Iron blood Suiming

With blood all over his body, Zu Dashou watched the soldiers of the Tiger Camp slaughtering the Ming army like a rotten one, and there were shouts of "put down your weapons, surrender and not kill" everywhere.Compared with the Tartars, the Ming army had more pustules, but more than a thousand people died, but the nearly ten thousand Ming army all threw down their weapons and surrendered.The general next to Zu Dashou also quickly knelt down on the ground, lest the soldiers of Li Guo see him standing still, shoot him casually, and be unlucky for eight lifetimes.

Anyway, Li Guo is also a Ming army, even if he was captured by him, it would not be shameful, who would let him have too many guns.Zu Dashou wanted to kneel and felt ashamed.He knew that if he didn't kneel down now, the tiger battalion soldiers would surely shoot him dead later.The soldiers behind him knew his intentions well, and he was the one who had surrendered to Huang Taiji once, so he was familiar with the way of surrendering for the second time.

The soldiers went forward and pulled Zu Dashou down, Zu Dashou knelt down on the ground, he turned his head hypocritically and glared at the soldiers, as if the soldiers forced him to kneel down, he himself did not want to surrender.

Just when the soldiers of the Tiger Camp began to clear out the Ming army in the city, Li Jianguo had already marched into the capital with [-] soldiers and horses.The Feng Shui of the capital is that the east is rich, the west is noble, the south is cheap, and the north is poor.As soon as Deshengmen came in, it was all the places where high-ranking officials and nobles lived. The people living in Shichahai were all dignitaries around the second rank and the royal relatives, and the ones further west were the residences of Beijing officials.

As soon as he entered Deshengmen Street, Li Jianguo said indifferently: "Everyone should do things according to the instructions of the Fu. Every household must be polite and thoughtful to ransack the house. Anyone who resists putting on airs should be tied up and not killed. Anyone who makes a move Anyone who refuses to copy, no matter who it is, will be shot. Also, if I let my father know that there is a woman who killed people or women, I will kill the whole family." The generals immediately nodded and divided into dozens of teams according to the pre-arranged plan.Start copying in the west city.

At this time, the capital was already in chaos, and no one thought that Li Jianguo would attack the city when he said that he would attack the city, and he was less prepared than the Tartars to attack the capital.What frightened them even more was that it took only three quarters of an hour for the soldiers of the Tiger Camp to break through the Desheng Gate, and the Ming army surrendered to death.totally incapable of resisting

Emperor Chongzhen had also received the news that Li Kaiguo had broken through the Desheng Gate. Immediately, Emperor Chongzhen felt as if he had fallen into hell, and took Wang Chengen to Huangji Hall in a panic.He thought that there should be a lot of ministers in the palace.The generals are surging, but there is no one there.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious and shouted: "Wang Chengen, hurry to the Hall of Supreme Harmony and hit the Jingyang Bell." The Jingyang Bell rang.All the ministers were about to enter the court one after another, and what Emperor Chongzhen needed most at this time were these civil servants and generals.Wang Chengen was also scared out of his wits.Rolling and crawling, he ran towards Jingyang Tower.What happened in the past two days was like the Yellow River with its nine bends and eighteen bends.Sometimes the water flow is fast, sometimes the vortex is deep, if one is not paying attention, one's life will be lost.

The Jingyang Bell rang "Dang, Dang, Dang", and the bell sounded quickly, just like the mood of the person ringing the bell.It's a pity that after knocking for a long time, I didn't see a minister coming.Emperor Chongzhen turned from furious to cold and chilling.Looking around, he saw nothing but some guards and eunuchs. He shouted angrily: "All the ministers are leaving me. Is this the heavens trying to destroy me?" In his agitated mood, even the word 'zhen' Words are forgotten.

Wang Chengen was also in tears. Suddenly he thought of something and shouted: "Your Majesty, are the ministers and generals blocked from entering the palace by the general guarding the palace? Your Majesty, you have issued a decree more than ten days ago." , unless it is the early court, no matter who wants to enter the palace, it must be the emperor's will."

When Emperor Chongzhen was reminded by his words, he felt as if a dying person had eaten a elixir, his spirits lifted, and he laughed loudly: "It must be so. Hurry up, go and spread my will and let them enter the palace." Wang Chengen Walking away quickly, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't bear his temper, thinking for a while, if the general guarding the palace didn't stop him, what would he do, would he be a king of subjugation?

