What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
If the apocalypse is in the Ming Dynasty, it may last for some time, Chongzhen is more than enough and insufficient, and he is suspicious, as the saying goes, the use of people is not suspicious of people, Chongzhen's heart is higher than the sky, his life is thinner than paper, and he does not understand the imperial power technique, resulting in the Donglin family representing the southern business power being dominant, the people have no money, the country has no taxes, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty is a historical necessity.
Wei Zhongxian was both a capable minister and a traitor. When he was young, he lost his family because of gambling, lost his wife and daughter, did not die since the palace, and chose to enter the palace to survive and develop. This is a good explanation for why he later frantically amassed wealth, and at the same time did not give a hard hand to the toiling masses, he himself was from the bottom of the people. In the late Ming Dynasty, there were serious social injustices, on the one hand, the common people were poor and destitute, on the other hand, the huge royal family and the landlord bureaucratic class were extremely extravagant and extravagant, and they spent money like dirt. Wei Zhongxian, who is in power, wants three things: power, money, and a history of youth. Because his power came from the emperor, he was embarrassed to attack those Zhu royal clan relatives. Therefore, Wei had no choice but to rectify the bureaucracy, and if he did not listen to his words, he would list the charges and arrest him and go to prison, and raid his home.
As the representative of the landlord and bureaucratic class, the Donglin Party naturally hated Wei Zhongxian and attacked Wei Zhongxian. For the Liaodong Iron Horse, Wei understood that it was not enough to talk about loyalty and patriotism, he improved the treatment of soldiers, and acquiesced to the Liaodong Iron Horse's encroachment on the land to become the local landlord, which made the Liaodong Iron Horse grateful to the imperial court and showed special efforts when resisting the Later Jin invasion. In turn, it ensures the stability of the Daming Guanjin defense line. The Chongzhen Emperor, on the other hand, became a good emperor among the people who studied, usually particularly frugal, wearing the dragon robe for many years, and only letting the empress patch it when it was broken. Regarding the problem of the insufficient treasury of the imperial court, he chose to increase taxes to the common people many times, chose to save a few silver or two from his own food and clothing, and did not attack the landlords, did not attack the bureaucracy, and did not attack the huge and non-contributory royal relatives. Thinking about the problem is relatively superficial, blindly laying off employees in order to save money, resulting in a large number of unemployment. After Li Zicheng was laid off and lost his job at the station, he could not find a job, and he was hungry for a long time, and finally had no choice but to rebel.
At that time, Zhu Zong of Daming Company was paranoid, and the project managers were not only noisy, but also organized groups to grab the property field, and everyone fought bravely to be the first to grab a little less. The peasants were stripped out, and the company clerks were weakly unemployed. This old Li who made a fuss about delivering couriers, the old Liu who played iron, the old Zhang who farmed the land, the wife went with the local tycoons, the children starved to death, and they also had today and no tomorrow. What to do? Tear down the house and lift the table, everyone doesn't have to mix! As a result, all the kings know it.
The Qing Dynasty world came too easily, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was the world that was picked up. Whether it was Nurhaci or Emperor Taiji or Dolgun period, the Ming Dynasty disintegrated from within, and the biggest factor accelerating the disintegration was that Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian, and once Wei Zhongxian died, the Donglin Party was dominant, Chongzhen could not manage it, but Chongzhen was only seventeen years old when he ascended the throne, he certainly did not understand the importance of Wei Zhongxian, he only knew that Wei Zhongxian was powerful enough to kill him. It is not surprising to say that the Qing Dynasty was suppressive in the battle with the Ming Dynasty, because of the lack of mobility in ancient farming civilization, there was no way to raise war like nomads, not to mention that the Qing Dynasty still had a relatively advanced Eight Flags system at that time, but at that time firearms had come out, unfortunately, under the comprehensive troubles of internal and external troubles and chaotic government parties, Chongzhen had no way to make a correct decision, pinning his hopes on Yuan Chonghuan, who also destroyed the city wall. Moreover, the national treasury is almost the same, and there is no money to purchase firearms in large quantities.
