Chongzhen asked Ni Yuanlu, a relative of the imperial family, princes and ministers, to be assigned to the militia camp, so that they could pick up swords and guns and practice martial arts like ordinary people. The soldiers and civilians of the whole city ate a big pot of rice and strengthened the city wall.

Ni Yuanlu was worried that they would rebel against this, Chongzhen smiled, I have 6,000 brocade guards in the capital, and I am full of my eyes and ears.

Rebellion, I can save some food!

Chongzhen specially explained to Ni Yuanlu and asked these royal relatives and princes and ministers to do some production work, such as digging coal, burning charcoal, building houses, and so on. Their mansions are too big, Chongzhen ordered people to leave only the house, their garden, used to build a lot of houses for the city homeless people to live, there are many homeless people in the capital, Chongzhen thought, if you can settle these homeless people, in the future, these homeless people will be labor!

Don't worry about these royal relatives and princes and ministers not working, if they don't work, it is a capital crime, beheaded! These days, the Criminal Department has beheaded hundreds of people, the little hooligans and the N generations of military N generations of officials who have been pampered and pampered, and the Criminal Department has beheaded them without saying a word. After beheading hundreds of people, no one in the capital dared to eat white food.

After cleaning up these royal relatives, princes and ministers, the whole city was quickly completed.

After the grain and silver were collected in the treasury, Fang Yuegong counted and reported the list to Chongzhen, and Chongzhen saw that there were 2.7 million stone grain.

Two million and 7,700,000 stone of grain, more than one million people in the city, enough to eat for more than half a year! This amount is basically correct, it is late autumn, and this grain is enough to eat next year's grain harvest, which proves that basically all the grain has been collected.

and more than 80,000,000 taels of silver. Chongzhen remembered that under Li Zicheng's torture and bone sucking, he also found 70 million taels of silver. Chongzhen's policy of eating together for the whole people actually collected an extra 10 million taels!

It's no wonder that Li Zicheng is only targeting officials to recover stolen goods, and Chongzhen is targeting everyone! If it is not handed over to the treasury, you can't cook it if you have food, you can't spend it if you have silver, and if someone reports it to the criminal department, it is a capital offense.

The law is so harsh, Chongzhen is not worried about someone running away, there is chaos outside, only the capital is the safest, but there are many people nearby who want to enter the capital.

This is also the reason why Chongzhen called Ni Yuanlu, Fang Yuegong, Li Yan and others to the Qianqing Palace today, although the announcement of the capital clearly states that all property will be confiscated after entering the city, but more and more people have come to take refuge, but most of them only brought a mouth, property? They didn't have any property in the first place.

If this continues, there will not be enough food in the city until the harvest is harvested.

There was no way, Chongzhen had no choice but to call the officials to the Qianqing Palace to discuss how to settle the soldiers and civilians in the city and the people outside the city.

But these people have not been able to come up with any good methods, they are all too kind and righteous people, and they don't let the people into the city, that is, to send these people to the Qing army! But if they were to go into the city, there would not be enough food to eat.

Li Yan and Song Xiance, two officials from a rebellious background, also really realized that it was not easy for Chongzhen, the emperor.

"Let's let it all in, Li Richao, you check the list of people who will enter the city in detail. Fang Yuegong, you tidy up the fields, distribute the fields to the people as soon as possible, and tell the people that the Qing army has retreated, and the six of you will discuss it yourself to see how to divide the fields and how much taxes to collect. ”

"Yes!" The officials present all said.

At this time, a Wei Chunrou led a Jinyi Wei and walked in, "Your Majesty, Jinyi Wei has news." ”

The eunuchs in the palace have been disbanded by Chongzhen, and Chongzhen asked them to set up a eunuch battalion to do a job similar to that of Jinyiwei to collect intelligence. Now Chongzhen is serving Wei Chunrou and a group of palace maids, and it is good to have no eunuchs.

"Bring it to me."

Jin Yiwei handed the information to Chongzhen.

After reading it, Chongzhen said to the ministers, "The Qing army has arrived in Tianjin with Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changshu, two silver beauties who rebelled against the king and robbed the people. However, the Qing army did not attack Tianjin, but continued north. ”

When Ni Yuanlu heard this, he hurriedly said, "Tianjin, so soon, then we will arrive in Beijing in the next two days, we should prepare as soon as possible!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister suggested that the general army of Tianjin should be ordered to be the king of Qin, and when the Qing army attacked the city, it would be an exception!" Li Yan also said.

"Your Majesty, we now have all the people in the city as soldiers, and there is a week of training, and there is enough food in the city, so there is no problem in defending the city," Yue Gong also said.

Chongzhen shook his head after hearing this, "I'm not afraid that they will attack Beijing, but now I'm afraid that they won't attack Beijing." ”

Think about it, the Qing army can get 10 million taels of silver and 50,000 beauties from Nanjing and Hangzhou without much effort, they went out of the customs to loot, and now they have grabbed it, what else to fight, let's go home with the silver beauties first.

Yes? Several officials were puzzled, they would not come to attack Beijing, why? Didn't these Qing troops want to rob things? Also, Your Majesty, we have worked so hard to prepare for war, and the Qing army is not coming, shouldn't you be happy?

"The emperor thinks that the Qing army has grabbed the silver and beauties, and it is inconvenient to attack Beijing, so it is better to accept it when it is good, take the silver and beauties back to the customs, and then enter the customs later." Song Xiance saw it, and the emperor said that the Qing army did not attack Tianjin and continued to go north. The failure to attack Tianjin means that the Qing army will not come to attack Beijing.

"Yes, I once let Li Ke go out of the customs to burn and kill outside the pass, a while ago Li Ke reported, burned thousands of villages outside the pass, killed more than 50,000 Qing demons, Qing demons out of the customs at this time, the elite soldiers were exhausted, only a small part of the army stayed in Shengjing, Li Ke fought so indiscriminately, Shengjing's Qing army was powerless, they were in the open, Li Ke was in the dark, they were more worried about Li Ke attacking Shengjing. That's why they are in a hurry to recruit the army of Duoduo back. ”

"Your Majesty, if the Qing Demon doesn't come, we can take the initiative to attack." Ni Yuanlu said, "Your Majesty, the Qing army has women, and it is inconvenient to march on the road, if we send out a cavalry, we will definitely be able to kill them without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

Chongzhen said helplessly, "I have also thought about it, but the Qing army has 200,000 people, all of whom are cavalry, if we go to attack, it will be like a moth to a fire, and there will be no return." ”

Chongzhen also wants to rescue these beauties, and it is written in history that the women grabbed by the Qing army are all sent to the barracks to be camp prostitutes, and they turn Q every night, which is extremely miserable. But Chen Qi's guns only made a few hundred robberies, and at this time, how many soldiers went out were not the opponents of the Qing cavalry. Cavalry Chongzhen now has only a few thousand people, and he will be sent to death if he fights it.

I can only hope that Duoduo's brain has entered the water and he will attack Beijing.

After waiting for a day, Jinyiwei came with information again, the Qing army had arrived in Tangshan, and it looked like the Qing army was really going to be outside the gate.