Chapter 40: The Precursor to Lee's Success
At the same time, the news that Zhu Cihong gathered 260,000 troops to suppress Liu Liangzuo's rebellion also reached the ears of Li Zicheng, who occupied the city of Beijing.
"I didn't expect that Zhu Cihong's little boy would escape to Jiangnan and make a fortune." Li Zicheng not only didn't pay any attention to it, but sneered and said, he didn't mean to put Zhu Cihong and Nan Ming in his eyes at all.
After all, in his heart, the orthodox capital of the Ming Dynasty was captured by him, and only the remnants of the Jiangnan were clear, and when Wu Sangui cleaned up Shanhaiguan, he would immediately be able to go south to destroy Zhu Cihong'er.
"Come on, go and ask, where has this kid Wu Sangui gone? Grandma's, since they have all surrendered, I Dashun will not go faster, let this king wait here, it is really not a good thing, go back to this king will definitely treat him" Li Zicheng yelled with a big grin, but before he finished speaking, he immediately slapped himself in the mouth.
"Grandma's, it's wrong, it's wrong, it's me! It's me! I am now the Son of Heaven, and I can't call myself the king. ”
After a while, the attendant came to report.
"Your Majesty, Wu Sangui and the Guanning army have left Shanhaiguan for dozens of miles, and they will arrive in the capital in three days at most."
Li Zicheng nodded, although there was only less than two hundred miles to go, Wu Sangui had to walk for three days, which made him very dissatisfied, but Wu Sangui did not really come to the capital before surrendering, he could only wait patiently, anyway, he was not afraid that he would not have a chance to clean up Wu Sangui in the future.
"Your Majesty, good news, good news." At this time, Li Zicheng's most trusted confidant Niu Jinxing suddenly ran in and shouted with a happy face.
"Niu Aiqing, what's the good news? If you are happy to be like this, did you find out that a corrupt official in the former dynasty had a huge amount of silver hidden in his house? Li Zicheng's eyes were bright, as soon as he talked about silver, his blood boiled, the original intention of the earlier uprising had already been thrown out of the clouds by him since the occupation of Beijing City, and now he can't wait to collect all the silver and beauties in the world into his pocket.
Just like in history, Li Zicheng occupied the city of Beijing less than ten days before he began a vigorous campaign to raid his home, all the officials who surrendered in the Ming Dynasty were ordered to hand over all their property, and those who could not hand it over were tortured until they were handed over, so far in just ten days, Li Zicheng collected more than 50 million taels of silver, which made Li Zicheng happy.
The matter became more and more serious, without Li Yan beside him to admonish, Li Zicheng did more than in history, not only in the city of Beijing, but also in other counties on the grounds of pursuing wages, wantonly tortured the squires and scholars, and all the cruel punishments such as cannon branding, truss clamps, and sticks were all carried out. Not only that, but due to deliberate indulgence, all the soldiers of all classes began to become arrogant and extravagant, and even evolved into atrocities of rape and plunder against the people.
All of a sudden, almost all the Dashun army occupied the area into a pot of porridge, in just a few days, the Dashun army from the people for the people to ask for their lives instantly became like a devil out of hell, rape and plunder, all the people are panicked, hateful, from the joy of just overthrowing the Ming Dynasty was pulled to hell by Li Zicheng, under the ravages of the Dashun army, the people's hearts are full of resentment against the Dashun and remorse for the Ming Dynasty.
Because of Li Zicheng's indulgence, the Dashun army was vicious and abnormal, and simply did not give the people a way to live, and many people began to recall the good coming of the Ming Dynasty after suffering, at least although the Ming Dynasty was rampant with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it was not always enough to enter the house in broad daylight and rape and plunder.
Li Zicheng didn't know at this moment that he had lost the hearts of the people and laid an irreparable curse for his defeat.
"Your Majesty, this time it's not money, it's a beauty, a fairy-like peerless beauty, a great beauty that the minister hasn't seen for decades." Niu Jinxing said excitedly, as if he had discovered some peerless treasure.
"Really! Where is the great beauty? "Li Zicheng's heart is hot, a peerless beauty, if it is true, then he must be included in the harem.
"Just in Wu Sangui's family's mansion in the capital, I heard that it is Wu Sangui's concubine, it is simply too beautiful, Wu Sangui doesn't know where to find it, it is simply a heavenly immortal, such a peerless beauty should be Your Majesty's." Niu Jinxing's words were full of bewitchment, saying that Niu Venus didn't have much other abilities, but the kung fu of this bewitchment and sycophants was extremely high, knowing that Li Zicheng liked gold and silver and beauties, he used his strength to snarl for Li Zicheng, and finally let him discover Chen Yuanyuan, who was known as the first beauty in the late Ming Dynasty.
