Yanjing, the first year of Dashun Yongchang, March 20.

The light rain overnight, dripping, there was no wind, and a row of drainage droplets fell from the eaves, like a beaded curtain. Chen Yan stood under the empty door of the mansion, his face covered with an indescribable complexity.

Today, his heart hanging in the air finally landed, and he was reused by Li Zicheng and became a bachelor of the Heavenly Blessing Palace.

Niu Jinxing is the prime minister, Song Xiance is the left assistant, and he Chen Yan is the right Bi.

Nominally became the third in command of the civil official line of the Dashun Imperial Court, and the old qualified Song Qijiao (Shun Officials Department Shangshu) was pressed on his head.

Chen Yan should be at ease, his life, his glory and wealth are all guaranteed. Although this process is quite shameless and there are many unspeakable things, the ending is not bad.

However, when he came out of the Forbidden City and returned home from the changed owner, he stood in front of the empty gate of the Chen Mansion, but his heart was not only worried about his family who went south with Emperor Chongzhen.

Tiger poison does not eat children.

What is the difference between Chen Yan's current behavior and eating children?

Emperor Chongzhen, who had already traveled to Wuqing, received the secret report of Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jinyiwei, and scolded angrily, and with an order, he had already sent the Chen family into the 'prison'. Although the prison is the cabin of the ship.

He has already prepared a sacrifice to Chen Yan, and also prepared a reward for the Chen family, and planned to make people build a shrine immediately after arriving in Jinling. It is good to motivate the ministers and boost morale.

Who would have thought that such a well-informed and well-gracious minister would directly lead his officials to open the door and surrender.

But Emperor Chongzhen already knew that Chen Yan was not a good thing, and he threw the men and women of the Chen family into the dust, but Chen Yan himself didn't know the news of his family.

He didn't know that the reason why he was able to do the position of Youbi and get a place in the Heavenly Blessing Hall was thanks to Gu Junen's advice to Li Zicheng. "Chen Yan, the cabinet minister, the leader of the Wenchen, serves the new dynasty, then Chongzhen will treat the Wenchen as a mustard, how can the Wenchen still serve him loyally in the future? Martial arts such as Bai Guangen, Ma Ke, Tang Tong, Jiang Huang are used by our dynasty, then Chongzhen must regard the military ministers as grass mustard, and in the future, how can the military generals of the Ming court die for the king who regards himself with grass mustard? ”

"Chongzhen has a resolute personality, as long as the Ming court surrenders to us, the Ming court will kill his family according to the law. I will stay with him, and if the Ming court kills his family, he will be more determined to surrender to his will!"

The influence of Emperor Chongzhen's flight south is still very great. For the emerging Dashun Dynasty, it was a threat that could not be ignored.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Li Zicheng decided to solemnly treat Chen Yan as a billboard and hold it high.

Compared with the period of Emperor Chongzhen, Chen Yan has been feeling recently, he knows how he is warm and cold.

Bang Bang Bang Bang ......

The sound of raindrops falling on the glazed tiles woke Chen Yan up. He looked up at the sky, and the raindrops were bigger. After a few more moments, the rain became even heavier. It fell from the sky with a bang, like a curtain of water, making the distant scenery blurry.

"When Chongzhen was in power, the world was suffering from drought for a long time. Now His Majesty uses the water virtue to replace Zhu Ming's fire virtue, and Chongzhen flees south, then the weather changes immediately, and the rain falls, and the will of God is in my Dashun. ”

In the Qianqing Palace, Song Xiance smiled and congratulated Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng looked at the rain outside, and was also overjoyed, "God calculates, the military advisor is really a god calculation, even if the rain is fixed on the eighteenth, it will be prosperous every day." When Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the world, there was a Liu Bowen who could pinch and calculate, and when he sat in the world, there was also a Song military division by his side. ”

These words made all the civil and military ministers present in the Qianqing Palace laugh.

