We all know that although the world today has different political parties and different social systems, the whole world has a common desire, that is, world peace, which is the lesson of the blood and tears of the people of the whole world. Looking back at history, we will find that behind every war, whether it is the losing side or the winning side, there is a terrible price: the ruined country, the suffering people, the devastated mountains and rivers, all of which are heart-wrenching.
Behind the countless dynastic changes in Chinese history, there has been countless bloodshed and sacrifices. The war benefited those in power, but it was ordinary people and the relatives of the defeated emperor who suffered. For example, the famous Jingkang disaster in history, the Jin Dynasty's torture and bullying of the Northern Song royal family, still sounds creepy.
There is such an emperor in history, after having already seen the end of his defeat, he chose to end himself before the enemy army arrived. He not only chose to marry himself, but also personally married all the concubines and daughters in his harem, just to prevent them from being bullied by the enemy army. If you don't believe it, this emperor is the famous Chongzhen Emperor in history, and the one who fought with him was King Chuang, Li Zicheng.
Li is his own person
When it comes to the king Li Zicheng, I believe many people know his family history. Li Zicheng was born in a peasant family at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He lived a poor life since childhood. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the society was dark, and most officials only cared about making money for themselves, and did not care about the lives of the people. Ordinary people not only have to be bullied and oppressed by officials, but also struggle to make a living in the cracks. Li Zicheng had many children in his family, and in order to make ends meet and reduce the burden, his parents had to send Li Zicheng to the temple and let him become a monk.
In this way, the young Li Zi became a livelihood and had to live away from his parents in the temple. In the temple, Li Zicheng spent year after year, and also changed from a young child who did not understand anything to a strong teenager. After growing up, Li Zicheng is also thinking about his life, can't he stay in the temple all his life and eat and wait for death, right? Before he could figure it out, his brother in the family sent news that his parents had died.
When his parents died, Li Zicheng, as a son, had to go back to his filial piety and mourning, so Li Zicheng left the temple where he had lived for many years and returned home to handle the funeral for his parents. Li Zicheng's original plan was to wait for his parents' funeral to be done, and he would continue to go back to the temple, but what he didn't expect was that his parents had borrowed usury for life, and now they are dead, but the debt owed has not been paid, and the debt collector has come to the door several times to ask for money, Li Zicheng can't bear it, so he kills the creditor with a knife.
In order to avoid being arrested by the government, Li Zicheng could only leave the country and join the team of the border when there was no way to retreat.
Li Zicheng revolted
Although he was forced to join the army, like countless men, Li Zicheng also had a dream of joining the army to serve the country and kill the enemy in blood. But after staying in the army for a while, Li Zicheng found that the generals in the army were still corrupt and bribery, and they did not want to train people and horses all day, but hid in the camp and spent all day drinking. Ordinary soldiers not only can't get their own money, but even have problems eating and wearing warm clothes.
Over time, the soldiers inevitably felt resentful, and when the Jin people came to attack Daming, in order to protect the imperial city, the Chongzhen Emperor ordered the troops of the border to return to the dynasty to protect the safety of the imperial capital. On the way back to Beijing, the soldiers asked the generals to reissue the salary, but the general swallowed and refused to distribute it. Unable to bear it, Li Zicheng decided to resist, so he led a group of angry soldiers into the camp, killed the general, and launched an uprising.
When the soldiers on the edge saw that Li Zicheng was so brave, they all followed his lead. Li Zicheng knew that with his current strength, he would soon be eliminated by the imperial court, and in order to preserve his strength, he first joined Wang Zuohang's team, and after Wang Zuohang was eliminated, he defected to Zhang Cunmeng. Unfortunately, here in Zhang Cunmeng, Li Zicheng was not taken seriously, and soon Li Zicheng decided to lead his subordinates to Gao Yingxiang.
By Gao Yingxiang's side, Li Zicheng learned a lot of knowledge, and his own power was further developed. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Houjin came to attack, and the Daming dynasty was busy dealing with Houjin, and the rebel army got an opportunity to develop. At this time, Li Zicheng's power and prestige in the rebel army were greatly improved, and he decided to go it alone, unwilling to be only a deputy.
Soon Li Zicheng put forward the slogan "Juntian is exempt" to attract more people to join the rebel army and support him. What the common people care about most is land, so that every common people can obtain land, and the common people naturally support Li Zicheng.
With the support of the common people and the large number of rebel troops, Li Zicheng quickly established his own regime and established his capital at Xiangyang. In order to justify his name and dominate the world, Li Zicheng soon led his army to attack Xi'an first, and then Beijing, and with the opening of the Beijing city gate, Li Zicheng, the king of Beijing, successfully entered the customs and became emperor.
What the Chongzhen Emperor did after entering the customs
For the Chongzhen Emperor, who lived in the imperial palace in Beijing at that time, hearing the news of Li Zicheng's entry into customs was undoubtedly a thunderbolt on a sunny day. It won't be long before Li Zicheng will invade the palace, and his life will be lost, and even his concubines and children will be severely humiliated by Li Zicheng.
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't sit still. As the saying goes, you can't kill a soldier. In order not to be humiliated by Li Zicheng, he decided to hang himself. In order to keep his harem from being trampled by Li Zicheng, he said to his wife, Empress Zhou: "Now that the country is broken, you should find your own way out." When Empress Zhou heard this, she immediately understood what Chongzhen meant, and immediately returned to her dormitory, took out a white silk and hanged herself. The other concubines, Chongzhen, also rewarded them with a white silk and let them hang themselves.
After solving the concubine, Chongzhen can then find a way out for his children. In order to preserve the bloodline of the imperial heir, he first sent his cronies to take several princes out of the palace in disguise, as the saying goes, leave the green mountains behind, not afraid of no firewood. But in the face of several daughters, Chongzhen decided to end them with his own hands.
He first killed Princess Akihito with a sword, and then slashed at Princess Changping with his sword. Fortunately, the grief-stricken Chongzhen just cut off one of Princess Changping's arms, and then walked to the coal mountain in a trance to end himself. Princess Changping also survived and became the only survivor.
epilogue
In fact, from a certain point of view, the Chongzhen Emperor's approach is not unreasonable. Although it is often said that it is better to die than to live. But for the people of the Son of Heaven, instead of living in humiliation, it is not to die cleanly, leaving innocence in the world.
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