Meteorologist Lorenz declared in a speech at the Pretty Nation Association for the Advancement of Science that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil would cause a tornado in Texas a few days later, a claim that came to be known as the butterfly effect. It is said that there is some unexpected connection between two seemingly unrelated things, and that some small and slight details can make a big difference.

It may sound incredible, but it's actually true.

In the 16th century, King Charles III of England prepared for a decisive battle with Count Henry at Persos, which would determine who would become the new king.

Before the war, Charles III's groom went to nail the horses of Charles III, but the blacksmith had been busy nailing the horseshoe to the horses in recent days, and the iron pieces had run out, so he asked the groom for a few days, and the groom said: How can this work? The great war was imminent, and not a day could be delayed, so the blacksmith had to find an iron bar and cut it into four parts to make a horseshoe, and when the fourth horseshoe was nailed, the nails ran out, and the blacksmith was going to find the nails, and the groom was impatient, oh my God! The trumpets have sounded, and the time is too late, so let's make do with it, and in this way, Charles III will ride a war horse with one less nail on his horse's horse to the battlefield.

The battle began, Charles III took the lead in the charge, but an accident happened, his war horse fell off the unsturdy horseshoe came to a horse stumbled, as a result, Charles III fell to the ground, the war horse fell off the leash, the soldiers saw the chaos and for a time under the attack of the other party collapsed, as a result, Charles III became a prisoner of war, Charles III, who knew the reason, sighed in despair: Buy Karma! My big thing was ruined in a small horseshoe.

Coincidentally, a century and a half have passed, but a dynasty has been ruined by a small incident.

Mao Yujian, a native of Hubei Public Security, married a woman surnamed Wen as his wife. This Mao Yujian studied very well, in the second year of the Apocalypse, he was a jinshi, successively in Sichuan Wanxian County, Ba County as a magistrate, and later transferred to the Central Government Office as the imperial history of Yunnan Province, because of the impeachment of Yang Weiyuan, Ruan Dacheng was expelled, Chongzhen returned to the imperial court after ascending the throne, and the official supervised the imperial history.

Speaking of which, Mao Yujian is a good official, at least he dares to speak, but there is a problem, that is, he is particularly afraid of his wife.

In this era, not to mention officials, it is common for people with two dollars to marry a little wife, and Mao Yujian also wants to marry a concubine, but he doesn't dare, because his wife is a tigress, and in the face of a maid like flowers and jade, she can see but can't move, and Mao Yujian feels very aggrieved.

One year, Mao Yujian's wife went home to save relatives, Mao Yujian seized the opportunity, his wife walked on the front foot, and secretly accepted a concubine on the back foot, which was really beautiful, but within a few days, it was known by his wife who was thousands of miles away, and the girl surnamed Wen rushed to the capital in the starry night, just when Mao Yushi and the concubine were elated, they fell from the sky and directly caught the current, Mao Yushi was immediately dumbfounded.

Who's the whistleblower? How did my wife come so fast? Mao Yushi was extremely depressed.

Afterwards, Mao Yushi investigated, and he didn't find out who told the secret, but the reason why his wife came so quickly was found, it turned out that his wife came in a carriage at the post station.

Mao Yushi was angry, but he didn't dare to be serious with his wife, so he poured his anger on the post station, wow! The post station turned out to be public and private, so it was directly given to the emperor Zhu Youjian on an excerpt, extremely saying the harm of the post station, suggesting that the national post station should be abolished, it is said that Mao Yujian and Liu Mao had a good relationship with the matter, and Liu Mao helped to also go to the excerpt to echo it, and tried to explain the benefits of cutting the post station, which can not only prevent officials from encroaching on the country's advantage, but also save a lot of money every year.

Zhu Youzhen, who ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, is a little child, where do you know the role of the post station in national affairs, and after taking the stage to clean up Wei Zhongxian, he found that he was poor and lacked money to spend, and he heard that the cutting post station can save hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year, and there is such a good thing, we will do it immediately, so he ordered the cutting of the post station.

But his cutting station cut out a person who could kill him for the dynasty.

Li Zicheng, formerly known as Li Hongji, is a native of Li Jiqian Village, Mizhi, Shaanxi. When I was a child, my family was poor and shepherded sheep to the landlord, but when I grew up, my father died, and I just married a beautiful daughter-in-law, how can I support my family? So, he went to a post station in Ningxia as a post guard, and the main job he did every day was to take care of the horses.

Zhu Youzhen cut the station, Li Zicheng was unemployed, Li Zicheng, who was unemployed and went home, owed a lot of debts, Ai Zhao Ai raised people to collect debts, Li Zicheng couldn't pay back, he was sued by Ai Juren to the government, went to the flail and paraded the streets for several days, and almost died, thanks to relatives and friends who bought him out.

Li Zicheng was very angry, specially, don't I just owe you money for your trick? As for so many generations of me? went to settle accounts with Ai Juren, and wanted to beat Ai Juren out of anger, but who knew that Ai Juren was killed.

Alas! This Ai Ju person's physical fitness is not good, and he doesn't resist beating!

