The time switched to a few hours before Chongzhen's hanging, and the night before the inner city was breached, Li Zicheng's base camp stationed outside Beijing's Fucheng Gate was brightly lit all night, and the generals of the Dashun army almost stayed awake all night. Not only because he was about to attack the core area of the capital, but also because Song Xiance put forward a proposal to become emperor.

Compared with the original historical emperor, Song Xiance's suggestion was a little hasty. In the original history, Li Zicheng accumulated a lot of money, returned to Shaanxi from Henan, defeated officers and soldiers several times, captured the entire territory of Shaanxi, proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, established a systematic political power organization, and then captured Shanxi, and only attacked the capital after having a relatively stable territory and foundation. From providing firearms, medicinal materials and other military supplies, to secretly blocking the Guanning army and containing the Qing army to the south, it created an extremely favorable situation for the Dashun army, and at the same time covered up the defects of the Dashun army's hasty army and weak foundation, which is not the same as Chongzhen's seventeenth year of being the emperor.

But the smoothness along the way made everyone selectively ignore these defects, and only the benefits brought by the emperor in their eyes, so no one pointed out that Song Xiance's suggestion was hasty, but agreed with one voice. The generals followed Li Zicheng from Shaanxi and Henan all the way to the capital, waiting for this day, everyone wanted to get the merit of the dragon and strive for the maximum benefits in the new dynasty.

The camp set up in the government office was brightly lit, and Li Zichengzhi sat proudly at the top and listened to Song Xiance's speech.

“…… The city is about to be broken, and the king of Shun should comply with the will of heaven and establish a new dynasty, with the country name Dashun, so as to take over the capital in a justifiable manner......"

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The country name Dashun is also made, but it has to have an era name, right?" The emperors of all dynasties have had era names. ”

Song Xiance had already had a case, and said calmly: "You can change Yuan Yongchang and abolish the Chongzhen era name." In addition, after King Shun became the emperor, he also changed his self-title, and he had to be called 'Lonely', and when he officially stationed in the Forbidden City and held the enthronement ceremony, he would be called 'I' to correct the situation. ”

When Li Zicheng heard the word "I", he couldn't help but smile when he thought of the scene when all the civil and military officials knelt down and bowed to him three times and nine times after sitting on the dragon chair.

"The Dashun army is all big and rough, where do you know this? Fortunately, Mr. Song was here. ”

Song Xiance said modestly: "Students are just doing a little bit for the foundation of Dashun." ”

Liu Zongmin's eyes rolled, and he raised his fist and shouted: "Since King Shun is going to be the emperor, everyone knows what to do, right?" He was the first to kneel down and shouted loudly: "Minister Liu Zongmin has seen the emperor, long live long live long live!" He didn't understand etiquette, he just painted the scoop according to the gourd in the play, and the wording was a bit nondescript, but no one in the Dashun Army, including Li Zicheng, understood it, and no one paid attention to these mistakes.

The rest of the generals reacted, knelt down in a hurry, and shouted long live with the mountain in a chaotic manner.

Li Zicheng laughed and said: "They are all their own brothers, the country is the one, and they are also the ...... of all brothers" Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Song Xiance and shook his head slightly, came to his senses, and changed his words, "After Gu ascends the throne, he will definitely not treat your brothers badly." ”

As he spoke, he raised his hands weakly, wanting to make everyone get up, but he didn't know what to say, and looked at Song Xiance for help.

Song Xiance opened his mouth and said a few words silently, Li Zicheng guessed from the mouth shape, and hurriedly said: "Flat!" ”

Knowing the meaning of the word, they immediately stood up, all with a smile on their faces, and whispered about what official position they would have.

Since you plan to be the emperor and the year name has been decided, the next step is to make arrangements after breaking through the inner city and entering the Forbidden City. At the suggestion of Song Xiance, Li Zicheng ordered Liu Zongmin to take people into the Qing Palace in the Forbidden City, search for the imperial family including Chongzhen, and strive to wipe out the royal bloodline to avoid any fish that slipped through the net, and at the same time arranged for people to maintain military discipline after entering the city, read the edict of Emperor Dashun, and let the officials and the people return to their hearts.

According to Song Xiance, it is okay to loot in the outer city, since he intends to be the emperor, the capital is his own foundation, after entering the inner city, buying people's hearts is more important than looting, Li Zicheng thinks so.

At dawn the next day, that is, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the ninth year of Chongzhen, under the cannon fire of the Dashun army, the nine gates of the inner city suddenly opened, and the attacking and defending sides seemed to have discussed it, and after the defenders stopped resisting, the entire Dashun army entered the city. Cao Huachun, who was in charge of the Imperial Horse Prison Army, greeted him respectfully at Fucheng Gate, and the rest of the eunuchs and generals who were in charge of the defense of the inner city stood behind him.

For this moment, Cao Huachun had been secretly discussing with the eunuchs and generals of the Beijing camp who held the military power for several days. They feel that the inner city will definitely not be able to hold it, rather than burning the jade, it is better to defect and change the court, anyway, Chongzhen is no longer able to return to the sky, and the change of dynasty is a foregone conclusion. Yesterday, they had sent people to the outer city to get in touch with the Dashun army, and reached a tacit understanding, the defense of the city was just for show, and did not exert any effort to defend it, giving the world an impression of "invincible in battle", and when it came to the scheduled time, the city gate was opened, and the Shun army was enlarged. If Chongzhen knew that his henchman's eunuch had betrayed him, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood, but when the city gate was opened, he had already arrived on the coal mountain and was ready to hang himself.

When the city gate was just opened, some of the soldiers and civilians defending the city in the west city did not know the conspiracy of the eunuch leaders, and when they saw that the Dashun army was about to enter the city, they fell into terror for a while, and they rolled down from the city and fled for their lives. After a period of chaos, the Dashun army entered the city from the city gates, and a cavalry entered the city from the Zhengyang Gate, about a thousand people, all of them were white hats and green clothes, wearing cotton armor, carrying bows and arrows, and after entering the city, they were divided into several teams, holding the order flag and arrows, and shouted while moving forward quickly:

"Emperor Yongchang of the Dashun Dynasty has an order, and he will lead a large army to Anru people, don't be alarmed. You must write the word 'Shunmin' on yellow paper and stick it on the hat and stick it to the door! ”

After all, Beijing has passed through the Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and has been under the emperor's hand for hundreds of years, and is a political city with high political sensitivity. After the people experienced the initial panic, they knew that Li Zicheng was going to enter the city, and he would also be called the emperor, in order to protect themselves, every household on the street invariably set up incense tables outside the gate, offering yellow paper tablets, and wrote in Gong Kai: "Long live the Yongchang Emperor", or write the Dashun Emperor as "Dashun Emperor", and also mistakenly write it as "Shuntian Emperor". The people who went out to inquire about the news wrote the word "Shunmin" on yellow paper and glued it to their hats.

In the chaos and wait-and-see of the Dashun army entering the city, Fang Zhenghua and Huanglong led a group of people to rush from the Xuanwu Gate to the mansion of Shoufu Wen Tiren before the army reached the imperial city. In the middle of this group of people, there was a young man with a panicked expression and wearing a eunuch's coat and hat, and his clothes were out of place with the people around him, and he was very conspicuous.