Chapter 6 Chapter Six: "The Second Rich Generation" Li Zicheng

Speaking of Li Zicheng, he is quite legendary.Why is Li Zicheng so famous in Chinese history?One is that he was once an emperor—Emperor Dashun, but the most important thing is that his life experience and growth process are full of legends.For example, three months before his birth, an arc of light suddenly appeared in the starry sky of Shaanxi, like a knife, hanging in the sky. This sign indicates that the world's swordsmen will rise.Three months after the knife was suspended, Li Zicheng was born.The portrait of Li Zicheng in the history textbooks now shows Li Zicheng as handsome and talented.But in fact Li Zicheng's appearance is not like this, what does he look like?I can say that, if anyone sees Li Zicheng, he will scream "Wow" in fright.His appearance is special, for example, normal people's foreheads are bulging, but Li Zicheng's forehead is sunken.Once he was angry, a large lump would bulge on his forehead, and his shape was very strange.

Li Zicheng was born in a wealthy family, what we call "the second generation of rich". Going on is also the lifelong pursuit of many people.However, when he was seven or eight years old, the locust plague in Shaanxi caused his family to go bankrupt. This bankruptcy was a great confusion for Li Zicheng: yesterday there was food and drink, but today it suddenly disappeared. Who moved my cheese? ?Who took our food away?He looked up to the sky and asked, but no one answered his question.He had to go out to survive on his own, to be self-employed. But what career could he have?When he was young, he had already developed a habit of eating and being lazy. In other words, he didn't have anything left to eat, and he couldn't do anything. He went out to work a few times, but was kicked out of the house.Still, he grew into a massive man.When he grew up, he married a wife named Han. Looking at the local county history, we can find that Han is a very beautiful woman.

Ordinarily, when a man has a family, he should have a sense of family responsibility and settle down, but the society was too open at that time, so Han cheated and had extramarital affairs.It can be seen that in the late period of the empire, morality was also collapsing. However, it was still a feudal society at that time. Although this Han family was beautiful, she still couldn't go too far and take the initiative to go out to seek "excitement".But other men can come into her house.What kind of man?men with power.It was a local yamen servant who had this extramarital affair with Han, but what kind of job was Li Zicheng at that time?Similar to postman job.

When someone told Li Zicheng the news, Li Zicheng was so miserable, why was my life so sad?I was born with food and drink but was taken away by someone, and I couldn't find anyone who took it away; I married a beautiful wife and was taken away by someone.Why do you treat me like this?Why? In a fit of rage, Li Zicheng went home to catch the rape. According to historical records, he blocked his wife and his wife's lover in the house after returning home. However, his wife's lover was a government servant with agility and extraordinary kung fu. When he came, he overturned Li Zicheng and ran away.Li Zicheng was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet.

The law of the Ming Dynasty clearly decreed: Catch rapes and catch doubles, catch thieves and see stolen goods.In other words, if Li Zicheng killed the adulterer on the bed with his wife, he would be innocent.But now his wife's lover ran away, Li Zicheng killed his wife in grief and anger, and became a criminal in the end. In desperation, Li Zicheng had no choice but to run away from home, and since then embarked on the road of revolution and became the leader of the peasant uprising army.His life growth experience formed his unique philosophy of life.What philosophy of life?That is, everything in this world is not reliable, if you eat it today, you will eat it, if you don’t eat it today, it will be gone tomorrow.This is caused by his childhood experience.

So when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the famous capital looting broke out in history.How to loot?He entered the city of Beijing, forced Emperor Chongzhen to death, and was able to become the lord of the world and become Emperor Dashun.But he did one thing: he arrested all the respectable people in Beijing, extorted their gold and silver, and then recast all the gold into pieces of gold cakes and shipped them to Shaanxi. Move things to my hometown.It never occurred to him that he was going to govern the country. He didn't have the concept, and it was because he didn't have the concept that he destroyed the empire.

In history, Li Zicheng was known as a bandit.What is a rogue?At that time, there was a Mongolian named Meng Ruhu, who was most moved by the word "rogue".One year, Emperor Ming ordered Meng Ruhu to conquer the bandits. Meng Ruhu led more than 20,000 cavalry and began to chase the bandits madly. It took six months to chase seven thousand miles. All the horses were exhausted and all the soldiers were sent Diarrhea caused by vomiting and diarrhea, and finally the donkeys of ordinary people's homes could only be used as war horses.During the six months of pursuit for thousands of miles, he never met a single battle, and never caught up with the bandits.The bandit could escape faster than a mouse, and he couldn't catch up.Why escape so fast?Because in Li Zicheng's view, everything is unreliable, so he does not need a base.It is precisely because of Li Zicheng's philosophy of life that even when he arrived in Beijing, his first priority was to destroy Beijing, without any thought of construction.