"Your Majesty, Minister Li Zicheng knocks to see Your Majesty!"

In this silence, Li Zicheng knelt in front of Chongzhen and said another word.

Still silent.

An eerie silence.

Everyone looked at this scene on the Chengtian Gate in disbelief, watching this number one thief who had been tossing the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, just breaking through the Jingshi and capturing the victor of the Ming Emperor, he actually knelt in front of his own captive, kneeling in front of Chongzhen, who had actually become a prisoner under the stairs......

It was Yang Qing who reacted the fastest.

He immediately pushed Chongzhen and whispered: "Feng Wang, Wang Xibei, control the north of the Huai River, and accept the worship." ”

Chongzhen quickly came to his senses.

He and Li Zicheng, who was still smiling, glanced at each other, and then took a deep breath and said: "Spread the decree to the world, move the capital to Nanjing, and add Li Zi to become the king of Qin, above the princes and kings, place the hundred officials of the Qin State, give the Son of Heaven a guard of honor, and use Shaanxi and Shanxi to declare the political envoy to the jurisdiction of the Qin King to seal the country, and use the King of Qin as Beijing to stay in Beijing to resist the Jiannu, control the places north of the Huai River, undertake the system and worship, and the civil and military officials in Beijing, and the military and civilians north of the Huai River are under its control." ”

Just as he spoke, Yang Qing took a blank holy decree from Niu Jinxing's hand as quickly as possible and spread it in front of Wang Chengen, Lao Wang took the pen and ink to draft the decree as quickly as possible, and then took out the jade seal in his arms to seal it, Chongzhen took the holy decree that the ink had not dried and held it to the top of Li Zicheng's head, Li Zicheng immediately raised his hands and took it.

"Command!"

He said.

Then he stood up and turned and looked down at the city with a smile......

The city was instantly filled with the sound of vomiting blood.

In fact, Li Zicheng's choice is not difficult to understand, his original goal is this, even after the soldiers came to the city to sit outside the city gate to watch the scenery, he still sent the captured and surrendered eunuch Du Xun into the city to negotiate with Chongzhen, although the content of the negotiation is avoided in the orthodox history books, but some of the private writings of the late Ming literati are still recorded. It was he who asked to cut the northwest as the king, and even offered to help Chongzhen pacify the world and solve the other rebels in exchange, although he had not entered Beijing at that time, but now even if he enters Beijing, his situation has not changed substantially, not only did he not get anything, but on the contrary, he also carried an additional burden.

He had to face the Qing army instead of Chongzhen.

So what's the most important thing for him?

Of course, it is a truce with the Ming Dynasty, he cannot survive under the attack of the north and south of the Ming and Qing dynasties, he either cooperates with the Ming or the Qing, but he has no basis for cooperation with the Qing, because Dolgon can only grab his territory if he wants to expand, they can be allies if they don't take Beijing before, but after they take Beijing, they can only be enemies.

However, the Ming Dynasty did not have the ability to expand further northward.

All the Ming Dynasty could do in front of him was to protect himself, and it was impossible for him to continue to expand south under the threat of Dolgon in the north, so of course he had to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty.

It was his only option.

Then he needs Chongzhen to recognize his right to rule the north, and clarify the relationship between the two sides, only by clarifying the relationship can peace be ensured, even if it is only a temporary peace, and the best way to clarify the relationship is of course to be a vassal, in the end, a guy who has been rampant in the world for more than ten years, swept half of the country from a rogue, and even took the imperial capital, can not be a reckless man, let alone a fool who does not understand politics, he is much smarter than the vast majority of people in this country, otherwise he would have become a member of the dead pile.

And this is also good for Chongzhen.

One is that Chongzhen can go south under his protection with a sign of officially moving the capital.

Although Chongzhen wants to give up the north of the Huai River, but this land is originally rotten, the famine and plague war has long turned the north of the Huai River into a worthless land, it is not an exaggeration to say that the red land is thousands of miles, no matter the Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan are all said to be the hardest hit area of the drought locust, the latter was also flooded by the Yellow River, as for Shandong has always been barren, Hebei has just suffered a heavy blow from the plague, for Chongzhen, these places are all a burden that weighs him down.

He was probably exhausted all these years in order to maintain the rule of this land.

After abandoning him, he can return to the rich south, and no longer have to worry about the famine, plague, and the ubiquitous rebels, he can go to the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, completely throw off these bad things, and enjoy a few days of good life. If he cedes it directly, he is still worried about a face problem, after all, he still values face very much, but Li Zicheng is a minister, so he doesn't have to worry about face, this is Chongzhen's seal, this is not Li Zicheng's robbery, especially this kind of courtier.

Although the essence is the same, this one sounds much better to say.

And then there's one more point.

The Ming Dynasty no longer had to face the Manchus.

Li Zicheng will be sandwiched in the middle, separating this can be said to be the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon will not have to worry about Chongzhen if he goes south, it can be handed over to Li Zicheng, and the rest is nothing more than to give him some support or something, the mistake of the Northern Song Dynasty must not be made again, the Ming Emperor provided some money and food for his Beijing stay, this is still okay, anyway, Jiangnan is not short of money and food, and as long as he is always in the north, then Chongzhen can always sit back and watch from the wall in Jiangnan.

