Li Zicheng did not say anything about Li Yan's departure from Xi'an.

Now Li Zicheng's prestige is still a little insufficient, and his rash move on Li Yan will only cause turmoil in Henan and affect his plans for the Eastern Crusade.

He originally wanted to put Li Yan under house arrest in Xi'an, and then deal with Li Yan after he captured Beijing and became the real emperor, but now that Li Yan has returned to Henan, he can only temporarily dispel this idea, and everything will be said after he captures Beijing, sweeps the north, and reigns in the world.

At that time, who he wanted to kill was just a word.

Gao Yihuan did not stay in Xi'an for a long time, he waited until the military government sent him a letter from General Guoyi, and then hurried back to Henan.

In the spring of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the year of Jiashen in the lunar calendar, the land of Guanzhong, Li Zicheng issued an edict to the east, and the soldiers of the Shun army were jubilant and high-spirited, full of the sharpness of a new dynasty.

Thousands of miles away, Beijing is in despair.

Since Li Zicheng has established the country, it is inevitable to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and unify the world.

Beijing, when Li Zicheng was proclaimed emperor in Xi'an, knew that Li Zicheng would go east, but Beijing never had a way to deal with it.

The relationship between the emperor and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty has always been bad, which is a problem that existed after Ming Taizu established the Ming Dynasty.

By the time of Emperor Chongzhen, the emperor was opposed to almost all the courtiers, and several strategies to deal with them were not implemented because the emperor and ministers were unwilling to take responsibility and could not reach a unified opinion.

Chongzhen thought about moving south, but he hoped that it would be repeatedly pleaded by the ministers and approved by the cabinet scholars. Only in this way, when he arrives in Nanjing and faces the news of the fall of Beijing, can he shake off the cabinet and give an explanation to the world and his ancestors.

The cabinet is not stupid, the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu Ming knows the emperor's thoughts, but they all pretend to be deaf and dumb, and no one wants to carry this pot.

If you are killed on the battlefield, you can still mix the name of a loyal minister, if you propose to move the capital, and then because of the fall of Beijing, you will be beheaded by the emperor, but you have to carry a thousand bones and infamy, who will do it? Among the cabinet members, there are people who are looking forward to serving the new dynasty.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the second year of Dashun Yongchang, and the fifteenth day of the first month, Li Zicheng sacrificed to the east in Xi'an.

On the 20th, the Shun generals Li You, Bai Jiuhe and other troops took the lead in crossing the Yellow River, occupied Ronghe and other counties in Shanxi, and issued a document to discuss the Ming Dynasty, "In the Ming Dynasty, most of the numbers have ended, and the severe punishment is heavy, and the people are unbearable. Birth of my holy lord, benevolence and good life, the banner of righteousness is raised, and Haiyu returns to his heart. Out of Luo and Dingzhongzhou, into the west of the Guanxi and swept the three Qin. To pacify the officials and pacify the people, and to set up generals to defend the border, the great cause has been decided. There is Jin Yan, and he has been trapped in the soup for a long time. I can't bear to sit idly by, my lord has raised millions of troops, and he has not committed any crimes. For the first card to the civil and military attachés, etc., the time is measured, the city is sealed, and the early picture is juelu; If obsessed with refusal, Xu Er's gentry and people are bound to offer, not only double the reward, but also protect the lives everywhere, such as the officers and soldiers resist together, the soldiers are broken to the city, and the jade is not divided, what is the regret? ”

On the 25th, Li Zicheng left Tian Jianxiu and Empress Gao to stay in Xi'an, and led 60,000 elite soldiers in the old battalion of the Dashun army, with more than 300,000 subordinate men and horses, known as the army of one million, and set off from Xi'an to start the Eastern Crusade.

The Dashun army was divided into three routes, and after Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin forced to land in the prefect Zhang Lin, they rested for a while and marched to Taiyuan.

Li Guo, Zhang Neng, and Ma Chongxi led 100,000 men and horses, crossed the Yellow River for the north road, and marched to Datong, preparing to contain Jiang Xiang, Tang Tong and other border towns, and instigating Li Zicheng to attack Taiyuan.

Liu Fangliang, Ma Shiyao, and Liu Rukui led 100,000 horses and horses to march along the north bank of the Yellow River for the south road, and after capturing the Daimyo, they went north along the canal to join the main force in Beijing.

In recent years, in the land of Jinyan, natural disasters have been repeated, the imperial court has been severely punished, and the Qing army has frequently entered the country, and the people have long been unable to live.

As soon as Li Zicheng shouted the slogan of free grain in Juntian, the people of Sanjin were all eating pot pulp, looking forward to the arrival of the Shun army.

