Scholar-officials' thesis in Eastern Jin Dynasty
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the national treasury was empty and natural disasters broke out, which caused the military and civilians to lose confidence in the Ming Dynasty. But what the peasant rebels hate most is not the imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty, but the ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng spoke for Chongzhen, saying that Chongzhen was a good emperor, but the bad one was actually a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Unlike the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, Nanming was a vassal king who led the people. Even if the struggle is so fierce, they still want to introduce a captaincy and then compete for orthodoxy.