At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 116: If you retreat from the wolf and advance into the tiger, the building will collapse.

"Withdrawing from the wolf and advancing into the tiger, the King of Jin will surely lose the country!"

In the palace of King Shu in Kunming, Liu Wenxiu was furious and couldn't help coughing.

"King Shu, calm down." Liu Xuanchu and Chen Jian quickly comforted him.

"How can I calm down?" Liu Wenxiu clenched her fist and hit the chair hard.

After he returned to Kunming in April, he was deprived of all rights.

I can only live idle in the Prince of Shu's Mansion, watching the overall situation collapse day by day, but there is nothing I can do.

"King of Shu, although Li Dingguo is unwilling to reward the Qin soldiers, he can win over the people and go out of Yunnan to counterattack Guiyang."

"But there are still 20 troops in Yunnan, and there are natural dangers in the Beipan River, so there is still something to be done." Liu Xuanchu said quickly.

"Is there anything we can do?" Liu Wenxiu said with a wry smile: "He divided Jin soldiers and Qin soldiers in Yunnan, and discriminated against and excluded eldest brother's old troops."

"Even generals like Bai Wenxuan are among the Qin soldiers, and I am a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh."

"The Qing army is pressing down on the country, but he behaves like this, how can he use his military morale!"

Liu Xuanchu was silent when he heard this. Li Dingguo's various actions really chilled people's hearts.

"It's okay for him to kill the generals in front of the palace, but he and the imperial court insulted the soldiers in front of the palace, calling them traitors and rebels. That's all. They also deducted food and salary from the most elite palace soldiers. The former elite soldiers now lack food and clothing and are hungry."

Liu Wenxiu said angrily: "Does Li Dingguo think that his [-] Jin soldiers alone can restore the Central Plains? He can't help the heaven! If so, why did he lose two battles in Guangdong!"

"King Shu, calm down." Liu Xuanchu had no choice but to console him again.

Li Dingguo used the old troops from Dian Province as Jin troops and harvested Sun Kewang's troops as Qin troops.

According to the classification standards, the troops of Bai Wenxuan and others were also among the Qin soldiers.

Although Liu Wenxiu had always supported Yongli and Li Dingguo, he was actually regarded as the leader of the Qin army after Sun Kewang left.

In other words, except for Li Dingguo's [-] troops, the rest of the Xiying soldiers and horses were classified as Qin soldiers.

Of course, he had reasons to divide the Qin and Jin armies.

Yunnan only has [-] to [-] hectares of arable land. After the restoration of the old Ming Dynasty system, food prices have become higher and higher, and money and food have become less and less.

With the current situation in Yunnan, it is no longer possible to support an army of 20 as in the past.

When Li Dingguo was in Guangxi, he once occupied the fourth mansion of Gao Lian and Lei Qiong, which was no different from Sun Kewang's territory now.

Moreover, at that time, Guangxi was only ravaged once by the Qing army, and the economic situation was much better than it is now.

At that time, the population and cultivated land in Li Dingguo's hands were no less than Sun Kewang's resources in Yunnan and Guizhou.

However, his original capital of [-] to [-] yuan has been unable to grow in Guangxi. Instead, it has become less and less, with only [-] yuan left.

It has been three years since he entered Yunnan, and the old system of the Ming Dynasty has begun to take effect.

Although it is not like Guangxi in the past, which can only support 20 to [-] troops, [-] troops are no longer what Yunnan's economy can bear now.

Therefore, in order to keep his [-] Jin soldiers well fed, he had no choice but to suffer a lot from the Qin soldiers.

This is why Bai Wenxuan and other regular soldiers were classified as Qin soldiers.

"I also know that money and food in Yunnan are becoming increasingly scarce, and we cannot support 20 people for a long time."

Liu Wenxiu smiled bitterly and said: "But it is precisely because of this that we need to use our previous savings to win over the hearts of the soldiers and launch an early northern expedition to the Central Plains. But why doesn't Li Dingguo understand?"