And this time, Li Zicheng knew that he was fighting for the world, after he became the Son of Heaven, the people were all his people, and they were all the property of his old Li family, and he also changed the style of the past rogues, strictly prohibiting soldiers from killing the people, and the military discipline was not good, and there was even a new saying of "killing one person is like killing my father, and lewd one person is like lewd my mother", which was supported by the people, but the gentry were still miserable.

Although the gentry is strong, when the people are on Li Zicheng's side, the gentry is not worth mentioning.

For a time, the poor people of the entire Sanjin Dynasty were transmitting, "Eat his mother, wear his mother".

And the people who want to "eat his mother and wear his mother" are not only the poor people in Shanxi, but also the army of the Ming Dynasty.

The finances of the Ming Dynasty had long been bankrupt, and by the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, people and horses in various places were generally in arrears, and even Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army had not been paid for 14 months, not to mention other towns.

When a soldier is paid, it is justified, there is no military salary, the old lady and the child are starving to death, and the mother is still fighting and working hard?

Isn't Lao Li here? As soon as Jiang Xiang, Tang Tong and others are combined, we will eat Lao Li and wear Lao Li.

Li Zicheng's Eastern Expedition came with great momentum and was ready to fight a tough battle, but in addition to Gao Jie, who gave him a green hat, slipped away, and then fought a tragic battle in Ningwu, the Ming troops everywhere, including the elite border army, all surrendered.

More than 100,000 Shanxi Ming troops have all become Shun troops at once, and they don't have any other requirements, Lao Li takes care of the food and pays him.

The Shun army was like a bamboo, and the soldiers were arrogant, but Li Zicheng didn't feel the bottom in his heart.

More than 100,000 people want to eat him at once, and with the entry of the army, there are more people who want to eat him, Li Zicheng can't help but feel a pang in his heart, he doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are if he doesn't belong to his family!

However, although Li Zicheng realized that this family may not be easy to do, since he had already gone east, he had no turning back.

In Guanzhong, the Dashun Dynasty has sounded the horn of the Eastern Crusade, but the monarchs and ministers in Beijing are still arguing.

The matter of whether to move the capital or not could not be decided, and the ministers with a conscience suggested that the prince be invited to go south, and the ministers agreed, but the emperor did not do it.

Seeing that Li Zicheng has already gone eastward, things are always deadlocked, since it can't be moved for the time being, then he has to block Li Zicheng, maybe he can keep Beijing?

After all, since Chongzhen ascended the throne, it is not the first time that Beijing has been surrounded by soldiers, and it has been surrounded by people five or six times before and after, not as bad as Li Zicheng this time.

Didn't the Ming Dynasty still have Ning Tieqi not moved, with this card in his hand, the Ming Dynasty may not lose.

However, the transfer of troops requires money and food, and without money and food, Chongzhen cannot move troops.

In the seventeenth year since Chongzhen ascended the throne, the war has been fought for seventeen years, and the treasury has long been empty, and there is no food or salary to transfer troops.

In desperation, Chongzhen could only raise the idea of officials and relatives, wanting them to donate their family wealth to help Daming tide over the difficulties, but in this way, it only made the minister more centrifuged.

This country is the country of the Zhu family, and if the silver is to be paid, it is also the vassal king and relatives of the Zhu family who take the lead.

As a result, the national war of the Ming Dynasty had a very bad head. Not only did he not donate silver, but he deducted 2,000 taels from the 5,000 taels he sent after the week, and only paid 3,000 taels, and he also earned 2,000 taels back.

The nobles of the Ming Dynasty, the fate of the Ming Dynasty, and the fate of the Ming Dynasty, enjoyed privileges for generations, but this is the kind of performance.

When a discerning person sees it, he knows that the Ming Dynasty is going to end.

The ministers who were loyal to those who had no money, who were powerless and who would make money, had long been ready to take refuge in Dashun, but only raised tens of thousands of taels of silver.

The money was not raised, the soldiers and horses could not move, but Li Zicheng had already entered Shanxi.

Seeing that Li Zicheng is about to hit his hometown, rather than his family wealth to be looted by the Shun army, it is better to serve the imperial court, so he asked himself to supervise the teacher, and was willing to pay the army with private wealth, not to bother the officials, and to promote the westward expedition.

Dashun in the north is in the last big confrontation with the Ming Dynasty, and Gao Yihuan in Henan is not idle.

In March, in the wilderness outside Luyi City, several fast horses came running from the north, stirring up the sound of horses' hooves.

Li Yan rode on the horse and looked around in surprise from time to time~

(Thank you for the 1000 tip from the front to back, thank you for your support, ask for a monthly pass, recommend, subscribe.) ）

(End of chapter)