An irreversible event occurred in Beijing, Liu Zongmin arrested all Wu Sangui's family, and he used Wu Sangui's family as hostages to force Wu Sangui to surrender. While cleaning up Wu Sangui's family, a woman suddenly made his eyes light up.

"It's so beautiful! There is such a beauty in the world?" Liu Zongmin asked in surprise who this person was.

This person is Chen Yuanyuan, Chen Yuanyuan's original surname is Xing, his mother died early, and his uncle's surname is Chen. Can sing and dance, when the color art crown, it is called one of the eight Yans in the south of the Yangtze River. When Chongzhen, his relative Zhou Kui wanted to seek a beautiful woman for the emperor to relieve the emperor's sorrows, and later Tian Hongyu dedicated Chen Yuanyuan to Chongzhen. At that time, wars were frequent, and Chongzhen had no intention of having fun. Chen Yuanyuan returned to Tianfu and was later married by Wu Sangui.

Liu Zongmin thought, Li Zicheng has already accepted a palace maid from Dou Meiyi as a concubine, I haven't caught any outstanding women, this Wu Sangui's wife, Lao Tzu is welcome, let Lao Tzu sleep for a few nights. Although he was also worried that Wu Sangui would be angry, he thought: "Wu Sangui is an old minister of the Ming Dynasty, and I am the first hero of the Dashun Dynasty. ”

However, he still didn't feel at ease, should he give this woman to the emperor? It was impossible for him Wu Sangui to be dissatisfied with the emperor. Liu Zongmin was determined to take this woman away, was it for himself or for Li Zicheng? In the end, he decided to keep it for himself.

Suddenly, there was a noticeable anomaly in the pass, and the entire alert was raised to wartime level. What happened? At this time, Wu Sangui's neck was very thick and red, and the purple-blue blood vessels were as big as a little finger.

"It's the opposite!" Wu Sangui yelled at his cronies: "Lao Tzu will not hesitate to leave a stink for thousands of years!"

"Please calm the general's anger, it's not clear what the specific situation is, wait until our people come back, the situation is clear, and then make a decision. A staff member advised.

"Yes, yes, Li Zicheng shouldn't be such a person, someone must be deliberately sowing discord. Another staff member said.

At this moment, one of Wu Sangui's house slaves came. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down and cried: "Master, Liu Zongmin, the general under Li Zicheng, has arrested all of our family." ”

"What does it mean that he is arresting our family?" Wu Sangui shouted.

"I'm afraid that you will not be loyal to Emperor Yongchang of Dashun and take your family hostage. ”

"What about people now?"

"All under house arrest. ”

Wu Sangui was taken aback, and then asked, "How is Aunt Chen?" Aunt Chen was referring to Chen Yuanyuan.

"I was taken away by Liu Zongmin. ”

"Huh?" Wu Sangui was furious: "Really?"

"Indeed it is. ”

Silent. The hall fell silent.

"It's the other way around!" Suddenly, Wu Sangui shouted.

When Wu Sangui heard that Chen Yuanyuan had been captured by Liu Zongmin, he was furious, and he decided to borrow troops from Dolgon to eliminate Li Zicheng.

Wu Sangui's military meeting lasted for a long time. The final decision was to meet Dorgon as soon as possible, but the guards in the gate suddenly increased.

Shanhaiguan, also known as Yuguan, is located in the northeast of Qinhuangdao 30 miles, brings together the essence of the ancient Great Wall of China, one of the northeast passes of the Ming Great Wall, is considered to be the starting point of the eastern end of the Ming Great Wall. Shanhaiguan City, the circumference is about eight miles, it is connected with the Great Wall, the city is the pass, the city is more than four zhang high, two zhang thick, there are four main city gates, the building of a variety of defenses, it is a city pass with a relatively complete defense system, it is called the first pass in the world.

For this Xiongguan, Dorgon appeared countless times in his dreams. He remembered that more than ten years ago, he pretended to be a border citizen and stayed there for more than half a month, and at that time he thought that if one day, their Manchurian army marched southwest from here, it would only take four or five days, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty would be under their sword.

Now the dream is about to come true, his vanguard troops, as early as half a month ago, were sent in batches in the form of sentry posts, they were hidden near the Great Wall, in short, Dolgon's way of sending troops is clever, not to mention the ordinary people, even the agents of the Ming Dynasty, they can't calculate how many troops they have sent, and they don't know their specific direction and destination. Dolgon received Wu Sangui's envoy, and the long-awaited good news finally arrived.

"I, the Qing Empire, inherit the will of the heavens, adhere to the will of the ancestors, and march into the Central Plains. In addition to staying in the Shengjing Department, the rest of the departments marched towards Shanhaiguan at full speed. The Mongolian Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners, all of them, attacked with the Eight Banners. ”

On behalf of the Shunzhi Emperor, Dolgon issued an order to attack China, which was their main force, and the vanguard of the Qing army had quietly approached Shanhaiguan.

Li Zicheng could not believe that Wu Sangui would surrender to the Manchurians, because there was no reason to explain it.

Li Laiheng said: "Your Majesty, Liu Zongmin has a woman named Chen Yuanyuan is the reason. ”

"What?Chen Yuanyuan?" Li Zicheng asked in surprise, he couldn't think of what a woman had to do with Wu Sangui's surrender to the Manchurians?

