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Volume 2: A Different Chief Chapter 777: Instruments of Torture

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    (Thanks to book friends such as The Lion King and 160617121110171 for the reward. Also, the book friends had a lively discussion. In fact, if I had not written the previous chapter, many people would only have the impression of the scholar-bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty that the water was too cold, right? Haha. About  I will talk about the issue of life and death in detail when I finish this book.) On March 19, after the body of Emperor Daxing was placed in the coffin, he paused in Shicha Temple outside Donghua Gate. Several monks chanted sutras.  Several eunuchs and Wang Chengen's coffin were also beside them.  None of the officials dared to cry.  But Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, together with Lang Chengde of the Ministry of War and Liu Yangzhen, the chief officer, caressed the coffin and mourned.  On that day, Li Zicheng rewarded the palace maids, and the following generals Quan and Zhi each received thirty rewards. Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and other six government officials also received three to five rewards each.  The generals also broke into other people's houses randomly, and immediately occupied the high gate of Wangjing City. Liu Zongmin occupied Tian Hongdi and Li Guo occupied Zhou Kuidi.  On the 20th, Liu Zongmin and others not only posted notices on the election of officials, but also strictly prohibited killing. Anyone who raped the people would be punished.  When the thieves first came in, the officials and gentry were afraid that they would cause trouble with their crowns and clothes, so they all destroyed the Xian crown. On the 20th, when they saw the Dashun election officials signing up, everyone burst into laughter.  Because the crown and hat were destroyed, he had to go to the Liyuan Opera Troupe to look for the opera crown, which cost three to four taels of silver per crown.  When the bandits first entered the city, the people were frightened and frightened. However, they saw the Dashun Army quickly posting notices all over the city, clearly stating: The army will not commit any crimes in autumn. Anyone who dares to plunder people's property will be executed without delay. This made a panicked heart much calmer.  .  It happened that in the afternoon, four soldiers robbed a silk and satin shop in Zhengyangmen. They were immediately chopped up alive in the market, and their hands and feet were still nailed to the left fence of the front door.  The people who were watching in fear all calmed down, and everyone praised Dashun Zhen as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. No wonder he could win the world.  They also opened their doors for business confidently and boldly, and people took to the streets in a peaceful atmosphere.  For Li Zicheng and others on that day, they also did a lot of things, such as sending people to recruit Yang Guozhu who surrendered in Jizhen, Liu Zhaoji, Wu Sangui and others who were in Shanhaiguan at this time.  They are all promised generous treatment. For example, Yang Guozhu is the Marquis of Jibei and is promised to be granted the title of Duke.  Dongping Bo Liu Zhaoji was granted the title of Marquis.  I heard that Wu Sangui had many soldiers and horses, and even promised that both father and son would be granted the title of marquis.  They also sent their old acquaintance, Dingxibo Tangtong, who had surrendered earlier, with his edict and thirty thousand taels of silver as condolences. They also asked Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang to write a letter of persuasion to surrender, and then went to Jizhen, Shanhaiguan and other places, and then to the east  That's it.  In the minds of Li Zicheng and others, no matter how strong Yang Guozhu, Wu Sangui and others are, they are limited. After all, the Shun army defeated too many bright generals. Each of them claimed to have 100,000 or 200,000 troops, but they were nothing more than that, so they simply did not  I thought that maybe only Wang Dou would impress them more.  The purpose of recruiting and surrendering is just to subjugate the enemy without fighting. After all, if they can do it without using weapons, they will not use weapons. Sure enough, if they don't know how to praise them, they will definitely be like the newly captured capital. The mighty and shun soldiers will force them over and defeat them personally.  Grind each into powder.  "However, Li Zicheng and others believe that in the face of the general trend of the world, Yang Guozhu, Wu Sangui and others will recognize the situation clearly and will not do stupid things like eggs against stones.  Moreover, the conditions he gave were superior enough, and they would not be ignorant of the compliments, so things in the east were like this.  It seems that Li Zicheng and others forgot about a group of people, that is, the Manchu and Qing troops outside the Pass. Maybe he did not have this concept in his mind.  The counselors and civil servants around him all came from humble backgrounds. Their highest education level was Juren. They also lacked the vision to oversee the overall situation, and no one paid attention to that place in the northeast.  