The demise of the Ming Dynasty is a very regrettable thing for many people who like history, especially for the emperor's hanging of coal mountain. Many people will wonder, how can such a diligent emperor perish? This also became the only empire in history where the emperor was diligent and could still destroy the country. The Qin, Han, Tang, and Song dynasties all died in the emperor's fainting, and the Qing Dynasty died in the chaotic state of Cixi, while Chongzhen was an emperor who thought he was very diligent and thought that he should be the lord of Zhongxing.
On the surface, this does seem to be the case, and from the time he first ascended the throne, it did bring a glimmer of hope for revival to the entire Ming Dynasty. However, history is often so cruel, such a favored emperor, but with the country to the end of the journey. Some people say that the Ming Dynasty died during the Xiaoice River period, mainly due to environmental factors that led to the intensification of internal rebellions, thus destroying the country; others say that it was the internal struggle of the imperial court coupled with the corruption of officials that led to the collapse of the entire Ming Dynasty.
In fact, Zhu Haijun believes that the more important factor in the demise of the Ming Dynasty should be the character defects of the Chongzhen Emperor. If an emperor is such a self-absorbed person, lacks wrong cognition, and does not know how to bend and stretch, he is doomed to lead the country to decline, and his demise is only in the blink of an eye. How should a wise emperor choose to deal with state affairs in the face of internal and external troubles? History actually gave Chongzhen many opportunities, before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing actually never thought that they could conquer the Central Plains, their greatest wish was nothing more than to divide one side and become a powerful prince on the rich side.
Therefore, after Emperor Taiji ascended the throne, he wrote several letters in Chongzhen for fifteen years, expressing his willingness to negotiate peace and reconciliation, but unexpectedly the letter was passed out by the bookboy of Chen Xinjia, the shangshu of the Bingbu Department, and the ministers wrote letters to oppose it after learning the news. Therefore, Chongzhen was forced to push all the responsibility to Chen Xinjia, and later executed him. Seeing that no, Chongzhen was so thin and unkind, and the same was true of Yuan Chonghuan's execution.
It was not until the moment when the Ming Dynasty fell that Chongzhen understood that those who planned the Liao affairs should not fight and should be reconciled. In fact, when the Ming Dynasty was in the Manchu Qing confrontation, it had long seen the benefits of peace negotiations, and had taken the initiative to negotiate peace many times, but each time it was the Ming Dynasty that took the initiative to sabotage, and later became unmanageable, and the main reason for this situation was that Chongzhen was so happy to do great feats, did not understand the way of bending and stretching, hesitated to negotiate and ambiguously, rebelled, and finally paid a heavy price.