It's not that it can't be stopped, but it can't be stopped at all, this Liu Zongmin is really too much!
When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, at first he also strictly restrained his subordinates and planned to be a good emperor, but within three days, the soldiers began to disobey the command, of which Liu Zongmin was a big source of disaster.
At that time, Liu Zongmin had people rush to make five thousand pairs of sticks to "chase after dirty and help pay", and the people with heads and faces in Beijing were basically arrested by Liu Zongmin, and Li Zicheng wanted to be emperor at that time, and did not want to make the people unhappy, so he "advised" Liu Zongmin not to make it too big.
Liu Zongmin replied: "The power of the emperor belongs to Ru, and the power of torture belongs to me. ”
This means that you honestly become your emperor, and everything else is in my hands, and you don't bother me!
In fact, when Li Zicheng was emperor, Liu Zongmin was already dissatisfied, and at the time of Li Zicheng's enthronement ceremony, all the civil and military officials bowed down to Li Zicheng, and only Liu Zongmin was unwilling to worship him, and also declared: "I am a ringing horse with him (Zicheng), why worship him." ”
It is said that after repeated persuasion by Niu Venus, Liu Zongmin prayed twice, which means meaning.
As the first capable general under Li Zicheng, this title Liu Zongmin is not convinced, Liu Zongmin always believes that he is a venture partner, and should sit on an equal footing with Li Zicheng.
Liu Zongmin has this self-confidence, the main reason is nothing more than that, the qualifications are old, the merit is high, the power is great, and the ability is strong!
Although it is certain that Li Zicheng was the oldest and the most senior, he began to participate in the uprising from the second year of Chongzhen and participated in the revolution for 15 years, while Liu Zongmin only joined the team in the seventh year of Chongzhen, five years later than Li Zicheng.
However, Li Zicheng got up early in the morning, rushed to a late gathering, and although he joined the revolution very early, the effect he played was not very good, and he was often beaten by the Ming army and lost his armor, and after every time he was beaten into the commander of the light pole, Li Zicheng always continued to work hard and started again.
Therefore, don't look at Liu Zongmin as a revolutionary team that Chongzhen only joined in seven years, he may really be the oldest qualification that still exists in Li Zicheng's team.
For example, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, after Gao Yingxiang was captured and killed, it was a major trauma to the peasant army, Li Zicheng was regarded as the new king of Chuang, at that time many people were dissatisfied, some set up another mountain, some went home to farm, and Liu Zongmin always supported Li Zicheng.
In the most tragic years of the revolutionary movement, in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty devoted all its energy to suppressing the peasant army, adopting a strategy of ten-sided encirclement and suppression, dividing and encircling the peasant army, and finally Li Zicheng, with the help of Liu Zongmin, broke through with only seventeen or eight people and fled into the deep mountains and old forests.
It is estimated that at that time, old Li had been frightened and scared, or Liu Zongmin helped Li Zicheng to clean up the remnants of the army, regroup, and finally make a comeback.
It should be said that Liu Zongmin's later "arrogance" was based on such a foundation, without Liu Zongmin's Li Zicheng, it was nothing, after Liu Zongmin came to power, the peasant army was more and more courageous in the Vietnam War, and finally became the gravedigger of the Ming Dynasty.
This is like Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement of the Qing Dynasty, everyone knows that Hong Xiuquan is the King of Heaven and the leader of the Taiping Army, in fact, in the early stage, with the help of Yang Xiuqing, they made meritorious achievements, occupied Nanjing, and then formed a north-south confrontation with the Qing Dynasty.
Later, Hong Xiuquan saw that Yang Xiuqing was too much and monopolized power, so he launched the Tianjing Incident and killed Yang Xiuqing. As soon as Yang Xiuqing died, the Taiping Army began to decline, and the wing king Shi Dakai never won a victorious battle again.
What I have to admit is that although Li Zicheng joined the revolution early and waited for the outlet to form a trend of take-off, his ability was still too poor to restrain a veteran figure like Liu Zongmin.
During liu zongmin's stay in Beijing, through "chasing dirty and helping wages", he plundered a lot of silver, some say 70 million taels of silver, and finally made a large silver cake and shipped it back to Xi'an.
It was precisely because of this disrespect for the landlord class that the peasant army did not have the support of the common people in Beijing, and after the Battle of Shanhaiguan, even Beijing could not fight with the Qing army, and immediately began to retreat.
Of course, when it comes to the Battle of Shanhaiguan, it also has a certain relationship with Liu Zongmin!
After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, Chongzhen hanged himself, at this time from Liaodong to withdraw the Qin King's Wu Sangui troops were the most important military force, which had an important impact on the situation, Li Zicheng originally planned to recruit Wu Sangui, and sent 40,000 taels of silver as a reward.
At that time, Wu Sangui, who was cornered, had to surrender. As a result, at this time, Liu Zongmin actually raided Wu Sangui's home, and Chongzhen, in order to prevent Wu Sangui from deviating from Germany, detained his father Wu Xiang and his family members in the capital, and in the final analysis, Chongzhen did not pay attention to things.
Some people say that Liu Zongmin took the opportunity to rob Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan, causing Wu Sangui to be angry and rush to the crown as a red face, and let the Qing soldiers enter the customs.
One thing is certain, Liu Zongmin's raid on Wu Sangui's home was an important factor in Wu Sangui's eventual "surrender and rebellion".
It should be said that Liu Zongmin had a certain ability in both leading troops to fight and Wenzhi martial arts, but a series of victories made him lose his mind, did not put Wu Sangui in his eyes, and thought that Wu Sangui occupied Shanhaiguan, but "this projectile is not enough to be a corner of the Beijing Division, kicking down his ears with the tip of his boots."
Under the circumstances at that time, if Liu Zongmin was willing to lead troops to attack Wu Sangui and quickly resolve the battle, perhaps the situation in the Dashun regime would not be as bad as it was later.
What everyone did not expect was that Liu Zongmin thought that Wu Sangui, who could be kicked to death with one kick, was unwilling to go on a crusade, and finally Li Zicheng had to personally take command, and Liu Zongmin had no choice but to follow.
Because Li Zicheng was personally self-contained, there was no one sitting in the rear, and the final result was that the army was defeated like a mountain.
To put it simply, Li Zicheng's ability is not good, the team is big, it is not good to take ah! A general like Liu Zongmin obviously can't move!