To discuss the most common age of costume dramas, it must be of the Qing Dynasty. Costume romance dramas or time travel dramas are concentrated in the Qing Dynasty without exception. The princes with long names are all carrying missions of big or small. In fact, in addition to the ancient puppet dramas that are popular today, many TV dramas that were set in the Qing Dynasty in the early years used war as the theme.
In addition to the illusory character Wei Xiaobao , there is another person who is a regular visitor to TV series in the Qing Dynasty background, and that person is Wu Sangui . The most important event in Wu Sangui's life was to raise troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Such a twists and turns usually appears as a treacherous and dark villain in film and television works, but Wu Sangui himself is not a person who is clearly distinguished from black and white.
If you want to truly understand him completely, you may only be able to interpret his character by returning to history and being his confidant, but now we don’t need to travel through time now, we can also understand Wu Sangui better. There are rumors that the original version of Wu Sangui's anti-Qing manifesto was discovered in Japan across the sea. Through this manifesto, we can see a little bit of the truth about Wu Sangui's life full of variables.
betrayed "traitor"
Wu Sangui was not born in the Qing Dynasty. On the contrary, he was a famous general guarding the pass in the Ming Dynasty in the previous period. Wu Sangui was stationed precisely whether the Manchu army could enter Shanhaiguan, which was in the Central Plains. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had lost its power of rule due to peasant uprisings. The Ming Dynasty fell and the Dashun regime rose. Not only that, there were 4 people from the Manchus outside Shanhaiguan who were eyeing him and trying to enter the pass to become king.
At that time, Wu Sangui, who was guarding Shanhaiguan, did not lead his troops back to Beijing to support the Ming Dynasty regime. On the contrary, Wu Sangui, who was far away in the border, chose to sit idly by the uprising in the country. Wu Sangui's original intention in this matter is not innocent. Perhaps he thought that the emperor was far away and he was good to control the country far away from the court.
Wu Sangui's abacus was good, but what he did not expect was that the leader of the peasant uprising who was killed in China, Li Zicheng also killed Wu Sangui's family. This time Wu Sangui must not be able to sit still. Is there any hatred in the world greater than destroying his whole family?
Although Wu Sangui wanted to cut Li Zicheng into pieces with his own hands, he soon thought of a better way than Li Zicheng's blood-blade. This better way is that Wu Sangui decided to switch to welcome , man-man into the Central Plains. This move will undoubtedly make Wu Sangui a sinner who betrays his country, but this move can also easily allow the Qing army who wanted to dominate the Central Plains to kill Li Zicheng.
It is obvious that Wu Sangui's plan was very successful. The unorganized and undisciplined peasant army naturally lost to the Manchu army that was born to gallop on the grassland. Soon, the Qing army, who was forced into the capital, killed Li Zicheng, who had not been emperor for a few days. Wu Sangui was unscathed and did not lose his troops and horses to avenge him.
Heroes that are difficult to subdue
Actually, if you think about it carefully, Wu Sangui's behavior is not incomprehensible. Faced with the old dynasty with serious land annexation and corrupt officials, Ren's people did not want to continue to stay in such a dynasty. It would be better to save your life and find another way out than to die for such a country.
Wu Sangui's decision to surrender to the Qing army did bring benefits to him in a short period of time. After the Qing army entered the pass, he rewarded Wu Sangui who helped them dominate the Central Plains. They named Wu Sangui as a vassal king and guarded the current Yunnan-Guizhou area. The Yunnan-Guizhou area is also a place with high mountains and far away from the emperor. Although Wu Sangui only has the title of a vassal king here, he also has the power to hold great power. Logically speaking, Wu Sangui, who had experienced wars and family destruction, yearned for peace and should guard his fiefdom and be his vassal king. But who would have thought that Wu Sangui had started a famous war in the history of the Qing Dynasty - " The Three Feudal Rebellion ".
The truth of the rebellion
During the days when he was a vassal king in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, Wu Sangui was far from being as idle as he appeared. He took advantage of his stay away from the court and recruited soldiers and quickly launched a large-scale rebellion war on after he was ready.Wu Sangui's "rebellion" was not as unorganized and undisciplined as the "peasant emperor" Li Zicheng. Under Wu Sangui's outstanding military command, the Wu army quickly attacked the capital. After attacking the capital, Wu Sangui did not go straight into , Forbidden City, . Instead, he chose to stay outside the city and arrange his troops to guard the land he had already attacked.
Just before Wu Sangui's victory over the Manchu government, Emperor Kangxi in the palace broke Wu Sangui's dream with a one-way counterattack. The few months Wu Sangui stationed outside the city gave Emperor Kangxi a full chance to breathe. In these few months, Emperor Kangxi recruited soldiers and expanded his strength. When the swords were facing each other again, Wu Sangui was defeated.
It is obvious that the Three Feudal Rebellion ended in failure. After Wu Sangui's failure, a large amount of sewage was poured on him. In the Qing government dominated by Manchu, this Han Chinese "Father King" obtained the image of a treacherous minister who was treacherous in his faith and intended to rebel, but is this true? It is a bit abrupt to be convicted from history by future generations just because of resisting the rule of the dynasty. There is a reason to shout for injustice for Wu Sangui. The latest interpretation of the Three Feudal Rebellion appears in the latest historical materials. This historical material is the original manifesto written by Wu Sangui when he rebelled by Japanese experts.
In this manifesto, the massacre and persecution of the Han people after the Qing army entered the pass. Wu Sangui originally wanted to use the power of the Qing army to overthrow Li Zicheng's regime to fight for a better and better ruler for the people, but he did not expect that in the end he led the wolf into the house and endangered the lives of the Han people. When he launched the Three Feudal Rebellion for his mistakes, he was suppressed by the Qing Dynasty and became a loser again.
This manifesto records Wu Sangui's helplessness and choice. As the few high-ranking Han officials at that time, , which was , was excluded and attacked by the Han people, Wu Sangui could not sit idly by. On the one hand, Wu Sangui was also a Han person. On the other hand, Wu Sangui was one of the few high-ranking Han officials in the Qing Dynasty government. If he doesn't care who will take care of it?
Conclusion
It is true that no matter how history is recorded, we cannot fully understand the whole picture of what really happened. The characters who are entangled in the torrent of history are doomed. If we really want to dissect their psychological activities, it is really a difficult behavior for the younger generation. The only thing we can know is that there must be ethnic conflicts in the anti-Qing incident of Wu Sangui, and the contradictions between the Manchu and Han ethnic groups must have reached an irreconcilable level.
"Learn from history, you can know the rise and fall." The changes of dynasties and generations have long disappeared in the Central Plains. There are not only Manchu and Han ethnic groups but also huge ethnic minority groups on the Central Plains, only national unity can bring national unity. I hope you and I can remember that fifty ethnic groups are the masters of the country, and I hope that every Chinese can melt their blood into the red pulse regardless of the nation.
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