Dashun Yongchang

Dorgon was naturally overjoyed when he heard Luo Yangxing and Du Xun's request. While asking their names, he ordered again in public that after the Qing army entered Beijing, they were not allowed to harass the people or leave the army in private. After boarding Luanyu, accompanied by Luo Yangxing, Du Xun and other officials, he entered Beijing City through Chaoyang Gate, and then went directly to the Imperial City.

After entering Beijing, Dorgon found that although Li Zicheng's army had left, there was no trace of chaos on the street, and the imperial city was also peaceful, and even the square in front of Huangji Gate showed signs of being cleaned up.

Walking on the Huangjimen Square, he suddenly asked Du Xun and Luo Yangxing: "After Li Zicheng left the capital, were you the ones who pressed down on the ground in the capital to preserve the order in the capital? The cleaning in the imperial city , Could it be to welcome the prince?"

Luo Yangxing only thought for a few seconds, and then honestly explained: "This is not the credit of the foreign ministers, but Yongchang... Since he ordered the foreign ministers to maintain the order in Beijing, someone will naturally come to preside over the situation in Beijing and China."

Upon seeing this, Du Xun also said: "The sanitation of the imperial city was also ordered by Li Zicheng after he returned from Shanhaiguan. Oh, Li Zicheng also left a letter in the Hall of Martial Arts. If your majesty is interested, you might as well take a look."

The two people's answers made Dorgon lose a lot of sense of accomplishment. He would rather hear the escape story of a bereaved dog than such a leisurely trip out of Beijing.Therefore, he immediately lost interest in visiting the imperial city, and ordered Du Xun to lead the way to the Wuying Hall to see what letters Li Zicheng wrote and left to whom.

In a room in the Hall of Martial Arts, which seemed to be Li Zicheng's daily office, Dorgon saw a letter placed on a desk, with only four words written on it, to Dorgon.

He asked the Han scholars around him to open it and read it to himself, "I will be out of Beijing for a few days, and you will guard the door for me." After reading this sentence, the Han scholars stopped and looked at Dorgon and said: "Next Gone."

Dorgon was stunned for a moment, then his face sank, he stepped forward and took a look at the letter, then he widened his eyes and shouted angrily: "Arrogant, rude, I will kill this thief!"

Chapter 58 Differentiation

On the evening of May [-]th, Li Zicheng arrived at Tianjin Acropolis, and on the morning of May [-]th, he climbed up the city wall of Tianjin Acropolis with great interest to enjoy the scenery of Tianjin Wei.

However, he soon discovered that the sightlines were not good when it was dark last night. The Tianjin Acropolis with a city wall about 10 meters high felt quite imposing, but in the morning the city revealed its original shape. The bricks are so tattered that even the earth wall inside is exposed. Well, this is an earth wall covered with bricks and strips of stone.

As Tianjin Wei at the lower tip of the Nine Rivers, it is common for floods to occur all year round. Under such repeated floods, it is no wonder that the city wall is not broken.Therefore, Li Zicheng couldn't help but asked Yuan Yuzong beside him, "When was the last time this city was overhauled? Why is it so dilapidated?"

Yuan Yuzong said: "The Acropolis of Tianjin was built in the second year of Yongle. It was originally an earthen city. During the Hongzhi period, it was repaired once, adding a moat around the city, and strengthening the city wall with bricks and stones. Since then, there has been no major repairs until today. , only small repairs. During the Tianqi period, Duke Li Mengan was training troops in Tianjin, and once thought about overhauling the Tianjin Acropolis, but he was dismissed and returned to his hometown because of the political dispute between the court and China, and the matter of building the city was over."

Li Zicheng asked curiously: "Who is Li Mengan? Is this gentleman still alive?"

Yuan Yuzong hesitated for a while before answering: "Li Mengan is Li Banghua Gong, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty. Before His Majesty entered the capital, he once wrote a letter to Emperor Lie to move south, but Guang Shiheng and others resisted the advice. His Majesty entered the capital." Afterwards, this duke left with Emperor Lie."

