There have been many kings who have died in history, but most of the kings who have died have lost their country because of their own faults. Just like the famous artists, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Ji, Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, etc., all took the blame for themselves and destroyed the foundation of their ancestors in their own hands. But there are also two dead kings in history who carried the black pot for others, who were obviously diligent and forging ahead, trying to restore their ancestors and save the empire from fire and water, but unfortunately they still carried the reputation of the king of the dead country. These two unlucky kings of the dead country are Tang Zhaozong, Li Ye and Ming Sizong, that is, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen. Let's talk about Tang Zhaozong Li Ye first, in fact, after Tang Zhaozong was killed by Zhu Wen, his son Tang Ai Emperor Li Ji succeeded to the throne, Tang Ai Emperor is the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but Tang Ai Emperor is only a symbol of the Tang Dynasty's existence in name only, from the succession has always been Zhu Wen's puppet, Tang Ai Emperor belongs to Zhu Wen usurped the transitional emperor of the Tang Dynasty, after the Zen throne was killed by Zhu Wen, not even a temple number, so the historians generally believe that Tang Zhaozong Li Ye is the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty. 
Why is it said that Tang Zhaozong is not the king of the fallen country, the reason why the Tang Dynasty went from prosperity to extinction began with Tang Xuanzong, because the main reason for the demise of the Tang Dynasty was the division of feudal towns and the power of eunuchs, and these two phenomena originated from Tang Xuanzong. During the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, strictly forbade eunuchs from holding power and did not allow eunuchs to participate in political affairs, and eunuchs were not allowed to confer official ranks above the fourth rank, that is to say, the eunuch level was up to the rank of four ranks, and the appearance of eunuchs with the highest official positions should be strictly controlled. The official system of the Tang Dynasty was the first and second ranks, with honorary status, but no real power, and the prime minister and other official positions in real power were third-grade official ranks, and the eunuchs could be awarded the highest fourth-grade official positions, which can be said to be relatively high treatment in the Tang Dynasty. In the period of Tang Xuanzong, because Tang Xuanzong was very fond of loyalty and loyalty, he was called "the first person of the ancient virtuous eunuch" by later generations, so he broke the Tang Taizong period eunuchs are not allowed to participate in political affairs, and the highest official position shall not exceed the provisions of four grades, and awarded Gao Lishi Hussar General, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Qi Guogong of the first rank of the first official position, so far since Tang Xuanzong and Gao Lishi, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty have begun to favor the eunuchs, and give the eunuchs extremely high power. However, the great eunuchs in power in the Tang Dynasty after Gao Lishi were not as loyal as Gao Lishi and never abandoned the emperor. Most of the eunuchs in power after Gao Lishi were arrogant and domineering, intervening in court politics, and even deposing the emperor, so it led to the decline of imperial power. 
During the period of Tang Taizong, the government military system was implemented, that is, soldiers in peacetime were ordinary people who cultivated at home, retained military status, and only when the war occurred, they would go into battle to fight, and the characteristics of the government military system were the integration of soldiers and farmers, and they would carry out military training in peacetime for cultivating farmers, and they would go into battle in wartime, which was also one of the important reasons why Tang Taizong treated the founding heroes well, because the government military system implemented by Tang Taizong made the founding heroes and famous generals have no military power, and the military power was only concentrated in the hands of the emperor in wartime. Therefore, Tang Taizong trusted the government military system very much, and believed that with the government military system, the Tang Dynasty could be stable for a long time. It is a pity that in the period of Tang Xuanzong, due to the destruction of the foundation of the government military system, the Juntian system, so Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to abolish the government military system, and the commanders of each town recruited athletes to enlist in the army, which laid the groundwork for the future of each town to support the army and the outbreak of the "Anshi Rebellion". Therefore, Tang Xuanzong created the "prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty", and at the same time brought the Tang Dynasty to decline. 
