Whether Yuan Chonghuan was a national hero, in fact, this history can be seen clearly in the eyes of the masses, because more than a hundred years ago, a Ming Dynasty minister was killed. His name was Yu Qian. At that time, Yu Qian was the most powerful minister and once held the

Yuan Chonghuan is a national hero or a thief who sells national interests. This has been a topic of debate since the demise of Ming Dynasty . In fact, this history is indeed difficult to judge, because what is separated from the person involved from this world is not a few years of records, but hundreds of years. The world has changed too quickly, and many things cannot keep up, but the eyes of the masses are sharp. The real truth can be temporarily hidden because of the winner's modification of history, but the truth will never be covered up.

Comparison between Yuan Chonghuan and Yu Qian

Is Yuan Chonghuan a national hero? In fact, this history can be seen clearly in the eyes of the masses, because more than a hundred years ago, a Ming Dynasty minister was also killed. His name was Yu Qian. At that time, Yu Qian was the most powerful minister and once held the power to abolish the emperor. When Mongols invaded the capital, he turned the tide with his own strength and finally saved Ming Empire . However, such a loyal minister to the Ming Dynasty eventually died in the battle between the old and new emperors.

When Yu Qian was killed, the history books said "The world is wronged". The people in the world, regardless of their status, status, status, men, women, and young, felt wronged for Yu Qian. The previous people who made the people in the world feel wronged were in the Southern Song Dynasty Yue Fei was framed and killed by Qin Hui . Countless people in the capital came to see Yu Qian off in mourning clothes spontaneously. Even the mother of the two emperors, the Empress Dowager, fought on a hunger strike to oppose . The woman in the capital did not accept guests for three consecutive days to express her dissatisfaction with Qian's unjust killing. So on the day when Yuan Chonghuan was killed in the late Ming Dynasty, how did the people in the capital treat him?

Historical books record that they were also executed by the Caishikou in Beijing. Yuan Chonghuan was sentenced to much heavier punishment. Chongzhen Emperor sentenced Yuan Chonghuan to death. The people in the capital that day did not feel sad after hearing the news. On the contrary, they were happy that like the New Year, everyone passed on the good news to each other. Countless people flocked to the West City to watch the law enforcement process. When the prison car escorted Yuan Chonghuan all the way, countless angry people called him a traitor, and countless people threw stones and wooden blocks at Yuan Chonghuan like garbage. Yuan Chonghuan always hung his head and said nothing.

When the executioner was executing Lingchi, every time a piece of meat was cut off from Yuan Chonghuan's body, the thousands of people who watched the process would cheer loudly. Some brave people even kept buying Yuan Chonghuan's meat and ate it in front of Yuan Chonghuan to vent their hatred. Faced with such a heavy physical and mental blow, Yuan Chonghuan left his desperate poem: "A lifetime of career will eventually become empty, half a lifetime of fame is in a dream, and there is no worries about a brave general after death, and the loyal soul will still be kept in Liaodong ." In this way, Yuan Chonghuan, who was only 4646 year old, finally died after being slacked for three days and three nights. So the question is, why do the people in the capital hate Yuan Chonghuan so much?

Deceiving the emperor and the people who were suffering

Why did Yuan Chonghuan end up like such a miserable end? In fact, it has a lot to do with his own experience. In the early years, Yuan Chonghuan entered the official career by studying for the imperial examination. Ningyuan Victory successfully killed Houjin with the sharpness of the firearm. Khan Nurhaci thus gained the appreciation of Emperor Chongzhen. For the mess in Liaodong, the Emperor Chongzhen Emperor What I thought of was Yuan Chonghuan for a moment, and Yuan Chonghuan also made custody that he only needed five years to pacify Liaodong. Because of the previous victory of Ningyuan's great victory, Chongzhen at this moment also trusted Yuan Chonghuan's words.

