It is said that the times create people, but this time can also destroy people, we have heard too many stories of heroes in the chaotic world, but we have not pitied those poor people who rise and fall in the chaotic world, today we will talk about a tragedy in the chaotic world - the Chongzhen Emperor. When it comes to the Chongzhen Emperor, everyone may think that he is the king of the Ming Dynasty, but his family's evaluation of the Chongzhen Emperor has not been very negative, probably because the Chongzhen Emperor himself is actually very diligent, not a person who is addicted to wine and chaos, so all this cannot be blamed on him.
Everyone has always believed that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was mainly caused by eunuchs, but in fact, the fall of the Ming Dynasty was also largely related to the Donglin Party, which was gradually formed after Gu Xiancheng restored the Donglin Academy in the Wanli Period. But in fact, the Donglin Party represents the large landlord and big merchant class, which controls most of the country's social wealth, and they use the power in their hands to encourage the emperor to abolish many commercial taxes such as mining taxes, salt taxes, and tea taxes.
In addition, in the late Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued to occur, but the Donglin Party vigorously obstructed acts such as allocating funds for disaster relief, which eventually led to the displacement of the people and their escape, and many peasant uprisings occurred. However, the Donglin Party still did not give up, and still committed misdeeds and plagued the people for its own selfish interests, and during this period, the Ming Dynasty's finances fell into a dead cycle. The people at the bottom cried bitterly, and the country also had a fiscal deficit, which made the Ming Dynasty's economy continue to collapse, and the country fell into an irreparable situation.
In addition, the Donglin Party also instigated the emperor to eliminate Wei Zhongxian and others, thus enlarging its own power, and after the rise of another eunuch force, it continued to engage in party struggles, without the slightest regard for major state affairs, and for a time, there was constant infighting and miasma in the entire court of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, the late Ming Dynasty was unstable, the military was scattered, and the people of the world did not have a good life, and Chongzhen, who was already insufficient in innate talent, naturally could not clean up such a mess. Since then, the imperial court has been in a state of decline, and later when Li Zicheng entered the capital, no minister was willing to come to the court.
The 33-year-old Chongzhen Emperor came from his heart, killed the harem concubines and princesses and other female dependents, ran to the coal mountain in a terrible state, hanged himself on a crooked neck tree, and ended his sad and pitiful life. Before dying, Chongzhen wrote a blood letter in his robe telling Li Zicheng to treat the people well, and he also cried out six words: Wen Chen, everyone can be blamed! With these short six words, I have exhausted my lifelong regret.