Chapter 12 The Ming Emperor's tongue wars his ministers
"Your Majesty, I'm the best at this!"
Li Zicheng looked at those stupid ministers happily as he spoke, like looking at a group of fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
What a fool the princesses are!
They looked at Chongzhen in disbelief.
The latter was under the morning sun at this time, wearing a twelve-chapter gown and a twelve-crowned head, with the magnificent tower of Chengtianmen on his back, and his face was as hideous as madness......
"Dusk Jun, how can you see Taizu!"
The former first assistant, the university scholar Chen Yan suddenly screamed.
"Your Majesty, please Your Majesty quickly take down this faint monarch to the Mandate of Heaven to prevent future troubles, Zhu's favor eunuchs are desolate, cruel to the people to make the world chaotic, rampant conquest and tyranny make starvation all over the wilderness, more than ten years of disasters and evil rampant, Your Majesty should be prosperous in the sky, rise up in Qianmo, hang the people to fight crimes, more than ten years of bloody war and as for this, when the emperor is quickly on the throne to make all the people have a return, the world has something to rely on, and the south of Jianghuai is undecided, Your Majesty does not ascend the throne is not right, Your Majesty ascended the throne to shun the rebel army to the south to mix one by one, I can be determined by the cause of the eternal Shun!"
He then said excitedly.
Chongzhen looked at him with a sneer.
Lao Chen could actually have escaped this catastrophe, he was deposed in February, but there were too many possessions in the family to be transported away for a while, so he delayed in the capital, and was blocked inside, after all, his family property alone handed over 40,000 taels of silver.
"And what to do with this person?"
Li Zicheng asked with a smile.
"One disobedience is enough!"
Chen Yan waved his hand imposingly and said.
"What if Shi Zhi returns to the south?"
Li Zicheng said.
"Your Majesty, by all means, although there are six departments and five armies in the south of the Yangtze River, they do not belong to each other, Yingtian and Fengyang are respected by the garrison eunuchs, and the Wenchen is the same as the fire and water, and the Xu family and the Nanjing lords and nobles form their own party, this generation has no owner is a plate of scattered sand, and His Majesty's army can be broken in one fell swoop. If it returns to the south, it will return to the mountain, it will be the king for a long time, and the kings of the non-clan can be compared, if it is in the north, it is difficult for the new king to unite in Nanjing, if it is in the south, then the south will be integrated, and it will be difficult to take the south of the Yangtze River at that time. ”
Zhang Jinyan stepped forward without hesitation and said.
It's all torn face, and there is no need to worry about anything at all!
If you are unkind, don't blame us for being unjust.
What's more, Li Zicheng definitely wants money, Chongzhen's treasury has a few pieces of silver, and they all know very well, at the beginning of the siege, the total number of households was only 80,000 taels, and all of them were taken out for military salaries, Chongzhen even took out a lot of decorations in the palace and sold them, and he couldn't get money from him. And Li Zicheng has not collected taxes so far, in order to fulfill his promise that the king will not pay food, all military supplies rely on copying the house, since he did not copy anything in Beijing, he can only copy other people's to feed hundreds of thousands of troops. Now Chongzhen has clearly told him who to copy, if they don't behave well, let Li Zicheng see their loyalty, then they will definitely become the object of copying, at this time, they must not be embarrassed, even if they become the laughing stock of others, they must also behave well, this is a big deal of hundreds of thousands of millions of taels of silver!
Compared to this, the face is a fart!
"So what about killing?"
Li Zicheng asked.
"This, this, Your Majesty, its people can be described as angry and resentful, and they have their own heavenly punishment and punishment, no need to work for Your Majesty's axe, although Your Majesty is Tang Wugeming, but it is ominous to kill it after all."
Dang Chongya, who had just dedicated Tongzhou's Hubu Zuo Shilang, and later our Qing Dynasty prince Taibao and prince Taifu, and had been a teacher for Brother Ma, stepped forward and said.
"Haha, Your Majesty, this is your minister!"
Li Zicheng suddenly said to Chongzhen.
"Hmph, it's your minister!"
Chongzhen sneered.
Li Zicheng smiled and made a gesture of please continue your performance, then picked up the teacup and sat on his Taishi chair to continue watching the play.
"Dangqing, I never thought that Qing was so loyal, but what is God's punishment and punishment? Is it poisoned wine or white silk? The emperor has his own way of dying, you are thoughtful for me, Qing supervises Tongzhou with the left servant of the household department, and governs all the soldiers and horses in Tongzhou as the guards of the Beijing division, I don't know if Qing has a soldier to save the danger of the Beijing division? ”
Chongzhen said to Dang Chongya.
"No, he sent someone five miles forward to meet my army!"
Li Zicheng said.
"The minister also obeys the mandate of heaven."
Dang Chongya said humbly to Li Zicheng.
"Mandate of Heaven, I know that this is really a good thing, as long as you want to surrender to the enemy, you only need to say that the other party is the destiny of heaven, no matter who the other party is, whether it is a rogue, a Tartar, it is not a problem, a sentence that it is the destiny of heaven, you will obey the destiny of heaven, and then surrender to the righteousness, this is the result of reading the sage book? Did Jiannu take this Beijing city, and you also shouted that the destiny of heaven was returned and knelt down in front of this Chengtian Gate? ”
Chongzhen said.
"Dusk Jun, what kind of shame do you have to say here?"
