What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Wu Sangui, the man who, since Yuan Chonghuan's death, became the successor of the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong Liaoxi border defense, the impression of his descendants is that "chong guan is angry and red", first rebelling against the Ming And then rebelling against the Qing, and finally ascending the throne as emperor without a face, leaving himself with an insult for thousands of years.
However, to tell the truth, Wu Sangui was actually quite embarrassed in this life, digging the corners of the Ming Dynasty and the wool of the Qing Dynasty, but he played a good hand of cards. Wu Sangui's father and son have served as daming's Liaodong general for two generations, but the father and son do not know what to think, Lao Tzu Wu Xiang is a timid, once had a bad record of "escaping from the front, resulting in the total annihilation of the army". His son Wu Sangui was again implicated in Emperor Taiji.
When Wu Sangui attacked the capital by Li Zicheng, he was originally on the way to rescue the driver, but when he heard that Chongzhen was hanging, he immediately strangled the reins, and the emperor was gone, and he also saved a fart driver! Therefore, Wu Sangui now only has two ways to go, surrender to Li Zicheng or surrender to the Manchu Qing, because although he claims to have more than 100,000 troops, but he can actually fight only 50,000, what is this to do with others?
Just when Wu Sangui was in a dilemma, his father sent himself a message in the capital that he wanted to surrender to Li Zicheng, anyway, there were many benefits. Wu Sangui thought, too, good villain Li Zicheng is also a Han, compared to the Manchu Qing, it is always his own people, so he rushed to the capital.
Before arriving in the capital, I heard the displaced people who ran out of the capital say that Li Zicheng burned and plundered, did no evil, and arrested Wu Sangui's father and little wife Chen Yuanyuan. Wu Sangui is really going to explode, can this still be endured? So he turned his horse's head and went to Huang Taiji to negotiate with Huang Taiji, and borrowed soldiers to kill Li Zicheng!
Originally, the agreement was that after Li Zicheng opened the Mountain Customs and released the Qing army into the customs and helped Wu Sangui drive away Li Zicheng, the Manchu Qing wanted to return the capital, but Wu Sangui ceded the north of the Yellow River to the Manchu Qing as a reward. And the release of the Qing army into the customs has also become the real hammer of Wu Sangui's notorious treason, and many people believe that the complete collapse of the Ming Dynasty is because of Wu Sangui.
And this matter, because of Chen Yuanyuan's addition, with a little peach color, so it has been invented by posterity in many versions. And in reality, there are very few men things a woman can decide.
Facts have proved that Wu Sangui's cooperation with Huang Taiji is to fight with tigers, meat buns to fight dogs, there is no return, Wu Sangui returned to the Manchu Qing. Helping the Manchu Qing dynasty to conquer the west made great contributions to the Manchu Qing and was named the King of Pingxi, that is, the Tu Emperor of Yunnan.
But no matter how loyal a traitor is, it is not enough to be trusted. Therefore, as Wu Sangui's power grew, the Manchu Qing became more and more uneasy about Wu Sangui, and planned to test his loyalty and let him destroy Nanming. Nanming was a regime established by the Ming Dynasty clan in the south, and it was also considered the old lord of Wu Sangui, as a result, Wu Sangui did not remember the old feelings at all, captured the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty alive, and strangled him in Kunming.
After Kangxi ascended the throne, he became more and more jealous of the power of the local clan kings, so he decided to cut the clan. Wu Sangui originally planned to retreat into the advance, and took the initiative to request Kangxi to withdraw the domain and let himself return to his hometown, but he did not expect that Kangxi would push the boat along the water, which really choked Wu Sangui not lightly.
Wu Sangui is going to explode! Okay, Kangxi Xiao'er counts you out. Lao Tzu I am not waiting! Therefore, under the banner of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty", Wu Sangui rebelled again, and received the response of many righteous soldiers and Han officials who remembered Daming, and Wu Sangui's army was like a bamboo, and quickly occupied Hunan, Liangguang, Fujian and other places.
However, suddenly, I did not know that the line in Wu Sangui's brain was chaotic, and suddenly it changed, not "restoring the light", only "anti-Qing", and he also ascended the throne as an emperor, and the national name was "Great Zhou". This really angered the righteous soldiers who had followed him under the slogan of "anti-Qing and restoration".
However, Wu Sangui has a big heart, you scolded you, anyway, I sat on the dragon chair, love it. However, I don't know if it is Providence, Wu Sangui ascended the throne only 5 months ago, he suddenly suffered a stroke hanging, this accident came too quickly like a tornado, Wu Sangui did not even cultivate the heir, this is said to be hanging, the army was in chaos in an instant, the newly established regime collapsed in half at once, kangxi took the opportunity to quell the rebellion of San Francisco.
Wu Sangui was originally a general, leading soldiers to fight is also a good hand, if he had sworn to die for the Ming Festival, it would also be a hero admired by thousands of people. Even if the Manchu Qing surrendered, if it ended up from the beginning, it is estimated that the reputation would not be so bad. But he is partial to the twilight, and he is also a good card to play!
No one can stop the wheel of history, even if Wu Sangui does not let the Qing army enter the customs and fights in the Central Plains to the death, Shanhaiguan will always have a day that cannot be kept, after all, the Manchu Qing want to enter the Central Plains is not a day or two, but Wu Sangui has accelerated this process.