On the twenty-ninth day of April 4718 in the Han calendar (2020.5.21), a question with as many as 8 million views appeared on the Internet: "Why can the Ming Dynasty surrender army bear to wave the butcher's knife in the face of compatriots?" One of the more than 9,000 likes of the answer only cited the example of "melamine milk powder", which was enough to make the crowd in the comment area angry.
Time back to more than 390 years ago, Kong Youde, the commander of the Second Artillery Corps of the Ming Dynasty, originally took a group of comrades from the Northeast to prepare to go to Liaoning to fight the Qing Army, but because he was troubled by Shandong compatriot Wang Xiangchun, he simply turned the muzzle of the gun and cut back directly to the Shandong villagers, which is known as the "Wuqiao Mutiny" in history.
What is this Shandong native Wang Xiangchun's ability to let the army commander, who has mastered the important weapons of the country, directly rebel against the national crisis? It turned out that he was the right-hand man of the "Donglin Group," and because of the party dispute, he directly ordered the Shandong bureaucrats along the road to prohibit the supply of supplies to Kong Youde's troops.
So the hungry soldier couldn't stand it and snatched a kun from Wang Xiangchun's servant, oh no, it was a chicken, and the servant led someone to catch him and parade him through the street. The soldiers were furious: The brothers want to go to the front line desperately, and the rear is actually looking forward to our death, okay, it is better for you to die than for me to die, Lao Tzu reversed, cut him.
However, in this way, the civilian interest group represented by Wang Xiangchun also had all kinds of field officers on the front line, and the elite army of the Ming Dynasty represented by Kong Youde first rebelled, and then surrendered to the Qing army, and the advanced artillery brought over directly raised the force value of the Qing army to a higher level.
Such as Wu Sangui, Zu Kefa, Shang Kexi, Hong Chengchou and other original Ming army fierce men all defected to the camp of the Qing court, they were compiled as the "Han Eight Banners", under the sufficient military salary and attractive military merit system, all the way to the south, killing the Ming army, the peasant army lost their armor, all the way to the rout.
In the face of the south, especially the southeastern coastal areas, due to the collusion between the civil bureaucracy and the conglomerates in the south, the tax revenue was simply unable to collect money from these vested interests, so the Jiangnan region, which was developed in industry and commerce, was thriving, and there was a world of difference from the miserable situation in the north.
According to comprehensive estimates....., China lost nearly 100 million people in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Of the 100 million people lost, the vast majority were innocent civilians, and a significant proportion of the civilians slaughtered were committed by their own armies who had surrendered to the alien race. From the perspective of today's nationalism, it is surprising, but unfortunately this is the case.
Returning to Kong Youde's "Wuqiao Mutiny" incident, just because of a kun, oh no, it was a chicken, the impeachment and accusation of military generals by the civilian official group broke out, and the huge Donglin group controlled the appointment and dismissal of officials and the economic lifeline all over the country.
So that when the soldiers at the front were bleeding and fighting, in order to preserve the so-called own strength, they refused to provide military supplies, and the central government of the Ming Dynasty thought that the heart was thinking in one place, and the place was thinking: You can pull it down. Every local official wants to take more and use less, and let others desperately pick up the leaks.
At a time when such large and small civilian interest groups were busy preserving their own strength, the armed military forces of the Ming Dynasty were forced to the opposite camp one by one, and the emperor could not collect money to provide military supplies to the front-line soldiers, and thought that they would use love to resist the Qing army to protect his Zhu family's country, what did he think.
After all, in the face of the shame of shaving one's hair and making it easy to obey the Qing army, and the revenge of killing one's father and wife, the interest groups in the rear could not help but give you a "reward" for a "trumped-up" crime that was even more terrifying.
When you arrive at the camp of the Qing army, not only can you eat enough, but the commander of the pig's tail hairstyle is really a gentleman who does what he says, as long as you fight well, your military merits are great, and the title of official is unambiguous. Compared with the head of the same clan surnamed Zhu, he directly reduced the dimension and hit the yes.
When the surrendered Qing army could have the opportunity to "turn over and be the master", many generals and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not say a word, and put on Qing Dynasty military uniforms all the way south.
However, the heads of the magnates have always fallen to the ground only a small part, and the vast majority of the low-level people and the big-headed soldiers, these Karami, may have gone to see the king of Yama without a good meal, or perhaps for them, death is easy.
All kinds of natural disasters and man-made disasters have made the "cannibalism" of the people at the bottom become a norm, and some books describing how to eat human flesh are recorded in the turbulent period of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
The reason why the history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties has become a "modern study" in the field of historiography is largely because it is a dynastic change brought about by the subversion of civilization, that is, the dynasty dominated by the Han people has become a dynasty dominated by different races, that is, the so-called "Ming Dynasty, that is, the death of the world".
From the perspective of the grand narrative, this is a huge blow to the Han nation, which led to the regression of civilization for hundreds of years, and we still have to pay our debts for this historical period to this day. But then again, the Ming Dynasty's rotten system and failed human rule were largely responsible.
When the country and the nation were in crisis, as the king of a country, Chongzhen could not move the huge interest groups of civil officials and businessmen, so he could only squeeze oil and water from a group of poor ghost peasants, and the pitiful military salaries were deducted again and again when they were sent to the front line, and the soldiers had to sell weapons to eat, and the magnates still turned a deaf ear.
It is impossible to suppress the exploitation of the broad masses of people at the bottom by a small group of interest groups, and in turn use the power of interest groups to further knock out the bones and suck the marrow of the people, and hanging himself from the tree in Jingshan, Beijing is already the best destination for Chongzhen, otherwise his fate will not be much better than Yuan Chonghuan.
From the emperor to the common people, no one is spared in the country and nation controlled by vested interest groups. If individual people do not have a sense of rights, and if they do not have actions and organizations to protect their rights, they will not be able to form a citizens' rights atmosphere, and the historical lessons of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties will only repeat the tragedy of "cannibalism" continuously.
No matter how determined the nationalists are, they will turn their guns on the stingy compatriots with vested interests, and no matter how good the social and economic development is, they will only become the private property that the elites wantonly divide and embezzle, and even become "staunch" leading the way and traitors in order to continue to be "superior to the people".
Therefore, it is necessary to solve this "historical cycle law" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties from the root, and only when the nationalists who work hard and have a strong sense of civil rights become the mainstream of society and political correctness, so that the country and the nation that fully protect the rights and interests of individuals can truly achieve "the unity of the army and the people as one, and try to see who can be the enemy in the world"!