At this moment, the person outside the court that Chongzhen thought in his heart was Li Yan.

Li Yan is the pawn of Chongzhen's "Anza" in Li Zicheng's peasant army!

When Li Yan left Beijing, Chongzhen specially met with Li Yan alone, and praised Li Yan's "Song of Persuasion", hoping that he would not only lead by example after he returned, but also persuade Li Zicheng, the king of Han, and Liu Zongmin, the king of Yong, to do what they said when they first started the army, "The teacher of benevolence and righteousness, do not kill or plunder", Chongzhen also said to Li Yan, it is easy to attack the city and difficult to defend the city, and it is agreed that your three kings do not need to meet and do not belong to the jurisdiction of the Ming Emperor, and I am afraid that the Han King Yong will be uncontrolled and kill the people, so I specially promote you as the king of Bian, and I hope you can go to see the Han Wang Yong every month, if they have something bad, I hope that King Bian will persuade them. In the end, Chongzhen gave Li Yan a bag and told him that if he felt that if he couldn't convince King Yong of Han, he would open it and take a look.

At that time, Li Yan was grateful, and said that he would not dishonor the emperor's order, and he must persuade King Yong of Han to prohibit the peasant army from harassing the people and committing adultery.

Chongzhen knew very well in his heart that Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, they must have started to enjoy themselves after they became kings, let Li Yan persuade them, just let Li Yan know the true face of Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, Li Yan could not persuade Li Zicheng. Li Yan saw that the two of them did not want to be enterprising and enjoyable, so he must not be accustomed to it and persuade the two, and as long as Li Yan persuaded them, the three of them would definitely be suspicious of each other. It is very good that Li Yan can be used by himself, but if he can't be used by himself, he will split the peasant army into a plate of scattered sand, and it will be easy to conquer the peasant army himself in the future.

It's just that what Chongzhen didn't expect was that Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin's actions after getting the fief were even more dead than he imagined.

Liu Zongmin returned to Lanzhou, the fiefdom of King Yong.

Lanzhou was originally the fief of Zhu Zhihong, the king of Su, and in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the peasant army captured Lanzhou and killed all the people in the palace of Su, and since then the line of King Su has been cut off. King Su's Mansion has been burned down, Liu Zongmin is very cruel and lustful, after he returned to the fiefdom, because King Su's Mansion has been burned down, he moved into Lanzhou Mansion, and regarded Lanzhou Mansion as his palace of King Yong, and then began a beauty pageant.

Liu Zongmin, the beauty pageant concubine, is very absurd and extravagant, and it is difficult for ordinary people to imagine: it is said that there are 3,000 beauties in the emperor's harem, but in fact there are only dozens of people. But Liu Zongmin really did three thousand beauties in the harem! In addition, as long as he likes a beautiful woman, he will snatch it back to the palace. When you get tired of playing, you give it to the barracks. The girls in Lanzhou City who were a little beautiful were all arrested by Liu Zongmin, and Lanzhou Baixin was full of complaints, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.

Look at Li Zicheng again, Li Zicheng got 400,000 taels of silver and went to the fiefdom of Xi'an.

Xi'an was originally the fief of Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin in the Ming Dynasty, and there was already a palace, and in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng attacked Xi'an, and did not kill and burn it all as he usually did with other vassal kings, but surrendered Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, so the palace of the king of Qin was preserved. But Li Zicheng didn't look down on the palace of King Qin, and wanted to re-establish a bigger and more luxurious palace of King Han, so squandering, where is the 400,000 taels of silver! Soon there was no money, Li Zicheng began to loot in the territory, Xi'an had encountered a natural disaster, and then Li Zicheng made trouble, no one cultivated, and then Li Zicheng also wantonly looted the beauty pageant to build a palace, and the territory of Xi'an is really to the point where the people are not living!

The people of Lanzhou were the first to be forced to flee by Liu Zongmin's extravagant beauty pageant, and the people fled all the way to the east and fled to Li Zicheng's Xi'an, and at this time, the people of Xi'an were also oppressed by Li Zicheng's palace and began to run east.

