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Chapter 420 Dashun Regime
Zhang Yuan led a group of fierce soldiers to gather all the people in the harem, but he could not find Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou. There were quite a few other concubines and court ladies, but compared with the emperor and empress, these were all Small fish and small shrimps, Zhang Yuan has no interest in them at all.

"Let me ask you, where did Emperor Chongzhen escape to?" Zhang Yuan gave up interrogating the eunuchs this time, but picked out a concubine with more ornate jewelry to interrogate.Just by looking at the jewelry, one can tell that this is a relatively high-level concubine in the harem of the Ming Dynasty.

"The concubine really doesn't know where His Majesty is. He seems to have gone to Qianqing Palace and never came back... My lord, spare me, please bypass my concubine..." The concubine selected by Zhang Yuan begged Zhang Yuan for mercy with a disheveled face. .

In front of her, several eunuchs who could not answer Zhang Yuan's question had already fallen down, and blood stained the floor here red.If Zhang Yuan is not satisfied with her answer, her end will be there.Want to let the legendary General Hades learn what it means to cherish fragrance and pity jade?impossible.

Zhang Yuan was obviously very dissatisfied with this result, he raised his sword that was still dripping blood.

"My lord, I beg you, don't kill me, don't kill me..." The concubine Lihua desperately begged Zhang Yuan to let her go one by one with tears in her eyes.

There are at least a few hundred eunuchs, concubines, and palace maids behind, but no one dares to intercede for this concubine.Who knows if Zhang Yuan, the butcher, will implicate the begging person.

Zhang Yuan didn't say a word of nonsense, and with a knife down, there was a ray of fragrance on the floor of the Forbidden City.

The soldiers behind Zhang Yuan couldn't help but feel that it was a pity that this concubine was considered to be the most beautiful in the harem, but in the eyes of the cold-blooded butcher Zhang Yuan, she felt no different from a stinky skin, what a waste.

But no one knew what Zhang Yuan was thinking. He dragged his red-stained sword and continued to look for prey.

"My lord, please let us go! My lord, please spare me!" The rest of the eunuchs, concubines, and court ladies were all terrified, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the butcher, not daring to look directly at Zhang Yuan.

Fear made them cry, and their heads were bleeding from hitting the ground...

At this time, Li Zicheng also arrived under the leadership of the palace eunuch.

"Brother Zhang Yuan, what are you doing?" Li Zicheng couldn't help asking a little dissatisfied when he saw a few corpses lying on the ground, and the magnificent palace was stained red with blood.

"King Chuang, they hid Emperor Chongzhen and were unwilling to reveal the whereabouts of the emperor. Only by torturing all of them can they open their mouths to tell where the emperor is!" Zhang Yuan said.

The people in the palace who were kowtowing for mercy heard that the new big man was the rumored most powerful King Chuang among the bandit army, and they pinned their hope of survival on King Chuang.

"King Chuang, spare your life. We really don't know where the emperor has gone. Even if he kills us, we won't be able to tell!" Some eunuchs and maids crawled on the ground on their knees and kowtowed in front of Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng frowned: "Emperor Chongzhen took advantage of the chaos to escape. It must be his confidantes. They must have escaped with Emperor Chongzhen and will not stay here. It is useless for you to question these insignificant people."

"It's really hateful. I finally broke into the Forbidden City. I didn't expect to be run away by the most important emperor! If the important thing is to let Chongzhen go to Nanjing to establish the Nanming court, our chance to unify the world will be delayed indefinitely It's gone." Zhang Yuan sighed.

"Brother Zhang Yuan, don't worry. Our northern and southern coalition forces have blocked all the entrances and exits of the capital. As long as our soldiers are asked to check the people entering and exiting, even if the emperor wants to disguise himself as a civilian and flee, he will fall into a trap." Li Zicheng said indifferently.

"Come here, gather these concubines and maids to take good care of them. King Chuang will select them first, and the rest will be divided among the brothers." Some generals of the peasant army who couldn't wait saw the concubines and maids in the harem, and many of them were astonished. People, salivating over these concubines.

It's not necessarily that these women are particularly beautiful, but that they are labeled as the emperor's harem, and they are immediately worth a hundred times.

This time it was Zhang Yuan's turn to be a little dissatisfied: "King Chuang, these women are all concubines of the Ming Emperor, even if they are buried as a sacrifice, it is better than possessing them. If the king insists on taking them by force, it may be difficult for the king to hold his head high in front of the scholars and bureaucrats in the future." ah."

"The world belongs to this king, no matter what the scholar-bureaucrats say, if they dare to criticize this king, just kill them all!" Li Zicheng didn't take this matter seriously.

Before the capture of the capital, he was still able to control his subordinates, but now that the capital has been captured, Li Zicheng already has the airy feeling of being king, and all scholar-bureaucrats are just ants.

"Defending the people's mouth is more important than Fangchuan. Today, the group of rotten Confucians who are loyal to Daming often rely on their family's influence to incite the people. If the king wants to fight against them, things must be done absolutely. Otherwise, they will say that the king will inherit the throne in the future. The name is not right, and the wife of the emperor before going to bed, if it is recorded in the history books, I am afraid it will discredit the king." Zhang Yuan saw that Li Zicheng was dissatisfied with the scholar-bureaucrat class, so he flattered him.

Either respect the scholar-bureaucrats, or kill them all!This is what he believes in!
"What kind of shabby scholar-bureaucrats, they are a bunch of corrupt officials and mediocre officials. If they hadn't been corrupt from top to bottom, we in northern Shaanxi would not have fallen into the miserable situation of Yizi cannibalism. In my opinion, we should kill them all and replace them with ours." People! Isn’t it about ruling the world? It’s the same as farming, isn’t practice makes perfect?” A general of the peasant army said carelessly.

"That's right, those high officials were killed, and their properties were also confiscated. These guys must have accumulated a lot of money in the daily search of the people's fat and anointing. They will distribute these properties to the brothers, and they will not let the brothers make a trip in vain. Isn't it!"

"Yes! Your Majesty sits on the Dragon Chair, and we will be His Majesty's courtiers. I don't believe we can do worse than those corrupt officials!"

A group of peasant army generals were agitated, fantasizing about the days of high-ranking officials and generous salaries in the future.I didn't expect that these mud-legged people would climb to the top of the empire one day and become the most powerful group in the empire!
"Your Majesty, we can no longer use the country title of Daming, we should have our own country title and civil and military officials!" Zhang Yuan said.

"Among us, Zhang Yuan, you are considered educated. Why don't you come up with a new country name?" Li Zicheng said with satisfaction.

"Why don't we call it 'Shun'? We will change the name to Dashun in the future, which means that everything will go smoothly." Zhang Yuan said.

"This country name is not bad." For the relatively simple peasant army generals, such a simple and clear country name really suits their taste.

"Let me think about it, um, it seems possible." Li Zicheng was also quite satisfied with this new country title.

"A country cannot be without a king for a day, please King Chuang ascend the throne in time and become the emperor of our Dashun Dynasty!" Unexpectedly, Zhang Yuan pushed the boat with the current in time and persuaded Li Zicheng to advance!

(End of this chapter)