865 Liu Zongmin's Spring

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In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, on August 28, Li Zicheng broke through the capital, Chongzhen hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty perished, which was half a year earlier than the original history.

After Li Zicheng led the Dashun army into the capital, it took only one day to clear the Ming army in the city.

Most of the Ming army did not continue to resist, but surrendered to the Dashun army.

At the beginning, Li Zicheng ordered that the soldiers of Dashun would not commit any crimes against the people, and if there were any wounds, looting, or rape, they would be severely punished.

It was precisely because of Li Zicheng's order that after the Dashun army invaded the capital, the order in the capital did not occur in a big chaos, most of the shops were open for business, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

Except for the turmoil in the previous two days, the capital has changed to a new owner, and they have a new emperor, the lives of these people have not changed much.

The people of the capital who got the news also took to the streets one after another, shouting 'Long live the new emperor'.

At this time, the people of the capital really accepted the Dashun army and accepted Li Zicheng as the new emperor.

For these ordinary people, whether it is the previous Ming Dynasty or the current Dashun, it doesn't matter who rules them.

They only need Li Zicheng, the new emperor, who can let them live without losing to the previous life, and they will support Li Zicheng.

When Li Zicheng just entered the city, he had not forgotten Niu Jinxing's advice, and he still had the grand ideal of being a founding emperor and a celebrity for eternity.

Li Zicheng did not do a good job, not only stabilized the order of the capital, but also ordered Chongzhen to be buried.

But it's a pity that these soldiers of the Dashun Army are all people, most of them were displaced people before, and they were all people at the bottom of the northwest.

How could they have ever seen such a prosperous capital, full of magnificent palaces and mansions, which made them happy when they were dumbfounded.

These Dashun soldiers were on the battlefield one by one, they were fierce soldiers who were not afraid of death, strong-willed, unstoppable, and defeated one enemy after another.

However, now that they have conquered the capital of the Ming Dynasty, they think that it is time for them to enjoy themselves.

In the face of all the temptations in the capital, the will of these peasant soldiers became so weak.

At the beginning, some Dashun soldiers did not control themselves and committed treachery and robbery, but they were ordered to be executed by Li Zicheng.

With such a lesson, those Dashun soldiers dare not commit it again, no matter how great the temptation is, it is not as important as their own lives!

However, after Li Zicheng entered the Daming Palace, he never expected that the first to come down was not the soldiers under his command, but himself.

Although Chongzhen died, there were still 3,000 beauties and countless beauties in the Ming Palace.

Men love beautiful women, this is the same path since ancient times, and Li Zicheng is not exempt from vulgarity.

Li Zicheng, who lived in the palace for a few days, was gradually corrupted by the life of a drunken gold fan, and played with the beauties in the palace all day long.

Even, Li Zicheng especially likes a palace named Dou Meiyi, and after being pampered, he directly made him the imperial concubine.

After Li Zicheng entered the palace, he was not as diligent as Chongzhen, and he basically didn't care about things.

At this time, the other generals of the Dashun Army were also busy in the city, accepting the banquets of the ministers and relatives left behind by the Ming Dynasty, and they were very busy.

Soon, Li Zicheng enjoyed himself in the palace and became a concubine, and the generals of the Dashun Army ate and drank everywhere, enjoying the flattery of those Ming ministers and relatives.

And those ordinary Dashun soldiers were required to abide by military law, maintain order in the city, and do nothing, which made the Dashun soldiers extremely dissatisfied.

Li Zicheng, you are the emperor, live in the palace, sleep with beautiful women, we little soldiers can't envy you.

But anyway, if you eat a lot of meat, you have to leave some residual juice for us soldiers to taste, otherwise we will work hard to support you and build the capital for you, what is it for!

Soon, dissatisfaction spread among the soldiers of Dashun, and in this way, Ruhou Liu Zongmin found an opportunity.

Liu Zongmin was very dissatisfied with Li Zicheng's frightened order to 'do nothing to the people' after entering Beijing.

Liu Zongmin objected to Li Zicheng many times, and he believed that the soldiers should relax and reward them for their hard work in the capital.

Even, Liu Zongmin took the initiative to ask Li Zicheng for help, asking him to be responsible again, and torture those Ming Dynasty remnants, relatives, and big families in the city to squeeze out their family property.

Liu Zongmin likes this kind of torture very much, and this errand is also a big fat mess, which can allow Liu Zongmin to take the opportunity to make money.

