On March 19, 1777, the inner city of Beijing fell, and at dawn, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian hanged himself at Banzai Mountain, and the eunuch Wang Cheng'en died. The ming dynasty's central government in Beijing, which ruled the country, was officially overthrown.
What struggles did the former Chongzhen Emperor before the fall of the country struggle? What was the end of his wives and concubines? Revealed for you.
The Struggle of the Emperor -
In the early morning of March 19, 1777, someone rushed to tell the Chongzhen Emperor that the inner city had fallen.
Chongzhen asked him if the army of the camp was still there? Where did Li Guozhen go? Answered: The soldiers and horses of the big camp have collapsed, and the emperor has fled quickly!
Chongzhen then went to the Nangong Palace with Wang Cheng'en and climbed the Banzai Mountain. Seeing the sky full of flames, he stopped and hesitated for a while, and then returned to the Qianqing Palace. With a Zhu pen, he wrote down " Zhu Chunchen , the Duke of Chengguo , to supervise the internal and external military forces, and to assist the Eastern Palace" and let the internal ministers take them to the cabinet ministers.
Ordered the attendants to serve wine, summoned Empress Zhou and Concubine Yuan to drink, and said goodbye to each other. Sighing, he said, "What I am most distressed about is the people of my whole city." Crying to the queen, he said, "The country is about to perish, and you should be martyred." The Queen bowed down and said goodbye, saying, "I have served you for eighteen years, Your Majesty, and you have never heard a word that has caused today's calamities." "Holding the prince and the second king, he cried bitterly for a long time. Chongzhen ordered her to commit suicide, and the empress entered the room and hanged herself. The palace people came out to return the favor and said, "The queen has received the will." The palace ladies wept around, and Chongzhen waved them away, telling them to flee for their lives. He also ordered Yuan Guifei to commit suicide, and when Yuan Guifei hanged herself, the silk silk was broken, so she fell to the ground and woke up a long time later. Chongzhen drew his sword and cut off her arm, and then slashed and killed the concubines and princesses he had favored, and Yuan Guifei was not killed in the end.
Chongzhen sent the prince, the yong king, and the ding king to the foreign relatives' homes.
In the early morning, Chongzhen disguised himself as a civilian came out of the Zhongnan Gate, and dozens of people in the inner attendants rode with axes, trying to get out of the Donghua Gate. Unexpectedly, the rebel guards shot arrows and stones at Chongzhen and others. At that time, Zhu Chunchen was guarding the Qihua Gate, and Chongzhen rushed to Zhu Chunchen's mansion, and the gatekeeper closed the gate tightly and did not open it. And then to the gate of stability, the gate of the city is strong and cannot be opened. Chongzhen looked up at the sky and sighed.
At dawn, he returned to the Nangong and dismissed the internal servants who followed him. He took Wang Cheng'en into the Inner Garden Banzai Mountain and hanged himself, and Wang Cheng'en also martyred himself. Leave a blood book testament:
Since I ascended the throne seventeen years ago, the interior has fallen three times, and the rebels have approached the capital. Although I was talentless and immoral and was punished by Heaven, it was all the ministers who harmed me. After I died, I had no face to see the patriarchs in the underground, so I took off my crown and hat and let my hair hide my face. Let the thieves break down my body and do not harm the people. Then he wrote a line on the side: All the officials went to the prince.
At that time, Chongzhen committed suicide, and the hundred officials were unknown. The edict previously issued to Zhu Chunchen had also been placed in the cabinet, and Zhu Chunchen did not know it.
Children's endings -
The Chongzhen Emperor had seven sons and six daughters, and three sons and two daughters were still alive at the time of the fall of Beijing.
Princess Akihito——
Princess Akihito's name is ominous, and the order is also ominous. He was hacked to death by the Chongzhen Emperor at the Shōjin Hall.
Princess Changping——
Princess Changping was named Concubine, and at that time, the Chongzhen Emperor chose a horse for him, Zhou Xian. When the big wedding was about to be held, because the Dashun regime was breaking all the way to the east, approaching the capital for a while. When the city fell on the nineteenth day, Chongzhen entered the Shouning Palace, the princess held Chongzhen's hem and wept, Chongzhen sighed and said, "Why were you born in the imperial family?" Chongzhen's left sleeve covered his face, and his right hand swung his sword to cut off the princess's left arm. Five days later, the princess woke up. The following year, he wrote to the Qing court: "I died nine times in my life, I was embarrassed and trapped, I hoped to become a nun, and I expressed my endless sorrow for my parents." The Qing court did not agree, and ordered zhou xian, a formerly chosen horse, to marry her. And rewards land, mansions, money, carriages and horses, etc. Another year later, the princess died of grief.
