Li Zicheng, who was emperor for 42 days, how did he die?

Li Zicheng was the leader of the peasant revolt at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who not only overthrew the brutal rule of the Ming rulers, but also established the Dashun regime, taking the era name Yongchang, which means eternal prosperity. However, li Zicheng only forty-two days had passed from the time he claimed the title of emperor to the time he was expelled from the imperial throne and expelled from the imperial city, which could not but be said to be a thought-provoking question. The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Chongzhen Emperor, made great efforts to rectify the imperial program and fight corruption and promote honesty during his reign, but in the late Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters were all spoken out, social turmoil, internal and external troubles, and only the emperor was powerless to recover, even if he had the ability again, and finally Chongzhen hanged himself on Jingshan Mountain, and when he died, he also covered his face with a handkerchief, I am afraid that the emperor himself felt that he had no face to face the ancestors who had made great contributions.

Just when the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil, Li Zicheng led a peasant rebel army to occupy Beijing. After king Chuang became emperor in the city of Beijing, he forgot his original mission, lived a very extravagant and corrupt life, and after becoming the king of thousands of people, he ate a lot of mountain treasures and seafood every day. Li Zicheng himself had more than 100,000 elite guards, saying that after the emperor, Li Zicheng connived at them to burn and plunder, tortured the ming dynasty's widows and widows to the extreme, and accidentally forced out more than 50 million taels of silver from the hands of these Ming dynasty officials and fujia. After Li Zicheng became emperor, his behavior was almost no different from that of a brutal monarch, and it did not take long to arouse great public indignation. Originally, Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui had an appointment first, and agreed to fight against the Qing soldiers to protect themselves, but Li Zicheng was a monster, robbed Wu Sangui's sweetheart Chen Yuanyuan, and at the same time insulted Wu Sangui's old father in every way, arousing Wu Sangui's anger in his heart, and finally angrily rushed to the crown, and together with the Qing soldiers, he defeated Li Zicheng, the famous king of the intruders.

Li Zicheng eventually died on Jiugong Mountain in Hubei Province, and his tragedy illustrates the historical limitations of the peasant class itself and the weakness of his own character, which is no better than that of the orthodox-born rulers who have seen the world. After Li Zicheng became emperor, he forgot why he had led the people's uprising in the first place, and had changed from a leader who had received grain and was supported, to a short-lived emperor who coveted pleasure and was abandoned by the common people, and finally became a ghost under the enemy's sword for only forty-two days, which was really pitiful and hateful, just in response to the ancient saying that "water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn a boat".