1644 AD is destined to be a special year to be recorded in history! In this year, Li Zicheng's Dashun Army commanded Dongyi, and successively conquered all the fortresses in Shanxi, and the force was directed at the capital of the Ming Dynasty! Emperor Sizong Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty was forced to hang himself as a martyr after his defeat in the resistance, and the Ming Dynasty, which was founded for more than two hundred years, has now come to an end!
01. The late Ming regime was in a dying year, and all forces looked at
. However, the fall of the capital of the Ming Dynasty marked the end of the late Ming inevitably after decades of struggle. Li Zicheng became the master of the Forbidden City. , But it cannot change the reality that the world is still torn apart! The reality in 1644 was: Li Zicheng occupied the northwest and the capital, Zhang Xianzhong occupied Sichuan, and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty rebuilt the Ming regime in Nanjing, which was called the Hongguang regime in history.
was still in 1644, when the various forces in the customs were fighting for territory, no one had noticed that the terrible forces outside Shanhaiguan were looking forward to entering the customs and competing for the world! And it was this attitude of indifferent to the enemy, and the continued infighting of the various factions in the pass, which gave the Qing army the opportunity to quickly subdue the entire Central Plains!
As the biggest promoter of digging down the Ming Dynasty mansion, did King Li Zicheng play a role in promoting historical progress, or did his efforts in vain make clothes for the Qing army? History is complicated, and those leading figures who played a vital role at the critical moment of historical turning point naturally cannot simplify the evaluation of their merits and demerits due to their special circumstances!
02. The fall of the Ming Dynasty is inevitable, and the chaos of the world
From the perspective of promoting historical development, Li Zicheng's actions to overthrow the Ming Dynasty should certainly have a positive effect. The first is that the decay of the late Ming era has been accumulated. The Ming dynasty in the era of Emperor Chongzhen was like an old man who was dying, lacking the ability to resist virus invasion because his body was decayed.
Secondly, the Ming dynasty in the era of Emperor Chongzhen was always in the dilemma of having the rebels inside and outside the Qing army detaining the pass. The consumption caused by long-term two-line battles has exceeded the maximum carrying capacity of the Ming Dynasty. This led to the Ming Dynasty’s financial crisis, military crisis, and political crisis caused by it!
is also the time of the Chongzhen era with endless natural disasters, and this will definitely bring a fatal blow to the Ming Dynasty, which is dominated by agricultural economy! It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty in the Chongzhen era has fallen into a crisis of internal and external difficulties, and the exhausted late Ming has moved on the road of unavoidable destruction, and the emperor Chongzhen can only do his best to postpone the Ming Dynasty. The total collapse of North Korea, but unable to turn things around!
03, the various factions within the pass fell apart, and the Qing army outside the pass took advantage of the futility to enter
. Therefore, even if Li Zicheng is satisfied with his achievements, he is willing to segregate the Northwest instead of moving. The various unfavorable situations faced by Emperor Chongzhen also determined that he had lost the ability to control the overall situation, and was determined and unable to maintain the shaky rule of the late Ming Dynasty. In other words, even if it was not for Li Zicheng to conquer the capital, he overthrew Ming.
will also have other forces taking advantage of the emptiness to take advantage of the extremely exhausted opportunity of the Ming Dynasty to bite the weak body of the Ming Dynasty fiercely! Therefore, it can be said that Li Zicheng's actions to overthrow the rule of Emperor Chongzhen played an objective role in promoting the advancement of history, which is conducive to an early end to the chaos in the last years of the Ming Dynasty and to remove obstacles to rebuilding the ruling order!
There is neither a long live monarch in history, nor a royal court that is hard to come by! When a dynasty is in decline due to accumulation of hardships, it has also reached the end of its inevitability to be eliminated by history!
Looking at the order of regime change in 1644 AD, you can find that Li Zicheng's move to overthrow the Ming Dynasty did not seem as good as the people of Dashun thought! On the contrary, it is more like removing obstacles for the Qing army to enter the Central Plains, and paving the way for the Qing Dynasty Dingding Central Plains! This conclusion may make King Li Chuang feel wronged, but if you look at the results of the development of the matter, it is indeed the case!
04, rushing into the army to overthrow the Chongzhen regime, instead of making wedding dresses for the Qing Dynasty
If there is no full blow by Li Zicheng, I am afraid that the regime of Emperor Chongzhen can be maintained for a while! If it were not for Li Zicheng's full blow, I am afraid that Emperor Chongzhen would not abandon the Liaodong line of defense, and rushed to mobilize Wu Sangui's Guanning iron cavalry to help the capital!
If it were not for Li Zicheng’s effortsStrike, I am afraid that the fortresses in Shanxi and other places will not fall. As a result, Li Zicheng was defeated by a stone and abandoned Beijing Xi Dunshi. Because these important areas were not enough to rebuild the defense system, they were easily taken by the Qing army! What's more, if it were not for Li Zicheng to conquer the capital and cause a turmoil in the world, how could the Qing army easily conquer the Central Plains? This shows that for a regime, everything can be messed up, but only people can't mess up! The stability of the people's heart is directly related to the survival of this dynasty.
