Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance discussed the amount of silver money given to Wu Sangui in the Wenhua Palace, the official title, and the time and order of sending troops.The three of them hadn't gotten together for many days as they were now, and they said something else.We had dinner together at noon, took a break in the afternoon, and discussed the allocation of officials in various places and the way in which officials should be elected in the future.Entering Beijing is too hasty, many problems have not been thought of or never encountered, the continuation of the Ming method is obviously not good, and I do not have certain rules, it is inevitable that chaos will be added.Song Xiance had already made up his mind to go, and some issues of principle were not so insistent, but he couldn't help but express his opinions.In this way, many things are according to Niu Jinxing's ideas, and sometimes Li Zicheng also has some ideas, and things are solved a lot faster.That's it, and all the problems are not settled.Seeing that the time was not early, Li Zicheng asked the two to go back first, and then come here to continue the discussion after tomorrow morning.At this time, Liu Zongmin ran in in a panic, did not salute when he entered the door, and said directly: "Your Majesty, the Prince of Daming has been found" Li Zicheng couldn't help but get up from the chair and asked anxiously: "What did you say, where did the Prince of Daming find it" Liu Zongmin said: "It was Zhou Kui, the national war of the previous dynasty, who ran to the minister and said that the prince was robbed in Shandong and ran back to his house."
He didn't dare to hide and denounce me.I sent for the prince to be taken from his house and brought to His Majesty.At this moment, the prince of Daming is outside the palace. ”Li Zicheng looked at Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, and said with a smile: "It's really providential, this time, it will be easy for us to pacify the south."
Niu Jinxing said: "You can find a few lieutenants who served the prince in the past to identify and see if it is really the prince" Li Zicheng hurriedly ordered the eunuch to go to the harem to find the eunuch who was familiar with the prince, while leading everyone to the outside of the Wenhua Palace.Outside the hall, under the dan, stood a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old, his hands drooping, his face was white, and he was not nervous.Behind him, there were four Dashun soldiers with waist knives, and when they saw Li Zicheng coming out, they knelt down and kowtowed.Several eunuchs who were familiar with the prince came to identify it, and it was indeed the prince Zhu Cihong.Li Zicheng was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked Zhu Cihong to come to Danxi.Zhu Cihong walked up to Dan Fan and stood face to face with Li Zicheng, neither kneeling nor saluting.Li Zicheng faced the prince, but he didn't know what to say for a while.Liu Zongmin shouted loudly: "Seeing my majesty, why don't you kneel down" Zhu Cihong sneered: "I am His Royal Highness the Prince, it is you who should kneel" Liu Zongmin was furious, and was about to step forward to grab the prince, but was blocked by Li Zicheng waving his hand.Li Zicheng took two steps back and forth in front of the prince, stood down in front of the prince, and said slowly: "Your father has no virtue, so he lost the world."
It is the will of heaven to be the only father of you.Despite this, Lone still treats your father well, collects the body of your father, and asks the monk to exceed.Lonely and righteous are exhausted, and you should have no complaints. ”Zhu Cihong said: "In this case, please bury my father and the emperor in the ground, rest all day and expose the world, so that my father's spirit is uneasy."
Li Zicheng said: "Of course."
Seeing that Zhu Cihong was standing unsteadily, shaking vigorously, he understood at a glance that he was hungry.He has been fighting for many years, and there are hungry people everywhere, and this situation has been seen a lot.He smiled and asked: "You eldest prince, Brother Gongzi, rarely experience the taste of starvation" and continued, "This is all your father's sin, do you know, how many people in this world have been starved to death by him like this, isn't there really no way to live, how can Lone rebel and drive your father out of here" Zhu Cihong's eyes were already hungry, and there was a strong ringing in his ears, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted on standing there.He was a prince, suffered a great disaster, fled all the way from Shandong and ran back, and he would not beg, it was really not easy, and the world was cold during the period, which made him disheartened.When I arrived in Beijing and found my grandfather, I finally felt a little warm in my heart.Originally, I expected to have a full meal and a good rest at my grandfather's place, and my grandfather sent someone to send him to Nanjing.never thought that his grandfather would betray him and let the Dashun soldiers arrest him here without waiting for him to eat.He was discouraged, listening to Li Zicheng sneering at him, gritted his teeth and said: "The country is ruined, I have no nostalgia, you can kill me" Li Zicheng was stunned, he couldn't imagine that this prince was the same as his father, his bones were quite hard, and he would rather die than surrender.He thought for a while and said: "Your father is guilty, you are not guilty, why did Lone kill you" Knowing that he was hungry, he saw that the hour was almost up, so he ordered the eunuch to pass the meal and bring the best food in the palace to the Wenhua Palace.He said in his heart, he is hungry like this, and all the good food will be served later, and the aroma is fragrant, I want to see if you can still be so hard to make others submit, first of all, you have to destroy his will, this Li Zicheng understands.In the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Cihong was forced to sit in front of the imperial book case with Li Zicheng, and Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance set up a table to accompany each other.After a while, a bunch of eunuchs and palace maids came, and tableware containing all kinds of delicacies was brought to their respective cases, which was really hot and fragrant.Li Zicheng looked at Zhu Cihong, and when he saw him swallowing saliva in his mouth, he couldn't help laughing.He picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of meat out of a plate, and said, "I have never heard of this Peking duck."
Duck meat, greasy and sour to eat, is very good, but in this palace, it can be made so fragrant. ”Turning his head to Zhu Cihong, he said, "Oh, it seems that your father, the emperor, is much more comfortable than King Gu." ”After that, he dipped the duck meat in the sauce and put it in his mouth, and persuaded Zhu Cihong, "Well, it's delicious, eat it quickly, it's not delicious if it's cold." ”Zhu Cihong closed his eyes, lowered his head, and said nothing.Li Zicheng was bored, so he ignored him, and discussed Beijing's food with the three people below while eating.Of course, the three below also followed the army before entering Beijing, and they didn't care about it.After entering Beijing, there are a lot of stories and jokes about eating, and this topic is easy to say and experienced, and the monarchs and ministers naturally talk about it happily and in a cheerful atmosphere.Zhu Cihong always lowered his head, did not eat or move, no matter what Li Zicheng asked, he did not answer.Li Zicheng finally couldn't bear it anymore, dropped the ivory chopsticks in his hand with a "snap", and said to Liu Zongmin: "Get this strong boy to you, I don't believe it if you discipline him strictly, you are young, you can last a lifetime" Liu Zongmin hurriedly put down the chopsticks, bowed down to receive the order, went over to pick up Zhu Cihong, and hurriedly said goodbye and left.The remaining two people, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, saw that Li Zicheng's face was not good-looking, and they hurriedly left.A banquet that originally looked lively broke up unhappily
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