Chapter five hundred and forty-eight: life is a Ming minister, death is a Ming ghost!
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, it was a critical moment that determined the fate of the Ming Dynasty.
For Li Zicheng, this year is no longer the 17th year of Chongzhen, but the first year of Yongchang.
On the first day of the first lunar month, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, marking the founding of the People's Republic of China. He also added a "日" to the head of "Cheng" and changed his name to Zisheng. His title was postulated to that of his great-grandfather. He was also granted the title of Niu Jinxing Tianyoudian University.
As a scholar, Song Xiance was appointed as military advisor, six government ministers were added, and a complete set of political institutions were established imitating the Ming Dynasty. Song Qijiao was appointed as the official minister, Lu Zhiqi was the household minister, Gong Yan was the ritual minister, and Zhang Jiran was the military minister.
Among the fifth-level nobles and great meritorious officials, there are nine people below the marquis Liu Zongmin, seventy-two people below the uncle Liu Tichun, thirty sons, and fifty-five men.
After the last fortress Yulin was captured, except for Hanzhong, Chapter 548 was born as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and died as a ghost of the Ming Dynasty! At this time, Li Zicheng had taken all the land of the Three Qin Dynasties in his hands, and he had cavalry under his organization.
600,000, and 400,000 infantry.
At that time, the prophecy that "the eighteenth son will be the master of the divine weapon" has spread widely, and some people have compared it to King Yingzheng of Qin, a ferocious and powerful founding king in the future.
Listening to his former brothers saying "Grandpa Emperor" one by one, Li Zicheng was very excited and very unhappy.
At this time, Li Zicheng was quite satisfied with being entrenched in Guanzhong and controlling Henan. He was not Yingzheng, and he had no ambition to truly dominate the world. His intention was to share the world equally with Ming.
In fact, Li Zicheng and his subordinates did not have anyone with real long-term strategic vision and ability to govern the country. They were good at destruction but not construction. Niu Jinxing and others only encouraged Li to rush to the capital and become a real emperor. It seemed that as soon as he captured Beijing, he ascended the throne.
Getting on the dragon's throne solved all the problems. Li Zicheng was much more realistic about this, so when he was in Hubei in the past, he would adopt Gu Junen's advice to take Guanzhong first, instead of marching into Hebei and driving directly to the capital as Niu Jinxing suggested.
At this time, Li Zicheng was facing a serious decision. He had been fighting for many years, conquering the east and the west. He relied on war to support war. Most of his subordinates were unruly and unruly. Once he settled down, he would be at a loss. Chapter 548: Life is Right
Minister of the Ming Dynasty, you are a ghost of the Ming Dynasty! I obey.
A million-strong army that has been stationed in one place for a long time will surely come to nothing. It is the will of the majority of people in the Dashun government to send troops to continue the war, and Li Zicheng cannot stop this. Although he may not be willing, he may have sensed some ominous meaning in his intuition.
In February, Li Zicheng crossed the Yellow River, sent troops to Shanxi, and officially marched towards the capital.
There was basically no resistance along the way, and even before the army arrived, the letter of surrender came first. On the seventh day of March, Li Zicheng successfully occupied Taiyuan. Then he started a fierce battle with Ming general Zhou Yuji in Daizhou. Zhou Yuji had followed Hong Chengchou and participated in Songjin
The battle was not an ordinary one. After more than ten days of hard fighting, Li Zicheng was blocked and wanted to withdraw his troops. Li Zicheng had suffered countless defeats. This small setback was nothing at all, but he was concerned that his hastily established political institutions had not yet been established.
There were many problems that needed to be solved urgently. At this time, he was more inclined to lay a solid foundation first, and destroying the Ming Dynasty was a secondary matter. However, the generals were not convinced and insisted on deciding the outcome first. As a result, the opponent was defeated after fighting again.
When food is exhausted, they retreat without support.
Li Zicheng pursued Ningwuguan and announced that if he did not surrender within five days, he would massacre the city. But this time Li Zicheng encountered strong resistance. Zhou Yuji followed Yuan Chonghuan's tactics of that year and used artillery to defend the city and bombard it. He also sent troops from time to time to occupy the periphery and deal with the opponent.
After three days of fierce fighting, the Dashun army lost ten thousand people. Li Zicheng also fired back, destroying the city wall several times, but the opponent immediately built up the city wall. The Dashun army once broke through the city gate, but the gate was immediately closed, and they entered the upper part of the city.