Niu Jinxing was also slowly brushing his beard, and his face was not embarrassed at all, that Liu Bowen was famous among the people, but in the end, he only got an earl. I am the prime minister, and I have to be Li Shanchang and the grandfather of the country.

"This rain is good, good next one, at least the drought in Gyeonggi can be greatly alleviated!"

In recent years, the great drought has caused natural and man-made disasters, but the Central Plains has been harmed by a lot of disasters. Li Zicheng also knows this.

Therefore, after the capital is firmly seated, he still has to raise a large army to go south as soon as possible, even if he can't take Jiangnan, he must also take Huguang, otherwise with the policy he set, the Dashun court will not even be able to eat.

When he killed Juyong Pass, he didn't hear that Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers and hundreds of officials in the capital had escaped, and he thought that he could make a fortune in Beijing.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were extremely corrupt, and they could not find a person who was not greedy.

In the eyes of Li Zicheng at that time, in addition to being able to correct his throne, Yanjing City was also a super large treasury and a large grain warehouse. It's like when he led his army to conquer Luoyang, he pulled out countless gold, silver, and grains from King Fu's treasury.

Li Zicheng felt that after taking Yanjing City, he would not have to worry about money and food in a short time.

In this way, the political slogans he had shouted before could continue. can do not break his word, which is related to his face. He is the Son of Heaven of Dashun, the Emperor of Dashun, the emperor Chrysostom and Yuyan, how can he be untrustworthy?

No matter how stupid Li Zicheng's brain is, he can think of that terrible consequence.

The three-year tax exemption won the support of tens of millions of ordinary people for the Dashun Dynasty in the early stage, which was a very wise decision, but after Li Zicheng turned himself into a legitimate government politically, it was extremely foolish to make such a promise.

It's just a pit you dig and jump on your own. Li Zicheng didn't think that he would drive Emperor Chongzhen away from the capital in a short period of time, but he was still willing to fulfill this political promise from the bottom of his heart, and Yanjing City was a great magic weapon for him to solve this matter. However, he didn't expect Emperor Chongzhen to jump into the way of life when he was dying.

It didn't matter if he escaped, the important thing was to take away all the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and take away the money bags that Li Zicheng imagined.

With Zheng Zhilong escorting, the latter's reinforcements also arrived at Jinmen, and it was impossible to catch people again. In other words, the gold, silver and jewelry that jumped away with Emperor Chongzhen could not be obtained.

Li Zicheng's plan is in danger of falling through. His greatest hope now is to keep his money.

Of course, there is still potential for excavation in the capital, and Li Zicheng knows that many families have secret rooms, so he doesn't believe that those dignitaries and dignitaries really transported the silver and gold away. Moreover, the officials are gone, and many businessmen are also gone, but more businessmen are left. Torture and recovery of stolen goods is not possible, but the subsidy still needs to be paid.

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"Chen Ge Old ......"

Chen Yan, who had been standing in Chen's courtyard for a long time, finally cleaned up his bad mood, and when he saw that the rain was also heavy, he was about to go inward. But I heard a shout from behind.

Chen Ge Lao, it seems that it was a title from a long time ago. The Dashun Dynasty didn't have a pavilion elder to say.

Chen Yan turned his head to look, but it seemed to be Tang Qing, that is, Tang Tong's follower.

Tang Qing also had a sad face, making Chen Yan chuckle in his heart, what does this mean? "Tang Tong, they are defeated?"

Chen Yan felt a little incredible, Tang Tong and the other three general soldiers had 30,000 horses, and there were only a few people around Chongzhen? What's more, he knew what Li Zicheng's orders were, so he didn't let Tang Tong and them go to Zheng Zhilong.

Emperor Chongzhen brought so many dignitaries with him, and everyone had so many slaves and horses, how could he take care of the little troops he cared for? Although Chen Yan can't fight, he can also think of how to do it.

