During the recovery of stolen goods, the first of the officials to be killed was Li Guozhen, a relative of the Ming Dynasty and the Bo of Xiangcheng, who led the soldiers of the three battalions of the Beijing Battalion to surrender outside Beijing.

This guy was the most favored courtier at the end of Chongzhen. On weekdays, other ministers knelt down to discuss matters, but he was the only one standing beside the emperor, which made others look very angry.

Therefore, from the list of people that Chongzhen has always credited, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty is incorrigible: Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru, Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, Li Guozhen, what kind of people are these?

When Li Zicheng first saw Li Guozhen outside Beijing, he had no good impression of him, and scolded him: "You are favored by the Son of Heaven, and you should fight to the death for the country, but I didn't expect to be the first to surrender out of the city now, are you human?" ”

Immediately ordered someone to tie this guy up tightly. Li Guozhen cried bitterly and begged to surrender. Li Zicheng scolded: "Bastard, wait for death." With Li Zicheng's words, Liu Zongmin was the first to find him.

Liu Zongmin first used a big punishment on Li Guozhen, roasted slowly on a low fire, smashed the big board painfully, tortured all night, and finally tossed this Lord Li to death.

This is not the end, Liu Zongmin broke into his house with soldiers, and hundreds of people gang-raped Li Guozhen's wife and all the women in the house, and then held Li Guozhen's wife naked on the horse, and shouted while walking on the street: "Come and see, this is the wife of Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng!" The soldiers laughed loudly while shouting, pinching their breasts and poking their puns, "There is no shame more than this."

As for Feng Ruoshu's cheap father-in-law, Chen Yan and Wei Zaode, two "university scholars", they should also be mentioned.

Chen Yan is a "former university scholar" who resigned in early March for lying about his military exploits. He originally wanted to escape from Beijing, but he didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to cut off the back road, and the boat was robbed.

Chen Yan heard at home that the Dashun army asked for silver, and this scholar who donated ten taels of silver during the Chongzhen period took the initiative to send 40,000 taels of silver to Liu Zongmin first.

Lao Liu liked his "generosity" and did not immediately increase his sentence. Unexpectedly, Chen Yan was usually mean to the servants, and was denounced by the servants, saying that there were tens of thousands of silver hidden in his house. Liu Zongmin led people to dig up the ground, and sure enough, the soil in the courtyard was full of silver.

Liu Zongmin was furious and began to torture the hosts, and finally got hundreds of taels of gold, and the pearls became a fight. Even so, before Li Zicheng left Beijing, he still beheaded Chen Yan and a group of ministers.

University scholar Wei Zaode, the champion of Chongzhen Palace, made him the first assistant in three years. He is known for his heavenly soldiers on paper, but he didn't have any good ideas for Emperor Chongzhen after entering the picture, and he only knew how to slap the horse.

Originally, because of his official status, he was arranged to have a separate cell. Unexpectedly, this Lord Wei was an official fan, and said through the crack in the door: "If the new dynasty wants to use me as an official, let me out, don't lock me here." ”

This time, it reminded Liu Zongmin that there is still a big official. Next, Liu Zongmin brought Wei Zaode into the hall for personal interrogation, first put on the stick, and asked while clipping: "Aren't you the first assistant?" Is it your responsibility to look like this country? ”

Wei Zaode howled and said: "I am a scholar, I don't know how to govern the country, it is because the first emperor is incompetent, and this country is like this." ”

Liu Zongmin is a big man, and he looks down on these stinky old nine the most, and he is furious when he hears him say this: "Chongzhen let you be the champion, and you will be the first assistant in three years, and you still say that the country is incompetent because the emperor is incompetent?" Are you still not human? ”

So, General Liu personally went down to the hall and slapped Wei Zaode dozens of mouths hard. Seeing this, the soldier pulled the stick violently, and Lao Wei's ten fingers were broken.

In the panic and pain, Wei Zaode shouted: "I have a daughter, and I am willing to sacrifice it to the general as a concubine!" Liu Zongmin was happy to hear this, called someone to take his daughter immediately, and sent her to the barracks after rape, and let the sergeant rape * (Miss Chen San sighed for her good luck).

However, Liu Zongmin was even more disdainful of Wei Zaode, who sacrificed his daughter, and strictly ordered the soldiers to step up torture. A total of six days and six nights were "served", and finally Wei Zaode's head was split by the torture board, and his brain flowed out and died.

Wei Zaode died, and Liu Zongmin arrested his son again to ask for silver. Xiao Wei kowtowed and said: "I really don't have any silver at home, if my father is alive, I can still borrow silver from my protégé, and now that he is dead, where can I find the silver?" ”

When Liu Zongmin heard him say this, he raised his hand and cut off Xiao Wei's head.

The poor officials of the Ming Dynasty, such as Hanlin and Kedao Yushi, were the most unlucky, and they really couldn't get oil and water at home, and most of them were tortured and plundered to death.

