That night, Li Zicheng summoned Zhou Bin and ordered him to take the soldiers of the fifth battalion to leave the Beijing division on a certain day, and take advantage of the fact that the Ming army had not yet reacted, and immediately send troops to Shandong.

Li Zicheng told Zhou Bin that after sending troops from Tianjin, he would take the main prefectures and counties of Shandong as soon as possible, and make a gesture of going south at any time.

The Providence Army will not move south for the time being, but it must maintain pressure on the south.

If it weren't for the pressure of the Tartars outside the Guan, Li Zicheng really wanted to sweep the south of the Yangtze River and unify the whole country immediately, but the history of later generations told him that the Manchu Qing Dynasty took advantage of the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the relaxation of Shanhaiguan to attack Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop.

As soon as the Shanhai Pass was broken, the Han land could no longer resist the Manchu cavalry.

Maybe today's Mandate of Heaven Army can deal with the Tartar cavalry, but Li Zicheng does not dare to take risks, if the Tartar cavalry crosses the Shanhai Pass, no one can predict the future situation, even if the Mandate of Heaven Army can win, it cannot put the battlefield near the Beijing Division.

After Zhou Bin left, Li Zicheng sat alone in the study and thought for a long time before going to bed at the urging of Dou Meiyi.

Early the next morning, Li Zicheng went to the palace for half an hour as usual, returned to the Qianqing Palace, and was having dinner, Cao Huachun rushed over, "Your Majesty, the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, the servants have been properly placed, and the Qianqing Palace here, the servants have arranged ten eunuchs, and the emperor will see if it needs to ......be replaced."

Li Zicheng asked Cao Huachun to bring the eunuchs over, inspected them one by one, and asked Lao Cheng's Wang Zhixin to serve as the chief eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, and selected a young eunuch Wang Lian with clear eyebrows as the accompanying eunuch.

Cao Huachun saw that Li Zicheng was quite satisfied, and he was secretly happy in his heart, he was finally reused by the new monarch, and was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Zicheng, "Huachun, I summoned hundreds of officials today, you can accompany me, if there is anyone I don't understand, you can talk about their temperament on the side." ”

"Slave obeys!"

Li Zicheng had breakfast, sat in the Dongnuan Pavilion for a while, and was about to go to the Huangji Palace to summon the ministers left by the Ming Dynasty, the little eunuch Wang Lian ran over, and when he arrived at the door, he saw Li Zicheng closing his eyes and meditating from the crack in the door, and he didn't dare to go in for a while, and he was patrolling outside the door.

Li Zicheng was alarmed by the sound of footsteps, his eyes opened, and he glanced at it, thinking that someone wanted to see him, and the tunnel: "Wang Lian, is there something wrong?" ”

Wang Lian pushed the door open, bent his knees, and bowed to the ground, "Go back to the emperor, find it, find ......" may be too excited, and he can't even speak.

"No rudeness!" Li Zicheng said lightly: "Wang Lian, you are my attendant eunuch, you don't need to be polite in the future," and said: "What do you have to say, what have you found?" ”

"Find the Emperor...... No, no, it's the first emperor who has been found......" After Wang Lian got up, he was still incoherent.

Li Zicheng suspected that he was stuttering, if this is the case, then this attendant eunuch must be replaced, and he was about to ask, when he suddenly thought of something, and said hurriedly: "You mean Zhu Youzhen has found it?" ”

"Exactly...... Just found out this morning!" Wang Lian returned to normal at this time.

Li Zicheng stood up quickly, pointed at Wang Lian with his finger, and said hurriedly: "Where is it?" Did someone go and get it? ”

"Go back to the emperor, you don't need anyone to get it," Wang Lian's face was a little sad, "Zhu Youzhen has died, what we see is a corpse!"

"Dead?" Li Zicheng's heart suddenly became empty, and he couldn't tell what it felt, over the years, he regarded Da Ming, not Zhu Youzhen, as an opponent, but Zhu Youzhen was the emperor of Da Ming after all, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Where was the body found?" ”

"Coal Mountain," Wang Lian pointed to the north with his hand, lest the emperor not know the location of the coal mountain, and said: "Out of the north gate of the palace city Shenwu Gate, it is the coal mountain, Emperor Chongzhen found it on the coal mountain, and he has hanged himself......"

Li Zicheng asked for details, and he was not in a hurry to go to Coal Mountain, but sat down on the dragon chair.

Zhu Youzhen's death is good news for himself, for Huaxia, and even for Zhu Youzhen himself, no matter what kind of person he was before, what wrong things he did, everything is over, the lights are extinguished, and right and wrong have their own posterity.

But Li Zicheng felt that he didn't seem to hate Zhu Youzhen.

Why is that? When the army was raised in Xining, wasn't it just to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and kill Zhu Youzhen? Today really overthrew Daming and forced Zhu Youzhen to hang himself, why didn't he feel excited?

The only thing to be thankful about is that Zhu Youzhen hanged himself, and he doesn't have to bear some kind of unfavorable reputation, if Zhu Youzhen is captured alive, he has to spend a lot of effort to settle him!

Li Zicheng sat for a while before taking his own soldiers, under the leadership of Wang Lian and the little eunuch who found Zhu Youzhen's body, to the coal mountain where Zhu Youzhen hanged himself.

The coal mountain is not high, and if it were not in the imperial city of Jingshi, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it "Tupo".

On a crooked-necked tree near the left side of Shouhuang Pavilion, Zhu Youzhen's body was hanging on his belt, fluttering in the wind, and opposite him, Wang Chengen's body was also hanging on his belt, that is, after death, he had to take care of Zhu Youzhen.

