After the fleet passed the Linqing River section, Li Guodong knew that Chongzhen's fleet was safe. In Shandong, Wang Quan's military residence was scattered along the way from Linqing to Laideng. Even if the Qing army entered the pass at this time, he could not chase Chongzhen's fleet. There were so many military residences, each military residence built into a bastion, a fortress and supply station. If the Qing army chased after him, Li Guodong could use his light and heavy cavalry and dragon cavalry as the driving force, and rely on fortresses to make the Qing army lose troops in Shandong.

"Your Majesty, this is already the defense zone of our Ming Dynasty. No matter whether it is a thief or a Jiannu, you dare not come here to act wildly. In some ways, you are already safe. But the enemies we are facing now are the three towns of Jiangbei of Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo." Li Guodong told Chongzhen about the situation.

In fact, Liu Tichun and Luo Hu followed Emperor Chongzhen's fleet and were preparing to enter Shandong to loot. Li Guodong's military bastion was transparent to the rioters. When the rioters passed through the border, the officers and soldiers in the fort would neither go out to intercept the fort, nor assist the gentry in the defense. The rioters would not attack the rioters, but instead harmed the Shandong gentry who had been harmed by the factory guards again. After all, Zhang Shuheng just searched the house based on the list, and most of the gentry in Shandong were raided by them, but there was still a sip of soup left for the rioters to drink.

Since the bastion is transparent to the crusade, the crusade turned a deaf ear to the Chongzhen fleet not far ahead. Anyway, they did not see the Chongzhen fleet. What if they saw it? Liu Tichun and Luo Hu robbed them from Shandong. They dare not touch the Chongzhen fleet escorted by more than 40,000 Huai Army.

When Chongzhen went south, the factory guards made a fortune in Shandong. Every Jinyiwei lieutenant and Dongchang man was filled with heavy silver at the waist, and Chongzhen's fleet was even more full of silver.

The Huai Army Navy ships were all used to transport silver. The Huai Army's supplies and the women, children, old and weak who followed Chongzhen to the south took the Royal Canal fleet hired by the Huai Army to travel south. Some of the original canal ships were also requisitioned by the navy, and the shipmen were directly assigned to the navy.

Although the capital has fallen into the hands of the rebel army, the Jinyiwei's intelligence is constantly being sent to you every day.

First, Zhang Shuheng reads this information. After he read it, he copied a copy of the information to Li Guodong, and then handed the original to Wang Chengen. After Wang Chengen took it, he finally delivered the information to Chongzhen.

"Okay! OK! Great!" Chongzhen saw the information that day, suddenly stood up and slapped the dragon case in a fierce manner. "It's so satisfying! Li Zicheng did a good job! All of my rebel ministers deserve the crime! I deserve the crime!"

Li Zicheng prepared 5,000 pairs of clamping sticks in the capital. Chen Yan, the Grand Secretary who tried his best to stop Chongzhen from going south, enjoyed four pairs of clamping sticks, two pairs on his hands, and two pairs clamping his toes. A total of eight people served Chen Yan, and he clamped his fingers and toes were bleeding. Chen Yan donated 50,000 taels of silver to Li Zicheng before, but Li Zicheng didn't believe that his family only had 50,000 taels, so he asked Liu Zongmin to imprison Chen Yan.

After Liu Zongmin took Chen Yan, he put a stick in his hand and paid him for torture.

Most of Chen Yan's silver had been transferred to Shandong, but in fact, it has been copied by Zhang Shuheng. More than 500,000 taels of silver were divided by Chongzhen, Wang Chengen, Zhang Shuheng and Wang Quan. He only had more than 60,000 taels of silver left in the capital, and gave it to Li Zicheng for 50,000 taels, and only more than 10,000 taels of silver left. The remaining more than 10,000 taels were copied out by Liu Zongmin. Liu Zongmin refused to let Chen Yan go, so he went to his mansion to dig three feet of the ground, but did not find any more silver. In the end, he was beheaded on the charge of unfaithfulness and unrighteousness.

As for Zhu Chunchen, his cannon fodder was completely lost when he attacked Tianjin City. After returning to the capital, Li Zicheng ordered him to behead him. The reason for the beheading was: unfaithfulness and unrighteousness, betrayal of the crown prince. After Zhu Chunchen was killed, Liu Zongmin rushed into the Duke Cheng's mansion with the rebel army, snatched all the gold and silver treasures, and finally dug three feet into the ground, snatched all the gold and silver hidden in the cellar.

