After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, many people should have said it, but those who have not seen it can look at it again! Here I would like to briefly restore the situation after Li Zicheng entered Beijing! Li Zicheng entered Beijing from March 19, 1644! At that time, he wore a felt hat, wore a light blue dress, rode a black barge horse, and entered the Chengtian Gate. Officials such as Jin Xing and other officials entered the Taiji Hall, and Li Zicheng occupied the emperor's throne! He ordered a search for the empress in the city of Beijing, and agreed with the hundred officials to go to the Taiji Hall three days later. After three days, the sky had just brightened, and Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Wei Zaode, a scholar of the university, led hundreds of officials into the palace to pay tribute, and they all sat in front of the palace in plain clothes. Li Zicheng did not come out at that time, and Li Zicheng's subordinates rushed to play insults to the Ming Dynasty officials, or beat them on the back, take off their hats, or bend their feet up and hook them around their necks, so as to make a mockery of each other, and the hundred officials were so frightened that they lay motionless on the ground.
The university scholar Chen Yan persuaded Li Zicheng to ascend to the throne, but Li Zicheng did not agree at the time, and made Zhu Cixi, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Song, and released the prisoners held by the Punishment Department and Jinyiwei. Li Zicheng sat in the south and summoned the officials who had come to see him, Niu Jinxing, Liu Zongmin, Song Qijiao, and others, and shouted the names of hundreds of officials in turn, and were given official positions in three grades. Other Xun Qi, civil and military ministers such as Zhou Kui, Zhu Chunchen, Chen Yan, Wu Xiang, Wei Zaode, and more than 800 other people were sent to Liu Zongmin's camp. First of all, these people were severely tortured after the payment of accounts, and some were even burned by fire muscles, broken shins, and tortured. Although many people took out the embezzled gold, this was still correct. Many people in the capital hang themselves because they are afraid, and walking in the streets of the capital can see hanged people everywhere!
Li Zicheng wanted to ascend the throne as emperor on the same day, but Li Zicheng thought that the time was not ripe! Liu Jinxing and others led hundreds of officials to persuade Li Zicheng to ascend to the throne, and he agreed to it after three times, so he chose an auspicious day to ascend the throne! However, on the day of his ascension to the throne, when Li Zicheng sat on the throne, he suddenly saw a white-clad man several feet long, holding a sword in his hand, glaring at him, and the dragon claws under the seat were moving, Li Zicheng was very scared and hurriedly got off the throne. Since he heard that Wu Sangui had rebelled, Li Zicheng returned to Shaanxi! So Li Zicheng left without spending a few days in Beijing.
After Li Zicheng left Beijing, he kidnapped Wu Sangui's father and wanted Wu Sangui to surrender! Wu Sangui walked to the halfway point, and heard that Liu Zongmin had occupied his wife Chen Yuanyuan, so he turned around and returned. In fact, Wu Sangui did not return because of a Chen Yuanyuan, but died afraid that Li Zicheng would kill him! Because of the many news coming out of the capital, high-ranking Ming ministers such as Zhou Kui, Zhu Chunchen, and Chen Yan were severely tortured, including Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang. Therefore, Wu Sangui was afraid to go to Beijing to see Li Zicheng. In order to protect himself, Wu Sangui returned to Shanhaiguan to attack Li Zicheng's defenders, and he dragged Li Zicheng along and asked the Manchurians for help. On April 22, Li Zicheng led an army of 200,000 men to garrison Guannei. Two armies against each other, fight! When the killing was in full swing, the Manchurian soldiers unexpectedly attacked Li Zicheng's army from the right. Li Zicheng stood on the hill and watched the Manchurian soldiers coming, so he ran all the way and killed Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang when he fled, and finally Li Zicheng fled to Beijing.
After Li Zicheng returned to the capital, he melted the gold he had recovered, as well as the treasures and utensils in the palace, and cast them into cakes, each with thousands of gold, about tens of thousands of cakes, and transported them back to Xi'an by mule truck. On April 29, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor at the Wuying Hall in Beijing, posthumously honoring his ancestors within seven generations as empress dowagers and making his wife Gao Shi empress. Li Zicheng put on a crown, arranged ceremonial guards, and accepted the worship of hundreds of officials. Venus performed the suburban ceremony on behalf of the emperor, and burned the palace and the nine-gate tower that night. The next morning, Li Zicheng fled west with the crown prince, King Yong, and King Ding hostage, and sent the generals Zuo Guangxian and Gu Kecheng to the palace. Since then, Li Zicheng has escaped from Beijing! On May 2, Manchurian soldiers led by Dorgon entered Beijing and sent Wu Sangui to pursue Li Zicheng until May 17, 1645, when Li Zicheng was killed by local villagers at Jiugong Mountain in Hubei Province, and the vigorous peasant uprising ended.