#History Talk#When "Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine and pulp, open the city gate to meet the king, and the king will not take grain when he comes." Li Zicheng led the Dashun peasant army to successfully invade the city of Beijing, and since then reigned for 276 years, and the Daming Dynasty of the sixteenth emperor has come to an end. In desperation, Emperor Chongzhen could only walk up the coal mountain and leave a paragraph of the Daming Dynasty's "one bowl at the beginning and one rope at the end". Before hanging himself, Chongzhen angrily wrote a sentence on his clothes: "Shame and defiance, heaven is to blame, but all the ministers have misunderstood." "Emperor Chongzhen is unwilling and pathetic. In his view, "not the king of the dead country, but the subjects are the ministers of the dead country."
Is Emperor Chongzhen really innocent? Saying that he is innocent and innocent, if the Chongzhen Emperor had been an emperor for decades when the Ming Dynasty was founded, he should not have died in his hands, and he could be a master of keeping. When the Ming Dynasty passed into his hands, land annexation was serious, the people were living in poverty, and many problems had accumulated and could not return. It's really hard to solve! To say that he is not innocent and not innocent, the Chongzhen Emperor does not have the ability to be the lord of Zhongxing, otherwise even if he cannot reach the glory of the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu Zhongxing Han Room to continue the 200-year glory of the Great Han. If he can reach the level of Emperor Gaozong of Song's 150-year life in the Southern Song Dynasty, he can also continue the Ming Dynasty for another hundred years. During his reign, it was not that Emperor Liu Xie of Han did not have real power, and his government decrees did not leave the palace and could not exercise his ambitions. He is completely in control of the power of life and death, reigning for more than ten years, and has the energy to do something, but what he did has accelerated the fall of Jiangshan, and he has to bear more than half of the responsibility for the death of the country.
The advantages and disadvantages of Emperor Chongzhen are obvious, reflected in what he did, and the consequences are also very clear.
On the good side, Zhu Youjian is diligent and thrifty. Cut Suhang weaving and reduce the daily cost of imperial meals since the Shenzong to one percent. I usually wear washed clothes, and the edges of shoes and socks are sewn with cloth. The ladies of the Yuxi Palace were also all dismissed. "Decisive at the moment", removed Wei Zhongxian and the Hak, and ended the interference of eunuchs.
The bad aspects are as the scholar Chen Wutong commented: he had the ambition of "Zhongxing", had great ambitions and talents, lacked the ability to govern the country, failed to recognize the root cause of the social crisis at the end of the Ming Dynasty, found a way to save the crisis, and formulated a long-term strategy for governing the country. And his character characteristics of being rigid and suspicious and suspicious, eager to achieve quick results and indecisive, vanity but lacking the spirit of responsibility, and domineering and cruel and mean and widow-gracious led to his mistakes in decision-making and improper measures on major military affairs, thus accelerating the demise of the Ming Dynasty and causing historical tragedies.
The Chongzhen Emperor was eventually fixed in the annals of history as a different image from the ancient king who died with wine, color, tyranny, luxury, and military force.