Now Li Guoying has formulated the same plan that he reported to the imperial court. Originally, he had a backup plan as early as April, which was more ambitious, that is, to concentrate his forces on Wanxian County, making the connection between Fengjie and Chengdu more difficult. This much more ambitious plan was conceived after Li Guoying learned that Beijing would send him the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and build the embryos of the barrage cannon in Chongqing -- more reinforcements and the new weapons that were about to be released made the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi much more emboldened, and he originally planned to copy a large number of cannons once the test was successful, and then blockade the river, and use a small number of troops to cooperate to block the troops that came to Chengdu quickly; Then release the Jialing River Naval Division of the Qing Army to cooperate with the main force to take Wanxian.

Now the way to make a cannon is to first make a cannon embryo with wax, then make a mold with clay on the periphery of the wax cannon, then heat and melt off the wax embryo, and pour copper juice into the mud mold after the mud mold is dry, and the copper cannon can be obtained. Li Guoying's super cannon is naturally no exception, but it is a pity that the first 8,000-pound cannon enlarged in equal proportions exploded in the first test firing. In addition to this one, all other cannons made of mud were also scrapped.

After discussion, the masters unanimously decided that they could not enlarge it in equal proportions, but cast the cannon wall thicker. In order to ensure that the caliber was large enough, Li Guoying had to continue to increase the weight of the cannon. To be on the safe side, the masters also thickened the outer wall as much as possible when making wax embryos. The new clay embryo has only been dry for more than a month now, and it is estimated that it will not be cast until the end of July. Even if the sample cannon passes this time, Li Guoying will not have time to cast a larger caliber artillery. Since it was impossible to blockade the river, Li Guoying's ambitious plan to attack Wanxian County was naturally aborted.

Now what Li Guoying can do is still sit at the head of Chongqing every day, counting the number of Ming ships passing by. He hoped that by the end of this year, he would be able to make some trouble for the shipping of the Ming army in western Sichuan.

"40,000 armor, 100,000 armorless and people, a total of more than 100,000 troops are going to Yuan Zongdi in Wanxian County to cut some grain!" Sun Sike felt that Li Guoying's strategy was too conservative.

"It's better to have grain to cut, it's better than an army of more than 100,000 people sitting on the head of the city and counting it." Li Guoying felt that the imperial court was completely superfluous, but since the money and food had already been spent, it was much better to conduct actual combat drills than to do nothing.

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At this time in Kunming, Deng Ming did not wait for the emperor's appointment, but learned that a coup d'état had taken place in Burma. The royal brother of Burma, Mang Bai, murdered his brother Mang Da and usurped the throne of Burma.

"What impact might this matter have on the emperor?" After hearing about this, Deng Ming immediately went to find Li Dingguo, and after seeing the queen of Jin, he asked bluntly: "Will the emperor encounter any risks?" ”

In the stormy present of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the possibility of any change causing danger far outweighs the possibility of bringing benefits, so Deng Ming is not willing to have an accident forever, even if it is a fugitive emperor, if he dies, it may bring a new blow to the hearts of the people in the world.

"The emperor will be fine." Li Dingguo was also taken aback when he received the report, but this was an internal affair of Burma, and it was said that there would be no danger to Yongli, the cabinet, and the Imperial Forest Army, as long as the Son of Heaven did not try to interfere with his head -- according to Li Dingguo's understanding, the Son of Heaven would not have done such a thing today.

"If you kill your brother and usurp the throne, you will definitely ask for the Holy Lord's approval, but how can the Holy Lord approve of this kind of evil act of disobedience to the Gang Chang?" Li Dingguo felt that Burma was still nominally a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and it was said that the suzerainty should crusade against the rebellion and protect the reckless descendants on the throne. However, Li Dingguo estimated that Yongli did not have the courage or strength to interfere. If the new king of Burma asks the exiled Ming court to correct the name of the usurper, no matter how Yongli responds, there will be trouble: "It would be nice if Yuanfu could persuade the saint to come back." ”

"What if the Holy One doesn't recognize the throne of Recklessness?" Deng Ming is not very clear about how Yongli was killed in his previous life, and he does not know about the coup in Myanmar, but he only remembers that Myanmar handed over Yongli and his son to Wu Sangui; Now Yunnan is still in the hands of the Ming army, Wu Sangui is also far away in Guiyang, Deng Ming has always thought that Yongli will not be in any big danger, but he didn't expect such a storm to arise again.

"Perhaps," Li Dingguo said in a low voice, "Maybe Yuanfu has persuaded the Holy Lord to recognize Mang Bai as the king of Burma, which is also beneficial to the Holy Lord, but it is ...... It's just ......" Li Dingguo didn't finish his words, he hoped in his heart that the eternal calendar would show the principle of the Son of Heaven, but thinking that he had also been a thief back then, it seemed that he couldn't say that "everyone gets and punishes the rebellious ministers and thieves" with confidence: "No matter what, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Yunnan Sichuan, and they dare not be rude to the saints." ”

"I hope so." Deng Ming sighed softly.

……

Myanmar, the camp of the Great Tomorrow.

The reckless messenger went away in a rage. After the successful usurpation, Mang Bai accepted the congratulations of the Burmese civil and military forces in the capital, but the emperor did not come to congratulate him, or even send a congratulatory envoy. In anger, Mangbai sent someone to rebuke Yongli, claiming that he had not fulfilled the etiquette of the guests. Yongli's explanation to the envoy was that he had fled to Burma for more than two years, and the money in his hands had been almost spent, so he could not prepare a decent congratulatory gift.

