The ancestral graves of the Ming Dynasty were soon destroyed. Why on earth is this?

There are two ancestral graves in the Ming Dynasty, one is the Ming Zuling in Huai 'an, Jiangsu Province, where Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather, great-grandfather and great-grandfather are buried, and the other is the Ming Emperor Mausoleum in Fengyang, Anhui Province, where Zhu Yuanzhang's parents, brothers and sisters are buried.

Both tombs were destroyed, but the situation was different.

The Ming tombs were destroyed by the rebels in Zhang. At that time, Zhang captured Fengyang and set fire to the city, but there was no record of digging the underground palace, only the ground buildings were burned down.

The Ming Zuling is close to the Huaihe River due to natural environmental factors. In history, the Yellow River has captured the Huaihe River many times, causing floods on both sides of the Huaihe River. The Ming Zuling was flooded during the reign of Kangxi, and it was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that it was seen again. There is no record of being wiped out by the rebels in history.

The relationship between the destruction of imperial tombs and the demise of the Ming Dynasty

Zhang Zhongxian burned Ming Taizu Mausoleum in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and Daming perished in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, ten years apart. So is there a relationship between them?

Of course there is! However, it was not the excavation that destroyed Long Mai and led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but the imminent demise of the Ming Dynasty led to the excavation of Zuling!

When Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Daming was already on the eve of national subjugation.

Outside, 8 jin j, shenyang and other important towns outside the customs have fallen, and the territory of northeast China has fallen.

Above the imperial court, although the eunuch party headed by Wei Zhongxian was eliminated, the party struggle in Lindong intensified and the national interests were put aside.

Because of the little ice age, the land in Guanzhong was bare, thousands of miles away, and plagues occurred frequently in Hebei and other places, and people were miserable.

Against the background of domestic troubles and foreign invasion, Li Zicheng, Zhang and other large-scale peasant uprisings broke out, and the decadent imperial court was unable to suppress them, and the image of national subjugation has emerged.

It is really because the Ming Dynasty is about to perish and unable to resist the rebel army that Fengyang, the land of Maolongxing, fell into Zhang's hands, and the undefended Ming Zuling can only be slaughtered.

Not only did Xiang Yu in the Ming Dynasty burn the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang when the Qin Dynasty perished, but Huang Chao's mausoleum in the late Tang Dynasty was also destroyed by the Red Eyebrow Army when the Western Han Dynasty perished.