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Li Zicheng sat in his seat, his eyes looking at the high-level civil and military officials and confidants of Dashun in front of him. During the day, in order to recruit Sun Chuanting, he made a move, but Sun Lao Xian'er scolded thousands of ministers, which made the whole scene quite embarrassing and had to end.

ordered someone to take care of Sun Chuanting's good life, and Li Zicheng convened his subordinates to discuss the matter. The current situation is complicated, although it has entered the capital, but the world is not a situation that can be determined.

Not to mention anything else, Tongzhou, which is close to the capital, has just been taken, although a lot of grain, rice, and boats have been captured, but with the daily consumption of the big city of Beijing, if the supply of grain and grass cannot be guaranteed safely, not to mention that the market is unstable, even the military rations are not easy to raise.

However, Tianjin in the east is also a red-hot gold ingot, which is burned in his hand, and he is reluctant to throw it out. Here, not to mention the wealth and dense population, it is also the place where the Nancao sea is connected and transshiped, and only by taking this place can we discuss grain and rice matters with the lord in the south.

Although the seizures have been extremely rich since the eastward expedition, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Li Yan and others, who have been fighting in the north and south for many years, know very well that even if they have 100 million taels of silver in their hands, they are not as stable as 100 million catties of grain in these famine years.

"This matter should also be handled by General Gao and General Ziyi." Although Niu Jinxing is not the prime minister of Dashun at the moment, he is extremely strong in the people and ministers of Yin and Yang. He called Gao Yigong and Wu Ruyi in his mouth, stroked his unusually well-groomed beard in his hand, and looked at Gao Yigong and Wu Ruyi with a smile in his eyes.

These two people are the representatives of the camp and Long prevailing all along.

However, the negotiations between Tongzhou and Long Shengxing broke up unhappily, and the retreat of the Beijing camp outside Chaoyang Gate was inextricably linked with Long Shengxing. You Niu Jinxing asked Gao Yigong and Wu Ruyi to negotiate with Long Shengxing to solve the food supply problem at this time, isn't this a clear way to dig a pit to force Gao Wu and the others to jump inside?

Wu Ruyi is okay, Gao Yigong is an old minister of Dashun, and he is the identity of the uncle, so he naturally will not put Niu Jinxing in his eyes: "If you thought of the difficulties at this time, why didn't you leave a trace of room that day?" Until now, but let Benguan and Xiao Wu embarrass them? ”

"But this time and that time!" Song Xiance also spoke on the side. "When General Gao and General Xiao Wu went to Tongzhou Bali Bridge to negotiate with the merchants of Nanzhong, our army's encirclement of Beijing had not yet been completed, so it was natural to contact him with the snake." After a slight pause, Song Xiance said again: "Now that Your Majesty has arrived in Beijing, the weather is in the middle of winter, if you can't ensure military and civilian food, how can you show the atmosphere of the new dynasty?" How to make the world feel at ease? ”

Song Xiance said this very realistically. Now that the weather is cold, and Li Zicheng's Dashun army has just entered Beijing, if there are poor people freezing and starving to death every day because of problems in the supply of daily necessities such as food and coal, Dashun's face must not look good. How to appease the people of the world?

Song Xiance has already approached the Nanzhong side to fundamentally solve the problem of Beijing's supply of living materials to a political level, which naturally made everyone present invisibly increase the importance of this matter. Li Yan, who is the prime minister of Dashun, also expressed his opinion from the seat: "At present, it is not only a matter of winter, but spring is about to begin, and after the beginning of spring, there will be a spring famine." You can't send a holy decree of appeasement to all places while starving all over the land and wandering people for thousands of miles, right? ”

"Lin Quan, you are our great steward, you just have to say what to do about this matter." Liu Zongmin rubbed his forehead, he had a headache from these things, it was really more troublesome than going into battle.

"Mencius Yun, the great and the holy one. Lao Tzu is cloudy, the sky does not change, and the Tao does not change. The words of the sages are to put it mildly, that is, the sky has changed, and the Tao must also change. It has to change with the changes in the general environment. Now that the heavens and the earth are newly opened, our ways will also change. This is the same as fighting on the battlefield, the enemy changes and I change. ”

"Or Lin Quan is a university questioner! I understood it all at once! I didn't understand what you said just now, but I can clearly understand the following words, if it changes today, our Tao will also change! Liu Zongmin grinned, his eyes looked at Gao Yigong, "Yigong, how about you and Xiao Wu work hard again, how about going to Tianjin?" ”

"Ruhou, General Gao and General Xiao Wu went to Tianjin, but it was not as simple as a walk. From the official's point of view, although this matter is said to be a matter of discussing the supply of grain and grass materials. However, it is different from previous negotiations with Nanchu businessmen. ”

Li Yan slowly said his analysis for everyone.

