In the Book of Rites and The Middle Way, it is said: When the kingdom will rise, there will be Zhenxiang, and the kingdom will perish, and there will be demons.
However, no last emperor could be as lucky as Chongzhen and fall into the demon pile when he went out.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > the first evil: bandits</h1>
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, "there were people in the northwest who made trouble very early, but the original was not big, at most dozens of people, grabbing a shop, taking a few kitchen knives, after making trouble, going up to the mountains as bandits, killing the highest official, that is, a Zhi County, if mixed well, maybe in the future can still recruit security, as a regular army." By the first year of Chongzhen, things had gone wrong. In the whole of Shaanxi and Gansu, the people rebelled everywhere, and killing Zhixian could only be regarded as a start. In some places, the inspectors were also killed, and after killing and robbing, they did not disperse the gangs, and often wandered around, where to rob. ”
Of course, throughout ancient China, banditry has never been broken, but it is rare to make such a scene.
Chongzhen, on the other hand, just took over this mess at the right time.
At first, it was just a tinder.
We all know that no matter how tortuous the process is, in the end, it is this fire that burns and stews daming.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > the second evil: famine</h1>
Comrade Chongzhen, how unlucky: Chongzhen first year, Shaanxi drought; Chongzhen two years, Shaanxi drought, Chongzhen three years, Shaanxi drought... Later, this drought demon was so addicted that he found a lot of fox friends, locusts, windstorms, hailstorms, floods, frosts, earthquakes, landslides and plagues...
This demon squad has been active for a long time, has been to many places, and has smoothed out what can be taken away and eaten.
Northwest "ten rooms and nine empty, even the household is exhausted, no one converges." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > the third demon: Shilin</h1>
It was strange that this demon was handed down from Chongzhen's ancestors. Zu Shang also specially made a beautiful cage called the Cabinet, dressed up the Shilin Demon and sent it to Chongzhen's arms, telling him to keep it well, and with this, you can ascend to heaven!
At first, although he fed himself fiercely, the demon did not want to completely eat his parasite Daming, but tried to protect him--at least let himself suck a few more mouthfuls of blood.
Three years after the apocalypse, when there were seven years left before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Shi Lin really couldn't think of a good way to put the wounds on Daming's body, and finally released a big move: withdrawing the stage. This big move summoned a person named Liu Mao.
Miraculously, later, Daming died, Chongzhen died, and the Donglin Party basically had nothing to do, and went to the south slowly, and the whole Nanming was gone.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > the fourth demon: the Silver Plague</h1>
This demon is even more strange, in fact, the civil economy at the end of the Ming Dynasty did not have a depression, such as the southeast coast, the economy is really not too good, open business and do business, quite prosperous, everyone is working together, is engaged in the budding of capitalism, where is the depression scene?
The magic place is here: the country is rich, some places are rich, the officials and gentry are rich, but Chongzhen has no money, and the imperial court has no money.
If you don't have money, you can't beat the demons!
Especially in the late Chongzhen period, Chongzhen listened to Shilin and increased taxes many times, and the meager taxes left after filling the pockets of the layers not only did not solve the problem of the Ming Dynasty's firefighting on all sides, but also became a fast knife to suppress the people's grievances.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > fifth demon: Chongzhen</h1>
That's right, when Chongzhen was deeply trapped in the demon pile, he didn't find that there was a guy here who was exactly like himself, who was also a demon.
This demon's big move is to do!
Comrade Chongzhen is a complete case against humanity. How diligent and hard he worked, equally, as sad as he was.
Chongzhen grew up listening to the teachings of the Donglin Party, but he did not want to be confined to Donglin Thought, so he gave birth to a deformed soul.
It is said that Chongzhenzhi was dressed so badly that he did not dare to walk fast, for fear of revealing patches. The meals were not very good, and I did not dare to eat too much. Every day, the work is not quarrels with people (official speech), or watch people quarrel (party disputes), overtime all night, and often be told where their home is broken and where they have been robbed.
The most embarrassing thing is that Chongzhen knew from a very early age that he was going to lose and Daming was going to die, and he tossed hard for more than ten years, but he did not find the slightest turnaround.
Later, Chongzhen could not see clearly, standing in front of him was a demon or his own person, tempered, simply killed, there were adulterous eunuchs Wei Zhongxian, there were also northern pillar stones Yuan Chonghuan.
Finally, Li Zicheng came, Chongzhen demon, made a trick to kill the household, not allowing foreign troops to serve the king, and the imperial court did not move south.
There are many reasons for this, which are not enough to cover up the strangeness of this routine.
Before dying, Chongzhen said a pitiful and ridiculous last word: "Defying the cold and defying, the heavens are guilty, but all the ministers are mistaken. Die facelessly to see the ancestors, remove the crown, cover your face with hair, let the thief split, and do not hurt the people alone!"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > Of course, there are many small monsters in the heap of demons. </h1>
For the Chongzhen Emperor, those were not important.
As for the young Qing Dynasty, which was crouching not far from the gate, no one said clearly, whether it was Chongzhen's demon or Li Zicheng's.
(Illustration from the Internet, invasion and deletion)