So even in history, Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui never thought about this problem when they were fighting over a stone. It was not until the Qing army appeared that he suddenly realized that there was still such a group of people in the world, and there was a creature called the Tatars.  This kind of creature has deep roots, established a country early, has a complete system, and is a true professional army and warrior. The situation is completely different from any opponent he has encountered before.  So in ignorance, he was defeated in one fight. ??????????? Then he fled thousands of miles, and was constantly being bitten. In order to survive, he abandoned the Shaanxi foundation and the longer-running Huguang foundation, and even smashed the Nanming defense line into pieces, but he couldn't turn over.  In the history of thousands of years, if we talk about the most short-sighted people, Li Zicheng and others consider themselves first, and no one dares to say second.  Of course, at the moment, he is very high-spirited and thinks that Jingdong can do nothing. He mainly focuses on Xuanfu Town in the west.  The Battle of Luoyang in the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen left a deep impression on Li Zicheng and others, so Li Zicheng and others would be more cautious when dealing with Wang Dou.  After discussion, they decided to send envoys to surrender first. Wang Dou was now a marquis, and he would be given the treatment of a duke. If he was still not satisfied, he could be granted the title of king!  Sure enough, he still didn't know how to promote, so he mobilized all the troops and horses of Dashun to attack Xuanfu in the west!  No matter how strong the Xuanfu is, how strong is the capital?  Which of the Ming Dynasty cities under Dashun was weak?  No matter how strong his soldiers and horses are, after all, he has few people. How can he resist if he can build a large army by himself?  During the introduction period, Xuanfu was captured.?Going down Xuanfu, sweeping through Shanxi, Shaanxi, and then Sichuan and Gansu.  Therefore, the residual Ming forces around the capital have agreed on this, but now there are several troubles that Li Zicheng and others urgently need to solve.  First, Da Suo, the capital master, has never heard of the prince, the second king, the queen and others. They think that the prince and others have escaped from the capital, but there are several possibilities for where to escape.  The first is to flee eastward to where Yang Guozhu, Wu Sangui and others are. Just when Tang Tong went to recruit them, he asked them to hand over the prince and the two kings.  The second is to flee westward, towards where Wang Dou¡¯s troops are. This is a bit troublesome. It¡¯s okay if Wang Dou surrenders, but if he doesn¡¯t, he will have to use weapons.  The third is to flee south, to the south of the Yangtze River. If this is the case, this matter will be much more troublesome, and it is very likely that another Southern Song Dynasty will appear.  After all, the Shun army was not used to water warfare, and the dense river network in the south of the Yangtze River gave them a headache. It was not that they had never made plans to go south, but they were frightened back to Henan by the turbulent Yangtze River water.  This is a big worry.  Another worry is money.  Once upon a time, gold and silver were not rare among the invaders. What they valued most was mules and horses. Even the money they obtained was mostly used for minor matters.  However, today is different from the past. If you want to establish a country and become an emperor, you will naturally need a lot of money to spend.  Having broken into the capital, the soldiers also need to be rewarded, and there are too many soldiers and horses in Dashun. There are half a million people heading north alone.  These people all need rewards, and the amount of gold and silver they need is huge.  If you want to use troops against Xuanfu Shanxi, you will also need a huge amount of food and salary.  All of this requires money.  Once, when Li Zicheng went north to the capital, he was not worried about money. In addition to his belief that the capital was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, there was naturally a large amount of money in the treasury. He also heard a royal secret.  No matter in ancient or modern times, at home and abroad, the secrets of the royal family are the object of discussion among ordinary people. Ordinary villagers in the fields talk about the emperor using a golden pole to carry millet and eating white-flour steamed buns one by one.  Some senior literati, officials and generals discussed another matter.  For example, they whispered and described vividly that there were treasury gold in the palace. There were 37 million ingots that had not been used for many years, and one ingot was worth 500 taels. They were all engraved with Yongle inscriptions, so as to criticize these years.  The emperor's extra favor.  Sure enough, if there is so much gold and silver, a mule carrying two ingots of silver and one thousand taels means that it will take 18.5 million mules and horses to carry it.  