On the eighth day of August, Zhu Ping'an set off from Jinan and entered Nanjing. Shandong Qiu Ze, Zhang Yaoxian, Yue Jinfeng and other departments responded one after another, claiming to command 100,000 troops, crusading against the rebellious Fu King Zhu Yousong, and at the same time proclaiming to the world in the name of the prince, ordering all the governors and town generals to send troops to Nanzhili and Kuangfu Sheji.

As soon as the news came out, Huaiyang Lu Zhenfei, Hubei Huang Gongfu, and Guangdong Chen Zizhuang responded one after another, and even Sun Chuanting of Shenqiu actively responded. I have to say that Sun Chuanting's appeal in the army is still extraordinary, just a month of effort, in Shenqiu gathered more than 20,000 remnants of the army, Daming Henan deputy general Guo Congkuan led the crowd to vote, Sun Chuanting took advantage of the situation to defeat the attack of Xu Dingguobu and Dashun army Liu Hongqi, and the prestige was great.

Unexpectedly, Zuo Liangyu, a thief general entrenched in Wuchang, also responded with troops.

After Li Zicheng's general Bai Wang led troops to capture Xiangyang, Zuo Liangyu retreated to Jiujiang, claiming to have 200,000 troops, and also blocked the southward pace of the Dashun army. However, Ma Shiying and others supported the accession of Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, but they were taboo about Zuo Liangyu's close contact with the Donglin Party, so they excluded it, so that Zuo Liangyu was dissatisfied, and this time he knew that the crown prince Zhu Cihong was not dead, and he was still going south with the support of Zhu Ping'an, so he immediately took action. The mobilization of the army under his command, only the battleship column, was 100 miles long, and the momentum was so great that it marched into Nanjing. At the same time, He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, who retreated to Jiangxi, and Yuan Jixian, the governor of Huguang, also expressed their support under the contact and instigation of Zuo Liangyu.

I have to say that although Zuo Liangyu is currently old and sick, his power in Huguang and Nanzhili is still unrivaled. His attitude also directly affected many officials in Nanzhili. Some of the governors who were originally silent about the succession of King Fu Zhu Yousong to the throne openly stood in Zuo Liangyu's camp.

Half of the south of the Yangtze River shook, Nanjing was also in dire straits, the Fu King Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying and others complained bitterly, and they didn't count that the prince Zhu Cihong didn't die, and he went to Shandong from Beijing unscathed, and now he commands soldiers and horses from all over the country to come to the door to ask for the guilt, which makes Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying and others embarrassed, even Shi Kefa, at this time, was also made not a person inside and out, so he simply closed the door and thanked the guests, and never showed up again.

Military towns like Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong were so frightened that they couldn't return to their jurisdictions when they saw this situation. Ma Shiying, King Fu and others had no choice but to ask the crown prince Zhu Cihong for guilt, and opened the nine gates of Nanjing to welcome Zhu Cihong into Nanjing and ascend the throne.

Before Zhu Ping'an's army arrived in Nanzhili, the overall situation had already settled down.

The land south of the Yangtze River is in shambles, and the same is true outside the gates, and Dolgon and Hauge are still fighting for the succession to the throne. The qiē that happened in Yongfu Palace that day was still spread by people with good intentions, so the nobles and people of the Eight Banners also rumored that Dolgon and Concubine Zhuang had a personal affair, so they killed Huang Taiji, making Manchuria fall into the dilemma of having no lord in the country. Therefore, some of the Eight Banners nobles were not ashamed of Dolgon's "deeds" and chose to support Hauge's ascension.

This also made Hauge, who was originally slightly inferior in real history, get a lot of support, so he fought on a par with Dolgon.

And Concubine Zhuang's influence in the palace has also decreased a lot because of this, and even Queen Zhezhe hates her to the core.

Therefore, for a while, there was no time to look south outside the gate.

In comparison, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty seems to be much calmer, but Li Zicheng did not take advantage of the more than one month. A group of rogues who suddenly broke into the flowery world of Jingshi were completely lost in the drunken gold fans of Jingshi.

On the eighth day of the eighth month of August, Zhu Ping'an raised troops to support the crown prince Zhu Cihong on the throne. Li Zicheng also officially ascended the throne as the emperor in Beijing, with the country name Dashun, the year name Yongchang, the Feng wife Gao as the queen, the palace man Dou as the concubine, and the vassals and the amnesty of the world.

For two days in a row, the palace was still feasting day and night. The chaos when he first entered the capital finally calmed down, and Li Zicheng strictly restrained and stopped the behavior of his subordinates to loot the people, but the good times did not last long, and then the sudden start of "chasing stolen goods and helping salaries" completely pushed the Beijing division into the abyss of chaos.

Liu Zongmin was instructed to set up the "Biyu Zhenfu Division", inherited the policy when the country was founded in Xi'an, and explicitly ordered "70,000 in the middle hall, 70,000 or 50,000 or 50,000 or 30,000 in the ministry, courtyard, Jingtang, and Jinyi, and 50,000 and 30,000 in the department, the province, the officials, and the ministry. Hanlin 30,000, 20,000, 10,000. subordinates and subordinates, each in the thousands. "Other nobles, squires, and wealthy merchants should all give alms, and the amount of money shall be determined by the specific situation in the possession of the town and the pacification department. It also stipulates that "the sinner shall be killed, and the greedy and stolen shall be punished". He also called on the people to report, and for every case reported, a reward of 50 wen in silver.

