We all know that the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide before the Qing army entered the customs, and this kind of suicide was somewhat hasty, and many people expressed regret, because even when the Qing army entered the customs, most of the whole world still belonged to the Zhu family. Moreover, at that time, no matter how powerful Li Zicheng was, he only took a small part of the north, and had not yet completely unified the north. Therefore, many people felt that the Chongzhen Emperor should not have committed suicide at that time, but should have run to the south. So the question is, could the Chongzhen Emperor really not commit suicide at that time?
For this problem, we must look at it in two steps, the first step is to see whether the Chongzhen Emperor has the possibility of escaping to heaven, personally I think the Chongzhen Emperor still has a good chance, because although Li Zicheng's army has arrived, but it has not really surrounded Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emperor has many opportunities before to prepare to flee, chen Xinjia was also ready to help the Chongzhen Emperor go south. It can be said that the Chongzhen Emperor has always had such an opportunity to escape, and in the historical records, the two sons of the Chongzhen Emperor have escaped, but they were arrested because they were hungry, and his sons could escape, but the Chongzhen Emperor could not run? Therefore, I personally feel that in the first part of the Chongzhen Emperor, he definitely has the possibility of escaping to heaven, and even in the historical records of his predecessors, Emperor Jianwen was able to run out and become a monk under the condition of being surrounded by large armies, so why can't the Chongzhen Emperor? Therefore, I personally feel that the Chongzhen Emperor did not have the possibility of not being able to escape. So the question is, why did the Chongzhen Emperor still commit suicide?
This brings us to the content of the second part, that is, the Chongzhen Emperor, the reason why he could not run. This reason seems to be somewhat complicated, because we must analyze it from two levels, the first of which is the responsibility of the Chongzhen Emperor himself. To know that although the monarch of the feudal monarchy enjoys all the rights, he also has to assume his own duties, the emperor governs the country well, then he will be praised by history, the emperor has ruled the country badly, and even the country has been destroyed, then the emperor should be responsible. At that time, Tang Xuanzong was not qualified to be emperor because he had completely collapsed the country. The same was true of the Chongzhen Emperor at that time, and the public opinion in the world would not allow him to continue to return.
The second reason is that the Chongzhen Emperor has no political prestige in the south, don't look at the southern Jiangshan is still relatively stable, but the southern political structure is controlled by the southern gentry group, these people were once the Chongzhen Emperor's crazy economic oppression, they have long been dissatisfied with the Chongzhen Emperor, more importantly, the chaos in the north is about to spread to the economy of the south, their recognition of the emperor, it must have reached the lowest point in history. More importantly, before the Chongzhen Emperor died, the contradictions with the ministers had intensified to the peak, so it was impossible for the Donglin party in the south to accept Chongzhen.
Therefore, the Chongzhen Emperor was faced with these problems, which made him able to run out, but under the background of the emperor's duties and the whole country, he absolutely could not escape, because all the people had long since disapproved of him, and if the Chongzhen Emperor wanted to run, he had no home, and it was also in response to the sentence that the world was big, but there was no place for the emperor, so the best choice for the Chongzhen Emperor was to hang himself on the coal mountain, leaving the king's iron skeleton, and leaving the last trace of face. Therefore, under the background at that time, the iron bone of the Chongzhen Emperor was forced out, although he had already seen it later, but at least in the beginning, the Chongzhen Emperor wanted to run, but he had no choice to run.
But we can also put it in other words, although the Chongzhen Emperor deserves everyone's sympathy, his destruction is also deserved, because a monarch has governed the whole world like this, and has offended quite a few people, then the existence of the Chongzhen Emperor is indeed questionable, after all, the common people are not a group of crazy people, they do not believe in political authority, they only believe that they can eat enough, so the Chongzhen Emperor was abandoned by them.