At this time, the generals were very happy to see His Majesty Emperor Shun, so they jointly played, "Your Majesty, if it is decided today, Emperor Ming is dead!" Do you think you want to ascend the throne in time? To be the co-master of the world? ”

Of course, Emperor Dashun is very willing in his heart, but the Central Plains has not yet been pacified! There are still millions of Ming troops in the south, and there are still rival kings in the south: Zhang Xianzhong, and there are still Eastern troops in the north, so he doesn't dare to ascend the throne so quickly, because once he is called emperor, he will really become a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats! So he humbly prevaricated: "This is not in a hurry for the time being!" I still have a lot of business to attend to, and I'll talk about that another day. ”

In this way, the matter of becoming emperor was put on hold.

Immediately after that, Emperor Dashun was ready to go to the inner court to deal with the affairs of Emperor Daming's concubines, he went all the way to find the Empress of the Ming Zhou Dynasty who died by hanging herself in the Qianqing Palace: Zhou Yufeng, and then went to the Renshou Palace to find the Empress Dowager of Ming Yi'an who drank poisonous wine and died: Zhang Yan, Emperor Dashun found that something was wrong and directly sent people to their respective palaces to see.

After an investigation, it was learned that all the concubines in the Chongzhen period of the harem had committed suicide and martyred, but there were Dashun generals robbing the concubines near Jingyang Palace according to the soldiers' reports? This made Emperor Dashun intolerable, and he waved his hand directly, "Lead the way ahead, I want to see who is so bold and reckless?" ”

In this way, Emperor Dashun, under the leadership of the soldiers, came to the Jingyang Palace, and as soon as he entered the door, he encountered a Shun army infantryman running over and reported to Emperor Dashun: "Your Majesty, Lord Ruhou is persecuting a palace maid in the former Ming Dynasty in Longzongmen, trying to accept her as a concubine!" ”

This made Emperor Dashun very angry when he heard this, and he said angrily, "What nonsense, he just entered the capital, he can't wait to find his wife?" Hurry up and go to the Long Sect".

When he arrived at the Longzong Gate, he saw that the Marquis of Dashun Ruhou was really threatening a palace maid to obey, this palace maid looked dignified and graceful, and she was very likeable, but she faced the persecution of the Liukou generals, and in a fit of anger, in order to keep her chastity, she stood directly on the water tank of the Longzong Gate, and pointed to the Marquis of Dashun Ruhou and said, "Don't come here!" Stay back! If I did, I'd jump into the tank. ”

However, Dashun Ruhou still said with a hippie smile: "Okay! Jump! Little beauty, even if you jump, I want you. ”

At this time, Emperor Dashun next to him couldn't stand it anymore, and he immediately asked the Shun infantry on the left and right to take a bow, put up an arrow and draw a bow to aim at the direction of Dashun Ruhou.

When the infantry of the Shun army saw this, they said, "Your Majesty, no! As soon as the words fell, I saw Emperor Dashun let go of the arrow, and with a (whoosh) feather arrow shot quickly, passing through the side of Dashun Ruhou and shooting towards the plaque of Longzongmen, this move attracted the attention of Dashun Ruhou on the spot.

He looked back at Emperor Dashun and said, "Big brother, are you trying to shoot me?" Or did you just get to the capital and think about crossing the river and demolishing the bridge? ”

Hearing this, Emperor Dashun became even more angry, and he retorted, "I just entered Beijing! People's hearts are uncertain! The morale of the army is unstable! And now you're still adding to the chaos? Is there still a royal law? It seems that I have to issue a decree not to disturb the military and civilians of the whole city! Otherwise, I'm afraid you would have forgotten all about me, the Emperor of Dashun, in your hearts, right? ”

Helplessly, Dashun Ruhou had to say with a straight face: "Big brother, you also know that the brothers fight every day!" It's hard to get into Beijing, and you're not allowed to play with women? Doesn't that make us extinct? ”

However, Emperor Dashun said: "Then you can't rob the palace maid in the capital, what kind of system?" Outside the palace, you can choose any woman you want, but it must be an unmarried woman! There is also a way to enter Beijing, so from now on must not be commensurate with brothers! After saying that, he let the palace maid go.

