Li Zicheng was completely stunned when he heard this. After being stunned for a long time, he said to Li Yan: "Li Yan, let me ask you, how many Wu Sanguis are there in the world?"
"Your Majesty," Li Yan was not sure, "there should be only one...I have already asked someone to ask. There is only one Liaodong military officer named Wu Sangui in the Ming Dynasty."
"Then how could he appear in Yutian and Tianjin at the same time in one day?" Li Zicheng asked, "Is it because he spread his wings and flew in both directions?"
"This Wu Sangui should not be able to fly..." Li Yan replied.
"What's going on?" Li Zicheng asked with eyes wide open, "Why are there two Wu Sanguis?"
"Your Majesty," Li Yan replied, "there are not only two Wu Sanguis, but also two Zhu Cixiangs... Li Laiheng and General Li Zhi both reported the discovery of Zhu Cixiangs!"
This thing is even more troublesome!
Zhu Cixi was already so treacherous, and now there was another one, how bad would he be?
"No..." Li Zicheng was still wise after all, and he thought clearly in the blink of an eye, "Where are the two Wu Sangui and the two Zhu Cixiangs? It is clearly the Zhu thief who is deceiving... It is probably the treacherous plot of the little thief Zhu Cixiang!
Come here, tell Military Advisor Song and Military Advisor Gu to come! "
Song Xiance and Gu Junen were soon sent to the Wuying Palace in the Forbidden City, and Li Yan told them the news of the discovery of two Wu Sanguis and two Zhu Cixiangs.
Li Zicheng asked: "Great Military Advisor, please do the math. Which Zhu Cixiang is the real one?"
Calculate? Song Xiance thought to himself: Zhu Cixiang is so treacherous, who can predict him? Otherwise, let’s count Wu Sangui first!
"Your Majesty," Gu Junen saw the military advisor counting on his fingers, and it seemed like he couldn't finish counting for a while, so he spoke first, "If Zhu Cihong has already arrived in Guan Ning's army, then we will not be able to capture him for a while. Well...if Zhu Cixiang is in Tianjin, then we still have a chance to capture him."
"Yes, yes, yes..." Li Zicheng pressed his forehead, "If this kid gets to Yongping, he can only conquer it with a large army.
So, after all, we have to deal with Tianjin’s Zhu Cixiang first! Li Yan, you immediately take Chen Yongfu's troops to Tianjin to support a tiger (Li Guo) and tell him that Tianjin must be captured no matter what! "
Li Yan did not accept the order immediately, but still hesitated, "Your Majesty, if Wu Sangui really leads three to two thousand servants to Tianjin, I am afraid that Chen Yongfu and Tang Tong's troops will not be able to deal with it! Can we send more old soldiers?"
Li Zicheng snorted: "The old soldiers are exhausted after years of fighting. They are all clamoring to go to Beijing to rest and recuperate. Even Liu Zongmin is clamoring to go to Beijing... Who else can we ask to go to Tianjin?"
"This..." Li Yan was the commander-in-chief who assisted Tian Jianxiuji's army. Of course he knew the changes that took place after Dashun's army entered Beijing.
Before entering Beijing, everyone was working hard and fighting to be the first. But after entering the capital, everyone was thinking about competing for official titles, rewards, and property. The big city of Beijing has become a big fat piece of meat in the eyes of everyone, and everyone wants to take a bite!
Of course, it is normal to have such thoughts. Dashun is a group that wants to conquer the world and dominate the world. Now that the world is basically conquered, the question of how to sit must be clarified.
Everyone recognizes Li Zicheng as the emperor, so what should the emperor do next? How to divide the benefits of sitting in the world? General Quan, General Zhi, General Mighty, General Guoyi, as well as lower-ranking generals, captains, and even ordinary old soldiers all have to give an explanation, right? We can't let everyone's work go in vain, right?
Some historians in later generations called the Dashun Army's reward based on merit as "corruption." In fact, it was just to find a reason for the failed peasant uprising. Which dynasties and generations in history were allowed to treat their heroes poorly when they founded the country? If this matter is not settled properly, the people below will break up faster.
And because of Li Zicheng's rapid rise, three or four years ago he was driven out by the Ming army as a bandit running around, but now he is the common master of the world! Therefore, the accumulation in all aspects is insufficient, there are not many talents, a strict feudal system has not been established, and the management of the base area is not enough.