When Yuan Yuzong explained, he paid careful attention to Li Zicheng's expression, but Li Zicheng did not get angry because of this, but sighed and said: "It's a pity, my lord, the emperor said that the world is full of ministers who have subjugated the country. I think it's just Li Zicheng." The emperor can't just use capable ministers. The prince should give him a beautiful posthumous posthumous posthumous honor."

Yuan Yuzong was quite surprised by Li Zicheng's reaction. Ever since he heard that Li Zicheng tortured and plundered all the officials after he entered Beijing, the deputy envoy of the Tianjin military preparation department regretted that he surrendered too quickly. Later, he heard that Li Zicheng was letting the world go Regardless of the people's hearts, he personally led the troops to Shanhaiguan to recruit a hopeless Wu Sangui, and he felt even more that Li Zicheng was not a wise master.

The generals of the Tianjin Ming army who followed him to surrender had come to him before and asked him what would they do if Li Zicheng was frustrated in Shanhaiguan and returned?Yuan Yuzong realized at that time that these subordinates had other thoughts.It's just that Zhang Nai came from Shanhaiguan with a group of troops afterwards, which suppressed the other thoughts of these old subordinates.

Li Zicheng was able to rein in the precipice and evacuate from Shanhaiguan regardless of his own face. In Yuan Yuzong's view, he could be considered a hero.After hearing that Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the pass, Yuan Yuzong felt that Li Zicheng's withdrawal was indeed God's will.The battle of Huangtuzhuang defeated the pursuit of the Qing army and the Sangui army, which also strengthened his confidence in the future of Dashun.

Afterwards, although the Qing army and the Sangui army rumored everywhere that they drove Li Zicheng from Shanhaiguan to Huangtuzhuang, the Dashun army was defeated along the way, and the coalition army won numerous victories. But Yu Zong didn't believe it, and persuaded his old subordinates to stay calm.

Yuan Yuzong's judgment was indeed correct. Regardless of whether Li Zicheng's opponents, the Qing army and the Sangui army, were defeated, but when Li Zicheng led the main force to withdraw from Beijing to Tianjin instead of Baoding, the gentry in Tianjin and the officers and soldiers of the old Ming Dynasty were suddenly quiet. down.Although there are three guards in Tianjin and nearly 2 troops on the quota, there are actually only more than 3000 people who can go to battle, and the rest are just garrison soldiers.

This is also the key to Yuan Yuzong's ability to persuade Tianjin Daming officers and soldiers to surrender to Dashun. Otherwise, how could he, a Shaanxi native, persuade local officers and soldiers to rebel against Tianjin Governor Feng Yuanyang and Tianjin General Soldier Cao Youyi, and even ran away with his relatives? Cao Youyi, the commander-in-chief of the army, intercepted him and allowed him to escape by himself.

The local gentry and guards in Tianjin have actually become one. They don't really care who is the emperor, as long as they don't stand in the wrong team.From the moment Yuan Yuzong led the team to vote for Dashun, he knew that he had no choice. If Dashun could defeat the coalition forces of the Qing Dynasty and Sangui, his future would still be bright, but if Dashun failed, then His future is also worrying, the local gentry and guards must sell him.

Therefore, as long as Li Zicheng is not the kind of particularly stupid thief leader, Yuan Yuzong still hopes to continue to be loyal to him, so as to avoid wasting his contribution to Tianjin.Leading his subordinates to drive away his immediate boss and then surrender, no matter from any standpoint, this is a huge stain.

Therefore, even though today was the first time he had contact with Li Zicheng, Yuan Yuzong had no choice but to test the character of the lord with words.From the current point of view, the personality of Emperor Yongchang seems to be different from the rumors, and he is much more open-minded than the rumored Li Zicheng.

