A green cloth sedan chair was closely guarded by more than 100 Dashun soldiers, and walked all the way along the heavenly street. www.biquge.info The former Ming officials along the way saw this sedan chair coming from a distance, as if they had seen the enemy who killed their father, and pounced on it, pointing at the sedan chair and scolding loudly. If it weren't for the fact that the sedan chair was strictly guarded by the Dashun soldiers with knives and guns, I was afraid that the passengers in the sedan chair would be dragged out of the sedan chair by these people and beaten to death on the heavenly street.

"The former rebel minister should be cut with a thousand knives!"

"Tyrant Eagle Dog Minions, you deserve to die!"

"The mantis arm is a car, resist the destiny of heaven, I saw the saint today, see what else you have to say!"

"You have harmed the people in the land of Sanqin, wantonly looted the people's fat and ointment for the tyrant to squander, and today you are justified in the punishment of the Ming Dynasty!"

The noisy denunciation and cursing waves, wave after wave through the thin sedan drapery to the ears of the passengers in the sedan car, although he is called the deaf grandson, but such a powerful decibel of denunciation and cursing, even if you are deaf, you can distinguish one from the other.

After Sun Chuanting was defeated in Lingbao, he was escorted by the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp to cross the Yellow River and retreat to Shanxi. As news of his defeat reached Beijing, the clamor for his impeachment reached new heights. For the generals who have lost the strength of their soldiers and horses, there is no taboo in the civil and military affairs of the court. What's more, he, Sun Chuanting, has offended the gentry, eunuchs, clans, and wealthy businessmen in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places. So, Chongzhen had no way to shelter him, so he had to issue an order to order the people of Jingying to return to Beijing, and by the way, Sun Chuanting was sent to the prison of the Criminal Department to be punished.

As a result, this punishment was until the Dashun army broke through the city of Beijing.

If it weren't for the officials of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and Yushitai who planned to use Sun Chuanting's head to show their loyalty in front of Li Zicheng, I am afraid that Li Zicheng would not know that Sun Baigu, the deaf grandson of Sun Baigu, who had been on the battlefield with him for several years and almost killed him many times, was now in the cell of the Criminal Department.

After hearing the news, when Li Qiang was ordered to send people, "Invite Mr. Sun to me, I have something to ask him." For a character like Sun Chuanting, Li Zicheng does not have any ill feelings in his heart, on the contrary, as a commander and the emperor of Dashun, he hopes that there will be more people like Sun Chuanting under his command and be loyal to the king.

"The various systems implemented by Sun Baigu in the land of Sanqin are measures to benefit the country, benefit the people, enrich the country and strengthen the army. It's a pity that the people I met were all some corrupt officials, and if I could meet the master, I think I would also be a good minister in the world. In the Wuying Palace, Li Zicheng praised Sun Chuanting unabashedly in front of the military ministers.

"If Sun Baigu understands the general trend and knows the destiny of heaven, the minister is willing to give him the position of prime minister." Li Yan also agreed with Li Zicheng's words very much, and expressed his attitude very cooperatively.

"Sun Lao'er is not only a great local government minister, but also a good hand at training troops and fighting wars." Talking about his old rival, Liu Zongmin couldn't help but let out a heartfelt admiration.

"That's it. As long as Sun Lao Xian'er is willing to submit to my great shun, I will not be stingy with high-ranking officials. ”

Although they have been dealing with each other on the battlefield for many years, it is the first time that Sun Chuanting, Li Zicheng and others have been in the same room so closely, and the two sides are so close that they can clearly see the scattered hair and scars on each other's faces.

"You are Li Zicheng? You and I have seen each other for many years, and I don't want to be in this situation today. Sun Chuanting stood in the Wuying Palace, his face was like an ancient well, and his eyes were just staring at Li Zicheng.

"Bold!"

"Presumptuous!"

Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Li Yan, Niu Jinxing and others had not yet spoken, but a group of former Ming officials who were in Shaanxi Province were standing on the side, but they were the first to jump out, their eyebrows upside down and their eyes wide open, loudly scolding Sun Chuanting's rebellious behavior.

Looking at his subordinates in the old days in front of him, Sun Chuanting didn't bother to pay attention to it, just closed his eyes slightly, cultivated a ball of strength in his chest, and prepared to scold the thief calmly after a while.

"Mr. Shiratani, we have been friends for a long time, but it is a public grudge, not a personal vendetta. Speaking of which, I still admire you very much. I said it in front today, there are no eyes on the battlefield, no matter how many people die, it can't be a personal vendetta. ”

Li Zicheng waved his hand to stop these newly promoted courtiers from showing their loyalty, and just said what he thought in his heart. Looking at Sun Chuanting, who had a prisoner on his chest, Li Zicheng motioned with his eyes and ordered Li Qiang to take a brocade robe and drape it on Sun Chuanting.

