This person was a "gravedigger" of the Ming Dynasty, who first surrendered to Li Zicheng, then surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and finally was able to die well
In the history of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, there were many people who could sing and cry, and of course, there were also many people who specifically harmed the Ming Dynasty. For example, Yang Sichang, who forced Lu Xiangsheng to die due to political discord and direct persecution, but even so, he could not ignore so many efforts he made to save the Ming Dynasty, and even the tragic heroism of finally martyrdom.
There is also Wu Sangui, although he led the Qing army into the pass, although he killed the Yongli Emperor, but also can not erase his merits and feats in resisting the Qing army outside the Shanhaiguan. Another example is Hong Chengzuo, although he fought harder than the Qing army after he surrendered to the Qing army, the original boss Ming Dynasty, but it cannot erase the fact that he had no choice but to surrender before fighting for the safety of the Ming Dynasty and the bloody houjin.
Therefore, in a complex struggle, a person's qualities cannot be determined by a single word. Except, of course, for Zhang Ruoqi.
Throughout the history of the late Ming Dynasty, other former Ming courtiers betrayed the Ming Dynasty with more or less unspeakable bitterness, even if it was a big traitor like Fan Wencheng, who at the beginning determined his code of conduct of "insulting no ancestors", one Han to the end, one rape to death, one death. Or forced by helplessness, or forced by form, or broken jars, at least have an understanding of their own future, so this kind of person can still be respected by future generations. And people like Zhang Ruoqi, the role of this kind of wall-headed Ming Dynasty gravedigger is different, this kind of person can only be described in one word, that is, ''lowly''', and deep into the bone marrow.
Zhang Ruoqi was born in Jiaozhou, Shandong, with a good family, belonged to a family of officials and eunuchs, and was admitted to the Jinshi as an official at a young age. Originally, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was a time when talents were needed in an eventful autumn, but Zhang Ruoqi, who was useless in any way, developed in Chongzhen for ten years! According to the Performance Appraisal System of the Ming Dynasty, he was given the opportunity to be promoted to an official because of his "outstanding political achievements" at the local level. However, judging from his family lineage and later development, he did not rely on the officials and eunuchs at the end of the Ming Dynasty to hug each other for profit, and there was no backstage to pave the way, and he did not believe in killing me!
After arriving in the Beijing Division, he first served in the Punishment Department, and later relied on giving zodiac Zhou small shoes behind his back, and he was promoted to fang shilangzhong, the military department of the Ming Dynasty, and became a real power figure in the military department.
Wen Wei Shusheng controlled the entire military movement of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, and if it was Yuan Chonghuan Sun Chengzong and the like, he would not say anything, the key was that this Zhang Ruoqi was not. When the Battle of Songjin broke out, he came to the Jinzhou front as a supervisor sent by the military department. The military commander of this battle was Hong Chengyu, and at this time, only this person was left to save the Ming Dynasty.
For the late Ming Dynasty, the balance of the winning side of the Songjin Campaign had already begun to tilt like the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Army was an elite division recruited from all over the country, and it still used the most favorable "'To'" tactics for the Ming Army. The so-called "'to' stand" is to fight steadily and steadily, step by step, with defense as the mainstay, and to lure the Qing army to attack and attack. Being able to rely on towns and towns to never fight in the field, being able to stumble and bombard them with artillery and never use knives, under the command of Hong Chengzuo, the Ming army's strength and logistical advantages were fully displayed.
And the Qing army, which relied on plunder and used war to feed the war, was immediately frustrated in the face of such a way of fighting, that is, it was impossible to fight, it was not possible to retreat, and it was not necessary to go hungry when it was exhausted. In this way, the time dragged on a little longer, and when it came to the decisive battle, the Qing army was driven back to Daxinganling to nibble ginseng and tease the blind bear. However, at this time, Zhang Ruoqi, who was holding a shovel and hammer and other grave-digging tools, stood up, and he felt that Hong Chengzuo was wasting time by playing in this way, so he relied on his status as a military supervisor to force Hong Chengzu to fight. As a result, the Ming army could command and move, and the last army was defeated, Hong Chengzu was forced to surrender, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty was just around the corner. Therefore, Zhang Ruoqi was a sinner for the Ming Dynasty.
But such a sinner, running back to the Beijing Division, did not kill the head, but just locked up and reflected. After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, he surrendered to Li Zicheng without blushing. After the Qing army entered the customs, he changed his appearance and became a guest of the Qing army, and finally abdicated as a high-ranking official such as Yin of Shuntianfu and Taichang Temple, until Kangxi was able to die well in the tenth year. What is even more speechless is that I don't know if his identity is really irrelevant or the name is not loud enough, whether it is the current world or the future generation, the identity of his Ming Dynasty gravedigger has not been investigated too much, and his name cannot be found in the documents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties that specially record ''traitors''.