Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 55
In the year of Kui Wei (1643), Li Zicheng proclaimed Xinshun King in Xiangyang. In the same year, he defeated the main force of Sun Chuanting, Governor of Shaanxi in Ruzhou, Henan Province, and took advantage of the victory to occupy Xi'an.

In the first month of the Jiashen year (1644), Li Zicheng established the Dashun regime in Xi'an, the ancient capital, with the reign name Yongchang.

Not long after, the Dashun Army swept across the world, forcing Chongzhen Emperor Meishan to hang himself. The old empire that had been established for more than 200 years was beaten to pieces, and Li Zicheng was on the verge of changing the dynasty.

The newly-born Dashun regime, with its powerful military power, occupies the entire Yellow River Basin and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, making the Southern Remnant Powers tremble, and they are on the left side of the Anjiang River, stopping their troops from advancing.

When an old empire falls, a new empire will be built on his corpse to replace him and become the orthodox of China, proud of the world. Li Zicheng and his Dashun Dynasty are suddenly invincible and despise the world.

For a time, they were in high spirits, sitting on the dragon bed, sleeping in the palace, delicacies from mountains and seas, delicious wine and delicacies, embraced by beauties, singing and dancing endlessly.

Wife and children are hot on the kang, and there are a few acres of good land at home. At this time, ordinary people yearn for it. However, a hero like Li Zicheng is not immune. There is also a lack of civil servants who can speak out and advise, which makes him lost in the dream of the emperor of a great country.

The Ming Dynasty has been fighting on two fronts. After Dashun occupied Beijing, he did not pay attention to the problems left by the Ming Dynasty. The dynasties in the Central Plains changed, and the barbarians outside the pass were staring at the artifacts. Li Zicheng was completely defenseless against this.

The prosperity is gone, the gentle town, the dream is shattered when Donglu comes.

In the battle of a piece of stone, Dorgon led the Eight Banners Army to join forces with Mingping Xibo Wu Sangui to fight Li Zicheng inside and outside Shanhaiguan.

The Dashun army was defeated in the first battle, and the good situation was ruined. Li Zicheng hastily withdrew from the capital, and then led the army to retreat all the way. Kuiwei Jiashen's foundation was lost.

The artifact changed hands, and the emperor's dream was shattered.

In the capital, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Xiangyang, and Wuchang, Li Zicheng was chased by the Qing army all the way to Jiujiang, Jiangxi. He stood by the river and looked at the 10,000+ remnants under his command, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It's not that he has never been defeated. He has experienced wind and rain all his life. He was forced into a desperate situation by Cao Wenzhao, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang, Hong Chengchou and others. Tens of thousands of troops scattered like beasts not once or twice. At the worst time, there were only a dozen people around him. That's all.

Li Zicheng experienced several ups and downs, experienced countless failures, and finally rose again in the face of adversity. He should have been a persevering person, but now he has an army of more than [-], which is thousands of times stronger than when he was in Shangluo Mountain. times, but at this time, he seems to have lost the ambition of the year.

Before he reached the twilight of a hero, his head was covered with white silk.

During the reign of Chongzhen, the peasant leader who stirred up the situation and wanted to seize the artifact, the Emperor Dashun who once ascended the throne of the emperor for a short time, has lost his vigor.

In the vicinity of Jiujiang, there are tens of miles of joint operations and countless warships. This is Li Zicheng's last hope. He no longer wants to fight for world hegemony, but only seeks a partial security.

The general trend of the world is changing. The Dashun army retreated all the way, and the Qing army marched forward all the way. Li Zicheng wanted to be peaceful, but he couldn't do it.

In late April, on the edge of Jiujiang City, the Qing army followed up again and broke through the old battalion of the Dashun Army. The leader of the generals of the Dashun Army who had fought in battle for a long time, Liu Zongmin, the head of the civil servant Song Zongmin, followed the army in large numbers The family members of the general were also captured by the Qing army.

Li Zicheng's two uncles, Zhaohou and Xiangnanhou, were taken captive to the camp of the Qing army. Azige said: "If you descend to my holy dynasty, you will not lose a high official and a generous salary." Claiming to be a saint." The Marquis of Xiangnan said: "My nephew is the Son of Heaven of China, and I will not surrender to captives." Azige was furious when he heard this, and killed him immediately.