Just when he was feeling uneasy and peeping from the side of the entrance of the Huangji Hall, he saw the Huangji Gate suddenly opened, and a large number of civil servants and generals rushed in.Emperor Chongzhen let out a long sigh, put his heart in his stomach, jumped up excitedly, and shouted: "The sky will not destroy my Ming."

Sure enough, something went wrong.Because of Emperor Chongzhen's decree more than ten years ago, the general guarding the palace insisted on blocking all civil and military officials for a quarter of an hour.

Hundreds of civil and military officials rushed into the palace in a panic, and saluted the Chongzhen Emperor who was pretending to be calm. As soon as he finished the salute, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Xie Majesty, jumped up and shouted: "Your Majesty, I want to join the general guarding the palace. At such a critical time, keep us and other guards outside the palace and not enter the palace."

Emperor Chongzhen on the throne almost spat out a mouthful of blood, he thought Xie Bi jumped out to talk about countermeasures.Unexpectedly, at this critical juncture, Xie Bi was the first to speak about an oolong.If it weren't for the fact that these ministers are now in use, they would be afraid of chilling their hearts, and Emperor Chongzhen would have the heart to cut Xie Bi.

Emperor Chongzhen suppressed his anger, and shouted: "Pull the general guarding the palace down to hit the top ten boards. Li Guo led his troops to break through Deshengmen, how to deal with it now, please make a decision quickly. Cheng Jiming, you first say .”

Cheng Jiming had already lost his mind at this time. It was his idea that Li Kaiguo went to Beijing, and it was also his idea not to pay Li Kaiguo and use taxes instead.And he always thought that Li Kaiguo could be manipulated in the palm of his hand, but he didn't expect that Li Jianguo would attack the city when he said that he would attack the city, and he used troops so fiercely and broke the city so quickly that it was as fast as thunder.At this time, Emperor Chongzhen asked him to make an idea, so what idea could he come up with in a hurry?

But he is worthy of being an old minister, and he immediately used the same old tricks to fool Emperor Chongzhen.Cheng Jiming said in a deep voice: "At this time, the Desheng Gate has been broken, and Li Guo's [-] soldiers have entered the capital. The old minister thought that this was Li Guo's self-destruction. There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in our capital camp. , just seal the exit of Deshengmen, choose a few hard-working generals, and lead troops to surround them in the outer city. And we will gather all the soldiers in the capital to attack the besieged Li ** team continuously. Even if you use people to pile up, you will kill Li Guo's soldiers and horses. This way, you can do it once and for all, and avoid future troubles."

His self-deceiving words could only deceive Emperor Chongzhen, who was ignorant of the real situation, and he seemed to be polite, and he was about to ask the five armies to recommend generals.Suddenly a guard came rushing into the hall and shouted: "Your Majesty, the troops of Li Guo, the governor of Shandong, have arrived at Bei'an Gate, blocked the entire Bei'an Gate, and sent someone to shoot in a memorial."

When they heard that Li Guo's soldiers and horses had arrived at Bei'an Gate, all the officials in the palace were startled.Everyone was terrified.Emperor Chongzhen still had a glimmer of fantasy. All his ministers knew how corrupt the soldiers of the Beijing camp were, not to mention that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing camp were just numbers on paper. Ten thousand elite soldiers.The only Shenji camp that could be obtained was thrown to Shandong by Chongzhen and killed by Li Guo.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't bother to guess the reason for the reaction of the ministers, and said anxiously: "Submit the memorial quickly." The little eunuch at the door took the memorial, ran up to the throne, and handed it to Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen immediately unfolded it, and only caught his eye.Then his expression changed drastically.All the ministers stretched their necks to guess what was written in the memorial. Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen's face changed drastically, he guessed that he must have let the emperor take the throne and then committed suicide.Those who are optimistic guess that the Emperor Chongzhen must be asked to add officials and titles, and it is enough to meet his requirements.Even more ulterior motives were prepared to surrender as soon as Li Guo's army horses came in...

Not to mention that the officials have speculated.Emperor Chongzhen turned from angry to even more angry.He suddenly threw the memorial in front of Wang Chengen.He shouted: "Come and read the rebellious words of the rebellious minister Li Guo."

Wang Chengen picked up the memorial in fear, and read it word by word. With the sound of Wang Chengen's recitation, all the ministers turned pale, and they all looked like their dead mothers. Some ministers who were not strong-willed had already fallen to the ground .Shouting loudly: "Your Majesty, you have to be the master for your ministers. The ministers are all clean, and they are definitely not corrupt officials, Your Majesty."

