Xi'an Prefecture City is a famous ancient capital of the fourteen dynasties. If you include Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty, it will be the fifteenth dynasty.

However, few people calculate this way.

Because in history, he died before he was a year old, and he did not stay in Xi'an for a few days after he became emperor.

He was not dead now, but Dashunchao couldn't hold on anymore.

There was no way, the drought in the northwest was still very serious, and the people in Guanzhong were still hungry. The emperor did not dare to collect taxes. He could only use the silver he had robbed before to buy food from Emperor Yongsheng, barely maintaining the food for hundreds of thousands of troops under his command.

The price of grain at this moment is not an ordinary high, ten taels of silver per stone, but this is the half price he received for bowing to others. The army of 500,000 and 600,000 is 500,000 taels per month. Where did he get so much money to maintain such a large expense?

Unless it is the same as before, it is almost the same to grab it.

Problem now, he has no place to grab it.

The east side of Dashun is almost the territory of Jiannu, and the south side of Dashun is the territory of Emperor Yongsheng. He can't compete with these two. It would be good if someone didn't come to rob him. As for the west side and north side, they are all wastelands, and there is no food to rob him at all.

Alas, what can it do if this continues? When will this damn drought end?

As the money in his hand became less and less, the white hair on Li Zicheng's head became more and more. The emperor treated him as a frown all day long.

He has been the emperor for less than a year, but his face is already filled with several deep wrinkles. He looks like an old man in his sixties or seventies. In fact, he is only in his forties now!

Alas, it’s better to be a bandit than to be a bandit.

That day he was sitting in the imperial study room and sighing. The eunuch outside suddenly screamed: "Your Majesty, Shunyi Bo asked for a visit."

Zhang Xianzhong’s comments have finally arrived!

Of course Li Zicheng knew who Shunyi Bo was, and Zhang Xianzhong had already sent someone to send a message to him to reminisce about the past.

In history, the two of them did have a bit of incompatible smell, because at that time, there was no barrier between them, and the territory was next to each other. In order to grab the territory, they had done a few fierce battles.

It's different now, because the red utensils are blocking the middle, and they don't have any friction at all.

Moreover, they were all the 36th battalion generals under Li Zicheng's uncle Gao Yingxiang, and their relationship was quite good.

Li Zicheng was quite happy when such an old friend came to him to reminisce about the past. He changed his sad face, walked to the door with a smile on his face, and patted Zhang Xianzhong's shoulder and cursed: "Brother, I feel like I'm crawling on the road. Why are you so slow? You've been hungry for a few days."

They are considered fellow villagers, both from the three sides of Shaanxi, one from Yulin Town and the other from Yansui Town, they are all together, and outsiders really can't understand what they say.

When Zhang Xianzhong saw Li Zicheng's old appearance, he couldn't help but be surprised and said, "Zaodan'er, what's wrong with you? Why are you so old?"

Li Zicheng held his arm and walked in and sighed, "Oh, am I worried? I have been suffering from severe droughts for years and I have no food. I can't get rid of it."

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You said I was climbing on the road. Don't you hear that you are short of food? So I specially bought you 100,000 stones of grain in Nanyang, and it took a few days to delay the road."

Li Zicheng couldn't help but feel moved and said, "Oh, starling, what did you ask me to say? Thank you."

His starlings did not mean that they were called Zhang Xianzhong. They were also called parrots in rural areas. Because Zhang Xianzhong's former bandit name was the Eight Kings, he just joked that he called them the starlings, which roughly had something to do with you, a birdman, and his uncle Gao Yingxiang used to always call him Zaoer, so Zhang Xianzhong called him Zaodan, which roughly meant that you are the egg.

Both of them are used to calling each other, and they have no intention of ridicule and insulting. They just call it a unique nickname, which makes them look intimate.

At this moment, Li Zicheng has an army of hundreds of thousands, and Zhang Xianzhong also knew that 100,000 stone of grain actually did not work.

