Today is the eighth day of the fourth month, and there is only one day left before the second ascension ceremony of Emperor Dashun calculated by Song Xiance on his fingers. According to the original schedule, he was supposed to happily perform the enthronement ceremony, that is, the rehearsal.

However, yesterday morning, after the post-battalion general Bohou Li Guo's recital was sent to the Wuying Hall where the Dashun Emperor was stationed, the enthronement ceremony on the ninth day of the fourth month was canceled, and the good mood of the Dashun Emperor disappeared all at once.

Because Li Guo reported shocking bad news in the Guilty Petition - the attack on Tianjin Wei ended in a fiasco!

In the case of four consecutive days of bloody battles and once attacked the southern city of Tianjin, due to the sudden arrival of thousands of iron cavalry led by Wu Sangui, the originally favorable battle situation took a sharp turn, and Li Guo, Li Yan, and Chen Yongfu's troops fled in a hurry and suffered heavy losses! Tang Tong's department was completely annihilated!

In addition, Li Yan's wife, the female general Red Lady, was broken by the Zheng family's sailors in the Weihe Water Battle, and her whereabouts are unknown.

At present, Li Guo, Li Yan, and Chen Yongfu have packed up the remnants, retreated to Wuqing County, and asked Li Zicheng to send reinforcements to fight Tianjin Wei again!

Later, Tian Jianxiu, who personally went to the Yutian front to supervise the army, sent a report, saying that the envoy sent to Wu Sangui's army reported that the morale of the Guanning army was low, and he had not heard of the rumor that the auxiliary king of Dongyu wanted to marry his daughter and the prince of Ming. In addition, Tian Jianxiu's envoy also learned that the daughter of Dorgon, the auxiliary king of Dongyu, was only 6 years old and could not marry at all.

At the same time, Tian Jianxiu also reported that there were rumors that Wu Sangui wanted to abandon Shanhaiguan and float south to Zhu Cihong, and that Dongyu was concentrating his forces and wanted to take advantage of the situation to seize Shanhaiguan.

After these news were summarized, Li Zicheng had a little headache when he saw it. Because Wu Sangui is still a double copy of his N! I don't know if it's true over there? But whether it's true over there, it's not a good thing. If Wu Sangui has already arrived in Tianjin, then the area around Shanhaiguan must be empty, and it may be occupied by the Dongyu at any time!

If Wu Sangui was still staying in Yongping, then who defeated Li Guo and them? Li Guo and the others' soldiers added up to 22,000. An opponent who can beat them to a crushing defeat is not too weak to think about.

Where did Zhu Cihong find such elite reinforcements? If Zhu Cihong really has enough elite soldiers to defeat Li Guo, then once he conquers the east and west, Dashun will be attacked on his back!

In this case, where does Li Zicheng still have the mind to do anything to ascend the throne for the second time? It's too late to prepare for the war, what kind of foundation do you have to ascend!

But when he thought of preparing for war, Li Zicheng's head was big. The old camp brothers below are all screaming for money!

These guys are all Li Zicheng's creditors, and they all feel that they have made a lot of credit and must be rewarded. But there is nothing in the treasury left by Chongzhen's poor ghost, and it is so empty that it can run away. What do you want Li Zicheng to reward?

In addition to not being able to give out satisfactory rewards, the Dashun Imperial Court does not even have enough food now.

If you look into this matter carefully, Zhu Cihong is not good! Didn't he issue a bunch of orders after the change of the Huangji Gate? One of them is to distribute the grain stored in the Tai Warehouse to the people in the inner city of Beijing...... Although this decree was carried out in a hurry, the grain depot of the household department was basically emptied.

In addition, after Zhu Cihong Feng Chongzhen went south to Tianjinwei, there was no way to transport the large amount of seaborne grain piled up at the mouth of Dagu to Beijing.

As a result, Li Zicheng not only had no money to pay rewards, but also had difficulties in supplying the troops. Those veteran soldiers who followed him all the way to the battle and finally entered the city of Beijing not only did not get the wealth they wanted, but they could not even eat rice and white flour openly, let alone meat.

This treatment is completely out of step with the founding heroes!

Under these circumstances, it became more and more difficult to maintain the discipline and morale of the old battalion, and the military discipline of many units was corrupted, and from time to time there were incidents of rape and plunder by officers and men of the old battalion. As for the daily exercises of various departments in Beijing, they have basically stopped since April, and they have no food, no drink, no money, and still practice? him N pretty much!

