Of course, Li Zhaoji will not have any trust in a capricious villain like Wu Sangui, and the basis of cooperation between the two sides lies in mutual checks and balances.

The Oriental Trading Company could not provide much maritime power to the north and the south, but the Eastern Trading Company was the strongest naval force in this sea area, and if it had sea supremacy, it had everything.

Of course, King Fu and King Lu in their hands are also important bargaining chips to balance Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui also knew this, so he would not ask Li Zhaoji for King Lu and King Fu at this time, because he knew that Li Zhaoji would only hand over these two when he was safe, and now Wu Sangui could not let Li Zhaoji go to Juehua Island, because the current situation was very tense for Liaoxi.

The dynamics of the Manchu side have not yet been determined, but Li Chuang has already sent troops to attack. The 7,000 soldiers and horses of Tang Tong, the general of the Ming Dynasty, had already arrived outside Shanhaiguan at this time, asking Wu Sangui to return to Shun and hand over Shanhaiguan.

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Although Li Zicheng made a beautiful palace maid as a concubine as soon as he entered the capital, this does not mean that he is obsessed with the harem and does not understand the government and politics. Not only that, but he was very busy in these days when he entered the capital.

On March 19, the Shun army occupied the capital, and then posted a notice to suppress the Beijing camp rebellion, the Ming prince surrendered, and Li Zicheng ordered to search for Chongzhen's whereabouts.

On the second day, he ordered the officials of the Ming Dynasty to meet the next day, and the officials below the third rank could be hired as long as they surrendered, and if they wanted to return to their hometowns, they would also listen to the respect, but if they were hidden, they would be arrested and beheaded. Tongzhou, Miyun, Tianjin and other places are attached.

The next day, the officials who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty were counted and pardoned prisoners, and Chongzhen's body was also found. He was buried on the second day, and the crown prince of Ming was named the king of Song, and the other two sons were dukes.

In the next few days, Li Zicheng twice selected the Ming Dynasty to demote officials, executed the leader of the Jinyi Guard, established a new official system, and sent generals south to receive Shandong.

While taking the palace maid as his concubine, he married the rest of the palace maids to the soldiers of the Shun army. He expelled the eunuchs from the city, let Liu Zongmin preside over the military drills, and began to mint Yongchang Tongbao money.

Immediately, the imperial examination was held in the capital and officials from all over the country were appointed.

On this day of 7 April, Li Zicheng returned to the Qianqing Palace after presiding over the salvo training of the cavalry in Jingshan.

A cadre of civil and military officers followed in two shifts, Li Zicheng looked up and saw that the plaque of the Qianqing Palace had the words "Respect for Heaven and Ancestor" written on it, and suddenly shook his head and said: "These four words are not all right, it is natural to fear God, but to imitate the ancestors is to be stuck, just imagine, if it is not for the Ming Taizu to distribute the world's good fields and acres of houses to his descendants, and the successor monarch does not dare to move, how can the Ming Dynasty die?"

Commander, remember, change these four words to respect God and love the people, and Lao Tzu in the future...... In the future, my descendants must love the people, so that the emperor's throne can last for a long time. ”

Song Xiance, the military division of Dashun, nodded hurriedly, Li Zicheng laughed, and then walked to the throne, and since there were seven or eight tables and chairs on both sides of the throne, the Dashun officials were divided into two classes of civil and military affairs, and those with shallow qualifications could only stand.

Wenchen is mainly based on Prime Minister Niu Jinxing, followed by Song Xiance, Gu Junen, and An Xingmin, because Dashun is a regime established by a peasant uprising, after civil officials, the higher the ranking, the lower the department name, Niu Jinxing is a lifter, Gu Junen is a showman, Song Xiance was originally a fortune teller, and he didn't even have a family name.

But there are also a lot of Jinshi in the column, but also behind, are Dashun all the way to the conquest of Shun, there are the original Ming Dynasty imperial history, the Ministry of Servants, Shaanxi political envoys, Tongguan soldiers and so on.

The official system of Dashun was newly established, and the ruling system had not yet been established, so the original Ming officials who surrendered were above the imperial meeting, but Dashun was a rebellion, full of martial virtues, and those who ranked on the side of the military generals and nobles were all old team members who followed Li Zicheng.

