Chapter 29 Chapter 28 Unified Anti-Qing

Fear in the face of adversity is not a bad thing for career development, but a good thing. Because of fear, I will be more cautious and less impetuous in doing things. Because of fear, things will be more thoughtful and less one-sided. Because they were afraid of losing their last homeland in Yunnan, from the day they entered Yunnan, the Daxi Army took a cautious attitude and strived to gain recognition and support from all walks of life in Yunnan. Let's start with politics! In order to win the support of officials, chieftains, and ordinary people in Yunnan, Sun Kewang took a firm stand and made a clear-cut political commitment of "supporting the Ming Dynasty and restoring the country".

For this reason, he took the initiative to cancel the title of Daxi Kingdom. Before getting in touch with the Nanming Yongli court, the founding of the country would not be established, and the year would not be recorded. In terms of internal official positions, Sun Kewang and other four brothers were once called kings, but under the reminder of Yang Weizhi, they all changed their titles to "generals" after "knowing their mistakes and correcting them", posing a high posture of "empty positions to serve" to the outside world. After the "retreat" work is completed, the "pragmatic" work will begin.

After occupying all of Yunnan, Sun Kewang confiscated all the old seals of officials from prefectures and counties in Yunnan, except for the old seals of Mu Tianbo, Duke of Guizhou, who could still be used as usual, and then carried out a new "inspection and recruitment" of officials at all levels. Corruption was a common problem in official circles in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Almost everyone in Daxi has an unforgettable memory of corruption in the officialdom!Therefore, creating a "clean government" has become their primary goal. Therefore, the criteria for the recruitment of officials this time is mainly corruption and integrity.

Sun Kewang specially set up an "Anti-Corruption Committee", and Wang Yinglong, who was a bowsmith and is currently the Minister of the Ministry of Industry of the new government, was appointed as the "Chairman" to represent himself as the governor of various places. Among the governors, the "chairman" Wang Yinglong found that those who were incorruptible were promoted and those who were corrupt were beheaded.After the beheading, the embezzler's head was made into a specimen and "toured for exhibition" all over Yunnan. The head of Xie Yi, the prefect of Yao'an, is "very fortunate" to be such a "specimen of anti-corruption".

In order for the new regime to gain more recognition and support from the people of Yunnan, Sun Kewang, after thinking hard, finally found an effective method from Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty - to allow the people to "write a letter to say things". There are two ways for people to "write a letter to express their affairs". Those who can read and break characters can use "writing letters"; Report your thoughts.After receiving the "oral report", the officials of the yamen must not conceal or withhold it, and must immediately compile it into detailed "written materials" and report it directly to Sun Kewang himself.

The contents of the "signatures and matters" are mainly "suggestions and suggestions" for the new regime. If the content is feasible, it can become the administrative basis for the new regime.If the content is unfeasible or absurd, or even extreme "counter-revolutionary speeches" appear, the legal responsibility of the person who submitted the letter will not be pursued. This policy made it possible for ordinary people to "participate in and discuss state affairs" by means of democracy rather than violence, and eventually promoted the creation and implementation of other policies.

The economic reforms to be rolled out next will be the top priority of the new government. In economic reform, the land issue is the core of the core. In the peasant uprisings of the past dynasties in our country, there was generally only one way to deal with the land issue. First, violently kill or drive away the landlords, so that the "owned land" becomes "unowned land", and then the "unowned land" is naturally returned to the farmers. The Daxi Dynasty's land policy in Sichuan adopted this "simple and easy" method. However, this approach has low economic costs and high political costs.

Because of this method, for landlords, collective armed resistance is an inevitable choice other than being killed and fleeing; Instead of being redistributed fairly, the strong get more and the weak get less or nothing. It is the result of this land policy that neither side pleases. How many peasant uprisings, in this kind of result, ultimately fell short. After learning lessons from Sichuan's failed land policy, the new government pioneered a land policy that would influence future generations. This land policy, on the basis of recognizing the landowner's land ownership and the legitimacy of the land rent, limited the land rent to 10% of the total grain output of the land.

On the land of China at that time, the proportion of land rent was generally 50% of the total grain output of the land. After the introduction of this policy, farmers took the lead in supporting it. Landlords who received less rent were unhappy, but because they could earn some income after all, there were very few people who resisted the new government's land policy at the cost of their lives. The entire society of Yunnan, in this kind of moderate land policy, was calm and relatively harmonious. Even the later Qing government failed to implement this advanced measure of limiting land rent.Even later, the land annexation intensified in the Qing Dynasty, the burden of land rent increased, and peasant uprisings broke out again.

