(Thanks to the Lion King, 160617121110171 and other book friends for their tips.) www.biquge.info In fact, if I hadn't written a chapter, many people's impression of the late Ming Dynasty doctor was that the water was too cold, right? Hehe. I will go into detail about the question of life and death when I finish this book. ）

On March 19, after the body of Emperor Daxing was put into the coffin, it was suspended in the Shicha Nunnery outside the Donghua Gate, where several monks chanted, several old eunuchs, and Wang Chengen's coffin, which was also beside it. Hundreds of officials dare not cry. However, Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, and Lang Chengde of the military department, and Liu Yangzhen, the director, mourned the coffin.

On the same day, Li Zicheng rewarded the palace maids, followed by General Quan, General System, etc. 30 each, and Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and other six government civil officials, each of whom was rewarded with three or five. The generals also entered the people's house, looking at the high gate of the capital, that is, according to it, Liu Zongmin according to Tian Hongdi, Li Guo according to Zhou Kuidi.

On the 20th, Liu Zongmin and others, in addition to posting notices for election officials, also strictly forbade killings.

When the thieves first entered, the officials and gentry were afraid of the crown and ruined the crown of virtue, and on the 20th, they saw the registration of the Dashun election officials, and they all smiled. And because the crown and hat had been destroyed, he had to go to the Liyuan opera troupe to find the crown, and each crown cost three or four taels of silver.

When the thieves first entered the city, everyone was frightened and suspicious, but seeing that the Dashun army soon posted it all over the city, the notice clearly ordered: The army did not commit any crimes in the autumn, and those who dared to plunder the people's property were executed at Ling Chi, and a panicked heart calmed down a lot.

In the afternoon of the same day, four soldiers looted a silk shop in Zhengyangmen, and were immediately cut alive in the city, and their hands and feet were still nailed to the left fence of the front door. The hearts of the people who were frightened and watched all settled down, and everyone praised Dashun as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, no wonder he was able to win the world. They are also relieved to boldly open their doors, and the people go to the streets, and they are peaceful.

For Li Zicheng and others on this day, they also did a lot of things, such as sending people to recruit Yang Guozhu from Jizhen, Liu Zhaoji, Wu Sangui and others who were in Shanhaiguan at this time. They are all allowed to be treated favorably, such as Yang Guozhu is the Marquis of Jibei, and he is allowed to be crowned a duke. Dongping Bo Liu Zhaoji promised to be a marquis. I heard that Wu Sangui had many soldiers and horses, and he even allowed the condition that both father and son were marquis.

They also sent their old acquaintance, Dingxi Bo Tangtong, who had surrendered earlier, with his edict, 30,000 taels of silver, and also found Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang to write a letter of persuasion to surrender, and then went to Jizhen, Shanhaiguan and other places, and then the matter in the east was settled.

In the minds of Li Zicheng and others, no matter how strong Yang Guozhu, Wu Sangui and others are, they are limited, after all, there are too many Ming generals defeated by the Shun army, all of them are called 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers and horses, and that's it, so they don't care at all, maybe only Wang Dou will impress them.

The purpose of surrender is just to hope that the soldiers will surrender without a fight, after all, if they can not use the sword soldiers, they will not use the sword soldiers, and sure enough, they do not know how to lift, and they will be like this newly fallen Beijing division, the mighty Dashun soldiers and horses forced over, and crushed them into powder one by one.

However, Li Zicheng and others believe that in the face of the general trend of the world, Yang Guozhu, Wu Sangui and others will recognize the situation and will not do the stupid thing of an egg hitting a stone. And the conditions they gave were superior enough, and they wouldn't be ignorant of lifting, so that's how things are going to be in the east.

It seems that Li Zicheng and the others have forgotten a group of people, that is, the Manchu army outside the Guan, maybe he doesn't have this concept in his mind at all. The strategists around him, Wenchen, were all from humble backgrounds, and their highest education was only a person, and they also lacked the vision to control the overall situation, and no one noticed the place in the northeast.

So even in history, when Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui fought in a stone battle, they didn't think about this problem, until the moment the Qing army appeared, he suddenly realized that there was such a group of people in the world, and there was a creature called Tartar.