At this moment, there was also a gorgeously dressed woman in the palace gate, who quietly stretched out her head to take a look, and immediately retracted it, but she was still discovered by the careful Emperor Dashun, who waved his hand and let the soldiers on the left and right walk over to the palace gate in front of him and bring the woman over.

The woman who was dragged out looked very smart, her figure was also excellent, and her age was only about twenty-five years old. His heart began to beat faster (bang, bang, bang).

There was a feeling of eagerness to rush over, but he still controlled his emotions, adjusted his state and asked, "Are you the palace maid of that palace?" ”

And the woman lowered her head and was shy and silent! Emperor Dashun forgot a word again, and the woman spoke, "You are Emperor Dashun?" Ben, oh, if the little girl said it, would you spare me? ”

Emperor Dashun, who had long been moved by her beauty, agreed without thinking about it, but the woman said, "I am the concubine of the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty." ”

After learning the identity of the other party, Emperor Dashun immediately fell into contemplation, he thought; This beauty is actually Emperor Chongzhen: Zhu Youzhen, the concubine? If I accept her as a concubine, won't I be criticized by the ministers? The people are against? But if you don't accept it, you can't bear it! After all, how can you say that the fat meat that comes to your mouth can be put away?

After repeated struggles, he made a decision? That is, to leave her in the palace for the time being, but it is difficult to say it clearly, so I have to pretend to say: "Now the Ming Emperor still doesn't know where he is?" Since you are his concubine, then live in the palace for the time being! Business as usual. ”

After dealing with the matter of the inner court harem, Emperor Dashun began to go to the outer court to see the situation, but one after another received reports from soldiers near the Daming Gate: "Your Majesty, most of the soldiers of our army broke into the houses to rape the people and seize the property!" Some of the soldiers have not yet returned to the camp and are still missing? ”

This made Emperor Dashun feel that these rabbit cubs had also learned to make trouble? Seeing that he had to personally arrest a few trespassers on private houses, as well as the soldiers of the Shun army who did not obey orders on weekdays to behead them to show his proximity to the people, he ordered to randomly arrest a few generals and soldiers with loose military discipline and take them to the Xuanwumen Caishikou in the outer city to be beheaded.

Of course, the generals are not willing to kill Emperor Dashun at present, after all, they still have to rely on them to fight the world! So I had to turn a blind eye and make a show, and asked the soldiers to invite the people outside the capital to the outer city, and let Dashun Cheng announce to the public, "Folks, our Dashun Emperor overthrew the Ming Emperor, but not for his own enjoyment of fighting the world!" It is for the people of the world to live a better, richer and happier life, and today Ben announced to everyone that from now on, there will be no more Dashun soldiers and civilians who will disturb the people! No one will rob food or property, so please rest assured that anyone who violates the order will not be pardoned. ”

Immediately let the executioner swing the knife and cut it down very neatly, which can be described as very happy! The few people standing in the audience applauded.

In order to get more people's hearts! Emperor Dashun also asked the prime minister of Dashun to announce that "all the people in the Gyeonggi area of Beizhili will be exempt from tax for three years, and only commercial taxes will be collected." ”

This sentence can be said to be quite popular with the people, but also won the support of many people, the people have been suffering from the heavy taxes of the Ming Dynasty "Liaodong Three Salaries", and now the Emperor Dashun comes to not collect taxes, everyone is naturally very welcome.

But just when everyone was happy, the last thing they wanted to see came! Four or five people in the audience began to fall down, lying on the ground motionless? The Dashun soldiers standing guard next to him were frightened!

