Li Zhi walked to the altar, turned around, and glanced at the officials who were having an affair with the Jiangbei Army.
One thousand one hundred and sixty-one officials, except two who were sick, all the other one thousand one hundred and fifty-nine people were present.
Those two sick people will also be killed by Han Jinxin's assassination team afterwards, and they will never escape.
Li Zhi nodded, and Jiang Chong took out a piece of paper and prepared to chant. However, before Jiang Chong started speaking, he was interrupted by Dong Jiuqi, the Minister of Rites.
Dong Jiuqi coughed loudly, walked in front of everyone, raised his hands and saluted Li Zhi.
"On behalf of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and the gentry of the world, I have something to say to the King of Qi."
Originally, the officials were required to kneel down when they saw the prince. But today, these civil servants felt that they were negotiating with Li Zhi. They were all putting on airs and no one knelt down. When Dong Jiuqi spoke to Li Zhi, he just bowed and cupped his hands.
Li Zhi looked at Dong Jiuqi and said calmly: "Speak!"
Dong Jiuqi raised his hand to signal everyone to quiet down, turned to look at all the civil servants behind him, and said loudly: "King Qi wants to be Duke of Zhou! We support it!"
Dong Jiuqi turned back and said: "We are all willing to help King Qi reach the sky and help King Qi!"
Li Zhi had no expression on his face and just looked at Dong Jiuqi coldly.
"but!"
Changing the topic, Dong Jiuqi said: "However, King Qi wants us and other civil servants to contribute, but we have one condition."
Dong Jiuqi looked at Li Zhi, waiting for Li Zhi to ask him about his specific conditions.
However, after waiting for a long time, Li Zhi's face turned pale but he didn't say a word.
Dong Jiuqi licked his lips, flicked his sleeves and said: "Okay! Let me tell you straight, what our civil servants want is not money and power, but a promise from the King of Qi. The King of Qi will promise us that we will keep the taxes in Jiangnan in the future.
According to the current situation, allow the gentry in Jiangnan to be exempted from taxes! Don’t impose the emperor’s evil laws and Tianjin’s new policies on Jiangnan!”
"As long as we agree to this condition, we are willing to help King Qi on his journey!"
After Dong Jiuqi said this, everyone looked at Li Zhi, waiting for Li Zhi's answer.
Chen Wenyue was different from the others. He looked at the soldiers with guns and ammunition beside Li Zhi, and became a little nervous. He clenched his hands unconsciously, and his palms were covered with fine sweat.
Under the gaze of more than a thousand people, Li Zhi finally reacted.
Li Zhi sneered.
Shaking his head, Li Zhi felt that these civil servants were really ridiculous and sneered again.
Li Zhi only expected that the civil servants would come to participate in the "sacrifice to heaven", but he did not expect that the civil servants would dare to put forward conditions at the "sacrifice to heaven" ceremony.
Seeing Li Zhi's sneer, Zhong Feng burst out laughing. He laughed in an exaggerated way, laughing loudly with his head turned toward the sky, as if he had heard the funniest joke.
"condition!"
Zhong Feng smiled and laughed, which infected everyone around Li Zhi. In the end, Zheng Kaicheng and Jiang Chong also laughed, with sarcasm and ridicule on their faces.
But the soldiers of the Tiger Army beside Li Zhi did not smile. Each of these soldiers held their steel knives with livid faces, as if they were going to kill someone at any time.
On the periphery of the civilian officials, two thousand tiger soldiers came closer and closer. They held loaded rifles and surrounded 1,100 capital officials from all directions.
Seeing Li Zhi's appearance, the civil servants were stunned for a moment.
Looking at the soldiers coming from all directions, some civil servants began to panic.
In the still cold spring day, Wang Heze felt cold sweat suddenly pouring down his back. He narrowed his eyes and shouted to Li Zhi: "Li Zhi! You said that today is a day of worship, why did you only set up the altar but not the sacrifices?
"
Li Zhi glanced at Wang Heze, his face as cold as ice.
