After paying the "subsidy" with real money, the Wen Mansion got a temporary peace. Compared with other colleagues, Wen Tiren is much more decisive and fortunate - many officials have been tortured to death because they cannot meet the standard of "subsidy", and Liu Zongmin has already died in the courtyard of Uncle Tian Guo's mansion.

However, the tranquility was only temporary, and two days later, bad news followed: first, Empress Yi'an, who had time to commit suicide when the city was broken, rejected the proposal of the Dashun regime to be raised in the palace and returned to her mother's house to hang herself; Then the bodies of Chongzhen and Wang Chengen were found on the coal mountain; Next, King Yong and King Ding, who were hidden in the Jiading Bo Mansion, were dedicated to the Dashun Army by their maternal grandfather Zhou Kui, and were imprisoned in the prison, and their lives and deaths were uncertain.

In just a few days, Chongzhen's death was confirmed, and only the crown prince Zhu Cihong was left in his bloodline - if you don't count the Kunxing princess Zhu Yujiao, who disappeared in the military rebellion, the situation reached the worst.

Wen Tiren and others are well aware of the importance of the crown prince in this extraordinary period, and protecting the prince's safety has become the most important thing at the moment. They hid the prince well, the outside of the house was loose and the inside was tight, and no one in the palace was allowed to go out without Wen Tiren's permission, and they strictly guarded it to avoid news leakage. Even the family members who went out to buy daily necessities were monitored by Huanglong throughout the whole process.

Perhaps in response to that sentence, the most dangerous place is the safest place, the reward notice for the arrest of the prince has been posted at the door of the Wen Mansion, and the army that searched for the prince walked through the streets outside the mansion one by one, but no one thought that the target was under their noses, hiding in the home of the former cabinet chief. Wen Tiren was still calm, but Fang Zhenghua was young after all, and he was worried every day, worried that the army would rush in and take away the prince, and wipe out all of them, who harbored the "Qin criminals", and he couldn't eat and sleep restlessly every day, and fell ill after a few days.

In the Forbidden City, there was a high-five, and everyone was overjoyed. Chongzhen is dead, his heirs are not prosperous, two have been arrested, only one prince is left, the royal family of the previous dynasty has basically been eradicated, and the conditions for ascending the throne are ripe.

Li Zicheng handed over all matters related to his accession to Song Xiance and others, and then grabbed a few officials from the Ministry of Rites of the former dynasty to assist him, and waited for the arrival of the enthronement ceremony.

At this moment, Gao Yigong suddenly came to the Qianqing Palace to ask for a meeting. Although Gao Yigong's status in the Dashun army is not as good as Liu Zongmin and others, as the younger brother of Gao Guiying in Li Zicheng's main room, Li Zicheng still attaches great importance to the face of the Buddha without looking at the face of the monk, and after hearing the news, he met with this wife and brother in the Qianqing Palace.

"Yigong, what do you want to do to Lone Face when you ask to see him today?"

Gao Yigong knelt down with a plop: "Please forgive the minister for the capital crime!" My Dashun army is stationed in Beijing, raping and plundering everywhere, has the emperor ever known? ”

"How so...... Robbing everywhere? ”

"Yes, sometimes they forcibly borrow and do not pay it back, sometimes they say it is requisitioned, and sometimes they break into people's houses in the middle of the night and openly rob them. This kind of thing is often continuous, has the emperor ever known? ”

"Are you telling the truth?"

"If the minister is untruthful, please cut off my head!"

Li Zicheng was greatly surprised in his heart, but he couldn't believe it, and said: "Before the army entered the inner city, Lone gave repeated orders: this time is different from the past, the past set should be reined in, we are now fighting the world, not thieves who grab a handful and leave." Lone remembers that the day after entering the inner city, the patrol caught a few soldiers robbing in shops outside the front gate, and Zong Min immediately ordered the small leader led by him to be beheaded at the intersection of the street and hang his head on a tree, how could there be a robbery? ”

"Three days after Liu Ye killed someone, there were more and more robberies. In the streets and alleys, the military and civilians are mixed, living together, it is not easy to inspect, and it is impossible to prevent it. More than 200,000 horses, good and bad, killing one or two people is a! …… Ah, I said foul words in front of the emperor, capital crime, capital crime! …… The capital is a rich place, how many of them do not have ready-made gold and silver? Don't have ready-made gold and silver jewellery and all kinds of soft things? The officers and soldiers followed the emperor to fight the world, suffered for more than ten years, the black eyes could not see the silver, and the silver with white flowers was particularly shining, who would miss this good opportunity to lose it and not come again? Your Majesty, if it goes on like this, it will be difficult for me to build a country in Dashun, I am afraid that I will lose the hearts of the people first! ”

Li Zicheng was silent for a while, and then asked, "You said there are still adulteres?" ”

Gao Yigong couldn't help but burst into tears, "My Dashun army was fine a few days ago after entering the inner city, but five days later, the rape of women will be there." In this way, as long as there are a few incidents, the whole city will panic. It is difficult to say exactly how many cases of rape there were. While some rumors are groundless rumors, some things are true. It was rumored in the capital that more than 300 women threw themselves into the well and hung the beam in the night of Anfu Hutong, and the ministers visited again and again, and there were indeed more than 100 people. There was also a fourteen-year-old girl who was dragged to the top of the city and died. Your Majesty, those who have won the hearts of the people since ancient times have won the world. After the soldiers entered Beijing, they robbed and committed adultery, ruining your good reputation. How can we build a unified iron country? ”

Li Zicheng was surprised, and he was furious and punched the imperial case, and asked: "The military discipline of the army is so corrupt, why doesn't Liu Zongmin care?" Didn't he know anything about it? ”

Gao Yigong lowered his voice: "Liu Ye was in charge at the beginning, but after a few days, Tian Huang gave him a few singers, he hugged the beauty all day long, and turned a blind eye to other people's rape of ** women, lest the people under him say that he eats meat, and others can't even drink soup." ”

Li Zicheng was so angry that he paced back and forth: "How can this be reasonable! Gu has not yet ascended the throne, the country has not yet been stabilized, how can they ruin Gu's reputation so much? ”

After pacing back and forth a few times, he suddenly stopped and said loudly, "Go to Zong Min with Gu and ask for an understanding." ”

Uncle Tian Guo's mansion, hall.

A fire was lit in the hall, and a few red-hot soldering irons were inserted in the furnace, and a dozen shirtless soldiers surrounded several officials tied to the shelves with leather whips in their hands, and shouted at them. Liu Zongmin sat on the chair at the top and watched for a long time, surrounded by two weak women trembling and pouring him wine.

An official who was whipped covered in blood and ragged clothes begged for mercy hoarsely: "General Liu, spare the officials, I really can't take out so much silver!" ”

Liu Zongmin snorted, and a soldier understood, and said loudly: "The emperor ordered the chief sentinel to pursue the salary, and the rules are also very clear: 70,000 in the middle hall, 50,000 in the ministry, courtyard, Jingtang, Jinyi, 30,000 in the Dao, officials, and ministry, 20,000 in Hanlin, and the subordinates are in the thousands. You are a science and technology official, and you have to get at least 30,000 taels of silver, otherwise you will not think about it or go out! ”