When Liu Zongmin was captured, he also cursed loudly, Azige transferred him to Wu Sangui, Sangui was overjoyed.

The vengeance of killing his father and taking his wife suddenly surged into his heart. Sangui personally executed the knife and killed Liu Zongmin.

Liu Zongmin was the head of the generals of the Dashun Dynasty, when he died, Li Zicheng's arm was broken.

Compared with the civil and military officials of the Dashun Dynasty, the civil servants were undoubtedly much inferior.

The civil servants of the Dashun Army were lacking, and their quality was worrying. Song Xiance was nothing more than a fortune-telling alchemist, and Niu Jinxing was just a poor man.

Fighting the world depends on military generals, but governing the world requires civil servants. Li Zicheng is surrounded by the support of few scholars and officials. He can make up nursery rhymes well, but he cannot rule the world.

"Eat the Chuang Wang, drink the Chuang Wang, and don't pay the food when the Chuang King comes!" This is a line from Pan Dongzi in the later movie "Sparkling Red Star": "It would be great if the Red Army came, we don't have to pay the rent owed to the landlord." Handed over." Almost exactly the same.

During the rebellion, they could eat big families and rob officials, gentry and rich people to raise food and wages, so the refugees were easily fooled by the hypocritical slogan of "not paying food", but when they really came to power, could the poor still "not pay food"?

The big households will eat up all of them one day, so the common people have to pay what they deserve. However, the Dashun Dynasty could not give much favor to the people, but after occupying Beijing, it offended the gentry class with the policy of subsidizing wages.

They didn't realize their own identities. They had changed from rogues to a new dynasty competing with the Ming Dynasty for orthodoxy, but they still used the way of rogues to rule a vast territory. They had not completed the transformation from rogues to an orthodox dynasty. One can imagine.

Since ancient times, when martial arts were fought to the death and civil officials were admonished, the dynasty prospered. In the Dashun Dynasty, there were many generals who were capable of fighting, and there were many generals who were not afraid of life and death.

Facts also show how unbearable the civil servants around Li Zicheng are. Song Xiance and his like, after being captured, immediately rebelled, relying on fortune-telling tricks to make a living as a clown in the noble mansion of the Qing Dynasty.

Niu Jinxing, another civil servant under Li Zicheng's command, was even more unbearable. He was originally a narrow-minded person, but only because Dashun was regarded as a bandit by the gentry class and could not get the support of the gentry, he was able to get a high position in one fell swoop.

After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Niu Jinxing took power as a prime minister. He had no ability to govern the country, but he was a good hand at flattery.

After Li Zicheng was defeated in one stone, on the way to defeat the army, Niu Jinxing slandered again and killed the general Li Yan, which made Dashun's army demoralized.

Ru Hou Liu Zongmin hated Niu Jinxing's insidiousness and viciousness, and cursed: "You don't deserve a single shot, but you dare to kill two generals without authorization. I will definitely kill you."

After the defeat of Jiujiang, Niu Jinxing saw that Dashun was over, so he secretly fled and went to Xiangyang to seek refuge in the Qing Dynasty. However, his reputation was ruined, especially the matter of helping the salary in Beijing, which made him have a very bad reputation among the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty. The Qing court did not dare to assign him a post, so he could only give his son Niu Quan a county magistrate, and let him live on his son's meager salary.

It can be seen from this that the quality of the civil servants under Li Zicheng's command can be seen. His failure can only be sighed by future generations.

After the defeat of Jiujiang, the Dashun army suffered heavy losses, and all the more than 3000 ships that were intended to go east were taken away by the Qing army. In addition, Duoduo went straight to Nanjing from Henan, and Dashun's strategy of taking Nanjing as the foundation could no longer be realized. , Li Zicheng was suddenly disheartened.

On May [-], Li Zicheng, the leader of a generation of peasant army and the founding king of the Dashun Dynasty, was killed by the village in the Yuandi Temple in Jiugong Mountain, Tongcheng, Hubei.

The founding of the country, the collapse of the country, sad, lamentable!

The leader of the peasant army died at the hands of two peasants. This is a joke of history, or a satire of the rapidly corrupting Dashun regime that broke away from the peasants.

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