Although extremely reluctant, Li Zicheng also had to agree with Song Xiance's opinion: this imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years is like a beautiful and attractive poisonous fruit, and it may cost him his life if he barely eats it: to the north is the powerful Qing Dynasty, even if he defends it today, the Qing soldiers will make a comeback tomorrow. And Chongzhen has also fled south, and he will definitely raise troops to the north in the future. This has led to the unfavorable situation of fighting on both fronts in the north and the south, if he persists, sooner or later he will be attacked by the north and the south, and in the end he can only be dragged to death and consumed. Therefore, after careful consideration, he decided to abandon the imperial capital and return to his Guanzhong to regroup. However, before leaving, he still wanted to use the imperial capital to exchange for the greatest benefit for himself.

Although the imperial capital is a chicken rib for Li Zicheng, it is a treasure for Dolgon, because after taking the imperial capital, he will be able to realize the wish that his father and brother have not achieved for decades, and his personal prestige in the Qing Dynasty will skyrocket, and it is not impossible to stabilize the young emperor Fulin, which is still one of them. Second, for the Qing Dynasty, only by taking the imperial capital could it be used as a foundation, and then go south to the Central Plains, and finally annex the world. Therefore, whether it is out of personal selfishness or public intentions, the imperial capital - he is bound to win!

One is willing to give up, the other must take, and finally after a few days of negotiation, the two sides agreed:

First, the Qing troops retreated more than 50 miles, and they could not enter the city until all the Dashun troops withdrew from the west gate.

Second, Li Zicheng belonged to him all the property he had obtained from entering Beijing, and only paid Dolgon 10,000 taels of silver symbolically as a support for his allies.

Third, the two sides are about a brotherly state, Li Zi is a brother, Fu Lin is a brother, and the two sides recognize each other as emperors.

Fourth, the two sides are bounded by the Taihang Mountains north of the Yangtze River in China, the east of the Taihang Mountains belongs to the Qing Dynasty, and the west of the Taihang Mountains belongs to Dashun.

Fifth, the two sides swear to the sky, make an alliance with blood, jointly extinguish the light, and divide the world equally!

The covenant was established, and immediately Dolgon ordered the whole army to retreat fifty miles, and Li Zicheng also abandoned the imperial capital and went out from the west gate.

On the same day, Dorgon also entered the imperial capital coveted by his father and brothers, realizing his greatest ambition and reaching the peak of his personal prestige.

On May 15, Fulin also proclaimed himself emperor again in Shengjing, Liaodong, with the name of Daqing.

On May 20, Li Zicheng also returned to Chang'an from Juyong Pass and Datong, and proclaimed himself emperor for the fourth time, making Chang'an the capital and the country name Dashun.

Five days later, Wang Jian could already see the city wall of Jinan Mansion, the capital of Shandong Province, from afar, and along the way, he felt the most secure and stable in the past few days, and his mood was very comfortable, until Qi'er sent a secret report from the front line.

"I'll go to his immortals, this is too bad, it's not okay to leave a way to live!" Wang Jian couldn't help but scold, his road to the south was so smooth that he thought that the two thieves were fighting, and he had to fight to the death at the worst, but he didn't expect to form an alliance so soon! No wonder I haven't seen any chasing soldiers in the past few days, it turns out that they are all busy calling the emperor, and they are just calling the emperor, and they are bullying him together. When he saw that Li Zicheng was the emperor in Chang'an again, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Isn't this emperor still addicted, once is not enough, twice, twice is not enough for three times, and there is a fourth time." ”

Chen Yao'er looked at Wang Jian with a worried face, scolded for a while, and smirked to herself.

As soon as the Qing Dynasty and the Great Shun form an alliance, Wang Jian, who has lost all his skills, will have to face two strong enemies in the realm of emperors. Moreover, Wang Chengen also sent Dongchang's secret report about Shandong Province, and Wang Jian had a headache after reading it. I thought I could take a rest when I arrived in Jinan City, but I didn't expect the situation to be extremely unfavorable to me. The entire six provinces of Shandong have become a pot of porridge: the capital Jinan is the most unstable, because Liu Fangliang, the general of the left battalion system under Li Zicheng, conquered the Hejian of Beizhili and the second mansion of Guangping, which brought great defensive pressure to the north and west of Jinan City, and the Qingzhou Mansion in the east also caused the rebellion of the rebellion in successive years, resulting in the rise of rogues and thieves. Laizhou, which is located on the peninsula, Dengzhou Erfu, because of its proximity to Liaodong and its long coastline, is extremely difficult to defend, and it has become a hard-hit area, and from time to time there are Qing soldiers crossing the sea to plunder the population and livestock. Then there is the Yanzhou Mansion in the south of Jinan City, because it is the necessary place for the north-south Cao Yun, and it has also become a breeding ground for horses. It is said that since ancient times, there are three hundred large and small cottages in Shandong. Among them, Wang Jun and Wang Qiao, who were entrenched in the big and small Cangshan Mountains, were the most, first robbing the silver transported from Jiangnan to the imperial capital, and then intercepting the grain to and from the canal.

