Preface
Yuan Keli is known as the veteran of the Four Dynasties, and he has gone through the four dynasties of Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi and Chongzhen. It can be said that he made a great contribution to saving the situation of the Ming Dynasty, but later generations did not know much about this national hero.
The reason for this is that the Qing Dynasty wantonly wiped out this loyal minister, resulting in no one daring to mention this famous minister for hundreds of years. And Yuan Keli is still the anti-Jin general that Nurhachi fears and hates the most.
First, the end of the Ming Dynasty three Yuan
Yuan Keli, Yuan Chonghuan, and Yuan Yingtai are known as the three Yuan of the late Ming Dynasty. But when later generations mentioned the three of them, most of them said that Yuan Keli's merits far exceeded the two.
I have to say that this is indeed the case, it can be said that the use of Yuan Keli at the end of the Ming Dynasty is the most correct move of the Emperor of the Apocalypse. Not to mention the rescue of the precarious Liaonan, and the Ming Dynasty switched from difficult defense to attack instead of defense, and recovered the city occupied by the Houjin.
It has won several years of stability for the Ming Dynasty, and has continued the national glory of the Ming Dynasty. It is worth mentioning that during the years when Yuan Keli was in Liaodong, Nurhachi could only be cautious and no longer dared to take the initiative to attack. It was not until Yuan Keli had to leave Liaodong because of the infighting in the court that Nurhachi resumed his offensive.
There is another thing that makes Houjin ashamed, that is, Nurhachi's son-in-law, under Yuan Keli's knowledge, decided to return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty, so as to help the Ming rebel against Jin.
Although Liu Aita himself also has national feelings and a patriotic heart, Nurhachi and Houjin still put all this on Yuan Keli's head, thinking that it was his cunning that made his Houjin's son-in-law rebel.
This incident has also become a humiliating past that the entire Qing Dynasty will not mention, it can be said that in Yuan Keli's place, Nurhachi has always been frustrated, compared to Yuan Chonghuan and others later, it is obvious that Yuan Keli's behavior is more intolerable to them.
Second, the wanton blockade
If you say that the Manchu Qing Dynasty hated the most, I believe that the first thing that appears in everyone's mind is Yue Fei, after all, Yue Fei fought against Jin back then, and it was the ancestor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who fought against Jin.
Once a son of heaven and a courtier, now that he has finally sat on the throne of the emperor, what good treatment can he have for Yue Fei, who beat himself to the desert and fled before, he must settle accounts after the autumn. During the Yongzheng period, Yongzheng ordered Yue Fei to be removed from the martial temple, and began to praise Guan Yu and belittle Yue Fei.
Although Yue Fei had passed away, they still wanted to fight Yue Fei, of course, Yongzheng was not the only one who did this move, his son continued his actions after his death. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the calligrapher Dong Qichang's book "The Legend of Jingzhong Ancestral Hall" was published in the book. Because of this incident, Lu Shihua, who was in charge of publishing at the time, was almost beheaded.
In the end, under Qianlong's obscenity, the "Jingzhong Ancestral Hall" could only be changed, and finally it could be preserved. But Yue Fei's traces in history are too heavy, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty wantonly suppressed him, it still can't change his status in people's hearts, but Yuan Keli is different.
Although Yuan Keli was also a famous anti-gold general, with the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Keli seemed to be forgotten. The most remarkable achievement of the Qing Dynasty can be said to be the revision of the "History of the Ming Dynasty", which can be said to be an outstanding achievement of the Qing Dynasty.
However, what makes people wonder is that the history of the Ming Dynasty, which has been built for a hundred years, has more than 300 volumes of the history of the Ming Dynasty that does not describe Yuan Keli's deeds. It can be said that according to Yuan Keli's exploits, it is more than enough to open a single chapter in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and the history of the Ming Dynasty, which was compiled after three dynasties, does not have the deeds of this person.
In this way, there is only one possibility, and that is that the emperor will not allow it. This matter is not unreasonable, not only is there no record of this person in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but there is no record of this person's deeds in various historical materials. As long as the historical materials that praise Yuan Keli are praised, there is only one end - they are destroyed.
It can be said that during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this became a thing that all cultural and historical officials knew about, as long as there were historical materials about Yuan Keli, they were all destroyed. Of course, there will be some people who think that this is a bit biased, but it goes without saying which is more important, justice or life.
This leads to the fact that even if you know that this is not good, but no one still proposes that in the prosperous times, the country and the people are safe, so it can be seen that it is particularly targeted. But in the Guangxu period, the country was already in danger, but the archway commemorating Yuan Keli was still destroyed......
Why the Manchus hated Yuan Keli so much is actually very simple, that is, he offended the ancestor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty - the Qing Taizu Nurhachi.
If it was said that Nurhachi hated one of the Ming officials, then he would definitely not hesitate to say Yuan Keli's name.
3. Endure all the hardships
Yuan Keli can be said to be the most feared general in the late Ming Dynasty by Nurhachi. As we all know, most of Nurhachi were invincible in the anti-Ming battles, but it was in the hands of Yuan Keli that Nurhachi suffered several defeats.
This made Nurhachi, who had always been proud, how could he endure it, and the constant victory also made Nurhachi have a different idea in his heart, and at the same time he was more confident, but now he was defeated at the hands of a civilian official.
There may be some doubts in everyone's hearts, that is, in the records of historical books, the Qing army has always been invincible, and the only defeat was in the hands of Yuan Chonghuan. This was the drawback of the Qing Dynasty's neglect, which was not the case, and the Qing army had suffered many defeats before that.
Nurhachi has been defeated by Yuan Keli seven times, and I believe it can be seen why the Manchus hated Yuan Keli so much.
That was in the year of the Apocalypse, with Nurha's unbridled attack, the border passes and the two places were lost one after another, and no one in the entire court dared to speak out to suppress it, and they all wanted to protect themselves. At this moment, Yuan Keli stood up, not only put forward seven suggestions, but also went to supervise the battle in person.
After Yuan Keli arrived, he began to reorganize his troops on a large scale, and then formed an army with super combat effectiveness. This army, which had only 50,000 men, actually caused Nurhachi to suffer seven defeats in a row. One can imagine how the invincible Nurhachi hated Yuan Keli who was in charge of this army.
At the beginning, Houjin thought that the army of the Ming Dynasty was ineffective, but after real contact, he found that the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty should not be underestimated, of course, it was precisely because of the tenacious and capable ministers like Yuan Keli.
During Yuan Keli's three years at the border pass, he recovered Lushun, Hongzui Fort and other places, and for a while, Jin's original great advantage was gradually decreasing.
Especially in the defensive battle of Lushun, this battle can be said to be the most brilliant victory of the Ming Dynasty in the war between the two sides for so many years. In particular, Yuan Keli clearly saw Nurhachi's strategy, Nurhachi wanted to develop to the west, but Yuan Keli pressed forward step by step and did not give him this opportunity.
made Nurhachi fall into a dilemma, and at this time, behind Nurhachi there was Mao Wenlong, who was arranged by Yuan Keli to contain Nurhachi.
It was precisely because Yuan Keli cut off all the roads of Nurhachi that he hated him so much, that after ascending the throne, future generations were not allowed to mention Yuan Keli for hundreds of years.
epilogue
As the saying goes, "history is always rewritten by the victors", it can be said that this sentence is very appropriate for Yuan Keli, and the Qing Dynasty not only rewrote Yuan Keli, but also should be said to be erased.
In this way, the achievements of an anti-gold hero were erased, and Yuan Keli's achievements in his life were not known. No one knew about Yuan Keli's deeds for hundreds of years, and even today it seems to be a pity.