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Wu Sangui (Chinese: 吳三桂; pinyin: Wú Sānguì; Wade–Giles: Wu San-kuei; 8 June 1612 – 2 October 1678), courtesy name Changbai (長白) or Changbo (長伯), was a Chinese military leader who played a key role in the fall of the Ming dynasty and the founding of the Qing dynasty.
After some deliberation, Wu Sangui decided to resist the new Shun regime, having heard that Li Zicheng had ordered Wu's family executed. [52] On May 3 and May 10 Wu Sangui twice defeated the Shun vanguard led by the turncoat Tang Tong, [53] but he knew that his force alone was insufficient to fight Li Zicheng's main army. [54]
Wu Sangui, titled "Prince Who Pacifies the West"（平西王） In Yunnan and Guizhou, Wu Sangui was granted permission by the Shunzhi Emperor to appoint and promote his own personal group of officials, as well as the privilege of choosing warhorses first before the Qing armies. Wu Sangui's forces took up several million taels of silver in ...
Bian and her sister became singing girls to support themselves. Bian was adept at writing poetry, music, calligraphy and painting. [5] She exchanged poems with author and poet Qian Qianyi. Chinese general Wu Sangui was amongst her patrons, [6] as was poet Wu Weiye who from the 1630s to the 1660s wrote poems about Bian. [7]
The Qing had the support of the majority of Han soldiers and Han elite against the Three Feudatories, since they refused to join Wu Sangui in the revolt, while the Eight Banners and Manchu officers fared poorly against Wu Sangui, so the Qing responded with using a massive army of more than 900,000 Han (non-Banner) instead of the Eight Banners ...
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Ma Bao (馬寶; Má Bǎo) is a general serving under Wu Sangui. Yang Yizhi (楊溢之; Yáng Yìzhī) is a military officer serving under Wu Sangui and an attendant to Wu Yingxiong. An honourable man who remains loyal to the Qing Empire despite serving under Wu Sangui, he becomes sworn brothers with Wei Xiaobao at one point.