When Yuan Yuzong was speculating about Li Zicheng's character, Li Zicheng, who was standing on the crenel of the city wall and watching the scenery on both sides of the Haihe River, suddenly turned around and asked him: "Li Yue, I really want to ask you something, I wonder if you can explain it to me?" Confused?"

Yuan Yuzong hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his hands, "Don't dare, dare not. If your majesty asks, I will know everything."

"Hehe." After Li Zicheng chuckled a few times, he looked at him with a restrained smile and said, "Before the crown prince arrived in Tianjin with the Liehuang and his wife, Zigong, and invited the local gentry to pay homage to them, but some people ignored them. I arrived in Tianjin last night. Acropolis, these gentry still stay behind closed doors. Li Yue, what do you think these people are thinking?"

Yuan Yuzong felt as if someone had hit his brain with a stick, and he couldn't think for a while.Although he knew that the local gentry and the generals of the guards had different mentalities, but as long as it was not the last moment, he was not willing to tear themselves apart with these people, otherwise it would be difficult for everyone to step down.But Li Zicheng asked this question, as if he was about to tear himself apart with the local gentry, which made him at a loss as to how to answer.

As the atmosphere on the city wall gradually became chilling, Yuan Yuzong had to stare at Li Zicheng's pressure to defend these gentry: "Since the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers entered the pass to plunder, plagues and droughts were mixed, and natural disasters in Hebei Man-made disasters continue, and the common people consider going out as a dangerous journey. I don’t think they may have any other intentions, but it’s just that they are delayed on the road, so it’s not certain.”

Li Zicheng stared at him for a long time, then nodded and said: "Li Yue, what you said may not be wrong, then I will give them a little more time. Before dinner today, within [-] miles centered on Tianjin Acropolis, those who have not gone The rich country gentry who paid homage to the Emperor Lie did not come to see me, so they are rebels who are going to join the Qing Dynasty. Since they are rebels, Li Yue, how do you deal with them?"

Yuan Yuzong looked down at the cracks in the bricks under his feet, and said as calmly as possible: "According to the law, he can be punished."

"Well said." Li Zicheng praised him, and then said to the generals at the side: "Baijiuhe and Zhang Nai, each of you pick 1500 people, and then divide them into four routes. When dinner comes, Li Yue has compiled a list of the rebels' residences in each township, and will use the local guards as guides to wipe out the rebels everywhere."

Zhang Nai agreed without hesitation, and Baijiuhe, who had been stationed in Tianjin for a month, hesitated for a few seconds before stepping forward to agree.Li Zicheng then said to the generals on the city wall: "After our army goes south, such rebels will not be in the minority. We are not thieves now, but officers and soldiers, so we should have rules in doing things. Now I will give you some rules to suppress them." Rules of Thieves:

The first rule is that everything captured must be returned to the public, and anyone who hides property in private will be beheaded regardless of whether it is an officer or soldier; the second rule is that indiscriminate killing and adultery are not allowed.As long as the male rebels who do not take up arms to resist will be handed over to the village for public trial, and then executed, women and young children will not be sent to the women's camp as slaves; Article 4, all seized will be divided into 2.5 shares, 1 shares will go to the public treasury , 0.5 for the disabled and martyrs, 3 for the warrior, 3 for the commander of the troops, [-] for the officers, and [-] for the soldiers.

What do you think? "

Except for a few generals who felt a little uncomfortable on the city wall, most of the generals were indifferent.Although even the gentry and officials of Ming Dynasty praised the Dashun Army for its better military discipline than the official army, the Dashun Army did not rely on the northwest wind to survive, but the Dashun Army was mostly composed of farmers who could not survive, so for ordinary The common people showed more sympathy, and put the targets of looting on rich and well-fed squires, so it seems that the usual discipline is not bad.

As for the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they did not dare to rob the houses of the gentry who had connections with the court, so naturally they could only target ordinary people. This kind of looting is not only inefficient, but also because the army is too scattered to restrain the soldiers , naturally became lawless.

