Why is the evaluation of Li Zicheng's uprising in the late Ming Dynasty getting worse and worse now? Wasn't he a rebel? How did he become a bandit?

The peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty was huge in number, with quite a lot of forces, large and small, and different military disciplines. However, they all committed massacres of civilians. It was just a question of how many.

They were running around burning, killing, looting, and they were almost indistinguishable from a group of bandits. They were nothing more than rogues!

Later, unable to stop the officers and soldiers from pursuing him, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng was also ambushed by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and suffered heavy losses and had to flee into Shangluo Mountain in Shaanxi.

Li Zicheng, who was at the end of his rope and seriously ill, survived after half a year of recuperation.

Later, he led his troops to develop, but he still burned, killed and looted, which shows his true nature.

After Zhang Xianzhong pretended to surrender, he rebelled again under the pretext of building slaves and invaded the border area. They killed the people even more crazily.

Soon Li Zicheng was surrounded by the Ming army at Hangu Pass. The situation was critical. Under this situation, Li Zicheng was able to escape and actually killed all the women he had robbed.

He only led 50 capable people to escape. If you say you want to escape, just run away. There is no need to kill people. This shows his shameless nature of killing innocent people.

As the Ming army pursued him, Li Zicheng kept running away. However, the rebel army's power became smaller and smaller, and the Ming army encircled him from all directions.

At this time, Li Zicheng said to his subordinates who were loyal to him:

"We can only break through if everyone fights hard, and then he will not be a burden on his own. But the brothers all have their families, which is a burden. What should we do?"

Li Zicheng said this, and all his subordinates understood it. The fierce general Liu Zongmin immediately killed his two wives and told Li Zicheng to stay with him and concentrate on breaking out of the encirclement.

So most of them killed their wives and children and continued to flee to Henan to plunder and incite the people, and their strength began to grow again.

Later, with the help of Li Yan, Li Zicheng learned to restrain himself, stopped robbing and killing at will, and began to win over the people.

Sometimes they would distribute the property to the people and claim that they would not pay for it. Under this strategy, the army would be invincible and the troops would reach the capital city.

But after capturing the capital, Li Zicheng's men plundered the people, robbed their money and women, and the people in the city suddenly fell into hell.

Li Zicheng did not take it seriously, and could not restrain his subordinates' lawlessness, and eventually lost the support of the people.

This can only show that Li Chuang's army could never escape the nature of burning, killing and looting by rogue bandits, and had no long-term vision or plan at all.

Today's Henan is different from that in history. People can have porridge, but who is willing to rebel, and they have no good impression of the bandits.

So when the people saw a large number of rogues coming, they immediately fled in fear of being killed.

Seeing the arrival of the army, the bandits guarding the city gate immediately rushed forward to greet them. The leader of the group, the big man, cupped his fists at the incoming man and said:

"Your Majesty, there are more than three hundred soldiers in the city. They have been killed by us. Your Majesty, please come into the city!"

The person who is called the king is none other than Chuang Tuantian Liu Guoneng. Now his subordinates have grown to more than 3,000 people, and they are all young and strong men. Due to regular training, their combat effectiveness is very strong.

Liu Guoneng nodded and said to the messenger next to him:

"This is your king's order. When the army enters the city, it will only rob the gentry and landlords. It is not allowed to rob or kill the common people, nor is it allowed to insult the women of the common people. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed without mercy!"

"yes"

Several messengers immediately urged their horses to run back and forth in front of and behind the team, and clearly conveyed the king's orders.

"Enter the city!"

Liu Guoneng gave an order, and more than 3,000 troops quickly entered Gongxian County. Based on the intelligence obtained from many days of investigation, they carried out a crazy robbery on the mansions of the gentry and landlords. Anyone who disobeyed was immediately killed.

Rich Man Li's family used to have only 5,000 acres of land, but after the disaster, he used all kinds of means to defraud, plunder and occupy it, and now the family's land area has reached 20,000 acres.