Liu Zongmin erected dozens of pillars at the gate, killing people here every day, no matter officials, rich people, residents, as long as it seemed that the family had money, they would definitely be invited here to be punished.

What is ridiculous is that Liu Zongmin and other generals kill people every day here, and Niu Jinxing has a great "cultural governance" there, he set the question and held a big exam, "seeking talents" for the new dynasty, and there are three exam questions: "The world returns to benevolence", "Visiting China and Fu Siyi", "Since God blesses the auspicious is not disadvantageous".

For a time, the officials of the Shuntian Mansion came to take the test one after another and filled the city. There are a few unlucky ones, because of their bright clothes, they are captured by the soldiers and tortured for silver.

After several days of recovering the stolen goods, Li Zicheng obtained a total of more than 70 million taels of silver, all of which were recast by the workers into huge square plate-shaped silver plates with holes in the middle for easy transportation.

Seventy million taels is not a small number. Emperor Chongzhen increased his salary and apportionment for more than ten years, and only 20 million taels of silver were collected from the people, which led to the discouragement of the people and the death of the country.

Li Zicheng made 70 million taels in Beijing alone. Hearing this, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but think: "It seems that the family is really a money deal." ”

Because there was no food in Beijing, Li Zicheng's "old camp" had to eat some coarse rice, horses, and beans as food, and these old brothers who followed Li Zicheng to revolt and fight the world together felt that "breaking into the king" was not interesting enough, so they privately made an appointment to go out and plunder, and went into private houses to rob money and commit adultery.

In Anfu Hutong alone, more than 300 women were gang-raped to death overnight.

These mud-legged soldiers naturally did not cherish the treasures in the palace, and they used the exquisite and huge palace kiln flower pots in the palace as a manger, and dismantled the fine wooden doors and windows to burn the fire for cooking. Seeing that there were rare and skillfully carved rhinoceros horn cups in the inner library, the soldiers used the larger ones for pounding garlic and the smaller ones for pouring soybean oil as lamps, not knowing that this thing was priceless.

In mid-April, Li Zicheng was very unhappy when he heard that Wu Sangui in Shanhaiguan refused to accept the recruitment. He wanted Liu Zongmin and Li Jin to lead the army to the battle, but the two generals were greedy for lewd pleasures in the capital and shook their heads.

There was no way, Li Zicheng had to go to the army in person. At the same time, he ordered the execution of more than 100 ministers of the Ming Dynasty led by the scholar Chen Yan at Pingzemen, and sent troops to transport the whole truck of silver and silver from the city of Beijing to "Xijing" (Xi'an).

Originally, Li Zicheng thought that Wu Sangui had 30,000 horses, and all he brought with him were the elite of the old battalion, so he was not overwhelmed, but he didn't expect to be killed by the Manchu pigtails in front of Shanhaiguan.

Next, Li Zicheng was defeated and fled all the way, and returned to Beijing on the 26th. On the 29th, Li Zicheng held an enthronement ceremony in the Wuying Palace, and the next day he withdrew from Beijing in the name of worshipping heaven in the suburbs.

On the second day of the fifth month, the Qing army entered the city of Beijing.

Feng Ruoshu's words kept going until the sun was setting in the west, and Zhu Hongsan originally knew that Li Zicheng was going to get these ministers in Beijing, but he didn't expect it to be so bloody. couldn't help but say: "It seems that this rogue Li Zicheng still doesn't have much talent, he only knows silver." ”

Feng Ruoshu looked at it and said, "Oh? What should I do if I change to the lord and enter the Jingshi? ”

Zhu Hongsan took a sip of wine and said: "It's very simple, find a reason for the scholars, scholars, and all the nobles to cut off their heads." Then the official position is given to the middle-level officials, and everyone is promoted to make a fortune, so how good. ”

Feng Ruoshu couldn't help but jump when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, he didn't expect this guy to use this ruthless move, but this trick is also the fastest effective, and middle-level officials will naturally have a sense of belonging to the new dynasty after they are promoted and make a fortune.

Feng Ruoshu then asked, "What about Wu Sangui?" What does the lord want to do to him? ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "He is a little difficult to do, if I must agree to all his conditions, I can be crowned king." Li Zicheng is confused, what does his father have to detain him? The one who does great things cares about his family.

After stabilizing Wu Sangui, it took a few years to restore production in the north, and at the same time sent troops to occupy a large area north of the Yellow River. In the formation and training of the new army, when the overall strength was stronger than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui was not a matter at all. To put it bluntly, the problem of Wu Sangui is still a Manchu problem, and there is no solution to this problem of the Manchu Qing Dynasty without solving it. ”

Feng Ruoshu was also quite satisfied with this answer. But Zhu Hongsan still had something to say in his heart, now the Manchu Eight Banners in East Asia are invincible, and they are basically invincible with cold weapons.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan thought: "I don't know how my army is training, it's been three months, I should go home and have a look." ”