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Mu Changzuo was still satisfied with the chips offered by Southeast.

The Ming court was also very wary of the Mu family. The Mu family did produce several ambitious Dukes of Guizhou, but Mu Changzuo was not.

Mu Changzuo's position as Duke of Guizhou was directly given to him by the Ming court, bypassing his father Mu Chaobi.

The reason why the Ming court passed Mu Chaobi was because Mu Chaobi was an ambitious man who killed his nephew and his wife. In order to seize the position of the Duke of Guizhou, the Ming court used its last arbitration power to pass Mu Chaobi. Mu Changzuo became the Duke of Guizhou and captured Mu Chaobi and imprisoned him in the capital.

When attacking the capital in the southeast, Mu Chaobi escaped from the capital and once wanted to return to Yunnan and seize the position of Duke of Guizhou with his son.

But he didn't expect that Mu Chaobi was ambitious and encountered the southwest chieftain rebellion on his way back to Yunnan.

When Mu Chaobi was the Duke of Guizhou, he suppressed the rebellion of the southwest chieftain many times, so he became passionate and brought several servants forward, hoping to recruit this chieftain to surrender.

It turned out that the rebellious chieftain was driven out of the mountains by Dongfang. He had never heard of the name of the Duke of Guizhou, so he just hacked Mu Chaobi to death with a knife.

Mu Changzuo was originally anxious and anxious, waiting for his father in Yunnan.

But no one could wait for his father to return. In the end, the servant who escaped from the rebel chieftain returned to Yunnan to report to Mu Chaobi, telling him that the father he feared was dead.

Mu Changzuo was at a loss and cried all night in the house while organizing the funeral for his father.

Generally speaking, Mu Changzuo is such a person.

His position as the Duke of Guizhou was not achieved by his "struggle", but by his father Mu Chaobi's hard work and it fell on his head out of thin air.

After succeeding as the Duke of Guizhou, Mu Chaobi, who was imprisoned in the capital, often wrote back to scold his son, but Mu Changzuo also responded humbly and did not dare to be disrespectful to his father.

After all, Mu Changzuo had been beaten with canes by Mu Chaobi since he was a child, and he had a strong psychological shadow on this domineering father.

Mu Changzuo also felt troubled by the arguments among the retainers.

He returned to the inner residence of Duke Qian and met with his grandmother Li.

This Li Taijun is already very old. She is a descendant of the Marquis of Linhuai and can be regarded as Li Yangong's aunt.

Li has experienced many generations of Dukes of Guizhou and is the most knowledgeable person in the entire Duke of Guizhou's mansion.

Li Taijun was lying on the couch at this time. After listening to his grandson finished talking about the discussions of the retainers in front, the old lady opened her eyes and said:

"What do you think of your grandson?"

Mu Changzuo said cautiously: "My grandson feels that the land of Yunnan is poor and barren. Although it has the advantage of mountains and rivers, even the middle of Shu has been captured by the southeastern army, and we in Yunnan are definitely unable to defend it."

Li asked: "So my grandson wants to negotiate peace with Southeast?"

Mu Chaobi lowered his head. What he was most worried about was Li's opposition.

The Li family was a descendant of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Marquis of Linhuai has now joined the Southeast, the old lady has grown up with the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor all her life, and she also pays the most attention to etiquette and loyalty.

In the past, his father Mu Chaobi killed his nephew Ba's sister-in-law, and it was also the old lady Li who killed her relatives out of justice and reported the affairs in the Duke of Guizhou's palace to the Ming court.

As soon as Mu Changzuo inherited the position of Duke of Guizhou, it was Li who assisted him in the administration. As soon as Mu Changzuo became capable of taking charge, the old lady immediately handed over all the government affairs of Duke of Guizhou to her grandson and hid in the back. The house is clean.

Therefore, Mrs. Li's opinion is also very important to surrender. If she also objects, then Mu Changzuo will have no choice but to resist to the end.

The old lady looked at her grandson and said:

"Then how does your grandson feel about sitting in the position of Duke of Guizhou?"

Mu Changzuo shook his head and said: "I'm sitting on pins and needles, grandma, if you hadn't handed over the government affairs to my grandson, my grandson would really want to never take over these things for the rest of his life."

What Mu Changzuo said was not polite, but he really meant it.

The Duke of Guizhou is said to be a border prince and the hereditary king of the southwest in the southwest, but in fact?

In fact, he is the earth king of the southwest border.

One of the most important reasons why the Ming court has tolerated the Mu family for hundreds of years is that the southwest is too poor.

The Mu family was in the southwest. They had to suppress the rebellion of the chieftains and manage the civil affairs. Every generation of the Duke of Guizhou had to personally lead troops to go to war. Mu Changzuo's father, Mu Chaobi, went to war three times to suppress the rebellious southwestern barbarians.

By canonizing only one Mu family, the Ming court did not invest much power in the southwest border, which was really profitable.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty never reduced the vassal status.

The old lady said: "If your father came to ask me this question, I would definitely tell him that to protect the inheritance of our ancestors, we cannot surrender to the Southeast."

Mu Changzuo was a little disappointed, but Li Taijun said again:

"But if you ask, grandson, then I'll tell you, it's better to vote as soon as possible."

Mu Changzuo looked at his grandma in surprise and asked:

"Why?"

Li Taijun said:

"Your father has a strong nature. In order to compete for the position of the Duke of Guizhou, he would not hesitate to poison his blood relatives and commit these crimes that destroy human relations. He will definitely not accept surrender."

Mu Changzuo nodded.

"My grandson, you are different. You have no intention of being the Duke of Guizhou. If you can remove the burden of being the Duke of Guizhou, it may be the luck of our Mu family."

Mu Changzuo was stunned.

Mrs. Li continued to cry and said:

"For this position, I don't know how many scandals have happened in the Duke of Guizhou's palace. And the blood of many generations of the Mu family has been spilled in the southwest."

"You don't have your father's ambition, nor your father's talent. You might as well be a rich man."

After Mrs. Li finished speaking, Mu Changzuo quickly bowed and said:

"My grandson is too stupid to protect the inheritance of his ancestors."

Li shook his head and said: "It's not that you are stupid, but that you have to rely on blood relatives to get the position. It is really stained with too much blood."

"Being a rich man in a stable and prosperous age is much happier than being a grass-headed king in a bloody and chaotic world."

"You are more blessed than your father."

Mu Changzuo kowtowed to his old grandmother. After leaving the inner hall, Mu Changzuo summoned his retainers again and announced his decision:

After surrendering to the Southeast and accepting the plan of the Southeast Governor's Office, the entire Mu family went to Nanjing, including the Guizhou Duke's Palace, which was handed over to Southeast.

Most of the Mu family's retainers were happy with this decision.

Under Mu Chaobi's troubles, the death rate of retainers in the Duke of Guizhou's mansion was very high, and they often had to suppress rebellions.

Now Sichuan, Guangxi, and Huguang have all been captured by the Southeast, and Yunnan and Guizhou have been surrounded, with no support from the Ming court at all.

If the Mu family took the lead in surrendering, then he wouldn't have to fight so hard.

Moreover, based on Guangxi's experience, the Han-Barbarian problem in Yunnan is more serious, and the Southeast has more opportunities to use their old ministers.

In December, Yunnan asked for surrender.

Guizhou also surrendered to the southeast.

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