The demise of Ming is indeed caused by this group of corrupt scholars. They crowd out military commanders and talk about big things all day long, but they have no practical way to govern the country and are extremely selfish. Poverty and corruption are serious.
Originally, Chongzhen wanted to make peace with Manchu first and deal with the rebels with all his strength, but the group of literati moved out of Song and Jin to cooperate in destroying Liao and opposed being destroyed by Jin. Let them out, and then they all become cowards. Nothing you can do can stop it. He also slandered Yuan Chonghuan until his tragic death. Finally, until the demise of the Ming Dynasty, they didn't come up with a good solution.
Most notably, Chongzhen's father-in-law, Chongzhen, begged him to take out some money for military expenses, but he only took out fifty-two thousand pieces of silver. But Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, copied his house, and found billions of silver from his house, which topped the income of the Ming Dynasty for several years. In addition, there are countless gold, jewels and antiques.
It can be seen that the literati are greedy, selfish and useless in their bones.
And that great scholar, Qian Yiqian. The Ming dynasty is gone, and he has not forgotten to seize power. Has been controlling the power of Nanming. Do all kinds of shameless means to crowd out dissidents. It is even more disrespectful to finally surrender to Manchu.
This shows that the patriotism of literati is just lip service, which is used to label others. They don't love themselves at all, just little people who are afraid of death.