Wei Zaode had no good ending. Li Zicheng learned from Chongzhen to ask all officials to donate their salaries at the court meeting. Unexpectedly, this shameless guy actually gave his daughter to Liu Zongmin for his money. As a result, Liu Zongmin brought Wei Zaode's daughter to a group of rebel generals and then threw Wei Zaode into prison.

Wei Zaode's ten fingers and ten toes were all cut off by a clamping stick, and he finally handed over only 10,000 taels of silver. Liu Zongmin was furious and did not believe that Wei Zaode had only 10,000 taels of silver? So he ordered the clamping stick to Wei Zaode's head and clamped his brain. Liu Zongmin, who had not copied more silver, was furious and killed Wei Zaode's son.

As for Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Zhou Guo, he was even more miserable. Liu Zongmin tied him to a copper pillar, ignited charcoal under the copper pillar, and roasted him to pieces. After Zhou Kui's wife was pinched off her finger, she could not bear the pain and committed suicide. Zhou Kui's eldest son, second son and nephew were both put on the head by Liu Zongmin, and his brain was cut off. Zhou Kui, who was tortured to death by the torture of the gun, finally handed over a huge sum of three million taels of silver in order to save her life. Li Zicheng let him go, but Zhou Kui, who was severely injured in body and mind, died a few days later.

"Zhou Hou, the father-in-law went there, was tortured by the thief, his wife committed suicide, and your brother was tortured. The thief found more than three million taels of silver from your house." Chongzhen handed the information to Zhou Hou.

"Your Majesty!" Zhou Hou knelt in front of Chongzhen, "My father also took it upon himself and helped the court to pay him a penny, but he was tortured by the thief for more than three million taels of silver."

"Hahaha!" Chongzhen laughed and gritted his teeth and said word by word, "Zhou Hou, Zhou Hou, Ling Zun was originally a peddler who traveled around the streets. In just 17 years, he has accumulated more than three million taels of silver! Where did his money come from? Didn't it just earned by me? I want to help pay, but he didn't even lose a penny! The thief came into the capital, and he even sold my two sons! Today, he was deserving of the family and his family's death!"

"Your Majesty!" Zhou Hou kowtowed, "My father is blamed by himself, and I can't stand my father."

"Get up!" Chongzhen said, "The affairs of Zhou Guomao have nothing to do with you. You and I have been together for 18 years and have been together for 18 years. I have been ascending the throne for 17 years, and have not allowed you to live a good life. Life is not as good as when I believed in the palace. Ling Zun's fault is not your fault, get up."

Under torture, many officials and nobles were tortured to death, such as Zhou Kui, the family of the father-in-law, Zhu Chunchen, the family of the father-in-law, Zhang Shize, the family of the father-in-law, Xu Yunzhen, the family of the father-in-law, was killed; the family of the father-in-law, Xu Yunzhen, the family of the father-in-law, was tortured; the former chief assistant, Chen Yan, was beheaded; the Grand Secretary Wei Zaode was punished by the brain, and his brain was leaked out, and his son was also arrested and tortured, and his daughter was used as a prostitute.

Liu Zongmin had a brilliant victory, and he was searched for the house, and he received a total of more than 70 million taels of silver!

"Hahaha!" Chongzhen laughed, "More than 70 million taels of silver! In the 17 years since I ascended the throne, the income of the inner treasury has not been that much! My grandfathers, why have you been greedy for so much money? Death well! I deserve it! I deserve it! I deserve it!"

Li Guodong sighed: "Your Majesty, you have no military pay. You asked them to pay a million taels, and they each cried poor. Now? When the thieves came, they not only lost their money, but also lost their lives. This is really a matter of self-inflicted!"

"Li Aiqing," Chongzhen asked in confusion, "Why did the nobles in the court obviously have money, so why did they refuse to take out money to defend the capital and protect the country? But they were silent, which led to their end today?"

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Your Majesty, in their eyes, the country is the business of your Zhu family, your Majesty, it has nothing to do with them? What they originally thought was that when the thieves came, they could still become officials, and when the Jiannu came, they would surrender to Jiannu! Who would have thought that when the thieves came, they would attack them, such as corrupt officials? This is called self-defeating!"
Chapter completed!