A king is not a king of a subjugated country, but a subject of a subjugated country!
In the seventeenth year of Ming Chongzhen (1644 AD), the "courier brother" Li Zicheng led an army to attack the city of Beijing, Chongzhen was cornered, accompanied by eunuchs, he came to the coal mountain, and finally hanged himself to end his life.
The Son of Heaven guards the gate of the country, the king dies in the society, and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would rather die standing than live on his knees. Chongzhen chose to commit suicide, and before he died, he shouted loudly: "The king is not the king of the subjugated country, and the subjects are the subjects of the subjugated country!" ”
Chongzhen means that daming died not his fault, but the fault of the courtiers.
Chongzhen once asked a person for help several times, hoping that he could send troops to save him, but this person had 800,000 heavy troops in his hands, he just refused to send troops, saw death and did not save, and watched the ming dynasty perish, this person was Zuo Liangyu.
Zuo Liangyu was a ming general who had been defending Liaodong against the Qing army. Later, after Li Zicheng's uprising, Zuo Liangyu was sent to suppress the rebel army, and the team gradually developed and grew, becoming a prince of the party.
People are prone to swelling, especially upstarts like Zuo Liangyu. In the process of quelling the rebel army, Zuo Liangyu continued to recruit troops, and the team suddenly grew to 800,000 people.
At this time, Zuo Liangyu swelled, he supported the army and respected himself, did not listen to the instructions of the imperial court, Chongzhen asked him to suppress the rebel army, he did not go, Chongzhen asked him to return to Jingqin Wang to protect, he did not dare.
Chongzhen did not want to die, nor did he want Daming to die, so he begged Zuo Liangyu to return to Jingqin To protect him and save his life, but Zuo Liangyu was not moved. As a result, Li Zicheng attacked the city of Beijing, Chongzhen hanged himself, and Daming perished.
When Zuo Liangyu heard that Chongzhen was dead, he cried bitterly and vomited blood. Since Zuo Liangyu was worried about Chongzhen in his heart, why did he not send troops to save him, but Chongzhen died, he was a little sad.
In the second year of Qing Shunzhi (1645 AD), Zuo Liangyu was so kind that he attacked Nanjing under the banner of "Qing Jun's Side", and as a result, he died of illness in the middle of the road, ending his life.
Zuo Liangyu was originally Daming's savior, but instead of saving Chongzhen, he watched from the sidelines. After Chongzhen's death, Southern Ming was established, but Zuo Liangyu began a civil war again, he did not go to the north to resist the Qing, but instead fought a civil war, consuming the living strength of Southern Ming, and as a result, Southern Ming also perished.
Zuo Liangyu could have become Daming's savior, but he didn't expect to become Daming's gravedigger, which was really hard to say!
References: "History of the Ming", "Records of the Ming Dynasty", "Guoyu", etc