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Part One: Penghu Storm Chapter 548: Live as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, die as a ghost of the Ming Dynasty!

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    In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, it was a critical moment that determined the fate of the Ming Dynasty.

    For Li Zicheng, this year is no longer the 17th year of Chongzhen, but the first year of Yongchang.

    Also on the first day of the first lunar month, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, marking the founding of the country. He also added a "day" to the head of "Cheng" and changed his name to Zisheng.  The honorific title was postulated to that of his great-grandfather.  He also made Niu Jinxing a bachelor of Tianyou Palace, Song Xiance became a military adviser, added six ministers, and established a complete set of political institutions imitating the Ming Dynasty.  Song Qijiao was appointed as the Minister of Civil Affairs, Lu Zhiqi as the Minister of Household Affairs, Gong Yan as the Minister of Rites and Affairs, and Zhang Jiran as the Minister of Military Affairs.  Among the meritorious officials with the fifth-level title, there are nine people below Hou Liu Zongmin, seventy-two people below Bo Liu Tichun, thirty sons, and fifty-five men.

    After the last fortress Yulin was captured, except for Hanzhong, Chapter 548 was born as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and died as a ghost of the Ming Dynasty!  At this time, Li Zicheng had all the land of the Three Qin Dynasties in his hands, and he had 600,000 cavalry and 400,000 infantry under his command.

    At that time, the prophecy that "the eighteenth son will be the master of the divine weapon" has spread widely, and some people have compared it to King Yingzheng of Qin, a ferocious and powerful founding king in the future.

    Listening to the brothers from the past saying "Grandpa Emperor" one by one, Li Zicheng was very excited and unhappy.

    At this time, Li Zicheng, entrenched in Guanzhong and controlling Henan, was quite satisfied. He was not Yingzheng, and he had no ambition to truly dominate the world. His intention was to divide the world equally with Ming.

    In fact, Li Zicheng and his subordinates do not have anyone who truly has a long-term strategic vision and the ability to govern the country. They are good at destruction but not construction.  Niu Jinxing and his like only encouraged Li to rush into the capital and become a veritable emperor. It seemed that all problems would be solved as soon as he captured Beijing and ascended the throne.  Li Zicheng was much more realistic about this, so when he was in Hubei in the past, he would adopt Gu Junen's advice to take Guanzhong first, instead of marching into Hebei and driving directly to the capital as Niu Jinxing suggested.

    At this time, Li Zicheng was facing a serious decision. He had been fighting for many years, conquering the east and the west. He relied on war to support war. Most of his subordinates were unruly and unruly. Once he settled down, he would be at a loss. Chapter 548: Life is Right  Minister of the Ming Dynasty, you are a ghost of the Ming Dynasty!  Got it.

    A million-strong army that has been stationed in one place for a long time will surely come to nothing.  It was the will of the majority of the Dashun government to send troops to continue the war, and Li Zicheng could not stop this. Although he might not be willing, he might have sensed some ominous meaning in his intuition.

    In February, Li Zicheng crossed the Yellow River, sent troops to Shanxi, and officially marched towards the capital.

    At the beginning of this journey, there was basically no resistance, and the army did not even arrive. The letter of surrender arrived first. On the seventh day of March, Li Zicheng successfully occupied Taiyuan.  Then there was a fierce battle with Ming general Zhou Yuji in Daizhou. Zhou Yuji had followed Hong Chengchou and participated in the Battle of Songjin. He was not an ordinary person. He fought hard for more than ten days in a row. When Li Zicheng was blocked, he wanted to withdraw his troops.  Li Zicheng had suffered countless defeats. This small setback was nothing at all, but he was concerned that his hastily established political institutions still had many problems that needed to be solved urgently. At this time, he preferred to lay a solid foundation first and destroy them.  Ming is a secondary matter.  But the generals were not convinced and insisted on deciding the outcome first.  As a result, after another battle, the opponent ran out of ammunition and food and retreated without support.

    Li Zicheng pursued them to Ningwuguan and announced that if they did not surrender within five days, they would massacre the city.  But this time Li Zicheng encountered strong resistance. Zhou Yuji followed Yuan Chonghuan's tactics of that year, using artillery to defend the city and bombarding it. He also sent troops from time to time to occupy the periphery and deal with the opponent. After three days of fierce fighting, Dashun's army lost ten thousand people.  Li Zicheng also fired back, destroying the city wall several times, but the enemy immediately built it up again.  The Dashun army once broke through the city gate, but the city gate was immediately closed, and no one of the thousands of troops who entered the city survived.  Li Zicheng was furious, and used the tactics of human sea to attack successively, and finally captured Ningwuguan.  Then came the massacre of the city, and women, children, old and young were not spared.

