Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

June 26, the 13th year of Chongzhen, Sichuan, Chengdu, Shu Palace.

Zhang Xianzhong, 35 years old this year, sat in the main hall of the Shu Palace, full of confidence.

The original owner of the Shu Palace had been chopped into pieces by Zhang Xianzhong. He renovated the Shu Palace a bit and used it as his own palace.

It had been more than a year since Zhang Xianzhong took control of Sichuan. At first, he was worried about the imperial court attacking him. After a few months of restlessness, he found that the imperial court seemed to have forgotten about this place.

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to slack off and always maintained an army of over 100,000.

Last year, Zhang Shikang acted recklessly in the court, causing chaos in the country. Zhang Xianzhong wanted to take this opportunity to completely defeat Qin Liangyu's troops stationed in Shiqu.

Unfortunately, that war ended in failure. Not only did they fail to achieve any results, but their home was also robbed by that bastard Li Zicheng, and several cities were also stolen.

At that time, Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he wanted to lead his army to attack Li Zicheng directly.

In the end, his youngest adopted son Zhang Dingguo risked his life to stop him, saying that their infighting was exactly what the court wanted to see, and only then did he reluctantly persuade him to step down.

Later, Li Zicheng returned the people of those cities to him, and Zhang Xianzhong decided not to take action against him for the time being.

Zhang Xianzhong felt that the year since then was the most comfortable year since he started the rebellion.

Zhang Xianzhong no longer had to be chased around by the imperial court. Sichuan was known as the land of abundance, and the harvest had been relatively good in the past two years. The grain harvested was enough for him to feed an army of more than 100,000.

Zhang Xianzhong once speculated that perhaps it was because Sichuan was surrounded by mountains and was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and that bastard named Zhang Shikang might have deliberately not attacked him.

I heard that the guy has reached the highest position in the country. As the saying goes, when the cunning rabbit dies, the running dogs are cooked. Now that I and Li Zicheng are really gone, maybe it's also the time for that bastard Zhang Shikang to die.

After realizing this, Zhang Xianzhong completely let go.

Not only did he ask his men to present him with beautiful women again, he also ordered craftsmen to renovate his palace, making it larger and more magnificent.

At the beginning of the month, even a few civil officials suggested that since he had many soldiers and generals and was popular among the people, he should be crowned emperor.

Zhang Xianzhong pretended to refuse, and except for the youngest adopted son Zhang Dingguo, the other three adopted sons also expressed their support.

Under such circumstances, the civil servants submitted memorials more frequently, hoping that he would become emperor.

Zhang Xianzhong originally wanted to try his hand at the scholarly trick of declining and accepting the offer three times, but he couldn't help himself after the second time.

So six days ago, Zhang Xianzhong officially proclaimed himself emperor and held a coronation ceremony in full accordance with the rituals formulated by the civil officials.

The country was named Daxi and the reign was Dashun.

At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong conferred titles on his ministers, including those on all his old brothers.

The four adopted sons had fought for him in many battles over the years, so they were of course the focus of rewards. Zhang Xianzhong officially gave the four adopted sons the surname Zhang.

The eldest son Zhang Kewang was named General Pingdong, the second son Zhang Wenxiu was named General Funan, the third son Zhang Nengqi was named General Dingbei, and the fourth son Zhang Dingguo was named General Anxi.

As for his children, they were all killed or injured during his escape in previous years.

However, Zhang Xianzhong was not sad at all. He hated those children who could only cry. Without them, his four adopted sons were all loyal and capable.

But since he took control of Sichuan, over the past year or so, his concubines in the harem gave birth to two sons and three daughters for him, so Zhang Xianzhong never favored them again.

Although those civil servants always liked to say nice things, Zhang Xianzhong did not trust them very much. He hated hateful scholars the most.

Even if he needed them to do something, Zhang Xianzhong would still not give them a good face. He would kill anyone who dared to disobey him.

Of course, as an emperor, he would handle memorials from all over the country in a proper manner, but if he saw someone's memorial written in classical Chinese that he could not understand, he would punish him by beating to death at the very least, or by dismemberment by five horses at the worst.

After dismembering the body, he would ask his subordinates to take parts of the body to various places and even to the court for civil servants to see.

When it was hot in the summer, some of the remains would rot and become maggoty, but Zhang Xianzhong would always watch with the civil officials with a smile. He was very happy to see the civil officials trembling with fear and pretending to smile and remain calm.

"Your Majesty, officials from Jiading Prefecture have presented eight beauties to Your Majesty for your inspection." An eunuch walked over leisurely in small steps.

This eunuch seemed to be wearing eunuch clothes, but he was actually a woman in disguise. Any concubine who made Zhang Xianzhong unhappy would be demoted by him in minutes. This woman was demoted from a concubine to a eunuch because she made a mistake.

"Then what are you waiting for? Call him in quickly!" Zhang Xianzhong put away his smug expression and glared at the eunuch.

The eunuch was frightened and trembled, and hurriedly continued to summon in small steps. A moment later, eight beautiful girls in palace costumes were brought in.

As soon as the eight girls came in, they started to flirt with each other, as if they really wanted to win Zhang Xianzhong's favor. This made Zhang Xianzhong a little disappointed, as if he had lost most of his sense of accomplishment.

He loves to conquer unruly women.

"What a bummer! Someone, come and tell me my will."

After Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, the eunuch woman hurried to get paper and pen to prepare to write the decree.

Zhang Xianzhong frowned and pondered for a while, as if he was trying to choose a word, but he soon figured it out and said:

"You are a piece of shit, you only want to please me, you must want to get promoted and make a fortune!

I'll give you twenty lashes of the cane to teach you a lesson. I'm not someone who can be fooled easily.

Awesome! "

After the decree was written, someone went to convey it quickly, but Zhang Xianzhong looked at the eight girls again.

But his eyes never lingered on the faces or chests of the eight girls, but continued to move down, and down, until they stopped at the girls' feet.

"Take off your shoes for me." Zhang Xianzhong ordered.

The eight girls had no idea what was going on, but considering the emperor's reputation, they all did as he asked in a panic.

"Fuck you, take off your socks too!" Zhang Xianzhong frowned, thinking that these stupid women were really tactless.

The eight girls looked confused, but still did as they were told and did not dare to disobey.

After a while, the eight girls were barefoot.

Zhang Xianzhong stood up from the dragon throne with great interest and walked over, admiring the feet of the eight girls.

He also specifically asked the women to lift their feet, which made the women present immediately understand the emperor's habit.

Among them, there was a woman who catered to his taste and deliberately lifted her white and tender feet up high, almost reaching Zhang Xianzhong's eyes.

Zhang Xianzhong's breath flared up and he immediately frowned.

"Fuck you, why are you sticking it up so high? To show off how capable you are?

How dare you seduce me? You deserve to die!

Come on, take this witch out, give her twenty lashes, and send her to the military camp to entertain the troops! "

Zhang Xianzhong said angrily.

After that, soldiers from the palace gate came in. The woman was frightened and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, crying.

Zhang Xianzhong became even more annoyed and just waved his hand to let his subordinates take them away.

After finishing, he muttered something.

There is no smell at all, damn it!

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