The Son of Heaven guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the society", this is an evaluation of the excellent conduct of the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Di took the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, Beijing is closer to the northern border, intending to guard the gate of the country in the emperor's town, but when he arrived at the Chongzhen Emperor, the Ming Dynasty had accumulated a heavy burden and could not return, he also returned to heaven and lacked skill, feeling ashamed of the ancestors, and finally hanged himself under the old locust tree on the coal mountain, which is the origin of "the death of the king".
It can be said that Chongzhen was forced to die by Li Zicheng, when Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor saw that the general trend had gone, as a Ming Emperor of guozuo for 276 years, he was finally thrown off the dragon chair by a peasant, and his face was not saved, he could not resist the reality of demise, and had to die Mingzhi. It is just that Li Zicheng was expelled after staying in the Forbidden City for a few days, in fact, from Li Zicheng's disposal of the body of the Chongzhen Emperor, it can be seen that the Dashun regime is difficult to succeed.
Strive to cure the problem, and it is difficult to return
Many dynasties were blamed on the last emperor when they perished, either the emperor was absurd or ruleless, but this hat was not suitable for the Chongzhen Emperor to wear. When the Chongzhen Emperor ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty was already surviving, when the party strife was serious, eunuchs were rampant, and his carpenter Emperor brother ignored the government and let Wei Zhongxian's power fall to the opposition, but in fact, this was also a kind of imperial power technique, he wanted to suppress the Donglin Party forces in the dynasty by reusing Wei Zhongxian, and as a result, the Chongzhen Emperor broke this balance after he ascended the throne.
After Chongzhen ascended to the throne, he made great efforts to govern, but at this time, the Ming Dynasty had accumulated a lot of weight and could not return. Chongzhen first executed Wei Zhongxian, who hated him to the bone, and then listened to the Donglin Party's proposal to reduce the commercial tax, these two points are the basis of Chongzhen's good intentions to do bad things. As soon as Wei Zhongxian died, the Donglin Party revived, and the DPRK was the world of the Donglin Party, don't underestimate the Donglin Party, the attack case and the Red Pill case of that year are not easy to say that they are the handiwork of the Donglin Party, and when they see that the emperor is not pleasing to the eye, they will try to get rid of it.
The reduction and reduction of commercial taxes seems to be a policy conducive to the national conditions, but in fact it is only for the service of businessmen, and behind the businessmen are basically the backers of the Donglin Party, who seek their own interests from all aspects and completely disregard the emptiness of the national treasury. Chongzhen's operation obviously cut off one of his own financial roads, in order to solve the problem of the emptiness of the national treasury, he proposed the reform of streamlining the station, and as a result, Li Zicheng lost his job because of this reform, and later embarked on the road of uprising, I don't know if the Chongzhen Emperor will regret making his original decision.
Internal and external troubles, tragic to death
The Chongzhen Emperor was also an unlucky emperor, during his reign was the most serious period of the earth's Xiaoice river, the annual disasters made the Ming Dynasty, which had an empty treasury, shake in the wind and rain, and although Chongzhen made a series of reforms, it was impossible to change the fate of the Ming Dynasty to its demise.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, domestic peasant revolts, and the Qing army outside was looking at the tiger, and he was suspicious and violent in the later period, which cannot be said to be faint, and when it comes to internal and external troubles, everyone will have the psychology of not guaranteeing the throne, and it is inevitable that the mood will be anxious under such a huge pressure, and it is inevitable to make some wrong decisions. In addition to Yuan Chonghuan's unjust death, other courtiers were also affected, and the positions in various departments were frequently transferred, and it could be seen everywhere that the Chongzhen Emperor's uneasiness was too insecure.
