The emperor of Li Zicheng did it for a few days

Dashunjun stayed in Beijing for 42 days. In other words, Li Zicheng was emperor for 42 days at most.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (the first year of Yongshun in Dashun, 1644), Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Xi 'an, with its capital in Xi 'an. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was renamed "Dashun". Make a hero a fifth level. At the same time, set up a political organization, change the cabinet into a God-Blessed Hall, and set up a university student to lay down military affairs. (6) The government has added a minister and an assistant minister; Add provincial institutions and set our time.

At the same time, the capital of Ming Dynasty marched eastward. On the second day of February (March 10), he built 3,000 ships at Shawokou, crossed the Yellow River, captured Fenzhou (now Fenyang), Yangcheng (now Yangcheng County of Jincheng City) and Zhou Pu (now Yongji), and captured Xiahuaiqing (now Jiaozuo, Henan Province) the next day, killing Wang Zai of Lujiang. On the fifth day of March (13), Taiyuan, Niu Yong, Wang Yongkui and other 5,000 overseers were defeated.

On the eighth day, Zhang Xiong, the commander of the garrison, was hired as an inside man, and the city was shelled. Cai Maode hanged himself. Rest in Taiyuan for eight days. On 16th, the officials and people of Zhou Kexin (now Xinzhou) welcomed the surrender, and Zhou Yuji, the commander of Daizhou (now Xinzhou), held fast to the city. The two sides fought for more than ten days, but Yin Ji's soldiers ran out of food and retreated to Ning Wuguan (now Ningwu).

Zhou Yuji refused to keep it. Finally, he ran out of gunpowder, opened the door and died. His whole body is like the hair of a hedgehog. His wife, Liu, led more than 20 women to the house and shot them. All the women were burned to death.

On the first day of March (April 7th), Ning Ke Wuguan and Li Zicheng killed more than 70,000 soldiers and suffered heavy casualties. "A Record of Criminal Evidence" records that "thieves trapped the capital, mostly created by brothers and sisters, are all good at fighting." Li Zicheng ordered the massacre. That night, Jiang Xiang, the company commander of Datong, surrendered, and the company commander Wang also arrived, even in Juyongguan and Changping.

On the eighth day of March, the soldiers arrived in Yanghe. 1 1 day, Dashun Army marched into Fu Xuan, saying, "Celebrate the city noisily, burn incense to welcome it, and have fun". Emperor Chongzhen urgently transferred Liaodong company commanders Wu Sangui, Governor of Hebei and Liao, Changping company commanders Tang Tong and Shandong company commanders to Weijing, and called on the bureaucrats who worshipped Qi in Beijing to donate money.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (the first year of Dashun Yongchang, 1644), on March 15th (April 20th, 2 1 year), the peasant army arrived at Juyongguan, and the army eunuch DUZH and company commander Tang Tong surrendered without a fight. At the same time, the South Road Army led by Liu Fangliang, after the East Pass, Qiu and the guerrilla Xie Sufu really surrendered, and the university student Li Jiantai was in Baoding. On March 16, Li Zicheng crossed Changping and reached Shahe.

/kloc-entered Gaobeidian and Xizhimen on 0/7, bombed indiscriminately, and attacked Pingzemen, Zhangyimen and Xizhimen at noon. At midnight on March 17, Cao Huachun, the eunuch guarding the city, took the lead in opening the Guangning Gate on the west side of the outer city, and the peasant army entered the southern suburb of Fuxingmen. On March 18, Li Zicheng sent Du Xun, the eunuch who surrendered in Changping, into the city to commune with Emperor Chongzhen.

According to the four-year volume of Filial Piety Chronology, Li Zicheng proposed the following conditions: "Break the northwest, divide the king and reward millions of troops, and retreat to Henan. Now that I'm running in to seal Hou, I'm willing to curb the bandits in the imperial court, especially to help Qiang Bing suppress Liao governors. But I don't serve you. " The negotiations between the two sides broke down.

On the morning of March 19, Zhang Jinyan, the minister of the Ministry of War, took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate to meet Liu Zongmin's army. At noon, Li Zicheng, led by eunuch Wang Dehua, entered the inner hall through Deshengmen and Chengtianmen. At this time, Chongzhen took eunuch Wang Chengen to Jingshan Park to watch, and then returned to Gan Qing Palace. All the ministers fled, and finally Chongzhen went to Beijing to hang himself, which was called the change of Shen Jiazhi in history.

Li Zicheng ordered a "ritual burial" of Chongzhen, offering a public sacrifice to the factory outside Donghuamen, and then moving into the Buddhist temple. On the 27th, he was buried in Tian Guifei's tomb.

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After Li Zicheng moved into the Forbidden City, she named the maid-in-waiting Dou a princess. At the beginning of Dashun Army's entry into Beijing, the number of soldiers in China was less than 20,000 in 1644. Li Zicheng ordered: "Those who dare to hurt the people and plunder women will be killed without forgiveness."

The order in Beijing is still good, and the shops are open as usual. However, from the 27th, the peasant army began to raid the Ming officials and raided their homes everywhere, stipulating that the amount of aid was "100,000 in the main hall, 750,000 in the imperial palace headquarters, 530,000 in the Daoke official department, 321,000 in the Hanlin, and thousands of subordinates". Liu Zongmin made 5,000 clips. "All the trees are trimmed and connected with nails, so that people are all broken."

The atmosphere of terror in the city gradually became dignified, and people began to get nervous. "Those handcuffed officials are generally rich and expensive, forcing 20,000 to 30,000, slightly dissatisfied. Then they will be strict, they will be extremely vicious and will never die. " "Take Wei Zaode, Fang,,,, etc. And commended Qi Ran Xingqin, Zhang and Xu Yunzhen.

Tan Qian's Miscellaneous Jujube Forest was declared dead 1600 people. Li Zicheng's soldiers plunder, and I will be arrogant. "Killing people is not empty, but soldiers plundered the wealth of the people."

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Zicheng (founder of Dashun regime)