But later, this policy was learned and used by the Communist regime during the Anti-Japanese War, and it evolved into an anti-Japanese land policy of "landlords reduce rent and interest, and farmers pay rent and interest". The history we passed yesterday is the best teacher today, it is true! Another important aspect of the new government's land policy is the reform of the "contract system" for the land of the guards. As I said before, when Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang solved the land problem and the method of raising troops, he introduced a "two-in-one" method-the Weisuo system.

In the frontier of Yunnan, there are especially many guards, starry and widely distributed. However, just like the mainland, the guards developed to a later stage and completely degenerated into a hidden place for "officers and landlords" to exploit "soldiers and peasants". The new government's reform of the guards is simple and clear - "contracting". The specific method is: 1. The new government changed the guards into battalions, and each battalion had one person in charge of the battalion, who was managed by the former Pianbi from the Daxi Army. 2. The management of the battalion contracted the land of the camp to the soldiers of the original guard to cultivate it. The soldiers who cultivated it were required to pay 50% of the total grain output of the land as the "contracting fee". Although the exploitation of guard soldiers is relatively heavy, it is still lower than the original ambiguous free possession.Therefore, the soldiers' enthusiasm for growing grain has increased. In addition to land policy, the new government's economic reforms also include financial and salt reforms. In terms of finance, the main thing is to use the "Xingchao copper coins" uniformly minted by the new government to replace the original privately minted shell coins. It is strange to say that although Yunnan is rich in copper and produced a large amount of copper coins for the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of these copper coins were exported to the interior for use.Instead, there are various shellfish coins circulating in Yunnan. The issuance of shell coins is not in the hands of the state, so naturally it is impossible to talk about the regulation and control of the economy. Therefore, the reform of the currency system is imperative. In order to ensure the use of new copper coins, the new government issued strict laws and regulations, stipulating that anyone who uses shell coins in Yunnan will be punished with amputation of feet or nose. Under the maintenance of the state's violent machinery, copper coins were successfully issued and entered the field of circulation. Yunnan finally bid farewell to the era of shell coins, which invigorated the local economy and strengthened its connection with the mainland. The reform of the salt class started with the "nationalization" of well salt production. Yunnan is rich in well salt, which was a well-known fact at that time. However, because the production of well salt is occupied by all kinds of local tyrants, as a result, the country's finances have not benefited from it. The new government sent General Shi Wen as the Salt Taxation Department, stationed troops directly in Yanchi, and directly controlled the production of well salt in the hands of the "state". However, the sale of well salt is open to the private sector, and it is stipulated that as long as merchants pay the relevant fees to the new government, they can take the "fee receipt" to sell salt at state-controlled salt farms. This move was the fiscal revenue of the new government that year, which increased the collection of more than one hundred thousand taels of silver, thus reducing its single dependence on land tax.In terms of military affairs, after taking over all of Yunnan, the new regime marched towards Sichuan and Guizhou in three routes: east, middle and west. The Eastern Route Army occupied Zhenyuan in Guizhou, the Central Route Army conquered Xueshan Pass, and the Western Route Army reached Dadu River in Sichuan. Then, the Three Route Army blocked all the passages that could enter Yunnan one by one, so as to show the outside world a posture of "concentrating on construction and developing with one heart and one mind." After the gate was closed, the work of restoring the soldiers from "beasts" to "humans" also started. The soldiers who came out of the Sichuan Massacre were cruel, bloodthirsty, and violent, which became the common characteristics of this collective. Killing prisoners of war, civilians, and family members was not uncommon among soldiers. To completely eradicate these perverted behaviors from the army, we must first allow these soldiers to live a normal life. In terms of the transformation and restoration of human beings, the new regime is doing this. Except for some soldiers stationed in Kunming, the soldiers of other battalions were stationed in separate battalions in various prefectures, counties or guard posts. This is done to solve the problem of local security and military food transportation, but more importantly, it is to allow these soldiers to integrate with the local people and gradually get used to the life of normal people. To restore "humanity" to these soldiers, caring for their lives