Today is the eighth day of April, and there is only one day left before the second enthronement ceremony of Emperor Dashun calculated by Song Xiance on his fingers. According to the original schedule, he should have happily performed the enthronement ceremony, that is,

rehearse.

However, yesterday morning, after the memorial of apology from the Houying general Bohou Li Guo was delivered to the Wuying Hall where Emperor Dashun was stationed, the enthronement ceremony on April 9th ​​was cancelled, and Emperor Dashun's good mood disappeared.

Because Li Guo reported shocking bad news in his apology memorial—the attack on Tianjin Wei ended in a disastrous defeat!

After four consecutive days of bloody battles, and at one point they invaded Tianjin's Nancheng, the sudden arrival of thousands of cavalry led by Wu Sangui caused the originally favorable battle situation to take a turn for the worse. Li Guo, Li Yan, and Chen Yongfu's troops fled in panic and suffered heavy losses.

!Tang Tong’s entire army was wiped out!

In addition, Li Yan's wife, the female general Hong Niangzi, was destroyed by the Zheng family navy during the Weihe River water battle, and her whereabouts are unknown.

At present, Li Guo, Li Yan, and Chen Yongfu have packed up the remaining troops and retreated to Wuqing County. They have asked Li Zicheng to send reinforcements to fight Tianjin Guards again!

Later, Tian Jianxiu, who personally went to the Yutian front line to supervise the army, sent a report, saying that the envoy sent to Wu Sangui's army reported that the morale of Guan Ning's army was low, and that he had not heard of the news that the auxiliary king of the Eastern Lu wanted to marry his daughter to the Ming prince.

In addition, Tian Jianxiu's envoy also found out that the daughter of Dorgon, the auxiliary king of Donglu, was only 6 years old and it was impossible to get married.

Tian Jianxiu also reported that there were rumors that Wu Sangui wanted to abandon Shanhaiguan and go south to join Zhu Cixang, and that the Donglu were concentrating their forces and wanted to take advantage of the situation to seize Shanhaiguan.

After putting all this information together, Li Zicheng felt like he had a headache. Because Wu Sangui was still his double! He didn't know which side was true? But no matter which side was true, it was not a good thing. If Wu Sangui had already arrived in Tianjin,

Then the Shanhaiguan area must be empty and may be occupied by Donglu at any time!

If Wu Sangui had still stayed in Yongping, who had defeated Li Guo and the others? Li Guo and others had as many as 22,000 soldiers. Think about it, the opponent who could beat them to a disastrous defeat would not be too weak.

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Where did Zhu Cixiang find such elite reinforcements? If Zhu Cixiang really had enough elite soldiers to defeat Li Guo, then Dashun would be attacked from both sides once the captives marched eastward and westward!

Under such circumstances, how could Li Zicheng think about ascending the throne for a second time? It was too late to prepare for war, so why would he ascend the throne?

But when he thought about preparing for war, Li Zicheng's head got big. The brothers in the old camp below were all clamoring for money!

These guys are all Li Zicheng's creditors, and they all feel that they have made great contributions and must be rewarded heavily. However, the treasury left by that poor man in Chongzhen has nothing in it, and it is so empty that he can run away. Ask Li Zicheng to take it.

What to reward?

In addition to being unable to issue satisfactory rewards, the Dashun court now does not even have enough food.

Looking more closely at this matter, it’s Zhu Cixi’s fault! Didn’t he issue a lot of decrees after the Huangjimen Incident? One of them was to distribute the grain stored in the warehouse to the people in the inner city of Beijing... Although this

The decree was implemented in a hurry, but the grain depot of the Ministry of Revenue was basically emptied.

In addition, after Zhu Cihong followed Chongzhen to the south and headed south to Tianjin, a large amount of seaborne grain accumulated at Dagukou could not be transported to Beijing.

As a result, Li Zicheng not only had no money to pay rewards, but also had difficulties in supplying his troops. Those old soldiers who followed him to fight and finally broke into Beijing not only did not get the wealth they wanted, but they even had rice and flour.

They can't be eaten open, let alone meat.

This kind of treatment is completely inconsistent with the founding heroes!

Under such circumstances, it became increasingly difficult to maintain discipline and morale in the old camp. Military discipline in many troops was ruined. Incidents of rape and robbery by officers and soldiers in the old camp occurred from time to time. Li Zicheng unleashed his thunderous wrath several times and killed many people, but nothing happened.

