Just when Li Zicheng was busy ascending the throne in the capital, a series of bad news came again and again, mainly from the Western Expeditionary Army, Niangzi Pass fell, Guguan fell, the Ming army approached Taiyuan, and Chen Yongfu, a Wenshui Bo stationed in Taiyuan, sent urgent documents one after another.

However, at this time, the most important thing was to ascend the throne, and when Chen Yongfu's urgent document was left behind, good news came from the east - Tongguan Luohu led the "Zhenshan Battalion" to repel Wu San's retreat, forcing him to retreat for a hundred miles.

This good news is like a congratulatory gift to Li Zicheng on his enthronement, which shocked everyone in the Dashun Dynasty. At the same time, Li Zicheng finally ascended the throne and became emperor.

In fact, in the past few days, the entire Dashun has been preparing to go south. Everyone was nervously preparing for all this, after all, they knew that this battle was probably an unprecedented bitter battle.

From the prime minister to the military advisor, from the big and small generals to the leaders, everyone seemed a little nervous, even Li Zicheng.

As usual, when the war was approaching, Li Zicheng's mood was often excited, but now he was full of worries and a heavy mood. Although this was expected, it was an unexpected war.

When he was in Xi'an, on the way to Beijing, and even until the beginning of his entry into Beijing, he was immersed in the joy of victory, only thinking of ascending to the pole and becoming emperor, and then spreading the word to the south of the Yangtze River, and then unifying the whole country and establishing the eternal foundation of the Li family.

At that time, future generations will call him Gongmai Tangwu, Debi Yao Shun.

Unexpectedly, not only Zhu Ciying actually jumped out, but also Wu Sangui jumped out! Knowing this, he would bring an extra 120,000 horses, even if he couldn't make Zhu Ciying agree to split the land and divide the country, he would not dare to act rashly.

Originally, I had already thought about giving you Beizhili, Shandong, and Liaodong!

Again, when the army went out, Li Zicheng's mood seemed a little heavy, tearing the soil and sealing the country, how good it is that the people of the world can enjoy peace again.

Don't you Zhu Ciying know how many sins the people have suffered over the years?

When Li Zicheng was thinking in his heart that Zhu Ciying disregarded the well-being of the people in the world, Sun Ke, the prime minister over there, asked to see him, and after the two discussed the matter of going south for a while, Sun Ke said again.

"Your Majesty, this expedition to the south is not a minister, it is related to the foundation of my Dashun, and it is ...... to go on the expedition in ancient times."

Without waiting for Sun Ke to finish speaking, Li Zicheng said with a smile.

"Oh, my prime minister, here are just you and me, you and I are the two of you, you just say these wrinkled words, these words are too sour, we are still the same as in the past, just say what you want to say directly!"

His Majesty's words made Sun Keke shake his head and smile.

"What Your Majesty said is that the minister is pedantic, and the minister is thinking about whether the army is going out to fight, whether he should kill someone and sacrifice the flag, so that he can also be auspicious."

Murder Flag?

Li Zicheng responded.

"Well, that's how it should be, but who to kill? The prisoners in this prison were all released when we entered the city, and as for the demotion, ......"

"Your Majesty, since you want to kill people and sacrifice flags, you should kill a few big people, after all, the Southern Expedition is related to the thousand-year-old foundation of my Dashun! Moreover, if our army goes on the expedition, if there are old ministers of the Ming Dynasty who take the opportunity to make trouble in Beijing, it will also affect the plan of the southern expedition, kill a group of old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and also kill chickens to show monkeys and warn everyone! ”

"Big Shot ......"

After a moment of silence, Li Zicheng said.

"Then kill a few, and who will you kill?"

It's just a few demos, not to mention killing demoted officials, even the princes have killed several, those princes have hard spirits, some have soft bones, but if they are killed, they will be killed.

A few demos, it's not bad to kill a good fortune!

"Well, if you want to sacrifice the flag, you have to kill a few big people, there are many people in this demote, what does Your Majesty think of Chen Yan? He is the elder of the previous dynasty, although he let Chongzhen dismiss the official, but he is also considered a former cabinet elder, killing him will not make the official feel jealous, nor will they have the feeling of sadness. ”

"Well, Chen Yan ......"

Li Zicheng asked.

"Is it the Shoufu who opposed Chongzhen and the ministers' transfer of Liao troops into the customs when we fought Shanxi?"