Li Zicheng's new regulations for his subordinates did not completely require them to change the tradition of robbing the gentry to help them pay, but only fixed the distribution plan for the plundering proceeds, making the plundering more controllable.For these generals of the Dashun Army who have not completely lost their discipline, this is not an unbearable rule.

In fact, for those ambitious generals, after the founding of Dashun, they took the initiative to regard themselves as officers and soldiers, so they began to resist looting.In fact, they hope that Li Zicheng can restrain the army more strictly, and prevent the looting of the people from happening again, so as to stabilize the social order.

However, someone understood the current situation better than these generals, and the time to stabilize social order had slipped away from the Dashun regime.What Dashun needs at the moment is to select and kill those local gentry who are most likely to actively cooperate with the Manchus, so that the Manchus cannot gain the support of the Hebei gentry in a short period of time, so as to buy time for themselves to go south to stabilize the defense line.

Therefore, he doesn't care what surrendering officials like Yuan Yuzong think, he just needs to force these officials to tear themselves apart from the local gentry. Without the support of the local gentry, it will be difficult for these surrendering officials to show appeasement even if they vote to the Qing Dynasty again. The ability of the place is coming.

Chapter 59 Wealth

After coming down from the city wall, Li Zicheng returned to the governor's yamen where he was staying, and soon ordered to summon those in Tianjin Acropolis: Liu Zongmin, Zhang Nai, Li You, Ren Jirong, Wu Ruyi, Baijiuhe, Zhang Neng, Ma Chongxi , Lu Yingbiao, Niu Wancai, Li Tong, Zuo Guangxian and other generals gathered.

To the surprise of the generals, they were not taken to the lobby after entering the governor's office, but were led to the back garden by Li Zicheng's personal guards. In front of an open space by a pool, Li Zicheng ordered dozens of pictures Tables and chairs serve as a venue for gatherings.

Seeing that all the generals were almost there, Li Zicheng walked out from the small pavilion next to him in a steady manner.All the generals stood up and bowed to him with fists in their hands. Li Zicheng waved his hands and said, "Sit down, sit down. I called you here to have a party, just to let everyone relax and talk, so there is no need to be so polite."

Seeing that Li Zicheng also sat down, Liu Zongmin, who was on his right hand, asked eagerly, "Your Majesty called us here, is it because you want to discuss how to fight Jiannu and the Sangui army here?"

Li Zicheng shook his head and said, "It's not urgent. Buzhi and Kecheng are observing the movement of Jiannu and the Sangui army in Tongzhou. If Jiannu doesn't rush to Beijing, but the whole division chases after him, then we are naturally I won't fight them. Even if they split up and just follow our army, there is no need for our army to confront them in Tianjin.

If they really want to die by themselves and chase after them again, then we will naturally not let go of this opportunity.In Tianjinwei, the many rivers are not conducive to the deployment of cavalry. Without the advantage of cavalry, Jiannu is fighting us with one arm tied. Don't we dare to fight?

However, this is not the point now, the point now is..."

Li Zicheng suddenly stopped and glanced at the generals present, Liu Zongmin subconsciously asked, "What's the point? Don't you want to be tricky, brother?"

Li Zicheng looked at him, smiled and did not answer directly, but said meaningfully: "This time I entered Beijing and left Beijing, I feel like a big dream. Everyone here is my good brother, so I Let me tell you something from my heart today, I have woken up from this dream, have you woken up from your dream?"

Liu Zongmin was very witty and had no excuses this time, but Wu Ruyi, who followed Li Zicheng earlier, did not understand why he answered, "What dream did your majesty have? What dream did we have again? I really don't understand, please tell your majesty clearly." .”

Li Zicheng observed the expressions of the generals, and replied casually: "When I entered Beijing, I wanted to be the emperor. As for what dreams you had, you should ask yourselves, not me. Now everyone leaves Beijing is here, I think the dream of being an emperor has woken up, shouldn't you wake up too? If everyone keeps messing around like this, we may not end up better than Huang Chao."

