Chongzhen seventeen years, March, Forbidden City. The Chongzhen Emperor sat on the dragon chair, his expression seemed to be a little excited, seemed to have some expectations, and the courtiers fell to the ground trembling, not daring to look up. "If you have a little suggestion, you will not follow it." The sincere voice of the Chongzhen Emperor echoed in the main hall, but a magical scene appeared, and all the courtiers just prostrated their heads and did not care about their words.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was full of internal and external troubles, and natural and man-made disasters came at the same time. The peasant army has been revolting for more than ten years, from Beijing to the south, Nanjing to the north, thousands of miles across, full of white bones, sparsely populated, and sparsely populated. Li Zicheng's army had arrived outside Beijing, and Li Zicheng asked someone to bring a message to the Chongzhen Emperor in the hope of peace talks. The condition put forward was that the king of the northwest should be paid a million taels of silver, and that he would not be ordered to visit him.
Compared with the subjugation of the country, these three conditions are very favorable, and this is the only chance to save the Ming Dynasty. However, no matter how Chongzhen asked, the courtiers in Manchuria just had no one to respond to him, not a single one. Finally, in the early morning of the nineteenth, Li Zicheng attacked the city of Beijing, and the rebels entered through the Zhangyi Gate. The Chongzhen Emperor could not go out of the city, and rang the bell in the front hall to gather hundreds of officials, but none of them came. At the end of the dynasty, someone always had to close it with blood, and Chongzhen chose to die with dignity and hang himself.
"The courtiers have miscarried, the monarchs have died, and the world of two hundred and seventy-seven years, once abandoned, is the mistake of the traitors, and as far as this is concerned." In the end, Chongzhen hanged himself on the crooked neck tree of Jingshan Mountain, and died on his left foot and a red shoe on his right foot, at the age of 33, accompanied only by the eunuch Wang Cheng'en. When Chongzhen asked, why did everyone remain silent and not open their mouths? It's not that I don't want to, it's that I don't Because the Chongzhen Emperor was too good at "throwing the pot".
The most typical thing, when the Ming Dynasty fought with the Houjin and the rebels at the same time, the two-front battle was really unbearable, but no one dared to mention the matter of peace. Because in the Ming Dynasty, "the king died in the society", negotiating peace was a felony and a "surrender faction" that was spurned by people. Chongzhen was reluctant to come forward, so he secretly instructed Chen Xinjia, the head of the military department, to preside over the discussion and work of Hou Jin. Unexpectedly, the news leaked, the imperial court was in an uproar, and everyone was indignant, accusing Chen Xinjia of betraying the country and seeking glory.
At the critical moment, as the emperor, as the mastermind behind the discussion, Chongzhen should stand up to stabilize people's hearts and clearly point out the necessity of peace, but Chongzhen retreated, he shirked his responsibility, saying that this was all done by Chen Xinjia behind his back, and ordered Chen Xinjia to be killed. On the surface, the Chongzhen Emperor seems to have quite an imperial heart, and does not express his attitude in everything, letting his subordinates bring it up and do it again, and if he fails, he is also the subordinate who carries the pot, and it has nothing to do with himself.
However, people are not fools, and when they come and go, they can see the true face of Chongzhen, and everyone is chilled. Therefore, this time with Li Chuang, none of the ministers dared to speak out, and even Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the cabinet, pretended to be deaf, because everyone knew that if he spoke out now, in case of discussion and failure in the future, he would absolutely be thrown out by the emperor to carry the black cauldron. Even more pitiful is Chongzhen, the country has reached the brink of destruction, he does not dare to stand up and boldly assume responsibility.
Before Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, Chongzhen had called on the king of the world to work hard, and personally named several generals, including Wu Sangui, Liu Zeqing, Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, Tang Tong, and others. As a result, only Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief of Miyun, led 8,000 soldiers and horses to the capital qinwang. Tang Tong led the troops to come, which made Chongzhen breathe a sigh of relief, but he did a ridiculous thing and sent the eunuch Du Zhizhi to supervise the army.
This move showed that Tang Tong could not be trusted, and this made Tang Tong angry enough, and just after giving the emperor loyalty, "willing to sacrifice his body to repay the effect, so that the culprit will be annihilated as soon as possible", the emperor sent a slave to monitor him. Then Tang Tong went to guard Juyongguan, but when Li Zicheng's army arrived, Du Zhizhi surrendered on the spot, and Tang Tong also surrendered when he saw it, which was equivalent to no effect.
As for the other Qin Wang generals who were named, one was more than one strange. Wu Sangui grinded and rubbed all the way, and Chongzhen did not wait for him until he died. Liu Zeqing lied that he had fallen on horseback and refused to obey the edict. Zuo Liangyu adopted the "dragging word trick", said nothing and did not send troops, and sat and watched the fall of Beijing. Huang Degong yin and yang violated the law, but also refused to obey the commandment. Why would the generals be like this? The focus was still on the Chongzhen Emperor.
The Chongzhen Emperor did not trust the military generals, and was very harsh on the military generals, and his consistent style was to suppress the military generals with eunuchs, and even a eunuch could decide the life and death of the military generals. Lu Xiangsheng, who was loyal and patriotic, was killed by Gao Qiqian, a eunuch sent by Chongzhen, in partnership with the chancellor Yang Sichang. Sun Chuanting was killed in battle after the fall of Tongguan, and the Chongzhen Emperor actually thought that he had absconded by deception and had not yet given him a gift, which could be said to have completely chilled the hearts of the generals in the world. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty is already a building that will fall, and what king is still diligent? It is better to retreat and protect yourself.
Chongzhen has a strong rebellious mentality, and his favorite thing is to induce the group of ministers to say their own ideas, and then suddenly do the opposite, proposing a completely opposite plan, regardless of whether this plan is good or bad, and triumphantly thinks that it is the Imperial Heart Technique. Chongzhen lacked courage, and he actually had several chances to escape from death. If king Chuang could decisively move the capital to Nanjing when he marched into the Beijing Division, Chongzhen still had a chance.
However, at the critical moment, he played a little clever trick again, and wanted his ministers to move south. As a result, the yanguan asked him who would bear the responsibility for abandoning the ancestral society, and he immediately instigated it, and did not dare to explicitly support the southward migration and stand up and take responsibility. On the one hand, he asks people to do things, and on the other hand, he refuses to bear the responsibility of the big brother, how can such a big brother be long-lasting?