Gao Yigong was prepared when he saw Lingbao and others. He thought that he could not defeat the attack. It would be better to go to Tongguan to help Li Zicheng destroy Sun Chuanting first and then make a decision.

So Gao Yigong ordered his troops to retreat, and soon someone reported the news to Zhang Biwu. When everyone heard this, they looked at each other and couldn't help but feel worried. If they hadn't prepared for the war, they would be dead. It seems that Li Zicheng could not trust him either!

Zhang Biwu didn't say anything. He was just exploring the situation of the Ming army. Although he knew that Shaanxi would be taken away by Li Zicheng, he was still exploring the news.

The latest news is: less than half of the Ming army retreated to Tongguan, and although there were still 40,000 people, they were all frightened birds. In addition, the families of the soldiers were all in Tongguan, and they rushed to enter the pass to protect their wives and children from leaving.

This made the rebel army rush into Tongguan. Luo Hu, a powerful general in the rebel army, rushed into Tongguan regardless of danger and controlled the gate of Tongguan. For this reason, the rebel army had to capture Tongguan. Sun Chuanting died in the enemy's army.

After the rebel army captured Tongguan, they continued to attack Xi'an. The Xi'an guard Wang Genzi opened the city gate and surrendered. King Qin Zhu Cunshu was captured alive, and Shaanxi Governor Feng Shikong and others committed suicide.

Since then, Li Zicheng divided his troops into two groups to pursue the fugitives of the Ming army and wanted to occupy Shaanxi at full speed. He also changed Xi'an's name to Chang'an, and ordered that he would charge one or three cents of grain for each stone next year, and then he would charge 6,000 kilograms of grass for each stone this winter, and to send 300 mules to Chang'an. Each county sent 300 mules, 1,000 millet, and 1,000 stones of grain, and plunder the huge house to help pay.

When Zhang Biwu heard this, he sighed, because when Li Zicheng was in the past, he said that as long as he occupied the land, he would be exempted from money tax. But now he started to collect money and grain as soon as he occupied Shaanxi. Isn’t this the same as the Ming Dynasty? He didn’t think about resuming production and letting the people live a peaceful and prosperous life, but began to collect money and grain to supply wars.

There is no doubt that Sun Chuanting's defeat would be a fatal blow to Chongzhen, and Chongzhen could no longer breathe. Therefore, this statement was that Sun Chuanting died and the Ming Dynasty died.

Zhang Biwu also had to be careful, for fear that Li Zicheng's army would come out of seclusion and destroy him. He did not dare to disobey what Li Zicheng ordered. As long as he could preserve himself, temporary humiliation was nothing! Since ancient times, those who have accomplished great things cannot bend and stretched.

Due to Zhang Biwu's obedience, Li Zicheng relaxed temporarily. Moreover, Li Zicheng believed that occupying all Qin territory and establishing the country were the top priority, so he would announce to the world that Li Zicheng would be the new emperor who replaced the Ming Dynasty!

At the beginning of the new year, Li Zicheng became emperor. Although he was promoted to the emperor, he did not ascend the throne. Li Zicheng named Li Jiqian as Taizu. The country was named "Dashun", and the 17th year of Chongzhen was the first year of Yongchang. Xi'an was changed to Chang'an and established the capital Chang'an.

What is the basic policy of Dashun Country after the endless quarrels within Li Zicheng? That is, whether to consolidate the territory that has been seized, and spend two or three years vigorously to allow the people to live and work in peace and resume production. This is to consolidate the national foundation of Dashun and give full play to the people to feel the kindness of the Dashun Dynasty. The ministers who put forward this opinion were represented by Li Yan, Song Xiancai, and Tian Jianxiu.

The vast majority of civil officials, military generals, especially the surrendered ministers of the Ming Dynasty, strongly suggested to Li Zicheng that with the momentum of the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, they quickly attacked the city of Beijing, seized the Ming Dynasty, and established a brilliant and unified country!

Li Zicheng lost himself completely in the flattery of Yao and Shun in the derby of Yao and Shun, and Tang and Wu. Over the past few years, he has been winning battles, one after another, making him think that the Ming army is vulnerable. As long as he adds his strength, the Ming Dynasty will be easily defeated.

When Zhang Biwu received a letter from Li Yan, he asked him to write a letter to Li Zicheng, allowing Li Zicheng to be conservative, consolidate the seized territory, and wait until the country is strong and then make progress.

The Ming Dynasty is now a lamb to be slaughtered. It would be useless to raise it for a few years. It would be better to consolidate its strength first. The Eastern Barbarians outside the pass are the most terrifying! Li Yan thought about this, which was indeed rare and precious, and he thought of it alone in the civil and military affairs of the court.

When Li Zicheng saw the memorial on Zhang Biwu, the tone of the memorial on his face seemed to be carved out like Li Yan. He couldn't help but sneer and said, "Hmph! Prime Minister! You said that Zhang Biwu is loyal to Li Yan, and you are not wrong! Look, the tone on the memorial looks like Li Yan!"

At this time, Niu Jinxing was already the Grand Secretary of the Tianyou Pavilion, and was appointed as the Zuofu of the Dashun regime, equivalent to the prime minister. Li Zicheng designated him as the leader of civil officials, and his status among all civil and military officials was only lower than that of Liu Zongmin.

Niu Jinxing sighed and said, "Oh! What a pity! Zhang Biwu is not loyal to the emperor! I would be great if he was loyal to the emperor!"