    By March, all of Shanxi had fallen into Li Zicheng's hands.  At this time, another partial army led by Liu Fangliang had also captured Baoding, and Li Jiantai, a great scholar who was personally campaigning on behalf of the emperor, was captured.

    On March 11, Li Zicheng's troops arrived at Xuanfu.  The commander-in-chief Wang Chengyun and the eunuch Du Xun went out of the city thirty miles to greet them. Before Du Xun left the city, he notified the governor Zhu Zhifeng and advised him to be aware of current affairs. Zhu Zhifeng cursed: "You rely on the trust of your superiors and send you here specially.  The territory belongs to you. When you arrive, you will be betrayed. How can you show your face?"

    Du Xun didn¡¯t answer and walked away laughing.  Zhu Zhifeng, who was guarding the city alone, stood in front of a cannon. Seeing Li Zicheng's troops approaching step by step, he turned to the left and ordered: "Fire them for me."

    But there was silence on both sides, and no one came forward. Zhu Zhifeng wanted to take action himself, but the soldiers around him held up his sleeves. Zhu Zhifeng beat his chest and sighed: "Unexpectedly, people's hearts are like this!" Then he hanged himself.

    On March 15, Tang Tong surrendered, and Li Zicheng's army passed Juyong Pass and reached Beijing.

    Outside the Changyi Gate, incense burners are surrounded, yellow carpets have been laid out, and dragon chairs have been placed.  Li Zicheng sat down contentedly, surrounded by the two princes of the Ming Dynasty who had become prisoners: King Qin and King Jin.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?He had already sent his subordinates to pretend to be merchants to find out clearly the reality of the situation. He had already begun this work when he was still far away in Xi'an.  Now that all the officers and soldiers in the suburbs have surrendered or fled, they have basically been wiped out. Beijing is now an isolated city that can be easily conquered.

    Although through vigorous publicity by Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others, people around him regarded him as the next destined emperor, but he himself was always half-convinced. For more than ten years, he had been busy fighting, fighting wits and courage with officers and soldiers, or fighting with his peers.  The scheming continued for a moment. He was not mentally prepared to be an emperor. He was extremely unfamiliar with that set of behavioral norms and ways of thinking. There was even a kind of heartfelt disgust after vanity and complacency, but he was already  I am involuntarily stepping into this unfamiliar territory step by step.  He wanted to slow down this too fast pace, so soon after leaving Juyongguan, he secretly sent the Ming Dynasty general Wang Yongji to Beijing to negotiate with the emperor. The exchange was to "divide the river and rule it". The Ming emperor named him king and cut the north of the Yangtze River for him.  territory.  But there is no trace of Wang Yongji so far.  Now Du Xun was sent in again, and the conditions were even lower.

    Liu Zongmin came over and asked: "Our army has been besieging the city for a day, why don't we attack quickly and capture Beijing quickly?"

    Li Zicheng shook his head and replied: "Let's wait until noon."

    A drizzle began to fall in the sky. This rain was predicted by Song Xiance the day before yesterday. "The calculation is really accurate. Could it be that the Sa family is really the master of the artifact?"

    At this time, Du Xun came back and informed Chongzhen that he refused the peace negotiation.  "This boy, if you don't eat the toast, you will be fined with wine." Li Zicheng stood up angrily.

    Although the situation was irreversible, Chongzhen still went to court every day to ask questions and handled government affairs as usual. In early March, he heard Jiang Dejin, the minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, say that although the court had already issued an order to unify the "three rates", various prefectures and counties were still plundering them.  As before, he once again issued an order to abolish the "training rate".

    He also personally took care of the defense of Beijing, and armed three to four thousand eunuchs in the palace and assigned them to various places to participate in the defense.  He summoned missionary Tang Ruowang to consult on the configuration and use of firearms.  On the sixth day of March, King Qin issued an order.

    King Qin¡¯s order, King Qin¡¯s order, unfortunately, can King Qin¡¯s order still work at this time?

    At this time in Fujian, Wu Liehou Ding Yunyi no longer had to wait for Chongzhen¡¯s Qinwang orders. He knew what would happen this year.

    The generals at all levels of the Huben Guards have all been summoned. Looking at Wu Liehou's solemn expression, they vaguely knew what was going to happen.

    Ding Yunyi didn't speak for a long time, and after a while he slowly said: "Li Zicheng has marched towards the capital."

    After a short moment of silence, someone actually let out a sigh of relief, as if relieved.