After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was declining day by day, internal and external contradictions continued to arise, there were eunuchs in power, the emperor was abolished at every turn, and there were feudal towns outside to support the army and respect themselves, ignoring the imperial power, although there was Tang Xuanzong in the late Tang Dynasty, but Tang Xuanzong chose the heir in his later years It was very unwise, and he chose the famous wine emperor Tang Yizong, that is, the father of Tang Zhaozong. Tang Yizong reigned for 14 years, with a heavy bearing, majestic appearance, he was the emperor after not a day to leave **, it can also be said that he is a literary emperor who understands art very well, but unfortunately this kind of person is not suitable to be the emperor, Tang Yizong has lived a full fourteen years of the emperor's career, there is no day to ask about political affairs, and there are eunuchs to deal with major affairs of the court. Tang Yizong was busy with dogs and horses every day, and he didn't even bother to ask about political affairs, let alone raising his son, so his son Tang Xizong was raised by eunuchs since he was a child, which also developed Tang Xizong's dependence on eunuchs since he was a child, Tang Xizong was supported by the eunuch Tian Lingzi to succeed to the throne, so Tang Xizong was only twelve years old when he succeeded to the throne, and all government decrees and measures came from the hands of the eunuch Tian Lingzi. Finally, under the influence of the faint monarch Tang Yizong, Tang Xizong's father and son, and the eunuchs, the famous peasant uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Huangchao Uprising, broke out. The Huangchao Uprising was huge, lasted a long time, and had a wide impact, the Huangchao Uprising captured Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire, and Tang Xizong fled to Sichuan under the protection of the eunuch Tian Lingzi, and finally suppressed the Huangchao Uprising with the help of the power of the feudal towns after several twists and turns, but all the imperial authority letters were gone, and the feudal towns saw the decline of imperial power in the counterinsurgency, and they became more and more self-respecting and did not take the emperor seriously. 
Tang Xizong's biggest failure was to accept Zhu Wen, the general of the Huangchao Righteous Army, who used Zhu Wen to suppress the Huangchao Uprising, and at the same time let Zhu Wen develop and grow, and finally Zhu Wen successively killed Tang Zhaozong, Tang Ai Emperor, father and son, usurped Tang Jianliang, so to speak, Tang Xizong laid the foundation for the fall of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Zhaozong is the younger brother of Tang Xizong, Tang Xizong was twenty-seven years old when he died, and the prince was young, so his younger brother Tang Zhaozong succeeded to the throne under the support of the eunuch Yang Fugong. However, Tang Zhaozong did not rely on favored eunuchs as much as his brother Tang Xizong, and after succeeding to the throne, Tang Zhaozong first expelled Tang Xizong's favored eunuch Tian Lingzi, ostensibly respecting Yang Fugong who supported him, but in fact he alienated Yang Fugong and did not let Yang Fugong participate in military affairs, and finally Tang Zhaozong and Yang Fugong won the battle and expelled Yang Fugong from **, Yang Fugong, who was seized power, was very dissatisfied with Tang Zhaozong, who was single-handedly supported, so he gathered troops to fight against *** After more than a year of fighting, Tang Zhaozong successfully defeated Yang Fugong and beheaded him with the help of the power of the feudal town. At this point, the eunuch power was completely defeated in the era of Tang Zhaozong, and the power of feudal towns was replaced by the power of feudal towns, which became a major problem for Tang Zhaozong. 
In the Tang Zhaozong period, the power of the feudal towns was already too big to fall, and the imperial power was only a nominal symbol, but in fact it was close to the warlord division situation in the Three Kingdoms period. Faced with this situation, Zhaozong realized that the main reason for the weakness of the imperial family was that there was no armed force sufficient to deter the princes, so the feudal towns had their own troops. During the Tang Dynasty, after the Huangchao Uprising, the ** forbidden army has been completely destroyed. Therefore, Zhaozong recruited troops and horses, expanded the forbidden army, and won 100,000 people, "wanting to win the world with martial arts." "After the establishment of the forbidden army, Zhaozong began to fight against the feudal town. It is a pity that Tang Zhaozong and the warlord fought at the same time to let the most ambitious Zhu Wen develop and grow, although Tang Zhaozong respected the ministers, made great efforts, hoped to restore the old industry, commanded the world, and formulated a set of ruling strategies to adapt to the situation, successively eliminated Tian Lingzi and Yang Fugong's eunuch group, and severely defeated the warlord Li Keyong, but, the first forbidden army lost most of it, and the national strength was insufficient, and finally Tang Zhaozong became a tool for the warlords Li Maozhen and Zhu Wen to coerce the princes of the Son of Heaven. Throughout Tang Zhaozong's life, he worked hard to revitalize the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, and wanted to save the Tang Empire from the time of collapse, but unfortunately Tang Zhaozong did not have the ability to turn the tide, and then the Tang Empire he took over was already terminally ill, and he was finally killed by Zhu Wen, so his life was very miserable. The decline of the Tang Empire can be said to have begun with Tang Xuanzong, and the decline began with Tang Yizong, Tang Xizong's father and son, Tang Yizong laid the tone for the decline of the Tang Dynasty, and Tang Xizong laid a solid foundation for the decline of the Tang Dynasty, and finally Tang Zhaozong carried the blame for his father and elder brother. 
The second unlucky king of the fallen country was Ming Sizong, that is, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen. Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen and Tang Zhaozong were in a similar situation, Tang Zhaozong carried the pot of the dead country for his father and brother, while Emperor Chongzhen carried the pot of the dead country for his grandfather Emperor Wanli and his brother Emperor Tianqi. Zhu Youzhen's father is Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo, his father died after only one month of reign, and his elder brother Zhu Youxiao succeeded him as Emperor of the Apocalypse, which is the famous "carpenter emperor" in history. 
