Chapter 131: The King Dies
Chongzhen is definitely a peculiar person in history. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Some people say that he is brave and resolute, and some people say that he is stubborn and self-serving.
Some people contemptuously call him Chongzhen Xiaoer, and some people respectfully call him Chongzhen the Great.
Some people think that he is the king of the fallen country, and some people think that he is a tragic character.
Some people think that he is ambitious, makes great efforts to govern the country, eats and wears clothes, and will bow down to everything, but some people think that he has neither the strategy of governing the country nor the skill of appointing others, and is strict, suspicious, and suspicious, and often reprimands the ministers, asks for crimes, beheads them, and Ling Chi.
What kind of person is he? Why does history have such a different assessment of him?
In the past few days, the news of Li Zicheng's march into Kyoto not only made the people in the city panic, but also made Emperor Chongzhen unable to sleep.
In the past few days, Comrade Chongzhen has often dreamed that there is a person who has written a word on his hand -- yes.
It was a very strange dream, and more than once, so he told the Minister of Civil Affairs and Military Affairs about the dream and asked them to help explain it.
Everyone heard that it was very good, that it was very auspicious, Chongzhen thought about it, it made sense, because there is, it is better than nothing.
However, there was one person who was shocked, this person was named Wang Chengen, who was Chongzhen's personal eunuch.
After the dispersal of the dynasty, he found Chongzhen and told him the true meaning of this dream, the terrible meaning - the Ming Dynasty will die.
According to Wang Chengen's explanation, this one has, in fact, there are two words, the top is a small number of big characters, and the bottom is less than half of the clear characters.
So the meaning of this word is Daming, which is less than half.
Chongzhen doesn't believe it, he doesn't dare to believe it, the Ming Dynasty, since the fight against Zhu Chongba, more than 200 years, is it going to be destroyed in his own hands?
Chongzhen recalled all the things he had encountered since he ascended the throne, and he really had the urge to cry.
Before coming to power, I was holding back enough energy to kill the dead ladyboy, the dead ladyboy was killed, and then came out of the party fight, Houjin invaded, saw Yuan Chonghuan, asked him to come out to work, a toss, Houjin failed to toss back, Yuan Inspector was tossed away, I wanted to lie on the salary and taste the courage, endure for a few years, do a good job in domestic economic construction, and then go to recover the great rivers and mountains, but there was a natural disaster, and a number of people rebelled.
Mobilize troops, kill a number of people, etc., a number of people are killed, and a number of more ruthless people (such as Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng) come out, and then transfer troops, beat some more ruthless people, and fight them again, surrender those who surrender, and run, and are preparing to go all the way......
The Qing army came in.
Okay, then go and fight the Qing army, all the main forces were transferred to Liaodong, and after a year and a half, they finally boiled people away, and the backyard caught fire again, and those who surrendered did not surrender, and those who ran in ran out again.
Coincidentally, it was another famine, a great famine, and there was no way to live, so everyone rebelled together.
Chongzhen's story is like this, because it is true, it is cruel.
Chongzhen is not a gentle person, he is very impatient, very hard, in today's words, it is called too strong, but that mess, if you don't use too much force, you can only close the stall.
Chongzhen is very thrifty, his clothes and socks are patched, please note that the patched ones are not necessarily very thrifty, they are often very wasteful, such as the Daoguang comrades of the Qing Dynasty later, the clothes were torn, and people went to patch them, fifty taels of silver, this guy is a complete loser, and said that it was very cheap.
And Chongzhen's patch was made by him to find his wife, and it was free.
In addition, Chongzhen also has a characteristic: walking slowly, because if you walk fast, the torn clothes inside will float out - thrift is thrifty, and face is still needed.
He worked very hard, going to court during the day and working overtime at night, according to historical records, for about seven or eight hours (fourteen to sixteen hours), tired and half dead, and then continued the next day.
To put it simply, what Comrade Chongzhen did was such a job, with no scope of work, no work boundaries, everything had to be managed, he went to work every day, either quarreling with people (Yanguan), or watching people quarrel (party disputes), dressed in tatters, ate less, slept less with his wife, slept only five or six hours, and from time to time there was bad news, what was called from the north, the west was beaten, the ancestral grave was burned, the generals were killed, things were robbed, and so on.
Who does this job? The most unfortunate thing is that all of Comrade Chongzhen's above misfortunes could not be exchanged for a happy ending -- his efforts failed after all.
But more unfortunate than the most unfortunate (referred to as the most unlucky), Chongzhen knows this.
However, he still tried his best, went all out, day and night, day and night, diligent, hard-working, did not die until the Great Wall, hit the south wall and did not look back, and did not give up until the final ending, until the day when the soldiers came to the city, he still did not give up.
In Zuo Lengzen's heart, Emperor Chongzhen is a great person, he can't bear it, but he can't bear it, but he can't bear it!
As the saying goes, people are more popular than people who die.
Compared with Chongzhen, Li Zicheng is undoubtedly happy and much luckier.
In HN, he effortlessly recruited more than 100,000 people, and in only two years, he occupied the entire territory of HN, invincible, and successively killed the governor of SX, Fu Zonglong, Wang Qiaonian, and our old acquaintance, Fu Wang Zhu Changxun.
Comrade Li Zicheng was still advancing, and a year later, he entered the SX and defeated Sun Chuanting, the last fierce man of the Ming Dynasty, and occupied Xi'an. The Ming army had no power to fight back.
In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Li Zicheng gathered all his troops in Xi'an, preparing to set off for the capital, and he would put an end to this: the empire that had lasted for more than 270 years.
Before leaving, he sent out a message, which contained eight words: Ming'er Ming Dynasty, the number of qi has been exhausted.
yes, gas numbers.
The next day, in the early court, the ministers discussed Li Zicheng's matter.
Li Zicheng is still sympathetic to Chongzhen.
It should be said that in this era, there are still many people who recognize Chongzhen, the co-master of the world.
Li Zicheng put forward his own conditions to Chongzhen, that is, to crown him as the king, and then this matter will be over, and he can fight for Chongzhen in the south and north in the future.
But the ministers disagreed.
They used the ancestral legal system to persuade Chongzhen, the king can't compromise, can't compromise with the rogue, he Li Zicheng still wants to be crowned the king, dreaming, right?
Chongzhen said that he would raise money to organize an army to resist Li Chuang's attack.
But the ministers all said that they had no money, and they all cried poor.
He didn't know that the amount of gold and silver looted after Li Zicheng later captured Kyoto was simply appalling.
These ministers thought that it was just a change of emperor, but they didn't know that Li Zicheng wanted their lives! Hehe, it's really ironic.
Chongzhen said again, then move the capital to Nanjing and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback.
The ministers said that the king should die, how could he retreat.
"Haha!"
Chongzhen smiled, and he laughed heartily.
"That's right, the king is dead, the king is dead!" (To be continued.) )