Chongzhen was a good emperor, but he only encountered the era of subjugation of the country, and it was not his fault alone. If it were not for the era of the fall of the country, Chongzhen would surely have become one of the best emperors in the Ming Dynasty. Before committing suicide at Coal Mountain, the Chongzhen Emperor bit his finger and angrily wrote on the placket: "Mistakenly listening to the words of civilian officials, causing the loss of the world, allowing thieves to shatter and destroy corpses, but hurting my people." What does this sentence mean? This means that it is because they have listened to these officials and lost the world. I am willing to let these thieves dispose of my body, but please don't hurt my people.
The Ming Dynasty fell, the most direct was in the Chongzhen Dynasty. However, the collapse of the Ming Empire, almost everyone believed that there was no cure by the Chongzhen Dynasty. Regarding the demise of the Ming Dynasty, even in the official revision history book "History of Ming", there is such a sentence as "Therefore, the commentators say that the death of ming is actually the death of the Divine Sect, and will not forgive it" appears. Later generations summed it up as "Ming died in the apocalypse, died in Wanli, and died in Jiajing". Such a description may be exaggerated, but it at least shows that in the history of the decline and fall of the Ming Empire, Jiajing, Wanli, and Tianqi all had considerable responsibilities.
At that time, the talents who could concentrate on serving the country and the people had gradually withdrawn from the court, and even those who were not traitors and even those who had integrity were mostly involved in the dispute between the court and a series of internal struggles in the cabinet. A vicious circle, initially formed. There is no difference between good and bad political struggles.
The Chongzhen Emperor was even more a model among the kings of the fallen country, and the destruction of the Ming Dynasty could not be said to be his responsibility, and when he first took over the empire, the empire was already in turmoil. After he became emperor, he worked hard to rule and hoped to revitalize Daming. But because Daming has actually accumulated a lot of weight and is difficult to return to the terminal illness. So that even if he has access to heaven and earth, he cannot change. In the end, the situation of the destruction of the country and the death of the family was caused. How can these posterity, when our descendants look at him, slander and insult him? He was also just an emperor who was not born at the right time.