Ways to put an end to it. As for the daily drills of various ministries in Beijing, they have basically stopped since April. You don’t have food, drink, and money, so you still practice? Fuck him, it’s almost the same!

If there is no longer enough money to reward, the old soldiers who were relied upon by Li Zicheng to support the Great Wall may be disbanded...

How many days have you been sitting on the dragon chair in the Forbidden City in Beijing? Why do you feel like you are facing an abyss? It is not easy for that foolish emperor Chongzhen to sit on this throne for 17 years!

Just when Li Zicheng was sitting in the Wuying Hall worrying, Liu Tichun and Wu Ruyi, who took over from Tian Jianxiu and Li Yan and were in charge of military affairs, walked in in a hurry. After seeing the ceremony, Li Zicheng found that both of them looked happy, so he

Ask: "Is there any good news?"

"Reporting to the Emperor," Liu Tichun said with a smile, "Bohou's military report revealed that the northern and southern cities of Tianjin were captured yesterday."

"What?" Li Zicheng was stunned, "I just received the memorial of apology yesterday, why did I win another victory today? What kind of battle is this tiger fighting?"

Wu Ruyi said: "It was not Bohou who captured the Tianjin Guard, but the Red Lady who had been missing for many days and her brothers infiltrated into the Tianjin Guard. They took advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the red thieves moved towards Dagokou and drove away the red thieves who were left behind.

With our troops and horses, we captured the three guards of Tianjin in one fell swoop!"

"Then the red thieves are still going to move south..." Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief, with a long-lost smile on his face, "The red thieves are still one step behind in the game! If they guard Tianjin, will they?"

If we leave, I will be attacked from both sides. If the Manchus really borrow troops to fight with them, I am afraid that I will give up the city of Beijing."

Liu Tichun smiled: "Beijing is not the capital of Dashun, so it doesn't matter if we give it up temporarily, as long as all the gold and silver in the city are emptied."

Li Zicheng nodded and was noncommittal. He never regarded Beijing as the capital. After attacking Beijing, he made it clear that Beijing was just a city and would be changed to Youzhou Prefecture in the future. It would be an important northern barrier town and would no longer be the capital.

.And the capital of Dashun has always been Chang'an, the imperial capital of Guanzhong!

Therefore, for Li Zicheng and the Dashun Army, Beijing's gains and losses are not the most important. The most important thing is the ill-gotten gains of those corrupt officials in Beijing!

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng said to himself: "We have to ask Huang Hu to work harder and get more military pay! With the military pay, we can fight to the death with the remnants of the Zhu bandits and the Manchus!"

...

"Master Hou, this is the account that has just been prepared. Please take a look at it..."

"What kind of account did you pass? Please report the number!" Huang Hu and Liu Zongmin waved their hands and asked Luo Xiushen to take away the account book that was sent to him.

Once he turns out to be a robber and a rebel, how can he read the ledger? Why would he rebel if he has that ability?

"In total, I got more than 22,853,000 taels of silver, and more than 564,000 taels of gold... Lord Marquis, this is really a huge fortune!"

"What a huge fart!" Liu Zongmin waved his hand, "Well, Dashun is now a big business, with over a million people... Each person is given 10 taels of silver, and 10 million taels is his naughty one.

Gone!"

"Master Hou..." Luo Xiushen looked at the expressionless faces of Huang Hu and Liu Zongmin, and his heart rose to his throat.

He is living with a tiger now! If he had known that these gang of thieves were so cruel in their methods of extorting money and extorting money, he would not have stayed as Zhu Cixiang's spy - he thought it was a simple thing, but in fact he couldn't bear to part with his family business in Beijing.

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The Luo family has been in charge of Jinyiwei for decades, and has almost overflowed with profits and water. It is impossible to pack them away... But I never expected that the thieves would be so cruel and ruthless! In order to torture and force them to pay, they really

Put people to death!

Moreover, even if you pay money, you may not be able to survive, so you should be polite to middle- and low-level civil servants. For civil servants above the rank of minister, nobles from aristocratic families, military attachés, royal relatives, and powerful eunuchs, they will do whatever they can to save their lives and wealth!

There are many!

Luo Xiu Shen's family can be considered a member of the noble family. Although their ancestors did not pass down a title, they have a hereditary military position that they can inherit. They are also famous for being rich...
Chapter completed!