Summoning of the Great General of the Great Qin Empire

Chapter 189

After the Qing army entered the customs, due to the sharp changes in the balance of various political forces, the Qing government implemented a policy of buying high-ranking officials with generous salaries, and the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty returned to the Qing Dynasty one after another.Wu Sangui also gave up his idea of ​​supporting Prince Ming.As a representative of the Han landlord class who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, there was still a considerable distance between Wu Sangui and the Qing government.First of all, Wu Sangui's beggar attacked Li under the banner of "recovering the revenge of the king and his father".

At the beginning of his surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui still maintained certain ties with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty.Regarding the Nanjing Fuwang regime, he even said: "I can't bear to add one arrow to the other."Again, unlike other demoted officials, Wu Sangui also has an army under his own independent command.Therefore, at the beginning of entering the customs, the Qing government showed favor and favor to him, but was suspicious, and did not grant him any authority.In addition to strictly guarding against him politically, militaryly, he only used his hatred for Li Zicheng's uprising army to lead his troops to attack Li Zicheng.In June, Wu Sangui went out of Shandong to pacify Li Zicheng's remaining troops. In September, he conquered Li Zicheng from King Aji Gexi of England.

In August of the second year of Shunzhi (1645), after Li Zicheng's main force was basically wiped out, the Qing government transferred him back from the front line, "out of Jinzhou".Wu Sangui was well aware of this arrangement of the Qing government.From then on, he never mentioned anything about "recovering the vengeance of the emperor and his father". Instead, he called Emperor Chongzhen "the old lord" and repeatedly confessed that he was "loyal to the new dynasty".

In the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647), the Qing government transferred Wu Sangui into the customs again, and together with the general of the Eight Banners Li Guohan, he was in Hanzhong to suppress and kill the remaining anti-Qing rebels in the northwest.During this period, in order to show his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui not only brutally suppressed the remnants of the peasant army and massacred the city at every turn, but also spared no effort to exterminate the descendants of Zhu Ming who rose up to fight against the Qing Dynasty.The change of Wu Sangui's thoughts and actions made the central government of the Qing Dynasty rely more on him, and the remnants of the anti-Qing rebel army in the Northwest were wiped out.

In the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651), the Qing government ordered Wu Sangui and Li Guohan to lead an army into Sichuan to attack the rest of Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army.In a few years, Chongqing, Chengdu and other important towns in Sichuan and Sichuan were pacified successively.In the 14th year of Shunzhi (1657), Wu Sangui took the post of General of Pingxi and went south to Yunnan and Guizhou to attack the regime of King Gui Yongli, the last regime of Nanming.

In the 16th year of Shunzhi (1659), Wu Sangui captured Yunnan.After capturing Yunnan, he was entrusted with opening a feudal clan and setting up a mansion to guard Yunnan and take charge of military and civilian affairs.In the 18th year of Shunzhi (1661), the division went out of Burma to capture and kill King Gui.For more than ten years, Wu Sangui led his troops from the northwest to the southwestern border, and made special contributions to the establishment of the Qing Dynasty's rule over the whole country.Therefore, the Qing Dynasty changed from the original control to the free use of him.Not only after Li Guohan's death, he was allowed to assume the sole responsibility, but also in all military activities, "fake it for cheap, don't return to the middle system, employ people, the officials and soldiers must not be restrained, and the household department must not delay the use of money." .At the same time, in terms of position, he has been promoted again and again.

In November of the first year of Kangxi (1662), he also captured and killed King Gui, and was promoted to Prince Prince and also governed Guizhou.His son Wu Yingxiong also chose Princess Shang, known as "Heshuo's son-in-law", plus Shaobao and Prince Taibao.Wu Sangui established a feudal clan and set up a mansion in Yunnan. When his power and momentum reached their peak, the conflict between him and the central government of the Qing Dynasty began to intensify.In Yunnan and Guizhou, he wanted to be the Pingxi King of Mu Ying's "Shizhen Yunnan" in the Qing Dynasty.Regarding Wu Sangui's ideas, the Qing Dynasty had a clear understanding of them.Therefore, after Wu Sangui killed Emperor Yongli, he set about reducing Wu Sangui's power.

