In the year of Kwai Wei (1643), Li Zicheng was called the king of Xinshun in Xiangyang, and in the same year he defeated the main force of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi Province of the Ming Dynasty, in Ruzhou, Henan, and occupied Xi'an with the victory.

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

Soon after, the Dashun army swept the world, forcing Emperor Chongzhen to hang himself, and the old empire with more than 200 years of foundation was beaten to the ground, and Li Zicheng had the potential to change the dynasty.

The newly born Dashun regime, with its mighty military might, occupied the entire Yellow River valley and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, which made the remnants of the Ming forces in the south tremble, favored the left side of the river, and did not advance the army.

An old empire falls, and a new empire will be established on his corpse, replacing his position and becoming the orthodoxy of China, proud of the world.

For a time, they were in high spirits, sitting on the dragon bed, sleeping in the palace, delicacies from the mountains and seas, wine and delicacies, beauties embracing each other, singing and dancing endlessly, once ascending to the extreme, the world has everything.

The wife and children are hot on the kang, and there are a few acres of good land at home, at this time the ordinary people yearn for it, but Li Zicheng is such a hero, but he is not immune, once rich, he can't control it, his ambition is blinded by the achievements in front of him, and there is a lack of Wenchen who can speak out, so that he is lost in the dream of the son of heaven in a big country.

The Ming Dynasty has been fighting on two fronts, after the occupation of Beijing, Dashun did not pay attention to the problems left by the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty was replaced, but the Hulu outside the Guanxi was eyeing the artifact, and Li Zichengda was completely defenseless against it.

The prosperity is gone, the gentle township, as soon as the East comes, the dream is shattered.

In the battle of a stone, Dolgon led the Eight Banners Army to join forces with Ming Ping Xibo Wu Sangui, and fought Li Zicheng inside and outside Shanhaiguan.

The Dashun army was defeated in a battle, and the good situation was ruined, Li Zicheng hurriedly withdrew from the Beijing division, and then led the army to retreat all the way, and the foundation since Kwai Wei Jiashen was lost.

The artifact changed hands, and the dream of the Son of Heaven was shattered.

Jingshi, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Xiangyang, Wuchang, Li Zicheng was chased by the Qing army all the way to Jiujiang, Jiangxi, he stood by the river, looking at the hundreds of thousands of remnants under his command, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It's not that he hasn't been defeated, he has experienced ups and downs in his life, and has been forced into a desperate situation by Cao Wenzhao, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang, Hong Chengchou and others.

Li Zicheng has had several ups and downs, experienced many failures, and finally rose again in adversity, he should have been a person who was unforgiving, and now he has more than 100,000 troops around him, thousands of times stronger than when he was in Shangluo Mountain, but at this time, he seems to have lost the ambition of the year.

Before he reached the twilight of his heroes, his head was covered with white threads.

During the Chongzhen period, this peasant leader who stirred up the storm and wanted to seize the artifact, the Emperor Dashun, who had briefly ascended to the throne of the Son of Heaven, had lost all his strength.

Near Jiujiang, ten miles of joint ventures, and countless warships, this is Li Zicheng's last hope, he no longer wants to dominate the world, but only seeks to obtain a place of peace.

The general trend of the world, one eliminates the other, the Dashun army is defeated all the way, the Qing army is advancing all the way, Li Zicheng wants to be safe, but he can't.

In late April, at the edge of Jiujiang City, the Qing army followed again, breaking through the old camp of the Dashun army, the head of the military generals of the Dashun army for a long time, Ruhou Liu Zongmin, the head of the civil officials Song Trapce, and the families of a large number of generals who accompanied the army were also captured by the Qing army.

Li Zicheng's two uncles, Zhao Hou and Xiangnan Hou, were captured to the Qing army camp, and Azig said: "Descend to my holy dynasty, without losing the high-ranking officials." Zhao Hou angrily reprimanded: "How can you call yourself a saint in vain if you turn into a barbarian." Xiangnan Hou said: "My nephew is the son of heaven in Middle-earth, and I will not surrender." When Azig heard this, he was furious and killed him.

