In ancient times, it was not easy for a commoner to become an emperor, but Li Zicheng did it, and with his social background and his own appeal, he destroyed the Ming Dynasty all the way and established a new dynasty, and Li Zicheng also named his favorite woman as empress.
This woman's descendants named her "Gao Guiying", Gao Guiying not only helped Li Zicheng achieve a career, but also won the trust of everyone, but in the end Li Zicheng failed to keep his exploits, and was killed in the Nine Palaces Mountain, and what was the result of his beautiful Empress Gao?
First, Li Zicheng met Gao Guiying on the way to escape
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were many wars and chaos, the imperial court was open and secretly fighting, and the landlords were perversely violating the law, making the people unhappy, and often at such times it was easy for people with lofty ideals to lead the oppressed peasants to resist, and Li Zicheng was such a person.
Since he was a child, Li Zicheng lived in a low-level family, usually there was no book to read, just in the landlord's family to help shepherd sheep, after the early death of his parents, he took over his father's position and went to the station as a pawn.
I thought it would be good to live a simple life like this, but the sky was not the wish, Li Zicheng lost important documents on the way to transport letters, returned to the station and could not account for it, and was directly dismissed, at that time he also owed a lot of debts, lost his position and had no source of livelihood, so the creditor sued Li Zicheng to the government.
If you want to say that the debts are not repaid now, at most it is to punish or detain for a few days, but at that time, the official government was very powerful, and colluded with merchants and landlords, and the overall social environment was not good, so Li Zicheng was sentenced to death by the county officials and imprisoned.
Li Zicheng, who was in prison, knew that his time was short, so he planned to give up, but he suddenly found that the jailer who arranged to guard him was actually a former colleague named Gao Yigong, who was very sympathetic after hearing what happened to him, so he secretly released Li Zicheng.
Gao Yigong also knew that the crime of releasing the death row prisoner was very great, so he escaped with Li Zicheng, and after thinking about it, he decided to take Li Zicheng back to his home first, and then think of a way to do things later.
Gao Yigong's family also had a sister, that is, the later Empress Gao Guiying, Li Zicheng fell in love at first sight of Gao Guiying from the first sight, Gao Guiying not only had a beautiful appearance and a gentle personality, but also practiced a martial art.
During Li Zicheng's stay at Gao's house, Gao Guiying has always taken care of his dietary life, and because the two people like martial arts, they often discuss martial arts knowledge together, and they have more good feelings for each other.
Gao Guiying had been married before and was a widow, so although Gao Guiying liked Li Zicheng in his heart, he felt that he was not worthy of him, and Li Zicheng was not good at opening his mouth, and the relationship between the two had not been broken, until Gao Yigong found that the two were in love with each other, and then he intended to match the two, otherwise Li Zicheng would lose a person who was very important to him.
Second, after Li Zicheng got the dynasty, he was expelled from Beijing
Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying's life as gods and immortals did not last long, and the government had been tracking down Li Zicheng's whereabouts, and it was about to find the Gao family, so Li Zicheng fled with Gao Guiying and Gao Yigong and went to the nearby peasant rebel army to surrender.
Soon Li Zicheng and Gao Yigong gained prestige in the peasant rebel army and became leaders, and Gao Guiying did not want to show weakness and set up a women's army, the couple and the two of them could be described as invincible, and their subordinates admired both of them.
Li Zicheng grew step by step after the incident, and even later excavated the ancestral graves of the Ming imperial family with Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, burned the "Huangjue Temple" where Zhu Yuanzhang had once been a monk, killed more than sixty eunuchs, and beheaded Zhu Guoxiang, the general of Zhongdu, so that people could witness his mighty and fearless "breaking into the king".
The most admirable point of Li Zicheng is that he did not rely on brute force to fight, but held up the banner of the people to fight against criminal officials, proposing to "equalize the fields and exempt them from endowment", at that time the people were exploited and afraid of the official court, and there was no way to live, so there would be no hesitation in being able to have a way out, so Li Zicheng's army soon expanded to tens of thousands of people and directly destroyed the Ming Dynasty.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, established the state name "Dashun", and Gao Guiying, who had been following him around in battle, also became Empress Gao in the voice of the people.
In fact, in ancient times, there was still a great prejudice against women, women's status was very low, generally at home to manage housework, even if a female general like Gao Guiying, there is no way to examine the real name, the record is only Gao Empress such a title, Gao Guiying's name is still taken from "Mu Guiying" can enlist the meaning of war.
Li Zicheng's idea of seeking the welfare of the peasants was still very popular with the people, but it was not in line with the times at that time, his level of education and judgment of the survival of the country were obviously insufficient, he did not have enough understanding of the contradictions between the peasant class and the landlord class, and he only wanted to lighten the peasants' burdens, but ignored the financial pressure brought to the state by this, and finally caused a situation of internal and external troubles.
Li Zicheng was complacent about becoming emperor in the palace, but the other half of the Manchurian army was looking at the tiger, and even wu Sangui, a general of the Ming Dynasty stationed at the border pass, also defected to Manchuria, Li Zicheng was already in a catastrophe, and as soon as the Manchurians entered the pass, they directly drove out Li Zicheng, and he was the emperor for 42 days.
Li Zicheng, who was driven out of the capital, was very frustrated, and fled to Jiugong Mountain with the remnants of his army, and later Li Zicheng and his party planned to go to the mountain to forage for food because of lack of food, but they were caught by the peasants, who thought that Li Zicheng was a thief and surrounded him, and finally Li Zicheng died at the hands of this group of peasants.
Third, the heroic female general Gao Guiying finally chose to set herself on fire
After Li Zicheng's death, Gao Guiying also learned of this news, and she was furious, she could not believe that her beloved husband had died at the hands of the peasants, so she led the army to jiugong mountain and killed all the people here.
Later, gao Guiying, holding the banner of her husband Li Zicheng, once again gathered a large number of peasant troops to carry out crazy revenge on the Manchurian army, and this female general who had been fighting for many years brought great damage to the Manchurian army.
At this time, the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty gathered together and established a new Ming court, and Li Zicheng's nephew took Gao Guiying to the new Ming court, and the imperial court greatly appreciated Gao Guiying's battle book, named her Lady Zhongyi, and also rewarded her troops as The Loyalty Camp, so that the female generals who could be recognized by the imperial court were indeed one of the few at that time.
It is a pity that the restoration of the Ming Dynasty was only temporary, and its demise was an ironclad fact, although a new imperial court was established, but the atmosphere did not change, the internal personnel of the imperial court fought for it, and Gao Guiying's younger brother Gao Yigong was also secretly attacked and killed in the infighting, which caused a huge blow to Gao Guiying.
In the end, Gao Guiying was unfortunately trapped in a battle with the Qing soldiers, foreign aid and food were not enough, even if Gao Guiying has been sworn to resist to the death, but can not change the situation that has been defeated, in order to die with dignity, Gao Guiying chose to self-immolate, many people can not believe that a generation of female generals actually fell into this fate, it is really lamentable.