After Li Zicheng returned home, he saw another thing that made him even more unbearable, his wife actually brought the wild man home and blocked it to the bed, is it unbearable? Li Zicheng didn't blame the wild man when he knew this, so he blamed his wife, and after kicking the guy named Gai Hu twice, he directly strangled his wife Han Jin'er to death.

Two lives are in their bodies, and if they are caught by the government, they will have to pay for their lives, there is no way, Li Zicheng and his nephew Li Guo went to Ganzhou to serve as soldiers.

Ganzhou is Zhangye.

At that time, Yang Zhaoji was the general of Ganzhou, and the kingdom was a general, and the kingdom appreciated Li Zicheng very much, this Li Zicheng was good, tall and powerful, and he was proficient in horseback archery, so he promoted Li Zicheng to be the commander.

Although the overall level is not high, but in charge of 100 soldiers, Li Zicheng felt that it was okay, so he decided to work hard.

In December of the same year, Jianyu entered the fortress for the first time, known in history as the change of Jisi, the imperial court ordered the national army to be the king, and the kingdom department stationed in Yuzhong County was also among them, the troops were going out to fight, the kingdom and the county were not paid in arrears, Li Zicheng was angry, we were going to the battlefield to fight, it was possible to lose your life in that place, what is the matter with the two of you? Could it be that when we die, you will be greedy for this money? And he led the men and slew the kingdom and the county order.

This time it's a big game, and I've committed the big crime of the Nine Clans, so let's just rebel! You look at the world-shattering way, and it is not good to be honest as a responsible person.

So, Li Zicheng took this group of people to do it.

Li Zicheng is a Ning species, since the mutiny began to rebel, many people have been appeased, he just insisted on rebellion, why so, no one can say.

Li Zicheng after the uprising transferred to the middle of the Han Dynasty, participated in Wang Zuohang's peasant army, the next year Wang Zuohang was recruited by the imperial court, Li Zicheng switched to Zhang Cunmeng, another year, Zhang Cunmeng was defeated in northern Shaanxi and surrendered to the imperial court as an official, Li Zicheng did not surrender, with the rest of the brothers to continue to do.

In October of the fifth year, Hong Chengchou officially took over as the governor of the three sides, and gradually exterminated the peasant army in Shaanxi, Li Zicheng could not stay in Shaanxi, so he led the rest of the troops to cross the Yellow River east to Shanxi to join his uncle Gao Yingxiang, Gao Yingxiang called himself the king of Chuang, and Li Zicheng called himself the general.

In the same year, Cao Wenzhao led more than 1,000 Guanning troops to defeat the peasant army in Shanxi, and Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others fled to Henan, where they were surrounded by Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu and other Ming troops.

At the beginning of the following year, Jianyu entered the fortress for the second time, Cao Wenzhao was transferred to Datong to resist Jin, and the besieged peasant army escaped from the encirclement.

In June, the new governor of the five provinces, Chen Qiyu, led the army to the west, and made a date with the four governors of Shaanxi, Yunyang, Huguang, and Henan to encircle and suppress the Hannan peasant army, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and other troops saw that the Ming army gathered, and mistakenly took the Xing'an Chebox Gorge, this canyon is an ancient plank road, the mountains on all sides are steep, easy to enter and difficult to exit, the only exit was blocked by the officers and soldiers, Li Zicheng used Gu Junen's strategy, bribed Chen Qiyu's left and right people, deceived the officers and soldiers, and killed the officials who were ready to send them home.

It is estimated that Li Zicheng will not dare to go home, and the family of Ai Juren will definitely settle accounts with him, and his father-in-law surnamed Han will probably not let him go, you can't just kill people because of such a trivial matter, if you don't want it, can you return it?

Nine years, Gao Yingxiang in Anhui by the new governor of the five provinces Lu Xiangsheng defeated and surrounded in the Yunyang mountains, in June the Qing army entered the fortress for the third time, Lu Xiangsheng was transferred to Xuanda Governor to resist the Qing Dynasty, the military department waiter Wang Jiazhen succeeded as the governor of the five provinces, Gao Yingxiang and others took the opportunity to break through, and ran to Xi'an directly by the new Shaanxi governor Sun Chuanting caught and killed. Gao Yingxiang's remnants of the group were leaderless, so they defected to Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng was officially promoted to the new king, and continued to lead people and the court to do it, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, and fight everywhere.

I can't help but say that, in fact, at this time, Li Zicheng was mainly beaten by the official army, but the officials and soldiers were not all, and there were no places, so although Li Zicheng was driven away, he still had a good life, where he went, robbed the government, robbed the rich, and distributed the excess food to the poor, and many people regarded him as a hero, Li Zicheng's heart was very satisfied, and he rebelled with his head, worth it!

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang would have 100,000 soldiers, increase the salary by 2.8 million taels, and put forward the strategy of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net" to limit the mobility of the peasant army, and each broke through, which was quite effective in two years, Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to surrender, Li Zicheng was defeated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in the south of Tongguan in Weinan, and took Liu Zongmin and other remnants of seventeen people to hide in Shangluo Mountain in southeast Shaanxi.