The cabinet and the generals of the Imperial Forest Army, who had always been immersed in gambling, actually gave up gambling today, and came to see His Majesty together, and after seeing the Burmese envoy angrily brushing his sleeves away, the faces of the first assistant Ma Jixiang and his old son-in-law Yang Zai turned white with fright, and the two knelt in front of Yongli together with the other elders, begging the emperor to congratulate Mang Bai on his victory.

"It's sad that I'm in exile as a vassal in exile, but I'm still the lord of China after all, how can I go and congratulate a vassal king?" Yongli's face was very calm, but his tone was terrifyingly cold: "You can go if you want to, but you can't go in the name of my messenger." ”

"Holy Lord, think twice." The elders shouted in unison.

"I've made up my mind, so let's play cards." After Yongli finished speaking, he walked back and left his courtiers.

When he returned to the back, the prince of Yongli walked up to the Son of Heaven and whispered: "Father, the reckless white face is a beast, if you don't take advantage of his wishes, I'm afraid there will be accidents." ”

"Don't I know?" In front of his son, Yongli no longer concealed it and smiled bitterly.

"And Mangda was also quite rude to his father before." The prince said again. After Yongli fled to Burma, Mangda saw that the great emperor was timid, and the elder of the pavilion was drunk and dreamed of death, so he looked down on them very much, and found various excuses to refuse to come to meet the emperor of the suzerain.

"Mangda is really not good to me, but he is not sorry for his brother, he is still Mangbai's brother after all, and he is the king of Myanmar." Yongli shook his head: "Regardless of the monarch and minister, just murdering his brother is like an animal." How can I go to congratulate? How can I send someone to congratulate me? ”

Seeing that his son's face was pale, obviously very frightened in his heart, Yongli slowed down: "I can't revitalize the ancestral industry, I can't calm the ministers inside, I can't resist the strong captives outside, I leave the soldiers and flee to the vassals, I'm afraid I won't have the face to see the ancestors and ancestors in the future, and I will lose the faces of the ancestors and the ancestors; But I am still the son of tomorrow, the emperor of China, if I go to congratulate a beast who killed my brother in order to survive, and brazenly applaud his evil deeds, then I will not only lose the face of the heavenly family. It will make all the nations of the world laugh at the shamelessness of the king of China - I am a coward, but not a shameless person! ”

"Father." The prince was shocked and knelt down in front of Yongli.

Back then, someone persuaded Yongli to send the prince to Sichuan, but the queen was reluctant to have a son, so Yongli softened his heart and brought him to Burma. Seeing the prince's weak appearance, Yongli was also sad in his heart: his son was the same as him, although he was smart but lacked martial arts, he didn't look like a master of Zhongxing like Han Guangwu.

"I have disgraced the faces of my ancestors, and I cannot disgrace you and your descendants." Yongli waved his hand: "Go down, there is no need to talk about this anymore." ”

The crown prince stood up in a dacker, hesitated and asked, "Why does the king of Jin have to stay in the middle of the matter of the king of Jin asking for the title of Deng Ming?" ”

After receiving Li Dingguo's recital, the cabinet applauded one after another, believing that giving Deng Ming the identity of a county king and posthumously sealing his ancestors for three generations could eliminate, at least temporarily, the threat of Deng Ming's threat to the throne, so he tried his best to build yì Yongli immediately issued an order to give him a knighthood. But to everyone's surprise, Yongli left the chapter in the middle and did not send it, without any intention of giving Deng Ming a county king.

"Whether to give Deng Mingjue or not, I can't wait now." Yongli revealed his plan to the prince: "But there is no job and no title, after all, it is still a bit too much to say." Okay, I'm going to make a decree, give Deng Ming a left military governor's mansion, well, give another national duke, but don't posthumously seal three generations! ”

"Father, why is that?" The prince was completely confused, he heard the elders say that the only way to solve the problem was to give Deng Ming the identity of a foreign king.

"If the civil and military capital of Yunnan is now obedient to my orders, of course it is best to do so. But now that I am still in Burma, it may not be a good thing to say that Deng Ming is not a clan. Although it was not good to know that it was not good to stay abroad and not return, Yongli could not muster the courage to return to Kunming. Wu Sangui in Guizhou has an overwhelming superiority in troops, what if the Qing army comes over again, and Burma does not allow Yongli to enter the country for the second time?

"What does it matter?" The crown prince still didn't understand what the emperor meant.

"Why did Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty send edicts again and again to let his courtiers crusade against Cao Cao, but he was always safe? Why did Emperor Han Xian almost take back his power after Cao Cao's death? Yongli asked coldly: "Why are the fate of other generations of deposed emperors miserable, only Emperor Han Xian can live happily, and Cao Pi can still tolerate him using the banner of the Son of Heaven and not worship the edict?" ”

"Why?" The crown prince was stammered by the question, and asked his father in a daze.

"Because Emperor Han Xian has an Uncle Liu Huang outside! If Li Dingguo wanted to be Cao Cao one day, he would definitely not want me to have an imperial nephew with troops outside, so he would have to be careful of ending up like Wang Mang. Yongli said loudly, seeing that his son was still stunned and didn't react, Yongli drank again: "Think about it, why did Emperor Han Xian recognize an imperial uncle?" If you don't understand, keep thinking until you figure it out. (To be continued)