Talk about Daming robbery.

In fact, I found an interesting phenomenon in the history of the rise and fall of the dynasty. For example, after the Northern Song Dynasty regime was destroyed by the Jin State, the Southern Song Dynasty regime established by the royal nobles who fled to the south was maintained 152.

But under the same circumstances, Li Zicheng entered Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Jingshan Park, after the demise of the traditional Ming Dynasty. However, the Nanming regime, which was partly established by the royal family and nobles in the south, was in an unstable state after only 18 years.

Then, how did this difference in regime rings between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty come into being?

First of all, why the Nanming regime can last for a hundred years. Although the Northern Song regime was destroyed, the original social and political structure still exists. Even in the enemy-occupied areas in the north, many old Song people still hold high the banner of fighting against the 8 Jin Army.

Actually, it's similar to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Although the Japanese army occupied a large area of land in Northeast China and North China at that time, the Anti-Japanese Volunteers (a counterattack force under a special social structure) and even the base areas behind enemy lines (equivalent to a special social structure) were still in full swing.

At that time, there were not only the resistance of the old people in the occupied areas in the north of the Southern Song Dynasty, but also many military measures for the Northern Expedition, the most famous of which was Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, which almost went straight to Huanglong to welcome the return of the two saints. As a result, the Southern Song regime formed the core to resist the attack of the northern nomadic regime in the south, which extended the life of the dynasty in this case.

Then, let's talk about Nan Ming. However, before that, I should also mention the socio-economic reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

As a matter of fact, since the three major levies of Wanli, the treasury payment in the Ming Dynasty was very scarce. At this time, in the face of the rise of the late Ming Dynasty, we had to spend money to mobilize the army to contain the army of the late Jin Dynasty.

Bozhou Rebellion, one of the Three Signs of Wanli.

So where do these military expenditures come from? Of course, from the bottom people through taxes. Since the apocalypse, the tax rate of the Ming people has nearly doubled, which has led to the acceleration of natural disasters such as the Little Ice Age and the drought in the late Ming Dynasty.

Of course, after paying the military expenses, at least we should win a victory to inspire people. In the Battle of Salhu in A.D. 16 19, the Ming army was defeated by the latter Jin army, losing nearly 50,000 troops and a lot of grain and weapons. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty changed from a strategic attack to a strategic defense against the late Jin Dynasty!

Battle of Salhu

In A.D. 1629, the Ming Dynasty abolished about 30% of the country's post stations in order to save the national treasury expenses and guard against war and other social needs. As soon as the post station was abolished, the post men who had no fixed income also lost their jobs, and then most of them became the main force of the peasant uprising army.

Therefore, we can clearly feel that the demise of the Ming Dynasty started from the inside (the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty was mostly an external cause), and the external post-Jin forces were only an inducement.

Gu inn

After all, since the Ming Dynasty, centralization of authority has reached its peak, and the management and control of the country in the Ming Dynasty have been excessively concentrated. When the internal peasant uprising and the external Qing army entered the customs in parallel, the whole centralized court completely lost its high control over the country, which directly caused the fracture of the social structure.

Therefore, during the occupation of the Qing army, there was not a slogan of the Ming Dynasty adherents in the northern region to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore their sight! Even at that time, many big landlords or bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty didn't even care about the country and the people, and they were not loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

In the movie Daming Robbery, the landlord class donated only a few hundred taels to the Ming Dynasty, but gave Sun Chuanting a lot of materials and treasures. For these big landlords and bureaucrats, they only care about immediate interests and have no national concept, which is also the sorrow of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zhicheng Palace

After Li Zicheng led the peasant uprising army to capture it, the Ming Dynasty officially perished. However, the Nanming regime was also established. However, due to the influence of the early Lindong Party, internal disputes still exist, and internal disharmony also accelerated the disintegration of the resistance of the Nanming regime.

It is precisely because of the numerous factions in Nanming army and even the imperial court that the attack of Qing army made rapid progress, which led to the downfall of Hong Guang regime, Longwu regime, Wang Lu regime and Shaowu regime established by Ming imperial clan.

Yonglidi movie and television image

The small court of Nanming fled all the way to the south and west, evacuated from the Huaihe River basin to Jiangxi, retreated to Guangxi and Guangdong, then entered Yunnan and fled to Myanmar.

Finally, the last small court in Nanming? The Li Yong regime collapsed under the curse of water, and Li Yong Emperor Zhu Youlang was later hanged by Wu Sangui. As a result, the anti-Qing activities led by the imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty were completely destroyed!

Tombstone of Emperor Li Yong's martyrdom

Therefore, the reason why Nanming only maintained the rule of 18 years was largely due to internal factional struggles, and on the other hand, there was no suitable social structure to maintain the rule, resulting in most Nanming emperors being only tools for indirect rule by some generals or civilian officials. This is also a sad song of Nanming!