If you can't get enough silver to reward you, the hearts of the old battalion soldiers who Li Zicheng relied on for the Great Wall will be scattered......

How many days have you been sitting on the dragon chair in the Forbidden City in Beijing? Why does it feel like you're on the edge of an abyss? Chongzhen, the faint gentleman, has been able to sit on this chair for 17 years, and it is really not easy!

Just when Li Zicheng was sitting on the Wuying Hall and worried, Liu Tichun and Wu Ruyi, who replaced Tian Jianxiu and Li Yan in charge of military affairs, walked in in a hurry. ”

"Returning to the emperor," Liu Tichun said with a smile, "The military report of the Marquis of Bo has already taken the two cities of Tianjin Weibei and North yesterday." ”

"What?" Li Zicheng was stunned, "I only received the petition yesterday, how can I report it again today?" What kind of battle is this tiger fighting? ”

Wu Ruyi said: "It's not the Marquis of Bo who captured Tianjin Wei, it's the Red Lady who has been missing for many days and her brother who mixed into Tianjin Wei, taking advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Zhu thief to move towards Dagukou, driving away the remaining soldiers and horses of the Zhu thief, and taking the Tianjin Sanwei in one fell swoop!" ”

"Then the Zhu thief still has to move south......" Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief, and a long-lost smile appeared on his face, "The Zhu thief is still a bad move!" If they stay in Tianjin and don't leave, I will be attacked on my back. If the Manchurians really borrowed troops from them, I am afraid that I will give up the city of Beijing. ”

Liu Tichun smiled: "Beijing City is not the capital of our Dashun, so it doesn't hurt to let it go for the time being, as long as the gold and silver mountains in the city are emptied." ”

Li Zicheng nodded, noncommittal. He didn't regard Beijing as the capital, and after attacking Beijing, he made it clear that Beijing was just there, and it would be changed to Youzhou Mansion in the future, which would be an important northern barrier town, and would no longer be a place to build a capital. And the capital of Dashun has always been Chang'an, the imperial capital of Guanzhong!

Therefore, for Li Zicheng and Da Shunjun, Beijing's gains and losses are not the most important. The most important thing is the ill-gotten wealth of those corrupt officials in Beijing!

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng said to himself: "I have to ask Huang Hu to work harder and give more military salaries!" With the military salary, the forehead can fight to the death with the remnants of the Zhu thief and the Manchurians! ”

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"Master Hou, this is the account that has just been made, please take a look at it......"

"What's the point? Count them! Yellow Tiger Liu Zongmin waved his hand and asked Luo Xiushen to take away the account book sent to him.

As soon as he became a robber and a thief, where did he read the ledger? What kind of rebellion do you have the ability to do?

"In all, he received more than two thousand eight hundred and fifty-three thousand taels of silver, and more than five hundred and sixty-four thousand taels of gold...... Master Hou, this is really a huge amount of money! ”

"Giant fart!" Liu Zongmin waved his hand, "Dashun is also a big family now, and there are more than a million people up and down...... One person will give 10 taels of silver, and 10 million taels will be gone! ”

"Master Hou......" Luo Xiushen looked at Huang Hu Liu Zongmin's expressionless face, and his heart rose to his throat.

He's in the company of the tiger now! If he had known that the methods of torture and looting of these thieves were so vicious, he would not have stayed as Zhu Cihong's spy - he was so simple, in fact, he was reluctant to do the family business in Beijing!

Their Luo family has been in charge of Jinyiwei for decades, and the oil and water are about to overflow. It's impossible to pack and take away...... But I never thought that the thieves would be so ruthless! In order to torture and plunder and force wages, it really makes people die!

And if you pay the money, you may not be able to survive, and you are polite to middle and low-level civil officials. For civil officials and family nobles, military attachés, royal relatives, and eunuchs above the squire, it is really everything! There are many people who have lost both their money and their lives!

And Luo Xiu is in their family, and he is also a member of the noble family, although his ancestors did not pass down the title, but he has a hereditary military position to inherit. Also notoriously rich......

Liu Zongmin's brows furrowed, his face suddenly showed ferocity, and he said to Luo Xiu: "Go and talk to them again, how can you copy out forty or fifty million!" ”