Emperor Mingsizong Zhu Youjian ,D.C. Chongzhen. Also known as the Chongzhen Emperor. Zhu Youjian was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but he was very special, saying that he was especially because he was different from other emperors of the fallen country, and the emperors of the fallen country were generally faint and incompetent, while Zhu Youjian was a more diligent and enterprising emperor among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty developed to the late stage, already like a decadent century-old giant tree, the appearance of a behemoth, but in fact has long been empty. By the time Zhu Youjian ascended the throne as emperor, although he had lofty ambitions and worked diligently, the Ming Dynasty had long been difficult to return, and he alone could not save it.
After Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, he faced three problems that were difficult to solve, one was the peasant uprising, the other was the rising Jin invasion, and the most infuriating thing was to face the party struggle within the imperial court.
Zhu Youjian had to face three problems at the same time, because these three problems came to him in no particular order, and Zhu Youjian already had some understanding of the situation in the Ming Dynasty before he ascended the throne, so the first thing he did as soon as he ascended the throne was to eliminate the problem of eunuchs interfering in the government in the imperial court and directly remove the eunuch clique headed by Wei Zhongxian in the imperial court. Zhu Youjian's move seems to have blown a breeze into the imperial court, which made the entire court vibrate, and Zhu Youjian also breathed a sigh of relief and eliminated the castration party in the imperial court, leaving only the loyal and patriotic Donglin Party, which is upright, and it seems that the Ming Dynasty can soon bring about earth-shaking changes.
However, the direction of the matter did not follow the ideas of the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, after he got rid of Wei Zhongxian, the Donglin Party, which had high hopes, failed to bring about any substantive changes to the imperial court, whether it was governing the country or the army, the Donglin Party was far less powerful than shouting slogans, they were loyal to the king and patriotic, and their courage and integrity were unmatched, but no one in this group of Jiangnan scholars had the real ability to rule the country with a strong army.
Zhu Youjian always believed that the luck of those who worked hard would not be too bad, so he worked hard every day, wanting to be a good emperor and change the fate of the Ming Dynasty, but his arbitrary and suspicious personality, coupled with the ministers who had no assistance, failed to exchange his efforts for good results, but the uprising of Li Zicheng, the king of the invasion, became more and more serious, to the point of being unmanageable.
Soon, the peasant rebel army, known as a million, marched to the city under the leadership of Li Zicheng, the king of the invaders. The embarrassed Zhu Youjian guarded his last stubbornness, insisted on the standard of not cutting the land, not paying compensation, and not surrendering, and vowed to die and compete with Li Zicheng. As a result, the Ming Dynasty was vulnerable, and with the opening of the city gate, Li Zicheng entered the city. Zhu Youjian faced the devastated Ming Dynasty and knew that his life had also come to an end.
Zhu Youjian forced the death of the empress and the noble concubine, and then killed his 6-year-old daughter with his own hands, and took the eunuch Wang Cheng'en to coal mountain with him, and ended his life with a white aya on a locust tree, and did not even have time to look at the daimyo Jiangshan again.
Li Zicheng then established the Dashun regime, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, Wu Sangui released the Qing troops into Guanxi, and Dorgon led the Qing army into Guannei, defeated Li Zicheng, and occupied Beijing.
Dorgon was a very powerful person, although he led troops into the pass, captured the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan in one fell swoop, and established the Qing Dynasty, but they deeply knew that the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan was not stable at the moment. If you want to really stand firm, you must not only kill people, but also curse your heart.
Therefore, in the name of the Shunzhi Emperor, Dorgon buried the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian with the etiquette of the emperor, and the Qing army entered the customs, and also changed from a war of aggression to saving the Ming Emperor and repelling the "anti-thief" war, but they came late and failed to save the Chongzhen Emperor.
The people of the Qing Dynasty cried a few times in false compassion, and suddenly remembered the locust tree on the coal mountain where the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, Dorgon was heartbroken, where was the locust tree, it was clearly the murderer of the Chongzhen Emperor! Subsequently, a chain was chained to the locust tree, calling the locust tree "sin locust", and threw the pot of Chongzhen's death to a tree.
With the "click" of the lock on the locust tree, the Qing Dynasty also completed the aggressive and stable few steps. However, with the sound of a gunshot more than 200 years later, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the city of Beijing, burning and looting, naturally did not let go of this antique chain of more than 200 years, the chain that locked the locust tree for more than 200 years fell off, the old locust tree was still alive at the time, it seemed to have regained its innocence, and finally got rid of the crime imposed on it by the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty, after 12 years, perished in a mess.
Today, Coal Mountain has become Jingshan Park, and there is an old locust tree growing there on the mountain, which is no longer the old locust tree that the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, but a locust tree replanted in the same location, continuing to tell the story about the Chongzhen Emperor.