Liu Zongmin is the head of the generals, and the second person is Li Guo, or Li Zicheng's nephew, when attacking the capital, Li Zicheng divided the troops into three routes, and fell into the middle and south roads, so Liu Fangliang, Liu Xiyao and others were among them.

But this is not all the generals of Dashun, there are also Tian Jianxiu guarding Shaanxi, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun out of Zhenhuguang, Dang Shousu in Lanzhou, and Gao Yigong in northern Shaanxi.

The atmosphere in the court is a little tense, Li Zicheng is now divided into two classes, civil and military, but most of his team are military generals, so civil officials occupy a considerable part of the status that originally belonged to military generals, so some people look at the civilian official class angrily.

Li Zicheng laughed and said: "Now that we have a firm foothold, the life of the court is getting better day by day." Ru Hou, Li Guo, chasing stolen goods and helping salaries, how much money did you get? ”

After entering the city, these two people were responsible for recovering the stolen goods and helping them, among which Liu Zongmin contributed the most, and the two of them combined, and said: "Back to the emperor, there are about 70 million taels of silver." Given some more time, it will not be a problem to make up enough 10,000 taels. ”

Li Zicheng waved his hand and said, "According to my intentions, this pursuit of stolen goods and subsidies will stop." Seventy million taels of silver, enough for us to spend a few years. Nowadays, the scope of recovery of stolen goods and subsidies is getting bigger and bigger, and the behavior of the people below is becoming more and more unpleasant, which leads to complaints from gentry everywhere.

We have conquered the world now, and if we want to govern the world well, we can't let all places rebel against us, so I am in charge, and this recovery of stolen goods and wages will stop today. ”

"Your Majesty........" Liu Zongmin didn't want to stop, he stood up and was about to argue.

Li Zicheng's face was solemn: "I have already made an order, and if it stops, it will stop." ”

Liu Zongmin couldn't help but glared angrily at Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and other civil officials, he knew that this matter was definitely not a whim of Li Zicheng, but a discussion with these civil officials. Since ascending the throne and becoming emperor in Xi'an, Li Zicheng has listened more and more to these civil officials, which made Liu Zongmin and some other old brothers who fought the world very unconvinced.

At the beginning, this policy also has a limited scope, and it is also a showdown nature, according to the grade of officials, the payment is not equal to the stolen silver, a grade official is 100,000 taels, and so on.

However, when Li Zicheng handed over this matter to Wu in the future, he also announced that the silver taels of the institute would be used as the salary of the whole army, which made all policy constraints come to naught. The scope of the recovered stolen goods and subsidies is getting bigger and bigger, from the beginning of the set of officials above the third grade, brocade guards, nobles, eunuchs, etc., affecting all the privileged classes of the Ming Dynasty, including the gentry, and even the wealthy class.

Although there was a certain rationality in recovering stolen goods and subsidies, it also shook the loyalty of the new Ming Dynasty officials to Dashun, and the local government also resisted more and more.

Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance were thinking about the long-term peace and stability of Dashun, and proposed to stop the recovery of stolen goods and salaries, and for the officials who were hiding, they also changed the policy of killing if they were caught, and released most of them.

Not only in governance, Li Zicheng more and more rely on civil officials, but also in attitude, some time ago, the court discussed the appeasement of Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng felt that Wu Sangui's heart of obedience was not successful, and he wanted to use both soft and hard, so that Liu Zongmin led his troops to Shanhaiguan to make a forced landing, who knew that Liu Zongmin confronted him in public, saying that everyone is a thief, why are you enjoying happiness in the capital, we are going to fight, and Li Zicheng is very unhappy.

In the past few days, Li Zicheng has applied both soft and hard to the generals, making everyone a lot more honest.

Li Zicheng didn't wait for the generals to attack, and immediately said: "Everyone, Wu Sangui's guy, Yang Fengyin disobeys, refuses to surrender, originally thought that it was just an ordinary Ming army, and it was enough to send a partial division to threaten, but Tang Tong led 7,000 people, Wu Sangui was unmoved, and now it seems that he can only send a large army to conquest."

It just so happened that the recovery of stolen goods and the help of the salary were raised, and all the ministries immediately gathered and went to the conquest with my relatives, regardless of whether Wu Sangui was willing to surrender or not, the closure must be in the hands of the imperial court.

