Chapter 49 3.Li Zicheng enthroned

Li Zicheng finally made his debut, and held his official ascension ceremony in the Huangji Hall of the Emperor Zhengya. The net whip is sounded three times, and the civil and military rows are lined up on both sides.When the shouts of all the officials resounded through the sky, he on the dragon chair did have a brief moment of intoxication. He thought to himself that he had been born and died for sixteen years, and today he finally had an explanation. In reality: just as the last movement of the grand ceremony was floating around the Huangji Hall, more than 100,000 well-equipped Qing cavalry were approaching the city of Beijing step by step.

Great joy followed by great sorrow, at this time Li Zicheng is both a King Kong and a Buddha - when the emotions reach the peak, the smiley face will be full of laughter, and he will respond to requests; once it falls to the bottom, evil thoughts will come unexpectedly. Back at Kunning Palace, Concubine Dou hurried out to meet her on the steps.Li Zicheng's face was gloomy and his mind was heavy. While helping Concubine Dou up, he looked around with his eyes and said with a sad expression: "Have you brought everything you should bring? In a few hours, there will be a fire here?"

Concubine Dou already knew the news that the emperor was going to burn the palace, and from tomorrow onwards, she will be evacuated to Chang'an with the emperor, and she is not without regrets.Before this, she was a maid of low status here. Although she was very familiar with everything in the palace, she had no right to dominate it. It was very easy for her to win the emperor's favor and concubine concubine. At present, the reserve position is still vacant. She thought that she could conceive the prince only if she had a strong belly. , then it is not far from the seat in charge of the Sixth Palace. I don’t want the emperor to be an extremely difficult emperor. He often makes unexplainable anger and will kill her at every turn. She is terrified, thinking that she will bid farewell to all this and join the army now The expedition, not to mention the ups and downs immediately, the soldiers are fierce and the battle is dangerous, even if you can reach Chang'an safely, it is far less satisfactory than here. You must know that there are many old people of the emperor there. She was unwilling to sharpen her head to cater to them, but the matter had come to this point, the emperor's decision would not be changed because of her, as a weak woman, what could she do?Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh slightly.

I didn't want the little girl's sigh to cause a catastrophe. Li Yan's words have kept him awake all night. The facts of the past six months have told him that this man is farsighted and has a lot of victories. To further verify his prophecy, it is imperative to abandon Beijing. Today is the last day to bid farewell to the imperial palace. Sculpture palaces, red dresses and emerald sleeves flashed in front of my eyes one by one. , Niu Jinxing said it well, neither can it be owned by me, nor can it be handed over to others, and it will be burned to the ground. Later generations commented, I will not lose the hero of the Western Chu Overlord...

Thinking of this, he hated everything in front of him, feeling that they were his enemies and he should try his best to eliminate them.He didn't want to think that Concubine Dou's slight sigh was heard clearly at this moment, he was startled, thinking to himself, why is she sighing, this little bitch, these days, she is lying on the pillow, begging her repeatedly, The title of concubine is not enough, but the title of noble concubine is not enough, and the title of imperial concubine is not enough, and the title of imperial concubine is added. I am afraid that one day, she will be named queen. Is she worthy of being named queen?She usually smiles when she sees me, but today she sees that I have lost and is about to leave Beijing, so she sighs, it seems that she is lying when she said that she is willing to go with me, this little bitch with a trend of inflammation!Thinking of this, he glared with one eye, glared at Concubine Dou and said:

"What are you sighing? Are you unwilling to go with me?" Concubine Dou was already frightened, and when she saw the emperor getting angry again, she couldn't help being startled, and she answered inappropriately, "I think it's a pity that this palace is burned down, isn't Chongzhen also reluctant to burn it down?" When Li Zicheng heard that she compared herself to Chongzhen, she couldn't help feeling a nameless anger in her heart. She paused, pointed at Concubine Dou and scolded: "What, if Chongzhen didn't burn it, I couldn't burn it? Then Chongzhen hanged himself, don't we?" Are you going to hang yourself?"

