"Gao Companion, you didn't even die?"

Zhu Gaoyuan was also quite surprised, this is Xiaoqiang who can't be killed.

Gao Qi dived deep and ran to Zhu Gaoyuan's horse with one foot and one foot shallow, and said with a flattering face: "The Holy Lord is blessed with Qitian, and the old slave is a little blessed, so he survived." ”

Zhu Gaoyuan said: "Okay, just follow me and serve." ”

Not this time, next time I will give you a chance, and it will be better for you to be the eunuch king after all.

Gao Qi responded with a belch, and then happily took the reins of Zhu Gaoyuan's war horse.

Zhu Gaoyuan turned around and said, "Hurry up and pack your bags, and then set off for the south." ”

Wang Jiayan took a step forward and said, "Holy Lord, do you want to return to Yanshan for temporary refuge?" ”

"That's right." Zhu Gaoyuan bowed his head and said, "The Chahar Mongol army is coming, and we can't stay in the grassland any longer." ”

Hu Xinshui followed and said: "The Gongtu tribe has been hit hard, and the rest of the tribes just want to expel us, so it is wise to return to Yanshan for temporary refuge at this time." ”

Zhu Gaoyuan's heart moved, and Hu Xinshui began to offer advice? What a phenomenon.

However, on the surface, he said quietly: "Returning to Yanshan does not mean that you can sit back and relax, the tribal alliance of Chahar Mongolia will not fight with us for the Gongtu tribe to enter Yanshan, but the thieves will never give up, and there will definitely be a large army after Li Yan's vanguard cavalry!" ”

Wang Jiayan said: "But it's not worse than before." ”

Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng and other officials also said: "Yes, we have persevered in such a difficult desperate situation, and now there are 1,000 Yiding of the Guanning Army, how can there be thousands of thieves." ”

Gao Qiqian said: "The main thing is that the Holy Lord is blessed with the blessings of the ancestors. ”

"Shut up!" Zhu Gaoyuan's face immediately fell, and he scolded, "What is the blessing of the sky, what the ancestors and ancestors bless, it's all!" I have survived until now because of the bloody battles of the soldiers. ”

The soldiers of the Ming army nearby looked at Zhu Gaoyuan together.

Gao Qiqian but only retreated, and said that he slapped the horse's leg again.

It's really hard to serve the saints now, and life is not easy.

……

Li Zicheng also felt that life was not easy, and governing the country was too complicated.

This is not a big deal, and the "former first assistant" Wei Zaode and the "second assistant" Chen Yan took hundreds of high-ranking officials above the third grade to kneel outside the Chengtian Gate to petition.

Li Zicheng wanted to go out to run errands, but he was blocked.

Faced with Wei Zaode's criticism, Li Zicheng said angrily: "Use you? With you, I'm afraid I'm going to become Chongzhen's second. ”

"The Lord is saying this very falsely." Wei Zaode said unashamedly, "The minister really has the talent of the prime minister, Chongzhen does not listen to the minister's words, so today, if he is willing to listen to the minister's words, why will he become a lost dog." ”

"Shut up!" Li Zicheng was really angry at this time, and scolded, "No matter how unbearable Chongzhen is, he is still a king, and he also promoted you to be the first assistant of the puppet Ming, you don't want to report to the king and the people, but instead you ran to me to ask for an official, and scolded the old master for being a lost dog?" As long as you still have a bit of human duty, you should follow the example of Ni Yuanlu and Li Banghua and they killed themselves. ”

On the night when the Dashun army entered Beijing, and on the night when Zhu Gaoyuan led a thousand rabble to break through the siege, thousands of officials and gentlemen headed by Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Banghua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, all hanged themselves or threw themselves into the well in despair.

In the face of Li Zicheng's reprimand, Wei Zaode did not blush.

Instead, he said cheekily: "The Lord is a famous monarch of the world, and Weichen has long been willing to assist." ”

Li Zicheng immediately laughed angrily when he heard this, pointed at Wei Zaode's nose and scolded: "I've never seen such a shameless person, come here, put this old man in prison and torture him!" ”

Wei Zaode's forced palace finally brought a catastrophe of death for himself.

Since entering Beijing, Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing have been persuading Li Zicheng to launch a large-scale recovery of stolen goods, but because Li Yan and Song Xiance have stopped them, they have been swaying from side to side.

But now the balance in Li Zicheng's heart has finally tilted to Liu Zongmin's side.

Of course, the more important reason is that the military salary of the Dashun army has also been exhausted, and the silver is urgently needed.

At that moment, Li Zicheng said to Liu Zongmin, who was accompanying him: "It seems that we are still too polite to these demos of the puppet Ming, and they all began to kick their noses in the face." ”

Liu Zongmin was overjoyed and said, "Big brother, do you agree?" ”

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Yes, you just have to let go of your hands and feet to chase the competition!" Let these royal relatives, corrupt officials and eunuchs pay the price for their evil deeds! ”

Liu Zongmin was overjoyed and said, "Okay! ”

Thus began a large-scale recovery of stolen goods.

In the morning of the same day, an edict left the Forbidden City and spread throughout the capital.

The edict said that all officials and nobles in Beijing and gentry and eunuchs with good rank, regardless of whether they were officials in the Dashun New Dynasty or not, would all be paid, and the amount of loss was also preliminarily determined.

