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Chongzhen's body was found by a peasant, and it was really ...... to see a generation of emperors hanging on a tree with crooked necks

Daming still has men.

After the death of Chongzhen, the officials who committed suicide included Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital, Shi Bangyao, the imperial history of the left deputy capital, Ling Yiqu, the secretary of the Dali Temple, Wu Linzheng, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, Liu Lishun, the left Zhongyun, and Meng Zhaoxiang, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, etc., Gong Yonggu, the commander of the horse, committed suicide with his whole family, hundreds of eunuchs committed suicide, more than 1,000 people died in battle, more than 300 palace maids committed suicide, and more than 700 family suicides such as gentry and students.

After Li Zicheng marched into Kyoto, he sighed: "The monarch is not very dark, isolated and burning, and the ministers are doing their own thing, and they are less loyal to the party than the party." ”

The meaning of this sentence is: "Your Excellency is not actually a mediocre person, but you stand alone, surrounded by people who only eat, ministers are taking care of their own selfish interests, and there are almost no people who are loyal to Your Excellency!"

Li Zicheng's statement won the hearts and minds of the people to a certain extent.

Then he opened the butcher's knife, and the ministers and gentry were miserable, they found that Li Zicheng was not as good at talking as Chongzhen, but it was too late.

On April 4, Zhao Yigui, a Changping Prefecture official, and others buried Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Chongzhen in the tomb of Tian Guifei in Changping County.

Li Zicheng, who ascended to the big treasure, immediately fell into pleasure.

Zuo Lengchan shook his head: "After all, there is only one Zhu Yuanzhang." ”

Yes, Zhu Yuanzhang is undoubtedly great, he also started with an uprising, but in the end he succeeded in becoming a generation of emperors.

"It's time to deliver on that promise."

What Zuo Lengchan wants now is to find Chongzhen's son, that is, the crown prince of the dynasty.

Where is the crown prince Zhu Cihong? He had escaped from the city of Beijing, but he really did not have the ability to survive as ordinary people, so he returned to Beijing to find his relatives and returned to his grandfather Zhou Kui's house.

After Zuo Lengchan learned the news, he immediately went to Zhou Kui's house.

Then he directly killed Zhou Kui with a sword and brought out the prince.

Why did you kill Zhou Kui, those who are familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty know that this person is very disgusting.

First of all, we have to mention the famous "donation event".

On March 10, 8 days before the fall of the capital and Chongzhen's suicide, Chongzhen issued a call for donations.

At that time, there was an old man in his 60s who came to the household, burst into tears, and donated 400 taels of silver that he had saved all his life.

After Chongzhen learned about it, he immediately rewarded him with the position of "Thousand Households in Brocade Clothes", and the name of this donor was not left in history, he was a thousand households for a day, and the Ming Dynasty perished.

Compared with this old man who donated all his wealth, those civil and military officials, royal relatives and relatives are 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 highest one is only 20,000, and most of them are "only a few hundred or dozen", which is purely perfunctory.

More powerful people are crying poor, cheating, and escaping, some take pots and pans to the street to practice stalls, and some post "This house is urgently sold" on the door of the mansion......

In order to set an example, Emperor Chongzhen thought of his father-in-law, Zhou Kui.

Chongzhen treated Zhou Kui well, named Zhou Kui as Jiading Bo, served as the Soldiers and Horses, "gave the first place in Suzhou Fengmen", owned a large number of fields and houses, and even supported a kabuki troupe for a long time.

Chongzhen sent the eunuch Xu Gao to inform Zhou Kui and let him take the lead in donating 100,000 taels of silver, Chongzhen thought, Zhou Kui is the national abbot, and the royal interests of the Ming Dynasty are in solidarity, what he never expected was that Zhou Kui cried like a mourner when he heard it, and said "Lao Chen's peace is more gold?" He also said that his family was so poor that he could only buy moldy rice to eat, and he insisted that he could only donate 10,000 taels in one bite.

Chongzhen is a soft-hearted person, reduced to 20,000, seeing that he can't hide, Zhou Kui entered the palace to ask his daughter for help, and Queen Zhou immediately took out 5,000 silver to persuade her father to understand the righteousness, set an example for the ministers, and save the Ming Dynasty.

Who knows, Zhou Kui did something even more bizarre, he actually plucked the goose, only donated 3,000 taels, and he also took the opportunity to deduct 2,000 taels.

According to statistics, Chongzhen, who once made a promise, only raised 200,000 taels of the "donation of silver and salary" activity advocated at the last moment, and they were almost a dime a dime when the country was dying, and they did not give up their immediate interests at all.

After Li Zicheng's peasant army invaded Beijing, how much silver did it get from them?

Liu Zongmin is responsible for asking the officials for silver: "To offer silver to the official, a product must be worth tens of thousands of silver, and the following must be worth thousands, and those who offer silver will be released immediately; Those who hide the silver and do not offer it will be punished and served. ”

These vested interests of the Ming Dynasty are finally about to lose everything.

Wei Zaode, the guy who reluctantly donated 500 taels of silver, was arrested and imprisoned by Liu Zongmin, and handed over tens of thousands of taels of silver under the threat of being clamped, and then continued to be tortured, after five days and five nights of torture, Wei Zaode died of brain splitting in prison.

Chen Yan, a poor minister of the Ming Dynasty, took the initiative to hand over 40,000 taels of silver "assistance", and was released by Liu Zongmin.

That national abbot Zhou Kui couldn't help but be tortured, and was copied out of countless treasures by the intruding army, pulling dozens of carts, and the cash alone was enough for 530,000 taels (one said 700,000 taels).

"Biography of Relatives in the History of the Ming Dynasty": "Zhou Kui, a native of Suzhou, is also the father of Emperor Zhuanglie and Empress Zhou. ...., Kui Ju is among his relatives, just busy, Li Zicheng forced the Beijing teacher, the emperor sent the internal servant Xu Gaomi to Kui to advocate the loss of the salary, Kui Jian thanked nothing, and cried angrily: "The stepfather is like this, and the state affairs are gone.... and became a trap in Beijing, plundering his family to get tens of thousands of gold, people think it is a foolish cloud of laughing Kui. ”

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, all of which were re-melted and cast by workers into a huge square plate-shaped silver plate with a hole in the middle, and later transported to Xi'an, Emperor Chongzhen increased the salary for more than ten years, and only 20 million taels of silver were obtained from the people.

Zuo Lengzen thought about this, and just wanted to say: "Why bother? ”

Zuo Lengchan said to Zhu Cihong: "I killed your grandfather, do you hate me?" ”

Zhu Cihong shook his head: "Don't hate." ”

Yes, not hate.

These days, Zhou Kui has not been good to Zhu Cihong, Zhou Kui is worthy of being a snob, and instigated his son, that is, the prince's uncle Zhou Yi, to ask the prince to leave immediately, so as not to affect himself.

Where could the prince stand this nest of anger, so he quarreled and scolded his uncle until his fists and feet were added.

In history, Zhou Kui did an even more bizarre thing, that is, he dedicated the crown prince to the Qing army, which also led to the real demise of the Ming Dynasty later. (To be continued.) )