In his opinion, at this time, he went to negotiate with the merchants of Nanzhong on the supply of food and other daily necessities to the Jingshi, to a certain extent, to ask the Nanyue Army to recognize the Dashun court as the central government. This is different from the two families when they attacked Jingshi before, at that time, they were worried that Chongzhen would flee south, and with the help of the strength of the Nanyue Army and the manpower, material and financial resources of Jiangnan, they would compete with the Dashun Army. But now that Chongzhen is dead, the crown prince was sacrificed by his ministers and named the king of Song. Then, the next step is to appease the remnants of the Ming army in various places and collect all the prefectures and counties in the world.

However, Tianjin at this time, like Tongzhou at the beginning, was a big nail in front of the Dashun court, and no matter what means were adopted and what form was used, this nail must be removed.

"Everyone knows that Tianjin is not only the transshipment place of Nancao shipping, but also the location of the guard and governor yamen set up by the Ming court. There is also the existence of Tianjin Business Zone, a country within a country. There is a large wealth and population, if it can't be owned by my Dashun, but instead echoes with the Guanning Military Department of the Ming Army in the direction of Shanhaiguan, then it is tantamount to someone holding a sharp knife next to our couch, making it difficult for us to sleep. ”

Therefore, in order for everyone to be able to plan the great plan of Dashun and pacify the world in Beijing safely and steadily, the big nail of Tianjin must be removed.

However, whether to pull it out by force, or turn the nail around and become a spike on its own mace, it depends on the means of Dashun civil and military!

However, if the remnants of the Jingying army entrenched in Tianjin were to be driven away and the trade area there was to be taken for their own use, if they wanted to achieve this goal, the Dashun civil and military officers were very annoyed to find that there was a big problem that could not be avoided no matter what.

"How will I deal with the Nanyue Army?"

Fighting, of course, is simple and neat, but once the artillery fire is fired, the situation becomes difficult to clean up. Not to mention anything else, if the supply of all kinds of materials in Nanzhong is cut off, the situation in Dashun will immediately present a very embarrassing situation. Food, weapons, armor, equipment, gunpowder, medicines, cloth, which ones were not purchased in large quantities?

"As soon as I succeeded, these **** and Xiao Wu prepared to go to Tianjin to appease the former Ming officials and generals there. Tell them that as long as they are willing to serve my Dashun, civil officials will be hired only by measure, and military attaches will still lead troops. ”

"As for the business zone built by the merchants of Nanzhong, after the Tianjin officials are submitted, they may as well be slowly plotted. However, in the meantime, don't harass them, lest you startle them. ”

Li Zicheng's words set a tone for how Dashun would deal with the affairs of the Nanyue Army and the merchants of Nanzhong, first recruiting the local officials in Tianjin and cutting off their contact with the Ming army in Liaodong. The so-called skin does not have hair and will be attached, and the whole Tianjin has become Dashun, and what can be done with a business district that is just a projectile land?

Everyone present nodded yes.

In order to make up for the current situation of many affairs and serious shortage of manpower, Niu Jinxing suggested that the recruitment of former Ming officials in the capital should be accelerated as soon as possible, on the grounds that they were familiar with government affairs. Li Yan also agreed, but he suggested to Li Zicheng that the matter should be handed over to Wu Xing, who was currently handling the rear affairs of the Dashun Army in Shanxi.

In this regard, Li Zicheng also nodded in agreement. So, a will to summon Wu Xing to Beijing to do business Pegasus left the capital and went to Shanxi.

Gao Yigong and Wu Ruyi did not mention the matter of planning to appease the military and civilian officials in Tianjin, Niu Jinxing did not do what he wanted, and he had to grit his teeth in his stomach and work hard.

Only Li Shuangxi and Luo Hu were left in the Wuying Palace.