"Didn't Ruhou Liu Zongmin and Liu Ye tell you the origin of that woman?"

"What is the origin?" Li Zicheng asked in surprise.

Li Laiheng told Li Zicheng the general situation of Chen Yuanyuan, and then said: "Your Majesty, Chen Yuanyuan is a woman in a green mansion and a famous beauty in Suzhou, but the Marquis of Ru has it for himself. The Marquis seems to have a heartfelt love for your emperor, but in fact, do you know what the Marquis is doing outside?"

"What's the situation?"

During the day, he was busy arresting officials with more than six grades, demanding that they hand over the silver, and if they were unsatisfactory, they were severely tortured, and it is said that more than 20 million or 30 million taels of silver had been found in less than ten days. At night, a large group of women surrounded him, living a life of spending days and drinking. ”

Li Zicheng said: "That's right, officials above the sixth grade must hand over their family property, which is the policy we set in Chang'an." These people are not tortured, how can they be willing to take out the silver? As for women, you should be born and died, and now you are enjoying happiness. ”

"Your Majesty, do you know how many people were tortured to death? More than 100 officials of the sixth rank and above died on the spot, and do you know how many women jumped into the river and hanged themselves? More than 700 women committed suicide in the south of the city, all of which were good deeds done by Ruhou's subordinates. And the woman that the Marquis of Ru occupied, do you know whose woman it is? Wu Sangui's wife!"

"What!"

Li Zicheng was stunned, how could such a thing happen? He remembered that when he entered the city, Li Zicheng repeatedly told the soldiers that they should maintain order in the city and that there should be no harassment of ordinary people.

And Liu Zongmin also found a woman surnamed Gu in the Tian family, although she is not as good as Chen Yuanyuan, but she is also a natural stunner. Men can be thieves together, they can do bad things together, but they won't engage in the same woman, Li Zicheng thought, since Liu Zongmin has engaged in Wu Sangui's woman, it is inevitable to start a war with Wu Sangui.

Liu Zongmin already knew about fighting with Wu Sangui, he didn't care very much, fighting, he laughed and said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, these Ming Dynasty officials, they all look like Qing officials, as long as I am ruthless, they will be obedient, give me half a month, and I can raise 20,000 taels of silver." Now only the fifth- and sixth-grade officials have been tortured, and the fourth-grade and above, as well as the emperor's relatives and relatives have not yet done it, and the good show is still to come. ”

Liu Zongmin was very proud. 20,000 taels, Daming's financial income for many years, is a lot of wealth, with this wealth, Dashun can do a lot of things. Liu Zongmin was happy to say it, but Song Xiance listened to it painfully, and when he arrived in Beijing, he made people panic, how to deal with it in the future?

Li Yan was also anxious, he calculated, there are more than 10,000 officials above the sixth grade in Beijing, or the officials with six grades in Beijing, each of them is dozens of people, plus hundreds of domestic slaves, these people add up to hundreds of thousands, which is a great destabilizing factor. If this continues, Beijing's governance will be very difficult.

Li Zicheng's troops forced officials to give up their silver taels and family wealth, and treated the people rudely; if they did not actively pacify the people in Beijing, Li Zicheng would be completely defeated. This is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the original foot of the Son of Heaven, for hundreds of years, they have also bathed in some of the glory of the Son of Heaven, and have also received some blessings from the Ming Dynasty. In their subconscious, they still think that the Zhu family is their son of heaven and their master, and Li Zicheng is just a thief.

In the depths of their hearts, they have not had time to remove Li Zicheng's thief character, let alone identify him as the new Son of Heaven.

It is true that the Han nation has not yet accepted Li Zicheng from the heart, because Li Zicheng has no reason worthy of their acceptance. Except for the early vulgar slogans such as eating his mother and wearing his mother, opening the city gate and breaking into the king, Li Zicheng's political program was not clear, especially after entering Beijing, their strategy was not to appease but to be violent.

However, the victors tend to overestimate their own abilities and energies, ignoring many inexplicable things that the previous rulers have accumulated over hundreds of years, or at least the ability of vested interests to fight back. Hundreds of thousands of Beijingers with vested interests, they have already begun to fight back, and their counterattacks are explosive.

At first, they could open the city gates under fire and welcome Li Zicheng into Beijing, because they had a glimmer of hope, that is, they fantasized that Li Zicheng might become the master of the new century, and that they themselves could be one of the builders of the new order, but that hope was dashed, and now their only option was to resist.

The death of the fierce general Luo Hu, the ministers of civil and military affairs are mourning for Luo Hu's death, but the result of their grief is indeed to rub salt on the new wounds of Dashun. Luo Hu's death should have awakened this group of Dashun Wenchen generals suddenly, but at this juncture, Dashun's Wenchen generals were angry, and they reciprocated by killing more violently.

Liu Zongmin ordered to exercise stricter control over the widows of the Ming Dynasty, and to control those who were in contact with the Ming Dynasty government, even if they were slaves.

Just over two hours after the order was issued, more than 30,000 people were taken under control in Beijing, hundreds more women were raped, thousands more women, and some men hanged themselves. In the east, south, and west of the city, a large number of mansions caught fire.

The gates of Beijing are closed again!