After Li Yan said goodbye to Niu Jinxing, he walked around Xi'an City.

Xi'an, this thousand-year-old city, Zhang Xianzhong did not take advantage of the nuisance, and Li Zicheng's peasant army came, and after the capture with strategy, it was not damaged too much. But in this way, Xi'an is even more depressed and defeated than it was after Li Zicheng's first attack - there are few pedestrians on the streets, occasionally one or two vendors are doing business, and as for the shops, they are all closed.

Li Yan walked and walked, and unconsciously came to a village outside Xi'an, this village seemed to have been plundered, Li Yan walked in the village for a long time, only to see a fallen old man sitting at the door of a thatched house. Li Yan asked the old man, "Old man, why don't you see anyone in the village?" ”

The old man was sitting at the door in a daze, his son, daughter-in-law and grandson were all taken out by the village chief to build a palace for the king of Han, and they haven't returned home for half a month, I don't know if they are dead or alive now.

It is said that King Chuang came and did not pay for food, but King Chuang was named King of Han by the emperor, and his life became more and more bitter. The old man was in a daze, and suddenly heard as if someone was talking to him, the old man raised his head sluggishly, and saw that it was a young man, in the village, there was no young man for a long time, the old man trembled and said, "Young man, run!" ”

"Why are you running?"

"The king of Han built a palace, and all men, women, and children were arrested to serve in the conscription, and only those of us who were too old to move were left. Everything that can run in the village has run, so run away! ”

When Li Yan heard this, his heart was very sad, his original intention of assisting Li Zicheng was that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were corrupt and paid taxes harshly, which led to the misery of the people, but now the king of Han only has a fief, so he is greedy for the enjoyment of oppressing the people.

No, I must persuade King Han!

But thinking that when he persuaded King Han today, King Han was impatient with himself, why would King Han listen to his advice?

"The emperor is really a god and a man!"

"On May 16, there is really a super typhoon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, rain, and floods!"

"I think the emperor is really the son of heaven, so God entrusted the dream to the emperor"

"Have you heard, because the literati of Jiangsu and Zhejiang spoke for the landlords and rich businessmen, did not pay taxes, and let the Qing demon abuse them, the heavens couldn't stand it, so they punished Jiangsu and Zhejiang"

"You say that we are against the Ming Dynasty, is it also God's punishment for us?"

"Yes, you see that we are against King Chuang, and the current Xi'an is far worse than before."

"Alas, the king of Han has arrested the strong man to repair the palace, and now no one is doing the work in this field, it seems that it is another disaster year, this is a man-made disaster."

"Shhhh

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After Li Yan returned to the post house, he heard a group of post guards chatting around the post house, and the content of their conversation was the emperor's dream notice in Daming Daily. Although Li Yan is in the fiefdom, Daming Daily is the national newspaper of Daming, and Li Yan naturally collected one from other sources.

Li Yan is a scholar, he knows the usefulness of public opinion very well, and after taking refuge in Li Zicheng, his greatest contribution is to use public opinion to establish a good image for Li Zicheng among the people. Li Yan sent people to spread rumors among the people: "Break into the king's benevolent and righteous army, do not kill or plunder"; Li Yan also made up nursery rhymes for children to sing everywhere: "Open the gate to welcome the king, and when the king comes, he will not accept food", "Open the door early to worship the king, and discipline everyone to be happy". It is precisely because of these public opinion propaganda that the hungry people who are waiting to be fed are like clouds in the hope of a great drought, worried that Li Zicheng's army will not come to their place, and they are looking forward to the arrival of Li Zicheng's army every day; Li Zicheng has not been chased into the mountains by Lu Xiangsheng as before, and Li Zicheng has thousands of hungry people to support, not only the hungry victims, but also the Ming army in Shanxi and Hebei, which also surrendered without blood. These are all Li Yan's great successes in using public opinion!

Therefore, Li Yan knew very well that Chongzhen used Daming Daily to imperceptibly convey his policy strategy to officials and the people, so that the people could support the policies formulated by Chongzhen.

But for the Daming rich list that everyone talks about, Li Yanzhi disagrees, can the Daming wealth list really see who is a big corrupt official? I don't think so, the real big corrupt officials are all powerful and powerful people, what could Jinyiwei possibly offend? The Daming Wealth List is just Chongzhen's desire to warn those rich people, and the Daming Donation List is Chongzhen's purpose.

"Is there really a typhoon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang on May 16?" Li Yan asked in front of the crowd.

When everyone saw that it was King Bian, they were all frightened, and thinking of their disparagement of King Han just now, they quickly knelt on the ground.

"King Bian's life, King Bian's life! The little ones shouldn't be too talkative. After saying that, the post guards slapped themselves in the face.

"Get up and speak, what you just said was that there was a typhoon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang on May 16?"

A pawn replied, "Exactly, on May 16, there was a typhoon and rain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and after the flood, it is said that hundreds of people died, if it were not for the emperor's warning, I am afraid that tens of thousands of people would die!" ”

"Is the news true?"

"In recent days, there have been a lot of letters from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is true, the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are now worshiping the emperor as a god, it is said that now the people's homes are not praying to God or worshipping Guanyin Bodhisattva, but the emperor statue!"

But this prediction of a typhoon on May 16 is so accurate, how does Chongzhen know? Li Yan couldn't help but think in his heart, could it be that Chongzhen is the real chosen one, could it be that Chongzhen is the true dragon son who saved the people of Limin?

"Dada... Da Da... Outside the post house, there was a sound of horses' hooves, and Niu Jinxing and a few guards walked down.

"King Bian, you can" Niu Jinxing asked the guard's post guard after getting out of the carriage.

"Prime Minister Niu, Xiao Wang is here, I don't know what to do?" Li Yan saw that it was Niu Jinxing, and hurriedly walked out and asked

"King Bian, King Han said that King Bian rarely came to Xi'an, although everyone is called the king, but they are all their own brothers. The brothers hadn't gotten together to drink for a long time, and they specially set up a banquet in the mansion to invite King Bian. The ministers came to greet King Bian! ”

"Okay, this king hasn't drunk with King Han for a long time, but this clothes are a little dirty, so King Rong changed his clothes and went to the banquet with Prime Minister Niu."

"Okay, I'll wait here for King Bian"

Li Yan thought to himself: You invited me to the banquet so late, I don't know what medicine to buy in Hanwang's gourd.

By the way, when I left Beijing, the emperor gave me a tip. The emperor was able to guess the typhoon on May 16, so presumably the emperor might have known what the king of Han wanted to do to me. At this point, Li Yan hurriedly opened the bag.

"Li Zicheng will kill you, flee quickly!"