"Now that we have entered the city of Beijing, and you two little ones are also lords, I should also marry you a wife, so that you can give me a few grandchildren." The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became very tender and harmonious with Li Zicheng's kind and kind words.

"Father, the matter of marrying a daughter-in-law naturally depends on you and the queen mother. However, Mr. Fang Cainiu said that he would hire the former Ming official as soon as possible, and his son felt that it was quite inappropriate. Luo Hu looked at the sky outside the hall that was getting darker, and only a silhouette could barely be seen from the erosion of the towers and palaces, and the eunuchs and imperial officers and soldiers in the palace began to turn on the lights everywhere.

"What this generation did when our army entered the city, my father and emperor saw it in their eyes, this generation was promoted by Chongzhen, ate the old Zhu family's money, and was supported by the old Zhu family, but when the old Zhu family had something, they were this virtue. Father, do you think that if they betray their old master so much, they can be loyal to our great shun? ”

"Of course I do! That's why I want to recruit Sun Chuanting! is also allowed to Sun Chuanting to insult this generation in every way! Li Zicheng's eyes shot a disdainful light.

However, the high-level officials of the Dashun Imperial Court, whether it is Yongchang Tianzi or Prime Minister Li Yan, the chief Liu Zongmin, the military advisor Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing, never dreamed that these people may not be loyal, let alone help, but they are a good hand at helping to cause chaos.

Dashun has been in control of Beijing for seven days, and the murder, robbery, and arson have gradually subsided, although there are no professional police like Nanzhong, but the long-tested Shun army elite soldiers have carried out similar tasks. Moreover, in order to curry favor with the new regime, Beijing's official gentry were also rare to be industrious and virtuous, and consciously hired people to clean the streets around them, so for a time, Beijing, the ancient historical capital, rarely became neat and orderly.

In the face of the neat and clean new Beijing, the crowd above the petty bourgeoisie will naturally not be willing to be lonely, they or three or five people enjoy the snow and chant poetry, or seven or eight people linger in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion. Zhou Zhong is naturally no exception, he made an appointment with a few friends to enjoy Mei Yin's poems and talk about major events in the world.

Zhou Zhong can now be said to be red and purple in Beijing. Li Zicheng's think tank Niu Jinxing also admired his name deeply, when Wei Zaode and a group of high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty sharpened their heads and wanted to mix up a half-official position in Li Zicheng's new regime, Niu Jinxing took the initiative to recommend Zhou Zhong to Li Zicheng. In order to create public opinion for the new regime, Niu Jinxing ordered Zhou Zhong to write two articles, one of which was to give Li Zicheng a persuasion table. In order to thank Niu Jinxing for his introduction, Zhou Zhong deliberately voted for his protégé post and worshiped under Niu Jinxing.

It is precisely because of these relationships that in the eyes of these former Ming officials, Zhou Zhong is already a dignitary of the new dynasty, and he will soon rise to prominence, so there are endless compliments.

However, there is a rule, if there are too many compliments, some people will say something unpleasant, and only one of them will say: "Brother Zhou, have you read the recent Shuntian Times, these southern barbarians are bold enough, and openly said in the newspaper that they broke into Beijing and rebelled, and those who dared to fight, only the Beijing battalion and the new army were inside." Especially the new army of internal exercises, the battle of Zhupole Hutong, can be called the earth-shattering ghosts and gods, and can be a model for heroes in the world. This kind of rebellious writing was openly seen in the newspapers, and some people in other pages echoed it. In addition, the death of the faint monarch Chongzhen was originally a happy thing, we all celebrated with wine, only the Nanban merchants all wore filial piety in white cloth and mourned for three days. Brother Zhou can't ignore this kind of thing. ”

Zhou Zhong was a little unconvinced when he heard this, and he said suspiciously: "Dusk Jun Chongzhen has been cut off from the world, what good can it do to mourn him?" It's understandable to say a few words to those geldings, because they have colluded with customs affairs before. It should be a tragic act of the rabbit and the fox, as for the matter of hanging filial piety for the faint king, it should not be just a few people doing it at will, right? ”

The man hurriedly said: "Brother Zhou, it's definitely not a few people doing it randomly, I've taken a turn in the past few days, and all the shops I can see are like this." In the face of his friend's conclusive words, Zhou Zhong also had to believe it, he thought for a while, and said with a little hesitation: "Although this matter is a big rebellion, Your Majesty has a clear order, the officers and generals must strictly abide by discipline, and they must not be unreasonable to the shops of the Southern Barbarians." Therefore, although I want to share the worries of my father and punish those who do not know how to advance or retreat, I have no means. “

