The flag of Chuangwang with black characters on a red background has been flying all over the inner and outer cities of Beijing and over the imperial city since March 22, the first year of Dashun Yongchang. Although it was three days later than in history, Li Zicheng still got his wish.

became the master of Beijing City.

On the third day after the surrender of the three loyal ministers who guarded the Zhengyangmen Urn City, that is, on the 24th, Li Zicheng, under the arrangement of Song Xiance, the founding military advisor, held a grand entering ceremony. It was not from Yongding Gate.

Entering Zhengyang Gate and then entering the Imperial City - this route from south to north is unlucky, because most of the history of China was from north to south to conquer the world. Basically, if you occupy the north, you are the master of the world.

Therefore, after Li Zicheng captured the Zhengyang Gate, he returned to the Diaoyutai Palace from Yongding Gate. The soldiers who were waiting to enter the city first organized the militia to clean up the dirt, gravel and debris blocking the Desheng Gate, the north gate of Beijing's inner city. By March 20

On the fourth day, we chose an auspicious time and entered the city through Deshengmen. However, after entering the city, we could not enter the imperial city through Bei'anmen. Bei'anmen is the back door, so how could the new emperor use the back door? Isn't this a back-door emperor? The new emperor

You must enter the imperial city through the main gate. Therefore, Li Zicheng's route into the city on March 24 was very complicated.

On that day, Li Zicheng, accompanied by hundreds of civil and military officials and his imperial troops, entered Deshengmen and headed south, then turned east from Xidan Archway and went up West Chang'an Street. Then he walked from the gate between the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion and Jinyiwei.

The sidewalk goes south, turns to the front of Daming Gate, and then enters the city through Daming Gate. Everywhere you pass, there are "police guards" along the way. Every ten steps, there are soldiers on foot. The atmosphere is solemn, except that there is no loess paving.

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Wherever Emperor Dashun entered the imperial city, martial law was enforced and it was extremely quiet. On both sides of the street, every house closed its doors, and at the same time, an incense case was set up outside the door, with a yellow paper tablet on the case saying "Yongchang".

Long live the emperor, long live the emperor." Yellow paper and red paper were pasted on the doors of each house, with the word "obey the people" written on them. People in each house also went out to welcome the new Lord, but they all knelt beside the incense table and did not dare to raise their heads.

, dare not say anything, and also have the word "submit to the people" written on yellow paper on their heads... These are the etiquette for the people of Beijing to welcome the new Lord after discussion between Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance.

However, they did not expect at this time that this set of etiquette mastered by the people of Beijing would be useful in the near future!

Of course, Li Zicheng did not expect that he was actually a successor to the emperor, and that he received a rotten dish that even Zhu Cixi could not do anything about. So when he entered the city, he was very proud. Riding on a tall dragon horse, he tried hard to maintain a solemn expression.

The only eye he had was staring forward, never turning away. But in his heart, he couldn't help but think of Emperor Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty Crown Prince Zhu Cixiang.

Just before Li Zicheng entered the city, Tang Ma sent by Li Guo and Li Laiheng arrived at Diaoyutai and brought two pieces of good news to Li Zicheng.

The news sent by Li Guo was about setting up an ambush in Tianjin to capture Chongzhen and his son... He had sent a brigade of Dashun old battalion cavalry led by Hao Yaoqi to contact Tianjin Bingbei Daoyuan Yuzong. He was preparing to ambush Chongzhen and his son in Tianjin city.

, either capture or kill!

Li Laiheng had better news, saying that he had captured two of Emperor Chongzhen's sons, a concubine, and a loyal eunuch named Wang Cheng'en who had surrendered.

According to Wang Chengen's account, Emperor Chongzhen was not on this road, but Chongzhen's crown prince Zhu Cixiang was indeed on this road! And he had already been protected by the eunuch Qiu Zhizhong, the imperial horse supervisor, and Zepu, the ancestor of the thousand households of the Jinyiwei, and fled to Yongping.

After Li Laiheng ordered his subordinates to escort the captured Chongzhen's son, his concubine Yuan Shi, and the loyal eunuch Wang Cheng'en back to Beijing, he personally led the cavalry to continue the pursuit.

In other words, Zhu Cixi also has a double... I don't know if he is in Tianjin or if he went to Yongping?

If it's okay in Tianjin, even if Hao Yaoqi and the Ming Dynasty surrender officer lose their hands, Li Guo, Tang Tong and more than 10,000 people, as long as they get to Tianjin in time, are they afraid that they won't be able to capture them?

But it will be difficult to go to Yongping... The prince Zhu Cixiang is difficult to deal with, and he is more harmful than Chongzhen. Although Chongzhen is known as a wise emperor, he is actually a stupid emperor. But his son Zhu Cixiang is too treacherous! Too treacherous!