In the year of disaster, Rich Man Li suddenly transformed and became the second largest landowner in Gong County. The landowner with the largest amount of land was the county magistrate Huang Guang, who was also Rich Man Li's uncle.

There are hundreds of tenants farming for him. Due to widespread drought and locust plague, the tenants' harvests have dropped sharply this year, but instead of decreasing, the rent has increased.

After paying rent and food, many tenants only had enough food left in their homes for one month, and they could only starve for the remaining eleven months, resulting in half of the tenants' homes starving to death.

In this case, the tenants became refugees, otherwise they would all starve to death.

Some people may ask, why did the tenants not resist?

Rich Man Li is the father-in-law of the county magistrate. Not only does he have the help of government servants, he also has dozens of vicious servants at home. He bullies men, dominates women, beats and scolds the tenants, and the people dare not resist.

Although the tenants had a difficult life, Rich Man Li lived a very good life. He had nine concubines at home, and there were mountains of gold and silver in his cellar and secret rooms.

Several grain depots are also full of food, and dozens of members of his family can't eat it all in two lifetimes, but this man is so stingy that he doesn't even get a dime!

Just when they, the officials, businessmen, landlords, gentry, and other wealthy people were colluding with each other to amass money and eat steamed buns made of the blood of the common people, they suddenly discovered that the direction of the wind seemed to have changed, and Kaifeng Prefecture next door took the lead in carrying out land reform.

They actually distributed the land of the landlords and gentry to the people, and built porridge shacks in various places to provide porridge to the refugees. Even their Gongxian county town also built porridge shacks, and the county magistrate received orders from above to raise money and food for disaster relief.

The county magistrate was exposed in his heart, but he still dared not resist the order openly. He could only discuss disaster relief with the gentry and landlords, and finally decided to donate some grain for disaster relief.

The result was that they gave a token amount of more than a dozen dan of grain to the soldiers in charge of giving porridge, and asked them to give porridge to the people. This amount of food was simply not enough to fill the teeth of hundreds of people.

But they are not willing to take more grains from now on. Just kidding, now that food is so valuable, how can they give it to those mud-legged people for nothing?

As for the matter of dividing the land, they will never agree. They will fight with anyone who dares to touch their land, and collude with King Fu of Luoyang. If anyone comes to check the land, they will put the temporary land in King Fu's name...

Today, Rich Man Li came to the county government office again, preparing to discuss with his uncle about selling grain at a high price to the government for disaster relief. Suddenly, the Gong County magistrate and supervisor rushed into the back house of County Magistrate Huang Guang in panic.

In ancient times, no man was allowed to enter the rear house except the male owner. This was a huge taboo. Of course, the father-in-law was allowed to enter the house with permission because the hostess was his daughter.

Huang Guang was furious when he saw that the pian and the instructor dared to break into his back house. He was about to scold them, but he heard them shouting:

"Sir, something bad has happened, bandits have entered the city..."

"What, where did the bandits come from? Weren't the bandits driven away by the army led by the Superintendent?"

The county magistrate Huang Guang was shocked. He grabbed the instructor by the collar and shouted loudly. Rich Man Li also panicked instantly. Once the bandits entered the city, his money and food would definitely be robbed.

"Sir, the bandits have really entered the city, and the city gate defenders were defeated by them..."

Huang Guang asked hurriedly:

"How many bandits have entered the city?"

The instructor whispered:

"There are more than a hundred people, but the fighting power is very strong. There are more than three hundred of us who can't resist it..."

Huang Guang was furious again, raised his leg and kicked his instructor in the abdomen:

"Trash, more than 300 soldiers can't defeat more than 100 bandits. Hurry up and gather all the county government officials and soldiers to kill the bandits. Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless..." I like the Ming Dynasty. In the prosperous era, I started to invite everyone from the prince to supervise the country.
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