At the beginning, Liu Zongmin was ordered by Li Zicheng to torture and plunder the large families of honorable relatives in Luoyang, Xiangyang and Xi'an.

In the end, although Liu Zongmin finally handed over most of the silver he had plundered to Li Zicheng, he himself did not take the opportunity to enrich his own pockets.

Now, the Dashun army has finally entered the capital, how can Liu Zongmin give up such a great opportunity.

In the capital, there are many officials, relatives, eunuchs, wealthy merchants, and landlords left by the Ming Dynasty than in Xi'an and other cities.

Liu Zongmin has always been impatient, but as soon as he made such a request, he was jointly opposed by Song Xiance, Li Guo and other generals of the Dashun Army.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Li Zicheng didn't agree to him, but he never gave up this idea.

Even, in the first few days, although Li Zicheng explicitly forbade harassment and looting of the people in the city, this was also useful to ordinary Dashun soldiers.

For Liu Zongmin, an out-and-out rogue general, he didn't like Li Zicheng's order, and he didn't listen to it.

Liu Zongmin took some henchmen and generals without authorization, robbed several wealthy businessmen and officials of the Ming Dynasty, and raped women, acting recklessly.

In this regard, Song Xiance, who was appointed by Li Zicheng to maintain order in the capital, could not do anything with Liu Zongmin.

Fortunately, only Liu Zongmin and a small number of his henchmen did this kind of hurtful thing, and Song Xiance had no choice but to suppress the matter out of consideration for the overall situation, and Liu Zongmin could not be held accountable.

Even, once, at the invitation of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Zongmin took a group of generals of the Dashun Army.

This banquet was held in Wu Xiang's mansion, that is, Wu Sangui's father.

As a result, Liu Zongmin saw Wu Sangui's favorite concubine Chen Yuanyuan in Wu Xiang's mansion, and he was immediately shocked, and he liked it very much, and then forcibly occupied it and took it away.

With it, the dissatisfaction of the soldiers of the Dashun army in the city became more and more serious.

Liu Zongmin also jumped out again and made a statement to Li Zicheng, allowing him to torture the nobles of Mingguan in the capital in order to obtain enough money and silver to reward the soldiers of the three armies.

In fact, after Li Zicheng just entered the city, the surrender officials in the city led by Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, and Zhang Jinyan, and the Ming Dynasty relatives led by Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and many wealthy businessmen in the city, all took the initiative to offer beauties and gold and silver to Li Zicheng.

It's a pity that some of these people donated 100,000 taels, some gave 150,000 taels, and the most they gave only 200,000 taels.

This kind of tree is much more than the one hundred taels, five hundred taels, and one thousand taels that Chongzhen gave when he raised donations for them.

When these officials took the initiative to give so much gold and silver to themselves, even Li Zicheng was shocked.

In the end, the silver donated by these Ming officials and wealthy families was nearly eight million taels, almost catching up with Li Zicheng's harvest of turning Xi'an upside down.

Li Zicheng felt quite satisfied with the interest of these officials and their relatives and their willingness to offer gold and silver.

But Liu Zongmin was not satisfied, he always believed in his heart that the money and silver donated by these officials and relatives would definitely not be all their family property.

In the end, Li Zicheng also saw that if this continued, his men and horses would be unstable, so he finally agreed to Liu Zongmin's request.

Let Liu Zongmin torture and plunder those ministers, nobles, and gentry in the capital, and strive to torture and plunder more money and silver, which will be used to reward the soldiers and calm the dissatisfaction of the soldiers.

At this moment, Liu Zongmin was very happy, and hurriedly went back to gather his soldiers and began to torture and plunder various Ming officials, relatives, and gentry in the capital.

Soon, tens of thousands of horses under Liu Zongmin's command began to arrest high-ranking officials and relatives of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the heads of wealthy gentry and families in the city.

"According to the arrest on the list, you are not allowed to miss any of them, and all of them are sent to prison, and if there is one less, you will not be able to spare you."

A large group of Dashun soldiers appeared on the street, and a general of the Dashun army gave each of his men a list and asked them to arrest people according to the names on the list.

These lists include the names of all officials above the seventh grade in the Ming Dynasty, the major gentry, and the wealthy business owners, and Liu Zongmin sent people to collect them just after he entered the city.

Immediately, this brigade of soldiers of the Dashun Army was divided into small groups and squads, and according to the names written on the list, they rushed to various mansions to arrest people.

At this time, situations like this can be seen everywhere in the entire Daming capital.

