It should be said that in the history of our country, the goal of many emperors is to become a monarch like "Yao Shun", and then be admired by the world and live for hundreds of generations. However, the ideal is very full, the reality is very bone, and generally there is no end to this goal. During the Ming Dynasty, there was such an emperor, some people praised him as "comparable to Yao Shun", and placed high hopes on him, but unfortunately, at a critical juncture, there was a shortage of money and grain. It was difficult to put down his body, shy old face to find his subordinates to borrow, but his subordinates pretended to be poor.
Before his death, Emperor Mingxi said to his younger brother Zhu Youjian, "My brother can give Yao Shun." Translated into the vernacular, this sentence means that my brother's future achievements are unlimited, and being able to be regarded as Yao Shun will make my Ming Dynasty great again. "Comparable to Yao Shun", this evaluation can be said to be the highest in the feudal era. Unfortunately, everyone knows that Zhu Youxiao was a carpenter emperor, who loved to tinker with carpentry and could not read a few characters. His evaluation is too much to compliment.
And it is. The emperor, who was praised as "comparable to Yao Shun", was depleted by the combined forces of Li Zicheng, the king of the invasion, and the Manchu Qing outside Guanwai. As a last resort, I could only think of ways to find my subordinates to raise money. However, these men claimed to be poorer than the other. In the end, the entire minister of the dynasty raised less than 100,000 taels of silver. Is it really those ministers who have two sleeves and a breeze? Of course not, after Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing, he forced these big officials to donate money, and he forcibly collected as many as ten million taels.
These people actually have money, but they just won't donate. Now it seems that Zhu Youjian's "comparable Yao Shun" is really quite ironic, and it can be seen that no one thinks that he is "comparable to Yao Shun". However, everyone knows that the Chongzhen Emperor was notoriously frugal and did not dare to spend money indiscriminately in his life. Such an emperor seems to be really single-minded, comparable to "Yao Shun", but the truth is very ironic.
The fact is that the Ming Dynasty is indeed very poor, the national treasury is very empty, but the Chongzhen Emperor who is looking for everyone to raise money is actually not poor. The "Chronicle of Jiashen" records that Chongzhen's small treasury was not short of money, and at that time there were tens of millions of silver and millions of gold. Unfortunately, so much money has not been able to save Daming Jiangshan. Although Chongzhen was frugal, he still cut the door so much in the place where he spent money, and finally became the king of the subjugated country, which was really ironic.
In fact, now it seems that the truth has come out, which is very ironic. Chongzhen himself did not lack money, but first of all, he threw his subordinates to donate money; his subordinates did not lack money, but they just cried desperately and coped with things. In the end, the soldiers on the front line and the affected people could not eat enough, but the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and his ministers were destroyed together. Ironically, in order to save his own country, Chongzhen, who should have taken the lead in donating money, chose to take the lead in crying poverty and destroying it with wealth.