The Manchu Qing court should be thanked for one person who was able to enter the customs smoothly, that is, Wu Sangui, who opened the Shanhaiguan, so that the Manchu Qing court drove straight in, and only then did it have the later Qing Dynasty. But Wu Sangui was not a loyal representative, he was once a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, but abandoned his own court.
When Wu Sangui was enjoying the merits in the Qing Dynasty, because of the Kangxi Emperor's policy of cutting the domain, he rebelled again under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. But the ancients all wanted to continue the bloodline, and Wu Sangui did the most dangerous thing, so how did he protect his descendants before he died?
In fact, Wu Sangui's army was overwhelming at first, and even made the Kangxi Emperor feel threatened, but when the Kangxi Emperor sorted out his mood and formulated a good strategy, the strength of Wu Sangui's rebels was also shrinking step by step.
In his later years, Wu Sangui ascended the throne early in order to realize his dream of being a king, but his physical condition was getting worse and worse as he was old. After Wu Sangui suffered from stroke, the Tai Doctor did not succeed in diagnosing him, and later he suffered from dysentery, which made his condition worse again, and at this time he knew that he was already doomed. Therefore, Wu Sangui quickly arranged his own posthumous affairs and sent his confidant ministers to recall his grandson Wu Shiwan. But Wu Sangui did not wait for Wu Shiwan to return, he had already died.
Wu Sangui ended up with hatred, he did not fulfill his wish, because of his personal selfish desires, he took out the life of the whole clan to fight, but the final result was that the Wu clan was almost completely destroyed.
After Wu Sangui's death, In order to stabilize the hearts of the army, Wu Shiwan did not mourn and quickly ascended the throne. However, the Qing army chased and blocked Wu Shiwan's rebels all the way, and seeing that the general situation was gone, Wu Shiwan chose to commit suicide in Kunming with the empress. With the death of the leader of the Wu clique, Wu Sangui's rebellion came to an end.
After the Kangxi Emperor put down Wu Sangui's rebellion, he launched a frenzied revenge on Wu Sangui's family. After Wu Sangui announced the rebellion, he killed Wu Sangui's eldest son and eldest grandson, and after Wu Sangui's complete defeat, he executed all of Wu Yingxiong's children. In the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", it is recorded that the Manchu Qing court exterminated the Wu family, and the Wu family had no living people alive in the world. However, Wu Sangui still had other arrangements before his death, helping him preserve the bloodline of the Wu family. What is the arrangement?
It turned out that Wu Sangui had left a secret letter to Wu Yingqi, asking him to do his best to assist Wu Shipan, and if he encountered a situation of last resort, he would hide his name and keep the Wu bloodline no matter what. In this regard, Wu Yinglin has been carefully and cautiously observing.
Later, with the passage of time, Chen Yuanyuan, who was closely related to Wu Sangui, felt that Wu Shipan's Honghua small court was difficult to become a climate, so she firmly formulated an escape plan. After wu Yinglin learned about Chen Yuanyuan's plan, he also expressed his great approval.
Therefore, Wu Yinglin sent General Ma Bao to escort Chen Yuanyuan and his family members south to Guizhou to help Chen Yuanyuan and others hide their names. When he arrived at Cen Gong, Chen Yuanyuan instructed the people to store a large amount of grain and grass and gold and silver jewelry here. After making the forehand arrangements, Chen Yuanyuan led his family members to travel from place to place, and finally settled in today's Majiazhai. After General Ma Bao completed his escort mission, he returned to the front line to continue fighting the Qing army.
Because it was really unsustainable, Ma Bao finally chose to take the initiative to surrender, and was delayed by the Qing court. And until his death, he did not reveal a word about the whereabouts of Wu's descendants, which saved Chen Yuanyuan and others.
Although Chen Yuanyuan is a woman and a child, she has the wisdom not to lose to men. After coming to Majiazhai, she quickly chose a local Miao family surnamed Chen to climb relatives and recognized the Chen surname as her family. In order not to let the descendants of the Wu family forget their ancestors, Chen Yuanyuan also personally formulated the eighteen characters of the descendants to unify the generations to reproduce the offspring, in addition, she also adopted the method of secret transmission, only one or two people in each generation can know the origin of the family.
Later, it was not until the Jiaqing period that the descendants of the Wu clan gradually changed back to their original surnames, but due to the fear of causing the disaster of extinction, the Wu family was still very careful, and it was not until the Republic of China that the descendants of the Wu clan finally dared to admit that they were the descendants of Wu Sangui.
In the early 1980s, a newspaper published information about Chen Yuanyuan's tomb, which attracted the attention of many Qing historians, who went to Majiazhai in Shuiwei Township, Cenggong County, Guizhou Province, to investigate. After careful investigation of the owner of the tomb and the study of Majiazhai's books and materials, experts finally confirmed that Majiazhai's Wu descendants were indeed descendants of Wu Sangui.
Although they live in anonymity here, each house building maintains the style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the hall house enshrines ancestral tablets, and the "Trilling" hall number is displayed to commemorate the ancestor Wu Sangui, who is nicknamed "General Trillium".
Since the Wu family no longer needed to hide their names, under the inquiry of the researchers, the "secret descendants" of the Wu family also told some secrets that they knew: It turned out that after the fall of Yuezhou City, Wu Yinglin first went to Hunan to rectify the army, and then came to Majiazhai to look for Chen Yuanyuan, informed her of the situation at that time, and told everyone to hide it well. After escorting Wu Shipan out of Guiyang, Wu Yinglin retreated and became invisible under careful planning. He hid outside for a long time before he came to Majiazhai and quietly integrated into the Wu family, which was already established in Majiazhai at that time.
Since then, Wu Yinglin abandoned the names of himself and his children, changed his name to Wu Qihua, Wu Shilong and Wu Shijie, and spent the rest of his life peacefully, and now wu Yinglin, who was buried in the center of wu cemetery, was Wu Yinglin, who changed his name to Wu Qihua.
Wu Sangui, as a generation of tyrants, was also vigorous in his life. He once charged for Daming, and then he immediately raised the flag against the Qing, and this ups and downs of life was greatly amazing. However, his desire for power not only buried himself, but also buried his children and grandchildren, leaving only a bloodline of incognito for more than 300 years before he dared to show the truth.
Reference: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty