Yan Li, attach some supplementary information: 1. When Li Zicheng left Shangluo and arrived in Henan, there was a drought in Henan, and thousands of hungry people were in exile. As soon as Li Zicheng arrived in Henan, the hungry people heard the news of Li Chuangwang's coming out of the mountain and came to take refuge in succession. One day, a group of hungry people came to Chu Zhuangwang with a young man who looked like a scholar. Li Zicheng inquired about the origin and knew that this young man named Yan Li (also known as Li Xin) had just been rescued from Qixian prison. Yan Li was originally the son of a wealthy family in Qixian County. A few years ago, the local famine was so severe that many farmers had no food. Yan Li takes out some food from home for the poor. This is very rare for a child of a rich family. Therefore, the poor think Yan Li is a good man and call him "Li Gongzi". The poor in Qixian county have been suffering from famine for many years. However, the county magistrate still sent officials to impose taxes and debts on the poor. Fearing an accident, Li Yan went to see the county magistrate named Song and advised him to temporarily stop collecting taxes. He also hopes that he can set aside some official food to lend to the hungry. The county magistrate said to Yan Li, "The boss urgently needs to pay the local government. I don't ask them what taxes they pay or what rent they pay. Besides, the grain in the official warehouse is already empty, so why lend it to the hungry? If you want to borrow, you can only find a few rich people. " Seeing that the county magistrate refused, Li Yan went home, opened his granary and took out more than 200 stones of grain to the hungry. The hungry people were very happy to see that Li Gongzi was willing to donate food. However, there are many people affected by the disaster, and it is not a problem for the Li family to donate food. Someone came up with an idea to gather dozens of people to petition other rich families and ask them to learn from the Li family. Those rich families not only disagreed, but glared at the hungry people who came to you and said that there was no food at home. In a rage, the hungry people made a scene and rushed into a rich man's granary to share his food. The rich man panicked and cried to the county magistrate. The county magistrate said, "Isn't this the opposite?" Immediately sent several officers with his token to stop it, and threatened that if anyone gathered for extortion again, they must do it again. People who are hungry are angry, even if you are forced by the county magistrate. They seized the officer, threw the token on the ground, smashed it to pieces, and rushed to the county government, shouting, "We have no food, and we will starve to death sooner or later. Let us fight with you. " When the county magistrate heard that the hungry people were going to riot, he was too scared to come out in the county government. He thought that Yan Li still had some contact with the hungry people, so he sent someone to find Yan Li and asked him to think of a way. Yan Li said: "If you don't make trouble, you have to stop forcing debts and persuade the rich to donate food." The county magistrate had no choice but to reluctantly agree. When the hungry people gathered outside the county government heard that Yan Li had persuaded county officials to donate food, they calmed their anger. Someone said, "Let's go home first. If they don't take out their meals in a few days, you can settle accounts with them again! " When the hungry people dispersed, the county magistrate repented. He thought, don't force hungry people to pay taxes. Although the urgent need has been solved, what should he do if the boss urges him to do it? Can he still keep his job? After thinking about it, he began to hate Li Yanlai, thinking that the hungry people are making such a terrible noise now, all because of Li's fault. He immediately asked a tout who handled the case to write a document to his boss, falsely accusing Yan Li of buying people's hearts and wanting to rebel. When the news got out, people began to worry about Yan Li. In the nearby Woods, there is a peasant uprising team led by a young Jianghu artist. People call her Ms. Hong. When the lady in red heard that Yan Li donated food for disaster relief, she admired it very much. Now she heard that Li Yan was in danger of being hurt, so she went to Yan Li's home and took Yan Li to the Woods to escape. Yan Li didn't understand the original intention of the Red Lady at first, but later he didn't want to leave him to join the uprising. It wasn't long before I sneaked back from the matchmaker. When Yan Li got home, the peak sexually police officer was waiting for him with shackles and handcuffs. When he saw Li Yan, too many cooks handcuffed him and took him back to the county government for interrogation. When people in Qixian heard that Yan Li was arrested, they all said, "Li Gongzi is in prison. Can we watch him suffer without saving him? " Matchmaker heard the news and came with the team. A large crowd of hungry people followed her, and knife-wielders attacked the county government with knives and sticks. When the county magistrate and the officers saw that the uprising was numerous and powerful, they thought they could not resist it and slipped away. Together with the hungry people, the Red Lady opened the prison and rescued Yan Li. At this stage, Yan Li felt that there was no way home, so he followed the advice of the matchmaker, joined the hungry people in the uprising, and rushed to Li Chuangwang. Li Zicheng learned about the