The wheels of history are rolling, from Qin Shi Huang's unification of the world to the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains have experienced countless baptisms of war, and have witnessed the rise and fall of many generations and dynasties, and looking at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is a different kind of "scenery". It was also during this period that the protagonist of this time, Wu Sangui, walked into the long river of history and left his own figure in it.
It can be explained that Wu Meicun, the "leader" of the academic circles at the end of the Qing Dynasty, waved a large pen and wrote a sentence that "weeps that the three armies are all muscular, and the crown is angry and red", which is a true portrayal of Wu Sangui's temperament. Among them, the "red face" refers to chen yuanyuan chen dameier, who is famous for a while, wuzhong famous and one of the "eight yans of QinHuai". And this Chen Yuanyuan is also a key figure that cannot be ignored in the life of Wu Sangui's legend.
To say that this Chen Yuanyuan, the original surname xing, named Yuan, but because of his humble origin, he was born in the family of a cargo man at that time, and since his mother died at an early age, he had no choice but to send his uncle to his family, so he changed his surname and followed his uncle's surname as "Chen". However, although the family is unfortunate, but Chen Yuanyuan personally since childhood ice and snow smart, beautiful posture, but also after living in Jiangsu Taohuawu, follow the "pear garden" to learn talent, coupled with their own talent, after a little effort to carve, it can be described as a double color art, but also on the stage for the first time, playing the role of "Red Lady" in "West Chamber", it moved the whole field, after word of mouth and "agent" operation, it is more famous in the country, the single crown. Then, after a series of events, Chen Yuanyuan finally met the real reliance in the capital city, Tian Hong, the father of The Chongzhen Emperor Tian Fei, and met the real reliance, Wu Sangui, the general of Wu.
At this time, Wu Sangui was at the peak of his career, relying on some family conditions (his father was Wu Xiang, the general of Jinzhou, and his uncle was Zu Dashou, a well-known military general of the Ming Dynasty) and his own later efforts, he was extremely famous in the capital, plus he had a heavy army, which could be described as indispensable in the city, and many forces wanted to become close friends with him in the hope of helping. At this time, Tian Hongyu, who fell in the middle of the family road, was like this, so when Wu Sangui was surprised by Chen Yuanyuan's beautiful posture, he gave it to Wu Sangui. After that, Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan were in the family for love and affection, and all this was accompanied by the weakness and incompetence of the Ming Dynasty, and after Li Zicheng led the peasant army to attack Beijing, it came to an abrupt end, and At this time, Chen Yuanyuan was captured by Liu Zongmin under Li Zicheng.
Of course, it was also at this time that Wu Sangui encountered a very important choice point in his life.
In fact, there should have been three, and the choice was one was loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. In the face of Li Zicheng's rebel army, he did not panic or be afraid, leading his subordinates to fight to the death, and it was a big deal to die on the battlefield and sacrifice their lives for the country. However, it must be known that at this time, it was already at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and at this time, the Ming Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, and because it was too heavy on literature and light on martial arts, suppressing the military generals in the DPRK, it was already in danger, and it was a matter of time before the overthrow was really a matter of time, so this choice was cunning like Wu Sangui could not be chosen.
The second option was to surrender to Li Zicheng. At this time, Li Zicheng was powerful, and leading a large number of peasant rebels could easily break through the defense of Beijing City, which could not be described as strong. And according to the annals of history, Wu Sangui himself also planned to surrender to the rebel army, after all, although it will change dynasties, it is at least the same as the "Han Army", and can avoid fierce battles and facilitate the preservation of its own strength.
Option three was to surrender to the Qing army. And this choice itself was not in Wu Sangui's plan, but it was forced by the situation later and had no choice. Of course, for Wu Sangui, this choice three is also the last thing to choose, however, this is an afterthought, not to press the table for the time being.
