Luoyang, Fuwangfu.

Li Zicheng was dressed in simple clothes, which was incompatible with the palatial palace.

Standing in the spacious hall, Li Zicheng had mixed feelings.

From the first year of Chongzhen to the present, a full decade has passed.

In ten years, how many brothers died and how many betrayed.

And how many brothers followed him, climbed snowy mountains and meadows, went deep into the barren, and hid deep in the mountains to avoid pursuit.

And now everything has changed.

He finally invaded Luoyang and occupied the city for the first time.

The huge Ming Dynasty has already shown him a weak side.

Just as he was sighing, several peasant soldiers pushed the obese Fu Dynasty and walked over.

was brought over with King Fu, as well as Lu Weiqi, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department.

"His Royal Highness King Fu is the descendant of the Holy Monarch of Wanli, and he must not fall into the hands of the thief army."

Lu Weiqi whispered to King Fu and hurried to commit suicide to fulfill his name.

But King Fu was silent.

I am used to living a good life, and I am not willing to commit suicide.

The two were pushed and came to Li Zicheng's face.

Li Zicheng stood in front of the table, pressed the handle of the knife with his left hand, and asked coldly: "Is it Zhu Changxun, the blessed king of Luoyang?" ”

"It's Xiao Wang, oh no, it's the grass people."

Zhu Changxun was very fat, and when he knelt down, he could only prop his hands on the ground, kowtow like pounding garlic, and begged Li Zicheng to spare his life.

Li Zicheng looked disgusted: "You are a prince, rich in the world." My soldiers are pressing, but you refuse to give even a little money to the soldiers, and now you still have the face to beg for your life. ”

"The grass people are also hot-headed for a while, no, how dare the grass people fight against the army of King Chuang? Ask the king to spare the lives of the grass people......"

Zhu Changxun begged bitterly.

Instead of winning sympathy, his move aroused the disgust of the generals around him.

Li Zicheng looked at King Fu calmly, and his state of mind when he saw this goods was probably the same as Genghis Khan's first time he saw King Yong, and he all emitted the same emotion:

I say that the emperor of the Central Plains is made by heavenly people, and such cowardly people are also for it, why worship!

"Come on, take Zhu Changxun down and beat forty boards, and then behead him."

Li Zicheng tore down the order arrow and threw it on the ground.

"Yes." The soldiers of the intrusive army received the arrows, and several people worked together to drag Zhu Changxun down.

Zhu Changxun's pig cry begging for "spare his life" gradually drifted away.

Li Zicheng walked up to Lu Weiqi and asked sincerely: "Lu Gong, what are your plans for the future?" ”

"As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, Lu is willing to live and die with Luoyang, and there is just death."

Lu Weiqi held his head high.

Li Zicheng knew that he had made up his mind, and waved his hand: "Take it down, don't hit the board, and directly behead it in public!" ”

The soldiers of the intrusion army came to pull Lu Weiqi.

Lu Weiqi hugged Li Zicheng with a fist, said "thank you", and took the initiative to walk to the execution ground.

Li Zicheng saw him leave, and then turned to Li Guo and the others: "Let's go, let's go and visit King Fu's treasury." ”

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

Zhu Changxun's silver warehouse was full of silver ingots, and the rice warehouse was full of rice grain.

Not just one, but a dozen.

"This blessed king is so rich!"

Li Zicheng turned his head to look at the head of the treasury and said in surprise.

The chief steward lowered his head and explained: "Before King Fu took office, Emperor Wanli gave a part of the mining tax to King Fu. When he was in the domain, he allocated 20,000 hectares of fertile land, and assigned Zhang Juzheng's family property to King Fu, as well as miscellaneous taxes along the river, Sichuan Yanjing tea silver, and a large amount of salt in Huaiyan. ”

"The Ming court should perish, Zhang Juzheng is greedy for money, he is honest for the country, and his descendants will not be at peace after death, and his family property will be filled with his own beloved children."

Li Zicheng sighed.

