Chapter 45 The Great Shun World

Rewind time a few days ago.

Li Zicheng was in high spirits and rode into the palace. Before the empty river of golden water. Only bits and pieces of chores remained, and some corpses.

"Meet Your Majesty." Liu Zongmin and his entourage stood in front of the Jinshui River and bowed.

Li Zicheng laughed and said, "Brothers, please get up." ”

At this moment, Li Zicheng is really proud of the spring breeze, sending troops from Xi'an, between February and March, sweeping Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and other places, Yuan Zongdi still stayed in the south of Baoding and did not join Li Zicheng, but he didn't hear any difficulties, but Gao Jie went south to Fengyang, and he couldn't bite his tail for a while.

And his road is even smoother, the whole north after Tongguan, there are two battles to praise, the first battle is Yulin, Yulin You family generation is the head of Yulin Jiangmen, You Shiwei would rather die than surrender, it is quite difficult to fight, and there is Zhou Yuji, the battle of Ningwuguan is also more miserable.

However, Li Zicheng didn't care, because he collected a lot of troops from the northwest, and these battles were all won by the surrender army, and his own headquarters did not lose much.

Now Li Zicheng's headquarters is divided into three parts, one follows him in Beijing, headed by Liu Zongmin, Li Guo and others, one is Yuan Zongdi in Hebei, and the other is Bai Wang, guarding the six mansions of Xiangyang. There are also garrisons in the rest of the places, but they are scattered, and there are not many in each place, but all of them add up, there are more than 100,000 people.

These people are all counted, and the millions of soldiers are not a false finger.

Now below the Beijing Division, although Chongzhen has not yet arrived, it does not prevent Li Zicheng from being complacent. He bent his bow and shot an arrow, and shot an arrow at this Chengtianmen, the word of heaven. I don't know what's wrong, but the riding and archery that is handy on weekdays is missing today.

The arrow was slightly deflected and fell below the word "Tian" in the four words "Gate of Heaven".

Li Zicheng's face changed slightly, and Song Xiance immediately said beside him: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty." ”

"Oh." Li Zicheng said: "What is the joy? ”

Song Xiance said: "Your Majesty's arrow shot into the 'sky', doesn't it indicate that Your Majesty will win the world?" ”

Li Zicheng heard Song Xiance say this, and the depression in his heart was alleviated a lot, haha laughed, and entered the city, and then someone came to report, all the civil and military officials surrendered, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on the coal mountain.

Li Zicheng sighed slightly and said, "Anyway, he is also an emperor, so he is buried in peace." ”

Before Li Zicheng walked to the Taihe Palace, the group dismounted one after another and followed Li Zicheng into the main hall. Li Zicheng is dressed in a Ge Yi and a felt hat on his head, and his dress has hardly changed over the years. He sat down slowly on the dragon chair.

I just feel that this chair is very uncomfortable to sit on, and there is no one around.

"Long live my emperor

Long live the year. Song Xiance bowed down first, and then everyone knelt on top of the gold bricks. For a while, only Li Zicheng sat on the dragon chair. In the Taihe Palace, there seemed to be a trace of darkness, but the sunlight could shine directly around Li Zicheng.

First, it seems that a layer of gold has been painted for Li Zicheng.

"Everyone's flat." Li Zicheng said.

At this moment, Li Zicheng felt that he was really an emperor.

However, the feeling was only for a moment.

Li Zicheng was busy next, appeased the demoted officials, and accepted the Jingshi.

Beijing City is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and all kinds of documents, even weapons and gunpowder workshops, all kinds of talents, etc., this kind of pride only made Li Zicheng last for a while, and then he had to face his most difficult problems.

That's the fiscal gap.

Raising millions of people, the amount of silver needed is an astronomical amount, not to mention. Everywhere Li Zicheng went, he was given the slogan of free food for three years, and although this slogan made Li Zicheng look at the scenery wherever he passed, it further widened Li Zicheng's financial gap.

And from the palace and the household, I didn't find much money, but only a hundred thousand taels.

Hundreds of thousands of taels is a huge fortune that can make people live for ten lifetimes, but for a huge country, it is a drop in the bucket.

