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Chapter five hundred and seventy.

The corpse of Emperor Chongzhen was not found on Coal Mountain the next day.

Even the last emperor of the Song Dynasty had 100,000 soldiers and civilians fighting with him to the end, and there were also loyal ministers like Lu Xiufu who led the young emperor to jump into the sea to sacrifice his country. However, when the emperor of the Ming Empire died, he was wearing patches and a dragon robe without a sleeve. There was only an old eunuch who had served for many years and buried him together. The tragic color of the last king was particularly touching.

On the lining he tore off, he also wrote the last word of imperial decree in red blood.

I have ascended the throne for seventeen years, and I have been punished by heaven three times. As for the enemy, I have been trapped in the earth three times, and the thieves have arrived in the capital, all of them have misled me!

I have no face to see the late emperor underground and will cover my face. Let the thieves split my body. All civil officials can be killed! Do not hurt the people alone, and do not destroy the tomb!

The last words that were extremely helpless! But in the end, it revealed Chongzhen's conceit! He pushed all the responsibilities on the ministers, and never thought about what did those upright ministers who were willing to take responsibility and were not ministers who lost their country when they needed him, the emperor, to stand up.

The tragic ending of the Ming Dynasty cannot be unilaterally pointing to the king or minister. It can only be said that social evolution, natural disasters and man-made disasters and the emperor's personality weaknesses are intertwined, and they evolve together into tragedies.

The body of his daughter and son-in-law was carried back. Whether it was the father-in-law Zhou Kui Tian Honghui and other royal relatives, or the confidant eunuchs such as Wang Zhixin Wang Dehua, everyone was willing to pay silver for burial. In the end, Li Zicheng ordered the eunuchs to buy a few thin coffins and parked the corpses of the emperor and empress Zhaoren and others outside the Donghua Gate, and found several monks to come to chant scriptures and salvation.

There were thousands of Ming Dynasty ministers who knelt down outside Zhengyang Gate that day to welcome Li Zicheng, but they came to worship the late emperor, but they were only twenty or thirty years old. The warmth and warmth of human feelings can be seen.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng no longer had the heart to sigh at the tragic situation of Emperor Chongzhen, and he also faced the problems that Emperor Chongzhen faced at the time.

No money!

In order to attract the people to join, Li Zicheng's army went to various places and used the banner of exemption from levy for three years, and no one people were killed! Although it was impossible to do without killing a person, after all, the riots had been relying on fighting the local tyrants and dividing the granary. It was impossible to dig out the silver without blood if those who regarded money as their lifeline! But exempting the levy for these three years was not empty talk! From the vast Henan to Shaanxi, everything was solemnly under the jurisdiction of the area, he really didn't charge a grain of food.

On the one hand, in order to change the people's hearts, on the other hand, Dashun's own shortcomings lack effective local rule. Even if Li Zicheng wants to collect, he cannot collect them systematically like the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why he came to attack the capital was like a bull, which did mean to overthrow the emperor and sit in the dragon court. On the other hand, he also meant to seize the central finance of the Ming Dynasty to fill the Dashun treasury.

But now, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty, and the Dashun Army was also a man, and they had to pay wages and eat. Li Zicheng could see the holes under him when he opened his wallet. For two consecutive days, he was also trapped in the palace, busy worrying about the money in his pocket.

It was still the cursed platform, but compared with Emperor Chongzhen, the atmosphere here was obviously much more active, and you could hear the fierce shouts from inside from time to time.

"King of Rebellion, no one has given the crown prince Yong for so many days. If this continues, there will be any changes in the control. Please order the whole city to be searched quickly!"

With murderous intent, Niu Jinxing jumped up and down like a Spanish bullfighting, roaring with his teeth and claws. If he had cut off his head in front of Chongzhen, Dashun had not yet formed a ritual rule. He was tilted on the dragon chaise and looked at him spitting on his face. Li Zicheng didn't think it was offended, but instead yawned.

"The soldiers are tired from the journey, so it is not good to launch them into a big fight these days!"

"The King of Chuang, once the prince fled to Jiangnan, he would be the emperor with the support of those former Ming officials. It would be difficult to pacify the world again! It would be hard to delay it. Your Majesty should arrest the Prince of Ming as soon as possible and then lead the army to the south!"

"Old Li knows it! Just like this, military advisor, go down and discuss with Hao Yaoqi and Li Guo and others how to arrest the prince, and that's what it takes!"

There is a saying in later generations: Li Zicheng went to Beijing and celebrate the New Year every day!

The Ming Dynasty had been destroyed and had no major enemy. From the King of Chuang to the generals of the Dashun Army, the corruption rate was astonishing as the speed of corruption. The signature large felt hat, coarse cloth cloak, and big windbreaker had long been thrown away. Li Zicheng was wearing a red dragon robe worn by the big eunuch preserved in the Sili Prison, and his hair was neatly combed by the palace daughter.

Anyway, he didn't know what this dress was for before. As long as he looked rich, he would wear it. He even made a palace daughter hammer her legs and held a tea bowl in her right hand. Li Zicheng waved his hand impatiently.

"King of Breaking!"

"Don't worry, the military advisor is in charge of business!"

I wanted to say something, but Li Zicheng said so. Finally, Niu Jinxing shook his head helplessly and bowed his fists to Li Zicheng.

"The official is leaving!"

Then Niu Jinxing was sent away, and then Li Zicheng waved his hand again. A tinkling drum music and piano sounded. Then, the music and dance that had not had many chances to watch in the 17th year of Chongzhen was performed gorgeously in the side hall. He swung his sleeves and lit three-inch golden lotus. The gorgeous palace maids danced gracefully, staring at their chests and buttocks. Li Zicheng was lit up with music and his hair was sad.

