Because the Qing Dynasty gave money, and the Qing Dynasty was not bad at all.
It may be difficult for everyone to imagine that in the early Qing Dynasty, that is, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the main force attacking the Ming Dynasty was not the Manchu Eight Banners, but the Han Eight Banners at that time.
Simply put, it is to use the ming dynasty's troops to fight the Ming dynasty and defeat the Ming dynasty in the way of the Ming dynasty.
This is also why the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, although the number of them was small, they were able to control and consolidate all the territories of the Ming Dynasty in the shortest possible time. Then it further expanded the original territory, and even controlled the frontier areas that could not be controlled before.
Some people may wonder how the Manchus issued orders to let the sons of han baqi help them fight the world.
Point 1: Enough money
Everyone must understand that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Ming Empire actually had no money.
In other words, the entire Ming Dynasty encountered an unprecedented fiscal deficit, even Zhang Juzheng's reincarnation may not be able to save the crisis, it is estimated that the only person who can save the crisis is Zhu Yuanzhang.
The main reason why the Ming Dynasty suffered such a big economic crisis was nothing more than the following points:
First of all, the Ming Dynasty needed to raise many descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang had said that he had been a beggar and had suffered hardships and sins, his descendants absolutely could not suffer hardships and must be fed by the imperial court.
However, I did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants were really too capable of being born, according to incomplete data, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants also had a population of 1 million.
Secondly, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it encountered several disasters that were rare in a hundred years.
Including earthquakes, plagues, floods, droughts, etc., anyway, all the natural disasters that can be imagined were encountered at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it also experienced a very rare Xiaoice river period, which led to a sharp drop in temperature at that time.
After the temperature dropped, a series of social problems brought about by the reduction in grain production, even if the Chongzhen Emperor was diligent and capable, he could not cope with it in a short period of time.
Finally, and most importantly, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, problems arose in the entire imperial court.
Civilian ministers do not work, military generals do not have much power, and there are often a group of people who do not know what they are willing to do, while those who can do practical things are pushed under the table by others.
Over time, the imperial court had problems.
In addition, in the middle and late period, there was a great eunuch Wei Zhongxian, who had never been seen in thousands of years, and the relevant officials of the Donglin Party at the end of the Ming Dynasty did not do practical things, and some of the imperial relatives were corrupt and corrupt.
When these factors are combined, it is easy to find that the last life of the Ming Dynasty has arrived, and one of the core factors that ended the life of the Ming Dynasty is the lack of money.
At that time, a very delicate thing happened, when some soldiers were marching to fight, because the imperial court did not send money and food, resulting in the soldiers being too hungry to bear it, they went out and caught a chicken.
However, such a small move was actually put on the line by some people, and finally forced this unit to the Qing Dynasty side alive.
This unit had the most advanced artillery and gunpowder technology of the Ming Dynasty at that time. In other words, this is just an individual case, and this case was staged countless times at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
From the imperial court down to the local officials, almost concerted efforts to push the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to the side of the Qing Dynasty, so that the Qing Dynasty had countless sources of soldiers.
Point 2: The trend of the times, with the Future of the Qing Dynasty
I'm going to tell a story now, what is this story? That is, if Liu Bei can really unify the world, is he willing to return all his power positions to Emperor Xian of Han and let Emperor Xian of Han become emperor?
I had analyzed this matter before, and the final result was that even if Liu Bei was willing, the external forces at that time would never allow Liu Bei to do so.
Why?
We may wish to imagine that if Liu Bei became emperor, then the people around Liu Bei should be the prime minister, the big general should be the great general, and even some people can directly be the marquis.
And if Liu Bei did not become emperor and gave all his rights to Emperor Xian of Han, then I am sorry, and the people around Liu Bei may not be able to taste any good fruit.
After working hard to fight the world with Liu Bei, but in the end, it ended up like this, and the generals and ministers around Liu Bei were definitely unwilling.