"There is no stable place in the entire Shandong Province, hey!" He did not intend to enter the city, so he first ordered the army to stop advancing and convene the generals to discuss the matter.

Next to the huge yellow carriage, all the soldiers couldn't help frowning after listening to Wang Chengen's analysis of the six mansions in Shandong.

Gao Di, the commander of the rear battalion, said: "Your Majesty, since the six provinces of Shandong are not peaceful, why don't you give up, the army will continue to go south, and leave a general to guard Jinan City." ”

Wang Jian was speechless when he heard this, someone let him give up before he entered the city, I am afraid that it is not only the first person who thinks so, he asked: "Then who do you say to send to stay and defend Jinan City for me?" ”

Li Shi of the left camp took the lead and said loudly: "The last general originally guarded the city of Jinan, the city is in the people, and the city is lost!" ”

Wang Jian nodded approvingly, he really didn't see the wrong person.

The idea was high, and he had to bite the bullet and say: "The last general is also willing to stay!" ”

Seeing that he was not a greedy person who was afraid of death, Wang Jian could only encourage: "The two generals are loyal and brave, but how can I abandon these six mansions and millions of people?" ”

Meng Shen, the Confucian master of Dongchang, said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, the ministers have a strategy of three suppressions and three appeasements, and they will definitely be able to pacify the thieves in Shandong within a month." ”

Wang Jian was very happy, although this person's personality was a bit of a retribution, but he was also a powerful character, he asked, "Tell me about it!" How to suppress, how to caress it? ”

"Your Majesty, this first crackdown, is to cut their hearts, since ancient times Shandong although the horse is rampant, but it is also the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, among which there are many loyal people, the emperor should choose some lobbyists to understand their reasoning, move them with affection, and then a little grace to soothe their hearts, will be able to recruit them without spending a soldier." He paused, and then said: "This second extermination is to suppress their weapons, not all the outcasts are bandits and thieves, many of them are forced by life, and they should be treated separately: those who use agricultural tools as instruments to make trouble, pacify them, make them go home, and properly exempt them from the burden of taxes, and those who use swords, bows, crossbows and other lethal weapons to make trouble, if they resist, they will be killed!" ”

"This third suppression is to suppress its people, and the focus of the extermination is the cottages in Shandong. Then it was announced to the world and appeased the people. ”

He finally reminded: "Your Majesty, this people's heart is the most difficult to appease, and you can't bully or abandon it!" ”

After hearing this, Wang Jian felt that the mouth suddenly opened, and the matter finally had a clue. There is a solution to this problem of internal thieves, but the ensuing more thorny city defense problems have made him have a big head: the west of Dongchang Mansion, which is close to Jinan City, is Beizhili Guangping, and the two mansions of the Daimyo are like a nail stretched into the hinterland of the Central Plains, plus the Hejian Mansion in the north, Li Zicheng's forces not only formed a pattern of encircling Jinan City on both sides, but also allowed him to connect Kaifeng to Chang'an into a line, and he may go east at any time.

As for the more headache of the march and battle, everyone discussed for a long time and had no clue, Wang Jian decided to make it easy first and then difficult, take one step at a time, he ordered Cui Dazhuang to be the chief military officer of Shandong to suppress bandits, and Confucius Meng to be the military division, leading 1,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry, starting with Qingzhou, and then moving to Dengzhou, and the people of Laizhou were settled in the inland Qingzhou Mansion. Before leaving, he gave him a secret decree, that is, to ask the governors of the state capitals, the prefects to move the people of their own prefectures, and the prefectures to recruit government soldiers to escort them to Qingzhou Mansion. Those who organize favorable organizations in the state capitals will be rewarded heavily, and those who resist and do not comply with the will will be punished for rebellion. The people are bitter when they are prosperous, and the people who are dying are bitter. He didn't want to be ruined again, and the displaced people were suddenly born, so if he moved all of them to Qingzhou, he would have a good time to take care of them, so a mighty relocation activity began.

Then he ordered Wu Sangui to lead the 50,000 soldiers and horses of the forward battalion to Dongchang Mansion to guard Liaocheng, the western gateway of Jinan City, and the two Qin Yiming brothers took more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of Tianjin to guard Yanzhou, which was his main artery to the south of the Yangtze River, and there was no loss!

And Wang Jian himself took the remaining tens of thousands of people and prepared to fight Dolgon to the end. He decided to follow the tradition of the Ming Empire: the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!

Everything was arranged, Ma Concubine, dressed in white clothes and white armor, first appeared outside the east gate of Jinan City, followed by Wang Jian's iconic huge yellow carriage. The civil and military officials who got the news greeted the holy car at the city gate early, and there were countless people who watched the excitement, and the city gate was full of water. Wang Jian looked at the ancient city outside the car window, the city wall was towering, the momentum was magnificent, and the previous Luanzhou City was compared with it, it was a small mound.

Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, has been around for several years since the last Dolgon raid, and is now slowly regaining some vitality.