    In fact, they have been waiting for this day to arrive. Fujian, Taiwan, Japan, Luzon, Malacca, Batavia, Siam, Myanmar and other places are already under their control.  All they have been waiting for is this moment.

    The moment comes when we continue to create miracles for Huben Guards.

    "Everyone, get ready." Ding Yunyi said calmly: "Our navy and army will all set off. Cai Jiuzhou, Zhang Xianxuan, and Ye Dahai."

    "exist!"

    "You three are the commander-in-chief of the navy. You know what you should do."

    "yes!"

    "Huangfu Yunjie, Hou Lu."

    "exist!"

    "You two are the forwards on the left and right, leading the cavalry to set off today!"

    "yes!"

    Ding Yunyi's eyes fell on the generals: "The generals of this town will personally lead all the main forces to attack. In addition to the troops left behind in Fujian, Taiwan, various colonies and other places, there are a total of 350,000 amphibious and land troops. This formation will use these 350,000  Thousands of troops, go and reverse the Ming Dynasty!¡±

    "We are willing to fight to the death with Marquis Wu Lie!"

    This is the loudest answer from all the Tiger Guards!

    Ding Yunyi¡¯s eyes fell into the distance, far, far away.  From now on, a brand new challenge, a challenge that can determine the fate of a nation, has slowly begun to unfold.

    He didn¡¯t know whether he could succeed, or whether his 350,000 troops could reverse the dynasty that was about to collapse, but he didn¡¯t care.

    He is fighting for this nation, and his enemies do not only include rogue bandits like Li Zicheng.  There is also the more ferocious enemy outside Guan.

    He can tolerate failure. Even if he fails, he still has Fujian, Taiwan, Japan, and so many colonies. He can still reorganize a large army in the shortest time.

    Now, the future and destiny of the Ming Dynasty and the Han people are firmly in their own hands

    Li Zicheng's army has approached the capital.

    At this time, everyone in the capital reacted with dissatisfaction.Something like that.  Some are panicking, some just want to leave this terrible place as soon as possible, and some are thinking about how to get in touch with the bandits. No, we can no longer call them bandits now, but how to get in touch with "Emperor Yongchang" Li Zicheng and show his behavior.  own loyalty.

    Some people were calm and did not show any panic at all.

    For example, Ding Yuanzhao, the former right minister of the Ministry of War.

    During the two years when Chongzhen was most suspicious of and hated Ding Yunyi, Ding Yuanzhao was also implicated. He was dismissed by Emperor Chongzhen on random excuses. Finally, Chongzhen still remembered his past achievements and did not pursue further investigations.

    However, Ding Yuanzhao has been restricted from living there, and his scope of activities is only in Ding Mansion.

    When Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor and finally decided to march to the capital, no one paid attention to Ding Yuanzhao anymore, and those who were monitoring him fled.

    Ding Yuanzhao still didn¡¯t leave.  Every morning when he gets up early, he first moves his body, eats the delicious porridge prepared by his wife, and then spends the day quietly reading a book.

    He didn¡¯t care at all what he would face.

    He didn¡¯t care, but his son-in-law Wang Qingheng couldn¡¯t care less. When he appeared in front of his father-in-law again, his face was full of panic: ¡°Father, I heard that Emperor Yongchang is approaching the capital.¡±

    "What did you say? What do you call an intruder?" Ding Yuanzhao suddenly opened his eyes.

    "Ah, intruder." Wang Qingheng then realized that he had made a mistake: "I made a mistake. Many people in the capital now call intruders that way, and I am used to calling them that. Father, please think of a solution as soon as possible."

    Ding Yuanzhao closed his eyes and said nothing.

    Wang Qingheng quickly winked at his father Ding Biwei, who quickly pulled her fifteen-year-old son Wang Chirui forward and said: "Father, if you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your grandson.  Xiang Wen, his second sister, and his second brother-in-law are all in Fujian now. Why don't we go and join them?"

    "A loyal minister is seen in the national crisis!" Ding Yuanzhao opened his eyes and said slowly: "How can you be so panicked before the intruders have arrived? Xiang Wen did whatever he wanted in Fujian, and the Holy Spirit was angry. Although he couldn't do anything, why should he still do it?  Do I have the nerve to seek refuge with him?"

    "Father." Wang Qingheng swallowed: "Although Xiang Wen has made some mistakes, he is still your son after all."

    Ding Yuanzhao closed his eyes again.

    Wang Qingheng¡¯s father was helpless. He glanced at Ding Chen Wanhe and found that he also looked helpless.

    At this moment, suddenly the uncle from my hometown rushed in in a hurry: "Master, madam, second lady, second lady is back!"