What do you think? ”

As soon as Liu Zongmin and other generals entered Beijing, they were fascinated by the world of flowers in front of them, and they couldn't help but be a little slack.

Niu Jinxing smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the reason why Wu Sangui is repeated, is that he looks forward and backwards, and he is quite ambitious, and he wants the court to give the marquis land and give him a generous reward. Second, it is also because of uneasiness that in the past few days of correspondence with Guan Ning, Wu Sangui has mentioned the situation of his relatives in the capital several times, saying that the Wu family was chased for stolen goods and paid, and his father was tortured to death.

Although the Wu family has not been recovered, Wu Sangui's words are conclusive, and there seems to be some major concerns.

I don't know if the emperor will conquer Shanhaiguan this time, or will he pay equal attention to suppressing and appeasing? ”

"The four words I just changed to respect God and love the people are my heart. If Wu Sangui is attached, he is also the people of Dashun, how can I easily use swords and soldiers to lead the army to conquer in person, I just pay attention to the defense of the gate and protect our Dashun world.

I don't know, why Wu Sangui has concerns, didn't I ask Tang Tong to bring Wu Xiang's letter? Li Zicheng asked.

Niu Jinxing's face was straight, and he said: "Wu Sangui did receive Wu Xiang's letter, and he heard that his family was safe and did not intrude, and he was very grateful for the emperor's kindness, but he also learned about it from this, saying that he had a concubine, named Chen Yuanyuan, who was given by Zhu Mingxungui, and Wu Sangui liked it very much, but when the army entered the city, he was taken captive by our army.

As a result, Wu Sangui was worried about whether the imperial court was sincere to him. ”

"Oh, don't hurry up and find that woman, this place of Guanning is the throat of the capital, if Guanning is lost, the capital will be unstable, and if the capital is unstable, the Central Plains will be turbulent. How can I be a mere woman and shake the foundation of my Dashun. This truth, let's go up and down the army, which one doesn't understand, I don't believe it, my brothers, nephews, and generals follow the family, there are such people who don't know the general situation. Li Zicheng's face was solemn and he said immediately.

Liu Zongmin's face turned red at this time, and the eyes of the people around him were on him, Liu Zongmin saw Chen Yuanyuan when he entered the city, attracted by his beauty, and took away the occupation, although this matter is not known to everyone, but many people also understand this section, at this time Li Zicheng said it openly, and he did not know the general situation, hindering the society, although he did not name him, Liu Zongmin also felt that his face was extremely dull.

And Li Zicheng didn't know that Liu Zongmin had occupied Chen Yuanyuan, and the reason why he didn't break it was to leave some face for this old subordinate, and also to make a public show of his prestige.

"Ruhou!"

When Liu Zongmin was ashamed to find a crack in the ground to get into, Li Zicheng actually called his name, Liu Zongmin immediately knelt on the ground to admit his mistake, but he heard Li Zicheng say: "Marquis Ru, the generals who entered Beijing, with your greatest merit and highest prestige, on weekdays, the army is obedient to you."

This woman is related to the peace of the society, and the matter of finding her will be left to you. You will also punish those who robbed this woman, and never let it happen again, you hear. ”

"Marquis Ru, the emperor is talking to you." Li Guo kicked him in the foot.

Liu Zongmin nodded immediately, he knew that this was Li Zicheng who gave him the steps, and immediately said: "The emperor can rest assured, Weichen will return that woman to Zhao." ”

"Okay, then I will entrust it to you, you do things, I am most assured." Li Zicheng saw that Liu Zongmin responded and preserved the dignity of the two, and he liked it very much in his heart, and said to him.

Li Zicheng said: "After the generals go, check the soldiers and horses, and set out tomorrow, and the righteous marquis will ......." ”

Zhang Nai, who was in the middle of the generals, stood up, he was thin, his skin was dark, and there were many scars among the exposed skin on his body. Although he is young, he has great achievements, he is a general in the children's army who was promoted and trained by Li Zicheng, can fight well, and is extremely loyal.

"You are the striker, the commander's department, Tian Hu assists, and the other Bai Guangen department is handed over to you, and immediately go to Shanhaiguan to assist Tang Tong, I lead the main force, and then arrive." Li Zicheng commanded.

"Wechen obeys." Zhang Nai nodded heavily.

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