After Li Zicheng was killed, what happened to his wife Gao Guiying? You may not believe it when you say it
Heaven forbid, good luck
If it is said that Li Zicheng's marriage with Gao Guiying is also attributed to one person, that is, Li Zicheng's good friend and Gao Guiying's younger brother - Gao Ligong. Li Zi was a small pawn, unfortunately in time for the imperial court to lay off employees and was laid off.
After that, he went out to study art, but he was arrested by the government for fighting for people on the road and sent to prison. As it happened, Gao Ligong, the jailer who guarded Li Zicheng, was his former friend at the station.
Gao Ligong not only took good care of Li Zicheng, but also saw that Li Zicheng had an extraordinary temperament, and expected that he would become a great instrument in the future, so he secretly released him. The two escaped together, and they fled to Gao Ligong's house, where his sister Gao Guiying heard about Li Zicheng's deeds and deeply felt his generosity and chivalry.
Later, she took good care of Li Zicheng, and Gao Guiying was also a person with outstanding appearance and good martial arts, with a straightforward personality and no twisting. For a time, Li Zicheng was also attracted by Gao Guiying's talent, and the two fell in love.
Although Gao Guiying had already married earlier, her husband died early, and she became a widow early. Li Zicheng was worried that Gao Guiying refused the marriage between the two because of the widowhood, and after Gao Ligong learned of the situation, he immediately took the task to himself without saying a word, and persuaded him, and finally Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying were happily married.
After becoming a relative, Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying were very affectionate, Li Zicheng knew that his wife loved to learn martial arts, so he personally went on the field to instruct and teach art, Gao Guiying was extremely talented in martial arts, not only absorbing the skills that her husband taught to himself very well, but also a bit of "blue out of blue and better than blue" meaning.
The good reputation of the couple's immortal companions soon spread, and even the officers and soldiers who pursued and killed them were also recruited, Li Zicheng and the Gao family packed up their luggage and fled overnight, and after several twists and turns, they defected to their uncle Gao Yingxiang, and Gao Guiying naturally began the great cause of the peasant uprising with her husband.
Prosperity declines, exile collapses
As we all know, Li Zicheng was the leader of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also the number one person with courage and strategy. In his early years, he fought everywhere, when it was Hong Chengzu who was besieging and suppressing the peasant rebel army on the orders of the Chongzhen Emperor, and Li Zicheng had to be careful with the Qing army while fighting Against Hong Chengzu, and the enemy's front and back attacks made it difficult for him to breathe.
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the people were not happy, and under the corrupt rule, the Ming regime could collapse at any time. Although Li Zicheng was born as a farmer, he also knew this truth, so Li Zicheng shouted the slogan of "equalizing the fields and exempting them from endowment" to win the hearts and minds of the people, which was widely praised.
Later, when the Ming army was busy pursuing and suppressing the rebellious Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng attacked Luoyang and Chengtian one after another, calling the "New Shun King" to pacify the displaced people, break through Tongguan, occupy the whole province of Shaanxi, and gain a foothold.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng set out from Xi'an and entered the capital all the way into the Qianqing Palace. The Chongzhen Emperor knew that he was at the end of his rope and hanged himself in the coal mountain, and since then Li Zicheng has become the only emperor in the capital, and has set the capital here, with the founding name "Dashun".
Li Zicheng, who was called empress dowager, at first his rule was maintained normally, and Li Zicheng also ordered the promulgation of many political, economic, and cultural policies to consolidate political power and appease the people. However, as time passed, Da Shun began to indulge in happiness.
The lack of strict governance of the army and the lack of discipline, coupled with the failure to recruit Wu Sangui, directly killed dozens of his family, resulting in Wu Sangui directly defecting to the Qing army. Later, Wu Sangui let the Qing army enter the pass, and Li Zicheng was defeated by the joint efforts of the two armies.
Coincidentally, when the Southern Ming Hongguang Emperor supported his troops and established himself, Dashun's rule basically collapsed. In the final analysis, it is because Li Zicheng has always been imprisoned in his own small peasant thoughts, he was born a farmer, and he has the qualities of tenacity and hard work in the peasant.
Li Zicheng's own class limitations make it still not long-term enough, it is easy to covet immediate benefits, and it is impossible to promulgate fundamental documents to solve social unrest, and it lacks correct theoretical guidance. In the end, he was defeated by Dajin's Tiger and Wolf Army, and his soldiers were defeated and exiled, and he was killed at Nine Palace Mountain.
Respectable and lamentable, the soul of the scarf is broken
After the defeat of Li Zicheng's army, his wife Empress Gao did not die, and led the remnants of the Dashun army to continue to confront the Qing army, and Empress Gao did not immerse herself in the grief of the widow, but quickly calmed down and analyzed the situation.
Empress Gao knew that Da Shun's qi had been exhausted, and it was a fool's dream to fight the Qing army with her own strength, so she led the rest of the people to defect to the Southern Ming Hongguang Emperor. As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, and the military strength of the Hongguang Emperor will have a better chance of winning.
Empress Gao followed Li Zicheng on the campaign for many years, and she was also quite proficient in military tactics, and she also formed an army called "Loyalty Battalion". However, Empress Gao tried her best to resist the Qing army, but the strength of the Qing army was too strong and unstoppable.
Coupled with the limited strength of the Southern Ming Army, no matter how brave Empress Gao was, she was really not an opponent of the Qing army. In the end, Empress Gao's army retreated all the way to Maolu Mountain, and the Qing army gathered to attack Maolu Mountain, and Empress Gao knew that she had no hope, so she burned Maolu Mountain to the ground and vowed to die and not surrender to the Qing army.
Empress Gao was meritorious in resisting the Qing army, and was named Lady Jiexiao Zhenyi Yipin by Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, leaving a strong mark in history. Although Empress Gao was a woman of the female stream, in such a chaotic world, her deeds showed that she was an uncompromising hero.
He was loyal and unyielding, regarded death as a homecoming, and buried himself in the sea of fire with the determination to die with the enemy, and his husband was defeated and died a tragic death. "The great king is full of spirit, and the concubine He Liaosheng", we seem to see some shadows of Xiang Yu and Yu Ji, the overlords of Western Chu, from Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying.
Although the evaluation of Li Zicheng in later generations was mixed, some people called him a hero, and some people called him a thief, but the evaluation of his wife Empress Gao was almost an unapologetic praise, she was such a brilliant and loyal female haojie, which was admirable.
However, the end of Empress Gao's final burial in the sea of fire is also really regrettable. What do you think about that?
