Although most of the official documents did not doubt the authenticity of the crown prince at all, Yang Chao still did enough work and let several eunuchs and civil officials recognize him, Wang Duo, a bachelor who had served as an instructor in the East Palace for three years, Liu Zhengzong, Li Jinglian, etc., who had served as a lecturer in the East Palace, immediately cried bitterly when they saw the prince, and recognized them, and the prince also revealed the identities of these people one by one.

Yang Chao took out Chongzhen's secret decree again, not to mention the jade seal covered with Chongzhen, even Chongzhen's handwriting can't be fake, how many civil officials in Nanjing have been approved by Emperor Chongzhen, and the emperor's handwriting is not unrecognizable, and scholars have decided that the secret decree is true.

At the same time, he marveled at Yang Chao's exploits.

Picking up the princes from the lost capital and escorting them all the way through the chaos is much more terrifying than killing 10,000 in Haizhou.

Therefore, the first contribution of the prince to the south is undoubtedly Yang Chao.

After identifying the authenticity of the prince and confirming his identity, he immediately announced it to the world in the name of the prince and sent a fast horse to announce it all the way.

Then there is a set of complicated procedures, what to worship the temple, pay homage to the tomb of filial piety, and then bring filial piety to Chongzhen.

After a set of processes, it was June.

At this time, news suddenly confirmed that Li Zicheng had withdrawn from Beijing and that the Eight Banners Army had occupied Beijing.

Yang Chao lamented that history is still history, the general trend has not changed at all, and Li Zigong can't stop the Eight Banners.

Previously, Yang Chao was also curious about whether Wu Sangui would be angry at the crown without Chen Yuanyuan, whether he would surrender directly to Li Zicheng, and whether the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not enter the customs, but the results showed that the weight of women was not enough to drive away heroes like Wu Sangui to change, compared to women, politics and power are the most attractive to men.

A big reason why the Chinese court in later generations was able to tolerate some more harmful violations of discipline by officials, but resolutely did not allow officials to make mistakes in women, was that these officials began to indulge in sexual sensuality. In fact, he has lost his enterprising spirit, he has no desire for politics, and he will not struggle at all. So it should be removed.

Yang Chao sighed, but what shocked Yang Chao was. The Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs were almost a universal celebration of the Manchu Dynasty's entry into the customs, and they cheered at the Manchu Qing Dynasty's defeat of Li Zicheng, and even congratulated the crown prince for this, singing praises of virtue, and said that it was precisely because the crown prince won the hearts of the people and should be the will of heaven that Li Thief had this defeat.

Take the opportunity, and someone will be on the table. asked the crown prince to ascend the throne immediately, and the ministers echoed it.

This was followed by two pretentious refusals, and it was not until the third time that the crown prince was embarrassed to agree.

Then came the enthronement ceremony, and it was already mid-June when I got it done.

This ceremony is still very tiring, Yang Chao, as a newly promoted lord, naturally has to accompany the whole process, and he feels more tired than fighting himself, but the civil officials who are not young do not feel bitter and tired at all. One by one, they were in high spirits.

In addition to dealing with the affairs of the DPRK and China, Yang Chao was more concerned about the war situation in the north.

The news is already very accurate, refugees who fled from the city of Beijing. One by one, the news was delivered to Gangnam.

After Li Zicheng captured Beijing, he really wanted to clean up military discipline and appease the people at first, and planned to become emperor.

From Zhang Jinyan, the minister of the first assistant minister, to the six minor officials, except for Li Banghua, Fan Jingwen and other 20 officials who committed suicide and martyrdom abroad, they all threw themselves into Li Zicheng's arms, congratulated the new master, and persuaded Li Zicheng to become the emperor.

Li Zicheng also wanted to be the emperor, but he soon found out. He does not have the ability to feed a huge army of millions, and he has a peasant army under him. or the surrendered Ming army, the military discipline is not very good. When the military pay was not available, looting naturally occurred.

A person's performance when he has no money is often consistent with their identity, Chongzhen has no money, he chooses to raise taxes, Li Zicheng's actions are also in line with his identity, he has no money, torture!

Immediately pull out the civil and military officials who have just taken refuge in him and want to be officials again and be powerful again, regardless of their money, Chongzhen asked these people for money, these people cried poor, Chongzhen is the emperor, there is no way to save face, Li Zicheng doesn't care about these, he will fight if he doesn't give money, and as a result, he looted out 70 million taels of silver, and at the same time offended the officials, it is worth mentioning that the first to be killed was the first to surrender Li Zicheng's Daming Xungui Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen.

Torture this kind of violence and its easy to get out of control, at first it was only tortured among the relatives and relatives of the civil and military officials, and soon it developed to the common people, and began to find those rich people, Li Zicheng persuaded Liu Zongmin, Liu Zongmin was not satisfied with the confrontation: The power of the emperor belongs to you, the power of torture is in me, you don't have to be nosy. Li Zicheng is the leader of the peasant army, more like a leading brother, and his subordinates are more like Liangshan heroes, plus Liu Zongmin has a heavy army, and he treats Li Zicheng as the boss more than the emperor, and he speaks very unruly.

Moreover, Liu Zongmin was responsible for the torture and made a windfall, which made other forces blush, and they also learned to start looting, and even worse developed to the point of desperately robbing, robbing money, food, and women, not long ago, the Beijingers who were looking forward to the king coming and not paying for food fell into hell in a blink of an eye.

So far, Li Zicheng has not only offended all the officials, but also the common people, landlords and gentry, and wealthy businessmen.

