After a pause, he added: "I didn't expect that in my lifetime, I would see the day when Zhang Xianzhong's treasure came to light." ”

Speaking of this, he sighed deeply: "It's a pity, it's a pity, the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes......"

"There are a lot of cultural relics that have been cleaned up, but none of them are of value, which is a great regret for me. ”

Hearing this, Huang Pujun nodded thoughtfully: "Who said it wasn't!"

"Unwilling, unwilling......"

"That's the gold, silver and jewelry of the entire province, why is it so ......?"

"Nothing of value at all......"

After a pause, he sighed twice and sighed: "Is Zhang Xianzhong as murderous as rumored? Brutal? Or is there another theory in this?"

"If you can dig up some precious historical materials here, then everything will fall into ......"

"Alas, thinking of the last humiliation of the Ming Dynasty, I am really embarrassed. ”

Li Henian's face was a little gloomy when he heard this, and he nodded slightly.

Yan Jinsong, who was next to him, kept his eyes on the river, and muttered in a barely audible voice: "Yes......"

"The Ming Dynasty has been raising soldiers for nearly three hundred years, but they have ended up like this, and they have cultivated a group of people who have no integrity, which has to be said to be extremely ironic. ”

"Be the hardest dynasty!"

"No harmony, no reparations, no land cedes, no tribute......"

"The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies. ”

"I didn't expect that at the end of the period, I would end up in such a miserable situation. ”

Indeed, the history of the late Ming Dynasty is too wretched.

In that year, Li Zicheng's rebel army was like a bamboo, the Ming army was defeated and retreated, but Emperor Chongzhen could not even supply military salaries in the rear.

How can you fight a war when you are hungry? How can you defend your home and country?

In order to raise military salaries, Emperor Chongzhen did not hesitate to order the ministers of civil and military affairs to donate "salaries", but no one in the government and the opposition was willing to help.

In the autumn of the country's survival, these ministers who have received the grace of the country think about their personal interests, which is really the sorrow of the Ming Dynasty and the shame of the scholars!

When Emperor Chongzhen solicited military salaries from the ministers of the court, Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the cabinet, was the first to stand up against it, saying that there was no surplus money at home, and the "salary" was really more than enough but not enough, and finally only donated 500 taels!

There are many other ministers in important positions who have donated dozens of taels!

When Li Zicheng's troops approached the city, Chongzhen asked Wei Zaode what his countermeasures were, but he didn't say a word at this time, just pouted and knelt on the ground and trembled, so angry that Emperor Chongzhen kicked over the dragon chair.

In the end, the Ming Dynasty fell, but these former pillars of the country were all prostrate at Li Zicheng's feet and wagged their tails and begged for mercy.

They have discarded integrity, dignity, and face!

Not for the restoration of the country, but for the sake of living.

In the end, under Li Zicheng's stick, they actually handed over a huge amount of money.

Wei Zaode, who swore in front of Chongzhen that his family had no money to spare, handed over tens of thousands of taels of silver after being clamped with a wooden stick and cut off ten fingers, and after five days and five nights of torture, he finally died because his head was cracked.

If this money had been taken out at the beginning, it would have been enough to supply the military salaries at the front, and the Ming Dynasty would not have reached the end of the road so easily.

Emperor Chongzhen left two famous last words before he was martyred.

One of them is "I am not the king of the dead country, and the ministers are the ministers of the dead country." ”

The second is that "any minister can be killed." ”

Of course, strictly speaking, these two sentences are somewhat arbitrary, but the status quo is also true, and the court at that time was full of incompetent people.

In addition to these reasons, there is another important person who cannot be avoided, and that is Wu Sangui!

Opening the Shanhaiguan Pass without authorization and letting the commander of the Qing soldiers drive straight into the house is simply luring the wolf into the house, and he also strangled the Yongli Emperor and the crown prince with his own hands.

However, he didn't end well in the end.

As the old saying goes, if a rabbit dies and a dog cooks, the enemy country is broken, and the hero dies.

From Liu Bang to Zhu Yuanzhang, these founding emperors were all ruthless, and there has always been this kind of convention and tradition.

After adding Wu Sangui's high master, two sides and three swords, and having a new master, he actually thought about rebelling and leaving a stench for 10,000 years.

Looking at the historical trajectory, almost all those who have made high achievements have not ended well, Han Xin, Bai Qi, Lan Yu, Yue Fei, Peng Yue, and Yuan Chonghuan are no different.

Of course, there are some cases where the beginning and the end are good.

Wang Qian, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States, single-handedly led the army to eliminate the three kingdoms of Zhao, Yan and Chu, and his son Wang Ben destroyed Wei and Qi, and Wang's father and son destroyed the five countries together.

However, after the success, he did not swell and knew the terrible consequences of the high merit, no matter how Qin Shi Huang persuaded him, he did not listen, and he had to completely retreat home to retire, so as to have a good death.

There is also the famous Li Jing, a general in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, who was good at strategy, good at using soldiers, and was a great defender of the country.

He is calm and heavy by nature, and he is deeply afraid of the truth of "full is lost", so he repeatedly asked Tang Taizong to retire, and his words were sincere.

Taizong understood his intentions, always comforted him with warm words, and after his death, he issued an edict to bury him.

In addition to him, there is another awesome figure in the Tang Dynasty, that is Guo Ziyi.

This person has not been used seriously in his early years, and only after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion did he enter the field of vision of the imperial court.

Pacify the Anshi Rebellion, defeat the Anshi rebels, recover Chang'an and Luoyang, defeat the invasion of Tubo and Dangxiang, and swallow thousands of miles like a tiger!

After his death, he was posthumously presented to the Taishi, nicknamed Zhongwu, and was given a thick burial.

He was humble and forbearing, never interfered in the government, which reassured the court, and he was a very popular minister and the people were not jealous, so he was able to be rich and prosperous, and he died a long life.

In addition to these, there is one of the most powerful people.

That is the founding merit of the Ming Dynasty, the first general Xu Da!

The defeat of Chen Youliang at Shaoyang Lake, the encirclement and suppression of Zhang Shicheng in the Battle of Pingjiang, and the destruction of the Yuan Dynasty in the Northern Expedition War, the capture of Dadu, etc., are all inseparable from his strategic planning and proper meritorious achievements.

He and Zhu Yuanzhang are not only fellow countrymen, but also playmates from childhood to adulthood, and when Zhu Yuanzhang became successful, he was also the first to stand up and express his support.

However, with Zhu Yuanzhang's murderous nature, crossing the river and demolishing bridges is a common thing.

After ascending the throne, he mercilessly waved his butcher knife and turned to the brother who followed him to fight the world, no longer the eldest brother who shared weal and woe, but a bloody and cruel executioner.

In the end, many brothers were killed by him, but only Xu Da escaped.

This is not because Zhu Yuanzhang misses the old love, but because he can't find fault with Xu Da at all, and the other party's performance is flawless, so he has no reason to make trouble.

After Xu Da died of a serious illness, he was treated very well and was crowned king, because this kind of reward was no longer a threat to Zhu Yuanzhang.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang also reused his son Xu Huizu and asked his two daughters to marry his sons.

Counting the eldest daughter marrying Zhu Di, the king of Yan, Xu Da's three daughters all became princesses.

can escape death under Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife, he is also the only one.