What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
After the change of Jiashen at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army entered the customs and began the journey of dominating the world, their opponents were not weak, but in the end they were defeated without exception.
Among them, the Southern Ming regimes that have been fighting the Qing Dynasty for the longest time have inherited the Ming Dynasty's legal system, and they have the most opportunities, or they are blown up by the Qing army one by one.
Friends who know a little bit of this history know that the biggest reason for the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty is not the strength of the Qing Dynasty but in its own internal struggle, from Hongguang to Longwu to Yongli, infighting runs through the various regimes of the Southern Ming, which is the main cause of its demise.
One of the most unfortunate is the Yongli regime. After the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army came out to resist the Qing Dynasty, the Yongli imperial court was greatly boosted, Li Dingguo was even more famous as Wang Wei, and the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youluo once saw the hope of Zhongxing.
Unfortunately, in the end, it was ruined by infighting.
Li Dingguo entered Guangdong twice, full of hope that Zheng Chenggong on the southeast coast would cooperate, and Zheng Chenggong would have more than 100,000 troops and thousands of warships at this time, and if he joined forces with Li Dingguo, the Guangdong campaign could be successful.
However, Zheng Chenggong released Li Dingguo's pigeons twice, and Li Dingguo suffered a major defeat in Xinhui, losing more than half of his troops, and Zheng Chenggong's non-cooperation was the main reason.
There was another big man, Sun Kewang, who was even more excessive, because of his disagreement with Li Dingguo, he actually personally proposed that the army attack Kunming on a large scale, and after the defeat of the army, he simply surrendered to Qing and presented hong Chengyu with a map of Dianqian, sending the key for the Qing army to attack Yunnan ensuingly.
The operation of these big guys makes people understand, can't you fight together well, why do you have to fight all day?
Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong are the two figures who have the greatest influence on the Yongli regime, one is manifested inside and the other is manifested outside.
These two people, one vying for power and usurping the throne, the other supporting the army and self-respecting, have always been accused of having no overall situation view and short-sightedness, and are typical representatives of infighting.
However, Sun Zheng and the two of them only took over a part of the remnants of the old army left by their own Lao Tzu, and they were undoubtedly quite talented in developing such a force in the chaotic world.
If they can develop into the two most powerful anti-Qing forces, they really can't see the situation in the world so clearly, and can't they see that they can't resist the Qing Dynasty without unity?
There is a non-contradictory question: Does the anti-Qing dynasty have to regain consciousness?
Of course not, anti-Qing returns to anti-Qing, and restores sight to restoration, which are two different things.
Some people oppose the Qing in order to restore the Ming, and some people oppose the Qing only to become emperors themselves.
There can be countless reasons for opposing the Qing Dynasty, but we must let everyone work with an iron heart and make the troops cohesive, and we must play an acceptable banner.
That is, draw a big pie first, so that everyone has a little hope.
Sun Kewang was from the Great Western Army, but The reputation of the Great West had already been broken by Zhang Xianzhong, and he wanted to raise the great western banner again to find a fight himself. It would be easy for Sun Kewang to destroy the Yongli Calendar, but Zheng Chenggong, the Thirteen Families of the Eastern Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty's widows would not listen to his orders, which was a plain enemy for himself.
Zheng Chenggong studied in Nanjing Guozijian, and was also given a surname by Longwu, and it was more justified to play the banner of Daming. On the contrary, if he were to claim the title of king himself, Sun Kewang, Yongli, and the thirteen families of Chudong would not tolerate him.
As far as the situation at that time was concerned, there was no more appropriate way than to hold high the banner of Daming, and by virtue of their own strength, they could not command the world, and time did not allow them to "accumulate grain and slowly become king" like Zhu Yuanzhang, and they must quickly gather the anti-Qing forces throughout the country to break their wrists with the Qing army.
This can only be done in the name of Daming.
In terms of ability, Sun and Zheng are obviously much higher than Yongli, but the problem of bloodline is not something that can be solved by ability, and even if Zhu Youluo is a fool, he is also the grandson of Wanli, the heir to the throne of the Ming Emperor who has the most legal system, who does not respect him, who do he respect?
Such a political routine was played by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang long ago.
In the fourth year of LongFeng (1358), Zhu Yuanzhang was still 18,000 miles away from becoming Ming Taizu, and at that time he was only the Pingzhang of Zhongshu Province under Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming.
At the end of this year, Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Wuzhou and set up the Zhongshu Zhejiang Province, and struck out two large yellow flags, which read: Mountains and rivers have the land of China, and the sun and moon reopen the Great Song Dynasty. Next to it stood two wooden plaques, which read: Nine days of the sun and moon to open the zodiac, song country and mountains to restore treasure map.
