Chongzhen has been diligent and thrifty all his life, does not abolish government, and is not greedy for sex, why did he work hard for 17 years but died in the country?
Chongzhen is known for his frugality.
The first thing he did after he ascended the throne was to choose Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving.
From the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, the main purpose of Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving was to produce and improve silk fabrics for the royal family.
In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang could not wait to order the establishment of the Suzhou Weaving and Dyeing Bureau. At that time, there were more than 100,000 people in Suzhou and Hangzhou serving the royal family, which was naturally a labor-intensive and expensive industry.
After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he soon ordered the abolition of the thousand-year-old Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving.
In the past, the crown worn by the emperor, the clothes he wore, his shoes and socks were changed every day, while Zhu Youzhen changed them once a month, he washed the clothes he usually wore, and sewed the edges of his shoes and socks with cloth.
Chongzhen ordered the dismissal of all the more than 300 imperial attendants who lived in the Yuxi Palace on weekdays.
Zhu Youzhen ordered the use of gold and silver instead of jujubes and chestnuts.
The monthly banquet and the seasonal banquet in the palace, as well as the sweet fruits regularly provided by relatives and the princess's mansion, meant that Zhu Youzhen eliminated them one by one.
In order to save manpower, Chongzhen even poured hot water by himself.
The list goes on.
Historically, Emperor Chongzhen had a very small number of concubines.
After Wei Zhongxian sat on the throne of Chongzhen, he immediately sent four beauties, who knew that Chongzhen didn't like it, and touched his nose.
Chongzhen is open to all due diligence.
There are no statutory holidays, there are no rests. The first assistant Zhou Yanru handed in the seal, approved in the afternoon, and approved the next day at the latest.
When Chongzhen entered the palace to see Concubine Liu, she was so tired that she sat on a chair and fell asleep.
Huang Jingfang recorded what she saw with her own eyes
The group continued to read the newspaper all night. Straight to Ohio every night, packed up at midnight and closed the door, and immediately offered to enter. The packing entrance is autographed. Details of the attachment of the defense ring. Next to the throne there was only a golden pot, and the hand was filled with soup and nothing else.
Zhang Dai writes in this review:"But such an emperor eventually died:
Since the Qin and Han dynasties, no king has died.
Could it be that Chongzhen's life is really just a bowl of poisonous chicken soup, telling us that no matter how hard we try, we will fail in the end?
Chongzhen hanged himself from this tree.
Before Wanli Chongzhen, he was lazy forever, did not go to court for more than ten years, and squandered state affairs, which eventually led to Nurhachi's rise in Liaodong and his defeat in the Battle of Sarhu.
The same is true of Emperor Tianqi, ignoring the government and reusing Wei Zhongxian:
Every episode smashes ink, and the loyal and virtuous generations play it. The emperor couldn't bear it anymore and quibbled: What kind of connection, your generation is good.
What the Ming Dynasty left to Emperor Chongzhen was actually a mess.
In the first year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen had just ascended the throne, and the drought in Shaanxi triggered a large-scale peasant uprising.
In the second year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen mainly devoted himself to eradicating Wei Zhongxian's henchmen.
In the third year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led an army of 100,000 to attack Beijing, which shocked the world.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the peasant uprising intensified.
After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he had to deal with this mess.
For example. Everyone knows that Chongzhen has a financial crisis, and the country has no money. Of course, Chongzhen knew how to deal with this problem, and appointed Shang Biziyan, a financial expert and an important member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to solve the problem, solve the problem, and found the key to solving the problem.
This strong Bi Ziyan soon proposed some special plans to reduce the burden of the peasants and increase the income of the imperial court, and Chongzhen saw that it was really good, and fully supported it, ready to let Bi Ziyan rush to the horse.
But not long after, the Guisi Rebellion broke out, Huang Taiji's 100,000 troops descended to Beijing, and hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty soldiers also gathered in Beijing, which greatly increased military spending, and the soldiers were in high debt, or there was a possibility of rebellion at any time.
Bi Ziyan was exhausted and vomited blood, and he had no time to take care of military expenses and rations.
But Bi Ziyan said that the financial plan could not be implemented, and that Zhang Jinyan, the minister of the army, had already asked for a salary increase for Liao Chengzhi.
Do you worship it, add it or not? No addition, no pay, soldiers resisted, it has happened many times; If you don't add it, there will be no war to fight, you must crusade against the peasant uprising internally, and you must build the Guanning defense line outside. Without money, the front collapses.
If the wages of the Liao State were increased, the people would be dissatisfied, the peasant uprisings would be more intense, and more wages would be needed to suppress the uprisings.
Stalemate. Can all this solve the problems caused by the old Chongzhen Dynasty? Apparently not.
