As the saying goes, good has good to repay evil and evil, it is not that the time has not come, throughout the ages, people who do many evil things must not have a good end, this is both heavenly reason and the general recognition of society, today Xiaobian will introduce such an evil person who finally got the evil reward. This person's name is Liu Zongmin, and friends who know history know that he is Li Zicheng's love general, but his temperament is sometimes not even given to Li Zicheng's face. For many years, people have thought that he is a hero who fights with the king, but in fact he is a murderous demon king
First, let's introduce Liu Zongmin's birth. Born in 1607 in a poor peasant family in Lantian, Shaanxi Province, when he was very young, his father hanged himself because the government forced taxes, and Liu Zongmin became a beggar and begged with his mother. Not long after, his mother died of freezing and starvation, and Liu Zongmin was adopted by his uncle Han Qing. A series of unfortunate encounters in his childhood made Liu Zongmin extremely resentful of the government and Haoqiang from an early age. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army passed through Lantian, and Liu Zongmin threw in Li Zicheng's troops. Liu Zongmin on the battlefield was brave and invincible, and he made many great achievements, and Li Zicheng also valued him, and two years later, Liu Zongmin was already the most powerful general under Li Zicheng.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's peasant army was like a bamboo, and he invaded Beijing in one fell swoop, after which he ordered people to go through the imperial palace and found that there were only 170,000 taels of gold and 130,000 taels of silver in the treasury of the Great Inner Province, and he was extremely disappointed in shock. Li Zicheng originally wanted to reward the soldiers, but the money was simply not enough, and after thinking about it again, he decided to plunder these Ming officials in the capital. At this time, Liu Zongmin took the initiative to take over this errand, but he did not pay any attention to Li Zicheng's strategy, but instead made a new rule: everyone pays two silvers according to their own grades, and if they don't give them, they will raid his home. After Li Zicheng knew, he asked Liu Zongmin why he didn't help him be a good emperor, and Liu Zongmin choked him back: "The power of the emperor belongs to you, the power of torture belongs to me, you don't talk nonsense!" ”
In this way, Liu Zongmin raised 70 million taels of silver through his methods, of course, the price behind this was the loss of hundreds of former Ming officials. After that, Liu Zongmin led his army to xi'an, and on the way, his soldiers also began to take advantage of the opportunity to loot, killing people without vain, and wailing everywhere they went for a while. According to records, the army led by Liu Zongmin killed more than three hundred women in one day, and all kinds of actions lost the hearts of the people. In addition, Liu Zongmin also robbed Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan, and Wu Sangui hated him to the bone after learning about it.
In the second year of Shunzhi, the troops led by Liu Zongmin were heavily surrounded by Qing forces and eventually captured. Liu Zongmin was eventually tortured at the age of 38.