After the Liukou captured Beijing, most of the officials in the DPRK and China surrendered and defected.

After completely grasping the situation in Beijing, Li Zicheng came to Desheng Gate surrounded by dozens of cronies and generals. Inside the Desheng Gate, Liu Zongzhou, the first assistant of the former Ming cabinet, Zhang Jinyan, Wei Zhaocheng, the second assistant, Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and other high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered without a fight knelt tremblingly on both sides of the official road, shouting shamelessly the words of Emperor Dashun, but Li Zicheng did not look at them with a straight eye.

People who have no integrity will always be despised. Li Zicheng is a generation of heroes, and he admires heroes who stand up to the sky, not these groveling soft bones. In the end, Li Zicheng did not give these people a good color, and ordered them to be put into prison and strictly guarded.

However, there are also many officials with integrity, who are unwilling to be slaves of the Ming Dynasty, and chose to commit suicide and martyrdom after the city was broken.

Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household department, Li Banghua, the left deputy of the imperial history, Shi Bangyao, the left deputy of the imperial history, Ling Yiqu, the secretary of the Dali Temple, Wu Linzheng, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, Liu Lishun of the left Zhongyun, Meng Zhaoxiang, the right attendant of the criminal department, Gong Yonggu, the commander of the horses, and other officials, all committed suicide with their families.

There were hundreds of eunuchs in the palace, more than 300 palace maids committed suicide, and more than 700 families committed suicide.

There is a little bit of irony, the eunuchs in the palace died in more than 1,000 people. Compared with these rootless men, those high-ranking officials are too shameless. Even the eunuchs knew that they were fighting for the country, and they had been talking in the court earlier, thinking of themselves as an official who was the pillar of the Ming Dynasty, and finally met the siege of the Liukou in such a shameless way, which was the sorrow of the Ming Dynasty.

After Li Zicheng captured Beijing, he immediately seized all the treasury of the imperial palace and the six ministries, but to his disappointment, no money was found from these places, and the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was already empty. But soon Li Zicheng was pleasantly surprised, and a large amount of money and silver were found from the mansions of those powerful people in the DPRK and China, and it was roughly estimated that there were at least tens of millions of taels.

Got so many silver taels. Li Zichengle's mouth was about to crack to the back of his head.

In order to seize more silver taels, he ordered that all the powerful people who had been captured and surrendered were thrown into prison, and their families could come up with enough silver taels to be released. After Li Zicheng's order was issued, Beijing Chengnei was even more in a state of flux, and those powerful people who had hoped to get a new life after taking refuge in the exiles and live a comfortable life again sadly found that they were in dire straits.

However, Li Zicheng and the high-ranking people of Liukou were happy, and a steady stream of silver taels were delivered to them. It was all sent by the families of these powerful people to ransom them, and the number was much more than they estimated. Only then did Li Zicheng believe that every powerful person in Beijing was rich and flowing, and he decided to continue to use this method to loot more money, which was called "killing the rich to help the poor" and "eating big households"!

But Li Zicheng and his advisers, including Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others, did not know that their move of killing the rich and helping the poor brought disaster to themselves.

The current commander of Jingying is Wu Xiang, and Wu Xiang was after the Liukou attacked near Taiyuan. He was urgently appointed by Emperor Chongzhen as the governor of Jingying. Emperor Chongzhen's appointment was meaningful, because Wu Xiang had a son who had a heavy army in his hands, and he was an elite Guanning army.

Wu Xiang's son is Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan.

A time when Beijing is in crisis. Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict ordering Wu Sangui to give up Ningyuan and lead Guan Ningtie to ride into King Jingqin. After Wu Sangui received the holy decree, he hesitated for several days, after receiving news from his father. Only then did he decide to lead the army to King Qin, but he had just led the army out of Shanhaiguan when news came. Beijing was captured by the Rogues. Wu Sangui, who received this news, immediately led his troops back to Shanhaiguan.

At this time, Wu Sangui had to consider a very important question, how should he and the tens of thousands of Guan Ning Tieqi under his command go. Wu Sangui knew very well that he had less than 50,000 horses in his hands, and now he only had a corner of Guanning and Shanhaiguan, and with this amount of troops and sphere of influence, he could not compete with the army of nearly one million rogue in any case.

Moreover, Guanning and Shanhaiguan are sandwiched between Liukou and Jiannu, and he can't deal with any force.

Wu Sangui knew that there were only two ways in front of him, one was to surrender to the Liukou and return to the so-called Great Shun Dynasty. Jiang Rang, Jiang Pai brothers, and Tang Tong and other former Ming commanders have surrendered to Liukou, and several of them are still leading the general army, so it can be said that nothing has changed, but the loyal master has changed.

The second is to cooperate with Jiannu, and like his uncle Zu Dashou, he will be Jiannu's eagle dog. After Zu Dashou was defeated and surrendered to Jiannu, he wrote a letter to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender, if Wu Sangui was willing to surrender, he would definitely be able to obtain a high position in Jiannu and continue to lead the Guanning army. This road is also quite tempting for Wu Sangui, because his uncle Zu Dashou has been cleared and has been treated very highly.

However, the current Wu Sangui is not optimistic about Jiannu, in the past few years, Jiannu has lost more than won in the process of fighting with the Datong army led by Cao Yue, suffered heavy losses, and has not even recovered his vitality. In Wu Sangui's mind, the Liukou, who has an army of one million, is much stronger than Jiannu. Moreover, according to the report of the Jingshi, the vast majority of the Ming civil and military ministers in Beijing had surrendered to the Liukou, as if his father Wu Xiang had also surrendered to Li Zicheng. Dashun replaces Daming, it should be a sure thing.

After a few days of thinking and weighing again, Wu Sangui finally decided to surrender Li Zicheng.

But just when Wu Sangui wrote a letter of allegiance and sent someone to Beijing Li Zicheng, Li Zizhong sent his general Li Guo to Shanhaiguan to contact the matter of surrender, Wu Sangui received a news that made him angry, his old father Wu Xiang was thrown into prison by the rogue, tortured, and finally handed over nearly hundreds of thousands of taels of silver before being released. The old father who was put back was already dying, and half his life was gone.

Moreover, Wu Sangui also immediately learned that all the surrendered Ming magnates and ministers of the court were all arrested by the Liukou, and they needed to be handed over by their families to a certain amount of silver taels before they could be released. And these magnates, who originally hoped to be treated favorably after returning to Dashun, were almost only half a life after being ransomed, and they were subjected to horrific abuse in prison.

Also, Liu Zongzhou, the first assistant of the cabinet, Wei Zhaocheng, Zhang Jinyan, the second assistant of the cabinet, Zhu Chunchen, the prince of Chengguo, Zhou Kui, and other Ming nobles returned to the Liukou, not to mention that they did not receive favor, and even lost their lives. All of them were abused to death by the gangsters, and their deaths were extremely tragic.

After hearing this news, Wu Sangui immediately changed his mind and must not surrender to the tyrannical rogue, he immediately sent someone to Jinzhou to contact Zu Dashou, so that his uncle could tell Dolgon that Guanning Tieqi was willing to unite with Jiannu to fight against the rogue. At this time, Wu Sangui did not plan to return to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he still had his own small calculations.

Because of the tyranny of Wu Zicheng and his subordinates, Wu Sangui directly changed his decision in a very short period of time and joined forces with Jiannu to deal with the Liukou, and the fate of the Liukou took a turn. (To be continued.) )