Chapter 5 The Rise and Fall of the People's Suffering

The dog baby was picking up the dead man's clothes on the side, and suddenly saw the two lying on the ground looking at him, the three of them stared at each other, and were silent for a moment, the dog baby screamed, frightened and urinated, and leaned backwards in the direction of the two brothers.

Deng San heard the shouting of the dog, pulled the straw fork out of the small school, and rushed over with it, the tip of the fork went straight to the ground for the two people, and the man surnamed You also arrived and stood aside.

But it was Chongzhen who spoke first, he gently brushed off the tip of the straw fork, raised his hands, and stood up slowly.

"Thank you to the two heroes for saving their lives, I can't repay it, but I don't know what to call the heroes?" After speaking, he sincerely clasped his fists and saluted.

Deng San was a little nervous by this person's inexplicable actions, and the pitchfork in his hand clenched tighter.

The man surnamed You pressed Deng San's shoulder and said, "I don't have much to say to Jinyiwei, and I just want to avenge my brother's personal vendetta, and it has nothing to do with you." I'm not interested in your business, so let's leave it at that. ”

Chongzhen heard that although this person was not dealing with this flying fish suit, it was not harmless to him, so he didn't say anything more and nodded.

Wang Chengen stood behind Chongzhen, and watched the man surnamed You leave with Deng San and Gouwa leading the horses, and then he let out a sigh and whispered: "Long live the lord, what should I do next?" ”

Chongzhen sighed, "If it is according to the previous report of the Ministry of War, Shandong has not yet fallen, and at this time, it would be the best choice to go south and go to Jinan Mansion to Yingtian, but I don't want to do this this time." ”

"Wang Chengen, do you know where this thief army came from, and why did you rebel?"

"The slave only knew that the thief was originally a post guard watching the horse, and most of the soldiers who broke into the camp were mutinies of the soldiers of the Nine Sides, as for why they rebelled, they were chaotic ministers and thieves, and they caused chaos in the world."

Chongzhen pointed to the corpses of the homeless people on the ground and said, "What kind of mutinous soldiers are these?" It's all unclothed peasant village women, it's all at this time, what's the use of putting gold on my face? Do you know that they rebelled because they couldn't eat, and why did the Nine Sides mutiny? The same is true. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen didn't dare to take it anymore, so he had to let Chongzhen continue to talk about it.

"The Ming Dynasty has been more than 200 years, why did the thieves gain power once they were in power, Shanxi, Henan, and Hebei all looked down on the wind, and there were few defenders of the city? It's what I did before that I lost the hearts of the people and the hearts of my subjects! I think that Taizu also started in the field, and the Zhu family relied on the people's experience in the world, but now the people's hearts are lost, and the consequences can be imagined. ”

"Long live Lord, then you just said that you don't plan to go south, but where are you going?"

"I want to see with my own eyes what kind of misery my people are living in, so much so that they desperately want to rebel. I want to find out how corrupt the court is, so much so that it loses again and again! Go and find a set of outcasts' clothes to change into, and I will be like you. Remember, in the future, you are only allowed to call me Brother Huang outside. ”

"This.... This.... This.... Slave maid..."Wang Chengen doesn't know what to do.

"Also, you are not allowed to call yourself a slave!" After Chongzhen finished speaking, he lowered his head to look for suitable clothes, and the Son of Heaven picked up the clothes of the dead, and changed them to the previous one, which was never possible.

Seeing that the Long Live Lord was like this, Wang Chengen couldn't be entangled anymore, pinching his nose and changing into the clothes of the homeless.

After the two of them changed their clothes, they grabbed some dirt and wiped it on their bodies and faces, so that they were no different from the homeless.

"Let's go, you can't stay here for a long time, I just hope that the thieves can treat the subjects of the Jingshi well!" Chongzhen looked back at the huge city gate and the Jinyi guards who died in battle.

"Hooray, you haven't said where you're going?" Hearing this, Chongzhen glared at Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly covered his mouth, he was breathless with a burst of sweat, and his clothes with mud legs were too smelly!

"Go to Shanxi!"

"Yes, Brother Huang, huh? Shanxi? "Wang Chengen almost fainted....

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Dawn, the sky will dawn

The people and horses around the capital are noisy, the city is boiling, under the strong offensive of the Shun army, the nine gates of the inner city are broken one by one, and the defenders of the capital, who have not much morale, are no longer stubbornly resistant, open the door to welcome the surrender, and the Beijing division is broken.