Niu Jinxing said: "The most mean and unkind is that at the beginning of the country, in order to let Zhu Yunwen succeed to the throne smoothly, he killed a large number of founding heroes. In the change of Tumubao, Yingzong killed Yu Qian, who was dedicated to the country, and Wanli forced Zhang Juzheng's descendants to die tragically.

As for the massacre of the Qi family army in the school field, Xiong Tingbi was passed on to the first nine sides, and Yuan Chonghuan was tragically killed, all of which were the case.

Those who do things are frightened, and those who do not do things talk about it, and if this continues, the dynasty will not be as good as day by day. ”

"What the gentleman said is very true, but there is one thing I don't understand. It is said that the Ming Dynasty is almost over, why haven't you seen a complete defeat yet? ”

Li Zicheng asked puzzled.

"Since ancient times, the fall of a unified dynasty has not been achieved overnight. For example, Li Tang, after experiencing the Anshi Rebellion, died in one hundred and forty years. The Song Dynasty experienced the shame of Jingkang, and also survived in the south for 150 years. ”

Niu Jinxing said: "It can be seen that it is not so easy to overthrow a dynasty. King Chuang wants to destroy the tyrants, but he must also be cautious and take every step of the way. ”

"Looking at it this way, capturing Luoyang is only a difficult first step."

Li Zicheng had a number in his heart, but instead of feeling the difficulty, he was full of fighting spirit.

When Niu Jinxing saw him like this, he couldn't help but sigh, this is a person who can achieve great things.

So, he stepped forward and said: "King Chuang, although he is from Lushi County, he has already moved his family to Baofeng County. I didn't want to go back to Baofeng County and pick up my family. ”

"It's not peaceful around here, I'll send someone to protect you and go with you?"

Li Zicheng's inquiry was sincere.

Niu Jinxing said: "There are many people, it will attract the attention of others, so I don't go back alone and bring my family secretly." ”

"It's okay, stay safe on the road." Li Zicheng didn't think much about it, and nodded in agreement.

Niu Jinxing temporarily bid farewell to Li Zicheng, disguised himself as a fortune teller, and went to Baofeng County.

Li Guo, who was on the side, said: "This person has not been taking refuge for a long time, but King Chuang has allowed him to go back alone, what if he betrays?" ”

"Since he has taken refuge in us, he is ready to follow to the end, not to mention that this trust still has to be given, otherwise how can he recruit talents from all over the world?"

Li Zicheng said that, and ordered someone to briefly count the treasury.

After getting an approximate figure, he ordered people to set up a stronghold in Luoyang and distribute tens of thousands of stone grains and hundreds of thousands of silver in the granary to the poor people.

The people of Luoyang are all praised.

A few days later, Li Shuangxi, who was in charge of investigating intelligence, came back and reported bad news.

"What? Mr. Niu has been caught! Li Zicheng was taken aback.

"Mr. Niu secretly picked up his family, and he was very hidden. Unexpectedly, two people who had followed us to eat but left halfway recognized Mr. Niu at a glance.

In order to reward the silver, they told the government about Mr. Niu's whereabouts. The government arrested Mr. Niu and his family and threw them into the Baofeng County prison, saying that they would be convicted of a capital crime. ”

Li Shuangxi explained the situation in detail.

Li Zicheng slapped the table: "Mr. Niu is the first scholar to take refuge in us, we should save him." ”

"However, although we have a large number of soldiers, there are only a few thousand veterans who can really fight. If you go less, you may not be able to save Mr. Niu, and you will put yourself in it; If you go too much, what should you do in Luoyang? ”

Li Guo frowned and said.

"Luoyang can't be guarded, and we can't use our people to guard it."

Li Zicheng thought seriously for a while and said, "Come on, please Shao Shichang come here." ”

His idea was very simple, ask the scholar Shao Shichang to bring a group of students and recruit local villagers to take up the important task of defending the city.

And Li Zicheng himself led thousands of elites and hundreds of thousands of hungry people to Baofeng County to rescue Niu Jinxing, who was about to be beheaded.