Ming Dynasty: I, Emperor Chongzhen, swear not to go to Meishan

Wait, I seem to have forgotten something?

Zhu Youjian suddenly felt that he had overlooked something. He couldn't help frowning and thinking, his brain was running as fast as a quad core, trying to recall some Ming history records that he had read.

Damn it, who said that if you travel through time, you must have the ability to predict the future? The premise is that you have to be familiar with the history of that dynasty, the important figures and events, etc. Oh, if I had known that I could time travel, I would have looked at all the important figures and important historical events during the Chongzhen period. Now I can’t even think about it. Are you up?

Did Wu Sangui really surrender to the Qing Dynasty because of Chen Yuanyuan?

Zhu Youjian frowned. He seemed to have read some historical information. Wu Sangui seemed to have planned to surrender to Li Zicheng. Later, his family property was confiscated by Li Zicheng and his concubine Chen Yuanyuan was snatched away by Liu Zongmin, which prompted him to make up his mind to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

He slapped his forehead fiercely and remembered. Historical records recorded that several things happened that prompted Wu Sangui to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

In the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Wu Sangui told his uncle Zu Dashou who had surrendered to the Qing army. In his words, he had left himself a way out to surrender to the Qing.

In the spring, Wu Sangui was ordered to enter the pass and rush to the aid of the capital to resist the Qing army that entered the fortress for the fifth time. Wu Sangui's march was slow. When he arrived at the capital, the Qing army had retreated. Emperor Chongzhen still valued him very much and gave him Shang Fangjian.

In September, the Qing army bypassed Ningyuan and captured the rear post, the front garrison, and the middle front post. Within seven or eight days, three cities fell. Ningyuan, guarded by Wu Sangui, became an isolated city outside Shanhaiguan and had lost its strategic significance.

At the beginning of the 17th year of Chongzhen's reign, Dashun's army marched directly towards the capital. Chongzhen called on all the soldiers and horses in the world to be diligent and ordered Wu Sangui to quickly lead troops into the pass to defend the capital. From Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui walked for eleven days on the 200-mile journey.

It was not until Li Zicheng captured the capital and Chongzhen hanged himself that Wu Sangui arrived at Fengrun, where he hesitated and stagnated.

Li Zicheng ordered the generals to write letters to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender, and ordered his father Wu Xiang to write a letter to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender. He also sent someone to bring 40,000 taels of silver to reward Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui decided to surrender to Dashun.

But Li Zicheng's men robbed the Wu family's property, and general Liu Zongmin seized Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan. Wu Sangui became furious and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

In other words, Wu Sangui is not very reliable?

Zhu Youjian's brows furrowed even more tightly, but he thought carefully for a while, then sighed and shook his head helplessly. There was trouble from the Donglin Party on the inside, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong on the outside. He was really beyond his reach now.

Furthermore, Wu Sangui guarded Ningyuan and blocked the Qing army from the pass. If he had not publicly surrendered to the Qing, this credit alone would be awe-inspiring.

Zhu Youjian hesitated again and again, and finally invited Wu Buwei, Song Xiance, and Gu Junming to discuss the matter. He regarded the matter as a hypothesis.

"This is real?"

"How can it be?"

"Shanhaiguan is in danger."

After listening to Zhu Youjian's hypothesis, the three people had different reactions. Song Xiance and Gu Junming believed Zhu Youjian's hypothesis because some of his previous hypotheses were finally verified. Both of them almost blindly believed in his hypothesis.

Wu Buwei thought it was impossible. His reason was that Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui had guarded Ningyuan for many years, and many Qing soldiers died under them. The Qing people hated them so much that they wanted to chop them into pieces and feed them to dogs. How could they accept the surrender of their father and son?

"Huang Taiji is an unparalleled hero." Zhu Youjian said calmly. This sentence was equivalent to overturning Wu Buwei's reason.

It's not surprising that Wu Buwei had such an idea, it was common sense, but Huang Taiji was a great man. For the sake of his imperial hegemony, he could endure what others could not tolerate. After Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was granted the title of King Pingxi and guarded Yunnan.

"I think too simplistically." Wu Buwei's expression changed slightly. He did think too simplistically about this matter, ignoring some things such as human nature and ambition, which affected his judgment.

Zhu Youjian smiled calmly. It was easy to talk to smart people. There was no need to spend a lot of time explaining it. A simple sentence could be understood.

Based on this assumption, the four people imagined various possibilities, but in the end they all rejected it because Wu Sangui had not surrendered yet and could not touch him, otherwise the consequences would be very serious.

The final result of the discussion was to take precautions.