Shi Kefa, a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, thought it was a good thing for Wu Sangui to lead the Qing soldiers into the customs?

Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, which was regarded as the national humiliation that caused the failure of Li Zicheng and the complete demise of the Ming Dynasty. But in the view of disabled Shi Kefa and others at that time, winning people's hearts was a good thing, because the people defeated by the Qing soldiers were their enemies, Li Zicheng. So Beijing was occupied by the Qing army and they didn't hate it. On the contrary, they prefer Xie Qingjun.

1644, where did China go? On April 25th, Li Zicheng, who established Dashun regime in Xi 'an, captured Beijing, and Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty, hanged himself. A week later, Wu Sangui, who had surrendered to Dashun, turned to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng defeated Shanhaiguan; On June 5, Regent Dourgen led the Qing army into Beijing; On the same day, Shi Kefa and others, who practiced dual capitalism in the Ming Dynasty, made Zhu Yousong the supervisor of the country, and later the emperor of Hong Guang.

Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, which was regarded as the national humiliation that caused the failure of Li Zicheng and the complete demise of the Ming Dynasty. But in the view of disabled Shi Kefa and others at that time, winning people's hearts was a good thing, because the people defeated by the Qing soldiers were their enemies, Li Zicheng. So Beijing was occupied by the Qing army and they didn't hate it. On the contrary, they prefer Xie Qingjun. At that time, the national policy of Nanming was to pursue the policy of "helping the enemy with Lu", that is, to eliminate the Dashun regime in Li Zicheng with the help of Qing soldiers. This can be described as "killing people with a knife." Shi Kefa is the initiator, supporter and executor of this policy. He wrote to the emperor: "But Luneng killed the thief to avenge me." When his life was threatened, Shi Kefa suggested that he immediately sent an envoy to see the emperor shunzhi or Dourgen with his belongings. "This is a waste of time." At that time, a sober person advised, "If you only rely on the strength of others, for example, in the Song Dynasty, the Jin State was used to destroy Liao and the Yuan State destroyed Jin, it would only add wings to the tiger and accelerate its own demise." Shi Kefa wouldn't listen. Only two months after the fall of the capital, the Nanming regime has decided to be partial to the south of the Yangtze River, take the Huaihe River as the boundary, "sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight", be timid, and not violate the Qing soldiers at all, so as not to be unable to hold peace talks.

Practically speaking, Shi Kefa is not the first person, and the major policies of Nan Ming cannot be completely decided by him. But from beginning to end, Shi Kefa, like other authorities in Nanming, was short-sighted and pursued a stupid peace policy towards Qing.

After nearly half a year, the military strength of the Qing army has been dealing with the Li Zicheng army retreating to the northwest, and Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other North China regions are in a leaderless power blank area. If Shi Kefa sent the Ming army north, it would pacify the Central Plains. Unfortunately, the chaotic North China is not waiting for the Ming army, but for the rest of the Qing army. Nanming regime has always adhered to the policy of "communication", while Shi Kefa, as a military commander, retreated to Yangzhou. Shi Kefa was a good official in peacetime, with pure personality and patriotism, but his moral character could not be transformed into great talent and political courage.

On May 20th, 1645, Yangzhou City fell under the bombardment of the Red Army artillery. Shi Kefa was captured and killed. /kloc-in June of 0/6, the Qing army arrived in Nanjing. Hong Guang, the Emperor of Nanming, fled, and the others surrendered in Kaesong.