On the day when the Huai Army fought in Xuzhou in northern expedition, the Yongchang Emperor in Beijing suddenly ordered the policy of "recovering stolen goods and assisting wages" in Beijing.

The reason was that after entering the capital, Li Zicheng did not listen to the suggestions of the Ming Dynasty's surrendered officials. He announced that he would not infringe on the private property of bureaucratic landlords, and continued to implement the Ming Dynasty's tax policies, so that all pacification in the north and proclamations were made in the south.

Li Zicheng believed that Emperor Yongchang's words could not be ignored, so the "three-year exemption" proposed by him when the founding of the country in Xiangyang could not be changed. That is, from the first year of Yongchang to the third year of Yongchang, the Dashun regime and the army did not impose a single tax on any farmer in his jurisdiction.

However, if the "three-year exemption" is the "three-year exemption", where will the salaries of officials from the Dashun regime come from, where will the funds to maintain the six central governments and local governments come from, how can the millions of troops, including the surrendered troops of the Ming Dynasty be maintained, and where will the rewards to the founding heroes come from?

At the suggestion of Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others, Li Zicheng decided to confiscate all the property of the former Ming royal family, honorary relatives and eunuchs, and "recover stolen money and provide assistance" to the former Ming officials in Beijing, in order to obtain financial funds after the founding of the Dashun New Dynasty.

On March 27, the decree was issued, and the officials in the Ming Dynasty were assigned to send money to the officials in the capital, regardless of whether they were used or not. The ones who used the money were assigned to them to complete the money themselves. Those who did not use the money were assigned to the rated amount of money, including 100,000 yuan in the central hall, 70,000 yuan in the ministry, 70,000 yuan in the imperial court, 30,000 yuan in the imperial court, 30,000 yuan in the imperial court, 30,000 yuan in the imperial court, 10,000 yuan in the imperial court, 10,000 yuan in the imperial court, 10,000 yuan in the ministry, 10,000 yuan in the ministry, and 10,000 yuan in the ministry.

"Recovering stolen money and assisting the salary" is actually carried out by generals Liu Zongmin, Li You and others. Those who refuse to accept or fail to count, use sticks to punish them. However, many people are not actually punished and paid, and most of them are 70% of the sentences, and three-tenths of the sentences are punished.

By the eighth day of April, the policy of "recovering stolen money and assisting money" was that the Dashun regime received 37 million taels of silver and 1.5 million taels of gold in Beijing.

All were offered by royal relatives and officials, and the treasury belonged to Chongzhen's treasury was only 21,300 taels of silver.

Song Xiance said with emotion that if these royal acquaintances and officials offered half of their property, or one-third or even one-fifth, to Chongzhen, Dashun would not have seized Beijing so easily.

Perhaps it was because of the discovery that the former Ming bureaucrats were too rich, Liu Zongmin could not help but expand the scope of his target during the execution and ordered the soldiers to start recovering stolen goods from areas outside the capital. This made the former Ming officials and gentry outside the capital feel like they were suffering from the fire of the fire, and everyone was in danger, and began to launch armed activities against Dashun.

After Li Zicheng learned about this situation, he ordered the stolen money to stop recovering stolen money on the eighth day of the April 19th, and issued a strict order to the world, saying that "no levy will be imposed for five years, and no one will be killed."

The rapid capture of Beijing by the Dashun Army was directly related to the large number of eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty who opened their doors to welcome surrender.

When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Wang Dehua, the eunuch of the inner court, led more than 300 internal officials to welcome him. When Du Xun was ordered by Li Zicheng to enter Beijing for negotiations, he privately said to his accomplices, "We are rich and free, and we have no worries."

However, Li Zicheng suddenly ordered all eunuchs to be driven out of the city and not allowed to enter again. After learning the news, the people of Beijing called for "beating their husbands".

The eunuchs who were expelled from the palace were crying and running around, not having to take a penny with them. The people were so pleased that they even killed them. More than a hundred eunuchs were beaten to death by the people within one day.

At the same time as expelling the eunuchs, Li Zicheng ordered the abolition of the Ming Dynasty's Dongchang, Jinyiwei and the leaders of the factory guards to be severely punished. The commander of the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei commander Luo Yangxingcheng surrendered after the fall of the city and offered 30,000 yuan in silver to be exempted from punishment, but he was still detained.

Compared with the eunuchs being expelled and the factory guards being abolished, the Xunqi, who surrendered to Shun in Beijing, suffered a devastating blow.

Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Chengguo, was executed on March 22. Two days later, more than 200 military officials at Xunwei were beheaded outside the Shun Army.

Later, many honorary relatives including British Duke Zhang Shize, Dingguo Duke Xu Yunzhen, Huaining Marquis Sun Weifan, Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen and many other heroes were executed.

Mr. Yangwu Xue Lian was violent by nature and liked to plunder people's wealth, so he was the coolest to recover stolen goods. When he heard that Mr. Yangwu was killed, the people in the capital applauded.

Emperor Chongzhen's father-in-law, Jiading Bo Zhou Kui, was unwilling to help him when his son-in-law died. As a result, Shunjun confiscated 700,000 taels of silver from his home, and satin filled the entire street with a car.

Li Zicheng hated the former Ming Dynasty father-in-law who was greedy and would rather ask for money than his daughter and son-in-law. He ordered Zhou Kui and his wife to cut off their fingers and beat them to death.

Chen Yan, the chief minister of the Chongzhen Pavilion, offered 40,000 taels of silver, and then dug out a cellar from his home to store tens of thousands of gold and silver, and was executed.

