In 1673, Wu Sangui, the King of Pingxi of the Qing Dynasty, launched a rebellion in Yunnan, marking the beginning of the San Francisco Rebellion. Shang Kexi, the king of Jingnan in Guangdong, and Geng Jingzhong, the king of Pingnan in Fujian, launched rebellions one after another, and the Qing Dynasty faced great challenges. In the traditional impression of many people, San Francisco is like an iron plate, a relationship of solidarity. In fact, this is not the case, there are great contradictions between San Francisco, and after the Rebellion of San Francisco, there is even a situation of Chaos in San Francisco. Strategic short-sightedness and lack of overall planning belong to Wu Sangui's biggest weakness. Today, we're going to talk about that.
The Qing Dynasty belonged to the rising regime in the northeast region, and during the gradual development and growth of the Qing Dynasty, many Ming officials surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, such as Hong Chengzu, Zu Dashou, Shang Kexi, and so on. In 1644, the Ming dynasty, which had ruled for more than 200 years, collapsed, and the Qing Dynasty immediately began to enter the customs on a large scale. In the process of entering the Customs Of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui played a crucial role. As a result, Wu Sangui was crowned king of Pingxi. Although the Ming Dynasty had fallen, several Southern Ming regimes were established before and after the Jiangnan region. In the northwest and southwest, there are also regimes established by the peasant army. The Qing Dynasty began to gradually move south to pacify this series of regimes. In this process, Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming all made outstanding military achievements. After more than 10 years of war, the Qing Dynasty basically established its own rule, and the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty was killed. However, the southern region of the Qing Dynasty was not at peace.
In Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, there are still a large number of remnants of the Southern Ming forces. In the southeast, the Zheng clique controlled the island of Taiwan and took advantage of the advantages of the water division to continuously attack Fujian, Guangdong and other places of the Qing Dynasty. In order to consolidate the southern region, the Qing Dynasty successively sealed Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming to the south, of which Wu Sangui was responsible for Yunnan and Guizhou. Shang Kexi was responsible for guarding Guangdong, and Geng Zhongming was responsible for guarding Fujian. Basically, they all played a role in using force to fight against the remnants of the Southern Ming or the forces that were still loyal to the Southern Ming.
In their respective areas of control, San Francisco had the power to appoint and dismiss civil and military officials below Sanpin. Although civil and military officials of more than three pins were exempted by the imperial court, San Francisco had the "right to make suggestions." San Francisco gradually developed into a semi-independent separatist force, each forming an interest group. In order to prevent the situation of San Francisco from being too big to fall, the Qing Dynasty also left a back move. The salaries and grain and grass of the armies under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco were supplied by the imperial court. In this way, once the San Francisco appeared to be disobedient, the imperial court could quickly cut off the logistical supplies of the San Francisco army. However, the number of military salaries demanded by San Francisco was increasing, and the imperial court was overwhelmed. After the young Kangxi Emperor took power, he decided to abolish San Francisco by practical means.
In fact, most officials in the DPRK and China opposed the issue of abolishing San Francisco, because they were worried that San Francisco would seize the opportunity to launch a rebellion. In fact, the situation in San Francisco was very embarrassing, and neither Wu Sangui nor Shang Kexi and Geng Jingzhong (a descendant of Geng Zhongming) were fully capable of launching a rebellion. He just wanted to maintain this deformed relationship with the imperial court and be the earth emperor of one side. In 1673, the elderly King shang kexi of Jingnan asked to return to his hometown in Liaodong to raise his family and be succeeded to the throne by his son Shang Zhixin. The Kangxi Emperor did not accept ShangKexi's request, but most of his courtiers opposed it and issued an order to abolish San Francisco.
