The original meaning of the butterfly effect is that butterflies in South America flapped their wings, which triggered a tornado over Texas two weeks later. In fact, this is just a poetic statement. Specifically, the change of a small matter will eventually change greatly after the fermentation of time. Three small things happened in the Ming Dynasty, which eventually formed the butterfly effect and led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
The first small thing is that Ming officials were caught and raped. In the Ming Dynasty, there was an official named Mao, who was originally a magistrate of a county. Later, he was promoted to suggestion and was later dismissed. After Chongzhen acceded to the throne, Wei Zhongxian was reopened. But this Mao is a womanizer. People come to Beijing before they get married, and they don't inform their wives to marry concubines.
I don't know where my wife got the news. She borrowed the convenience of the post office all the way to the capital quickly, and everyone was arrested. "henpecked" Mao didn't consider how to treat his wife. Instead, he vented his anger on the post office and wrote to abolish it. Just when Chongzhen was worried about the fiscal deficit, he agreed with a stroke of the pen. That's great. There are no couriers in the world, including Li Zicheng.
The second small thing is that the family's embarrassment to Kong Youde led to Wuqiao mutiny. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zu Dashou was besieged by the late Jin army, and the situation was critical. Sun urgently ordered Kong Youde Department to assist Zu Dashou in case of any accident. Kong Youde thought about crossing the sea to help him, but he couldn't catch up with the big typhoon, so he turned to land to March. More unexpectedly, the weather began to get worse and it began to snow heavily.
When I arrived at Wuqiao, my salary was running out. The soldiers were hungry and secretly caught a chicken. But it was this chicken that made a scene. This chicken belongs to the family of a local official. When the slaves came to look for it, they refused Kong Youde's compensation, and insisted on parading the offenders with arrows. Kong Youde didn't dare to offend, so he had to order the sergeant who stole the chicken to parade. At night, the morale of the army was punished, but sneaking into a noble family's house would insult his domestic slave and kill him. This can stir up a hornet's nest, and the family will definitely behead the murderer. Kong Youde had to pull the sergeant out and behead him.
At that time, Sun bought horses for Kong Youde, but he didn't buy enough horses, so his men advised him not to go. Kong Youde thought of his unjustly killed adoptive father (Mao) and the treatment of his own army in the local area, so he simply reversed it. Wuqiao mutiny began, and the heavy artillery force established by Daming became the latter. Later, Jin got their badly needed heavy artillery and mature artillery units, which made up the last short board for himself.
The third small thing is that the extremely bookish mistake of copying secrets led to the failure of the peace talks. During the Chongzhen period, the battle of Jinzhou made the Ming Dynasty lose the last strategic barrier of the capital, and Li Zicheng was also in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and the uprising continued. Under such internal and external troubles, Chongzhen is a heartbreaker. Whether this is busy outside or inside, two options make Chongzhen waver. At this time, Hou Jin had the intention of peace talks, which made Chongzhen overjoyed. It turned out that the loss of this war in the late Jin Dynasty was a bit too much. If we annexed Daming now, it would make them indigestion.
Chongzhen simply sent Chen Xinjia, who had been to the latter Jin Dynasty, to discuss specific conditions. The latter made a condition that Daming would donate 1.2 million silver and 2.2 thousand gold every year, while the latter gave thousands of minks and 1,000 kilograms of ginseng. When Chongzhen knew about it, he instructed Chen Xinjia to discuss peace in secret and not to spread it. Chen Xinjia polished the negotiation documents at home and prepared to give them to Chongzhen for a look.
But I don't know, Chen Xinjia is extremely diligent, thinking that the discussions and documents put in the study are the same as the contents that the official newspaper wants to distribute as usual, and they are copied and sent. This peace document was published in Di Bao, which caused an uproar, and many courtiers wrote in succession to severely punish this traitorous behavior. Chongzhen was furious, too. He couldn't keep the secret, so he ordered Chen Xinjia to be executed to stop the world. In this way, making peace with the former king will be stillborn, and there will be no chance to breathe.