Mercenary barracks outside Gaozhou Prefecture.

The Emperor of Japan agreed to buy artillery and prepared a full 10,000,000 taels of silver for this purpose. The news had already been sent to him, and after reading it, Yang Chendong only instructed everything to act according to the plan and hand it over to the Kaohsiung division commander to handle it specifically. I'm throwing this piece of information aside.

Compared with Japan, which is far away at sea, Yang Chendong is now more concerned about the situation in front of him, and is more concerned about whether he can be crowned king.

To say that Yang Chendong didn't have such extravagant hopes originally, all he thought about was how to expand his military strength and get more of what he needed through war. After all, Leng Feng wants to develop, it is not possible to have a sufficient population base, and he does not want to use outsiders, and he believes in the Han nationality more, so he can only hit the idea on Daming.

Facts have also proved that war is indeed the best way to test the strength of the armed forces, and at the same time, it is also the best opportunity to expand the armed forces. Just destroying a miscellaneous yellow bandit army with only a few hundred thousand people got so many soldiers and silver taels, which made Yang Chendong also see the benefits that war could bring him. But he never thought that the situation in Yunnan was so critical that Yingzong Qizhen threw aside the law of his ancestors and gave the title of Xiping Marquis and King Xiping.

But don't underestimate this king with a different surname. Once you have the identity of the prince, you can open your own mansion, and you can also have your own army on the bright side, although the number of people cannot be more than three thousand, but for Yang Chendong, once he has such power, I am afraid that there are few places in the world that he can't go.

There are too many benefits to becoming a prince, so I won't list them one by one, which makes Yang Chendong excited. But he also knew that even though Mu Bin could be crowned king with a different surname, it was just a special event in a special period, and it was not hereditary, so it was destined that this Xiping King would only have an effect on Mu Bin, otherwise, his descendants would not enjoy such treatment.

Even Mu Bin has left so many backhands to become the king, and if he wants to be crowned the king, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult. Not to mention that Zhu Qizhen has always been very jealous of himself. In this regard, Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu brothers have the same attitude.

But even if there are examples in front of him, even if it is difficult, Yang Chendong has to fight for it. For him, it was definitely an opportunity. In the words of the people, after this village, I am afraid that there will be no more this shop.

With a goal, when Kuang Ye came to visit him, he proposed that he was very envious of the king, and at the same time he looked seriously ill, in order to add a few points to the possibility of this matter.

Of course, if you really want to make Zhu Qizhen loosen, it is not enough to just make these things. It is also necessary to make the other party more threatening, in other words, the more complicated the situation on the battlefield is, the more dangerous Nanming is, and the higher the success of this matter.

So during these days, Yang Chendong has been paying attention to the movements of the Minwang family, and in what can be called the date and night, the other party finally has a movement.

The first to move was the Miao people.

This time, the Minwang family was able to defeat the Ming army, and the progress was rapid, and the successive offensives were completely inseparable from the help of Miao Min. It was precisely because the Miao family dared to fight, kill, and rush, and the momentum was like a grandeur that the Nanming army was defeated and retreated, so that a large amount of territory and land were lost in a very short period of time.

At that time, there was no such thing as one nation. As an ethnic minority, they are often limited from birth, and their birth is destined not to have much achievement in their lives, like something high above the temple, sorry, that is something that you don't even think about.

As a result, one generation is not as good as the other, and the poor growth environment makes the life of the Miao people worse day by day. Until Zhu Qizhen built Nanming in Nanjing, in order to complete the purpose of recuperation faster, he increased taxes, which made the Miao people, who were not very good in the first place, soon under the burden, and their lives became dire.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance!

Just when the Miao family was in great distress, King Min's lobbyist came, promising a lot of benefits that moved some of the leaders of the Miao family. Since then, when they left their hometown, they came all the way to Guangdong from Yunnan to Guangdong, and finally let them know what it means to be rich, in comparison, it seems that their lives were too poor before.

Suddenly getting rich often makes a person's mind dizzy and his behavior changes. Today's Miao army is like this, they captured some cities without much effort, and then grabbed a lot of good things, the greed in their hearts could not be contained, and gradually made them like this feeling of big robbery.

The main force of the Minwang family is still digesting the city in hand, while constantly recruiting troops to consolidate their strength; When the Cochin army also captured the city, it did not forget to transfer the good things and some of the population to their own country; Only Miao Jun, they don't care about any city at all, and they haven't thought about winning the world, they are more interested in the benefits in front of them.

It doesn't matter if it's a rat's eye, or if it's a lack of ambition, in short, they are the most fierce in attacking the city. Often, after capturing a city, it will be a few days in a row, and then it will be left behind, and the pace of the siege will continue to move towards a new goal.

