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Fengyang was originally just an inconspicuous small county town, but it was famous all over the world because of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor. In the second year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang set the capital of Fengyang, which was called the middle capital, and the southern capital Yingtian and the northern capital Shuntian were called the three capitals of the Ming Dynasty.

"The relics of Feng Ho in the middle capital, the palace and the two Jingzhi. Qianli Kuo Wangji, Batun Gongchenji. This poem depicts the grand occasion of Fengyang, the capital of China. The central capital covers an area of about 50 square kilometers, it is the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang set more than 2,000 years of Chinese capital architecture, carefully built a most extravagant capital. Its planning follows the royal city system of "Zhou Li and Examination of Gongji", which inherits from the Tang and Song dynasties and the Ming and Qing dynasties, and occupies an extremely important position in the history of the construction of ancient Chinese capitals.

Such a luxurious capital is now trembling under the torture of the exile army.

The imperial mausoleum in the south of the city outside the city is large-scale, originally called magnificent and solemn, and the luxurious and majestic Zhongdu Palace is far away. Soon after the exile army broke through Fengyang, Zhang Xianzhong ordered people to cut down all the hundreds of thousands of pines and cypresses around the imperial tomb, and dug up the mausoleum, destroying this solemn imperial tomb beyond recognition, and then burned it.

It seems that this is not enough to satisfy Zhang Xianzhong's desire to destroy, Zhang Xianzhong ordered people to tear down the Huangjue Temple of Zhu Yuanzhang's monk into ruins, and the Huangjue Temple of "palaces and pavilions, and magnificent regulations" turned into a pile of bricks and rubble.

After the imperial mausoleum was burned down, the Huangjue Temple was demolished again, and after the news was transmitted back to Beijing, Chongzhen put on filial piety clothes, ran to the temple and cried, and issued a "guilty edict" to announce the world.

After making a cameo appearance in the demolition brigade and demolishing the royal mausoleums and temples of the old Zhu family into a white ground, Zhang Xianzhong was complacent, and then returned to his old business of robbery, and after robbing the rich households in the city, he killed them all.

The silver was robbed of a lot of money, and the dragon vein of the old Zhu family's imperial tomb was broken, Zhang Xianzhong felt very satisfied, and began to turn his attention to the palace in Zhongdu.

Although the time of Zhongdu as the capital is very short, the construction of the imperial palace is not ambiguous at all, such as Wumen, Donghua, Xihua, and Xuanwu Gate; The main hall, the Wenhua hall and the Wuying hall, the east, west, and the back three palaces, the Jinshui River, the Jinshui Bridge, etc., are quite a few; Outside the noon gate, Zhongshu Province, Taimiao, Dadu Governor's Mansion, Yushitai, Dasheji, Chenghuang Temple, Guozijian, Huitong Hall, Emperor Temple, Meritorious Temple, Stargazing Platform, Million Warehouse, Sergeant Barracks, Gonghou Residence, Bell Tower, Drum Tower and other capital city standards are readily available.

In addition to the hardware can be compared with Nanjing and Jingshi, the software of Zhongdu Palace is not inferior. Although there was no master to serve most of the time, there were many palace maids and eunuchs. Zhang Xianzhong has always been very envious of the emperor's scenery, after he smashed and looted, he moved into the palace, and the woman was a palace maid, and let the eunuch serve him, and he was addicted to the emperor.

At the beginning, the seventy-two battalions of the thirteen families discussed at the Xingyang Conference, and after the city was breached, the children were divided equally. It was the combined forces of Zhang and Gao who attacked Fengyang, and the women and wealth in the city were theoretically divided equally between the two families, including the imperial palace. Soon after Zhang Xianzhong lived in the palace, Li Zicheng, the "breaking general", also started the idea of the palace, brought people in, robbed the palace maid when he saw it, and moved the antique treasure when he saw it.

The news came that Zhang Xianzhong, who cosplayed the emperor in the Wenhua Palace, quit. The palace came in first, and he had the ability to grab other land. He led his henchmen and found Li Zicheng in a rage. When he was found, Li Zicheng was directing his subordinates in the main hall to take away dozens of little eunuchs in the hall and the musical instruments used to play music.

These eunuchs are actually musicians in the palace, responsible for playing music for the royal family on important occasions and enlivening the atmosphere. When Zhang Xianzhong first entered the palace, he had the idea of these dozens of people, and he had already planned it in his heart, and when he evacuated Fengyang, he would take these little eunuchs away, and let them play music and have fun when they were fine, and by the way, the palace maids here would also be brought to accompany the dance, and it would be cool to think about it this day. Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng came out halfway and wanted to cut off Hu.

Zhang Xianzhong's face is slightly yellow, and when he is angry, his blood surges, and his skin will show a strange orange color. At this moment, his face was orange, and he said unhappily: "Are there any rules?" This palace was brought in by Lao Tzu. ”

Li Zicheng sneered: "After saying that, everyone will divide it equally, why should you let your eight kings monopolize this palace?" I don't want much, take some ornaments and pendants in the palace, and then take away these dozens of little eunuchs and musical instruments, and the rest of the property and palace maids belong to you, how about it? He also has a dream of being an emperor in his heart, but when he is chased by officers and soldiers, this idea never appeals to his mouth, but can only be suppressed in his heart. When I swept the palace today, I found these eunuchs who played music, so I had the same idea as Zhang Xianzhong, and took these people away, so that these little eunuchs who only played music for the emperor could play music for themselves, and they could also have a taste of being an emperor.

The Eight Kings is Zhang Xianzhong's own nickname, he saw that Li Zicheng did not give face at all, he lowered his face, waved his hand, and the subordinates waiting outside the palace swarmed in, surrounded Li Zicheng and others and the little eunuch, and drew out his blade.

Li Zicheng's face did not change, but the little eunuchs with fine skin and tender meat were half frightened, trembling all over, and one of them even had weak legs and feet, and sat on the ground with a butt. Several of Li Zicheng's subordinates were standing far away because they were carrying antiques and were not surrounded, and seeing that the situation was not good, they hurriedly slipped away quietly from the side to move the rescuers.

Zhang Xianzhong said predictively: "Li Zicheng, they are all brothers of the seventy-two battalions of the thirteen families, don't say that I won't give you a way to go, put down everything, and leave the palace with your people, I will treat it as if nothing happened." ”

Li Zicheng looked around and left and right, holding his hands on his chest, calm, as if ignoring the ill-intentioned sword-wielding soldiers around him.

"Zhang Xianzhong, I'm going to make up my mind about these individuals and musical instruments today, if you have the ability, kill me, see if King Chuang agrees, and see if the brothers of the seventy-second battalion can tolerate you?"

Hearing the other party call him by his name, Zhang Xianzhong was on fire, and most of the leaders of the righteous army called him nicknames, such as calling Gao Yingxiang "King Chuang", Luo Rucai likes people to call him "Cao Cao", and Li Zicheng is only Gao Yingxiang's general in name, and his status in the righteous army is lower than his own, no matter how you look at it, he should call himself "Eight Kings".

He pulled out his saber, gritted his teeth, and said: "There is a way in heaven that you don't take, and there is no door in hell for you to break into, since you want to die, I will fulfill you." ”

With this knife, the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates were numerous, holding blades and staring at each other, although Li Zicheng's subordinates were small, they were not afraid, and drew their blades to confront each other, and the two sides were on the verge of breaking out.

At this moment, a hearty voice came from outside the temple, "What is this for?" It's all your own brothers, put the knife away quickly, don't hurt the peace. ”