In 1644, Li Zicheng, the king of the Chuang Dynasty, invaded the city of Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emperor was forced to commit suicide on the coal mountain, thus ending the Ming Dynasty, which had enjoyed 268 years of statehood. Originally, according to the normal development of things, Li Zicheng's invasion of Beijing meant the beginning of a new dynasty, but Li Zicheng was Li Zicheng after all, or there were several Zhu Yuanzhang under the thousand years, and Li Zicheng, who was also from the bottom, was still inferior to Zhu Yuanzhang.
The main leader who overthrew the Ming Dynasty was Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng, from September 22, 1606 to May 17, 1645, originally known as Hongji, the character Huang Lai'er (also character Jujube), Li Zicheng's childhood was very simple, first to the landlord to herd sheep, and then as a pawn, Chongzhen revolted in the second year, first as a subordinate of Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, they fought from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and then to Henan, after several years of military career, Li Zicheng's Wentao Wuluo was soon noticed by Gao Yingxiang, and later after Gao Yingxiang's death, Li Zicheng succeeded him.
Li Zicheng spent 42 days in Beijing, and his men were basically squeezing ordinary people, except for the first day, all other times people were panicked. Once, Li Zicheng's subordinates met a beautiful woman when they were "raiding the house", so they took it for themselves, and it turned out that this woman was Wu Sangui's wife. After Wu Sangui learned of this incident, he directly defected to the Qing soldiers at that time and began to recruit Li Zicheng's troops. Wu Sangui and the Qing soldiers quickly reached Shanhaiguan. Later, Li Zicheng knew that the general trend was gone, but he refused to give up, so he began to be suspicious of his soldiers, and eventually his own army abandoned him, and finally Li Zicheng was beheaded by the Qing army at Jiugong Mountain in Hubei.
During these 42 days, Li's own life also underwent many changes, and it was these 42 days that made his final uprising unsuccessful. In fact, when Li Zicheng arrived in Beijing, his power was also weakened a lot, so at that time he thought that he could not enter the city of Beijing, and he hoped to make peace with Emperor Chongzhen and let Chongzhen give himself a throne. However, Li Zicheng unexpectedly entered the city of Beijing and sat in the position of emperor, which was actually beyond Li Zicheng's own imagination.
Also, it was the expedition to Shanhaiguan, which took Li Zicheng 13 days. Subsequently, he was defeated, hurriedly proclaimed himself emperor, hurried to the west, and bid farewell to Beijing and never returned. Before leaving, he did not forget to set a fire and burn the Forbidden City to the ground, which was the only time that the Forbidden City suffered large-scale man-made damage. This is what Li Zicheng has been busy with during these 42 days.