As early as last year, when Liu Wenxiu requested the imperial court to move to Guiyang, he wrote:
Today, the great rebellion has been eliminated, and we are loyal and united.

We should gather the strength of Yunnan and Guizhou to manage Sichuan and Guangzhou.

In order to unite the gentry, Li Dingguo abolished the camp and restored the old system.

Even the gentry who had their property and fields confiscated by Lord Sun ten years ago because their fields and houses were burned down.

When Li Dingguo entered Yunnan, he also returned their fields and family property to them in full.

When Li Dingguo entered Yunnan, his government was renovated and his clothes were revived. This was no empty talk.

There is no turning back to correct the hopeless failure.

But as a result, the gentry were satisfied, but the entire Yunnan economy deteriorated rapidly, and Sun Kewang's reform achievements were ruined.

It's not that Liu Wenxiu didn't know these things, but he felt that he wanted to expel the Tartars and restore the Central Plains.

The support of the gentry was indispensable.

Therefore, in the face of the deteriorating economic situation in Yunnan, Liu Wenxiu hoped that Li Dingguo would join forces with him to gather the strength of Yunnan and Guizhou to leave Yunnan and Guizhou as soon as possible.

I once thought that instead of being like this, Li Dingguo was worried that he would become powerful in Guizhou.

In order to maintain power, they even did not hesitate to transfer more than [-] troops and horses back to Yunnan, handing over Guizhou and other places to others.

When news of the fall of Guiyang came, the whole court was in an uproar.

Liu Wenxiu, Bai Wenxuan and other generals went to Shu, requesting to reward the soldiers with money and food from the Yunnan treasury, and then work together to counterattack the Qing army and regain Guiyang.

In fact, although the current economic situation in Yunnan is not good, the savings from the past are still there.

In the past two years, they have only provided troops and horses for Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others, and there is still a surplus of money and food.

Historically, even after the decisive battle at Beipanjiang, the surplus grain in Kunming's treasury alone amounted to more than one million dan.

It can supply 10,000+ Qing troops and a large number of horses and mules, which can be eaten by people for more than half a year.

With this capital, it is enough to start a decisive battle with the Qing army.

However, Li Dingguo was unmoved by the promotion of generals such as Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan.

After executing a large number of generals of the Qianqian army, they also took action against Di Sanpin, Wang Hui and other old people in Xiying, depriving them of their titles and seizing soldiers.

Not only that, even the soldiers and horses were affected anyway.

Li Dingguo's personal integrity was extremely high, but this also led him to look down on generals with stains on their bodies.For example, after Wang Yuncheng surrendered to Kong Youde, he was not happy with him anyway.

And Ma Jinzhong, a Nanming general who had a close relationship with Wang Yuncheng, surrendered to Azige, and during the Hengyang victory, he followed Sun Kewang's order and betrayed Li Dingguo.

So anyway, Ma Jinzhong became displeased by Li Dingguo. After he was granted the title of king, he promoted him overtly and covertly.

In addition to conducting a large-scale purge among generals to eliminate dissidents.

In addition to the 10,000 Jin soldiers, including the troops of Bai Wenxuan and others, [-]+ Qin soldiers were in a dilemma of lack of food and clothing.

The Dianqian Army, which had the best equipment, the best training, and the strongest combat effectiveness of its soldiers, was even worse than a dog.

"There is still surplus food in Yunnan. If we unite the generals and appease the morale of the army, with 20 of our troops, we can go out to Yunnan to fight the Tatars, and we may not be unable to win!"

"But now!" Liu Wenxiu felt heartbroken when she thought of this.

Li Dingguo even covered up Jin Weixin's domination of wives and concubines.

Wang Youde was a Qin soldier general who strongly supported him when he was briefly out of Sichuan!
Even generals like him who supported the Yongli court were treated in this way by Li Dingguo.

The civil and military officials of the Jin vassal were under his connivance, and the court officials were under his protection.

The suppression and discrimination against Qin soldiers and generals made Liu Wenxiu frightened.

In this case, how can 10,000+ Qin soldiers fight?
Not to mention regaining Guizhou, even holding Yunnan is a fantasy!

