During the Xianping period of Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chuanxia Road, located in the current Sichuan Basin, was divided into Yizhou Road, Zizhou Road, Lizhou Road and Kuizhou Road, collectively known as "Chuanxia Fourth Road", abbreviated as "Sichuan Road", and Sichuan was named after this...

From the end of the Song Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, the population of Sichuan decreased sharply under unprecedented wars and economic decline. Therefore, the imperial court implemented two large-scale movements in the early Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, which was called "Huguang filling Sichuan". The two movements caused Sichuan, which lacked population, to obtain a large amount of labor and the social economy was quickly restored.

In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to incorporate the Sichuan area into the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong's peasant uprising army entered Sichuan and established the "Daxi"** in Sichuan, with Chengdu as the Xijing. During the 30th year of the early Qing Dynasty, Sichuan was in war and did not enter a stable period until the 20th year of the Kangxi period. In the 24th year of the Kangxi period, Huguang filled Sichuan. In northern Sichuan, Shaanxi was dominated by Huguang, eastern Sichuan was dominated by Guangdong people, and southern Shaanxi was dominated by two lakes.

In June 1855, the Han army divided into three groups to attack Sichuan. The second route was led by Zeng Guofan and entered Sichuan from northern Yunnan. The troops headed directly to Yucheng. The second route was led by Zhao Yali and Shandong militias entered Sichuan from southern Shaanxi. The road was unstoppable. Not only did they approach Chengdu, but Chengdu general Wei Jun asked Hong Xiuquan to send troops to support several times, but was dismissed by Hong Xiuquan. The third route was led by Zeng Shuiyuan and Lin Qirong, and the Anhui defenders entered Sichuan from Guizhou. Within a month, they were in the Yucheng.

In recent years, Hong Xiuquan was extremely extravagant. He not only recruited the people to build a palace, but also selected beauties every year, forbidding the people of Sichuan from marriage and childbirth. The people were slightly resisted and destroyed the entire clan. Not only did the people hate it deeply, but even many soldiers dared not speak out. The country of Tianfu was enjoyed by Hong Xiuquan alone. Since the news of the Han army sending troops spread, the people in Sichuan have been unprecedentedly active. Except for some big cities with heavy troops, the people in other small towns have raised troubles and cooperated with the Han army to attack the city.

Chengdu, the city where Shi Dakai was once stationed, many soldiers were established. When Hong Xiuquan forced Shi Dakai to leave, they were all indignant, so that the later guard Wei Jun could not command them at all and was still peaceful. However, when the Han army attacked and once the battle was defeated, everyone complained to each other and then quarreled, not taking the chief general Wei Jun in the central army seriously. When Hong Xiuquan heard this news, he took the opportunity to remove Wei Jun from his post and sent his confidant Lu Xianba to guard the battle.

The Han army was stationed twenty miles outside the city. The first thing Lu Xianba did to enter was to talk to Wei Jun in detail.

Lu Xian asked anxiously: "What's going on? Why did I hear someone claiming to surrender? You don't care about this kind of thing. Who is it? Tell me and I'll deal with it."

Wei Jun was not an official, and his brother Wei Changhui had never offended the King of Han, so he was in favor of the surrender faction. As long as he did not do too much, he pretended not to know.

"Is there any? I don't know. Prime Minister Lu is the commander of the Left Army. He controls all the troops in Chengdu. Who dares to be arrogant in front of Prime Minister Lu?"

Lu Xianba was disappointed with Wei Jun's ambiguous attitude. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom implemented a warlord system, and each prince and prime minister had his own private army. Although Wei Jun was dismissed, there were still tens of thousands of confidants in the city obeying him. Lu Xianba only brought three thousand heavenly soldiers from Tianjing. Without Wei Jun's support, what's the use of three thousand troops?

Lu Xianbasuo's surname broke up and said loudly: "I know it's that little devil Shi Zhenji! He joined forces with several old subordinates of the Wing King to plot against him. Brother Wei, the King of Northern was forced to death by the King of Emperor of the Wing, and the whole family of the Wing King was killed by His Highness of the King of Northern King. The two families have already formed a deep feud. Now I heard that King of Yin surrendered to the King of Han and the King of Han broke the city. Are we still able to save us!"

Whenever Wei Changhui mentioned, Wei Jun recalled the past when everyone opposed Yang Xiuqing together. Although that incident was indeed wrong and the Kingdom of Heaven has never recovered, it has formed a life-and-death friendship after all.

"Prime Minister Lu, listen to my advice, let's surrender. The King of Heaven is really... unable to help him. He only knows how to enjoy himself in the palace and the officials of the court do not meet him. He lets his two brothers make trouble. He will say so. Prime Minister Lu asks you. If you don't surrender, you can leave on your own. I will guarantee you that you are fine. If you surrender, we will kill all the people of the King of Heaven in the city. This is the request made by the Han army outside the city. What do you think?"

Lu Xianba was shocked and angry. After pondering for a while, he was only left with fear. It was neither surrender nor war. If he wanted to surrender, he had severely punished His Highness the King of Han. Not only did he pursue the King of Han in Zijing Mountain, but during the period in Yong'an, Guilin advocated attacking and killing King of Han and joining his army, but also personally plotted against King of Han under Changsha City, almost taking the life of King of Han. If he wanted to fight, the number of people in Yi City would definitely not be able to defeat him.

"You made me think about it."

