Actually, in terms of time, Li Zicheng not only became emperor for 42 days, he only stayed in Beijing for 42 days. In those 42 days, he only did one thing: to create all conditions for the ultimate failure. !
On March 19, 1644, Li Zicheng broke into Beijing. The first three days did not appease the people, but frantically searched for the whereabouts of Chongzhen, and found the hanged Chongzhen in Meishan on the third day. Then the body of Chongzhen was received outside Donghuamen for a three-day public sacrifice, intended to inform the world that Ming was dead. But what he didn't expect was that this move aroused the nostalgia of his subjects and set the fuse for his failure in Beijing.
What is Li Zicheng doing in the Forbidden City? He was busy giving titles to the concubines in the harem. The newly received court lady Dou Meiyi was her concubine. Afterwards, he had fun in the palace with a group of heroes and generals, thinking that the world was finally settled, and Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan had also surrendered. The Manqing outside the Guan was not even worried, and could not listen to the advice of his important counselor Li Yan. Indulged in enjoyment for a while, he began a life that he thought he had accomplished, and prepared to officially hold his enthronement ceremony in the capital. In addition, according to the "North of Ming Dynasty" records: Li Zichengcheng found 37 million ingots of silver and 10 million ingots of gold in the Ming court. Yongle is also engraved on it. These have become important munitions of the Dashun Army and have been looted!
After Li Zicheng entered Beijing. At first, it was ordered not to be burned, killed, or looted, but since the beginning of the brutal attack on the officials who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, it slowly changed. He changed all Ming officials in Beijing into prison uniforms and demanded a ransom according to the rank of the officials. The first-grade member must pay more than ten thousand silver, otherwise he will starve to death. When encountering some harder bones, they will be punished more brutally and inhumanly. Many people were tortured to death. In addition, some wealthy businessmen and poor people in the capital were robbed. The gilded unicorn beasts in the Forbidden City were also scraped by the Dashun army.
In the process of recovering the stolen goods, Liu Zongmin captured Wu Sangui's father and occupied Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan. Li Zicheng must have heard of these things, but he was obsessed with making it brilliant and didn't bother. This action directly forced Wu Sangui, who had originally planned to return, to Daqing Dorgon, which was equivalent to directly finding the person who sparked the fiasco of Dashun.
On April 21, Li Zicheng led 60,000 troops to fight a stone battle with Wu Sangui, a general stationed in Shanhaiguan. From the war to April 22, Wu Jun gradually lost his support. After Wu Sangui and Dorgon, the two armies joined forces to defeat Li Zicheng, the chief general Liu Zongmin was injured and ordered to retreat.
26 Li Zicheng fled back to Beijing, with only more than 30,000 people, and killed 34 Wu Sangui's family.
On 29th, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor at Wuying Hall in Beijing, and fled to Xi'an the next day, retreating from Shanxi and Henan. Before leaving, burn the Forbidden City and some buildings in Beijing.
In April 1645, Li Zicheng entered Wuchang, but was defeated by the Qing army. After another defeat in Jiangxi in May, he was killed by armed forces at Nanjiugong Mountain in Tongshan County, Hubei Province by Cheng Jiubai, who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty. The body did not know where...
So, in terms of time, when Li Zicheng really became emperor was One year (from ascending to the throne on April 29, 1644 to being killed in April 1645).
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