The efforts of four emperors in the Qing Dynasty, from Nurhachi's rebellion to the pacification of the Kangxi Emperor, finally created the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history. There was such a Han man who went through these four emperors in the court respected by the Manchurians at that time, and made important contributions to the construction of the founding system of the Qing Dynasty, and he was Fan Wencheng, the first hero of the Qing Dynasty.
Fan Wencheng is not an ordinary person, his ancestor is the famous Song Dynasty minister Fan Zhongyan. Before the Ming Dynasty, Fan Wencheng's family lived in the rich area of the south of the Yangtze River, and during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan's ancestor was furious and was sent to the northeast. Later, after all, the Fan family was a scholarly family, and the family style was open-minded, before Fan Wencheng's father's generation, the Fan family began to re-emerge from the official career, Fan Wencheng's grandfather used to be the commander of the Shenyang region, and became the party with real power.
But in Fan Wencheng's father's generation, he did not gain any fame. In the eyes of the family, Shinong industry and commerce, or being a member of the profession can be regarded as the ultimate value purpose. Fan Wencheng and his elder brother have become the hope of the family since they were children, and Fan Wencheng has also shown extraordinary talent, and the subset of classics and history is all incomprehensible. But fate played tricks on people, Fan Wencheng, who originally wanted to glorify the lintel and became a major minister of the Ming Dynasty again, suffered a huge blow.
Because Fan Wencheng, who was originally studying hard, was knocked on the city gate by Nurhachi's cavalry. Both Fan Wencheng and his family became booty and slaves for Nurhachi. Since then, Fan Wencheng has changed from the original future Honghu to Nurhachi's slave, the difference between heaven and earth.
The son of the Fan family, who originally ignored the affairs outside the window every day and only read the books of sages, has now become a slave with a humble status. This difference in identity was unacceptable to Fan Wencheng for a while. But this time is a bit long, and it took Fan Wencheng nine years to digest this gap in identity. In the past nine years, Fan Wencheng has understood a truth, what if he has read all the poetry and books in the world, he is useless and a scholar. Fan Wencheng boasts that his writing is extraordinary and he can write all the things in the world, but he can't change his fate. It's not a good feeling for the throat of fate to be stuck by someone else.
If you don't explode in silence, you will die in silence, and after nine years of slave life, Fan Wencheng finally woke up. According to the "Qing History Manuscript", Fan Wencheng was recommended by Mao Sui, and automatically walked into Nurhachi's military camp and staged a post-Jin Longzhong pair to Nurhachi. As a result, Fan Wencheng was right, and his ideas and intellectual abilities succeeded in attracting Nurhachi's attention, and Nurhachi realized that this Han Chinese he had captured was not ordinary. So Fan Wencheng became a Han who was valued by Nurhachi, and his status rose.
Under the staff and planning of Fan Wencheng, Nurhachi attacked Xiping and entered Quang Ninh. From then on, Nurhachi's big and small wars, Fan Wencheng followed. Nurhachi also realized that these Han people, whom he usually looked down on, were better than those on horseback who were on horseback.
Speaking of which, another reason why Fan Wencheng can get Nurhachi's attention is because Fan Wencheng and Nurhachi know the Han people in it differently. In Nurhachi's eyes, the scholars among the Han people are all powerless scholars, but Fan Wencheng is different, he is tall and magnificent, and he can even personally put on a horse and go into battle to kill. This greatly conquered Nurhachi and Huang Taiji.
Nurhachi and Huang Taiji's attention to Fan Wencheng made Fan Wencheng's status rise. But Fan Wencheng did not mean that the emperor valued himself did not mean that other Manchu nobles also recognized him. Duoduo was the son of Nurhachi and the brother of Huang Taiji, and the rights of Manchu nobles like Duoduo were very great when the unification of the country was not yet realized. Duoduo just looked down on Fan Wencheng, thinking that he was a slave and unworthy of entering the court with him, and even openly snatched Fan Wencheng's wife by virtue of his status as a nobleman of the Eight Banners. It is a great shame to take away people's wives and daughters, but Fan Wencheng, who is no longer a slave in the eyes of others, is still full of powerlessness in the face of a top Manchu nobleman like Duoduo. If it weren't for Dolgon's mediation, Fan Wencheng would have become a joke of the world.
Sadly, Dolgon's advocacy came at a cost. After the death of Emperor Taiji, Dolgon embraced Fulin as the third emperor. Facing the young emperor, the title of regent can no longer satisfy his ambitions, and he also wants to be emperor. He was desperate to gain the support of ministers in the court, including Han Chinese like Fan Wencheng. In Dolgon's eyes, the Manchu and Han dynasties were unstoppable, and Fan Wencheng was the leader of the Han Dynasty, and his opinion was very important. But Fan Wencheng is a scholar after all, and he still has the idea of loyalty in his bones, he was unwilling to follow the wolf ambition of Dolgon, but Dolgon had a great favor for him, so he had no choice but to keep silent.
Seeing that his attitude was like this, Dorgon took advantage of the situation to carry out another wave of suppression. After Emperor Kangxi ascended the throne, he gave some due respect to this old minister of the Four Dynasties.