As soon as the words came out.All civil servants and military generals knelt down on the ground and shouted: "Yes, your majesty, Li Guo ransacked his home without asking for an order. He is an arrogant, rebellious, treacherous and evil person unprecedented in history. Please make an order from the emperor." , punish him."

Regardless of the wailing voices of civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen stood up before Wang Chengen finished reading, got off the throne, left the palace, sat on the imperial chariot, and headed for the Bei'anmen tower.The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were crying and shouting and suddenly found that the emperor was gone. One of the ministers shouted: "The emperor has gone to Bei'anmen, let's chase after him."

So all the guards, eunuchs, and court ladies saw this scene, the Emperor Chongzhen was sitting on the imperial chariot, and the eunuchs carried him quickly and ran in front, while behind him was a long line of civil and military officials crying. He yelled: "Your Majesty, Bei'anmen is dangerous, let me wait for you to go."

"Yes, Your Majesty, Li Guo is ambitious, so there must be a conspiracy. I am willing to go up on behalf of the Emperor, and I will have no regrets even if I die..."

"Hurry up, hurry up, come a few people, carry this pavilion to chase after the emperor, and the emperor must not be allowed to go to Bei'anmen..."

"Li Guo, Li Guo, I will peel your skin and eat your flesh..."

"Don't steal my house, I have no money..."

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The civil and military officials chased after him with tears and snot, crying and crying, like a child abandoned by his mother, completely devoid of manners.

They can't help but panic, they can't help being afraid.What Li Guo wrote in the memorial just now is more serious than killing them. Li Guo is ruining their reputation for a lifetime.

After the case of Wei Zhongxian, more than [-]% of the court and officials were members of the Donglin Party, and these ministers even had the same names and names. Many people valued their names more than their lives.

So what is written in Li Kaiguo's memorial?In fact, it is very simple. The memorial said that the reason why the tiger battalion army broke through the city wall of the capital was not because they wanted to rebel, let alone attack the imperial city.

Li Kaiguo wrote that he knew that there was no money in the treasury, but the ministers had a lot of money in their homes, all of which came from corruption and corruption, but the anointing of the people.Li Jianguo did his best for the country, that is, he did his best for the people. Since the ministers have people in their homes, then Li Jianguo raised his troops to take it for himself.But for the sake of fairness, all the belongings of the ministers' homes are copied out and sent outside Bei'anmen, and the emperor will take a look at them one by one before taking them. He will definitely not take a cent more than 800 million taels of silver... .

This really killed the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs. Everyone regarded themselves as clean and honest, but they knew how many shady things were hidden in their homes. If they really copied them, what would happen.

It's a pity that Emperor Chongzhen sat on the imperial chariot and was carried by sixteen little eunuchs to run fast. Even those generals couldn't catch up, let alone block the emperor. Even if they wanted to commit a capital crime, they couldn't grab the dragon robe.

The imperial chariot was quickly carried up to the palace city, and Emperor Chongzhen got down from the imperial chariot, and immediately the guards guarding the city fell to their knees, shouting long live, long live, long live.Emperor Chongzhen didn't have time to speak, he raised his hand, and immediately went to the palace wall to look down.

Li Kaiguo was sitting eighty feet outside Bei'an Gate at this time, when he heard the voice of Shan Huan live, he looked up.Eyes to a person.Emperor Chongzhen vaguely recognized that it was Li Guo, who had been aliased Li Yu last year.In Li Jianguo's supernatural eyes, he also recognized Emperor Chongzhen.

Li Jianguo patted the grand teacher's chair, smiled slightly, and said: "The emperor is here, lift up all the things, and read aloud one by one, so that the emperor can't hear you."

The belongings of various ministers' mansions are being delivered in a steady stream, and the carriages are transported to the outside of Bei'anmen.Hearing Li Jianguo's order at this time, a secretary immediately responded.Holding the big iron trumpet invented by Li Kaiguo, he walked to Bei'anmen with the soldiers of the Tiger Camp.

Seeing someone approaching with a car, the city guard immediately became nervous and said, "Your Majesty, please step back. Be careful and watch out for danger."

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head. At this time, he already knew how powerful Li Kaiguo's Tiger Army was.If Li Jianguo really wants to fight the imperial city.How can the imperial city stop it?Seeing now that the Tiger Camp Army had no one to resist in the imperial city, he knew that as long as Li Jianguo had a wolfish heart, he and others would not be able to resist.

Since this is the case, what is the use of Li Jianguo's plot to assassinate the king?So Emperor Chongzhen was not afraid, he expected that Li Jianguo would never have the intention of killing him now.

