Gu Cheng's Complete History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Six Volumes)

"History of Peasant War in the Late Ming Dynasty": In March 1644, Li Zicheng invaded Beijing and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed. At this time, he had been fighting for sixteen years; in April of the same year, Li Zicheng was defeated at Shanhaiguan and the Qing army entered the customs; in May of the following year, Li Zicheng sacrificed his life in Jiugong Mountain in Huguang, only four hundred days before the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Loss of public opinion, strategic mistakes, and poor hiring decisions! Open this book and understand why Li Zicheng failed, and he failed so quickly! "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty": Infighting will lead to the destruction of the country, and subjugation of the country will also lead to internal fighting! There is nothing more absurd than this in human nature! In March 1644 AD, the Dashun Army led by Li Zicheng captured Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself. With the support of military general Ma Shiying and others, King Fu Zhu Yousong ascended the throne in Nanjing and changed his reign to Yuan Hongguang, but internal strife also continued. The Hongguang, Longwu, and Yongli regimes were successively established. The monarchs and ministers of Nanming lost countless opportunities for comebacks in the constant internal strife and headed for failure. Open the Gu Cheng Ming History series and see through the absurdity of human nature from the demise of the Ming Dynasty! "This is how you should read history carefully: Collected Works of Gu Cheng's Ming and Qing History": Li Zicheng's general Li Yan doesn't actually exist? Is Shen Wansan, the "richest man in the Ming Dynasty", actually from the Yuan Dynasty? ………… Behind these seemingly astonishing views are the results of Mr. Gu Cheng's extremely careful exfiltration of historical data and extremely rigorous reasoning and research. For example, when he wrote the article "Questioning Li Yan", he not only looked through various archives and anthologies, but even consulted more than a thousand local chronicles, and thus believed that Li Yan, who was recorded in many historical records, was actually a fiction. In the article "Research on the Deeds of Shen Wansan and His Family", he pointed out that various historical materials, including "History of the Ming Dynasty", were incorrect. Shen Wansan, the "richest man in the Ming Dynasty", was actually from the Yuan Dynasty. Articles such as "A New Exploration on the Number of Cultivated Land in the Early Ming Dynasty", "The Transformation of the Guard System in the Qing Dynasty", "The Territory Management System of the Ming Empire" and "On the Wei Books in the Ming Dynasty" have an unshakable classic status in the academic world because of their pioneering contributions. Open this book, and Gu Cheng, a representative of contemporary history research, will lead you to exhaust the historical materials, investigate to the root, conduct rigorous research, and question repeatedly!