"What, missing?"

After a while, Dashun temporarily arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Li Yan was shocked when he learned that Chongzheng's body was missing.

After Chongzheng Meishan hanged himself, he knew that his body was filled with resentment and had changed. He also reported to Emperor Shun that he wanted to dispose of Chongzheng's body as soon as possible. However, after Emperor Shun captured the capital, he suddenly lost his purpose, drank heavily every day, and ignored political affairs.

As the Prime Minister of Dashun, Li Yan was under great pressure.

Dali was defeated too quickly, and Dashun, which was hastily established, was not prepared to take over such a large area of ​​land.

Although various places surrendered in hope, none of those demoted officials and generals were trustworthy, and they might rebel at any time.

Moreover, the Liaodong generals had no intention of surrender at this time. The negotiating envoy sent over was even more aggressive. Not only did they demand a vassal seal, but they also demanded an annual food supply of five million taels of silver and six million shi, otherwise they would switch sides.

Di Guo, led the Di army into the pass, and defeated Dashun.

The generals of Liaodong have been running Shanhai and Liaodong for nearly a hundred years, and they have deep roots. Even the Dali Dynasty has actually lost control of them. If a fight really breaks out, the Dashun Army is evenly matched with them. I am afraid no one can get away with it. After all, they

But the most elite force in Dali is Cao Wenzhao.

If they really risked the disapproval of the world and lured the Di army into the pass, it would be tantamount to annihilation for Dashun.

According to Li Yan's idea, the Southern Expedition army was attacking Jiangnan at this time, and it was not appropriate to start a war on two fronts. In any case, the Liaodong generals must be stabilized first.

If you want enfeoffment, give it; if you want money, give it; if you want food, give it.

Liu Zongmin has already sold out 70 million silver and tens of millions of liths of military rations in the capital, which is affordable.

It will be much easier to wait for Dashun to surrender to the south of the Yangtze River to stabilize his position, and then to deal with the Liaodong generals.

At least, there is no risk of flash crash.

However, what Li Yan didn't expect was that Emperor Shun's suspicion of him had reached an unreasonable level.

A few days ago, he reported a brief report to Emperor Shun, but Emperor Shun pointed at his nose and scolded him: "What do you want from having an affair with a general who refused to surrender? Do you want to rebel?"

Li Yan choked on one sentence and was so angry that he wanted to throw down his seal and be dismissed from office, and walked away.

Since the founding of the Dashun Dynasty, his political disagreements with Emperor Shun have become public.

Emperor Shun was used to being careless, and his actions and thoughts had not yet changed. He was about to become the lord of the world.

What he has to do is no longer lead his soldiers to run around, grab money and food, then eat meat and drink wine, and don't have to worry about anything else.

It's about how to govern a country, how to suppress the never-ending greed of your subordinates, how to compromise with the outside world, and how to balance various contradictions to prevent the situation from collapsing.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small dish. If you don't cook it well, you won't be able to cook it, and if you don't turn it off, you can't do it.

To say that Emperor Shun ignored government affairs was just one of them. Some things he did secretly could still be maintained.

The biggest headache was for General Liu Zongmin of the Shun Army. He was a veteran, strong-armed man, a man of self-respect, and unruly. Not to mention himself, the Prime Minister, even Emperor Shun would not give him much respect.

This is a problem within Dashun Army.

To sum up in one sentence: Dashun Army is a fragmented political power pieced together by various rebel armies. If it is beneficial, it will be combined, and if it is not beneficial, it will be dispersed. The integration is far from complete.

The biggest military leader among them is the fierce general Liu Zongmin.

He was named Shun Emperor's general, but he actually supported his own troops. His soldiers only knew him as "General Liu" and not Emperor Shun. Many military leaders were afraid of being annexed by Emperor Shun, so they had secretly taken refuge with Liu Zongmin. In addition, Liu Zongmin

His strength is higher than that of Emperor Shun.

Li Yan sometimes had to wonder if Emperor Shun's failure was because he was powerless towards his soldiers and generals, so he simply didn't want to take care of anything else?

Emperor Shun has no heirs, so he has no intention of doing anything lucky. After death, the country will belong to others after death. If you have wine tonight, you will be drunk today.

Back to the present, Chongzheng's body is missing, which is a problem.

But Chongzheng is dead, so it's just a nuisance.

The bigger problem is that Liu Zongmin has already squeezed out all the civil and military officials, princes and nobles of the former dynasty who were imprisoned in Zhao Prison, regardless of whether they surrendered or not.

He must now be looking for ways to expand the scope of the torture so that he can attack the rich and common people in the city. In fact, his men have already started to do this.

The unbridled rebels have become like bandits and robbers in the city.

If he raided the whole city under the pretext of searching for the escaped corpse of Chongzheng, fear would surely set off a wave of rebellion in various places.

You must know that the capital city took the initiative to surrender and did not resist.

The endless scraping brought in money but lost the hearts of the people.

"Block the news immediately!" Li Yan pondered for a moment and immediately made up his mind, and then ordered: "Find a corpse to put on the dragon robe of the former dynasty, burn it on the spot, and say it is Chongzheng's body."

"But sir, those who were guarding the body of Chongzheng are all aware of it. If His Majesty knows about it..." Zuo Zuo reminded hesitantly.

"Chongzheng's body escaped, and the guards cannot escape their guilt. The truth will wipe their butts for them. Anyone with any brains will stop talking nonsense. This can be done."

Li Yan looked determined, paused, and then said helplessly: "As for Emperor Shun... this is not far behind."

This was the reason why he was at odds with Emperor Shun. Emperor Shun ignored government affairs and Li Yan handled many matters by himself, bypassing Emperor Shun.

If it happens too often, it will naturally lead to suspicion.

And the reason why he is still Prime Minister Dashun is because his decision-making by bypassing Emperor Shun is basically correct.

It can even be said that without him Li Yan, Emperor Shun would probably still be fleeing from east to west of Shaanxi and Gansu.

"Yes, sir."

He took orders from left and right and hurried down to make arrangements.

Li Yan pondered for a while, then found another subordinate and asked, "Has Zhu Ci been found?"

Zhu Ci, the former crown prince.

Chongzheng hanged himself on Meishan, Queen Zhou committed suicide, but the whereabouts of Zhu Ci and the Crown Princess are unknown.

In order to prevent Liu Zongmin's massive manhunt, Li Yan lied to the outside world that Zhu Ci and the Crown Princess had been burned in the palace fire, just as he did with the disappearance of Chongzheng's body, and then secretly stepped up the search.

But the strange thing is that Zhu Ci and the Crown Princess disappeared without a trace.

It was like being literally burned to death in a palace fire.

The subordinate shook his head and said: "Sir, no trace of Zhu Ci has been found. My brothers are still searching intensively. The four gates of the capital are closed. It is expected that he is still in the city, maybe hiding in an official's home."

"He must be found. If he is allowed to escape to Jiangnan and succeed to the throne, the consequences will be disastrous."
Chapter completed!