In the same way, why at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many people actively defected to the Qing forces?
The reason is also very simple, the general trend.
If you follow the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, it is equivalent to investing in the original stock yourself, of course, this is also a bet on your own life and even the entire official career.
If you can win the final victory, the future is bright, and if you don't win the final victory, the result is quite miserable.
But more and more people understand that the Qing Dynasty's defeat of the Ming Dynasty is the trend of the times.
Especially when the Qing Dynasty forced the Ming Dynasty to the Nanjing area, more and more Generals and soldiers of the Han Dynasty realized that following the Qing Dynasty's imperial court was far more promising than following the Ming Dynasty.
Point 3: The Qing Dynasty gave it up
In the relevant literature, we can find that the Reward and Support for soldiers in the Qing Dynasty was still very large, especially for the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered, and gave them greater freedom and more gold, silver and money.
Then some people asked, where did the gold and silver money come from here in the Qing Dynasty?
Everyone should pay attention to the fact that the Ming Dynasty did not have no money, but that all the money at that time went into the pockets of these corrupt officials.
The most typical of these is that the Chongzhen Emperor saw that the Ming Dynasty could not stand it, and ordered those courtiers in the court to seize the time to contribute some silver and silver to the imperial court to defend the country, while the courtiers cried poorly.
Some courtiers even simply wore patched clothes on the 2nd day of the pilgrimage in order to show that they were really poor.
Chongzhen was no longer ruddered, and could only wait and see what happened.
Then, Li Zicheng's troops came.
After Li Zicheng's troops came, without saying a word, they locked up all these dignitaries and dignitaries and beat them up fiercely, and in this way they even gathered countless gold and silver treasures.
It can be seen from this that at that time, the property of various local officials in the Ming Dynasty was still very large, but these officials were corrupt, and there was no problem in letting them make money, but to let them take out money, they did not even have to think about it.
And when the Qing Dynasty controlled part of the land of the Ming Dynasty, in some places it was indeed burning and looting, and there was no evil.
But at the same time, for the soldiers or generals who defected from the Han Dynasty, they were even more than enough.
Basically, they want money to give money, grain to grain, and official positions to official positions, and some people even give knighthoods.
Such a reward made some imperial court officials, especially those who had been blessed by the Ming Dynasty for generations, extremely red-eyed, so they also began to give up their original intentions and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.
In other words, what the Ming Dynasty did not want to give them, the Qing Dynasty gave them all. Even the Qing Dynasty, from top to bottom, preferred to go hungry and satisfy the problems of these Ming generals who surrendered.
In fact, when we look back at the development of the entire Qing Dynasty, especially in the early days of the Qing Dynasty, this is indeed a very clever move.
By giving these generals and soldiers more protection and more welfare, we attracted more Ming people to defect to the Qing Dynasty.
Because after defecting to the Qing Dynasty, at least you can ensure that you can afford to eat and eat enough.
Relying on this alone is attractive enough, of course, it does not mean that the dynasty does not know how to sympathize with soldiers, nor does it mean that the Chongzhen Emperor is particularly cold-blooded, but at that time, it can only be said that the times created heroes.
After all, the Ming Dynasty really had no money, but it was only the Ming Court that did not have money, not the People of the Ming Dynasty.
According to incomplete statistics, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the money in some families in the south could not be more, and some officials in the capital were corrupt and corrupt, which was even more rich.
Even so, in the face of the crisis of the imperial court, they did not lend a helping hand, but instead tried to clear up the relationship as much as possible, thinking that as long as their relationship with the imperial court was broken, they would be able to survive when the world changed in the future.
As everyone knows, this is just a longing, and how can there be a complete egg under the chaotic world.
With the fall of the Ming Dynasty, countless clans have since vanished. Some officials of the Ming Dynasty were also thrown into the eighteenth layer of hell, and their imaginary dream of living behind closed doors eventually became a joke.