At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's 800,000 army went down to the south of the Yangtze River, wanting to hunt with Sun Quan in Wu, Sun Quan's ministers were afraid, Zhang Zhao and other ministers all surrendered, and Lu Su said to Sun Quan: "Suitable for Zhang Zibu and others, and persuaded the lord to take a break and move troops, and strongly advocated surrender. Don't listen to the original owner. ”

persuaded Sun Quan, Sun Quan asked Zhou Yu again, Zhou Yu said war, led the Wu army to break Cao Cao in Chibi, and then there were three kingdoms.

Now it's this bird, the ministers want to surrender, but the king can't be arbitrary, and leave the choice of life and death to the ministers, and there is no day!

In fact, before the discussion of moving the capital, Daming still had a glimmer of life.

At the end of last year, Li Zicheng saw that his family was about to become a big event, and he was overjoyed, so he called his subordinates to discuss a long-term plan.

General Liu Zongmin said: "Now that the Ming Dynasty has no soldiers to fight, Zong Min is willing to be the vanguard, break Beijing for the generalissimo, and cut off the head of the dog emperor to the generalissimo!" ”

Everyone unanimously praised it, and the unique military advisor Song Xian was cautious.

Compared with those military men who don't know three big words, Song Xiance has other opinions, he thinks that the north of the Ming Dynasty is not enough to worry about, but there is still money and food and troops in the south of the Ming Dynasty, and there are two strong enemies eyeing each other!

Li Zicheng urgently asked where is sacred?

One is called the North Captive; Second, it is said that the southeast mansion!

Beiyu is known as "Jurchen Man invincible", and it is a fierce enemy.

However, the power of the southeast province is huge, and the army is all firearms, which is not easy to deal with.

"If our army enters Beijing, it will be attacked from both sides by the northern captives and the southeastern prefecture!" Song Xiance thinks.

Everyone was laughing at Song Xiance's words, but after Li Zicheng thought about it, he sent someone to contact Chongzhen and wanted to make peace with the Ming Dynasty.

However, the conditions he proposed were unacceptable to Emperor Chongzhen.

Li Zicheng asked him to cede the Shaanxi and Gansu regions in the northwest and the Central Plains, and make Li Zi the king, how dare Emperor Chongzhen agree!

The Ming Dynasty is a well-known dynasty of "no land, no compensation, no peace", the land is considered a great shame, the emperor was captured by the Tumubao Revolution, and the Ming Dynasty immediately set up another emperor and did not accept the threat!

There is no precedent, and Emperor Chongzhen would never dare to allow Li Zicheng to become independent.

Yan Changwu of the Southeast Prefecture saw this very clearly, so his Taiwan was not independent and recognized the rule of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise, even if the local officials of the Ming Dynasty were greedy for money, they would not dare to trade with the rebellious ministers and thieves, and their reputation would be too bad.

Another condition of Li Zicheng was that Emperor Chongzhen would give him one million taels of silver, which he would use to calm people's hearts and do a good job in spring ploughing.

According to what he thinks, Emperor Chongzhen is a great tomorrow, rich all over the world, what is a mere one million taels of silver!

That's the way it is, Emperor Chongzhen's treasury is as empty as a drum, you can run horses in it, it's really poor!

Speaking of which, he is bitter enough, after ascending the throne, he will either be captured in the north, or exiled, or natural disasters, and Emperor Chongzhen will not be able to sleep at night.

In fact, Da Ming has silver, and there is a lot of it!

The silver of the Hongmaofan and the Wa Kingdom flowed into the southeast of the Ming Dynasty like a flood, but Emperor Chongzhen could not collect taxes!

The relevant people and others are grateful to the Donglin Party, without them to prevent the emperor from collecting taxes, there would be no HAPPINESS for everyone!

Neither of these conditions can be met, Li Zicheng immediately sent troops!

Emperor Chongzhen, who jumped over the wall in a hurry, issued two big moves, one was to ask the kings of Qin from all over the country, and the other was to ask the ministers to donate!

Qin Wang from all over the country: The army in the north has been wiped out, and the only foreign troops, that is, Wu Sangui's house, said that they could not leave, otherwise the Qing army would enter the customs. And the army in the south said that they were not ready and asked the emperor to pay for it!

The emperor can't send hungry soldiers, give money to money!

