Indeed, as Zuo Zongtang and Wang Minyun said, if you go to Kunming City by yourself, it is really worth persuading Wu Zhenqi to surrender. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

So far, among the Manchu civil officials who surrendered to the Holy State, Xu Youren, the political envoy of Hunan, has the highest rank, and he is a second-rank official, but compared with the governor, after all, he is still a step behind. Even if the rank of the governor is from the second grade, the gold content and fame are undoubtedly much greater than that of the political envoy.

Therefore, if Wu Zhenyan, the governor of Yunnan, could take refuge in himself and let the "Nanfang Daily" publicize it again, it would undoubtedly be a major blow and shock to the Manchu court. Feng Yunshan also knew that the Xianfeng Emperor in Beijing would be so angry that he would vomit blood if he knew?

Moreover, judging from the information obtained now, this Wu Zhenqi is really a good official, although he is a little obsessed with power.

With this defection from the governor of the second grade, maybe even the governor and the squire of the second rank will surrender in the future. I should set up this signboard.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan immediately decided to go to Yunnan. Just by the way, when I came back, I went to Tianzhou in Baise, Guangxi, to see the oil fields there with my own eyes.

Regarding the situation mentioned by Luo Qiongshu, Feng Yunshan concluded that it was an oil well, but he didn't go to the scene to see it, so he couldn't rest assured. Besides, the rest of the people don't know what to do with it either. In this era, only I am most familiar with oil.

Since it was decided to set off for Yunnan, Feng Yunshan ordered Fan Ruzeng to immediately arrange a secret service department to take Wu Zhenyan's family in Qiantang's hometown to Guangzhou, and send his eldest son at home directly to Yunan on a fast horse, the faster the better.

At the same time, Fan Ruzeng proposed that since the family of Wu Zhenqi, the governor of Yunnan, wanted to be taken out, it would be better to send people to pick up the family members of the Manchu prefects and deputy generals in Kunming City and Chuxiong Mansion to force them to return to the Holy Kingdom.

However, this trip to Yunnan, Feng Yunshan was ready to go secretly.

Since the last time he was assassinated in the city of Guangzhou, Feng Yunshan has become more and more cautious. Seeing that his power is getting bigger and bigger, there will be more and more people who hate him and want to take his inheritance, and they will become more and more crazy, so he does not intend to speak out.

In the history books, there are too many things where the emperor was rebelled and took away the country when he went on patrol, although Feng Yunshan is not yet the emperor, but in the holy country, he is also a monarch, he doesn't want such a bloody drama to happen to him.

Therefore, even if it will delay some things, Feng Yunshan will not hesitate to do so.

The next day, Feng Yunshan summoned his hardcore cronies: Zeng Guanlan, Vice Minister of General Affairs, Huang Yukun, Minister of Justice, Xie Xiangcai, Vice Minister of the Interior, Hu Damei, Minister of Police, Huang Yiyun, Minister of Medical Education, and Zeng Yuheng, Vice Minister of Public Works, to the palace.

Feng Yunshan first reported the battle situation in Yunnan, said that he was going to Kunming, asked everyone to keep it strictly secret, and guarded Guangzhou for himself.

Naturally, everyone agreed. Sister Hu even asked to go to Yunan with her, saying that she wanted to protect the Holy King all the way.

Feng Yunshan said with a smile: "The eldest sister will help this king to be optimistic about Guangzhou, and the rest of the brothers will be optimistic about the holy kingdom for this king." Guanlan and Yukun, you can discuss it and come up with an idea. This king will go for two months soon, and three months for the slow! ”

"Rest assured, the Holy King will keep an eye on the Holy Kingdom, so that those little ones will not dare to act rashly!" Huang Yukun stated.

Zeng Guanlan also looked awe-inspired, and said, "Holy King, just rest assured!" The only thing Guanlan is worried about is your safety on the road, and it is better to send more people to accompany you all the way. ”

"This king will have arrangements. With Liu Shengbang and a cadre of guards here, plus the garrisons of the captives along the way, how can there be any danger? Feng Yunshan comforted everyone, and said: "Yu Heng will go with this king, bring a few directors of your public works department, and then this king will have a task to explain." ”

In the next two days, Feng Yunshan was busy with government affairs, busy arranging the things in hand, and assigning some tasks.

He also called Zuo Zongtang and Huang Dingfeng, the commander of the Second Division B who stayed in Guangzhou, and instructed the two to guard the area around Guangzhou Mansion well, and he was ready to set off with ease.

