On March 19, 1644, the peasant rebel army led by Li Zicheng attacked the city of Beijing, and the desperate Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian hanged himself at Beijing Coal Mountain, officially stepping down from the stage of history at the age of 277. The Ming Dynasty fell, and later people were discussing whose head should the pot of the Ming Dynasty's demise be put on? The first to bear the brunt of this is naturally the Chongzhen Emperor, who was the last emperor, and the responsibility must be arrogant, but most people believe that the demise of the Ming Dynasty cannot be completely blamed on Chongzhen, the of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant nest, and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty was corroded as early as his grandfather's time.
After the death of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army entered the customs, and during the Kangxi period, the selection of emperors who entered the temples of the emperors of the past dynasties was generally not the king of the fallen country, but the Chongzhen Emperor was selected, and his grandfather, father, and brother (Wanli, Taichang, And Tianqi) were not in it, which was enough to see that Kangxi's evaluation of Chongzhen was still very high, and the sin of the demise of the Ming Dynasty was not in him.
Basically, Kangxi's view also represents the view of the majority of the people, and the Qing Dynasty historian Meng Sen believes: "Sizong was not the king of the fallen country before the Wanli Calendar; after the apocalypse, he will die!" It is enough to show that the Wanli Emperor was the culprit of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, so how did the Wanli Emperor "do" the Ming Dynasty step by step?
The Wanli Emperor, whose name was Zhu Yijun, reigned for 48 years, making him the longest-reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty. When the Wanli Emperor first succeeded to the throne, he was also ambitious and wanted to do something big, but the constraints of various rules made him understand that the emperor was actually just a need and a decoration, so in the last thirty years of his reign, he neglected to deal with political affairs and focused on pleasure, and squandered and did not know how to control.
Although the Wanli Emperor did not go to work, he was not idle, and sent a large number of mining supervisors and tax envoys to all parts of the country, which led to popular resentment, and at the same time, the partisan struggle within the imperial court and the dictatorship of eunuchs also intensified. In the last stage of the Wanli period, all kinds of contradictions in society were highlighted, but Wan Li lived in the deep palace for a long time, and even if someone wanted to tell him, he was deaf.
After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he wanted to change the situation of the fall of Daming, be diligent in government affairs, and at the same time vigorously eliminate Wei Zhongxian's wings, and then use Yuan Chonghuan as the shangshu of the army, give Shang Fang the sword, and entrust him with the heavy task of recovering the whole Liao, and the Ming Dynasty had a situation of Zhongxing, but it was only as it seemed. The ensuing natural disasters such as drought and plague led to the outbreak of peasant uprisings, Chongzhen was unable to take care of himself, and the external plague of Wukou was looking at the tiger, and the demise of the Ming Dynasty was an inevitable trend.
These problems that arose in the last years of the Ming Dynasty were all left to His grandson by Wanli, Wukou was transferred by Wanli to Qi Jiguang to let him develop, and eunuchs were laissez-faire by Wanli... And the diligent Chongzhen Emperor became a back-pot man, bearing the insult of the fallen country that should not belong to him.