Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 7 Wu Sangui, do you want to rebel? (Seeking collection, seeking recommendation, seeking follow-up reading)
The famous Wuhua Mountain is actually a small hill in Kunming City, next to Cuihu Lake and Yuantong Mountain. It occupies a small area of ​​about [-] to [-] mu. It is a good place in Kunming City.

Wu Sangui, an old traitor whose hands were stained with the blood of the people, has now built a splendid and magnificent palace here on the mountain, and lived a good life for the rest of his life.

As for another promotion, a higher level of career, etc., this old traitor should, maybe, perhaps, probably really have no such intentions.

Well, but no one can guarantee that Wu Sangui must not be self-motivated, after all, this old guy has a very strange hobby - collecting traitors!
In fact, Wu Sangui himself is a rebel, and he is also a double-material rebel. He first rebelled against Ming Dynasty and voted for Dashun, and then rebelled against Dashun and voted for Daqing.So the gang of Guan Ning's direct descendants who followed him were at least "two anti-three ministers" - they were all loyal ministers who opposed the second dynasty and served as the third lord. They were so loyal!
But "anti-two dynasties, official three lords" is only the starting price of Wu Sangui's "anti-thief group", and the work experience of rebellion is really not the most abundant.In the process of helping the Qing Dynasty fight against Li Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Nanming, Wu Sangui also recruited a group of "Three Anti-Four Ministers" or "Four Anti-Five Ministers" with more exciting resumes. In the Daming, Dashun (Daxi), Nanming and other dynasties, some people even went back and forth among the various forces.All of them are masters with rich experience in rebellion, and they are all enough to be experts in rebellion.

And Wu Sangui, an old thief, doesn't discriminate against "reciprocating ministers". As long as he has the ability, he is willing to hang out with him, he likes them all, and benefits them all.For example, Ma Bao, the commander-in-chief of the Central Battalion under his command, followed Li Zicheng, voted for the Southern Ming Dynasty, followed Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo in the Southern Ming camp, and finally shaved his hair and surrendered to Wu Sangui.

And Wang Fuchen, who was sent by Shunzhi to hang out with Wu Sangui, has a more exciting resume than Ma Bao!That is Dashun, Daming, Daqing, Nanming. And Daqing, not to mention the "four rebellions and five ministers", but also rebelled against Daming (Nanming) three times, and became a minister of Daqing twice!
The nickname of this living Lu Bu is really not a random one.

Wu Sangui has collected so many rebel experts under his command, it is really difficult for the little Emperor Kangxi in Beijing to believe that he is a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty!What do you guys do together every day?Are you exchanging rebellion experience and improving rebellion technology?
When father and son Wang Fuchen and Wang Jizhen went to Wuhua Mountain today, Wu Sangui was studying with a group of rebel professionals in the Yin'an Hall on Wuhua Mountain how to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty!

It's not easy!Wu Sangui and the people under him have sufficient experience in rebellion, so he won't be a loyal minister!
In addition, ever since Wu Sangui, who never knew how to be a loyal minister, killed Lord Yongli, the upper Qing court became more and more displeased with Wu Sangui and his gang.You, Wu Sangui, don't even know how to support the bandits, so how could you be a loyal minister?

See how Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi became a loyal minister?People don't care about Qiu Hui, the great Chaozhou traitor. This pirate has even played the signboard of "Daming Chaozhou Mansion". The smuggling of salt even made Dahao Port, which was controlled by Qiu Da’s rebels, one of the three legal smuggling ports along the coast of the Qing Dynasty on an equal footing with Macau and Xiamen.

As for Geng Jimao in Fujian, he is even more loyal. Xiamen Island, which fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty due to Zheng Ming's internal strife in the early years, was also successfully lost after the sea ban was imposed, and Zheng Ming took it back. Now Xiamen has become a city. Zheng Ming and the base of the legal smuggling trade in the coastal areas of the Qing Dynasty - I am afraid that Zheng Jing will die of starvation and poverty!

Look at Wu Sangui's side, people can't be resurrected after death, even if the traitor Wu is thinking about it day and night, Emperor Yongli will never come back!So he can only organize some Miao Man rebellion to raise the bandits' self-respect.But the question is, how can these Miaoman chieftains compare with Yongli?This group of people is a group of local emperors, and it is impossible to win the Qing Dynasty.It would be better for the Qing Dynasty to raise Wu Sangui to protect the Miao Man, and let those chieftains rule over one side, as if the threat was less.