Concubine Dou didn't know what the emperor said to change her face, so she couldn't help but knelt on the ground with a "plop", kowtowed and said: "This is not what I mean, I dare not." But the fire in the emperor's chest burned up instantly, and it could not be subdued by kowtows. He turned around and pulled out the sword from the rack, and slashed at her pink neck. Poor Concubine Dou hadn't finished her sentence yet. The head fell to the ground. As a result, a group of maids and eunuchs in Kunning Palace were so frightened that their three souls lost two souls, and their seven souls lost their six souls. They couldn't help but kneel down together, kowtowing like garlic, begging the emperor for mercy.

Li Zicheng looked at these people angrily.They are born dogs, they are good at serving people, they can read their faces, they can blink their eyebrows and move their eyebrows, and when they see their masters, they can make the people being served happy. This is really born. What a good slave, it's a pity that I can't use them anymore. In a few days, they will kick their butts in front of another master and wag their tails to have fun.Thinking of this, he became even angrier, swung his sword recklessly, and chopped down several people in a row, and then dropped the sword until his hand was sore. walked out.

One person walked to the East Nuan Pavilion of the Hall of Martial Arts, and Zhang Nai, his personal accomplice, came up to meet him. Seeing the emperor was covered in blood, he couldn't help being shocked, and asked, "Your Majesty, what's the matter with you?" Li Zicheng also realized that he had lost his composure at this time, and he couldn't help but say: "It's nothing, I hated a few people so much, so I killed them." As he spoke, he asked the eunuchs in the Wuying Palace to change his bloody clothes. Zhang Nai watched all this silently, and couldn't help but wonder: Who does the emperor hate?Regardless of his doubts, Li Zicheng asked:

"What, is there something wrong?" Zhang Nai said, "Li Renzhi is seeking an audience outside the palace." Li Zicheng waved his hand impatiently and said, "Didn't he say everything he wanted to say the night before yesterday? What's the matter? Tell him, we'll talk about it tomorrow on the road." Zhang Nai agreed, but did not leave for a long time.Only then did Li Zicheng remember that at five o'clock tomorrow, they were leaving Beijing. After Li Yan broke up with Ma Shiyao, what chance would he have to meet? Thinking of this, he had no choice but to wave his hand again and say, "Okay, let him in."

