For a long time, Zhu Youzhen was a little indignant.

I am an emperor, I don't think I'm a dumb king, how can I die and cry and worship only thirty courtiers.

Am I so hated? Could it be that the Ming Dynasty is over, and many courtiers will not be sad? Who is Li Zicheng? It's just a grass coward, they like Li Zicheng so much? What benefits did Li Zicheng give them?

Could this be true?

No! No way.

So, Zhu Youzhen began to suspect Wang Jinlong, what this kid said was false.

Instead, Zhu Youzhen felt that what Wang Jinlong said might be true, in the past ten years, which of the courtiers has been sincerely seeking personal interests for the sake of the court, and no one has taken responsibility.

"And later? What about the officials of the Manchu Dynasty? Why did I ring the bell and no one came? ”

"Huh! Li Zicheng called in, is it useful for everyone to come? If you had a way, I would have told you a long time ago. ”

Later, Li Zicheng stayed in the Forbidden City, named the female official Dou Meiyi as his mother, and ordered: Those who dare to hurt people and plunder people's property and women will be killed! So, in the first few days, the order of the capital was still good, the shops were open as usual, two thieves robbed the satin shop, and immediately cut the chessboard street, so the people were overjoyed and blocked as before. ”

"But from the 27th, the peasant army began to torture the Beijing officials, this Li Zicheng is a robber, not to torture the officials and the rich, where did he get the money to feed his hundreds of thousands of troops? Therefore, Li Zicheng's people raided the house everywhere and stipulated the amount of salary: 100,000 yuan in the middle hall, 70,000 or 530,000 in the Jingtang brocade clothes of the ministry, 530,000 yuan in the Taoist department, 32,010 in the Hanlin department, and thousands of subordinates, Liu Zongmin made 5,000 clamping sticks, the wood was all ridged, connected with nails, and the people were all broken, and the terrifying atmosphere in the city gradually became solemn, and the people were panicked and uneasy. ”

"Li Zicheng's officer Suo Yin, everyone fought bravely, and the soldiers naturally began to follow suit, military discipline was gone, at the beginning, the soldiers broke into the people's homes to ask for money, and they said that they were borrowing, saying that we were going out, without bringing silver taels, and borrowed a few envoys from your family, and then, they insisted that if they didn't give it, they would fight, and then later, they began to flirt with women, these people said, we are out of the house, sleep cold at night, borrow your daughter-in-law to warm the bed, or borrow your sister-in-law to be a companion, within a few days, more than 1,000 women committed suicide in the capital."

"Your Majesty, your old father-in-law Zhou Kui is not the most thing, usually relying on power speculation, embezzling national assets, usury, all kinds of evil, the emperor you previously ordered the honorable officials to donate money and salary, your father-in-law has hundreds of thousands of family resources, but ran to the palace to cry poor, the queen in order to let him take a good head, she gave him five thousand taels of silver, let him make up a whole number, but he actually swallowed three thousand, only handed over two thousand, this is not me talking nonsense, Lao Wang's subordinates came to the door to ask, did Zhou Kui give two thousand? Lao Wang, you said, Lao Wang, you should know about this. ”

Wang Chengen Muran, "Yes, Zhou Guozhang gave 2,000 taels of silver, and the queen didn't give him 5,000 taels of silver, so our family doesn't know." ”

"Huh! Li Zicheng arrested the rich man Zhou and tortured him, guess how much did Zhou Kui give Li Zicheng? ”

Zhu Youzhen subconsciously asked, "How much?" ”

"Hey, hey! 530,000 taels of silver, and more than 200,000 taels of gold and silver, totaling more than 800,000 taels. ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't believe it, "Impossible, how can the national abbot have so much property?" ”

Wang Jinlong began to give Zhou Kui and Tian Wan eye medicine, "If you don't believe it, forget it, don't talk about Zhou Kui, even your second father-in-law, Tian Wan, also gave Li Zicheng 480,000 taels of silver." Don't they give it? Your old mother-in-law is good, she was beaten to death by Li Zicheng's people, your brother-in-law is called Zhou Jian, he has been in poor health since he was a child, and he was directly killed, your brother-in-law is called Zhou Xuan, his legs and feet are disabled, Zhou Kui's nephew is called Zhou Ming, right? also killed, your old man can't stand it anymore, and he will give everything to Li Zicheng. ”

Dig the groove! Wang Jinlong said that he had a nose and eyes, but Zhu Youzhen didn't believe it.

