As a joke in the ancient history of China, what did Li Zicheng do?

As a unified dynasty that enjoyed the country for nearly 300 years, the Ming Dynasty approached or reached the standard of scrapping, especially the power of civil servants was too great to fail and corruption was rampant. These factors are not only unfavorable to the victory of foreign wars in the Ming Dynasty, but also lead to the embarrassing situation of backyard fire. It is against this background that Li Zicheng rose.

The Ming Dynasty created Li Zicheng for its own reasons. On the other hand, it is puzzling that Li Zicheng messed up Daming.

It can be said that the most fundamental reason why the Ming Dynasty couldn't beat the Qing Dynasty was that luck ran out. At the moment when the Ming dynasty was on the verge of extinction, it was impossible to defeat a rapidly rising regime in any case.

Compared with other ethnic minorities in history, the Qing dynasty has quite distinct characteristics, which doomed it to be even more impossible to be defeated or even completely eliminated.

First, the Qing Dynasty unified Mongolia.

As a fishing and hunting nation originated in the northeast, in the process of its rise, the leaders of the early Qing Dynasty, including Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, not only expanded their territory, attacked the Ming Dynasty and completely conquered Korea, but also pushed forward wave after wave in order to completely surrender to Mongolia.

1634, Chahar, the strongest tribe in southern Mongolia, was defeated by the late Jin Dynasty, and the leader of Chahar, Lidan Khan, died in Dacaotan. As the most powerful tribe among the descendants of the golden family, the failure of the Chahar Department greatly shook the Mongolian ministries. Subsequently, in 1635, the ministries of Monan Mongolia surrendered to Huang Taiji.

Followed by Moxi Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia, Huang Taiji became the leader of Mongolia.

The seemingly simple military conquest had an extremely bad influence on the Ming Dynasty.

Because since the Qing Dynasty conquered Monan Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty had to not only face the late Jin Dynasty in the northeast, but also stick to the Great Wall to prevent the late Jin Dynasty from attacking Monan Mongolia in a roundabout way.

In history, the latter Jin bypassed Monan Mongolia five times and launched a fierce attack on the Ming Dynasty.

Monan Mongolia is equivalent to today's Inner Mongolia, and its combination with the late Jin Dynasty made the Ming Dynasty completely passive and accelerated its demise.

Secondly, the Qing dynasty carried out feudal reforms.

Feudalization is one of the important ways of social progress of ethnic minorities, and the post-Jin Dynasty is no exception.

Later, compared with other ethnic minorities, Jin Sinicization was more successful and made extraordinary achievements.

First of all, in the late Jin Dynasty, Fan Wencheng and other Han people rushed to take refuge, and their participation made the late Jin Dynasty gradually transition to a feudal totalitarian regime.

After Monan Mongolia surrendered one after another, Huang Taiji established the Qing Dynasty in 1636, and began to be on an equal footing with the former patriarch Ming Dynasty.

The establishment of the Qing Dynasty was not just an emperor's addiction. The establishment of the Qing dynasty put the Qing dynasty and the Ming dynasty in the same position, telling the world that the Qing dynasty can also become the master of the world like the Ming dynasty.

In this context, Wu Sangui, Hong Chengchou and a large number of Ming civil military commanders who lost their moral integrity became chess pieces for the Qing Dynasty to unify the world. They believe that their efforts will create a new prosperity, and their shameless practice of "knowing the times is a hero" will be recognized by the world.

With the strong support of the landlords and bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty also wanted to be defeated by the Ming Dynasty, but its strength was simply not allowed.

And what role did Li Zicheng play in the great changes in the late Ming Dynasty? In the previous article, Li Zicheng had a profound analysis in The History of a Quiet Night. It is believed that Li Zicheng has not reached a complete and mature strategic goal except for low academic qualifications, poor eyesight and ugly appearance.

Besides Zhu Yuanzhang's stereotyped writing, what's more important is that Li Zicheng's uprising was passive from beginning to end, although Li Zicheng finally won Beijing, subverting the Ming Dynasty, and before Li Zicheng captured Beijing, he was still dreaming that Chongzhen would let him be the king of the northwest.

It can be said that Li Zicheng Group without ambition, even if cornered, can't burst into amazing fighting capacity. To put it bluntly, Li Zicheng doesn't even have the qualification to make trouble.

Therefore, Li Zicheng's disturbance had little influence on the Ming and Qing wars, and it was the Ming Dynasty itself that really decided the change of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.