It’s so outrageous that you can even think of such a destructive trick as a “certificate of loyalty”. I don’t know how Chongzhen taught his children?

What if he was asked to run to Yongping to join the Guan Ning Army Brigade?

Just when Li Zicheng was complaining in his heart that Chongzhen, an honest emperor, did not educate the prince well, he had already arrived in front of the Xidan archway.

Li Shuangxi, who was escorting him, jumped forward on his horse and handed Li Zicheng a carved bow and three feathered arrows with their arrowheads removed. He said softly: "Father, it's time to take the oath of three arrows!"

Only then did Li Zicheng remember that the show time had come!

He hurriedly reined in the dragon and horse, took the bow and arrow, fired three arrows at the back, and then recited a limerick prepared by Song Xiance: "When the soldiers enter the city, don't be surprised. Every house opens its door and goes about its business as usual. The soldiers of the three armies are returning home."

If you harass the people in the military camp, you will definitely be killed!"

Immediately after reciting the limerick, an edict officer repeated it loudly with a voice as loud as a bell. In front of the limerick, the words "Long live the decree, the army and the people obey it" were added.

Then, the surrounding soldiers and kneeling people all cooperated and shouted long live the mountain...

This is the support of all people!

The little cloud in Li Zicheng's heart was instantly swept away. He laughed a few times and then rode forward on his horse.

Beijing has been secured, the north has been almost pacified, Dashun is the popular aspiration, and the Ming Dynasty is over... All the military advisers have calculated it, and the only obstacle is the Donglu. As long as the Donglu Tatars are defeated,

He, Li Zicheng, is the common master of the world.

No matter how talented Zhu Cihong is, he can't save the Ming Dynasty!

After walking for about half an hour, Li Zicheng finally walked around Damingmen and appeared in front of Chengtianmen, which was later known as Tiananmen.

At this time, the great military advisor Song Xiance leaped forward on his horse and said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, please shoot arrows at the Gate of Chengtian to get rid of the imperial spirit of the red thieves."

Li Shuangxi once again handed over the carved bow and arrows, but of course he did not remove the arrowheads this time. Li Zicheng laughed, raised his bow and arrow, and hit the "Gate of Chengtian" plaque with just one arrow. The civil and military ministers who followed him

and the escorting soldiers cheered again.

"Long live! Long live!"

Li Zicheng laughed and said: "From today on, I am the master of the world, and Dashun is the orthodoxy of the world!"

His declaration was not wrong. From now on, he is the common master of the world, Dashun is the orthodoxy of the world, and Chongzhen, Zhu Cixiang and his son are the thieves!

However, he did not expect that his co-lord of the world would have a probation period!

The probation period is one and a half months! If Dorgon can be defeated within one and a half months, he will become the official co-leader of the world, and the Dashun Dynasty will be stable.

If Dorgon cannot be defeated, then Zhu Cixiang will have to take up the post again and lead hundreds of millions of Han people in the world to save the country and fight against the Qing Dynasty... And during Li Zicheng's probation period as emperor, Chongzhen and Zhu Cixiang were very dangerous.

Because the people of the world have not yet understood Li Zicheng's true character of not resisting the emperor, it is the general trend to abandon the Ming Dynasty and submit to the emperor.

The good mood of Li Zicheng, who became the probationary emperor, did not last long, because on the second night, two pieces of bad news related to Wu Sangui reached the Forbidden City in Beijing at the same time.

"Your Majesty...I have just received two reports of Wu Sangui!" The person who walked into the Wuying Hall where Li Zicheng was stationed and reported to him was the commander-in-chief Li Yan.

Li Yan was one of the few talented people in Li Zicheng's army who had both civil and military skills. He was from Henan and had a good reputation as a civil servant. Probably because he was more handsome, he was robbed by a rebel female bandit, Hong Niangzi, and then they were thrown into the fire together.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, he defected to Li Zicheng, and now he is the commanding general of Li Zicheng's old camp and is Tian Jianxiu's deputy.

Tian Jianxiu had the power to take charge of all armies under Li Zicheng, similar to the chief of general staff. Military information reported by various ministries was first summarized to him and then reported to Li Zicheng.

Now Tian Jianxiu is busy arranging the troops to be stationed in the city, and Li Yan is in charge of military matters.

"What's wrong with Wu Sangui?" Li Zicheng glanced at Li Yan and asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, Li Laiheng reported that he encountered a large group of cavalry led by Wu Sangui near Yutian on the 25th and had to give up the pursuit. Zhu Cixiang has now arrived in Wu Sangui's army!"

"What?"

Li Yan then added: "Bohou Ye (Li Guo) also reported that on the 25th, Wu Sangui led a thousand Yiding cavalry to rush into Tianjin Acropolis, ruining our major event. Hao Yaoqi's three or four hundred
Chapter completed!