The main reason for the death of the Ming Dynasty was the party struggle, that is, the non-stop internal struggle of the core power, and the problem that caused all this was the father of the Wanli Emperor, the Longqing Emperor and the Wanli Emperor, the Longqing Emperor was in power, and the signs of party strife began to emerge during the reign of the Longqing Emperor, and reached its peak during the Wanli Emperor period. In fact, in the early days of the reign of Emperor Wanli, there was a biological mother, Empress Dowager Li, who was educated and supervised, and Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant minister, assisted in the reform, so there was a situation of "Wanli Zhongxing" in the early days of Wanli. It is a pity that after Zhang Juzheng's death, Emperor Wanli lacked the assistance of virtuous ministers, and he was suppressed under Zhang Juzheng's authority for a long time, which led to Emperor Wanli After the death of Zhang Juzheng and Empress Dowager Li, he began to let go of himself and gradually tended to be lewd and hedonistic. In the middle and late periods, the Wanli Emperor ignored the government and indulged in debauchery day and night, and almost did not go to the early dynasty in the middle and late stages of his reign, did not ask about political affairs, and the dispute over the national capital for the establishment of the crown prince made the bureaucrats inside and outside the court full of parties, such as the Donglin Party, the Xuan Party, the Kun Party, the Qi Party, the Zhejiang Party, etc., and there were many party names. Although the final battle for the state ended with Emperor Wanli succumbing to the proposal of the minister of the Donglin Party to establish Zhu Changluo of Mingguangzong as the crown prince, but at this time Emperor Wanli was already physically and mentally exhausted, and he deeply felt that although he was the son of heaven, he was finally controlled by the ministers, so that he gradually lost interest in dealing with court politics, and simply let himself go more and did not ask about political affairs. The history is called "Wanli sluggish government". Although Emperor Wanli did not care about the government, he knew that he had to fill his pocket, so he sent eunuchs to serve as mine supervisors and tax envoys to forcibly collect mining taxes from the people and loot the people's wealth everywhere. In the end, Emperor Wanli, who reigned for 48 years, made the Ming Dynasty, which had been in decline since Emperor Jiajing, worse. 
Emperor Wanli was debaucherous and hedonistic, and he didn't like Zhu Changluo of Mingguangzong, and he didn't care about Zhu Changluo's son, Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so Zhu Youxiao didn't receive much cultural education since he was a child, and Zhu Youxiao, who was only sixteen years old when he ascended the throne, was almost an illiterate emperor. However, Emperor Apocalypse has another talent, this Emperor Apocalypse is the same as Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, not suitable for being a professional emperor, both are suitable for being an artist, Song Huizong's strength lies in calligraphy and painting, and Emperor Apocalypse is ingenious, good at carving, good at design and construction, if Emperor Apocalypse lives in modern times, he is definitely an excellent construction designer. Emperor Tianqi ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, died at the age of twenty-three, reigned for seven years, almost ignored the government, favored the nursing mother Keshi and his concubine Wei Zhongxian, and reigned for seven years, almost all the large and small decrees were presided over by Wei Zhongxian, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse designed and built houses all day long in addition to carpenter's work, and these two are the real joy of his life. Emperor Tianqi is not lascivious compared with his father and grandfather, on the contrary, he is still an infatuated emperor, and he loves to marry his wife Empress Zhang very much throughout his life, so that Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family have framed Empress Zhang many times, and it is Emperor Tianqi who shelters Empress Zhang. When Emperor Tianqi was dying, he did not forget to tell his younger brother, Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen, to treat Empress Zhang well and reuse Wei Zhongxian. Of course, Emperor Chongzhen only listened to half of his brother's words, and always treated his sister-in-law Empress Zhang with respect and courtesy, but the first thing Emperor Chongzhen did after ascending the throne was to cut off the eunuch group headed by Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family. Emperor Tianqi is an infatuated emperor, a good husband, and a very good designer and builder, but unfortunately he is not a good emperor, mediocrity is the biggest feature of his reign, all political affairs are handled by the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian excludes dissidents and tyrannizes wealth, making the Tianqi Dynasty peasant uprisings frequent, and at the same time, the eunuch group led by Wei Zhongxian rejects loyal ministers and good generals, and the Houjin led by Nurhachi constantly invaded the Liaodong border, making the Ming Dynasty fall into internal and external troubles, It can be said that the inaction of the Emperor of the Apocalypse was the last straw that crushed the Ming Empire. The embryonic emergence of capitalism in China began to emerge during the Wanli period, when missionaries and some foreigners living in China brought the idea of modern world capitalism to China. And it was the inattention and inaction of the two emperors, Emperor Wanli and Emperor Tianqi, that caused China to miss the germination period of capitalism, indirectly caused China to miss the best period of development, and finally lagged behind the world's great powers in an all-round way. 