Does the emperor have a payment fee? There is not a single hair to give!

Even an angel from Taiwan has arrived, asking the southeast government to send troops to the king, and the status is not low.

The eunuch dives high!

This person was Lu Xiangsheng's supervisor, which led to Lu Xiangsheng's death, he went to Tainan and wanted to see Yan Changwu many times, but Yan Changwu avoided it.

Just say that the army is being prepared, and there is nothing that can be done about it!

What about the emperor, the army is in my hands, how can you be allowed to make a statement!

The entire south did not send troops, let alone Yan Changwu, who had long been half-hearted.

Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict asking his ministers to donate money to serve as military salaries, and a farce occurred.

He put down the face of the Ninety-Five Supreme and begged the ministers to pay money, Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, donated five hundred taels of silver, and the first assistant of the Tang Dynasty is still like this, not to mention other officials, you are one hundred taels and I am two hundred taels, they have pretended to be crazy and stupid, and they have become actors, some pawn their family's property to donate, some sell their money to donate, and some declare that they are borrowing money to donate, if they don't send officials next month, the family will be hungry......

Emperor Chongzhen saw that it was not the road, so he changed his method and asked someone to take the lead in donating.

Who's going to be a role model?

Zhou Kui, his son-in-law, the emperor, asked him to donate 100,000 taels with hope, and Zhou Kui trembled and said: "The old minister is more gold!" ”

The acting skills are super good, and his colleagues all turn their faces to the side and don't want to watch his performance.

He cried poor, only willing to donate 10,000 taels, the emperor asked him to donate 20,000 taels, saying that there was no silver, so the queen of Zhou was also his daughter to give him 5,000 taels, this abbot is very wonderful, he deducted 2,000 taels of silver, donated his own 10,000 taels of silver and his daughter's 3,000 taels of silver.

When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he found more than 400,000 taels of silver from the house of his former father-in-law......

Emperor Chongzhen seems to be shrewd for a while, but he is actually confused, he doesn't know how much money he Taishan has, will Zhou Kui's colleagues not know?

As a top minister, the filial piety of foreign officials and businessmen to him every year alone is more than tens of thousands of taels of silver!

The father-in-law has done this, he has no money, will I have money when I wait?

Even if you have money, you can't donate it, otherwise after donating, the Qingliu people will immediately impeach you and say that you are corrupt!

Evidence?

It's the money you donate, others don't have money, you have money, isn't this corruption or what?

So, poor Emperor Chongzhen played to death by himself, and the silver he got was pitiful, and he was thrown in the army, not even making a sound.

The fate of him and his dynasty has been decided, Li Zicheng led the peasant army to Taiyuan and occupy Datong, on March 11, according to Xuanhua, Hebei). On the fifteenth, he broke the mediocrity. The next day, he fell into Changping. On the 17th, the Dashun army surrounded the Beijing division and attacked the nine gates. Li Zicheng was stationed in Gonghua City (now Shahe) and sent the general Liu Zongmin to serve as the commander-in-chief of the siege. On the 18th, the soldiers of the Dashun army climbed the wall and captured the outer city.

Emperor Chongzhen went out of the Xuanwu Gate (Shenwu Gate), climbed the coal mountain (Jingshan), looked at the beacon fire all over the suburbs, returned to the Qianqing Palace, rang the bell to summon the ministers but did not come, and only the loyal old eunuch Wang Chengen accompanied him.

In this moment of great sadness, he finally understood who was the best for him!

Wenchen has no virtue, but eunuchs have hearts!

He said to Wang Chengen: "The ministers are mistaken, the monarch is dead, and in the world for two hundred and seventy-seven years, once it is abandoned, it will be mistaken by the traitorous ministers, so that it is so." ”

"I am not the king of the dead country, the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country!" He said angrily.

On the evening of the same day, Emperor Chongzhen forced Empress Zhou to hang herself, cut off the arm of her eldest daughter Princess Le'an, and killed several concubines.

On the morning of the 19th, Li Zicheng's army broke through the inner city. Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in the coal mountain.

At noon, Li Zicheng felt the ethereal clothes, took the black barge horse, entered the Chengtianmen (today's Anmen), and ascended to the Huangji Hall (now the Taihe Palace) to call the emperor, which was for the Dashun Dynasty.

Ming Qi died.