In the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640), the Qing army and the Ming army launched Jin Song War outside the customs. As a result, the Qing army was defeated by the Ming army, and Hong Chengchou, the general of the Ming army, was captured. Hong Chengchou would rather die than surrender from the beginning, which caused great shock to the situation at that time. There are many explanations for his surrender, the most gossip of which is Zhuang Fei's theory of surrender.

Hong Chengchou

A more positive explanation for the reason of Hong Chengchou's surrender should be contained in Qing Draft (Volume 273) Biography of Hong Chengchou: "From the top, solve the problem of marten and fur:" Does your husband not feel cold? "ChengChou stared at it and sighed," Lord of the world is really destiny takes a hand! "Please kowtow to surrender. Huang Taiji personally visited Hong Chengchou in prison and put his fur coat on Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou was deeply moved and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Although this statement cannot be said to be 100% correct, it is certain that Huang Taiji played an important role in the process of winning the surrender of Hong and the submission of influential figures of the Han landlord class to the Qing Dynasty.

huang taiji

There is another saying, which is also the most widely circulated version in Hong Chengchou during the Qing Dynasty, that is, Huang Taiji sent his beautiful young concubine, Zhuang Fei, to serve Hong Chengchou, repeatedly using metaphors to persuade him, and even persuaded him to surrender. This kind of folklore lacks factual basis, mostly because after Hong Chengchou changed from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, many people were outraged and made up such jokes to belittle Hong Chengchou's character. Assuming that Huang Taiji really used a honey trap for Hong Chengchou, is it necessary for him to send his own concubine? What's more, Zhuang Fei is Bolzigit's daughter of Baylor Zhasang in Horqin Department of Mongolia, and also sourdrang queen who made great contributions to the prosperity and stability in the early Qing Dynasty.

Zhuangfei

In fact, Hong Chengchou, as the governor of Hebei and Liao, was very aware of his fate after being captured, and it was impossible to expect the Ming Dynasty to save him. The country behind us has been torn apart by peasant insurgents. Depend on who? In this case, if he doesn't want to die, surrender is his only way out.