"This is Chongzhen? Just dead? Li Zicheng pointed to the corpse covered with yellow cloth on the ground and asked left and right.

The guards next to him stepped forward to explain: "Your Majesty, my subordinates led the guard battalion to find this corpse at the Wanshou Pavilion in Coal Mountain, covered it with hair, and hanged himself. And found a bloody coat in the surrounding area, with text on it, and the content was suspected to be Chongzhen's edict. ”

After saying that, he presented the bloody clothes rolled up in his hand, Li Zicheng took it, unfolded it, and looked at it carefully.

"See other corpses? Like the Prince? Two kings? Niu Jinxing asked as he stood aside.

"Other than that, nothing else."

Niu Jinxing listened, looked at Li Zicheng, but saw that he passed the edict to himself, and then smiled helplessly, and said: "He's good, it's a hundred, and he left a mess for me."

Niu Jinxing looked at the edict and shook his head, as if he had not sighed.

"Prime Minister, there is no heirloom jade seal found in the palace, and this corpse can't be seen clearly, could it be Chongzhen's fraudulent death? I want to check it out for myself. Li Zicheng said what was in his heart.

Niu Jinxing pondered his intentions and replied cautiously: "Your Majesty is worried, and the ministers know it. However, in Weichen's humble opinion, whether this corpse is real or fake, Your Majesty doesn't have to care too much. ”

"Oh? What a way to put it. ”

Niu Jinxing stretched out his hand and gestured, and said: "First, Your Majesty only needs to inform the world of Chongzhen's death and the content of the edict, no matter whether this corpse is true or not, Chongzhen is dead in the hearts of the people of the world."

Li Zicheng nodded, after the enthronement ceremony was held, the imperial power was in hand, and the name was justified, so he said what he said.

"Second, after Ying Tian learns of Chongzhen's death, there may be infighting because of the new emperor's accession to the throne, even if Chongzhen fakes his death and flees, and a new emperor has been established in the south, what does Your Majesty think?"

"You mean, Chongzhen will die even if he goes to the south?"

"Exactly, even if the new emperor can't bear to kill him, how can the civil officials behind the new emperor sit back and watch Chongzhen return to the south? And how could Chongzhen give up the throne in a daze? Then there will be chaos in the south. And the key to this is in time and his heirs, His Majesty only needs to send troops to seal the main road to the south to search for the whereabouts of Chongzhen's heirs. Even if he had the help of the gods, it would be too late to arrive in Nanjing. At that time, His Majesty can take advantage of the enemy's civil strife and achieve it overnight. ”

"What the prime minister said makes sense, but I still want to see this corpse for myself."

"Your Majesty, this is going to talk about the third, if this is really Chongzhen's corpse, think about it, both the lord of the defeated army and the person who hanged himself, he must be angry. When the king sees the king, he refuses to give in, and if he rashly examines it, he is afraid that evil will enter the body, and it will not be beneficial to His Majesty's dragon body. ”

Li Zicheng thought about it for a long time before he could let go of the matter, and ordered someone to properly dispose of Chongzhen's body and bury it to show that he was broad-minded.

After that, he left in a hurry, apparently to go to the army to order the road to the south to be defended and search for Chongzhen's heirs.

And Niu Jinxing saw that Li Zicheng listened to his words, breathed a sigh of relief, and left the palace to return home.

These days of internal affairs are busy, and all the old bones are about to fall apart.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw a man standing in the courtyard, waiting for a long time.

Niu Jinxing hammered his old waist, approached the man and sat down, and said, "What you want to do, this official has done it."

The man stepped forward diligently, pounded Niu Venus's waist and shoulders, and poured tea and water.

Looking at his face, it was actually the former Ming Jinyi Guards who commanded Luo Yangxing, and he didn't expect him to be able to get involved with Niu Jinxing.

"Thank you Prime Minister for your help, the lower official brought some expensive pastries to the adult, and Mrs. Yan said that she liked it, so she accepted it."

Niu Jinxing entered Beijing, and like other high-ranking officials in the Shun army, he bought a house and accepted a few beautiful concubines. Among them, the youngest one is surnamed Yan, with a beautiful appearance and skilled skills, which is deeply loved by him.

Niu Jinxing stroked his white beard and asked, "You have a heart-to-heart word with me, is that Emperor Chongzhen?"

"I will never dare to coax the Prime Minister, before the lower officials released the news, I personally checked it, and there is no doubt that it is Emperor Chongzhen. Although I am already a courtier of Dashun, the Luo family has been blessed by Zhu Ming for generations, and the reason why I have asked for it this time is that I can't bear to suffer the corpse of Emperor Chongzhen..."