Brocade robe, round stool, facing a series of kindness released by Li Zicheng, Sun Chuanting was noncommittal.

"Mr. Sun, say goodbye to Tongguan, I originally thought that you had been poisoned by Chongzhen, and I couldn't help but feel a little worried in my heart. I didn't want to enter Beijing, but I heard that my husband was trapped in a prison, which was really unexpected. ”

"Where is the Son of Heaven?" Sun Chuanting asked suddenly, which suddenly made the atmosphere awkward.

When the heavenly soldiers entered the city, Chongzhen tried in vain to resist, but he failed to resist, and tried to escape, leading the eunuchs to fight a near battle on the left side of Chaoyang Gate, and finally it was difficult to succeed. So, he committed suicide with hatred for the coal mountain. Li Yan told Chongzhen's ending truthfully on the side.

"Your Majesty! Sinners are capital offenders! Hearing Li Yan's words, Sun Chuanting immediately got up and fell to the ground, crying on the ground.

watched Sun Chuanting cry for a while, his voice gradually became low and hoarse, and someone next to him handed him hot tea and a hand towel, asking him to wipe the tears on his face and drink a few sips of hot tea to moisten his throat.

"Mr. Sun, you have known me for many years, and your knowledge is naturally not comparable to those corrupt officials. You might as well hold on to it, how is my Dashun compared to Chongzhen's Daming? ”

"The generals of Dashun all came from the fields, and they were good people who were difficult to make a living, and they were forced by life or the situation to rebel." Sun Chuanting was helped to the round bench, groaned slightly, and looked at Li Zicheng and the others in front of him and said these words quite earnestly.

"When a certain family was in charge of the military talisman that day, they knew the origin of the generals of your army. You, Li Zicheng, although respected as the king of Chuang, but you were only born as a post guard in Yinchuan, Shaanxi, if it weren't for the first emperor who listened to the traitor's words and abolished the post station, how could you take a risk? You, Liu Zongmin, are a Lantian blacksmith, and you are the most courageous in the camp. If it weren't for the urgency of urging taxes, you would still have hammers and tongs in your hands, not knives and guns. As for Li Gongzi, you originally planned to appease the hungry people in the land of Sangzi, so that they would not take risks and come out to give soup and persuade them. The original intention was just to protect the whole family from the disaster of covering the nest and having no eggs, but he was harmed by the bad gentry and corrupt officials in his hometown and had to raise an army. ”

In one breath, he said the background experience of the high-level of Dashun like a few treasures, Sun Chuanting looked up at the caisson of Wuying Palace, and muttered to himself: "The death of Daming is not the death of the Son of Heaven, but the death of such an official gentry." ”

"Therefore, you implemented the imitation Nanzhong system in Shaanxi and robbed them of their money, so they tried every means to force you to send troops to Tongguan to fight me. If it weren't for their help in the court, how could you have the defeat of Lingbao? ”

Speaking of the tens of thousands of new troops in the hands of Sun Chuanting and the last belongings of Emperor Chongzhen for their own selfish interests, the officials and gentry clans of Shaanxi Province did not hesitate to kick out of Tongguan and send them to the knife edge of Li Zicheng's army.

"After my Dashun army entered Sanqin, all the money and grain tax system was just like that of Mr. in Japan. even confiscated the wealth and land of the clan officials and gentry, which can be regarded as a bad breath for Mr. who was framed and persecuted by this generation. Li Yan said warmly, "Since ancient times, the Tao is not the same. The way of the gentleman is the same as the way of my Dashun Son of Heaven, why not go to the same end in different ways, and work together to seek a peaceful scene for the people of the world? ”

Lin Quan said it very well. Since I crossed the river to the east, everywhere I went, I looked at the scenery and went all the way to Beijing. It shows that the destiny of heaven and the aspirations of the people. What's more, sir, the law you have implemented in the land of Sanqin is as effective as I am. In the future, when the world is decided, Mr. will be in charge of the affairs of the New Deal of the Four Seas, or how about compiling a division of hundreds of thousands of tigers and pixiu? ”

Li Zicheng's conditions made the former Ming officials present all enthusiastic and heartbeat, although they saw the opportunity early, and changed their courts when they decided on Sanqin, and became the upstart of Dashun. With this kind of qualifications, as a dragon warrior, they are enough to be proud in front of the group of capital officials outside the hall who are kneeling respectfully in the courtyard. However, Li Zicheng did not come up and entrusted him with important tasks, using the new policies of the world to implement them, or the power to organize and train hundreds of thousands of new troops.

