Yang Qing's procurement of domestic slaves went smoothly, and on the third day, he recruited 1,000 people......

Anyway, there are 100,000 slender men on the banks of the canal!

A thousand people are not worth mentioning at all!

These people are all his house slaves for the time being, but Yang Qing's money has also been spent, so he used the excuse that he was attacked by a secret arrow and suspected that Yuan Yuzong did it, and threatened Li Zicheng to report that he had robbed hundreds of thousands of treasury silver, forcing Yuan Yuzong to swallow his anger and pay another 10,000 taels, after all, at this time, the news that Wei Shoufu was pinched out of his brain by Liu Zongmin had just come, and Yuan Yuzong didn't want to invite Liu Zongmin, the demon.

In the end, Yang Qing was satisfied with 1,000 house slaves and 10,000 taels of silver pocket money, and boarded a sea ship bound for Dengzhou in Tianjin.

Of course, more than one ship.

Although Li Laiheng will not continue to escort, but with the addition of these house slaves, this capital relocation team still loaded a full twelve sea ships, the largest of which built a guard of honor for the Son of Heaven on the sea ship, Chongzhen, Lao Wang and Yang Qing plus Yuan Guifei sat together, the two princesses and their aunts sat in one together, and the remaining concubines sat in the other two. The remaining eight ships were pretended to be house slaves, in addition to some officials who followed south, such as Tang Tingyan, the head of the household department who was almost killed in Tianjin, and a few loyal men who chased from Beijing. There is even a general, Cao Youyi, the general soldier of Tianjin who was intercepted and escaped by Yuan Yuzong before, he came from a nearby hideout after Chongzhen arrived in Tianjin, if Chongzhen stayed for half a month longer, it is estimated that he can barely make up a small court, and Wang Yongji, Song Quan and others in the north are likely to get the news over.

However, Chongzhen did not dare to delay any longer.

There are many dreams at night, this is no longer his own territory, it is dangerous to stay for one more day, who knows if Li Zicheng will suddenly change his attitude? In the end, as soon as the fleet was ready, Chongzhen immediately ordered to set off, and the twelve sea ships were each headed and ended with four transporting domestic slaves, and the four boats in the middle of Chongzhen's family took advantage of the low tide of the Haihe River, and began to go straight down the river to Dagukou.

"The green mountains can't cover it, after all, it flows eastward!"

Yang Qing stood on the deck with his hands behind his back, looking at the fields on both sides of the strait that had just returned to green, as well as several beauties who were watching the scenery on the boat behind, chanting quite happily.

He's in a good mood.

Three beauties!

Princess Kunxing, Yuanyuan, the remaining one is, of course, his wife.

Zhang Yan was less than forty at this time, this is the top beauty selected from the five thousand beauties selected in the national primary, known as one of the five great queens in ancient times, and Zhen Mi, Queen Xiao and others, who have been queens for more than 20 years, that kind of grace and luxury is not comparable to a little girl like Kunxing, and at this moment she is also looking at Yang Qing with interest.

Of course, this is not the main reason why Yang Qing is in a good mood.

The main reason is that just after the end of the escort mission, Li Laiheng had already led his subordinates to the north as a forward to Shanhaiguan, and behind him was the main force of the 10,000 Shun Army led by Tian Jianxiu, who was named the general of the gate by Li Zicheng, and replaced the original general of the gate as the general of the Ming army. Tang Tong, who surrendered to Li Zicheng, led another 8,000 people to Shanhaiguan to replace Wu Sangui's Liaodong general army, although Wu Sangui and others did not surrender to Li Zicheng at this time, because the time was too short, it was estimated that the holy decree had just arrived at Shanhaiguan. However, Li Zicheng's goodwill had already been shown, and Wu Xiang, who remained in Beijing, was not only not tortured, but was also promoted by Li Zicheng to the right governor of the Chinese army, and the left governor was given to Liu Zongmin.

At this time, Li Zicheng was wantonly sealing officials under the holy decree of accepting the system and worshipping.

Anyway, he still has a bunch of people in prison, and all the vacant official positions of these people are given to his subordinates and those Ming ministers who need to be wooed.

Although Beijing is no longer the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it is still one of the two capitals in the north and south, just like Nanjing has a complete set of military and political systems, Beijing also has a complete set of systems, six ministries, five military governors' offices, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even theoretically Jinyiwei must also have, it can be said that there must be a complete imperial court. And as a stayer in Beijing, he assisted the prince to stay in Beijing to guard the country at the behest of His Majesty the Emperor, of course, he is the boss of this system, and the inheritance system gives him the power to appoint all officials in the jurisdiction, and even he can be knighted, and there is no difference between the official title he was awarded and the Ming Emperor.

Then his miscellaneous players were happy with the result.

Including the unruly Liu Zongmin.

