In the last hundred days of the Ming Dynasty, what efforts did Chongzhen and his ministers make?

In the last hundred or so days of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the people's hearts were already disheartened at that time, and only Emperor Chongzhen was the only one who resisted.

First of all, the entire imperial court was occupied by the Donglin Party, and it was impossible to send candidates to raid the house, even after raiding the house, the effect obtained was not ideal, so Emperor Chongzhen adopted a policy of tenderness. The second is that Emperor Chongzhen was jealous because of his son's death.

They discussed how to secure their families and even thought about moving the capital south.

Emperor Chongzhen failed to save the Ming Dynasty, mainly because the Ming Dynasty was suffering from internal and external troubles at that time, and encountered natural and man-made disasters, and Emperor Chongzhen did not have the ability to turn the tide as an emperor, so he could only watch the sunset of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen was very ambitious when he first succeeded to the throne, hoping to continue the rule of the Ming Dynasty through his own efforts, he was very diligent during his reign, but his personal efforts were not able to save the Ming Dynasty, and finally he could only hang himself on the coal mountain and die for his empire. <>

Daming Jiangshan in the Chongzhen Emperor succeeded to the throne has been full of holes, the internal party struggle within the imperial court, the Donglin Party and other political parties have been fighting for many years, they only care about their own interests, do not care about the decline of the Ming Dynasty, and even in the case of insufficient military spending, Chongzhen wanted to increase the commercial tax, was unanimously opposed by the Donglin Party, and finally had to increase the agricultural tax, resulting in a huge peasant uprising, laying a hidden danger for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to consolidate their rule, the generals of Liaodong colluded with the Manchu Qing Dynasty inside and outside, which led to the development and growth of the Manchu Qing during the Chongzhen period, threatening the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court had to increase military spending, which caused heavy financial pressure on the entire Ming Dynasty, so that the imperial court's finances were stretched thin, and there was no money to appease the victims. <>

During the reign of Chongzhen, he suffered a severe drought and the plague appeared in the later period, which caused many people to be displaced and had to join the peasant rebel army in order to survive. Even natural disasters and plagues became the last straw that overwhelmed the Ming Dynasty, when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, many soldiers defending the city got the plague, and there was no way to resist Li Zicheng's army, and finally Emperor Chongzhen could only hang himself. <>

Emperor Chongzhen he cares about reputation very much, once he had the opportunity to make peace with the Manchus, and even had the opportunity to retreat to the south, but for the face of the Son of Heaven, he denied the matter of making peace with the Manchus, and did not resolutely move south, resulting in the loss of the last chance, and the Ming Dynasty was ruined.

Although Chongzhen is diligent in government, under the attack of natural and man-made disasters and internal and external difficulties, his efforts are only in vain, and he can only see himself becoming the king of the country.

Because in addition to the continuous war, the famine was relatively serious for several consecutive years, which caused the people to live in poverty, so it could not be saved.

He alone could not have done it at all, and the court was already in turmoil at that time. Chongzhen also did not have military power.

Chongzhen was enthroned in the internal and external difficulties of the Ming Dynasty, many people think that Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian is a wrong choice, but in fact, Wei Zhongxian is not Chongzhen's henchman, and Wei Zhongxian at that time has been in power, and Chongzhen wants to sit on the throne and consolidate power, he must kill Wei Zhongxian, and Chongzhen's biggest mistake is that after killing Wei Zhongxian, the entire eunuch party was also eradicated, and did not support his own strength, which led to an imbalance in the court and a large civil official. The following interesting history will bring you a detailed introduction, let's take a look!

But in this case, Chongzhen actually still has a chance, after all, the Ming Dynasty is not like other dynasties, at this time the Ming Dynasty has many talents, and it depends on whether Chongzhen will appoint these talents, in fact, Chongzhen is extremely unsuccessful in the appointment of talents, the most typical is Mao Wenlong and Yuan Chonghuan, both of which are directly and indirectly caused by Chongzhen.

And in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, it should be said that Emperor Chongzhen had the most opportunity, but he still missed it, because of his resourcefulness and indecision, in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the domestic rogue under the command of Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng three fierce people, the largest rogue armed Gao Yingxiang was all annihilated, Li Zicheng led eighteen people to flee into the mountains, Zhang Xianzhong and others also recruited An, it can be said that the domestic situation is very good.

But at this time, the Qing army invaded Beijing through the mouth of the Great Wall, and the purpose of the Qing army was not to completely break through Beijing, and they did not have such ability at that time, and the strategic goal of the Qing army was mainly to plunder and contain the speed of the Ming army to exterminate the Liukou, and at this time it was Lu Xiangsheng and his Tianxiong army who defended the capital, so it was time for Chongzhen to make a choice at this time.

Whether Fang Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting continue to expand the results of the war and stabilize the domestic situation, or let them lead the troops to Qin Wang, and the former is definitely the best choice, as long as the domestic rogues are exterminated, and the problem of Liaodong is solved, and at the beginning, Emperor Chongzhen's idea is exactly like this, and there is no problem with his decision-making, which also allows Lu Xiangsheng to repel the Qing army in Beijing.

