In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, on the twentieth day of the first month, Li Zicheng captured the government of Henan Mansion, which was also the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty and the Xijing of the Song Dynasty - Luoyang.

Li Zicheng continued to capture one county after another in the previous time, and after conquering Yongning, he conquered Yanshi, Lingbao, Xin'an and other places, aiming directly at Luoyang.

Although the imperial court was also prepared, it sent the general soldier Wang Shaoyu to Luoyang with the generals Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai to reinforce them. However, after entertaining the three generals, King Fu of Luoyang still asked them to camp outside the city with their troops. The official army didn't want to fight Li Zicheng's army outside the city, so Wang Shaoyu took his subordinates directly into the city, while Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai were left outside the city.

Therefore, Liu and Luo were very dissatisfied, and their subordinates were even more dissatisfied. Although the father gave some benefits to the generals, the soldiers did not fall at all, and the soldiers were generally very resentful. When Li Zicheng's army came to Luoyang, although Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai also entered the city, they still left some troops outside the city.

So on the night of the second day of the siege, the troops outside the city surrendered, and they went to persuade their comrades to surrender. So the officers and soldiers at the north gate of the city immediately opened the city gate and fell to the rebel army outside the city after a shout from their comrades outside the city.

A big city like Luoyang, after only resisting for two days, fell into the hands of Li Zicheng in an instant.

After Li Zicheng's troops entered the city, under the guidance of the surrendering officers and soldiers, they scattered in all directions and surrounded the important government offices and gentry's homes. Because Luoyang is governed by the government, and it is a strong city, and it is still closed to the city, none of the official eunuchs in the city have run away.

Li Zicheng waited in the palace, and his soldiers kept bringing in the captured officials and gentry, and after being briefly interrogated, they were put in prison, and the original prisoners in the prison had already been released.

"Master Song," Liu Zongmin said happily: "You are really a god, you can really capture Luoyang." This Luoyang is four zhang high, and there are 8,000 new reinforcements, so we can take it easily. Hahaha. ”

Song Xiance, who was not tall, touched his beard and said smugly: "Everything in heaven and earth has its own fixed number. Moreover, the prophecy of 'Eighteen Sons, the Lord Artifact' is not new. The eighteenth son is a Li character, and our big leader was born at the right time. ”

Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Tian Jianxiu and others all looked at Li Zicheng sitting behind the public case with some aw. They didn't think Li Zicheng was anything special before, everyone was just a poor person who rebelled together. But now it seems to be a little different, Li Zicheng is a person chosen by God, and he was born in response to orders.

Li Zicheng did not look at those old brothers, but watched his subordinates interrogate those official gentry. But he just watched the interrogation and didn't listen. All of his attention was devoted to listening to Song Xiance and his old brothers, and he felt a little different now.

Before, he just wanted to crisscross everywhere, grab food and goods, and live a good life with food, clothes, and women. But now he feels that he can't go on like this, that Song Xiance is right, he wants to win the world. And that Niu Venus said it very well, he should start to win people's hearts, after all, the world of those who win people's hearts.

"Report~" A soldier shouted loudly and ran in, half-knelt down and hugged his fists and said, "General Yu, I didn't find King Fu." ”

"What?" Li Zicheng didn't hear clearly, and asked again.

"The entire palace has been searched, but I have not found King Fu, nor have I found the prince." The soldier spoke out loud again.

Li Zicheng said angrily: "Search! Search all over town! Search outside the city, too! Be sure to catch King Fu! He has not poisoned the people over the years, and he has not had the corpse of King Fu, so it is not easy for us to explain to the people of Luoyang! ”

"Hey!" Liu Zongmin said angrily: "You ran away from him?!" Didn't he say that he had more than 400 pounds? Can he stand up and talk about it, where else can he run? Go to the palace to search, there must be a secret room! ”

Yuan Zongdi and the others all echoed: "Yes, go to the palace to search." ”

The heralds were a little overwhelmed and didn't know which order to carry out.

Li Zicheng ordered: "Search inside and outside the city!" Be sure to catch King Fu! ”

The other generals didn't dare to have any objections, they remembered at this time that Li Zicheng was destined to return, and they all consciously closed their mouths.

"Yes! Inside and outside the city, search together! The soldier said yes and ran out to give the order.

After waiting for more than an hour, news finally came that King Fu had been found from the Ying'en Temple outside the city. At this time, Liu Zongmin and others looked at Li Zicheng more and more differently, and they all felt that Li Zicheng was really better than them.

Li Zicheng ordered: "Escort the people directly to the Zhou Gong Temple, and other officials, and also escort them over." Tomorrow, let the people pass, and in front of the people, all these corrupt officials and corrupt officials will be executed! ”

After a while, Li Zicheng took Liu Zongmin and they all went to Zhougong Temple. At this time, the arrested officials were also escorted. Lu Weiqi, the former secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, saw King Fu who had fled from the city, and he said loudly: "King Fu, if you die, you will die, and you must not lose the face of the Zhu Ming royal family and bring humiliation on yourself!" ”

King Fu ignored it, and he stood tremblingly. He usually needs someone to help him when he walks, but now he has his arms tied, and the two thieves are just holding him weakly, so he has been standing for so long. He couldn't hold on anymore.

After Li Zicheng sat down, Li Zicheng's personal soldiers shouted: "Kneel!" ”

At this time, the two rebels beside King Fu also let go, and before they could kick King Fu's legs, King Fu couldn't hold on any longer, and fell to the ground.

"Hahaha," Liu Zongmin and the others immediately laughed loudly, and said, "Look, Chongzhen Xiao'er's own uncle, the prince has knelt down for us!" ”

"yes, aren't we as old as the emperor? Hahaha. Li Guo also said with a loud smile.

Li Zicheng also smiled contemptuously and asked, "What about the prince?" ”

King Fu lay down on the ground and rested, but did not answer.

At this time, Li Zicheng's two soldiers beat King Fu with their scabbards, trying to get King Fu to answer Li Zicheng's question. But King Fu bit his lip and refused to say anything.

Li Zicheng raised his hand, stopped his subordinates' beating of King Fu, and asked: "There is so much rice and grain in your palace, and people are eating people outside, why don't you give relief." If you did, I wouldn't have been able to attack it so easily. ”

King Fu still lay on the ground and didn't say anything. He even had a hint of happiness in his heart at this time, this country should have been his, but it was disturbed by the civil officials. What he couldn't get, Zhu Changluo (the prince of Wanli) didn't get either, and Zhu Changluo's son couldn't sit down.

For the silent King Fu, Li Zicheng also lost interest in interrogation.

The next day, Li Zicheng executed King Fu in public. There were also more than 400 officials, gentry and landlords such as Lu Weiqi and Zhang Bingxing. and distributed rice and grain to the people, which made the surrounding people gather to Luoyang in an endless stream, and soon gathered hundreds of thousands of displaced people.