Chapter 108 Fat rat on the giant boat

"What should we do as planned? Don't celebrate or not, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is dead, our career is just beginning, we should be cautious and impetuous, and we should do every step!"

After Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu returned from wandering in the mountains, Zhang Guozhu issued an order to officials in Lantian who were waiting in the big study.

The orders are very plain and boring.

However, it was because Yun Zhao faced Chongzhen's suicide with a normal mind that Lantian's official enthusiasm became low.

However, outside Lantian, with the death of the emperor, people caused various turmoil.

Among them, the officials of Yingtian Prefecture learned that Chongzhen committed suicide and that the whereabouts of the crown prince, King Yong and King An were unknown, so they prepared to support the new king based on the idea that the country would not be without a king for a day.

Li Yan, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Da, the son of Liu Zeqing, all four military towns that held troops and horses, agreed that they should support Zhu Yousong, the eldest son of the deceased King Fu, as the emperor.

However, the left-behind court in Nanjing believed that Lu Wang Zhu Changqing was more suitable.

Just as they were arguing, they suddenly discovered that the Lantian army had already left the customs, especially Lei Heng's southward army, had already threatened Jiangnan.

They knew that once the Lantian army headed south, neither the four towns in Huaibei nor the Nanjing army could resist.

For this reason, Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying, Jiang Yueguang, Wang Duo, Zhang Shenyan, Liu Zongzhou and others discussed and believed that they could negotiate with Yun Zhao to ensure that the ultimate goal was to rule the river.

Originally, Yun Zhao had no interest in such peace talks. When he heard that Zuo Maodi was among the messengers who came to peace talks, he immediately changed his mind and promised to discuss it carefully.

Yun Zhao has been coveting Zuo Maodi for a long time.

In the third year of Chongzhen, this guy was the magistrate of Hancheng County, Guanzhong. The reason why Hong Chengchou defeated Li Hongji in Hancheng was due to this person's contribution. This person was regarded as Zuo Qingtian by the people in Hancheng, and was worshipped by the people in the Pantheon when he resigned.

Hong Chengchou said: When he first learned Hancheng County, he had bandits in Hancheng three times and then destroyed the area. Maodi led his men and people to fight, and was in charge of the enemy and was defeated and then broke away.

Guanzhong guarantees, and the number one is the best.

Yun Zhao also knew that Zuo Maodi, with his loyalty and courageous strategy, tried his best to ensure safety in the area, and to save the hungry people, he could be regarded as a rare official among the ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

However, what Yun Zhao admired the most was that his bones were very hard.

At this time, he should have been on a mission to the Qing Dynasty, which gave Dorgon a headache and made countless surrendered ministers of the Ming Dynasty ashamed, but for some reason he came to Guanzhong.

So, Yun Zhao waited for Zuo Maodi's arrival in joy and worries.

The progress of the various armies in Lantian was very smooth, especially the movement of Yunyang's army made Yun Zhao the most happy. Since leaving Luoyang, the army has made rapid progress along the way, almost straight from Luoyang to Baoding.

In just one month, Li Hongji's territory was completely divided into two sections, and formed a cross-section with Li Dingguo's army to attack the capital.

The capital must be taken down in a short period of time, otherwise Li Hongji will destroy the city.

The facts are just as Yun Zhao thought.

In the past, Yun Zhao always thought that the farmer thought that the emperor used a golden pole and a golden sickle, ate with a golden bowl, watched opera every day, and wore new clothes just a word that people joked about the short-sighted farmer.

However, since Lee Hongji entered the capital, he found that this seemed to be true.

The people in the capital began to regret the words Shunmin on their clothes and hats. The tenth day after the king entered the capital, they began to regret it.

After Li Hongji moved into the palace, the first thing he did was to summon the most famous actor in the capital. The tailor entered the palace, sang songs for Li Hongji, cut clothes, drank and listened to music all day. He seemed to have forgotten the fact that the Lantian army was close, and he just wanted to enjoy it as much as possible, enjoy it, and enjoy it again.

Li Hongji was busy watching operas, listening to music, drinking.

His subordinates became even busier.

Niu Jinxing, who claimed to be the prime minister, accepted more than 600 disciples in just ten days after entering the capital. At the instigation of his disciples, he began to take up the first scientific examination in Dashunchao.

Facts have proved that Niu Jinxing's literary governance was successful.

He set up questions and held a big test to "seek talents" for the new dynasty.

There are three test questions: "The world returns to benevolence", "Walking in China and pacifying the four barbarians", and "The good fortune of God's blessing is not bad".

For a time, Confucian scholars from Shuntian Prefecture begged for the exam and filled in the city. For a moment, Wenchang was full of stars!

As for Liu Zongmin, this guy is very embarrassed by Lantian people.

After entering the city, he only endured for ten days and restricted his subordinates for ten days. During these ten days, in order to restrict military discipline, hundreds of people were killed for robbery and rape.

When he discovered that the Ming Dynasty treasury had only 100,000 gold and 120,000 taels of silver in the palace, and the gold bricks laid in the emperor's palace were not made of real gold, so he was not very good.

You should know that the reason why Li Hongji abandoned Huainan was that most of Shandong's foundation was the capital. They believed that as long as the capital was captured, the Dashun army would have countless gold and silver.

