Speaking of Wu Yingxiong, the first impression that comes to mind is the upside-down egg that was cut off by the ruthless and wayward Princess Jianning in "Deer Ding". In history, Wu Yingxiong was indeed the forehead of Princess Jianning and the son of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi. But Princess Jianning was not Kangxi's sister in history, but his aunt.
After Wu Sangui surrendered to Qing, the regent Dolgun was very strict with him, first asking him to lead an army to pursue Li Zicheng's Dashun army, and then transferring his town to guard the important town of Jinzhou outside Guanguan, in fact to facilitate surveillance. Later, he was sent to lead an army into Sichuan with the Eight Banners general Li Guohan to suppress Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army. In the eighth year of Shunzhi (1650), Dorgon fell off his horse while hunting and died of illness shortly thereafter, and Wu Sangui was reused by the Shunzhi Emperor from then on, and was awarded the title of General of Pingxi, Southern Expedition Yungui, and pursued the Southern Ming Yongli regime.
Although the Shunzhi Emperor reused Wu Sangui, he was still wary of it. In the tenth year of Shunzhi (1653), the marriage of Empress Xiaozhuang was arranged, and the 13-year-old princess Of Jianning was given to Wu Yingxiong, the son of Wu Sangui, the fourteenth daughter of Emperor Taiji and the half-sister of the Shunzhi Emperor, which was a complete political marriage, with the purpose of allowing Wu Yingxiong to stay in the Capital Division as an e-donkey, as a hostage to contain the xiongjun and sit in the southwest of Pingxi Wang Wu Sangui.
During his stay in Beijing, Wu Yingxiong was awarded many awards, and was awarded a third-class viscount, plus Shaobao and Prince Taibao. In the seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1668), he was a young fu of the Jin Dynasty and a prince. In November of the twelfth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1673), Wu Sangui killed Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Yunnan, claiming that the whole world was recruiting soldiers and horses, and officially rebelled. On the eve of the uprising, Wu Sangui sent a secret envoy to Beijing to prepare to take Wu Yingxiong back to Kunming. In order to win more preparation time for his father, Wu Yingxiong resolutely refused to leave, but only handed over the eldest son Wu Shipan and the letter with Kangxi cutting the domain in advance to the secret envoys and brought them back to Yunnan.
Wu Yingxiong knew that his father had rebelled, and the imperial court would certainly not let him go. The reason why he ventured to stay in the capital, in addition to the determination to see death as a homecoming, also harbored a bit of luck, that is, the conjugal relationship with Princess Jianning. After all, Jianning was the aunt of the Kangxi Emperor, and their marriage was presided over by Empress Xiaozhuang, and Wu Yingxiong believed that with this relationship, he could at least save his life.
When news of Wu Sangui's rebellion reached the capital, the Kangxi Emperor Long Yan was furious and immediately arrested Wu Yingxiong and imprisoned him. Princess Jianning pleaded bitterly with Empress Xiaozhuang, hoping to keep him alive. Xiao Zhuang was worthy of being a famous politician in the early Qing Dynasty, and she knew that the execution of Wu Yingxiong was not only related to the face of the imperial court, but also to the determination of the imperial court to quell the rebellion. Therefore, he did not care about the love of Princess Jianning and supported the Kangxi Emperor in killing Wu Yingxiong's father and son, so there was no such thing as Xiaozhuang's intercession but it was ineffective.
On April 13, 1674, in the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Wu Yingxiong and his second son Wu Shilin were murdered, showing the strong determination of the imperial court to stand at odds with the rebels, and then dispatched garrisons to suppress the rebellion. The situation at that time was extremely unfavorable to the imperial court, and Kangxi was only 20 years old at the time, grew up in the deep palace since childhood, and never experienced a battle front. The Eight Banners Brigade, which the imperial court had always relied on, had become corrupt and degenerate due to the long period of time, and its combat effectiveness had seriously declined. The leader of the rebel army, Wu Sangui, ran the southwestern provinces for more than ten years, had enough soldiers, and his subordinates were all elite in hundreds of battles, which echoed with Wang Shangzhixin of Pingnan and Geng Jingzhong, the king of Zhennan.
Unfortunately, the years were not spared, and Wu Sangui, who had started as a soldier at the age of 62, could not resist the erosion of the years, and died of illness in Hengyang in the seventeenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1678). After Wu Sangui's death, the rebels fought for power and profits within the rebel army, and they were scattered. The imperial court spent three years to invade kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, and Wu Zhou's second emperor, Wu Yingxiong's eldest son Wu Shipan, raised his sword and killed himself, announcing the end of the San Francisco rebellion. The largest rebellion in the early Qing Dynasty lasted eight years and ended in a comprehensive victory for the Qing army.