When Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, the Ming Empire was already a mess, although Zhu Youzhen had the heart to govern the country, but he did not have the ability to govern the country, and what he did was like carrying a gasoline barrel to fight a fire.

He is suspicious by nature and is observant, just and Shangqi, Ren Cha is harsh and unkind, and Shangqi is at a loss. During his 17-year reign, he replaced 50 cabinet scholars and chief assistants, known as Chongzhen's 50 prime ministers, which caused the ministers and the people to drift away from morality.

and reuse eunuchs, and eunuchs are the source of all corruption, civil and military officials must rely on bribing eunuchs to maintain their lives and status, so no officials are not greedy, officials are corrupt, even Zhu Youzhen himself is dead to ask for money, and he plays the country to destruction, and he is not wronged at all.

Seventeen years is not a short period of time, he didn't think about reform, and even had the face to say: "I am not the king of the dead country, you are all the ministers of the dead country." "It can be said that he will not repent until death.

The problem of popular unrest should have been eradicated by political means, and the blind use of force could not properly resettle the hungry people. At the beginning of the Liukou, the generals and officials were not very serious about suppressing the Kou, because there was Kou to suppress, they could wander around and blackmail, there was no Kou to suppress, naturally the birds were all the birds to hide, and they went back to the border to drink the northwest wind.

To be a little more exaggerated, when an officer or soldier encounters a rogue soldier, they first ask whether they want to fight a real battle or a fake war today, and if they want to fight a fake war, the rogue will casually drop some gold and silver flags, and the officers and men will pretend to chase after them, and then they will pack up the spoils of war and repay the merits.

In addition, the discipline of the Ming Empire's anti-Kou troops was very poor, and they grabbed wherever they went, raped women by arson, and cut off the heads of the people to pretend to be the merit of killing the enemy. The imperial court sent troops to suppress the Kou, the people were Wangkou to suppress the soldiers, and the Dashun army even shouted the slogan of suppressing the soldiers and pacifying the people.

It is a pity that Li Zicheng was in Beijing for a month, and his subordinates and troops were rapidly corrupted, as if the world had become peaceful, and he was busy searching for pleasures;

He slaughtered the heroes too early, and before entering Beijing, he first killed Luo Rucai and several other powerful leaders. Luo Rucai's nickname was Cao Cao, and he was second only to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in strength among the rogues, although this had the consideration of unifying military power, but it also aroused the dissatisfaction of the attached battalions of the rogues; moreover, Li Zicheng was good at attacking, and Luo Rucai was good at defending, and it was difficult for the Dashun army without Luo Rucai to hold on to the existing territory when facing the pursuit of the Qing army. Later, Li Yan was killed, which made many people want to go, and the army disintegrated.

In fact, Li Zicheng's eloquence is not inferior to the predecessors of the peasant uprising, Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, but his luck is really worse. The true destiny of the Son of Heaven is known as the true destiny, and it does require a bit of luck.

A hard-working monarch, but ended the Ming Dynasty with suicide for 277 years, a suicide note left in a panic, unexpectedly revealed the secret behind the suicide, Chongzhen's death is shameless in the face of the eternal death of the country?

At the dawn of a spring day, when the solemn Forbidden City was in chaos, a middle-aged man and one of his entourages helped each other climb the Banzai Mountain in the north of the Forbidden City, where they found two one-man tall begonia trees, and then took out the rope they carried with them and hanged themselves on the trees.

This middle-aged man who hanged himself was the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen died very embarrassed, he wore his hair scattered, wearing blue clothes, his left foot was bare, and only his right foot was wearing a red shoe, but even in this case, in order to avoid unnecessary speculation about his death by future generations, Emperor Chongzhen deliberately left a suicide note, making an explanation for his suicide, so why did Chongzhen, who had been the emperor for 17 years, commit suicide? Who caused his death?

Time back to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, during this period of time, the capital was always dark and dusty, and there seemed to be an ominous meaning in the darkness of Beijing. The joy of the festival has long been replaced by anxiety, the rich and rich began to dig cellars to hide gold and silver treasures, and the eunuchs began to secretly clean up and prepare to leave Beijing, and the capital fell into a panic.

First of all, some people said that Li Zicheng's army had already left Guanzhong and entered the Shanxi territory, and would soon reach Beijing; there were also rumors that a serious earthquake had occurred in Fengyang, Anhui Province, the hometown of the Ming Emperor, which shook the dragon veins of the Ming Dynasty. The most terrifying thing in the rumors is that some people pass by the main gate of the Forbidden City at night, and often hear the noise and wailing of ghosts, those ghosts seem to be the former imperial relatives of the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the panic in Beijing, the palace seems to be much calmer, this day is the third day of the first month, Emperor Chongzhen received a minister in the palace, this day's reception is extremely secret, except for Chongzhen himself no one knows what topic is going to be discussed. Before talking, Chongzhen asked everyone to withdraw, and one lord and one minister talked from early morning to dawn the next day, so that the matter could be discussed clearly.

So what was the content of Emperor Chongzhen's secret meeting? When it comes to mentioning this matter, we must first look at the situation in China at that time.

