Niu Jinxing doesn't have any mature ideas for the time being, since Emperor Chongzhen is dead, he has to crown Chongzhen's crown prince as the king of Song. There are still some female dependents and even a concubine in the palace who still survive, Li Zicheng plans to let these female dependents all go to the Song Dynasty with the King of Song, and the smooth sailing from Shaanxi to Beijing has made Li Zicheng basically unload any vigilance against the former Ming royal family, Niu Jinxing also thinks that Zhu Ming is so sad that it is impossible to resurrect it.

However, there is still a big trouble in front of him, since Chongzhen committed suicide and did not surrender, he needs to report the mistakes of Emperor Chongzhen to the world to prove the righteousness of Dashun's victory.

However, it is not enough to write that Emperor Chongzhen made a mess of state affairs, according to tradition and most deep-rooted beliefs, moral defects are the decisive factor in the loss of the country, and people of good character will not make a mess of the country.

"Emperor Ming doesn't like luxury, and he doesn't like to be a good woman," Niu Jinxing brought the eunuchs left by Emperor Chongzhen for questioning, and he was busy for more than an hour, Niu Jinxing also failed to find any moral defects, and those Ming courtiers who surrendered before they also couldn't say anything, except for Chongzhen's conceit and incompetence, it seems that his morality is indeed basically good, Niu Jinxing finally found that Dashun's propaganda work is still problematic, in fact, he himself also has doubts: "Emperor Ming is not like an arrogant and lascivious comatose person, why did he cause chaos in the world?" ”

"This," Xu Ping couldn't bear to listen for a while: "A righteous gentleman and governing the country are two different things, right?" ”

Liu Zongmin, who is also a little impatient, agrees: "It's like good people don't necessarily fight. ”

"How can fighting a war be compared to governing a country?" In the main hall, Niu Jinxing and other learned people said in unison: "The Son of Heaven will not lose his virtue and will not lose his country." ”

Some people suggested that Chongzhen's queen might as well be said to be a figure like Daji, but this Daji also took the initiative to be martyred, and most people felt that this statement was obviously not convincing.

"Wang Chengen!" Chen Jinyan suddenly shouted: "Wang Chengen, this eunuch deceived the emperor, Weifu manipulated himself, and he also accepted bribes many times. ”

"It's like Wei Zhongxian." Many courtiers who surrendered thought that this statement was good, and Emperor Chongzhen's trust in eunuchs and alienation of scholars and doctors was a serious moral defect.

"Your Excellency is right," Xu Ping, who had been listening, listened to everyone's discussion of Wang Chengen enthusiastically, and said coldly: "When Emperor Ming was dying, he also said that Wang Chengen was close to Wei Zhongxian. ”

"Alas, it's too late for the emperor to regret it." Hearing Chongzhen's similar evaluations, everyone thinks that this is enough evidence to become Chongzhen's "pro-villain, Yuanxian minister", and this is almost enough as a reason for losing the country.

Someone immediately suggested to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty should quickly send a cavalry to arrest the eunuch Wang Chengen, and the Ming canonical punishment can be regarded as revenge for the Ming Emperor." ”

Some people also suggested that Wang Chengen had served as the master of ceremonies for so many years, and he had also received a lot of dirty silver, and some people even told him that most of Wang Chengen's family property was in Beijing, and his nephew who lived outside the palace was responsible for managing it. Because of this, some people persuaded Li Zicheng to immediately send troops to raid Wang Chengen's house, and the recovery of stolen goods could not only supplement the military facts, but also prove that Emperor Chongzhen believed that he was not human.

"No need," Xu Ping said again: "Wang Chengen hanged himself with Emperor Ming, and his body was also outside, but he hadn't been brought in yet." ”

Li Zicheng, who had never spoken much, suddenly asked, "Who accompanied Emperor Ming to commit suicide?" ”

Three thousand Beijing officials, there are about a dozen or twenty martyrs, but only Wang Chengen is the only one who accompanies Chongzhen, after listening to Xu Ping's explanation of this, Li Zicheng immediately ordered: "Send a team of soldiers to Wang Chengen's nephew, and return Wang Chengen's body to him together, no one is allowed to harass the Wang family, if Wang Chengen's nephew wants to protect the coffin and return to his hometown, it cannot be stopped." ”

Since Wang Chengen couldn't use it, Niu Jinxing had to temporarily postpone the release of Emperor Chongzhen's guilt.

"Isn't it the greatest sin to make people's lives miserable and miserable?" Xu Ping still didn't understand why this crime couldn't be written.

"yes, but why? Is it indulged in women, ignoring the government, or being arrogant and lascivious, how did Emperor Ming make this world like this? Niu Jinxing's face was sad, and the more he learned about Chongzhen's private life, the more he felt that this crime was not easy to write.

