In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the people were not happy, the taxes of servitude were heavy, and various uprisings were launched, and the army led by Li Zicheng was the strongest, and finally hit the city of Beijing, under the crisis, there was no one to serve the king, and finally the Chongzhen Emperor was desperate and hanged under the coal mountain.
The Ming Shi Zhuang LieDi Benji records the last will and testament written by the Chongzhen Emperor before committing suicide: "The defiance of the Emperor Of Liang, the guilt of heaven, but all the ministers have mistakenly degenerated." Death without face to see the ancestors, remove the crown, and cover the face with hair. Let the thieves divide and do no harm to the people. Before his death, he still said that "the ministers mistakenly degenerated" reflected the Chongzhen Emperor's self-absorbed personality, and also reflected his disappointment: You ministers, who are favored by the country, can't see you when you are most needed, and you are raised in vain!
In historical records, the Chongzhen Emperor panicked in the days before he committed suicide, like a beast trapped in a cage.
Second, the local armies were afraid of the peasant army. After more than ten years of development, Li Zicheng had the potential to sweep the world by 1644. Although Zuo Liangyu had many soldiers and horses, he had repeatedly lost to Li Zicheng in Hubei and already had a fear mentality. Although Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Horse was very strong in combat effectiveness, its absolute number was inferior.
Third, the nominal state appropriations of each army have actually become private armed forces, and the generals have left a way back for themselves, because having soldiers means bargaining costs, which means promoting officers and getting rich, so they try their best to avoid war and preserve their strength.
Li Zicheng's army was in the city, at the moment of crisis, if the relocation of the capital was fully opportunistic at that time, Chongzhen also had the idea of moving the capital at this time, Chongzhen loved face and could not put forward it himself, so he let Li Mingrui, the first assistant minister at the time, put forward this idea, and the result was unanimously opposed by the ministers, which also reflected the selfish intentions of the ministers, most of the ministers were northerners, once they moved south, their interests were damaged, and second, the southern system was complete, and they may face a situation of no power and no profit in the south, and it was such a group of ministers that led to the end of Chongzhen.
Guanwai want people, deal with anti-thieves, to prevent the Emperor Taiji raid also want people, the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty is 50 to 60 million, and most of them do not listen to him, the remaining 10 million or 20 million, according to the maximum ratio of five to one, can also make up more than 2 million people and horses, these more than 2 million are not all regular troops, there are local troops, so converted down, can fully listen to how many people and horses of the Chongzhen Emperor can be, not to mention, years of conquest, years of disasters, the treasury really has no money.
You can't come up with money, and who still listens to you, so it's understandable that Li Zicheng hit Beijing and no one saved Chongzhen, because either you can't pull out anyone, or you really don't want to work hard in vain, and you don't bother to take care of you, the emperor who seems to be bouncing around for a few days.