The mountain rain is coming, the wind is full of buildings, and the mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering. Although it was nearly the end of the year, the whole Forbidden City was bleak, although the eunuchs tried to create a lively atmosphere, on the surface it still looked like the past flowers, flowers, warblers singing and dancing, and the people were happy.

But at this time, Chongzhen's heart was like a cold winter, and his heart seemed to have overturned the five-flavor bottle, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty, everything, and the indescribable sadness became more bitter.

Since receiving the twists and turns of the thieves who fell in Xi'an, he has been sitting here, he can't understand how he has worked tirelessly for more than ten years, in order for the entire Ming Dynasty to prosper, not only is not like his ancestors who indulged in cultivation or carpentry all day long, and stayed awake all night in the hard government, but in the end, the entire Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more chaotic.

First of all, natural disasters continued, and then there were many bandits, from Gao Yingxiang to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and even the Manchu Qing outside the customs became more and more powerful, and even entered the customs several times, burning, killing and looting, as the co-lord of the world, the Ming Emperor, but he could only watch and have no way.

For a while, his thoughts were chaotic, and all kinds of thoughts and characters appeared in his mind, he thought of the earliest Shoufu Yang He, the old man with white hair but stubborn temperament, Yuan Chonghuan, the bold scholar, and also thought of the bloody Mao Wenlong, and finally, when he looked at the west, a shining single eye suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and that single eye seemed to contain boundless murderous aura, which made him wake up instantly.

In 1643 A.D., the sixteenth winter of Chongzhen.

Xi'an Jixian Palace, in the middle of the hall at this time, on the chair that symbolizes supreme power, is doing Li Zicheng, the king who is hated by Chongzhen.

It's just that Li Zicheng, who is proud of the spring breeze at this time, doesn't know this, and even if he really knows, he will only be more happy, because he, Li Zicheng, is completely different from before from today, from the moment he conquered Xi'an.

In the past, even if Li Zicheng's strength was strong, in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of the scholars, he was just a grass coward, but from this moment on, he has completely broken away from the identity of the grass co., and has become a big force, a force that can really compete with the Ming court.

Don't underestimate this little change in identity, you know, since ancient times, China has paid attention to the right name, on the contrary, the name is not right, what is the name, the identity is also, the name is right, that is, your identity has been recognized by most people, and any force, if you want to unify the world, you must have your identity recognized by the people of the world, and now, Li Zicheng has finally waited for this day, and this is something he never dared to think about before.

Overjoyed, Li Zicheng ordered Xi'an to be changed to Xijing, which also means that Li Zicheng really has the determination to win the Ming Dynasty from this moment, and also reversed the concept of the people in the world, and the benefit is that the original Ming generals who were unwilling to surrender to the death came to vote, and those landlords who originally regarded him as an enemy of life and death also obediently paid their financial contributions, so that the power of the army reached its peak.

Not only that, Li Zicheng also mobilized the people in Xi'an to build city walls and palaces on a large scale, and at the same time made certain rules and regulations, and carried out various actions such as collecting taxes within the scope of his jurisdiction.

Just when the two behemoths in Beijing and Xi'an had their own thoughts and preparations, Yulin City and Shi Lei, a newly emerging group, were also discussing their next plans.

"Lao Jia, this war is also over, what are the gains, you can tell everyone, let everyone know about our family background." After getting the news of the fall of Xi'an City, Shi Lei's sense of crisis suddenly increased, and he just defeated the attack of Hao Shaoqi's army, so Shi Lei recruited all his henchmen, planning to summarize the experience of this time, and also discuss the next move.

Originally, Dong Qi thought that he had just come to Yulin and it was impossible to participate in this kind of meeting, but Shi Lei, who was bent on reining him, still forced him to come.

Hearing Shi Lei's words, Jia Hanqing immediately took out something like a ledger, and then opened his mouth to read, "Although we defeated Hao Shaoqi's department by clever tricks this time, we also lost a lot of money, the original 2,500 soldiers, nearly 500 were killed and seriously wounded, and the Mongolian servant army also lost nearly 100 people, which can be regarded as a heavy loss, the enemy, a total of nearly 4,000 people were killed in battle, more than 12,000 people were captured, as for the material, a total of nearly 200,000 taels of silver, countless other gold, silver and jewelry, weapons, armor and other things, can not be calculated. ”

Hearing Jia Hanqing's words, Shi Lei was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Old Jia, are you mistaken, how can there be so much silver and jewelry, even if they want to bring it, it should be food, how can there be these, are they still going to use these silver jewelry to buy food halfway?" Not only Shi Lei was stunned, but even some other people in the hall didn't know much about it.

