Look at Ming Xianzong
You will find that I will go and face the same situation
Young people ascending the throne, barbarian invasions in the north, domestic displaced people, the country has no money,
There is one more Mongolian than Chongzhen who also comes to trick-or-treaters, and everyone often jokes that a billionaire, not afraid of children is a loser, thinking that how you lose can not be defeated (saying that I black Qianlong's rolling to the wall) is afraid of ambition to start a business (Yang Guang: Meow meow? ）
But in fact, when the country is in danger, it is true that the ambition is to find death, and the loser is to wait for death
It is still possible to find death and live, and to wait for death is certain
When Xianzong won, Chongzhen lost
(Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact that during the Chongzhen period, the officials of the great ass could have the money to repair the financial resources of one of the four major gardens in Guangdong, which has nothing to do with it) Chongzhen: "At the beginning of the Imperial Dynasty, the inner town was returned, and the major events in the world were entrusted to the big and small ministers."
When we look at The Biography of Sun Chengzong, there is a sentence in it that refers to the Apocalypse, saying that the Apocalypse likes to send factory guards to the border passes to check the military situation, and then compare it with the minister's report, "The name of the school" (jiao's tone, the proofreading school).
In other words, you are under the hands of the Apocalypse, and the Apocalypse also has multiple sources
You are under Chongzhen's hands
You have martyred the country desperately, and chongzhen has received the report of the minister or you are alone and deep, you deserve it... You know, it's not that intelligence work is a victory, such as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
In fact, you are Roosevelt, you have hundreds of pieces of intelligence in your hands, some are attacks on Pearl Harbor, some are attacks on Midway, some say it is not this, some say it is true, some say it is false, the question is how do you choose intelligence! (In fact, the so-called Dai Kasa deciphered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but Roosevelt did not listen to anything, in fact, Roosevelt faced too much intelligence, you are already useless)
But Chongzhen successfully went from facing several different pieces of intelligence to facing the only one... Chongzhen ascended the throne, and all the people in the imperial court were zhengying dynasties, all of whom were Confucian masters and princes, all of whom were upright gentlemen...
First, to punish adultery and eliminate evil, to eliminate "castration", Chongzhen did not do a bad job
Before and after Chongzhen became emperor, one of the biggest problems in the Ming Dynasty was the "castration" left by the carpenter Emperor Zhu Youxiao, and the so-called "castration" was that the eunuch clique headed by Wei Zhongxian controlled the government, framed Zhongliang, ran amok lawlessness, and acted as a blessing.
In 1627, Chongzhen had just come to power and began to punish the Wei Zhongxian clique. Chongzhen was very skillful, he first asked people to write a letter to report Wei Zhongxian's ten crimes, and then seriously, checked these crimes one by one, and after verification, "degraded" Wei Zhongxian to Fengyang, Anhui. On Wei Zhongxian's way to Fengyang, Chongzhen ordered Jin yiwei to arrest him back to Beijing for retrial because Wei Zhongxian's "pomp" to Fengyang was too large, and Wei Zhongxian knew that this retrial would inevitably be tortured, so he committed suicide by hanging himself.
Wei Zhongxian's death was a great joy, and the history books recorded that the spirit of the government and the public was invigorated. It should be known that it is not easy to pull Wei Zhongxian off the horse, Wei Zhongxian has many supporters, in addition to more than 30 of his loyal eunuchs, there are also wenchen "five tigers", "five biao" of wuchen, and "ten dogs", "ten children", "forty grandchildren" and the like, which can really be described as full of wings and layers of protection. However, Chongzhen only took a few dozen days to solve the problem, when Chongzhen was only sixteen or seventeen years old, a feat comparable to the Kangxi Emperor's subduing of Aobai.
In the matter of eliminating the "castration", Chongzhen did his best, and he did not do a bad job.
Second, the use of the general, to solve external troubles and internal worries, Chongzhen also missed
After Chongzhen came to power, the second problem he faced was the "border troubles", that is, the threat of the Jin forces in liaodong to the Ming Dynasty.
Later Jin rose during the Wanli Emperor's period, and Wanli usually did not pay enough attention to it, allowing it to develop, resulting in troubles. Chongzhen invested a lot of money and energy against Houjin, such as Chongzhen spending a lot of money to build the "Guanningjin Defense Line" in Liaodong, and reactivating the bold general Yuan Chonghuan to defend against Houjin. Yuan Chonghuan was very talented in the military, but during the time of the Emperor of the Heavenly Revelation, he resigned from his official post and returned to his hometown without Wei Zhongxian's liking, and now Chongzhen has reactivated him, which can be described as a person who has made full use of his talents. Yuan Chonghuan also lived up to expectations and became the guardian deity of the Liaodong Defense Line of Daming.
Unfortunately, Chongzhen's ears were soft. When Hou Jin saw that Yuan Chonghuan was powerful, he used a counter-plot to spread rumors that Yuan Chonghuan supported the army to stand on his own, and Chongzhen recalled Yuan Chonghuan and killed Yuan Chonghuan without heart. It can be seen that Chongzhen is wise, but he does not have enough discernment ability, and he is finally used by others.
