Chapter 37: Entering Beijing

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As the center of Shenjing, the center of the world, Jingshi is naturally different from other cities, and it is not comparable to other cities, and it has a special meaning for the world. Because of this, this entry into the city is naturally completely different from the past.

When to set off, when to enter the city, all of this must follow the auspicious progress, to hope, divination decision, this is the nature of human beings, even if ordinary people move a house, marry a concubine need to pick a good day, in terms of state affairs, even more so, now Shenjing Kefu, such a major event, naturally can not be hastily engaged, when entering the city, it is natural to pick a good day, thanks to this small Wutai Temple, Taoist temples are also a lot, known as the "immortals" of the mage, there are many people.

Under the divination of the masters, the time to enter the camp was naturally finalized - Li Ziyuan should arrive outside the Desheng Gate between Shen You, and then turn around, and arrive outside the Fucheng Gate after Yu You. As for within a radius of three miles around Diaoyutai and Yuyuantan, they will be stationed on the spot, and then they will enter the city after the next day. This feng shui theory is related to the fortune of the country. You can't afford to be careless. lest it mess up the national fortunes affected by feng shui.

Of course, after arriving outside the Fucheng Gate, there is no need to sleep in the open as in the past, but to live in an abandoned mansion outside the Fucheng Gate, of course, he doesn't need to worry about all this, and he doesn't even need to move his mouth, naturally Xu Yuncheng has arranged all this for him, and even in that mansion, the internal officials of the palace have been arranged, and only the king will be brought here.

When he vaguely saw the head of the Jingshi, Li Ziyuan, who was in a mood that was difficult to calm down for a while, looked back at the servants behind him, and wanted to say something, but he didn't say it, his heart couldn't calm down at all, he never thought that one day he could enter the Jingshi so arrogantly, although he was very excited in his heart, but he put on a rather calm appearance on the surface. He saw that Xu Yuncheng still seemed to have something on his mind, but he just smiled at it.

He naturally knew what Xu Yuncheng was thinking, this person was all right, but he was too cautious, he always felt that "he had to do a full set of plays", but he didn't see it at all, this play...... There is no need to act it anymore, if Zheng Chenggong was still alive, he would have acted in this play, but now...... It's no longer necessary.

Further on, there is only a mound in front of it, and there is a gap in the middle, which runs through the north-south avenue, and the top and bottom of the mound are also densely wooded, and all of them look like smoke. Looking at the pass emerging from the flat ground, Li Ziyuan immediately reined in his horse and looked into the distance, and suddenly saw many soldiers and generals clustering around a general riding out of the gap, dismounting at several tall stone monuments, and lining up on both sides of the avenue. Li Ziyuan asked Xu Yuncheng:

"What is this place?"

"Back to the king."

Xu Yuncheng hurriedly replied respectfully,

This place is commonly known as Tucheng Pass, which is the north gate of the capital of Mengyuan and Yuan. After the success of Emperor Gao's Northern Expedition, he changed the capital from the Mongols to Beiping, and ordered people to demolish the north wall of Dadu. Some good deeds call this place one of the eight scenic spots of Beijing, and the beauty is called "Jimen Smoke Tree". It is a few miles away from Desheng Gate. Your Majesty, please see, it is the Marquis of Dingbian who led all the generals to greet the holy car! ”

Dingbian Marquis is Sun Xingping under Li Ziyuan, and now several generals under his command are either named Hou or Uncle. Now in the army, it is completely titled, and the Marquis of Bian arrived in Beijing a few days ago as the former peak leader of 15,000 cavalry.

After arriving in Jingshi, he sent people to guard the loyal army in the direction of Shanhaiguan on the one hand, so as not to let others pick peaches, and on the other hand, he constantly sent generals to run to Xiaowutai on the way to inquire about the itinerary of the king and his party, so as to come to greet him, for fear of being rude and annoying the king. Later, when he received a report and knew that the king and his party were only a few miles away from Tucheng Pass, he immediately led the generals stationed outside Xizhimen, Deshengmen and Andingmen to line up outside Tucheng Pass. Because it was time to fight, and they were riding on horseback, they only bowed down and clenched their fists on the horse with Sun Xingping, and said in unison:

"Greetings to the King!"

"Everyone's hard work!"

After Li Ziyuan returned the salute with his fists, he asked Sun Xingping about the situation of the Jingshi.

