He has never been a prince or a king of Chu. 1627, the 22-year-old brother of Apocalypse Emperor Zhu Youxiao died of illness. Before his death, he admitted that the throne was inherited by his younger brother Zhu Youjian. Prior to this, Zhu Youjian had been made the letter king by his brother and lived in the temporary letter palace outside the Forbidden City.
In other words, Zhu Youjian, a loyal monarch, had no formal education of emperor qualification. My father didn't tell him about being emperor, and neither did my brother Zhu Youxiao. Therefore, 16-year-old Wang Xin was at a loss after becoming emperor. He learned how to be an emperor according to the imperial examination textbook formulated by the Ministry of Education. No one dictated the emperor's law to him, no one taught him how to use balance, how to be a hermaphrodite, and no one taught him how to tolerate and protect cadres who can do things well.
As soon as he took office, he ruled the country according to Zhu's family law and ready-made laws. He is not flexible, so he is passive everywhere. When the country is in trouble, the minister will break the law if he is not careful. This violation is not intentional, but the situation has changed and it is impossible to copy the ancestral system.
For example, the death of Yuan Chonghuan, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen can completely protect him from the death of Yuan Chonghuan with hard laws; Mao can also be immortal. These important ministers must be included in the white list for protection to prevent being framed by others or killed without authorization; After attacking Xiangyang city, Xiang Wang committed suicide after being executed by Zhang, because he was trapped in San Francisco according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty? This is a capital crime; Sun Chuanting swept the board and captured Gao Yingxiang alive, but was later framed and imprisoned for three years. Wait a minute.
This rigid practice led to every passive government official who broke the law having no chance to live, and all capable people were personally killed by Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen is not an idiot. He has a high IQ and writes beautifully. He is familiar with history, diligent and unpretentious.
But Emperor Chongzhen was really fatuous, a delicate fatuous. He spared no effort to govern the country according to the law according to the ancestral system. In troubled times, he blindly applied the methods of his ancestors to save the nation and finally died. His fatuity is mainly that he doesn't know how to be flexible and doesn't change his strategy according to time. The general direction is wrong.