The emperor's chariot chased Yu Youhan, and it was true that he caught up, but it seemed that he could not be said to have overtaken him. To be precise, the chariot arrived at the meeting place agreed upon by Emperor Yongli and Li Dingguo, and had stopped, and it was still two days later.

He just arrived.

This is already Zhaozhou in Dali Prefecture, less than twenty miles away from Erhai Lake, but a full six hundred miles away from Kunming. The guard had a casual chat with a familiar acquaintance of Jin Tong's military department, and they found out that Yongli

The emperor's trip set out on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and traveled more than sixty miles that day to Anning Prefecture, southwest of Kunming City. In the next nine days, the average speed was this every day, and by the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, it had already reached Anning Prefecture.

Arrived here. (Note)

Traveling sixty miles a day, something that many armies in this era could not do, Emperor Yongli led a group of queen mothers, queens, princes, eunuchs, maids, as well as civil and military officials and their families, and they were able to do it continuously.

It's been like this every day for ten days, which is really unbelievable.

Yu Youhan did not dare to be disrespectful to the emperor of the Han family, but if it were Chen Kai, he would have to complain: "This Ming Dynasty's first long-distance runner is really a treasure of immortality. He is so fast that even the Ninth Sister of the Great Jin Emperor can finish his beauty."

Everyone will be willing to accept the defeat."

In fact, when it comes to running away, Emperor Yongli has always been very capable. Only two days after he finalized the route and destination with Li Dingguo, he set off, and then traveled sixty miles a day in only ten

They arrived at the prepared rendezvous point in the morning. In comparison, the main force of the Qing army led by Duni, Wu Sangui, and Zhao Butai from the Qing Dynasty, who recognized the Jin people as their ancestors, set out half way from the Ming court.

It took many months to arrive in Kunming City. The Green Camp soldiers accompanying the army were not even able to eat the noodles on the second day of the first lunar month in Kunming City. If we start from the time they completed the rendezvous, they only traveled forty miles a day.

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The disciples of the Eight Banners in the early Qing Dynasty could not outrun the Ming Emperor who brought up his family. This is like the large-scale cavalry field battle in which the Liao army could not defeat the Song army - it sounds like nonsense, but it is true.

After submitting the memorial to the General Administration Department, due to Chen Kai's current weight, Yu Youhan was brought to the "main hall", which was the state government office in Zhaozhou, in the morning of the next day, and was temporarily used as a palace.

"The grassroots people still support the Han Dynasty and respectfully wish our emperor to be in peace."

Logically speaking, a commoner can wait in the post house after sending a memorial. After the court approves it, he can go back with the imperial edict. Of course, under normal circumstances, no official in the border area will send an ordinary citizen to deliver the memorial. More importantly,

The person who wrote this memorial was Chen Kai, a local civil servant with real power in the absolute sense of the Ming Dynasty today. The emperor had to give face to him no matter what he said.

"Plain body."

After thanking the emperor, Yu Youhan stood in the main hall with his eyes and mind in mind, and even his breathing was deliberately lowered. When he first entered the main hall, he saw the emperor's majestic face with his own eyes, and it was indeed quite special.

The statue of the king made people feel a bit respectful. Moreover, it was his first time to go to the palace, and he was extremely nervous. He followed the etiquette taught by the officials of the Ministry of Rites almost completely mechanically.

Cheng Yuan, the Minister of Rites, had been closed at home to thank guests for a long time because of Ma Jixiang. After this move, he had to come out to see things again. The reason why he saw this well-dressed man and the man behind him, Chen Kai, sent such a commoner here.

, after thinking about it last night, I have probably figured it out - Tiandihui, Consultative Bureau, and Henan Yishi. Putting these three points together, it is clear that Chen Kai is showing off the results of his work to the Ming court. He believes that he can

If you have figured it out, other people in the court can also figure it out. Even the Emperor of Heaven must have figured it out. However, this is no longer important to the current Yongli court.