After the court was over, Li Yan walked lazily towards the Zhongzhou Guild Hall. The emperor had already decided to go west, and he was going to leave tomorrow at five drums.I didn’t want to walk to the Meridian Gate, but I met a large group of firewood carts, which lined up from Qianmen Qipan Street to the Forbidden City. There were nearly a thousand of them. . He couldn't help being surprised, but he asked a small school escorting the chariot, why the firewood was transported to the palace, and he didn't go through the back door but the front door?The little school told him a shocking news: this was prepared by Lin in compliance with the emperor's decree, in preparation for setting fire to the palace. What, the emperor wants to burn down the Forbidden City?Li Yan couldn't help being taken aback.With the Qing soldiers approaching, Beijing could not hold it anymore, but for this reason, this majestic palace should be burned down?The imperial palace is not only a symbol of imperial power, but also the result of gathering the wisdom, blood and sweat of the subjects of the world for hundreds of years. What is the so-called upper kingdom of the Central Plains, isn't it reflected in these places?If you can't get it, or if you want to give it up temporarily, should you burn it and destroy it? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turned back and walked into the palace.Just after crossing the Jinshui Bridge, I saw Song Xiance walking over with splayed steps, and when he saw Li Yan, he couldn't help asking: "Any way to go back and forth?" Li Yan grabbed his arm and asked, "Did you hear that the emperor is going to burn the Forbidden City?" Song Xiance nodded, and said in a low voice: "This is a good idea of ​​your fellow countryman Jia Tongnian. He said that the imperial residence is magnificent, so how can you abandon others? Why not follow the story of Xianyang and pay all that can't be moved, which is what future generations will discuss." In my generation, I will not lose my reputation as the Overlord of Chu." "Confused, so confused, Xiang Yu burned the imperial palace and got an eternal infamy. Could it be that he also wanted the emperor to bear an eternal infamy? Those with the surname Niu really came up with bad ideas!" Song Xiance smiled, took Li Yan behind his back, shook his head and recited a poem: "Just let Xianyang fire in March, let Lou Jing talk about Guanzhong. Do you know whose poem this is?" This is really Ji Jingfeng meeting a slow doctor, Li Yan couldn't help getting angry, and said in a hurry: "At this moment, do you still have the heart to chant poems?" Song Xiance said with a smile: "Aren't you two from the same hometown? He is a Juren, and you are also a Juren. Why are they so different?" Li Yan said, "What's the difference?" Song Xiance took a leisurely stroll and said: "Bad literati have a good habit of saying something that sounds nice; good literati have a bad habit of speaking that others don't want to hear. Do you want to be a good literati or a bad literati? " As he spoke, he dragged Li Yan up and walked back, but Li Yan broke free from his hand and said, "It's not easy to build such a palace. If you just burn it like this, you won't be sad, but I will be sad. If you don't want to say it, I will say it." .” With that said, he still walked into the palace.Song Xiance caught up with him again, calling out his name again and again, saying, "Li Renzhi, Li Renzhi, there are tents for thousands of miles, and there is no feast that never ends. If people don't feel sorry for you, why do you feel sad? Don't you think you talk too much? ?" Li Yan was stunned, and couldn't help standing on his heels. At this moment, the clock that told the time was rang on the majestic Wufeng Tower. The melodious tone seemed to be appealing to him for something. ,Say: "The emperor let me speak freely the day before yesterday. Although there are many words, they are good words. If the palace can be saved, it will be worth it even if the emperor kills me!" Saying that, regardless of Song Xiance shaking his head, he kept walking forward.Song Xiance was short in stature and couldn't catch up with him, so he could only look at his back and sighed repeatedly. Li Yan entered the hall, knelt down and saluted respectfully.Li Zicheng looked at him and urged: "Ren Zhi, tell me what's going on, in a few hours, there will be a fire here." When Li Yan saw that the emperor mentioned "ignite fire", he couldn't help but feel a little bit of "deng" in his heart. It seems that the theory of burning the palace has something to do with it, but he still asked a question: "Ignite the fire but burn the relevant documents?" Li Zicheng said: "No, those things have been dealt with long ago. The purpose of lighting the fire is to burn the palace, and burn this big pile of waste. Don't let the Tartars sit back and enjoy the benefits." Li Yan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the fire cannot be raised. The palace is a collection of blood and sweat for the people of the world. It is a cultural relic of our Chinese ancestors. Xiang Yu is a hero at the end of the day. The story of him burning down the palace cannot be learned. You must know that this is not reserved for the Manchus." , but left to posterity.” Li Zicheng, who had just ordered to kill, was still very emotional, and he didn't want Li Yan's words to be disrespectful.He thought, you are the one who said you want to make a long-term plan, and you are the one who said that the Manchus came to fight for the country. ,what do you mean?Thinking of this, he couldn't help but say sternly: "Li Renzhi, you are so ignorant, staying with the descendants is not staying with the Manchus, do you want them to do whatever they want here and command the world? What do you mean?" Li Yan was shocked, the emperor is so short-sighted, didn't you want me to speak freely the night before yesterday, why are you so impatient today?At this time, Zhang Nai on the side was winking at him, asking him to back down.But when he thought about it, if he didn't say anything, the palace would turn into a piece of white ground, so he couldn't help but bite the bullet and kowtow again and again, bitterly admonishing: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please listen to what I have said." Li Zicheng stared at him with one eye, and said, "Stop making noise here, I still have a lot of urgent things to do!" Li Yan fell down on the ground, kowtowed his head like pounding garlic, and said: "Your Majesty, the imperial palace is the power of the world. It was built with more than two hundred years of painstaking efforts in the Ming Dynasty. It is the pride of China. If it is burned, it will be destroyed. As a sinner through the ages, he will be stigmatized for thousands of years!" As soon as this remark came out, even Zhang Nai on the side was stunned, and Li Zicheng stomped his feet in anger, saying: "Li Renzhi, if you want to continue talking, don't blame me for not being able to tolerate you!" As soon as Zhang Nai heard this, he quickly grabbed Li Yan with one hand, and pushed him out fiercely, finally pushed Li Yan to the corridor outside the hall, and then lowered his voice and warned: "General Ren, are you crazy? What you said the day before yesterday has kept the emperor up all night. Do you know that the emperor has killed several people with his own hands just now?" After speaking, he narrated the matter of the emperor killing Concubine Dou, court ladies and eunuchs, and said that the emperor is in a bad mood at the moment and can't listen to anything, so don't add fuel to the flames. Hearing this, Li Yan couldn't help but burst into tears, looked up to the sky and sighed, and walked out sullenly...