No matter how many changes Li Laiheng saw in the generals of the Chuang Army in Taiyuan City in recent times, the regime of the Chuang Army showed many signs of transformation towards a more "mature" feudal regime.
At least when he followed Li Guo under the little yellow cover, the Li Zicheng that Li Laiheng saw was still not much different from the one he had when he first met Li Zicheng in Zhuxi County.
Li Zicheng still looks much younger and stronger than he is in his thirties. He simply wears a sky blue arrow jacket and the iconic big felt hat. His clothes are still simple, and he seems to be more
The appearance when I was in Zhuxi County a few years ago has not changed much from the appearance when I was later in Luoyang City.
Niu Jinxing also followed Li Zicheng. "Qi Weng" has now become the "Niu Xiang" in Gong Shangshu's mouth. He casually wore a Gao Xiao Dongpo scarf and a casual robe on his robe.
Wearing a half-arm piece of silk cotton, I tried my best to look very chic in terms of clothing, but while deliberately making a chic posture, I didn't forget to keep improving the material of the clothes.
Li Zicheng was followed by several attendants holding fans, and one of them actually held an incense burner, which looked very funny on the street. The dense fragrance sprayed from the beast burner from time to time seemed to make Li Zicheng feel a little uncomfortable.
Only Niu Jinxing enjoys it.
Li Laiheng followed Li Guo to the vicinity of King Chuang, and also smelled the aroma under the little yellow cover. When he saw Li Zicheng deliberately controlling his breathing, as if he was feeling uncomfortable all over due to the stimulation of the aroma, he quickly shook his hands and shouted loudly
road:
"Hi! This aroma is too strong. Your Highness, I just came from Zhending a few days ago and I really can't get used to this smell!"
Li Laiheng said, forget it, and the movement of his hand became bigger and bigger, making Niu Jinxing's expression become quite subtle. Li Zicheng's eyes lit up, and he and Li Guo looked at each other, both showing their faces.
With a satisfied look on his face, he laughed and said:
"Lai Heng is right! It's not just you who can't get used to smelling it. In fact, Gu can't get used to it either. Qi Weng, would you please remove this bird incense burner from Gu? It's fine in the palace. It's still there when you leave the palace.
What does a stove look like!"
Li Zicheng's face suddenly brightened up. When Niu Jinxing heard this, he smiled and said: "Not to mention that the supplementary commander and Xiao Li Shuai and his son were granted the title of marquis, and Xiao Li Shuai is such a simple and sensible person, this matter
Let the historians record it, and it will definitely become a good story in the future when our Dashun Dynasty was founded."
Li Laiheng ignored the implication of Niu Jinxing's words and just pretended to be curious: "Your Highness... ah no, Your Majesty, when we founded the new dynasty, have we already decided on the name Dashun?"
Li Zicheng walked out from under the little yellow cover. He wanted to be directly exposed to the sun, but he didn't like the deliberate feeling of wearing a small yellow cover every day. It's just that since Li Zicheng arranged for Song Qijiao, the Minister of Li Government, and Gong Yan, the Minister of Li Government, to plan his ascension to the throne.
After the grand ceremony, instead of letting Niu Jinxing directly plan the matter, Niu Jinxing became more and more concerned about the so-called "etiquette" around Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng himself was not very interested in the taboos and rituals that Niu Jinxing made, but since he reused Song Qijiao and Yan, a group of Shaanxi fellows, he felt that he was indeed ashamed of Niu Jinxing. Naturally, he was concerned about these small things.
I feel that fulfilling Niu Jinxing's wish is not a big deal after all.
However, the issue of the national title of the Dashun Dynasty was not suggested by Niu Jinxing, but planned by Song Xiance.
Li Zicheng did not answer Li Laiheng's question directly, but asked with interest: "Laiheng, don't you want to know that you were also granted the title of Marquis?"
Although Li Zicheng did not refer to himself as "I", he emphasized the word "lone" everywhere, which still made Li Laiheng feel that Li Zicheng seemed to have undergone some irreversible changes from the former King Chuang and the former Grand Marshal.
Li Laiheng saw Li Guo standing aside and Li Shuangxi still riding on the horse. He knew that the etiquette of the intruders was not strict, so he just raised his hands in front of Li Zicheng and said with a smile:
"Actually, it is not a trivial matter for a father and his son to be granted the title of marquis. But if both my father and my son are granted the title of marquis, Your Majesty...has your majesty ever considered the matter of Juelu's surrender? Has Qi Weng mentioned this matter? The vassal system of the Ming Dynasty is inherited by one son.
Yuzi was demoted and passed on from generation to generation. It is no wonder that the clan expanded and raised monsters like King Fu. If after the founding of our dynasty, there was a system of imperial examinations and titles, it would have been possible to prevent the clan from expanding and squeezing the country.
The disaster of using it.”
As soon as Li Laiheng finished speaking, Li Zicheng turned around and glanced at Niu Jinxing. It seemed that Niu Jinxing had never mentioned this matter to Li Zicheng.
But this is not surprising. After all, Li Zicheng now only has a very young daughter and not even a son. Li Shuangxi is just an adopted son. Although Li Guo is related by blood, he is only a nephew.
There are only a few members in the clan of this new dynasty, which is completely different from the situation when Zhu Yuanzhang had given birth to many sons when he became emperor. Niu Jinxing did not consider how to design the clan system of the new dynasty in the future.
