Chong Guan's anger is well known to everyone for the good story of the red face. After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, he snatched Chen Yuanyuan, the concubine of Wu Sangui, the border guard, and after Wu Sangui learned the news,
Then he opened the gate of Shanhaiguan and led the Qing Dynasty general Dolgun into the customs,
Since then, the rivers and mountains of the Ming And Han people have been completely buried in the hands of the Manchu Qing, and the Han people have since become the slaves of the Manchu Qing.
There are many Han people who hate Wu Sangui very much, believing that if it were not for him, the Qing Dynasty would not have been able to enter the customs, and the Han people would not have become slaves. But they forgot that before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they were still living in the depths of the water. If the Qing army had not entered the customs, could Li Zicheng have become a good emperor for the benefit of the people?
Can Li Zicheng rule the Central Plains?
Li Zicheng was born in an ordinary peasant family, living on a poor budget, and has been serving in the military camp. Until the third year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was laid off from work, and his life forced him to call for a hunger uprising, and led the people to defect to the peasant army, thus beginning his uprising career. Later, the leader of the peasant army, Wang Zicheng, died of illness, and Li Zicheng harvested more than 20,000 people in the rest of the army, and from then on began to enter the position of the leader of the peasant army and began the life of conquest. In the sixteenth year, Chongzhen established his own Dashun regime, with the slogan of "no conquest for three years, no killing of one people".
In the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng attacked Beijing and forced the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian to hang himself at Coal Mountain.
When they first entered Beijing, order in the city was unharmed, but after some time, Li Zicheng's men began to go everywhere to raid the houses of Ming officials to steal money to pay the soldiers, and the people in the city were panicked.
Li Zicheng issued many edicts to return to Wu Sangui, but Wu Sangui did not respond to the edict.
So he personally led a large army to conquest, but was defeated, fled back to the Beijing Division, declared himself emperor in Beijing, and killed Wu Sangui's entire family. The next day, he fled Beijing to prepare to return to Xi'an. This move doomed Li Zicheng's Dashun regime to exist in name only.
Li Zicheng's demise mainly depended on Li Zicheng himself, Li Zicheng was influenced by his peasant consciousness, small wealth is safe, short-sighted, when he entered the capital, he only cared about enjoyment, and forgot that there was a wolf outside Guanwai looking at the tiger, and there was no measure to stabilize the political situation internally, and the Dashun regime was difficult to maintain.
Even without the Qing Dynasty entering the customs, Li Zicheng could not unify the Central Plains. The unification of a country depends not only on the army, but also on the support of the subjects of the world, and it is necessary to implement benevolent government to gain the support of the subjects. But after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he only cared about his own pleasure, and did not take his subjects to heart. Even if the Qing army could not enter the pass, Li Zicheng would be killed by his own army or destroyed by other imperial army. And the central plains will also plunge the whole country into war, and the people will certainly be even more miserable.
The reason why the Manchu Qing was able to enter the customs
The Qing Dynasty was able to unify China with its inevitability.
The political situation of the Ming Dynasty was corrupt, the people were not happy, and they urgently needed a Ming Lord to save the people of Li Min, who were in the depths of the waters, which was the inevitability of the Qing Dynasty being able to unify the Central Plains. As long as the Ming Emperor can provide a peaceful life for the common people and let the ordinary people survive, the world can be unified, and although Li Zicheng entered Beijing at this time, but the name is not justified, it is difficult to unify politically, and the Qing Dynasty at this time is a wise monarch.
1. There is no cure for the corruption of the Ming Dynasty
People will live, grow old, die, and the dynasties will change. The demise of the Ming Dynasty has its inevitability, the political corruption of the Ming Dynasty did not happen overnight, and the decline of the Ming Dynasty did not begin with the Ming Chongzhen Emperor. In the late Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor paid little attention to the affairs of the dynasty, allowing courtiers and eunuchs to fight without asking questions.
In the past few decades, the government and government should have been abandoned.
Later emperors were not rulers
By the time of Ming Chongzhen, there were few able ministers in the imperial court, all of whom were ordinary people who stuck to stereotypes and had no construction, but with the situation in the last years of Ming Chao, what was needed was an iron fist means and the ability to rule the world. Although Emperor Ming Chongzhen did not slacken his government, his talent was mediocre and indecisive, and there were already different government decrees in the government, and there was no one available in the imperial court, and it was impossible to solve practical problems by relying only on the diligence of Emperor Ming Chongzhen.
2. The Qing Dynasty aspires to unification
Compared with the corruption of the Ming Dynasty, the people did not have a good life, the taxes were too heavy, the Qing Dynasty's imperial court was integrated, the monarch was wise and courageous, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, a peaceful scene. The monarchs of the Qing Dynasty were not outside the Guan, bent on entering the Guannei, and the two generations of monarchs of the Qing Dynasty died in the war against the Ming Dynasty, and the hatred of the family and the country made their hearts enter the Guannei unshakable.
The Qing Dynasty has always wanted to enter the King of Jingqin by taking the Shanhaiguan Road is the closest road, but when it has been unable to conquer for a long time, the Qing Dynasty has already moved the heart of the city. Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty planned to detour through Mongolia to enter Beijing and planned to disintegrate the regime within the Ming Dynasty.
Wu Sangui's opening of Shanhaiguan was only the icing on the cake, reducing the time for the Qing Dynasty to enter the customs, accelerating the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and contributing to the great cause of the unification of the Qing Dynasty.