This creature has deep roots, established a state early, has a complete system, and is still a true professional army and samurai, and the situation is completely different from any opponent he has ever encountered. So in a daze, he was defeated in a fight.

In order to survive, he abandoned the Shaanxi Foundation and the Huguang Foundation that had been operating for a longer time, and did not hesitate to impact the Nanming Defense Line into pieces, but he couldn't turn over. In thousands of years of history, if you talk about the shortest-sighted, Li Zicheng and others consider themselves second, and no one dares to say first.

Of course, at the moment, he is in high spirits, thinking that Jingdong is not a good thing, and he mainly focuses on Xuanfu Town in the west.

The Battle of Luoyang in the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen impressed Li Zicheng and others too much, so Li Zicheng and others would be more cautious about the character of Wang Dou.

After they discussed, it was decided that it would be better to send a messenger to surrender first, Wang Dou is now a marquis, and he will be treated as a prince, if he is not satisfied, the king can also discuss! Sure enough, I didn't know how to lift, and when I did my best, I tried my best to attack Xuanfu in the west!

No matter how strong his Xuanfu is, how strong is the Beijing Division? The Ming Dynasty city under Dashun, which is not strong? No matter how strong his soldiers and horses are, after all, there are few people, and he has a large army, how can he resist? When he captured Xuanfu, he just went down Xuanfu, swept Shanxi, Shaanxi, and then Sichuan and Gansu.

Therefore, the remnant forces around the Jingshi have agreed on this, but at the moment, several troubles are urgently needed to be solved by Li Zicheng and others.

The first is the Great Suo Jingshi, who has never been able to prevent the prince, the second king, the queen and others, they think that the prince and others have escaped from the capital, but there are a few possibilities for where to flee.

The first is to flee eastward, fleeing to Yang Guozhu, Wu Sangui and others, just as Tang Tong went to recruit and surrender, and asked them to hand over the crown prince and the second king.

The second is to flee west, fleeing to where Wang Dou's ministry is, this matter is a bit troublesome, if Wang Dou surrenders, it's okay, if he doesn't, then he can only use swords.

The third is to flee south and flee to the south of the Yangtze River, if this is the case, this matter will be much more troublesome, and it is very likely that another Southern Song Dynasty will appear. After all, the Shun army is not accustomed to water warfare, and the dense network of rivers in the south of the Yangtze River also gives them a headache, and they did not have the idea of fighting the south back then, but they were scared back to Henan by the turbulent Yangtze River.

It's a big annoyance.

Another worry is money.

Once upon a time, gold and silver were not rare for the invasion army, and they paid the most attention to mules and horses, that is, the money obtained, and it was mostly used for small things. However, this time is different from the past, and if you want to build a country and become an emperor, you naturally need a lot of money to spend.

After entering the Beijing Division, the soldiers also need to be rewarded, and there are too many soldiers and horses in Dashun, and there are 500,000 people in the north alone.

These people need rewards, and they need a great deal of silver and gold.

If you want to use troops against Xuanfu Shanxi, you will also need a large amount of food and salary.

All of this requires silver.

Once, Li Zicheng went north to Jingshi, he was not worried about money, in addition to his belief that Jingshi was the capital of the Ming Emperor, and there was naturally a large amount of silver money in the treasury, he also heard a royal secret.

Regardless of ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, the secrets of the royal family are the objects of the grass people's talk, and the villagers in the ordinary fields talk about the emperor's use of gold to pick millet, and the white flour steamed buns are eaten one and thrown one by one. Some high-ranking literati and generals discussed another matter.

For example, they whispered and painted a picture of the town treasury gold in the palace, and there were 37 million ingots for those who were not used in the year, and 500 taels for one ingot, all of which were engraved with the word Yongle, so as to criticize the emperor's addition in these years.

If there was so much gold and silver, one mule carrying two ingots of silver and one thousand taels of silver would mean that it would take eighteen and a half million mules and horses to carry it all. That is to say, not only the entire Ming Dynasty, but all the horses of the Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties combined, I don't know if they can finish these gold and silver.

