Qiming 1158

Chapter 1189 The Change of Sichuan and Shu
After Zhou Linzhi finished speaking, Shen Gai was stunned when he heard the words, then was silent for a while, then found a chair and sat down, sighed deeply, and rubbed his temples.

Headache, really headache.

The current situation in Sichuan and Shu really made him feel extremely embarrassed, and even this matter was more important than the economic engulfment of the Ming Kingdom.

If the situation of Chuan and Shu was allowed to continue like this, Shen Kai would even suspect that Chuan and Shu would support a son of the Zhao Song clan to be the emperor, and set up another court in the land of Chuan and Shu to oppose them.

This is a very fatal thing for them.

Here's the thing.

Because the land of Sichuan and Shu was far away from Lin'an, the political core of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was not so well-controlled.

After the demise of the Jin Kingdom, before and after the first Ming-Song War, Wang Gangzhong, the prestige envoy of the old Sichuan system, unfortunately died of illness. On the eve of the Song War, he was dismissed by the imperial court.

Zhao Tan, who was in power at the time, planned to appoint Fan Chengda, an official of the Privy Council recommended by Yu Yunwen, to serve as the envoy of the Sichuan system and the prefect of Chengdu to fill the vacancy, but it was shelved because of the outbreak of the Ming-Song war again.

During the Second Ming-Song War, the Song army was defeated like a mountain, the army collapsed one after another, and the entire army was wiped out. Even the most elite Sichuan and Shu army suffered serious losses. The more than 9 troops under Lin's command still guarded northern Sichuan, and the rest of the troops were all lost on the battlefield outside Sichuan.

This setback not only caused the most elite Chuan-Shu army in the Southern Song Dynasty to suffer heavy losses and low morale, but also made the Chuan-Shu land quickly adopt a strategy of closing to the outside world in an attempt to protect itself.

Because the imperial court did not appoint the envoy of the Sichuan system in time, after Yao Zhongbing was defeated and returned to Zigui, the whole Sichuan army was shocked and the people were shocked. They thought that the Ming army was going to invade Sichuan and occupy Sichuan, and there would be great turmoil in Sichuan, and the people were shocked. , all over the place.

At that time, officials from all over the country were leaderless and could not effectively suppress the turmoil in various places. Under such a crisis, they had to find Wu Lin, the only prestige and convincing envoy in Sichuan at that time, who was also well-founded in his position, and asked him to preside over major events.

Because nominally, Wu Lin is the highest-ranking military and political officer in Sichuan.

In terms of qualifications and prestige, the position of the administrative envoy is generally lower than that of the Xuan Fu envoy. The Xuan Fu envoy needs a person with profound qualifications and merits to serve, and there is no rigid requirement for the administrative envoy.

So even if there is a Sichuan envoy to preside over the military and politics, Wu Lin, the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy who is mainly responsible for guarding northern Sichuan, will still not frighten him.

It's just that Wu Lin is a military general. Although he is the highest official in Sichuan in name, it is impossible for the court to hand over the executive power to Wu Lin. Isn't Wu Lin equivalent to the emperor of Sichuan?
Therefore, the imperial court generally arranges high-ranking civilians to serve as envoys or appeasement envoys in Sichuan, so in terms of actual power, the civil officials can suppress the generals, just like Wang Gangzhong at the beginning.

However, at that time, the people of Sichuan believed that the imperial court was in crisis, and it was impossible to send a new civil officer over, and the Ming army was close at hand, so they could only rely on Wu Lin, a military general.

Wu Lin is a military general, but he has been guarding Sichuan for decades, and he has made military exploits. Makes everyone feel more at ease.

So officials from all over the country sent people to look for Wu Lin, hoping that he could preside over the event.

Wu Lin was also shocked when he learned that Yao Zhongbing was defeated by Zigui.

Although he is the main man in the Chuanshu Sanshuaifu, Yao Zhong and Wang Yan are also his indispensable and important assistants. The two took two-thirds of the Chuanshu army out of Sichuan to fight, but the entire army was beaten by the Ming army. Overwhelmed, this could not make him relieved no matter what.

On the one hand, he realized that the Ming army was strong, and with the current military strength of Sichuan and Shu, it was impossible to resist the attack of the Ming army from the east. Even in the north, in the face of the threat of [-] Ming troops, he had to rely on the terrain of northern Sichuan, and the army needed to execute him perfectly. The predetermined tactics can resist the Ming army invasion.

Right now, the Sichuan and Shu troops are stretched thin, and he has the intention to save the situation, but he feels that he is unable to support himself alone.

After thinking twice, he found Wu Gong and ordered Wu Gong to temporarily take his position, commanding [-] troops to guard the main road in northern Sichuan to prevent the Ming army from invading, and carefully warned Wu Gong that he must implement his established strategy, No changes may be made.

"If there is a loss in the north of Sichuan, my generation will die without a place to be buried, and you will be the same. Be careful, be careful, and don't make any mistakes again."

Wu Lin warned Wu Gong cautiously.

After the defeat in the Beijing-Shanghai battlefield, Wu Gong, who returned to Wu Lin to listen to him, bowed and saluted, saying that he already knew everything, and he must follow Wu Lin's arrangement.

Wu Lin nodded, and then hurriedly ordered [-] soldiers to follow him south.

On the road, he left some soldiers to help guard him when he passed the dangerous checkpoint. When encountering dangerous terrain, he also left the army to guard in case the Ming army invaded and Wu Gong was defeated. These arrangements could at least buy him some time and delay the pace of the Ming army's attack. .

As Wu Lin went south, in the name of Sichuan Xuanfu Envoy, he ordered officials from all over Sichuan and Shu to send elite soldiers to Chengdu to gather.

In the face of the enemy, officials from all over the country did not dare to slack off and sent local elite soldiers to Chengdu one after another.

No one wants to be killed by the Ming army, right?
By the time Wu Lin arrived in Chengdu, the number of strong men sent from various places had exceeded [-]. After more than ten days, the number of strong men had exceeded [-].

Along with the strong men came a lot of money and food and other military supplies, which were of great help to Wu Lin's military training.

Wu Lin broke up these strong men and reorganized them, and let his capable officers lead them to carry out emergency drills, and then sent people to the east to find out information outside the Ming Army and Sichuan and Shu, and to understand the general situation of the world.

Then Wu Lin and officials in the Chuan-Shu area got a good news and a not so good news.

The good news is that after defeating Yao Zhong, the Ming army did not seem to have any plans to further advance into Sichuan and Shu, but only stationed troops in the Zigui area and stopped moving forward. For the time being, there is no danger in the land of Sichuan and Shu.

This is of course a good thing.

But soon after, they learned that the Ming army was approaching Lin'an and surrounded Lin'an. After that, a palace coup occurred in the Lin'an court. The coup team headed by Shang Shu Youcheng Shen Gai successfully launched a coup d'etat, deposed the emperor Zhao Tan, and established a new emperor Zhao Dun.

After that, the Lin'an court signed a peace treaty with the Ming Kingdom, giving up the country title, the emperor status, the era title, and the independence of the country, and officially became a vassal of the Ming Kingdom.

The emperor became the lord of the country, and Zhao Dun changed from the emperor of the Song Dynasty to the lord of Jiangnan, and his status was comparable to that of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

There are also a series of treaties that lose power and humiliate the country, such as ceding land and indemnity. Anyway, the Great Song Dynasty is gone, and now it is the Jiangnan Kingdom led by Shen Gai who is still alive, not the Great Song Dynasty.

This special situation caught Wu Lin and the main officials in the Chuan-Shu region off guard and stunned.

(End of this chapter)