Wu Sangui is an important historical figure in the late Ming and early Qing, as well as a famous "three-surname family slave" in history. As a Ming general, he first promised to surrender Li Zicheng's Dashun regime, then immediately repented and then surrendered. After the Qing Dynasty, in the Kangxi period, he opposed the Qing Dynasty and initiated the San Francisco Rebellion. For his own benefit, he was a capricious villain, somewhat similar to today's exquisite egoists.
Wu Sangui's life, capriciousness is a big label. The killing of Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang was his major failure. For a long time, regarding the history of Wu Sangui's killing of Yongli Emperor, many people said that even the Qing court wanted to give up, which was equivalent to letting go of Yongli Emperor. It was Wu Sangui who advocated sending troops to Burma to capture Emperor Yongli, and in order to avoid long night dreams, he advocated the execution of Emperor Yongli in Kunming. Then, is this statement correct? What is Wu Sangui's motive for doing this? Song Anzhi came to the specific today. Talk about it.
1. Regarding the internal views of the Yongli Emperor Qing court, there are also different ideas, and there are also ideas to give up
Time to return to the sixteenth year of Shunzhi (1659), as the Qing army pressed the border, steadily The defeated Yongli regime was finally gone, so Emperor Yongli fled to Myanmar via Yunnan under the protection of Li Dingguo.
After Emperor Yongli fled to Burma, the Qing court also had repeated discussions and wanted to send troops to Burma immediately. However, due to years of war, financial difficulties, and the remoteness of Yunnan, the Eight Banners army did not adapt to the harsh local climate. In the case of sending troops to Burma, it is very difficult to mobilize food and grass. can be said to have no advantage in military, financial and material resources. Therefore, we temporarily abandon this idea and plan to train for a period of time before sending troops to Burma.
Because the cost of sending troops to Burma is too high, and the Yongli regime has already fled to Burma, the Qing Dynasty’s dominance of the world has been set, and Yongli is no longer a threat to it. Up.
So although the Qing government did not give up the plan to send troops to Myanmar, it has been temporarily shelved, that is, using auxiliary means to achieve victory without fighting, such as ordering Hong Chengchou to write a letter to Myanmar asking them to hand over the eternal calendar Di Zhu Youlang et al.
Under the circumstances at that time, the Qing government had somewhat abandoned the Yongli Emperor, intending to let him fend for himself.
But Wu Sangui disagreed. After seeing that the Qing court was not so active towards the Yongli Emperor in Myanmar, in February of the 17th year of Shunzhi, he made a famous "Three Adversities and Two Adversities". Send troops to Burma, in order to capture the Yongli Emperor, and achieve once and for all.
After discussion within the Qing court, it was felt that Wu Sangui's proposition was also in the interest of the ruling class, so he agreed with Wu Sangui to send troops to Burma, and the Ministry of Households withdrew 3.3 million taels of silver.
In December of the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, Wu Sangui led a large army to Burma, demanding that Emperor Yongli and others. Naturally, the King of Myanmar would not have a war with Wu Sangui for Emperor Yongli, so he handed over Emperor Yongli and others.
After Wu Sangui captured Emperor Yongli, he thought that if he was taken to Beijing, he was afraid of a long journey and what happened on the way, so he advocated that Emperor Yongli should be executed in Kunming. The Qing court agreed with his claim, so he was in Kangxi. On April 25th of the first year, Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang and his son were executed in Kunming.
It can be said that in the process of capturing and executing Emperor Yongli, Wu Sangui was very active and hardworking, even more active than the Qing court. Yongli Emperor could There is such an outcome, it is actually caused by him.
2. What is the purpose of Wu Sangui doing this?
Wu Sangui was a former general of the Ming Dynasty and was heavily used by Emperor Chongzhen. It stands to reason that he would not have such a deep hatred for the former Ming clan. So why did he have to capture and execute Emperor Yongli so actively?
Of course because of profit!
When Wu Sangui was ordered to guard Yunnan by the Qing court in the 17th year of Shunzhi, he already regarded himself as the "King of Yunnan" and dreamed like Muying in the Ming Dynasty, So that his family can guard Yunnan for the rest of the world.
Since he compares himself to the "King of Yunnan", Yunnan is his one-acre three-quarters of land. Therefore, the Yongli Emperor who is in Myanmar and the remnants of Nanming's power in Yunnan are very important to Wu Sangui. Said that it was naturally a threat and was not conducive to his rule in Yunnan, so naturally he wanted to get rid of it quickly.
Of course this is only one, and there are two reasons. That is, Wu Sangui needed a certificate to make the Qing Dynasty fully trust him, so that he could better replace the Ming Dynasty Mu's family and achieve the goal of becoming a town in Yunnan.
After all, Wu Sangui was the former surrender of the Ming Dynasty. He was sent to the Qing Dynasty to deal with Li Zicheng, so he sent the regent of the Qing Dynasty to Dorgon. The Qing Dynasty’s trust in him is limited. The military strength is tight, and it is really beyond the reach of the southern whip, and it will not let him support himself and guard Yunnan.
Therefore, Wu Sangui intends to use Emperor Yongli as his name to show his loyalty to the Qing court in order to achieve the goal of becoming a town in Yunnan.
The Qing court naturally reciprocated the peach and the plum. After Wu Sangui captured Emperor Yongli, he was named a prince in Jin Dynasty, indicating his further reuse.
Of course, what the Qing court did was nothing more than a stopgap measure. After all, in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, after a long war, the country was already dilapidated and finances were difficult, so the ambitious Wu Sangui was allowed to gain semi-independence in Yunnan-Guizhou area. status.
After Emperor Kangxi took office, out of the idea of centralization, naturally he would not tolerate a semi-independent king of different surnames like Wu Sangui. Therefore, in the twelfth year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi withdrew from the feudal vassal. Wu Sangui felt that he was deceived by the Qing court, and was not willing to give up the good situation that he had worked hard for more than ten years, so he rebelled.
And Wu Sangui's previous act of capturing Emperor Yongli on his own initiative finally broke out at this time. It can be said that he shot himself in the foot because Wu Sangui rebelled under the banner of "Xingming begging for captives" The Qing court directly publicized Wu Sangui's "Three Troubles and Difficulties" memorial to the world, making it difficult for Wu Sangui to gain an advantage politically, and caught him by surprise.
Thank you for watching Song Anzhi’s exclusive original article, focusing on the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the history of China. I like to talk about the unchanging history from a different perspective. Those who think it can remember Like and follow Kazakhstan.
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