Wei Jun was fooled at that time. His brother let Shi Dakai go like this, and was forced to death by Shi Dakai. He patted his palm a few times and broke out dozens of guards from the left and right screens, with swords and swords, and looked at Lu Xianba fiercely.

Lu Xianba asked stammeringly: "What does Brother Wei mean?"

Wei Jun chuckled and said, "Let's learn from the past, Che's army, you, Lu Xian, want to lead the troops to attack me when you go back, right? If you don't surrender, I will personally send you out of the city. Everyone will think they don't know each other in the future, after all, they will be their own masters."

Lu Xianba weighed the pros and consequently decided to surrender and save his life first. He didn't believe that Wei Junzhen would send him out of the city, and would probably dismember him from the body. Compared with the current danger, offending the King of Han would have great hope.

Thinking of this, Lu Xianba stopped hesitating and said fiercely: "Submit! Submit!"

"Hahaha..." Wei Jun stepped forward and said hideously: "I have a list here. Prime Minister Lu summoned them to the royal palace according to the name of the person above, and I sent troops to ambush outside."

After saying that, Wei Jun waved his hand fiercely and the word "kill" popped out of his mouth!

Looking at the list on the paper, Lu Xian swallowed and whispered: "Loyalty Hou, Fu Tianyi, Cheng Tianyi and others are all old brothers in Guangxi. Isn't this too inhumane?"

"Isn't humane? Brother Lu is joking." Wei Jun smiled coldly. If others say they are not humane, he would feel ashamed. But who is Lu Xianba? In the city of Tianjing, he specialized in hunting and killing old brothers in Guangxi. I don't know how many relatives and friends died at his hands.

Lu Xianba nodded helplessly, and the two of them discussed for a while and acted according to their own plans.

After seeing Lu Xian pulling away, Zhao Yali came out from behind the screen and smiled at Wei Jun: "This Lu Xianba is indeed as the emperor said, fearing death, and forgetting his righteousness when he sees profit."

Wei Jun smiled and said, "The general doesn't know anything. Lu Xianba still has a connection with His Majesty the Emperor."

After hearing the anecdotes about Li Yunzhong, Zhao Yali became interested. She also wanted to figure out why a otakus turned into a career-oriented man.

"You tell me carefully!"

Wei Jun continued: "Before the uprising, Mr. Feng of the Southern King was captured by the Qing army. No one could do anything about it. His Highness the King of Han advocated redeem Mr. Feng with silver."

Zhao Yali smiled slightly, Li Yunzhong was pre-aware. It should not be difficult to think of this. He didn't know that this was temporarily adapted by Wei Jun deliberately trying to please Li Yunzhong.

Wei Jun smiled and said, "At that time, Lu Xianba was walking with the emperor. I heard that the two had a deep friendship. Later, Lu Xianba followed Yang Xiuqing's instructions and harmed the emperor several times. The emperor had a lot of people and did not bother with him."

Zhao Yali sarcastically said: "It's really smart but it's just a mistake. If this smart person from Lu was so smart, if he had been loyal to the emperor, he might have already entered the cabinet."

Wei Jun sighed, "Who said it was not, everyone bet the wrong treasure. When the King of Han used troops like a god, everyone should have foreseeed it, but he firmly believed in the way that God of Hong Xiuquan came to earth and missed a great opportunity in vain."

"What the general said is that although the surname Lu cannot fight, he is a good at handling internal affairs. Even the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing appreciated him very much and entrusted him with important tasks."

Looking at the young man in front of him, Wei Jun was very convinced. Most of the people in the heavenly kingdom were at a young age. The king favored young men recently. Most of the generals promoted by the commanders were around Double Ten, so it was true that they could fight, but they were filled with a sense of arrogance. The young man in front of him was different. He didn't even say that he was single and had a thorough thought. He soon persuaded most of the generals in the city. This was not something that ordinary people could do.

Zhao Yali was still thinking about Li Yunzhong's situation at the beginning. Most of the generals in Chengdu were from Guangxi. She has inquired about a lot of things recently, and some generals have personally witnessed the past of Li Yunzhong being chased.

When Wei Jun saw Zhao Yali being immersed, he reminded: "General, the Ming Dynasty said that Chengdu can change its flags. I wonder what general's plans are?"

Zhao Yali asked: "What do General Wei thinks?"

Wei Jun couldn't wait to say: "It is not enough to capture Chengdu to make the general successful. If the general captures Yucheng again, the emperor will definitely be happy and he will be appointed as a marquis and ministers, saying that it is time to be called "

Zhao Yali looked at her for a while and asked again: "The general thinks I should send troops to Yucheng? But what should I do if Chengdu does this?"

Wei Jun replied seriously: "The general does not need to worry. Choose the generals in the city to accompany you. The general of Chengdu can send his confidants to stay. One is rising and the other is getting worse. Chengdu will definitely be fine. The general can also get a share of the great contributions to the capture of Yucheng."

Zhao Yali nodded slowly. Recently, she had a deep understanding of the level of military merits in the Han Dynasty. As a minister, if he had no military merits, he would definitely not be able to integrate into the circle of military officers, and military officers in the court occupied most of the positions.

In the evening, when several generals loyal to Hong Xiuquan arrived at the palace as promised, they were not Lu Xianba, but a group of ambushers, without even saying a word, and killed them completely. The next day, Chengdu opened four gates to welcome the Han army outside the city into the city, and was occupied by the Han army silently.
Chapter completed!