Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 15 Zhu Youjian's Message to Li Zicheng

Just when Zhu Youjian left Tongzhou for Tianjin Wei.

Li Zicheng's main force has also arrived in the capital.

Li Zicheng's central army camp was stationed in Shahe, and he ordered General Liu Zongmin to command the attack on the capital.

However, what Liu Zongmin would not have imagined was that at this time, the capital city was already wide open.

There are no guards at all.

In fact, after Zhu Youjian evacuated the capital with the entire Ming Dynasty's ruling system in Beijing.

The entire capital is already in chaos.

Some scholars fled here on their own initiative.

There are also those who are reluctant to put up the "obedient people" flag in front of their houses, hoping to survive in the new court.

More criminals took the opportunity to break into the civilian thieves and loot wantonly.

Because there is no government control.

For a while, the crime rate in the capital rose sharply.

Panicked, the entire capital seemed like an empty city in the last days.

Liu Zongmin easily occupied the capital.

Li Zicheng was horrified when he heard that the capital was empty, so he hurriedly left Shahe and entered the city directly.

"What's going on here, did Chongzhen run away, or did Wu Sangui or Jiannu come first?" Li Zicheng wondered secretly.

Li Zicheng has now established a country and proclaimed himself emperor, and there are many hypocritical and obedient ministers behind him.

Moreover, most of them were ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Dong Fu, the governor of Datong who had just surrendered, stepped forward, took down the notice on the city gate, and handed it to Li Zicheng:

"Your Majesty, please read the content of this notice. It was written to you by Chongzhen. From the content of the notice, it can be seen that Chongzhen has indeed escaped!"

After Li Zicheng took the notice and looked at it, he was silent for a while, not knowing what to do.

As a hero for the first time, Li Zicheng knew how important Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian was.

He thought about executing Chongzhen directly after entering the capital, and also thought about forcing Chongzhen to make himself king, and then he would coerce the emperor to order the princes to pacify the remnant forces in the south.

Of course, Li Zicheng hoped that Chongzhen Zhu Youjian would commit suicide by himself, so that he would not be charged with killing Chongzhen and be hated by the southern forces loyal to the Ming court.

Even, he can use this lavish burial of Chongzhen to win the hearts of the world.

But now Chongzhen has run away!
This means that even if he occupied the capital, he did not completely occupy the world and completely wipe out Daming.

From a certain point of view, in the eyes of the southern forces, he is still a bandit and cannot be transformed into an orthodox world.

"Chongzhen has escaped!"

The civil and military officials who followed Li Zicheng could not help but turn pale with astonishment when they heard this.

Especially these former Ming Dynasty officials who surrendered to Dashun are even more anxious!
After knowing that Chongzhen Zhu Youjian had withdrawn from the capital, they were even more restless than Li Zicheng.

After all, it would be fine if Chongzhen was arrested or committed suicide, and they could justifiably become Dashun officials.

But now that Chongzhen is out of danger, it means that they are still traitors who follow the thief.

Even, they don't know if Chongzhen will make a comeback and punish them.

The surrenders of the Ming Dynasty, who seemed to have a knife on their necks, quickly suggested that Li Zicheng lead an army to pursue him immediately.

"Your Majesty, Chongzhen cannot be released. Chongzhen is not dead, the country is unstable, and the south is still under the remnant light. Once Chongzhen returns to the south smoothly, there will be endless troubles!"

Yu Chonghua, a surrendered minister of the Ming Dynasty, quickly suggested.

As the former governor of Shuntian, Yu Chonghua was very depressed, depressed why Chongzhen didn't just die in Beijing!
Other Ming courtiers also hurriedly echoed and suggested that Li Zicheng pursue Chongzhen immediately.

Seeing that they didn't miss the old friendship between monarch and minister, Li Zicheng felt a little contemptuous in his heart, but as a generation of heroes, he also knew that Chongzhen's withdrawal to the south would indeed pose a huge threat to his future unification of the world.

Therefore, Li Zicheng did not reject the proposals of these Ming court surrenders:
"Decree: General Tian Jianxiu of the Right Battalion captured Tongzhou and pursued along the canal. General Liu Fangliang of the Left Battalion immediately pursued northward along Tongzhou Bao. Chongzhen must be captured alive! Tell the guards of the Ming Dynasty in each city to capture Chongzhen alive and present the city. Those who make it a Marquis!"

After finishing speaking, Li Zicheng ordered the army to enter the city.

