"Sadly, Qin and Han have made soil in the middle of the road, and the palace has made soil. Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer"
In 1627,
Emperor Zhu You of the Apocalypse was critically ill
The task of becoming Yao Shun fell to Zhu You's head.
Zhu Youjian was very diligent and diligent in his administration after taking the throne.
Vowed to reverse the decline of the Ming Dynasty.
But the Ming Dynasty has been accumulating shortcomings for a long time
Coupled with various natural and man-made disasters, the Ming Dynasty is already a dangerous egg in the wind, and time is running out.
Under such circumstances, peasant uprisings broke out everywhere.
And we have today
The protagonist, Li Zicheng, is the king of the company
It was at this time that the army was raised.
Although later he entered the palace, he forced Chongzhen to die
, a time of infinite scenery, but in the end it is very quick to break a good hand,
So what exactly did Li Zicheng do to lead to such a fate?
Don't be in a hurry, this will give you a slow way.
Gradually, the people's voices became more and more powerful
Li Zicheng,
His original name was Li Hongji
, a native of Mizhi County, Yulin, Shaanxi, who used to herd sheep for people when he was a child, and later became a pawn in Yinchuan, after the death of his parents one after another,
Helpless, Li Zicheng ended up cornered
He rebelled and defected to Gao Yingxiang, the king of the time, and became one of his generals. Li Zicheng fought bravely and at the same time was very strategic,
He made many military achievements, and his position in the rebel army was also rising steadily.
Until the winter of the seventh year of Chongzhen
Due to a series of measures taken by the famous general Hong Chengzuo after taking office, the uprising reached an impasse. In order to better unify the forces of various places and discuss the grand plan to overthrow the Ming Dynasty,
Rebel armies from all over the world gathered in Xingyang
A grand strategic meeting was held, known in history as the "Xingyang Conference". At this conference,
Li Zicheng analyzes the real-time battle situation
He put forward the strategic principle of joint operations and dividing troops to meet the enemy, that is, to fight the enemy in four ways, and at the same time to deploy the main force of the rebel army to the eastern battlefield where the enemy's strength was weak. thereupon
As soon as the plan was proposed, it was recognized by everyone
And this vision of Li Zicheng,
It also successfully helped the rebel army through this difficult time.
Not only that, but because the rebels finally had a unified strategic goal,
Combat effectiveness has been greatly improved
, which led to their gradual victory in later wars,
For a time invincible,
In the end, he even took Fengyang County, the hometown of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. After this congress,
Li Zicheng's prestige within the rebel army grew
While earning himself great popularity, he also laid the foundation for the future rebel army to overthrow the Ming Dynasty
Solid foundation
。
Next year
Gao Yingxiang was captured and killed after the defeat of the soldiers
Li Zicheng inherited his title of King of Chuang under the prestige of the people. Li Zicheng quickly stabilized the chaotic military spirit and proposed
The advanced tactical concept of "going to the enemy by going" is advanced
He adopted the method of attacking from the east to avoiding the real attack, and even ordered a number of important cities of the Ming army.
In the same year, he beheaded Hou Liangzhu, the general of the Ming Dynasty.
Later, in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen,
Li Zicheng adopted the advice of the strategist Li Yanjuntian to exempt himself from the endowment
He has been strongly supported by the people, and even the folk have a song specially composed for him: "Welcome the king, do not pay grain." Therefore, Li Zicheng, who was the people's will and the trend of the times, after these accumulations, finally spent 17 years in Chongzhen,
In the first month of 1644, he ascended the throne as emperor
。 This great peasant uprising, which lasted for 16 years,
Also in March of the same year, with Li Zicheng entering Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor hanged the coal mountain and came to an end.
But strangely enough,
The people did not eat pot pulp to welcome the king, as the nursery rhyme sang
On the contrary, in their hearts, there is a hatred that is slowly growing.
The poor and extravagant desperately want to suddenly lose the hearts and minds of the people
The Chongzhen Emperor hanged Coal Mountain and left a letter, which reads impressively,
"Let the thief split the corpse, and do not hurt the people."
Chongzhen's letter looks at the whole thing
Historically, it's rare
Very few emperors would protect their people at the expense of their bodies being "abused".
But coincidentally, his fears were fulfilled.
The king whom the people had been waiting for came
But what they brought was not the expected opening of the warehouse to release grain, but a more unbearable torture than the hunger of the body. That is,
The trend of the times and the desire of the people
Li Zi became the reason for He's failure soon after entering Beijing.
One of the reasons,
Li Zicheng was the first to claim the title of Emperor and Empress Dowager,
Such behavior seems logical. However, it brought endless trouble to himself, first of all, because although the people at that time opposed Daming's strict system, because the program was not chaotic, Daming was still the people's desire, and Li Zicheng's hasty title of emperor was to expose his ambitions to all. However, the general situation is undecided, although the people's hearts can be relied on but still not attached, it is inevitable that they are too anxious, not to mention that the Manchus in the north are also looking at the Central Plains.
Li Zicheng's doing so just happened to give them a reason for the justifiable "Qing Jun's side".
The second reason is that he is excessive
Looked down at Wu Sangui
Not only did he not sincerely surrender him, but he even threatened his beloved woman,
This greatly intensified the contradiction
, personally pushing the partner who was supposed to help him against the Manchus to the enemy's tent. Third, and the biggest of all Wu Sangui's mistakes,
It is to lose faith in the people
, before entering Beijing, it was established
"Officers and soldiers are forbidden to rob property and insult women"
of edicts,
It took less than a few days to be broken by himself.
A leader of the peasant rebel army,
The biggest weapon is his origin
The same origin from the peasant class makes the people resonate with them very much.
But this is all based on the fact that the leader really has the situation of observing the people's feelings.
But Li Zicheng did not, and before the general situation was determined, he began to rush to enjoy himself and choose a concubine for himself
And the upward and downward effects, his hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers also learned to rape and plunder the city.
After waiting for so long, waiting for such a long time, what I was waiting for was a bunch of bandits who did nothing evil! As a result, the people became angry, and Li Zicheng used the foundation of the people's hearts that he had accumulated for more than ten years
It took less than a few days to completely collapse.
epilogue
China has been a populous country since ancient times, with such a large population base,
It opened up so many possibilities for the dynasty
Those miracles that shake the ancient and the present, those golden and splendid palaces,
None of them have been accomplished by the hard work of tens of thousands of people.
But few rulers of the dynasty realized that
Population is not just a number
Beyond that, they are still the smiling faces of every happy person, the heart of sadness and crying when sad,
It is a fertile soil that nourishes the development and growth of one dynasty after another, it is the ocean that carries a country, and it is also a torch that can burn the Dragon Tower Fengchi in despair!