Li Zicheng asked: "Prime Minister, what do you think orphan should do? Who should I listen to? Should I rest or quickly destroy the Ming Dynasty and seize the world?" Although Li Zicheng was the emperor, he had not ascended the throne, so he did not call himself me. He also called himself me just like when he was called Dashun King. After he ascended the throne, he called himself me.

Niu Jinxing was thinking about Li Zicheng's thoughts all day long. He naturally knew that after Li Zicheng became suspicious of Li Yan, he didn't want to listen to Li Yan. In addition, so many civil and military officials were persuading him to fight to the city of Beijing and seize the Ming Dynasty. His heart was about creating achievements that were even more brilliant than Li Tang! In fact, Li Zicheng's idea had already been decided, and he was just pretending to solicit opinions.

Although Niu Jinxing knew that he wanted to follow the emperor's heart, he could not offend Tian Jianxiu and Li Yan. As a prime minister, he had to balance all sides! He wanted to be able to get along with everything. Now Niu Jinxing was thinking about how to be his prime minister and how to make his image good.

Therefore, Niu Jinxing said: "Lin Quan's opinion is very stable. It is not unreasonable for him to advise Your Majesty to slow down and make progress! But the opinions of all civil and military officials are also good. They want to seize the Ming Dynasty. This is the goal of Your Majesty's bloody battle for more than ten years!"

Li Zicheng smiled and said, "Okay! Prime Minister, just give me some advice! Is Lin Quan's opinion good? Or is it the officials' good?"

Niu Jinxing said truthfully: "The opinions of all officials should be followed! If they do not take advantage of the Ming Dynasty's power to fight back, they will be defeated and eliminated. When he breathes, it will be difficult for us to deal with the Ming Dynasty! And it will only be a year to trouble the people for more than a year to defeat the Ming Dynasty, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment! Isn't this better than taking longer to fight a war? How can we live and work in peace and contentment without caring for a long time?"

"Haha!" Li Zicheng laughed out loud and said, "Okay! Prime Minister, what you are talking about is exactly what I am thinking! Gu has decided! Kill into Beijing and seize the Ming Dynasty in Beijing! Announce to the world that our Dashun will replace the Ming Dynasty and become the lord of the world! So I must prepare an army to attack Beijing in two ways!"

"Yes! The emperor is wise!" Niu Jinxing immediately bowed his fists and saluted. He was so proud in his heart: "Lin Quan, you will not take away your favor from His Majesty! Ha! Now it's a war, so naturally Liu Zongmin is the main one. But when the world is pacified, the leader of all officials will definitely be Niu Jinxing! You, Li Yan, cannot take my position away! I will never allow anyone to take it away!"

Li Zicheng did not realize that when his subordinates were all trying to compete for fame and fortune, his country had laid the foreshadowing of destruction, which was extremely dangerous!

Li Zicheng also said, "Prime Minister, look at it again. Zhang Biwu thinks that the most difficult thing for us to deal with is Zhou Yuji when we take the Jin path. Zhang Biwu said that he wanted to deal with Zhou Yuji himself and wanted to persuade Zhou Yuji to surrender."

Niu Jinxing couldn't help but be stunned and said, "Will Zhou Yuji be the biggest obstacle to our eastward advance? Ningwu? Even though Zhou Yuji is a brave general, he can't stop us!"

Li Zicheng smiled and said, "Yes! Prime Minister! I have the same idea as you! No one in the world can resist the Dashun Army that can win every battle! No matter who it is, you will be killed without mercy!"

"Yes! Our army will win! Your Majesty is mighty!" Niu Jinxing immediately responded. Li Zicheng was preparing his plan to advance eastward.

At the same time, the reason why Zhang Biwu listened to Li Yan's words and gave Li Zicheng a memorial to persuade Li Zicheng. If Li Zicheng did not go east to attack Beijing as soon as possible, history would be rewritten, but in the end it was still impossible to persuade him.

Not only did he do this, what he also had to do was to write a letter to Wang Chengen secretly, asking Wang Chengen to persuade Chongzhen to obey the ministers' advice. Move south to Nanjing, otherwise, let the prince supervise the country in Nanjing, so that history can be rewritten.

As long as Hongguang and other princes of the Zhu family were not allowed to be king and emperor, the south would not be divided and might be united! The people in the north would also obey the response because Chongzhen was still in the south. By then, even if the Qing army defeated Li Zicheng, it would be difficult for them to live for a long time in occupying Beijing.

Zhang Biwu thought that although he thought so, Zhang Biwu was not sure Chongzhen would listen to him. If history could not change, Zhang Biwu was ready to go to Beijing City and he wanted to save Princess Kunxing's life! Of course, the most important thing is to save Zhou Yuji next time!

The wheel of history is still unstoppable, it is moving forward according to its established trajectory.

Chongzhen originally considered that he wanted to move south, but the ministers were stopping him because the ministers persuaded Chongzhen for their own interests and did not consider the country.

This time, Empress Zhou ignored the iron rule that the palace was not allowed to interfere in politics, so she begged Chongzhen and asked Chongzhen to go to their other home, Nanjing Nanshou. When the emperor was covered in dust, there was also a Nanshou.

But Chongzhen wanted too much reputation and too much face! He also thought that Li Zicheng would not attack the city of Beijing so quickly. In the past, the Eight Banners soldiers attacked the city of Beijing so many times, didn’t he defend Beijing? This time he would definitely defend it! Driven by this idea, Chongzhen would make wrong decisions.
Chapter completed!