Li Zhi raised his hands and saluted the sky, and said: "In the past eighteen years, I have been fighting in the south and north, fighting in the east and west, sleeping in the open air among soldiers and horses. I just wish I could die on the battlefield wrapped in horse leather."
"I fought a bloody battle with Yangguli in Fanjiazhuang, and fought a bloody battle with Dorgon at Qingshankou. I fought hard in Jinzhou and Huangtaiji, but the Tatar cavalry broke through the front, and I don't know how many young soldiers died."
"Every time I go on an expedition, when I face my wife and children, I don't know if I can go home. Every time I take out some soldiers, there are always some that I can't bring back. Every time I face the old fathers and mothers who sacrificed their lives as martyrs, I don't know if I can go home."
I am always speechless when it comes to those old people who burst into tears."
"The crumbling Ming Dynasty, it is no exaggeration to say, was supported by warriors like the widow and the Huben Army, the sacrificed warriors and the soldiers who are still alive with their own blood!"
"However, every time we fight on the battlefield, you civil servants and gentry will stab you in the back!"
"I was fighting bloody battles in Jinzhou, and you cut off the food and grass. I was in Tianjin, and you mobilized the Guanning Army to attack me. I went out to conquer the slave chief Dorgon, and you ordered the Jiangbei Army to attack from behind. I dealt with Li Zicheng, who was preparing to go north to Zhili.
, you unite with the red barbarians to besiege the few!"
"In your eyes, do you ever have a trace of family and country?"
Hearing Li Zhi's angry curse, Dong Jiuqi and others were stunned.
Looking at Li Zhi's momentum, why is he here to connect with the civil servants and control the court together? He is simply here to attack the civil servants and ask questions face to face.
Dong Jiuqi looked at the surrounding Tiger and Ben Army soldiers and found that the soldiers had raised their rifles to their chests.
What was Li Zhi's plan when he called everyone to worship the sky? Did Li Zhi really want to kill people by this canal?
Dong Jiuqi's eyes widened and his legs couldn't help but tremble.
Beside Dong Jiuqi, Jia Sanwei, the Minister of War, had peed his pants. Without any idea, he knelt down on the vegetable ground and cried loudly: "Your Highness, King Qi, I was wrong, I know I was wrong! King Qi spared the child.
I’m a humble official, please spare me..."
Li Zhi sneered.
"The Jiangbei Army led the local army to openly rebel and attack the capital. Instead of uniting with the emperor to resist the Jiangbei Army, you rebels and traitors, instead, you liaised with the Jiangbei Army one by one and handed over all the details of the new recruits in the Beijing camp and the defense of the capital to Jiangbei.
The army is scrambling one by one, eager to join the Jiangbei Army in attacking the city."
"The five large boxes of private correspondence were shocking to everyone. Of the thousands of people inside and outside the court, only a few dozen loyal ministers were left."
Hearing Li Zhi's words, the civil servants below were completely panicked.
Li Zhi obtained letters from officials who communicated with Jiangbei Army.
How will Li Zhi deal with the officials?
They looked at the soldiers on all sides and found that the soldiers of the Tiger Army had raised their rifles and pointed the muzzles of their rifles with bayonets at 1,159 Beijing officials.
Li Zhi is going to kill someone?
Li Zhi is going to kill someone!
Li Zhi raised a bowl of turbid wine, drew a half circle of turbid wine in front of him, and sprinkled the wine on the soil.
"Emperor Tianhou Tu, if I don't kill you, how can I be worthy of the people who died in the rebellion, and how can I be worthy of the soldiers who died on the battlefield?"
He threw the porcelain bowl to the ground and smashed it into pieces. Li Zhi shouted loudly: "Today, I will use the heads of you treacherous people to sacrifice to heaven!"
Beside Li Zhi, drum and buglers sounded their horns and issued the order to fire.
The civil servants were trembling all over, holding their heads and running away.
Wang Heze suddenly raised his right hand and shouted loudly: "We can't sit still and wait for death! Everyone rush forward and catch Li Zhi!"
