Tian Guifei did not die, she was not afraid of death, but she was reluctant to die.

The year before last, she died of a son; Last year, she lost another son; This year, she gave birth to another son.

In history, this son would also die young, so Tian Guifei was overly sad, and Chongzhen died in fifteen years.

Now that her youngest son is less than 100 days old, how can Tian Guifei be willing to commit suicide?

Although she kicked down the stool when she hanged herself, she grabbed Bai Aya with both hands, and maintained her position for a quarter of an hour, confirming that Chongzhen was leaving before jumping to the ground.

Tian Guifei rowed away from the island in the middle of the lake by herself, ran quickly to the elephant house, and pulled out a strong royal horse.

"Drive!"

Tian Guifei turned over and got on her horse, her movements were extremely skillful, and she rode towards Miyagi.

Afraid of being recognized, she also changed her clothes and covered her face with her hair loose.

Seeing a waist knife halfway, I don't know which guard threw it away, Tian Guifei hurriedly dismounted and picked up the weapon. She galloped around the palace for a quarter of an hour, when she finally heard the cry of a baby.

Tian Guifei came to the baby, gritted her teeth and said, "The people in the palace are really not credible!" ”

Chongzhen also made arrangements for his young son, so that his henchmen and nurses went out of the palace to Tian Hongyu's house to feed.

Tian Hongyu is the father of Tian Guifei, the official to the left governor of the rear army, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard. In the wild history, Tian Hongyu brought Chen Yuanyuan to the capital and tried to dedicate himself to Chongzhen, so there was a story of Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan.

Obviously, the eunuch and the nurse ran away, abandoning the prince in the palace, and they were not willing to obey Chongzhen's last order at all.

Tian Guifei picked up her young son and returned to her bedroom, she wanted to find gold and silver to wrap around.

As a result, the gold and silver jewelry disappeared without a trace, and most of them were taken away by the eunuchs and palace maids. Looking around, only picking up a broken silver on the ground, Tian Guifei picked up her bamboo flute and left.

Tian Guifei held the child in one hand and the reins in the other, rushed out of the Forbidden City and came to the foot of the coal mountain.

At this time, Chongzhen had not yet hanged himself, and Tian Guifei did not know the situation, so she rode around the coal mountain and went straight to Xuanwu Gate. After leaving Xuanwu Gate, she didn't dare to ride a horse anymore, so she ran along the inner official prison with her young son in her arms, and fled out of Bei'anmen to the vicinity of Shichahai.

"Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow ......"

The baby cried incessantly, and Tian Guifei's heart was anxious.

The streets and alleys were in chaos, and many of the guards were fleeing back to their homes.

And the soldiers of the Dashun Army also came in from Desheng Gate and Anding Gate, and were heading in the direction of the imperial city.

Tian Guifei hid in a remote place, made herself unkempt, and her clothes were stained with a lot of dust and mud, so she opened her mind to breastfeed the child.

Since she has been breastfeeding, Tian Guifei has almost returned to milk.

The baby sucked for a long time and couldn't suck it out at all.

Tian Guifei could only rub and stimulate herself, and the baby gnawed hard, which suddenly made her hurt to death.

……

Coal Mountain.

Li Zicheng stood in front of Chongzhen's corpse, looking at the bloody letter on the ground, his expression was extremely wonderful.

For more than half a year, although Chongzhen has been lying down and dying, he is full of resentment towards the ministers.

In other words, it was last year's absurd fundraising that made Chongzhen completely dead to officials. He left this suicide note, purely wanting to vent his anger through Li Zicheng's hand!

"I have been on the throne for 14 years...... Every time I think to myself, I am not the king of the dead country, and all the ministers are the ministers of the dead country. I died facelessly to see the two ancestors and the ancestors underground. Now I have removed my clothes, covered my face with my hair, and let the thieves split my corpse, so as to repay the suffering of the common people in the world. If there are loyal and heroic people among the thieves, I will kill all the civil officials and all the military generals, and do not even hurt any of the people. ”

Li Zicheng put away Chongzhen's suicide note and ordered: "Burial, this martyred eunuch will also be buried thickly." ”

After only one day of chaos, order was restored to the city of Beijing, and there was no mass plunder.

Niu Jinxing said again, hoping that he would not be tortured, even if the money and food were not enough, he could let the nobles and officials donate.

Li Zicheng thought about it and felt that he was about to ascend the throne, and he really shouldn't do the same as before. Therefore, he put up notices all over the city, hoping that the rich people would donate food, and then the magical scene happened again.

Xue Guoguan, the first assistant of the cabinet, took the lead in donating 3,000 taels.