situation in Yan Li and knew that although Yan Li was a rich boy, he was also persecuted. Besides, the insurgents just needed a counselor, so they left Li Yan in the camp. Yan Li also knew for a long time that Li Zicheng was an ambitious hero, so he wholeheartedly helped Li Zicheng overthrow the Ming Dynasty. After the rebel army grew, Li Zicheng set about reorganizing the army and enforcing strict discipline. He also accepted Yan Li's suggestion and put forward the slogan "even the land is tax-free" ("tax" means tax). Yan Li sent a group of uprising soldiers dressed as businessmen and mixed into the cities occupied by government forces to publicize: "The team led by Li Chuangwang is very disciplined and does not kill or rob things." For a long time, people hated the murder and robbery of government troops. Now I hear that Li Chuangwang's team has strict discipline and will naturally go to Li Chuangwang. The local farmers also sang some ballads, which were also compiled by Yan Li: Eat his mother, wear his mother, and open the door to see the king. King Chuang doesn't accept meals when he comes. It is difficult for the poor to live now. Open the door early to worship the king and discipline everyone to be happy. The Li Zicheng Rebel Army won the support of the people. After killing Zhu, they fought several big battles in succession in Henan. In A.D. 1643, Li Zicheng attacked Tongguan, killed Sun Chuanting, the governor of the Ming Dynasty and the minister of war, and soon occupied Xi 'an. Why did Li Zicheng kill Yan Li, the counselor? A peasant uprising broke out in Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty. In the uprising army in Li Zicheng, there was a famous counselor, Yan Li, who put forward the slogan of "Welcome the king without paying food" and won the hearts and minds of the insurgents. Yan Li's ending is recorded in A Brief Introduction to the Year of the Mouth: After Dingzhou's defeat, some people said that the whole of Henan surrendered to the Ming army. Li Zicheng was frightened to disgrace and discussed countermeasures with his men. Yan Li volunteered, willing to head twenty thousand chosen men, to zhongzhou, nearby counties must dare not make a move again, even those who dare to make trouble can be cleaned up as soon as possible. Another counselor, Niu Jinxing, asked Wang Chuang to agree to Yan Li's request, but Wang Chuang didn't answer at that time. Soon, Chu Zhuangwang worried that Yan Li had other plans. At this time, Niu Jinxing suggested that Chu Zhuangwang look for opportunities to get rid of Yan Li and get Chu Zhuangwang's consent. The next day, in the name of Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing called Yan Li to drink in the barracks, and set up an ambush in the barracks. Yan Li and his younger brother Li Nian were captured alive and killed at the same time. Although this record begins and ends, it is not clear why Li Zicheng killed Yan Li. What do you mean, "I'm afraid Yan Li has other plans"? Maybe we can see a clue from Yan Li's life experience. According to official records, the original name was Xin Li, a native of Qixian County, Henan Province, the son of Li, a senior minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, who had passed the imperial examination. He was arrested and imprisoned because he urged the local government to stop exorbitant taxes and take out the grain stored at home to help the victims, which offended the local government and the gentry. When Li Zicheng troops attacked Qixian, they were rescued from prison and surrendered to Li Zicheng. Later, they were made generals for their achievements. According to historical records, Yan Li was born in a noble family, which was different from the peasant uprising army. At first, he may be appreciated by Li Zicheng for his talent, but Li Zicheng was born as a farmer and had his class conservatism. Later, the more Li Yan showed his talent, the more unhappy he became. He even suspected that Yan Li would take his place one day, so he began to kill people. Of course, it's not enough to explain why Li Zicheng killed Yan Li, but it's just a guess. References:

Five Thousand Years Up and Down A.D. 1644 (the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty) In March, the land of the Central Plains was covered with swords and swords. First, the Dashun Army led by Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, destroyed Xi 'an all the way, crossed Shaanxi, went out of Juyongguan, took Beijing as the commanding height, and the Ming Dynasty was declared extinct; Secondly, Wu Sangui, a famous soldier guarding Shanhaiguan, opened the northeast gate, led the Qing soldiers to enter Shanhaiguan, suppressed the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Manchu nobles established the Qing Dynasty, which opened a page in the history of China in the early Qing Dynasty. Feudal literati began to write and study the history of the late Ming Dynasty after the looting. These feudal literati, or straight pen, or embellished, or heard of misinformation, or contradictory, finally left many mysteries. There are different opinions about Li Yan's Dashun Army because of different historical records. For more than 300 years, this field thought it was "nothing" or it did exist. Those who hold positive opinions believe that many official histories, unofficial history, notes and novels unanimously affirm that the original name was Xin Li, a juren from Qixian County, Henan Province, and he was the son of Li, a close confidant of Wei Zhongxian and a minister of war in the Ming Dynasty. During the Chongzhen period, Li