However, it was said that Li Zicheng was surrendered by Dashun and the Ming court to the civil and military ministers, and came to the Wuying Palace, and after noon, he discussed with Li Yan, Song Xiance, and Niu Jinxing, and ordered the ministers of the six governments and the Wenyu Yuan to return to their own yamen and restore the operation of each yamen. He will hold an early court three days later, and then ask about some information in the palace, because Chongzhen has no whereabouts, and the prince and the two kings of Yong and Ding have not been found, but they have been sent out of the palace by the eunuchs. He must hurry up and continue to look for Chongzhen in the imperial city, and he must find out where Chongzhen's three sons were hidden by the eunuchs.

There are Ming court maids are very obedient to serve, Li Zicheng smiled and nodded, seeing the graceful and colorful of these young women, full of joy, today when he first entered the palace, he has not been congratulated by hundreds of officials, let alone held a grand ceremony, he already knows the dignity of being the emperor, the furnishings in the palace are rich, and the palace maids around him are beautiful, gentle, courteous, and serve him carefully and thoughtfully. He thought about his future life as emperor...... Thinking about it, he fell asleep with a satisfied smile.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Li Zicheng was woken up by Liu Zongmin and others, and under the service of the palace maid, he used a golden basin to hold water to clean his face, and painted a golden dragon and phoenix tray with red lacquer to hold the imperial kiln teacup, and gargled with warm tea. Although Li Zicheng felt cumbersome about the service of the palace maids, he did not ask for exemption, but accepted it comfortably in a very unaccustomed manner. In front of him, the pink necks, peach cheeks, and temples of the palace maids who bowed their heads and knelt in front of him also appeared the light posture of walking, the gentle and tactful voice when speaking, and the wonderful fragrance of fat powder and the quiet fragrance on the clothes, he was a man in the prime of life who was not yet thirty-eight years old, and his feelings had changed dramatically, although he was very serious on the surface, but in his heart he could not help but move the feelings of men and women.

"Is there any whereabouts for Chongzhen?" Li Zicheng asked everyone after walking out of the side hall.

Niu Jinxing knelt on the ground and replied: "Your Majesty, the soldiers have been looking for it everywhere inside and outside the imperial city, but there is no news so far. However, Chongzhen's crown prince and two princes have been found. ”

"Found it? Where? Li Zicheng was also very excited.

"They were all sent to the palace of the royal prince by the eunuchs, and they did not dare to hide them under the strict search of our soldiers and soldiers, and sacrificed them. Now he is being escorted in, waiting for the emperor's summons. ”

"Go and pass the decree: quickly bring the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty and the two kings of Yong and Ding to see me!"

After a while, the crown prince and the two kings of Yong and Ding were brought to Li Zicheng. Niu Jinxing told the prince and others to kneel down quickly, but the prince stubbornly refused to kneel, seeing that he refused to kneel, and his younger brothers refused to kneel.

Li Zicheng said mildly: "If you don't want to kneel, you don't have to be reluctant." He asked the prince in an elegant tone, "Why did your father die?"

The crown prince replied generously: "My father is diligent and loves the people, and he has no loss of morality, but because the ministers only know how to seek personal gain and mislead the country, they have lost the country." ”

"Do you know where your father is now?"

"I was escorted out of the palace by the ministers before dawn, and I didn't know anything about the affairs in the harem."

Li Zicheng continued in a sincere tone: "Before marching into the army, I discussed with the ministers and decided that if on the day when the soldiers came to the city, your father and emperor knew that the mandate of heaven had been changed, and was willing to give me a special gift, so that he could continue to enjoy the honor of the world, enjoy the years, and protect the officials and dependents. ”

Niu Jinxing gently pushed Taiyu: "Hurry up and kneel down and kowtow to Emperor Dashun to thank you!" ”

The crown prince was still stubborn, and the two kings of Yong and Ding also followed him. The palace maids present were even more worried that the crown prince and the second king, who could have been immortal, would cause a murderous disaster, and were secretly anxious.

Li Zicheng saw the stubborn prince, and said indifferently: "Forget it, the Ming Dynasty is dead, his mother committed suicide and martyrdom, his father does not know the whereabouts of the emperor, he wants him to kneel down and kowtow to thank him, of course he refuses, I have won the world, why care about these small sections!" ”

Knowing that the queen had died, Li Zicheng ordered someone to transport it out with the door panel in the palace, put it in a willow coffin, and placed it outside the Donghua Gate, and the people passing by hid their faces and wept. Three days later, just after dawn, Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Wei Zaode, a scholar, led hundreds of civil and military officials into the palace to congratulate, and they all sat in front of the palace in plain clothes. Li Zicheng did not come out, and the soldiers of the Dashun army vied with each other to play insults to the hundred officials, or hit them on the back, take off their hats, or bend their feet and hook them around their necks, so as to laugh at each other, and the hundred officials were so frightened that they lay on the ground and did not dare to move. Li Yan told Li Zicheng about the situation, so he changed the funeral queen, put on a mourning crown on her, put on a pheasant pattern, and built a grass shed. The scholar Chen Yan persuaded Zicheng to ascend the throne, but Li Zicheng did not allow it. The crown prince was named the king of Song. Release the prisoners held by the Criminal Department and Jinyiwei.

Li Zicheng summoned the court officials, he sat in the south, Niu Jinxing, Liu Zongmin, Song Qijiao and others sat on the left and right, shouting their names in turn, and conferring official positions in three classes. Li Zicheng also ordered: "Those who dare to hurt people and plunder people's property and women will not be killed." "The order in the capital is still good, and the shops are open as usual.

On March 21, Zhu Youzhen's body was discovered, and the Dashun army removed the coffins of Zhu Youzhen and Empress Zhou from the palace and displayed them at Donghua Gate. The Zigong Palace was temporarily housed by the river north of the Forbidden City, and the local civilians buried him in the tomb of Tian Guifei.

After learning of the emperor's death, the officials who committed suicide included Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital, Shi Bangyao, the imperial history of the left deputy capital, Ling Yiqu, the secretary of the Dali Temple, Wu Linzheng, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, Liu Lishun, the left Zhongyun, and Meng Zhaoxiang, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, etc., and the whole family of Gong Yonggu, the commander of the horse, committed suicide, and the eunuchs committed suicide in hundreds, and more than 1,000 people died in the battle. More than 300 palace maids committed suicide. More than 700 people, including gentlemen and students, committed suicide with their families.

Li Zicheng stayed in the Forbidden City and made the palace maid Dou Meiyi his concubine. At the beginning of the Dashun army's entry into Beijing, Li Zicheng ordered: "Those who dare to hurt people and plunder people's property and women will be killed!" "There are two Dashun soldiers who plundered the satin shop and were cut on the chessboard street, and the people were overjoyed, and they had accepted the transformation of Dashun to replace Daming.

At the same time, the soldiers and horses of Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, arrived in Yutian, and learned that the imperial court was shocked, Wu Sangui was also panicked, like a lonely soul without an owner, at a loss, not knowing whether to advance or retreat first, and Li Zicheng, who entered the city of Beijing, faced Wu Sangui, an elite of Liaodong, was also full of goodwill, and sent people to recruit Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng first went to worry about the soldiers and horses of the king of Qin, but almost nothing, except for Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng did not get any other news, and Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, was close to Shandong when the Dashun army was approachingIn a short period of time, the Dashun army occupied the entire territory of Shandong, so far, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and northern Huguang have all planted the banner of the Dashun army.