In fact, the best way for Chongzhen was to command Li Zicheng to seal the fiefdom of the king, declare Li Zicheng's legitimacy, and reward him with a million taels of silver to let him go north to resist jin. But he just didn't have any money, if Wei Zhongxian was still there, using his prestige, how could the seventy million taels of silver in the city not be used until death, so the eunuchs in the palace donated money there. Therefore, it is the most crucial to keep Wei Zhongxian here. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the army had great problems, not to mention the Later Jin and Mongols in the north, and the Wukou on the southeast coast, although there were elements of guerrilla warfare in the Wukou, but the Ming army was still beaten to the point of being dizzy. When it came time to break with Jurchen, the troops were beaten by a blind operation, not to mention Li Zicheng's rebellion, and at the beginning he cut the grass and did not remove the roots, but he was stunned to fatten him. Sun Chuanting was imprisoned for three years and did not know Li Zicheng's strength, and wanted to fight steadily and steadily, but chongzhen was urged to do so quickly, but he was defeated alone. Yuan Chonghuan, who was barely able to suppress Houjin in the north, was also killed by Chongzhen.
At that time, Wei Zhongxian was completely the person in charge, so from a result-oriented point of view, Wei Zhongxian's team was definitely a great achievement, excellent in talent, meritorious and meritorious, and it was also the highest level team in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no one. Because the situation wei Zhongxian is facing is the most complicated and difficult, but Wei Zhongxian's team has done the best, and future generations are incomparable.
Yuan thought that defending the Great Wall did not seize the opportunity to jointly destroy the enemy's main force. The defense was too long, requiring a lot of troops, burning money, and the city that had been repaired in a few years was demolished in a few days. Defensively, it's not right. Wait until people come to fight and then send troops. Yuan is suitable for Jiang and is not suitable for shuai to see that the Li family is seizing the opportunity to take the initiative to attack, Yuan is not without opportunities but did not seize the opportunity, Mongolia, Korea was not unified at that time, Yuan during his reign looked at the unification of the Emperor Taiji, so don't expect Yuan to destroy such an opportunity will not take advantage of the union.
History has its own complexities, and posterity sees the results of history given by someone or group! From the qi jiguang era, the border generals did not bribe the court ministers, and won the support of the ministers to the generals (see General Qi bribing Zhang Juzheng). If the generals did not make meritorious contributions at the border pass, their lives might not be saved! The reason why Wei Zhongxian would not die so quickly if he was in Ming was mainly not that Wei Zhongxian personally had any overall view or clear right and wrong, but mainly because of the world situation at that time! The castration party, the Donglin party struggle, as a side general, you think who on both sides will take the initiative to pull the cage. Lalong must give support, then the world style at that time is the Donglin Party people can look up to the Wufu or the castration Party to look up to the Military General!
It can only be said that in the struggle between the eunuch party and the Donglin party, the eunuch party suppressed the Donglin party, which was more favorable to the situation of the border guards. The second Chongzhen believed that he was not the king of the subjugated country, but that his subjects were all subjects of the subjugated country. From the perspective of the monarch, eunuch, and general, the Minister of Donglin was responsible for the fall of the country, and then mechanically deduced that Wei Zhongxian would not die, and the country would not necessarily die. In fact, the enemy's opposition is the logic we support. But there is a possibility that Wei Zhongxian is stronger than the Donglin Party, that is, loyalty to the emperor, perhaps when Chongzhen died, Wang Cheng'en was buried, which reminded posterity of Wei Zhongxian!!! At this point, few of the Eastern Linshi people of the late Ming Dynasty could compare with the eunuchs! Both the castration party and Donglin have misled the country, but this is due to the design of the royal system! Therefore, the cyclical law of Chinese dynasties is the cyclical law of institutional design!!