A very normal thing.
As for what Li Laiheng said, it is nothing more than learning from the lessons of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the Ming Dynasty's system where the eldest son inherited the title without being demoted, and all the other sons were only demoted to the first level to inherit the title, would really not take a few generations.
Countless princes will appear out of thin air.
According to Li Laiheng's idea, after the prince dies, only one son can inherit the prince's title, but this inheritance is a descending inheritance. In other words, after the prince dies, only one son can succeed him and become the county king.
This is the difference between "hereditary descent" and "hereditary substitution" in the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty.
Except for the son who directly inherits the title, the remaining people do not need to restrict their scientific examinations, do business or even join the army, and can solve their own life problems.
The problem with the clan system of the Ming Dynasty was that on the one hand, it maintained the "hereditary system" formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, which resulted in a rapid expansion of the number of clan members; on the other hand, because of the success of King Yan's appeasement, the Ming Dynasty overstressed the number of clan members.
Sensitive, had to pay a large amount of additional financial expenditures to "redeeme power" for the vassal vassal.
But did this kind of "redemption of power" really work? Zhu Di had just died, but the king of Han had already raised an army to rebel.
In the two hundred years after Zhu Di, no vassal king successfully rebelled in the Ming Dynasty. Is it really because he spent a lot of money to buy political power? In fact, the successful rebellion of a vassal king is a rare exception. Zhu Di regarded his special case as the norm.
To take precautions, the Ming Dynasty spent countless resources to redeem the so-called "political power" of the vassal king that did not exist in the first place.
There were many internal fights in the royal family in the Tang Dynasty, but they were all internal fights between fathers and sons, and it was not the success of the feudal king's rebellion. There was no clan trouble in the Song Dynasty. Only Zhu Di himself was the only one in the history who succeeded in the feudal king's rebellion, so he regarded this as the only one in the history.
Treating one person's exception as a rule to prevent it, which resulted in so much unnecessary waste in the Ming Dynasty's finances, may only be said to be its own cause.
Li Zicheng frowned slightly and replied: "Laiheng can talk to me in detail about the vassal affairs later when you are free. The country name you mentioned was set by the Song military advisor, and the reference was "Zunwen Lu"
.”
Niu Jinxing explained at the side: "This is a prophecy that has its own origin. It is the words of Mr. Qingtian recorded in "Zunwen Lu" written by Liang Yi during the Zhengde period. At that time, Ming Taizu once asked Liu Bowen to predict the length and breadth of the Ming Dynasty. He was not sincere.
I figured out the sentence 'Stop when things go well'. Taizu of the Ming Dynasty thought that 'stop when things go well' was a metaphor for the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty for 308 years, but he didn't know that it corresponded to this dynasty."
Li Zicheng took Dashun as his country name, Zhang Xianzhong took Dashun as his reign name, and Aixinjueluo Fulin of the Qing Dynasty also took Shunzhi as his reign name. The word "Shun" was inseparable from the three regimes. Starting from the Zhengde period
The influence of this prophecy spread in the late Ming Dynasty was indeed not small.
"Your Majesty! King Jin and King Qin have arrived."
Li You, who was now in charge of controlling the flags and drums of Li Zicheng's army, and Tian Jianxiu's confidant Wu Ruyi, together with a group of Ming Dynasty clan members, rushed over to pay homage to Li Zicheng.
The two men with red beards walked in front. They were no longer wearing the prince's clothes. Instead, they were all wearing white clothes, as if they were wearing filial piety for someone.
Before Li Laiheng could understand, the King of Jin had already kneeled on the ground, grabbing the ground with his head and crying: "The capital has been captured by the Eastern captives, and I am left hanging alone. My late emperor was killed by the captors and the capital was in trouble. Who can do anything for me?"
Whoever wants to avenge the righteous hatred of this king and father deserves to be the king of the world!"
What kind of trouble is this... again?
Chongzhen is definitely not dead yet, or his death cannot be confirmed at all now. Because after Huang Taiji took control of Beijing, the Qing army completely blocked the Forbidden City. Not to mention the red team personnel Li Laiheng sent to Beijing several times.
Friends of Chen Zilong and Fang Yizhi in Beijing, including Wu Sangui, a general of the Guan Ning Army who actively defected to Huang Taiji, could not figure out the life and death situation of Chongzhen for a while, and even several of Chongzhen’s princes and princesses
, no one knows their life or death.
There is only one thing that everyone knows, that is, edicts and edicts in the name of Emperor Chongzhen are being continuously sent out of the Forbidden City, and Huang Taiji is provided with various titles and excuses, so that the Qing army can calmly stabilize their presence in the Forbidden City.
The situation in a controlled area in the Yan Dynasty.
How did the King of Jin confirm that Chongzhen had been killed by Donglu?
However, if Li Laiheng thought about it again, he could understand that whether Chongzhen died or not, and whose hands he died in, in today's Taiyuan City, it was nothing more than a word from Chuang Jun.
"Donglu killed the late emperor. This was the national hatred of the Ming Dynasty! The hatred between king and father is irreconcilable! King Lu of Nandu obeyed the false edict and is said to have proclaimed himself a prisoner of the country. The same is true for Fu Fan, who all obeyed the false edict.
He said, completely disregarding the hatred of the king and father. The world is so big, who can weep for the late emperor and sacrifice to the late emperor for our great Ming Dynasty!"