The highest amount is the bachelor of the cabinet, 100,000 taels.

This shows how rough the Dashun army's methods are.

Because the richest people in Beijing are not scholars, but those imperial relatives.

But fortunately, Liu Zongmin quickly improved his method and began to engage in a floating quota.

To put it simply, it's how much money you have to pay until you donate your entire property!

This is amazing, and more than 70 million taels of silver were tortured in a few days, of which Chongzhen's father-in-law Zhou Kui alone contributed 600,000 taels of silver, as well as gold, pearls and a large number of rare antiques.

However, problems inevitably arose in the process of recovering stolen goods.

The soldiers of the Dashun Army, who had not committed any crimes against the common people, began to enter the house unscrupulously, openly robbed the property of the rich family, beat and killed the original owner at every turn, and the infringement of the female dependents was inevitably staged frequently.

In the end, the scope of the infringement even expanded to the Shengdou small people in Beijing.

Some Dashun troops even put a letter at the mouth of the alley, and then began to do whatever they wanted.

Li Zicheng saw that it was not possible to go on like this, so he quickly stopped the recovery of stolen goods and torture.

However, the impact has already been done, and this recovery of stolen goods and torture has shaken the unstable foundation of the Dashun army, and has also caused irreversible damage to the discipline of the Dashun army.

Wu Sangui finally waited for the opportunity he had always dreamed of.

Although Dorgon had not yet given a clear answer, he did not want to wait any longer.

On the second day after Li Zicheng stopped chasing stolen goods, that is, on the fourth day of the fourth month of April, Wu Sangui led the Guan Ning army to make a surprise attack under the pretext that his beloved concubine was robbed, and easily defeated Tang Tong's department and regained control of Haishan Pass.

Zhu Gaoyuan's half-month window of opportunity has arrived.

……

However, Zhu Gaoyuan didn't know it at this time.

At this time, Zhu Gaoyuan was still in the depths of Yanshan Mountain and was hiding with Li Yan, Li You, and Gu Kecheng.

If Gu Kecheng's 2,000 cavalry hadn't arrived in time, Li Yan's cavalry would have been slaughtered by 1,000 Yiding, and the three Li Yan brothers might have been buried in the grassland.

But even so, there are less than five hundred horsemen left under Li Yan's command!

Not long after, Li You also arrived with 3,000 cavalry to rendezvous.

Now the situation is reversed, and it becomes that the Dashun army is chasing the Ming army.

In the face of more than 5,000 rogue cavalry, Zhu Gaoyuan did not have a hot brain and fought a head-on battle with the other party, but decisively adopted the tactic of pulling the ox and led the rogue cavalry to circle in the depths of Yanshan.

From March 28 to April 4, I have been in the mountains for seven days.

Thanks to the help of a thousand Yiding, the Ming army could always easily get rid of the thieves.

In these seven days, Zhu Gaoyuan resolutely rejected the specialization proposed by Wang Chengen and Gao Qiqian, and also rejected the kind reminders of Wang Jiayan and other civil officials and nobles, and insisted on eating and living with a thousand Yiding.

Of course, during this period, Hu Xinshui was always monitored separately.

To win people's hearts and minds, necessary precautions are still necessary.

When it was time for lunch again, Zhu Gaoyuan took Wang Chengen to the camp of Wujiaotan.

The army generally only eats two meals, lunch and afternoon, and only when there is a war will it be changed to three meals a day, and in case of night battles, it is possible to add a supper.

Now if you don't fight, you only eat two meals.

"Holy!" Seeing Zhu Gaoyuan coming,

Wu Zhangtan and his subordinate Yiding hurriedly got up to salute.

"Excuse me." Zhu Gaoyuan waved his hand and sat next to the charcoal.

Covered the ears of the clay pot with a sweat towel, took down the clay pot that was boiling on the bonfire, and the vulture on the other side had already handed over a wooden bowl, and Zhu Gaoyuan poured a large bowl of haggis soup.

"Ho, that's good." Zhu Gaoyuan said with a smile, "There are actually haggis." ”

"In the morning, I slaughtered a settlement in the Gongtu Department and robbed dozens of lambs."

Wu handed Zhu Gaoyuan a large piece of wheat cake and said, "It's barely enough to eat a haggis soup." ”

Zhu Gaoyuan learned from Yiding to tear up the wheat cakes, put them in the mutton soup to soak them and soften them before eating, and said: "The current conditions are a little harder, and I invite you to have a big meal when you arrive in Jiangnan." ”

"Holy Lord, what's delicious in Jiangnan?" One of them asked.

"That's a lot." Zhu Gaoyuan wrenched his fingers and said, "There are all kinds of steamed, boiled, and stewed vegetables, all kinds of chicken, duck, fish, and meat, and the most delicious is anchovies. ”

"Goo." Several of them swallowed.

It's really hard for normal people to resist eating.

Zhu Gaoyuan was saying happily when Hu Guozhu came.

"Holy." Hu Guozhu said, "If you don't collect returns at night, the thieves suddenly withdraw!" ”

"Withdrawn?" Zhu Gaoyuan's heart moved when he heard this, it seemed that something big had happened in the pass, otherwise Li Zicheng would not have withdrawn Li Yan and their more than 5,000 cavalry.