Although many of the generals present here are peasants who have not read the book, since they have been able to go on the road of rebellion to this day, it is natural that they have not heard of the names of rebel predecessors like Huang Chao.So hearing Li Zicheng's words, they couldn't help but sit up straight.

Wu Ruyi couldn't accept Li Zicheng's words at this time, but it seemed that it was not a good thing for him to keep silent at this time, so he could only wait for Ai Ai to say: "I don't seem to have done such a thing in Beijing. Is your majesty's words too much?" Severe?"

Li Zicheng glanced at him, and said coldly: "Before entering Beijing, our army ran across the Central Plains. Where were the people from all over the place not our army's eyes and ears? But after entering Beijing, the people in Hebei have all stayed away from our army. It seems that we and The officers and soldiers are no different. Wu Guoyi, why don't you tell me why the people stay away from our army?"

Wu Ruyi lowered his head and thought for a long time, but he couldn't understand the reason at all, so he could only desperately look at Liu Zongmin, hoping that this old brother could help him.Liu Zongmin sighed in his heart, and said to Li Zicheng, half begging and half criticizing: "Although our army's military discipline has been corrupted after entering the capital, it is not to the extent that the Huangchao army entered Chang'an.

Perhaps it was because our army tortured officials and gentry too much after entering Beijing, causing gentry from all over the country to slander our army, and the people were confused by these gentry, so they stayed away from our army.In Hebei and Shanxi last year, two to three out of ten people died of a severe epidemic. The surviving people depended on the local gentry for their livelihood. Unlike the people in Shaanxi and Henan, they trusted the gentry more than those who trusted our army.Therefore, the local gentry are worse than our army, and the people everywhere will be dubious. "

Zhang Nai also couldn't help interjecting: "Our army called on the people to follow me in Shaanxi and Henan because they didn't pay grain, and the people responded to me one after another. This is because of the frequent natural and man-made disasters in the two places. Many landlords and gentry died in the flames of war, and the people were able to open up wasteland. For the industry, so not paying grain is the greatest benefit for them.

But in Shanxi and Hebei, apart from being looted by the Qing army, not many landlords and gentry died. Even in the plague last year, ordinary people died more.Therefore, our army implemented non-payment of grain in Shanxi, Hebei, and even Shandong, and it was the local gentry who had a lot of land rather than the lowest-level people who benefited the most.Therefore, the people of Hebei are not close to me, because they have not received much benefit. "

Li Zicheng clapped his hands lightly and said: "What Jiexuan and Zhang Nai said is exactly what I have figured out these days. In the past, we could call on the common people with unpaid rations, and chase stolen goods from gentry to subsidize military use. But in the future we will use No more, because there is no such a court to help us to force people from all over the world to rebel with us.

Ever since we entered Beijing and Chongzhen committed suicide by hanging himself, the imperial court that raised three rates for the people of the world was finished.And we have become a new imperial court. In this case, if we say that we don’t pay the grain, we can’t encourage the gentry to support us, because they don’t need to pay the grain.And if we want to continue to chase the gentry for money and pay to maintain the operation of the new court, we will greatly offend these local gentry.

What is the imperial court?is order.The small social order maintained by the local gentry is integrated into the large order maintained by the imperial court.At best, we have broken part of the social order in Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan in the past, but we have hardly shaken the order of the whole world.

Therefore, the people who support us are actually far less than the forces of the gentry who oppose us.The reason why we failed to win the support of the people in Shanxi and Hebei is because the order in these places is still controlled by the gentry, and a slogan of not paying food cannot win the people in these places away from the gentry.

After the end of the Ming Dynasty, the local gentry could have bought the local people by reducing taxes, thereby offsetting our difficult-to-implement non-payment policy.

Therefore, the most important question we are facing now is, what should Dashun Dynasty do next?In other words, which side should our Dashun stand on in the future?The side of the common people, or the side of the landlords and squires?This is why I asked you brothers to come here to gather. This world was won by us, so naturally we should have the final say. "

All the generals present were stunned for a moment. It was not Li Zicheng's previous analysis that shocked them, but the last paragraph made them both nervous and slightly excited.