The people were also frightened by such a big battle suddenly made by the Dashun army, and they all hid at home one by one.

Fortunately, Liu Zongmin's arrest list is limited to those officials, relatives and big families in the city, and there are no ordinary people.

Moreover, on these arrest lists, the names of Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ming Military Department, and Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, are written.

Liu Zongmin did not leave them out at all because of the previous exploits of these two people in opening the city gate for the Dashun army.

"What are you doing, I'm Wei Zaode, who let you break in."

Soon, a team of Dashun army soldiers broke into the mansion of the university scholar Wei Zaode, and he was angry and scolded these Dashun army soldiers on the spot.

Since Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Wei Zaode and Chen Yan and others greeted him together and presented the persuasion table, Wei Zaode has been honestly staying in his home.

Wei Zaode believes that with his own talents, Li Zicheng will reactivate him sooner or later, and he can still make a comeback and pay homage to the prime minister.

However, today he never expected that what he was waiting for was not Li Zicheng's order to reuse him, but a team of soldiers of the Dashun Army with guns and sharp.

"You're Wei Zaode, that's right, take it away."

A general of the Dashun Army had a cold face, looked at Wei Zaode, who was furious at this time, and said in a cold voice.

Then, immediately, several Dashun soldiers rushed over, directly restrained Wei Zaode, and forcibly took him away.

"How can you do this, I am Wei Zaode, I want to see your general, I want to see the emperor, you can't do this to me."

Wei Zaode yelled unwillingly.

But unfortunately, those soldiers of the Dashun Army did not listen to his shouts at all and forcibly took them away.

Even, due to Wei Zaode's continuous struggle, a Dashun sergeant punched him directly in the stomach, which immediately made him honest.

"Disperse, take away all the men in his house, and if anyone dares to resist, they will be killed on the spot."

The cold-faced general of the Dashun Army continued to give orders.

Subsequently, Wei Zaode and other sons and other family males were all taken away by this team of Dashun soldiers and taken to prison.

At this time, many high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty like Wei Zaode in the city suffered exactly the same experience as him, and all of them were forcibly taken away by the soldiers of the Dashun army.

Some people were even killed directly by the Dashun soldiers because they resisted slightly.

"What are you doing here, I'm Zhang Jinyan, don't you know that this is my mansion?

Whose soldiers are you? Who let you trespass into my house? ”

When a team of soldiers of the Dashun Army broke into Zhang Jinyan's house, they first frightened Zhang Jinyan.

Immediately, Zhang Jinyan also asked with a black face.

"Lord Zhang, I and even a junior general under your command are now under the order of your Hou to bring Lord Zhang over to ask about something.

Please also ask Master Zhang to cooperate, otherwise I will have to let the brothers behind me do it themselves.

They are all rough people, and they are not light or heavy, if they hurt Lord Zhang at that time, it will not be good. ”

A general of the Dashun Army looked at Zhang Jinyan with a smile and said, the last threatening meaning in his words was very obvious.

These soldiers of the Dashun Army treated Zhang Jinyan as rudely as they did with Wei Zaode, which was also ordered by Liu Zongmin.

After all, Zhang Jinyan took the initiative to join the Dashun army before, and made great contributions to the Dashun army's invasion of the capital.

Li Zicheng said that they should give preferential treatment to Zhang Jinyan and Zhu Chunchen, who took the initiative to take refuge in them.

Otherwise, others will say that he Li Zicheng crossed the river and demolished the tower, and who would be willing to surrender to him in the future.

Li Zicheng had spoken, and Liu Zongmin couldn't help but listen, but he didn't want to miss the Zhang family's property, so he had to 'invite' Zhang Jinyan away.

"You ......, okay, I'll go with you, you don't hurt my family."

In the end, in the face of the threat of this general of the Dashun Army, Zhang Jinyan still relented and did not dare to resist.

The entire capital was disturbed by Liu Zongmin like this, and immediately became chickens and dogs, and everyone was panicked, for fear that they would also be taken away by these soldiers of the Dashun Army.

The arrest of the soldiers of the Dashun Army lasted all day, and the prison in the entire Daming capital was already overcrowded.

At the same time, Liu Zongmin also asked his subordinates to step up the creation of execution tools, and rushed out 5,000 pairs of clamping sticks, ready to be used to greet those important ministers and relatives of the Ming Dynasty.

This is not the first time Liu Zongmin has done this kind of torture of officials and gentry, and he has already been familiar with the road and carried out very quickly.