"Taishi," Chen Jinyan suddenly thought: "Taishi doesn't know, Emperor Shenzong is arrogant and lascivious, and he always doesn't go to court, as for Emperor Xizong, he is also a castration of credit, and sometimes he goes to work as a carpenter without doing his job." ”

"But what does this have to do with Chongzhen?"

"Taishi Mingjian, the luck of the former Ming Dynasty was not the defeat of Chongzhen, but the defeat of the Mingshen Sect and the Ming Xi Sect, and it was ...... to Chongzhen."

"That's right, what Chen Shangshu said is true," Niu Jinxing felt that his eyes suddenly opened up when he heard it, it was more difficult to attack a Chongzhen who had no problem in his private life, but it was much easier to attack Shenzong and Xizong: "The country is exhausted, although Emperor Chongzhen has the heart to cheer up, but it is difficult to return, and he really can't pay off the debts that his imperial grandfather and imperial brother owe to this world." ”

Liu Zongmin listened to the fog, and said with a big grin: "Xiangye, I am a rough person, but I think that the life of the Apocalypse Dynasty can still be lived, and I have lost the country, so it is too much to blame the dead people ten or twenty years ago." ”

"General Liu, now we are talking about the issue of national Zuo, not whether the days can be lived or not, it is the Mingshenzong and Xizong who do not go to the court, arrogant and lascivious, and the reason why Tianxin is disgusted has exhausted the qi of the Ming Dynasty, so Chongzhen Dynasty can't live this day." Niu Jinxing retorted: "Has General Liu ever seen a loser who ruins his family business without gambling or prostitution? If there is such a person, it must be that his ancestors did not accumulate virtue. ”

……

When Niu Jinxing and the civil officials were busy drafting the Ming Dynasty's crimes, Li Zicheng walked up to Xu Ping: "Brother Xu, take me around the coal mountain." ”

After walking to the coal mountain, Xu Ping pointed out the tree that Emperor Chongzhen had hanged to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng circled around the tree twice, and instructed left and right: "Go find someone, seal a petty official, and be responsible for taking care of this tree in the future," Li Zicheng stretched out his hand and drew a circle next to the tree: "Fence around here, don't wait for idle people to approach, if this tree dies, plant another one in the same place, so that future generations will always remember that there was once a son of heaven who martyred his ancestors' society here." ”

After giving these orders, Li Zicheng returned to the Forbidden City with Xu Ping, and Emperor Chongzhen was still lying in the coffin, Li Zicheng ordered the coffin to be closed, stood by the coffin and prayed to Chongzhen's body: "Your Majesty, you are not very dark. His Majesty is dead, and the grievances between him and Li are naturally a purchase and sale, Li will definitely not harass the mausoleum of His Majesty's ancestors, not only will he be good at protecting, but His Majesty's descendants can also worship every year, so that the Zhu family will never stop eating blood. ”

After praying, Li Zicheng sighed at Xu Ping beside him: "This Chongzhen Son of Heaven is not a bad emperor. ”

"Is he a good emperor?" Although Chongzhen's martyrdom shocked Xu Ping, he obviously did not have a completely changed impression of Chongzhen like Li Zicheng: "If he is a good emperor, why is the king and the last general?" ”

"It was his courtiers who misunderstood him," Xu Ping had already handed over Chongzhen's edict to Li Zicheng, who looked at it again and sighed: "It's rare not to forget the people until death." ”

"The people of Henan feed on Guanyin soil, and Emperor Chongzhen has to loot millions of silver and more than 2 million stones of grain from Henan every year before we raise our army," Xu Ping was more and more surprised by Li Zicheng's attitude: "King, do you think Emperor Ming is right?" ”

"There are too many villains and traitors around," Li Zicheng's face suddenly stiffened, and he let out a cold snort: "For example, that Wei Zaode is a big traitor." ”

After finishing speaking, Li Zicheng gave an order and ordered the guards to bring the last head of the Chongzhen Dynasty to meet him.

After the Shun army entered the city, most of the officials who surrendered to Shun were not arrested, Wei Zaode was one of the few Ming ministers who was imprisoned by the Shun army, and when he was locked up in the house, Wei Zaode also shook the railing on the window and shouted at the guards outside: "If King Shun wants to use me, one sentence is enough, why lock me up?" ”

After Wei Zaode was brought up, as soon as he saw Li Zicheng, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and bowed, Li Zicheng did not say any kind words, but jumped forward and kicked with his feet, and scolded: "Emperor Chongzhen is sorry for anyone in the world, and he is worthy of you, you were appointed as the champion by Emperor Chongzhen, Hanlin, you entered the cabinet at a young age to worship the prime minister, you even betrayed Emperor Chongzhen who was so good to you, how could you be loyal to me?" ”

After kicking a few times, Li Zicheng, who was still angry, shouted: "Drag it down, serve the big punishment, and give a warning for the unfaithful in the future." ”

