Since he was able to travel to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zilong likes to read history books and various materials related to the Ming Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Especially on March 18 every year, I always have to turn the page to read a few pages of history. Because on this day, in the original history, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, Chongzhen committed suicide, and the Ming Dynasty fell.

In the last days, Chongzhen, the self-righteous and face-loving emperor, made a final effort to save the country, he put down the emperor's dignity and begged the ministers and relatives to donate money to the soldiers who defended the city of Beijing.

Result: The emperor's relatives and relatives were untouched, and the Manchu Dynasty was crazy and stupid.

To use a popular saying: Chongzhen was unlucky enough, he had a strange predecessor, and he encountered a strange subordinate and a strange relative.

So, the question is: as a vested interest group, the elites should understand that they and the Ming Dynasty are a community with a shared future, why do they have such a strange performance?

After Chongzhen issued a call for donations, an old man in his 60s came to the household department, burst into tears, and donated 400 taels of silver that he had accumulated all his life. After Chongzhen learned about it, he immediately rewarded him with the position of "Thousand Households in Brocade Clothes".

The name of this donor has not been left in history. He was a thousand households for a day, and the Ming Dynasty perished, and there is no record of this person in historical materials.

But this nameless person should be one of the few people who can warm his heart before Chongzhen goes to death.

Compared with this old man who donated all his wealth, those civil and military officials and imperial relatives in the late Ming Dynasty were very unbearable.

Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the cabinet, donated 500 taels; The heart of the richest eunuch donated 10,000 taels ...... Chongzhen means "30,000 is the best", but none of them reach this number.

The powerful were crying poor, cheating, and evading, and all kinds of strange things came out for a while:

Some put their own pots and pans on the street to practice stalls, and some posted "This house is for urgent sale" on the door of the mansion...... All this is to tell the emperor: We really don't have money to donate, it depends on you. Just don't give money, Daming wants to live or die, it's my business?

At the same time, Chongzhen also asked each minister to name a rich man from his hometown who could afford to donate. As a result, only Nanzhili and Zhejiang each raised one person, and "Yu Province did not have time to lift it".

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, internal and external troubles caused the country's finances to collapse.

As early as the eighth year of Chongzhen, Li Jin, a martial artist in Jiangnan, went on a job of raising military salaries.

The root cause of the great chaos in the world is that land annexation is serious and the disparity between the rich and the poor is too great. Large households annex land, run businesses, only know fine clothes and food, compete for luxury, and do not think about the difficulties of the country.

Even in a good harvest year, the small people are still hungry and cold; When there was a famine, the weak had to starve to death by the roadside, and the strong rose up to rebel.

He asked the emperor in Shuzhong, and resolutely issued an edict, ordering the large households in Jiangnan to automatically report their industries and pledge military salaries. If anyone disobeys, his property is to be confiscated, and not to be tolerated at all.

However, the roots are rotten, and it is impossible for the emperor, as a single commander, to do this.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a system for declaring the assets of officials, nor did it have a Forbes ranking.

Chongzhen clearly knew that these people were corrupt and bribed, and some of them were money. He has also repeatedly used the righteousness of the country and the nation to inform them, but the powerful are just unwilling to bleed. Although he is the Son of Heaven, he has no fault at all. (Personality is related to the system, and he does not have a strong army directly in his hands)!

Sun Chuanting was in command at that time, the last new force in the late Ming Dynasty.

The emperor repeatedly urged him to go out of Tongguan and fight a decisive battle with King Chuang's army. However, money was required to fight the war, but the imperial court had been in arrears for a long time.

In desperation, he asked local tyrants to raise money. But the local tyrants were covered by the court, and they didn't take him seriously at all. In the end, just give a few money, just like sending Hanako.

Sun Chuanting drank a glass of wine and laughed wildly. Everyone looked at each other, not understanding why Sun Chuanting was so out of shape.

It turned out that Lao Sun knew that he would die if he went, and he was not afraid to say it clearly.

He accused Gu Laoye, a representative of the local tyrants, of privately occupying military land and defrauding taxes: "What crime should I be guilty of? ”

Master Gu is very good, and he believes that there are people in the court. Said to Sun Chuanting very horizontally: "What do you want? What can you do? Lao Tzu is rich, but if you don't donate, you don't care if you live or die! ”

Sun Chuanting waved his hand: "Well said!"

Immediately, a sergeant came up and cut Master Gu's carotid artery with a knife. Immediately, blood sprayed wildly, and Master Gu fell to the ground and died, and his property was used as military salary.

This is also Sun Chuanting's last madness.

He let it go, anyway, he was about to die on the battlefield, so kill a few bad gentry first. He knows the shamelessness of these powerful people, let you donate, you don't donate?

That's good, just hit the local tyrants and divide the fields, and copy your house!