Li Zicheng asked Wang Zhixin to take out five hundred taels of silver tickets and handed them to the little eunuch who found Chongzhen's body, but he sighed secretly in his heart, this Wang Chengen, although he is a eunuch, knows what loyalty is better than many people who have read the book of sages!

The little eunuch took out a blood book from Zhu Youzhen's pocket and hurriedly sent it over, Li Zicheng smelled a foul smell, frowned and said, "Read it out, see what Zhu Youzhen said!" In his heart, he thought that Zhu Youzhen was forced to die by himself, so he should be able to scold a few words, right? I don't know how much he hates in his heart......

The little eunuchs in the palace are literate, he holds the blood book in both hands, and reads it word by word like a book: I have been on the throne for seventeen years, and the traitors have approached the Beijing Division. I die, I have no face to see my ancestors in the ground, I take off my crown, cover my face with my hair, let the thief split the corpse, don't hurt the people!

After Li Zicheng heard this, he was stunned for a while, although Zhu Youzhen called himself a thief, there was no cursing or hateful words in the blood book, from his point of view, "thief" is completely a normal title.

This is strange, he doesn't seem to hate Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen didn't put all the responsibility on himself before he died, two people who didn't hate each other, but they had a life-and-death fight......

Could it all be providential?

Li Zicheng's face was calm, but he was thinking about Zhu Youzhen's last words in the blood book, but he didn't expect Zhu Youzhen to resent the courtiers beside him: The ministers are mistaken!

Could it be that before Zhu Youzhen died, he actually woke up?

Unfortunately, it was too late to wake up...... Well? Zhu Youzhen knew that he would definitely see this blood book, could it be that he was telling himself something?

The ministers are mistaken!

A sneer appeared at the corner of Li Zicheng's mouth, if Zhu Youzhen did not shirk his responsibility, he wanted to tell himself that none of these courtiers in the Ming Dynasty could be trusted.

Can they be trusted?

More than ten days before the destruction of the Jingshi City, except for one Chen Mingxia, these "loyal ministers" of the imperial court did not have a written note, I am afraid that since then, they have abandoned their masters......

In Li Zicheng's mind, the face of a Ming minister has already appeared!

Regardless of these people for the time being, Li Zicheng thought of the end of the blood book, Zhu Youzhen clearly "saw his ancestors on the ground without a face", indicating that he believed in reincarnation, but he still "let the thief split the corpse", the purpose was for the people: don't hurt the people!

Is this what Zhu Youzhen really means?

I knew that I cared about the people, why did the world continue to burn, and finally hang myself?

However, he can't be blamed entirely, how can people who have lived in the palace since childhood know that the people's suffering is in demand? Since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, perhaps this is the only time he has stepped out of the Forbidden City......

It doesn't matter what kind of person Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen is, the key is how to deal with Zhu Youzhen's posthumous affairs.

Li Zicheng decided that he was going to go against Zhu Youzhen's last "last words": he would not split Zhu Youzhen's corpse, Zhu Youzhen would rather die than surrender to the Mandate of Heaven Army, and chose to martyr his own country, such a monarch is worthy of respect!

Cao Huachun saw that Li Zicheng had been silent, so he stepped forward and said carefully: "Your Majesty, the matter of Emperor Chongzhen ......"

Li Zicheng sighed and said, "Huachun, according to the habit of the Ming Dynasty, after the emperor dies, what should be done roughly?" ”

"Back to the emperor, after the death of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the corpse was parked in the Qianqing Palace, and then transferred to the Guande Hall in the coal mountain, and finally chose the date to officially bury the emperor's mausoleum."

Li Zicheng frowned slightly, he had already moved into the Qianqing Palace, and it was no longer appropriate for Zhu Youzhen's coffin to enter the Qianqing Palace, so he said: "Zhu Youzhen will be buried, and the coffin will be temporarily placed outside the Donghua Gate, let the hundred officials go to worship, and then choose the day to go for the funeral!"

"Did the emperor let Emperor Chongzhen enter the imperial mausoleum?" Cao Huachun was full of gratitude, although he didn't have much affection for Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen was his old master after all, "slave...... Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Zicheng smiled lightly: "Although Zhu Youzhen is the king of the fallen country, but that is because the Ming Qi has been exhausted, and he has not done many evil deeds, he deserves the last dignity!"

Cao Huachun suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "However, Emperor Chongzhen did not build an imperial mausoleum for himself during his lifetime......"

Is this a place where death has no place to be buried? Zhu Youzhen is not a person of absurdity and luxury, he does not deserve such treatment!

However, it is obviously impossible for Huaxia to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of silver to overhaul and build the imperial mausoleum for Zhu You, and waste precious silver for that kind of illusory thought...... Many people still can't eat enough, that is, they want to repair the imperial mausoleum, and the Ming Dynasty will repair it, and the Ming Dynasty does not exist, and there is no need to build the imperial mausoleum......

Li Zicheng pondered for a moment and said: "This matter will be discussed later, in addition, Wang Chengen will be buried thickly, he is a loyal and righteous person!"

"Slaves obey!" Although Cao Huachun agreed, his face changed.

Li Zicheng knew Cao Huachun's thoughts, so he smiled lightly: "Huachun is thinking about his own business? ”

"Minions deserve to ......"

"I was still hesitating, whether Huaxia should retain people who were loyal to the previous dynasty, or appoint people who took the initiative to submit to Huaxia, in front of Wang Chengen, I finally understood," Li Zicheng's face was a faint smile, "In the face of life and death decisions, there is nothing wrong with choosing loyalty or wisdom to protect oneself, as long as it is worthy of one's heart, it is in line with the righteousness of Confucianism!"