In less than a month, the number of cities and state capitals destroyed by them reached more than a dozen, and the number of people affected by the disaster reached more than one million.

The Miao army, which was divided into several branches, was like a swarm of locusts, and everywhere it went, crops were barren and the people were displaced.

It is said that the south of the Ming Dynasty has not experienced any wars for many years, and the people are still rich. If other armies came here, it was not a difficult task to raise military rations, but the bad thing was that it was the Miao people who came. Not only did they rob food, money, and women, but they also set fire to the things they couldn't eat, as if to vent the hardships they had lived over the years.

Naturally, more and more victims of the disaster in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong provinces have been affected by this approach. So much so that later, after many people knew what Miao Jun had done, they dragged their families and left their hometowns without waiting for them to call.

Although people are reluctant to leave their hometowns where they have lived for a long time, more people choose to run away from home than to be able to live. Only some of the old people, who are old and have bad legs and feet, choose to stay, and they look like they are going to die in their hometown.

The disaster of the Miao army was not suppressed by the difficulty of the collapse of the sky and the earth, and this point was quickly reached a consensus and was openly stated in the main hall of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Wang Zuo and several other old ministers and important ministers also sent messages to the emperor, asking to send troops to clean up these Miao troops in order to save the people of Li from fire and water.

Some of these people are sincere for the country, and some are because their ancestral home is in these three provinces, and some of them are unlucky, the officials whose hometowns are occupied, and the fertile land at home have been invaded by the Miao army, and they naturally hope that the emperor can send troops to encircle and suppress them, and help them regain everything they have lost.

There were more and more excerpts to invite soldiers, covering the entire dragon case, and Zhu Qizhen's face became more and more ugly.

How did he not want to send troops to settle the rebellion? But first he has to have that kind of strength.

The Ming Dynasty, especially in the south, has not seen sword soldiers for a long time, judging from the results of Kuang Ye Shangshu's previous patrols, under years of recuperation, some of the Southern Ming guards have some usable soldiers, but they have their tasks, and it is a heavy task to keep their territory from chaos.

If these forces are drawn now, they will be concentrated to deal with the rebellion of King Min. If there are too many people, I am afraid that the rear will be empty, and there will be a new rebellion.

Tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, if the west wall falls because of this, no matter how you look at it, the gain outweighs the loss. If you don't draw troops, you can't solve the problem at hand, although the military department has begun to recruit troops, but it always takes a certain amount of time, and it is when it is difficult to ride a tiger, Kuang Ye's second eight-hundred-mile urgent war report arrived on Zhu Qizhen's desk.

This battle report, after yesterday explained the matter of Wei Guang's self-murder by Wei Guang, the affairs of Jinyi Wei, and the above focused on Yang Chendong's poisoning and important dispatch of troops to learn from Mu Bin to be crowned king.

"Waste, a bunch of waste." On the Jinluan Palace, Zhu Qizhen, who had seen the folding, raised his hand and threw this eight-hundred-mile expedited road to the feet of Cao Jixiang, the chief eunuch who was waiting for him.

"The emperor is angry, take care of the dragon's body." Cao Jixiang didn't know what was going on, so he first knelt on the ground with a frightened look.

"Stop the anger, stop the anger, every day you know to make me angry, but you have to do something to make me happy. That Wei Guang, the person did not succeed, but admitted that everything was involved, and I was detained as a hero to be killed, not to mention, now people are asking me for the throne, you say, give it or not. Zhu Qizhen, who was blue with an iron face, roared and glared at Cao Jixiang, expressing his dissatisfaction in his heart.

Cao Jixiang's face instantly turned a lot whiter at this moment, "Your Majesty, but then Yang Chendong wants to be crowned king?" ”

"Who else but him." Zhu Qizhen acquiesced in this fact in his cheers.

"That's not going to work." When Cao Jixiang heard this, his eyes kept turning, and he opened his mouth to speak.

Listening to Cao Jixiang shouting no, Zhu Qizhen became interested, "Aiqing said no, what's the reason?" ”

Cao Jixiang, who knelt on the ground, crawled forward quickly with his hands and feet, came to the feet of Zhu Qizhen, raised his head and said with a look of loyalty to the country: "Your Majesty, a different surname is not a king, this is the rule set by the ancestors." King Xiping is already an exception, but it turns out that the use of a different surname is not very useful. Besides, if whoever wants it will be given to whom, then the world will not be chaotic, once the world is peaceful, how to treat them, I am afraid that the tail will not fall. ”