Wu Sangui's failure was not when he was cut, but a long time ago. During the late Ming Dynasty, it coincided with troubled times. Li Zicheng and Zhang, including Wu Sangui, were all brilliant for a while, but they were all incompetent. As a result, the Qing dynasty was wiped out by hundreds of thousands of people who entered the customs, dominating the world. Not Huang Taiji and Dourgen, but opponents.
Li Zicheng is king in vain, and he can't even control his own Liu Zongmin. He was cruel by nature, greedy for money and lustful, and he didn't know how to win the hearts and minds of the people during his reign. Instead, he abused lynching, and the official was angry with the people, and the typical villain succeeded. But also because Chen Yuanyuan and Wu Sangui were kidnapped, Wu Sangui, who should have defected, was angered. As a result, Wu Sangui led the Qing army into the customs and defeated Li Zicheng with the Qing army. Since then, there has been no king. What about Wu Sangui himself? He ignored the country's righteousness for his own personal grievances. Although understandable, it is even more unforgivable. Whatever the reason, Wu Sangui's reputation has been stinking since his downfall.
After the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui guarded Yunnan. In order to please the Qing court, he forcibly killed Li Yong, the Ming emperor with little influence. Then how can the Qing court be satisfied with the existence of a separatist force, or cut the princes? Wu Sangui tried to unite with other kings against the Qing Dynasty, and was finally defeated by Emperor Kangxi, ending his humiliating life.
Looking at Wu Sangui can't protect his family, so I can't. The rebels believed that the Qing Dynasty was unfaithful and were forced to kill Emperor Li Yong because of injustice. After the Qing Dynasty, they rebelled because of disloyalty and injustice. More ironically, he, a traitor to the former dynasty, played the banner of prospering Ming and begging for Lu. Were all the servants fools that day? If such a teacher does not know where to come from, it is difficult to succeed. What's more, his joint Shang Kexi, Geng, Zheng Jing and others all have their own plans, and they are simply vulnerable.
Let's see what his opponent is doing. During the Shunzhi period, the Qing court began to gradually reuse Han officials, encouraged reclamation, and neglected thin taxes. In the Kangxi period, he continued to recuperate, and Kangxi was really not an ordinary person. He ascended the throne at a young age. At the age of sixteen, he just got rid of the powerful minister Ao Bai and stabilized the internal rule of the central government. In the twelfth year of Kangxi, that is, the year when he began to cut the vassal, he proposed to reclaim new wasteland and exempt taxes for ten years, which greatly inspired the enthusiasm of farmers and won the hearts of the people. The common people want to farm well, marry and have children, and live a good life.
People's life has just improved, so it's okay for you to jump out to fight in Wu Sangui at this time. You said that for the people, the people are not fools, but live a stable life. You said you were a traitor to the former dynasty for the sake of the former dynasty. The banner itself is a slap in the face. To put it bluntly, it's not just for Wu Sangui. You are greedy for power and money, don't drag others there for the time being.
Is such a Wu Sangui, the right time, the right place, and the same people don't account for, and Wu Sangui arise when he was over 60 years old, facing the youthful Kangxi emperor in his early twenties, he didn't have an absolute overwhelming advantage, why did he win? Failure is doomed.