Emperor Chongzhen guessed right.Li Jianguo would not kill him now.If Emperor Chongzhen is killed now, there will be so many Tibetan kings in the south, some of them will come out to proclaim themselves emperor immediately, and you will beat me then.I beat you and made the world a mess, how much money will it cost to restore it.

Therefore, in order to prevent the world from being corrupted immediately and suffer heavy losses, Li Jianguo did not intend to kill Emperor Chongzhen now. As long as Emperor Chongzhen survived for a day, he would be the ruler of the world, and those who wanted to separate themselves would not dare to take action.

When the carriage arrived at Bei'an Gate and opened the cover above, the Ming army on the city wall was stunned immediately, and so was the Emperor Chongzhen. This cart was all made of gold utensils. Looking at the glittering ones, it was obviously commonly used gold. Utensils are the color of money in everyone's eyes.

The secretary spread out the book of records and read aloud: "The things copied by Xie Bi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, are as follows: 180 pieces of pure gold vessels, weighing 33 taels and 360 cent, and a total of 250 seven pieces of gold-encrusted jewelry vessels , weighing one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven coins and two cents, a total of [-] three pieces of broken gold, weighing four..." The secretary read it out one by one, and every time he read a sentence, a soldier took out the corresponding object and displayed it to show that it was indeed there. its thing.

At this moment, the ministers had already rushed over, all panting, as if they were about to die, and just as they were about to speak, they heard Emperor Chongzhen angrily pointing at them and saying, "Let me stretch out my heads to have a look. This is the gold utensil copied from the corrupt official Xie Bi. Xie Bi, your ancestors are virtuous. The utensils you use are more luxurious than mine. I use silver utensils. You use gold utensils. You want to rebel ?"

Xie Bi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, had long seen clearly that the city was indeed filled with gold utensils that he usually used. At this time, there was no denying it. He immediately limp into a ball and fell to the ground as if his own mother and father had died.

Emperor Chongzhen shook his dragon robe suddenly, and shouted: "Where are the guards? They took his official credentials, except for his official clothes, and sent him to prison for trial."

All the ministers were terrified, and no one dared to intercede for Xie Bi.And Xie Bi seemed to have been drained of all his strength, allowing the guards to drag him away without saying a word.

At this time, Li Kaiguo had already ordered the secretary to remember the next person, and his ear power with supernatural powers increased greatly. When he heard that Xie Bi had been arrested, it was useless to recite, so he immediately ordered to recite the things copied from the next person's house.

"Hou Xun, Shangshu of the Household Department, copied from his home as follows: 400 taels of gold, 23 seven taels of silver... A "Portrait of Wei Suo" by Gu Kaizhi of Jin Dynasty, and "Picture of Turning a Car" by Li Cheng , Li Song's "Tea Fighting Picture", and Yuan Zhao Ziang's "Guanyin" each... 550 ancient and modern famous pianos: Jinhui Crystal Zhenzu Qin, Xiantong Zhiqin, Yuhu Bingqin, Chunxueqin... Ten ancient inkstones In the six directions, there are tile inkstones in the Weiyang Palace of the Han Dynasty, the rare treasures Tongquetai tile inkstones... one thousand ancient bronze gilt wares... 54 eight-axis volumes of ink engravings...."

As the secretary read out, the rarity and exquisiteness of each piece of utensils made the courtiers' eyes straight. Although they were also greedy, compared with Hou Xun, the thickness of gold and silver and the elegance of the gadgets were almost too far away. .

Quite a number of ministers forgot that they would have to be read about their family property after a while, and they even enviously said to Tong Tong: "As expected of the Minister of the Household Department, look at the oil and water of others, alas, we are incomparable."

When the secretary began to read that it was copied from Hou Xun's family, Hou Xun knelt down on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, I am wronged. This is the gold and silver brought by the traitor Li Kaiguo to frame loyal ministers." Jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings..."

It's a pity that even his colleagues who are corrupt officials don't believe his voice of discrimination, let alone Emperor Chongzhen.

After reading dozens of items, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted: "Hou Xun, after reading these are worth several million taels of silver, you..." Speaking of this, he had already knelt on his knees Hou Xun on the ground suddenly stopped distinguishing non-stop, his body suddenly fell to the ground, blood was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were wide open.The eunuch on the side hurriedly stepped forward to check, and it turned out that Hou Xun had been read to death on the spot.

When Li Jianguo heard the eunuch's replay that Hou Xunian was dead, he laughed loudly and shouted, "Read the next one." The secretary nodded, turned several pages at once, and wanted to read again. (to be continued..)