Half an hour later.

"You little thief can run!"

Li Zicheng said to Yang Qing with a smile.

"No matter how hard you can run, it will be futile. It's nothing more than fish in the net. You can still jump when you confiscate the net. When you confiscate the net, you can only wait to put it in the pot."

Yang Qing said sadly.

"Haha, ha, then I'll cook you fish today."

Li Zicheng said with a smile.

"There are rumors that Your Majesty cooks the King of Fu and cooks the same name as the Lu Feng Lu Banquet. I wonder if it is true?"

Yang Qing asked ignorantly.

"Wouldn't that be a deer dirty?"

Li Zicheng sneered.

In fact, he had never done that. After King Fu Zhu Changxun was killed by him, he begged Cui Sheng to guard the dead body and beg him. Finally, he was buried with a coffin. Cui Sheng committed suicide in front of King Fu's grave. As for Fu Lu Banquet, it was just a story made up to confirm his cruel image. Li Zicheng was not a good person but he didn't speak loudly. Just as he said, wouldn't that dirty a deer that was originally considered delicious?

"I feel the same way!"

Yang Qing nodded and said.

After saying that, he followed Li Zicheng in, and Li Laiheng also followed him in.

At this time, the room was already a banquet as he said just now. It was sent by the soldiers, mainly because Yang Qing was indeed hungry. After all, he was like a wild cat who sent him qing. He didn't stop for the whole afternoon and half night. Li Zicheng obviously felt that this was more in line with his identity, so he delivered the banquet very readily.

Chongzhen sat in the middle with a expressionless face, and Wang Chengen stood beside him, and the inner sluts surrounded him.

Li Zicheng didn't even look at it, and walked straight to Chongzhen to sit down. Li Laiheng stood behind him, and Yang Qing stood aside as a waiter. There was no one else. What surprised him was that Li Zicheng didn't even bring Niu Jinxing and others. Just him and Li Laiheng, they were not worried about Chongzhen's tricks anyway. They had already surrounded him outside, and his younger brothers who had hundreds of thousands of dollars in the city, what qualifications were there to play tricks here?

Let Yang Qing take Li Zicheng hostage?

Then they are equivalent to suicide.

After sitting down, Li Zicheng and Chongzhen looked at each other.

It was the first time they met. They were looking at each other curiously at this moment. For Chongzhen, this was a rebel who ruined his family. Of course, for Li Zicheng, Chongzhen was also the ultimate boss on his previous battle. Now he sat on the same table, and no one could remember what to say for a moment. Li Zicheng had already entered the palace at this time and did not find a few taels of silver in the plundering of the Ku Mansion. Instead, he found a bunch of patched clothes in Chongzhen's bedroom. The original image of the tyrant monarch had collapsed. After all, the clothes in an emperor's box were even worse than those local tyrants and evil gentry he copied, which was too destructive.

The atmosphere was a little awkward at this moment.

"Your Majesty, why not drink the same drink?"

Yang Qing said carefully.

"Why did you rebel?"

Chongzhen ignored him and looked at Li Zicheng and said.

"I was originally a postman. Your Majesty cut off the post station in the world. I was sacked for losing official documents. This was a cause for my own fault. I had no complaints and could only go back to my hometown to farm. However, the northwest drought locusts one after another. The grain planted by my family could not even support my own family, so I naturally had no money to pay the taxes from the court. I knew that I could not escape the taxes, so I had to borrow Ai Juren's usury loan. After the maturity, Ai Juren forced his debts. At this time, people were still eating people when they were drought in the northwest. Children who were abandoned by their parents were everywhere in the valleys. How could I grow food to pay the debts? As a result, I was sued by Ai Juren to the county government, and then the county magistrate took the debts. I was shackled and was entrusted by Juren Ai to use me to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys, and killed others in prison to deter other debtors. My nephew robbed the prison and rescued me. In that time, he simply went to kill Juren Ai's family, and then fled to Gansu to join the army and join the army to eat imperial grain. Unfortunately, the imperial grain was not eaten. The officials drank soldiers and were greedy for military salaries. When we were in the army, we almost didn't have enough food. In the second year of Chongzhen, the Gansu border troops were transferred to fight the Jurchens. This was to fight to the death, but even if we were asked to fight to the death, we would not pay the salary. We simply mutiny and killed the generals, and never looked back.

Li Zicheng said after drinking a glass of wine.

"It's not that I don't want to be a good citizen. Who would be willing to rebel if you have food and drink? But this world does not allow me to be a good citizen!"

He continued.

Chongzhen remained silent.

"What about you?"

Yang Qing asked Li Laiheng.

"My whole family starved to death, and only one left. Why do you think I rebel?"

Li Laiheng sneered.

"Your Majesty, you are indeed not a fool, but unfortunately, you can't give the people food and clothing. All the civil and military officials in the court are corrupt and abused the law. Local tyrants and evil gentry are robbed and robbed, and the people are starved everywhere. The grass, trees, Guanyin soil in Shaanxi and Gansu have been eaten up. The hungry people have eaten all the flies. The father and son are both eating each other. Since starving to death is death, the rebellion is at most, but it is only a death. Why don't we rebel? Is it really like the officials and men said to be a safe and safe starving man?"

Li Zicheng said.

"This, this is a natural disaster, how can you blame Your Majesty?"

