<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > there are four kinds of people in the world, smart slackers, smart industrious people, stupid slackers, and stupid industrious people. As far as Chongzhen and his predecessor Tianqi are concerned, Tianqi belongs to the clever lazy people, in fact, I think Tianqi should be a very smart person, but he just doesn't like government affairs, and he is busy with his hobbies (carpentry work) all day long, so he gives the government affairs to Wei Zhongxian. Chongzhen belongs to the type of stupid and diligent person. </h1>
In terms of the degree of harm, smart lazy people have the least harm, generally speaking, they know how to delegate power, grasp big things themselves, and leave small things to their subordinates to do; while stupid and diligent people are the most harmful, and they grasp everything with their own hands, and they can't grasp one thing well.
Although The Emperor of the Apocalypse did not care about any administrative affairs in the smart lazy mode, there was never a situation in the Ariake generation in which eunuchs had dictatorship, foreign relations, and the dictatorship of the courtiers, and what I meant by dictatorship meant what kind of dictatorship could abolish the emperor. Under this premise, Tianqi assured Wei Zhongxian to do things.
What is the greatest crisis of the Apocalypse? It was the Manchu Qing forces outside the Guanxi. So how to deal with the Manchu Qing? To use soldiers, what is needed if you use soldiers? Naturally, it is money.
▲ Wei Zhongxian's advantage is that he has solved the problem of military expenditure without sequelae
So where does the money come from? At that time, the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty could not be supported, after all, there was only about 3.2 million taels of fiscal revenue a year, while the military expenditure in the northeast region was more than 4 million taels of silver a year. If you want to get money, you must either increase taxes and ask the broad masses of the people, or find rich people or officials and eunuchs.
Wei Zhongxian's cleverness lies in the fact that he did not ask the common people to increase taxes, because he knew that the poor people were already living on the brink of life and death, and once the taxes were increased, they would rebel. So he extended his hand to the families of the rich and the eunuchs, who were rich and small in number, and did not dare to rebel. Therefore, during the Wei Zhongxian period, he was able to ensure the military expenditure in the northeast region, but the common people did not rebel.
▲ Although the Carpenter Emperor did not care about anything, he was also harmless to people and animals
After all, the Ming Dynasty has a great cause, as long as there is enough financial support, it is always possible to form enough troops to resist the Manchu Qing outside the Guan, although there are many mistakes, but the Ming Dynasty is far greater than the Manchu Qing at that time in terms of energy, and the Manchu Qing will naturally not be able to fight in.
Chongzhen Chongzhen in the stupid diligent man mode made too many mistakes, because he was indeed too incompetent to be an emperor, but he became an emperor.
One of the mistakes: too vitriolic
Chongzhen likes to ask questions to the chancellor the most, and when he asks a question, how long can this question be solved? This kind of questioning first pit Yuan Chonghuan. Yuan Chonghuan was also angry that he could pacify the Manchu Qing in the northeast in five years. As a result, Chongzhen took it seriously and only gave Yuan Chonghuan five years. I think Yuan Chonghuan's various mistakes later are related to this. Yuan Chonghuan later knew that Chongzhen was serious, and his mentality changed. Why did he kill Mao Wenlong? In fact, there was no need to kill, but at that time, he and Huang Taiji had an agreement, and Huang Taiji said that as long as he could kill Mao Wenlong, then Huang Taiji would negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this was basically a flicker, but Yuan Chonghuan, who was in a hurry at the time, had some faith; secondly, Yuan Chonghuan needed to be unified, since he wanted to solve the Manchu Qing in five years, then everything in the northeast should be concentrated in his own control, but Mao Wenlong did not listen to Yuan Chonghuan's dispatches, yuan Chonghuan was also afraid that once Mao Wenlong's atmosphere was encouraged, he would be in trouble with his own deployment of generals in other places, so he also moved to kill Mao Wenlong's heart. As a result, Mao Wenlong was killed.