In the second year of Kangxi (1663), the Qing court confiscated his seal of General Pingxi on the grounds that the military operations in Yunnan and Guizhou had ceased.In the sixth year of Kangxi (1667), taking advantage of his resignation to take charge of the affairs of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, he ordered the governors of the two provinces to obey the central government.At the same time, he was also deprived of his judicial privileges, "All those who fled from the Pingxi clan will be tried by the judiciary, and Zhang Jing must not intervene."Wu Sangui retaliated by "provoking the Miao barbarians and using troops on the pretext" to expand the army and demand payment.The contradiction between Wu Sangui and the Qing government became more acute.

In the spring of the 12th year of Kangxi (1673), Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan who guarded Guangdong, invited him to return to the old Liaodong. Emperor Kangxi took advantage of the situation and made the decision to order him to move his vassal.Later, the Jingnan King Geng Jingzhong, who guarded Fujian, requested to withdraw from the feudal domain according to the law.Under the pressure of the situation, Wu Sangui also hypocritically wrote to the imperial court, requesting the withdrawal of the feudal clan, but in fact he hoped that the imperial court would comfort him.

Emperor Kangxi was very clear about Wu Sangui's true intentions.He believes that Wu Sangui and the imperial court have been at odds for a long time. "Withdrawal is also rebellion, and if it is not withdrawn, it is rebellion. If it is not as early as today, it can still be controlled."So against all opinions, he resolutely decided to allow him to withdraw the feudal domain, and sent a special envoy to Yunnan to manage the withdrawal of the feudal domain vigorously.In November, Wu Sangui executed Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Yunnan, and claimed that all the people in the world recruited Marshal Ma, and proposed "Xingming to seek captives" and rebelled.

Since Wu Sangui ruled central Yunnan for 14 years, at the beginning of the rebellion, the rebels took advantage of the whole province of Guizhou and Hengzhou in Hunan.King Jingnan of Fujian, Prince Pingnan of Guangdong, and Wu Sangui's cliques in various places, such as Zheng Jiaolin, Tan Hong, and Wu Zhimao in Sichuan, Luo Sen and Sun Yanling in Guangxi, Wang Fuchen in Shaanxi, and Cai Lu in Hebei, etc. also raised their rebellious flags one after another. response.Suddenly, the situation was very favorable to Wu Sangui.

In the 13th year of Kangxi (1674), Wu Sangui was called the first year of "King of Zhou".He captured Wu Yingqi in Yuezhou, and the Battle of Yuezhou broke out.The 15th year of Kangxi (1676) was an important turning point in the military situation of both sides.Due to the three years of Bingxing, Wu Sangui felt that there was a serious shortage of military and financial resources, and Wu Sangui's party members in various places also separated from each other and had their own schemes.

In early June of the 17th year of Kangxi (1678), Wu Sangui personally ordered General Ma Bao in the capital Hengzhou (today's Hengyang City) and gave him plans to lead an army of 5 south to attack Yongxing, a battleground for military strategists. He won two battles and won two battles. Created the Qing army, killed Dutong Yilibu and Hu Kesan in the First World War, and seized the Qing army's Hewai camp (Yongxing stands on Leishui, which connects Hengzhou on the top and Guangdong on the bottom);

The reinforcements led by the vanguard commander Shuo Dai, the deputy governor Tuo Dai, and Yi Sixiao were defeated in World War I. The camp was washed away, the south bank of the river fell, and the Qing army was forced to retreat to Guangdong, inflicting serious military blows on the Qing army and Kangxi.In mid-June, Empress Zhang passed away, and Wu Sangui was frustrated.In July, Wu Sangui personally deployed a large-scale attack on Guangdong and Guangxi.In Hengzhou, Hu Guozhu and Xia Guoxiang were sent to lead an army of [-], broke into Guangdong and Guangxi, and succeeded several times, especially made greater progress in Guangxi. Except for Wuzhou, all of them were taken back by the Wu army.The battle in Yuezhou in the north was presided over by Wu Yingqi, Wu Sangui's nephew. The imperial Qing army was outside the Huxiang Gate. The Qing army crossed the river several times without success.

In August of the 17th year of Kangxi (1678), Hengzhou was extremely hot. Wu Sangui was uncomfortable, anxious, and angry, so he suddenly suffered from "stroke and hiccups", and then added "diarrhea". Conditioning, ultimately ineffective.Wu Sangui instructed his confidant ministers to welcome the emperor's grandson Wu Shifan to Hengzhou to succeed him and entrust the funeral affairs.In the middle of the night on August 67, Wu Sangui died in the imperial palace of Hengzhou (now Hengyang), the capital city. He was [-] years old and had only been emperor for more than five months.

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