Listening to Zhou Zhong's words, the others let out a burst of laughter, and one of them said: "Brother Zhou, if you don't tell lies in front of people who understand, we will still lack the means to be the children of saints?" Brother, do you remember Yao Jiang and Huang Xiaozi? Let's just learn from him. Don't hide it from you, brother, a few of us have already discussed, found dozens of righteous people, and established the Zhongshun Society, but all the shops of the southern barbarians who dare to give Chongzhen filial piety will be smashed. As for the Shuntian Times, we can't let it go, and we have to go in person. Burn the many heresies in it one by one, so as to eliminate the hatred in our hearts! ”

Zhou Zhongdao: "This 。。。。。。 It's not good, we are all scholars, how can we be hooligans in the market for this, or it is better to be the first to salute and then the soldiers. ”

The man sneered and said, "Brother Zhou, at this time, what kind of gentlemanly demeanor do you talk about when you are inferior to such a dog, besides, doesn't the ancient gentleman also eat meat and sleep skin for the enemy?" Over the years, the newspapers of the Southern Barbarians and us have been better than the revenge of killing our fathers. Since the opening of the Jiangnan Times, the quotation is cheap and there is no limit to writing, not to mention the Ma Shiying who bought the case for Qin Shi Huang, even the peddlers and pawns have made a lot of nonsense, openly scolding us for being called Shizi, but we are actually lice, we can only parasitize and drink blood, and we cannot seek any profit for the world. Such insulting words are frequently seen in the Shuntian Times, if there is no connivance of the Southern Barbarians, how can it be so? Brother Zhou, to tell you the truth, we are not smashing the newspaper for ourselves, we are fighting for the world's readers. ”

Zhou Zhong bowed his head and was silent when he heard this, and only said after a while: "The so-called gentleman is far away from cooking, after all, this kind of thing is not glorious, we can just watch it from afar." When the crowd heard this, they rejoiced, and a brutality against the merchants of Nanzhong began.

Soon, smoke and fire broke out again in the city of Beijing, and newspapers such as Jiangnan Times and Shuntian Times were smashed, men were beaten, and 100 shops selling Nanzhong goods were also generally smashed. The green-skinned thugs in the capital took the opportunity to smash open the business and loot the valuable goods that had been coveted for a long time and coveted in the past. Of course, the merchants of Nanzhong were not easy to get along with, but it was a pity that it was difficult for a single shop to fight against a mob of tens or hundreds, so they quickly chose to unite.

Under the auspices of the Nanzhong Trading Company, most of the merchants chose to live in Dongjiang Mixiang, and at the same time concentrated the weapons in their hands, and the young men who had received military training in each business established a joint defense team, and built a barricade at the mouth of the alley as a defensive facility. At the same time, he sent people out of the city to Tianjin to deliver a letter for help.

Without the source of goods from Nanzhong merchants, for a while, the prices of Beijing, which had just been occupied by Dashun, suddenly turned over and rose, and the people in the city were panicked, for fear that a big war would start again. In this case, Dashun naturally can't sit idly by, but one side is the Nanzhong businessman who is very important to Dashun, and the other side is the gentleman that Dashun needs to collect, and no one can easily kill anyone.

Therefore, Li Zicheng, the son of Dashun, thought twice and decided to let Niu Jinxing come forward to persuade peace, and the newspaper was temporarily suspended, and Dashun doubled the compensation for the losses of Nanzhong businessmen. For those who make trouble, all the officials will be educated, and the market hooligans will be punished in a canonical manner. At the same time, Liu Zongmin also ordered more troops and horses to be sent to the city, increase the patrol density, and meet those who make trouble on the streets, rob and harass the people, regardless of the military and civilians, all of them will be punished on the spot!

After the order was given, the atmosphere quickly eased, but unfortunately, as Murphy's Law says, bad things are always one after another.

Just when the Nanzhong merchants in Beijing had just been stabilized, something happened in Tianjin. Hearing that something like this had happened in Beijing, Li Peiting suddenly jumped up.

"God help me! It's time for the Lord's luck to arrive! (To be continued.) )