Chen Mingxia set out from Jinan with more than a hundred cavalrymen and met Li Guo outside Tianjin. He got his promise that he would not attack Tianjin City within ten days. Then he went north and rushed to the capital.

Li Zicheng did not meet Chen Mingxia at the first time, but met He Jin, who came to the capital with him, first. The latter was released by Zhou Xian, which was regarded as an active show of kindness to Li Zicheng.

After obtaining Li Zicheng's consent, Chen Mingxia brought sacrifices to worship Emperor Chongzhen on behalf of Zhou Xian. Concubine Tian passed away two years ago, and the tomb of the concubine was completed and buried several months ago. Li Zicheng asked someone to open the tomb and buried Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou together. The tomb was built according to the specifications of the imperial concubine, and it was not comparable to the emperor's tomb, but it was not considered a chill.

Perhaps Zhou Xian played a certain role in Li Guo's words, and Li Zicheng did not prohibit the Ming Dynasty's remaining ministers from worshiping. On the day of his burial, he even came to worship three times in person.

Those ministers, soldiers and generals who died in battle or committed suicide when the city was broken, and those who had family members ordered their families to collect their bodies and bury them, while the rest were also selected tombs and buried them.

When Chen Mingxia arrived, more than a dozen craftsmen were busy, saying that they were going to build a pavilion on it according to Li Zicheng's edict. Chen Mingxia put on sacrifices, cried for a while, and lit two letters written by Zhu Cixuan and Zhu Mai in front of the tomb. The deceased is gone, and the living expresses lovesickness, which is only of this meaning.

Just by this, Li Zicheng gave the deceased enough respect.

But some of the still alive princes, princes, ministers and ministers in the court were not so lucky.

Li Yan once suggested that Li Zicheng prohibit soldiers from entering the city, but Li Zicheng did not agree at that time. As soon as the generals entered the capital, they snatched the houses of the princes and princes as their own private houses. Among them, there were countless women in the house who were killed for resistance and raped.

Although Li Zicheng was frustrated, he could not drive them out directly. What made him even more frustrated was that in the treasury, there were only more than 20,000 stones of rice and grain and only a few thousand taels of silver. He could not take out the rewards he promised to the generals.

At this time, Liu Zongmin proposed that "all the officials of the Ming Dynasty can be corrupt and they can be tortured and asked for money." Although Li Zicheng was skeptical about this, he finally agreed. Liu Zongmin sent someone to make 5,000 pairs of sticks to force the officials of the Ming Dynasty to pay the money. In a few days, hundreds of people were tortured to death.

In the end, the money was obtained, but it completely offended all the officials and scholars.

Chen Mingxia came back from the cemetery and heard that Li Zicheng summoned him. He quickly packed up his luggage and asked someone to carry a box and follow the eunuch to walk towards the Forbidden City.

Li Zicheng met him in Wuying Palace. In addition to Niu Jinxing, Liu Zongmin, Li Yan and Song Xiance, there were two young players Luo Hu and Li Shuangxi.

Chen Mingxia stood in the hall and bowed and said, "Xiaomin has seen the King of Chuang."

Niu Jinxing said loudly: "The one in front of you is the Emperor Dashun. You should call him Your Majesty or the Lord, and you should kneel down and report."

Chen Mingxia said: "What Prime Minister Niu said is wrong. If Dashun can unify the world in the future, or Xiaomin is now a minister under the rule of the King of Chuang, he should be called Your Majesty, but it is obviously not now. Besides, Xiaomin came this time as an envoy of the General Zhou governor. He came to meet the King of Chuang to discuss major issues, rather than kneeling down to accept surrender. If Prime Minister Niu insisted on forcing Xiaomin to do so, Xiaomin would do whatever he wanted, but this would damage the King of Chuang's reputation, and outsiders would feel that the King of Chuang was rude to treat guests."

Li Zicheng smiled and said, "What a white-faced scholar with a sharp mouth, I'll let you go this time! Tell me! Why is Zhou Xian sending you here this time?"

Chen Mingxia said: "Ask peace, and General Zhou wanted to discuss peace with King Chuang. Within five years, the two armies did not attack each other."

Liu Zongmin stood up with a sneer and said, "Why? Tell me, what qualifications are Zhou Xian's qualifications to negotiate peace with our army? My hundreds of thousands of troops can strait everything. Zhou Xian either surrenders or fights, and there are only these two paths to choose from."

Chen Mingxia said: "This is General Liu! Supervisor Zhou mentioned to Xiaomin that you have fought with him. The dozens of cannons in Tucheng were ordered to be released by Supervisor Zhou."

Liu Zongmin's face changed slightly, "So what? Although he blew up more than a dozen of my artillery, I finally captured the capital, and Zhou Xian led his troops to escape."

Chen Mingxia nodded and said, "General Liu said that. But there are less than 50,000 useless imperial guards in the capital, and the soldiers from Shandong will not be so useless. In southern Liao, Korea, and Zhoushan, the number of controllable soldiers is as high as more than 150,000. If all his troops are transferred back to Shandong to fight with the rebel army, is the number of winners and losses really as easy as General Liu said?"

Li Yan stood up and said, "Your name is Baishi, right!"

Chen Mingxia said: "Xiaomin has met General Li, and the commander-in-chief has also mentioned you. He said that the jujube gun you gave him was broken by Li Dingguo outside Teng County, and asked me to apologize to you on his behalf."

Li Yan turned his head and looked at Li Zicheng, and found that his face had not changed, so he smiled and said, "It's okay, the King of Chuang will definitely give you a better one."

Li Zicheng smiled and said, "What Lin Quan said is that as long as General Zhou wants it, I can find him no matter how good the gun is."

Chen Mingxia bowed to thank him, and didn't say you want it or don't say you don't want it.

Li Yan turned to him and continued to ask, "Does the envoy understand marching and fighting?"

Chen Mingxia replied: "I am not my director, I only know one or two."

Li Yan nodded and said, "That's good. The terrain of Shandong is protruding mountains in the middle, low-lying and flat in the southwest, and undulating hills in the east. Such terrain leads to basically no danger to defend the southwest and northwest. Even if Zhou Xian has many troops and his soldiers are good at fighting, he is probably not the opponent of our army. Even if our army cannot win in the short term, it will disrupt Shandong and make Zhou Xian feel uncomfortable. In this case, just like Mr. Liu Pao asked him just now, why should we accept Zhou Xian's proposal for peace? What kind of benefits can this bring to me Dashun?"

Chen Mingxia felt a little nervous and thought that when she left, Zhou Xian specifically told him to pay attention to Li Yan, and asked him a few words directly.

Liu Zongmin saw Li Yan stopping Chen Mingxia and laughed. "Lin Quan said, "I have to give some money to buy crops for the landlords! Zhou Xian wants to discuss peace, what can he give us?"

Chen Mingxia smiled faintly and said to Li Zicheng: "King of Chuang, you should have a secret stance in Jinan! You should also know what the governor Zhou just announced!"

Li Zicheng nodded, "I heard some things. Zhou Xian sent Zhu Cilang to Nanjing, but announced that he was free from Ming and was independent. You should be talking about this!"
Chapter completed!