None of the thousands of men and horses survived. Li Zicheng was furious and used the human wave tactics to advance and attack continuously, and finally captured Ningwuguan. What followed was a massacre of the city, and women, children, old and young were not immune.
By March, all of Shanxi had fallen into the hands of Li Zicheng. At this time, another partial army led by Liu Fangliang had also captured Baoding, and Li Jiantai, a great scholar who had personally conquered on behalf of the emperor, was captured.
On March 11, Li Zicheng's troops arrived at Xuan Mansion. Wang Chengyun, the commander-in-chief, and Du Xun, the eunuch in charge of the army, went out of the city thirty miles to greet him. Before Du Xun left the city, he informed the governor Zhu Zhifeng and advised him to be aware of current affairs. Zhu Zhifeng cursed
: "Your Majesty relied on the letter and sent you specially to seal the territory for you. When you arrive, you will join the bandits. How can you see your face?"
Du Xun did not answer and laughed and left. Zhu Zhifeng, who was guarding the city alone, stood in front of a cannon. Seeing Li Zicheng's troops approaching step by step, he turned around and ordered: "Fire them for me."
But there was silence on both sides, and no one came forward. Zhu Zhifeng wanted to take action himself, but the soldiers around him held up his sleeves. Zhu Zhifeng beat his chest and sighed: "Unexpectedly, people's hearts are like this!" Then he hanged himself.
On March 15, Tang Tong surrendered, and Li Zicheng's army passed Juyong Pass and reached Beijing.
Outside Zhangyi Gate, there were incense burners, yellow carpets and dragon chairs. Li Zicheng sat down contentedly, surrounded by two Ming Dynasty princes who had become prisoners: King Qin and King Jin.
He had already sent his subordinates to pretend to be merchants to find out clearly the reality of the capital city. He had already begun this work when he was still far away in Xi'an. Now that all the officers and soldiers in the suburbs have either surrendered or fled, they have basically wiped out the situation, and Beijing has become a city.
It's just a lonely city that can be easily conquered.
Although through vigorous publicity by Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others, everyone around him regarded him as the next destined emperor, but he himself was always half-convinced. For more than ten years, he had been busy fighting, fighting wits and courage with officers and soldiers, or fighting with his peers.
The intrigues and calculations continued for a moment. He was not mentally prepared to be an emperor. He was extremely unfamiliar with that set of behavioral norms and ways of thinking. There was even a kind of heartfelt disgust after vanity and complacency, but he was already
He was involuntarily stepping into this unfamiliar territory step by step. He wanted to slow down this too fast pace, so shortly after leaving Juyongguan, he secretly sent the Ming surrender general Wang Yongji to Beijing to negotiate with the emperor. The exchange was to "draw the river and rule"
, Emperor Ming made him king and cut the north of the Yangtze River as his territory. But there is no trace of Wang Yongji so far. Now Du Xun has been sent in again, and the conditions have been lowered even lower.
Liu Zongmin came over and asked: "Our army has been besieging the city for a day, why don't we attack quickly and capture Beijing quickly?"
Li Zicheng shook his head and replied: "Let's wait until noon."
A drizzle fell from the sky. This rain was predicted by Song Xiance the day before yesterday. "The calculation is really accurate. Could it be that the Sa family is really the master of the artifact?"
At this time, Du Xun came back and informed Chongzhen that he refused the peace negotiation. "This boy, if you don't eat the toast, you will be fined." Li Zicheng stood up angrily.
Although the situation was irreversible, Chongzhen still went to court every day to ask questions and handled government affairs as usual. In early March, he heard Jiang Dejin, the Minister of Household Affairs, say that although the court had already decreed the unification of the "three rates", various prefectures and counties were still plundering
As before, he once again issued an order to abolish the "training salary".
He also personally took care of the defense of Beijing, and armed three to four thousand eunuchs in the palace and assigned them to various places to participate in the defense. He summoned the missionary Tang Ruowang to consult on the configuration and use of firearms. On the sixth day of March, King Qin issued an order.
King Qin’s order, King Qin’s order, unfortunately, can King Qin’s order still work at this time?
At this time in Fujian, Wu Liehou Ding Yunyi no longer had to wait for Chongzhen's order from King Qin. He knew what would happen this year.
All the generals of Huben Guard at all levels have been summoned. Looking at Wu Liehou's solemn expression, they vaguely knew what was going to happen.
Ding Yunyi didn't speak for a long time. After a while, he slowly said: "Li Zicheng has marched towards the capital."
