#明末满清攻打明朝的时候, can Li Zicheng, who rebelled in the rear, be regarded as a traitor? #
Once upon a time, Li Zicheng, the king of the Chuang Dynasty, was always regarded as a hero of the people. Even a great man praised King Chuang for daring to raise an army against the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty. However, with the rise of the Internet, especially after some low-IQ groups can access the Internet, Li Zicheng, the king of intruders, is actually regarded as a "traitor" and a "traitor"? In fact, the reason why many people think so, most of them can be described as "not familiar with the world" and "low IQ".
In fact, shortly after Zhu Zhongba established the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhongba, in view of the success or failure of the Yuan Dynasty, formulated a series of systems to ensure that the Zhu family had a world of thousands of generations. Typical are:
Prevent the people from having progressive ideas. As a result, Zhu Zhongba repeatedly raised a literary prison to persecute intellectuals. This poison was completely inherited by the Qing Dynasty three hundred years later.
In order to prevent the emergence of powerful officials in the imperial court, the system of ministers was abolished, and the emperor directly commanded hundreds of officials. This system was also completely inherited by the later Qing Dynasty, and it was upgraded and strengthened.
Repressing businessmen. Zhu Zhongba believed that the financial crisis in the late Yuan Dynasty was because the businessmen were too rich, and Zhu Zhongba was originally born as a beggar, so he had a vendetta in his bones. Therefore, Zhu Zhongba brutally suppressed merchants, and even once announced a ban on the sea to curb the development of maritime merchants.
Strengthen civil control. The Red Turban Rebellion at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was a peasant uprising based on the background of the White Lotus Sect. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang cracked down non-governmental association activities. The entire Ming Dynasty became the zhu family's household slaves.
Overload squeezing folk. Zhu Zhongba knew very well that if the common people had free time, it would definitely breed instability towards the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Zhu Zhongba frantically squeezed the people to prevent the people from having free time.
In fact, almost without exception, zhu Zhongba's series of systems was copied away by the later Qing Dynasty. From this point of view, the Qing Dynasty is regarded as the filial piety and grandson of the Ming Dynasty.
Under the high-pressure rule of the Zhu Chongba family, soon after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a new round of peasant uprisings aimed at overthrowing the Ming Dynasty began one after another. This situation continued until the revolt of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the late Chongzhen period. Moreover, Zhu Zhongba's criminal rule also reminded many intellectuals, businessmen, and even some peasants of the various benefits of the Yuan Dynasty.
However, at first, the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, so for sporadic peasant uprisings, the Ming Dynasty could also crush them by strong advantages. However, "the people are not afraid of death, why should they be afraid of death", although these peasant uprisings have risen and fallen, but the momentum of this and that, the Ming Dynasty court is still unable to reverse - in fact, the reason is very simple: that is, under high pressure, the ming people have no second way to go except rebellion.
During the reign of the Wanli Emperor, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty began to decline significantly. The frequency and influence of peasant uprisings also began to grow. Therefore, by the late apocalypse and the early years of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was already on the eve of the panoramic outbreak of the peasant revolt. The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Chongzhen Emperor, was very distressed by this situation, so he was eager to save the fate of the Ming Dynasty through his own efforts and struggles. However, how could the general trend of history be changed by the chongzhen emperor's enthusiasm?
Li Zi cost is a person who does not have big ideals and big pursuits. For Li Zicheng, what he really wanted was to "live his whole life in a chaotic world", but because of the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng lost his job, and in the end, Li Zicheng became one of thousands of displaced people.
For displaced people, their demand is nothing more than a stable place to live and a job that can fill their stomachs. But these demands have become extravagant: for the Ming court, for the displaced people, what the Ming court can do is to eliminate this group of displaced people by force - after all, to help the disaster victims and find jobs for the displaced people, it takes a lot of silver, and the Ming Dynasty obviously does not want to pay this money. Of course, in fact, the Chongzhen court really could not come up with this amount.
The Ming bureaucracy also had no sympathy for this group of displaced people, and even the Ming bureaucrats said: Do not starve in peace and security - meaning that ordinary people should wait at home for starvation. How can such a court, which regards the people as grass, stabilize people's hearts?
The Ming bureaucracy regarded the people as grass, and the Ming officers and soldiers did this with actions: the Ming officers and soldiers knew that it was risky to fight with the peasant army, so they often killed honest people who wanted to be peaceful people to take the lead. This caused a large number of honest people to join the peasant army. In the end, with the joint efforts of the Ming bureaucracy and officers and soldiers, the Chongzhen Emperor had no choice but to hang himself. The Ming Dynasty collapsed.
From beginning to end, Li Zicheng was in a state of being wrapped up in the torrent of history. In fact, Li Zicheng's military quality was very poor, and Li Zicheng's peasant army was repeatedly defeated by the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. But every time Li Zicheng could gather a large number of rebel troops in a very short period of time, there was no other reason: for the common people, there was no second way to go without joining the rebel army.
Therefore, even if there is no Li Zicheng in history, there will still be people like Li Zicheng who will lead and launch uprisings against the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng's behavior is only the epitome and forced choice of thousands of ordinary people who were forced to go nowhere by the Ming Dynasty. If a sinner was to be chosen to be responsible in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Wanli Emperor, the Emperor of The Heavenly Revelation, and Wei Zhongxian should all bear the main responsibility, Li Zicheng was only a victim of the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty, and the Chongzhen Emperor was just a back-and-forth man with limited ability.