Yin Wei Zhongxian was sentenced to prison, and he was called Li Gongzi. When there was a drought in Henan, the victims panicked and called for help. Li Yanli advised the Song magistrate in Qixian County to stop collecting relief, was sent to provide relief, and was falsely imprisoned. Later, the victims attacked the county town, robbed the prison, killed the magistrate of a county, drove Liangshan, and defected to the peasant uprising army in Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng took this as a counselor, named Yan Li. There is a legendary record about Yan Li's defection to the Li Zicheng Rebel Army in the anonymous Wandering Records nearby. It might as well be recorded here: "In the last years of Chongzhen, bandits were rampant everywhere, and prostitutes in Yuzhou were in chaos. Luqi County sent people to make a strong commitment to Li Xin. If you don't believe me, run away. If you have doubts, you will be imprisoned. When the matchmaker came to rescue, the people in the city should answer, and the letter still belongs to the matchmaker. So he met Li Zicheng as brothers and decided to rebel. Li Xin's wife, Tang Shi, didn't listen, lying on the ground, like life, and didn't know when she would die. " After Yan Li joined the Li Zicheng army, he recommended Niu Jinxing as a Henan Lushi juren and Song Xiance as a gentleman of yin and yang. Yan Li advised Li Zicheng to "respect the virtuous and be polite, and help the people with violence"; After capturing Beijing, he sent troops to protect the nunnery and Henan Jinshi Liu Shunzhi, so as to stabilize social order and buy off people's hearts. His final murder was the result of Niu Jinxing's slander. Historians believe that the authors of the above historical records are mostly rigorous and influential scholars, such as Gu, who also affirmed Li Yan's life in Ming Bei lue, and his records should be said to be credible; Another example is The History of Ming Dynasty, which should be regarded as a history of faithfulness, and records in detail the process of Li Xin's participation in the Li Zicheng Uprising. This is one; Secondly, most of the above historical records were written in Shunzhi and Kangxi years of Qing Dynasty, not far from the failure time of Dashun Army. The author is fully qualified to have extensive contact with the parties who witnessed the incident at that time, so Yan Li is a real person and should be credible. Close friends Guo Moruo and Fan Wenlan hold this view. Zheng Lian, a beginner in the Qing dynasty, held different opinions and first proposed this case. He said in Bian Yu lue: "There is no Yan Li in Qixian County. It's only a hundred miles from home, and you know each other well. Don't you know anything? Even those unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of thieves have never heard of a general Li in Qixian County. I wonder what the legacy of the Ming Dynasty is based on. Moreover, all the books in "The Legend of the Ranger" are included. I don't know if it is nothing. " Since then, critics have investigated Yan Li's native place, family background and his deeds in Qixian County, and concluded that it does not exist. One of the evidences is that in addition to Zheng Lian, the author of Bian Yulue, who is only a hundred miles away from Qi, the editors of Qi County Records and Kaifeng Mansion Records in Henan in the early Qing Dynasty also denied the existence of Li Yan in Qi County. Second, Li is not from Qixian, but from Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui). No matter after he became an official or cut his post, he did not move to Qixian. Third, it is not Li's son. This is recorded in the Records of Qixian County and Yingzhou Prefecture. Fourthly, the story of Yan Li persuading Qixian to provide disaster relief is also fictional. Due to historical investigation, there was no Song surname in Qixian County during the four to thirteen years of Chongzhen. In the meantime, no one died in Qixian county, and Qixian county was never breached by insurgents. Then, why do so many unofficial history, notes, novels, and even the compilers of Ming history say that they are Qixian people and sons of Li? The commentator further believes that this was first fabricated by the rulers in the late Ming Dynasty out of the need to hate and vilify the peasant rebels. Because he is a "schemer", and Li Yan is Li's son, a man who opposes the case. He was bitten by people in the sea. When he heard that Li was a thief, everyone said, "This must be Li's son." Since then, "misinformed the truth, and then went to Shi Ce". Secondly, the development of Yan Li actually belittles Li Zicheng, which is the epitome of the history of repression initiated by lazy Taoist priests in the Western Wu. In essence, the early legendary "Li Gongzi" was Li Zicheng himself. After Yan Li's deeds were created in Miniature History, they were recognized by the rulers, that is, they infiltrated into historical records through various channels. When the History of Ming Dynasty was compiled, it was the climax of the literary inquisition movement in the early Qing Dynasty. Naturally, no one corrected it, and "Yan Li" became a real person from the beginning. In the history of the late Ming Dynasty, the deeds of two women are particularly eye-catching and still attract researchers' interest. One is Wu Sangui's beloved Ji Chen Yuanyuan, and the other is the wife of Li Yan, a senior general of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. Guo Moruo was the first to do some research on matchmaker and decided that matchmaker really existed. 