In other words, not only the entire Ming Dynasty, but also all the horses in the Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties combined, I don¡¯t know if they can pull all the gold and silver.  "Perhaps only people with low IQs and ulterior motives would believe such rumors. Li Zicheng and others were dubious, but they expected that there was a lot of gold and silver hidden in the palace. As a result, they dug three feet into the ground and found no hair.  The last statistics they obtained showed that the palace had 170,000 taels of gold, 130,000 taels of silver, and the treasury had 200,000 taels of silver.  The emperor¡¯s net worth was many times poorer than that of Li Zicheng.  This matter will be difficult to handle.  ¡­ On the 21st, a huge wave of applicants rushed to Chengtianmen. These former officials of the Ming Dynasty now all loyally want to serve Dashun.  Because many people got up early and the Chengtian Gate hadn't opened yet, they simply sat on the steps and waited.  As soon as the door opened, they rushed in, fearing that if they were late, their spot would be taken by someone else.  Seeing them huddled together in no order, the long guard guarding the gate couldn't help but beat them away with a stick to tell them to be honest.  Then they signed up in the Wufeng Tower in front of the Meridian Gate, and then they all knelt down outside the Meridian Gate to listen.  They also wear different costumes, some wear traditional auspicious clothes, and some wear green clothes and small hats. However, no matter whether they are ordinary people, some are clever, some are famous for their literary talents, or some are sharp-tongued, or  They were high-spirited people, but now they all bowed their heads and lowered their eyebrows, standing like puppets.  There are also people who shave their hair and dress like monks, or wear headbands to gain sympathy, and there are all kinds of ugly things that cannot be described in writing.  The gatekeepers of the Shun Army pointed at them and laughed, making all kinds of insults, but they did not dare to speak out.  At the end of the day, Dashun did not give them anything to eat or drink. They comforted each other and said, "Although the bellies are hungry, the hearts are very happy." On this day, the cabinet minister Chen Yan and the Duke of Chengguo Zhu Chunchen were dressed neatly. They came to persuade them to enter.  , but unexpectedly, he couldn't even enter the Meridian Gate.  Near noon, Wang Dehua suddenly came out of the Meridian Gate. He walked directly in front of Zhang Jinyan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, who was prostrate with a low eyebrow. In the stunned eyes of others, he suddenly slapped Zhang Jinyan hard in the face, which made his head buzz.  Venus is rising.  Then Wang Dehua pointed at Zhang Jinyan and yelled at him for harming the country.  The Shun soldiers next to him fell down laughing because Wang Dehua had been used by Dashun, and Zhang Jinyan did not dare to speak out even though he was beaten.  He was humbled in his heart??, I just thought: "You Wang Dehua is so loyal, why don't you imitate Wang Chengen and die for your country and your Lord? Aren't you the same as a traitor?" Of course, he only dared to think this in his heart, his face still lowered his eyebrows, and said nothing.  Dare to come out.  On the 22nd, the leader Liu Yangzhen kowtowed outside the Meridian Gate and asked Zhang Jinyan, Wei Zaode and Chen Yan to punish the traitorous ministers who had wronged the country. Li Zicheng said: "Why didn't you say this in the previous dynasty?" and dismissed him.  On the same day, Li Zicheng suddenly got a calligraphy letter, which said: "Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, supervises all the internal and external military affairs and assists the East Palace." There is also a line in ink: "All officials will go to the East Palace." There is the emperor's seal on it.  , but before Gai's collapse, he issued a letter from Zhu to the cabinet and asked Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of the country, to assist the crown prince.  It turns out that at that time, the internal ministers carried Zhu Yu to the cabinet. The cabinet ministers had dispersed and were placed on the table. The civil and military ministers, who no one knew, were now owned by Li Zicheng.  Li Zicheng looked at the ink edict and Zhu Yu and thought that the prince had never been seen, could it be?  He ordered to kill Zhu Chunchen, who lived in his family. At the same time, he escorted more than 200 military officials of the Xunwei and killed them all outside Pingze Gate.  That day, in the mansion occupied by Liu Zongmin, he circled around the things in a circle. In front of him, Tie Lihua, Lu Gongshui, Hongxiu Shoes, etc. were all horrific instruments of torture, which made him very satisfied.  There are also newly made clamps, which are connected with iron nails. The clamp wood has edges and looks very powerful. They are all newly made in Beijing.  Liu Zongmin touched the stick and murmured: "I don't know how powerful the new stick is. I still need to find someone to try it." (To be continued.)
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