cannot be a missing item in the project. Most of the Daxi soldiers who entered Yunnan came with their families. Therefore, while solving the supply of soldiers and showing warm care, the new government also included the living security of their families as one of the practical things that the new government must implement. The new government's army supply regulations stipulated that: Soldiers, each person should receive one liter of rice per day; family members, over three years old, each person should receive one big bucket of rice per month, and under three years old, half a branch of rice. In terms of quilts and clothing, each soldier is issued a pair of shoes and socks, a large hat, and a robe every year; family members, regardless of size, are issued a robe every year. While formulating thoughtful and detailed supply regulations and vigorously implementing them, strict military discipline regulations were also formulated and strictly enforced.Because, as a normal soldier, not only must there be food and clothing, but also the concept of law-abiding. The newly enacted military discipline regulations stipulate that: soldiers who take something from the common people or kill a commoner without authorization shall be killed; if the chief soldier fails to fulfill his supervisory duties, he shall be beaten with eighty military sticks; , according to the "cover-up crime" punishment. It is an unprecedented initiative of the new government to deal with the perpetrators and the victims who dare not sue, and it is also the determination of the new government to suppress violence with the law! A soldier who accidentally killed someone immediately made a free "advertisement" for the popularization of the new military discipline regulations. That's what happened. During a military training, a soldier accidentally killed a one or two-year-old child. The child's parents naturally refused, so they immediately sued the soldier's chief, Zongbing Yang. After investigating the case, Zongbing Yang made the following judgment: Because the soldier committed manslaughter, he was given a lighter punishment. He was beaten with forty military sticks and compensated the child's parents with ten taels of silver for "funeral expenses". But the verdict was soon checked by Liu Wenxiu, the "No. 3 Chief" of the new government. The furious "Liu Sanhao" was about to change the sentence of the case to the following: The murderer, whether intentional or negligent, immediately captured Xiao Ximen in Kunming and beheaded him. The beheaded head was sent to the hometown of the murdered child for "exhibition." Zongbing Yang, who was lax in enforcing the law, was fined one hundred sticks. This method of killing one to warn others quickly created a "sensation" effect in the army.Soldiers who used to kill people as "entertainment" no longer dare to play this "special game" at the cost of their own lives! In terms of army building, the new government has a far-sighted approach - "mixing foreign and local people, and integrating multiple ethnic groups into one". Guest: the Daxi Army that came from afar; Tu: the local Yunnan Army. In this Yunnan Army, there are not only the reorganized chieftain army, but also the minority soldiers recruited later. In order to restore the Central Plains and gain the support of local chieftains and ethnic minorities, the new government not only recruited chieftains from all over Yunnan to serve in the army, but also encouraged "age-age youth" from ethnic minorities to join the army for the country on a large scale. Brave men from Lao, Dong, Dai and other ethnic minorities were added as the "fresh blood" of the Great Western Army. Relying on these minority soldiers and using the local "elephant resources", Li Dingguo, who is good at military affairs, formed a new army - the Elephant Army. In terms of troop formation, the new government has formed a mixed formation of these "New Turk Army" and "Old Atlantis Army". There is me in you, and you in me. This not only accelerated the fusion of old and new armies, but also made the mixed troops suitable for both plain warfare (the strength of Han soldiers) and mountain warfare (the specialty of minority soldiers). In terms of training, the new army implements a small training a day, a big training every three days, and must train every day, and it is always unremitting. In addition to making great achievements in politics, economy, and military affairs, the new government is also remarkable in cultural, educational, and religious affairs. When he first entered Yunnan, Sun Kewang took the "senior cadres" of the government and the army to the Confucian Temple in person to offer sacrifices to Confucius. Signals of reconciliation between the new government and the "intellectuals"... Then, Sun Kewang ordered Yan Sizu, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and in charge of the Imperial Academy, to preside over a small-scale imperial examination, from which 33 Jinshi were selected to serve in the new government. The cooperation between the new government and the "intellectuals" Start here. Later, with the further stabilization of the society, the scope of imperial examinations was expanded to most of Yunnan and a part of Guizhou. A large number of candidates, including Confucian scholars