History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
As the old saying goes, "Thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi", this is not false at all. In ancient China, there were a few who completed the transformation from the people at the bottom to the supreme ruler of a political power, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, who was a monk who rang bells in the temple at the beginning, and later stepped into the position of the emperor step by step; for example, Liu Bang, the earliest was also a famous poppi in the township, the boss was not small, he was only a small official of the pavilion chief, and finally became the emperor. These two are a model of grassroots counterattack, but the one we want to talk about today is also a grassroots counterattack, but in the end it failed to really open up a new dynasty and ended hastily. This person is Li Zicheng, the king of the intruders.
Li Zicheng was born at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and originally he was safe and stable as an errand boy in the caravanserai, and he did not have any ideal ambitions to break new ground. As a result, after the Chongzhen Emperor took the throne, there was a major change of blood inside and outside the imperial court, and many institutions were streamlined, followed by a wide range of layoffs, and Li Zicheng was unfortunately laid off and lost his job. Li Zicheng had no way to live, so he joined the peasant rebel army against the imperial court. As a result, Li Zicheng became better and better mixed in the peasant rebel army, and finally became the biggest commander. Li Zicheng led a peasant rebel army into the Ming Palace, and the Chongzhen Emperor was forced to kill his wife and daughter with his own hands, and then "hang himself on the southeast branch". Daming perished.
Li Zicheng entered the Ming Palace, and it was said that he could prepare to become emperor in a down-to-earth manner. However, Before Li Zicheng's ass was hot, he fled from the Ming Palace in a hurry, and finally died on the Nine Palace Mountain, ending up in a different place.
At that time, although Li Zicheng had hundreds of thousands of peasant troops, he also occupied the Ming Palace. However, the world is not up to him alone, in addition to Li Zicheng, there are several powerful forces spying on Daming Jiangshan. These included the Manchu Bannermen, as well as the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Wu Sangui, and the dozens of local kings who were crowned by the Ming Dynasty, who together also had more than a million military strength, and it was obviously impossible for Li Zicheng to deal with so many enemies alone. And Li Zicheng entered the palace, which was equivalent to putting himself in opposition to everyone.
Moreover, after Li Zicheng entered the Ming Palace, he did not win over those former courtiers, but instead killed these people, and the money was also squeezed clean, exposing his nature at a glance. Anyone who wants to build a new dynasty on the ruins of the old dynasty is a very effective means of co-opting the old ministers, and Li Zicheng obviously does not realize this.
Moreover, Li Zicheng should not have let his men rob Wu Sangui's beauty Chen Yuanyuan. Originally, Li Zicheng had already negotiated with Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui had already surrendered to Li Zicheng. As a result, Wu Sangui heard that Chen Yuanyuan had been robbed, and returned to the Shanhaiguan station in a fit of rage. Li Zicheng did not spare, and led his troops to fight against Wu Sangui, only to be beaten to the point of losing his armor and claiming that the emperor's capital, hundreds of thousands of peasant troops, was also killed. Li Zicheng returned to Mingdu, declared himself emperor in a panic, and then withdrew from Mingdu. As a result, Li Zicheng was killed while marching on the Nine Palaces Mountain, and the life of the king was over.