Another annoyed minister stepped forward.
"What does Zuo Qing want to say?"
Chongzhen sneered.
"The one who made the Ming Dynasty here, is it all the fault of the ministers, and Your Majesty has not lost it? His Majesty's decree was changed overnight, and dozens of assistants were changed in seventeen years, and the ministers of various places were only a few months after a long time, and the envoys ran the road, and the former received the edict of dismissal has been issued, and who is not the new one in the year? His Majesty blamed Wei Zaode, and Wei Zaode served as the first assistant for less than two months, and the predecessor Chen Yan was only in power for a few months, and the former Zhou Yanru was only given to commit suicide in December last year. ”
The right attendant of the military department, Zuo Maotai, said.
"Yes, Your Majesty has destroyed the world, how can he blame the ministers alone!"
Several ministers immediately chimed in.
Fight and fight, who is afraid of whom, didn't dare before, don't you dare now? Who still takes you seriously as the king of a dead country!
"I have been forced to change the order of the dynasty and the emperor, and you are waiting for the king's lu, who is worried about the king, Kou Bo is in the suburbs, I summoned the princes to ask the imperial court's strategy, who are you waiting for? Governing the country is incompetent, Yu Koer is incompetent, and you are like this, can't I change people? ”
Chongzhen said viciously.
"Incompetence? Your Majesty has never listened to the policy of the ministers! ”
A minister said.
"What did you do? Do you want to teach me to be enriched? ”
Chongzhen asked rhetorically.
"Minister......
The latter stammered.
"Didn't the minister persuade His Majesty to be fortunate in Nanjing?"
Another minister said.
"Why did you keep your mouth shut when I was discussing with the court?"
……
"Is this dog-eat-dog?"
Li Zicheng didn't drink the tea anymore, and looked at Chongzhen's tongue and the ministers in amazement.
In other words, such a scene is indeed rare.
And the two sides soon quarreled passionately, and began to expose each other's old secrets, their monarchs and ministers were actually angry with each other, before a monarch and a minister really couldn't talk to each other, and now one has become the king of the dead country, and the other is eager to show his loyalty to the new monarch, that completely tears the skin, and the previous identity is not easy to say and dare not say at this time, it can be regarded as a final madness. In particular, the ministers were forced to be forced by Chongzhen's instigation of Li Zicheng to copy his home, and they were quite gnashed on this faint monarch, and a group of ministers who were all good at playing tricks went into battle to expose Chongzhen's old bottom, and even the things that were round and dudu were turned out. Although Chongzhen is alone, he is supported by the anger of the country's ruin and the death of the family, and he does not show weakness like Zhang Yi's possession, and Wang Chengen is also helping by his side, and he also constantly exposes the old bottom of these ministers, and even some of their personal things have been pulled out, and Wang Chengen has a lot of these things.
The monarch and the ministers are like this, and the head of the city is spitting wildly.
Not to mention Li Zicheng in this scene, even Yang Qing and the people south of Jinshui Bridge, the soldiers of the Shun army on the city wall were dumbfounded, and it can be said that the emperor's majesty and demeanor were all lost.
"Your Majesty, why don't you do something?"
Yang Qing slipped to Li Zicheng's side and whispered.
"Are you afraid I'll break my word?"
Li Zicheng looked at the monkey play and said.
"Your Majesty is not a person who breaks his word, it's just that this goes on endlessly, they have been grudges for more than ten years, and it is estimated that it is possible to quarrel until dark."
Yang Qing said.
He really wasn't at ease.
Li Zicheng only verbally agreed, and this kind of thing can be reversed at any time, so he reminded Li Zicheng that it was time to stand up and tell the ministers and the people that Chongzhen was officially allowed to go to Nanjing.
What's more, he's still in a hurry to pick up Yuanyuan!
Although Fang Zetan should be safe, after all, there is a wall around it, and it is a simple altar and nothing else, there are indeed some people stationed there, but at this time, because the Shun army attacked the city, they had already fled, but they didn't dare to guarantee everything, in case there was really an idler who climbed over the wall to get in, then Yuanyuan would really become a fat sheep. And a weak woman, who has not eaten or drunk since yesterday afternoon, was tied up and thrown to an empty altar of more than 10,000 square meters.
Li Zicheng gave him a strange look.
Yang Qing was startled and subconsciously took a step back.
"Haha!"
Li Zicheng stood up with a smile, patted him on the shoulder, and then in his puzzled gaze, he walked straight to Chongzhen, who was still spitting, and soon he came to the latter's side, Chongzhen shut up in astonishment, and the ministers below were also stunned, and everyone looked at Li Zicheng suspiciously, watching him walk in front of Chongzhen. Because he was too close, Chongzhen also subconsciously took a step back, Li Zicheng turned his back to the people in front of the door, standing quietly less than two meters away from Chongzhen, he was burly, he formed a sense of oppression, the sun reflected the golden light on his armor, and even Wang Chengen was so frightened that he hurriedly stepped forward, but was pushed away by Li Zicheng's hand.
Yang Qing watched nervously from the side.
Watching this scene with the same nervousness, the ministers immediately had anticipation in their eyes, and they all widened their eyes and waited, waiting for the moment when Li Zicheng slashed this faint monarch to death.
And then......
"Minister Li Zicheng knocks to see Your Majesty!"
Li Zicheng knelt down and kowtowed.
There was an instant silence up and down the entire Chengtian Gate......