So the legacy of the Ming dynasty began to show their magical powers for their own party interests, and the remnants of Yan took the opportunity to establish Zhu Yousong as the superior. Although the axe king is the closest person to the throne in the Ming Dynasty, he has many shortcomings, and he is greedy for extravagance. As a savior at the time of national subjugation, he should have. However, after the Axe King ascended the throne, he overhauled the palace in Nanjing and looted the people's property, without any sense of crisis that Daming was about to perish. Take the national disaster as the head, take the national subjugation as a bad king, and Nanming will die.
Second, during the period of Hong Guang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, there were constant party struggles, which brought disaster to the country and the people. The main reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Lindong Party, Zhejiang Party and Yen Party attacked each other and competed for political power, which aggravated the internal friction of the Ming Dynasty. During the Hong Guang regime, because Hong Guang was promoted by the residual eunuchs, Lindong Party and eunuchs were enemies with each other. Under the constant pressure of the Qing army, the imperial court was not considering how to resist the Qing army, but fighting for imperial power. Within a year, the Lindong Party created three cases of Du Nan, discrediting Hong Guang's orthodoxy and humiliating the political authority of Nanming Hong Guang. Even in order to safeguard the interests of the party, we mobilized military forces regardless of the overall situation. At that time, a fake prince appeared in Nanking, and Lin Dong turned to an enemy and mobilized 230,000 soldiers and horses from Zuo Liangyu, and went down the river to Jun Qing. As a result, the Qing army took the opportunity to occupy the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Qing army had a tendency to attack Nanjing along the river.
The Lindong Party represents the interests of landlords and bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River, not the interests of the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty was in peril, these landlords and bureaucrats had already estimated a good price for themselves. When the Qing soldiers came to open the door to welcome the surrender, the original landlords could continue to be local landlords and the original bureaucrats could continue to be bureaucrats. Lindong Party perfectly explained that their class interests are far higher than the national interests. Therefore, during his stay in Hong Guang, Lindong party member never thought about how to resist the Qing army, but how to maximize his own interests. How can such a ruling group not die?
Third, Daming's armament slackened and gave in to the jitters. After Dourgen gave the order to attack Nanming, in February, the Qing army led by Duoduo attacked Henan, captured Shangqiu in March, besieged Yangzhou in April and captured Nanjing, the capital of Nanming in May. In the past 100 days, we fought in the Central Plains near Wan Li. Except that Yangzhou resisted for a day under the leadership of Shi Kefa, many military commanders of Daming surrendered with the wind, and the Qing army wiped out hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, with a negative loss of 100,000. Nanming army rushed Dourgen.
The main reason for the above situation is that in the late Ming Dynasty, the generals drank the blood of soldiers and defaulted on their salaries, which made it a common practice for fishermen. The extravagant life of the whole day has already made the Ming army's military discipline lax. When the real enemy appeared, he was afraid of the enemy like a tiger and had no resistance. In addition, the Qing army often attacked the city with red artillery, which made the fortified city untenable and difficult to hold. In addition, like the gentry, the family interests of Daming military commanders are more important than the national interests, and even some military commanders will be hacked to death by the Qing cavalry because there are too many family members to escape. Fortunately, they surrendered directly.
There are many reasons for the short life of Hong Guang regime in Nanming, but the biggest problem is that infighting has increased the fear of the enemy. Party strife has caused great internal friction, and Lin Dong party member, who calls himself a gentleman, has an unshirkable responsibility. In addition, officials, gentry and soldiers only care about class interests and have no determination to defend their homeland against the enemy. How can they be unbeaten?