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Li Zicheng's hair-tie wife is called Han Jin'er, who was married when he was a courier brother.
Han Jin'er was beautiful and promiscuous, and when she was fourteen years old, she married a squire in Xi'an City and was chased away for misconduct.
Soon, Han Jin'er remarried to a prison student in Yan'an as a concubine.
After a while, the inmate found that Han Jin'er was lazy and lazy, and also hooked up with wild men, and expelled him in a fit of anger.
Li Zicheng learned that Han Jin'er was beautiful, and he didn't care how chaotic and complicated her past love history was, nor did he ignore the bitter persuasion of relatives and friends, and he married her to death.
In the first year of Chongzhen (1628 AD), the imperial court streamlined and reorganized the station, and Xiao Li Ge was expelled for losing official documents.
Li Zicheng lost his job and began to be in debt.
He owed Ai Ju a lot of money, and when he couldn't pay it for a while, he was sued by Ai.
Later, thanks to the rescue of relatives and friends, he was rescued.
During this period, Han Jin'er couldn't stand the loneliness, so he mixed with the village street skater Gaihu.
After Li Zicheng was released from prison, he learned that his hat had turned green, and in a fit of anger, he clicked Gai Hu and Han Jin'er.
After that, he simply did not do anything and slaughtered Ai Juren.
Burdened with three lives, Li Zicheng could not continue in his hometown, so in the spring of Chongzhen's second year, he led his nephew Li Guo to join the army.
Because Li Zicheng had some kung fu, he was soon promoted to the general of the Ganzhou Army.
In the same year, because his superior withheld military salaries, Li Zicheng launched a mutiny, killing the local Zhi County and the general Kingdom of the army.
After that, Li Zicheng led his subordinates to defect to Wang Zuohang, the leader of the peasant army, and from then on embarked on the road of rebellion against the imperial court.
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In the leap August of the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces of the Ming Army, sent the general He Renlong on a campaign to rescue Longzhou, which was besieged by peasant troops.
Soon, He Renlong's troops were also besieged, and Li Zicheng sent emissaries to He Renlong to send a letter to him to surrender.
As a result, when the emissary returned, he would first report to his fellow villager Gao Jie, and then report to Li Zicheng.
At the same time, the peasant army besieged the city for more than two months, and it was impossible to capture it, which greatly puzzled Li Zicheng, who suspected that Gao Jie and the Ming army were secretly hooking up, so he transferred him back to the military camp from the front line.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Gao Jie returned, he set a fire in Li Zicheng's backyard.
It turned out that Li Zicheng's second wife, Xing Shi, was responsible for distributing money and food to the soldiers every day.
Every day, Gao Jie went to Xing's camp to collect grain and stamp it, and when he came and went, he hooked up with Xing.
Xing wanted to stay with Gao Jie and was worried about being detected by her husband, so he persuaded Gao Jie to surrender to the Ming army so that he could be a long-term couple.
The two hit it off and eloped after sweeping away a large amount of Li Zicheng's treasure on a dark and windy night in a month.
After Gao Jie surrendered to the Ming army, he could not change his banditry, and during the attack on Yangzhou City, he frantically plundered the treasure women and slaughtered hundreds of innocent people.
During the Southern Ming Dynasty, Gao Jie flew high and tried to suppress the general Xu Dingguo.
Xu Dingguo pretended to give in and got two prostitutes to serve Gao Jie.
One day, after Gao Jie was drunk, he put his arms around the two prostitutes and slept soundly, and Xu Dingguo's subordinates took the opportunity to break in, but Gao Jie was entangled with prostitutes and could not get out, and was eventually killed.
After Gao Jie was killed, the Southern Ming army Shangshu Shi Kefa handed over his subordinates to the Xing clan and his youngest son Gao Yuanjue.
Xing believes that a weak little woman with a doll cannot establish prestige in the army, so he asks Shi Kefa to recognize Xiao Gao as a righteous son.
Shi Kefa hated the origin of this baby and firmly disagreed.
Xing shi saw that he was despised by Nanming, so he led his son Gao Yuanjue to surrender to the Qing army, and then did not know the end.
Gao Guiying and Li Zicheng
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Li Zicheng's third wife was Gao Guiying, and her brother Gao Ligong was a jailer who took good care of Li Zicheng when he was imprisoned.
After being released from prison, Li Zicheng hid in Gao Ligong's house after killing people, during which time Li Zicheng fell in love with Gao Guiying at first sight, and Gao Guiying also admired Li Zicheng.
However, at that time, Li Zicheng was ready to defect to the rebel army, and could only abandon Gao Guiying with all his heart.
After that, Li Zicheng succeeded in ascending to the throne in the peasant army, so he naturally married Gao Guiying.
Gao Guiying also sang with her husband and followed Li Zicheng on the battlefield.
In 1644, Li Zicheng was proclaimed emperor and Gao Guiying was made empress, but soon After, Li Zicheng was defeated by Wu Sangui and the Qing army, withdrew from the city of Beijing, and later turned to Hubei and died in defeat.
After Li Zicheng's death, Gao Guiying, Li Guo, He Zhen and other generals led the remnants of the peasant army to defect to the Southern Ming regime and continued to stubbornly resist the Qing army.
During this period, Gao Guiying made many military achievements and was appreciated by Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Longwu enfeoffed Gao Guiying as "Lady Jiexiao Zhenyi Yipin", and his subordinates were known as "Zhongzhen Camp".
Helplessly, the Qing army was strong, and soon Gao Guiying was besieged by the Qing army in the mountains and forests of Hubei, and she and her subordinate Li Laiheng preferred to die rather than surrender, and finally raised a fire to set themselves on fire, heroically righteous.
Gao Guiying died heroically and heroically, saving some face for this Li Zicheng, a man from northern Shaanxi.
References: "Ming Dynasty Testament", "Suikou Jiluo", "Record of Sin"