This is the first time for Li Zicheng, who led a refugee uprising, to enter the capital. Seeing that this big city belongs to him from now on, Li Zicheng couldn't help but feel excited.

Although Chongzhen has escaped to the south, it does not affect his passionate heart at all.

Starting from Shaanxi, Li Zicheng never thought that he would come to this day, that he would one day occupy the city of Beijing, and that he would really become emperor one day.

What's more, Li Zicheng didn't expect that.

The bureaucrats who did not follow Zhu Youjian to the south, such as Chen Yan, Shao Zhan Shiyu, Song Nian, and Liu Yangzhen, the former chief assistant of the cabinet, were kneeling neatly in the Yongding Gate to welcome Li Zicheng.

Zhu Youjian left too hastily, and did not have time to force every official in the capital to follow him to evacuate.

But what Zhu Youjian naturally didn't expect was that as soon as he left, these scholar-bureaucrats who stayed in the capital quickly surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Chen Yan knelt down on the ground very humblely, put the black gauze hat on the ground, and prostrated himself on the ground: "Chen Yan, the chief assistant of the former Ming cabinet, welcomes His Majesty the Emperor Dashun!"

Other Ming Dynasty officials who stayed in the capital also hurriedly shouted: "Long live my emperor" and the like.

Li Zicheng was very proud of this, and entered the capital with his head raised.

Although, like Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng was also a peasant uprising and had class hatred towards Chen Yan and other scholar-bureaucrats.

But Li Zicheng did not have Zhu Yuanzhang's forbearance.

Therefore, Li Zicheng despised these courtiers who surrendered from the bottom of his heart, so he didn't make any cover-ups and ignored Chen Yan.

Chen Yan kept his flattering smile for a long time, but his face became stiff with a smile, and Li Zicheng didn't send anyone to invite him, so he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Li Zicheng entered the palace.

What he is more interested in now is the throne that Zhu Youjian once sat on.

However, when he stepped on Danxi and walked to the golden emperor's throne in the hall, he saw a letter under the emperor's throne.

Li Zicheng opened the letter himself.

This letter was left by Zhu Youjian to Li Zicheng.

As a latecomer, and considering his own safety, Zhu Youjian decided to leave a letter to Li Zicheng before retreating south.

The content of the letter is to tell Li Zicheng who is the biggest threat to him now after he occupies Beijing.

Zhu Youjian explained Jianu outside the pass, Wu Sangui from Shanhaiguan and himself.

He hoped that Li Zicheng would understand that he was just a down and out emperor who looked like a bereaved dog. He couldn't make big waves in a short time, and it was impossible to reunify the north in a short time.

But it was Wu Sangui and Jiannu who really posed the biggest threat to Li Zicheng.

Zhu Youjian specifically told Li Zicheng that the future structure is likely to be divided into North and South.

But such a situation where the north and the south are divided and each is an emperor requires a premise.

It is that Jiannu and Wu Sangui will not collude together to become a new force and then take advantage of your own emperor and you Li Zicheng's snipe and clam to make a profit, and finally win this country.

"What a Chongzhen, you can see clearly and clearly, but I don't understand, since you are so well aware of the general trend of the world, why are you still losing so badly, even losing the capital."

After Li Zicheng said that, he couldn't help laughing, turned around and sat on the throne, stroking it around fondly.

After all, Li Zicheng is not a confused person, he also knew what Zhu Youjian meant, and he also adopted Zhu Youjian's opinion, so he did not use all his strength to go south to chase Zhu Youjian. On the contrary, he clearly ordered the main force to rest in Beijing for ten days and prepare to go north .

At the same time, Li Zicheng also sent envoys to recruit Wu Sangui to surrender, and mobilized the elites of Dashun from Shanxi, Shaanxi to gather in Xuanfu and Jizhou, in order to prevent Jiannu or Wu Sangui from going south.

It can be seen that Li Zicheng finally accepted Zhu Youjian's opinion and focused on Jiannu and Wu Sangui.

Of course, Li Zicheng in history also chose this way.

After all, without Zhu Youjian saying it, Li Zicheng also knew that in the world, only Wu Sangui's Guanning cavalry and Jiannu's Eight Banners soldiers were capable of fighting against his Dashun army.

But Zhu Youjian and other remnant forces are naturally not worth mentioning.

And Zhu Youjian's initiative to show weakness also gave him such a chance to fight hard.

　Thank you book friends for your concern, the cold is almost gone, I woke up today and wrote a chapter, and will resume normal updates tomorrow.

　　
　
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