He could only continue to shake his head and smile bitterly: "What are you grateful for? One hundred thousand stones of grain is only one mind, and it won't help you too much."

Giving a feather for thousands of miles is light and the gift is heavy, not to mention that what Zhang Xianzhong gave is not a feather for him.

To be honest, Li Zicheng was really touched.

However, why did this guy suddenly give such a heavy gift?

He said curiously: "Are you here to deliver me food?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong shook his head and said solemnly: "No, I'm here to save your life."

ah?

Li Zicheng couldn't help but say in surprise: "Save my life? Am I not doing well? Nothing is wrong!"

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "Oh, Zao Dan'er, you are just like me in the past. You are stupid as an emperor. You can't see the situation clearly or understand the situation. Do you know? If you continue like this, you will not be far from death!"

Li Zicheng said with confusion when he heard this, "What the hell is wrong? You said it!"

Zhang Xianzhong asked without answering, "I'll ask you, does Jiannu want to unify the world?"

Li Zicheng still puzzled and said, "Yes, what's wrong?"

Zhang Xianzhong asked again: "I'll ask you again, does the emperor want to unify the world too?"

Li Zicheng was still confused and said, "Yes, what's wrong? What's the matter with me if they want to unify the world?"

What else has to do with you!

Zhang Xianzhong continued to ask back: "Who do you think you can do before?"

Li Zicheng admitted: "No one can do it, so what?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but say angrily: "You can't do anything, and you're still blocking the way for others to unify the world. Do you think you're dead!"

Li Zicheng said a little dissatisfied: "Although I can't beat them, they can't fight into Shaanxi. Jiannu was so fierce at the time. He fought from Beijing to Shaanxi all the way. He suffered a big loss in Yulin Town and was beaten back by me."

Zhang Xianzhong said disdainfully: "Jiannu is nothing, then Prince Yu Duoduo led more than 100,000 troops to attack Jinling and was beaten by the emperor. Do you know? Do you think that if you can stop Jiannu, you can stop the emperor?"

Li Zicheng knows these things.

He was still confused and said, "I know this. Don't I bow to the madman and surrender to him? He won't come to hit me, right?"

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Oh, so you are just like me in the past. Is it stupid to be an emperor? The so-called "all the world is the king's land. If the emperor wants to unify the world, how can you allow you to occupy a province and become a land emperor here?"

Li Zicheng was still puzzled and said, "Why can't it work? Didn't there be any fiefs of vassal kings in Henan and Shanxi? I ​​have bowed my head and surrendered. Isn't it also considered a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty?"

Hehe, vassal king?

Zhang Xianzhong asked again: "King Lu and King Lu are vassal kings, they are royal relatives and real vassal kings, what is the result?"

Li Zicheng was still puzzled and said: "Didn't they intend to rebel, demoted to common people, and sent to Fengyang to guard the tomb?"

Zhang Xianzhong said disdainfully: "They plan to rebel? They have no soldiers under their command, so why should they rebel? Why do you think the emperor dealt with them?"

Li Zicheng said inexplicably: "I don't know this. Don't they want to rebel and proclaim themselves emperor. The emperor naturally wants to deal with them."

Alas, you guys, it turns out you are not that stupid!

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "They are the puppets that Ma Shiying and the Zhejiang Party have set up as prefaces. Why do you rebel and become emperor?"

Li Zicheng was still puzzled and said, "Why did the emperor deal with them?"

Zhang Xianzhong said wisely: "The emperor wants to unify the world, and wants long-term stability in the world. If most of the land is annexed by these vassal kings, the people will not be able to survive, and the people will rebel if they cannot live. The emperor does not want these vassal kings to return to their vassal states, and then take back the original fiefdoms and continue to annexed the land. So the emperor finds an excuse to clean up these vassal kings. Think about it, in order to prevent these vassal kings from annexing the land, the emperor can find an excuse to demote these royal relatives to common people. Are you a rebel and you still want to have a fiefdom in a province?"

Uh, this one!
Chapter completed!