After a short moment of silence, someone actually let out a sigh of relief, as if relieved.
In fact, they have been waiting for this day to come. Fujian, Taiwan, Japan, Luzon, Malacca, Batavia, Siam, Myanmar and other places are already under their control. What they are waiting for is nothing more.
This is the moment.
The moment came when he continued to create miracles for Hu Benwei.
"Everyone, get ready." Ding Yunyi said calmly: "Our navy and army will all set off. Cai Jiuzhou, Zhang Xianxuan, Ye Dahai."
"exist!"
"You three are the commander-in-chief of the navy. You know what you should do."
"yes!"
"Huangfu Yunjie, Hou Lu."
"exist!"
"You two are the left and right forwards and will lead the cavalry today!"
"yes!"
Ding Yunyi's eyes fell on the generals: "This town general will personally lead all the main forces to attack. In addition to the troops staying in Fujian, Taiwan, various colonies and other places, there are a total of 350,000 amphibious and land troops. This formation will use these 350,000 troops."
Thousands of troops, go and reverse the Ming Dynasty!"
"We are willing to fight to the death with Marquis Wu Lie!"
This is the loudest answer from all the Tiger Guards!
Ding Yunyi's eyes fell on the distance, far, far away. From now on, a brand new challenge, a challenge that can determine the fate of a nation, has slowly opened the unknown curtain.
He didn't know whether he could succeed, or whether his 350,000 troops could reverse the collapse of the dynasty, but he didn't care.
He was fighting for this nation, and his enemies included not only rogue bandits like Li Zicheng, but also an even more ferocious enemy outside Guan.
He can tolerate failure. Even if he fails, he still has Fujian, Taiwan, Japan, and so many colonies, and he can still reorganize a large army in the shortest time.
Now, the future and destiny of the Ming Dynasty and the Han people are firmly in their own hands.
Li Zicheng's army has approached the capital.
At this time, everyone in the capital had different reactions. Some were panicked, some just wanted to leave this terrible place as soon as possible, and some were thinking about how to deal with the bandits. No, we can no longer call them bandits.
But how to get in touch with "Emperor Yongchang" Li Zicheng and show his loyalty.
Some people were calm and did not show any panic at all.
For example, Ding Yuanzhao, the former right minister of the Ministry of War.
During the two years when Chongzhen was most suspicious of and hated Ding Yunyi, Ding Yuanzhao was also implicated. He was dismissed by Emperor Chongzhen on random excuses. Finally, Chongzhen still remembered his past merits and did not pursue further investigations.
However, Ding Yuanzhao has been restricted from living there, and his scope of activities is only in Ding Mansion.
When Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor and finally decided to march to the capital, no one paid attention to Ding Yuanzhao anymore, and those who were watching him fled.
But Ding Yuanzhao still didn't leave. Every morning when he got up, he would do some exercise, then eat the delicious porridge prepared by his wife, and then spend the day quietly reading a book.
He didn't care at all what he would face.
He didn't care, but his son-in-law Wang Qingheng couldn't care less. When he appeared in front of his father-in-law again, his face was full of panic: "Father, I heard that Emperor Yongchang is approaching the capital."
"What did you say? What did you call an intruder?" Ding Yuanzhao suddenly stared.
"Ah, intruder." Wang Qingheng then realized that he had made a mistake: "I made a mistake. Many people in the capital now call intruders that way, and I'm used to it. Father, please think of a solution as soon as possible."
Ding Yuanzhao closed his eyes and said nothing.
Wang Qingheng quickly winked at his father, Ding Biwei, who quickly pulled her fifteen-year-old son Wang Chirui forward and said, "Father, if you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your grandson.
Now Xiang Wen, his second sister, and his second brother-in-law are all in Fujian, why not, let’s join them."
"A loyal minister is seen in the national crisis!" Ding Yuanzhao opened his eyes and said slowly: "How can you be so panicked before the intruders have arrived? Xiang Wen did whatever he wanted in Fujian, and the Holy Spirit was angry. Although he couldn't do anything, why should he still do it?
Do I have the nerve to seek refuge with him?"
"Father." Wang Qingheng swallowed: "Although Xiang Wen has made some mistakes, he is still your son after all."
Ding Yuanzhao closed his eyes again.
Wang Qingheng's father was helpless. He looked at Ding Chen Wanhe and found that he also looked helpless.
At this moment, suddenly the uncle from my hometown rushed in in a hurry: "Master, madam, second young lady, second young lady is back!"