And as the recovery of stolen goods and subsidies is in full swing, the gaffe is becoming more and more uncontrollable. Liu Zongmin built thousands of pairs of clamping sticks, in the city of Beijing, it was Liu Zongmin's subordinates who ran everywhere to take people, and everywhere he went, "Doctor Tishi on the street", the people caught were each group of 100 people, and they were directly escorted to the barracks by the cavalry for torture.

And when the nobles in the Beijing division were arrested, the soldiers and soldiers of the Zhenfu Division targeted the wealthier families and ordinary merchants, and later, it spread to the people in the capital. The rest of the Dashun army saw that Liu Zongmin's subordinates were making a fortune, and they were all red-eyed, and the Beijing division had no goal, so they went to the cities around the Beijing division to arrest people and take the stolen goods. He Renlong led the army directly into Hebei, and Liu Fangliang's subordinates fought for territory in Hebei and exploited gold and silver.

Originally, it was to save the people from the suffering of harsh taxes, but in the end, it turned out to be a plunder of gold and silver goods.

Looking at this qiē, Li Yanxin was like a knife, he didn't expect that in less than two months, Da Shunjun and Li Zicheng would become like this. wanted to enter the palace to advise, but he couldn't see Li Zicheng's face at all. In a month, he and Song Xiance ran to the palace for I don't know how much, but each time they were sent back by the internal officials.

Today, Li Yan took Yang Fu and other guards to enter the palace again, but when he arrived outside the palace gate, he met Song Xiance, who had returned disappointed.

"Mr. Kang Nian!" Li Yan looked at the closed palace gate, and hurriedly said: "No matter what, I must meet Your Majesty today, now there is a miasma of smoke in the capital, and the people are miserable, if it goes on like this, sooner or later there will be great changes!" ”

"What's more, now is a godsend. The seventh battalion has received the news that the blessed king Zhu Yousong ascended the throne in Nanjing, but the former Ming prince Zhu Cihong is still in Shandong, so the two sides are bound to fight together, and this is a good time for me to unify the south! ”

"There is also Liaodong, Wu Sangui, the former Ming Ping Xibo, has sent a letter, asking me to send officials to Shanhaiguan to take over the border defense, he is willing to lead the Guanning army into the customs to serve, if Wu Sangui can be brought under his command, then the northern provinces can be pacified suddenly. The Manchu Tartars were busy with civil strife and had no time to take care of themselves, and I Dashun could dominate the rivers and mountains in one to two years, what a great achievement and immortal achievement! ”

Li Yan talked a lot, but Song Xiance was silent, until Li Yan finished speaking, he sighed, "Lin Quan, I understand all these truths you said, but now His Majesty is unwilling to use troops in time, you have also seen what the generals of the various departments are like, and only Bai Wang is constantly launching an offensive in Xiangyang, and this request for reinforcements is coming one after another, but no one in the various departments is willing to go south to reinforce at this time, and His Majesty Xià has not studied deeply, always saying that he wants to raise his strength, and it will be decided with one drum, But when it will be, how can you and I know! ”

"As a courtier, at such a moment, I can't let it go, today I am breaking into the palace, and I also want to meet His Majesty, painfully state the benefits, and ask him to ......!"

Song Xiance hurriedly made a silent gesture, "Lin Quan, don't talk nonsense!" Do you know how many bad things Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing have said about you in front of Your Majesty these days. Originally, His Majesty wanted to take you as the commander and lead the army to pacify Henan, but now Henan is full of smoke, Liu Hongqi and Liu Rukui are simply unable to parry Gao Jie and Sun Chuanting, and Xu Dingguo is the first rat at both ends, and it is necessary for a general like you to go to the crusade. But Niu Jinxing and Liu Zongmin said that you are from Henan, if you go to Henan, it will be like raising a tiger for trouble, and Your Majesty has also been a little moved, so you have suppressed this matter. ”

"I'm ......!" Li Yan was furious, and he didn't know how to confess himself for a while.

At this moment, a cavalryman came to the vicinity on horseback, and saw that Li Yan was outside the palace gate, so he hurriedly rushed up, clasped his fists and saluted, "General, General Liu Zongmin led the crowd to the mansion of Wu Sangui in Pingxibo, saying that he wanted to arrest people and recover stolen goods, and the protectors we arranged could not stop him, so please hurry up!" ”

"What!" Li Yan's eyes suddenly widened, and even Niu Jinxing was taken aback.

Who is Wu Sangui! The former Ming Dynasty's Pingxibo and Shanhaiguan generals now command tens of thousands of Guanning troops to guard the northern barrier. And he himself also had the intention of returning to the new dynasty, and kept sending henchmen and messengers back and forth between Shanhaiguan and Jingshi, and the siege was to negotiate a certain conditions, and it was logical to surrender to Dashun.

But what kind of madness did Liu Zongmin make, and he actually took someone to raid his mansion, didn't this force him to fight Dashun to the end? It doesn't matter if Wu Sangui refuses to return, but the key is that his troops are now guarding the last barrier outside the pass. If Wu Sangui surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the Qing army outside the pass would inevitably move southward in a big way, then the Great Shun Dynasty would be exposed to the enemy and fall into a precarious situation.

Li Yan and Song Xiance suddenly became anxious, and at that moment, Li Yan asked Song Xiance to continue to invite Li Zicheng, and he led a group of guards to Ping Xibo's mansion non-stop. R1152