"Your Majesty, we should not have helped Li Dingguo in the first place. If we had known that he would act so recklessly after taking power, we should not have sacrificed our lives for him!" Chen Jian said angrily.

The Shu vassal has always firmly supported Li Dingguo and the Yongli court.

In the past, it was Liu Wenxiu's intervention in Kunming that allowed Li Dingguo to enter the city safely.

After the Battle of Jiaoshui, another general, Li Benzhen, charged forward and was killed after his horse was knocked down.

As a result, after defeating Li Dingguo, he ended up like this.

This can't help but be chilling.

Sun Kewang used the defeat of Baoning and Changde to remove Liu Wenxiu from military power.

Li Dingguo was once aggrieved by Liu Wenxiu and accused Sun Kewang of ignoring brotherly love.

But now, after Li Dingguo takes power.

Directly with unwarranted hidden rebellion, Liu Wenxiu was relieved of military power again.

Chen Jian and others are really resentful, if Liu Wenxiu is really rebellious.

Can I still return to Kunming, tie myself in a cage, hand over all my affairs, and prove my innocence?
Liu Wenxiu looked at Chen Jian and said nothing.

This is his own words to retreat from the wolf and advance into the tiger. If Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu thought before that he was a wolf, then now Li Dingguo is a tiger!The wolf only eats itself, but the tiger eats people without spitting out the bones.

He had long since secretly regretted why he had believed in Li Dingguo in Yunnan, and why it was such a big deal?

"There was still food left, so Li Dingguo did this to the Qin soldiers. In the past, his foster father divided the Qin people and the Sichuan people in Sichuan, which eventually led to great destruction."

"In Yunnan, what happened in Sichuan will definitely happen again." Liu Wenxiu murmured to himself.

He just couldn't understand why Li Dingguo didn't understand even the simplest truth.

The 10,000+ Qin soldiers were hungry, but he was unwilling to use the remaining grain to help them.

Given the current situation, does Li Dingguo still think Yunnan can hold on?

Is it possible that the millions of grain reserves near Kunming should be left to the Tatars?

When Liu Wenxiu thought about the end of the building, her face turned pale and her chest felt extremely tight.

"My lord, take care!" Chen Jian, Liu Xuanchu and others' expressions changed greatly and they quickly comforted them.

"Yunnan can no longer be defended. At this point, we can only hope for great things if we enter Shu and capture the troops of the Thirteen Families."

Liu Wenxiu kept coughing, resisting the discomfort, waved and wrote:

The troops from the north are approaching day by day, and the country is in danger. Please enter Shu to take advantage of the troops of the Thirteen Families.

But there is a cellar gold of 16, which can be used for payment.

The wife and clan members of the minister should hold the whip to deal with the king's affairs.

Then he set out to camp in Shaanxi and Luo, and the common people turned defeat into success.

This minister's mere heart is like a person who still looks at death!

After finishing writing, Liu Wenxiu's face turned red and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Your Majesty!" Chen Jian and others burst into tears with grief in their hearts.

"Chen Jian, after my death, the three thousand elite soldiers of the Prince of Shu will be under your command. After the fall of Yunnan, the imperial court must be moved to Sichuan. Only in this way can there be hope for this world." Liu Wenxiu said sternly while holding on to his sick body.

"Your Majesty!" Chen Jian and others cried loudly.

When Liu Xuanchu saw this, he was shocked and spoke quickly.

"King Shu, things are not like this yet!"

"The troops from the north are advancing day by day, the government is in chaos, and the morale of the military is unstable. Why not be like this?" Liu Wenxiu said as he was dying.

"My lord, although Li Dingguo will surely defeat Yunnan, Sun Kewang is thriving in Guangxi. Have you forgotten the letter he sent some time ago?"

Liu Xuanchu said quickly: "If the King of Qin is willing to save the world, there is still something that can be done!"

"Yes!" Liu Wenxiu sat up in shock while dying of illness.

"And big brother! If big brother takes action, things can still be done!"

(End of this chapter)