from ethnic minorities, stood out and became members of the "cadres at all levels" of the new government. . In order to encourage the students to study with peace of mind, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and others met with the students many times, gave them material rewards, and encouraged them to study for the rise of the country! Later, the new government successively sent troops to recover Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and other places, and it was these students from Yunnan and Guizhou who served in these places. For the cases of living difficulties, the new government specially sent people to register and record them, and regularly distributed food subsidies. In terms of religious policy, the Daxi Army, who went to the countryside to follow the customs, changed from "atheist" to "theist" shortly after entering Yunnan, worshiping the popular local Buddhism. Sun Kewang once issued an order to protect religious temples, and also took the lead in engraving Buddhist classics and casting incense burners for Buddha and other utensils. This kind of "unintentionally planting willows" has played a special role in respecting local beliefs and strengthening national harmony. "Failure is the mother of success." In the short three years from 1647 to 1650, Sun Kewang and others, who learned the lessons of failure in governing Shu, seized this rare development opportunity and worked hard, finally creating "agricultural production increase, The remarkable achievements of increasing farmers' income, unity of all ethnic groups, social stability, prosperity of culture and education, and military development" laid a solid foundation for the subsequent Northern Expedition, defeated the Qing army, and became the mainstay of the Anti-Qing Dynasty. When a bird is about to die, its song is mournful; when a man is about to die, his words are also kind! Before his death, the great hero of the generation, Zhang Xianzhong, left a "shocking" last word to Sun Kewang: "The fate of the Ming Dynasty has not yet been sold. After I die, you can return to Daming quickly, so that you can survive for a long time!" Sun Kewang and the others half-understood Zhang Xianzhong's nonsense words at the time, and were dubious. But after entering Guizhou and entering Yunnan, they began to appreciate Zhang Xianzhong's "magnificence and vision" through observing and thinking about the people's support. Therefore, in Yunnan, they used the new political promise of "supporting the Ming Dynasty and restoring the country" as a call, and successfully united the vast majority of the people under their own banner. But political promises are, to put it bluntly, political lies.It is okay to engage in propaganda and deceive kind-hearted people, but very few people actually implement it. Sun Kewang had no intention of fulfilling this political promise seriously. But as 1649 approached, Sun Kewang became suddenly enthusiastic about fulfilling this political promise. He formed a liaison team headed by Yang Weizhi, and actively approached the "empty organization" of the "Yongli Dynasty". There is no love without reason in the world, and there is no passion without reason.Sun Kewang's sudden burst of enthusiasm came from both internal and external sources. The internal pressure comes from Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, brothers with different surnames and other subordinates. Although Sun Kewang was promoted as "No. 1" through democratic procedures, "this No. 1" is not "the other No. 1". Comrade Zhang Xianzhong, the "No. 1" back then, spoke his mind, and no one dared to say "No" whether it was correct or not. Today's "No. 1" Comrade Sun Kewang is "top" in one word, not only "No. 2" Li Dingguo, "No. 3" Liu Wenxiu, but also "No. 4" Bai Wenxuan and "No. 5" Feng Shuangli. And so on, often can't restrain the enthusiasm of "participating in the discussion of state affairs", and point at him from time to time to develop their own different objections. Sun Kewang, who couldn't taste the happiness of "the top leader", but was troubled by the "top leader", and surrounded by layers, began to try his best to implement his "power breakthrough" project. In 1648, the "Yanwuchang Flag Raising Incident" became his first step in implementing the "Breakout Project". During a routine military parade, Li Dingguo, who rushed to the martial arts field first, ordered the flag to be raised. Seeing that the handsome flag of the Martial Arts Field was already fluttering in the wind, Sun Kewang, who arrived one step later, was furious. He ordered Li Dingguo to be beaten with a hundred sticks on the spot on the grounds that "the coach did not arrive, and he was good at raising the flag of the commander". Li Dingguo, who didn't know what to do, was pulled aside on the spot, and was beaten with a board in front of the soldiers of the three armies. When the board was hit halfway, Sun Kewang suddenly "benevolent outside the law". While ordering to stop the torture, he ran to Li Dingguo's side, hugged the second brother, and cried bitterly. Seeing that "big brother" is so benevolent and righteous, Li Dingguo, who doesn't have much in his heart, was immediately moved by Sun Kewang's performance. After patting the spanked butt, he knelt down on the spot and