Further east, it happened to be Li Yan's fiefdom Kaifeng.

Li Yan saw countless yellow-faced and thin-skinned people fleeing from Xi'an, Lanzhou, and when he asked, it turned out that it was Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin who were so brutal that the people had to flee.

Li Yan remembered what the emperor had said to him when he left Beijing, and decided to go to Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, so that they would not forget what the soldiers had said back then: "respect the virtuous and courteous, eliminate the mob and show compassion to the people", "pretend to be benevolent and righteous, prohibit the soldiers from fornicating and killing, and win people's hearts in order to achieve great things".

Li Yan and his men arrived in Xi'an first.

Li Zicheng was very happy to see Li Yan, took him to the palace construction site he was building, and pointed to the palace design and construction site and said triumphantly

"King Bian, what do you think of this king's palace?"

Li Yan originally came to persuade Li Zicheng not to build a palace and hurt the people, but to take strict military discipline to appease the people, and when he heard Li Zicheng showing off his new palace, he said

"King Han, do you remember why you raised the army in the first place?"

"The post station has been withdrawn, and the king can't live anymore to rebel," Li Zicheng said disapprovingly

"Chongzhen's revocation of the post station was originally to save the source and fight the demons, but the existing Qin Wangfu of the Han King can be used after repairing, why do you want to build a new Han Wang's Mansion?"

"I'm not used to living in the Qin Palace!"

"But the king of Han built this palace of the king of Han to work the people and lose money, the people of Xi'an are already miserable, and the king of Han still has to build a palace....."

"Got it! This king still has something to do, so I won't accompany King Bian, let Prime Minister Niu accompany you to see this Xi'an! Li Zicheng interrupted Li Yan's words and went back angrily.

That Niu Jinxing was already jealous of Li Yan's talent, but now that Li Yan was crowned King Bian by Chongzhen, he was even more jealous.

"King Bian, the King of Han can accept people and speak kindly, and discuss everything with us, but he doesn't listen to my advice, let's persuade the King of Han at night."

"Niu Junshi, when we proposed peace, we thought that we were not able to annex the Ming Dynasty, and that peace was just a temporary strategy, the Ming Dynasty was corrupt, harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people were miserable. The Qin Dynasty perished before it could be repaired!" Li Yan said angrily

"Yes, yes, let's find time to persuade King Han again"

Although Niu Jinxing said this, after sending Li Yan back to the post house, he went to find Li Zicheng, the king of Han.

"King Han, after you left today, Li Yan and the minister said some disrespectful things, the minister didn't want to tell the king of Han, but he was afraid that the king of Han would be deceived?"

"Aiqing, please speak up"

"King Han, that Li Yan is now the king of Bian, and he doesn't take you seriously, you are just building a palace, he compares you to the brutal Qin Shi Huang, saying that you build a palace like Qin Shi Huang building Afang Palace, and finally died before it was repaired"

"Damn! This Li Yan is just a scholar, if I hadn't taken him in, he wouldn't have died a long time ago! Now that he is king, he will not take this king seriously! Li Zicheng happily showed off his new palace to Li Yan, but was disturbed by Li Yan's cold water, and he was already very dissatisfied with Li Yan.

"King Han, the minister thinks that he can take the opportunity to get rid of Li Yan. Getting rid of Li Yan "can take the opportunity to annex his territories, and the materials can be used by the palace of Xiuhan"

"Get rid of Li Yan? He and I are both kings, how will Chongzhen answer if he asks?"

"King Han, King Bian itself is under the jurisdiction of King Han, and we and Emperor Daming only have the name of upper and lower and no name of jurisdiction. Also, if you kill Li Yan, you can take the opportunity to annex his territory, and the materials can be used by the palace of Xiuhan."

As soon as Li Zicheng heard that King Bian's materials could be used to repair the palace, his eyes lit up, and he immediately agreed to Niu Jinxing's suggestion.