These 17 people include Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo, Li Cheng, Gao Yigong, Wang Hu, Zhang Shijie, Zhang Neng, Gu Kecheng, Li Shuangxi, Zhang Nai, Liu Wenkui, Yu Bin, Bai Guangen, Gao Jie, Gu Junen, and Hao Shaoqi.

Don't look at what they are all doing, Li Zicheng looks down on Zhang Xianzhong very much, is it interesting to surrender if he can't do it? You see, our buddies, we never dared to do that.

In August of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Jianyu destroyed the wall from Qingkou Mountain in the northeast of Qian'an and Qiangziling in the northeast of Miyun, and launched the fourth raid. In order to implement his strategy of securing the interior and the outside world, Yang Sichang strongly advocated peace with Jianyu, but was fiercely opposed by Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda and the commander-in-chief of King Qin. Chongzhen and the war were uncertain, and Lu Xiangsheng died in the battle of Julu, Hebei. After Jianyuche retreated, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou and others were transferred to Liaodong to prevent Jianyu, Li Zicheng was able to breathe in the mountains, so he went to the temple to burn incense and kowtow, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting could go.

In winter, there is nothing to do in Shenglong Village in Fushui Guannan, Li Zicheng feels that something is missing, Gao Yigong came to the door, and wants to marry his sister to Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng thinks, this kind of business we do, sometimes I can't see my wife for a few months, we must not find Han Jin'er, Xiao Xing's kind of merry ghosts, this Gao Guiying is good, although she is older, but her appearance is also good, very good, the key is that this Gao Guiying is her cousin, why can't you do anything sorry for yourself.

As a result, Li Zicheng got married for the third time.

Gao Guiying is the daughter of Gao Yingxiang, the king of Lao Chuang, and was married before. Women can't do without men, and they married Li Zicheng under the mediation of their younger brother Gao Yigong.

Who is Han Jin'er? Everyone knows that it was the one who brought the wild man home and was killed by Li Zicheng in the nest, and Xiao Xing was another person.

In fact, Li Zicheng was found by himself when he was worn green by Han Jin'er, then Han Jin'er and Li Zicheng are from the same village, they are as beautiful as a fairy, charming and moving, but this woman's reputation is not good, and she is entangled with many men, Li Zicheng knows, but Han Jin'er is too beautiful, and Li Zicheng is fascinated.

At that time, Han Jin'er had already been divorced once, and because of her complicated relationship with other men, she was divorced by her ex-husband, but Li Zicheng didn't care about Han Jin'er's past at all, and wanted to marry her home.

Li Zicheng's second daughter-in-law, Xiao Xing, is also very delicate, the key is that this Xiao Xing is still very capable, Li Zicheng is fighting in the front, and Xiao Xing is in charge of the supply of grain and grass in the rear, but he didn't expect that Xiao Xing was seduced away by his subordinate Gao Jie.

At that time, Li Zicheng often led troops outside, and Xiao Xing gathered less and left more, Xiao Xing often felt very lonely, so he fell in love with Gao Jie, the general who went to receive grain and grass. This Gao Jie is not only tall and big, with a flexible brain, the key is that he is very handsome, and he can tell jokes to make Xiao Xing happy, that's what, he is better than Li Zicheng, Xiao Xing feels very satisfied.

In order to prevent being discovered by Li Zicheng, the two quietly left and defected to the official army.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again in Gucheng, and Li Zichengke found an opportunity to kill him from Shangluo Mountain.

In the thirteenth year, there was a great drought in Henan, locusts were everywhere, and the hungry people were convenient, Li Zicheng took advantage of the main force of the Ming army to enter Henan when he was chasing Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan, took in the hungry people, opened the official warehouse and released grain.

This year, Li Yan joined Li Zicheng's team.

Li Yan Li Zicheng is like a long drought and a rainy day, the two of them often talk with candles, the more they talk, the brighter Li Zicheng's heart is, this Li Yan will engage in propaganda, what to welcome the king, look forward to the king, the king does not accept food when he comes, what eats his mother, drinks his mother, opens the city gate to meet the king, that set of knocks are all Li Yan came up with, with Li Yan, will he Li Zicheng still use special recruitment in the future? Everyone came to the door themselves.

On the twentieth day of the first month of the fourteenth year, Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang, killed Zhu Youzhen's uncle Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, and got a few deer from the back garden, and cooked them with the meat of the king of Fu, called the Fulu banquet, and shared them with the soldiers. When there are more people, the power will rise, and the name must be resounding, so Li Zicheng called himself the generalissimo of Fengtian and the civil and military forces.

After that, Li Zicheng set his sights on Kaifeng, which is a prosperous place in the provincial capital! The hateful thing is that the people in Kaifeng are not interesting enough, they can't beat it down after three beatings, and they are shot blind in this place, Lao Li is angry, forget it, since you don't want to follow me, I will dig the Yellow River.

In October of this year, Li Zicheng was most happy that Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi who followed behind his ass and did not give face at all, was finally defeated by him.