Jingshi Tieshi Hutong is narrow in the west and east of the alley, which is a dead end, but there are two large mansions in it, the largest one is called Tianchun Garden, which was owned by Wei Zhongxian's henchman Wang Tiqian earlier, after the fall of the eunuch party. Chongzhen gave this house to his father-in-law Tian Hongyu. A month ago, the Shun army captured Jingshi, Tian Hong died, and the house belonged to Liu Zongmin. The origin of the Iron Lion Hutong is a pair of iron lions in front of the gate of Tianxiang Garden.

The east neighbor of Tianxiangyuan is also a mansion of considerable scale, which is the mansion of Pingxi Bo Wu Sangui in Beijing. Today, Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, the former general soldier of Liaodong, lives in this house with his family.

Before Li Zicheng ascended the throne, he was quite generous to the officials of the former Ming Dynasty, and many officials of the former Ming Dynasty brought a letter of recommendation to the officials of the Dashun Dynasty and asked for hiring, and Li Zicheng also instructed Niu Jinxing, who was in charge of the officials, to consider the origins and abilities of these people one by one. This made many people overjoyed and full of confidence in the hiring of the new dynasty.

But after ascending the throne, with the establishment of the Biyu Zhenfu Division, the attitude of the Great Shun Dynasty towards the former Ming officials came to a 180-degree turn, and the former Ming officials only hated themselves for being greedy for power, and did not go south to Nanjing, but stayed in Beijing to bear the ravages of the Great Shun Dynasty.

For Wu Xiang's father and son, Li Zicheng's initial attitude was mainly to win over, and even sent an envoy to Liaodong as soon as he entered the Beijing Division, but Wu Sangui's reaction was a little slow and hesitant, which made Li Zicheng and the civil and military forces of the Great Shun Dynasty have some dissatisfaction with him. In fact, they don't know Wu Sangui too well.

Wu Sangui was born in a local wealthy family in eastern Liaodong. After Li Chengliang and his son, the imperial court increased its control over Liaodong to prevent the situation of Li and his son from becoming the dominant family again. As a result, the wealthy clans of Liaodong began to rely on the magnates of the court in order to protect themselves.

Wu Sangui, who grew up in this atmosphere, was inevitably branded with a distinct speculative brand. Earliest. The Wu family was attached to Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan, and later Wen Tiren, Gao Qiqian, Yang Sichang, Zhou Yanru and others in the court.

Therefore, in the face of the replacement of the Ming Dynasty by the Dashun Dynasty, Wu Sangui naturally considered that Li Zicheng was not on the same eight beats. In Li Zicheng's opinion. The Ming Dynasty is dead, and the current Wu family and Wu Sangui are like a lost dog, throwing an olive branch by themselves, which is already lifting the Wu family. Wu Sangui was trapped in Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan Lonely City, with only tens of thousands of troops in his hands, so what to use to negotiate conditions with the Dashun army. Even if he, Wu Sangui, dared to resist, as soon as hundreds of thousands of Dashun army heroes arrived, the Wu family would not be easily crushed into powder.

But Li Zicheng can ignore Wu Sangui's existence, but Li Yan can't. What he was worried about. It was the hundreds of thousands of invincible Manchurian iron cavalry outside the lonely city guarded by Wu Sangui. Even if you want to attack Wu Sangui, it must not be under the current situation.

Pingxibo Mansion had been surrounded by Liu Zongmin's subordinates, and after there was no better target in the Jingshi, Liu Zongmin decisively targeted his neighbors. And Li Zicheng didn't know about his actions, but he didn't say a word. Perhaps he also wanted to use this attitude to express his dissatisfaction with the Wu family and Wu Sangui's indecision. In Li Zicheng's view, he Wu Sangui has no other choice. Take refuge or die, at least in Li Zicheng's view. He Wu Sangui is a Han man, and he will never run to take refuge in the Tartars outside the Guan, and he and his family will be infamous for thousands of years.

In the courtyard, the white-haired Wu Xiang and the old and young of the family were kneeling on the bluestone ground, and Liu Zongmin was sitting in front of the door of the main hall with a pair of squinting bull's eyes. kept wandering on the faces of the Wu family's daughters.

"Wu Xiang, your ancestral home outside the Guan, presumably there must have been a lot of gold and silver treasures at home, and mountain goods outside the Guan, I will use troops against Jiangnan in the near future, so as not to harass the people. That's why the Township Department was paid to recover stolen money and help the Ming officials. You and other officials have been looting the people's fat and people's ointment for so many years, and now they can be regarded as washing away their sins, why not do it! ”

Wu Xiang exchanged tears, "General Liu, the dog Sangui has already made it clear that he wants to defect to Dashun and support the new dynasty together, and His Majesty has also issued an edict to see the old decay, and he comforted him, saying that he will not pursue the past of the Wu family, why should the general be so hard-working!" ”

While speaking, Li Yan and others had already broken in in stride, and Liu Zongmin's subordinates wanted to stop them, but they were suddenly pushed away by Yang Fu and others.

"Li Linquan!" Liu Zongmin was furious, Huo Ran stood up, and all his subordinates also showed their swords and stared at each other.

Li Yan held back his anger and hugged his fist at Liu Zongmin, "General Liu, the enemy is at present, and the Wu family can't move!" ”

"The Great Enemy?" Liu Zongmin sneered, "Where is the enemy?" My Dashun has conquered the Beijing Division, and all sides are looking forward to the wind and surrendering! I was instructed by the Son of Heaven to recover stolen goods and salaries from the former Ming officials to supply military needs, just to go south in the near future and sweep away the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty. You Li Linquan are against me everywhere, whoever I arrest, you will protect! What is it for! ”

"General Liu, Wu Sangui commanded tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops to guard the front line of Shanhaiguan, and the strategic location is extremely important, you are now raiding his home and arresting his old father, aren't you forcing him to fight with me to the end?"

