The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian

On August 22 of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse died and was succeeded by his younger brother, the seventeen-year-old Zhu Youguan, who became the Chongzhen Emperor.

On August 24, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, seventeen-year-old Zhu Youjian held an enthronement ceremony, officially took the throne, don't look at the Chongzhen Emperor is not very old, but he is young and old, many times stronger than his brother Zhu Youxiao, who can only be a carpenter, after he takes the throne, the first thing he has to do is to eradicate the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, but Wei Zhongxian has been operating in the middle of the dynasty for many years, the power is too big, the Chongzhen Emperor fought alone, fortunately, when he is mature and sophisticated, ready to capture Wei Zhongxian, he first released the wind, hoping that the ministers of the imperial court will respond positively. In response to Chongzhen's call, Qian Jiazheng, the superintendent of the State Son, wrote a letter to impeach Wei Zhongxian for ten major crimes, the Chongzhen Emperor pushed the boat along the water, ordered Wei Zhongxian to be driven back to his hometown, three days later, Chongzhen issued an arrest warrant, Wei Zhongxian got the news, he was shocked and afraid, hanged in the middle of the night in a small hotel in Fucheng County, after Wei Zhongxian's death, his remnants were either killed or imprisoned, and soon purged, since then, the era of eunuch dictatorship has completely ended, and the most powerful and evil forces in daming history have been eradicated.

Driving out Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen also used some members of the Donglin Party, the imperial court finally stabilized temporarily, the next step should be to deal with the invasion of Hou Jin, he directly promoted his most admired general Yuan Chonghuan from a civilian to the right capital of the Capital, the left shilang of the military department, that is, the deputy director of the military department, stopped for a few days, and promoted him to the rank of shangshu and supervisor of the military department, the level of the jiliao inspector was very high, and he was the most powerful official in charge of the local area besides the emperor, but the greater the hope, the deeper the disappointment, when he first summoned Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan boasted about Haikou: Five years can recover Liaodong! All the tragedies began with this statement, in fact, this is just an empty word that Yuan Chonghuan coaxed the emperor to be happy, it turns out that Yuan Chonghuan is indeed very powerful in fighting, but he is very immature politically, he made a series of mistakes, which laid the groundwork for the disaster of killing himself in the future: First, he killed Mao Wenlong, the general of Pidao who did not like himself, without asking for instructions, and Mao Wenlong was a general who was a member of the Houjin army, which caused great shock and strong dissatisfaction to the Chongzhen Emperor, and secondly, the emperor Taiji broke through Yuan Chonghuan's defense line. Leading the troops to the outskirts of Beijing, Yuan Chonghuan followed Huang Taiji's ass, and kept wandering around, that is, not fighting, neither attacking nor defending, watching Huang Taiji rob everywhere, many people could not understand what he was going to do, suspected that he colluded with Huang Taiji, ready to cooperate with the outside, only his teacher Sun Chengzong understood, because what he was best at was "defending first and then attacking", the battle between Ningyuan and Jinzhou, which was famous for its great prestige, adopted such tactics, if you directly engage with Huang Taiji, the disparity in strength will undoubtedly lead to defeat. But if you lead Huang Taiji to beijing and fight again, you will have a chance to win, but he thinks wrong, Beijing is not Ningyuan, this method will not work, at the feet of Tianzi, it will not allow the war to be raging!

Later, he actually asked to bring troops into the city to rest, this move violated the chongzhen emperor's taboo, and Chongzhen, who could not bear it, summoned Yuan Chonghuan into the city in the name of paying wages, questioned him about the motives for the ineffective suppression of bandits, some questions could not be clarified in one or two sentences, so Yuan Chonghuan remained silent, and the Chongzhen Emperor thought that Yuan Chonghuan was weak and angry, and immediately ordered yuan Chonghuan to take off his official clothes and throw him into prison.

Chongzhen did not want to kill him, but Yuan Chonghuan had a good friend named Qian Longxi, who was a cabinet minister, and Qian Longxi had two rivals- Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, who had always wanted to oust Qian Longxi from power, but Qian Longxi was low-key and cautious, and his power was too big, and he was worried that he had nowhere to go, at this time, Yuan Chonghuan had an accident, they slandered Yuan Chonghuan for colluding with Qian Longxi, and they would collude with the imperial court officials, and there was only one way to die, which was the real cause of Yuan Chonghuan's death! Wen and Zhou, two shameless villains, drove away Qian Longxi through this means! Yuan Chonghuan became a cushion back!

Later Jin did not fight, and then took a Yuan Chonghuan, and what is more serious is that after Chongzhen took the throne, there was a year of severe drought, the people were not happy, and rebellions occurred in various places, the most serious of which was the nationalist army led by Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng, who were numerous in number, brave in battle, wandering around, and could not be killed, just like the weeds in the field, spread wildly, li Zicheng defeated the last fierce man, Sun Chuanting, and led the rebellious nationalist army to capture Shaanxi and occupy Xi'an.

At that time, the biggest external trouble was the Qing army led by Emperor Taiji, when the Chongzhen Emperor was busy cleaning up the civilian army, The Emperor Taiji sent troops, they went straight to Jinzhou, Jinzhou was too strong, zu Dashou and Huang Taiji who guarded the city confronted each other for a year, regardless of victory or defeat, helplessly, the Ming army was too poor to be consumed, so Hong Chengzu, who came to the rescue, had to take the initiative to attack, and the result was a fiasco, and the most capable prince Taibao Hong Chengyu was captured and surrendered...

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1643, Li Zicheng defeated Sun Chuanting, occupied Xi'an, gathered all his troops, and prepared to capture Beijing, on March 17, Li Zicheng led his troops to xizhimen and began to attack the city, the outer city fell on the same day, the next day the city fell, on March 18, he finished handling family affairs, hanged himself in coal mountain, Chongzhen died when he thought he had no face to see the ancestors, so he took off his crown to cover his face, and let the thieves divide the body, just to not hurt the people! Pathetic! The Ming Dynasty is over!

In fact, Chongzhen does not need to blame himself, he has done his best, Daming died at his hands, not his fault, on the contrary, he is a very ambitious, capable good emperor, although he is grumpy, sometimes even too strong, but if he does not use force, the mess he took over is likely to close early; also, he is very frugal, he and his wife's clothes and socks have patches, he and his wife's clothes and socks are patched, he does not dare to walk fast, afraid that the torn clothes inside will be exposed, and he works very hard, going up and down during the day, working overtime at night, Working 14 to 16 hours a day, even if he was so desperate, how could he have too bad luck, first the eunuch dictatorship, then the Jin invasion, originally wanted to do a good job in the domestic economy first, and then recover the great rivers and mountains, as a result, after years of drought, the people did not have a good livelihood, the people everywhere rebelled, and they were preparing to wipe out the people's army with a single blow, and the Qing army came in again, and the good villains beat the enemy away, at this time the backyard caught fire, the original surrender did not fall, the people who ran away ran back, plus the catastrophe, so everyone rebelled together... All the bad things, difficult things, bad luck have caught up with him, although he is mature and calm, calm in the face of things, and extremely smart, he still can't avoid the occurrence of tragedy, this is the real history, it is so cruel!

The reason why the Ming Dynasty perished was a natural disaster and a man-made disaster, although he knew that the final outcome could not be changed, the Chongzhen Emperor still spared no effort, went all out, night and day, did not die until the Heart of the Great Wall, hit the south wall and did not turn back, until the day when the soldiers came to the city, he still insisted on not giving up, the king of this subjugated country, he was actually a very great person!