Chapter 108 The Fat Mouse on the Giant Boat

"What to do is still to do according to the plan, do not celebrate, do not be vegetarian, the Ming Emperor is dead, our career has just started, guard against arrogance and rashness, step by step!"

After Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu returned from roaming in the mountains, Zhang Guozhu gave an order to the Lantian officials who were waiting in the big study.

The command is very plain and boring.

However, it was also because Yun Zhao faced Chongzhen's suicide with a normal heart that the enthusiasm of Lantian officials was low.

However, outside of Lantian, with the death of the emperor, people set off all kinds of waves.

Among them, the officials of Ying Tianfu learned that Chongzhen had committed suicide and that the whereabouts of the crown prince, King Yong, and King An were unknown, so they prepared to support the new king in line with the idea that the country could not be without a king for a day.

Li Yan, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing's son Liu Da, the four military towns with soldiers and horses, agreed that they should support Zhu Yousong, the eldest son of the late King Fu, as emperor.

However, the Nanjing Imperial Court believed that Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was more suitable.

Just when they were arguing, they suddenly found that the Lantian army had already left the pass, especially Lei Heng's southbound army, which had threatened Jiangnan.

They knew that once the Lantian army moved south, neither the four towns of Huaibei nor Shi Kefa's Nanjing army would be able to resist.

For this reason, Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying, Jiang Yueguang, Wang Duo, Zhang Shenyan, Liu Zongzhou and others believed that they could negotiate with Yunzhao to ensure that the river was drawn and ruled as the ultimate goal.

Originally, Yun Zhao was not interested in such a peace discussion, but when he heard that there was Zuo Maodi among the envoys who came to discuss peace, he immediately changed his mind and promised that he could discuss it properly.

For Zuo Maodi, Yun Zhao has coveted it for a long time.

When Chongzhen was three years old, this guy was the commander of Hancheng County in Guanzhong, and the reason why Hong Chengchou was able to defeat Li Hongji in Hancheng was due to this person, who was regarded as Zuo Qingtian by the people in Hancheng, and was enshrined in the Panthéon by the people when he left his post.

Hong Chengchou said; When I first knew Hancheng County, Liukou was three thin Hancheng, and then I trampled it again, and Mao Di led the people to fight, and he was the front, and he broke it away.

Guanzhong guarantee, push the first.

Yun Zhao also knew that Zuo Maodi, with his loyalty and strategy, tried his best to ensure the safety of one party, and made every effort to relieve disasters and save the hungry people, which could be regarded as a rare cadre among the Ming courtiers.

However, what Yun Zhao admired most about this person was that his bones were very hard.

He was supposed to send an envoy to the Manchu Qing at this time, giving Dolgon a headache and embarrassing countless Ming ministers, but for some reason he came to Guanzhong.

So, Yun Zhao waited for Zuo Maodi's arrival in joy and worry.

The progress of the armies of Lantian is very smooth, especially the action of the Yunyang Legion makes Yun Zhao the most happy, since the legion left Luoyang, it has advanced by leaps and bounds along the way, almost in a straight line from Luoyang to Baoding.

In just one month, Li Hongji's territory has been completely divided into two sections, and Li Dingguo's army has formed a flanking trend against the capital.

The capital must be taken in a short time, otherwise, Li Hongji will destroy the city.

The truth is just as Yun Zhao thought.

In the past, Yun Zhao always thought that the farmer thought that the emperor used a golden flat dan, a golden sickle, ate with a golden bowl, watched a play every day, and wore new clothes was just a kind of rhetoric that people ridiculed the farmer's eyes.

However, since Li Hongji entered the capital, he found that this seemed to be true.

The people of the capital cheered on their clothes and hats with the word Shunmin, and they began to regret it on the tenth day after the king entered the capital.

After Li Hongji lived in the palace, the first thing he did was to summon the most famous actor in the capital, the tailor, into the palace, sing music for Li Hongji, tailor, drink all day long, listen to music, and seemed to have forgotten the fact that the Lantian army was close at hand, and only wanted to enjoy as much as possible, enjoy, and enjoy.

Li Hongji watched plays, listened to music, drank wine, and was very busy.

His men were even busier.

Niu Jinxing, who appointed himself as the prime minister, only entered the capital for ten days, and accepted more than 600 protégés, and at the instigation of the protégés, he began to embark on the first scientific expedition of the Dashun Dynasty.

Bull Venus's Wenzhi proved to be a success.

He set the question and held a big exam to "seek talents" for the new dynasty.

There are three questions in the exam: "The World Returns to Benevolence", "Visiting China and Fu Siyi", and "There is no Disadvantage from God's Blessing".

For a time, the Confucian students of Shuntianfu begged for the test and filled the city, and for a time, Wenchang starry and prosperous!

As for Liu Zongmin, this guy is very embarrassed by the face of Lantian people.

After he entered the city, he endured only ten days, and only restrained his subordinates for ten days. The adulterers were crucified and killed, and hundreds were killed.

When he found out that the Ming treasury, there were only 100,000 taels of gold and 120,000 taels of silver in the palace, and the gold bricks laid in the emperor's palace were not really made of gold, and the whole person was not very good.