"I have read Chen Aiqing's memorial. I am also aware of Chen Aiqing's loyalty. However, the imperial court has decided to go west, and the Japanese army is approaching Kunming. It is absolutely impossible to turn eastward."

"Your Majesty, it is indeed inappropriate to divert the troops to Guangdong and Guangxi at this time. But western Yunnan is a barbaric land. How can the imperial court be self-sufficient and how can the army be self-sufficient?"

This was no longer the time before they set off. Now they were traveling sixty miles a day to Guangxi, and ten days later they bumped into the Qing army that had just arrived in Kunming. It was indeed inappropriate.

However, they were still in Zhaozhou. Liu Chan, a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy who had previously discussed the plan to go north to Sichuan in Kunming, once again expressed his negative attitude towards the imperial edict. This was the result of Gong Ming, the right minister of the Ministry of War who accompanied the army as counselor of military aircraft the day before yesterday.

This was the second time since he came to express Li Dingguo's opinions. Immediately afterwards, the officials who supported the northward march to Sichuan stood up in response and knelt down for a large area, as if they would not give up until Emperor Yongli changed his mind.

"My dear friends, there is no need to persuade me anymore. I have made up my mind and will drive to Yongchang Mansion tomorrow."

They had been arguing for three days, and even the Clay Bodhisattva was a bit rustic, not to mention he was the upright Emperor of Heaven. After saying these words, he retreated to the palace and returned to the palace. At this time, Ma Jixiang appeared.

As the chief and assistant minister of the cabinet, he was astute as he was, and even with the words "I will send you to the emperor respectfully", he led a group of Yunnan-Guizhou officials to make the etiquette impeccable.

Today's morning meeting, originally the most important task was to give face to Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong behind Chen Kai, but when the opposition group made a fuss, they left Yu Youhan aside. However, the Yongli court could no longer care about it.

This was a lot. The cabinet drafted a reply to Chen Kai, the emperor gave a reward, and then asked officials from the Ministry of Rites to arrange horses for Yu Youhan and his guide to return, and the matter came to an end.

Just returning to the backyard of the state government, Yongli put aside the chatter of those officials who opposed the westward expansion, read Chen Kai's memorial again, and thought of more things.

"It was passed down to Zhang Xiaoqi, the right censor of the capital procuratorate."

"I, Zhang Xiaoqi, respectfully greet my emperor."

"Zhang Aiqing's life."

Zhaozhou was just a stop for the Yongli imperial court. To be precise, it was a crossroads, because from then on, going north through Binchuan Prefecture, one could enter the territory of Jianchang Prefecture in Sichuan, achieving the initial goal of the plan to enter Sichuan, and turning to the southwest was

In Yongchang Mansion, the emperor and the harem settled in the Yamen, and the ministers basically lived near the Yamen, and some even lived directly in the cars.

Zhang Xiaoqi came in a hurry, but he still had no idea what was going on. In terms of the most important matters in the court at the moment, he did not belong to the Sichuan civil servants headed by Cheng Yuan, nor to Ma Jixiang's group of officials from Yunnan and Guizhou.

The position was relatively neutral. But what he didn't expect was that the emperor's summons had nothing to do with this matter.

"I remember that Aiqing once said when he first entered the court that Chen Kai, the governor of Guangdong and Jiangxi, set up a consultative bureau in the Jingnan Palace. Is this possible?"

"Reporting to your Majesty, this is indeed the case."

"My dear, take a look at this."

After receiving Chen Kai's memorial, Zhang Xiaoqi read it word for word, then closed the memorial, bowed and said to Yong Li: "Your Majesty, in the past, I once said that Chen Kai had ulterior motives in giving his surname, and the court must be on guard against it. So, here we go.

Another powerful testimony!”

Yongli's impression of Chen Kai has always been very vague - a scholar who traveled thousands of miles south to join the king's army, a wise and courageous counselor, an official with unparalleled political ability, a righteous man who helped the weak and eliminate violence, an arrogant and domineering foreign minister, who tampered with the ancestors.

The evildoers who have been controlled... After the emperor has been working for a long time, he will not pay too much attention to the opinions of others. After a long time, he will know that every word spoken by each minister has his own purpose.

