After Chongzhen was "exposed", where did he go? The results are not too bad
The Chongzhen Emperor, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty at the time of the great unification, about how he lost the Ming Dynasty, many books have narratives, mostly attributed to his personality, four words - rigid self-use. When Chongzhen hanged himself under the old locust tree with his crooked neck, he wrote the last edict on his clothes, in which he blamed the ministers for the demise of Daming, which was the famous four words: "The ministers misled me." In this edict, Chongzhen also mentions six words: "Ren Thief Splits the Corpse."
Before Chongzhen hanged himself, he must have thought that the thief hated himself to the bone and would definitely frustrate himself to the ashes, so he wrote these six words. However, perhaps because Li Zicheng and the Chongzhen Emperor did not have a direct personal contradiction, after Li Zicheng found the Chongzhen Emperor, he did not frustrate the ashes, but exposed the corpse to the public as punishment.
Li Zicheng first found Empress Zhou's body. Empress Zhou committed suicide a day before Chongzhen's concubines, but because the shouts of death were already far heard at this time, Chongzhen did not have time to engage in any of the empress's future life, and the Great Shun Army easily found her body. The next day, Chongzhen's body was found in coal mountain, and Li Zicheng's hanging heart was put down. He ordered the corpses of Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou to be placed on the door panel and exposed to the donghua gate for public display. It did not "allow thieves to split the corpse" as predicted by the Chongzhen Emperor.
In the last few days of the Chongzhen Emperor, there were already many rebels around him, the ministers were playing their own small calculations, and even Chongzhen personally knocked on the door of Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and no one paid any attention to him. What was Zhu Chunchen doing, he was planning to turn to Li Zicheng. At this juncture, the palm seal eunuch Cao Huachun actually said: "If (Wei) Zhongxian is here, current affairs will not end here." Obviously, in the eyes of this eunuch, Chongzhen's ability was inferior to Wei Zhongxian's.
When Chongzhen and Empress Zhou exposed their corpses, many Ming Dynasty widows walked past Chongzhen's corpse when they entered the palace to congratulate the new master Li Zicheng, and they all stared at them. Even with a little compassion, I don't dare to make a difference. Li Zi became a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and at the suggestion of some Ming ministers who were not afraid of death, he agreed to let Chongzhen enter the soil for safety.
However, the Chongzhen Emperor did not repair the mausoleum for himself in advance, and Li Zicheng was still busy dealing with the Qing army, where there was any sincerity to really bury Chongzhen. Therefore, how to bury Chongzhen for a while became a troublesome matter. Later, some people suggested that it was better to bury the Chongzhen Emperor in Tian Guifei's underground palace, and Li Zicheng pushed the boat along the water and agreed, so that it could indeed save a lot of trouble.
Chongzhen's Concubine Tian Guifei was quite favored during her lifetime, and after her death in 1642, Chongzhen also placed a portrait of her and her mother Empress Liu at the Changchun Temple. Tian Guifei was only buried in the first month of 1644, so it was only two months before Chongzhen's death, so it is no wonder that some people thought of burying Chongzhen in Tian Guifei's mausoleum. Tian Guifei's mausoleum was hastily built by Chongzhen in the context of internal and external difficulties, the scale can be imagined, it must be very shabby, and the ground building has not been repaired at this time.
Li Zicheng could not have personally sent people, and he asked the remnants of the Ming Dynasty to do this. Finally, under the prevarication of all parties, Tian Guifei's underground palace was finally opened. After opening Tian Guifei's underground palace, push Tian Guifei's coffin from the coffin bed to the right, Chongzhen's in the middle, and Empress Zhou's on the left. Due to the haste, and because no one really wanted to do something to repay Chongzhen, no one actually built a rafter for him, only a thin willow coffin. As soon as someone saw that there was a rafter on the outside of Tian Guifei's coffin, they took this rafter off and put it on Chongzhen's coffin. Finally, I am grateful for the old grace.
Soon Li Zicheng was driven away by the Qing army. After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, in order to buy people's hearts, the mausoleum with the Chongzhen Emperor, Empress Zhou, and Tian Guifei was named "SiLing" and built an above-ground building. It became one of the Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty. The ancients attached great importance to the affairs behind them, and the beautiful burial was a mourning honor that many people wanted to enjoy, but it was impossible for Chongzhen. He had expected himself to be split up ("Ren Thief Splitting corpse"), but the result was not too bad.