"Wu Sangui's concubine?" Li Zicheng hesitated a little, Wu Sangui was on his way to surrender in the capital at the moment, if he moved Wu Sangui's woman, would Wu Sangui return to Shanhaiguan in a rage, wouldn't it be a trouble.
Niu Jinxing saw Li Zicheng's concerns, and said demagoguingly: "Your Majesty, a peerless beauty like a fairy, you may not be able to see one in your life, Wu Sangui is only accepted as a concubine, and he will definitely not turn his face against His Majesty for him, Your Majesty has no need to worry, besides, even if he Wu Sangui really dares to rebel, His Majesty's hundreds of thousands of troops can trample him into ashes in an instant." ”
"No, no, no, forget it, Wu Sangui's woman can't move easily." Li Zicheng was not mediocre to the extreme in the end, and he still had some concerns about Wu Sangui, the commander of Shanhaiguan, but it was also inevitable that he would be itchy, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
"That's a pity, he Wu Sangui doesn't know where he cultivated the blessing from, and got such a peerless beauty like a heavenly immortal." Niu Venus sighed on the side.
"Or, I'll go and see it first, and when Wu Sangui comes to the capital, I'll ask him for it?" Although he had concerns, as soon as he recalled the possible appearance of the peerless beauty, Li Zicheng's heart was itchy and panicked, and he couldn't help but be curious to see what the peerless beauty looked like.
"Yes, yes, let's go and see it first, Weichen promises that His Majesty will be satisfied after reading it." Niu Jinxing smiled flatteringly, and then led Li Zicheng to Wu Sangui's mansion in the capital.
Li Zicheng set up the Wu Mansion, Wu Sangui's family can be described as trembling, and some people faintly guessed Li Zicheng's possible purpose.
Sure enough, as soon as Li Zicheng came here, he asked Chen Yuanyuan which courtyard he lived in, and then he and his close ministers looked for it on their own, and found Chen Yuanyuan in a courtyard with an elegant environment.
"Fairy, fairy"
Chen Yuanyuan is so beautiful, so beautiful that it is suffocating, like a fairy in the sky descending to earth.
I saw that her figure was absolutely beautiful and flawless, her skin was whiter than snow, as delicate and smooth as jade, and under a pair of delicate and slender eyelashes was a pair of big black eyes, watery, hooking, and a small cherry mouth, which made people just want to pounce on it and bite it.
Li Zicheng did exactly that, since the first time he saw Chen Yuanyuan, Li Zicheng felt that his heart was about to jump out, and his whole body was full of heat, burning his nerves.
Li Zicheng didn't say a word, he pounced directly, he didn't care about Wu Sangui before, he just wanted to possess the beauty in front of him as soon as possible, such a beauty must be his, he really didn't believe that Wu Sangui dared to rebel against him for a concubine regardless of the life of a young family.
"Wronged, wronged, Your Majesty can't!" Wu Sangui's father rushed out to stop Li Zicheng, he knew very well Chen Yuanyuan's status in his son's heart, and he was afraid of causing trouble, so he had to stop it.
Li Zicheng was impatient, and he was about to hold the beauty in his arms, but he didn't want to be blocked by an old man, the beauty was frightened, like a frightened little white rabbit, and turned around and fled with a panicked expression.
"Beauty, don't run!" Li Zicheng shouted anxiously.
"Your Majesty may not"
"Dead old man, get out of the way!" Seeing that the beauty was about to disappear, Li Zicheng was furious, kicked Wu Sangui's father to the ground, and then rushed forward, hugging the peerless beauty Chen Yuanyuan into his arms, and couldn't wait to gnaw it violently.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this old man accidentally crashed to death, he seems to be Wu Sangui's father!"
"What!" Li Zicheng's face darkened, and then he gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "If you're dead, you're dead, just block the news and don't let Wu Sangui know, I will take the beauty back to the palace to enjoy it first." ”
Li Zicheng said that he couldn't wait to carry the peerless beauty Chen Yuanyuan and left.
In the north, only a hundred miles away from Beijing City, Wu Sangui was taking tens of thousands of the most elite Guanning Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty to Beijing City to surrender Li Zicheng, at this moment he didn't know that his woman had been occupied by Li Zicheng, and his father was also kicked to death by Li Zicheng.
A monstrous storm is brewing in the air, and when the time comes, it may erupt completely.
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