There are those who are famous, and they can't wait to immediately rush forward and knock down Sun Chuanting, and let him kowtow in front of Li Zicheng to thank him.

However, Sun Chuanting's move surprised everyone inside and outside the hall.

After thinking for a while, Sun Chuanting shook his head: "The prince is still here." ”

The hall was quiet for a moment, and the expressions on the faces of Li Zicheng, Li Yan, Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing and other high-level Dashun officials, as well as those former Ming officials, were uncertain.

After a while, Li Zicheng opened his mouth.

"Brother Bai Gu, if I tell you that Chongzhen's eldest son is guarding his spirit in the spirit shed outside the Donghua Gate at this moment, what should you do?"

"For the courtiers, you should cry and sacrifice in front of the king's father's spirit!" Sun Chuanting stood up and replied categorically.

In order to show his attitude towards Chongzhen, and at the same time, to recruit officials in the capital, in order to show the bearing of a monarch, Li Zicheng not only allowed Sun Chuanting to worship, but also went to worship in person as the son of Dashun.

Outside the spirit shed, there are naturally soldiers of the Dashun army to maintain order. After learning that the emperor was going to come to pay tribute, Shi Kecheng, who was temporarily appointed by Li Zicheng as the head of the Song Dynasty's mansion, knelt on the side of the road early because he reported that the crown prince Zhu Cihong was meritorious. On both sides of the road, it was even more dark and oppressive kneeling with officials of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing.

There is a proverb in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, which is called "The wife dies and the street is broken, and the old man dies and no one carries it." "It's about this kind of ecology that is very realistic in officialdom. They weep before the dead in order to buy it in front of the living. I won't mention other examples, the most famous is Cixi Lafayette.

Folk history says that her father Hui Zheng fled because he was beaten by the Taiping army and died in Zhenjiang when he was in charge of Ningchi Guangtai Road. Only the Cixi sisters and their mothers and other orphans and widows were left to carry the coffins into Beijing. At the end of the road, he received three hundred taels of silver from Wu Tang, the then commander of Qinghe County, in Qingjiangpu, which was tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow. Not only did he give money, but he also went to worship in person. Immediately, the two sisters were grateful. The elder sister said to the younger sister, "You must remember our benefactor, if he becomes rich and prosperous in the future, he will definitely repay this virtuous man!" And treasure Wu Tang's name card in the makeup box.

This story comes from Yun Yuding's "Chongling Letters", which is naturally not credible. When Hui Zheng died in office, Cixi had already entered the palace and became a Lan noble. However, Wu Tang does have some relationship with Cixi. Before Cixi grasped power, he has been serving as a county commander and other positions, Xianfeng ten years (1860) Wu Tang was promoted to Xu Hai Daoist, and assistant military affairs, Xianfeng eleven years promoted to Jiangning Bu political envoy and Caoyun governor, supervising Jiangbei grain, and then short-term transfer to Liangguang Governor, Liangjiang Governor, Fujian and Zhejiang Governor, can be said to be all the way up. Cixi also appointed him as the minister of the Imperial Mission for a time. In the first year of Tongzhi (1867), he was promoted to the governor of Sichuan, and the official was the first to wear a product, and in the first year of Guangxu (1875), Wu Tang was asked to open a vacancy due to illness, and died of illness in Sichuan in the second year of Guangxu. Moreover, whenever there is an impeachment of Wu Tang, they will not be released, or they will send someone to go through the motions lightly. After his death, Cixi decreed that he should be given the most meritorious title of Wenchen. In the memorial text, he praised him very much, "the pillars are high, and the pillars are respected." "Governing chaos through the state, outstanding achievements", and posthumously awarded him the title of "Qinhui Gong", and personally passed the decree to draw funds to build Wu Qinhui Gong Ancestral Hall in the three realms of Xuyi County, his hometown.

This word Hui is not something that can be given casually.

It's far away again. Let's turn around and continue to talk about Chongzhen's funeral!

The former Ming official who knelt outside the spirit shed naturally did not come for Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong, but to brush his sense of presence in front of Li Zicheng. Maybe once Jane is in the heart of the emperor, he will be able to soar.

Compared with the crowds on the road, the spirit shed really responded to the sentence "no one carries the old man when he dies", and it was deserted, only a few little eunuchs in the palace were waiting for Zhu Cihong to burn the paper money according to the rules and regulations of the etiquette system.

In front of the tablet of Chongzhen and his wife, Queen Yi'an and others, there are three pigs and sheep and a lot of fragrant flowers and fruits, although it is not prepared according to the number of rites of the Son of Heaven and the queen, but in this situation of the country and the family, it can be regarded as rich.

