A Brief Account of the Fall of the Ming Dynasty (Free Public Edition Book)

"A Brief Account of the Fall of the Ming Dynasty" records the historical facts of the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The first volume describes the benevolent deeds of Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers Zhou Yanru and Wen Ti. It also describes the story of Sun Chengzong, Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting, Cai Maode, Zhou Yuji, Qin Liangyu and others encircling and suppressing the peasant army of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, as well as the beginning and end of the peasant uprising of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. The second volume records the beginning and end of the affairs of King Fu, King Tang and King Lu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, as well as the affairs of Shi Kefa, Huang Degong, Qu Shichu, Zuo Liangyu and other officials who resisted the Qing Dynasty. It also records the personnel affairs of Liu Zongzhou, Jin Sheng, Hou Fangyu, Wei Xi, Yun Ge and other scholars in the late Ming Dynasty. "A Brief Account of the Death of the Ming Dynasty" is written in a biographical style. The book refers to the Qing Dynasty book as "Qing Dynasty", and the posthumous names of Qing emperors Taizu, Taizong and Shizu are mentioned in the preface. It is also called "Try to read "History of the Ming Dynasty"". "The writing is learned as ancient prose, and it is used to explain the whole story of the fall of the Ming Dynasty" ("A Brief Preface to the Story of the Death of the Ming Dynasty"). It can be seen that the book "A Brief Story of the Death of the Ming Dynasty" was written by the Qing people based on the "History of the Ming Dynasty".