It's a pity, Comrade Sun, after all, he is not a traverser, and he only dares to do this once in his bones, otherwise he will learn from Li Zicheng.

Hehe, Sun Chuanting rebelled and became the emperor, which is much stronger than letting Li Zicheng come!

In the original history, an emperor like Chongzhen who spoke low and asked his subordinates for money may not be able to find a second emperor in Chinese history. Like the late Ming Dynasty, the magnates who did not give the emperor face at all were extremely rare.

But why are they so weird and brain-dead?

Don't they know that under the nest, there will be no eggs? If the country is destroyed, how can you save your family's property and life?

It turns out that the reason for this. It's just that selfishness is too heavy!

Civil and military officials, relatives of the emperor and the country have a common mentality: the emperor is not short of money. ---- "The shore of the land is not the king's land", the whole world is yours, why do you want us to pay?

However, in fact, Chongzhen was very poor, poor to death, and was one of the poorest emperors in history.

After he took office, he took over a mess, saved his own food and frugality, and cut back on food and clothing. Even the palace maids were not enough, and he didn't dare to expand the recruitment, he even used the gold and silver utensils in the palace, and even the copper kettle in the main hall as military salaries.

In that year, after Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, he found all of Chongzhen's family property in the palace.

In addition to the dragon robe, there are only coarse cloth clothes, a few bits and pieces are discounted, and the inner treasury is only less than tens of thousands of taels of silver.

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Every time he studies the history of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zilong feels that he can't cry or laugh.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the relationship between the monarch and the minister was also very strange, they did not trust each other, and no one was willing to take responsibility. The emperor cried poor, and the magnates thought: Who are you fooling?

So the emperor asked them for money, and they also cried poor. It seems that each other is playing a tacit game!

So that after a long time, habits become natural. They have deeper considerations: This is the world of your Zhu family, if you lose it, you will lose it, what does it matter to me? Why do you want me to pay?

It's okay if Li Zicheng calls, change the emperor and get on the horse, it doesn't matter who is the emperor, you have to use us to help you manage the country, right?

The illiteracy rate in this society is 99%, and if you don't use us, you don't have talent at all.

The officials take it for granted, and the ordinary people are even more so: whoever is the emperor, what does it matter to us, don't we still be the common people?

As a result, it's like a contagious disease.

The same is true for the soldiers defending the city, there is no military pay, why should we sell our lives? It's a big deal to be a soldier for the new emperor!

In history, when the army of King Chuang besieged the city, the defenders of the capital fell to the head of the city, "one person was whipped, and one person was relied". The same is true of other cities in other places, as you can imagine!

A country that lacks trust and consensus is bound to fall apart.

No one is willing to take responsibility in case of trouble, and everyone wants to shift the responsibility to the other party and blindly blame the other party, and they are bound to end up together.

It's a pity that in the original history, whether it was Li Zicheng or Huang Taiji, they were not good people. Nor is it a man of destiny!

After Li Zicheng invaded the capital, in a few days, he arrested and imprisoned hundreds of officials and scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

As a bandit, he Yagen has no ability to manage the country, and even thinks that it is easy to be an emperor, but he does not need these officials of the previous dynasty.

Those iron roosters who cried poor in front of Chongzhen handed over amazing wealth before the torture of the army.

Historical records: After brutal torture, Li Zicheng's army obtained a total of more than 70 million taels of silver. Coupled with some treasures and materials, he only got a fortune of nearly 200 million silver. And those local tyrants and officials in the city are basically all dead, and they are the kind of people whose whole family is dead.

What a great irony!

These people, if you want to describe them in one word, are "cheap". If you want to describe it in two words, it is brain-dead!

Zhou Kui, the abbot of the country, cried and shouted at the beginning, and was only willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver. The eunuch Xu Gao was persuaded by Chongzhen's order to donate, he played tricks in every way, and the eunuch Xu Gao was so angry that he raised his sleeves and said: "The old emperor is so stingy, the big things will go, what is the benefit of saving and being prolific!"

Meaning: If the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached. The country is almost gone, why do you want so much money? Brought into a coffin?

But there are people, countless people, who are just so confused......

It doesn't matter if they are confused, but the land of China has become the territory of the Later Jin and Qing Dynasties.

The Ming Dynasty perished, and the catastrophe came. Decades and centuries of brutal warfare followed, and no one was immune.

Only a few hundred million Chinese died at the hands of the Qing army, (this algorithm includes the Chinese who died in the early and middle periods, and during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and is counted together.) Basically, all of them were directly or indirectly, and they died at the hands of the Qing army. ）

Now, Zhu Zilong, who has crossed over, has laid a slightly better foundation in Daming in advance.

In this life, he will never let this kind of dark history repeat itself on the land of China. Never, never, never!

- (To be continued.) )