Xue Guoguan felt that by donating so much, he could already show his loyalty, and if he directly donated tens of thousands of taels, wouldn't it prove that he was a corrupt official?

With Shoufu as an example, the nobles and civil warriors donated money one after another, ranging from dozens of taels to three thousand taels. They also staged burlesques, selling houses, setting up stalls on the streets, and peddling calligraphy and paintings...... They all pretended to be poor there, and it seemed that they couldn't afford to eat after donating money.

"Torture! Torture! ”

Li Zicheng was fortunate to have a palace maid in the palace, and when he learned that the officials were ugly, he was immediately furious.

The Dashun soldiers quickly dispatched to pick the big mansions inside and outside the city. They could not determine who was in charge, so they could only judge by the size of the house, and many wealthy businessmen were also tortured.

Zhou Kui, as the national abbot, was interrogated by Liu Zongmin.

"The king, you are wronged, the court has not paid money for half a year, and the lower officials' families really have no money!" Zhou Kui is still dead duck with a hard mouth.

Liu Zongmin brought Queen Zhou's mother and Zhou Kui's wife over: "You hang yourself, you can leave a whole corpse." ”

The old woman didn't dare to disobey, and if she didn't commit suicide, she would be hacked to death with a knife, at least she could hang herself and die a decent death.

In front of Zhou Kui's father and son, he soon committed suicide.

The father and son still refused to confess, because there was too much money at home, and if they said the location of Zang Yin, they would definitely die, and there might be a way to live if they died.

As a result, Zhou Kui's daughter-in-law was also forced to hang herself.

The father and son trembled with fright, but they still didn't let go.

"Very good, the mouth is very hard, I don't know if the neck is so hard." Liu Zongmin was angry and drew his knife and hacked Zhou Kui's son to death.

Blood splattered, and Zhou Kui fainted in fright.

Liu Zongmin had no choice but to report truthfully, and Li Zicheng decided to come to the trial in person.

Li Zicheng's ability to torture is very rough, and after meeting, he said: "Fight to the death!" ”

The leather whip is not only dipped in water, but also in salt water.

Zhou Kui was beaten to the ground, and when he was about to lose his breath, he finally couldn't stand it anymore, and begged: "I said, I said, don't fight again." ”

Zhou Kui has a house inside and outside the city, and Zang Yin's location is divided into several places.

Two days later, after the statistics were completed, Liu Zongmin came to report: "Zhou Kui has 500,000 taels of silver at home. ”

"It's not a lot." Li Zicheng commented.

Of course, it's not much, because Xue Guoguan, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, was tortured out of a full 2.8 million taels!

Half a month later, tens of millions of taels were credited.

If divided by group, the eunuch has the most silver, and the noble has the second, and then it is the turn of the civil official, and the rich merchant is at the bottom.

This is logical, those big eunuchs are often sent to supervise the army, and there is even a director who supervises the world's soldiers and horses! How much military spending does this have to embezzle?

In addition, a few years before Chongzhen ascended the throne, he also sent eunuchs to the local government as tax supervisors, and also handed over the financial power of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households to the eunuchs. How much money does this have to embezzle?

The honors are ranked second, purely because of the savings of the past generations.

For more than 200 years, the nobles have made money from generation to generation, and the accumulation is a huge amount of wealth.

Faced with more than 60 million taels of silver, Li Zicheng sighed.

He found that the silver was indeed available, and it was more than enough, but where could he go to buy food? An army of hundreds of thousands of people, every day people eat horses and chew, how much food does it have to consume!

Poor Li Zicheng is so poor that he only has silver left.

If this continues, the Dashun army will have to run out of food for three or five months at most.

The seizure of grain was of no avail, and the grain stored in the homes of grain merchants and large households could barely supply the people of Beijing. Once Li Zicheng used all of them as military rations, the people of the entire city of Beijing would starve to death.

If all the people in the capital are dead, what kind of emperor will Li Zicheng be?

Or is it the change brought by Zhao Han, the grain in the south is not enough by itself, where is it allowed to be transported to the north? The north did not transport grain to the north, and Henan and Shandong suffered famine for many years, and Beijing could not get commercial grain from other provinces at all.

"We still have to fight!" Li Zicheng called Liu Zongmin and the military advisor.

Niu Jinxing said: "There are still Jizhen soldiers in Beizhili, or they can recruit Hong Chengchou and the Shanhaiguan General Soldier Ma Ke also surrender." Order Ma Ke to guard the Shanhaiguan, let's take Hong Chengchou to send troops to Shandong, destroy the Zuo Liangyu, or get a lot of military rations. It is best to go all the way south and fight to Jianghuai, which is the real land of wealth. ”

"That's it!" Li Zicheng made a decision.

