Chapter 15: The Dust Has Not Settled

Who doesn't know how Chongzhen died, everyone was busy fleeing at that time, and Chongzhen's cronies and guards also died on the battlefield.

A generation of Zhongxing Emperor Chongzhen passed away in such a very aggrieved way, but his death was not completely in vain, not only completely inspired the soldiers' will to die, but also directly ignited the anger of the entire Northern Zhili.

In the past, when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, people of insight raised troops to resist, and now even the republic with the same root and origin has been strongly resisted by the people of Beizhili. Perhaps different from history, when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Chongzhen hanged himself. And this time, Chongzhen died in the hands of his own people, but the people of Beizhili directly linked Chongzhen's death to the republic, so it produced a completely different result from history.

A massive force of more than 500,000 people, with the news of it, came to the city of Beijing from all directions.

Perhaps they brought their own weapons, or they were armed with the help of the gentry, and many of them still carried a burning stick, and they killed in a rage.

Without him, just because of the things Chongzhen has done for Daming over the years, the people have recognized this emperor and supported this emperor from the bottom of their hearts. He is not a tyrant, after he took office, the people's lives have changed little by little, and they can feel it themselves, so they have accepted Chongzhen's love in their hearts, but now they want to repay it with broken bones.

In fact, no one knows, but there are Li Zicheng's hands and feet in this.

Part of it constantly links Chongzhen's death to the republic. After all, the army of the republic had just entered Beizhili, Chongzhen was on the battlefield at the time, and behind him was the army of the republic chasing a large army, in this case, Chongzhen died, who did it? Many people will have preconceived notions of the Republic as murderers; Part of it is to continue to spread Chongzhen's death, and at the same time continue to create public opinion and incite the people to 'repay their kindness'.

I have to admit that Li Ziguo is a rogue, and he has given full play to the word 'coercion'.

Compared with the pure use of force in the past, this kind of coercion of public opinion and the moral high ground now makes the people know that there is danger, but they have to take the initiative to attack. Unlike before, the enthusiasm of these coerced people is unprecedentedly high.

This is the control of public opinion, Li Zicheng has a very deep understanding, and enjoys the benefits of public opinion control to the greatest extent.

The people who came from all directions directly surrounded the army of the republic, and even if the army of the republic could slaughter these people to the greatest extent, but looking at the people who came spontaneously all over the mountains, with the spirit of sacrifice as a human shield, the soldiers of the republic are not butchers, they have also been educated to love the people, and suddenly seeing this situation, they have no way to fight against it, so they have to retreat to Tianjin, and then retreat to the sea.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng had already rushed to Beizhili, but what he got was the news that Chongzhen had been killed by the enemy's black gun.

Lu Xiangsheng knelt in front of Chongzhen's spirit and cried bitterly, and those who came with him, whether it was a general or a former royal family, were all crying bitterly at this moment. King Tang and King Fu couldn't cry even more, just because it was their brother who was lying here.

A thousand words turned into only two words in the end: 'revenge'!

Many people are clamoring to return to Hebei and liberate their homeland, but Lu Xiangsheng has calmed down a lot, and only said that no matter what, it is imperative to ensure that Beizhili is not lost first, otherwise the land that the emperor desperately defended will be seized, wouldn't his death be meaningless?

Everyone was unwilling, but they had to admit that Lu Xiangsheng's words were right.

The entire Northern Zhili, at this moment, has become an iron bucket, and under the defense of lifelessness, whether it is the Eastern Expeditionary Army or the Western Expeditionary Army, it can only be silenced. This also made this attack only knock down Hebei. Needless to say, the mine array left by the Tang King is really disgusting, the sappers scattered out to clear the mines, and they can't leave too far, as long as they are far away from the troops, the other party will directly kill them and attack the sappers.

This also made it so that when the Eastern Expeditionary troops came to Beizhili, the other side had already completed the formation, and there was no point in continuing to fight, so the expedition could only be stopped.

Just when everyone watched the army of the Republic stop at the border of Hebei, waiting for joy and reward for meritorious deeds, they didn't want another thing to happen. Li Zicheng secretly captured Emperor Chongzhen's family, but instead of killing the crown prince Zhu Cihong, he made him emperor and re-established the new Ming Empire in Nanjing.

At the same time, a new revision was made to the power of the emperor, who lost his military power and used it only as a tablet. Li Zicheng also announced that as the speaker of the imperial parliament, his term of office will be extended for life, and at the same time strengthen the control of the army, it can be said that Li Zicheng today is completely playing with the hand of the Son of Heaven to order the princes, the difference is that he is not Cao Cao, a qiē is still a constitutional monarchy, or a constitutional monarchy in the real sense of history as the main body in the legitimate use of his power.

What makes people speechless is that he stipulated that the supervisory party and the ruling party can still exist, but no matter who is replaced by the ruling party, he will not be removed as the speaker. Considering the Speaker's decision-making, in fact, a large part of Cheng Dù is also supervised and built by the ruling party and the supervisory party, so I don't have much opinion. But in fact, if you really look at it, most of the ruling party now belongs to Li Zicheng's former ministers, and the important positions of supervising the party are also successively controlled by Li Zicheng's old ministry, so even if there is any resolution in the future, the National Assembly is actually no different from Li Zicheng's Yiyantang.

The difference is that Li Zicheng has the title of speaker and does not directly become the emperor.

After Li Zicheng formed the new Ming Empire, Zhu Cihong issued a list of rewards, rewarding and compensating the victims and those who sacrificed their lives for the country, and at the same time appointed Lu Xiangsheng as the generalissimo of the three provinces, and made the governor of Beizhili, Liaodong Province and Dongying Province. Of course, it was only military, Li Zicheng's hand played very well, not only using Lu Xiangsheng's loyalty to the Ming royal family to guard the door for him, but also curbing his economic lifeline, so that he did not dare to do anything excessive.

In the end, Lu Xiangsheng quickly took the body of Emperor Chongzhen south, and after the completion of the ceremony, he could be buried in Fengyang, the central capital.

Lu Xiangsheng had no opinion, at least no opinion, but the arrival of a person made him change his mind.

"The emperor was killed by the inner ghost, do you have a certificate?" Lu Xiangsheng's eyes widened at the moment, staring at the person in front of him.

"It is indeed certain that the emperor did not die at the hands of the republic, but at the hands of his own people. And the murderer is most likely Li Zicheng. The visitor replied in the affirmative.