But during this period, Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, why did he die in battle? The reason is Yang Sichang's body, this person's strategy for Chongzhen at the beginning was to negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing army had already fought under the city of Beijing, and it was a little naïve to think about peace, and Lu Xiangsheng was resolutely the main battle, and the two had a conflict.

After the war, Lu Xiangsheng was surrounded by the Qing army in Julu Jiazhuang, Yang Sichang and the eunuch Gao Qi infiltrated the army and did not save it, and died in battle, and after Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, the consequences were devastating for the Ming Dynasty, after Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, Chongzhen had no choice but to transfer Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting back to the capital Qinwang, but with Lu Xiangsheng's previous experience, although the two supported the army Qinwang, but they did not dare to fight with all their strength, and in the end, the Qing army easily plundered out of the pass.

After Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting led the army into Beijing, the Liukou who had been appeased rebelled again, and since then, the Liukou have developed more and more, and the Ming Dynasty has no way to exterminate it, and the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong is becoming more and more powerful!

Emperor Chongzhen's sigh for the ending of the Ming Dynasty, what did he see? What didn't he see?

After the death of Chongzhen, half of the south of the Yangtze River has no owner, in order to stabilize the political situation, in the Nanjing military department in Nanjing, Shangshu Shi Kefa, who is in the capital of Nanjing, is ready to support a vassal king to succeed to the throne (because of the death or whereabouts of friends Li Chongzhen and the crown prince, the prince or the source of the death or the whereabouts are unknown), according to Zhu Yuanzhang's succession to the throne in the "Emperor Ming Zuxun" - there is a grandson, no grandson to establish a long, the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the younger brother and", Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo (Chongzhen's father) has no queen, and the blessed king Zhu Yousong is ranked according to the blood lineage, and his blood is the most hail, this is the time when Zhu Yousong was able to succeed to the throne.

Because the potential inflation of the Ming Dynasty was very strong, coins were often printed and depreciated, and the taxes of the Ming Dynasty were also very heavy.

<>When the Ming Dynasty came to an end, what kind of situation did Emperor Chongzhen take over? It can be said that if Chongzhen is replaced by a wise monarch, he can definitely turn the tide. Let's briefly talk about the reason.

Chongzhen's suspicion and stubbornness. Chongzhen doesn't trust everyone, he doesn't trust the first assistant in the court, and the generals who lead the troops in Liaodong don't trust either, and inexplicably these important ** are dismissed at the lightest, and the head is killed, as a result, the Bi-type officials in the Chongzhen period have become high-risk industries, the country is already in crisis, and the core of the ruling group is still so tossed, how can this resist Li Zicheng and the Houjin army. In response to this, even if you change to a mediocre emperor, as long as you can properly trust **, you will not change your first assistant every year, and there are many good generals such as Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and so on.

There is no reason why you can't keep it.

Chongzhen disposed of Wei Zhongxian too quickly. Although Wei Zhongxian is not a good thing, but when he was there, Jin was not able to take a step beyond Lei Chi after the Liaodong War, as well as Ning Yuan and Ning Jin, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji could not continue to take a step forward, and Shanhaiguan Houjin was never able to approach. The peasant uprisings in the country were also largely extinguished and forced to go into hiding.

This is because when Wei Zhongxian was there, he brutally suppressed the Donglin Party, and he asked for money and food to fight, and Wei Zhongxian could also get money and food to the front line. On the other hand, although Chongzhen disposed of Wei, Chongzhen himself was also tightened and very thrifty, and after the Donglin Party came to power, there was no practical way to have slogans, and the country could not take out hundreds of thousands of taels of wars, and in the end, Chongzhen was forced to borrow money from the emperor's relatives and **, and no one paid attention to it.

Are these people really out of money? Later, under Li Zicheng's torture, they all spit out, indicating that the Donglin Party misled the country and the people, and it was not as good as Wei Gelding taking power. From the perspective of various dynasties, most dynasties basically lost control of the local area after a few generations of emperors, and the old Zhu family, the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty, was able to hold the power for so long and was already considered a successful royal family.

To get back to the point, Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the situation was indeed very bad when he ascended the throne, the rise of the external nomads, and the internal disasters continued, basically to smash the national fortune of the old Zhu family.

Emperor Chongzhen took over the situation: within the imperial court, there were many vassal kings in various places, due to the greed of the vassal kings and local bureaucrats, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty had already been rotten and was in deficit, and even the treasury was subdued to support the vassal kings in various places, and for the people at the bottom, it had been squeezed and miserable.

Emperor Chongzhen is a very well-known emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and when he became the emperor, the Ming Dynasty was actually a big mess. But he also took a series of measures to disrupt or smash up.

It was a dynasty that was relatively financially wealthy, and not only had enough money to organize an army, but also allowed the common people to live and work in peace and contentment.