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In 1644, on the nineteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, Li Zicheng dressed as a hero, riding a black horse, entered the city of Beijing from deshengmen, killed all the way to the forbidden city, looked up, and saw four big characters: The Gate of Heaven.
Li Zicheng said to his subordinates with great ambition, if I shoot an arrow at it, if I can shoot it in the middle of the four characters, I will be the next lord in the world. He pulled the arrow out of the cowhide quiver, and with a "bang", the arrow shot at the lower half of the word "Heaven" with great force.
"In the middle of it, in the middle of the world". Venus immediately spoke out to comfort him. Li Zicheng smiled slightly, grabbed his crotch and mounted, and took the lead in rushing into the Forbidden City.
In the Qianqing Palace, the Chongzhen Emperor trembled and raised his wine glass and drank it all. After discovering that Empress Zhou had committed suicide, she summoned Princess Changping and waited until the princess approached, drawing a sword and slashing it. Then, he ran to Akihito Palace and stabbed the six-year-old Princess Shōhito to death with a sword;
Chongzhen continued to wield the long sword in his hand, slashing at countless concubines and palace women, and finally, being trampled on his feet, he fled with the eunuch all the way to coal mountain and hanged himself on a crooked neck tree. He is only 33 years old.
Chongzhen died, and when he raised a glass in the Forbidden City and drank it all, the tearful words "Bitterness I am full of people in the city" were vividly interpreted by Li Zicheng's subordinates.
Li Zicheng, who had captured the palace, ordered the clearance, and the most tragic moment in the history of the Forbidden City began, and the palace ladies who did not want to be humiliated ran for their lives and jumped into the royal river, and in a short time, hundreds of colorful corpses floated on the surface.
For those beautiful women who did not die, Li Zicheng and Liu Zhongmin and others divided up. The heroic figure Li Chuangwang, who had bravely won the three armies, disappeared, leaving only the Dashun Emperor who lived in the Wuying Hall and was awakened by Libido.
When Li Zicheng hugged left and right on the dragon bed where Chongzhen once slept, in order to replenish the treasury of the Dashun Dynasty, Liu Zhongmin began his plan to "squeeze money with meat".
Liu Zhongmin had specially made five thousand pairs of clamping sticks, which had edges on them and were connected by iron nails, and those who refused to hand over their property would crush their hands and feet and turn them into a pile of fibers mixed with flesh and bone.
A group of former dynasty officials who came to the court dreamed of joining the new government, but they were imprisoned. Eight hundred of them were escorted all the way to Liu Zhongmin's residence, where well-made sticks awaited them.
Liu Zhongmin set strict payment standards for former dynasty officials, and those who were willing to pay were immediately taken to the pawnshop at the front door, and when they received a receipt, the family property was discarded. The receipt reads: A certain official and his wife and a certain clan borrowed some life-saving silver.
Someone didn't have enough money to complete the task, and their five fingers and legs were put into hard clamping sticks, and the miserable cries resounded throughout the miserable city of Beijing. Some civilian officials, as soon as they saw the sticks covered with blood, had not yet begun to be clamped, and they were frightened to pass out.
When Li Zicheng went to see hundreds of officials who had become crippled, this northwestern han who had experienced countless bloody rains and storms claimed that he really couldn't look at it.
Chongzhen
After Wei Zaode, the last cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, handed over tens of thousands of silver vehicles, Liu Zhongmin suspected that he was still hiding money, and was continued to be tortured, and after five days and five nights of torture, he died of a brain split. Before he died, he cried out loudly, regretting that he had not repaid the Ming Dynasty for his loyalty.
The madness of the madness continues. Among those who were tortured, there was unfortunately one person, and his son was stationed at Shanhaiguan. Yes, his son is Wu Sangui. At this time, Wu Sangui was paying close attention to the situation in Beijing.
After learning that Chongzhen had committed suicide, that the Ming Dynasty had been destroyed, and that the property of his father and elders had fallen to the Dashun Dynasty, he handed over the troops of Shanhaiguan to Tang Tong, a close associate sent by Li Zicheng, and rushed toward Beijing on a flying horse, ready to throw himself into the arms of Dashun.
When we arrived in Luanzhou, a stone's throw away from Beijing, the situation suddenly took a turn. This turning point not only changed Wu Sangui's decision, but also directly changed the fate of the Dashun Dynasty and changed the direction of history.
A man who had escaped from the city of Beijing told him that his father had been killed and that his concubine Chen Yuanyuan had been taken over by Liu Zhongmin. Wu Sangui was stunned on the spot, and when he returned to God, his face was full of killing machines, and he swore not to destroy Li Thief and swore not to be a man.
Wu Sangui
Wu Sangui raised his knife and fell, cut off the head of the envoy, and opened the city gate to welcome the Qing soldiers into the customs. On April 12, Li Zicheng was forced to leave the city and march in person. Zhao Shijin, who was staying at the front gate, witnessed the scene of the Dashun Emperor leaving the city.
I saw that his eyes were miserable, and the heroism of the past had disappeared. On April 21, at the foot of the Great Wall, at the battle of "a piece of stone" at the nine gates, Wu Sangui united with the Qing army and defeated Li Zicheng.
On the twenty-sixth day, Li Zicheng returned to Beijing in a panic and beheaded Wu Sangui's family of thirty-four people. On the 29th, the enthronement ceremony was held in the Wuying Hall. As the night grew darker, he ordered a fire to be set, and in an instant the flames soared into the sky, and the Forbidden City suddenly turned into a sea of fire.
At dawn, Li Zicheng rode his black horse and left the city. From the time he entered the Forbidden City to the time he left the Forbidden City, it took a total of forty-two days. In the blink of an eye, the Forbidden City experienced the ashes of two dynasties.
Wu Sangui, who was completely engulfed by the fire of hatred, pursued and killed all the way, chased across the Yellow River, and chased after Hubei, like a mad wild dog, chasing after it.
In the end, Li Zicheng led his last ten or so cavalry men to flee to Tongshan County, Hubei Province, fighting until the last of them, like a lost dog, fled to Jiugong Mountain.
In the end, no one knows exactly what happened to Li Zicheng? Some people say that he hid his name and became a monk at Jiashan Temple in Shimen County, Hunan Province, while others say that he was killed by his subordinates.
In a report to the Qing court by the Qing general Azig, the Qing dynasty general said that Li Zicheng did his best, took only 20 of his cronies, sneaked into the Nine Palace Mountain, was besieged by the villagers, could not escape, and hanged himself. The body is rotten and unrecognizable at the time of examination.
He Tengjiao, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty stationed in Xiang, reported to the Southern Ming Tang lord that his subordinate Cheng Jiubo had beheaded Li Zicheng at the foot of the Nine Palaces Mountain, but only lost his first rank. Whether it is Azig or He Tengjiao, both reports have loopholes, that is, they cannot identify whether the S body is really Li Zijie.
Until now, Li Zicheng's death is still inconsistent. And the divine courage of him when he rode into the city and shot an arrow at the "Gate of Heaven" was constantly being repeatedly rumored, just like the mystery of his death.