On March 18, the 17th year of Chongzhen, or March 18 of the first year of Dashun Yongchang, the generalissimo of Dashun Fengtian advocated righteousness, and Li Zicheng, the generalissimo, led the army into Beijing from Deshengmen.

Everywhere they passed, the people poured out of their homes to eat pot pulp to welcome King Chuang's entry into the city. The children sang the ballad of "Kill the cattle and sheep, prepare the liquor, open the gate of the city to meet the king, and when the king comes, he will not pay the food", and chased after the army.

Since setting up his ambition to seize the world, Li Zicheng has strictly disciplined the army and strictly forbade the looting of ordinary people. Therefore, after the army entered the city, except for a few robbery incidents, the overall harassment of the people was very light.

And for the majority of ordinary people, heavy taxes have bent their waists, and the successive invasions of the Manchu Tartars have made them miserable, and now Dashun is sweeping the north with the help of ploughing and sweeping holes, and a powerful regime is about to be born, and this regime does not even collect taxes from the common people! Where can you find a regime that is so benevolent and loves the people?

The people of the whole Beijing were full of excitement to welcome the intruders into the city, and cheered from the heart to the one-eyed man on the tall horse.

Li Zicheng wore a hat and a green cloth coat, stepped on a maroon war horse, and slowly stepped into the city of Beijing. Accompanied by Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and other civil and military officials, this post house horseman of the year rode a high-headed horse to Chengtian Gate. Looking at the imperial city tower, which symbolizes the supreme authority of the feudal empire, Li Zicheng reminisced about the past and was full of emotion.

Suddenly, he picked up his bow, mounted a feathered arrow, and shot it at the plaque on the Chengtian Gate, and he wanted to shoot the word "heaven" to show his strength and win the world. The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, as well as all the Dashun soldiers, quietly watched the feathered arrow, waiting for the moment when it hit the word "Tian".

However, in front of everyone's eyes, Li Zicheng, who has always been a hundred shots, actually missed, and the feather arrow failed to hit the word "sky", but shot under it. It can be seen that sometimes, pretending to be forced does not necessarily succeed.

Li Zicheng was stunned, and the civilian, military, and military generals and soldiers present were also stunned.

"Good! Shot under the word 'sky', it means that the whole world is your majesty. Niu Jinxing on the side hurriedly said to eliminate this embarrassing atmosphere.

"Hahaha......" Li Zicheng laughed, and everyone present also let out a cheerful laugh.

Song Xiance, the military advisor on the side, glanced at Niu Jinxing enviously, such a traceless sycophant made him admire it very much, no wonder someone can be the prime minister, and he can only be a military advisor.

Next to the Jinshui Bridge in Chengtianmen, three teenagers in tattered clothes trembled and knelt on the ground, it was the captured prince Zhu Cihong and his two brothers, who escaped from the people, and they did not escape the search of the intruding army.

Li Zicheng rode his horse to the three brothers, looked at them quietly for a moment, and asked his subordinates to help them up.

"Don't be afraid, today you will be with my son, and you will not lose your wealth!" After winning the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng was extremely comfortable in his heart, and he didn't mind showing his compassion and magnanimity.

The Qianqing Palace where Chongzhen lived had burned down, so Li Zicheng temporarily lived in the Wuying Hall after entering the palace.

The first thing is, of course, to determine Chongzhen's whereabouts, and Li Zicheng will be suspicious about whether Chongzhen was really burned to death. However, after searching the palace, Chongzhen's body could no longer be found, so he interrogated the palace people. Gong E, who has the surname Fei, keeps saying that it was Chongzhen himself who was burned to death, and described the situation before Chongzhen was burned to death.

"Your Majesty, after examination, although the corpse has been charred, its male characteristics can still be found, plus his henchman eunuch Wang Chengen hanged himself at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, it is basically certain that Chongzhen really committed suicide." The leader of the intruder in charge of the search said.

"The queen hanged herself, Chongzhen committed suicide, what a fierce person." Li Zicheng sighed, for this kind of strong person, even Li Zicheng, who is as hard as iron, can't help but sigh.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong's brothers were brought over, saw off Chongzhen, and lay on the charred corpse, and the three Zhu Cihong brothers cried loudly.

"Why is your family losing the world?" After Zhu Cihong finished crying, Li Zicheng asked with a smile.

"Misuse Yongchen Zhou Yanru and others!" Zhu Cihong replied. The courtiers should be killed one by one, and Chongzhen said such words in front of his son more than once. In the hearts of the remaining Zhu Cihong, the reason why Daming fell to today's situation was caused by mediocre officials like Zhou Yanru.

"Hahaha, every child of yours knows it, why doesn't your father know." Li Zicheng laughed and said, Li Zicheng, who was born at the grassroots, naturally hated the greedy officials of the Ming Dynasty and agreed with Zhu Cihong's words.

"Kill me, let me follow my father." Zhu Cihong cried on the ground. Chongzhen has a strong personality, his son is not a bad seed, although Zhu Cihong is young, he has been receiving a formal royal education, and naturally knows that the Ming Dynasty is dead, and what awaits this prince of the dead country is only endless humiliation. The experiences of Li Houzhu, Hui and Qin Erzong are a lesson from the past.

"You are not guilty, I will not kill you." Li Zicheng shook his head, he hated the emperor and officials of the Ming Dynasty, and it was because of them that he would not be able to live and rebel. But with the destruction of the Ming Dynasty and the suicide of Chongzhen, the hatred in his heart has long disappeared. He didn't want to be angry with another child. As for cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, Li Zicheng scoffed at this, only a cowardly person would make such a move, how could I, Li Zicheng, be a dignified man!

"I beg the king to bury my father and queen mother with a ceremony, and not to disturb the tomb of my ancestors, and not to kill my people." Zhu Cihong pleaded.

"Hmph, if your father and son really love the people like sons, how can the world fall into such a situation!" Li Zicheng snorted coldly, "As for your parents, I will bury them with a princely gift!" ”

Li Zicheng issued an order on the spot and canonized Zhu Cihong as the king of Song, and Zhu Cijiong's brothers were all dukes. The "Song" is "sent", which means that the Ming dynasty was given to him by the Zhu family's father and son.

occupied the palace, so he naturally had to search for the wealth treasures in the palace, but to Li Zicheng's surprise, he searched the inner library and the palace, and only found less than 1,000 taels of silver. The dignified Daming Palace only has such a little wealth!

By torturing the eunuchs in the palace, Li Zicheng learned that Chongzhen's inner library had long been impoverished, and Chongzhen and Queen Zhou had been frugal to the extreme, and their daily lives were not as good as those of ordinary wealthy people.

"I thought that the emperor must eat and drink spicy food, delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, and be the richest person in the world. I didn't expect Chongzhen to be so poor, but as an emperor, he didn't even have the means to get silver, and he deserved to lose the country! Li Zicheng said disdainfully.