"Hey, brother!"

Dashun was really unruly. Two little eunuchs were sweating behind him. Liu Zongmin had already burst into laughter and broke in. After a few days in the capital, he had also changed his guns and cannons. I don’t know which scholar, the young master, was pulled out by him. At this time, people are dressed loosely and appropriately. The bulging clothes on his body were worn on his bulging body. It was as supported as bread. This guy felt good about himself and refused to take it off.

"Brother is so happy! Tsk, the girl in the palace is still beautiful, hi, and shy!"

Amid the rude laughter, this guy rushed towards the palace daughter who was dancing like an eagle catching a chick. He was about to kiss someone on the face with a big beard, scaring the girl to lose her appearance and screaming like she ran back in the back porch.

"You boy!"

Not only was he not angry, Li Zicheng stood up with a laugh, and then kicked the guy hard when he went up.

"It's still my brother, you're so moist! This baby is so tender, and you have to give me two of them now, no matter what, you have to give me two!"

"Okay! One ten thousand taels of silver is one, not to mention two, I have no objection to the whole palace if it is full!"

"Brother, you are so unreasonable! You are here to have a throne first, you want two girls, and you also care about your brothers asking for money!"

The cow immediately widened his eyes and spread his hands sadly, shouting, and Liu Zongmin also opened his mouth with a creaking robe on his body.

Sitting back on the dragon throne, Li Zicheng snorted very angry.

"Holding the country? I know that Chongzhen is suffering. You have seen both warehouses, and it's empty. I can't collect food first. The army still brings food from Shaanxi. Yuan Manzi's foundation. It won't take long for the army to be short of food! If it can be sold, I really want to sell this palace for some food!"

“Food shortage?”

Unexpectedly, his army defeated the largest city in the world and was facing the problem of food shortage. Liu Zongmin's eyes widened even more. He was stunned for a long time. He suddenly slapped his thigh hard.

"Brother, I think it's so big a deal! Isn't there a group of ready-made fat sheep under our hands? There were more than a thousand kneeling in front of Zhengyang Gate that day, and at least several times that hadn't come. Brother, didn't you ask me to fix the former Grand Secretary Wei? In the past two days, I took a big shackle and shackled the boy with a big shackle, and let him kneel there. Guess how much he spitted out to me for my brother, 100,000 white fish and 1,000 yellow croaker! There is also a large warehouse of grain and grain bags."

It is said that banditism is so popular in the palace courtyard that Liu Zongmin's bandits were all heard. Li Zicheng couldn't help but be moved by this number.

But after all, he sat in Longting, and Li Zicheng began to worry about his image, pinched his chin, and couldn't help but shake his head.

"It's not good to do this! Kill two treacherous officials, those people have surrendered after all! We're also sitting in the Dragon Court..."

"You have also seen this palace elder brother. The emperor is so poor that he can't even afford to wear clothes. These fat sheep are all delicious and spicy. Who is not a traitor? And look at how they looked to Chongzhen, and they didn't even want to give up the coffin when they died. Can these sluts be loyal to you? In the past, these bastards were pressing on our heads. They shave every year and starve how many poor people we have?"

"Besides, brother! Let's just ask them to return the embezzled dirty silver for us poor people! It's too late to applaud the world? The people have to support you as the emperor even more!"

Seeing Li Zicheng still hesitating while pinching his chin, Liu Zongmin simply slapped his thigh: "Brother, don't you need these dirty officials. Let's use the eunuchs to scratch the head office first! No one said to kill the eunuchs?"

The eunuch has a bad reputation among the people, which made Li Zicheng finally give up. He whipped his head and started yelling at the door.

"Come on, come and find that eunuch, Wang Zhixin!"

…………

Now is the time for the New Dynasty to behave. When he heard that Li Zicheng was asking him to meet him, the fat and fat eunuch was so happy that he was swaying with his fat body and ran into the platform and stumbled into the rice cake.

"Long live your Majesty when I pay homage to you!"

Seeing this peanut-like fat man was so polite, and being served by eunuchs these days, Li Zicheng was embarrassed to move as soon as he came up, so he coughed gently.

"Well, the Ministry of Revenue has no money. You can get 100,000 taels of silver to save the emergency. I want to pay the army!"

Wang Zhixin's fat face turned green after this sentence. Chongzhen had previously raised funds and promised to pay back twice the tax. He didn't donate it. He asked him 100,000 taels at once. Do you want him to live? His face immediately drooped, and he kowtowed like rice cakes again.

"Your Majesty clearly understands that I am the servant who serves people in the palace. How can I make so much money? I really can't take it out! Please forgive me!"

Seeing him crying pitifully, Li Zicheng was really fooled. He had seen several eunuchs around him. He was so poor that he lost his bottom. He had no choice but to cut off the treasure given by his parents with a crack and came to the palace to be the slave.

But before Li Zicheng could speak, Liu Zongmin rolled his feet forward with big feet, rolled him up and cursed.

"Damn it, you have nothing to do! Don't fool me, my brother, you will be yours when you go out to Xizhimen and you will have no money!"

"Brother, I will hand over the dead rabbit to my brother. Brother will show you both hands and pull out the dead rabbit oil!"

I was a little embarrassed just now, but when I heard that this guy was so rich and he was lying to him, Li Zichenghuo suddenly became big and waved his hands and shouted.
Chapter completed!
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