Zhu Yuanzhang worked hard to defeat the opponents of the world, drove out the Yuan Dynasty, established Daming, and started a business that was very difficult! Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted Daming to be passed on forever, but his descendants disappointed him. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644 AD), Li Zicheng attacked the capital, Chongzhen hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty fell. Although Chongzhen was the king of the fallen country, the blame for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was not his.
The demise of an empire is not a day's work that can make it collapse in an instant, but it is deposited for a long time, and finally it cannot be supported, and it collapses in an instant. The road to the demise of the Ming Empire did not begin during the Chongzhen period, but during the Wanli period.
From the beginning of the Wanli Emperor, the Ming Dynasty began to decline and gradually declined. Later generations did not have an emperor with great talent, unable to reverse the situation and achieve ZTE, and could only let the Ming Dynasty decline and could not change, and finally Chongzhen watched the Ming Dynasty perish.
The last years of the Ming Dynasty were not incurable, when the Ming Dynasty still had good generals and sages, Chongzhen had "two dragons" in his hands, these two dragons could change daming, but the Ming Dynasty was as stable as Mount Tai, but they were all slaughtered by him.
Chongzhen only understood before he died, but unfortunately it was already too late. Chongzhen's "first dragon" is Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Phi Dao. Mao Wenlong's behavior verified a phenomenon, that is, the Mountain High Emperor Yuan.
Mao Wenlong sat on Phi Dao, while resisting Hou Jin, on the other hand in front of the "Earth Emperor", the Shangao Emperor was far away, and Chongzhen could not control him.
After Yuan Chonghuan came to Phi Dao, he saw what Mao Wenlong had done, and his heart was very dissatisfied, coupled with Mao Wenlong's arrogant attitude, he did not take Yuan Chonghuan in his eyes at all, so Yuan Chonghuan decided to kill him. Yuan Chonghuan secretly captured Mao Wenlong and killed him.
Chongzhen was shocked to hear that Mao Wenlong had been killed, and in order to appease Yuan Chonghuan, he counted Mao Wenlong's crimes and praised Yuan Chonghuan for doing a good job. Mao Wenlong's military talent is worthy of recognition, but he likes to be greedy for money and is insatiably greedy.
Chongzhen's "second dragon" is the He Ren Dragon, known as the "He Madman". During the Chongzhen period, there were internal and external troubles, internal troubles were Li Zicheng's uprising, and external troubles were Later Jin invasions. Mao Wenlong and Yuan Chonghuan were guarded by Mao Wenlong and Yuan Chonghuan in the Liaodong region, but Chongzhen slaughtered them both, so that Hou Jin was unscrupulous.
Li Zicheng's rebel army rebelled in the northwest, and He Renlong led the troops to quell the rebellion, and his merits were outstanding. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640 AD), He Renlong surrounded and suppressed Zhang Xianzhong, and Yang Sichang promised He Renlong in advance to make him a "Ping Thief General", so He Renlong was very hard in battle.
After the Ming army defeated Zhang Xianzhong, Yang Sichang gave Zuo Liangyu the "Ping Thief General", which made He Renlong very dissatisfied, so that he later stopped fighting. In the ensuing battles, He Renlong protected himself and did not fight the rebel army, which led to the defeat of the Ming army and the death of Wang Qiaonian.
Chongzhen was furious when he heard this, and ordered he to be killed, and he died. He Renlong never dreamed that he did not die on the battlefield, but was killed by his own emperor. The Ming army lost in the northwest, and eventually Li Zicheng attacked the capital, Chongzhen hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty fell.
Mao Wenlong resisted Houjin and He Renlong quelled the rebellion, and the two maintained daming's stability. But Chongzhen killed them both, and the pillars supporting the Ming Empire were missing two, could the Ming Dynasty not collapse?
References: "History of Ming", "Northern Outline of the Ming Dynasty", "Ming Shilu", etc