But is there a problem with Chongzhen?
Of course, this is no small matter.
The history of the Ming Dynasty says.
His Majesty will be brought to justice, the rebel side will be put to death, and the feudal city will be executed for acting morally. All deception is punished by cane death, exile at light, and half of the palace walls are painted with ochre.
In Chongzhen's 17 years in power, there were more than 18 ministers in the cabinet, with an average term of less than one year for each minister, and Wen Tiren, who served the longest, was dismissed, with an average term of less than half a year for each minister.
The Chongzhen dynasty changed 50 ministers, while the Ming dynasty changed 164 ministers. In the first year of Chongzhen, Li Chao, Zong Dao, Zhou Daodeng, and Han Yi were appointed cabinet ministers within a year.
Chongzhen also killed very many people, a total of 2 ministers (Xue Guoguan, Zhou Yanru), 2 military ministers (Wang Qia, Chen Xinjia), 2 criminal department ministers (Liu Zhifeng, Zhen Shuji), 7 ministers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and 11 governors.
This behavior eventually leads to the ministers"Do less work, worry more; The incompetent have nothing to do, and the capable cannot do what they want to do"。In the end, the ministers did not say a word about the affairs of the state. Zhou Yanru remained silent and did not say a word about national affairs, and the later first assistants Chen Yan and Wei Dezao also remained silent and did not say a word about national affairs.
On the eve of the death of the country, Chongzhen really had no choice, so he called Wei Dezao, who was in first aid, until Mr. proposed that I must approve it, and it was over. This Shoufu scholar, no matter what Chongzhen said, didn't say a word, slammed his head on the ground and cocked his buttocks.
Chongzhen knows that people-oriented, eclectic, to use capable people to violate the long tradition of the cabinet, and Chen Xinjia was born (the only case in the Ming Dynasty Shangshu case to go to the people), it is possible to go, Chen Xinjia has this ability, and must have this ability, otherwise it is impossible for Huang Taiji to do a vigorous negotiation and negotiation.
And Chongzhen, not special, suspicious, turned his face and did not recognize people, from cabinet ministers to feudal officials, more frequent transfers, punishment as appropriate, made the ministers frightened, detached from morality. Stubborn, self-esteem, and finally a widow.
Let Emperor Chongzhen do things like Fang Yizao is right to row a boat, do more and make more mistakes, do less and make fewer mistakes, and it's not good not to do it. Or like Zuo Liangyu, you say, I'm not doing it, you want to do me, I'm sorry, I have soldiers in my hands.
Sun Chengzong died on the battlefield, without soldiers and dependents; Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting died on the battlefield without funeral expenses or pensions; There are also traitor cadres such as Zheng Chongjian, Shao Qichun, Yang He, Sun Yuanhua, Mei Zhihuan, and Geng Ruqi. Although none of them are geniuses, they at least seriously do the right thing, but the harder they try, the worse the end result.
The Emperor will not remember your merits. If you make a mistake, the emperor will definitely kill you.
If Chongzhen is good at business, can use it for his own use, and reuse Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others, can the Ming Dynasty be revived? Can he fight the Jin Kingdom outside and the peasant rebel army inside?
Of course you can't.
We know that Yang Sichang's ten-sided ambush was once successful, and Li Zicheng was forced by the pressure of various armies of the imperial court to flee into the mountains with more than a dozen horsemen.
But when he returned home, he gathered hundreds of thousands of troops in a very short time.
How are you going to destroy it? A spark can start a prairie fire.
The hungry people of the Ming Dynasty could mobilize the masses with a slogan. A granary can gather tens of thousands of soldiers.
Take Zheng Chenggong as an example, he was captured by the peasant army at that time and witnessed the scene of the peasant army opening a warehouse to release grain.
From red millet to rotten millet, even thieves show open warehouses to help the hungry. At noon on the day of the hoeing of hungry people near and far, it will be like flowing water, calling for thousands of people day and night, and there is a tendency that the grass and trees cannot be attacked"。
This situation has become an irreversible megatrend in the world, how can we remedy it?
Dayu did not close the Yellow River in the end, but managed the Yellow River by reversing its course.
In order to put an end to peasant rebellion, we must first put an end to the land where peasant rebellion occurred, and not allow the peasants to live and work in peace and contentment, but at least ensure that the peasants do not starve to death and can feed themselves.
But for many years, in order to ensure that the peasants have something to eat, they have to start with the system, and Chongzhen can't do it anyway.
We have always wondered why the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties lasted for nearly 300 years. In fact, this is determined by the nature of the feudal state, which cannot be changed by human beings, and is a process of corruption in officialdom, land annexation, and concentration of wealth.