The key is to see how a person does it. At this point, Zheng Chenggong set up six officials and Chen Kai set up a consultative bureau, which made him uneasy.

In the former case, Sun Kewang had done something similar and easily separated himself from the imperial court. Although doing so could indeed improve administrative efficiency, from the perspective of imperial power, ministers could not be allowed to overstep their bounds. The latter was even more irritating.

He clearly remembered that Chen Kai's memorial requesting the establishment of a consultative bureau was written together with his request to confer the title of Queen of Heaven to Mazu. At the end, a large group of high-ranking civil and military officials jointly seconded the proposal, clearly to force the court to recognize it.

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Doesn’t he understand what the Advisory Bureau is? On the surface, it is to check and fill vacancies in government governance. In fact, it is just an institutional recognition of the reality that local gentry and powerful people have grown up at the grassroots level. Chen Kai used this to

The purpose of winning over powerful local people at this stage is naturally to resist the Qing Dynasty and compete with the Manchu Qing Dynasty for supporters. But as a result, the imperial government's decrees will inevitably be subject to more local constraints. Even if they only talk about resisting the Qing Dynasty, it is clearly a way to quench thirst.

How could someone as smart as Chen Kai not see it? But he still chose to do this and forced the court to admit it. Even a three-year-old boy wouldn't believe him if he said he had no selfish motives.

As for the effect of winning over people's hearts, he didn't know much about the Manchus, but as soon as the memorial came out, Guo Zhiqi, the great scholar he personally appointed as the superintendent, gave several prefectures and counties in western Guangdong to Chen Kai, and also forced him to

The former Gao Lian Lei Qiong, the former governor of the Fourth Prefecture in front of him, returned to serve in the court. According to the report of Zhou Tengfeng of North Qianhai Province who now works in Guangzhou, the Guo family has members of the Guo family serving in the Provincial Advisory Bureau of Guangdong and the Prefecture Advisory Bureau of Chaozhou.

, although the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who was originally from Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, did not take a clear-cut stand with Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai, he has been stationed in Nanning for a long time now and has let go of all matters in Guangdong. This method of poaching the court has a real effect.

It's obvious.

Now, this feudal official has proposed that if Yunnan and Guizhou cannot hold the court, they can move to Guangdong. Even his palace is ready, which is the Pingnan Palace that was so popular before...

Yes, the emperor uses Pingnan Palace as his palace, and the Consultative Bureau operates in Jingnan Palace. He puts the great Emperor of Heaven on the same footing as the Consultative Bureau he created. What are these if they are not rebellious officials and traitors?

Although, it is gratifying that Geng Jimao was arrogant and extravagant. When he regained Guangdong, Li Dingguo, Guo Zhiqi, Lian Chengbi, and Chen Kai all mentioned it in their official posts. The pieces they selected from the collections of the two kings and presented to the royal family were all of great value.

This is evident from the rare treasures of Liancheng. But since Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai have the possibility of becoming Sun Kewang's second best, then even if the palace is definitely much more luxurious than Anlong Qianhu, it is probably not enough for him.

It's just a more comfortable cage. How dare he move to Guangdong and Guangxi!

Since he came to the throne, coercion, coercion, deception, and even house arrest have become commonplace for him, but it does not mean that he is willing to live such a life.

Judging from the way things were done in the Consultative Council, Yongli felt that the Yushi Youdu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in front of him should be a loyal minister, and he was from Wujiang County, Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili. Most of them were from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and a few were from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

It is an absolute rarity among the courtiers who are from Guangdong, Guangxi and Huguang. In the past, their relationship was like the breakup of Guo Zhiqi and the death of Lian Chengbi for the country. After returning to the court, he did not have much interaction with Ma Jixiang and others, and he was still considered a common person.

Gu Chen. However, he was no longer interested in consulting on the multiple-choice question about changing directions.

"Don't trust people when you employ them, and don't use people when you are suspicious. The King of Jin is loyal and will not harm me."
Chapter completed!