Since ancient times, a dynasty has perished either because the emperor was too incompetent or because the emperor was too brutal. However, the Chongzhen Emperor, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was obviously a good emperor, but he still died in the country, which can only show that Daming's real qi has been exhausted. But before the Chongzhen Emperor was martyred, he ruthlessly killed his wife and daughter with his own hands.
Why Zhu Youjian killed his wife and daughter before committing suicide was not because he was cruel, but because he had discovered a secret
Before the Chongzhen Emperor ascended the throne, the imperial court remained in the hands of eunuchs such as Wei Zhongxian. After the Chongzhen Emperor succeeded to the throne, the first thing he did was to unite with the ministers of the court to remove Wei Zhongxian's party. But the imperial court had been hollowed out by corrupt officials, and daming was already in ruins.
In addition, after Wei Zhongxian's death, the Donglin Party began to grow, and the Donglin Party's struggle became more and more fierce. They are outwardly full of indignation and benevolence. Secretly, however, they have formed parties for personal gain, filling their own pockets one by one, and not caring at all about the life or death of the country. In the face of national disasters, one by one made shrunken-headed turtles.
This has caused the people to suffer, the taxes are getting heavier and heavier year by year, and coupled with the natural disasters, the people of the world are not happy. So the people rose up and rebelled. Coupled with the Qing army's step by step. The Ming Dynasty was already in a state of crumbling. The Chongzhen Emperor had already used his whole body solution, but he was still unable to turn the tide.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng attacked the city of Beijing. Many people have said that why did the Chongzhen Emperor not run to Nanjing, but had to sit in Beijing and wait for death. People who say this are sitting and talking without waist pain. At that time, the national treasury was empty, and it was impossible to get money to pay military salaries, and without money, naturally there was no one to fight for him and resist the enemy soldiers.
Even if you run to Nanjing, you don't have the money to recruit soldiers and buy horses, and you can survive for as long as you can survive. Therefore, the desperate Chongzhen Emperor could only watch the inheritance created by the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang die in his own hands.
The night before Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he called his wives and daughters to his side one by one, and for the empress and noble concubines who knew the general body, they took the initiative to hang themselves and ended their lives. His daughter and other concubines were miserable. Watching the people closest to him, he stabbed his sword into his body with his own hands and watched him bleed to death.
The Chongzhen Emperor seemed cruel to his daughters and killed them with his own hands, but this was actually the best ending. The reason why the Chongzhen Emperor wanted to kill them with his own hands was because he understood a truth, but he just couldn't bear to tell his wife and daughter, and he didn't want them to discover such a terrible secret in the world before they died.
Generally speaking, the people who have been fighting for many years are not good people, and those rebels hate the royal family to the bone, so after the fall of the country, the women of the royal family cannot escape the fate of being insulted one by one. Either they became someone else's wives and concubines, which was still good, or they were used as military prostitutes and tortured to death.
Moreover, the soldiers under Li Zicheng are some rogues with no quality. Li Zicheng did not govern the army strictly, and once the city of Beijing was breached, the women who stayed behind would inevitably be doomed.
Therefore, the Chongzhen Emperor had to kill his wife and daughter for the sake of his wife and daughter' humiliation.