Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan.
Zhu Youjian (February 6, 1611 - April 25, 1644), also known as Sizong of the Ming Dynasty (reigned from 1627 to 1644), also named Deyue, was the sixteenth in the Ming Dynasty The emperor was also the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty as a unified political power across the country.
The fifth son of Zhu Changluo of Mingguang Zong, half-brother of Zhu Youxiao of Mingxi Zong, his mother was a lady named Liu. In the second year of Tianqi (1622), he was canonized as King Xin. In the seventh year of Tianqi (1627), he ascended the throne and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Chongzhen. Later generations were called Emperor Chongzhen.
After Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he vigorously eradicated the eunuchs. He was diligent in political affairs and lived frugally. He had committed crimes against himself six times. He was a young and promising emperor. It is a pity that he was suspicious by nature and could not save the declining Ming Dynasty.
Peasant uprisings broke out during his reign, and the Houjin regime was eyeing the country outside the country. It was already in a situation of internal and external troubles. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), when Li Zicheng's army conquered Beijing, he hanged himself in Meishan at the age of 34.
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When Emperor Chongzhen came to the throne, although he deeply hated Wei Zhongxian's autocratic power, he was still young and did not dare to act rashly, so he kept his power secretly and waited for the opportunity. Wei Zhongxian, who was at his peak, did not take this child seriously.
He believed that he was just a young man like his brother Xizong and would not achieve much, so he became even more rampant and even asked various places to build shrines for him. The evil had already spread to the world.
With complaints both inside and outside the court, Emperor Chongzhen seized the opportunity and quickly killed Cui Chengxiu, Wei Zhongxian's right-hand man, and then brutally killed Wei Zhongxian's minions, leaving Wei Zhongxian in an isolated and helpless situation. .
Then an edict was issued, demoting Wei Zhongxian to the Fengyang Mausoleum. Wei Zhongxian knew that he was guilty and hanged himself on the way. Emperor Chongzhen eradicated the Wei Zhongxian Group while talking and laughing, which once made it possible to revitalize the Ming Dynasty.
But a series of subsequent mistakes prevented him from realizing his dream of ZTE. At that time, the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty was the Houjin Dynasty in the Northeast, which later became the Manchu Qing regime. At this time, Nurhachi, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, had passed away and Taizong Huangtaiji was on the throne.
Wars broke out between the two sides many times, and most of the wars ended with the defeat of the Ming army. There was no decent marshal in the court of Nuo Da. Of course, Emperor Chongzhen could not be reconciled to this. Then he thought of Yuan Chonghuan, a figure known as 'Yuan Changcheng' by the people.
It was this Yuan Chonghuan who wounded Nurhaci, Taizu of the Qing Dynasty, with a cannon in Ningyuan City. Due to the persecution of the Eunuch Party, he was forced to resign. This time he was re-appointed by Emperor Chongzhen. Naturally, he was very ambitious and hoped to restore the Ming Dynasty through his own efforts.
As soon as he took office, he arranged the defense of Northeast China in an orderly manner, so that Hou Jin did not dare to peek into Xuningjin. But Yuan Chonghuan's enemy was, after all, the flourishing Hou Jin regime and the scheming and decisive Huang Taiji.
More importantly, Yuan Chonghuan's master was Emperor Chongzhen. Impatience and suspicion were Chongzhen's fatal weaknesses. This determined that Yuan Chonghuan would not have enough time to display his ambitions. What is even more sad is that Huang Taiji A small countermeasure.
It killed him effortlessly. Huang Taiji bypassed Shanhaiguan and crossed the Great Wall from the north of the capital to threaten Beijing. Yuan Chonghuan led his troops back to Beijing. Just as Yuan Chonghuan's troops arrived at the gate of Beijing, the Qing army suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
It gave Chongzhen the false impression that it was Yuan Chonghuan who led the Qing army to attack the city. Therefore, the defenders on the city resolutely refused to allow troops outside the city to enter the city. Yuan's army, which had rushed thousands of miles away, was exhausted at this moment. He could not enter the city to rest and recuperate, but he also had to face the powerful Eight Banners army.
However, Yuan Jun still successfully repelled the Qing army's attack. That night, Huang Taiji sent his trusted generals to publicly announce in front of the prisoners of the Ming army how they had agreed with Yuan Chonghuan to surrender the city, and then deliberately let the prisoners escape.
How did the captives know that it was a counter-intentional plan? After returning to the city, they reported everything to Emperor Chongzhen. Chongzhen, who was already suspicious, connected several things together and decided that Yuan Chonghuan must be a traitor.
So Yuan Chonghuan was tricked into the city, thrown into prison, and executed in Lingchi a few months later. From then on, the Ming Dynasty lost its only northeastern barrier, and the Eight Banners army was able to gallop across the northeastern land as if it were an uninhabited land.
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