If you don't go south, you will wait for death, and the Dashun army will starve to death!

So, Li Zicheng sent people to recruit Hong Chengchou and Ma Ke, and at the same time intensively prepared for the enthronement.

After ascending to the throne, there will be wars.

Just like Zhang Xianzhong chose to attack Zhao Han, Li Zicheng's ultimate goal is also Zhao Han, and they are all running for food - in the whole world, except for the southwestern provinces, only Zhao Han's territory has grain!

These poor ghosts are very likely to join forces to attack Zhao Han.

Because Zhao Han belongs to the big boss, he can explode food after killing.

……

Sun Chuanting walked out of the prison in a daze, his imprisonment had nothing to do with Chongzhen, but was purely implicated by the aftermath of the party dispute.

This release from prison is also magical, the officials in the edict are all arrested and tortured.

Sun Chuanting doesn't have a house in Beijing at all, where does he hide his silver?

It's not that Sun Chuanting is incorruptible, before he had time to buy a house in Beijing, he was sent to Shaanxi as a governor to suppress thieves. Since then, he has been fighting in the east and west, and every time he returns to Kyoto, he leads the army to the king, and the only two exceptions are when he returns to Beijing and goes to prison.

In the end, he served as the governor, and the imperial court couldn't even pay the military salary, where did Sun Chuanting go to corruption?

After being tortured, Sun Chuanting confessed truthfully, and it seemed that the torturer also felt outrageous, so he simply let him go.

The wealthy families in the capital cried bitterly.

Sun Chuanting was penniless, so he could only go to a friend to help him. As a result, after coming to the door, I found that most of my friend's family had died tragically, all of them were tortured and beaten to death, and there were several coffins parked in the courtyard, and there was no money to hire someone to bury them.

The people in the capital were also very miserable, and they did not suffer from the military disaster, but Li Zicheng raided a large number of grain merchants, causing the price of grain in the capital to skyrocket again.

Six taels of silver and one stone of rice, who can afford this?

Dead bodies can be seen everywhere on the streets, and some people even steal the corpses home to eat.

I'm so hungry.

Sun Chuanting was already dying of hunger, he couldn't eat enough in prison, and he was tortured for a day without eating.

dragged his scars all over his body, and walked towards Beicheng District blankly, where there was also a friend of Sun Chuanting, who might be lucky enough to get a bite to eat.

Finally reached the destination, Sun Chuanting stood outside the door, and he could hear the howling and crying inside.

It seems that there is no food to eat.

Sun Chuanting went in to pay tribute, and asked some more about the situation, only to learn more about the officials.

Only a very small number of officials committed suicide, and some hid at home and did not want to submit, and most of the officials defected to the new emperor. However, it makes no difference, they all have to be tortured, and they have been killed countless times these days.

staggered away from a friend's house, and Sun Chuanting didn't know where to go.

In a trance, he walked into an alley, and several yellow-faced and thin-skinned men ran past him.

The men came to a small courtyard and began to talk there.

"This is the place where the former owner is called Deng Xin, who went to the south to join relatives a year ago. A few days ago, a woman came with a baby in her arms, and I heard that she had bought a few catties of sorghum. ”

"How many pounds of sorghum are there? Can she keep it as a woman? ”

"This woman is very fierce, she carries a knife with her, she seems to be a practitioner, Wu Er grabbed food and was killed by her."

"No matter how powerful she is, she is just a single woman, and the big partner will definitely be able to restrain her."

"Her few catties of sorghum are probably almost finished, and I don't know if there is any silver."

"Let's go inside."

“……”

Sun Chuanting was so hungry that he panicked, and the scars on his body had not yet scabbed. He didn't know what he should do, and when he saw a group of gangsters doing bad things, he simply strode over and stopped.

"Get out of here!"

Before Sun Chuanting could speak, the group of gangsters turned on him.

"Bump!"

The inside of the courtyard gate was latched, and the fellows took a few steps back, and together they tried to knock the courtyard door open.

"Boom!"

Seven or eight times in a row, the courtyard gate fell in response, and several gangsters could not stand firmly, and fell into the courtyard with the gate.

"Ahh

"Spare your life!"

Before the fellows could stand up, there was a woman with a disheveled hair, carrying a knife from her waist, and the sound of a baby crying could be heard in the room.

"What a skill!"

Sun Chuanting clapped his hands in admiration, rushed over and snatched the stick, and struck the woman back and forth with the stick.

(There are things to do in these two days, and there may only be two shifts today.) ）