Therefore, the more Wu Sangui raised his self-respect in Yunnan and Guizhou, the more the court in Beijing felt that he was going to rebel!The more the court in Beijing felt that he was going to rebel, the more they wanted to weaken him.And the more the court weakens Wu Sangui, the more insecure Wu Sangui feels.

Therefore, Wu Sangui has not gone to Beijing to pay homage to the Qing emperor for many years, and he is still clinging to the military power in his hands.

And a vassal king who hides in Yunnan and refuses to enter the court, still has tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, and a large group of rebel professional households under his hands, how could he not want to rebel?

This is really a conscience!Although Wu Sangui doesn't look like a loyal minister, he really didn't want to rebel. He just wanted to maintain the strength to rebel at any time, and then be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty with peace of mind.

So although he refused to enter the court, he would still send his important officials to Beijing year after year to ask the court for money to raise soldiers. This year, the task of going to Beijing to ask for money fell on Wu Guogui.

Of course, when the money comes, it will not be Pingxifan who can eat alone, all the pillars of the Qing Dynasty in the court will share the money, otherwise Wu Sangui's people will not get the money.

But even so, the job of asking for money is getting more and more difficult.The imperial court refused to give it freely, and the hearts of the courtiers became darker and darker!

At this moment, seeing Wang Fuchen who came up to the mountain to worship, Wu Sangui, a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty who was full of thoughts about how to get money, talked about asking for money with this "reversely loyal minister" who got along very well with him.

"Brother Fuchen, you came at a good time. I will give this old man a detailed look. This Grand Master Ao wrote to me a few days ago to cry for poverty. Xia Dingyu dismissed the farms. Is it possible that the military expenditure for the eight years of Kangxi will be 300 million taels?"

"My lord, isn't this Grand Master Ao's letter to tell you these things just to reduce the salaries of our Yun and noble officers and soldiers?" Wang Fuchen sighed and said, "This Grand Master Ao is not very talkative. A little less military expenses."

"It can't be reduced!" A 37-year-old middle-aged man who looks a bit like Wu Sangui and Wu Shizhen jumped up and shouted immediately when he heard that he wanted to reduce his money, "Now the population of the feudal clan is increasing, and the number of officers and soldiers in the green camp is also large. With a family, the expenses are increasing! Although we have also distributed land in Yun and Gui to the subordinates and the green camp officers and soldiers, the land in Yun and Gui is still too thin, so we can only subsidize it a little. If the salary is reduced There are too many, I’m afraid it’s not enough to eat and drink. These guys are all men who have been killed all their lives.

"Ying Qi, stop talking!" Wu Sangui spoke suddenly, interrupting this middle-aged strong man who spoke out loud.

This brawny man is Wu Yingqi, the second son of Wu Sangui, and Wu Shicong, who sees the wolf as an eagle, is his son.Although Wu Sangui's son has a big mouth, people with big mouths usually speak the truth.The population of Wu Sangui's vassals, as well as that of the soldiers in the green battalion, has indeed grown rapidly. Many of them are going to get married and have children, and many of them don't just ask for a wife, but can they have fewer children?
In addition, although Yun and Gui are very poor today, the cost of living is also low, and it is cheap to raise children, and there is enough land to distribute to those children, so the servants of Wu Sangui and the soldiers of the Green Camp can work hard.

And these feudal servants and officers and soldiers of the green camp, except for a small number of them are Wu Sangui's former Guan Ning troops, the rest have been mixed in the Chuangying and Xiying.Not only are these people full of rebellious spirit, but they are also not convinced by the Qing Dynasty—many of them fought against the Qing Dynasty with Li Dingguo. In their view, the so-called Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers are not invincible.

If the Qing court wants to deduct their money and let them live a hard life, they may really turn against it!
However, it is not appropriate to say this in front of Wang Fuchen. Although this Wang Fuchen is also a professional rebel, his establishment is after all the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Wu Sangui was about to ask if Wang Fuchen had any way to walk in the palace, and if he could ask the old lady to speak, his eldest grandson Wu Shicong rushed in panting, and he was behind Wu Sangui in no time. , and whispered in Wu Sangui's ear.

Just after Wu Shicong finished speaking, Wu Sangui himself looked at Wang Fuchen curiously, "Fuchen, your son Zhongxiao is going to compete with the old man's grandson Shijue again."

Wang Fuchen laughed and said, "Young man, a fight is nothing. By the way, who won?"

Wu Sangui shook his head, and asked with a smile: "It's not a match yet, it will be done tomorrow. And your son also said that this time he will use your unique skill to deal with the Manchurian white-armored soldiers in Datong to deal with Shijue! Fuchen, What is your unique skill? Can you tell me about it?"

(End of this chapter)