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The 70-year-long Little Ice Age occurred in the northern hemisphere at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which led to the reduction of grain production, the epidemic of plague and the increase of victims. Coupled with the economic system in the late Ming dynasty, the excessive influence of civil service groups, the corruption of officials and the darkness and horror of criminal law, it can be described as natural disasters and man-made disasters.
? ? Li Zicheng Uprising took advantage of the trend, and their slogan of "flat fields and white grain" attracted most farmers. Greatly gathered the people's hearts, rose rapidly in the wave of peasant uprising and became the main force in the peasant war.
On March 17th, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led the peasant army and the Ming army who surrendered all the way to Beijing. Emperor Chongzhen rang the bell to summon officials from civil and military departments to discuss countermeasures. None of the ministers of the Ming dynasty dared to come out, and they all became cowards. The next night, eunuch Cao Huachun opened the gate of Zhang Yi, and peasant troops poured into Beijing and occupied it. Emperor Chongzhen went out of the palace and boarded Jingshan Park, lamenting the sufferings of the people all over the world. Finally, Emperor Chongzhen wrote a testament with his skirt and hanged himself in Jingshan Park.
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? The downfall of the Ming Guards was not due to equipment, but to problems and natural disasters accumulated in the Ming Dynasty. The failure of the rebels is the result, not the cause. Do you think so?