kowtowed to Brother Sun to apologize. Although Sun Kewang's prestige has been improved after the "Yanwuchang Flag Raising Incident", it is still far from his final expectation. Although Sun Kewang was well aware of this, there was nothing he could do! Because his power is obtained through internal democratic procedures.Now, it is both embarrassing and impossible, let everyone continue to promote democracy and let their own power rise to a higher level!Let others wear a hoop on their heads! After knowing that it is impossible to use "internal force" to increase power, use "external force" to increase power - this is the only feasible method, in Sun Kewang's heart, it keeps rising! In his eyes, this external force that can be relied on is undoubtedly Zhaoqing's Emperor Yongli. With the help of Emperor Yongli's legal status in Nanming, he can make himself king, so that his official position will be farther away from Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others, so that he can realize the unification of Yunnan and Guizhou, restore the Central Plains, make contributions, and pass through the world. Get on the "cloak of legitimacy". The external pressure is that he already knows that the Qing army under the leadership of Kong Youde is moving southward on a large scale, and he is determined to win Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi. If Huguang is lost, it will inevitably form a semicircular encirclement of Yunnan and Guizhou.At that time, the survival of the two provinces will be at stake. If you want to change this predicament, you must act first and take Sichuan and Guizhou into your own hands first. However, most of Sichuan and Guizhou are in the hands of warlords like Yang Zhan, Wang Xiang, and Pi Xiong. Under the banner of "loyalty to Nanming", they firmly blocked the passage of the Daxi Army into and out of these two provinces. If he successfully connects with the Yongli court and realizes his plan to become king, then he can "lead the princes by taking the emperor with him", and without using force to attack, he can force warlords such as Yang Zhan, big and small, to treat himself as a real king. "King of Ming Dynasty", obediently obey orders. Time, how urgent it is! In February 1649, when Yang Weizhi, the "leader of the liaison group," came to bid him farewell and asked for face-to-face instruction on the key points of the negotiation, he immediately proposed two mutually beneficial cooperation conditions between himself and the Yongli Dynasty: 1. The Yongli court named Sun Kewang the King of Qin; 2. Sun Kewang brought all the land, soldiers and civilians of Yunnan Province to enshrine Zhengshuo of the Ming Dynasty and sent troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Yang Weizhi, who shouldered a heavy responsibility, set off from Kunming in February and arrived in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province on April 6. As an old minister of the Ming Dynasty and an agent of Sun Kewang, he paid a visit to Emperor Yongli and offered twenty taels of gold and four pieces of amber , four good horses, to show respect. Later, he revealed Sun Kewang's "cooperation conditions" in full. In his view, the Yongli Dynasty is already "the east wind is weak and the flowers are dying", Jin Shenghuan, Li Chengdong, He Tengjiao have been defeated one after another, and Zheng Chenggong is looming.Only the thriving Yunnan is the only hope for Nanming to survive.Therefore, the "cooperation condition" that Sun Kewang became the king is not an exaggeration for the desperate Yongli court! He cut straight to the point and said to the emperor and ministers of Yongli: "It is hoped that the army will be strong, and it can be used for use. Don't lose people's hearts because you cherish a title, but make enemies instead"? However, he never imagined that Sun Kewang's wish to be crowned king would be like throwing a huge stone into water, causing the stagnant Yongli Dynasty to be divided into opposition faction and support faction in an instant. One of the opposition is Jin Bao, Yuan Pengnian and others who are attached to Li Yuanyin. They are afraid that once Sun Kewang is crowned king, Li Yuanyin's power will "grow and disappear", and completely lose the capital to gain a foothold in the Yongli court. The second opposition group is the Nanming warlords Pi Xiong and Wang Xiang who guard Guiyang and Zunyi. They are afraid that after Sun Kewang succeeds in becoming king, they will justifiably send troops to Qianchuan under the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and calmly "eat the drop" them. The third opponent was Yan Qiheng, a university scholar. Whether Sun Kewang was crowned king did not substantially harm him. The reason why he opposed it was entirely to maintain the seriousness and unity of the Ming law.Because the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty stipulated: "Those with different surnames shall not be crowned kings." Of course, there are exceptions, such as Li Chengdong, who was named King of Ningxia, but that was after his glorious sacrifice. There is no precedent for being born a king. Therefore, Yan Qiheng's objection is straightforward and strong! Of course, it is not uncommon to be in favor of being crowned king. One is Du Yinxi, a "Master of the United