In such an environment, it is inevitable that the monarchs will lose their hearts, and mutual distrust will complete Li Zicheng, who has launched a policy of loving the people that has won the hearts of the people, and the team has grown rapidly, and after the establishment of the Dashun regime, he has attacked the Forbidden City like a bamboo. When the Chongzhen Emperor saw that the situation was gone, he executed the concubine and the princess, and then arranged for the prince to flee, and finally hanged himself under the coal mountain tree. Before death, he said: "Death, faceless to see the ancestors in the ground, to remove the crown, to cover the face." Let the thief split the corpse, and do not hurt the people. ”
The corpses were buried in public
Chongzhen died a tragic and humiliating death, thinking about dignity and the people before he died, but as an emperor, he finally fell to the point of hanging himself. Chongzhen arranged for himself in advance to "let the thief split the corpse", Li Zicheng did not split Chongzhen's body, but it was not much better, he showed the remains of the Chongzhen Emperor and empress at the Donghua Gate, and those old ministers of the Ming Dynasty "wept thirty people, worshiped and did not cry sixty people, and Yu was blinded", which shows that the world is cold and the people are cold.
Li Zicheng violently exposed Chongzhen's body to the public, and then ordered the prefecture government to bury it himself, while he lived in the Forbidden City and immersed himself in the gentle countryside. When Chongzhen was alive, he did not prepare a mausoleum for himself at all, and the state capital had so much money for the burial of the former emperor, so he could only gather people to sponsor it, and finally put together more than two hundred taels of silver and buried the coffins of the Chongzhen Emperor and the empress in the tomb of Tian Guifei. Tian Guifei was the favorite concubine of the Chongzhen Emperor during his lifetime, and it was a relatively decent mausoleum, and a generation of emperors was scrawled and buried.
After that, the state capital felt that although Chongzhen was the emperor of the fallen country, he was also the emperor, and after his death, there could not even be a wall around the mausoleum, and he put together a few pieces of silver to build a circle of walls next to Tian Guifei's mausoleum, and these loyal old ministers finally felt worthy of the former emperor. Li Zicheng's disposition of the Chongzhen Emperor's body in this way shows that it is difficult for the Dashun regime to succeed for a simple reason.
Short-sighted, short-lived
The Ming Dynasty is a country with 276 years of statehood, more than two hundred years have experienced sixteen emperors, supporting this country is not only the emperor and clan of the Zhu family, but also many loyal old ministers, even if they are parties like the Donglin Party, they always regard the emperor as their orthodox leader in their hearts, and these people have deep roots, and if they do not have the ability, they will not be able to enter the court.
Li Zicheng did not treat the remains of the Chongzhen Emperor kindly, so naturally he could not get the support of these old ministers, in their hearts this was a blasphemy against the former emperor, they did not dare to openly resist, but at least they would not have a heart with Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng's regime is based on peasants, there is no management experience in ruling the country, what he lacks is talent in this area, he only knows how to fight the Jiangshan, will not manage the Jiangshan, then the Jiangshan that has been beaten down will not last long without support.
The most crucial point is that Li Zicheng only cares about "being close to the people" and takes a lot of care of the people, but he frantically suppresses and squeezes those royal nobles, and robs them of money. You must know that these people have deep roots and play a vital role in politics and economy, and Li Zicheng simply despises how much insight ordinary people can have, and farmers like Li Zicheng are excellent, but they are also short-sighted, and his short-sightedness represents Dashun's short life.
On the other hand, after the Qing army entered the customs, the body of the Chongzhen Emperor was moved out of the mausoleum of Tian Guifei and another Siling was built, giving the Chongzhen Emperor enough dignity. The actions of the Qing Emperor penetrated deep into the psychology of the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally won over some people's hearts, which was also the main reason why the Qing army was able to successfully enter the Central Plains later, they received the support and help of the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and this was exactly what Li Zicheng could not imagine, and he could only end up with the fate of the Nine Palace Mountain.
summary
The Chongzhen Emperor really broke his heart in order to save the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty had accumulated a lot of money, and he lacked management experience, considering the problem too one-sided and subjective, coupled with the serious period of the Xiaoice River, step by step pushed the Ming Dynasty to its demise. Chongzhen was a good emperor, but his strength was not used in the right place, the Ming Dynasty fell, and he hanged himself under the coal mountain tree, which was considered to maintain his last dignity.
Li Zicheng originally grasped the trump card of the people's hearts in his hand, but he did not use this trump card well, he did not have the wise actions of Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, everyone knew how to recruit talents and talents, li Zicheng only knew how to win the hearts of the people, and the body of the violent chongzhen emperor made him lose the talent and ability to manage the country, so it was doomed to the result that the Dashun regime was difficult to succeed.
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