What if there is a time machine that can make Wu Sangui start over?

The seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644) is doomed to be an earth-shaking year.

That year, Li Zicheng opened the imperial court in Xi 'an to change the Yuan Dynasty and marched to Beijing. All the elite soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were lost, leaving only one trump card-Wu Sangui's thirty thousand Guan Ning fighters. Chongzhen hesitated. Do you want to call Sangui to Beijing? Entering Beijing, Shanhaiguan is wide open, and foreign enemies (Qing army) may invade at any time; If you don't go to Beijing, the imperial city will soon be finished. Final decision: promotion.

What does it mean to quench thirst with poison? Here it is. But if you don't drink it, you will soon die of thirst; Maybe I can linger for a while after drinking it, and I can pray to God: Can you give me another chance?

After receiving the notice, Wu Sangui, who has always been capable and agile, walked slowly on the road with a great army. It took them eight days to get there in two days. At this time, the situation in the imperial city of Beijing is extremely critical. The monarch and his subjects are like ants on hot bricks, waiting for reinforcements.

But Wu Sangui finally got the news he wanted: On March 19, Li Zicheng attacked Beijing and hanged himself in Jingshan Park in Chongzhen. He immediately flew back to the division and returned to Shanhaiguan as quickly as possible.

His father Wu Xiang has actually surrendered to Li Zicheng's Dashun. Li Zicheng also sent someone to bring Wu Sangui forty-two thousand pieces of silver and made him a servant. Li Zicheng took over the paving work of Daming Company and is doing it step by step. Wu Sangui, on the other hand, successfully withdrew from the shell of the Ming Dynasty and was about to enter the shell of Dashun.

But then the painting style changed. On the day Li Zicheng captured Beijing, the first thing he did was to rob the official The Rich House. Why? Solve the problem of funds. All the dignitaries were looted, including the extremely rich Wu Xiang's home.

Then, Chen Yuanyuan was robbed. Li Zicheng gave her to his general Liu Zongmin.

Wu Sangui drew his sword and said, "A gentleman can't protect a woman. How can he meet people! "

Those mud legs first gave themselves a "resurrection", gave themselves a few taels of silver, and then began to rob their wives and daughters. This "resurrection" is obviously a joke!

He immediately attacked, killed the peasant army and retaken Shanhaiguan.

Since then, he cooperated with the Qing army Dourgen, broke the 60,000-strong army of Shanhaiguan besieged by Li Zicheng, swept Shanhaiguan and cut the flag for the Qing army.

His father and the Wu family were both killed by Li Zicheng, including the baby.

Wu Sangui fought bloody battles for more than ten years and Shunzhi for seventeen years (1660), and finally realized his own value: he became a vassal in Yunnan and enjoyed the position of minister.

Being the king of Yunnan, Wu Sangui is as rich as an enemy, rich and unrestrained. Chen Yuanyuan, fame and fortune. A man with a pursuit has everything in his life.

However, he still feels uneasy. More than 30 mouths of lotus flowers from his father and his family filled his mind from time to time. An ominous premonition, even at his best, still lingers. He always felt that the Manchu people in Beijing, thousands of miles away, looked at him in a flickering way.

This precaution is because he is too cruel. He was so cruel that he killed the last emperor of Nanming, gave him a well-paid descendant of the late Ming Dynasty and killed him abroad. This means that even the rulers of the Qing Dynasty felt a chill.

Although he worked hard for the Qing Dynasty. However, he can't put his soul back, and it's useless to believe in Buddhism. The emperor couldn't put him in place and make him king of Yunnan. This is only a temporary need.

In the values of loyalty and filial piety for thousands of years, Wu Sangui has never touched both ends. So, he is empty. The sword to eradicate traitors hung on his head for more than ten years, and it fell without any suspense in the twelfth year of Kangxi (1673).

For the Han regime, he has always been a traitor, and now for the Manchu, he is going to be a traitor again.

Because if he doesn't do this, once the military power is destroyed, his life will be in jeopardy.

At the age of sixty-two, he turned against each other again. This is his home. This is the destination left by history.

In the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678), Wu Sangui, 67, died of despair. Three years later, all the remnants of Wu Jun were wiped out. The descendants of the Wu family, including the baby, were all killed.

I've been thinking that if Wu Sangui had a time machine in his hand, he could go back to the time when Chongzhen called him a diligent king and let him choose again. Instead, he chose to fly to Beijing and try his best to rescue him.

History cannot be assumed. But today, let's assume and re-deduce:

This time, Wu Sangui chose to advance and retreat with the Ming Dynasty, which was blessed and virtuous to him (this is a fact). He will fight to the death. When the Ming Dynasty was teetering and no one could stop it, Wu Sangui's Ning Guan fighters plunged like a sharp knife into the Wang Yang sea of Li Zicheng peasant army. He rushed left and right, fighting his way out, but he was surrounded in an instant. Kill, surround, kill, surround. The end of the Ming Dynasty was finally extended by Wu Sangui for several hours.

