The Chongzhen Emperor was a tragic emperor in history, although he himself was very industrious, but the world had decayed to that point, which could not be changed by human beings, and the Chongzhen Emperor's own ability was not outstanding, so the Ming Dynasty perished in his hands.
However, although the Chongzhen Emperor died, history continued, especially at the time when Li Zicheng came in and Chongzhen had just died, and the lives in the Forbidden City were full of people, which was really ironic.
Some scholars have even directly pointed out that the reason why Li Zicheng's regime was not long-lasting can actually be seen as early as when he was dealing with the Chongzhen Emperor. So what's going on here?
As we all know, as soon as the Chongzhen Emperor came to power, he was sandwiched in the middle, and there were Jurchen people in the north who harassed him every day, and Gao Yingxiang rebelled every day in the south. Under these two phases, the Chongzhen Emperor was very busy, and because the two forces could not be destroyed, Chongzhen repeated every day in the cycle of demolishing the eastern wall and supplementing the western wall.
Under this toss, the Chongzhen Emperor turned pale, and the teenage man was like an eighty-year-old man. However, the rebel army's troops were getting bigger and bigger, and the Jurchen tribe was getting stronger and stronger. In the end, the new king Li Zicheng directly led 500,000 troops to kill, and all the generals along the way either chose to surrender or flee directly.
Finally, at the last moment of Chongzhen's 17th year, Li Zicheng's troops were about to break through the Forbidden City, and the Ming Dynasty was coming to an end.
At such a tragic moment, the Chongzhen Emperor finally chose to martyr himself, first killing his own empress and his own imperial concubine Empress Zhang, and then cutting his own eldest princess, killing the little princess, and sending several princes and princes.
After doing all this, the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, leaving only one sentence, And so on, so as not to hurt my people.
When the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, Li Zicheng finally broke through the Forbidden City, and the ancient imperial city finally greeted his arrival. Just as Li Zicheng walked into the palace step by step, he quickly ordered everyone to look for the Chongzhen Emperor and kill him if anyone dared to hide.
Not long after, the body of the Chongzhen Emperor was sent to Li Zicheng' face, facing the emperor who was once high, and now it was only a corpse lying at his feet, and Li Zicheng's heart was also full of emotion.
However, Li Zicheng was still a bit particular, he helped the Chongzhen Emperor collect the corpse, and also began to summon Ming officials to let them see the former emperor.
The more ironic record comes that among the officials of the Ming Dynasty, only thirty people knelt down to worship the Chongzhen Emperor and cried loudly, and more than 60 people bowed to the Chongzhen Emperor, but there were no tears on their faces. As for the other people, they didn't dare to look at it, and they took a detour directly.
I have to say that this scene is really ironic, this is the so-called Iron Bone Ming Dynasty Minister, this is the Donglin Party who has been fighting with the castration party for decades, and its integrity is simply inferior to that of a three-year-old child.
Of course, during this period, there were still people who could not look at it, and this person's name was Li Guozhen. He was the one who knelt there and cried, and because he was more senior and prestigious, Li Zicheng wanted to take him in. Although this person chose to surrender, he still made some requests, for example, to bury the Chongzhen Emperor well, not to destroy the emperor's mausoleum, and not to hurt the children of the Chongzhen Emperor
In the face of these three requests, Li Zicheng agreed very generously, after all, Li Zicheng was at this time at a time of self-satisfaction, and there was no need to do things too badly.
However, although Li Zicheng's superficial approach has been recognized by everyone, his actual approach is somewhat unauthentic. At first, Li Zicheng thought that burying the Chongzhen Emperor was to send him directly to the grave. But he never expected that when the funeral was really started, the Chongzhen Emperor did not repair the mausoleum at all, and if he temporarily built a mausoleum for him, it would cost a lot of money and need a lot of material resources.
Therefore, Li Zicheng was not happy about this, and the good promise he had originally promised was simply abandoned. Of course, superficial kung fu still had to be done, so Li Zicheng ordered that the Chongzhen Emperor be buried in Tian Guifei's tomb, but the expenses and preparations required were directly ignored by Li Zicheng, but handed over to the local government to be responsible.
You must know that in that era, Li Zicheng's own army could not eat enough, and the local area was plundered several times, and where was the money to bury an emperor. But Li Zicheng did not care, the order was issued, how to implement it is the business of these people, he only wants to see the results.
Therefore, the local officials finally relied on human feelings, everyone volunteered to donate, and they gathered 200 taels of silver back and forth, relying on a little money that was hard to squeeze out, and then packed up the emperor and the empress to bury together.
It should be known that among the emperors in the history of the Ming Dynasty, each emperor was buried on a grand scale, and its cost was at least 5 million taels. Even if the Wanli Emperor had a wedding that year, it cost 10 million. As a result, the Chongzhen Emperor worked all his life, and in the end it was 200 taels of silver and the empress packed and buried, which was how ironic.
However, in the face of the actions of his subordinates, Li Zicheng simply did not see his heart, he directly turned his head and told everyone that the Chongzhen Emperor had been installed, the promise of that year had been fulfilled, and everyone would welcome the new era together.
However, people are watching the sky, and ordinary people and readers are also looking at it coldly. As a new ruler, although Li Zicheng represented the interests of the peasant class, it was true in the early days, but just through this matter, everyone realized that the self-interest of self-reliance may not be a good person.
For the readers, the emperor used to be a believer, and now Li Zicheng treats the emperor like garbage, so this has aroused the anger of a large number of readers and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty.
Against this background, the officials' displeasure with Li Zicheng had already begun, especially the minister who had made the pledge above. But Li Zicheng was unconscious, still intoxicated by his victory.
Obviously, this self-intoxication not only made Li Zicheng lose his clear understanding of things, but also made his brain confused. Sure enough, Li Zicheng later broke up with the civilian-official clique completely, and actually forced them to pay money by beating and torturing them to confess, and then had the audacity to leave them in the rear and carry Wu Sangui himself.
To put it bluntly, li zicheng can do things in this way, which is definitely a historical joke. Therefore, Li Zicheng's defeat actually began very early, not a stone battle, nor a shanhaiguan battle, but the attitude when facing Chongzhen, he had already lost a complete defeat.
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