Chongzhen, who had never received formal emperor education, almost handed over the future of the country's destiny to Yuan Chonghuan because of these words from Yuan Chonghuan. He personally cleared the huge military expenses, and took back the Shangfang Baojian rewarded to ministers Wang Zhichen and Mangui , and asked later to reward Shangfang Baojian to Yuan Chonghuan. Only Yuan Chonghuan in the Ming Dynasty enjoyed this extraordinary treatment. At that time, someone asked Yuan Chonghuan why he was so confident that he could clean up the chaos in Liaodong in five years. Regarding this situation, Yuan Chonghuan replied that the emperor was too anxious and said a specific time so that he could relieve him.

In this way, Yuan Chonghuan took the highest military power in the Liaodong region, and then began his own invincible military operation. According to his own statement, in order to facilitate military unification, he punished a large number of capable generals in the Liaodong region, and even killed Pidao Delivery generals Mao Wenlong After Mao Wenlong died, the Later Jin sent troops to Shanhaiguan without any scruples since then, and Yuan Chonghuan also fell into a crisis at this time, because Huang Taiji sent troops to attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but Yuan Chonghuan was unexpected for this strategic action.

After the Later Jin army was dispatched, Yuan Chonghuan not only expected the wrong direction, but also had more than 100,000 troops in his hand without any action. Instead, he watched the capital where Emperor Chongzhen lived was captured in more than 20 days. Huang Taiji's Manchu soldiers and horses directly borrowed from Mongolia to enter the pass from Xifengkou in Great Wall . After entering the pass, the Later Jin army went deep into the original Ming Dynasty for an annihilation war. Unfortunately, Yuan Chonghuan did not attack the Later Jin army, but followed from far behind, and watched the back-acting army burn, kill and loot, and retreated outside the Great Wall without any damage.

The hatred of Yuan Chonghuan by the people of the world

In fact, the relationship between Emperor Chongzhen and Yuan Chonghuan began with the siege of the capital. After the siege of the capital was lifted, Emperor Chongzhen directly asked Yuan Chonghuan three questions. The first was why Mao Wenlong was killed, the second question was why even if the enemy attacked the capital, the third question was why he indulged his subordinates to shoot and kill our general Man Gui. For these questions, if Yuan Chonghuan could give a good answer, then perhaps Yuan Chonghuan would not be executed by Lingchi in the future. In fact, Yuan Chonghuan could not answer these questions at all.

Why didn’t Yuan Chonghuan answer? Some people may say that Yuan Chonghuan actually has difficulties, while others may directly say that Yuan Chonghuan's actions are inaction, and even suspected of colluding with enemies and selling the country. Because from a normal perspective, if Yuan Chonghuan had practical reasons, he would definitely say it, and at that time it was the key to his life. His purpose of not saying this was actually very obvious.

Emperor Chongzhen's intention to convict Yuan Chonghuan was actually quite obvious, but he still paid attention to methods and principles. He did not directly execute Yuan Chonghuan with his imperial power, but instead asked the relevant departments in the court to jointly trial. It took eight months and finally convicted Yuan Chonghuan of the execution of Lingchi. Judging from what Yuan Chonghuan did, he had no achievements after becoming the governor of Liaodong. He did many things to send money, food, population and military weapons to the Later Jin Dynasty. In the end, he finally gave the Later Jin Dynasty a huge success.

Yuan Chonghuan had more than 100,000 troops in his hands and was besieged by the capital but did nothing. In the end, hundreds of thousands of people near the capital were robbed by the Qing soldiers, and countless civilian relatives were killed. This alone directly led to the death of Yuan Chonghuan when he was executed by Lingchi. When Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Lingchi, countless people wanted to die, and even fought for the first time to buy it. In later history, since the demise of the Ming Dynasty, they have always been mainly to belittle Yuan Chonghuan. There were two people who began to praise Yuan Chonghuan in Chinese history, and they were both famous people. One was Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty , and the other was the great writer of Jin Yong .

Conclusion

As the last governor of Liaodong, Yuan Chonghuan himself came from a peasant family. At the age of 35, he won the title of a Jinshi as a fellow Jinshi. Later, he became a first-rank official step by step. Emperor Chongzhen spared no effort to save money and used empty inner treasury to sell royal utensils just to exchange for a pacification of Liaodong. But what was the final result? Who should explain history? This man has passed away and the world is confused.