"It's him, although this person is the first assistant, but in fact he is incompetent, and with bribery, let's let them help, that is, he gave 100,000 taels in full, and has just been released home, Yichen estimates that he still has at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at home, and now he is still waiting at home for His Majesty to receive it!"

In history, Chen Yan took the initiative to give 40,000 taels of silver before being released, but this time, as soon as Liu Zongmin's clamp stick was on, he immediately spit out another 60,000 taels.

"Oh?"

Li Zicheng snorted coldly.

"Chen Yan is such a good thing, there is more than enough success, if it weren't for him, Chongzhen would not have lost the world, at least not so quickly, although he said that he had merit to our Dashun, but yesterday he could harm Chongzhen, and tomorrow he could harm us, such an official, we Dashun can't be used."

As a ruler, Li Zicheng of course knows what kind of official he should use, something like this "Liu to descend to Liu, Cao to descend to Cao", even if his eyes fall, he will surrender to others in the future, let such a person enter the court as an official, and he will also harm himself in the future, can he stay such a scourge?

Of course you can't stay!

"Not only can you not stay, but you must kill him to warn future generations that you must not have a traitor like Chen Yan who brings disaster to the country and the people."

In fact, not only does Li Zicheng understand what kind of people can be used and what can't be used, but the same is true of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you don't see that in the end, including Hong Chengchou, the people who made great contributions to the Manchu Qing Dynasty have all been included in the "Second Minister", the country is loyal, the relatives are filial piety, and the friends are faithful, this is the minimum conscience of a person, if you are disloyal, unfilial and unjust, who would dare to use such a person? Even if it is used by the invaders of the alien race for a while, but it is only used for a while, and they will still be suspicious in their bones. After all, the country, the people, relatives and friends who can betray them today will inevitably betray their new masters tomorrow.

It is precisely because of this that Li Zicheng simply agreed to kill Chen Yan.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Sun Ke hurriedly patted his ass.

……

"Hey, have you heard? Li Thief wants to lead the troops south to conquer the prison country, if the prison country defeats Li Thief, we will be saved. ”

Looking at his son's excited appearance, Chen Yan snorted coldly.

"You have been reading books for more than ten years in vain, is it really stupid or fake stupid, let me tell you, no matter who wins the sky, as long as he Zhu Ciying wins the world, someone will use your father, if he Zhu Ciying wins the world and enters the capital, the first person to kill must be his father!"

Grand Master Chen looked at his father in surprise and wondered.

"Dad, why is this?"

"Why? It was me who opposed the entry of the Liao soldiers, and it was I who opposed the relocation of the capital, have you forgotten what the first emperor said in the court? The first emperor was angry, that is, "I don't want to do it, Mr. wants to do it; I want to do it, but I don't want to do it. Annoyed, that is, "your death is not enough to cover your guilt." , and then blasted his father out of the capital, but don't forget, his Zhu Ciying's personality is like a second ancestor, and he will never be soft when he kills people, and when he enters the capital, he will inevitably take out a few criminals who almost ruined the Ming Dynasty to use the knife, and your father is the first! ”

may be incompetent, but Chen Yan still has a little bit of self-knowledge, he regretted it in prison, but no matter how much he regretted it, he couldn't change the reality, he was tortured a few times, and he paid 100,000 taels of silver as if he was dying, and finally came out of that fateful place.

But the result was good, Zhu Ciying actually came over, and he was still in charge of the Ming Dynasty, and the first emperor still played a wonderful move!

Even now, Chen Yan still couldn't help but sigh.

"Their old Zhu family, hey...... The first emperor abolished the national capital and passed on the throne to the foreign domain, this move can protect the Ming Dynasty for at least two hundred years, as for our Chen family, if Li Zicheng uses us, then we will be the courtiers of Dashun in the future, if it really doesn't work, then we can only leave......"

"Gone? Go there? ”

Chen Dagongzi looked at his father puzzled.

"Go out of the customs, go outside the customs, now the eastern captives are in Mongolia, and there is also a need for people over there!"

Whether Li Chuang can win or not, Chen Yan doesn't know, but when the time comes, he even chooses a good strategy - go out directly, it's a big deal to shave his hair and become a traitor.

Looking at his father in astonishment, Mr. Chen was speechless for a long time.

"Dad, this, this is to be a traitor!"