Chapter 234: Reality and Ideals
"Emperor Chongzhen was born in an ordinary palace and was originally destined to live an idle life. Fate put him on the throne. ”
"After Emperor Chongzhen took office, he was indeed diligent and hardworking, and during his reign, he did not hesitate to review and review the folds all night and take the lead in frugality, which is indeed very diligent, but his persistence and efforts seem to have turned into a tragedy."
"Because Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen got rid of Wei Zhongxian by himself, and the ministers boasted that the emperor was powerful, obviously he overestimated his political talent, and he was arbitrary and personal in everything in the more than ten years of his reign, and he believed in his own ability excessively, so his self-confidence slowly turned into conceit, into self-righteousness and then insisted on going his own way.
"There is a minister, Chen Xinjia, who is the best example."
"During the war, Songjin was lost, and then Emperor Chongzhen wanted to negotiate peace with the Qing army, so as to concentrate on dealing with the rebel army.
One day, Emperor Chongzhen sent his cronies to send a handwritten edict to Chen Xinjia, urging him to try to negotiate peace as soon as possible, Chen Xinjia was not at home, and the person left the secret edict on the bookcase, and the scholar of the Chen family mistakenly thought it was an ordinary "Tang Bao", so he took it out and handed it over to various departments to copy, so the emperor secretly presided over the peace conference The matter was made public, and the ministers were in an uproar and immediately went to the chapter to oppose it. ”
Emperor Chongzhen couldn't deny it, and he was angry and decreed: "Chen Xinjia will be executed immediately" The reason is that the Liukou broke the city, and the secretary of the military department who killed the emperor should be fully responsible. ”
"Chen Xinjia is definitely not the only minister who died unjustly under Emperor Chongzhen."
"And it is often the one who does the right thing to be killed, and the one who doesn't do the right thing ends up a little better, and often the greater the credit, the worse the death."
"The early dynasties are not clear, and in the later dynasties, even the people should know that the famous general Yuan Chonghuan can be said to be the most capable and loyal and patriotic minister in the late Ming Dynasty, and his ending is also the most miserable."
"The unjust killing of Yuan Chonghuan is the most serious and unforgivable mistake made by Emperor Chongzhen."
"At first, Yuan Chonghuan was the person who was most trusted by Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen appointed him as the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, and handed over the entire Houjin defense to him, of course, Yuan Chonghuan did not live up to the emperor's expectations and fought a lot of beautiful battles, resulting in the Ming Dynasty's fierce rival Nurhachi died of illness and depression after the defeat of the Ningjin army."
"In October 1629, hundreds of thousands of Houjin troops made a detour to the capital of the Ming Dynasty BJ, and Yuan Chonghuan, who was guarding Liaoxi, immediately led the Ming army to BJ to fight a fierce battle with the enemy after receiving information."
"At this time, Wei Zhongxian's remnants spread rumors that the Houjin soldiers made a detour to Beijing and were completely introduced by Yuan Chonghuan."
"Huang Taiji, the commander of the Houjin Army, also used the two eunuchs captured under BJ City to frame Yuan Chonghuan, and he widely spread rumors in the military camp that he had an appointment with Yuan Inspector, and deliberately let the two eunuchs hear it, and then let them go, and after the two eunuchs fled back to the palace, they told Emperor Chongzhen the secret news they heard in the military camp."
"The mediocre Emperor Chongzhen was convinced, so he immediately ordered Yuan Chonghuan to be arrested, and two months later, the Houjin army withdrew, and Yuan Chonghuan was ordered to be executed by Emperor Chongzhen, thus destroying the Great Wall and causing the defeat of the Ming Dynasty to be uncontrollable."
"Emperor Chongzhen is moody, and his character makes the generals tremble, like walking on thin ice, and the tyrannical side of Emperor Chongzhen is also revealed here, and Ling Chi's execution of a generation of famous generals Yuan Chonghuan is enough to nail him to the pillar of shame of the tyrant."
"At the last moment of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen's cruelty was once again exposed, which was the death of the country mentioned earlier."
Zhu Yuanzhang: When BJ was captured, I felt that it was better to be killed by my own people than to be insulted! There is nothing wrong with this.
Hyozhuang: What about the daughter? If it were me, I might not be able to do it, but it was just two children, why couldn't I send them out and let them live incognito and live the life of ordinary people, but kill them.
"Looking at this incident, things are not absolute, and people in my later generations cannot guarantee that Zhu Youzhen did the right thing in this matter, and some people also disagree with this point of view, they will think that Emperor Chongzhen is too cruel."
In March 1644, Li Zicheng's rebel army invaded BJ City, and Emperor Chongzhen, who had gone to the general situation, sent away the three princes and ordered the queen and all the concubines to cut themselves, and he carried a sword and slashed around like crazy, and after hacking to death several concubines, he came to the Shouning Palace where Princess Changping lived, and shouted hoarsely: "Why were you born in the emperor's house!" "While swinging the sword and cutting down, Princess Changping suddenly bled like a stream of blood and fell in a pool of blood, and then Emperor Chongzhen went to Zhaoren Hall and brutally killed Princess Zhaoren."
Dugu Jialuo: Listen to this sentence again, I am a little frightened, it is indeed too cruel, this Xiaozhuang is actually right, if I experience this problem, I will let people send the two little ones away, start? I really can't go down.
Qin Shi Huang: Hu Hai killed Da Qin as a second, and the widow didn't want his life, I really spoiled this child, how could I kill him ruthlessly, alas!
Wu Zetian: He, who is a father, definitely doesn't feel good in his heart when he kills his own children, it's very painful.
"This topic is too heavy, I think it's time to close."
"Almost every decision of Emperor Chongzhen backfired, and countless policies and actions not only failed to save the fate of the Ming Dynasty, but accelerated the fall of the Ming Dynasty."
"It is this contradiction between reality and concept that allows the minister not to tell him in the end, because you may be wrong when you say it, and it is wrong if you say that you don't do it, and if you say that there is a problem halfway through it, there may also be a mistake."
"At this time, how do you choose? What is the chain reaction of your choice, so the ministers in the back will no longer give their opinions, it all depends on Emperor Chongzhen's own judgment, no way, for Emperor Chongzhen, people's thoughts are that the ministers don't understand me and deceive me. ”
"If you want to say that it's all Emperor Chongzhen's fault, it's not true, and it can't be completely blamed on Emperor Chongzhen."
"He was originally an idle prince, he inherited a precarious country, and the problems he faced were like mountains and seas, and what he could do was limited."
"Chongzhen's throne doomed him to bear the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and although he worked hard for it, he failed to reverse the trend of history."
"No one wants to be the king of the country, Zhu Youzhen also wants to save the Ming Dynasty, the natural and man-made disasters at that time, it should be that Emperor Chongzhen has done his best, and in the incident, I can also see that Zhu Youzhen's political ability is not very strong, this situation of the Ming Dynasty, he can't save it, he can only say that Zhu Youxiao threw a mess at his younger brother."