Front". In the past, his old man successfully transformed the remaining troops of the Dashun Army into the Loyalty Camp; The rest of the army, the United Front has become a more reliable force against the Qing Dynasty. The other person is Qing Guogong Chen Bangfu, but the reason why he favors the title of king is more complicated. Because the Xunzhou where he is stationed is adjacent to Pennsylvania and Hengzhou where the Zhongzheng Camp is stationed, there is a possibility that the "cheese" will be removed by the Zhongzheng Camp at any time. Under such circumstances, the unique idea of ​​making good friends with Sun Kewang and using "bandits" to control "bandits" once made this old boy very excited, and he immediately squeezed into the camp that favored the title of king without hesitation. Regardless of his current enemy, the pros and opponents, for the issue of the king, they are fighting in the court, so it's so lively! Seeing that Comrade Sun Kewang’s problem of being crowned king was “only the sound of the stairs, but no one coming down”, Yang Weizhi, anxious in his heart, decided to make the next best thing, and Shangshu changed his request to make Sun Kewang the Duke and Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu the Marquis, so that he could Hurry back to Yunnan to return to life. Due to the precedents of Gao Yigong and Li Guo, this proposal to be named a prince was unanimously approved by the ministers without much trouble in the court. Emperor Yongli granted Sun Kewang the title of Jingguo Duke, and gave him the name Chaozong. When Du Yinxi heard the news, he immediately sent an edict to Emperor Yongli, pointing out the disadvantages of being a duke but not a king, and suggested that he should still be a king. With his fuss, the original plan of ennobling the Duke also came to a halt, so Yang Weizhi had no choice but to stay in the post station in Zhaoqing, passing the hard time in a bit of loneliness and a little bit of worry. Just when Yongli's monarch and ministers were half-hearted, there was a daring "opportunist" who took the lead. This "opportunist" is Chen Bangfu. He used the blank edict given to him by Emperor Yongli to fill in the imperial edict privately.He also secretly forged the golden seal of "The Treasure of the King of Qin", and sent his confidant Hu Zhigong, pretending to be an envoy of the Yongli Dynasty, to Yunnan to make Sun Kewang the King of Qin. In the imperial edict, in order to please Sun Kewang, Chen Bangfu specially superimposed many "special" words, such as "supervising the country", "prime minister Chaogang", "restraining the world's civil and military soldiers", "adding nine tins", "father, teacher and king", These words describing power over the world were packaged together and presented to Sun Kewang. Sun Kewang, who was ignorant of the disputes in the imperial court and lacked awareness of counterfeit and shoddy behaviors in the Nanming political arena, was overjoyed and had no doubts about the imperial edict and "Treasure of the King of Qin" sent by Hu Zhigong! He immediately directed and performed a large-scale "conferment ceremony", personally greeted the envoys, respected the courtiers solemnly, kowtowed five times, knelt down to receive the title of king, and everything was done in a decent and orderly manner. After being sealed, he led his three brothers and soldiers of the three armies to cheer for long live, and accepted the congratulations of officials at all levels. When accepting the congratulations, he solemnly announced that the Daxi Army will be officially renamed the "Ming Army" in the future, and Yunnan under its rule will officially become an inseparable province of the Yongli Dynasty. After the conferment ceremony of Kunming, Sun Kewang praised the imperial edict, announced it to all parts of Yunnan, and celebrated it for three days in the whole province. The people of Yunnan who have been the subjects of the "Xing Dynasty" who have been ignorant for three years and finally returned to the "Ming's Homeland" are also very excited. For a whole month, the celebrations of people of all ethnic groups and walks of life in Yunnan have been held one after another! Just when the atmosphere of celebration had not dissipated and the joy had not faded away, Yang Weizhi, Sun Kewang's "authentic" envoy, returned from Guangdong. Yang Weizhi took out an attitude of "fulfilling the mission", and presented the Emperor Yongli's imperial edict and golden seal to Sun Kewang. However, what he got back was only the two-character king—"Ping Liao King", which was a whole grade lower than the one-character king Hu Zhigong brought back. Sun Kewang, who was dumbfounded, was stunned for a long time before he choked out such a sentence: "I have been named the King of Qin"! The work of confronting authenticity and falsehood began accordingly. Hu Zhigong, who was dragged to the confrontation scene, didn't panic when he saw that things were going wrong, he simply "attacked the fake with the fake", and insisted that the golden seal of "Ping Liao King" brought by Yang Weizhi was also fake, and it was really sealed by the Yongli court. It's just Jing Guogong! The embarrassment and embarrassment after being cheated made Sun Kewang ashamed.In a fit of rage, he put Yang Weizhi and Hu