▲ Did not use Yuan Chonghuan well, indicating that Chongzhen's quality as emperor was not good
This caused one of the factors that caused Yuan Chonghuan's subsequent killing. After Mao Wenlong's death, Huang Taiji could confidently and boldly attack the Ming Dynasty, and as a result, he bypassed Shanhaiguan and hit Beijing, and Yuan Chonghuan and Huang Taiji finally repelled Huang Taiji after a major battle, which also caused Chongzhen to completely lose trust in Yuan Chonghuan, thus killing Yuan Chonghuan. In fact, Yuan Chonghuan's later abnormal behavior is likely to be caused by the five-year covenant.
In addition to Yuan Chonghuan, other officials are the same, they have to ask how long it will take to solve the problem, if the minister says one year, Chongzhen will really only give one year, if it is a long time, Chongzhen is actually not allowed. Often after a year, the problem is not solved, and Chongzhen does not give more than a day to directly deal with this official, but as long as he gives a few more days, in fact, the problem will really be solved.
Mistake two: rushing to make quick gains and arbitrarily commanding.
The most typical embodiment of this is Hong Chengcheng, when Hong Chengcheng destroyed Li Zicheng, there were only more than a dozen people left in Li Zicheng, hiding in the deep mountains and old forests, and he saw that he was about to capture Li Zicheng, and as a result, Chongzhen transferred Hong Chengcheng at this time and asked him to go to the northeast to deal with the Manchu Qing.
▲ Another general, Hong Chengzuo, was also killed by Chongzhen
In the northeast, Hong Chengzu organized the Battle of Songshan, which was very smooth at the beginning, if it was advanced step by step, this battle could be won, but Chongzhen was eager to make a quick profit, and asked Hong Chengzu to fight with Huang Taiji in the absence of logistical supplies, and Hong Chengzu helplessly launched a tentative attack, and as a result, he was cut off by Huang Taiji, and finally the entire army was destroyed.
There are many more situations like this, such as the later Sun Chuanting was also urged by Chongzhen to go out of Tongguan to fight with Li Zicheng under the condition of insufficient preparation, and the result was defeated.
Mistake number three: vitriol
In fact, what is needed for war is money, Chongzhen is very rich, the inner house hid 37 million taels of silver and 1.5 million taels of gold worth of silver, but when the country was in trouble, Chongzhen was not a dime. At that time, the common people in the north had long been hungry due to successive years of natural disasters, and many families had reached the tragic situation of changing their children and eating, and more than two months before Chongzhen's death, he also ordered all localities to collect grain and wages, completely disregarding the death and death of the people in the world. At that time, as long as he took out a fraction of his private property, he could solve the two-year increase in the country. It can be seen to what extent Chongzhen is sour.
▲ Chongzhen turned the northern region into a hell on earth
Because of the increased levy, it will cause the peasant revolt one after another, and the people will not be able to survive, so they can only rebel with Chongzhen.
Mistake #4: Die for face
In fact, Emperor Taiji of Guanwai sincerely wanted to negotiate with Chongzhen, and this signal was sent more than ten times. For Emperor Taiji, the negotiation of peace was indeed what he needed, because the northeast region lacked the necessities of life and needed to be achieved through trade with the Ming Dynasty, and the purpose of the negotiation was to solve the living problems of the area under his jurisdiction through trade. Unfortunately, Chongzhen has not made peace with the Emperor Taiji out of face, afraid that others will say that he will admit it.
After the Battle of Songshan, Chongzhen was determined to negotiate peace and sent Chen Xinjia to handle the matter with full authority. Chen Xinjia also talked with Huang Taiji, and as a result, the news leaked, and Chongzhen directly threw chen Xinjia into the pot, and he left everything behind, killing Chen Xinjia, and the matter was finally over.
▲ Chongzhen's going to coal mountain is actually dead
In the end, Li Zicheng besieged Beijing and saw that he was about to enter the Forbidden City, Li Zicheng put forward a very favorable condition to Chongzhen, continued to recognize Chongzhen as emperor, Chongzhen made him the king of the northwest, gave him one million two silver, and in the future he suppressed other peasant rebels for Chongzhen. It was this kind of condition under such circumstances that Chongzhen did not accept out of face.
Therefore, Chongzhen really can't blame others for hanging himself in the end, he can only blame himself.
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