Liu Zongmin endured it for a long time, but finally couldn't hold it back, and asked Li Zicheng on behalf of the generals: "Your Majesty, we have the final say on what you said. What do you mean?"

Li Zicheng's eyes lingered on everyone's face for a while, and stayed on the face of Zuo Guangxian, the surrendered Ming army general, for a few seconds. After seeing everyone's expressions clearly, he said slowly: " Those civil servants rule the world, but the world is not theirs, but ours.

Therefore, we should set the direction first, and then let the civil servants formulate the rules, and then maintain our world.This world does not belong to me alone, nor is it the private property of any one of you. This is called common wealth.That's why I called you here to ask everyone, what kind of world do you want? "

The generals were silent for a while, they didn't know whether Li Zicheng was telling the truth or luring them to tell the truth, speaking of Luo Rucai and Ge Liyan, the deaths of people like Luo Rucai and Ge Liyan were still palpitating.

Seeing this, Li Zicheng had to give Zhang Nai a wink, and the adoptive son had no choice but to open his mouth and say, "If your majesty hadn't adopted me, I would have been a pile of dead bones. I will go wherever your majesty says I want to go." However, our Dashun army went up and down the people who were not good people, if it weren't for the persecution of those corrupt officials and local tyrants and evil gentry, how could we have rebelled? If it is possible, I would rather stand by the people."

Under the leadership of Zhang Nai, Li You, Ren Jirong and others all said similar things. While expressing their feelings to Li Zicheng, they also implicitly expressed their position that the common people should be treated kindly.

After more than half of the generals had finished expressing their views, Liu Zongmin finally said seriously: "I never frown when I follow my brother into the water and fire, but since my brother asked me that, I will tell him the truth.

My brother also knew that my family was victimized by corrupt officials and local tyrants and evil gentry. I rebelled with my brother to overthrow these corrupt officials and local tyrants and evil gentry, so that they can also taste the suffering that ordinary people have suffered.If my brother asks which side I take, I will definitely only stand on the side of the common people. "

A small part of the remaining generals supported Liu Zongmin's views, while others only said to follow Li Zicheng's proposition, including Zuo Guangxian.

This conversation made someone realize that the Dashun Army is still in a period of positive and high-spirited ascension. They still retain their simple class concept and do not regard themselves as the founding heroes of the new dynasty. Think of yourself as a representative of ordinary people who are fighting against oppression.

Chapter 60 Convention

In this era, if someone has nothing to worry about, he will naturally not have any special preferences.Whether it is a gentry or a commoner, they are all equally strange and distant in his eyes. To be honest, even if there is a fan of online battles in front of him, he is closer than people in this era, because at least the two sides Able to understand each other's values.

Once you understand a person's values, you can at least understand a person's basic bottom line in doing things, which is the basis for people to communicate with each other.Even though he praised Chang Kaishen online, at least he still abides by the social values ​​with the law as the bottom line.

For example, even if you buy a prostitute, you still have to pay money. You can’t say that you can bring disaster to a little girl by relying on power, and then you have to make a TV series to cleanse yourself. He went on the road of crime because he lacked maternal love when he was young. His mother He and his elder brother are both good people, he is not the illegitimate son of a powerful man, but the son of a mafia boss.

Since this TV series came out, someone can roughly understand the mood of those Koreans watching their own crime movies. It seems to expose the dark side of society and let people know that there is still a voice of justice in society, but in fact it is nothing more than It is the power holder who, after indulging power to do evil, still uses power to cleanse himself to show that he is righteous.

Foreigners watch it and think that Korean movies are really good, and they dare to expose the dark side of society so boldly, but in the eyes of Koreans, the so-called righteous force in the movie is the creator of all evils in the real world.These power holders not only create crimes in reality, but also rape the people's thoughts in movies and TV dramas.

