I watched a TV series many years ago, and the plot has long been forgotten, only Chongzhen emperor distributed by Beatles is still fresh in my memory.
At that time, I felt that the emperor was really tragic and tragic. Later, after reading a lot of history books, I discovered that the tragic and majestic emperor was more than Chongzhen alone. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the scene where Lu Xiufu carried the little emperor and took more than 800 members of the royal clan to jump into the sea to die for the country is far more tragic and magnificent than this. Obviously, Emperor Chongzhen still has the possibility of comeback, for example, moving the capital to Nanjing.
As we all know, the capital of Ming Dynasty was originally located in Nanjing, and the capital of 4span was originally called as the emperor of Beijing. As the accompanying capital of Nanjing, the government agencies have been completely preserved. Six departments and three departments are readily available. Each agency is fully staffed, and there is only one emperor. If Emperor Chongzhen went south by the Tianjin Waterway, he could perfectly avoid the army of Li Zicheng , and once safely arrived in Nanjing, he would be able to seamlessly start work on government affairs. After the ambitious Li Zicheng breaks through Beijing, he will find that he is faced with hundreds of thousands of Qing troops entering the pass. Emperor Chongzhen sits on the Yangtze River's natural dangers and replenishes his energy. Bring troops to counterattack back to Beijing, then the Guozuo of the Ming Dynasty can continue for at least a few more decades.
Since moving the capital to Nanjing has such great benefits, why did Emperor Chongzhen not move the capital, but chose to stick to Beijing, and finally ended up hanging Meishan?
As a king of subjugation,Emperor Chongzhen was not a faint and incompetent person. On the contrary, at the beginning of his ascension at the age of 17, he joined forces with the Korean forces to win Wei Zhongxian . At that time, he still had the courage and courage to make a mansion. However, Emperor Chongzhen had one of his most fatal flaws as a ruler: he loved face too much.
When Li Zicheng’s peasant uprising army grew stronger, Emperor Chongzhen had the idea of moving the capital to Nanjing. However, once the capital was moved, it would inevitably bear the infamy of the Shoucheng faction. Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to bear this infamy, so he hinted that Chen Yan, the chief minister of the cabinet, proposed to move the capital. As a result, no matter how Emperor Chongzhen reminded Chen Yan, Chen Yan refused to mention the move. Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to disperse the dynasty, and Li Mingrui, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, proposed to the court to move south. At that time, the officials of Li Mingrui's faction followed along with the proposal, and Emperor Chongzhen only needed to push the boat along the river.
Unfortunately, Emperor Chongzhen overestimated the loyalty of his courtiers.
When the proposal to move south was put forward, it aroused fierce opposition from northern officials headed by Chen Yan. The reason for the opposition was nothing more than the loss of the ancestral shrine, the dignity of the ancestral hall, and the mouthful. Loyal to the emperor for the country. Therefore, in order to extract himself from the negative evaluation of "the dignity of the ancestral hall", Emperor Chongzhen not only rejected Li Mingrui's proposal to move the capital, but also demoted Li Mingrui. Li Mingrui, who had carried the pot to his master, was frustrated, so far he indulged in drunkenness and ignored political affairs.
The best time to move the capital,It was missed by Emperor Chongzhen.
And northern officials opposed to moving the capital, is it really all because of the dignity of the ancestral hall? I'm afraid, not at all.
Southern officials have always been indifferent to the matter of moving the capital, because if the capital is not moved, it will not be a loss for them, but it will be different for the northern officials.
The officials in the north are mostly clansmen and clans with their roots in the north and their families in the north. The fields, houses, and all kinds of valuable objects that are not easy to move are all in the north. Once the capital is moved to the south, it will benefit It is bound to be damaged, and there is a whole set of leadership teams in the south. When they get there, they are in other people's territory. No one can guarantee that they will still enjoy the treatment and power of Beijing after the past. No matter how you look at it, it's a loss-making business, so the move to the capital was stopped desperately.
Moreover, because the capital is in Beijing, many things that are not available in the north have to be transported from the south to Beijing via the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Cereals, vegetables and fruits, wood and porcelain, textiles, munitions, hemp, coal, tung oil, etc., are all transported by the canal. The Ming government set up checkpoints in various places to levy taxes on this part of the goods. The excise tax, toll tax, and other taxes and fees along the way are not a small sum, part of it goes to the national treasury, and part of it goes to the pockets of officials on both sides of the strait and high-ranking powers in the DPRK. Once the capital city moves south, many things do not need to be sent to Beijing, so certain vested interests will lose a lot of gray income. Moreover, from a historical perspective, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal not only promotes the economy on both sides of the river, but also affects the livelihood of the people along the way.The relocation of the capital had a great impact, so they could only stop it.
Actually, if Emperor Chongzhen could be tougher and insist on moving the capital, these opposing ministers would have no choice. After all, he is the emperor, but Emperor Chongzhen is desperate for face and is unwilling to bear the reputation of losing the capital. Allowing the ministers to lead by their noses eventually led to the destruction of himself and the Ming Dynasty.
According to historical records, after Li Zicheng broke Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen knew that the situation was gone and did not want to be a prisoner, so he left a suicide note and hanged Meishan. The thief was approaching the capital. After I died, I had no face to face the ancestors and ancestors, so I removed my crown and covered my face with hair...
after moving to Beijing Emperor Yongle Its " emperor guardian gate".
After Emperor Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain, it was also called " ".
At first glance, these two sentences are both complimenting the Ming monarch, but in my opinion, the emperor's death society is obviously mocking Zhu Youzhen. If he is not so face-loving, then look forward to it. Indecisive, the Ming Dynasty will not be destroyed so early, at least the Ming Dynasty will not be ruined in his hands.
A good hand is very thin,It is also embarrassing...
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