However, Li Zicheng sat on the throne of the Forbidden City, but why didn't he become the emperor of China?
In the history of China, Li Zicheng was the leader of peasant class uprising and the representative who dared to struggle. However, it is precisely because of farmers' origins that in fact, few farmers became emperors in the end.
Therefore, the existence of Li Zicheng was one of the forces that helped the Qing Dynasty enter the Central Plains.
First of all,
On March 1644 and 17, Li Zicheng reached the gate of tragedy. At that time, Shanhaiguan troops were still walking slowly, Beijing officials fled everywhere, and Emperor Chongzhen was isolated.
In this case of disparity in strength, Li Zicheng publicized in the city, demanding that Emperor Chongzhen give him millions of salaries and seal the king. However, Emperor Chongzhen just wanted to take money, but was rejected by corrupt officials. In the end, eunuch Cao Huachun opened Zhang Yimen, and Li Zicheng led the troops into the city, but there was no single soldier's resistance.
Li Zicheng stayed in the Forbidden City and made the maid-in-waiting Dou Yimei a princess. At the beginning of Dashunjun's entry into Beijing, the order in Beijing was still good, shops were open as usual, and the people breathed a sigh of relief. however
Under the leadership of General Liu Zongmin, they burned and looted in Beijing. Soon, the people in Beijing saw the true face of these invaders who overthrew the old dynasty-they were just a group of bandits.
From the 27th, the peasant army began to rob Beijing officials and plunder their property everywhere. The amount of aid is stipulated as "100,000 in the main hall, 750,000 in the imperial palace, 530,000 in the Daoke official department, 321,000 in the Hanlin, and thousands of subordinates". Liu Zongmin made 5000 clamping rods. "All the wood is angular and connected with nails, so that people will not break." The atmosphere of terror in the city is getting more and more dignified, and people are worried. "
Anyone who provides less than 10 thousand yuan will be punished, and most officials who do not meet the punishment will die. "Tan Qian's Zao Lin Za is dead 1600 people.
Li Zicheng's greatest failure in his life was to connive at Liu Zongmin robbing Chen Yuanyuan, the beloved concubine of Wu Sangui, a heavily armed man in Shanhaiguan, and imprisoning Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui's father.
Later, when Li Zicheng wrote to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender. Wu Sangui became angry from embarrassment, vowed never to surrender, and even asked to send troops to avenge his father. Subsequently, Li Zicheng led hundreds of troops to Shanhaiguan to pacify Wu Sangui.
Shanhaiguan, which was originally unbreakable, was given a chance by the war between Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui. Li Zicheng fought Wu Sangui, the general stationed in Shanhaiguan. War to April 22nd, Wu Jun gradually tired. Wu Sangui fell to Regent Dourgen of the Qing Dynasty. The two armies joined forces and defeated Li Zicheng. The commander-in-chief Liu Zongmin was injured and hurried back to Beijing.
Because Hong Guang established the imperial court in Nanming, Dashun army retreated, and many former Ming generals who surrendered Dashun returned to Nanming or Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng became more and more suspicious, and finally killed Yan Li and others, causing people's hearts to be divided. Finally, they fled back to the northwest. In the end, Manchu entered the Central Plains, and the land of China entered the darkness for 300 years.