You must know that the reason why Li Hongji abandoned Huainan and most of Shandong's foundation was to the capital, and they believed that as long as the capital was captured, the Dashun army would have countless gold and silver.

Now that he has searched the palace, just such a little gold and silver is far from enough for Li Hongji to reward these subordinates who have followed him for many years and only think about getting promoted and making a fortune.

After reporting to Li Hongji, Li Hongji was naturally very disappointed.

Li Hongji's life has dominated the world, and the corruption of officials in the Ming Dynasty has naturally touched him personally, coupled with the experience of robbing families for many years, since the emperor has no money, and money will not disappear for no reason, then, money must be swallowed up by corrupt officials and corrupt officials in collusion with big businessmen and wealthy families.

So, under the instigation of Liu Zongmin, Tian Hu, Li Yu and other generals, the heavy task of "torture" was handed over to Liu Zongmin to carry out.

There was no money, so the first person Liu Zongmin found was to lead the soldiers of the three major battalions of the Beijing battalion in the north. The first Ming Dynasty relative to surrender outside the capital, Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng.

Liu Zongmin first tortured him, burned a small fire, smashed the big board, and tortured all night, and finally let this Xiangcheng uncle die of extreme pain.

Seeing that no money was plundered, Liu Zongmin gave an order, soldiers broke into his house, and dozens of people gang-raped Li Guozhen's wife and all the women in the house, and then held Li Guozhen's wife naked on a horse, and shouted as he walked on the street: "Come and see, this is the wife of Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng!"

The soldiers laughed and plucked their breasts.

The history books say: "There is no shame more than this." ”

Chen Yan, a scholar, has always been shrewd, and as early as Liu Zongmin ordered: "To offer silver to the official, a product must offer tens of thousands of silver, and the following must be worth thousands." Those who offer silver will be released immediately; Those who hide the silver and do not offer it will be punished and served. At that time, he offered to give 40,000 taels of silver.

And when Chongzhen needed the courtiers to donate two taels of silver to defend against the enemy, he donated two hundred taels of silver to the emperor under the pretext that he had been an honest official for many years and had no money to spare......

Just when Liu Zongmin was about to let Chen Yan go, the servant of the scholar reported that the underground of the scholar's mansion was full of hidden silver.

Liu Zongmin was furious and sent soldiers to dig in the university scholar's mansion, and sure enough, the courtyard was full of silver.

The furious Liu Zongmin began to serve the marquis, and tortured hundreds of taels of gold, and the pearls became treasures......

At this point, Liu Zongmin's deep hatred and old hatred for the Ming officials all broke out, and he stubbornly believed that none of the Ming officials were innocent.

He erected dozens of stabbing pillars at the gate, killing people in vain, and whether officials, wealthy people, or residents, as long as they looked like they had money in their families, they would definitely be invited here to be punished.

The poor officials of the Ming Dynasty, such as Hanlin and Kechen, were the most unlucky, and they couldn't get oil and water at home, and most of them were tortured and plundered to death.

Even so, the wind of torture in the capital still did not affect much.

It wasn't until the "old battalion" with the strictest military discipline under Li Hongji began to be dispatched that the capital suddenly became a hell on earth.

The soldiers and horses of the "old battalion" began to wreak havoc on the world, and it was purely Li Hongji's fault.

Li Hongji is very unparticular about eating, but he eats a little rice mixed with dried chili peppers, accompanied by spirits to serve rice, and does not set up a meal.

In terms of utensils, Li Zicheng used the crude military weapons in the camp in the past, and he had a bad eye for the delicate utensils of the dragon and phoenix in the palace, and he always felt that the "lifelike" artwork dragon and phoenix leaped was very ominous, so he never used it.

The old battalion of soldiers and horses stationed in the palace naturally learned from each other.

They used the exquisite and huge palace kiln flower jar in the palace as a manger, and dismantled the fine wooden doors and windows to burn the fire for cooking. Seeing that there were rare and skillfully carved rhinoceros horn cups in the inner storehouse, the soldiers used the larger ones for pounding garlic and the smaller ones for soybean oil as lamps, and did not hesitate to do anything.

Seeing that Liu Zongmin and other camps were rich, Li Zicheng's "old camp" had to use coarse rice, horses and beans as food, and these subordinates who had followed Li Hongji for the longest time and contributed the most were full of complaints, feeling that "breaking the king" was unfair.

So he went out of the palace in private, plundered and plundered, and went into private houses to rob money and commit adultery. In Anfu Hutong alone, more than 300 women were gang-raped to death overnight.

Han Lingshan and Xia Wanchun were still asleep.

It's just that their sleeping place has been moved from the pavilion to the underground.

Just above their heads, there lived more than sixty Dashun soldiers, and every day they could hear the voices of these people talking about how much gold and silver they had plundered.

If you sleep for a long time, it is naturally not very good for your body.

So, sometimes, they also sit up and talk.

"Uncle, how much silver do you think Li Hongji can get?"

Han Lingshan said: "There should be a lot. ”

"I think the capital is poor, there shouldn't be much."

"You are wrong, Li Hongji is not wrong at all, the silver money will not run away by itself, the emperor really has no money, but the officials are really rich."

"Why, when I hear their tragic situation, my heart is as calm as water?"