The reconciliation between Emperor Chongzhen and Qing Dynasty was conducted in secret. 1642 In May, after consulting with Chen Xinjia, the minister of the Ministry of War, Chongzhen decided to secretly send troops to Liaodong to contact the Qing Dynasty to discuss reconciliation. However, the imperial edict of Emperor Chongzhen had no actual content, but after a month-long negotiation, the two sides finally put forward six conditions of the Qing Dynasty. Huang Taiji also asked Chongzhen to send messengers to swear with the Qing Dynasty that "I don't want to make up, so I don't need to send messengers to write a ghost".
Does Huang Taiji really want to make peace? The situation at that time was like this. The Baylor kings opposed the peace proposal, but Huang Taiji thought that the Qing Dynasty was incapable of entering the Central Plains. He wants to consolidate the foundation of the northeast through several years of preparation, and it is impossible to do it overnight. Finally, he persuaded the Baylor kings to wait for the arrival of the envoys of the Ming Dynasty. If something goes wrong, the left side can't wait, and the right side can't wait. Until October, the envoys of the Ming Dynasty didn't come.
So where did the envoys of the Ming Dynasty go? It turns out that something happened in the Ming Dynasty! The discussion was held in secret, but the news leaked out. The first leaker was Xie Qian, a college student. Once, when an official met with Xie Qian, the college student inadvertently said, "We are willing to make peace, so please don't talk too much." As a result, officials blasted the pot, impeached Xie Qian in succession, and resolutely opposed peace.
But the official is only hearsay after all, and there is no conclusive evidence. It happened that there was a leak at this time! At the beginning of the peace talks, the documents exchanged between the two sides were letters written by Chongzhen and Chen Xinjia. Once, I brought back a top secret material from the northeast. After reading it, Chen Xinjia forgot to put it away and put it on the desk. The servant mistakenly thought it was just an ordinary pond newspaper, so he took it out and copied it as usual.
As a result, no one in the capital knows, and no one knows. It turned out that the imperial court secretly made peace with the Qing Dynasty! Officials have written to impeach Chen Xinjia, accusing him of being good at making peace. In fact, we all know that Chongzhen is the mastermind behind the scenes. Chongzhen is a respectable person, and "if you succeed, you must take credit. If you fail, you must appoint Sima." He is afraid that if the peace talks fail, the news will leak out, causing disputes and implicating himself.
Chongzhen immediately ordered Chen Xinjia to be arrested and imprisoned and asked him to explain. Chen Xinjia also made mistakes. In prison, he wrote to the emperor, saying that he was innocent, which made Chongzhen even more annoyed. Although there were many courtiers' demands, Chongzhen issued an imperial edict on July 22, beheading Chen Xinjia, the minister of war. What is a scapegoat? Chen Xinjia is! After the Chen Xinjia incident, courtiers never dared to mention the word "peace" again.
The Qing dynasty didn't know much until June 10, and I don't know what happened. It thought that the Ming dynasty refused to make peace, so it sent troops and entered the customs again. The Qing army bypassed Beijing and invaded Shandong, and successively "captured 88 cities, forced down six cities, captured 360,000 people, and plundered 12,220 gold and 2,220 silver".
In fact, there is no shame in making peace. Both sides have their own needs, and the Ming Dynasty needs to focus on the peasant army in China. However, Chongzhen's personality is seriously flawed and he doesn't know how to choose people. His estrangement from courtiers laid the groundwork for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. If he is really an entrepreneur,