Li Zicheng was busy torturing and plundering the city of Beijing, and he didn't pay attention to the Manchu Qing who were eyeing him outside the border, and he just sent people to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender to the northeast, and asked Wu Sangui to enter Beijing to face the saint.

When Wu Sangui asked him to be the king of Qinzhen, he took the army to Shanhaiguan and did not go for a month, if he had the speed of Yuan Chonghuan back then, he would really be able to rush to the city of Beijing, and he could not prevent Li Zicheng from entering Beijing.

But his grinding and grinding, and when Beijing fell, he continued to grind, waiting for Li Zicheng's surrender.

Wu Sangui may not have the intention of surrendering with a heavy army, but his servants came to tell him that his father had been arrested in the city and his family property had been confiscated.

Wu Sangui told the domestic servant that when he returned to Beijing, his father would be released, and his family property would be returned, and he continued to grind, but along the way, he did not wait for Li Zicheng to release his father and return his family property, but instead got Li Zicheng's strong urging, hoping that he would go to Beijing immediately, what to do in Beijing? Arrested?

Wu Sangui finally gave up on Li Zicheng, turned his head and returned to Shanhaiguan, and then met the people who came to woo him Dolgon.

Li Zicheng's inferior political wisdom made him lose the opportunity to stabilize the overall situation as soon as possible and establish a new dynasty, and his short-sighted strategic vision made him ignore the most dangerous enemy, and as a result, Wu Sangui was forced to the side of the Manchus.

After Li Zicheng returned to Beijing, he hurriedly held an enthronement ceremony, and then unintentionally took the 70 million taels of silver he had scavenged to return to his hometown in Shaanxi to enjoy happiness, gave up the city of Beijing, and set a fire when he left.

As a result, the Qing army failed to take the city of Beijing after entering the customs five times in a row, and this time it was self-defeating, and it was the warm welcome of the people of Beijing who lived after the catastrophe that entered this coveted place.

Although he has always been regarded as a barbarian, Dolgon's political wisdom is more than a step higher than that of Li Zicheng.

Unlike Li Zicheng, who regarded torture and plunder as the first priority, Manchu officials believed that "urgent recruitment, first acceptance", and "the first priority of the revival of the dynasty".

So after Dolgon entered Beijing, he immediately began to buy people's hearts, first ordering "officials and people to mourn for Emperor Chongzhen for three days to show public opinion." The Ministry of Rites, Taichang Temple prepared for the emperor's funeral. "Under the guise of mourning for Chongzhen.

Then he "made a big show and cleaned up the filth with the gentry of the courts", "ordered the officials of the cabinet, the six ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Beijing to act as one with the former officials", "All civil and military officials, military and civilian people, whether they were originally thieves or forced to surrender for the thieves, if they can submit to our court, they are still allowed to be hired." ”

Directly recruit officials, whether it is a civil official of the Chongzhen Imperial Court, a civil official who has surrendered to Li Zicheng, or even a civil official of the Dashun Dynasty directly appointed by Li Zicheng, all of them are recruited, and the officials are reinstated.

A series of actions immediately made Beijing's civil and military officials return to their hearts and sing praises of virtue.

He also announced to the common people that all the family property that was robbed by Li Zicheng would immediately be "returned to the owner", "the former dynasty had given him land and his own business, and they were all ready as before", and "the price of the Jingban in Zhangqiu and Jiyang counties in Shandong Province was exempted." and ordered all provinces to remove craftsmen from the people. ”

Even the people were bought.

But what did the Manchus pay for?

The so-called return of the property that was robbed by the people is nothing more than some acres of homes, which are actually not controlled by them at all, and the abolition of the craftsman's registration is just a piece of paper.

The means are superior to Li Zicheng's judgment!

Not only did the hearts of the people of Gyeonggi be reined in, but even the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was paralyzed, and the civil officials changed the previous words to call the Manchus as Donglu and Tatar, and officially began to call them Qingguo.

Some officials even began to suggest that troops should be sent north to join forces with the Manchus to exterminate Li Zicheng.

Moreover, it was the famous Shi Kefa who put forward this opinion, which is called Lianyu Pingkou.

A large group of civil officials conformed, and they were justified, and a lot of evidence was found in the history books to support it.

For example, the Tang Dynasty exterminated the Huangchao Rebellion, with the help of Shatuo soldiers, and suppressed the Great Food Cavalry borrowed from the Anshi Rebellion, etc.

They said that they would borrow the Manchu Qing army to evaluate Li Zicheng.

Of course, this kind of absurd but imaginative method may not be able to be figured out by pedantic civil officials, in fact, the first to raise the banner was Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui put eight banners into the customs, playing the banner of "borrowing the Qing soldiers to avenge the first emperor", the purpose was to persuade his army, but he didn't expect to be seen by the civil officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and they all took it as a clever plan.

Then Wu Sangui really united with the Eight Banners to defeat Li Zicheng and recover the city of Beijing, and one by one immediately recognized Wu Sangui's merit in Sheji, and praised Wu Sangui as a famous general with wisdom and courage that is rare in heaven and difficult to find on earth.

and immediately began to ask Wu Sangui for credit, and in the name of his "recovery of Shenjing", he suggested that he be named the Duke of Jiguo.

Asking Wu Sangui to be crowned, and it triggered the practice of the newly formed new imperial court to seal the meritorious heroes, many people immediately became high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but there are two problems that are difficult to do, one is how to reward Yang Chao, if Wu Sangui is crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, Yang Chao should also be crowned a Duke of the Kingdom, and the other is the question of who should be the first assistant. (To be continued)

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