After Li Zicheng received the news of the old camp sentry, he listened to it five times before he was convinced that what he heard was true.

In just one month, Nanjing has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Zhu Yousong, the Hongguang Emperor who supervised the country in Nanjing last year and was called the emperor, was pulled down after a coup d'état, and Zhu Cihong, the prince of Chongzhen, ascended the throne and became the emperor, and changed the Yuan Shaowu.

After ascending the throne, Zhu Cihong did not change the yuan in the second year according to the usual practice, but directly abolished Zhu Yousong's imperial name, abolished Hongguang's era name, and directly took this year as the first year of Shaowu.

Li Zicheng attacked the Beijing division last year, and when he was most high-spirited, he caught this prince Chongzhen, and the first impression he had at that time was.

looks like a weak scholar, but there is a cold killing intent in his eyes, which is not to be underestimated.

Li Ziwei thought that Zhu Cihong would be like the important ministers of Beijing who met along the way, and when he saw him, he was so frightened that he was scared and rushed to kneel.

But this sixteen-year-old boy surprised Li Zicheng very much.

When they first met, an old camp had asked Zhu Cihong to kneel and salute, but this Prince Chongzhen showed a backbone that even those princes and ministers did not have.

There was no scolding, not even any panic, he just raised his head lightly and prepared to die.

Even Li Zicheng at that time had some admiration for this Chongzhen prince in his heart, so he ordered preferential treatment.

The careful Zhu Cihong found out that Li Zicheng didn't want to kill himself, so he actually put forward three conditions.

The first is not to allow the soldiers of the Dashun army to intrude on the forbidden land of the royal mausoleum and temple, the second is to ask Li Zicheng to bury Emperor Chongzhen with imperial etiquette, and the last is not to kill and plunder the people of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Li Zicheng readily promised, thinking that he could control the situation, and he did not expect that in a few days, these subordinates who "did not commit any crimes in autumn" would be exposed.

Upon receiving the news that Zhu Cihong had fled to Nanjing and returned to power and succeeded to the throne, Li Zicheng's first reaction was surprise.

After the stone soldiers were defeated by Dolgon and Wu Sangui last year, Li Zicheng was defeated in embarrassment from Beijing, and he completely forgot Zhu Cihong to the clouds.

thought that this Prince Chongzhen should be captured alive by the Qing army and died at the hands of the Qing army, but he didn't think that he actually fled back to Nanjing and seized power in a coup.

After being surprised, Li Zicheng's mentality was very complicated, and he didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

From his relationship in Beijing last year, Li Zicheng knew that Zhu Cihong was definitely an emperor who was much better than his uncle Zhu Yousong.

Holding this secret edict in his hand, Li Zicheng smiled miserably.

He knew that he guessed correctly, this Zhu Cihong was indeed an emperor who was much better than Hongguang.

Northwest King ......

If your father had agreed to my request at that time, perhaps the situation would not have been where it is today?

Li Zicheng sighed heavily and glanced back at the dragon robe hanging on the wall behind him.

This dragon robe, since he accompanied himself to the throne in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City last year, has been through ups and downs, and has never had a chance to wear it on his body again.

He, the Emperor of Dashun Yongchang, has already existed in name only.

"What do you think?"

Gao Guiying didn't expect this man to ask his opinion, and while he was surprised, he opened his mouth and said: "Now we don't have too many choices, the Qing Dynasty is menacing, and we will not give up if we are not destroyed." ”

"At the moment, there is no other way than to unite with the Ming Court."

"I know, I know..."Li Zicheng was still not used to calling himself me, and finally glanced at the dragon robe hanging behind him with some affection, and said:

"Burn it for me, I can't do it."

No one expected that such a situation would happen, Li Zicheng, who led a million Dashun troops to attack Beijing last year and ascended the throne as emperor in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City, actually took the initiative to give up the emperor's honorific title.

Li Zicheng was in Wuchang, and he respected the Shaowu court in Nanjing as Zhengshuo, and voluntarily gave up the honorific title of Emperor Yongchang of Dashun and accepted to become the northwest king of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, many of Dashun's generals were not very obedient to this decision.