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
Second Miss? Is Ding Biyue back?
Only after Ding Biyue appeared did everyone know that this was not an illusion. Even though the children were now older, Ding Biyue still looked furious: "Go quickly, go quickly, it will be too late if you don't go!"
"Second girl, you, why are you back!" Ding Chen Wanhe burst into tears when he saw his second daughter, whom he had not seen for a long time.
"Second sister." Ding Biwei held her sister's hand, tears streaming down her face.
Ding Yuanzhao was as calm as ever: "Biyue, was it Ding Xiangwen who asked you to come?"
"Dad, Xiang Wen didn't ask me to come, I came here myself." Ding Biyue hurriedly greeted her father: "Xiang Wen had known for a long time that there would be a disaster in the capital, so he sent his golden sword guards ahead of time.
To support our Ding family, I happened to overhear it from Yuan’s mouth. I didn’t trust my parents, sister, and brother-in-law, so I decided to come along.”
"Golden Sword Guard?" Ding Yuanzhao snorted coldly: "When did the Ming Dynasty have a Golden Sword Guard?"
"Dad, now is not the time to talk about this." Ding Biyue said a little anxiously: "Xiang Wen is not a rebellious minister. He knows that the capital is in danger. He has ignored the grievances with the court and personally ordered the troops to go to the capital to serve as king!"
As soon as the word "King Qin" came out, Ding Yuanzhao's eyes lit up, but then he sneered and said: "The grudge with the imperial court? The imperial court has never wronged him Ding Xiangwen, it was him who owed the imperial court first! You go back and tell
That brother of yours, I will be waiting for him in the capital. When will he arrive with King Qin’s troops, when will I recognize him as my son?"
Ding Biyue knew her father's temper and would never change the things he had decided. For a moment, she and her mother, sister, and brother-in-law looked at each other in confusion.
"Master Ding, why are you so stubborn?" At this moment, a voice came in, and then a man in his thirties who looked like a scholar came in, wearing simple clothes.
"Who are you?" Ding Yuanzhao stared at him and asked.
"The commander of the Golden Blade Guard, Xie Tian, has met your lord." Xie Tian said with a calm expression: "I, the Golden Blade Guard, were ordered to take the Marquis' family out of the capital. It was a matter of great importance. Xie Tian did not dare to neglect at all, so he went to the capital in person. Sir,
Along the way, I continued to receive intelligence from my subordinates that the bandit army was only a few days away from the capital. My carriage and escorts have been arranged. Please take your family and leave with me as soon as possible, otherwise everything will be too late.
"
Ding Yuanzhao glanced at him coldly: "I told you, I won't leave. I am a minister of the Ming Dynasty in life, and a ghost of the Ming Dynasty in death. If the intruder really enters the capital, I will die and die for the country!"
"Your Excellency only knows how to be loyal, have you never thought about your family?" Xie Tian still said calmly: "Your Excellency wants to be loyal, and Xie Tian has no other way to persuade him, but where is your wife? Where is your daughter? Where is your grandson?
Do you want them all to die with you? I heard that King Qin’s order has been issued, but no one has responded yet. Only I, Marquis Wulie, personally led the army. Are such people traitors? Do you really have the heart to let this happen?
Will Wu Liehou’s family leave him one by one?”
Ding Yuanzhao was silent there. He slowly looked at his family, and then suddenly sighed heavily: "Go, go, you all go. I stay here, no matter life or death,
I will stay here. Thank you, go and tell your Marquis Wu Lie, let him remember that he is a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and let him not forget that he is the Marquis Wu Lie of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Dad!" the Ding sisters all called out.
Ding Yuanzhao smiled miserably: "You don't have to persuade me anymore, I have made up my mind. Qingheng, don't leave either. You can stay with me."
"Ah!" Wang Qingheng was stunned.
Ding Yuanzhao smiled slightly: "Qing Heng, don't worry, I am your father-in-law, which means I am your father. I will not harm you. I will definitely give you a clear path when the time comes."
Wang Qingheng didn't want to stay at all, but he didn't dare to disobey his father-in-law's order.
"I won't leave either." Ding Chen Wanhe smiled slightly: "We have been married for so many years, where can I go without you? No matter life or death, I will always be by your side." Baidu search, hand type, provided
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Ding Yuanzhao also smiled. What regrets do you have with such a wife? Then he waved his hand: "Go, go, all of them go to Fujian to join your Lord Wu Liehou Ding, Lord Town Town Ding!"