This was the situation at that time, all the anti-Yuan forces in the world, as long as it was the Red Turban Army system, played under the banner of anti-Yuan and Song dynasties. Even though the Southern Song Dynasty had been nearly a hundred years after its demise, raising the banner of the Song Dynasty was still the most effective way to unite the forces of the world, and in the fifteenth year of Zhengzheng (1355), Liu Futong and others supported Han Lin'er as emperor in Bozhou, and the national name was Song.
The biggest enemy is the Yuan Dynasty, and with King Xiaoming as the co-lord, it is good for everyone to avoid the anti-Yuan forces from fighting each other prematurely.
Later, after all the rebel armies were either annexed or suppressed, Zhu Yuanzhang defeated his greatest rivals Chen Youyu and Zhang Shicheng successively, and his strength was greatly inflated, and there was no need to hide his political goals, and the Wu King who was given the title of King Xiaoming could no longer satisfy his appetite. In the eleventh year of Longfeng, he sent people to secretly remove King Xiaoming, announced that he would no longer use Longfeng for a few years, changed it to Wu Yuannian in 1367, and established Daming as emperor in Nanjing the following year, and changed his name to Yuan Hongwu.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, the anti-Yuan is true, and the Fu Song is false; for Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong, the anti-Qing is true, and the restoration is false.
They all just wanted to be emperors themselves.
Therefore, Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong are actually not really Mingchen, and the object of their study is Zhu Yuanzhang.
Sun and Zheng can't be fools and fools, otherwise they would have been done to people long ago, on the contrary, they were quite shrewd.
The timing of the hands-on choices of the two big guys is quite perfect, and it can be seen that they have been planned for a long time.
When Sun Kewang raised troops to attack Li Dingguo on a large scale, Li Dingguo had just suffered a major defeat in Xinhui and lost more than half of his troops; at the Time of Qujing, even if Bai Wenxuan defected before the battle, they only had 30,000 troops in total, and Sun Kewang's strength was 140,000.
Zheng successfully launched the Battle of the Yangtze River at the right time, and he remained stationary and waited during the Qing army's three-way attack on Yunnan. When Yongli was driven into Burma, the Qing army on the expedition to the southwest had not yet had time to take over, and seized the opportunity to launch an all-out attack. This is not to save the eternal calendar, nor is it to restore his vision, but also for his own dream of emperor.
Such a timing is perfect, do you know that people are not as good as heaven, both of them were reversed in the downwind game, and the reason was that they lost psychologically.
Suppose that Sun Kewang or Zheng Chenggong, one of them, finally repelled the Qing Dynasty and regained the two capitals, the world will no longer be called Daming, but a new dynasty they themselves established.
Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong are one in the southwest and one in the southeast, in fact, the two are basically carved out of a template, adjust their positions, and the choice is basically the same.
Sun Kewang could have continued to blackmail Tianzi to order the princes, but Li Dingguo's great rise around him was too dazzling, and then let him become a climate, Sun Kewang had to be squeezed down, and the situation forced him to do something to Li Dingguo for his dream of being emperor. Even if the price is that daming's banner cannot be beaten after winning, it is much better than his own desire to be shattered, not to mention that his troops occupy an absolute advantage, which seems to be a step of ten to nine stable chess.
How could Zheng Chenggong send troops to attack Xinhui with Li Dingguo, and Li Dingguo won, then control Liangguang, push straight into Fujian, and then plot against Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At that time, the southeast coast will listen to Li Dingguo or listen to him Zheng Chenggong, and if he does not listen to Li Dingguo, he will not listen to the Yong calendar, will he still do it as a Ming chen, and will he still fight under the banner of Daming? After listening to Li Dingguo, how could Zheng Chenggong be willing?
On the surface, this is an infighting in the Yongli regime, but in fact its nature is the same as Fang Guozhen, Zhang Shicheng, and Chen Youyu will not cooperate with Zhu Yuanzhang to resist the Yuan, and each of them will put the interests of their own factions first.
Yongli is like the Xiaoming King at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, nominally the co-lord of the world, but Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong can never be regarded as true Ming subjects, they are anti-Qing but do not want to restore the Ming, but only want to win the power of the world under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zheng Chenggong will not cooperate with Li Dingguo, and Sun Kewang will not be able to willingly submit to Li Dingguo, which will subvert their political goals.
These big guys are not ignorant of the overall situation, on the contrary, they are very clear about the overall situation, the military has always been a continuation of politics, based on their own purposes, it is normal to make such a choice.