Li Zicheng was overjoyed when he saw the situation, and was about to lead his troops into the city, when Song Xiance, the military advisor next to him, suggested: "Your Majesty should first appease the people in the city, and then enter the city, for the benevolence of the Son of Heaven." ”

Li Zicheng listened to it, praised Song Xiance, and said again and again that what Mr. said was very true, and then ordered the herald to inform the whole army that the soldiers entered the city, and those who injured one person were killed!

"Mr. Song, do you still have something to teach me?" Li Zicheng sat on the horse and bent down sideways and asked.

In the winter, Song Xiance shook it with a feather fan in his hand, and replied: "Your Majesty entered Beijing with a great victory, and it should be the best to go to Deshengmen." ”

"Deshengmen, victory, not bad, yes, just according to Mr., drive!" Li Zicheng couldn't hold it back for a long time, clamped his twin strands, turned his horse away, and the army behind him followed.

From time to time, red-clothed cavalry flashed through the streets of the city, throwing arrows in their hands, shouting: "Whoever opens the door with an arrow will not die!" ”

This move caused the people of Beijing to go crazy, and everyone rushed to give arrows. Those who received the arrows returned to their homes, arranged incense sticks, lit Yongchang incense, opened their homes, and welcomed the Dashun army into the city in the curling white smoke.

It's strange, the previous dynasty collapsed and the Jingshi was broken, and everyone was afraid. However, today, the army entered the city, but there was a sense of joy among the people, and even more, the lanterns were colorful, I don't know whether to celebrate the king to win the world or to celebrate the fall of the Ming Dynasty? Or both.

However, there are always exceptions to everything, and the princes and nobles in Beijing are like mourning. But what most of them are worried about is not the situation of the Ming Dynasty, but how to keep their money bags in the next Shun army torture, where do they come from without a home? So.

Thanks to the development of Caoyun and the influence of the canal on the road planning in Beijing. The western area of the city lives along the Cao River, all of which are the residences of nobles. The eastern district is mostly the granary in Beijing, such as the old and new Taicang, and the shipping warehouse, so the merchants mostly live in the eastern district, which has the saying that 'the east is rich and the west is expensive' in the capital.

At this time, in the eastern district, there was a grain merchant in the South Juxian Fang.

The grain merchant's family of fifteen trembled and knelt in the atrium, and the soldiers of the Shun army were rummaging through the cabinets in the inner room and carrying their belongings. A thousand households stood in front of them, slapping them in the face with the tip of their swords, until the grain merchant's wife stopped.

The thousand households rolled their eyes and said, "Come on, this woman is suspected of being a spy of the Ming army!" Tie me up and take it back, and the official will be strictly interrogated. There was a lewd look on his face.

The soldiers understood, grabbed the woman on the ground by the hair, lifted her limbs and dragged her directly out of the door, the woman was in pain and screamed loudly.

"The military master spares his life, the military master spares his life! Let my wife go, all the money in the family will be given to the military master! Please let my wife go, she's not a spy. The fat body of the grain merchant kept trembling, and he put his hands together, praying to a thousand households, and the rest of the family hid their faces and wept bitterly when they saw this.

Qianhu ignored him, walked around behind the grain merchant, and saw a little girl curled up and hiding in her father's back.

"Take this too, take this too!" Qianhu pointed, and another soldier came up to prepare to drag away the grain merchant's daughter.

The grain merchant finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted, "Dog thief!" I'm fighting with you! ”

Qianhu wiped the blood on the spatula, and lay the corpse of the grain merchant at his feet, "Who else has to fight hard, come now, it's too late, don't blame Grandpa for not giving you a chance." ”

A stone hit Qianhu's head, and he was stunned for a moment, and when he reacted, he saw a childish boy standing at the end of the crowd, staring at him deadly.

Qianhu couldn't help laughing and said: "Ho, you group of waste, you don't have a little baby, you laugh to death grandpa, that little baby, come here." ”

The child was innocent, and when he saw his father die at the hands of this person, and his mother and sister were forcibly taken away, his heart burned with hatred. As the saying goes, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, the little boy clenched his little fists and walked towards thousands of households, and some family members secretly pulled his trouser legs, but he didn't care.

Seeing Xiao Tong walk up to him, Chito inserted the knife into the sheath, smiled and patted him on the head. In the next second, he swept him away with one leg directly, and the little boy pounced on the side, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

"It's boring." Qianhu spread his hands, lost interest, and turned around and walked out of the courtyard with his hands behind his back.

"You divide the rest, remember, don't leave it alive."

A group of soldiers pounced on them with fierce eyes.