What Wu Sangui restored to the Ming Dynasty? Did I read that right? Even if Wu Sangui's rebellion was successful, he would not be able to restore the Ming Dynasty, and he did not have this position. It should be known that the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youluo, was strangled alive by him with a bowstring.
If he succeeds in his rebellion and restores the Ming Dynasty, how can he explain to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the fame of the world that he killed the Ming Dynasty Tianzi? It is not necessarily like Jiang Zhipeng of the Chinese men's football team said, saying that the Yongli Emperor hung his head on the bowstring.
Therefore, Wu Sangui never thought of reversing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and there was an anti-Qing rebellion in the San Francisco Rebellion, but it was not a restoration. His real purpose was to establish the Wu dynasty and ascend the throne himself as emperor, but it was precisely this that allowed victory to slip away from his hands.
When Wu Sangui first started his army, under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, the reason for this rebellion was like a joke. As mentioned earlier, the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has fled to Burma, where he is wanted across borders and eventually killed. Wu Sangui, this bad old man is very bad, anti-Qing restoration I believe you a ghost!
Of course, people are forgetful, under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, there are still some people who are willing to follow Wu Sangui, and they can be regarded as die-hard fans of the Ming Dynasty. As long as Daming can be restored, what Wu Sangui has done before can also be written off, after all, Wu Sangui has the great merit of making the sun and moon quiet and restoring the light and recreating Qiankun. These people are the basic plate of Wu Sangui's army, and they are Wu Sangui's iron fans.
However, when Wu Sangui ascended the throne and became emperor, he shattered everyone's great dream, and everyone recognized Wu Sangui's true face, and those who originally had illusions about him were all turned black to him. After losing the basic disk, Wu Sangui no longer had the momentum of the previous period and began to go to extinction.
Wu Sangui's failure also lies in the fact that this man had no great ambitions and did not have the desire to completely overthrow the Qing Dynasty, but only wanted to split the land and crown the king and become a separatist regime. In fact, Wu Sangui fought very smoothly at the beginning, and several provinces in the south were beaten down by him, and the entire Qing Dynasty fell into a storm.
Wang Fuchen of Gansu responded with troops, the Geng family in Fujian, the Shang family in Guangdong, and these old brothers in San Francisco responded positively, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Hebei were also in chaos, and Wang Zhengjing of Yanping County, Taiwan, also responded positively. For a while Chinese mainland a mess. The whole Qing Dynasty was full of bloody storms.
However, under such circumstances, Wu Sangui actually accepted Kangxi's request for peace. This was Kangxi's strategy to slow down the army, and Kangxi, who had a chance to breathe, immediately rectified his men and horses, actively mobilized his troops, and selected excellent generals, making preparations for the final elimination of Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui, on the other hand, did not make corresponding preparations.
The reason why Wu Sangui made a faint move under the good situation was actually because Wu Sangui had not considered seizing the qing dynasty at all, he just wanted to maintain his relatively independent state in Yunnan. This mentality of small wealth and peace made him lose his direction in the face of advantages, and the lack of a big picture view eventually led to his demise