Zhigong, two "suspects of counterfeiting", into prison. Later, he sent an inscription to the Yongli Dynasty, saying: "I first received the title of King Qin on a certain day, and then received the title of King Pingliao on a certain day. Is it true or false? I don't know what to do?", and Attach a copy of the edict received before and after! But at the back of the Qiben, Sun Kewang left room for maneuver, saying that because Qin Wang’s imperial seal was accepted first, and a grand ceremony for enfeoffment had been held, the army and civilians in Yunnan are well known to passers-by, and it has become an established reality. Comply with public opinion and handle it properly. Facing the "ball" kicked by Sun Kewang, the courtiers of Yongli were "aphasia collectively", acting like a group of silent "old sheep". After a month of silence, the "elites" of the Yongli court took an even more unwise approach: to make two notorious warlord leaders in Guizhou, Pi Xiong and Wang Xiang, one Duke Kuang and the other Duke Zhong. Ask them to guard Guizhou to prevent Sun Kewang from "jumping over the wall in a hurry". Hearing this news, Sun Kewang, who was furious, immediately sent troops to Guizhou in the name of "going out of Yunnan to fight against the Qing Dynasty".The Daxi Army, who had been recuperating for three years, was indeed unstoppable when he made a move! In less than a month, this army captured the bear alive, defeated Wang Xiang, and occupied Guiyang and Zunyi. Then, Liu Wenxiu and Wang Ziqi led a partial division into Sichuan in two ways, defeated Yuan Tao, Wu Dading, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai and other Southern Ming warlords, incorporated their remnants of armed forces, and occupied the southern and eastern Sichuan regions. After occupying these areas, Sun Kewang rectified the local area, developed production, and replicated the successful model of Yunnan; on the other hand, he sent Yu Shi Zhai Mingfeng to visit Emperor Yongli and request that he be crowned King of Qin. In terms of specific operating procedures, Sun Kewang also "very thoughtfully" thought out for Emperor Yongli. That is, when he became the king of Qin, he could still use the original "golden seal" sent by Chen Bangfu, but asked the emperor to send a special edict so that the "false seal of the king of Qin" could become the "seal of the real king of Qin". In the end, it will also allow him, the veritable "King of Qin", to better lead the army and people in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou, and serve the country. If this procedure is followed, it would be a "good thing" for Emperor Yongli. Because of this, the excessive words such as "supervising the country", "the prime minister facing the steel", "restraining the world's civil and military soldiers", "blessing nine tins", "father and teacher serving the king" in the imperial edict can all be removed and replaced by comparisons. mild vocabulary. Moreover, at this time, Emperor Yongli's life is becoming more and more difficult! Guangdong and Guangxi collapsed, officials scattered like birds and beasts, and the footsteps of the Qing soldiers moving southward were getting closer and closer. But even so, Yan Qiheng, who presided over the Yongli government, still ignored Sun Kewang's "gracious suggestion"! On December 3, 1649, Emperor Yongli, who had fled to Nanning, was so "poor" that he had no soldiers, no generals, and no territory. In desperation, he issued an imperial edict to "make the king" to Sun Kewang. However, Emperor Yongli, who was dying and poor to the top of his trousers, still had a hard mouth, insisting that his grandson be expected to be "King of Ji" instead of "King of Qin". The apparent reason for his doing so was that King Qin was the title of Zhu Yu, the second son of Zhu Yuanzhang. In fact, he is still clinging to the hole card of "ensure comes from the top". Sun Kewang sneered at Emperor Yongli's "Jiwang" plan, and immediately responded. In the replay, he said that he had issued orders in the name of "King of Qin" for a long time, and if he changed them decisively, he would inevitably cause a "crisis of trust" among the people and cause unnecessary trouble, so he rejected them. In February 1651, the Qing army marched south from Liuzhou, and Emperor Yongli's "walking" in Nanning was at stake. Seeing that Emperor Yongli might become a "senior prisoner" of the Qing army in the blink of an eye, Sun Kewang, who dared not continue to play cool, quickly dispatched He Jiuyi and Zhang Mingfa to lead a quick-response force of 5,000 people across thousands of mountains and rivers, Ran to Nanning to escort him. In Nanning, while He and Zhang completed the task of "escorting the driver", they also overfulfilled another task. They forced Yan Qiheng, a university scholar who obstructed the king of Qin, into the Palace of Hades as a guest. So far, Emperor Yongli, who has truly become a "lonely man", no longer has any capital in his hands on the issue of being the King of Qin, and he can challenge Sun Kewang. In March 1651, he was forced to ratify Sun Kewang's title of King Qin. At this point, after more than two years of ups and downs and twists and turns, the issue of Sun Kewang's sealing of the king of Qin was finally settled when the powerful enemy forced him in!