Chapter 13: The Prince
It's been half a month since he entered the city, but Li Zicheng is still not very happy.
Since the second year of the Chongzhen uprising, fifteen years have passed, after countless ups and downs Li Zicheng, has grown from a postman to a peasant rebel leader, a general, an emperor, he is confident, the country with the name of Shun, will be after the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, establish a huge empire, and continue to future generations, he Li Zicheng, will naturally become a generation of emperors, the Taizu Emperor of the Dashun Dynasty.
Li Zicheng's family has been poor for many years, and after the uprising, he was not like other leaders of the rebel army, too arrogant and lascivious, and he himself controlled it very well in front of the temptation of women's food, so he also maintained enough spirit, which is why he has now entered the imperial capital.
It's like a dream, on the first day of the first lunar month this year, Li Zicheng called the founding of the country in Xi'an, the country name Dashun, from the prime minister to the opening of the department, the textbooks of those founding kings should do, he did it, followed by the swaying of the east, straight to take the imperial capital, along the way is simply devastating, people have opened the city to surrender, one of the largest leading party, naturally to the general Zhenshuo, Datong chief military officer Comrade Jiang Hao as the largest, Lao Jiang is Li Zicheng's Shaanxi hometown, surrendered fast enough at the critical moment, One breath led to the defection of the entire Shanxi, and then it was to cross the Yellow River, through Datong, Xuanfu to the south, basically there was no battle along the way, as if a long-distance march in general, it arrived at the imperial capital, and then, because the people of the imperial capital were panicked, plus they all thought that it was time to change the dynasty, and the plague in the city also helped a lot, therefore, did not put a shot, did not die a person, and entered the city like this.
After entering the city, the military discipline of the Shun army has always been the focus of Li Zicheng's main grasp, and he really did not commit any crime with Minqiu, he did not know that in later generations, because the history books were in the hands of the Eight Banners and the Light Point General Ju, his reputation was very bad, but in his world, he also encountered some problems.
"What, the body is still not found, the person is still not found! Look for it again, look for it with a reward, a person, where can he hide. ”
Through severe torture of several eunuchs and palace maids, they all said that when they finally saw Long Live Ye, he took the eunuch Wang Chengen to Jingshan and hanged himself. In fact, since entering the city, Li Zicheng announced that for the time being, people of all colors in the city are not allowed to move around at will, but to stay at home honestly and wait for the change of dynasty, it stands to reason that Emperor Chongzhen has no chance to escape from the Forbidden City, let alone the imperial capital.
The most outrageous thing is that several old eunuchs who are old and unbearable and can't escape, live in a temple near the Forbidden City to retire, after what happened that day, they knelt in the main hall to worship the Buddha and chant the scriptures, but one of them saw that in the position of Jingshan, there was a thing like an immortal mount, which fell from the sky and flew away later, this must be the gods in the sky, and the emperor was taken away.
He shouted at the time to the others, and they all claimed that they had indeed seen this.
It's a joke.
If there were really immortals, then Shaanxi had a great drought for many years, thousands of miles of hunger, cannibalism, and even some parents, crying and exchanging their children with their neighbors, and eating for their children......
At that time, what did the gods do!
There are no immortals, there can be no immortals, of course Li Zicheng does not recognize this, but these old eunuchs are already seventy or eighty people, and they have not received much benefit from the palace, no matter how you look at it, they are not people who can lie, let's just be old and dizzy, so let's talk nonsense.
"Come on, bring the crown prince Zhu Cihong up."
At this time, Li Zicheng has already moved into the Forbidden City, and it can be regarded as officially entering the imperial capital, but his character is not good and luxurious, and he is not particularly addicted to women, when he was in Xi'an, he set up his third wife Gao Guiying as the queen, after entering the city, he checked all kinds of documents, atlases, utensils in the palace, and did not escape, and was articulate, and the palace maid Dou Meiyi, who could talk, did things in an orderly manner, Li Zicheng was very satisfied, he was still an old vision, the habit of living a poor life in a small household, a woman should know how to run a house, do things, The problem of appearance is not much more.
Dou Meiyi is also very energetic, she originally entered the palace since she was a child, and she often had to wait until she was not a small age before she could be sent home, basically until she was 25 years old, in this era of 15-year-old marriage, a 25-year-old old virgin can be called a "leftover girl" at the ashes level.
Before the city was broken, the palace maids who were not closed to these news had been muttering about how to act for a long time, and some women had spotted the good things in a certain treasury and were ready to snatch them.
However, Dou Meiyi is more cautious in the end, in her opinion, she has not left this palace for many years since she was a child, and she doesn't know how to go home when she goes out, and her own family has been ruined because of the entry and looting of the Eight Banners Braided Soldiers, so where can she go back?
So Dou Meiyi stayed in the palace, did not leave, and left the needlework bureau where she was originally located, and went to the Qianqing Palace where the emperor often worked.
Sure enough, she had the courage to introduce the situation of the palace to King Chuang, and instructed the literati accompanying King Chuang how to collect these very, very important atlases and classics in an orderly manner, although in the palace, Li Zicheng did not find enough gold, silver and treasures, but found that this palace maid was very interested in herself, although Li Zicheng was enough to be a father, but in this era, it was not a big deal.
If Li Zicheng can sit firmly in the country, this experience is just a few words: go up to the inner court, Concubine Dou will speak for it, the answer will be like a stream, and it will be happy, fortunately.
History is so ridiculous, the original master became a prisoner, and was escorted in by several of Li Zicheng's henchmen, due to the chaos in the palace, the original "civil servants" who could be operated on either ran away or were temporarily detained, so there is not such a strict palace system, but this Dou Meiren is busy before she is busy.
Zhu Cihong was a little uneasy, he was the eldest son of Emperor Chongzhen, and he had high hopes since he was a child, and he wanted to inherit the unification, so in terms of knowledge cultivation of governing the country, as well as etiquette and manners, he must have been better than the younger brother who was originally the emperor, and the elder brother Xizong died unexpectedly, so he drove the duck to the shelf to become the emperor's father Chongzhen's father.
He has been taught strictly since he was a child, he can also be called intelligent, his foundation is solid, and his calligraphy is very neat, he is only a fifteen-year-old boy at this time, and he is pampered in the court, and there is almost no possibility of basking in the sun, let alone any labor, and he is naturally a young man who is white and clean.