The third problem Facing Chongzhen was Li Zicheng's rebel army. He used the right person again, Sun Chuanting, who also abandoned his official post and returned to his hometown for 10 years because he hated Wei Zhongxian, and Chongzhen still wanted him to come out and take office. Sun Chuanting had courage and strategy, and the sniper rebels repeatedly won victories and captured the "king of the breakers" Gao Yingxiang. Unfortunately, in 1643, Chongzhen blindly commanded Sun Chuanting, who forced Sun Chuanting, who was firmly guarding Tongguan, to take the initiative to attack Li Zicheng, but the result was a middle ambush, a big defeat, and soon died.
Third, to solve the financial problems, Chongzhen was exhausted and defeated
The fourth problem Chongzhen faced was the financial crisis, and in this regard, Chongzhen was very nervous.
At that time, Jiangnan was rich and industry and commerce were very developed, and the Ming Dynasty could have collected commercial taxes in Jiangnan to solve the increasingly embarrassing financial crisis. However, the landlords and merchants in Jiangnan had the support of the Donglin Party, and when the Donglin Party heard that Chongzhen wanted to collect commercial taxes, it talked a lot about the way to be a king, and could not compete with the people for profits and would not let them be collected. The head of Chongzhen's country could not entangle the Donglin Party and had to give up.
Chongzhen also thought of charging a large number of officials, he first instilled in the officials the concept that civilian officials did not love money, and then asked the officials to regularly hand over a fixed amount of silver, but the result was that there was no response from the officials, and it was not resolved. Later, Chongzhen asked officials to donate money to solve the problem of military spending. The most famous donation we all know, on the eve of the king's capture of the capital, Chongzhen begged bitterly, received more than 200,000 taels of silver donations, which could not solve the problem at all. The funny thing is that when the king entered the capital, these ministers could not resist the severe torture and persecution, and donated a total of 70 million taels of silver.
It can be seen that on the financial issue, Chongzhen tried everything, but the resistance was too great and did not succeed. In the end, Chongzhen was forced to raise taxes on the peasants, triggering an uprising in northern Shaanxi.
Fourth, do not run away, do not take sides, and die with the country, posterity commented
In 1644, Li Zicheng approached Beijing step by step. Li Mingrui and Chongzhen's empress dowager both advised Chongzhen to move south, and Chongzhen consulted with his ministers, but was strongly opposed, so Chongzhen canceled the decision to move south and prepared to coexist with the capital.
Chongzhen did not move south, and the opposition of the ministers was one reason, and the more important reason was that Beijing had the roots of their old Zhu family, the imperial tomb, and abandoned the imperial tomb for the sake of filial piety, and Chongzhen was unwilling to bear this crime. Also, Chongzhen has already commanded the immovable group of subjects in Beijing, and when he arrives in Nanjing, can he command the movement? I was afraid that I would be like a puppet, he was tired, bored, and did not want to live such a day again. Therefore, the three-foot white Aya was alive, and it was also a practice of zhu Di's "Son of Heaven guarding the gate of the country" instruction.
Of course, Chongzhen also wanted to use death to prove four words: I tried my best.
In fact, when we open the classics, we find that Chongzhen has many advantages: including diligence, the "History of Ming" said that he "rose from the rooster and did not sleep at night"; including the courage to self-criticism, he made six "sins against himself" in his short life; also included thrift and thrift...
Fifth, the depression accumulated by several generations of emperors broke out in a concentrated manner by the time of Chongzhen
Many of the problems encountered by Chongzhen are actually problems left over from history, not new problems caused by Chongzhen.
For example, the selfish and self-serving civilian bureaucracy was formed as early as the Ming Yingzong period. For a long time, the Ming emperor did not solve it through reform and institutional innovation, but used the group of eunuchs to balance it, temporarily suppressing it, and pushing the contradiction backwards... Finally, when I arrived at Chongzhen, I was terminally ill and could not be solved.
Another example is the military problem. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the army was as fierce as a tiger; at the end of the Ming Dynasty, soldiers feared the enemy like a tiger. why? The system of health centers established by Zhu Yuanzhang was originally very good, the army had land, it was self-sufficient, and it "did not cost the people a grain of grain." But then the system of guard houses gradually collapsed, officers encroached on the fields of military households, and military households fled in large numbers; did the military households who did not flee see that the officers were so greedy, would they sacrifice their lives and die on the battlefield and fight for the country? The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty saw this, but did not carry out reform and rectification in a timely manner, so as to miss the opportunity, and finally had to implement the conscription system, spending a huge amount of silver and two to raise soldiers, can the poor Chongzhen afford to support him?
Those who came before planted trees, and those who came after them cooled down; those who came before planted thorns, and those who came after them suffered. As the last emperor, Chongzhen walked on the "thorns" planted by previous generations of emperors every day, could his life be better? Therefore, in the death of Ming, Chongzhen should not be blamed, but should blame the Jiajing Emperor, who believed in Taoism and favored the traitors; the Wanli Emperor, who had not been in the dynasty for 28 years; and the Emperor of the Apocalypse who did a very good job as a carpenter...
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