In the eyes of the Korean people, this so-called movie that exposes the dark side of society is not as real as a brainless sex comedy. They can't understand why foreigners want to pursue movies that Korean power actors clean up for themselves, and put movies full of lies Call it the voice of justice, this is clearly the devil showing off his sin.

So someone thought that even Chang Kaishen was more sincere than these devils in human skin, at least Chang Kaishen honestly admitted that he was in power for the capitalists and not for the people.In the name of the people, he will not beat the bones and suck the marrow of the people.

As for the social values ​​of this era, someone is really ignorant, but he is not ignorant of history.For example, he at least knew that when the soldiers and civilians in the north resisted the barbarian rebellion, the gentry in the south believed that the tax increase should be fair, not only that the north and the south should be the same, but also that the tax increase per mu of land in the south should be the same as that in the north.

When Dongjiang Town and Man Qing fought bloody battles, the court ministers thought that Dongjiang Town had falsely reported the number of soldiers and was taking advantage of the court.However, the ministers in the court who loved the people like children ordered Dongjiang Town not to ask for food and supplies from the Korean Kingdom without authorization; on the other hand, they refused to relocate the Liaodong adherents gathered by Dongjiang Town, and refused to provide subsidies to such Liaodong adherents.

Of course, the most outstanding one is the Liaodong Ming army. Every time, the guest army takes the lead, and every time they escape first. The Liaodong generals treat the leftover Liaodong survivors and low-level soldiers who were killed by Nurhachi as serfs, and at the same time demand high sums from the court. military pay.It is said that after Zu Dashou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji moved his ancestral home to Shenyang. As a result, the luxury of the furniture shipped to Shenyang by his ancestral home made the kings of the Eight Banners feel dumbfounded.

On the court's side, in order not to distribute food to the army of King Laiqin of Shanxi in Beijing, the ministers were able to move the army for three consecutive days, and finally forced the army loyal to the court to rebel.

As for Chongzhen offering sacrifices to Hong Chengchou, a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and suspecting that Lu Xiangsheng was a thief, this kind of magical operation is just a trivial matter.Someone felt that those who wanted to fight the Manchus to the death as soon as they traveled through time were probably no different from those Mao fans who waved Mao Xuan against the people.In their world, the world has only two colors, black and white.Therefore, Guo Fan is the one who can't recite quotations, but then again, he would rather deal with Mao Fan than stand with anti-human Confucian sticks.

The statements of these generals of the Peasant Army here have given someone a basis for how to become us. He was able to issue orders in the name of Li Zicheng before, but he could not regard these people as us at all.

What we are is comrades who feel that everyone can create a career together. Without this sense of community, you can't expect others to complete their work well.If there is a problem with the team in later generations, it is just a business failure. In this era, if the team has a problem, someone will lose his head. Therefore, for the sake of his own safety, someone needs to form a team that belongs to us as soon as possible.

So after understanding everyone's basic position, someone finally said: "Since everyone has expressed their intentions, let me summarize. What I, Dashun, will build is to protect the interests of the common people and fight against local tyrants." country, have you confirmed this?"

The generals whispered for a while, and under the leadership of Liu Zongmin, Zhang Nai, and Li You, they all responded to Li Zicheng, "Exactly." "Your Majesty said exactly..."

Li Zicheng asked someone to bring paper, pen and ink, and while writing, he said to the generals: "I won't tell you anything, and I will swear to the Tianmeng. We are all brothers. If you agree, come up and sign. After signing, it violates today's resolution. There is no need for God to punish you, brothers just do it together..."

Generals: "..."

Although they were puzzled, after Liu Zongmin and Zhang Nai took the lead in signing, the others ran up to Li Zicheng tremblingly and signed their names on the Declaration of the First Year of Yongchang written by Li Zicheng himself.

There are three items written in the manifesto.The first is that the basic state policy of Dashun is to protect the basic rights of the people and restrain unlimited land acquisitions; the second is to put state affairs into public opinion; and the third is that everyone is equal before the law.