1944 wrote down the three-hundredth anniversary sacrifice, citing the record in the Biography of Li Zicheng in the Ming Dynasty: "The prostitute matchmaker will rebel, win the trust and make a strong promise", saying that the acrobat matchmaker in the Jianghu took a fancy to Li Xin (Yan) in Qixian County and must marry him. Yan Li began to put down the airs of Juren Childe and refused to give in. After being forced to be the groom, he ran away and was put in prison by the government. Matchmaker led the hungry people in Qixian, attacked Qixian, rescued Yan Li, married her, and persuaded Yan Li to go to Li Zicheng. This story is quite dramatic, so Guo Moruo has been obsessed with it and wants to change it into a historical drama. Three years later, in his article about Yan Li, he also mentioned that his account of the anecdote about Shen Jia's three-hundredth sacrifice to Yan Li and the matchmaker "caught the reader's attention". Later, he found some records about Yan Li and the matchmaker in the anonymous Roaming Tale and Wu Meicun's Land Bridge Moon Hee, and their contents were similar to those in Ming History. Therefore, he thinks that the record of Ming History may be based on the works of Wu Meicun and others. The research after liberation proves that the story of the rope prostitute matchmaker who broke Qixian City to save Yan Li, as Guo Moruo said, was first seen in Wu Meicun's "Year of the Mouth, Luqiao Moon Hee". Wu Meicun was a great poet during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and enjoyed a high reputation. His "A Brief Introduction to the Year of the Mouth" was written earlier, so this story has a great influence. Later, this story was adopted by Dai Li's A Tale of Huailing, Su Feng's Essays and Records, and Mao Qiling's later Lessons. Some people think that Biography of Rogue in Ming Dynasty is Mao Qiling's main manuscript, and he wrote this story into Biography of Li Zicheng in Ming Dynasty based on books such as Suikou. The history of the Ming Dynasty is highly respected in the official history books, and this story is widely circulated. Xie guozhen, an expert in Ming history, also claimed that the Red Lady really existed, and wrote the article "The Red Lady and the Melon Chen Si", citing the relevant records of the Red Lady in Dai Li's "The General Record of Huailing Liukou". In his Selected Historical Materials of Peasant Uprising in Ming Dynasty, Mao Qiling's Post-establishment Record was included. The book calls the matchmaker a "rope-stepping prostitute". All the above historical materials were not seen by Guo Moruo at that time, but their contents are no different from those recorded in Ming History. All these records have one thing in common: the story of the Red Lady is closely related to the story of the Red Lady's rescue in Qixian County. A few years ago, historians had a heated discussion about whether there was Li Yan. In Questioning Yan Li (Historical Research No.5, 1987), Gu Cheng thinks that he is just a fictional Mr. Wu. Li Yan does not exist in the local historical materials in his hometown of Henan and the word of mouth of his elders. At that time, Zheng Lian denied the existence of Li Yan in Qixian County in Henan Change Strategy. In addition, Kangxi's Records of Qixian County was accompanied by an article on Li Gongzi's Discrimination, denying that he was the son of Li, a great scholar in the Ming Dynasty, and denying the existence of this man. Accordingly, Yao, the author of the long historical novel Li Zicheng, thinks that the story of the matchmaker's rescue from prison in Qixian County is "something that didn't happen" and "this story is a fictional legend". Some researchers believe that although he is not the son of Li or a juren in Qixian County, Henan Province, this does not mean that there is no such person. Because according to the records of Tang Bao and some witnesses in Beijing, there was a peasant army in Li Zicheng named "Li Gongzi" who served as commander in chief. However, people think that even if Yan Li is a real person, it is still unbelievable that Lady Hong broke the city to save her. Because of Chaganlong's "Records of Qixian County", during the Chongzhen period, there was no record of hungry people breaking through the county seat and killing the county magistrate. In addition, many historical records of Yan Li's deeds do not mention matchmaker. In Sui Koulue and other books, the story and the whole story of the matchmaker are vague. We don't even know her last name. I only know that she is a "rope tramp" and an acrobat on the tramp. The so-called "matchmaker" is marked by wearing red clothes. This is not without clues in the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, some researchers think that the Red Lady is probably led by a rebel army in An Baili. She is called the Red Lady because she is dressed in red. The final outcome of The Red Lady, like Yan Li, is also a mystery. According to "The Romance of Yongchang", the matchmaker later became the leader of Bailian Sect. After Yan Li's death, she also met a monk, Li Zicheng. Of course, this is just a novelist's statement, not history. The debate about the existence of Yan Li and the Red Lady continues. In 1984, the book History of Peasant Wars in the Late Ming Dynasty, Gu Cheng reiterated the view that there was no Li Yan. Xie Chengren thinks that Yan Li does exist in his book A New Biography of Li Zicheng (1986 Shanghai People's Publishing House Edition). These two books are representative works of studying the peasant army in Li Zicheng. Right and wrong have to be left to experts to make further answers.