As time passed, Li Zicheng's battle became smoother and smoother. His ambitions swelled uncontrollably. Finally, he couldn't help but instigate his subordinates and began to decide to officially ascend the throne.

After conquering Ganzhou, Li Zicheng returned to Xi'an. After spending a simple New Year, he proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an in January of the New Year, and named Li Jiqian Taizu, founded the country "Dashun", established the "Dashun" country, and took the 17th year of Chongzhen as the first year of Yongchang.

The news of Li Zicheng ascending the throne and becoming emperor quickly spread throughout the world! But this time, even the Ming court did not respond much.

This is not because they don’t want to react, but because they have no power to react! The imperial court’s decrees can almost only be redirected in Beijing and cannot be spread to the place! Even if they reach the place, the local officials will still violate the situation!

At this time, these local officials only wanted to save their lives and property, and they didn't care about the will of the court! Even with a few loyal officials, they could not resist many of their colleagues! After all, it was too difficult for one or two people to do something!

When the news reached Shandong, Liu Pei breathed a sigh of relief! For Liu Pei, things were on the right track now! As long as Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor, the Ming Dynasty would probably not stay for a few days!

During the meeting, Fang Degang sneered and said, "The Ming Dynasty court is over! I'm afraid they didn't expect that a bandit would become an emperor! He also learned to worship his ancestors. This Li Zicheng was also considered a monkey-like champion!"

Liu Pei nodded and said, "That's right! A good person just recognizes a bastard as his ancestor! Such a person will kill him if he doesn't do anything for the sake of the world!"

Some people may not know about Li Jiqian, but most of his grandsons should know about him, which is the infamous Li Yuanhao!

Li Jiqian's original surname was Tuoba clan. He was from Yinzhou. He is from Mizhi County, Yulin, Shaanxi Province. He was born in the Pingxia tribe of the Dangxiang clan and was the son of Li Guangyan, the defense envoy of Yinzhou in the Song Dynasty. He once gave the name Zhao Baoji.

As a result, he was not only unfaithful to the Song Dynasty, but instead rebeled from the Song Dynasty and defected to the Liao Kingdom! With the support of the Liao Kingdom, Li Jiqian not only fought back to his hometown, but also seized Lingzhou! Later, he established the country as Daxia and was respected as Xia Taizu!

Seeing that everyone didn't know who Li Jiqian was, Liu Pei simply revealed it

After a while, everyone heard that it was a rebel from a foreign race, and they all laughed at Li Zicheng for having a bad attitude and chose such an ancestor!

Fang Degang said: "Some of them are not chosen! Li Zicheng's hometown is Li Jiqian's hometown. Maybe he is really a descendant of Li Jiqian!"

Liu Jiang curled his lips and said, "Forget it! Our Intelligence Bureau has investigated Li Zicheng for a long time! No evidence was found to prove that he had a relationship with Li Jiqian! But we suspect that Li Zicheng's ancestor was a slave of the Li family!"

Liu Jiang's words caused everyone to burst into laughter. Liu Pei laughed and said to Liu Jiang: "How are the arrangements in the capital and Tianjin?"

Liu Jiang said: "There is no big problem, everything has been arranged. Now the first batch of things have been shipped out and are on the ship."

Liu Peike knew what Li Zicheng's army did after entering Beijing. He was not greedy for the little gold and silver in the palace, and there was not much! He wanted to protect the treasures in the palace!

The things stored in the palace are gradually accumulated by the Ming Dynasty over the past two hundred years. They are representative works representing a country or even an era! It would be a pity to destroy them in vain in the hands of the rebels!

This is not a joke! Not to mention the ancient rebel army, but in modern times, there was a big problem when Sun Dianying excavated the tombs of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Qianlong.

Empress Dowager Cixi is a relatively vulgar person, and the people who are buried with gold, silver and jewelry! The soldiers all recognize these things, so the jewelry was completely dug out of the grave, but it was just scattered around.

However, Emperor Qianlong was an arty man, and there were a large number of calligraphy and painting works in his burial objects. Each of them was priceless! But they were burned by the ignorant soldiers as torches! These soldiers instead scolded Emperor Qianlong for not having any treasures in his tomb, only a pile of broken paper!

The soldiers nowadays are like this, not to mention these ancient soldiers! If they attacked the palace, they would be like a ghost if they didn't use the calligraphy and paintings to burn the fire for warmth! So Liu Pei arranged for the Intelligence Bureau to open up channels in the palace, and then transported them out with fakes.

Liu Pei is preparing to build a museum and carry out some antique calligraphy and paintings

On display, another part of the fine works is planned to be passed down as heirlooms.

Liu Pei then asked, "Is it easy for the people in the palace to buy now?"

When Liu Jiang said this, he laughed and said, "It's so easy to buy! It doesn't take any money to buy them!"

Fang Degang interrupted from the side and said, "Did you promise that they would take them to escape when the capital city is broken? Don't get too many people and you won't be able to run out then!"

Liu Jiang glanced at Liu Pei quickly and said, "It's okay, don't worry! Who can be taken away and who can't be taken away have been arranged. Even if you can't be taken away, you can also give them a guide to survive, enough for them to escape and ascend to heaven!"

Liu Pei said word by word: "You need to think more about the city gate! That is the retreat that concerns our city people, so there must be no trouble!"

Liu Jiang nodded solemnly and said, "I understand, there will be no mistake!"

Fang De was looking at the two of them, and always felt that they were hiding something from him, but he couldn't think of what it was. He could only look at them suspiciously. But just as he was about to ask, Fan Hualong said rashly: "They are all choosing ancestors. Should we choose one for the Grand Marshal? How do you think of Liu Bang?"

When most military officers and a few civil servants heard Fan Hualong's words, they all said that Fan Hualong had chosen well! And the few officials who knew history looked like they couldn't help laughing! Fang Degang simply scolded and said, "You know what's the matter! Is this a random choice? Is it a joke? Is it a laugh to death!"

After these people laughed, Liu Pei said, "What ancestor should I choose? I am the ancestor!"

Fang Degang said with satisfaction after hearing this: "That's it! You must know, are there any kings, princes, generals and ministers? Then Emperor Taizu was just a beggar and had a monk. Didn't he still establish the Ming Dynasty? So we don't have to be ashamed of those empty people, and we will have everything!"

In the next few days, Liu Pei's meeting was one after another. At the end of each meeting, a large number of orders would be conveyed.
Chapter completed!