On the Internet, some people said, "When Wei Zhongxian was in power, the Ming army successively won the Zhenjiang Victory, the Niumaozhai Victory, the Salhu Victory, the Ningyuan Victory, and the Ningjin Victory, pressing the Houjin Dynasty. It can be seen from this that Wei Zhongxian still has the ability, and later if Chongzhen had not insisted on killing Wei Zhongxian, there would have been no Nurhaci or anything at all."
I really don't understand where the history of the questioner was learned. Is Salhu a big win? The defeat of Salhu deprived the Liaodong Ming army of the initiative, and the defeat of Quang Ninh caused the Liaodong Ming army to lose most of the region. As for the Zhenjiang Victory and niumaozhai victory, it can only be regarded as a victory! The only thing that can count as a great victory can only be the Ningjin victory.
The speaker seems to be teasing a ming history lover. It seems that in the form of another rumor, many rumors such as "Chongzhen sacrifice Wei Zhongxian" and "Wei Zhongxian will not die and the Great Ming will not perish" are being publicized.
Wei Zhongxian's rise was from the last year of the Wanli Calendar, but the real rise was from 1620 to 1627 during the reign of the Apocalypse. Wei Zhongxian really came to power from 1623, after he was in charge of the East Factory, and in 1621, he also framed people who were older than him to gain status, such as Wang An. At the same time, Wei Zhongxian was not nominally the head of the eunuchs, and he did not serve as a eunuch in charge of the ceremonies.
(1) From 1620 to 1627, it was the time when the Later Jin regime won the final victory in the Liaodong Battlefield and began to rectify Liaodong. The defeat of Daming Guangning was directly related to Wei Zhongxian
Yesterday I answered the Q&A on "Why the Ming Dynasty Could Not Hold Liaodong", in which we mentioned that before 1615, under the control of the Li Chengliang family, who had been guarding Liaodong for nearly forty years (beginning in 1570 and retiring in 1609 but whose descendants still occupied important positions). Nurhaci went from weak to strong, but his strength was completely irrepressible in the eyes of the Li Chengliang family, and at the same time, Nurhaci never showed the intention of rebelling against Daming, but obeyed the orders of the Ming Dynasty.
In 1615, after Li Chengliang's death, Nurhaci was faced with Li Rubai, Li Ruzhen, etc., so he took off his previous mask, established the "Dajin" in 1616, and issued the "Seven Great Hatreds and Ming Wen" in 1618, and began to take the initiative to attack the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in 1619, the main army of Daming, the Manchu Yehebu, and the Korean Lee army totaled 110,000 to attack Nurhaci, which was the Battle of Salhu. As a result, Mingjun failed miserably. A manager, a four-way division commander, the manager was arrested, the three-way division commander was killed, and Li Rubai committed suicide afterwards.
Xiong Tingbi (熊廷弼) was the Right Attendant of the Imperial Guard and the Right Governor of the Imperial History Xiong Tingbi (熊廷弼), who was the Governor of Liaodong on behalf of Yang Hao. However, Xiong Tingbi was unable to hold Shenyang with peace of mind after the loss of Kaiyuan and Shenyang, and the "party struggle" between the DPRK and China became increasingly serious, and the chaotic war between the Donglin Party and the Qichu-Zhejiang Party was used by the "Eunuch Party" (the "Eunuch Party" at this time referred to eunuchs). All those who lost the battle joined the "eunuch party" (the "eunuch party" at this time included the ministers who followed the eunuchs). Xiong Tingbi was asked to return to Beijing to report for duty.
In 1621, Shenyang and Liaoyang (the capital of Liaodong) were occupied. Yuan Yingtai was killed in battle, and Xiong Tingbi was used again, but because of his disagreement with inspector Wang Huazhen, he was defeated at the Battle of Quang Ninh.
(2) In the Battle of Quang Ninh, although Wei Zhongxian was not the "head of eunuchs", he already belonged to the "eunuchs of the spire level", so the problem of Quang Ninh's defeat in the battle was hard to blame. Sun Chengzong's overseer Ji Liao also did a very good job, and as a result, he was driven back to his hometown by Wei Zhongxian. Liaodong's hope of being downpaid was shattered again, how can it be said that Wei Zhongxian did a good job during the dictatorship
At the Time of Quang Ninh, Wang Huazhen was a member of the "Castration Party", and after the defeat, he was also protected by Wei Zhongxian and others, and was not killed by Chongzhen until 1632. Wei Zhongxian and others attributed the main responsibility for the defeat to Xiong Tingbi, but because of his military achievements and talents, as well as the offensive and defensive compromises of various factions in the DPRK, Xiong Tingbi was killed in 1625.
Subsequently, in the three years that Sun Chengzong, who has been elected by some modern people as the "God of War", overseer Ji Liao, in fact, the situation in Liaodong is getting better and better, at least in the defensive position.
It was precisely because of Sun Chengzong's command that the Liaodong battlefield expanded by more than 200 miles, and it had a solid foundation in the battle against Houjin. The situation on the two peninsulas of Liaodong and Shandong changed, and Sun Chengzong's prestige was high.
It was Wei Zhongxian's fear that Sun Chengzong's prestige would continue to rise and threaten his political life, so that he finally deposed Sun Chengzong by emperor Tianqi.
It was because of Sun Chengzong's resignation that Nurhaci launched an attack in 1626, intending to drive all the Ming emperors in Liaodong back to Shanhaiguan completely. Under these circumstances, the great victory of Ning Yuan and the great victory of Ning Jin were achieved. As a military town, Ningyuan was formed under the influence of Sun Chengzong.
As a eunuch and eunuch, Wei Zhongxian knew what military and state governance, and the victory in the Liaodong battlefield was not directly related to it, the only relationship was that he did not frame the people who really played a role, and played a role that did not "play a bad role".