Not to mention, since Cao Ying captured Jiangnan, Cao Yun was cut off, prices in the north were soaring, Li Zicheng consumed more, and the little silver collected in Xi'an had already been spent. This time the Eastern Crusade used a large army of more than 300,000, and they were all elites, and there were more cavalry. Three million taels is not enough to make ends meet.

If this battle was fought so smoothly, it was natural that merit should be rewarded.

But Li Zicheng couldn't even get the rewards of the whole army.

He thought that after arriving in Beijing, he would make a lot of money from Emperor Lao'er, but he didn't want Emperor Lao'er to be a poor egg.

"My lord, the current strategy must be tortured." Niu Jinxing said with red eyes.

The most stressed person among all is Niu Jinxing, and the logistical pressure is on Niu Jinxing alone, and he supports him left and right to survive it. But the gap is getting bigger and bigger, and Niu Jinxing himself is not an expert in governance.

At this time, if you don't torture the salary, you can't turn it into silver even if you kill Niu Venus.

"My lord, in the current situation, the gentry all over the world are looking up to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty is tortured in Beijing, I am afraid that it will lose the hope of the world." Li Xin said: "Please also ask Your Highness to think twice." ”

Anyway, the communication of this era, and the things that break into the camp and do in the northwest, I am afraid that it will take many months to spread all over the world. Not to mention, the gentry of the Northwest have no place at all among the gentry of the world.

But Beijing is different.

Beijing is the Beijing Division, here one

If something happens, within ten days, it will be able to spread the word to the world. Moreover, Li Zicheng is a new teacher in Beijing, and everyone is waiting to see what this new master of the world will do.

And such an act may disappoint the world.

"Master Li, what should I do now?" Niu Jinxing said: "More than 100,000 troops are waiting for rewards, is this money saved." ”

"You can't save it." Liu Zongmin spoke, and he said: "Your Majesty, the brothers have been fighting for many months, just waiting for today, if the reward is overdue, it will hurt the morale of the army too much." ”

Are there fewer changes in history due to untimely rewards?

Therefore, the reward of the army, especially the reward of the army that can fight and win the war, must not be deducted. How could Li Zicheng not know?

If the Ming Dynasty could achieve full salaries, there would be nothing to do in this world.

Besides, Li Zicheng didn't have a good impression of those high-ranking officials and eunuchs, so he asked Li Xindao directly: "Can Li Junshi have other ways?" ”

"Minister---, Minister----。" Li Xin was speechless for a while, and said, "I just ask Your Majesty's subordinates to be merciful and leave some dignity for the scholars." ”

Li Zicheng was slightly dissatisfied with Li Xin.

Today, everyone knows that it is not good to continue to torture salaries, but there is no other way to solve the financial gap. What can Li Zicheng do, he can only choose the lesser of two evils, and would rather leave a bad reputation, but he must ensure that the whole army is paid and rewarded.

What is Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng is very clear.

And Li Xin only talked about the problem, not how to solve the problem, Li Zicheng naturally had some opinions in his heart, and said: "That's natural, for the Qing officials, I will naturally respect them, but for the corrupt officials, I have to use thunder means." ”

Li Zicheng has a simple concept of love and hate, but in fact, it is not just Li Zicheng. Most of the rebels are like this, if an officer or soldier has a good reputation, they will generally not be killed.

It's just that Daming has reached this point, and such officers and soldiers are almost rare, how many can there be.

Li Xin opened his mouth, he could only comfort himself, and said secretly: "At the beginning of the founding of the country, there was a lot of killing, and the old ministers of the former dynasty were cleaned up. ”

"It's only been three years, and it's gone by quickly." Li said secretly in confidence.

Li Zicheng's actions in Beijing did not affect Jiangnan, but the news of Chongzhen's funeral was like a stone smashed into the water, just when Zheng Zhilong got the news and withdrew his troops from Zhoushan, Luo Yulong, east of Yangzhou, also got the news.

He was overjoyed and immediately urged the troops to storm the storm.

Originally, the Huai'an Army was at a disadvantage, and when this news came, it even removed the backbone of the Huai'an Army. Suddenly the morale was almost zero.

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