Perhaps only people with low IQ and ulterior motives would believe this kind of rumor, Li Zicheng and others were skeptical, but it was certain that there was more gold and silver hidden in the palace, but they dug three feet into the ground and did not have a single hair.

In the end, they obtained statistics that there were 170,000 taels of gold in the palace, 130,000 taels of silver, and 200,000 taels of silver in the treasury.

The emperor's net worth is many times poorer than that of him Li Zicheng.

It's going to be a tough one.

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On the 21st, the surging crowd of applicants flocked to Chengtianmen, and these officials of the former Ming Dynasty are now all brave and loyal to serve Dashun. Because many people get up early, before the Chengtian Gate opens, they simply sit on the steps and wait.

As soon as the door opened, they scrambled to squeeze in, lest they would be one step too late and their places would be taken by others. Seeing that they were huddled together and out of order, the long squad guarding the door couldn't help but beat them with sticks to tell them to be honest.

Then they signed up in the Wufeng Building in front of the noon gate, and they all crawled outside the noon gate to listen.

They also wear different clothes, some wear auspicious clothes, and some wear green clothes and hats, but whether they are old and mature, or skillful, or famous, or sharp-mouthed, or high-spirited, now they all shrink their heads and lower their eyebrows, and they stand like puppets.

There are also people who cut their hair and dress up as monks, or make their heads sick, trying to win sympathy, all kinds of ugliness, and the pen is not exhaustive.

Those soldiers of the Shun army pointed at them and laughed, and they did not dare to speak out with all kinds of verbal insults.

At the end of the day, Dashun did not give them anything to eat or drink, and they comforted each other and said, "Although the stomach is hungry, the heart is very happy." ”

On this day, Chen Yan, the cabinet minister, and Zhu Chunchen, the prince of Chengguo, were dressed neatly, and they came to persuade them to enter, but they couldn't even enter the noon gate.

Near noon, Wang Dehua suddenly came out of the noon gate, he walked directly to Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department with low eyebrows, and in the stunned eyes of others, he suddenly slapped Zhang Jinyan in the face, making his head buzz, and the stars in front of him were rising.

Then Wang Dehua pointed at Zhang Jinyan and roared and scolded him for misleading the country.

The Shun soldier next to him laughed and fell, because Wang Dehua had been used by the Dashun side, and Zhang Jinyan did not dare to speak out although he was beaten. He was humiliated in his heart, and just thought: "You Wang Dehua are so loyal, why don't you follow Wang Chengen's example of martyrdom?" Isn't it the same as the thief? ”

Of course, he only dared to think like this in his heart, and his face was still lowered and his head was shrunk, and he didn't dare to say a word.

On the 22nd, the director Liu Yangzhen kowtowed outside the noon gate, asking the traitors Zhang Jinyan, Wei Zaode, and Chen Yan to mislead the country, and Li Zicheng said: "Why don't you say anything when you are in the first dynasty? "Rebuke him and take him away.

On the same day, Li Zicheng suddenly got the book of Zhu, which read: "Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, supervised the internal and external military, and assisted the East Palace." There is also a line of ink book: "All the officials are going to the East Palace." "There is the emperor's big seal on it, but it is stamped when it has not collapsed, and Zhu Shu told the cabinet to entrust Zhu Chunchen, the prince of the country, to assist the prince.

It turned out that the ministers at that time held Zhu to the cabinet, and the ministers had dispersed, so they were placed on a few, and the civil and military ministers, no one knew, now Li Zicheng obtained.

Li Zicheng looked at this ink edict and thought that the prince had not been seen all along, could it be?

He ordered Zhu Chunchen to be killed, from his family, and at the same time escorted more than 200 military officials of the Honor Guard, all of whom were beheaded outside the Pingze Gate.

On that day, in the mansion occupied by Liu Zongmin, he circled around things, and the names of Tie Pear Flower, Lu Gongxuan, Red Embroidered Shoes, etc., in front of him were all creepy torture instruments, and he was very satisfied.

There are also newly-made clamps, connected by iron nails, and the wood is edged, which looks very powerful, and they are all newly made in Beijing.

Liu Zongmin touched the clamp, and he muttered: "I don't know how powerful the new clamp stick is, I still have to find someone to try it." (To be continued.) )