Although the peasant army suffered heavy casualties, the number of soldiers in Ning Guan was too small. When fighting in Wang Yang, it was always like throwing eggs at a stone, but two fists were harder than four hands. Wu Sangui at this time, has been killed into a sea of blood. He has some arrows on him. Looking back at the Forbidden City in the sunset, he knew that there would be Li Zicheng tomorrow. As for whether the Qing army has been killed from Shanhaiguan, he has no time to take care of it and can do nothing.

From then on, there will be a statue of a man in all the hero temples in the world, and that is Wu Sangui. He jumped over the sword and died tragically. Next to his statue is Wen Tianxiang. They will be worshipped by everyone, including the Qing army.

Unfortunately, this is just a hypothesis. Empty assumptions.

Because in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, it was a very common choice to know the times as Jie Jun. What's more, what is the point? !

What kind of fool would do that? !

But there is a fool who wants to do this.

His name is Zheng Chenggong.

In February (1646), the Qing army invaded the south on a large scale until Zheng Zhilong (the father) arrived in Fujian. At that time, Zheng Zhilong had secretly negotiated with the Qing army to surrender. Zheng Zhilong's choice is the wise choice of most people in officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty.

But Zheng Chenggong, 22, resolutely refused to listen to his father's life this time. He became a man who didn't understand the times.

However, it is this ignorant person who makes the national character of China's modern history shine in a haze.

He didn't believe in pragmatism, which became more and more popular in the officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty. China's tradition has always been that the father teaches the son, but he wrote the first godfather in history, asking the father to love himself. He wrote that Daming was "pampered and respected, and worshipped behind closed doors" to his family. "If you don't deserve your son, give the country a teacher, palm the jade plate, seal the sword, and kiss his heart." Is that the body is smashed and the bones are smashed. Enough to repay you? "

How can you repay kindness with kindness?

Zheng Chenggong's insistence on this principle was deeply influenced by his mother (Tian, a Japanese woman) from an early age. The Qing army invaded Anping in the south, and the Zheng family fled one after another, but their mother refused to escape, and "resolutely drew her sword and cut her belly." Zheng Chenggong rushed back to Anping after hearing the news, which was very painful. After cooking, he cast a statue of sitting in Tianchuan in gold and prayed day and night.

A determination, from now on, has become more and more firm: to recover Taiwan Province Province, and then on this basis, to fight against the Qing Dynasty and regain sight.

At that time, the red Man Zi cannon of the Dutch made people in China tremble with fear and stay at a respectful distance from sb. Even after 180 years, this is still the case. However, there was one exception in the process of Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan Province Province: even though there were heavy casualties, in the process of fighting these "red-haired barbarians" and learning hot weapons tactics, Zheng Chenggong fought a road of recovery with his blood.

When the Netherlands surrendered, Zheng and the Netherlands were discussing specific matters when news came that his old father was killed by the Qing army on the third day of October in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi because his son refused to surrender. It is reported that "success is the first mistake, but in the middle of the night, you are sad, you can't help yourself, but you are in mourning, and all the troops are in mourning."

Then, another news came, which made Zheng Chenggong's spiritual pillar almost desperate. In April of the first year of Kangxi (1662), Li Yong, the last emperor of Nanming, was chased and killed by Wu Sangui, and was finally captured and sent to Kunming for execution.

Being a dutiful son is not to be done; But as a loyal minister, there is no loyal king. At this time, Zheng Chenggong and I pulled out my dagger, and my four colleagues were left alone in vain.

I want to clear my eyes, but there is no answer.

Zheng Chenggong said on his deathbed:

As he spoke, he stamped his foot. "Scratching your face with both hands, you're dead." Thirty years old, there are nine.

Wu Sangui and Zheng Chenggong were once splendid teenagers, young and promising. But their respective paths, whether they are clear or see the light again, have finally become a "road of loyalty and filial piety."

However, this is not the same thing. But at the same end of life, I sang two songs with completely different tunes.

What's your favoriate song?

All living things in the world are the same at this point when life comes to an end. However, there are always some people who knowingly do it generously, regardless. Knowing its pain, but resolutely, walk the line and never look back.

There is a dialogue that netizens adapted from the dialogue in Wukong's story. Every time I read it, I feel a sense of heroism, which oscillates between heaven and earth, making people feel strong from time to time. Although time flies and things change, the indomitable spirit is undiminished.

This dialogue is about all disobedience and unyielding:

Now I know that kind of tolerance is called knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and leaning towards the mountains. I knew I couldn't do it for the sake of my majestic belief, but I did it anyway.

Only by fighting for their own lives can they have no regrets, enjoy the admiration and nostalgia of that era and future generations, and prove to the world that in the animal jungle, there are still people who can transcend the secular, stick to their hearts, communicate with the spirit of heaven and earth alone, and live a capitalized self.

All fame and fortune will eventually decay and drift with the wind, but this unyielding belief, though eternal, will always be respected by the world.