Sun Chuanting didn't care to look at the group of former colleagues who knelt down on the side of the road to greet Li Zicheng's royal drive, and let out a "long live" cheer like a tsunami, so he just stumbled and cried all the way, and went straight to the mourning shed.

The intrusion of his uninvited guest really scared Zhu Cihong. The appearance of the person in front of him is really too peculiar, he is wearing a cloak of brocade and mink, but under the cloak is a prison uniform, unkempt and bearded, and he keeps muttering: "The criminal is dead, and the criminal is late." ”

Sun Chuanting strictly followed the worship etiquette of the Son of Heaven in front of the Chongzhen couple in front of the spirit of the Chongzhen couple kowtowed, got up, danced, kowtowed again, incense, incense, incinerated paper money and a series of actions were completed, as the crown prince Zhu Cihong returned to worship as the Son of Man according to the funeral ceremony.

"This is absolutely unacceptable, and it will torment the criminal!" Sun Chuanting hurriedly picked up the crown prince Zhu Cihong, who bowed to him.

"Who is the Qing family?" Zhu Cihong opened a pair of red and swollen eyes from crying, and asked the name of the great loyal minister who was mourning and worshipping in front of the spirits of his father, queen and mother at this time and now.

"The sinner is..." Sun Chuanting didn't speak yet, but Shi Kecheng next to him opened his mouth first, "This lord is the secretary of the military department that day, and the governor of the three sides, Sun Chuanting, Lord Sun." was imprisoned by the tyrant Chongzhen without guilt, but fortunately the emperor's heavenly soldiers broke through the Beijing Division, so that he had a chance to see the light of day again, otherwise, it would be another strange injustice through the ages. ”

After being captured, Zhu Cihong, who was named the king of Song by Li Zicheng, refused to take a look at Shi Kecheng, who was named the chief of the Song Dynasty because he dedicated his whereabouts to the Dashun army. He knew that this guy was actually the caretaker who oversaw his own prisoner.

However, Sun Chuanting's situation is very different. He was thrown into the prison by his father because of the defeat of the army, and it can be seen from the brocade robe on his body that there is a great wealth in front of him right now, but he does not hesitate to offend the Dashun court, and respectfully worships in front of the spiritual seat of Chongzhen and his wife.

"Your Highness, who are these?"

Sun Chuanting pointed to the dozens of spiritual seats of different sizes and sizes listed on both sides of the offering table of Chongzhen and his wife, Empress Yi'an, Zhang Yan and others, and although he had some understanding in his heart, he still opened his mouth to ask Zhu Cihong.

Rao is Shi Kecheng can be a veteran of several dynasties in history, has experienced the Ming Dynasty, Dashun, the Qing Dynasty, in Chongzhen, Yongchang, Hongguang, Shunzhi, Kangxi and other emperors in front of the courtiers, born with an excellent foundation, at this time although the face has not been cultivated to the point of reaching the peak, but it is also quite a bit of the realm, but, listening to Sun Chuanting asked about these dozens of spiritual positions, but he couldn't help but have a slight cinnabar color on his face.

It just so happened that at this time, Li Zicheng, surrounded by Li Yan, Niu Jinxing and others, also stepped into the spirit shed, and he hurriedly rushed to serve, which can be regarded as avoiding this big embarrassment.

Shi Kecheng's name may be unfamiliar to everyone, but he has a good brother, but Kangxi built a martyr's shrine in Yangzhou. That's right, it's the chestnut that Lord Wei Xiaobao Wei planted in Yangzhou.

In history, Shi Kecheng is a famous family slave with three surnames and a veteran of the Five Dynasties. Unbelief? Let's take a look at how the Spring and Autumn penmanship in history is recorded!

But the law had no children, and the last order was followed by the deputy general Stilwell. There is a younger brother Kecheng, Chongzhen sixteen years of jinshi. Promoted Jishi. Jingshi fell, and the thief was surrendered. The thief is defeated and returns to the south, but the law can be ignored. The king can be lawful, so that the adoptive mother. But Cheng lived in Nanjing, lived in Yixing, and died after reading for 40 years. See, what's going on here? Mr. Shi Kecheng surrendered to Dashun as a scholar of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and after the defeat of Dashun, he went south to Nanjing and defected to the Hongguang court. After the Hongguang court was killed by Shui Taileng and others, he went home to serve his old mother because of his brother, and he lived a leisurely life for forty years. If he died after reading forty years, he died in 1685. Nima didn't say anything about Nanming and Wu Sangui at this time, that is, it had been two years since Ming and Zheng were destroyed.

What is it that is not a family slave with three surnames and a patriarch of the Five Dynasties? (To be continued.) )