From ancient times to the present, there are not a few peasant-led uprisings, and the famous Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are one of them, but the peasant-led uprisings are difficult to succeed, and there are reasons for leadership ideology and leaders themselves. The leader of the peasant uprising we are going to talk about today is named Li Zicheng, who is the legendary "King of Chuang".
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and at this time, the Zhu family was no longer able to continue the great cause of the Ming Dynasty. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there was constant party strife, which made the already precarious Ming Dynasty even worse. In the end, the Ming Dynasty did not escape the fate of extinction, originally the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan could be inherited by Li Zicheng, but it is a pity that Li Zicheng was not an emperor at all.
The purpose of Li Zicheng's uprising was simple, although he led the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, but his thinking did not progress a little; otherwise the Qing army would not have succeeded. So why did Li Zicheng, after attacking the capital, claim the title of emperor only forty-two days, be expelled from the throne and driven out of the imperial city? What causes this?
After king Chuang claimed the title of emperor in beijing, he lived a very luxurious life, he himself was a farmer, his insight was not very long-term, and he ate a lot of mountain treasures and seafood every day after the emperor. It is said that Li Zicheng himself had 130,000 elite soldiers, but after becoming emperor, he allowed them to burn, kill, rob, and rob, tortured and tortured the officials left behind by the Ming Dynasty, and accidentally forced more than 70 million taels of silver from the hands of these former dynasty officials.
When entering the capital, Li Zicheng's Dashun army snatched the people. When they arrived at the palace, Li Zicheng's Da shun army "all beautiful women are adulterous, and their banditry is fully displayed." "Such a Li Zicheng will certainly not succeed."
Li Zicheng's actions after he became emperor were no different from those of a vicious and brutal tyrant, and soon aroused the indignation of the people. Originally, Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui had reached a consensus to fight against the Qing soldiers together, but Li Zicheng did not know how to rob Wu Sangui's concubine, Chen Yuanyuan, and also tied up his old father, which made Wu Sangui very angry, and finally angrily rushed to the crown, and together with the Qing soldiers, defeated the famous king Li Zicheng in one fell swoop. Li Zicheng eventually died at Jiugong Mountain in Hubei Province. (Conclusions drawn from the analysis of later historical materials)
What does Li Zicheng's tragedy illustrate? The peasant class itself has certain limitations in character and foresight, and it is no better than those who have seen the great world, and after claiming that Li Zicheng has forgotten his roots, forgotten why he led the people's uprising in the first place, forgotten that he called the emperor a person who was very sympathetic to the people and lived a diligent and frugal life, and also forgot that the common people described themselves as "breaking into the king and not taking grain", becoming a person he once hated very much, and finally reigning only for forty-two days, and finally letting the Manchu Qing fishermen benefit, which is really pitiful and hateful!