Now that I searched all over the palace, just a little gold and silver is far from enough to let Li Hongji reward these tribes who have followed him for many years and are only interested in getting promoted and making money.

After reporting to Lee Hongji, Lee Hongji was naturally very disappointed.

Li Hongji was dominating the world all his life, and he was naturally very touched by the corruption of Ming Dynasty officials. In addition, he had been accustomed to robbing families for many years. Since the emperor had no money and money would not disappear for no reason, then the money must have been swallowed up by corrupt officials and the wealthy families.

Therefore, under the instigation of Liu Zongmin, Tian Hu, Li Yu and other generals, the important task of "torturing the salary" was handed over to Liu Zongmin to carry out.

There was no money, so the first person Liu Zongmin came to find was to lead the soldiers of the three major camps of the Beijing camp in the north. The first relative of the Ming Dynasty, Li Guozhen, who surrendered outside the capital, was the first prince of Xiangcheng.

Liu Zongmin first tortured him, burned him with a small fire, and tortured him with a big throne for a night, and finally caused the Xiangcheng Bo to die of great pain.

Seeing that the money was not to be tortured, Liu Zongmin gave the order, soldiers broke into his house, and dozens of people gang-raped Li Guozhen's wife and all the women in the house. Then he hugged Li Guozhen's wife naked on the horse, walked on the street and shouted: "Come and see, this is the wife of Li Guozhen, the lord of Xiangcheng!"

The soldiers laughed while shouting, pinched their breasts and poked their vaginas.

The historical books say: "No one is more humiliating than this."

Grand Secretary Chen Yan has always been agile. As early as when Liu Zongmin ordered: "If you offer silver for an official position, you must pay 10,000 yuan in silver, and the following must pay 10,000 yuan in silver. Those who offer silver happily will be released immediately; those who hide the silver and do not pay 10,000 yuan in silver will be punished." He took the initiative to offer 40,000 taels of silver.

When Chongzhen needed his ministers to donate silver to defend the enemy, he used the excuse of being honest and having no money from the family to donate 200 taels of silver to the emperor...

Just when Liu Zongmin was about to let Chen Yan go, the servant of the Grand Secretary reported that the underground of the Grand Secretary's mansion was full of Tibetan silver.

Liu Zongmin was furious and sent soldiers to dig to the Grand Secretary's Mansion. Sure enough, the soil in the yard was covered with silver.

The furious Liu Zongmin began to punish him, and asked for hundreds of taels of gold, and the pearls were made into hu...

At this point, Liu Zongmin's deep hatred for the Ming officials broke out, and he stubbornly believed that none of the Ming officials were innocent.

He set up dozens of people in front of the gate, killing people forever. No matter whether it is officials, rich people or residents, as long as they seem to have money at home, they will definitely be invited here to be sentenced.

The poor officials of the Hanlin and Kechen of the Ming Dynasty were the most unlucky. They couldn't produce any oil and water in their families and were mostly killed by plunder.

Even so, the torture in the capital was still not affected much.

Until the "old camp" under Li Hongji's command had the strictest military discipline, it began to be dispatched, the capital suddenly became a hell on earth.

It was Li Hongji's fault that the "old camp" soldiers began to rage the world.

Li Hongji is very particular about eating, but he only eats a little rice and dried chili, and serves with strong wine. There is no food.

In terms of artifacts, Li Zicheng used the crude military weapons in the past camp. He had a bad look at the exquisite utensils of dragons and phoenixes in the palace. He always felt that the "lifelike" artworks of dragons and phoenixes were leaping, which was very ominous, so he never used them.

The old camp soldiers and horses were stationed in the palace, so they naturally followed suit.

They used the exquisite and huge palace kiln flower jars in the palace to make a manger, and dismantle the fine wood doors and windows to make a fire. They saw the rare and carved rhino horn cups in the warehouse. The soldiers used the larger ones to pound garlic and the smaller ones to inject soybean oil as lamps, and they did not care about anything.

Seeing that Liu Zongmin and other camps were all rich, Li Zicheng's "old camp" had to use coarse rice, horses and beans as food. These subordinates who followed Li Hongji for the longest time and contributed the most complained, thinking that the "King of Breaking" was unfair.

So they privately went out of the palace to commit adultery and rob, and went to the folk houses to rob money and rape. In Anfu Hutong alone, there were more than 300 women who were gang-raped to death overnight.

Han Lingshan and Xia Wanchun were still sleeping soundly.

However, their sleepy place moved from the pavilion to the underground.

Just above their heads, more than 60 Dashun soldiers lived, and every day they could hear these people talking about how much gold and silver were looted.

If a person sleeps for a long time, it is naturally not very good for the body.

So, sometimes, they will sit up and chat.

"Uncle, how much money do you think Li Hongji can get?"

Han Lingshan said: "There should be many."

"I think the capital is poor, there shouldn't be much."

"You are wrong. Li Hongji is not wrong at all. The money will not run away by himself. The emperor is really not rich, but the officials are really rich."

"Why, when I heard their miserable situation, my heart was as calm as water?"

"This is because the tragic situation of these people today was what they asked for. A giant boat sailing on the sea sank. Even if the rats on the boat are fat, they will be dead."
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