When he was in Songshan City, someone once persuaded Hong Chengchou to surrender, but he resolutely refused. After being captured for the traitorous general's sacrifice of the city, the Qing soldiers brought him to the commander and forced him to kneel, and he said contemptuously: "I am a minister of the Celestial Empire, how can I kneel in front of the prince of Xiaobang?"

Hong Chengchou has already put life and death out of the way, so why did this strong iron man later change his mind? Behind the scenes of the most peach blossom persuasion in history, how credible is Concubine Zhuang's temptation of Hong Chengchou?

After Hong Chengchou was escorted to Shengjing, he was imprisoned in the Sanguan Temple in the palace. He had already made up his mind to die, and every day he wore his hair and feet, barefoot, did not eat or drink, and scolded Huang Taiji endlessly. Huang Taiji not only did not get angry, but also mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized in Shengjing City to persuade him to surrender, most of which were Hong Chengchou's colleagues in the Ming Dynasty in the past, and asked them to show up to speak, including the famous Fan Wencheng.

In the case that most people's persuasion was ineffective, Fan Wencheng appeared. A celebrity is a celebrity with the demeanor of a celebrity, he was not only not angry in the face of Hong Chengchou's thunderstorm, but talked with him about the past and the present in the wind and drizzle, so that Hong Chengchou had to reflect: "Kong said to be benevolent, Meng said to take righteousness, only righteousness is exhausted, so benevolence, read the book of sages, what do you learn?"

Coincidentally, at this moment, the dust accumulated on the beams of the house fell down and landed on Hong Chengchou's clothes, and Hong Chengchou involuntarily dusted it off gently with his hands. This subtle action was seen by Fan Wencheng, he smiled secretly, then took his leave, and reported directly to Huang Taiji: "Hong Chengchou will not die, at this time, he still cherishes his clothes, let alone life?"

Huang Taiji personally came to Sanguan Temple to visit Hong Chengchou, and took off his mink fur and draped it on his body, and said kindly: "Mr. won't feel cold, right?"

Hong Chengchou looked at Huang Taiji for a long time, and finally said with a long sigh: "You are the true son of heaven." "Surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Hong Chengchou didn't want to surrender, he couldn't surrender, the Ming Dynasty on that side had already told the world that he was a heroic martyr of the nation and had sacrificed his life for the country. At this time, if Hong Chengchou wants to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty must give him a very good explanation, and let him give an explanation to the Han people in the whole world.

What is this confession? The only excuse is: "Huang Taiji is the true son of heaven, and I, Hong Chengchou, am a good minister, and I have finally met the Ming Lord and can surrender." ”

Hong Chengchou lay motionless on the bare bed, enduring the torment of hunger and thirst, just hoping for a quick death, when suddenly he smelled a strange fragrance coming to his nose and permeating the entire cell. He was in high spirits, opened his eyes slightly, and there was a Manchurian lady standing in front of him, curling Nana, with black and shiny, shiny hair, holding a towering cloud bun, his wrists under his sleeves were like tender lotus, his hands were like green onions, and her slender figure was like a willow in the wind and a hibiscus out of the water. Hong Chengchou only felt that the entire cell became bright, and he seemed to have forgotten his hunger and thirst.

Concubine Zhuang said: "I heard that General Hong has an old mother who is over the age of six, if you leave, who will honor her? I heard that General Hong has a wife with knotted hair in his boudoir and a delicate concubine in the side room, are you willing to let them stay alone in the empty boudoir?"

Hong Chengchou was so sour after hearing this that he didn't say a word. Concubine Zhuang felt that the time had come, so she hurriedly took out the jade pot and two wine cups from the bamboo basket she brought, poured them full of ginseng soup and said: "General Hong has decided to die, I don't dare to let General Hong ruin his reputation, this is a send-off wine, please drink it." ”

Hong Chengchou was silent for a long time, and drank it in one gulp, who knew that as soon as the wine entered Hong Chengchou, he felt that this was not wine but ginseng soup, and he couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and couldn't help but drink several glasses in a row. Concubine Zhuang said again: "General Hong has not eaten and sold for several days, your body is weak, drink a few more cups." ”

Concubine Zhuang said and pressed Hong Chengchou's shoulders with both hands, Hong Chengchou seemed to have been struck by lightning, and couldn't help but stretch out his hands and hold Concubine Zhuang's hands tightly. Concubine Zhuang deliberately said delicately: "Does General Hong have anything else to say?"

Concubine Zhuang's words and deeds aroused Hong Chengchou's longing for women and nostalgia for life, and he was determined not to die again. As for how the imperial concubine of the Qing Dynasty could casually commit herself to others? The reason why this absurd-sounding legend was able to spread is not unrelated to the concept and customs of the Manchu and Mongolian tribes in dealing with gender relations in history. In those tribes full of vitality and vitality, if a woman can subdue a hero, not only will she not be despised by the clansmen, but on the contrary, she will be loved and respected by everyone like a hero.

