On March 19, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the King of Chuang, led the Dashun peasant army into the city of Beijing. The people of the capital were greeted by the people of the city, and the Ming Dynasty Emperor Chongjiao hanged himself.
After the rebel army entered the city, Li Zicheng, the coachman of the year, immediately accepted the gate of heaven and looked back at the past, feeling a thousand emotions. After years of conquest, the present dynasty has finally won the victory, and a sense of pride has surged into the heart.
Li Zicheng, the king of the invasion
After Li Zicheng arranged the remains of the Chongzhen Emperor and other aftermath work, he was busy with the work of stabilizing the hearts of the people and stabilizing the social order of the Jingshi.
Li Zicheng first issued an announcement to the public: Da Shun Tianzi will not collect taxes for three years, and no people will kill. The public rejoiced and rushed to tell each other. At the same time, he also noticed the discipline problems in his troops and ordered that the native soldiers should be strictly forbidden to harass the people. Two soldiers were immediately brought to justice for snatching the satin from the shops in the Qianmen area, and their hands and feet were nailed to the large fence of the Qianmen to set an example.
The Ming Dynasty's criminal relatives, big bureaucrats, and eunuchs with dictatorial power were severely punished. On the third day of Li's reign, Li executed Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and two days later, he beheaded more than 200 officials, and for small and medium-sized officials, those who submitted reports were used as appropriate. Within a few days, the city of Beijing returned to normal order, the people lived in peace, merchants and merchants worked happily, and there was a scene of harmony and prosperity.
The situation was very good, so that many leaders of the peasant rebel army began to intoxicated themselves, and also developed the idea of pride and contempt for the enemy, thinking that as long as the emperor's enthronement ceremony was held to indicate the obedience of the mandate of heaven, the whole world could take the commandment. The civil and military officials in Beijing were busy preparing for the emperor's enthronement ceremony.
At this time, Niu Jinxing, a senior civilian general of the Dashun peasant army, presented himself as the prime minister, visited guests back and forth, invited friends from the same village, and welcomed them to the good and not the bustling, as if it was a peaceful and prosperous world when the emperor was the prime minister, other officials also followed suit, and the feeling of pride and complacency spread in the Dashun peasant army.
The military attachés headed by Liu Zongmin were busy chasing after stolen goods and assisting in pay, and privately stipulated: Ming dynasty bureaucrats in the capital should distribute silver according to the size of their official positions, with a maximum of 100,000 silver and a small amount of thousands, and if they did not pay, they would be severely tortured. The wind of recovering stolen goods began to spread from the city of Beijing to all places, and the scope of the stolen goods was even expanded to small officials and even businessmen, and the means were becoming more and more cruel, and the silver recovered by the military attaches was not only partially handed over to the national treasury, but also part of it flowed into their own pockets, which further encouraged the enthusiasm for recovering stolen goods. Officials and gentry and rich households in various places are all in danger, and when they hear about the change of color of the rebel army, they are afraid of avoiding it and incurring the disaster of killing themselves.
Soon, When Li Zicheng heard about this, he believed that the leaders of the rebel armies at all levels ignored the major affairs of the military and the state, and blindly focused on pursuing stolen goods for money, which was harmful to the Dashun regime, so he ordered that all Ming dynasty bureaucrats in custody, regardless of whether they paid enough money or not, should be released. In this way, Beijing's pursuit of stolen goods soon relented, but it was still intensifying in various places.
The misdeeds of some of the leaders of the rebel army directly affected military discipline, and the violation of discipline among the soldiers occurred from time to time, but the punishment for them was far less severe than that of the soldiers who snatched the silk when they first entered the city. The general Liu Zongmin, on the other hand, boasted of his high merits, controlled military affairs, and still vigorously pursued the stolen goods. Although Li Zicheng lived a simple life, he lived in the inner palace as an emperor, separated from the soldiers, and was not as clear about the actions of his subordinates as before.
At this time, Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan of the Ming Dynasty who had already promised to submit to Li Zicheng, and other important generals were leading their troops to march towards the Beijing Division. Halfway through, Wu Sangui learned that the rebels were pursuing stolen goods in Beijing, severely torturing the officials, and that his old father was also tortured to death, and that his concubine Chen Yuanyuan was forcibly occupied by Liu Zongmin, so he rebelled in anger and led his troops back to the east to retreat and capture Shanhaiguan. (Wu Sangui rushed to the crown and became angry with a red face)
Wu Sangui loved his concubine Chen Yuanyuan
After Wu Sangui reoccupied Shanhaiguan, in the name of "revenge for the king's father", he betrayed the interests of the nation and asked the Qing army to leave the customs and jointly attack the peasant rebel army in Beijing.
At this time, When Li Zicheng learned of Wu Sangui's rebellion, he urgently summoned the civil and military officials to consult, and originally planned to send Liu Zongmin and Li Guo to lead an army to retake Shanhaiguan, but at this time, the second general, who was already satisfied, was already full of happiness, and had no fighting spirit to speak of, so Li Zicheng had no choice but to order a personal conquest.
Li Zicheng had been unprepared against the Manchu Qing who had long harbored the heart to invade Guannei, and this time he did not consider that Wu Sanjia would collude with the Qing army to attack together, so Li Zicheng only led 60,000 soldiers and horses out of the city, and as a result, he retreated in panic.
After Li Zicheng returned to Beijing, the Qing army tracked him down, and Li Zicheng ordered Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Tang Tong and other generals to lead troops to resist, but they were again defeated, and Liu Zongmin fled back wounded. At this time, the landlord armed forces around Beijing also organized one after another to attack the peasant army, and the rebel army was also inconsistent in understanding, many generals tried to enjoy comfort, advocating a return to Guanzhong, Li Zicheng hurriedly ascended the throne and became emperor, led the army to retreat westward, and finally ended in failure.
As soon as the rebel army won the victory, it was carried away by this victory, proud and complacent, greedy for pleasure, chasing after stolen money, resulting in a great loss of popularity. However, Li Zicheng's failure to control his subordinates, which led to Wu Sangui's "rushing to the crown and being angry for a red face", rebelled and lured the wolf into the house, which was the root cause of the final defeat of the Dashun peasant rebel army.
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