Of course, this is tantamount to selling the northern gentry!

After all, this is equivalent to Chongzhen handing the handle of the knife that slaughtered them to Li Zicheng.

No matter how Li Zicheng tossed them before, it had to be regarded as a bandit atrocity, but now that Li Zicheng has pinched them out of his brain, it can only be said that the criminal law is severe, he is a guard in Beijing, he has the right to control the military and civilians in the north, as for Shanxi and Shaanxi, which is his feudal state, of course he has the right to kill and take away his subjects.

The poor northern gentry were all sold by Chongzhen at once.

But why did Chongzhen bother with them?

These bastards had already betrayed him.

"Take them all down, this king hates those rebellious ministers and thieves the most, and put these things who dare to insult the holy driver in public to be put in prison and interrogated strictly."

Looking at the princes who were stunned in front of Chengtian Gate, Li Zicheng held up the holy decree and said with a cruel smile.

The soldiers of the Shun army who had been waiting for a long time swarmed up, and at this time, those ministers also woke up, and they who were still fighting with Chongzhen immediately became loyal ministers again, and fell to the ground one by one to plead with the Ming Emperor. However, Chongzhen didn't pay any attention to them at all, just stood on the Chengtian Gate and sneered and watched their performance, watching them being held down and tied up by those wolf-like soldiers of the Shun army, dragged away in their struggles and cries, and what was waiting for them next was the prison and the clamping stick, Liu Zongmin was already gearing up, just waiting to squeeze oil out of these guys.

"If you knew today, why bother?"

Wang Chengen looked at this scene and said faintly.

"King Qin, when will Your Majesty leave?"

Yang Qing couldn't wait to ask Li Zicheng.

Chongzhen and Wang Chengen also turned their attention to Li Zicheng.

"Your Majesty, please keep the prince and the two kings in the north to reassure the people, in addition, there is a shortage of grain in Beijing, Jiangnan Cao Yun is unbreakable, the minister's requirements are not high, one million stone a year, if there is no one million stone grain, it is difficult for the minister to guarantee to hold Beijing, and the minister can only return to Shanxi if he has no choice."

Li Zicheng said.

Food is the biggest problem facing Li Zicheng.

This is also the main reason why he must make peace with Chongzhen and even symbolically surrender, if he wants to control the north, then he must ensure the supply of food, and if he can't feed the people, everything is in vain, before he relied on fighting local tyrants in various places, he can indeed ensure military supplies in the short term, and even let the common people who can't eat follow the profits, but after a long time, he also has to face the famine caused by the reduced grain production in the north. Whether it is Hebei or Guanzhong Henan, the grain production at this time is actually unable to feed those people due to the impact of the Xiaoice period, and the problems that Chongzhen cannot solve are also impossible to solve, so he will still have famine after taking over, after all, this large-scale natural disaster cannot be recovered by manpower.

Then the southern transport is extremely important.

One million stone is not too outrageous a number.

Under normal circumstances, the annual transportation in Jiangnan is several million stones.

This is regarded as the protection fee he charged, after all, the Jiangnan gentry now relied on him as a barrier against the Manchus, and the Jiangnan gentry were also afraid that he would continue to go south.

If you don't give it to him......

Then he'll leave!

Retreat to Guanzhong to hold on, and even change the court to call Dolgon, he didn't say that he had any special feelings for Daming, and he didn't care about calling Dolgon when he needed it, and then let Dolgon's army go south to the Huai River to see who was the most unlucky at that time. Although he didn't say this, everyone also understood, after all, Hebei is not as friendly as Guanzhong for him, it really can't work, he can continue to go south to Hanzhong and Sichuan, he has a place to retreat, he is used to living a hard life, and he doesn't care about living conditions.

But the big men of Jiangnan Fenghua, Xueyue, brocade clothes and jade food, have to face the alien iron horse.

"Accurate!"

Chongzhen gritted his teeth and said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Zicheng said with a smile.

There is the gold and silver recovered by those ministers, and then there is the grain given to him by Jiangnan, and even he can use the gold and silver to purchase grain from Jiangnan, and with the grain in hand, he can really stabilize the north, at least he can block Dolgon's south, and then he can resume production in various places, and a base that really belongs to him will be established.

As for the future when he can develop......

That is nothing more than going south to truly unify the country, and if it is really not possible, at least one side can be divided.

In short, his main opponent now is Dolgon, as long as he can stop Dorgon, his great cause is basically half of the success.

"When does Your Majesty want to depart?"

He asked.

"The sooner the better, it's better to leave today!"

Yang Qing said without hesitation.

Chongzhen glanced at him with a puzzled look, but then nodded.

"Then the minister will go and arrange it!"

Li Zicheng said.

At the same time, he glanced at Niu Jinxing, who immediately brought a stack of blank holy decrees, and Wang Chengen began to write and seal the holy decrees for Wu Sangui and others very well.

"It's like a dream."

Lao Wang said with some embarrassment while writing the holy decree.

He looked up as he spoke......

"Yang Qing, uh, where is Yang Qing?"

He was stunned.