"Well, needless to say, it is normal for people to be loyal to the king, and the old man is willing to help you because he sees your loyalty. From now on, you will do a good job under me. ”

Luo Yangxing knelt down and bowed, "Prime Minister Xie appreciates, and is willing to saddle the horse for the prime minister!" ”

Coincidentally, not far from Niu Jinxing's house is the mansion of Zhu Chunchen, the former Ming Dynasty Chengguo, although he is a subordinate with Luo Yangxing, he is doing completely different things.

I saw him walking back and forth outside a room with his hands behind his back, hesitating.

Within two days of this thief entering Beijing, he asked each family to exchange money for their lives, and there were dozens of people in his family, and they were royal relatives, and the poll tax was not a small amount.

As a clan relative, Zhu Chunchen has been operating in Gyeonggi for many years, and he can pay for this money by gritting his teeth. It's not that he doesn't want to, I think Emperor Chongzhen didn't pick out half of him back then.

However, I saw that some civil officials paid money to buy their lives and went further in their official positions, but they opened the city gate to the Shun army, but they were not valued because of their status as relatives, and they even had to be exploited!

His teeth itched with hatred, and he couldn't go on like this.

At the beginning of the new dynasty, if he could make a great contribution, it would be from the minister of the dragon, so he hit the abacus on Zhu Cihong, the former prince of the Ming Dynasty in the room.

When Chongzhen was in danger, he entrusted the prince to Zhu Chunchen and ordered him to take the prince out of the city, but he kept an eye on it and kept the prince in the palace.

The poor ignorant prince was sitting in the room reading a book at the moment, but he didn't know that he had become Zhu Chunchen's "great achievement", and his future was uncertain.

One of the nine stops in the world, Juyongguan.

Since its completion, it has been the gateway to the north, and there is no barrier in the capital division when the pass is broken, so generations of soldiers will fight here.

Li Zicheng's army led by himself was entered by Juyong Pass, and the capital was driven straight into it in a few days, which shows its importance.

Juyongguan is located between the mountains and mountains, the situation is dangerous, both sides are cliffs, dangerous and unclimbable. It has two passes in the north and south, the south is called "South Pass" and the north is called "Juyong Pass".

Chongzhen and his entourage, with many people and few horses, lack of rations, and taking care of women and children, walked very slowly.

It took nearly 20 days to arrive at the pass, all of them were yellow and thin, and even children had no strength to cry, which showed that they had suffered a lot.

Fortunately, it's finally here.

Chongzhen was riding on a horse, wearing a big hat with a blue arrow, a Qiushui Yanling knife across his waist, dressed as a Shun army, and looked at the majestic Guancheng.

Although his face is full of vegetables and his eyes are black, he can't help but be high-spirited at this time!

"This is the first step towards a great revival!" Chongzhen said happily.

With the passage of time, the fusion of Chongzhen II's soul has been completed, and the person seems to have become younger, and the originally gray temples have recently regrown some black hair.

It's just that some words that don't understand often pop up, Yang Boxian only thinks that he can't understand because he has no culture, but Wang Chengen feels strange.

Your Majesty, it's still that Your Majesty, but it's becoming less and less like Your Majesty.

"Brother Huang, what are you talking about, tell me about it." Yang Boxian led the horse and asked Chongzhen, and his wife sat on the horse with the child in her arms.

With the contact along the way, Orion Yang Boxian admired this knowledgeable "Big Brother Huang" more and more.

"Hehe, I didn't say anything, I was happy! You will follow me later, leave everything to me, and when we enter the customs, we can rest. ”

Everyone nodded in unison.

After that, the group walked to the gate, and the guard who guarded the gate had sharp eyes, and saw that the leader riding the horse was dressed as a Shangguan, and his drooping dead face was replaced by a smiling face, and he stepped forward with a whole dress, and said flatteringly to Chongzhen:

"Shangguan has arrived, and Peng is shining!"

Chongzhen held a horsewhip in his hand, jumped off the horse, and patted the dust on his body.

"You're welcome, you and I are both doing things for the adults of Jingzhong, and there is no distinction between up and down."

Seeing that Chongzhen was not on the official shelf, the gatekeeper couldn't help but feel close, and the corner of his eye glanced at the sign on his waist.

"Lord Lieutenant has something important to do when he enters the customs? I need my subordinates to...", and the words are not finished.

"Hey, don't alarm other adults, this time it's just an excuse to go to Shanxi to do something. Can I see the customs clearance papers? ”

Without waiting for a response, he called Wang Chengen to get the customs clearance documents.

The guard hurriedly said, "Oh, don't look at it, what about Lord Duwei?" Let's go straight to the customs. ”

"Then there will be labor."

Seeing that there were other people behind Chongzhen, the guard couldn't help but point and ask, "Are they?"

"It's all in my camp."

"The villain understands, open the door and let it go!"