Theoretically, if Wu Sangui obediently gave up his military power and took the initiative to surrender Yunnan, the Qing court would certainly treat him kindly.
Because any normal person will hope to take Wu Sangui as an example and try to solve the San Francisco problem as low as possible.
Kangxi was neither a madman nor a nervous man, and he naturally wanted to solve the San Francisco problem peacefully.
However, theory is theory and reality is reality. In reality, theory simply does not work.
In reality, Wu Sangui only gave up his military power and gave up his territory. His final fate must be very bleak, and he will not end well.
Because Wu Sangui can be the king of Pingxi. His son Wu Yingxiong was able to be a horse master and was deeply appreciated by Empress Xiaozhuang. And Kangxi was able to agree to Wu Sangui's return to his hometown in Liaodong for the elderly with the treatment of a prince.
The premise of all this is based on the fact that Wu Sangui is the "spokesperson for interests" of more than 100,000 people.
(Wu Sangui has jurisdiction over 10 battalions and 53 commanders, more than 100 military attaches with more than four pins, a total of 32,200 soldiers, plus the families of soldiers, a total of about 100,000 people)
Without this foundation, why did Kangxi treat Wu Sangui's family kindly with the treatment of hereditary princes? Why?
Just by virtue of him Wu Sangui can fight?
Joke. In the early Qing Dynasty, there were more bannermen and generals in the Eight Banners Army, and I had never seen anyone like Wu Sangui who could be awarded the title of prince.
You know, Wu Sangui is not a flag man.
So in fact, Kangxi felt that San Francisco was a big threat, not that he felt that Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi were a big threat.
Kangxi complained that San Francisco had spent a lot of money and eaten up the national treasury, not that he complained that Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi had spent a lot of money.
No matter how much the three royal palaces ate, they could not eat the treasury.
What Kangxi was really afraid of, disliked, and urgently needed to be solved was actually the hundreds of thousands of people under Wu, Geng, and Shang.
These hundreds of thousands of people in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guangdong, and Fujian have a transcendent position, take advantage of plunder, forcibly occupy mines, monopolize commerce and trade, and privately levy tariffs.
In addition, in order to calm the people, Wu Gengshang also asked the imperial court for nearly 10 million taels of military expenses every year (about 5 million military expenses in Yunnan Domain), averaging to each person, and the income of small soldiers was also higher than that of the grand master of Qipin County, and the treatment was excellent.
In the name of the false ditch to build a city, the city of Chongguan, the benefits of the ridge salt well and the gold and copper mine, the thick self-sealing. Envoy to the Dalai Lama, Hubei City Beisheng Prefecture. Liaodong Ginseng, Sichuan Huanglian, and Zizi, on their land, are collected and transported, and the officials are rewarded for it and receive their value. The goods are overflowing, and the loans are rich, which is called "the domain".
Calculating that Yunnan Province was paid more than 9 million yuan, it was agreed to withdraw the Manchurian soldiers and return them to Beijing, and lay off 50,000 green flag soldiers by 50,000.
Therefore, the actual version of the pension agreement between Kangxi and Wu Sangui should be that "Wu Sangui wants to appease the hundreds of thousands of proud soldiers under his command for the imperial court, and it is best to dismiss them on the spot without spending a penny from the imperial court." Kangxi would allow Wu Sangui to return to Liaodong safely for the elderly."
In Kangxi's plan, San Francisco would be completely withdrawn, at least a large number of people.
Those who have been dismissed have no compensation, each has a destiny, and the imperial court is not responsible for the elderly.
And this condition of Kangxi, can Wu Sangui do it?
Wu Sangui ignored it, patted his ass and left, and became a rich man. His hundreds of thousands of people really obeyed to disarm, and without any resistance, they were disbanded by the Qing court at a very low cost?
How is this possible. This is equivalent to, you have been in the company for 20 years, but the company is going to cut your salary tomorrow, and there is gossip, and the company has decided to lay you off. No compensation is given.
I would like to ask, can you bear it?
Of course you can't stand it. If you don't turn him upside down, how can the evil breath in your heart come out?
If you have the conditions, you may be able to coerce your boss into rebellion, causing the boss to suffer heavy losses.
Everyone is an adult and should understand a truth.
When a person is intimately tied to the interests of countless people, personal feelings are not important at all.
Maybe Wu Sangui really wanted to retreat from the whole body, just like Shang Kexi. But the reality is that he can't decide.
Look at the good news. Didn't he just want to retreat later, and the result?
He was put under house arrest by his son Shang Zhixin and died.
And Shang Zhixin's courage to put his father under house arrest came from the support of Shang Kexi's subordinates.
The people under Wu Sangui's command are most likely to be the same.
In the eyes of these people, the status of Wu Dashuai's family, everyone's current status, is all bought by the big guys who have worked hard!
Now Wu Dashuai actually patted his ass and wanted to leave, and then threw himself to the imperial court and let the imperial court slaughter him, how could he bear it?
In this case, the 100,000 officers and soldiers under Wu Sangui's command may not be Kangxi, but Wu Sangui.
It's like that. You work hard in the company to do projects, out of achievements, the leader takes the big reward, you take the small reward, everyone is happy and harmonious.
But one day, in order to pat the boss on the ass, respond to the boss's call, and save costs, the leader actually wanted to lay you off.
