In the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644 AD), Li Zicheng captured Beijing. Chongzhen had no hope of running away. He wrote blood on his clothes, "I am despicable and despised, and the emperor was responsible for the heavenly faults, but all the ministers misled me. I died without a face to see my ancestors, and I took the crown to cover my face. Let the thieves split and not hurt the people." After he died, he died for his life.
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian
Because Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao has been addicted to being a carpenter and doing carpenters for many years, and the operation of Ming Dynasty was controlled by the eunuch Wei Zhongxian . Eunuch Party made the court chaotic and beat the inside and out. In August of the seventh year of Tianqi (1627 AD), Zhu Youxiao was exhausted from carpentry and was terminally ill. Zhu Youxiao lay on the bed and faced Zhu Youjian, who was the king of Xin at that time, and said, "My brother should be Yao and Shun" and died. Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, namely, Ming Sizong, Zhu Youjian, whose reign was Chongzhen.
The Ming Dynasty that Chongzhen took over at this time was simply a mess that could not be ruined: there was a peasant uprising army inside, and there were Later Jin harassement of Liaodong from time to time on.
Chongzhen didn't need to think so much at this time, and he had to pretend to be a grandson for a few years. After eliminating the eunuch party, we can finally let go of our fists and prepare to do a big fight.
On the third day of the April 1st year of Chongzhen (1628 AD), Chongzhen summoned Yuan Chonghuan and appointed him as the Minister of War and the Right Deputy Censor, and supervised military affairs in Ji, Liao, Deng, Lai, Tianjin and other departments to solve the Liaodong issue.
After Chongzhen's fierce medicine was put on, he was surprised to find that the situation of internal and external troubles did not ease, but worsened.
The stormy Ming Dynasty finally collapsed in the 17th year of Chongzhen after Chongzhen hanged himself.
So Chongzhen does not have the ability to support the building? Or is it as he said, "All the ministers misled me"?
In Yuan Chonghuan said to Chongzhen: "After five years of planning, the whole Liao Dynasty can be restored", Chongzhen was overjoyed. From this, it can be seen that Chongzhen lacked a pair of eyes that examined real-time and did not clearly recognize the current situation, so he believed in Yuan Chonghuan's words of comfort. Moreover, Chongzhen was so stubborn that the chief minister changed one after another. He was suspicious and arrested the general's immediate superior Yuan Chonghuan and was imprisoned when the general was still fighting hard. What would the martial arts in front of him think? Who will fight to the battlefield like this? So what about the combat effectiveness of such soldiers?
Of course, these are all from " Ming History ", which was written by Zhang Tingyu during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, so these records may not be accurate. Because as a ruler, how can people in the world believe that they are orthodox? The easiest way is to slander the former ruler, so that you can highlight that you are following the laws of heaven.
In my opinion, Chongzhen's personality had obvious flaws, and he was not smart, and he had no means to control civil and military officials. You should know that the Ming Dynasty was not short of good ministers and powerful generals at that time.
If Chongzhen was replaced with Zhu Yuanzhang , can the Ming Dynasty still prosper?