When he was dragged away by the wolf-like guards, Wei Zaode begged Li Zicheng bitterly, and when he was pulled out of the palace, Wei Zaode also shouted to Xu Ping: "General, the old man's little daughter, I would like to give the general a concubine." ”

Xu Ping didn't say a word, and didn't ask Li Zicheng until Wei Zaode disappeared: "What does the king plan to do with him?" ”

"Let him spit out all these years of greed first, and then he will kill this traitor, and it can be regarded as revenge for Emperor Ming." Li Zicheng replied without thinking, he told Xu Ping that he planned to carry out a recovery of stolen goods, and those officials who Dashun did not intend to use would recover stolen goods according to their grades, and if they did not hand over the silver required by Dashun, they would use criminal law to clean them up: "Before the Ming Emperor's city was broken, he asked these officials under him to help pay them, but no one responded, since they didn't want to serve the lord at all, then I wouldn't let them keep their family wealth?" ”

"Why is that, my lord?" Xu Ping said in surprise that in the past few years of operation in Kaifeng Mansion, Xu Ping has already had some experience in government affairs and justice: "If you recover stolen goods according to your rank and go to the stick if you don't pay the silver, wouldn't it be a disguised encouragement for those corrupt officials?" ”

"What does Brother Xu mean?"

"The king," Xu Ping immediately analyzed: "For example, the king set a subsidy amount of 10,000 taels for Shangshu, if an official is greedy for 20,000, he can easily get out, if an official is only greedy for 25,000, then he will be unlucky." The king's move is to make those who are much more greedy, the more safe they will be, and the end will think that it is inappropriate. ”

"Well," Li Zicheng thought that it was indeed as Xu Ping said, so he asked rhetorically: "What does Brother Xu think it should be?" ”

"Check the accounts, or calculate how much money someone has taken, and in the end they will often count them as having not spent any money for so many years, and leave them with a family wealth equivalent to the amount receivable, if a person was born in a gentleman's family before becoming an official, that family property will naturally have to be counted separately." When he was in Kaifeng Mansion, Xu Ping always acted like this, and some local officials did not embezzle much money, and Xu Ping sometimes considered absorbing such officials into his own camp.

"It's too much trouble." Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "There are more than 3,000 Beijing officials, when will this be checked." However, Brother Xu is indeed right, the Ming Court has no officials and is not greedy, only greedy and greedy, those I don't want to use, all of them will be killed. ”

Xu Ping was even more surprised when he heard this: "Why does the king need to be like this? Besides, the prison is a major matter of the country, and the king will kill all the former Ming officials if he is troublesome today, so under the rule of Dashun in the future, don't you ask the innocent and kill the corrupt officials when they see them? ”

"When Ming Taizu was in the past, ten taels of silver would be peeled and filled with grass, I think it's not bad." Li Zicheng said disappreciatively: "If you are a corrupt official, you have to get rid of all the evil." ”

"But Ming Taizu's method was still invalid in the end, and the last general thought that the most important thing in the prison was to calm down and be patient to investigate slowly. Otherwise, the unjust prison will inevitably run rampant, and it will be very harmful to the king's benevolence. ”

"Is there any need to speak of kindness to these people?" Li Zicheng snorted: "It's like a traitor like Wei Zaode who sells his master for glory, and if he kills, he will be killed." ”

Xu Ping still shook his head: "King, the words of Niu Xiangye will not be taken seriously, and the last general will feel that it is the Ming Dynasty that has lost Wei Zaode, not Wei Zaode who has lost the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Lose him?" Li Zicheng shouted: "Emperor Chongzhen trusts and promotes him so much, what's the disadvantage?" ”

"The last general said that the Ming Dynasty lost Wei Zaode, not that Emperor Chongzhen, and the Ming Dynasty also lost the Son of Chongzhen, the military generals of Wenchen, and the people of the world, so the king will raise volunteers and come to the Ming court." Although Chongzhen said a lot of private things to Xu Ping before he died, Xu Ping felt that this matter was too unbelievable, so he decided to keep this secret in his heart, and still regarded himself as a subordinate: "Wei Zaode was only established in the year, so he was named on the gold list, and he pointed to Hanlin, this knowledge and intelligence are obviously amazing characters." ”

"It's a pity that there is talent and no virtue, and in the end, it is useless for the country, and it is useless for my Dashun." Li Zicheng said coldly.

"Everyone says that as long as you study hard and have a cold window for ten years, you can get ahead, and you can govern the country together, Wei Zaode did this, but when he became an official, he found that if he was not corrupt and bent the law in Daming, he would not have the opportunity to show what he had learned, which of course Daming lost him. Like Emperor Chongzhen, everyone said that as long as he was diligent in government and frugal and did not worship luxury, he could be a heroic son, but Emperor Chongzhen still lost the country after so much, obviously the Ming Dynasty lost him. ”

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