"There are dozens of miles in the inner and outer cities of the Beijing Division, and now there is no Qing army in the Beijing Division, and there are always ruffians and ruffians in the past few days. In order to prevent thieves from infiltrating the city or the remnants of the Qing captives from escaping, they ordered people to guard the gates of each city, and sent cavalry to patrol constantly, so that the news of the outer city and the rest of the city was cut off. In the past few days, Yin Fa Ruozhen of the Shuntian Mansion has sent people to ask for surrender many times, and invited the army to enter the city, although it is said that the refusal is under the mark, that Fa Ruozhen is also neat, he ordered people to close the gate of the inner city, so as to avoid the gangsters and idle men from entering the inner city to loot, and there are still more than 1,000 eunuchs in the palace, and the inner city is still orderly, and the king may enter the city at any time. ”

When the Qing court evacuated, it was still a matter of abiding by the "agreement" between the two sides, they first appointed Fa Ruozhen as the Shuntian Mansion Yin, and then evacuated the Beijing Division, and as the Shuntian Mansion Yin Fa Ruozhen Although his men were limited, he also kept the Beijing Division to the greatest extent, especially his order to close the inner city gate, so as to avoid outsiders from mixing together, and even to save the empty inner city from being looted by the gangsters, and even burned the palace courtyard.

And for Li Ziyuan, who had already intended to reward the royal mansion in Jingshi City to the meritorious heroes, he was naturally extremely satisfied with this, he nodded with satisfaction, and then said.

"This person also has some talent, so in that case, let's keep him in office."

After first affirming the merits of Shuntian Mansion Yin, he continued.

"The brothers worked hard for a few more days, and after they entered the Beijing Division, the soldiers all made great contributions to the country, and they did not hesitate to be rewarded."

Unlike the loyal and righteous army, there is no reward for silver, and the Chu army must issue a reward after each battle, which is Li Ziyuan's move to win people's hearts, but it is not an indiscriminate reward of more than ten or even dozens of taels per capita like the Qing army or the Ming army in the past, and an additional month or two months of military salary, so that the higher the official position, the more advantageous it is.

When the generals heard this, they were immediately overjoyed, because the Chu army was out of the loyal army, so many rules were similar to the loyal army, but the salary of its ordinary soldiers was low, often only one or two, and the conscripts only had allowances, but the military salary of the official was extremely rich, and the monthly military salary of the generals was as much as hundreds of taels, Naturally, they were all very happy, and hurriedly hugged their fists again on the horse, and said in unison.

"I'm waiting to thank King Hongen!"

Immediately, Sun Xingping led a group of generals to escort Li Ziyuan's advance. The generals stationed outside the Desheng Gate and Anding Gate sent the king off before galloping back to the station.

Under the arch guard of the cavalry, Li Ziyuan and his entourage walked for more than a mile after entering Tucheng Pass, then turned west, and after a few miles, they met the avenue and turned south again, and then continued to the south from the vicinity of Wanbai Stone Bridge outside Xizhimen, and walked in the direction of Diaoyutai. And in the past few days, the officials and merchants who have been waiting for the Ming army to enter the city at the head of the city, Ding Zhuang, saw the neat cavalry walking outside the city, with the honor guard of the vassal king in the middle, and a group of people wearing civilian clothes who were riding horses and following behind, guessing that it must be Li Ziyuan, the king of Chu, who came to the outside of the capital city.

"The King of Chu is here!"

After this shout, the people who had been looking forward to the Ming army entering the city for a while, so that they could live a peaceful life again, all showed their heads from the battlements of the city wall, looking at the appearance of the king of Chu, although they were far away, they could still see the long-lost Han clothes.

Although as early as a few months ago, the people of this outer city knew that the general trend of the Qing Dynasty was gone, but because of the tyranny of the Manchus, they were afraid of angering the Manchus and being slaughtered, so they still shaved their heads and followed the Manchu hair and clothing. After listening to the news of "the king of Chu is coming", these people who came to the city one after another, saw the long-lost Han family clothes and the long-lost Ming army from a distance, all of them looked like tears in their eyes, at the beginning, only a few were sobbing there, but in the end they became crying.

The cries of thousands of people can be heard even if they are miles away, listening to the cries on the city, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but be stunned, he reined in his horse, looked towards the city, and then asked.

"What's going on?"

"King, this, this is the people in the city who are really excited after seeing the king, and they can't help themselves, so they howl like this......"

