If there is any dispute, it needs to be proved. For example, Li Zicheng, the number one scholar in this history, is a very good and typical example. For a long time, Li Zicheng has been regarded as a great rebel, but whether his resistance is just or evil is also controversial.
On the one hand, Li Zicheng, who invaded the king, rebelled against tyranny, uprooted corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry, and even farmed without food, which made a series of good deeds and practical things for the people at that time. There is even a folk saying that "killing cattle and sheep, preparing wine pulp, breaking the king and not accepting food".
This shows the position and importance of Li Zicheng among the people. But there are also many negative stories about this role. What kind of character is Li Zicheng, and how is the real historical story interpreted?
Now there is a saying circulating on the Internet that Li Zicheng is actually a hooligan, a murderer and even a sinner in China. It seems that Li Zicheng is a wicked man with no merits.
What is the intention and purpose behind this statement? The person who put forward this view also produced corresponding evidence to prove that all this is true. According to unofficial history's Land Bridge Moon Hee, it is recorded as follows:
King Axe and his son left Songgua City. The king was too fat to walk far. The thief killed it and weighed it as meat, weighing more than 360 kilograms. He was divided into several portions and cooked with venison, and the thief ate fat. It is called "Fulu Banquet".
According to legend, after Li Zicheng fought in Luoyang and captured this place, Emperor Wanli, that is, Zhu and his beloved son Zhu Yousong fled Luoyang. However, due to the moist daily life, their weight increased sharply and they were too fat to escape, and finally they fell into the hands of the insurgents.
Li Zicheng chose to kill the Axe King, and cut off all his 360 Jin of meat, cooked it with venison and distributed it to his own army. Later, he called this cannibalism "Fulu banquet".
In the course of later generations, this story was divided into many versions. Some versions say that Li Zicheng first shaved the hair of the Axe King and put it in a cauldron to cook it alive. There are also versions that Li Zicheng killed the axe king first, scraped off his meat, cooked it, cursed it, shared it, and so on.
Before it was confirmed by relevant evidence, this kind of unofficial history was widely circulated and became the gossip after dinner for several generations.
Finally, when historians study the history of Ming written by Qing people, the truth of this matter comes to light. According to the book Ming History:
Next year (the fourteenth year of Chongzhen), the first month? (Axe King) was killed? The two promised to lie down and cry, and the thief went away. Cheng Feng shouted, Wang died because he didn't want to live. He begged the coffin to collect the king's bones, and he hated nothing. The thief agreed righteously. Tung coffin is one inch, carrying a broken car.
Judging from the history in the book, the body of the axe king remained intact after his death, and he was not divided and eaten, but was also bound by his slaves. But this evidence has always been isolated and there is no other proof. Coupled with people's psychology of eating melons, people in Li Zicheng have been hard to be righted.
Until1April, 986, in Mengjin County, Henan Province, the local cultural management committee dug up a tombstone, which was verified by local archaeologists as Zhu's epitaph. Tombstone is very small with few words, but it is very important, because it fills the historical blank, puts forward a new research direction for people to study history today, and shows more historical details.
First of all, the epitaph mentioned that the death of the axe king was heroic. He stood up, defended his last moral integrity and showed his indomitable spirit. Chongzhen died on November 21.
Later, Ji Zhi also said the most crucial point, that is, the final destination of the axe king's body. The real history is this: the body of the axe king was not shared, but it was also transported back to his own territory and was not buried in the thief's land. From this point of view, unofficial history's records and the rumors on the Internet in later generations are all nonsense and totally unreliable.
Rumors about Li Zicheng don't stop there. Someone once said that he was a big hooligan, who committed all kinds of crimes, burning, killing and looting, making the people in the Central Plains live in dire straits all day long, and the local people were in dire straits. But this is not the case.
Instead of "floating", he will actively establish his own base areas, establish a stable political power and formulate strict military discipline. Not only will he not plunder the property of the local people, but he will also take the money from those rich and heartless corrupt officials to expand the army and distribute it to the local people.
Li Zicheng never took a penny from the people, but solved it by reclaiming land. Li Zicheng is the patron saint of local people, but the real villain is loyalist. They are thugs who rob people, take bribes and pervert the law. According to the "Stone Chamber", there are related records:
Thieves have strict orders, and generals dare not invade. Since the Ming dynasty, the teachers have been undisciplined, the town has gathered, the soldiers have looted, nicknamed' grain', and the well has been the city. Moreover, there is a company that supplies military supplies, and the governor is very anxious, knocking on the garden and suffering, and the people are in dire straits. Even if you get caught, you can feel at ease. For this reason, you sang,' Slaughter cattle and sheep, prepare wine paddles, open the city gate to meet the King Chuang, and when the King Chuang comes, you won't accept food.' Therefore, I am glad that there is a distance between us, and I no longer consider myself a thief.
At that time, the society was in chaos, and officials plundered the people crazily. On the contrary, they are considered as "thieves". Not only did they not harm the people, but they also tried their best to keep one side safe. People live more comfortably under the protection of these thieves. From this perspective, who is the positive force? You can imagine.
On the way to Beijing, Li Zicheng met no resistance. Even many bureaucrats gave up the Ming Dynasty and went to Li Zicheng, but Emperor Chongzhen finally committed suicide. Can't this ending explain some problems? Li Zicheng took his own life after the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Half of his life was against tyranny and the other half was against the south, so he can be said to be innocent.
Looking back at the so-called "justice" in the Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui's Guan Ningjun plundered the people, and green camp's army slaughtered the people. Needless to say, officials in the Ming Dynasty.
Those slanders and rumors about Li Zicheng will be shattered, and the national sinners in the Ming Dynasty will be redefined.