Why did Yuan Chonghuan, a famous Ming Dynasty star, die like Yue Fei?

Yuan Chengzhi, the hero of Jin Yong's novel "The Sword and the Imperial Blood", is the son of Yuan Chonghuan, a loyal minister in the late Ming Dynasty. He is strong in martial arts and affectionate. Later, his father was cheated by traitors and was executed by Emperor Chongzhen in the Lunar New Year. The whole family was beheaded, and young Yuan Chengzhi was rescued by a dumb servant. Later, when I arrived at the gate of Huashan Mountain, I learned peerless martial arts and fell in love with Beauty Wen and nine princess.

Of course, Yuan Chengzhi's father, Yuan Chonghuan, has no martial arts skills. He is a scholar from the imperial examination. However, Yuan Chonghuan's military capability is quite good. The rise of Manchu in the late Ming Dynasty has become the biggest frontier trouble in the Ming Dynasty, especially after Nurhachi captured Fushun, with a huge momentum and the Ming army almost collapsed. In times of crisis, Yuan Chonghuan was entrusted with the important task of Liaodong defense.

After Yuan Chonghuan was ordered to reinforce Ningyuan City, the Manchu attacked for half a year, but did not take it. According to records, Nurhachi was wounded by the red shelling in Yuan Chonghuan during a siege in 2006. Nurhachi said angrily, "Why did Han dare to stop my army?" Soon, Nurhachi died of injury. Nuerhachi's son Huang Taiji was furious. After he ascended the throne, he asked for revenge for his father, but he was killed by Yuan Chonghuan in Ningjin. Manchu people hate and fear Yuan Chonghuan, and wish to eat him alive.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Manchu saw that Yuan Chonghuan Castle could not be captured, so it bypassed the Great Wall and besieged Beijing. Yuan Chonghuan heard the news and led nine thousand soldiers to retreat at night. As a result, he fought a bloody battle with the 100,000 Eight Banners outside Guangqumen and was forced to retreat. After withdrawing troops, Huang Tai saw that Yuan Chonghuan's army was fierce, so he followed the story of Jiang Gan stealing books told by Zhou Yu in Miscellanies of Xiao Ting, and put the captured eunuch Yang under the account, deliberately letting him overhear the secret talk of "a little secret agreement, and he was defeated in a few days". The next day, he deliberately let eunuch Yang escape.

Eunuch Yang Ran soon reported the top secret information to Chongzhen after he came back. Emperor Chongzhen was arrested and Yuan Chonghuan was put in prison. In August of the following year, Yuan Chonghuan was sentenced to death on charges of "rebellion" and was dismembered in Shi. The most tragic thing is that people at that time thought that Yuan Chonghuan colluded with the Qing Dynasty to commit treason. I heard that Yuan Chonghuan was executed. These people "bought a piece of meat with the same money as their big fingers, took a sip of soju and even cursed." Soon, Chonghuan meat was sold out. "Future generations will ask, is Chongzhen so stupid and so gullible? Come to think of it, this kind of thing is not surprising. Suspicious people are the easiest to fall for, so are Cao Cao and Chongzhen.

At that time, there were several things that made Chongzhen doubt Yuan Chonghuan. First, when the Manchus detoured south to encircle Beijing, the court ordered the core tablet and Yuan Chonghuan to repel the enemies of Shunyi and Jizhou, but Yuan Chonghuan directly retreated to Tongzhou and Changping, and then retreated to Beijing. The March of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty harassed officials and people inside and outside the capital. Many people are very dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan's army's failure to stop the puppet troops in time. At that time, there were rumors that Yuan Chonghuan secretly communicated with the Manchus and deliberately let the Manchurian army enter the customs. Huang taiji's treachery was probably inspired by rumors at that time.

Of course, it's no wonder that Yuan Chonghuan, because he has no time to protect, can only protect the capital first. In addition, the battle of Guangqumen, Ming will be in Deshengmen, Yuan Chonghuan in Guangqumen, one inside and one outside the two armies, and at the same time against the Manchu Eight Banners. Later, Manchu retreated to Deshengmen Wengcheng, and Yuan Chonghuan led the army to push back Huang Taiji. The next day, Yuan Chonghuan entered the city to meet Chongzhen and asked his soldiers to enter the city to rest, like Manchu. This proposal aroused the alarm of Chongzhen and flatly rejected Yuan Chonghuan's request on the spot. Later, eunuch Yang's informer added fuel to the fire, and Chongzhen decided that Yuan Chonghuan and Manchu were really in cahoots.

At that time, in the confrontation between the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty, it was not easy for the Ming army to suppress the Manchu Eight Banners in Liaodong. When Yuan Chonghuan saw Chongzhen in the first year of Chongzhen, he boasted that he had been in Liaoning for five years. Although Yuan Chonghuan himself later said that he just wanted to comfort the emperor temporarily, it made Chongzhen doubt his own strength. Later, Yuan Chonghuan killed General Mao without authorization, which made Chongzhen feel that this person might have the heart of rebellion. The moodiness and suspicion of Chongzhen are the root causes of Yuan Chonghuan's murder. Only Yuan Chonghuan, the poor rescuer, came back to Li after thousands of miles of ice and snow, but he was executed on New Year's Eve and even "eaten meat" by the people at that time. This is a tragic tragedy. After Yuan Chonghuan went to prison, he wrote a poem to express his feelings, including two sentences: "But if you stay innocent, you must resign." However, this is a strange injustice through the ages, and it was not until the Qianlong period that the truth came out.