After Hong Chengchou was captured, he went on a hunger strike for nine days, just to die quickly, but Huang Taiji saw that the persuasion was ineffective, and cherished that he was a talent, so he let him go. But on the way to Hong Chengchou's entry, he met a servant of the family, who told him that now the Ming Dynasty thought that he had died in the Battle of Songshan, and if he returned alive, and the three armies under his command were gone, and the place was lost, the court would definitely ask for the guilt, and he would not be the only one who died, and his wife and children would be implicated. Hong Chengchou was in a dilemma, hesitated again and again, and decided to return to Shengjing and surrender to Huang Taiji.

After Hong Chengchou surrendered, Huang Taiji said to him: "I found that you Ming Dynasty monarchs, the clan members were captured and did not rescue. And if the generals are defeated and captured, if anyone surrenders, the king will either kill their wives and children, or sell them into slavery, is this the old system or the new system?"

Hong Chengchou replied: "There was no such system before, and it was only in recent years. ”

Huang Taiji said with great emotion: "The monarch is not virtuous, and the courtiers deceive the superiors and subordinates, and there will be endless killings." If the generals are captured in a battle to the death or have no way to return, why should they blame their wives and children? They are too cruel to the innocent. When Hong Chengchou heard this, he burst into tears.

When Zhang Chun, the Ming servant of the temple, was defeated and captured, he also said to Dahai, Ku Guangtoutang and others who came to persuade him to surrender: "If I die at your hands now, my five sons and three grandsons will be able to live." ”

The ancestor of the Daling River guard Zu Dashou was hesitant to surrender because he was concerned about the safety of his second son who was far away in Beijing. In a letter he wrote to Shi Tingzhu, the deputy general of the Qing army, there are these words: "If you can design, you will rescue my second brother in Beijing, and this is my brother's great grace to protect my ancestors." ”

Emperor Chongzhen's severe punishment of the defeated generals and their families was unrelenting, which was in great contrast to Huang Taiji's practice of recruiting and giving preferential treatment to the Ming army. If judged fairly, I believe that most people will forgive Hong Chengchou for their betrayal, because the court they betrayed has lost the way of heaven and the hearts of the people.

Two years later, the Qing army entered the customs in a big way. In the process of pacifying the Central Plains, Jiangnan and the southwest region, Hong Chengchou played a huge role, which proved that Huang Taiji had a broad mind and keen vision.

There is such a mother in Chinese history, after her son surrendered and defected, she always adhered to the awe-inspiring character of Chinese women who regarded death as home, and became a model for Chinese mothers. Therefore, the world never alienated her and rejected her because she was a traitor's mother, but respected and admired her more, and gave her the reputation of Suyue Guzhou. This mother is Fu Shi, the mother of Hong Chengchou, a former Ming Dynasty important minister who couldn't resist the temptation of Manchu beauties and surrendered and betrayed.

Hong Chengchou is a native of Quanzhou, Fujian, and his father Hong Qixi was a talented man in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, with a solemn personality, so that he was famous for his filial piety. Mother Fu is a famous lady, teaching her son very strictly, she gave birth to three sons for the Hong family, the eldest son Hong Chengchou, the second son Hong Chengwan, and the third son Hong Chengqing.

Hong Chengchou entered Xiyiguan to study when he was a child, because his family was poor, he dropped out of school at the age of 11, helped his mother make dried tofu at home, and went to Yingweipu every morning to walk the streets and alleys to sell dried tofu. At that time, Hong Qiyin, a talented son of Xixuan Changfang, ran a village school in Shuigou Pavilion, and Hong Chengchou often listened to lectures outside the school hall in addition to selling dried tofu, and occasionally helped students make pairs. Hong Qiyin found that Hong Chengchou was extremely talented and ambitious, so he accepted Hong Chengchou as an apprentice for free and returned to school.

Hong Chengchou studied hard, read a lot of books, and showed his desire to govern the country and level the world since he was a child, and he was even appreciated by Hong Qiyin. Hong Qiyin once criticized the comments of Jiaju Qianli and Guoshi Wanjun in an article by Hong Chengchou. In the forty-third year of Wanli, 23-year-old Hong Chengchou went to the province to participate in the township examination and was the nineteenth person in the Yimao branch high school examination. The following year, he went to Beijing to take the examination, and even Jiedengke, ranked 14th in the second class of the Bingchen Branch Palace, and was given the background of Jinshi.