At the same time, Li Zicheng and his group also carried the banner of equalizing wealth for poor farmers, and now they are the real peasant uprising army. Therefore, there is no way to use land and population to reward merit-the military household system established by Zhu Yuanzhang and the Eight Banners system before entering the customs actually contain elements of feudal serfdom. The hereditary officers of the Guard and the nobles and officers of the Eight Banners are all exploiting classes within the system, and their status is the reward for conquering the world.
But Li Zicheng can't do this now, he is the leader of the peasant uprising! I thought that my rapid rise was due to my slogans of "Equalizing land and exempting from taxes" and "Welcoming the king of Chuang, but not paying for food"!
Now he wants to turn his back on others, engage in large-scale land enclosure and slave-holding, and turn all the working people who are waiting for him to liberate into serfs. Will the people of the world immediately turn to the Ming Dynasty?
When the time comes, everyone will "eat his mother, drink his mother, and stop being slaves when the Ming Dynasty comes". Will he, the great shun emperor, die?
So when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he suddenly felt like he owed a lot of debt and had to repay it... It turned out that he, the probationary emperor, had bought it with a loan and had to repay the debt!
In addition to collecting debts from his old brothers who followed Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng also had to give an explanation to the capital bureaucrats who surrendered after entering the capital.
There are nearly 3,000 officials and noble families in Beijing. In the original history, there were 23 dead families. And now, because Zhu Cihong betrayed the decree to leave the capital and took away a lot when he ran away. Therefore, there were not 3,000 officials waiting for Li Zicheng in Beijing, but there were still more than a thousand. In addition, there were many officials and nobles who followed the escape and fell behind because they ran too slowly. They were either captured and brought back to Beijing, or they returned to Beijing on their own.
So on the 25th, the number of original Ming Dynasty officials in Beijing reached about 2,000.
Most of these officials came from all over the world and could be said to be representatives of the gentry class in the world.
They are also observing the movements of Li Zicheng and the Dashun Dynasty. If they can still be loyal, then the world will be at peace.
But what answer can Li Zicheng give? He had so many debts to Dashun heroes to repay, and he could not treat the working people who supported him as serfs to pay off his debts, and the treasury left by the Ming Dynasty was empty...
Li Yan also knew Li Zicheng's difficulties, so he stopped asking him for help from the old camp. After receiving the order, he, Hong Niangzi and Chen Yongfu led the troops to Tianjin to find trouble with Zhu Cixiang.
Early the next morning after Li Yan left, General Quan Liu Zongmin rushed to Beijing in front of the Baodi Army. The Zhongquan pro-army led by Liu Zongmin was originally ambushing in the Tumenguan area, specifically targeting Wu Sangui's reinforcements. As a result, the five thousand cavalry led by Wu Sangui had just arrived in Yutian, and Chongzhen and Zhu Cixiang began to run away. After the news reached Tumen Pass, Liu Zongmin no longer led his troops to lurk, but followed Li Laiheng all the way eastward. Around the 23rd, they advanced to the Sanhe and Baodi areas and formed a confrontation with Wu Sangui who was stationed in Yutian.
After deploying his troops, Liu Zongmin immediately left for Beijing to discuss with Li Zicheng, Tian Jianxiu, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and Gu Junen how to "pay off the debt."
"Aren't the mountains of gold and silver in the city of Beijing? Your Majesty, haven't you all been breaking up the city to raise food and wages over the years? Now the brothers are looking at it eagerly, but we can't let everyone feel cold!"
Liu Zongmin was still responsible and made his words clear as soon as he went to Wuying Palace... The Ming Dynasty lacked loyalty like him!
"Huang...Liuhou," Li Zicheng wanted to call Liu Zongmin's nickname, but as soon as he started speaking, he remembered that he was the leader of the world, so he spoke more politely, "you know my thoughts best! But after all, Beijing is the best in the world. , we can’t mess around!”
"Your Majesty," Song Xiance said as he came out to offer advice, "the common people in the capital don't have much money, so we can ask for payment from officials and businessmen."
Tian Jianxiu frowned and asked: "It's easy to ask for payment from merchants. When you see someone opening a shop doing business, go and ask for money. But how do you find officials? No one goes out wearing the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty anymore."
"This is easy to handle." Song Xiance said with a smile, "Your Majesty only needs to issue an edict and order a civil and military official in Beijing to submit his name to his post and then appear in court. Those who are willing to serve as officials will be promoted according to their talents, and those who are not willing will be allowed to return to their hometown. This way in Beijing Tomorrow the officials will come out on their own! If they can be used then, use them; if they can’t be used, ask them to pay for them."
Li Zicheng laughed loudly when he heard this: "Hahaha, the great military advisor still has a way! Zhong, that's it!"