Then, Wang Jinlong began to give Wei Zaode eye medicine, "At the beginning, the first assistant Wei Zaode said that his family was poor, and you called on hundreds of officials and nobles to donate, but he only donated two hundred taels of silver, he didn't take the lead, and other officials refused to take the silver, as a result, you raised less than 80,000 taels of silver, right?" The silver was put in the treasury of the household, and in the end it became Li Zicheng's. ”

Li Zicheng entered the city, Wei Zaode and Zhu Chunchen led more than 600 officials to kneel to greet him, Wei Zaode Tian was shameless, and took out the persuasion form that had been written long ago to Li Zicheng, and persuaded Li Zicheng to ascend the throne as the emperor, hehe! In this way, Li Zicheng did not let him go, Liu Zongmin arrested him, beat him badly, his head was cracked, he couldn't stand it, Wei Zaode handed over all the 40,000 taels of silver in the family, Liu Zongmin didn't believe that a Ming Dynasty chief assistant would just do this with a little silver, and continue to torture, Wei Zaode couldn't stand it, so he gave his daughter to Liu Zongmin, Liu Zongmin rewarded his subordinates after playing, more than 20 people! was tossed to death in one night, and that Zhu Chunchen was no better, the mansion was occupied, and the family assets of more than 1.8 million silver were also given to Li Zicheng, not to mention Li Guozhen's grandson. ”

This eye medicine is simply amazing.

"Also, Li Zhiyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, you said that he was an official in the capital alone, why is he so rich? Liu Zongmin was beaten, and honestly gave Liu Zongmin more than 300,000 taels of silver, he was sick, and he died a few days after returning home, I won't talk about the situation of other officials, anyway, everyone has been arrested and beaten by Li Zicheng. ”

Wang Jinlong said it in such detail, Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen didn't believe it.

Zhu Youzhen was dumbfounded, he would never have imagined this situation, and sighed, "Alas! The courtiers are like this, the Ming Dynasty is unyielding, I have long known that there is no good person among the thousands of officials in the capital, but unfortunately, I didn't do anything to hurt the heavens and reason, and I ended up like this, the country is over like this, I am sorry for my ancestors! ”

Wang Jinlong stared at Zhu Youzhen with a serious face, "The emperor is biased when he says this, it's not that there are no loyal and strong courtiers in the court, it's just that you don't need to, you just believe in Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru, Wei Zaode and the like." ”

Zhu Youzhen was surprised, "Aiqing, is there still a minister who was martyred?" ”

Wang Jinlong sighed, "Of course, let's just say Li Banghua, the imperial history of Zuodu, a seventy-year-old man, Li Zicheng called, he was about to go to the city to participate in the war with a knife, the internal officials said that he was too old, so he did not agree to him go to the city, on the evening of the 18th, he ran to the palace to find the emperor, but unfortunately the Qianqing gate had long been closed, no way, he stayed in the Wenxin Ancestral Hall for a night, and the next day he guessed that the emperor had been killed, so he jumped into the well and committed suicide. ”

"There are many people who were martyred like Li Banghua, the scholar Fan Jingwen and his wife and concubine, Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household department and his family of thirteen people, Shi Bangzhao, the deputy capital of the imperial history, Ling Yiqu of Dali Temple, Wang Jiayan, the right attendant of the military department, Meng Zhaoxiang and his wife He's son Meng Zhangming, daughter-in-law Wan, Zuo Yu De Ma Shiqi and his concubines Zhu, Li, Zuo Zhongyun Liu Lishun and his wife Wan, concubine Li and his son, slaves and maids are a total of eighteen people, Taichang Temple Shaoqing Wu Linzheng, left concubine Zhou Fengxiang and his two concubines, Review Wang Wei and his wife Geng, Wu Ganlai in the household department, Wang Zhang, Chen Liangmo and his concubine Shi, Chen Chunde, Zhao Yu, Shen Jiayun of Taifu Temple, Xu Zhi, Langzhong Chengde of the military department and his mother Zhang, his wife Zhang and his son, Jin Xuan, the mother of the military department, the concubine Wang and his younger brother, the Guanglu Temple Cheng Yu Tengjiao and his wife, Liu Wenbing, the new Lehou Liu Wenbing and his grandmother and brother, the Zuodu Governor Wenyao and his sister, the descendants of the male and female A total of 16 people, Gong Yonggu and Princess Le'an and their children, Hui'an Bo Zhang Qingzhen and the men and women, Xuancheng Bowei Shichun and his family, Jinyi Wei commanded Wang Guoxing, Jinyiwei commanded Tongzhi Li Ruoqi, Jinyi Wei Qianhu Gao Wencai and a family of 17 people, Shuntianfu Governor Chen Zhenda, deputy soldier Ma Si Yao Cheng, Zhongshu Song Tianxian, Teng Zhisuo, Ruan Wengui, experienced Zhang Yingxuan, Yang Hewei experienced Mao Wei, Zhang Rushi, Zhang Shixi and two sons, Baihu Wang, Shuntianfu School instructor five, all lost their names, Changzhou student Xu Yan and others, some jumped into the well, some hanged, some drank medicine, some set fire to self-immolation, all followed the emperor. ”