At that time, China can be said to be a chaotic era, the Ming Emperor Chongzhen, whose capital was Beijing, was no longer the only emperor of China, and there was a Qing army in Shenyang, east of Beijing, and a peasant rebel army led by Li Zicheng in the west of Beijing. In the seventeen years of the reign of Emperor Chongzhen, these three forces have been one and the other, but this year the original equilibrium of the forces was broken, at the beginning of this year, the former grass Kou Li Zicheng founded the country in the ancient city of Xi'an, the country name Dashun, the beginning of the founding of the country, Li Zicheng's first decision is to advance into the Central Plains, the spearhead is directed at the city of Beijing.

In the face of such a situation, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty at that time were also discussing, there were the main peace, and there were also the main battles, then there was a minister named Li Mingrui, his suggestion was more creative, it was to advocate the thirty-six plans to go up, that is, to escape, of course, people did not say so at the time, his original words were to suggest that Beijing should move the capital, the so-called stay in the green mountains are not afraid of no firewood, as long live the lord, sooner or later can fight back.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Emperor Chongzhen summoned this Li Mingrui, and the topic of discussion was of course about the relocation of Beijing. But why did the emperor summon the minister to make it so mysterious? This requires a first understanding of Chongzhen's thoughts, which is a long time to say.

It is said that seventeen years ago, at that time, Emperor Chongzhen's identity was still King Xin, and the emperor at that time was Chongzhen's elder brother, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse. The Emperor of the Apocalypse was uneducated, basically illiterate, but he had many hobbies, one of the most famous of which was to be able to do very beautiful carpentry work, every morning, the palace could hear the sound of his tinkling carpentry work, which sometimes did not stop until midnight.

Because he was busy with the furniture every day, the Emperor of the Apocalypse handed over the affairs of the court to a eunuch Wei Zhongxian, and handed over the affairs of the family to his own nurse Keshi, these two people are still nominal husband and wife, since the affairs of the world are handed over to others, then the people are not welcome, the Ming Dynasty is regarded as their own home, as long as it is possible to harm their family, there is only one way, and in the end, the political affairs of the Ming Dynasty are smoky, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse himself is gone. Emperor Tianqi had a short life, and died at the age of 22, and his only younger brother, Xinwang Zhu Youzhen, became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which had the largest number of people in the world at that time.

Emperor Chongzhen, who ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, moved from the Xinwang Mansion to Ouchi, and in the first few days of his life in the palace, he ate dry food that he secretly brought from home every day, and he did not dare to touch the things prepared in the palace at all. People estimated that this little emperor would not last long and would die in the hands of Wei Zhongxian, or become Wei Zhongxian's puppet in another way, but they didn't expect what happened later to surprise everyone.

After Chongzhen became the emperor, he treated Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family quite politely, but Wei Zhongxian was not down-to-earth, and his strategy was to send some beauties to Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen has a characteristic among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, that is, he is not very good beauties, and he thinks that in the trembling mentality at that time, Emperor Chongzhen is naturally even less interested in beauties.

In order not to arouse Wei Zhongxian's worries, Emperor Chongzhen kept all the stunning women he sent, but carefully searched the bodies of these women, and found that there was a small pill tied to their bodies, which was called ecstasy incense in the palace, which was a medicine that could volatilize naturally. Wei Zhongxian's purpose is obvious, it is to bring Emperor Chongzhen badly, and finally become his own puppet like his brother, Emperor Chongzhen threw away the medicine, but he was silent about Wei Zhongxian, and he still praised him constantly.

When Wei Zhongxian thought that his crisis had been resolved, Chongzhen first forced Wei Zhongxian to resign through the twists and turns of a minister, and finally let this desperate eunuch kill himself. From then on, the tree was scattered, and the liquidation of Wei Zhongxian's remnants of the party was soon carried out.

At the age of sixteen to deal with a group of powerful eunuchs, not only clean and quiet, since then this sycophant ministers have said, every day Chongzhen is the holy lord of the Ming monarch, and finally even Chongzhen himself firmly believes that he is a wise and resolute king, and he is quite confident in his political talent.

Until Li Zicheng's army was about to reach Beijing, when this confident emperor faced the problem of moving the capital, he himself was a little unable to turn the corner. Thinking about how could a wise and resolute king propose to give up the temple, abandon the capital, and run away, Chongzhen himself couldn't accept it at all, he couldn't be talked about, he couldn't afford to lose this person. So what should I do? I had to find someone to come up with this plan for moving south on my behalf.

The destination of the southward move is Nanjing, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang once set the capital in Nanjing, to Chongzhen's generation Nanjing is still the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also regarded as an imperial city, so not only the imperial palace and other buildings are ready-made, but also the official settings and the imperial city are similar. More importantly, the forces of the Qing army and the Dashun army are in the area north of the Yangtze River, and the south of the Yangtze River is much more stable.

A few days after the emperor and Li Mingrui studied all night, Li Mingrui put forward a motion to move the capital when he was in the last court, but he didn't expect that this proposal was bombarded by the ministers as soon as it was put forward, and the most serious opposition was Chen Yan, the most trusted minister of Emperor Chongzhen. Chen Yan proposed that the emperor should kill this Li Mingrui, so as to calm people's hearts.

Why did the ministers oppose this proposal? In fact, the reason is very simple, they thought that Emperor Chongzhen was a loyal monarch like the emperor, and the emperor could not agree to such a plan to escape, so they expressed their opposition to show their loyalty. Now that the emperor can only eat Huanglian dumbly, swallowing the idea of moving the capital into his stomach, what will he do next?