The first is the common sense of the generals present today, and of course everyone will have no opinion.The second article is to ensure that the generals have the right to express their opinions on national affairs.The third article is actually to protect the rights of the generals from being violated when expressing their opinions.

To put it simply, except for the first clause which is not obvious, the second and third clauses guarantee the rights of the generals as shareholders of Dashun Company.At this time, these few articles have nothing to do with ordinary people. The public opinion is not to allow the people to discuss state affairs, but to allow the generals to sit down with Li Zicheng and discuss state affairs. Everyone is equal before the law, which means that the generals are the same as Li Zicheng are protected by law.

After everyone signed, a certain person finally let go of a stone in his heart, and now he finally felt protected by a group.But not only him, the generals including Liu Zongmin to Zuo Guangxian also felt a shadow in their hearts.With such a signed agreement, at least they don't have to be so wary of each other.

The peasant army generals' trust in Li Zicheng in the past was entirely based on Li Zicheng's ambition and personality, but they were not sure whether Li Zicheng could always maintain this trustworthy personal character.After all, Li Zicheng never relented in getting rid of those old brothers who competed with him for the leadership of the rebel army, but now that there is such a letter of guarantee, everyone feels much more at ease.

As for Zuo Guangxian, his allegiance to Li Zicheng was based more on the Baoquan family and his despair of the Ming Dynasty.As a large landlord in Yulin, he is noncommittal about the line of restraining the unlimited land acquisition, but he has to support the latter two. If Li Zicheng can really abide by the latter two, at least his goal of keeping his family is finished.

Therefore, no matter what their mood was when they signed the agreement, after signing, everyone at least felt that they had a little more intimacy with each other, and they were no longer as wary of each other as before.Even Liu Zongmin's gaze towards Zuo Guangxian softened a little. In the past, he hated these surrendering generals of the Ming army the most.

After signing, Li Zicheng said to the generals: "I will choose a suitable time to announce this agreement to the world after everyone signs it. This will also be the foundation of our country. Of course, I need to send a copy to Xijing, so that the old brothers who are stationed in Shaanxi and other places can also sign their names. Is this called a good brother?

Then, next, we will talk about how to deal with the pursuit of the Qing army and the Sangui army and how to gain a foothold in the south.Jiexuan, why don't we start with you, and then let's take turns to share our opinions.When everyone is speaking, other people are not allowed to interrupt. After everyone has finished speaking, we can discuss freely. "

All the generals agreed one after another, and Liu Zongmin thought for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty said how to deal with the pursuit of the Qing army and the Sangui army, and I have different opinions on this point.

Right now our army is divided into two groups, Liu Fangliang's army has retreated to Shanxi, while our army is preparing to go south, but our army can't just leave like this, otherwise the Qing army and the Sangui army can choose a road to pursue at will.As far as the current situation is concerned, it is better to let the main force of the Qing army and the Sangui army chase our army than to let them chase Liu Fangliang.

After all, if Shanxi falls, the hometown of Shaanxi will not be protected, and our army will really become a homeless and lonely army.Conversely, if Shanxi and Shaanxi can guarantee that they will not lose, then even if our side loses a few times, we will still have a chance to make a comeback after all.

Therefore, I thought it was not how our army should deal with the pursuit of the Qing army and the Sangui army, but how to attract the main force of the Qing army and the Sangui army to chase our army.And our army must let the main force of the Qing army and the Sangui army pursue us, but not be defeated by them. This is the focus of our army going south.As for how to get a foothold in the south, the minister is not quite clear..."

After Liu Zongmin, all the generals expressed their opinions one by one. Everyone can say something about how to fight against the Qing army and the Sangui army, but there is almost nothing about how the army should go south to gain a foothold. useful advice.However, everyone agrees that it is best for our army to go south to form a final confrontation front with the Qing army and the Sangui army in the Xuzhou area, and not to retreat to the south.