As the saying goes, when a cannon rings, gold is worth two thousand yuan. How did the Li Zicheng Uprising raise wages?

In 65438+644 10, Li Zicheng led more than 200,000 soldiers and horses out of Tongguan, ready to March into Beijing and launch the last battle against the Ming Empire. On the way, hungry people joined one after another, most of the commanders and soldiers in Jiubian Town surrendered, and the number of Dashun troops increased to more than 6,543,800. Millions of heroes? Then let's talk about how the salaries of the Li Zicheng Uprising came from.

Li Zicheng? Dashunjun? Whenever we conquer a place, we take it as? Chasing for help? In the name of confiscating the property of princes, dignitaries and gentry, the huge wealth accumulated from generation to generation can also provide military expenses for the peasant army.

Li Zicheng got seven thousand two hundred pieces of silver in just ten days, and all the officials who were afraid of death volunteered to donate it. The amount of silver is more than 100 million, while the government's treasury is only 402 thousand. The reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was lack of money. Wei Zaode, the minister who refused to donate money, was pinched by Liu Zongmin for nearly two thousand. University student Chen Yan, it was Liu Zongmin's turn to chase him for money. Before the clip came, he paid 42,000 pieces of silver. Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Emperor Chongzhen, spit out 500,000 in one breath under the muzzle of the rebel army. Two pieces of silver and jewels worth hundreds of thousands, and so do the rest of the distinguished ones. At the same time, the rebels in Li Zicheng also pointed their finger at the wealthy businessmen, and the effect was quite good.

With money in his hand, Li Zicheng can train a powerful army to unify the whole country. Unfortunately, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others are short-sighted and weak-willed. They took the plundered wealth for themselves, occupied Wu Sangui's beloved concubine Chen Yuanyuan, and killed more than 30 people in Wu Sangui's family. They sent troops to pacify Wu Sangui, and finally defeated Shanhaiguan, and the Qing soldiers entered the customs. Therefore, Li Zicheng, who has vowed to make people live a better life, regards human life as dirt, and his body can be said to be very contradictory, and he has no quality of being an emperor at all. The rebels he led fled everywhere, which would only destroy those who did not know how to build and had no foresight, and coveted the enjoyment of the little rich. Failure is doomed.