Hong Chengchou is talented, knows strategy, as soon as he ascends the Dragon Gate, he is important to the imperial court, and at the age of 38, he was appointed governor of Yansui for his meritorious service in encircling and suppressing the rebels. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou led the army to defeat Li Zicheng's rebels in Lintong, causing the rebels to be besieged in the mountains for three months.

Two years later, the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the northeast, the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong defense line was in crisis, and after Yuan Chonghuan was killed, Hong Chengchou was transferred from the front line of encircling and suppressing Li Zicheng's rebels to Liaodong, and the governor of Jiliao was fighting. Soon the army was defeated and captured, because he could not withstand the temptation of the beautiful woman of the Yongfu Palace Concubine of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty and surrendered and betrayed, and since then he has been stuck in the quagmire of traitors and has been set on the pillar of shame in history.

In fact, when Hong Chengchou was a minister of the Ming Dynasty at that time, he was deeply favored by Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Chongzhen, and he himself once proudly hung a couplet in the hall: "Jun's grace is as deep as the sea, and the minister's festival is as heavy as a mountain." ”

Later, Hong Chengchou was defeated in the Battle of Songshan and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, so some scholars added one word to each of his couplets: "Jun's grace is as deep as the sea, and the minister's festival is as heavy as a mountain?"

Another time, Hong Chengchou played against the guests in the lunar rain, and Yahuan delivered tea at that time. After drinking, the guests felt the fragrance in their noses, so they casually said: "Why did I say that the tea fragrance is so strong? It turned out to be tea before the rain." ”

Hong Chengchou opened his mouth and chanted: "A game of chess, I almost forgot the rain on this day." ”

However, the guest was shocked, and continued to say the following couplet: "The leader of the two dynasties, why is he not clear in his year?"

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Meicun, a famous literati, once wrote a poem "Songshan Lamentation", which was written about Hong Chengchou's defeat and surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and he was willing to serve the enemy and hunt down the anti-Qing forces. The poem is quite ironic, the poem reads: "Born in a sad and laborious way, he re-ascended the altar when he conquered the barbarian festival, and recalled the old parts of the past, and sighed and broke his heart." It can be seen that Hong Chengchou, who was defective at that time, had already been pointed out by Qianfu.

In the fourth year of Shunzhi, after Hong Chengchou, who had already passed the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, was recalled to Beijing from the governor of Jiangnan, he sent people to welcome his mother to the north, saying that he wanted to do a good job of filial piety. The person who greeted her arrived in Nan'an, Fujian, and Hong's mother actually dressed up, looking really ready to accept her son's support. At that time, the villagers from all over the world were all surprised, thinking that with Hong's mother's person, why would they change their vegetarian festivals?

How do you know that when Mrs. Hong got off the bus in Beijing, she saw her son kneeling to greet her, so she picked up the jujube wood cane, split her head and face, and kept scolding: "You unfilial beast, I am over 70 years old, you taught me to come to the banner to be an old mother? I will kill you and eliminate the harm for the people of the world." ”

At that time, Hong Chengchou was already the Manchu Qing Dynasty with the Yellow Flag Han Army, and according to the Qing Dynasty's custom, his wife must take turns to serve the Queen Mother. Mrs. Hong traveled 2,000 miles, tirelessly, and used the topic to play, just to vent a bad breath for the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty.

After Hong Chengchou was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was a high-ranking official and a powerful man, but his relatives and friends regarded him as a great shame. When Hong Chengchou served as the five provinces and returned to his hometown and province, he chose the place to build a luxurious mansion in the east of the old city of Quanzhou City, east to Cai Lane, and west to the west lane, which was called Hong Ya, so it was named Hong Ya Cheng Lane. However, the mansion he built did not have any relatives willing to live in at that time.

After the completion of the Hong Mansion, Hong Chengchou went to his hometown to invite his mother to come to live, but Mrs. Hong understood the righteousness and deliberately wore the clothes of the Ming Dynasty when she got married, and sat in the hall, but she refused to live in the mansion built by Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou went to his younger brother Hong Chengjiao to persuade his mother, but his younger brother was bitter that his brother had fallen to the country, and swore that his head would not stand up to the Qing Dynasty and his feet would not step on the Qing Dynasty.

He built a boat in his hometown of Yingdu, and then took his mother to sit in the boat, flooded the river, and lived a secluded life. In order to commemorate their national integrity, the descendants carved the four big characters of Suyue and the lonely boat on the stone wall where they lived in seclusion.

Under the influence of her mother-in-law, Hong Chengchou's wife, Lian, was ashamed of her husband's surrender and betrayal, and angrily cut off her hair and lived in a nunnery. Relatives and friends disdain, the township is intolerable, Hong Chengchou had to return to Kyoto, leaving an uninhabited government in the ancient city of Quanzhou, and also left the name of the ancient street of Hong Yacheng Lane.