"Recovering stolen money to assist in pay" exposes the true faces of all officials who were trustworthy during Chongzhen's lifetime, and the greed of those honored relatives was also the public, and the people in the capital were extremely hated.

On the sixth day of the fourth month, Li Zicheng met with the Ming surrendered officials and the capital's suburbs to understand the sufferings of the people. When summoning Liang Zhaoyang in the Wenhua Hall, Liang kowtowed and said, "The late emperor did not lose his morality. He was only because of his stubbornness that the friendship between the monarch and his ministers was not separated, which led to the devastation of the people and disasters."

Li Zicheng, who wore a big velvet hat and a sky blue arrow dress, was no different from other generals in Dashun, also said sadly: "I just erotic flags that I have to stand for the people to survive."

Liang kowtowed again and said, "The Lord saved the people from water and fire. From Qin and Jin to Yan, the soldiers were not bloody. The people ate pots of slurry to welcome the king's army. Shenwu did not kill, and compared Yao and Shun, Tang and Wu were insignificant. I met the Holy Lord, and I dared not be honest and wholehearted to answer your Majesty's great kindness!"

Liang Zhaoyang's comment made Li Zicheng very happy and he left the tea. Liang bowed up when he stepped down, and Li Zicheng even raised his hand and bowed back, and then appointed Liang Zhaoyang as the Minister of the Dashun Military Government.

While recovering stolen money and appeaseing people's hearts, Li Zicheng also ordered the Shun Army to enter Beijing to strengthen training. On the sixth day of the fourth month, Li Zicheng personally went to Wanshou Mountain to ride and shoot soldiers, and there were thousands of followers alone.

Progress was also made in persuading the Ming army to surrender. After giving the conditions for the Wu father and son to be granted the title of marquis, Wu Sangui agreed to surrender to Dashun.

On March 24, Wu Sangui first led his troops to Yongping Prefecture and issued a notice saying that the town led his troops to meet the new master and that everything he had gone through was not injustice, so the people should not be frightened.

Three days later, the Wu tribe arrived in Yutian County, but received news that Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang was arrested by Dashun's general Liu Zongmin and asked him for a salary of 200,000 yuan.

Wu Sangui was shocked and angry, thinking that if he entered Beijing, he would be killed by Li Zicheng. So he led his troops back to Shanhaiguan and attacked Tang Tong, who was guarding the closed door. Due to the accident of business change, Tang Tong was caught off guard by Wu army and Shanhaiguan was occupied by Wu Sangui again.

After Tang Tong was defeated by Wu Sangui, he led his remaining troops to a stone northwest of Guancheng and sent people to challenge Beijing. It was not until the tenth day of April that Li Zichengfang received news of Wu Sangui's rebellion. He was confused and immediately asked military advisor Song Xiance to ask why Wu Sangui rebelled.

After Song Xiance hesitated, he told the story of Ru Hou to Wu Xiang's recovery of the stolen goods.

"This Liu Zongmin is messing around. Let's persuade Wu Sangui to surrender. How can he catch me!"

Li Zicheng, who knew nothing about this, was furious and called Liu Zongmin to curse him. Then he went to the Wu family to comfort Wu Xiang himself, and asked Niu Jinxing to write a letter to Wu Sangui on behalf of Wu Xiang, explaining the reason for the incident.

However, Song Xiance believed that since Wu Sangui had rebelled, there was no room for maneuver in this matter, so he had to mobilize a large army to fight eastward.

After contemplating, Li Zicheng decided to lead a large army to the east. The next morning, he ordered Niu Jinxing and a few generals to lead 10,000 elderly, weak and remnants to stay in Beijing, and led 60,000 elite troops to the east to Shanhaiguan. Together with Li Zicheng, there were three sons of Chongzhen, as well as the Qin King and Jin King captured in Xi'an and Taiyuan. Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang was also brought in the army.

The total strength of the Ming army in Guanmen was only 50,000, and Shanhaiguan was another corner and it was difficult to raise food and money. There were no military supplies inside and no aid brigade outside, and there were not many generals willing to follow Wu Sangui's rebellion. Most of them were panic and could not protect them day and night.

After discussing with the governor of Ji Liao, Wang Yongji, governor of Liaodong, Li Yutian, general Gao Di, deputy general Tong Kuixing, Fang Guangchen and others, Wu Sangui decided to guide the Qing army into the pass and defeat Li Zicheng.

So, while Wu Sangui sent someone to Shengjing to ask for help from the Qing Dynasty, he proposed to use the Jingdong Fortress Shanhaiguan as a meeting ceremony, and while he sent someone to Li Zicheng to lie that he was still willing to surrender and asked to delay his troops.

Li Zicheng, who underestimated the enemy too much, actually agreed and sent Wang Zeyao, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, to negotiate with Wu Sangui with the title of Secretary of the Military Government.

At this time, in Shengjing, the North Korean envoy Zheng Taihe was secretly writing an urgent report to his country, saying, "After a day, the nine kings heard that China was originally empty, and within a few days, they gathered their troops and horses to move. The males under seventy and over ten years old were all in the army. The judgment of success or failure is here."

On the ninth day of the fourth month, Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, commanded Manzhou, two-thirds of the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers and the three kings of Han army, and the two kings of the Han army, and the two kings of the Duke, with a total of more than 110,000 troops running to western Liaoning.

Prince Zheng Jierhalang, who stayed in Shengjing, said: "Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, our Qing Dynasty, has not made any major moves today. This march should be the purple air going west and taking over China!"
Chapter completed!