On the first day of the first month of this year, in the city of Xi'an, Li Zicheng officially proclaimed himself emperor, changed Xi'an to Xijing, and moved to Taizu with Li Jiqian, a member of the Xixia Party.Regarding the choice of the country name, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance also struggled with their own opinions, arguing endlessly.In the end, it was King Chuang's final word.Chuang Wang said: "Back then, I was lonely in my hometown county town Mizhi, and I once lived in the Mahao Land Temple, and it was the Confucian Temple a hundred steps to the east.There is a tablet in the corridor of the Confucian Temple, which is written by Mr.
Mizhi Jinshi Ichmel.There is a sentence I still remember: Yu Yi Yong Wei Zilai, and the name given is Dashun City.I started from Mizhi, and Mr.
Mizhi's name is Dashun City, and the name of the lonely country is also called Dashun. ”Song Xian thought for a long time and said: "Dashun secretly combines the number of six and six, indicating that Your Majesty will be smooth from now on."
And Mr. is the first Jinshi of Mizhi, more than 80 years ago.Eighty years ago, Mr. had set the name of the country for His Majesty, which shows that I am in line with the will of heaven, and the country will be established in the future."
You can overhaul the palace in His Majesty's hometown, in order to declare the virtue of Dashun, and also show that His Majesty has not forgotten his hometown. ”King Chuang said: "Quasi-playing" all the generals praised in unison: "Your Majesty is wise" In this way, a new empire was born.As early as when Xiangyang was king, the Dashun army set three strategies for the future movement.The best strategy was proposed by Niu Jinxing, occupying Guanzhong, looking for an opportunity to go north, capturing the Beijing division in one fell swoop, and opening the country.Song Xiance's suggestion was taken by Li Zicheng as the middle policy, not to go north, but to take advantage of the victory to go south, occupy the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, learn from Zhu Yuanzhang, first stabilize the south, and then go north to destroy the Ming.Li Yan proposed to go north to conquer Guanzhong, hold on to it with danger, govern the granary of Weinan, slowly become king, and accumulate grain.After Guanzhong was stabilized, it was based on this and gradually expanded to all sides.Li Zicheng didn't like this strategy at all, and it was called the next strategy.He adopted the strategy of the bull Venus.Of course, from the perspective of today's posterity, Li Yan's strategy is precisely the best, because although Jiangnan is rich, Li Zicheng's rogue behavior is not suitable for Jiangnan's situation and cannot win the hearts of the people.The so-called best policy of Bull Venus has been proven wrong by history.But even Niu Jinxing's strategy, Li Zicheng did not fully implement it.After conquering Xi'an, he couldn't wait to build his empire, and he was alone.As for how far this empire can go, let's put it aside for the time being.At this time, another leader of the peasant army, the murderous demon king Zhang Xianzhong, was leading his troops to Sichuan.In May last year, he had occupied Wuchang and called himself the "King of the Great West."
This old man has always done things unbelievably and unpredictable, so why he is called "King of the Great West", I'm afraid only God knows.Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng are the same age, and they are from Dingbian, Shaanxi.It is said that he also studied when he was a child, and later worked as a catcher in Yan'an Mansion, and was expelled for barbaric troublemaking within a few days.Later, he went to Yansui to join the army, and soon committed a capital crime.Chen Hongfan, the general of Yansui, saw that he was born well, spared his life, and beat him with a hundred military sticks to blast him out.Just these things he did, where is this like a person who has read a book to do this Chen Hongfan is also, if you kill him, it will be over, how many lives will be saved, it is equivalent to how many levels of floating slaughter are created, why shouldn't you be kind when you have a good heart, and leave such a scourge until the end of the apocalypse, and the world will be in chaos.Sensei asked, Zhang Xianzhong must have responded positively and pulled up the team to rebel.He instigated the hungry people in his hometown, pulled up a team, called himself the "Eight Kings", and voted for the "Zijinliang" king at that time for his own use.As for why it is called the "Eight Kings", the same reason cannot be verified.Because he was "long and thin and had a slightly yellow face, he had to be one foot six inches, and he was a strong and fruitful man", he was called "Yellow Tiger" in the army.Sure enough, it's a man-eating tiger.In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan for the first time, captured Kuizhou, and was beaten out by Qin Liangyu, a famous female general in the late Ming Dynasty, with a white pole soldier.The most glorious thing Zhang Xianzhong did was that he knocked down Fengyang, the hometown of the old Zhu family, killed all the officials and local wealthy households, cut down hundreds of thousands of pines and cypresses on the ancestral graves of the old Zhu family, and forced Chongzhen to issue an edict again, and wear mourning clothes, and even the governors of the five provinces who had long been dismissed from their posts at home were pulled out and killed.The two neuropaths fought together, and the poor overseer was unlucky, there was no way to do it.Zhang Xianzhong conquered Fengyang, and he followed the old king Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng together.He moved the good things of the old Zhu family to his barracks, and Li Zicheng didn't catch anything.Of course Li Zicheng was unwilling, for this, the two of them almost used knives, and since then they have turned against each other.Later, about the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Zuo Liangyu and took dozens of people to vote for Li Zicheng.Li Zicheng is still righteous, and told him, come to vote for me, you must admit that I am the boss, you have to be my little brother.Where was Zhang Xianzhong willing to agree that Li Zicheng planned to kill him.At this time, "Cao Cao" Luo Rucai had already taken refuge in Li Zicheng earlier.He worked with Zhang Xianzhong, although they broke up unhappily later, but they finally had a little friendship.Luo Rucai is very righteous, so he pleaded for Zhang Xianzhong in front of Li Zicheng.Li Zicheng finally gave him face and did not kill Zhang Xianzhong immediately.Later, Luo Rucai carried Li Zicheng behind his back, secretly gave Zhang Xianzhong 500 cavalry, and let Zhang Xianzhong go.It was probably at this time that Li Zicheng had the idea of getting rid of Luo Rucai.In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong became big again, captured Wuchang, proclaimed himself the "King of Daxi", and also took the title of "King of the West", and made out 30 Jinshi and 48 Diansheng, and awarded the state and county official positions.At this time, Li Zicheng had already built a claim to be the king in Xiangyang, and seeing Zhang Xianzhong tossing not far from his side, he felt uncomfortable, so he sent someone to say to him, Cao Gezuo is dead, and the old return has been surrendered, don't worry, it's your turn.At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses were far less than Li Zicheng.What kind of temperament Li Zicheng is, he understands it too well.I think about it, I can't beat you, I'll run.Zhang Xianzhong gave up Wuchang and went to Hunan.Now the people of Hunan are considered to be in bad luck.He was in Changsha, Hunan, and trapped Hengzhou, "where he passed, like locusts crossing the streets, there was nothing left." ”Chongzhen hurriedly sent Zuo Liangyu to sit in Wuchang to encircle and suppress, and sent Jiangxi Governor Lu Daqi to lead his troops to the north to suppress it.Later, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't stay in Hunan, so he started the idea of Sichuan again.He had a lot of people this time, and it was estimated that the female general soldier couldn't clean him up, so he was bold, and the whole army advanced to Sichuan, and in the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he conquered Kuizhou again.At this time, Wang Shuo had just persuaded Qi Tingji and Li Tianyu to stabilize the situation in Xining
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