After the Kangxi Emperor ordered the abolition of San Francisco, Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and others were basically caught off guard. One thought that the imperial court did not dare to withdraw, and the other thought that San Francisco did not dare to oppose, and as a result, both sides guessed wrong. Wu Sangui, the most powerful of the Three Domains, began to secretly mobilize troops, expand troops, and build weapons, and seven months after the Kangxi Emperor issued an order to withdraw the domain, Wu Sangui launched a rebellion. After Wu Sangui launched a rebellion, Shang Zhixin in Guangdong and Geng Jingzhong in Fujian hesitated for much before launching a rebellion. The situation was once very favorable for San Francisco, and Wu Sangui's army successively occupied Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan and other places, basically forming a confrontation across the river with the Qing Dynasty.
Wu Sangui's old subordinate Wang Fuchen had an army of 80,000 and controlled the shaanxi and Gansu regions, maintaining a neutral attitude. Wu Sangui's generals, seeing that Wu Sanguo had taken the opportunity to cross the Yangtze River, continued to expand their power northward. However, the control ability of the Wu Sangui group has reached its limit, and under the hasty uprising, it is not sufficient in many aspects. In addition, Wu Sangui launched a fierce conflict with two other clan kings, causing Wu Sangui to consider his own rear.
Wu Sangui's power continued to expand, and thus launched a fierce conflict with the Shang Zhixin group. The shangzhixin group controlled the area in Guangdong, Guangxi belonged to Wu Sangui's sphere of influence, and Fujian belonged to Geng Jingzhong's sphere of influence. Because, after Shang Zhixin launched a rebellion, he could only go all out to the north and attack Hunan and other places. However, Wu Sangui's army quickly occupied a large area of Hunan and blocked the way north of Shang Zhixin's group, which made Shang Zhixin very dissatisfied, and the armies of the two sides broke out into a scuffle. The result of the melee was naturally the defeat of Shang Zhixin, after which the Shang Zhixin Group and the Wu Sangui Group basically broke up.
Wu Sangui not only had to defend against the Qing dynasty army in the north, but also needed to divide his troops to defend against the counterattack of the Shangzhixin clique. As for the Geng Jingzhong Group in Fujian, it is fighting with Taiwan's Zheng Group. Geng Jingzhong's clique was not strong, and in order to fight against the Qing army, Geng Jingzhong invited Zheng Jing of Taiwan to send troops to fight jointly. Zheng Jing said that he could send troops, but Geng Jingzhong had to give up Zhangzhou, Xiamen and other places as bases for the Zheng clique's army. For this request, Geng Jingzhong of course could not agree, his own territory was originally small, if he gave up a part of Zheng Jing, his strength would definitely be greatly weakened. Geng Jingzhong refused Zheng Jing's request, so that the two sides turned against each other.
Instead of assisting Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Jing ordered his own sailors to attack Geng Jingzhong's control areas and occupy Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, xingzhou, and other places. Geng Jingzhong's limited forces needed to defend Zheng Jingshui's division, and there were few troops left to attack the Qing Dynasty in the north. It can be seen that various problems have arisen within San Francisco, and it is simply unable to continue to expand the scale of the war. The Qing Dynasty began to gradually adjust its strategy, using the threat of force and the double standard of high-ranking officials Houlu to force the Shaanxi Wang Fuchen to submit. Subsequently, the Qing Dynasty began to fight in the southeast region, Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong were defeated and defeated again, and in the face of the pressure of the Qing Dynasty army, they chose to surrender successively.
The surrender of Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong put the Wu Sangui clique into a very isolated state. The Qing Dynasty began to attack the Wu Sangui clique from three directions, and Wu Sangui chose to be emperor before his death, establishing the "Great Zhou Regime." After Wu Sangui fell ill and died, Wu Sangui's grandson Wu Shipan continued to confront the Qing Dynasty. Faced with an irreparable defeat, Wu Shipan, who was at the end of the road, committed suicide. From 1673 to 1681, the Qing Dynasty took eight years to finally put down the San Francisco Rebellion. In this war, San Francisco exposed many problems such as strategic short-sightedness, internal incongruity, and mixed fish. As for the Qing Dynasty, there were problems such as being too hasty and improperly employing people.