Guoxuan was stunned, Guangxi was occupied by the Qing army, and Daishi Guo was confused. Do you want to throw yourself into the net?

Guo Zhiqi was not confused, but he was not sure that Zhou Shixiang had already led the Taiping army to go west to Guangxi. They won't tomorrow, the day after. Burma, he can't go, Vimalakirti can't stay, and now he can only take a gamble and go to Guangxi.

The distance from Vymore State to Guangxi to Myanmar cannot be said to be closer, but it is also a difficult road. Guo Zhiqi made up his mind, and Shen Guoxuan had heard the name of the Taiping Army again, so he had no opinion at the moment. After the two made their plan, they immediately sneaked out with the soldiers at night, and ran to the mountains in the north without looking back.

On this way, Guo Zhiqi first fled from Weimozhou to Wenshan in the territory of the Third Ministry of Education, and then headed east to Fuzhou. After groping in the mountains for twelve days, he was able to enter Guishun Prefecture in Guangxi. With the help of local natives, Guo Zhiqi and his party finally arrived in Sitong Prefecture in southern Guangxi in late April, two full months after he escaped from Vymore.

Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, Brigade C, 10th Town, Taiping Army, who were instructed to suppress bandits in Sitong Prefecture, discovered a group of more than 100 people in ragged clothes. The face was yellow and hungry, and none of them, including the senior scholar Guo, were fully clothed. When they saw it, they only thought that the savages in the mountains had come out of the mountains.

The news of the emperor's abandonment of the country was passed from Sitong Prefecture to Nanning, and then to Liuzhou, Guilin, Tunnel, Jingzhou, and finally to the military commander's mansion in Yuanzhou, Hunan. Afterwards, a fast horse drove out of Yuanzhou and ran to the Ming army stations in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Hubei provinces.

As these galloping horses galloped, the news of the emperor abandoning the country spread all over the land of southern China like wings. At the same time, senior generals of the Taiping Army from various places rushed to Yuanzhou.

When the Son of Heaven abandons the country, where will the world go?

The Taiping military commander's mansion in Yuanzhou, Hunan Province has become the focus of southern China at this moment.

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It is more difficult to write that the emperor abandons the country, and the king of Tang supervises the country.

(To be continued.)