    Everyone was stunned for a moment.

    Second lady?  Is Ding Biyue back?

    It was only after Ding Biyue appeared that everyone knew this was not an illusion.  Even though the children are now grown up, Ding Biyue still looks like she's in a hurry: "Let's go, let's go, it's too late if we don't go!"

    "Second girl, you, why are you back!" Ding Chen Wanhe burst into tears when he saw his second daughter, whom he had not seen for a long time.

    "Second sister." Ding Biwei held her sister's hand, tears streaming down her face.

    Ding Yuanzhao was as calm as ever: "Biyue, was it Ding Xiangwen who asked you to come?"

    "Dad, Xiang Wen didn't ask me to come, I came here myself." Ding Biyue hurriedly greeted her father: "Xiang Wen had known for a long time that there would be a disaster in the capital, so he sent his golden sword guards ahead of time.  I happened to overhear it from Yuan¡¯s mouth to support our Ding family. I didn¡¯t trust my parents, sister, and brother-in-law, so I decided to come along.¡±

    "Golden Sword Guard?" Ding Yuanzhao snorted coldly: "When did the Ming Dynasty have a Golden Sword Guard?"

    "Dad, now is not the time to talk about this." Ding Biyue was a little anxious: "Xiang Wen is not a rebellious minister. He knows that the capital is in danger. He has ignored the grievances with the court and personally ordered all the troops to go to the capital to serve the king!"

    As soon as the word "King Qin" came out, Ding Yuanzhao's eyes lit up, but then he sneered and said: "The grudge with the court? The court has never been sorry to him Ding Xiangwen, it was him who failed the court first! You go back and tell  That brother of yours, I will be waiting for him in the capital. When will he arrive with King Qin¡¯s troops, when will I recognize him as my son?"

    Ding Biyue knew her father's temper and would never change the things he decided, so she and her mother, sister, and brother-in-law looked at each other in confusion.

    "Why are you so stubborn, Mr. Ding!" At this moment, a voice floated in, and then a man in his thirties who looked like a scholar came in with simple clothes.

      "Who are you?" Ding Yuanzhao stared at him and asked.

    "The commander of the Golden Blade Guard, Xie Tian, ??has met your lord." Xie Tian said with a calm expression: "I, the Golden Blade Guard, were ordered to take the Marquis' family out of the capital. It was a matter of great importance. Xie Tian did not dare to neglect at all, so he went to the capital in person. Sir,  Along the way, I continued to receive intelligence from my subordinates. The bandit army is only a few days away from the capital. My carriage and escort have been arranged. Please take your family and leave with me quickly, otherwise it will be too late.  "

    Ding Yuanzhao glanced at him coldly: "I told you, I won't leave. I am a minister of the Ming Dynasty in life, and a ghost of the Ming Dynasty in death. If the intruder really enters the capital, I will die as a martyr to the country!"

    "My lord only knows how to be loyal, have you never thought about your family?" Xie Tian still said calmly: "My lord wants to be loyal, and Xie Tian has no other way to persuade him, but where is your wife? Where is your daughter? Where is your grandson?  Do you want them all to die with you? I heard that King Qin's order has been issued, but no one has responded yet. Only I, Marquis Wu Lie, lead the army. Are you really a traitor?  Will Wu Liehou¡¯s family leave him one by one?¡±

    Ding Yuanzhao was silent there. He slowly looked at his family, and then suddenly sighed heavily: "Go, go, you all go. I stay here, no matter life or death,  I will stay here. Thank you, go tell your Marquis Wu Lie and let him remember that he is a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and let him not forget that he is the Marquis Wu Lie of the Ming Dynasty!"

    "Dad!" The Ding sisters called out together.

    Ding Yuanzhao smiled miserably: "You don't have to persuade me anymore, I have made up my mind. Qingheng, don't leave either. You can stay with me."

    "Ah!" Wang Qingheng was stunned.

    Ding Yuanzhao smiled slightly: "Qingheng, don't worry, I am your father-in-law, which means I am your father. I will not harm you. I will definitely give you a clear path when the time comes."

    Wang Qingheng didn¡¯t want to stay at all, but he didn¡¯t dare to disobey his father-in-law¡¯s order.

    "I won't leave either." Ding Chen Wanhe smiled slightly: "We have been married for so many years, where can I go without you? No matter life or death, I will always be by your side." Baidu search, hand type, provided  Download this book.

    Ding Yuanzhao also smiled. What regrets can there be about having such a wife?  Then he waved his hand: "Go, go, all go to Fujian to join your Lord Wu Liehou Ding, Lord Town Ding!"!  !  !
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