This is not the most important thing, and then even two of the Dashun soldiers fell, vomiting blood and foaming at the mouth, rolling cold and hot all over, so frightened that the Dashun Emperor who was sitting on the stage hurriedly glanced at the Dashun Prime Minister, and the Dashun Prime Minister asked, "What's going on?" ”

The Dashun soldier standing guard patted the shoulder of the soldier on the ground and asked, "Hey! Brother, brother, are you alright? ”

Who knew that this shot actually saw a terrifying eye? I saw that the faces of the soldiers who turned around turned blue instantly, and the corners of their mouths began to show a purple appearance, and the Dashun soldiers immediately reacted and hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Hurry up, it's the epidemic!" ”

As soon as he heard the word "epidemic", he directly frightened the prime minister of Dashun stupidly, he hurriedly asked people to protect Emperor Dashun to go back to the imperial city, and ordered Dashun bird gunners and Dashun archers to drive out the people, and none of the people gathered here in the panic were shot!

However, Emperor Dashun still can't believe that there is an epidemic in the Gyeonggi area? I sent someone to investigate the situation, and I didn't know if I didn't know how to check it! It turned out that most of the states, prefectures, counties, health offices and villages near the imperial capital of Beizhili were infected with the plague, so it was no wonder that he was able to easily attack the capital before.

Emperor Dashun felt that he couldn't let the plague go without treatment, after all, it was also related to his own life, so he asked the right attendant of the Dashun household department: Xiao Yingkun, I went to check the deposit of the treasury, and I was shocked by this investigation! It turns out that the treasury has long been empty, and there is no silver left!

Only 200,000 taels of silver and 100,000 taels of gold! Emperor Dashun only now understood, no wonder he didn't obey when he asked Emperor Chongzhen to reward the three armies with one million silver, it turned out that there was no silver in the treasury for a long time! In this time, Emperor Dashun felt very disappointed! He thought to himself; Where are you coming to the capital to enjoy happiness? This is clearly to come to the capital to deal with affairs.

He involuntarily took the account book and checked it, and found that since the Wanli period, the annual income of the treasury was 17 million taels of silver, and now the income of Chongzhen in the seventeenth year has dropped to about 8 million taels of silver, most of which is still the silver obtained from the taxation of the "Liaodong Three Salaries", and the expenses of the feudal kings in various places account for half! Half of the military pay has gone again! In addition to the disaster relief funds, the silver of the national treasury was basically used for this.

There is no way for Emperor Dashun to collect silver taels from various battalions, but considering that the generals already have opinions about themselves, this is something that makes him more distressed!

Prime Minister Dashun on the side suddenly thought of a plan? He stepped forward and reminded, "Your Majesty, since there are so many Ming court officials who have surrendered and been captured, and they all say that they want to serve me well, isn't it time to do so?" ”

After hearing this, Emperor Da Shun, who knew his mind, felt that the method was good, but it was a little inappropriate to do so! But now there is no better way, so the matter of asking for silver taels from the officials of the Ming court is handed over to the prime minister of Dashun to deal with.

Subsequently, in order to win over the forces to unify the north as soon as possible, and also to bring the last two border towns of the Ming Dynasty over earlier, he decided that the next step was to go to Wu Mansion to see the Ming Jingying Commander: Wu Xiang, (the father of Wu Sangui!) ）

But he couldn't find a suitable candidate, so he casually sent Dashun Ruhou to go to Wu's mansion to take the old man Wu to the capital to serve him well, so as to prevent being infected by the epidemic.

After Dashun Ruhou received the order, for the sake of safety, he also took a few medical officers to the palace, and everyone rode away with a face towel wrapped in a face towel on the way out of the palace.

On the other side, Ming Jiadingbo, the national abbot of the Zhou Mansion: Zhou Kui, who was closing the door of his house and packing up his things and preparing to escape, but a family member ran over and reported, "Lord Earl, my lord is not good!" ”

Seeing the family breaking into the dormitory without reluctance, Ming Jia Dingbo was very angry, he waved his hand and scolded, "What's wrong!" So flustered? ”

I saw that Jiading looked around to confirm that there was no one, and then approached Ming Jia Dingbo's ear and whispered a few words, and immediately frightened him to the point that his face turned pale! I couldn't help but ask directly, "Quick, take Earl Ben to have a look." ”