At the age of twenty-three, the Emperor of the Apocalypse died, and he handed over the mess of the Ming Dynasty, which had been rotten to the root and was about to collapse, to his younger brother Ming Sizong Zhu Youzhen. Emperor Chongzhen is definitely the most diligent emperor among the emperors of the Daming Dynasty since Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and he is definitely the most responsible and ambitious emperor of the Daming Dynasty since Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately Chongzhen Emperor has too many character flaws and dooms him to be unable to turn the tide, and the mess of the previous emperors is difficult to return, plus he also experienced natural disasters, that is, the Xiaoice River period, so that Chongzhen Emperor finally became the emperor who died in his country. At the beginning of Emperor Chongzhen's succession, he wittily cleaned up the eunuch group led by Wei Zhongxian, and behaved quite wise and wise, but unfortunately Emperor Chongzhen did not maintain such wisdom and wisdom. Although Emperor Chongzhen is not mediocre, but he also does not have the ability to turn the tide at the time of the collapse, although Emperor Chongzhen is ambitious, hard work, food and clothing, and everything must be bowed to himself, but he has neither the strategy of governing the country, nor the art of appointing others, plus he is strict, suspicious, suspicious, and often angry at the ministers, asking for guilt, beheading, and Ling Chi, and his cruelty and ruthlessness are as good as Wei Zhongxian. Because he did not believe in civil and military officials, Emperor Chongzhen also frequently adjusted officials, and during his reign of 17 years, he even changed 17 criminal department scholars and 50 cabinet scholars. As a result, there is a shortage of talents in the country, and people with lofty ideals who are willing to serve the country are neither willing nor dare to ask for help. In desperation, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to cultivate private forces and re-employ a large number of eunuchs. Emperor Chongzhen personally cut off the eunuch group, but in the later period he had no choice but to continue to use the eunuch group, although he cut off the eunuch group power, but could not calm the party dispute, so the Ming Dynasty was only one step away from its demise. There is Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army inside, and there are Nurhachi, Huang Taiji's father and son's Houjin outside, internal and external troubles, how can the Ming Dynasty not die, and this is a situation that Emperor Chongzhen can control. Emperor Chongzhen is neither a faint monarch nor a mediocre monarch, it is more appropriate to say that he is an unlucky monarch, and he is unlucky to make a wrong choice in every major decision, his starting point and his ideas are all good, but unfortunately God played a joke with him. If you want to be unlucky to learn Chongzhen, you want to fail to learn Chongzhen, but the Ming Dynasty is by no means dead in the hands of Chongzhen, but in the hands of Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Wanli, Emperor Tianqi, the three faint monarchs, the sinners of the Ming Dynasty are none other than these three people, among them, the carpenter emperor Tianqi Emperor is the most mediocre, the death of Ming is not Chongzhen's fault, and Chongzhen is his brother bears the reputation of the king of the dead country. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, that is, 1644 A.D. is also the year of Jiashen, Li Zicheng's rebel army broke through the city of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen first gave death to his wife Empress Zhou and Tian Guifei and Zhou Guifei, and ** his own daughter, and let his sister-in-law that is, Empress Zhang of the Emperor of the Apocalypse commit suicide, and finally Emperor Chongzhen fled to Jingshan to hang himself under the follow-up of the great eunuch Wang Chengen, ending his sad life. The widows of the Ming Dynasty also called the day when Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide as "Jiashen National Disaster". 
It can be said that Tang Zhaozong and Emperor Chongzhen did not do anything to kill the country, both of them have the mentality of working hard and working hard for the country, but it is a pity that they inherited the mess of their respective dynasties. Although Tang Zhaozong and Emperor Chongzhen did not have the ability to turn the tide, if Tang Zhaozong succeeded Tang Xuanzong, he might really be able to make the late Tang Dynasty prosperous; Similarly, if Emperor Chongzhen is located in Emperor Jiajing, perhaps the Ming Dynasty will not have the phenomenon of party strife, although Emperor Chongzhen's diligence may not be able to become a generation of Ming monarchs due to character defects, but it can also rely on diligence and thrift to lead the Ming Dynasty to Zhongxing. It's a pity that Tang Zhaozong and Emperor Chongzhen were born at the wrong time, and the two empires met the right person at the wrong time. And the two emperors, who originally had the grand ambition of making great efforts to govern and rejuvenate the country, also took on the reputation of the king of the dead country with grievances.