After the Chongzhen Emperor became emperor, he had a good hand of cards in his hand, but unfortunately he didn't catch anything and ended up with chicken feathers.
In the early days of the Chongzhen Emperor's ascension to the throne, there were six super famous generals next to Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao, Yuan Chonghuan, and Hong Chengzu, who could have easily handled the big problems of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Huang Taiji and other confidants with good use, but the character defects of the Chongzhen Emperor made him faint one after another, so that the good situation was completely lost, and finally ended up hanging on the coal mountain.
Before Beijing was attacked by Li Zicheng, the Chongzhen Emperor had the opportunity to move the capital to Jiangnan, but the Chongzhen Emperor was unwilling to take on the corresponding responsibilities, and eventually the opportunity for life passed away.
For this reason, countless people feel that if the Chongzhen Emperor chooses to move south, there may not be a matter of hanging himself on the coal mountain, accompanying the capital Nanjing as the former capital of the Ming Dynasty, the loyalty of southern officials is naturally needless to say, so many people think that once the Chongzhen Emperor moves south, it will not continue for more than a hundred years like the Southern Song Dynasty.
In 1644, Li Zicheng's peasant army was getting closer and closer to the city of Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emperor was very worried, so he discussed the southward move with his ministers in the court, and many ministers agreed to move the capital to the relative safety of Nanjing.
Many ministers loyal to the Ming Dynasty came up with their own plans, and Feng Yuanbiao, the governor of Tianjin, even prepared two hundred ships and five thousand cavalry, and as soon as the Chongzhen Emperor decided to move south, they would quickly come to Beijing to escort him to Nanjing. This was a foolproof plan, but the Chongzhen Emperor never made up his mind, and finally missed the last opportunity.
It is reasonable to say that the Chongzhen Emperor should move south, after all, nanjing city as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the relevant equipment is in place, the Chongzhen Emperor can immediately work after arriving in Nanjing, after all, the ministers do not dare to oppose him, after all, he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the prestige is still there.
The reason why the Chongzhen Emperor did not move south was that the Qingliu in the middle of the dynasty was bad, and they felt that the Chongzhen Emperor should follow the ancestral precepts of "the son of heaven guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the society" At this time, moving south will make the Ming Dynasty lose its inheritance and blood, which really should not be.
Under the bad hands of this group of mediocre courtiers, the Chongzhen Emperor lost the final opportunity, and finally came to the end of his life and hanged himself on the coal mountain, and after the Chongzhen Emperor left, he once persuaded the Chongzhen Emperor that the qingliu did not choose martyrdom like him, but directly chose to surrender after Li Zicheng's army entered the city.
The Chongzhen Emperor's hesitation made him miss the last opportunity to save the Ming Dynasty, and from this incident, it can be seen that the Chongzhen Emperor did not employ enough people, and his ability and vision were not enough to save the Ming Dynasty.
From another point of view, if the Chongzhen Emperor moved south, would it make the Ming Dynasty continue for more than two hundred years like the Southern Ming.
As the orthodox monarch of the Ming Dynasty, the Chongzhen Emperor had no suspense at all about sitting on the throne in Nanjing, but the question is, after the Chongzhen Emperor was stabilized in Nanjing, did he have the ability to save the crisis?
To understand this problem, we can analyze it from the following aspects.
1, the Chongzhen Emperor is a bloody emperor, it is true, but in fact, the Chongzhen Emperor in addition to some blood, but his ability is not enough to save the crisis, ascended the throne as the emperor, first got rid of Wei Zhongxian, and then Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao, Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengyu six top famous generals, in his divine operation, one after another tragic death, can be described as a good hand to play rotten.
After the death of these people, the Ming Dynasty no longer had the talents available, and in the face of such a difficult background, the Chongzhen Emperor continued to operate, making the situation worse day by day, and finally allowing the Ming Dynasty to completely perish for 276 years.
The Chongzhen Emperor did not dare to compliment people, and the capable people died one after another under the operation of his gods, while those who were incapable of only bragging and patting on the back were reused, and after these people came to power, they did not do anything all day, and finally let the Ming Dynasty completely perish.
2. In addition to the major problems in the employment of the Chongzhen Emperor, his own ability was also difficult to save the terminally ill Ming Dynasty, and after he ascended the throne, there were Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong revolts, and there were emperor Taiji tigers, and worse, the Chinese military ministers were still fighting among themselves.
For the sake of their own selfish interests, the Donglin Party members in power in the DPRK and China completely disregarded the overall situation, opposed the collection of taxes on businessmen, and put all the pressure on the people, which made the pressure on the people very heavy, and finally they could not bear it and rose up without revealing it, and it can be said that the crime of the Donglin Party in the destruction of the Ming Dynasty is unforgivable. This group of civilian officials who did not put the interests of the state first assisted the Chongzhen Emperor, and the Ming Dynasty could last a long time, but it did not exist at all.
Civilian officials are unreliable, the military general group is also a group of mediocre generals, they completely disregard the interests of the country, have always put the expansion of their own strength in the first place, regardless of whether the country is dead or alive, the Chongzhen Emperor is helpless in the face of the death of this group of people, but he has no way, can only step by step yield, let them get the benefits they want. But this group of warriors gained relevant benefits, and did not intend to be loyal to the country at all, but at a critical time, either to run away or to preserve their strength.
In summary:
The Chongzhen Emperor's ability was insufficient, and there were such god teammates next to him who were unwilling to cooperate, so I felt that even if the Chongzhen Emperor went to Nanjing, it could only last for a period of time, and it was unlikely that the Ming Dynasty would continue for more than a hundred years, after all, the group of people around him could not support the wall at all.
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