In the last years of Chongzhen, the situation was chaotic, at that time Zhu Youjian was no longer able to control the overall situation, the plague in Beijing was prevalent, the combat effectiveness of hundreds of thousands of troops collapsed, the Manchu Qing dynasty outside Guanwai was looking at the tiger, and Li Zicheng Zhang Xianzhong in Guannei completely destroyed bashu and the official palace north of the Yellow River, and then both of them set up their own national names.
After stabilization, Li Zicheng marched north to besiege Suncheon Province, Chongzhen asked all the generals to support him fruitlessly, and hanged himself, and then Li Zicheng occupied the Forbidden City, and it turned out that a large number of Ming officials surrendered to Li Zicheng, and what awaited them was not to add officials to the knighthood, but to torture them.
Among them was Wu Xiang, the father of Wu Sangui, the commander of the Guanning Iron Horse, who was also in Suncheon Province at the time and his family into Li Zicheng's army, and then surrendered, at which time Li Zicheng's army's behavior was to show all the normal operations of the earth bun into the city.
On the one hand, he is a proud and proud old general of the Ming Dynasty. While torturing the captured Ming Dynasty civilian officials and military generals, and by the way, searching for their family members and wantonly abusing them, Wu Sangui is one of the typical examples, as the object of his allegiance to Chongzhen died, holding tens of thousands of iron horses, his every move has the possibility of changing the situation.
However, Li Zicheng's performance was completely in line with the normal level of a bandit, even though he was ready to ascend the throne again, the king came to the world, he sent people to surrender Wu Sangui, and then someone tortured Wu Sangui's family, pursued The Silver Two of the Treaty Army, and his subordinates occupied Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan, and coerced Wu Xiang to write a letter to surrender Wu Sangui.
After several hesitations, because the news was isolated from Wu Sangui, who had promised to surrender, after receiving the news that his family had been severely tortured and his concubines had been occupied, he and Li Zicheng were incompatible with Li Zicheng before he had time to surrender, and after receiving his father's letter, he wrote a family letter with great emotion.
Hearing the Holy Lord's death, the subjects are humiliated, and they are overwhelmed! Remembering that my father was always loyal and righteous, although the general trend was gone, Judas should fight a blow and swear not to be born. If not, he will slash his neck and die in martyrdom, so that ersu will mourn and take revenge in battle; if he is not good, he will continue with death, and he will not be loyal and filial piety! He Naiyin endured and secretly lived, willing to be unjust, and had no talent for filial piety and forgiveness, and was ashamed of the courage of the plains to curse thieves. Fu Yuanzhi was a mother sinner; Wang Ling, the second duke of Zhao Bao, and a heroic martyr. My father was a general, a courteous king, and a disgraceful woman. The Father cannot be a loyal servant, but the Son can be filial piety? Son and Father, please from today. The father did not plan early, although the thief put the father next to the trick to lure Sangui and ignore it. Male Sangui again hundreds of prayers.
The funny thing is that this well-known traitor righteously accused his father of not being able to be a loyal vassal in his letter, but instead bent down to surrender to Li Zicheng, when Wu Xiang and others surrendered because they could not resist Li Zicheng's torture, and Wu Sangui's letter clearly expressed a concept.
Because Wu Xiang was not loyal to the emperor, he failed to martyr the country with his body and generously went to the country, resulting in his own inability to fulfill his filial piety for his father, because he wanted to avenge his father's revenge, and he would raise troops to attack Li Zicheng and avenge the Chongzhen Emperor.
If this is the case, I believe that the image of Wu Sangui can be said to be the image of a loyal subject who is bright and upright. After all, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot have both. According to the meaning of Wu Sangui's letter, if Wu Xiang can generously die in the country, he can not only live up to the emperor's favor, but also give himself an example.
However, Wu Xiang's surrender made Wu Sangui neither human nor human, and if he was loyal to the emperor, he would inevitably fall into the path of filial piety, and if he complied with Wu Xiang's request, he would naturally fall into the quagmire of disloyalty. He said it was a difficult choice, and in his early years Wu Xiang had taught him to repay the holy family.
So, in the end, I turned the conversation around and accused my father of not being loyal, or even inferior to a woman, but he was different, and he would say goodbye to his father, anyway, you are not a loyal subject, don't blame me for not being filial piety.
If Wu Sangui really thinks and does this, no matter what, he cannot accuse him of harsh requirements, after all, loyalty to the country and loyalty to the imperial court is the basic principle of a soldier, but what he did was jaw-dropping, when he wrote to Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui had already established a strategic alliance with Dolgun to support each other, in other words, Wu Sangui already had a way out, at this time, he awe-inspiringly accused Wu Xiang of not being able to die, and portrayed the face of a snob.
Such an approach has nothing to do with loyalty, as for filial piety, it is simply a contrarian son, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not too much to say that it is selling the father's family life in exchange for his own survival.