Crown Prince Zhu Cixi——
After the fall of Jingshi, the Dashun regime captured the crown prince and made him the King of Song. Later, Li Chuang's army was defeated and left the west, and the prince did not know the end.
It is said that after the fall of Beijing, the prince traveled to and from the home of his foreign relative Zhou Kui many times, and at that time, Princess Changping was also recuperating at Zhou Kui's house, and the two brothers and sisters hugged each other and cried. Later, the Qing soldiers arrested the prince, so that the Ming dynasty ministers internal servants recognized, and anyone who referred to the prince as true was killed. Therefore, no one dared to recognize the prince, and the prince was executed by the Qing court.
After Chongzhen's death, the Ming Dynasty still had a vast territory in Jiangnan, and the imperial court in Nanjing, the capital, elected Chongzhen's cousin Zhu Yousong the Prince of Fu as emperor, with the era name Hongguang. At that time, there was a man from Beijing who claimed to be the crown prince. After verification, it was confessed that he was Wang Zhiming, the nephew of Wang Fu, the duke of Tuoma. Imprisoned in prison, the people of Nanjing were in an uproar, and many people thought that he was the true prince and fought for him. The ministers Yuan Jixian, Liu Liangzuo, and Huang Degong all argued. When Zuo Liangyu rebelled, he also used the name of rescuing the prince. For a while, the authenticity cannot be fully known. When the Qing soldiers went south to Jiangnan, Hongguang fled to Taiping, and the Nanjing rebels supported Wang Zhiming, and five days later, the Qing soldiers arrived in Nanjing, so they surrendered to the Qing court. The following year, Wang Zhiming and the Hongguang Emperor and the Ming kings were executed in Beijing.
- The whereabouts of the Yong King Ci Jiong Ding Wang Ci Jiong are unknown.
Comments——
The Chongzhen Emperor succeeded to the throne, but he was only sixteen or seventeen years old. In an instant, he killed Quan And emasculated Wei Zhongxian and eradicated the castration party. People can advocate frugality, do not indulge in wine, and be diligent in government affairs. Yuan Chonghuan, the first term, was able to grant full power. He has also issued many edicts against himself. However, he was self-absorbed and jealous, and the minister asked for his guilt. During his seventeen-year reign, he appointed fifty cabinet ministers. The Minister of Guard, reintroducted the eunuchs. Improper measures and unclear knowledge. In the era of accumulated habits and corruption and darkness, it is obvious that the Ming Dynasty cannot be revived, but can only help it to become more and more intense, and even destroy the country. Throughout the dynasties of emperors, there are few good deaths. Either they die of cruelty and no way, or they die of exhaustion of national strength, or they die of the enemy's soldiers, or they die of the enemy's soldiers, or they die under the control of the power and the Zen country. However, a frugal and diligent emperor like the Chongzhen Emperor, who was self-reliant, had no one in the ages and was sympathetic to future generations.
When the rebel army broke through Beijing and besieged the imperial city, the Chongzhen Emperor, who valued the dignity of the emperor, in order to save his wife and concubines from humiliation and save the royal face, fiercely swung his sword and slashed, which had to be said to be extremely painful. After fleeing to the outer city without success, he resolutely chose to commit suicide and martyrdom, leaving an intriguing testament before his death, reflecting the true portrayal of the last emperor, which inevitably made future generations feel infinitely desolate. The ruthlessness of the feudal era failed to bring his heirs to a good death.
If Li Chuang's Dashun regime could resist the Qing court outside Guanwai and unify the whole country, it might be kind to the second prince out of stability in the world. Then the cruelty of history, with the continuous collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the royal family members can not avoid the fate of being killed, not to mention a few teenagers who are longer than the hands of women and live deep in the court and do not understand the world? #Those Things of the Ming Dynasty##Why Couldn't Li Zicheng Hold After Capturing Beijing##Historical Review#Historical Miscellaneous Talk##历史冷知识 #