"The most tragic death is Gong Yonggu and the family of Liu Wenbing, Princess Le'an died of illness some time ago, Gong Yonggu has been guarding the city, even Princess Le'an's funeral has not been done, the city is broken, Gong Yonggu returned home, tied several children to Princess Le'an's coffin, the family self-immolated, Liu Wenbing's mother Du Shi often educates three sons, saying that our family has no contribution to the country, it is because your aunt is the emperor's mother, you enjoy the glory and wealth, you have to repay the Son of Heaven! The catastrophe came, the old lady took the family upstairs to self-immolation and all buried in the fire, Liu Wenbing and his brother Liu Wenyao guarded Chongwenmen alone, one guarded You'an Gate, went home after the city was broken, the fire had already burned, Liu Wenbing wanted to rush into the fire and die together, he had two friends who came to persuade him to quickly take off his robe and change clothes and escape, Liu Wenbing said that the emperor was martyred, what face did he have to live alone in the world, so he jumped into the well, after Liu Wenyao came back, he knew that his brother jumped into the well and committed suicide, only the third Liu Wenzhao did not commit suicide for the time being, Because he was going to take away his mother's bones. ”

"Meng Zhaoxiang, the servant of the Criminal Department, died very heroically, after Zhang Jinyan opened the Zhengyang Gate, Meng Zhaoxiang and his son Meng Zhangming, father and son, desperately blocked them with knives, and were hacked to death by the rogue under the Zhengyang Gate.

"There are hundreds of eunuchs in the palace who committed suicide, thousands of people died in battle, the palm print eunuch Gao Shiming, the eunuch Li Fengxiang of Bingbi, the eunuch Chu Xianzhang and Zhang Guoyuan of the Governor of the Supervision Bureau all died in the city, more than 300 palace maids jumped into the river to commit suicide, it is said that the Jinshui River is blocked and does not flow, people can step on the corpse, there is a palace maid who forgot her name, jumped into the well and attempted suicide, and was fished out by the liukou, a small leader of the liukou looked at the palace maid's beauty, and wanted to marry this palace maid, the palace maid pretended to agree, and took the opportunity to stab this liukou to death with scissors, and then committed suicide."

"There is a little eunuch named Zhang Sanfeng next to Queen Yi'an, who is still a fourteen-year-old child, Liukou came in, protected Empress Yi'an's body to the death, her legs and feet were broken, and she swore not to retreat, after Empress Yi'an committed suicide, this Zhang Sanfeng climbed to the feet of Empress Yi'an, picked up the knife thrown by Liukou and committed suicide."

"Also, Li Zi divided the troops into two ways, sent the general Liu Fangliang to lead the troops east out of Guguan with the intention of intercepting the emperor's southern tour, Baoding Mansion General Ma Dai in order to buy time for the capital, killed his family of eleven, led 1,500 soldiers to Lixian County to intercept Liu Fangliang, all died on the battlefield, Baoding Tongzhi Shao Zongyuan and the emperor sent the new prefect He Fucheng to commit suicide, the township official Zhang Luoyan brother all five people were killed, his eldest brother Zhang Luojun was a new Jinshi last year, his younger brother Zhang Luofu was admitted last year as a martial artist, Zhang Luozhe and Zhang Luoshan are also martial arts. The eunuch Fang Zhenghua had previously guarded Baoding, repelled the captives, and made great contributions, the emperor sent Fang Zhenghua to defend Baoding again, the city was broken, Fang Zhenghua slashed and killed more than 40 Liukou, the Liukou was frightened, and he didn't dare to step forward and asked Fang Zhenghua: 'Who are you?' Fang Zhenghua laughed, "I am the emperor's personal follower!" Liukou guessed that he was a senior official, concentrated his forces and surrounded him, and Fang Zhenghua and several of his relatives were all killed in battle. ”

"Huh! Do you know how Baoding is broken? It was the emperor's most trusted cabinet elder Li Jiantai who sent someone to open the city gate to let Kou into the city, otherwise, Baoding City would not have been broken at all under the leadership of Shao Zongyuan, He Fu, Zhang Luoyan brothers and Liu Zhongsi of the Chinese army. ”