Chapter 6 wedge

1644 AD is the year of Jiashen. According to the traditional Chinese calendar, we can say it is the seventeenth year of Ming Chongzhen, the first year of Shunzhi, or even the first year of Yongchang in the Dashun Kingdom of Li Zicheng. In short, it is Very chaotic year.In the cracks between the change of dynasties, some people may say some rhetoric of "princes and generals, I would rather have a family", as if the direction of history is determined in their hands. However, in the battle for the Central Plains, the "deer" "It is the common people, and it is still the common people who suffer. As the saying goes, "When prosperity, the common people suffer; when death, the common people suffer".

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming clan successively established some regional regimes in the south, including the Hongguang regime, the Longwu regime, the Lu Wang Jianguo, the Shaowu regime and the Yongli regime. Year (1644-1662).This period is commonly known as Nanming. Among them, the three regimes of Hongguang, Longwu and Lu Wangjian only survived for one year, and the Shaowu regime survived for only 41 days.The reason why the Yongli regime has existed for sixteen years is because the southwest region has always had little to do with the overall situation, and it is always in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins.Later, the Manchu Qing pacified the Southwest, all relying on the power of surrendered generals, so after the matter was settled, the Manchu Qing could not directly rule, so Fengshang Kexi was in Guangdong, Geng Zhongming's son succeeded Mao in Fujian, and Wu Sangui was in Yunnan, which was the San Francisco.

The Southern Song Dynasty was in a corner of peace, but it lasted for 152 years.At that time, the situation when the Hongguang regime in the Nanming Dynasty was first established was far better than the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty when the Northern Song Dynasty fell in 1127 AD. In 1644, the Hongguang court had a very obvious advantage over the Manchu and Dashun regimes in terms of manpower and material resources.It controls half of the country. The south of the Huaihe River was not only the most densely populated and most economically developed place in China at that time, but also suffered the least damage from the war; Nanjing and its surrounding areas were also the most culturally developed areas in the Ming Dynasty. There are a large number of Donglin and Fushe celebrities, many of whom are talented in governing the country.The right time, the right location, and the harmony of people are all missing.

However, in the past, there were many dreams in the Southern Dynasties, and the rise and fall caused autumn insects in an instant.History is rewritten in an instant. Re-opening the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, I found that it is indeed an unbearable history of the Chinese nation, corruption, betrayal, internal strife... the saddest things of this nation seemed to be presented to the maximum in that year, making people below the ages "sorrow their lives" Misfortune, anger is indisputable." This is the decaying situation of the Nanming regime described by Kong Shangren in his masterpiece.

The history of the Southern Ming Dynasty is the history that the Chinese nation should remember the most, because "the time is poor and the festival is seen", and there are different performances after the festival.