Interesting answer: There are three chances to turn the tables, but he did not hold any of these three opportunities.
Opportunity 1: Negotiate with the Manchus
This opportunity came very suddenly, and suddenly the Chongzhen Emperor did not expect it.
Everyone knows that when the Manchu Qing was fighting against the Ming Empire, it had always been in a state of old and dead, but the Manchu Qing at that time also had its own grievances.
Because when the Manchu Qing faced the ming empire's city wall cannons, there was no way to get close, and if they got closer, they would face the bombardment of the other side's cannons.
When the Manchu Qing knew that the Ming Empire was in crisis, they urgently approached the Chongzhen Emperor and hoped to negotiate with the Chongzhen Emperor.
The negotiation port of the Manchu Qing was simple, as long as the Ming Empire guaranteed to trade with each other at a certain time every month, it could help Chongzhen send troops to fight Li Zicheng.
By the time Chongzhen had told the Manchu Ministers of Culture and Martial Arts about this opinion, the Manchu Ministers of Literature and Arms had made it clear that if the Chongzhen Emperor really wanted to do so, all the courtiers would be killed directly above the imperial court.
Chongzhen naturally couldn't see it, and his confidants were all killed in the court, so he didn't agree, and he lost this opportunity.
Opportunity two negotiates with Li Zicheng
In fact, Li Zicheng also thought about consulting with the Chongzhen Emperor at the beginning.
It's just that the Chongzhen Emperor has repeatedly missed good opportunities because he trusted a certain minister around him, and this paragraph of the narrative is very complicated, so let's briefly say two sentences.
For example, Li Zicheng once told the Chongzhen Emperor that as long as you can give me the title of king of the clan and let me be like the descendants of the Zhu family, if I can receive grain and eat Feng Lu every day, I will not rebel, and I can help the Chongzhen Emperor to suppress the forces of the Manchu Qing in the north.
However, the Chongzhen Emperor still refused, for the simple reason that the courtiers did not agree.
Opportunity three ran to Nanjing
According to the Ming Empire's city defense constraint map, the Chongzhen Emperor actually ran to Nanjing to defend his own acre and three points of land.
Judging from the state at that time, as long as the Chongzhen Emperor went to Nanjing as soon as possible, the area north of the Yangtze River might not be able to hold it, but judging by the natural and dangerous terrain of Nanjing, it was more than enough to hold the south.
But the Chongzhen Emperor still didn't have to pinch this opportunity, why? Because the courtiers were unwilling.
Thinking about it now, Chongzhen began to say the words: The ministers misled me, and it seemed that there was a certain logic to speak of.
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