Liu Zongmin was not only named the governor of the Chinese military governor's mansion, but also the governor of Xuanda, and when he completed the task of torturing officials, he led his subordinates out of Juyongguan to take up his post to guard Xuanda for the Ming Dynasty, he was very satisfied with this result, and thought that he could glorify his ancestors, which shows that he did not take Li Zicheng's general seriously before, not only him, but also those other Li Zicheng's subordinate generals were also very satisfied with their new identity.

After all, these people still think they are thieves, and what they dream of is still a court official.

It's the same as Song Sanhei.

This is also normal, after all, even Zhang Xianzhong has been recruited.

And those officers and generals who surrendered were equally satisfied.

Not only did they lose nothing after tossing around, but most of them were also promoted.

What's more important is that there is no need to look at Wenchen's face, originally some officials who were only Wenchen, but now they can also be, Li Zicheng will definitely not pay attention to literature and light on martial arts, and Wenchen is of little value to him, so the surrender officials appointed by him again, the vast majority of them are military generals with troops, since he knows that Dorgon's army is imminent, of course, he must try his best to win over this general with soldiers and horses in his hands.

Of course, most of the Wenchen are in prison.

And the soldiers, who were almost rarely paid for their salaries, also saw their salaries.

Although Li Zicheng kept most of the gold and silver obtained from the tortured officials and prepared to send them back to his own territories, he still had to give some of it to these people, and he had to torture at least tens of millions of taels, and taking out 10 million was enough to satisfy those soldiers. In short, at this moment, the Shun army in Beijing can be said to be very happy, even the ordinary people have not been greatly affected, except for the wailing officials in the prison and their relatives who have tears in their eyes and money, they will definitely not feel this kind of joy, they are now gritting their teeth and cursing those who caused their miserable end!

It's not just them, actually.

There are also the local tyrants and inferior gentry in the entire northern Shun army-controlled area at this time.

Li Zicheng still does not collect taxes.

In fact, he can't take it for the time being, he just sends officials to the controlled areas, or appoints those rebels who depend on him as officials, but the real administrative system has not been established, and it is impossible for him to establish it in such a short time, and the vast majority of places are actually nominally owned by him, but in fact belong to those mixed forces, and these people cannot perform an effective government system for him, and it is also impossible for him to provide military supplies to these people.

And then they take matters into their own hands.

To be precise, everyone is competing to fight local tyrants!

In particular, the rebellion of the hungry people in those places turned this into a carnival, and the rebels who accepted his appointment opened the mansions of the landlords as court officials, emptied their gold and silver and opened their hoarding warehouses, and distributed the most precious grain to the people who were on the verge of starvation.

It's a carnival that swept across the North.

And in the cheers of the paupers, there was also the wailing of the entire northern gentry.

But what can they do?

Li Zicheng has the military strength to absolutely suppress them, and Li Zicheng also has the power granted to him by Chongzhen, or the righteousness is in his hands, not only are the gentry powerless to resist, but even the few local officials who were still resisting him retreated in the face of a holy decree. Although there are some who shout that the decree is false, and then resist stubbornly there, the result is that they can only be destroyed and drowned in the face of this raging torrent, and they are no longer able to resist this general trend......

"General!"

An exclamation suddenly rang out.

Yang Qing, who was waving to Princess Kunxing, turned his head in amazement.

In front of a river mouth hidden by the woods, accompanied by the river water accelerated by the low tide, a medium-sized row oarboat suddenly rushed out, more than a dozen oars kept paddling, like a crawling centipede straight into the Hai River, and at this time the sea boat under his feet was also carried by the low tide of the river, straight to its front......

"Turn around!"

Cold sweat broke out on Yang Qing's head instantly.

The stern of this sea ship, the helmsman turned the rudder desperately, but it was still useless, the ebb tide of the sea river was flowing rapidly downstream, and the same boat was also moving forward rapidly, the two boats were pulling under the force of nature, and the distance was constantly closing the distance at great speed, the oarboat had sailed out of the estuary, and dozens of small boats behind it formed a long line, which also began to accelerate forward under the traction of the tide, and he could even see the reflection of various weapons on these small boats.

At this time, Chongzhen and Lao Wang also rushed out of the cabin.

Like the sailors, they looked in amazement at the oarboat that pierced the river, and the whole hull of the ship was tilting sharply because of the sharp turn of the rudder at their feet, and they were so frightened that they quickly grasped what was beside them, and at the bow of the oarboat, a man was standing with an ignition rod next to a short, thick cannon with its muzzle raised, and looked at them on the deck with a strange smile.

Behind him, dozens of soldiers raised arquebuses at the same time.

"Bumped!"

The frightened cries of the sailors rang out.

"It's crazy, are they not going to let the emperor leave alive!"

In this frightened shout, Yang Qing said with a sad and angry face.

Almost at the same time, the man did not hesitate to put the arquebus into the ignition hole, and with a loud bang, the small cannon suddenly spewed flames, and the next moment, with the impact of a scattered bullet sweeping across the deck, a scattered bullet directly hit Yang Qing's left shoulder, and the moment he was knocked back, the deck under his feet suddenly shook......