In fact, it should be said that this Li Zi was dissatisfied with the rule of the Ming Dynasty, so he rose up and led a group of peasant rebels to fight all the way to the capital and attack the city of Beijing, safely and steadily called the emperor to change the name of the country, establish a new dynasty, and recruit the old generals of the former dynasty, even if it is a great achievement, envy others. But thanks to the lack of discipline among his subordinates, they made a fool of themselves, especially this Liu Zongmin, who should never have robbed Wu Sangui's beautiful son Chen Yuanyuan privately. It was also this behavior that completely angered Wu Sangui, which directly caused Wu Sangui to resolutely change his mind, give up choice two, and turn away in anger. Later, Wu Sangui eventually surrendered to the Qing army of Dolgun, and used the plot to pretend to agree to a peace with Li Zicheng in order to temporarily save the lives of his father Wu Xiang and his lover Chen Yuanyuan, after all, they were all hostages in Li Zicheng's hands at this time. He then went on to contact Dorgon privately and seek Dorgon's assistance on the condition that the Yellow River divide between the north and south.
Later, in addition, Li Zicheng was blinded by a series of hand-to-hand victories in the early stages, and he seriously lacked a sufficient understanding of the military strength of the enemy and us, so he hastily led his troops to march into Shanhaiguan. As a result, Wu Sangui falsely sent six people under his command to "lightly carry out thieves" and create the illusion that you Li Zicheng came, I Wu Sangui absolutely did not defend and waited for surrender. Then he urgently sent a letter to Dorgon to inform him of his own plan, so that Dorgon could "quickly reorganize the tiger brigade and go straight into the mountains and seas" to receive the fruits of the victory in the war. And this Dolgun was really powerful, leading a large number of people and horses, after a day and night of non-stop forced marching, in time to reach the vicinity of Shanhaiguan.
Later, after several intrigues and battles between Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng, and Dolgun, wu Sangui and Dolgun finally joined forces with Dolgun to defeat Li Zicheng's army, the Qing army entered the pass, attacked Beijing, and moved the former Qing Dynasty court from Shengjing in the northeast to Beijing, establishing the Qing Dynasty. And this series of events, while subverting the rule of the Ming Dynasty, ending the war, and opening up the Qing Dynasty, also created the historical events of Wu Sangui "rushing to the crown and turning angry into a red face" and attracting the Qing army into the customs, so that the wheel of China's ancient history continued to move forward.
Talking about this choice three theory is the last thing Wu Sangui should choose, because once Wu Sangui gives up the first two choices and then defects to Dolgun, it will completely open the door of my Central Plains, so that the Qing army can smoothly enter Guanzhong and overthrow the situation of self-management of the people of the Central Plains. Moreover, compared with those rulers of the Qing Army, Li Zicheng can really only be regarded as a "brother in the middle" in terms of IQ, so you and I might as well try again, if Wu Sangui swallowed his anger and surrendered to Li Zicheng, and then tried to find a way to gather the old troops, regroup, and launch a new war, then would this Li Zicheng be able to eat it? I can't say for sure. However, the choice is such that since the choice is made, there is no turning back.
Of course, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui won the favor of the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty after continuous ideological changes and conquests, and was allowed to open a domain and set up a mansion, sitting on the Yunnan side, and the power and momentum once again reached the peak. However, the good times did not last long, through the redoublance of several emperors, the strength of the Qing Dynasty continued to grow stronger, and finally during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, it ordered "cutting the domain", which directly damaged the rights and interests of Wu Sangui, which led to the latter rebelling and the war resurgent. Although in the early stage of the rebellion, Wu Sangui took advantage of the banner of "Xingming to seek revenge" and made the rest of the "Second Domain" rise up (known in history as the "Rebellion of the Three Domains"), which for a time caused a great threat to the rule of the Qing Dynasty, but the world was unpredictable, and the good start of the war situation changed sharply with Wu Sangui finally dying of illness, and finally ended with the Kangxi Emperor successfully quelling the rebellion and restoring reunification.
At this point, Wu Sangui's life was also drawn to an end in helplessness, leaving only the good story of "angry crown for a red face" and the experience of "The Rebellion of San Francisco" and the title of emperor of Hengzhou (only more than five months as emperor). As for the so-called "good" and "bad", they are left to future generations to judge.