At this time, the person you hate the most is definitely not your boss, but you are your boss. Because he betrayed you.
Under such resentment. When the time comes, as long as the imperial court cuts the domain.
Wu Sangui's subordinates will definitely bypass Wu Sangui and directly rebel without consulting him!
Or, these people put Wu Sangui under house arrest, supported a small child of the Wu family, and then rebelled in the name of Wu Sangui.
Even if Wu patted his ass and left, these people could still issue edicts in Yunnan, rebel in the name of Wu, and encircle Wu in the air.
Anyway, it was Wu Sanguixian who was ruthless and unjust and abandoned them.
He Wu Sangui first betrayed everyone, and the generals naturally could not care about Wu Sangui's feelings, and whether Wu Sangui's family was dead or alive.
In short, the reality is that as long as Kangxi decides to dismiss San Francisco, (it can be said that this is the purpose of Kangxi's cutting of the domain), hundreds of thousands of people in San Francisco will inevitably rebel for the sake of personal interests.
Because Kangxi had done too much, he did not intend to leave any leeway for San Francisco.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, cixi wanted to dismantle the Xiang army. She was afraid that the Xiang army would rebel and left room, so the Xiang army was not completely withdrawn. Not only were the water armies all preserved, but a considerable number of infantry were retained.
Most of the Xiang troops who were finally dismissed made a windfall by fighting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and voluntarily wanted to go home.
With such a result, Cixi was satisfied, and the Xiang Army could also accept it.
Kangxi was unwilling to compromise with San Francisco, and the result was inevitably that the san franciscan generals would not agree.
And as soon as they rebelled, either Wu Sangui did not escape, was coerced by the people, participated in the rebellion together, or was put under house arrest and died.
Either Kangxi hated Wu and used Wu's failure to get the people and did not fulfill his promises as an excuse to borrow Wu's head to sacrifice the flag and vent his anger.
Regardless of whether Wu Sangui participated in the rebellion or not, whether Wu Sangui knew that the people below would rebel or not. As long as he ceded power and became a canary raised by Kangxi, his future fate would certainly not be in his own hands.
There are too many cases in history for this kind of thing.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo was killed. The generals of the Western Liang Army, Li Dai and Guo Feng, prepared to disband the troops, and each of them was destined to die. Before leaving, Jia Xu persuaded them. Tell them: If you dismiss the troops and abandon your subordinates, a small pavilion chief will be able to catch you. That being the case, you might as well lead the big guys to rebel. If you can succeed, the bicycle will become a motorcycle in seconds, and the reward will break through the sky. Don't be afraid of losing, just run away. You're going to run away anyway. Why not give it a go?
Zhuo was defeated, Fu died again, and everyone was afraid, and the lieutenants Li Dai, Guo Feng, Zhang Ji, and others wanted to disband and return to their hometowns. Xuan Yue: Wen Chang'an zhongzhong wanted to do everything possible to curse the people of Liangzhou, and the kings abandoned the crowd and went alone, that is, a pavilion long could bind the king. It is better to lead the crowd to the west, collect troops, attack Chang'an, avenge Dong Gong, fortunately, serve the country to conquer the world, if not, go away later.
Even if we don't look at the Three Kingdoms, we can only look at the treatment of Sun Kewang, the leader of the Great Western Army, and Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong's father, after the surrender of the Qing, and we can guess the result of Wu Sangui.
Therefore, Wu Sangui honestly accepted the cutting of the domain, left his subordinates, and returned to his hometown in Liaodong alone for the elderly. Theoretically, it was feasible, but in the circumstances at the time, it simply did not work.
His subordinates would not allow him to pat his ass and leave, and he was powerless to soothe his subordinates at a low cost. Kangxi could not have given him the treatment of a good death without dismissing his subordinates.
Under such circumstances, Wu Sangui could only rebel.
At the very least, the rebellion is not enough to fail to fish at both ends. It made his subordinates hate him, and they wanted to slash his whole family with a thousand knives. Kangxi also complained about him, and he was eager to cut his whole family with a thousand knives.
I am not human inside or out.
In addition, Wu Sangui had an old face, sacrificed his honor, endured the scolding of tens of millions of people, and killed the Yongli Emperor in order to show loyalty, in order to obtain the privileges of Shizhen Yunnan like the Mu Wangfu of the Ming Dynasty.
But Kangxi could not meet his demands, and wanted him to become a joke in the eyes of the world. It is not difficult to imagine the resentment of Wu Sangui against the Qing court in his heart. (Hong Chengzu had told Wu Sangui that if he wanted to be safe, he must not make Yunnan peaceful and uneventful, and if he was alive forever, Kangxi would not dare to withdraw his domain.)
A lifetime of hard work and sacrifice, after all, becomes a joke, can this also be regarded as a total retreat?
Isn't reputation worth mentioning?
Therefore, Wu Sangui actually never wanted to retreat from the whole body.
Whether he could retreat from the whole body, Wu Sangui himself knew.
In fact, what he has been struggling with is whether to be called emperor. Instead of struggling with whether to fight with the imperial court for the power of Shizhen Yunnan, whether to rebel or not.
After his historical rebellion, he also hesitated for a long time before making up his mind on the issue of claiming the title of emperor.
But on the issue of withdrawing the domain and rebelling, he did not hesitate.
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