"Well, that, Master Shi, I know this, I used to follow my father to exterminate the Liukou, and I still know a little about this matter." Seeing that Shi Lei's group of people were full of doubts, Dong Qi, the only one who knew the inside story, spoke.

"Oh, Brother Dong, let's talk about it, what the hell is going on." Shi Lei asked.

"And it came to pass that these rogues were not able to rest and settle down like us in the imperial army, because they had always been on the move, and they had to take some precious things with them because they had to take them with them, which is why so much silver and jewels were seized from them." Dong Qi explained.

Hearing Dong Qi's words, everyone immediately understood that these things were robbed by Hao Shaoqi, because there was no fixed territory, so they could only be carried with them all the time, but now they are all cheaper Shi Lei.

"I see, since this is the case, Lao Jia, we are not short of silver for the time being, so according to the standard we set before, the war dead, two hundred taels of silver per person, one hundred taels per seriously wounded, if the war dead have family members, they are exempt from ten years of taxes, at the same time, all the minor children of the families of the soldiers who died in the war are all taken care of by the yamen until they become adults, and the seriously injured must all be resettled by the county government, I still say the same thing, we must not let these people who sacrificed their lives shed blood and tears, Meng Hulu, I'll leave this matter to you, and remember that it must be done. ”

Meng Hulu was the one who found Su Wanbu wanting to sneak attack in Yulin, and since then, Shi Lei has found the benefits of Meng Hulu, shrewd, and careful, so he has been keeping him by his side and doing some chores.

In the hall, except for Dong Qi, everyone nodded seriously after hearing Shi Lei's words, these people all know that Shi Lei values the soldiers very much, not to mention the higher military salary than anywhere, even the soldiers are the best three meals a day, rice, vegetables, and even meat, can be eaten every three times, which is why there is such a large amount of training every day, but no soldiers escape, but there are still some young people, after listening to what these soldiers said after returning home, Who wants to come to join the army by all means?

This time, although Shi Lei's pension conditions were a little richer, no one turned against him, because these people knew that if they didn't take down the soldiers who shed blood and sacrificed, there would be no victory.

And Dong Qi's heart at this time seemed to be overturning the river and the sea, how could he not calm down, they could never imagine that a small Yulin City would treat soldiers so favorably, you know, even in the Ming Dynasty's leading Northwest Army, for those dead and wounded soldiers, they only distributed a little pension silver to each person, and then sent away, as for the follow-up placement, it is not to mention.

"Lord Shishi, dare to ask, is it true that you soldiers are beneficial?" After thinking about it for a long time, Dong Qi finally asked.

Hearing Dong Qi's question, Shi Lei's face was stunned, and then he said cautiously, "Ah, that, yes, what's wrong, Brother Dong doesn't think there is anything wrong, if there is, we will definitely change it, I originally wanted to increase the pension a little, but we have limited energy now, and we can only do so much, and when the situation is better in the future, we will compensate them!" ”

As soon as Shi Lei's words were finished, Dong Qi was completely speechless, he couldn't have imagined that such generous conditions were only temporary, and they would be improved in the future, not to mention anything else, if there were such generous conditions in the Northwest Army, then why worry about being defeated by a group of rogues? At this time, Dong Qi suddenly had a thought in his heart that he wanted to stay in Yulin.

After solving the problem of the bereaved soldiers, Shi Lei finally started to do the main topic today, "Everyone, we all know about Xi'an and General Dong, now, Li Zicheng and the Chuang army have occupied Xi'an, according to my estimates, they will definitely use Xi'an as a base in the future, so as to send troops to all directions, and our Yulin has just defeated Hao Shaoqi now, although Hao Shaoqi and Li Zicheng are not of the same heart, but with this reason in front, we will definitely not be able to avoid this catastrophe, so, for the safety of our Yulin, This time, we are going to recruit enough 10,000 soldiers to cope with the next war. ”

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