After the war, the ecology deteriorated, the corpse was not disposed in time, the local officials were incomplete, and there was no intention of epidemic prevention. The most classic example is before Li Chuang attacked Peiping.

Before Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Beijing had become an epidemic area of plague.

Attacking a city tortured by plague for nearly a year is indeed true for Li Zicheng's troops.

It's too easy. Gu Yingtai said in Volume 78 of Ming History that "the inner and outer cities of the capital" at that time.

Every 154,000 people are surprised, the soldiers in Beijing camp are infected, and the elite are eunuchs, so they are vulnerable.

60 thousand people, thousands of them, haven't been filled yet. "After the plague,

I was badly hurt. So that on the wall of Beijing, there is a weak soldier every three stacks of eloquence on average.

Guards, how to resist the attack of Li Zicheng's elite division? In fact, Beijing was not attacked.

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From the records left by people at that time, we can vaguely see that Li Zicheng actually conquered Beijing.

This is a terrible epidemic city. For example, the archives of A Qing dynasty mentioned the great plague in Beijing in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen.

Emotion: "Yesterday, there was a great epidemic in the capital, and ten rooms were empty, and even the households were exhausted."

People gather together. "The package mentioned in Volume 6 of Shen Jia Banknote History Subtotal in February of the 16th year of Chongzhen.

Beijing, "Great epidemic, people and ghosts mixed up. Twilight screen is not good. Merchants get more paper money and buy water.

Throw it away, voice is money, silence is paper. Even during the day, walking on walls and roofs, teasing.

Living in people. Every night, I cry and shout, and I hear voices and shadows. "There are so many dead people that you can see them during the day.

Ghosts are everywhere in the city, which is really creepy. In March, Li Zicheng entered Beijing. Danielle is here.

The capital only stayed for 43 days and was expelled from Beijing by the Qing army. Is that fair, Li Zicheng?

Was our army driven out of Beijing by the plague?

The situation in Tianjin is not much better. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, pneumonic plague broke out in Tianjin.

Quoting the same Qing dynasty file, I said: "There is a disaster in the sky, and the plague is prevalent. From August to now (September)

15th), spread to sheng. Some died in a day or two, and some died at night. Every day, no fewer than hundreds.

People, even those family members, died, and no one was left. No one was saved after going door to door. "... one person.

The epidemic spread to the whole family and died two months later. So far, it has been opened anywhere outside the city, especially in the city.

As a result, the coffin Artemisia filled the road and cried all the way. "This is a tragedy. Luo introduced the plague flow in Tianjin.

This trip comes down to the activities of Li Zicheng troops. He said: "Simin was left behind after being ravaged by the rebellion."

Geometry, it would be nice to be like this disaster again. "Why didn't you see a large number of non-combat troops in Li Zicheng in the literature?

I still don't understand the record of downsizing.

During the Chongzhen period, northern Henan was also an epidemic area of plague, located in Jiaxian County of Ruzhou and Yang Yang of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Plague is prevalent in Wu, Xingyang, Tongxu, Shangshui, Henan, Guide and other provinces.

Record of the line. For example, in Wu Yang County, "the plague is great, the dead are nineteen, and countless insects are destroyed"; exist

Xingyang county "spring epidemic, every household died, and no one walked on the March road." Population death is also a stage.

When amazing. The epidemic situation in Shandong province is unknown, but it is not excluded that there is also a plague epidemic.

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According to my estimation, in the second plague epidemic between Wanli and Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty, people from three provinces in North China

The total number of oral deaths has reached at least l000 million. Due to the epidemic of plague, drought and locust plague

And the war, so the death toll of the population in North China during this period is actually far from it.

There should be more. Apart from the accidental factors of Wu Sangui's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing soldiers successfully entered the Central Plains.

It is also related to the inability of North China to support the anti-Qing war. In a sense, the Ming Dynasty

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was the result of the deterioration of the ecological environment in North China.