Wang Chengen said.

"Natural disaster? Why not help? Is there a famine in the world? Is there no surplus grain in Jiangnan and Sichuan to help the victims? Even if there is no relief, even if the tax is exempted, it will give the people a way to survive, but why are they not exempt from taxes and reduce taxes instead? Does the court only know that they collect money and grain from the people without having to care about the lives and death of the people? Even if the sheep sheep knows that they cannot starve the sheep to death! Besides, why do officials and gentry even need to pay for the tax increase? The unscrupulous merchants hoard goods, and sell several taels of silver for a stone of grain, why no one cares about it? Your Majesty is the lord of the world, and the world is His Majesty's people, so we should treat everyone equally. Why do we sit and see some fish and meat? Since you don't give us a way to live, we won't give you a way to live, and we will drag you to death together!"

Li Zicheng sneered.

"If so, you are not extremely vicious."

Chongzhen said slowly.

"Very vicious? Your Majesty should see how the officials and gentry urged the donation of food. Then you should understand who is vicious."

Li Zicheng sneered.

"How will you treat me?"

Chongzhen asked.

"Chen Yan and Zhu Chunchen just wrote me a letter of persuasion. If this is the case, I won't let them down. But don't worry, you must be the king after I ascend the throne. I won't make things difficult for your family with your patched clothes. You father and son are living your life in this capital!"

Li Zicheng said.

"Well, King of Chuang, although I am a slight person, I still want to say something."

Yang Qing said carefully.

"explain."

Li Zicheng said.

"Have you ever thought about who will be the biggest enemy in the future?"

Yang Qing said.

"Juchen!"

Li Zicheng said.

"Well, Wang Yingming, the situation is very clear today. It is yours north of the Huai River, and the south of the Huai River is still from the Ming Dynasty, but outside the pass is Jiannu, Wu Sangui has been ordered to abandon Ningyuan and retreat to Shanhaiguan. His Majesty has received information before. Dorgon led an army of 80,000 south to reap the profits. When you and Your Majesty both suffer losses, they will defeat the two families in one fell swoop and then enter the Central Plains. After Wu Sangui withdraws from Shanhaiguan, there is no stopping him along the way, so it won't take long to knock on the Great Wall.

I congratulations on ascending the throne and becoming emperor.

But I also want to remind you that if you are the emperor of this land, you must shoulder the responsibilities of the emperor.

Next, you have to prepare for a decisive battle with the 80,000 Eight Banners Cavalry at Shanhaiguan, otherwise your proclaimed emperor will be a flash in the pan at most, and then you will be driven out of Beijing by Dorgon, and then he will chase you all the time. It would be useless if you withdraw to Guanzhong. The Shanxi merchants have been hooking up with Jiannu for many years. They will offer Shanxi without hesitation. You don’t think that a broken Guanzhong can resist Dorgon, right?

You can only stop him at Shanhaiguan.

Once he entered Shanhaiguan, the local officials and gentry would welcome Dorgon like the poor. You should know that they all wish you died, but you robbed their money and even killed their people.

Including these in Beijing.

They can even betray the emperor for three hundred years, let alone you?

You won't believe they are loyal to you, do you?

Therefore, you must block Dorgon outside the pass so that they have no chance to continue betraying you like you are betrayed by His Majesty. Otherwise, once Dorgon enters the pass, everything you have now will be destroyed instantly. The key to preventing Dorgon from entering the pass is Wu Sangui's army. If he surrenders to Dorgon, then Shanhaiguan will be defeated without attack. If he defends Shanhaiguan for you, and then your army goes north to reinforce, then you are the winner.

Whether Wu Sangui will surrender to Jiannu, in addition to whether you treat him preferentially, and whether His Majesty is safe and sound.

He is still loyal to His Majesty.

But Your Majesty will not surrender to you.”

Yang Qing said.

"The descendants of Taizu would rather die in the country than surrender to the enemy!"

Chongzhen said slowly.

Then he took out his dagger and placed it on the table in front of him, looking at Li Zicheng proudly with a scoundrel temperament. He now understood Yang Qing's purpose. Although this was incredible, it was indeed the only way to survive. Otherwise, he would not be able to escape from Beijing no matter what. No matter how hard Yang Qing could fight, he could not protect a burden and fight out of hundreds of thousands of people.

"What do you want?"

Li Zicheng looked at Yang Qing with a smile and said.

"It's very simple. Let's exchange it. Your Majesty gave Wu Sangui, Wang Yongji, Song Quan and Li Yutian a personal imperial edict. If they are willing to surrender to you, they will surrender. If they are unwilling to surrender to you, they will definitely not be allowed to surrender to Jiannu, otherwise they will be killed. Wang Yongji is from Gaoyou. Wu Sangui's family is in Beijing, and the Song Quan family is in Shangqiu. Li Yutian and you are a fellow villager. If they surrender to Jiannu, they will be killed. Then they must guard Shanhaiguan and the Great Wall line to wait for your army to take over. In exchange, you must let us go. The prince can stay with you as a hostage, but Your Majesty you must let go. We board a ship in Tianjin and go to Nanjing. Your Majesty can also make a gentleman's appointment with you. In the future, the Ming and Dashun will not invade each other with the Huaihe River as the boundary."
Chapter completed!