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Chapter 436 Wu Sangui anyway

Just as the Ming army attacked the four sides, attacked the Central Plains in the north, and was preparing to recover the capital, Wu Sangui in the southwest sent envoys to the camp of Li Dingguo, the Daxi Army.

Yangping Pass, the camp of the Daxi Army of the Ming Dynasty.

"Report to the Anxi Hou, the young men caught a Jiannu from outside the camp. This man claimed to be the man from the pseudo-Pingxi King Wu Sangui, and was making noise to see you, Marquis." The personal soldiers of Li Dingguo walked into the central army's tent to report.

Li Dingguodao: "Let him come in."

After a while, several personal soldiers escorted a Confucian scholar dressed in a Confucian scholar into the tent of Li Dingguo's central army. Although the man was dressed in a wide robe and big sleeves, the turban on his head had been torn off, revealing the rat-tail of the money on his head.

"Kneel down!" Two personal soldiers knelt down with the man.

The man was tough and refused to kneel down. He just bowed and bowed to Li Dingguo and saluted: "Student Liu Xuanchu met Anxi Hou!"

Li Dingguo, who was sitting high above, sneered: "Bold Tartar, why didn't he kneel down when he saw me?"

Liu Xuanchu laughed: "The student is a scholar who is famous and famous. He only kneels on the Ming Dynasty and the generals Pingxi King, and the rest of the officials will not kneel!"

Li Dingguo smiled and said, "Did you not kneel down when you see the fake Tartar emperor?"

Liu Xuanchu laughed: "The student was in Cao's camp and his heart was in Han, and he had always been determined to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. How could he kneel down to the fake Tartar emperor!"

"Then Mr. Liu is here today, what's the matter?" Li Dingguo asked.

"Of course, it's for our army to have a peace talk with your army." Liu Xuanchu replied.

"Peace talks?" Li Dingguo smiled, "I am just a minister on the frontier. How can I negotiate with the enemy on behalf of the Ming Dynasty court?"

"No, no," Liu Xuanchu said with a fan, "Of course we can't be considered the Qing Dynasty. We want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, so we can't be considered to be negotiated with the enemy country."

Li Dingguo nodded and asked, "I don't know what King Pingxi has to plan?"

Liu Xuanchu said: "The King of Pingxi is willing to make way for the army in Chencang and let the army out of Chencang to attack Xi'an. I hope your army can show mercy when they see our army."

Li Dingguo lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and replied: "Mr. Liu, it is of great importance. I dare not take the initiative. I hope the King of Pingxi can wait for several days. After I report to Nanjing, I will get a reply from Nanjing."

Liu Xuanchu smiled and said, "It's okay, it's natural. A wife of the Daming Zhongyonghou was the sister of my general. I believe that the Daming Zhongyonghou will report to Your Majesty and agree to Pingxi to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway."

Li Dingguo stood up, walked down from the platform, walked to Liu Xuanchu, stretched out his hand and patted Liu Xuanchu on the shoulder: "Then please go back first, wait for the good news. But one thing is that since our army has entered Hanzhong, we naturally attacked Chen Cang as planned. It is expected that when our army arrives in Chen Cang, the court has already replied to me."

After Liu Xuanchu left Yangping Pass, Li Dingguo immediately reported the matter to the military supervisor Chen Zilong.

Chen Zilong is a scholar and a member of the Donglin Party. In fact, the Donglin Party members have always had a good impression of Wu Sangui, and Chen Zilong was no exception. He made a decision immediately and went to find several Jinyiwei who had publicly identities in the army and asked them to report the matter to the Nanjing court immediately.

The Jinyiwei had his own channel to send letters to the flying pigeons, and the news was conveyed very quickly. Three days later, Wu Sangui was ready to send the news to the dragon case of Emperor Shaowu Zhu Cilang in the Ming Dynasty Palace.

"Wu Sangui is interested in anyway? I naturally welcome Wu Sangui's return. However, Wu Sangui was originally Pingxibo of the Ming Dynasty, and was later named the pseudo-Pingxi King by the Jiannu court. If he returns anyway, the title of Pingxi King will naturally not be used. He can only be Pingxi Hou, and at most he will be a Duke." Zhu Cixuan said after reading the memorial.

