"A woman's talentlessness is morality", such an idea imprisoned the words and deeds of women in feudal society, but there are also some women who break this shackle, such as Gao Guiying, the empress of Li Zicheng. In fact, the name Gao Guiying was invented by later generations, taken from the famous hero "Mu Guiying". The historical Empress Gao left only a surname, and the name is not known.
From a village widow to an empress of a country, Gao Guiying's experience is legendary, but even a woman like Empress Gao has not been able to leave her full name in history, and the prejudice and oppression of women in feudal society are clearly visible. As a woman, Gao Guiying's whole life was tied to Li Zicheng's wife, and after Li Zicheng's death, Gao Guiying's end was little known.
Li Zicheng became acquainted with Gao Guiying during his recuperation
When Gao Guiying first met Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng was just a young general who fled with his brother. Although Gao Guiying is a woman, but gao family shangwu, she and her brother Gao Yigong have martial arts in the body, since Li Zicheng arrived at the Gao family, Gao Guiying often discussed martial arts with him.
Like Li Zicheng, only a talented, good-looking, gentle woman like Gao Guiying can really enter his heart, so it didn't take long for the two people to exchange hearts. It's just that because of Gao Guiying's identity, no one knows how to break through this layer of window paper.
Long before Li Zicheng arrived at the Gao family, Gao Guiying had already become a young widow. In ancient times, the reputation of widows was not good, Gao Guiying was worried that Li Zicheng would dislike himself, Li Zicheng did not know whether Gao Guiying was willing to remarry, and the relationship between the two people was frozen.
This kind of situation where Lang has a concubine intention, once both sides are ashamed to open their mouths, it is likely to miss it, fortunately, the two people have a big assist - Gao Guiying's younger brother Gao Yigong. The relationship between Gao Yigong and Li Zicheng is very good, and at the same time, he also sees the ambiguous relationship between his sister and Li Zicheng, so he takes the initiative to connect the two people and achieve this marriage.
Since their marriage, the relationship between Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying has become more and more intimate, and the two often study moves together. Gao Guiying often had some strange ideas, and sometimes even Li Zicheng had no choice but to bow down and concede defeat. Unfortunately, this period of love soon ended, and the official government learned of Li Zicheng's whereabouts through tracking.
After Li Zicheng ascended the throne, gao Guiying was made his successor
So Li Zicheng quickly left the Gao family with Gao Guiying and Gao Yigong's sisters and brothers to join the peasant rebel army. While Li Zicheng and Gao Yigong were busy leading the army, Gao Guiying also formed a detachment of women and followed Li Zicheng in leading the army.
In fact, Gao Guiying not only led the women's army he formed, but also often temporarily replaced Li Zicheng to command the peasant rebel army, so Gao Guiying was very highly respected in the rebel army. Not long after, Li Zicheng destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor who was far away in the capital simply hanged himself after learning that the rebel army was unstoppable, refusing to face the reality of the ming dynasty's demise.
Li Zicheng, who had been fighting all the way to the capital, soon established his own regime, Dashun. After ascending the throne as emperor, Li Zicheng's first thing was to make Gao Guiying empress, which was originally a good story of "sharing hardships with the rich and noble", but unfortunately Li Zicheng was only emperor for 42 days, and he was expelled from the capital.
As for the reason for Li Zicheng's eventual defeat, it is natural that he has never been able to get rid of his class attributes. Li Zicheng was a ten-tenth peasant, and although he had been a general during the uprising, his thinking had not grown with the expansion of the rebel army's power, and his understanding of the contradictions between the peasant class and the landlord class was seriously insufficient.
The root cause of the eventual collapse of the Ming government was not the infighting of the ruling class, but the severe reduction in agricultural production caused by years of famine, which could not supply the government's financial needs. Although Li Zicheng overthrew the rule of the Ming Dynasty, he was never able to resolve this contradiction. Moreover, Li Zicheng was very easily satisfied, believing that the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty's rule had already achieved the final victory, and as for how to govern the country later, he did not have an overall framework of thinking.
At the same time, Li Zicheng also ignored the threat outside the Guanwai, leaving the Manchus with opportunities for development, and by the time Li Zicheng invaded the capital, the Manchus were already very powerful. Moreover, Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty who originally guarded the border pass, defected to the Manchus, providing convenience for the Manchus to enter the pass.
After the defeat, Gao Guiying was still fighting against the Qing army
After being expelled from Beijing, Li Zicheng and others went into exile and were eventually forced to the Nine Palaces Mountain. Here, Li Zicheng was killed as a thief by several farmers, which has completely become a thing of the past. After Li Zicheng's death, Gao Guiying did not become depressed, but together with Li Zicheng's nephew, he gathered the remnants of Li Zicheng's forces and defected to other rebel armies.
Gao Guiying, like Li Zicheng, was insensitive to political struggles and other issues, and thought that as long as the war was won, everything that had been done before could be regained, and this somewhat simple political ideology was incompatible with the leadership of the new rebel army. Fortunately, Gao Guiying was good at fighting, so the rebel army did not reject her joining.
Although Li Zicheng is dead, the process of entering the Manchu Qing Customs is not as easy as later generations imagined. Both the peasant rebels in various places at that time and the remnants of the Ming government have been obstructing each other on the way to the Manchu Customs. As Li Zicheng's wife, Gao Guiying's identity was able to rally many peasants to join the ranks of the new rebel army.
After all, Li Zicheng was the leader of the peasant rebel army that had already invaded the capital and won victories, and his name had a very strong appeal to the peasants, as the empress that Li Zicheng had personally crowned, after his death, Gao Guiying was the spokesman for Li Zicheng in the hearts of the people. Moreover, Gao Guiying's martial arts were very strong, and he repeatedly performed miraculous feats in subsequent battles, and was also commended by the Ming Government.
After the capital was destroyed, the Ming Dynasty was actually destroyed, but there were still some old Ming courtiers gathered together, re-formed a Ming government, and considered themselves to be the orthodox Ming Dynasty, and it was this new Ming government that rewarded Gao Guiying.
epilogue
Unfortunately, no matter how high Gao Guiying's military talent is, she cannot change the status quo within the rebel army: there are many contradictions within the ruling group, everyone only cares about the struggle for power and profit, and does not care about the war situation at all, and it is impossible for Gao Guiying alone to win all wars. To make matters worse, Gao Guiying's younger brother Gao Yigong was killed by a sneak attack because of the internal seizure of power.
Faced with the death of his brother, Gao Guiying knew that the general situation was gone, and he refused to surrender and admit defeat or be captured and humiliated, so he simply chose to set himself on fire. Gao Guiying's life, seemingly dashing and comfortable, in fact, there are many unavoidable, even after being crowned empress, she has not really been able to live a rich and idle life, and the end of self-immolation and death is even more regrettable.
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