But now after all, Li Zicheng is still alive, and his prestige is unmatched in the Dashun army, and Li Zicheng has already decided this matter, and others will not say anything more.

At least nominally, the situation of Shunming's joint resistance to the Qing Dynasty had been formed in advance because of a secret edict by Zhu Cihong.

In addition, Henan, Shandong, Sichuan and other places have also received rumors about secret edicts.

These edicts all claimed that the Shaowu court in Nanjing had reversed the policy of the previous dynasty Hongguang and pardoned civil and military officials who had surrendered to the Dashun or Tatar Qing dynasties.

If these civil and military officials could return to Nanjing to serve the imperial court, they would be given official positions according to their abilities, regardless of their previous suspicions.

This is just one of them, and there is also a point made in the edict.

From then on, all the local armed forces, non-governmental regiments, and even the bandits who occupied the mountains as kings in the world would be officially accepted by the Nanjing Imperial Court and become a force to resist the Qing Dynasty.

The take-up is on the way, and it is in full swing.

This is actually very risky, because many of these people have spies sent by the Qing Dynasty, and there are also many wall grasses who see the wind and rudder.

But again, there are risks and opportunities.

The rumors of this secret edict made many people flock to the new dynasty in Nanjing, and began to try to embark on the road to Nanjing to serve the Ming Dynasty.

Many civilian armed forces, as well as mountain and forest bandits, all began to confront the Qing army under the banner of the Ming Shaowu court.

The power of an edict was so great, and Dolgon did not expect.

True or not, the more the news spreads, the more people believe, and when the first person to eat crabs is recognized, others naturally flock to it.

Among ten people, there is always one who can be used, and Zhu Cihong wants this one that can be used.

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"How is that possible!"

Beijing, Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Dolgon was furious in front of Bumu Butai, that is, the filial piety of later generations, and the little emperor of Shunzhi.

After all, Shunzhi was only six years old, and he was so frightened by Dolgon that he threw himself into Bumu Butai's arms, looking at Dolgon cautiously, crying and chirping but not daring to let it out.

"What is Azig doing to eat, he hasn't eliminated Li Zicheng for a month!"

While reassuring Fu Lin, Bu Mu Butai's expression began to become solemn, and he muttered: "It's strange that there has been such a big change in Nanjing. ”

"How could Emperor Hongguang be deposed all of a sudden, Prince Regent, Prince Chongzhen, did you kill it?"

Dolgon was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you think this king will be so brainless in doing things?" There must be a spies who leaked the news! ”

Not long ago, there was also a fake prince case in Beijing.

Specifically, someone claimed to be Zhu Cihong, the crown prince of Emperor Chongzhen, and Dolgon convened various officials to identify and interrogate him, but anyway, he was determined to be fake and then cut with a knife.

The gap between the case in Beijing and the case in Nanjing is less than a month, but the difference is that this case was orchestrated by Dorgon.

In other words, this fake prince in Beijing is actually the real Zhu Cihong.

After Zhu Cihong escaped from the hands of the Dashun army, he was betrayed and offered to Dolgon, who naturally knew the scourge of the legacy of the previous dynasty, but after all, they had only been in the customs for a year after all, and they still needed to use the guise of the Ming Dynasty to win people's hearts.

Zhu Cihong had to be killed, but the policy of winning the hearts of the people had to continue, so Dolgon directed and acted in such a fake prince case.

Now things are very dramatic, the real Zhu Cihong was killed by Dolgon as a fake, and another one appeared in Nanjing and came to power.

The crown prince of Chongzhen in Nanjing is fake, and both Dolgon and Bumu Butai know it.

But Dolgon didn't care if this Zhu Cihong was true or not, and now he only knew one thing, this fake had already been used as fake and true, and Hongguang had been banned from ascending the throne.

Then the fake one now is the real Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong, the appeal of the title of Prince Chongzhen, is stronger than everyone else, and once he escapes to Nanjing, the threat to the Qing Dynasty is very huge.

Dolgon thought that by directing and acting Zhu Cihong, he would be able to put an end to this hidden danger, but he didn't expect that even such a thing as a tanuki changing a prince would happen.

Fake ones can succeed in ascending to the throne, what are the heads of the Ming Dynasty ministers in Nanjing?