Li Zicheng looked at him, a little uncomfortable, and wanted to scare him, so he shouted: "Don't kneel yet?" He sat peacefully where Chongzhen was originally sitting, looking at the young man.

Zhu Cihong is not afraid, people in this era generally lack all kinds of social exercises, but Zhu Cihong is not among them, he follows his father to attend various court meetings all the year round, and he is not afraid of people, so he is not as Li Zicheng expected, a deep palace grows into the hands of the women of the deep palace, after all, in the process of Zhu Cihong's growth, the pigtail soldiers and Mongolian soldiers, as well as these northwest thieves can come with all kinds of news of breaking the city and slaughtering every day, naturally they are mentally prepared, so they said coldly: "How can I be afraid of you." ”

Li Zicheng suddenly pretended to be very fierce and asked, "Where did your father go!" ”

Zhu Cihong lowered his head, a little depressed, and said, "I heard that the driver died in Jingshan." ”

Li Zicheng snorted, also felt a little pitiful, and said, "How did your family lose the world." ”

Zhu Cihong said: "How do I know, they must know the hundred officials." ”

Li Zicheng saw that the prince was quite bold in replying, and he couldn't be frightened, and said: "If your father is here, I can give him a life of safe support." ”

Zhu Cihong said: "Why don't you kill me." ”

Li Zicheng smiled, he has been fighting horses for half his life, he is used to seeing life and death, he has never felt that this young man is any threat, even his father is not his opponent, not to mention a child with no soldiers and no money, at this point, Li Zicheng is still a little disciplined compared to other warlords, but there are some dog-headed military advisors under his hands, and he still has this kind of idea, and he doesn't care anymore.

This time he saw the prince, Li Zicheng was also satisfied, so he said: "Are you hungry, you just live with Liu Zongmin, what are the requirements for food and clothing, although the requirements are, wait a few days, I will deal with the affairs in my hands, and naturally give the prince an arrangement." ”

He casually instructed Dou Meiyi, "Find a few palace maids in the palace who serve people, take care of the prince's diet and daily life, and you remind me another day to arrange for him to meet with his younger siblings." At this time, the situation was still not stabilized, so for the sake of safety, it was better to separate these princes and princesses of the former dynasty under house arrest, and the treatment was not bad, this was just frightened, and ordered: "Princess Kunxing, you have to take good care of it, the 14-year-old child was cut off by his father, and it is also pitiful, and it can't be without a stable ending." ”

(Princess Kunxing is the so-called Princess Ah Jiu of Changping, Princess Changping is the title given to her by the Eight Banners, and the title of Princess Kunxing since she was a child)

It's not early, Li Zicheng is literate, although he hasn't learned much, but a person in power has a natural habit, likes the habit of controlling all situations, and is naturally willing to control all the situations, so he is also sorting out those documents.

Due to a variety of factors: natural disasters, the Eight Banners carried out crazy slaughter and looting in Hebei, Shandong and other places for many years, and the result of many robberies was that there were constantly dead people, how many big cities were reduced to nothing, and the financial support that the entire north could carry out to the imperial court was almost none, in fact, Li Zicheng already knew that if he did not hurry up to find financial resources and food, then the emperor would fall into panic because of the cut off of grain and grass.

It is necessary to go south as soon as possible and open up this transport route along the canal.

At that time, Li Zicheng noticed that the reinforcements from the Jiangnan region were really incomparable with the officers and troops in the north, and the weakness of its folk customs was simply incomparable.

In Li Zicheng's view, as long as the situation in the north is stabilized, he is ready to lead a capable and powerful army down the river into Jiangnan, obtain food and salary from Jiangnan, and establish the world of his Li family.

Just one problem solved.

Several of his important ministers can be regarded as personally promoted teams, Niu Jinxing, Li Yan, and Song Xiance are all barely qualified dog-headed military advisors, although I don't know if they can be compared with those well-known ministers in history, Zhuge Liang, and Liu Bowen, but they have at least entered the imperial capital.

In addition, there are several generals, Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo and Gao Yigong are also their relatives, and the more trusted generals are them, and several other generals are either stationed in Shaanxi or Henan at this time, or patrolling the city in the imperial capital to maintain law and order, and they are still not qualified to discuss matters.

Niu Jinxing came out of the ups and downs with Li Zicheng, the first "thief" of the Ming Dynasty, he is an old man, Li Zicheng's relatives and generals do not have such a high "education", so he let such a "small" person become the prime minister.

Relying on a lot of "enthusiastic" ministers' small reports, Li Zicheng knows that Niu Jinxing has been living a very nourishing life these days, he lives outside the palace, and directly occupies the house of Zhang Juzheng in the imperial capital that year, and welcomes it every day, full of spirit, which greatly alleviates the depression of the year, this kind of suppressed rebound is the most terrible, Niu Jinxing is really very comfortable enjoying the treatment of the prime minister of the imperial capital, it can be said that at this time, at this time, waiting in line at the door of his house to wait for Niu Xiangye to meet the old people of the previous dynasty, then it will be lined up.

Of course, the current Niu Venus, after all, the days of entering the city are too short, so they have not accumulated the heart of domineering, and they can't get angry, if it takes time, for example, the Dashun Dynasty has sat firmly in the imperial capital and dominates the world, maybe the "emperor" dispute that will occur almost every dynasty and every generation will also happen in the Dashun Dynasty, but after all, the time is too short, and they still have a chance, I think it is difficult.

In the study occupied by Li Zicheng, there are many chairs, which are naturally the legacy of the previous Emperor Chongzhen, obviously this emperor also often summons his subordinates here, but his subordinates have not fought for him in terms of loyalty or ability.

Niu Jinxing sat down first, and then said: "Your Majesty, according to your instructions, count the treasury of the imperial capital, in the treasury of the Great Inner Mansion, although there are a lot of things in the account books, but the actual inventory only got 170,000 taels of gold, 130,000 taels of silver, and several large granaries, the total amount of rice and flour is only 100,000 stones, and most of them are old rice. ”

For the corruption of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng naturally knows deeply, after all, he is a civil servant in the government, and it is the kind that specializes in sending official documents, for the yamen's how to shit things Yemen Qing, especially the cities down, those corrupt officials and corrupt officials are really incisive, the most ridiculous is in Luoyang, the city has no choice but to go down to ask the prince in the city, King Fu, the richest vassal king in the world, take some money out as military salary,