Before leaving, Feng Yunshan also quietly talked to Cheng Lingnan, who was about to give birth in two or three months, and Su Sanniang, who had just become pregnant, and promised that he would come back as soon as possible and come back before Cheng Lingnan gave birth.

He was accompanied by Zeng Yuheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Public Works, Fan Ruzeng, director of the Special Service Department, Liu Shengbang and Wang Minyun, and more than 300 palace guards who guarded him, all equipped with foreign guns and sufficient ammunition. Fan Ruzeng was not at ease, and transferred more than 30 people from the Operations Department and the Communications Department of the Special Services Department to serve as covert guards.

Feng Yunshan only discovered at this time that it was no wonder that the ancient emperors went out on patrol and moved tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of horses.

The route was set by Fan Ruzeng. Starting from Guangzhou, take a boat along the Xijiang River upstream, pass through Wuzhou, Xunzhou, Guixian, Nanning, get off the boat from Nanning and change to land, enter Yunnan by horse and carriage from Guangxi Zhen'anfu, and directly arrive at Kunming through Guangnan and Guangxi.

The whole journey is nearly 2,500 miles, and there is no delay on the road, and it is estimated that it will take more than half a month to arrive, but it is still extremely hard.

Feng Yunshan was ready to slow down the trip slightly, if he could take a boat, he would not take a carriage, if he could take a carriage, he would not ride a horse, and of course, he could also take a sedan chair, but Feng Yunshan was afraid of the scene outside Quanzhou City again, and there was a shadow in his heart, and the speed of the sedan chair was still too slow.

On the eighth day of Feng Yunshan and the others' departure from Guangzhou, they finally arrived in Nanning. This way, going upstream, the medium-sized passenger boat that was originally taken in the middle, after arriving in Guiping, the river narrowed, and the current became turbulent, Feng Yunshan and others had to replace the small flat-bottomed sailboat, and let the soldiers support the pole all the way, before they laboriously arrived in Nanning City. This is still the premise that the two Guangzhou-Guangzhou ocean shipping companies have opened the passenger transport business from Guangzhou to Nanning, dredging and widening the river, and eliminating the dangerous reefs, otherwise, I am afraid that it may not be necessary to go to Nanning in half a month.

Of course, this is also because of going upstream, if you go downstream, it will naturally be more than twice as fast.

The commander of the 13th Brigade of the Capture Army who remained in the city of Nanning had already received an order from the General Staff Headquarters to prepare nearly 500 horses and more than 20 carriages for Feng Yunshan and others to use.

After nearly 19 days of difficult climbing, Feng Yunshan and others arrived at Lunanzhou City without danger. Luo Qiongshu and Li Kaifang both led a battalion of cavalry and came to greet them.

The journey from Guangxi to Yunnan was an eye-opener for Feng Yunshan. What a pristine tour!

Even in the carriage, he was extremely nauseous from the chest tightness that was bumped every day, and Feng Yunshan finally realized the pain of difficult travel in this era.

No wonder Li Bai lamented: It is difficult to go to Shu Road, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky! If he came to Yunan, it is estimated that he would feel how happy it is to walk in Shu Road!

In particular, the junction of Guangxi and Yunnan, although it is said to be an official road, it still makes people tremble. Hundreds of zhang of the cliff, half of the middle of the cut out of a path, can only a horse and a person side by side forward, the mountain wind blows, a little careless did not catch the horse, was blown off the cliff.

Feng Yunshan's carriage was directly dismantled and camelped over.

Even if it's not dangerous, it's hard to get through. The trail was too narrow for the carriage to pass, and hundreds of soldiers took turns to lift and push the carriage over the mountain beams.

Come to think of it, it is indeed a big problem for so many copper mines in Yunnan to be shipped out. It is no wonder that the price of copper in the Manchu Qing Dynasty remained high, and the minting could not generate much profit, and this is the reason. Just transporting copper out of Yunnan requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Feng Yunshan thought about how to develop Yunan in the future, there was no condition for water transportation, only the railway. These are to ask Zeng Yuheng, vice minister of public works, and others to ask the locals carefully and study countermeasures.

Lunan Prefecture, isn't this the famous scenic spot of later generations, the location of Kunming Stone Forest Scenic Area?

Although he had never been to the Stone Forest before, Feng Yunshan was exhausted at the moment, and he didn't plan to go and see it. Directly let Luo Qiongshu and Li Kaifang lead the troops to open the way, enter Lunanzhou City to rest for one night, and then go to Kunming the next day!