"Brother of the emperor, if you make King Pingxi the Duke or even the Hou of Pingxi, you are afraid that Wu Sangui will not be convinced." Princess Kunxing disagreed with Zhu Cixuan's proposal.

"I'd better ask Zhongyonghou for advice on this matter. I'll immediately ask Jinyiwei Feige to send a letter to Dagukou to see what Zhongyonghou said when he replied, and then make a decision." Zhu Cixuan decided that his sister made sense, but she couldn't let go of her shame, so he asked Jinyiwei Feige to send the message to Dagukou, wanting to hear Zhao Peng's opinion.

Three days later, Zhao Peng received the news that Fei Ge sent a letter.

"Wu Sangui wants to be correct? Wu Sangui naturally welcomes him anyway. But what Your Majesty is worried about is that King Pingxi was granted by the Tartar court and is considering demoting him to Pingxi Hou or a Duke. I think this matter is still inappropriate, and the princess is right." Zhao Peng said to himself after reading the letter.

It is easy to go from simplicity to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. This sentence is a truth that has not changed for thousands of years. The Qing Dynasty had already appointed Wu Sangui as King of Pingxi, but he had come back to the clarity of the prince, but he would rather demote the prince to the Duke of the State or even the King of Pingxi. This would inevitably lead to dissatisfaction. Thinking of this, Zhao Peng brought up a pen to reply to Zhu Cixuan and Princess Kunxing.

The reply to Zhu Ciyang was to retain Wu Sangui's title of prince, and later transferred Wu Sangui to the southwest to the south to march southward to the Assam region in western Myanmar; the letter to Princess Kunxing asked her to persuade her emperor brother.

In the future, Wu Sangui will be transferred to Myanmar and asked Wu Sangui to attack Myanmar and the Assam region in western Myanmar. This requires Wu Sangui to directly face the English army. The people of Pingxi King were their Guanning Iron Cavalry, the Han Army Banners that later joined and a few Manchu Eight Banners soldiers. In addition, Wu Sangui's Green Camp Army, after the Pingxi King's army was reorganized into the Ming army, the court could provide them with weapons and ammunition.

However, Zhao Peng wrote in the letter: Transferring King Pingxi to Myanmar is the next plan. What we need to do now is to stabilize King Pingxi first. It is naturally better for us to seize Xi'an without bloodshed. If we can sacrifice less people, sacrifice less people. Whether it is the enemy or us, sacrifice as little people as possible. Since it is an enemy, we can also transform into our people in the future. As long as the Qing army agrees with China, we can become our people, and they will need to expand their territory at that time.

After receiving Zhao Peng's reply, Zhu Cilang thought about it over and over again. With Princess Kunxing persuading him from the side, he finally made a decision and immediately wrote a letter: "I am deeply pleased that Wu Sangui can be correct! After Anxi Hou arrived in Chen Cang, he will test Wu Sangui's sincerity. At the same time, he will ask the secret spies of the Jinyiwei to follow the investigation to prevent Wu Sangui from cheating! If Wu Sangui sincerely returns to the Ming Dynasty, he can order Wu Sangui to retain the title of the prince, and Anxi Hou will immediately seize Chen Cang and attack Xi'an!"

It took ten days for Li Dingguo and the court to communicate with each other. Within these ten days, the Western Army advanced north along the plank road from Yangping Pass to Chen Cang. When the court's reply came, Li Dingguo's army had already arrived at the city of Chen Cang.

After receiving a reply from the court, Li Dingguo immediately sent an envoy to the King of Pingxi.

The army supervisor Chen Zilong volunteered to take on the important task of serving as the envoy of Wu Sangui's camp. He took three letters from Zhu Cixuan, Zhao Peng and Li Dingguo to Wu Sangui's camp.

"I am the supervisor of the Daxi Army. Chen Zilong, the fourth son of the former Fushe in Jiangnan, was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was Anxi. The Hou of Anxi ordered me to come and meet the King of Pingxi." Chen Zilong came to Chen Cang alone and shouted at the top of the city.

Although there were still many Eight Banners soldiers in Wu Sangui's army at this time, many Manchus actually rebel because of the little Emperor Fulin's affairs with Dorgon and Ajige.
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