On March 17, 1644, Li Zicheng led his troops to attack the city of Beijing, and the next day, the Chongzhen Emperor, who knew the defeat, was so heartbroken that he sent the crown prince to take refuge in the foreign relatives' palace, ordered the empress concubines to hang themselves, and even swung the Tianzi sword at the two princesses, only to retain the last trace of royal dignity after the inner city was breached.
On March 19, Zhu Youjian, accompanied by the eunuch Wang Cheng'en, ascended coal mountain and hanged himself from a crooked neck tree, leaving a final note before dying: "Seventeen years after he ascended the throne, although he was a bandit and angry, all the ministers were mistaken, causing the rebels to directly attack the Capital Division. Death, faceless ancestors in the ground, to remove the crown, to cover the face. Let the thief split the corpse, and do not hurt the people. ”
At this point, the era of great unification of the Ming Dynasty ended, and guozuo was established in 276, which was also the last feudal dynasty ruled by the Han chinese.
After that, the Southern Ming Emperor was frequently replaced, and the territory was constantly lost, which lasted only 18 years, which was far less than the Southern Song Dynasty after the Northern Song Dynasty, and the reason was lamented!
If, before Li Zicheng besieged the city of Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor went south to accompany the capital and reorganize his armaments, would he have regained the lost land and revived the Daming Mountains and Rivers?
Answer: Hard!
The main theme of the Chongzhen Dynasty was to suppress Kou Pingliao, because the common people were poor, the poor hungry rebelled, the imperial court was poor, and the poor could not come up with enough grain to raise soldiers to quell the chaos.
The forces of the Kou went to assist in the defense of Liaodong, exhausted, and missed the fighter, so that Li Zicheng, who should have been captured, was able to grow again.
Perennial civil war, depletion of national strength, but also coincided with the era of the Xiaoice River, the drought and cold, the loss of crops in many provinces, coupled with the long-standing problem of land annexation, the people could not eat food, and a steady stream of rebellions, at this time Daming entered a dead cycle, suppressing the inexhaustible army of rogues.
In addition, they also had to face the Qing army outside the Guanwai, the Southwest Tusi Rebellion, the plague outbreak, the erosion of the Wei system, the separation of kings and subjects, etc., the most deadly of which was the party struggle, even if it was still a struggle between you and me in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
The Manchu Dynasty had parties in both culture and martial arts, fierce battles, the same party and different, in the temple high position, but the party and personal interests are regarded above all else, good generals can not be reused, mediocre ministers occupy the court, empty talk misleads the country.
Such a court has been deformed since the Wanli years, even if Chongzhen arrives in the relatively rich Nanjing, the unchanged court atmosphere, the unchanged party strife, the unchanged relationship between the monarch and the vassal, a group of fleeing generals who dare not use their lives, facing Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest, Li Zicheng in the north, and the Qing army outside Guanwai, can they turn the tide?
Bearing the brunt of this, as the lone Shanhaiguan garrison, where did the chief soldier Wu Sangui go, and whether to surrender to Dashun or Daqing? But it must be that Wu Sangui's knife is still slashing at Daming like history.
You know, even if the Great Qing did not have Wu Sangui to offer customs, it would still enter the Central Plains, because they had entered the customs and plundered five times before, and Shanhaiguan already had no barrier significance, if Chongzhen went south, what actions would the Great Qing take? Is it to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, or wait for the opportunity to raise troops to enter the customs?
The devastated Daming was rotten to the bone.
Five times into the customs plunder, the army is flourishing in the Qing Dynasty, but also the Blessing of the Mongol Department, Korea, and the Surrender han Army.
The bigger and bigger Da Shun grew.
The Great West in a quiet corner.
Which side will win in the end? Will Daming perish?