Liu Zongmin was captured, and he was also scolded, and Azig transferred him to Wu Sangui, who was overjoyed.

The hatred of killing his father and taking his wife suddenly came to his heart, and Sangui personally operated the knife to kill Liu Zongmin, Zong Min scolded him more than once, and died of blood.

Liu Zongmin was the head of the military generals of the Dashun Dynasty, and as soon as he died, Li Zicheng was like a broken arm.

Compared with the civil and military forces of the Great Shun Dynasty, the Wenchen is undoubtedly much inferior.

There is a lack of Wenchen in the Dashun Army, and the quality is worrying, Song Xiance is just a fortune teller, and Niu Jinxing is just a downfall.

Fight the world, rely on military generals, rule the world but need civil ministers, Li Zicheng is surrounded by the support of few literati doctors, children's songs are well written, but they can't govern the world.

"Eat the king, drink the king, and the king will not pay for the food!" This is similar to a line by Pan Dongzi in the later movie "Shining Red Star": "If the Red Army comes, how good it would be, we can not pay the rent we owe to the landlord." "It's pretty much the same.

When they rebel, they can eat big households, and they can rob the gentry and rich people to raise food, so the displaced people are easily fooled by the hypocritical slogan of "not paying food", but when they really come to power, can the poor still "not pay food"?

The big families will eat it all up one day, so the people should pay it back. , the Great Shun Dynasty could not give much favor to the people, but after occupying Beijing, it offended the gentry class with the policy of subsidy.

They did not realize their identity, and had changed from a thief to a new dynasty that competed with the Ming Dynasty for orthodoxy, but they still ruled the vast territory in the way of thieves, and did not complete the transformation from a thief to an orthodox dynasty, and the dereliction of duty of the civil system can be imagined.

Since ancient times, the military war to the death, the civil death advice, the dynasty is prosperous, the Dashun Dynasty can fight, there are many generals who are not afraid of life and death, but the civil officials are withered and have no ability.

The facts also show how unbearable the civil officials around Li Zicheng are, Song Xiance and his ilk, after being captured, immediately defected, relying on the tricks of fortune-telling and words, in the Manchu aristocratic mansion, to be a clown, and steal a living.

Niu Jinxing, another civil servant under Li Zicheng, was even more unbearable, he was originally a narrow-minded person, only because Dashun was regarded as a thief by the gentry class, and he could not get the support of the scholars, so he could get a high position in one fell swoop.

After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Niu Jinxing took power as the prime minister, he had no ability to govern the country, but he was a good hand at flattery, and he did not persuade the king to govern the country, but was keen on the etiquette of ascending to the pole and persuaded Li Zicheng to ascend to the pole.

After Li Zicheng was defeated, on the way to the defeated army, Niu Jinxing slandered again and killed the general Li Yan, which made the Dashun army disheartened.

Ruhou Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and hated Niu Jinxing's insidious viciousness, and scolded: "You don't have the credit of an arrow, you dare to kill two generals without authorization, I must kill you." ”

After the defeat of Jiujiang, Niu Jinxing saw that Dashun had gone to the general trend, so he secretly fled and went to Xiangyang to join the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but his reputation was ruined, especially the matter of helping to pay in Beijing, which made him have a very bad reputation among the Ming Dynasty gentry, and even the Qing court did not dare to arrange a position for him, so he could only give his son Niu Yan a county order, so that he could rely on his son's meager income to survive.

It can be seen from this that the quality of the civil servants under Li Zicheng can be seen, and his failure can only be sighed by posterity.

After the defeat of Jiujiang, the Dashun army suffered heavy losses, and more than 3,000 ships that were ready to be used to go east were all taken by the Qing army.

On 17 May, Li Zicheng, the leader of a generation of peasant armies and the founder of the Great Shun Dynasty, was killed by the village at the Yuan Emperor Temple in Jiugongshan, Tongcheng, Hubei.

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

The death of the leader of the peasant army at the hands of two peasants is a joke of history, or a satire of the Dashun regime, which broke away from the peasants and quickly corrupted.