As long as one group stays to contain Zheng Zhilong's army, and the other soldiers and horses are divided into small units to pursue Emperor Chongzhen and others, there will be a lot of gains! Why did you cry and mourn a face, why did you lose again?

Tang Qing came back to report the funeral, Tang Hanfu died very miserably, it can be said that there is no end to the corpse. Tang Tong lost his son in his later years, and the whole person fell ill.

Chen Yan opened his mouth wide, he never expected that Tang Tong would lose so badly. Even his son was left behind.

"Why didn't Bai Guangen and Ma Ke get it?"

"The elder should know that there is a team of hussars in Zheng Zhilong's army, the latter is divided into two, and hundreds of horse troops are eyeing each other, and the two generals of the white horse are suffering from the lack of horse troops in their hands to deal with it, and there are few firearms in the army, so the progress is slow......"

If they lose the battle, they will make people go to Beijing to fight, which is the trick that Tang Tong used in the past. But they have a shallow foundation in the Dashun Dynasty, and there is only one person they can think of.

You don't have to pay Chen Yan for this. Chen Yan is an empty head, and this is the time when support is needed, whether it is the support of civil officials or military generals, Chen Yan has nothing to need.

It is true that this is indeed the case, facing Tang Qing who asked for the door, although the latter did not send a penny, Chen Yan solemnly invited Tang Qing into the mansion.

Let Tang Qing be led down to settle down, Chen Yanren sat in the study, although he made a solemn appearance as much as possible on his face, however, Chen Yan's demeanor, the whole person gave people the feeling that it was three points brisk.

"Tang Tong's son died well, with this revenge of killing his son, the Son of Heaven no longer believes in his truth."

Chen Yan sat alone in the study, and considered the matter again. It must be said that this is Tang Tong's luck, but also Bai Guangen and Ma Ke's misfortune.

If Tang Tong had lost the battle alone, he would have made Li Zicheng sincerely accept his son when he died. But with General Ma Baier, who is not doing anything next to him, Tang Tong's 'loyalty and bravery' is commendable.

In the future, Tang Tong will not only be accepted by Li Zicheng, but also recognized by Li Zicheng. There is a rich future in the new dynasty.

As for Bai Guangen and the second general Ma Ke, if he guessed correctly, after this defeat was sent to Li Zicheng and was injured, the two of them would only be ordered to continue the pursuit, while Tang Tong would move his troops elsewhere to rest.

Or Jizhou, or Zunhua, or Miyun. With the second general of the white horse, it is already another treatment.

"Come on, prepare a generous gift, my lord, I will visit Prime Minister Niu." Chen Yan said loudly.

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"Incompetent, incompetent. Pigs are better than them. Li Zicheng angrily threw the joint performance of Tang Tong and the three of them on the table, "Chongzhen relies on such a fool to be a general, he deserves to be unable to save the country." ”

30,000 people were defeated so easily, and it was still a big defeat. Tang Tong's entire army was defeated, and Bai Guangen and Ma Ke were attacked when they retreated, and they also fled in defeat.

Li Zicheng suddenly felt that Chongzhen was not easy.

"Your Majesty is angry, at least this battle has played a person who sincerely serves Dashun. Besides, it's just a surrender of troops, and if you lose it, you lose it. Niu Jinxing said busily.

Li Zicheng's face softened a little when he heard this, it is indeed the truth, Bai Guangen, Ma Ke, Tang Tong, and Datong's Jiang Xuan, he didn't believe it. But now ......, "Tang Tong is still okay." "Although people's skills in fighting are worse, but people are not sincere?

is much stronger than Bai Guangen and Ma Ke.

"Feng Tang Tongjing Yangbo, let him go to Zunhua. Bai Guangen and Ma Ke continued to follow. There is another ......" Li Zicheng thought about it, "Go and pass on Hao Shaoqi, Zhang Nai, and Luo Hu to ......"

Although it was raining outside, the Dashun army had been resting for a few days, and it was time to move.