My Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen

In 1644, on the Meishan Mountain, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian, left these words: "I am not the king who will subjugate the country, but all the ministers will be the ministers of the country's subjugation!" He wept blood and hanged himself to die for his country. Until his death, he could not understand why he had worked so hard and neglected food and sleep for seventeen years, but what he had ended up with was the ruin of his country and his family. This book will take you to an immersive experience of the tragic life of Emperor Chongzhen from a first-person perspective. You will witness with your own eyes: how a young emperor who eradicated the eunuchs and first took power was so complacent and thought he had the world under his control; how a "model worker" emperor who did everything by hand and stayed up late to review memorials used diligence to cover up his strategic laziness; how a suspicious "workplace tyrant" who changed his prime ministership in 17 years and killed seven governors personally pushed capable ministers and generals into the abyss; How a "poor" emperor who cried out for more money while holding on to his internal funds frantically tested on the edge of financial collapse; a lonely soul who at the last moment betrayed his relatives and abandoned his family, and when the bell was ringing but no response, he could only stain the palace with blood and hang himself to die for his country. Open this book and listen to the bloody and tearful autobiography of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian, and see how he played a handful of good cards to pieces, and stepped on the drumbeat of national subjugation accurately every step of the way. His story is a tragic version of "seeking one's own death from God's perspective." Who is to blame for all this?