"Haha!" Liu Zongmin laughed wildly. "Joke, I have a million soldiers with a lot of armor, fighting in the south and the north, conquering everything and being invincible! I still care about a small Shanhaiguan! He Wu Sangui has the courage to rebel, as long as he dares to erect an anti-flag, Lao Tzu will lead his troops to level Liaodong! ”

"There are still Eastern soldiers outside the gate...... Li Yan shouted loudly.

"Then what's the fear! I obey the order of the heavens, and the emperor's majesty is still afraid of the tartars outside the pass? As soon as Liu Zongmin finished speaking, the officers and non-commissioned officers under his command suddenly made a loud noise.

In the face of such an arrogant person, Li Yan's words were like playing a piano to a cow, and Li Yan was embarrassed and angry, "Since this is the case, then I will go to His Majesty Xià to ask for a holy decree, saying that I can't let the general raid the Wu family!" ”

After speaking, Li Yan took Yang Fu and the others to leave, but just took two steps, he suddenly heard a miserable scream, Li Yan was shocked, turned his head to look, but it was Liu Zongmin who slashed Wu Xiang to the ground with a knife, and stepped on Wu Xiang's back, Wu Xiang was seriously injured, but he was not dead for a while, and he could only keep screaming.

Liu Zongmin laughed loudly, but the steel knife dripping with blood in his hand was raised high, "The surname Li, you go, go and find Your Majesty to be the master for you!" Lao Tzu has followed King Chuang for more than ten years, is like a brother, and has experienced life and death together. You are just a corrupt official, and you are not on the same path as King Chuang and Lao Tzu at all. Even if you go to King Chuang to arrange Lao Tzu's not, see if he believes you or me! ”

After speaking, the steel knife fell fiercely, and Wu Xiang suddenly lost his sound.

"Kill! Kill me! Liu Zongmin's forehead was full of green tendons, and his eyes were bloodshot, "After killing, I will raid the house again, dig three feet into the ground, and I will also copy all the treasures and gold and silver of the Wu family!" ”

As he spoke, Liu Zongmin opened his big mouth and smiled at Li Yan.

Seeing Wu Xiang's family screaming and falling, Li Yan only felt cold all over his body, and Yang Fu and others wanted to step forward to stop it, but they were stopped by Li Yan.

"General!" Yang rolled his eyes.

"It's a big deal!" Li Yan sighed secretly, turned around and led Yang Fu and the others out of Wu Xiang's mansion, and Liu Zongmin's smug laughter behind him was deafening.

As soon as he got out of the gate, Li Yan stumbled and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, Yang turned his hand and helped him.

Li Yan waved his hand weakly, signaling that Yang was fine, but his mood was extremely sad and angry. Since entering Beijing for a month, Li Yan can no longer find the happiness of galloping before, on the contrary, his mood is extremely depressed every day.

In all fairness, after the Dashun Army decided on the Beijing Division, there were mistakes in the decision-making of the high-level, but fortunately there were no big mistakes. Although Li Yan disagreed with the Comparison Salary Zhenfu Division, he also knew that this was the current helpless move of the Great Shun Dynasty.

During Chongzhen's reign, the treasury was empty and the court was tired, so it can be said that what the Dashun Dynasty inherited was a mess full of holes. Although the recovery of stolen goods and subsidies lost the support of some powerful and wealthy families in a certain way, it obtained tens of millions of taels of military silver for Dashun, which can greatly alleviate the current dilemma of the Dashun army without silver. It can lay the groundwork for the next military operation.

But I never expected that things would develop to the point where today, and the pursuit of stolen goods and subsidies gradually changed its taste, and it has become a tool for the generals of the Dashun Army to seek personal interests. Up to now, whistleblowing has become a common practice, and everyone is in danger, not only the officials, magnates, and wealthy families of the former Ming Dynasty have gradually lost confidence in Dashun, but even ordinary people regard the Dashun army as a flood beast. In this way, if there is a slight setback in the future, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Today, Liu Zongmin killed Wu Xiang's entire family because of the battle of will, and what will happen next has been revealed.

Thinking of this, Li Yan was excited, ran a few steps, turned over and got on the horse, Yang Fu and the others didn't know what was going on, so they had to get on the horse one after another, and followed Li Yan all the way to gallop towards the direction of the palace gate.

When he returned to the palace gate again, he saw Song Xiance still standing at the door with a helpless face, watching the palace gate continue to sigh.

Li Yan got off the horse, stepped forward and grabbed Song Xiance's hand and walked to the palace, Song Xiance was startled and asked loudly: "Lin Quan, Lin Quan, what do you mean?" ”

The soldiers in front of the door wanted to stop them, but Li Yan suddenly pulled out the sword he was wearing, and as soon as the blade came out, the cold air was pressing, making the soldiers stunned.

An officer hurriedly knelt on the ground, blocking Li Yan and Song Xiance's way, "Two adults, please allow the villain to report to the palace, otherwise, the villain and these brothers will die and have no place to be buried!" ”

Li Yan didn't speak, kicked the officer to the ground, and casually cut a hole in his leg with a sword, "Now you don't have to explain to anyone anymore, blame it, just say that I, Li Yan, broke into the palace with a sword!" ”

The officer was stunned for a moment, then showed a grateful look.

Song Xiance's face turned pale, "Lin Quan, you have to think clearly, breaking into the palace is a big crime to kill your head!" ”

Li Yan replied in a low voice: "There is no time!" Liu Zongmin killed Wu Xiang, I want to report to His Majesty, I must immediately send troops to seize Shanhaiguan! (To be continued......)