The cry kept coming from the city, as if the people of the capital who had been under the rule of the Qing Dynasty for eighteen years wanted to cry out the grievances they had suffered in the past eighteen years, and wanted to use this to express the bitterness of the eighteen years, they were there howling and crying, and the cry was even more sad to hear, not to mention the ordinary soldiers who would have been infected by their emotions were all tears in their eyes, even those civil and military officials were in tears, at this time, Almost everyone thought of the old relatives who died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army.

Li Ziyuan, who reined in the reins of his horse and stopped advancing, stared at the head of the city and listened to the cry. As soon as he stopped, the ranks behind him stopped, and everyone was watching him. He looked back and whispered to Yizheng beside him.

"Herald, enter the city!"

I didn't discuss it with others, but in an instant, Li Ziyuan made this decision!

He's going into town!

It doesn't matter what good time it is!

Yizheng, who had already been drawn to tears by the crying of the city, immediately shouted back loudly:

"The king has sent an order, enter the city!"

After Xu Yuncheng, Zhu Yingsheng and others heard it, they immediately lifted the reins of the horse and rushed over to say.

"Never, never, never, never, by all means...... This entry into the city will be at an auspicious time, and it will be an auspicious time."

"Auspicious time?"

Li Ziyuan looked at the towering city wall with a look of ambition, and then said:

"Back then, when the thieves entered the city, it was an auspicious time? When the Qing captives entered the city, could it be counted? How can you escape the situation of one day of destruction? ”

Raising his horsewhip and pointing at the head of the city of Jingshi, Li Ziyuan continued.

"Hundreds of thousands of people in Beijing have suffered from the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a long time, looking south to the king for more than ten years, and today's king Shi Kefu's Beijing division is stationed outside the city and does not enter, so how can he collect the hearts of the people,"

Listening to the howling sound on the city, Li Ziyuan, who was in a stirred mood, said again.

"A year ago, we were in Wuchang at this time, and how could we have expected to come to Jingshi now! The Northern Expedition went so smoothly, thanks to the lives of the soldiers, and thanks to the hearts of the people of the world in the king's division, hearing the voices of the people, and not entering the city, wouldn't it make the people of the world laugh! Besides, as long as the people's hearts are in Han, why be afraid of his luck and auspicious time! Pass on the life of the lonely army and enter the city! ”

Li Ziyuan looked at the city, his expression and tone only made the hearts of everyone around him tremble, and Zhu Yingsheng looked at Li Ziyuan in surprise, and his expression was even more thoughtful.

Xu Yuncheng also bowed down and said immediately.

"The king is noble, it really makes us ashamed, what the king said is very true, the hearts of the people in the world are in me, why are you afraid of others?"

When everyone bowed on the horse, Li Ziyuan grabbed the horse's body with his legs and walked towards the Desheng Gate, looking at the city gate, there was only one thought left in his heart.

"Beijing, lonely is here!"

When looking at the capital, now Liziyuan has no other worries, he no longer thinks about King Huai, and he will not have such thoughts again, for him, all he needs now is to let the people who have been enslaved by the Manchu Qing for more than ten years be able to get a little comfort.

When he ordered the army to enter the city, he didn't even have the ambition that had always controlled his every move in his mind. Instead, all that remains is the understanding of these people.

"Zhu raised troops just to let the people no longer be slaves, not for personal glory and wealth."

At least for a moment, I saw the faces of the people and heard their cries. He seemed to understand why Zhu Mingzhong had such feelings back then.

"Li is still not you after all!"

When he was about to enter the city gate, for some reason he once again remembered Zhu Mingzhong in Shanhaiguan, although he didn't feel the slightest guilt in his heart. But he is still aware of the gap between himself and Zhu Mingzhong.

Where exactly is this gap? It's not about the territory or the number of troops, but in the perception between the two people, compared to him, Zhu Mingzhong can do everything for the country, and he can always put Daming first, but he will never be able to do this.

Just like now, even if he is thinking about these people and writing about their inner desire for Wang Shi, what Li Ziyuan thinks of is still the same as it is now, and the people's hearts of the people who come to this Jingshi must be accepted by me.

For him, who always puts interests first. Nothing is more important than benefits. If he needs to act, he will continue to act, as long as it is beneficial to him, as long as the acting can be rewarded.

Thinking that the hearts of the people in Jingshi would be collected for himself, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but feel a burst of pride.

"Zhu Mingzhong, now this Jingshi is from Li!"

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